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Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” in relation to Bob Dylan’s song “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” The end of Oates’ story is ambiguous as there is no specific answer to what will happen. Connie has just left her front porch. This is the information we can consider. Arnold Friend’s final words were said in a half-sung sigh “My sweet little blue-eyed girl” (Oates n.p.). These words are taken from the song by Bob Dylan. The whole story was written under the influence of this song. One of the main ideas of the song is security, as a girl in the song is offered to take what she needs and walk away, being sure that everything is going to be good. The same feeling of security and better opportunities Arnold Friend wants to deliver to Connie, to make her understand that by being with him she is going to be protected. These words from the song made me understood that the author of the story wanted to show that Connie and Arnold were created for each other and they had to be together even though Arnold Friend had to frighten a girl and make her return to him. The new morality of the ’60s as the setting of Oates’ story The time when the story was written coincides with the change of morals people had. Youths’ behavior became unbearable, they did not want to listen to their parents, all that elder people believed in was ruined. This attitude to life is reflected in Connie’s behavior, “Connie’s mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead” (Oates n.p.). The sexual revolution in the ’60s and the desire to go against society were also influential facts. Now parents are more tolerant of their children, they offer teens more freedom, so if the story were written now, the attitude to parents would be more respectful, teens would listen to their parents more. Thus, the attitude of boys to girls is different. Tank’s It Ain’t Worth might be the lyrics a story can be dedicated to. Connie’s social reality and perception of Friend’s charm Considering the social morals and Connie’s attitude to her life, it may be predicted that she wanted to have more new feelings and emotions. Taking an example of a boy Connie liked and who whispered to her “Gonna get you, baby” (Oates n.p.). The feeling of something new seemed exciting, which might be attractive for a girl. The desire to get more emotions could be one of the reasons why Connie liked a thirty-year-old. Her age and innocence played an important role as girls in 15-year-old age want to feel protection they might experience only with older men. Connie as an innocent victim Connie’s is shallow as “She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right” (Oates n.p.). She is vain as “right away someone leaned out a car window and invited them over, but it was just a boy from high school they didn’t like. It made them feel good to be able to ignore him” (Oates n.p.). She is silly as she and her friend “went across the highway, ducking fast across the busy road, to a drive-in restaurant where older kids hung out… they sat at the counter and crossed their
Douglass was one of the slaves who managed to put together his views in a memoir that was later published at around 1845. Many slaves moved condemned slavery and its associated injustices at the time, but the works of Douglass were valued because he employed various tactics in dealing with the problem. Later on, the abolitionists borrowed his ideas heavily in the 19 th century after it was realized that slavery was the greatest challenge that faced the blacks. Throughout the text, Douglass criticized slavery, something that proved he was against the use of other people’s labor without adequate compensation. In the first chapter to the fourth, the author introduces the reader to the poor conditions in which slaves lived, as children were never allowed to interact with their parents. It was unfortunate that he never knew his date of birth since his mother died when he was a young boy of seven years. He claims that he could not memorize anything because his mother visited him only at night while the father was most likely the slave owner meaning bosses mistreated slave women to the extent of forcing them to carry their babies. His analysis showed that the relationship between slaves and their owners was poor, implying the interaction was cruel. Slaves had no right because they were given specific instructions that would guide their behavior. For instance, he explains in the introductory chapters that his aunt Hester was whipped for going contrary to what was expected of any slave. In other words, slaves were supposed to behave in a certain manner when interacting with their bosses. In chapter four, Douglass claimed that fear maintained the system of slavery in the sense that slaves were punished for telling the truth or giving contradictory information. In the fifth to the seventh chapters, Douglass explains some of the reasons that forced him to oppose the existing production system that was sustained through slavery. In the fifth chapter, for instance, the author notes that he was moved to Baltimore, Maryland, something that played a critical role in transforming his life since he faced the realities of slavery. For the first time in his life, he thought of escaping, as he envisaged a brighter future (Douglass 68). His new boss, Mrs. Sophia Auld, was a kindhearted boss in the beginning but ended up being cruel just like any other slave owner. The new mistress wanted to empower Douglass by teaching him how to read and write, but her husband was against this move since it would make slaves unmanageable. This was the time when Douglass noticed reading and writing was the first step towards eliminating slavery in the country. In the eighth and ninth chapters, the author reports that his master died when he was aged eleven leaving behind a son and a daughter who were expected to divide the wealth equally, including slaves. On hearing this, the Douglass developed hatred towards slavery because he was considered property and not a human being. The young Auld was
Introduction Indira Gandhi was born of Priyadarshini Nehru in 1917 in Allahabad province of India. She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru who was India’s first prime minister. Indira had the chance to enjoy excellent education by going to Somerville College, as well as the Oxford University from where she finalized her college education. Indira was later married to Feroze Gandhi between the years 1942-1960. The Nehru family was a political family in India that produced political leaders for India. When her mother died in 1936, she became the only person closest to her father. This case enabled her to rub shoulders with people in leadership and the diplomatic world thus growing up as an experienced person in politics and diplomacy. After her father’s death, she was elected as president for India’s National Congress. She subsequently assumed the post of the minister for information. Indira became “India’s prime minister in 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984” (Steinberg, 2005, p.760). She was assassinated in 1984 by her Sikh bodyguard in revenge for her ordering the invasion of the Golden temple, which was a Sikh holy place to flush out separists hiding in the temple. Indira was considered the iron woman of India for the way she ruled the country with an Iron fist. Characteristics, which are unique to her leadership style Indira grew up as a hardened child whose parents were always away from home attending independence strategy meetings. Thus, she had to learn to overcome her fear of her parents being away by developing into a tough strong-headed girl. When Indira took over as the prime minister of India, she showed her knack for independent mindedness by sacking some of her father’s loyalists from the government who were viewed as powerful persons in the Indian political circles. Indira grew India’s profile by making sure that India remained the powerhouse of East Asia by assimilating small neighboring countries like Sikkim to become India’s 23rd state. She provided leadership by securing India as one state by silencing separist groups that were trying to fight for their separation from India. According to Steinberg (2005), Indira comes out as a multifaceted character in such a way that she has different characteristics that make up her personality (p.755). Among her characteristics, she was ambitious, reticent, contentious, and dominating. When Indira’s mother died, she took over as her father’s hostess. For a long time, she was viewed as not politically ambitious. This misunderstanding enabled her to horn her skills in politics and diplomacy by learning from the extremely best that ruled at the time. She was able to combine her different roles thus being able to execute them as demanded. Although she was a mother, wife, and at the same time her father’s hostess, Indira played all these roles as demanded. Though viewed as a shy person during those days, she turned out differently when she became the prime minister. As a prime minister, she turned out to be a forceful and sometimes ruthless person who would do anything to push a cause in which she believes. Immediately a
Introduction Symbols are objects, gestures, images, written words, or specific marks that are used to signify a wider set of connection either through by alliance, semblance, or convention. There are various categories of symbols both in the secular and religious domain all of which bear similar or different meanings depending on their global reach. In general, symbols are classified into religious and secular symbols each of which has a precise and global meaning. Symbols are therefore easy to recognize but one needs to associate with the symbolized ideology in order to understand the meaning of the symbol. The evolution of society has led to the association of the like-minded individuals who ideologically have the tendency to relate to similar individuals while secluding others who are perceived as different. Consequently, each like minded group creates symbols that will allow for visual or audio association without necessarily any verbal communication consequently forming a subliminal connection. Secular symbols These are symbols that have no spiritual significance and rather are associated with more worldly oriented activities and societies. Unlike religious symbols that are normally primordial and have been passed through several generations, secular symbols are created on a regular basis and are prone to alteration. Atheist, Cult, Sect and Denomination symbols These are symbols used to represent religious groups that do not share a singl
Introduction It is a common phenomenon in any organisation for customers to wait for some time before they are served. Some of the waiting experiences are known to have a negative impact on the customers’ satisfaction with companies’ and organisations’ service delivery. Time has become a valuable asset to almost everyone, especially with the increase in personal activities in the busy economies. Since waiting times are directly proportional to customer satisfaction, it is important for the management to develop the notion of rapid service delivery in order to achieve customer satisfaction. This paper examines the effect of waiting times at the Burjeel Hospital on the degree of customer satisfaction by analysing the results of a survey carried out to at the health facility. Background of the Survey The survey was carried out between January and March at the Burjeel Hospital. It sought to establish the relationship between waiting time and customer satisfaction at the hospital. The participants (customers at the hospital) were divided according to the ailment they were suffering from or the treatment they were seeking. The main areas surveyed include cardiovascular, dental, dermatology, emergency, endocrinology, ENT, family medicine, gynaecology, gastroenterology, general surgery, Internal Medicine, IVF, nephrology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic, paediatric, plastic surgery, pulmunology, urology and vascular. The table on waiting time between the months of January and March was filled by hospital staffs using the hospital’s records. The data collected aimed at finding out how long patients and customers had to wait before being served in the various categories of services the hospital offers. Results Quantitative Data The quantitative data came from the first survey where customers were required to rank the waiting times. The results for each category differed significantly with most of the results of the other areas being rated as very good. Although they performed well, most of them showed inconsistency by depicting significant changes in waiting time between the months of January and March. Although data from all categories were analysed, only those that had large numbers of customers were likely to give more accurate results. In this case cardiology, dental, dermatology, IVF, and physiotherapy had the best records of customers. The dermatology and dental category had the highest number of customers across the three months. In the dermatology category, 46.80% of the customers rated waiting time as very good while 33.00% rated it as good for the month of January. In the month of February, 65.90% of the customers rated it as very good while 14.30% rated it as good. The rest of the customers (not more than 20%) rated it as average and below. Moreover, this category showed consistency for the two months. Similarly, the dental category showed consistency during the two months. 68.40% and 69.80% of the customers rated it ‘very good’ for the months of January and February respectively. On the other hand, 20.60% and 20.70% of them rated it as good for the same months respectively. Lastly, the rest of the customers (not more
The low-calorie frozen food company is operating in a monopolistic market structure. According to the regression equation, quantity demanded would decline by 1.19% following a 1% increase in price. This elastic nature of demand curve gives to a downward sloping demand curve as illustrated in figure 1. Figure 1: Downward sloping demand curve. Cross-price elasticity of demand of 0.68, which was evaluated in assignment 1, indicates that the frozen food company supplies a product that has a substitute in the market. This is a confirmation of competition in the market. Besides, demand for the good varies with income level as well as advertisement expenditure. According to Hirschey (2008), monopolistic market structure has many sellers, sell differentiated products, and do not have entry or exit barriers. These characteristics are reflected by elasticities described in the preceding paragraph. Frozen foods, supplied in the market by different companies, vary in one respect or the other such that they are not perfect substitutes. Restaurants sell similar products but due to differentiation, the customer perceives the product as distinct from each other. Such distinct difference is derived from location, atmosphere, product quality, nutritional value, and packaging. In such a situation, the customer is indifferent as to the product to buy. As an example, Nestle Company and Hillshire supply differentiated products. Competitors in low-calorie food industry Nestle is one of the leading competitors in frozen food indu
Melbourne can be called a city of exhibitions for they are extremely popular there. It abounds with galleries and exhibition halls giving its citizens and guests of the city a possibility to enjoy works of art of different trends. One of the photographic exhibitions which are currently taking place in Melbourne is Threads which presents a display of photographs by Pia Johnson, a young photographer who is still studying Creative Arts at Melbourne University. A thorough discussion of one of her photographs from this collection (Picture 1) reveals such aspects of her work as installation, subject matter, space, message, colors, and different compositional aspects. The installation of the work allows transforming the viewers’ perception of space. The photograph presents a contorted piece of cloth. It seems to be spread against the wall, but a more thorough look at it allows distinguishing that there is space behind the cloth. The cloth of natural material creates intricate patterns. Pleats and folds on it interweave thus forming new patterns. Good imagination makes it possible to see certain forms and shapes creating a whole picture with numerous characters that are a part of a unique and mysterious story able to fascinate and deeply impress the viewers. The subject matter of this photograph of Johnson’s is not clear until the viewer starts searching for it. In the case of this picture, the subject does not lie on the surface; instead, it lies in the eye of the photographer. The subject should not be distinct for such pictures; the greatest task of a photographer shooting such objects is to transform what he/she sees into a subject. The subject matter of the photograph under consideration is the nature of identity or, to be more exact, the exploration of it. The picture shows how complex the identity is and how much it involves. Intricate patterns express the whole fragility and delicacy of the human identity inviting the viewers to take part in the adventure which helps to explore and understand the
Introduction From a newborn baby to an old man have perceptual abilities. It is different from one to another. It depends on the mentality of each person and how he watches the surroundings. Perception means understanding the circumstances by using the sensory respecters in the human body. By using eyes one gets a view of the surrounding, by using ears he gets sound of his surrounding, by using nose he gets the smell of the surrounding, by using tough he gets the taste, and by using skin he gets feeling of touch. Perception is closely related to sensation. Discussion about perceptual abilities in a human being Perception has a relationship with the sensory neurons. An infant’s nervous system is immature. His optic nerve is very thin and short compared to an adult optic nerve. It is not fully myelinated. So at the infant stage visual sensation is less. At this stage, the eye is half in size and weight of an adult. So the retina and the lens are closer in this stage. It also makes the vision as difficult. So in this stage, the pattern and form of perception are different from an adult. (The Perceptual Abilities of Babies) With this law, visual power infant babies look into the facial pattern and moving objects rather than nonfacial patterns and stationary objects. When we see an infant baby, he or she looks into our face. Immediately after birth neonates start to respond to the sound. According to Mills and Melhuish, a three weeks old baby feels his mother’s voice when he opts to suck on a nipple. Same as the auditory ability an infant have the olfactory and tasting ability. An infant can have the ability to identify two identical objects by vision and touching. (Maturation and Development of Physical Capabilities). (Hales, 253). My neighbor has a baby. He is eight-month-old. His name is Tomin. One day I took him to my home. After some time his mother comes to my home to bring him. She hides behind the window and calls his name. He identify her sound and crawl on the knees to the side from where his mother’s sound he heard. Perception of pain is also different from one to another. It depends on the mental capacity. Different people use different techniques to overcome or forget the painful experience. Normally the pain is related to the brain. At a particular time what the brain recognizes is controlled by the brain itself. The brain filters the incoming sensations and concentrates on the most important ones among the different sensations. (Reiness). There is emotional and physical pain. Different techniques are used for reducing both kinds of pain. To reduce physical pain tec
This paper collects data on the amount of time spent cooking meals each day. Time, in this case, is a dependent variable because it is reliant on the type of activity (Chow and Teicher 54). This endeavor aims at using the probability theory to determine the likelihood that cooking consumes a given amount of time (Rohatgi and Saleh 3). Such an activity entails experimental probability because an actual situation is performed as an experiment (Mandel 90). I intend to keep track of time taken by setting a timer before I begin cooking and recording the time taken immediately after the task is complete. I expect the data to vary from day to day because I am not a regular cook. Some of the factors that are likely to skew my data include the type of meal preparation, the number of meals prepared in a day, and whether I decide to eat out or not. Different meals also require different times to prepare and cook. For example, most breakfasts involve making a cup of tea and frying an egg or toasting bread, which may take a maximum of 15 minutes. Lunches mostly involve the preparation of a simple sandwich and vegetable salad, which may take 30 minutes at most. Dinners, on the other hand, involve elaborate preparations such as peeling potatoes, chopping onions, tomatoes, and other vegetables. Table 1 indicates the data collected after the first five days. Table 1: The amount of time I spend cooking meals each day Day  Time              1    1 hour 50 minutes 2    15 minutes        3    45 minutes        4    1 hour 30 minutes 5    30 minutes         From the data, the longest time was spent cooking on days when I had three meals in the house on days 1 and 4. In addition, I noticed that there was a twenty-minute difference in the time spent cooking on the first and fourth days. The difference could be attributed to the complexity of the meals. The dinner that was made on the first day required more preparation time compared to dinner on the fourth day. I took the shortest time cooking on day 2 when I only took breakfast in the house and had lunch and dinner at a restaurant. On the third day, I woke up late and skipped breakfast. I decided to make lunch only since I was to meet some family friends for dinner. I do not think the data presents a valid representation of these activities because the amount of time taken to prepare meals every day is influenced by several factors including the type of meal, the number of meals made in a day, and the choice of food, which have varying chances of occurring. Therefore, time is also a random variable because it can assume a set of likely different values, each with an accompanying likelihood (Downey 21). It is not possible to forecast accurately the results of arbitrary occurrences (Ayyub and McCuen 93). However, if a series of discrete happenings is affected by other factors, it displays certain relationships, which can then be examined and anticipated (Buckley 34). In this case, the amount of time spent cooking in a given day is a factor of the type of meal, food, the num