Curtain

all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Communists were presented as threats in the United States and they are known as the Red Scare. The iron curtain wasn’t an actual curtain, but the line of separation was shaped as a curtain separating the non-communists and the communists. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union with missiles aiming at the U.S. from Cuba. The Vietnam War was a…

as a switchable privacy glass. An eGlass is a laminate which can be switched from clear to opaque white to provide privacy in the flick of a switch. Privacy glass will replace curtains, which can also harbor germs and bacteria. They will greatly benefit those in acute care settings and for a controlled environment. Curtains are outdated, especially in a hospital setting, and they…

were themed as modernism, which could not be seen in Australia. He joined Rudder, Littlemore and Rudder in 1949 after returning to Australia. In 1950, Felix Tavener designed Qantas House for Qantas Airways, with the inspiration of the London first curtain wall building, Peter Jones Department Store (as shown in figure 2), by William Crabtree and Professor Charles Reilly which was designed in early of 1930s and completed in 1939. Qantas House is a very powerful symbol of forward-looking for…

use of symbolism to help the patient reader understand more about his stories. In “Hills Like White Elephants”, symbols play a large role in helping the reader understand the relationship and decision being made between the American and Jig. The curtain made of beads is symbolic of the couple’s attitudes toward each other and toward the abortion. It acts as a cover that keeps the actual topic the characters must discuss covered up. For the first part of the stop at the station, Hemingway’s…

to cheat, which he adamantly refuses. He, along with three other children, was the only person to pass all of the tests. The children are introduced to Mr. Benedict and he promptly informs the children of Mr. Curtain, an evil genius, wants to take over the world. Using a machine, Mr. Curtain sends subliminal messages to many people to get what he wants. The children…

destination by now. Snapping his fingers and pointing to the window, one of the six servants pulled back the curtain. Searing sunlight poured in. Recoiling, a flick of his staff propelled the servant away, rocking the carriage as it slammed into the side to fall crumpled to the floor. The curtain fell back into place. He pointed again. Without hesitation, another servant moved to open the curtain. This time…

based on two characters the American man and Jig who were waiting at the humid train station to get to their destination from Madrid to Barcelona. They were seated at the bar inside the train station where they found some shade besides a bamboo bead curtain, refreshing alcohol, and discussed whether or not if Jig should continue on with her procedure. Hemingway had many sets of themes in his story which included choices and identity that he significantly added in his short story to make the…

Throughout Carson McCullers’s work The Member of the Wedding, Frankie Addams is seen to embody or take on characteristics of a male. McCullers gives Frankie male characteristics to show the difference in power dynamic between males and females throughout the text. During the scene with her father in the jewelry shop, Frankie thinks of the times that she pretends to work on watches just like her father, “sometimes a little crowd of sidewalk lazies would collect to watch her from the street and…

stool being painted by an artist. The painting is very picturesque it has the look and feel of a still photo. The color used in this painting is realistic and understated, it does not jump out at you but has a certain appeal to it. The line of the curtain being drawn seems to cover up part of the painting and almost makes you wonder what lies behind it. Between the contrast of the horizontal beams of the ceiling and the diagonal tile on the floor lies the heart of the painting. The man with his…

Second, she stunningly symbolizes the curtain as her marital relationship; after they had usual bickering, she earnestly starts thinking about her future in the bed. “The front pattern and the back pattern really did move together or separately (771).” Gilman depicts her husband as the front pattern and she should be in the back pattern; she was struggling under the pressure to continue marriage relationship with him, or she should divorce. When the curtain waves by the wind, her intention also…