One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
For my senior project I am making a biography photo album of the faculty, administration, and staff members at the Austin Area High School. I decided to my project on this simply because I thought it would something interesting to do and have fun with. It is an easy way to learn a few interesting things about the people at my school. A lot of people this year are building things to benefit the community or our school, so I decided to something a little different. I came up with this idea when I realized there wasn’t really anything in our school with information on our faculty members, administration and staff members. They know a lot about us, so I figured it would be nice to put something together about them.
To complete my senior project I needed to use the following materials: a photo album, which I bought, camera, film, information about each individual, and a lot of paper. In order for me to get the information I needed to do my project, I had to go to the office for some of it, the other I had a questionnaire I made up and sent that around to the members of the school, and last I needed to go around and ask them questions personally on my free time.
My photo album consists of a picture of each individual, a pretty designed nametag, and then the few paragraphs or so about them. Each individual will be separated and neatly arranged on to his or her own page in the photo album alphabetically. The paragraphs I am including in the album will contain information as how many years they have worked at Austin Area High School, their job they are involved with at the school, some information about their family, and also some of the information from the questionnaire I passed out. I went to the office for the years they worked here and the addresses they reside at. The questionnaire I passed out was mainly to get their input for the paragraphs I am writing about them. Some of the questions I asked were: If the job they have now the same as it was in high school, Would they recommend their job as a career to student, What do they like the most about their job, etc.
The short story “The Death of Ivan Ilych” is about a man who realizes he is dying and that no one in his life cares about him. Even more disappointing for Ivan is the realization that besides his success as a high court judge, he has done nothing else to make his life worth saving. The death of Ivan Ilyich, sadly, comes as a release of stress to all. In the end, Ivan is soothed by the release of death, his family and friends are relieved of having responsibility of Ivan taken off their shoulders, and the reader is released from the stressful journey. Tolstoy teaches the audience through the structural elements of the “black sack” metaphor and pathos about the unavoidability of death and the relief of accepting it.
While most students have an interest in sports or academics, my interest lies within a different category; yearbook. Being on the River Bluff High School yearbook staff has become such an dominant and meaningful part to my life that I would feel incomplete if I did not share my story.
This novel and film commentary analysis or interpretation will be first summarised and then critiqued. The summary will be divided into twenty- four episodes. While summarising it is well to remember that the film was made out of the book.
The story of In "The Death of Ivan Ilych", was written by Leo Tolstoy around who examines the life of a man, Ivan Ilyich, who would seem to have lived an exemplary life with moderate wealth, high station, and family. By story's end, however, Ivan's life will be shown to be devoid of passion -- a life of duties, responsibilities, respect, work, and cold objectivity to everything and everyone around Ivan. It is not until Ivan is on his death bed in his final moments that he realizes that materialism had brought to his life only envy, possessiveness, and non-generosity and that the personal relationships we forge are more important than who we are or what we own.
Fear is only one of the emotions that drive people. Society and even religion uses fear in the form of consequences to persuade people to control their EGO. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy allows the readers to learn the consequences of living a completely selfish, non-Christian life without actually having to make Ivan’s mistakes. At face value, The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy is not a Christian novel. There is no mention of spirituality until the final chapter of the book, ****** there are only vague references to life after death with no mention of Christianity. However, fiction is about telling a story; it is about leaving the reader changed by the end of the book. In this regard, Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece and should be celebrated by Christians as a work of art.
There are many definitions of the term "freedom." Some will say that to be free one must be allowed to do as one pleases in terms of one's physical body, while others will say that one must only be able to think to be truly free. Yet another group will argue that both aspects must be present for true freedom to exist.
John in this chapter has an obsession with Lenina. He breaks into the rest house after he finds the door locked. He was terrified that Bernard and Lenina were gone. Once he realized that Lenina was there when he saw her initial on her green suit case joy “flared up like fire within him.” I thought this was pretty strange considering he has not know her for that long. He smelled her perfume, put scarf with the perfume around his neck, wiped her powder on his chest, shoulders, and bare arms whispering Lenina time. That is obsession and in my opinion is creepy! Those action might be acceptable if maybe they were dating but to me this is still very extreme. After fantasizing about her he finds her asleep stares at her and even thinks about unzipping
My poster contains images that I used to give a very brief imagery of Dr. Paul Farmer’s life. In the center I put a large photo of him so someone could see his full facial appearance. I put the logos for Duke University and Harvard University to show where he went for his schooling. I put Duke’ logo on blue construction paper to represent the school’s blue colors, and I put Harvard’s logo on red construction paper for the same reason. I put a quote on the bottom-right of the poster, because I feel this quote represents a general mentality of Dr. Paul Farmer. I put two pictures of Farmer treating Haitian patients, because the majority of his life’s work is treating poor people in Haiti. I put the picture of Haitian hands holding a cross to represent the religious belief of Haitians. Many of Farmer’s patients had trouble
This assignment is based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Through a creative approach, I will be demonstrating some of the aspects of Solzhenistsyn’s text. I will be inserting a scene in which Shukhov, the protagonist, is sitting outside, adjusting his boots. This text is full of a plethora of literary techniques and symbols but the aim of my piece is to specifically demonstrate the stylistic feature of time, two of the three narrative styles and certain symbols via the above scenario.
