Abstract This paper provides a brief history of several of the founders of Austin and the influence they had on the area. The paper traces the beginnings of the development of the area from the early seventeen hundreds when Isidro de Espinosa set out to try and influence the Texas Indians with Christianity. It explores the story of Stephen Fuller Austin, who settled the area in the early eighteen hundreds with other families who shared his dream of farming the land. Other founders discussed are Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar who became President of Texas and Edwin Waller, the first mayor of Austin, Texas.
From the Paper "Much work still needed to be done once the city was established; that is where Edwin Waller came in. Born on Nov. 4, 1800, Waller was another important figure in Austin's past. Casey M. Weaver states that Waller became the first mayor of the city of Austin (Weaver). He was in charge of surveying the land, selling lots, and getting public buildings built all around Austin. President Lamar appointed Waller the postmaster general of the Republic of Texas (Weaver). He was elected Chief Justice of Austin County in 1844, and re-elected in 1852 and 1854. ?Waller fathered seven children, and moved back to Austin to live with one of his daughters a few months before his death in January 1881? (Weaver). In Texas, there is a town, a country, and are at least two creeks named after Edwin Waller (Weaver)."
Tags: Entrada, Baron, de, Bastrop, Barton, Springs
Abstract This paper explains that the film "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" was inspired by a slew of sixties spy movies including the James Bond films. The author points out that most of Mike Myers inspiration came from the spy spoofs "Helm Series" produced by Columbia Pictures and loosely based on Donald Hamilton's novels. The paper explains that, in the part described by the author, the producers purposely switched the female character with a male character just after Austin hits the woman, setting the stage for the classic good versus evil theme of the film. The author underscores that the costumes play a huge role in the film with Austin dressing a bit on the feminine side, unlike the masculine 007 Sean Connery. The paper concludes that the film seems to reinforce stereotypes of men and woman in both space and time.
From the Paper "The scene I will look at is at the five minute and 18 second mark. It is in the beginning of the second chapter. The atmosphere is electric because Austin is at a club called the Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club. Pink Floyd himself would be proud of the colors mixed in at the club. Lighting is very high for a club. The only effects are the different colors and shapes of light to signify a psychedelic mind-tripping club, which was typical in the sixties. The music was The Strawberry Alarm Clock "Incense and Peppermints" which are from southern California and was popular in 1967."
Tags: photographer, altercation, sex symbol, close-up shots, costume
Abstract This paper explores Jane Austin's view of Romantic and Enlightenment ideals through her characters in her novel, "Sense and Sensibility". The paper argues that Jane Austin is not anti-Romantic; she believes that Romanticism and Enlightenment ideals are equally important in living one's life. The paper shows how she illustrates this idea through her characters and their situations in the novel.
From the Paper "Willoughby's embracement of his romantic lifestyle leads him to acting without moral restraint, as a libertine, and eventually to his eternal torment. Austen leaves Willoughby not as a villain but as someone she wants the reader to pity. Though he does represent emotion without reason he is also a victim of it. His lack of reason and moderation and his overindulgence in sensibility lead him where Austen believes the Romantic ideals alone could lead humanity. With this character Austen shows that unrestrained emotions and passions are dangerous and will lead humanity back into pre-Enlightenment thought."
Abstract This paper reviews and discusses the book, 'The Land of Little Rain' by Mary Austin. According to the paper, Austin's book is an observer's unique tale of deserts, plains and mountains in California. The paper further discusses how the author talks about the Country of Lost Borders and Ute, Paiute, Mojave, and Shoshone that lie on its frontiers.
From the Paper "Some of the lines are indeed useful and informative. If I am a reader who is actually interested in visiting the place myself, then the chapter includes bits of wisdom and information that I might find highly useful. When the author explains why deaths are common in this place, she writes about illusions that desert creates and the effect it has on a thirsty traveler. Austin observes: "There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass (Sporobolus airoides). It is this nearness of unimagined help that makes the tragedy of desert deaths....To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water--there is no help for any of these things." This is a vital piece of information and might help an aspiring traveler in his desire to come back from the place unscathed."
Tags: deserts, plains, mountains, lifelessness, death, water, California
Abstract The paper discusses Austin's thesis that globalization has profoundly changed nursing ethics. The paper looks at Austin's three key health issues of advances in biotechnology and their potential, the demands of equity and justice related to the allocation of global resources and the need for a universal ethic that accounts for diverse values. The paper comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
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Key Ideas
Strengths and Weaknesses
Impact on My Thinking
From the Paper "Austin's (2001) thesis is that globalization has profoundly changed nursing ethics because of the shift to a global frame of reference as opposed to an international one. We now live in a global community with entirely new issues from the past. As a result of living in a global village, we experience a new immediacy that essentially erases political borders. "We watch war, famine, epidemics, and the sufferings of the poor a continent away 'live' from our homes" (Austin, 2002, p. 2). Such immediacy changes the scope of our moral concern. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the implications of this alteration in the scope of moral concern."
Discusses how authors like Joseph Conrad ("Heart of Darkness") and Jane Austin ("Pride and Prejudice") used language to describe the happenings of their times.
Abstract This paper links the dark vision of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" to the fripperies of Jane Austen by showing that these writers can be seen as important bookmarks to the era of the modern novel. We cannot understand Conrad's work without understanding its connections to his time. The paper shows that by looking back to a writer like Austen, we can see how much has changed in the world at large and in the world of the novel during the Victorian era and the ways in which authors had begun to lose faith in the power of language to represent, to contain and to describe language. The paper argues that we cannot understand Conrad's relationship to language without understanding the larger context within which literature was created and consumed. The era from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 until her death in 1901, was an era of a number of key social changes that would force writers to take clear positions on issues of immediate importance to the rest of society. The paper shows, therefore, that we see very little social criticism in Austen - whose "Pride and Prejudice" was written 20 years before Victoria ascended the throne - and almost exclusively social comment in Conrad's story, published in 1902, the year after Victoria died. But even as writers began to become engaged more and more in the world at large, they became increasingly aware of the fact that language is of limited use in effecting change. The paper shows that for a writer like Austen, the power of language had only to carry a plot and characters; for Conrad language had to have to have the ability to transform the world. It is thus hardly surprising that Austen should find language adequate to her desires and her needs and that Conrad should find it inadequate.
From the Paper "Conrad throughout this book implies that civilizations are created by the setting of laws and codes that encourage people to achieve higher standards ? that civilization and social bonds compel us to act out our better selves. The institutions of communal and civilized life act as dams, as bulwarks to prevent humans from reverting back to their darker tendencies, which they will do as soon as they are left alone or loosed from the constraints of their own societies, an element essential to much of colonial thought, as Back and Solomos (2000) suggest. Conrad suggests, through his insistence on the primacy of metaphor, that language cannot be counted on to be one of those civilizing bonds. When a writer can no longer count on language to provide an anchor in the world, we recognize that we are entering the rocky waters of modernism."
Abstract This paper will discuss J. L. Austin 'Sense and Sensibilia: A Plea for Excuse' and seek to uncover his philosophy on the Ordinary Language that is changing the face of philosophy. His analysis and perspective will be discovered in order to better understand the movement from a person on the inside.
Abstract This three-page undergraduate paper discriminates between the methods of satire used by Jane Austin in "Northanger Abbey" and by Evelyn Waugh in "The Loved One", and focuses upon whether there are any similarities, as well as upon how the authors depicted social criticism through the use of their characters.
Abstract This alternative paper, which was originally an oral presentation, provides a review on the movie "Austin Powers: Gold Member." It includes infomation on comedy techniques and Mise-en-sen (film techiques).
From the Paper "Hello, my name is Marshall Deakin and on my right we have Tim Bryant. We directed the latest sequel in this series of humorous movies called "Austin Powers". Today I will be discussing the comedic techniques used in "Gold Member". Whilst Tim will be pointing out the finer points of Film Techniques used in this scene. As the directors of this film we believed that we should include as many humorous aspects as possible without over doing it. Because there are so many elements I will only be able to cover a small area of what is included in this scene. And here is the clip."
Abstract This paper discusses how Jane Austin's "Emma" is, in some ways, a drama and, in some ways, a comedy and how the story definitely has instances of high drama, such as powerful confrontations and arguments between characters, as well as comedic instances, such as Mr. Woodhouse's obsession with health. It attempts to show the differences in the two movie versions based on the fact that the Kate Beckinsale version is dramatic, while the Gwyneth Paltrow version is comedy. It expounds on these differences by showing how the themes of the movies affected the casting choices, along with the way in which key scenes are portrayed.
From the Paper "Kate Beckinsale's version is, as most dramas are, very dark and serious and I feel this horribly marred the mood by not allowing nearly enough comedic material into the performances of these characters. My first and main problem is what this shift toward the dramatic did to the character of Mr. Knightly. He was transformed from the likeable, witty, gentleman I read in the novel to a character I had an extremely hard time liking. This is not because in every instance he acted more dramatically than he should have, but rather the overwhelming way in which he kills all of the supposed humor and enjoyment his character creates. At times when I know the words he is saying are meant to be taken humorously, either they are delivered contrary to that wish, or are so out of context with the prevailing mood that they do not fit."
Abstract This paper reviews Jane Austin's popular novel,"Emma", examining how the author artfully picks apart the melodrama of Victorian era love and relationships. The paper contends that the story itself is reminiscent of a soap opera and its main characters are all flimsily created hyperbole of their culture. The paper explores how satire contributes to the ridicule of the Victorian perception of love, marriage and relationships, providing an examination of the story's characters, plot twists and its ending.
From the Paper "The main character of this novel is Emma Woodhouse, a product of her upper class society. While she is extremely clever and sophisticated, she is also vain and extremely rich. The combination of these qualities makes her the ideal central character for the book. She exhibits all of the qualities that Jane Austin attempts to satirize. The first example of her satire is Emma's perception of class; she believes that marriages and love in general should be an issue of class as well as love. She tells her friend Harriet to marry Mr. Elton rather than Mr. Martin because he is wealthier and has more stature in the town. Her beliefs especially about class are predicated on the Victorian era belief that marriage should occur between those of a similar class. Therefore, Emma's well intentioned belief that Harriet should not marry beneath her stature pokes fun at this Victorian era convention. The purpose of Jane Austin's creation of the character Emma is to show that she is the Victorian typical heroine. She is a noble born woman who is kind hearted but at the same time believes in class division."
Abstract This paper discusses the coming of age of character's within Mark Twain's 1885 "Huckleberry Finn," Jane Austin's 1816 "Emma" and Chaim Potok's 1972 "My Name is Asher Lev." It particularly compares and contrasts the conflict, setting and supporting characters in each of these novels in order to show how Mark Twain (Samuel Clements), Chaim Potok and Jane Austen developed the theme of personal growth in their writing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Thesis
Conflict
Character
Setting
Conclusion
From the Paper "Emma Woodhouse is not driven by the same kinds of conflicting societal forces as haunt Huck and Asher. However, her relationships with a number of characters complicate her views of herself and in the end lead to her growth as a person. In Emma's case it is recognition that others must be accepted for who they are, not what we wish them to be or for their social station in life. Where early in the novel Emma is absorbed in herself and her assumptions about others, at the end of the novel we see her state, "Oh! No - what an impudent dog I was! - How could I dare" (Austen, 1999, p.443). Her friend Harriet, as an example, is a character about whom Emma made many assumptions, such as that she was born of wealth and should not marry below herself. In the end Emma must recognize that Harriet is the daughter of a tradesman - one does not need to be born of wealth. In an age where people commonly accepted that one's character was based on one's birth, for Emma to view the others uncritically represents a growth not unlike Huck's ability to accept Jim as an equal or for Asher to accept himself as an artist of non-Jewish themes."
A crime-rate comparison between Tucson, Arizona, Denver, Colorado, Palm Beach County, Florida; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina and Austin, Texas.
Abstract This paper selects five cities for a crime-rate comparison: Tucson, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Palm Beach County, Florida; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; and Austin, Texas. Through an examination of the police websites of these cities, it discusses how, of those cities, Charlotte-Mecklenburg has a much greater incidence of violent crime than the other cities, while Tucson has a greater incidence of property crime than the other cities. It also looks at how Denver's property crime rate is the lowest, while the property crime rate in Denver and Palm Beach County was lower than the other cities, depending on the year. Additionally, the paper looks at how the violent crime rate appears relatively steady in the cities, though Denver saw a tremendous increase in violent crime in the year 2004.
From the Paper "The website for the Tucson Police Department contains information on services, employment, crime statistics, and the Most Wanted. It also provides the user with the ability to search the site in a variety of methods. These search methods reveals general statistics, but can also be used to access full incident reports. The website reveals that the Tucson Police Department does utilize crime analysis units. Furthermore, the website shows some of the Tucson crime maps, which reveals that the Tucson Police Department does utilize crime maps. Those maps include: violent crime, property crime, burglary, auto theft, narcotics, domestic violence, and criminal damage. (Tucson Police Department). Compared to the other cities investigated, Tucson had an unusually high property crime rate. However, it is important to note that crime rates are impacted by a variety of factors, including crime-reduction efforts by police and victims, which make it more likely those individual criminal incidents will be reported, causing an apparent increase in the crime rates. "
Abstract The paper explains why, in the writer's opinion, the Austin Wood Products firm should implement strong inventory controls. The paper suggests the integrated buying model as a useful tool to help AWP's management understand the problem they are facing. The paper also hopes this model will convince the company that it needs to partner with suppliers in a new way in order to be successful, especially as production demands are growing.
From the Paper "Austin Wood Products (AWP) produces custom manufactured doors to exact builder specifications. The firm based in Austin, Texas, serves an approximate 50 mile radius of Austin as well as the Eastern Texas markets of Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth. The firm does not compete on price as its leadership feels it crafts unique products that few other firms match, including knife cutting technology that allows them to create difficult custom cuts and unlimited different types of molding. Due to the highly customized nature of the business, the firm decides to carry a large inventory of hardware and lumber so as to respond to build orders as quickly as possible. However, since 95 percent of AWP's sales are custom orders, which are sensitive to market trends and preferences, the demand for different types of wood is unpredictable."
From the Paper " Furthermore, the reader gets a deep insight as to the evolution each character undergoes due to Austin's clear character portraits. It is almost impossible not to develop a stong tie to Austin's characters, for the reader follows their realizations and transformations, from beginning to end."
