Life is not shy about offering its little lessons. It is without doubt that every person's journey offers its own unique teachings, with often hard to learn material. However, it is through these trails that people grow, mature, and reshape, once cemented, point of views. Alice Munro's "An Ounce of Cure" illustrates that while life is forging wisdom it is not necessarily the easiest thing to accept, but through time, and the perspective altering ability it has, what at what point seems to be endless despair becomes another lesson learned. The Narrator in "An Ounce of Cure" takes the reader on a peregrination into severe, youthful heartache, and the drunkenness that inevitably accompanies it. Munro skillfully uses point of view to guide the reader through the Narrator's sorrow, and into her first drunken episode, until she emerges into the mature adult who reflects to tell the story.
The narrator, who is also the protagonist, tells "An Ounce of Cure" in the past tense. Munro uses this technique to give the reader immediate contrast between the opposing points of view the narrator has as the story progresses. The story begins with the narrator briefly telling of her love, Martin Collingwood. It quickly progresses to the point where Martin dumps her; this is where the heartache begins. The narrator reflectively admits her stupidity when she concludes "But it doesn't really make me very gay-worse still, it doesn't really surprise me-to remember all the stupid, sad, half ashamed things I did, that people in love always do" (452). This sentence shows how her adult perspective is ashamed at what she did when she was looking through the situation with a different point of view as an adolescent. While she was in this dreadful heartache she did what a lot of young heartbroken kids do, dwell on the very few good moments that made up the relationship that is causing all the torment. The narrator illustrates this when she, with a tone of mature embarrassment, recalls "I day dreamed endlessly [ ] I spent perhaps ten times as many hours thinking of Martin Collingwood [ ] as I ever spent with him" (452).
The author brings the reader to a step-by-step question format outlining what he will discuss such as what the current state of ICT use is among citizens and across the Province, also the different ways citezens access the Internet and how these issues will evolove in the future. ...
Then the differences between the macro perspectives and symbolic interactionism shall be outlined. ... Definitions A perspective, in general, is a way of looking at the world. Each perspective attempts to integrate various kinds of information about society. ... Within perspectives, there are a variety of theories. ... From the differences highlighted on how each perspective views society, it is clear to see that these perspectives differ in their level of analysis. ...
Cognitive perspective "focuses on how people think, understand, and perceive the world." This perspective is on how things affect us and how we react to them. ... Behavioral perspective also focuses on learning in understanding how various behaviors occur. ... Humanistic perspective is the ability self-actualize, to be in control. ... This perspective can also be known as motivation. ...
There is more to social intelligence than being able to understand a persons thoughts and feelings in a situation because you have to be able to put your thoughts and feelings into perspective as well. Social intelligence can be seen all around us and experienced through different mediums that can give us a different perspective on a situation, such as social media, literature and even in social experiments. ... Social media was another way that I could take a step back from the immediate situation and gain almost an outsider's perspective. ... Social intelligence can be seen all around...
The aspect of the reading material that has stood out the most to me so far is that personhood and the "self" in relation to the broader world can be understood in relation to two key domains: a legal perspective and an ethical perspective. In terms of the conceptualization of personhood from the legal perspective, I understand that writers such as Atkins, Britton and de Lacey (2011) are arguing that the legal requirement of personhood includes being a homo sapien, having a living body, and being situated in an identifiable social situation. ... However, the Wit video really forced me to thi...
The word perspective is a common word which people use everyday. ... Even video games have their own definition on perspective. ... In the artistic field, perspective has it's own definition. Webster's Dictionary gives this record on perspective. ... There are two kinds of perspective drawings, one point perspective and two point perspective. ...
Different people have individual perspective on various jobs. As far as I am concerned, working as an employee definitely affects not only our life but also determination of our future. However, it is not easy to find a proper job for one self. Thus, we should be careful on finding jobs with certain...
Another explanation for altruism in evolutionary perspective is sexual selection. ... In conclusion, all of the findings about altruistic behavior have showed us logical information for selfless behavior in the evolutionary perspective. ...
Pandering heterosexism and the male perspective, the two different messages sent to male and female viewers constructs a fantastical allure assuming that the audience aspires to look and feel the same as the models in the ad. ... This subtle persuading factor is key to the ad; it undeniably borrows and enables the dominant standard of beauty for women set by men for men, playing into the male perspective. ... By the very nature of this ad, it is essentially void of the female perspective even though it markets to both sexes. ... Comparing the message sent to men with the message sent to women,...
