A Quiet Place

Physical Space being used in Libraries Expectation, Situation Introduction Due revolution in information technology, the role of library has been changed astonishingly in past decades. Traditional libraries emphasis on providing quiet space and printed books, however, modern libraries are not only providing traditional academic reference service but also providing digital information service; not only for study but also for socialising. Scott Bennett deemed, “at the heart of any effort to…

2.4 Place attachment Essentially, the term place attachment refers to ‘affective bond’ between people (individuals or group) and a significant environment, which is developing over time (Scannell and Gifford, 2010). However, due to ‘the proliferation of concepts and measurements proposed for characterising emotional bonds between humans and places’ (Manzo and Devine-Wright, 2014, p. 125), place attachment has a diversity of definitions. These definitions, however, remain scattered in the…

around us. When people hear a song images pop into their heads. Music plays a key role in the sense of place. The articles Place or Space and Sacred Spaces and Tourist Places, the way images are presented, and the things I learned all contributed to our project in the way music corresponds to geographic sense of place. In the article Place or Space by Mike Crang, Mike writes, “Spaces become places as they become ‘time thickened’. They have a past and future that binds people together around…

Before reading the novel The Quiet American, I never suspected that one of the themes or the overall message of the novel would be the betrayal which occurs between human beings. This novel supports a saying that my grandmother always tells me when I tell her that I have been betrayed by someone very close, she says, “You never really get to fully know a person.” Besides the novel 's drama of love and war, honesty and deception, I would argue that it projects a big message which is the betrayal…

The film The Quiet American, based off the classic novel by Graham Greene and directed by Phillip Noyce. Based in Saigon, 1952, in the middle of the Vietnam war between the communist and the French. The film follows a long-time war journalist from London named Thomas Fowler and his complicated love life between a catholic woman who does not believe in divorce and the Vietnamese women named Phuong whom he has fallen in love with. Fowler meets an unlikely friend, Alden Pyle, an aid worker for the…

good, but as he delved deeper into the hole, he suddenly realized that he had helped kill hundreds. In The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Alden Pyle’s character proves to play a vital role in promoting the central theme of the novel, moral ambiguity. The narrative’s title stays true in describing this young American’s personality as being docile, preserved, introverted, and most of all quiet towards the beginning of the novel. But as time progresses, or rather, regresses as the story is told…

The Quiet American by Graham Greene Graham Greene’s fascinating novel The Quiet American is about two men who fall in love with the same women in Vietnam during the French and Indochina War. The protagonist, Thomas Fowler, and another English journalist, Alden Pyle, both shared a love for Phuong. The author of this novel, Graham Greene, wrote many stories that dealt with American and English involvement in foreign wars. Being born in Berkhamsted Hertfordshire, England, Graham suffered from…

call him. She could hear Mark and BamBam in the background making kissing sounds, teasing him on the phone. She missed being around them. Their camaraderie, how they joked with one another. Even Junior, and his usually scowl mood, and JB with his quiet grim reaper stare. She arrived home, with 5 hours to sleep before work. As she hit the pillow, she grabbed her dress off the floor, smelling it, hoping to catch his scent one more time before falling asleep. The next few months went by quickly…

long night in the cold autopsy room. No pun intended, but the cold never bothered her anyway. Securing the procedure mask over her tall nose and thin lips, she focused on the lifeless body that lay face up on the large metal autopsy table. All was quiet and peaceful at this moment in this confined and frigid facility. Across from her stood a man that was a head taller than her 179 centimeters frame, while she was young, confident, and beautiful, he was everything opposite…

age Carl was bullied into a decision despite his wishes to age in place. However, the desire to age in place has not gone unnoticed by policymakers. Aging in place has become so prominent that housing policies are adopting this concern into their works. In the article “New Approaches to Housing and Aging in Place”, Pynoos and Cicero explain how aging in place is viewed by housing policymakers, “Policy responses to support aging in place, however, have been piecemeal and fragmented, leaving many…