Mrs. Turpin in Flannery O’Connor’s Revelation Essay -- O’Connor’s shor

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Elizabeth Bishop Essay

Elizabeth Bishop is a very highly skilled poet. She deals with several different but equally interesting subject matters. I am personally drawn to many elements of her work, for example her themes and style of writing. Bishop deals with many different themes, including family, death, beauty and survival. She also uses a very unique and intriguing style of writing. Bishop has a remarkable eye for detail, her poems reach a conclusion and she puts a huge amount of her own life into her work. Firstly I will look at the themes of her poetry. Family, childhood and home are recurring themes throughout her poetry. Bishop had quite an unfortunate childhood and lost both her parents at quite a young age. This is reflected in the unnerving images she often employs in accounts of her childhood. This theme is central to many of her poems. â€Å"Sestina†, for example, is dominated by mages of rain, failing light and tears. Also in â€Å"First Death in Nova Scotia† she captures the confusion of a child faced with the inexplicable fact of her cousin’s death. The use of the third person voice in â€Å"sestina† blends the poet’s adult perspective with the child’s. It also allows Bishop to distance herself emotionally. Quite noticeably there is no mother in â€Å"sestina†, which is reinforced by the repetition of â€Å"grandmother.† This lack of parental figure in Bishop’s life is common in her poems, all but â€Å"First Death in Nova Scotia†. â€Å"Come,’ said my mother† Bishop lost her mother at five years of age. Although her mother didn’t die at this time it is notable that the only poem in which she is mentioned is predominantly about death. It seems Bishop never knew a true home and her search for a sense of belonging is apparent in â€Å"Filling Station.† At first she is disgusted by the â€Å"dirty† filling station. However as the poem progresses she discovers that it is a â€Å"family filling station.† She notices a warmer, more feminine touch in the home. â€Å"They lie upon a big dim doily draping a taboret.† Bishop tells us that â€Å"somebody† embroidered the doily. This somebody is the mother of the â€Å"greasy sons.† There are also many other domestic comparisons in her work, such as the reference to â€Å"ancient wallpaper† and â€Å"tarnished tinfoil† in â€Å"The Fish.† â€Å"The Fish† uses many different types of descriptions. Bishop’s use of both factual, objective imagery and aesthetic, subjective imagery is an element of her work which really appealed to me. In contrast to factual description such as â€Å"rags of green weed hung down† there is quite a bit of romanticising such as â€Å"five haired beard of wisdom.† There is also a contrasting link between the fish and roses. Once again Bishop takes something quite unpleasant and makes it beautiful. â€Å"Speckled with barnacles† is hardly a pleasant image, much like the skin of the fish hanging off. However Bishop’s carefully chosen language shows beauty. Bishop also finds beauty in the most miserable of scenes. This is clear in â€Å"The Prodigal.† The prodigal lives in a pig sty, he leads a truly disgusting life. However Bishop’s ability to find beauty in the most miserable of places shines through. â€Å"The sunrise gazed the barnyard mud with red.† Beauty is discovered through a series of observations in â€Å"Filling Station.† At first glance the filling station is a filthy and thoroughly unpleasant place to be. â€Å"Oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing overall black translucency.† However she continues to discover more and more about their home and the images become more pleasant. â€Å"Embroidered with daisy stitch with marguerites.† Another interesting theme throughout Bishop’s work is death. â€Å"First Death in Nova Scotia† deals with a child’s first experience of death. The child is younger than five and doesn’t understand death. This is showing where she speaks about the stuffed loon. â€Å"Since Uncle Arthur fired a bullet into him he hadn’t said a word.† The child doesn’t understand what has happened or what will happen to â€Å"little cousin Arthur.† She is unfamiliar with coffins and compares his to a â€Å"little frosted cake† because it is small and white. In the final lines of the poem the child becomes frustrated due to her confusion. â€Å"But how could Arthur go and the roads deep in snow?† Throughout â€Å"The Fish† the animal’s life is in the speaker’s hands. She holds him â€Å"half out of water,† while he breathes in the â€Å"terrible oxygen†, the fish is slowly dying in her hands and she must decide whether or not he is worth saving. Ultimately the speaker decides the fish is far too â€Å"venerable† to lose its life. â€Å"And I let the fish go.† The final theme I will look at is survival. This is shown best in â€Å"The Fish† and â€Å"The Prodigal.† â€Å"The Fish† shows that nature’s creatures are like humans in their ability to suffer and learn from that suffering. The â€Å"tremendous† creature has escaped death at the hands of previous fishermen 5 times. â€Å"A five haired heard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw.† The word â€Å"wisdom† shows that he has become wise from his struggles. â€Å"The Prodigal† shows survival in a different sense. The alcoholic in this poem will endure anything to maintain his addiction. Surviving in vile conditions to maintain his drinking. â€Å"The Prodigal† also made me question my own attitudes towards addiction, helping me to understand and sympathise with it. Many poems have attention to the senses. This shows Bishop’s commitment to detail. This is very strong in â€Å"The Prodigal.† Sound, â€Å"their little feet and snored;† smell, â€Å"the brown enormous odour;† touch â€Å"he leaned to scratch her head;† and sight â€Å"plastered half way up with glass smooth dung.† This attention to all our senses is also strong in â€Å"The Prodigal†. Sound, â€Å"their little feet and snored†; smell â€Å"The brown enormous odour†; touch â€Å"he leaned to scratch her head†; and of course sight â€Å"the sty was plastered halfway up with glass-smooth dung† Our senses are also used in â€Å"Sestina†. Sound, â€Å"rain that beats; smell â€Å"she cuts some bread†; touch â€Å"she thinks the house feels chilly†; and finally sight â€Å"With crayons the child draws a rigid house†. Bishop’s concern with every day, ordinary objects also adds to her compelling dedication to detail. This is at the heart of â€Å"The Fish,† â€Å"Filling Station† and â€Å"First Death in Nova Scotia.† As such she allows us to see how wonderfully attractive the world can be if we stop and pay attention to the details. In â€Å"The Fish† for example, Bishop describes a â€Å"tremendous,† fish that she caught. She compares the fish’s skin to â€Å"ancient wallpaper† and speaks of the â€Å"rosettes of lime† that she sees. Even the aspects of the fish that she cannot see, his insides and entrails, she describes in intricate detail. Likewise this fascinating attention to detail is also apparent in â€Å"Filling Station.† Standing before an average filling station the poet becomes increasingly curious about the place. â€Å"Why the extraneous plant?† she wonders. In â€Å"First Death in Nova Scotia,† we discover Bishop’s commitment to detail was something she possessed even as a young child. â€Å"Edward, Prince of Wales†¦ with Queen Mary.† As she tells this poem from her childhood perspective the images are childlike and unusual, however they stay true to her particular technique. This ability of Bishop’s to see beyond the ordinary, to note and appreciate the wonder in the everyday objects around us is refreshing All of Bishops poetry reveals how time spent observing the world around us can lead to interesting conclusions and insights. Colour is also an appealing quality of her work. There is a lot of colour throughout â€Å"The Fish†, we never go more than a few lines without the next addition of colour. These colours get much more vibrant as the poem progresses, going from his â€Å"brown skin† to â€Å"rusted orange.† The steady progression of colour ultimately leads to the exclamation â€Å"rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!† In â€Å"The Prodigal† she mentioned â€Å"the brown enormous odour.† Attaching a colour to the odour strengthens the unbearable stench and I think it creates one of Bishop’s strongest descriptions. Unlike â€Å"The Fish†, â€Å"First Death in Nova Scotia,† references the same colours repeatedly. Red and white are repeated and references continuously. The â€Å"frozen lake† which the loon sits on is mentioned twice along with â€Å"frosted cake,† â€Å"white like a doll,† and â€Å"left him white forever.† This colour may represent peace or innocence. The child also mentions the loon’s â€Å"red eyes† twice, as well as â€Å"a few strokes of red† and â€Å"warm in red.† This may represent pain or suffering. There is also reference to colour in â€Å"Filling Station.† The difference here is that Bishop focuses on the lack of definite colour. Greys and blacks make up the scene, â€Å"Black translucency.† The repetition of â€Å"dirty† reinforces this. The lack of colour makes the comics stand out, â€Å"the only note of certain colour.† A common theme throughout all of Bishop’s work is her ability to reach a conclusion in order to end the poem. Her conclusions include â€Å"And I let the fish go†; â€Å"But it took him a long time finally to make his mind up to go home†; â€Å"The child draws another inscrutable house† and â€Å"Somebody loves us all†. Quite notable there isn’t a pleasant ending to â€Å"First Death in Nova Scotia† which reinforces the lack of understanding in the child and her inability to give her cousin a happy ending. What I personally admire most about Bishop’s work is how much of herself she puts into her poetry. On a deeper level, â€Å"Filling Station† may be about Bishop herself. She missed and longed for a mother figure in her own life. Sadly she and her mother were separated when she was only 5 years old. â€Å"Sestina† deals with the period of time just after the separation. The mother is absent from the scene and she draws a man who we presume is her late father. â€Å"Then the child puts in a man†. â€Å"The Prodigal† represents her problems with alcoholism and was inspired by drinking in a barn. She, like the prodigal, suffered with addiction. â€Å"First death in Nova Scotia† is the only poem where Bishop mentions her mother, showing us she has some memory of her. It is significant that the only poem where she mentions her is one where death and the understanding of death is the central theme. â€Å"The Fish† shows the ability to struggle on and survive, despite all odds. The Fish was like Bishop because it had grown tired of fighting for its life. Bishop’s poetry displays her need throughout her life to find stability and order. Bishop never outgrew the loss of her mother and the terrible feeling of not belonging. Elizabeth Bishop’s work is fantastic and compelling, allowing the reader to see into her own life through varied themes and subject matters. Her style of writing is appealing and unusual and this makes her an incredibly skilled poet. Bishop is honest in her portrayal of her upbringing which is undoubtable very appealing.

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Potential Personal Liability †A complete solution of Sample

Question: Explain the potential personal liability to Acme Fireworks if a spectator is injured by a stray firework from a fireworks display. Answer: Introduction: In this review, the laws of UCC cover the accidents of the individual enforcing fireworks. The organization Acme Fireworks have to follow the UCC rule to provide measures to the injured individuals. The Acme Fireworks cannot operate as a sole proprietorship. Because they are works on fireworks not only for that every company want a support on their any kind of risk. The Acme Fireworks needed an injury management system for any kind of risk involved in fireworks. They need a support on medical treatment, which could have required for the companys employee or the customers they have. The Common goal of the injury management system is to give protections of their day to day operations, employers maintain closer and regularly contact with their workplace. The employees are actively participates in implementing workplace injury understand that the injury management was a huge thing about a running business, which tends to achieving the best outcome from the injure workers. Involvement of Universal Commercial Code in signing contract: UCC is a set of rules covering the commercial transactions in U.S. and other territories. These transactions consist of money, mortgages, enforceable contracts and the sales of products. UCC is first published in 1952, covering all 50 states within United States of America. This UCC has a goal in case of considering enforceable contracts in an organization. It also includes the exceptions of the common laws in contracts, so UCC is appropriate practicable law in this context. A contract is called enforceable because, the governing authority of the organization will enforce the law abiding the protective measures of an individual. Essential elements of the contract to be followed: Enforceable contract should be a significant part of firework business. The concerned company has to take responsibility for the injured individuals. The necessary provisions of an enforceable contract are the following: Offer: An offer is the willingness of participation of a company into consideration of the contract. This offer can be acceptable or unacceptable to the party depends on the rules and regulations mentioned in that contract. This offer can be presented to the company in different ways like in an email, in a letter to grant the acceptance. Offer should contain: 1. A statement of objectives to be followed by the offering party, 2. A specific proposal to the company with all the regulations, and 3. A communication to identify the offered person. These are the key parts of an offer; if any of these are not present in an offer, then the offer is incomplete and not acceptable. Acceptance: Needless to say that an acceptance is the positive response to the offer of an organization. It is also a final expression of an organization to the regulations of the offer. Acceptance can be made by the person or the agent of the concerned authority. In addition, an acceptance must be made in the mentioned way as per the offer stands. If the party has made any changes to the previous offer then the party should have to counteroffer. There should be no values to the previous offer. There can be a slightest chance of non-acceptance of the changed offer. Parties with legal capacities: Allowing party and organization should create a legal relationship as per the contract. The organization should follow the arrangements to this issue. One exception in this arrangement is a letter of intention that the parties have particularly specified as unbound part of an offer (Musgrave, 2015). In most of the cases, courts find that the legal relation does not include the social and domestic agreements. For instance, two roommates of a hostel are sharing a car; while one is driving and one is fuelling the car, then this is not a good practice of legal relationship. Lawful subject matter: To make a contract enforceable, the subject cannot be forbidden by the law or break public course of action. For instance, a contract for deal of against the law drugs is not enforceable and a person cannot transfer clear title to real assets if the assets are bound by mortgage. This subject matter consists of heads of terms and the commercial participation. This commercialization outperforms the negotiations and signing of state-of-the-art contract. The companies continue their business sharing the money, working in a project, sharing their all resources. Mutuality of obligation: In case of a contract, the authorities must have a common purpose and assembly of mind on the conditions. The parties must agree to the same thing, in the same sense and at the same time. If one party has been misled by the contract, then the contract can be voidable. A review of the communications between of the parties and how they performed the terms are used by the courts to determine whether mutuality of obligation exists. Consideration: Consideration is the very significant part of a contract; it can be money or a guarantee. With this, it may contain moderation from suing on an argument as a part of a disagreement. The considerations are mentioned in an agreement or it must be directed by the rules of the contract. The points of the considerations are: there must be consideration of an exchange and it does not have to assemble any experiment. For instance, as a gift you gave old car to your friend many years before and now you made him compelled to paint your house, then this cannot be a valid consideration for his agreement. To have a proper and legal contract you will need to execute such contract with an individuals signature must be witnessed. Potential liabilities of Acme Fireworks: Acme Fireworks is one of the Australias largest and most dependable wholesalers. This organization should have a potential liability issue according to the laws enforcing the fireworks. This organization should have several protective measures to diminish the rate of accident happened during firework display. First of all, in this fireworks display, organization should ensure the use of legal fireworks (Belanger et al., 2009). There are two types of fireworks such as: legal without permit and illegal without permit. UCC confirms the sale and use of sparklers not exceeding 36 inches, stationary cones foundation, snakes, noisemakers, confetti poppers with less than one-fourth of explosive and others that can spin and move on the ground. The fireworks like firecrackers, roman candles, bottle rockets and mortars are not legal without permission of the government (Bell et al., 2009). This organization should fulfil the permit before displaying illegal fireworks. Acme fireworks should coll aborate with an injury management system to ensure the injured individuals treatment. In this injury management system, there should be a claim form for the persons accident details such as cause of accident, percentage of burn, whether it is fatal or casual, in case any compensation needed and other relevant information. The respective hospital or treatment facility should be provided according to the claim form. In this measure, there is another liability to the company that is the organization should have a team to control crowd in firework display; proper organized crowd can decrease the rate of accident (Mason, 2008). The Acme fireworks should check the quality of fireworks before lighting up. Bad quality fireworks can burst instead of burning completely; stray fireworks burst can damage an entire crowd. The different employment types and relationships relevant to agency law and the advantages and disadvantages of each type specific to Acme Fireworks: The Acme Fireworks have many employees they deal with all kind of fireworks. They export fireworks and firecracker over approximately 40 countries. The Acme Fireworks have many types of employment. The employment of Acme Fireworks categorized in five types: Full-time employment: The full-time employees are having a fix employment position in Acme fireworks. They are usually works 40 hours in a week. They are also pre-scheduled in their workplace (Seker, Ramaswamy Nampoothiri, 2011). Such full-time employees are an accountant, a director and a general manager of Acme Fireworks. The Advantage of Full-time Employment: A full time employee are very much loyalty to development of the company. They are feeling some time that they have ownership in the business. This feeling enhance their skills and the heard working work forces. This result in they are available all time to stand besides the company when they needed (Donelson, 2012). A full-time employee is work with one company therefore; they are very much strong in the sense of security. The Disadvantages of Full-Time Employment: The full-time employment is become very costly in hiring and maintaining such stuffs. The full time employee have many facilities in their work place such as like medical insurance and free vacation for their family. Part-Time Employees: The part time employment is those who work approximately thousand hours in any twelve-month period. The Part-time employees are works for a certain period, who are lunched as complete a mission and they have a target base job. Many times part-time employees are hired for achieving an organizational goal. The Advantage of Part-time Employees: Part-time employees can be an affective staffing option for temporary and small or young businesses. They are hirer for a short period. They are might be a substitution of another full-time worker for a short period. The part time hiring process was varying to the work available for them (Rong-xue Li-jun, 2009). The part time employees are not qualify for company benefits so the cost for this employees are low. The Casual worker or employees: Many people are work as casual worker or employee to the organization. Casual workers are normally paid for the time they are working for the company or the organization at daily basis. The casual employees are have a chance to get more money because they are working as daily basic or hourly. There also a chance to get more awards. The Advantages of casual employment: The casual worker of a company is paid more for their certain requirement. They not only get more money they also have a very flexible work place. Here Acme Fireworks also have some casual workers who are need to complete a huge market requirement of firework (Edwin et al., 2008). This type of worker is gives a quality of service which, has a guarantee of regularly worked. They have a regular income. The Disadvantage of casual employment: In this type of employment, they are work as daily rate. This is a big problem in arranging a personal loan and finance. They are cannot take any holiday as they are wish to. The employee, who works for the company, did not cover with any insurance coverage. Then if this worker getting injured throughout their workplace but did not get any medical coverage. Acme Fireworks needs collaboration: The Acme Fireworks cannot operate as a sole proprietorship. Because they are works on fireworks not only for that every company want a support on their any kind of risk. The Acme Fireworks needed an injury management system for any kind of risk involved in fireworks. They need a support on medical treatment, which could have required for the companys employee or the customers they have. The company have to measure the explosive materials if they are having a report according to their product and they have to take responsibilities for their buyers (GAO MO, 2011). Many organizations or companies have different thinking of injury management system. The Common goal of the injury management system is to give protections of their day to day operations, employers maintain closer and regularly contact with their workplace. The employees are actively participates in implementing workplace injury understand that the injury management was a huge thing about a running business, which tends to a chieving the best outcome from the injure workers. The workplace based injury management gives benefit to everyone. They give workers a better feeling for their security. The injury management system can be implemented by all large business. This means that the worker has a value to the company and company can take care of Health and Safety (Gorski, 2012). A workplace health program introduces a positive awareness and commitment to injury management. Report all Injury: Many work places, will found as incentives for managers to reduce the injuries by getting their injured employees back to the work. The employees are usually known that which conditions will get more involvement in their work environment. A company is driven by the result such as statistics or cost rather then their health and safety. Reporting without Delay: However, all injury are reported but its still not enough. If any employee injure then inform the authority immediately. The management will give a faster recovery solution that results in the worker get well soon and get back to the work as soon as possible (Jian-hong, 2010). The delay in inform to the authority, results in hampering the hole process. If IMS was implemented in an organization then there are no issues regarding to inform the authority. Conclusion: The Universal commercial code proposed a business law model. This model involves the main structures of the business protocol, which make restriction over Acme Fireworks. This restrictions are the company cannot use the illegal fireworks and the also maintain same particles in all fireworks which was previously tested by the investigation authority. The company also asking for lunching any product in the market and attend a pre-testing process by the investigation authority. The UCC was declare that any company contact with them they have to take a permission if any changes they wants to make. The UCC also test all products for all company and it conforms that no other company was able to introduce same product at a time. This is the UCC agreements and their goals. 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