3.6 The Sun At Zenith Analysis

For many years, women have been oppressed and treated as property. The opinion of a woman did not matter, being obedient to her husband was all that is required. Even if they were obedient to their husbands, women were property and only for the pleaser and likening to the husband. Mariam did all the her husband required of her, however there was one thing should could not. Which was give her husband, Rasheed, a son or any child. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini reveals the social issue of physical abuse and mental abuse by his use of imagery, diction, and dialogue.

Esther Hernández is a San Francisco based visual artist and graduate of UC Berkeley, best known for her depiction of Chicana and Latina women through pastels and prints. (Hernández). She has had numerous solo and group shows throughout the U.S. and internationally in many museums. Esther Hernández is from Dinuba, California and she was born in 1944. She grew up in what was known as the melting pot, watching Chicano farmworkers being harassed by local residents when they came to her hometown. Even though it was dangerous, her family would always greet them and their leader. Hernández learned more about the Chicano studies, and she was angry of how the Latina women were treated, so she turned to the art department at Grove Street College as a way to express her anger. Her work reflects political, social, ecological and spiritual themes.

Numbers, as useful as they are, have no story. Stories, as moving as can be, cannot penetrate the heart of cruel human. In the 21st century world of capitalism, what speaks more truly to an American than consumerism? Throughout Warmth of Other Suns, Wilkerson describes the journeys of migrants and the personal obstacles each character encountered while moving. These challenges and their relevance to the larger narrative of the Great Migration are represented through the items on display. The emotional journey of a migrant is told through their stories, and their physical journey is told through their possessions.

In Jennifer Donnelly’s A Northern Light hope is portrayed as the guiding light in Mattie Gokey’s life. Hope takes Mattie on a roller coaster of emotions good and bad. Donnelly interpreted this by showing conflict, figurative language, and mood. Even though tragedy hit Gokey household Mattie persevered and held onto the hope of going to New York City to attend Barnard college.

In spite of this, a few photos with high detail, Henry McArdle’s The Battle of San Jacinto and Private Gustavus Sohon’s Crossing the Hellgate, were reduced to a size that didn’t properly support the authors’ written investigation of the artwork. In addition, certain photos were excluded from the book; Fanny Palmer’s illustration Across the Continent, though described, is nowhere to be seen for instance. It is frustrating to read about an artwork with no representation of it; it is further aggravating to discover that the designer of the book placed photos pages away from the writing in an inconsistent way throughout the

In the story “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen the theme is some people have problems that sometimes we can’t understand because it isn’t something that can’t be understood, but the knowledge that we obtain when we ask questions is more beneficial than when we don’t try to seek understanding. The story “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen is about a boy named Terry that has a father and sometimes his father’s “eyes go away,”. This worries Terry and causes him to want to know more about what’s happening to his Father. He looks for answers to his questions everywhere because he justs wants to understand.

My purpose is to figure out if the sun’s gravity bends light. By doing so, I will take two total solar eclipses and use the distance from where the star is and where it appears to be. I will look at two stars and find the difference of where they are observed and where they are located.

On the other hand, Khaled Hosseini employs an open plot structure in A Thousand Splendid Suns in order to comment on the effect of assiduity on the possibility of escaping an oppressive environment. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini illustrates his narrative through the parallel plotline of his two protagonists—Mariam and Laila—to design an open, chronological plot structure. Through the first sentence of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini establishes that “Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami” (Hosseini 3). Hosseini’s purposeful decision of introducing his main character before all other elements such as the setting and supporting characters illustrates his protagonists’ significance in the construction of the plot structure’s foundation. In order to establish an open, chronological plot structure, Hosseini constantly reminds the readers of the progression of time through the inclusion of the year and Mariam’s age. For instance, in the exposition of chapter five, Hosseini declares, “It was the spring of 1974, the year Mariam turned fifteen” (Hosseini 25). Then in chapter fifteen—the last chapter of the first part—Hosseini once again states, “On April 17, 1978, the year Mariam turned nineteen…” (Hosseini 97). Hosseini purposely includes the date along with Mariam’s increasing age throughout the chapters for the readers to become cognizant of the novel’s chronological format. In addition to illustrating the progression of time through Mariam, Hosseini also mirrors the same structure for his second protagonist, Laila. In the second part of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini prefaces the chapter with the header—Kabul, Spring 1987. Immediately below the header, Hosseini begins the chapter by stating, “Nine-year-old Laila rose from bed, as she did most morning, hungry for the sight of her friend Tariq” (Hosseini 107). By introducing Laila through the identical structure utilized when first presenting Mariam, Hosseini provides hints of his wish for readers to juxtapose the two females. Furthermore, by introducing nine-year old Laila twenty-three years after the introduction of five-year old Mariam, Hosseini was able to illustrate Laila’s plotline in relation to Mariam’s

Insecurity runs rampant through the men in The Sun Also Rises. Those who fought in World War I have been emasculated either physically or mentally, while non-veterans also feel a sense of inadequacy. Robert Cohn, the sole Jewish and non-veteran character, is the frequent target of scorn from a group of men who have all been to war together and share similar values. His belief of love and honor representing pre-war ideals is looked down upon by others. Cohn is secluded because he does not fulfill the role of an ideal man; yet, neither does anybody in the central group. Cohn puts on a masculine façade to cover up his internal issues just like the other men of the novel, but only he is criticized for being weak. Thus, Robert Cohn personifies the shortcomings of non-archetypal men, demonstrating the irony of his alienation amidst similarly unmanly characters.

Talia Hale was sitting down at the dinner table waiting for her kids to join her. Though this issue only affected two of them, she felt Laura should also be there when they discussed it. Hopefully to keep the other from being too outraged with her decision. She knew neither would be happy at finding out they had to marry, and soon. But it was the fate of all royalty to ensure their people were happy and provided for. Her people were not at the moment and she needed to fix that.

Faulkner calls out racial prejudice and social circumstances with his story, That Evening Sun. The story follows an African American woman, Nancy, who is employed by a white family. The father is a very influential character in the story. Nancy washes the family’s laundry and cooks for them while their main chef is sick. Nancy is pregnant which causes her partner, Jesus, to get very angry and vow revenge against the man who raped her. He leaves town and Nancy lives in fear of Jesus coming back to kill her. She tries to hide in her employer’s house, much to the mother’s protest. Eventually, her luck runs out and the father leaves her alone for Jesus to find after she lures his children to her house for protection. The last time she is seen is in her house waiting for Jesus to kill her. The father is someone who seems to care for Nancy’s wellbeing. He walks her home and lets her sleep in the house for a couple of days, but he seems to be almost emotionless. He takes his job as father and employer seriously. Epictetus and Bernard Russell would argue that the father is an ideal person that is living a good life based on their works. Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness talks about living objectively and finding external sources to keep a person’s purpose fulfilled. Epictetus’s handbook describes a person who is calm and accepts things as they come, a person who observes and does not react to the events happening around him. Both works have things in common and outline the father as an ideal man who fits into these categories.

Starry Night by the renowned artist Vincent van Gogh has a significant meaning. Aside from the beautiful sea blue colors mixed with the sunny bright yellows, the graceful and thick brush strokes and meanings behind the colors tells a story of hope and passion.

The Sun is a very special subject to us, to whom it brings life. It plays a vital role in our existence, and when it hides behind the clouds by which any man is incline just like a disciple in front of his “God”. The passion of man for this wonder of nature could have stopped there, considering that one does not study the divine one but one is rather satisfied to apprehend and barely understand it, for the astronomical value of the Sun is very important as it is essential to understand how our source of life functions. In correlation, we can admit to say the Sun is not inaccessible neither impossible to conduct a trough study, because for more than twenty years, the development of stellar seismology in particular the Stellar evolution has allowed us to probe the sun, auscultate it, listen to the deepest of its structure by the study of acoustic oscillations which crosses its surface as shown in (Fig1, right corner).

Van Gogh, a man conflicted, who struggled throughout his entire life and relying on his brother’s support in the end, a man who will go down as one of the greatest artist in history. Van Goh is known for a lot of different reasons, cutting off his own ear is my first story I heard about him; however, the painting of Starry Night is known to everyone who learned about history or art, and personally one of my favorites. In this essay I’ll go in depth about Starry Night structure, and Van Goh’s style. To know how Starry Night came to be, we need to know who Van Gogh was. This essay will be broken down into three parts, the technical analysis of Starry Night, back ground of Van Gogh life, and how does life affect his style. The reason I include his life story, is because every event that happened to him in the end influenced his own style, so I can’t talk style without talking about his life.

The sun is actually a star just like the stars that shine throughout the night. The sun is a medium-sized star measuring 864,948mi (1,392,000km) across--100 times the diameter of the earth (Farndon 47). The core, the convection zone, and the photosphere are four main layers of the sun. The core makes energy from hydrogen for the world’s sight (Elvis 12). About 99 percent of the energy generated by the sun through nuclear fusion is produced in its core (Koehler 14). Photons transport energy generated in the sun’s core. This movement from the sun’s core is not instant, in fact, it can take up to 150,000 years for energy to reach the photosphere. From the photosphere, energy generated in the core streams into the sun’s atmosphere and out into space. This energy that lights and heats the earth (14).