An Autumn Afternoon

The Rigid Repression of An Autumn AfternoonMidway through Yasujiro Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon, Shuhei, an elderly, widowed businessman with two sons (Koichi, Kazuo) and a daughter (Michiko), faces a dilemma. Although Michiko is well into her twenties, she has yet to find a male partner with whom she can settle down and raise a family. Based on previous observations, Shuhei believes that Michiko would be a good match for Miura, a colleague of Koichi's. In his desperation, Shuhei asks Koichi to sound Miura out about the possibility of a marriage to Michiko; Koichi subsequently broaches the topic while he and Miura are dining at a restaurant, but in a blow to Michiko's marital hopes, Miura states that he is already engaged to someone else. The scene in which Koichi interrogates Miura ultimately stands out not so much for its emotional content as for the way Ozu initially transitions into it. To understand why, we can try to imagine what said transition would have looked like had Ozu decided to abide by classical, narrative-enhancing editing techniques. First, he probably would…

It all started on an Autumn afternoon back in 2012, when my beloved mother told me that she decided that it was best for me, my sister and her to move to U.S.A. Don’t get me wrong, since I was a little girl, I wanted to travel the world, I wanted to experience new things, meet new people, talk different languages. But not at twelve. I wanted to stay in Barranquilla, Colombia; I wanted to stay with my culture, my traditions, my family and everything that I was accustomed to. However I was only…

An autumn afternoon, a watercolor sunset streaked muted pastel shades across the sky. It was a bitingly cold chill that belonged to winter. My eyes were focused on the Manhattan skyline, a beautifully grotesque thing. Nature, half obscured by looming manmade structures. I wasn 't sure what was uglier. What an outlandish thought, to find nature so unnerving. I had been so preoccupied by my own devices that I hadn 't noticed a small girl on a crumbling concrete stoop, her eyes intently focused on…

A person that has helped me grow into the man I am today is my high school baseball coach Steve Leake. From the first day I stepped on the diamond he saw something in me that nobody except my grandfather had told seen. The four years that Coach Leake and I spent together trying to capture the schools first state championship ring were some of the greatest seasons I ever played. As a new school year began I made the decision to go to a different school for high school.I began lost on that…

The colors in the trees range from bright yellows to deep reds. In the painting, the sky behind the trees involves mostly cool blues and greens. In Rain’s Rustle, Afremov uses light and color to create a warm autumn feeling for the viewer. The painting is made up of large impasto dots that have visual texture. There is contrast created between the different dots in the picture. There are dots that are for light created by the light posts, dots that are the darkness from the night sky, and dots…

Grade Level: K Number of Students: 4 Instructional Location: Date: June 1, 2016 Lesson Goals Central Focus of Lesson: Identify Curriculum Area Addressed: Science Curriculum Standard(s) Addressed: 9.) Identify seasons of the year. Arts Area: Visual Arts Arts Standard(s) Addressed: Use selected materials to produce works of art. AED-K-1 Lesson Objectives and Demands Content Objectives: Students will know the seasons of the year. Students will be able to draw what seasons look…

in it, attuned to it and fascinated by it” (7 Ways to Spark Your Sense of Wonder). It is Ted Kooser, an American poet and a Pulitzer Prize winner that we have to thank for the creation of Local Wonders. Local Wonders consists of collections of Ted Kooser’s lifespan memories. From snapshots of his childhood to slices of his present, he who is a two times United States Poet Laureate, takes us on an adventure to experience these wonders along his side. In Local Wonders, Ted Kooser shares with us…

Falls are dangerous and it can happen to anyone anywhere no matter the age, escpecially dangerous in ederly people. Immobility from broken bones, traumatic brain injury can be a result of a fall. According to WHO, Falls are the second leading cause of accidental injury death worldwide. The US population is aging everyday, as people age, it increases the number of falls. This paper will discuss about my current state of knowlegde about risk factors and prevention methods. Falls are…

The chapter “...So Does Season” from How Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster demonstrates the use of season associating with characters and the setting. As said by Foster, spring is associated with “childhood and youth” (186) because of the new birth of flowers and nature; however, the birth of Frankenstein’s creation takes on the day of a “dreary night of November” (Shelley, 56). This quotes foreshadows hardships on the life of the creature because of the on a “dreary night”…

In Ray Bradbury’s October Country, we see the theme of autumn’s weather play out in multiple stories. In his story The Lake he gives us a setting of the ending of summer and the beginning of autumn, “It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason. [sic] The beach was so long and lonely with only about six people on it. The kids quit bouncing the ball because somehow the wind made them sad, too whistling the way it did, and the kids sat down and felt autumn come…