kind of obsession with the Stones’ everyday life. The first night the Millers house sit, Bill tends to the cat, and then to his obsessive curiosity. He wanders through the Stone’s medicine cabinets, and steal a bottle of Harriet’s pills. This comes as a surprise to the reader because there is not any indication that Bill might act this way. Only after his curiosity is fulfilled does he carry out the rest of his house sitting duties by watering the plants. This shows that he is more concerned with his
small. It had also just been redone. I was alone in the almost empty room with very few things to occupy myself. I was a child that found herself bored often, and because of my curiosity it usually wasn't hard for me to find stuff to do in my environment. All that resided in that small office room was a desk, a filing cabinet, plastic tarps on the carpet,
personalities and business of her friends and neighbors. When their first radio breaks down, Jim buys another as a gift for his wife. At first Irene is rather put off by the "physical ugliness of the large gumwood cabinet." Its "dials flooded with a malevolent green light," and inside the cabinet held "violent forces" (1). More disturbing is the radio's tendency to pick up interference. Wanting to hear music, Irene instead hears ringi...
to marry him, he convinces the youngest of his widowed neighbor to be his bride. All goes well until the new husband goes away on business, leaving his wife in charge with only one rule, to not open the door of one room in the castle. Of course curiosity overtakes the wife and she enters the room only to find Bluebeard’s previous wives murdered within the chamber.
To truly appreciate something, you have to experience it. The sentence is self explanatory, but I didn’t conceptually re-realize it, until I read the “My body a cabinet of words” by Shelly Jackson. Although, I already had the theory behind electronic literature in my tool shed, I hadn’t understood the art. “My Body” is the first hypertext novel that I have read, and I found its format as well as content completely engaging. At first navigating through the book seemed somewhat unnatural, you had
been abandoned for several years. I reluctantly started to crawl towards the conjoined kitchen, in fear of falling if I stood up, and began searching for something to help my bleeding scalp. I felt around the broken cabinets and countertops to no avail. I opened a rather odd looking cabinet, still in perfect condition, and reached inside, but quickly pulled back my hand in shock. My now bleeding fingertip pulsed with pain as I took a closer look inside. There was an old, engraved dagger sitting innocently
decision of the need of a magician instead of an analyst. Persky calls him while Kuglemass responds by saying " I need romance I need music I need love and beauty" to which Persky responds by explaining to him that if "any novel is thrown into the cabinets with him and the doors shut, he should proceed by tapping it three times as he finds himself projected into the book where any one of the women created can be met by the best writers of the world." Kugelmass' need for a French lover leads him to
The Gothic Heroine in Northanger Abbey Jane Austen wrote Northanger Abbey as a satire and when the reader turns every page, it is clear that Jane Austen was making fun of the society she was living in. It’s the satire of the Gothic novel that was surrounding her at the time. What Northanger Abbey does so well in terms of satire is subvert the system of Western patriarchy by the gothic genre and questions the structure of women and nature. Like many of the tales in England of the heroine, Northanger
again. Now, that I was getting older, my curiosity to learn about the town past expanded. My biggest question was “What happened that caused the townspeople not to speak upon it?” I knew couldn’t go to the public library, if there was one place that had documents and recording it was the mayor’s office. Going to the inside mayor’s office was going to be easy, he let visitors tour his office all the time. Inside his office I went to his desk and open file cabinets, the folders were organized by the decades
scientist or some person of historical significance, and the rest of the week it can range from a variety of subjects, but always has some sort of academic relation. This activity poses his students with random “did you know” facts to stimulate curiosity. Often his questions have real world applications or tend to be facts or issues he feels we should be familiar with being at the high school level. Having the first 15 minutes of a science class spent discussing the NATO phonetic (Radio) alphabet
History of Atera Restaurant Mr. Lightner opened Atera in March after winning a national reputation at Castagna in Portland, Ore., and cooking at Noma in Denmark and Mugaritz in the Basque Country, poking around in their cabinets of curiosities. He touched down in New York’s hermetic environment, trailing wild ideas from the West Coast and Europe like alien spores, (Pete, 2018). From one of the founder of “contemporary”, also known as “Nouvelle Cuisine” Michel Guerard, Atera Restaurant adopted this
1977). Not only semic code, but also other codes, mentioned by R. Barthes, is repeatedly used with in horror film context. Especially, enigmatic code and symbolic code play a decisive role in horror movies in order to elevate the level of fear and curiosities. As can be seen in the movie the Bhoost, unknown sound of crying and mumble form the beginning would be an example of enigmatic code. With the argument of R. Barthes, despite watching the movie without any preceding explanation, audience might predict
The Ape-Like Mr. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Throughout The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Henry Jekyll underwent periods of transformation, transcendence and transgression. During these periods where Dr. Jekyll was Mr. Hyde, Hyde had an impact on several of the characters' lives inhabiting Stevenson's tale. In imagining Hyde, readers are struck by a great sense of who Hyde is with surprisingly little in the way of physical description. We are reminded of the dwarf-like stature
Peer pressure: Teenagers want to be a part of a popular group or ‘gang’ and therefore give in to anything, and always listen to what others have to say. The teen party scene is a circumstance where alcohol is indulged in more than any other times. Curiosity: Teenagers are often curious about things they haven’t tried yet and alcohol is one of them. Teens often wonder why others drink so much and then try it themselves, and unfortunately, if they like it, it becomes a big problem. Low self esteem: Most
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live during World War 2? Life during World War 2 was torture if you were jewish, especially if you were a kid. Felix Salingar from Then by Morris Gleitzman and Anne Frank both knew what it was like. Their stories both describe the lives of jewish children hiding from the Nazis, in fear of being taken and killed. Throughout both of their stories, many character traits were discovered about them that show how they are similarly affected by the events in their
Curiosity and Wonder: Design & Interpretation in the Museum Dru Colbert This class presented many real world challenges, the biggest of which was the overlapping project deadlines. At one point in the term, I was working on a group project and two other independent projects. All projects were due by the end of term, but due to their complexities, some would need more time than others. The first project was to construct curiosity cabinet which served as some of the first museum’s hundreds of years
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago is a senator of the 16th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines. In her track record as a public servant, she worked under the cabinet of some past presidents of the country. She is very famous for her actions on penalizing some law violators under her department. As for her personality, she can be described as a person who is very strong, vocal and highly intellectual. She has this character of not being afraid of expressing her opinion to those people she criticized
her husband, Prince Albert, had a carriage constructed for Victoria and the two travelled from Windsor to London in it. 1 Seeing their monarchs travel the railway trains reassured people of their safety and caused many people to try them out of curiosity. Prince Albert was fascinated by technology, which influenced Victoria greatly. In the late 1840s, he dreamed of creating a place where new technology and arts from around t...
Managing Knowledge "All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical. The wheel is an extension of the foot; the book is an extension of the eye; clothing, an extension of the skin; electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system. Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perceptions. The extension of any one sense alters the way we think and act -- the way we perceive the world." Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium
cognitive psychology suggested by Noël Carroll. The movie, as horror film, is a narrative of curiosity. This can take place in a scientific model of observation, hypothesis formation, testing the hypothesis, and confrontation. However, it could potentially take place in any particular expression of curiosity (e.g. surrealist, playful, theological or paranoiac), in any (sub/counter)culture, indeed multiple curiosities should be possible all at once. This explains Pulse a bit like the graduate student: