Kierkegaard suggests it is easy to understand when things are quiet to the point of hearing “a grain of sand fall”, it is entirely different “to sit in the kettle the coppersmith is hammering on and then to understand the same thing.” Why does Kierkegaard use an image of a coppersmith hammering a kettle? On the one hand, the image is somewhat comical. The two scenarios Kierkegaard presents are completely opposite. The first is a scene of total tranquility (quietly hearing a grain of sand fall), and the second of total mayhem (the reader sitting in a kettle being banged about). Imagining being in a kettle or any other metal object that’s being hammered on is enough to give a headache just thinking about the absurd volume of noise and shaking such an act would be. It’s also funny because I doubt any coppersmith, knowing there’s someone somehow shrunk down to be inside the kettle, would knowingly be hammering about like everything is normal. The coppersmith becomes an unknowing comical agent, bringing an element of dramatic irony. …show more content…
It is a physically demanding job requiring a level of physical strength. This is seen even in Kierkegaard’s sentence, as the coppersmith is hammering away at a metal kettle. There is a contrast between the person sitting in the kettle, thinking, and the coppersmith outside the kettle actually working and producing something. In this scenario, the coppersmith isn’t just producing the kettle the coppersmith is creating, but the coppersmith also produces a challenging, stimulating environment. This environment isn’t necessarily bad, and in fact is what Kierkegaard holds up as the standard; anyone can understand in silence, but not everyone can understand when things are chaos around them. The coppersmith, through doing their normal job, inadvertently creates this learning environment that is difficult to endure but is actually
Community health identifies common needs in the community and provides solutions for modifying behaviors for community members. According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2008, p. 347) the term community health is “the meeting of collective needs by identifying problems and managing behaviors within the community itself and between the community and the larger society.” According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2008) community health involves biological, emotional, and social aspects. The biological aspects are measured in terms of “ morbidity and mortality rates, life expectancy indexes, and risk factor profiles” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 3008, p. 345). Emotional aspects are measured in terms of mental health, while crime rates and levels of function define the social aspects (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008). Community structure is defined in terms of services and resources available to the members,
The authors of both stories, last but not leastly, use suspenseful moods, the feeling that the story creates within the reader, and dangerous/mysterious tones, an author’s attitude toward the subject or audience of the story, throughout the story. In The Monkey’s Paw, the author says, “...The clock tick.s. A chair creaks. Finally, a quiet knock is heard. Mrs. White jumps up.” This is an example of a suspenseful mood and mysterious tone. In the
At the beginning of the article, Crawford outlined the increased of demand for technical jobs, "making the manual trades- plumbing, electrical work, car repair- more attractive as careers” (n.p). Although it is idealized as "the salt of the earth", in reality, workers are prevented from joining this field by family members (n.p). Believed to be no-brain work, the author argued that trades turn out to require a lot of effort and “metacognition” in order to “eliminate variables…The gap between theory and practice stretches
Krakauer adds specific words such as ‘luminous’ rather than bright and ‘idyll’ rather than just happy. This diction in relation to imagery gives the reader a specific picture in their mind to further understand the depth of the information that is presented, so there is nothing left to interpretation. “Here, on a low, sun-scorched rise dotted with collas and indigobushes and twelve-foot ocotillo stems, McCandless slept on the sand under a tarp hung from a creosote branch” (Krakauer, 49). Krakauer continues to use diction to explicitly illustrate the image he wants the reader to see. By utilizing these two rhetorical devices together Krakauer can really display how isolated McCandless is and what situation he has gotten himself
In his article he talks about how blue-collar work is a very unstable job to have. There are long hours and small pay checks at the end of the day. He tells us that another thing to worry about when working a blue-collar job, is one day not having your job at all. He makes this statement, “The most stressful thing about blue-collar life is knowing your job could disappear overnight.” He proves this statement with an example from one of the factories he was working at.”
Hammond states, “The hole of which / allows the hand to go / In to pull the gooey mess inside, out - / The walls scooped clean with a spoon” (3-5). The fifth line is the line that really hits home when it comes to sound. When he is talking about the walls being scooped clean with a spoon the reader can almost hear this. The spoon, scraping around the inside of the pumpkin until cleaned out. The sound of scraping is always a vivid sound. Scraping a plate, chalkboard, or even a pumpkin can make an unpleasant sound. All these s sounds combined stand out a lot. A sound that can be hard for some to forget. Hammond is able to knock home on the sound in this poem and also knock home when it comes to diction.
In Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard differentiates between the subject as the knower, and the world (object) as the known: the only way we know the world is through ourselves. Kierkegaard emphasizes the importance of "how" the subject is related to the truth,
A gothic novel is an English genre of fiction that was popular in the early 18th and 19th centuries that combines horror, mystery, and death in a seemingly meaningful setting. Frankenstein took place in continental Europe, specifically Switzerland and Germany, with other parts taking place in Arctic regions. The location/setting is just one characteristic that makes this a gothic novel. Gothic novels consist of various elements such as; castle settings, atmospheres of mystery and suspense, ancient prophecies, omens, portents, visions, supernatural or inexplicable events, and numerous other elements. However, each gothic book varies because
Kierkegaard’s position on faith is represented with the Knight of infinite resignation and the Knight of faith. The Knight of faith is regarded as the one who believes in that which is absurd. For, he is the knight that is able to believe in the things that are
Starting with Kierkegaard, it is best to understand that he has a deep fulfillment to God and that he feels is the absolute. This absolute is to live in the realm of a paradox and that paradox is proving the existence of God and experiencing it for yourself. To understand this is to go through the different stages, of aesthetic, moral and religious. The aesthetic is all about the individual and focuses on oneself as an individual. The moral is having to be antagonistic towards yourself in
In this paper, I am going to talk about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the two presidential candidates of the 2016 American Election. I will talk about the difference in their views on the topics of immigration, guns, women rights and religion. In what follows, I will argue that Donald Trump is more disliked than Hillary Clinton because of the statements he made against minorities, undocumented immigrants, promises to build a wall on the Mexican border, his negative and disgusting comments about women, and his foul lanuage. I will also talk about why both Trump and Hillary have the highest voters’ dissatisfaction in the American Election Campaign history.
In “Blue Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose, Rose describes his observations of his mother 's career as a waitress and his uncle 's career at a motor company. He noticed different behaviors, conversations, responses, and customs that both conveyed in their field of work. Rose’s mother was a hard working woman. She was consistent and accurate with her orders, had a great memory, knew how to communicate with her customers efficiently depending on their needs, and had no problem carrying two arms of plates and drinks. Now that is skill. On the other hand, his uncle managed his time wisely, got things done the right way, and never failed to do his job. Rose states that work involves both the body and the brain no matter what the occupation.
This document makes it apparent that becoming a scribe is a huge honor and that they should be lucky to be learning how to write because it is going to make their life much easier. They go through multiple occupations that show all the hardships of that carrier. An example of this was the job of a washer man and how “all his limbs are weak, (from) whitening his neighbor’s cloths every day, from washing their linens.” They continue to go on about how the cobbler “mingles with vats” as well as to say “his odor is penetrating” and his hands are described as His hands “red with madder.” In the document Advice to the Young "Be a Scribe” it also discusses jobs such as watchman, merchants, carpenters, and out workers that worked out in the
C. Wright Mills defines the meaning of work for white-collar workers. A white-collar worker is an educated person who performs non-manual, professional, managerial, or administrative work. He states “ White Collar stands, after sixty years, as the most comprehensive work that American social science has produced in the study of the new middle class. “ classifying white collar workers as the new middle class full of intellectuals in intermediate positions, to what he describes as the “enormous file” of clerical labor. C. Wright Mills connects the meaning of work for white-collar workers to the types of leisure activity they pursue. Modern white-collar workers attach an extrinsic value to their wage work because they work to live. Jobs have lost their intrinsic value due to the emptiness that comes with the job. For example, white collar workers are subjected to manipulations and control of their superiors thus in return; they lose their creativity and freedom of action.
Work takes on greater importance in a society where people believe that they can master the material world and shape their own destinies, and less where they believe that they can not. An Ancient Greek philosopher said that the only stability in the world was within one's mind or soul, where ideas were secure from the unending changes that took place in the material world. In Ancient Greece, philosophers believed that a person's thoughts and ideas were more important than that person's work and that work in the material world lacked permanence. For the ancient Greeks, the status of particular occupations depended on the degree of freedom a person had, the perceived moral integrity of the occupation, and the amount of mental and physical work it required. Today we tend to feel that working in an office is better than working in a coal mine, regardless of which worker makes more money. Our language suggests that it is a privilege to work sitting down.