of Sport Obermeyer Sport Obermeyer is a high-end fashion skiwear design and merchandising company headquartered in Aspen, Colorado. Over the years, Sports Obermeyer has developed into a dominant competitor. Sports Obermeyer's estimated sales in 1992 were $32.8 million. The company holds 45% share of children's skiwear and 11% of adult Skiwear market. Sport Obermeyer produces merchandise ranging from: parkas, vests, ski suits, shells, ski pants, turtlenecks, and accessories. These products are
Employees are being discriminated against for their infectious illness known as A.I.D.S. They are labeled incapable of performing the tasks they pursued before they were recognized as being infected. The confidentiality of an employee is a private matter and very personal. There aremany different kinds of prejudice but not one as deadly as A.I.D.S Discrimination. The emotional trauma and future ofemployment play a giant role in the inflicted. Health policies through job-related fields must
"Bisexual"1 was a word used by Peter Eisenman to describe his Max Reinhardt Haus in 1992, an unbuilt architecture for the city of Berlin that can be formally read in two different ways. The first interprets the form as being additive, two legs rising high above the Berlin landscape and meeting at the architectural object's top. The second interprets the form as being subtractive, a void carved out of solid mass. This idea of bisexuality is continually addressed and re-addressed by the agility of
(1996) was the critically acclaimed, nine-time Oscar-winning film that we know today, it was an immensely popular novel by Michael Ondaatje, a world-renowned poet and novelist (Gelder, 1997, p. 1). The novel was written in 1992 and was inspired by Ondaatje’s obsession with the history of World War II and Herodotus’ Histories (Gelder, 1997, p. 1). It was not long before Ondaatje’s novel achieved worldwide success and was picked up by the soon-to-be Oscar award-winning director, Anthony Minghella, in
The book The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje, shows the effects that World War II had on soldiers, as well as the nurses involved in the war. Hana, a nurse during the war, goes through the devastating loss of her father, Patrick, who dies in the war. Hana then commits her life to helping a burnt, disfigured, and severely wounded man, referred to as the English patient. Hana decides to stay with the dying English patient, whom she loves like her own father, in the makeshift hospital, despite
interesting aspects of She's Come Undone is the fact that it is written by a man but is told from a female's point of view. Because of his gender, it is impossible that Lamb could have experienced many of the hardships that Dolores must deal with in his novel. However, Lamb writes with a certain understanding of Dolores and her pain. In She's Come Undone, Lamb addresses issues often avoided by male authors, including female friendships and abortion. His convincing female voice has been critically acclaimed
She's Come Undone: Self-discovery Throughout She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb emphasizes the importance of self-discovery to one's life. Dolores has several epiphanies throughout the course of the novel, including her realization that all of her failed relationships are not solely her fault. She learns she is worth loving and is capable of surviving on her own. With each discovery about herself, Dolores learns to love herself a little more and blame herself a little less. Dolores' first realization
Brittan claims that “Ondaatje’s novel is filled with [……] scenes of reading and writing, and characters who delight in marginalia.” Both the authors agree that Ondaatje’s novel The English Patient utilizes imagery and mythology to explain the atrocities of the Second World War, and to explicate that religion and the admiration of art attempts to defy the violent human displacements enabled by war, and helps to transcend the crude realities of the world. The novel The English Patient harbours four
Like a tree spreading its roots into the ground, cultural history is something that is deeply rooted in the minds of people. As the significance of Herodotus unravels itself in “The English patient,” Michael Ondaatje touches further upon the idea of how personal history is shaped by cultural history. Ondaatje refers to Tacitus, a great Roman historian, in the third chapter, “Something with Fire” in order to enhance the notion that times of terror can influence the shaping of an individual’s personal
The book Studies in Galatians was a very fine read. The book written by Tom Wacaster was very well put together. I felt like he did a fine job gathering good help to really bring home some of the main points out of this book. Well-organized verse by verse is bought to the attention of the reader in a simple format. I really like the fact that he shared the ideas of others and did not hesitate to let the reader know that who was saying what. From the very beginning, Mr. Waycaster let you know in the
