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"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
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
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Nicole Krauss was born in Manhattan, New York City but grew up on Long Island. Her interest in writing began when she was a teenager and in 1992 she began school at Stanford University. The History of Love is influenced by familiar places in Krauss’s life such as Slonim and New York and the characters also reflect her own background of being Jewish. On the other hand, Michael Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and later moved to England where he studied at Dulwich College. In 1962, he took residence
(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 sky lit up above me, so bright. Not the kind of bright that you’d usually expect, there wasn’t a sun shining, glowing, oh no. The sky was dark but was brightened every so often by the shock of lightning. This place I was in. It was unusual. It seemed so familiar but so unfamiliar simultaneously. The wind blew cold and harsh, and fiercely pierced through my skin. I swiftly made my way through the snow that was now reaching an ultimate high of around 2ft, piling up on the ground beneath my feet
[IMAGE] [IMAGE] On the 20th October 2007 Jerry Jackson was sent to Reddington prison for first degree murder. His first 6 months inside were rough, but time passed and he slowly adjusted to life inside. He appealed against his sentence during the first six months, but sadly failed to get bail. The head officer of C section, Jerry’s section, Jane Cox has a very formal relationship with her prisoners. She has been serving at the prison for the past ten years and is the most experienced
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
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
Lefty went over and released the emergency switch. When the elevator started moving up, he came over to me, holding me as he teased my neck with his mouth. The doors flew open and there was about ten people standing on the platform just staring at us. The expressions on their faces, weren’t pleasant ones, more of annoyance and aggravation. Lefty and I both snickered a bit while looking at each other. He then firmly grabbed my hand, rushing me out of the cart. We arrived to his truck, he opened
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
London Stations The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in these moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan. - Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky So now do you know why I’m the saddest of all drunks? Why I’m the most brainless of all idiots [...] Why I’m a fool, a demon, and a bag of wind all rolled into one? -Moscow Stations, Venedikt Yerofeev As I sit at the westbound platform of Victoria, waiting for the next train I open my fourth bottle of water for the
will create a prosperous book. Some authors realize that it is also advisable to make it that the first chapter ties most of the story together. Michael Ondaatje obviously new this when writing his novel. So he crafted a first chapter that did just this. The Villa sets the story up for an amazing novel, The English Patient. Michael Ondaatje starts the reader off in a villa in Italy towards the end of World War II. This villa, Villa San Girolamo (7), gives the reader the main of the scene of the
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