Please Be Quiet For The Moment Of Re-Gathering Yourself

Doctors at the best have told mothers to obtain a health “tonic” and free vitamins at the municipal chambers. Deaths are so prevalent that registration for a child’s death is simple, quick and requires no documentation. From the registry office, the mayor will give them a voucher for a free baby coffin! One aspect, you may believe that would never change, but has, is the church. Bells are no longer chimed, and no baptisms or ceremonies are performed for dying children. The author states that how can an individual not acknowledge that the bells are ringing continuously, nevertheless the women of Alto have grown accustomed to the bells and do not pay any attention to it.

“Why are you so quiet?” This question has plagued me throughout my life, people often mistake my introverted nature for a lack of good communication skills. I might not talk as often, but from an early age I learned that communication was so much more than simply speaking. Growing-up my parents had a make-shift store at the San Fernando Swap Meet selling kitchen supplies, it was there that I came across many different methods of communication. In order for the family business to strive, listening to the customer and interpreting their non-verbal cues was essential to selling our products. This experience made me realize that I was interested in communication and this interest propelled me to pursue journalism. In high school I was editor-in-chief

That signify that they hate their own job and it’s a burden for them to encounter the man who don’t want to die. According to Paul Melia, the superintendent and his fellows were seemed to follow their British schedule which is the consequence of imperial hegemony. She thinks that they were completing their formality instead of their humanity by

Police Officers work is never routine. The diverse work load for officers range for long periods of tediousness too adrenaline-driven, life threatening activities. Decisions stand within each context of work effectiveness. While using discretion, officers entrusted to manage criminal episodes while simultaneously protecting basic citizen liberties.

In Philip K Dick's 1974 novel, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, is set in 1988 in which global celebrity, Jason Taverner suddenly finds that no one knows who he is; that his identity has completely vanished and never seemed to existed. In this dark dystopian novel, people are condemned to forced labour camps, universities have become prisons and the police and national guard incessantly surveillances everyone. The lack of individuality and privacy,

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone is a poem written by W.H. Auden in a theme about death, expressed in a tragical way. The poem takes place after someone the poet knows has died. The tone of the poem is sad as it conveys a mournful message towards the person who died. The tone however expresses to be calm but not relaxed at all, but its attitude is confident and solid. Its tittle “stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” is meant to mean we must take time to mourn those who had died in a moment of silence. As the clocks may make noise with the ringing but they also are a symbol

“It is just us officer Dukem, there is nothing to be alarmed about, I was just in the neighborhood, and we were just trying to deduce who perpetrated such a foul crime like this. So, officer there is nothing to be alarmed about our appearance at the scene of this horrid crime.”

It is difficult to imagine a life without a means of communication. There is no doubt communication plays a big role in one’s everyday life. As a matter of fact, everyone does it everyday. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Hush” episode it “talks” a lot about communicating with others. The episode uses an extended metaphor which displays a great lesson. The extended metaphor in “Hush” shows a society cannot survive if communication does not exist, revealing the importance of communicating with people in our lives before chaos happens.

The orderly, on the other hand, is the epitome of a purely existential conduct, projecting a simplistic, grounded attitude towards life, doing as he is told without question and enjoying his nights off spent with his “sweetheart.” The two characters serve to contrast each other, and to ultimately lead each other to their mutual demise. Lawrence’s writing is an evident commentary on both Freudian and existentialist thought, and the Officer serves as the symbol of sexual repression, and more specifically, homosexual repression. The orderly is the image of the Officer’s homoerotic desires, perhaps because he is the more practical and simple-minded of the two, he took his responsibilities and the commands of the Officer, “as he took the sun and the rain… it did not implicate him personally.” The Officer, being as complex as he was, resented the relaxed disposition of his orderly, yet he was simultaneously attracted- fatally attracted- to his movements, his physical structure, and his submissive

The Holocaust; probably one of the most brutal and horrifying genocides in the history of politics. It was the dark secret of Germany during World War II, As a result, the defeat of the Nazi’s sparked a huge newcomming, and with it, the formation of the United Nations. But that is not the main concern here. The events and documents that we have found about the Holocaust still horrify us today. Documentations such as the book Night by Elie Wiesel and the story of the White Rose show us how brutaly a person can treat one another, and the exents powerful people can go to in order to hold their power. Night shows Elie Wiesel’s experience when he was a part of this murdering act. The book illustrates the terror that Elie and his father went through.

The purpose of the grand rule was to help the nuns remove the sin from their hearts such as pride and it also expects the sisters to have complete and utter obedience to the sisters and God. the Grand Silence distances the sisters from the real world, communication with others and earthly possessions so that they can dedicate more time to God.

The metaphor of life as a tapestry in strands and collections of a unique handcrafted piece can be found to be disrupted in all three texts due to the presence of religion and mental illness. Within Kesey’s ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ (1962) it is the dominant imagery of the ‘combine’ which causes the reader to question what is sanity and the process in which people with mental illness are ‘cured’ in order for them to ‘take responsibility’ and become active members of society. Highlighted in the ‘breakdown of the taboo of silence’ surrounding mental illness seen in the Community Mental illness Centers Act of 1963 which called for more community services instead of institutionalisation. Similarly in Plath’s ‘Ariel’ (1966) collection it is the brutality of the reoccurring ‘Holocaust metaphor’ and pastiche to confessional poets such Anne Sexton that asserts the argument of both faith and mental illness being a personal relationship with the self and effectively a struggle with identity, effecting relationships with others which is expressed both in Plath’s own poetry such as ‘The Applicant’ and in Ted Hughes ‘Birthday Letters’ in poems such as ‘Fever’ . Within McEwan’s ‘Enduring Love’ (1997) it is the overarching motif, drawn from the secular society of the 90s, being both unrequited and ‘enduring’, that presents the destructive nature of both mental illness and religion, paired together in the embodiment of Jed Parry and by the intertextuality of the novel which offers an argument that

Who would have thought the world could change in the course of seven seconds? The cheers turned into a deadly silence, everyone dropping to the ground protecting themselves and their children. The presidential limousine speeding off, but where is it going and why? President Kennedy and Governor Connally have been shot, both fighting for their lives, but the question is who shot him, and where was it from?

Because Naomi hears no response and only silence accompanies her relentlessly. So she growing up in solitude and silence, Naomi loses the ability to communicate with others and the silence became part of her life. “The language of her grief is silence. She has learned it well, its idioms, its nuances, over the years, silence within her small body has grown large and powerful” (Kogawa 17). The silence grew within her, bringing difficulty to verbalize her suffering. Silence has become her way of expression, that dominant her actions.

I chose to take a day of silence from 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm. This day of silence was done on my way home for Thanksgiving. I spent 2 hours in the car in complete silence, without music or any other imported noise, breaking every 30-45 minutes to stop and take a short walk as suggested by the instructions. The final hour in the car I played light classical music and hymns, to combat drowsiness. Then, after getting into the airport, I sat at my gate with noise canceling headphones in and read. I read from the Bible (both Ruth and Luke in their entirety) prior to my plane ride, Parker Palmer, and a novel called “Me Before You” that examines the life of a paralyzed man who wishes to commit doctor assisted suicide. My day of silence was completed exactly 30 minutes prior to landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico for Thanksgiving.