and disdain for cultures other than their own; a sentiment foregrounded in the novel when the two cities of Japan are destroyed and Kip and Caravaggio agree that such an act would not have been carried out on a white race. conc Ondaatje’s The English Patient questions nationalism and nations which are portrayed as imaginary and racist, causing the destruction of civilizations and suffering to all characters in the novel, specifically Almasy, Caravaggio, Hana and Kip. Likewise, the theme of national
Every writer uses a different set of methods, known as the narrative mode, to portray the plot to the audience for individual reasons. In the first section of “The English Patient”, Michael Ondaatje uses his narrative mode in order to more effectively convey his message in an appealing way. One way he does this is by presenting the reader with visual images and vivid description that trigger their imagination. His use of visual imagery, description, and pronouns to present the settings, and to
many-layered secrets of the patient, are developed while Hana's and Caravaggio's stories are less involved. However, none of these stories could stand alone. The clash of cultures and changing relationships between the characters provide the texture for the novel. They create a complex web in which everyone becomes entangled. Ondaatje uses an extremely complex structure and poetic language to further the interweaving of the characters' lives. According to one critic, "The author's four stories are not a story
meaning and representation in The English Patient, through the structure of his novel. The author portrays the sequence of events in a non-linear fashion to incorporate them as a puzzle-like story. The puzzle is significant because, the reader is constantly unraveling the novels excerpts together. Symbolism is an important aspect of these passages because, it provides a better understanding of the issues related to the novel such as, destruction, identity, escape, unity, and love. Fire is used symbolically
Destruction through Imagery and Theme in The English Patient The imagery in Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient serves to illustrate the theme of destruction in this novel. The setting of the novel as well as the characters themselves present to the reader a vivid picture of demolition. Critics also find that Ondaatje's imagery is a vital element in the presentation of this theme. The English Patient is set at the end of World War II in a war-ravaged Italian village. Ondaatje gives vivid
Ondaatje’s novel, The English Patient, was Almásy. Almásy was a man who was burned from head to toe, and whose identity is unrecognizable thus making him a limited character. The novel takes place in a villa where the man was being taken care of by Hana, a young nurse who stayed behind to take care of Almásy while the rest of the nurses escaped to a safer place to stay. She calls him the English patient because of his accent, though she is unaware of where he is from. The entire novel is focused
Jazz was written by Toni Morrison in 1992. Most of the novel takes place in Harlem, 1926. As the story goes on, the narrator travels back to the 19th century in the southern part of the United States. The narrator often switches between both time periods. The theme of Jazz is love. The main characters are searching for affection, acceptance, and love. "All she had to do is give him a sign, her hand thrust through the leaves, the white flowers, would be enough to say she knew him to be the one, the
It is just not right “Who got crucified and made you God? You maniac” (Caswell, 1992, p. 149). This quote is at the heart of A Cage of Butterflies, a novel written by Brian Caswell. It makes people think about what is happening in the book to make someone explode like this. The novel is Caswell’s opinion on scientific research performed on humans is clearly displayed. Caswell is very clear with his opinions about the injustices that occur and because Larsen, the antagonist, is the major cause of
the business of myth-making’ (Wardrop, 1997, p. P2) which is an interest of mine. The aim is to focus on the portrayal of women in sentimental fiction during the nineteenth century, through James Fenimore Coopers novel The Last of the Mochicans (Cooper, 1985) and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe, 1995). The framework of this essay
from goodreads.com). As a writer, William Faulkner embraced writing as an art form and brought out the true beauty in literature. Denied by many throughout his life, Faulkner was accepted into the world of literature as a literary genius. With his novel The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner presents a unique writing style that leaves the reader engrossed and eager for further reading. (Aiken 1188) His style presents time in a distorted manner which creates a present that is “essentially catastrophic.”