Throughout the 20th century, many countries were ruled by totalitarian leaders who were ready to commit many horrible deeds in order to achieve their goals. Josef Stalin, the leader of Soviet Union between 1924 and 1953, is the perfect example of a despotic ruler, who was responsible for the deaths of millions of people. He believed that communism would transform the Soviet Union into a perfect nation, with an ideal society where everyone would be treated equally. However, in order to achieve this perfection, all external and, more importantly, internal enemies had to be destroyed. Instead of a perfect nation, Stalin created a system, which was based on fear and denunciation, where killing of the so-called "enemies of the nation" became a sport, where Stalin's representatives competed against each other on the basis of the number of "enemies" killed. Throughout almost three decades, millions of innocent people were either killed or put into labour camps. The author of the book himself, was sentenced to eight years in a concentration camp for his anti-Soviet views, which he expressed in writing, and through the characters of his novel, Solzhenitsyn portrays his personal beliefs. Most of the characters in "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" are innocent people, who have never done anything reprehensible. Among them is Gopchik, a sixteen-year-old boy who was sentenced to 10 years in concentration camp for giving milk to Ukrainian nationalist rebels, and Aleshka the Baptist who received twenty-five years for his religious beliefs. The protagonist of the novel, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, is a simple man without any heroic qualities. He is a former carpenter who was sent off to the battlefield during the World War II. After being captured by the Germans, Ivan and five of his fellow soldiers were able to escape and return to the Soviet military base. However, three of them were killed instantly, mistaken for German soldiers while the fourth soldier died from wounds a couple of days later. Although Ivan Denisovich was not shot, he was arrested and accused of being a German spy. Even though he was innocent, he had to confess during the interrogation, because he understood that he would be shot immediately if he did not. As a result, he was sentenced to ten years in a Siberian concentration camp for betraying Soviet Union. The Soviet labour camps represented a small-scale totalitarian nation, where wardens were the despotic rulers who frequently abused the prisoners.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist during the 19th century. Dostoyevsky's literary work explored the human mind which is now coined as psychology. Psychology is a very broad school that focuses on the human consciousness. This can include your emotions, and your emotions are effected by everything; by your mood, personality, other individuals, and your environment. The psychology of himself, the psychology of the protagonist, as well as the psychology of the readers are explored in Notes from Underground. Notes from Underground is broken up into two sections: the first section introduces the underground man. Explaining his current state of mind and his antagonist stance on society. The second section previously occurs from the first section, and this section serves to show the audience how the underground man progressed from the perspective of Romanticism, with the idea of "the beautiful and the lofty" to his more rational egoist stance. This paper will explore both why and how the underground man progressed from having a 'love for the world' view to such a cynical perspective while at the same time trying to clarify the contradictory the underground man presents. The underground man overanalyzes everything; including himself. Dostoyevsky does well at showing that the audience can sympathize with the underground man but at the same time being able to distinguish themselves from the underground man.
“Frist, thing you need is photos and not all should be professional photos”, (Carter 3). Next, choose photos that represent your
It is hard to know each and every one of your students on a personal level
In this assignment, my thought process was to create a collection of two albums containing my favorite photos. The first album has my favorite photos of my high school lacrosse career, and the second album contains my favorite memories regarding sports fandom. The recurring themes I wanted to include were brotherhood, the role of symbols/objects, and the community that sports evolves around. I wanted to showcase different parts of the “13 Ways of Looking at Sports” poem, and how those ideologies play in my role as an athlete and spectator. I chose to include a majority of the photos that were not in game setting because I wanted to portray that sports and photography are a terrific platform to exemplify that lacrosse and fandom are much more profound than
Projects can be completed individually or as a group and assesses academic learning goals, how well students work together cooperatively, and individual accountability.