“An end to housekeeping”

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Carol Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Road ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Relationship Of

This chapter offers a reading of Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel Housekeeping—the story of a transient woman, Sylvie, who returns home to take care of her recently orphaned nieces, Ruth and Lucille, and the novel raises important questions not just about life on the road, but also about the house and home that is left behind. Whereas the Odyssey maintains a perpetually idealized notion of Penelope and Odysseus as emblems of a like-minded merger of travel and home by deferring indefinitely the moment when the two actually live (or travel) together, in Housekeeping there is always an attempt to blur the divide between people who stay and people who go, one that is most clearly embodied in the character of Sylvie. Like Odysseus, who will one day leave home again and whose travels are also always returns, Sylvie’s travels keep taking her home; yet like Penelope as well, she keeps her family by her side. In particular, by taking men out of the picture, Robinson radically reorients the traditionally gendered relationship of travel to home that Homer’s Odyssey represents, and the novel prompts us to ask how women can reconcile family responsibilities with travel. Can the possibilities, rather than the constraints, of mobility help redefine what makes a house a home?

scholarly journals CONCEPT OF PROTECTED NETWORKS CREATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
Aigul Ospanovna Dauitbayeva ◽  
Elmira Nurlanovna Tulegenova ◽  
Sapar Omir ◽  
Mukhtar Kozhan
Keyword(s):  
Remote Access ◽  
The Road ◽  
Corporate Information System ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Fixed Line ◽  
Voice Data ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Corporate Information ◽  
High Place

Nowadays, it is important for users to know how to contact a corporate information system. There is a need for broadband connection, whether it’s fixed line or Wi-Fi, as it’s not rare for users to work on the road. At the moment, virtual technologies are widely popular, they have a high place in modern companies. Because they allow the voice server to communicate to one workplace. It does not require staff always to keep up-to-date with the Service, and there’s no need to be there, so use remote access. Many institutions have been fixed or fixed through a mobile connection that ensures optimal connection of mobile workers through the terminal. They work with voice data transmission services. It ensures that employees are always in touch.

Site Unseen

Site Reading ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
David J. Alworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Road ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
The Moment ◽  
A Site

This chapter argues that to perform a site reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is to appreciate how the text functions as a novel of purpose that aims to vivify the planet as what Latour would call a “matter of concern.” Still, The Road reads less as a critique of contemporary social problems than as a “thought-experiment,” a sort of literary climate model, forecasting a chillingly plausible correlation between a ruined site and a grisly social order. By imagining this correlation through narrative form, McCarthy offers his own striking contribution to environmental and sociological thought, a contribution that starts to become apparent the moment we ask how his setting functions as an actant, both in the novel itself and beyond.

The Sense of an Ending: Music, Time and Romance in Before Sunrise

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
Carlo Cenciarelli
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
The Road ◽  
Cinematic Experience ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment

Right from the start, Before Sunrise presents us with the problem of its ending. The film narrates the on-the-road romance of Jesse and Celine, who meet on a train through central Europe, fall for each other, and decide to spend a day and night together in Vienna before continuing their respective journeys, never to see each other again. In a move that is typical of indie cinema, the two protagonists trade the idea of a ‘happily ever after’ with the possibility of experiencing a moment together. And yet, for this same reason, their time together is inseparable from the feeling of the approaching goodbye, which threatens their very ability to experience the moment. My chapter explores how Before Sunrise draws on music to find a solution to this conundrum. I show that, as we approach the temporal deadline of the title, Bach’s music is used to mobilise a set of complementary eschatological frameworks that are meant both to freeze and extend the time in Vienna. More broadly, I suggest that the film provides a model of cinema’s use of music to make sense of endings and of the time-bound nature of the cinematic experience.

The Integrative Time-Dependent Modeling of the Reliability and Failure of the Causes of Drivers' Error Leading to Road Accidents

2015 ◽  
pp. 1279-1294
Author(s):  
Khashayar Hojjati-Emami ◽  
Balbir S. Dhillon ◽  
Kouroush Jenab
Keyword(s):  
Human Error ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Failure Rates ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Representational Model ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Dependent Failure

Nowadays, the human error is usually identified as the conclusive cause of investigations in road accidents. The human although is the person in control of vehicle until the moment of crash but it has to be understood that the human is under continued impact by various factors including road environment, vehicle and human's state, abilities and conduct. The current advances in design of vehicle and roads have been intended to provide drivers with extra comfort with less physical and mental efforts, whereas the fatigue imposed on driver is just being transformed from over-load fatigue to under-load fatigue and boredom. A representational model to illustrate the relationships between design and condition of vehicle and road as well as driver's condition and state on fatigue and the human error leading to accidents has been developed. Thereafter, the stochastic mathematical models based on time-dependent failure rates were developed to make prediction on the road transportation reliability and failure probabilities due to each cause (vehicle, road environment, human due to fatigue, and human due to non fatigue factors). Furthermore, the supportive assessment methodology and models to assess and predict the failure rates of driver due to each category of causes were developed and proposed.

The Integrative Time-Dependent Modeling of the Reliability and Failure of the Causes of Drivers’ Error Leading to Road Accidents

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khashayar Hojjati-Emami ◽  
Balbir S. Dhillon ◽  
Kouroush Jenab
Keyword(s):  
Human Error ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Failure Rates ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Representational Model ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Dependent Failure

Nowadays, the human error is usually identified as the conclusive cause of investigations in road accidents. The human although is the person in control of vehicle until the moment of crash but it has to be understood that the human is under continued impact by various factors including road environment, vehicle and human’s state, abilities and conduct. The current advances in design of vehicle and roads have been intended to provide drivers with extra comfort with less physical and mental efforts, whereas the fatigue imposed on driver is just being transformed from over-load fatigue to under-load fatigue and boredom. A representational model to illustrate the relationships between design and condition of vehicle and road as well as driver’s condition and state on fatigue and the human error leading to accidents has been developed. Thereafter, the stochastic mathematical models based on time-dependent failure rates were developed to make prediction on the road transportation reliability and failure probabilities due to each cause (vehicle, road environment, human due to fatigue, and human due to non fatigue factors). Furthermore, the supportive assessment methodology and models to assess and predict the failure rates of driver due to each category of causes were developed and proposed.

Roads

Site Reading ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 73-95
Author(s):  
David J. Alworth
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Jack Kerouac ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Tom Wolfe ◽  
Joan Didion ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
Road Narrative ◽  
On The Road

This chapter focuses Jack Kerouac and Joan Didion, arguing that the postwar American road narrative produces a sophisticated account of the nonhuman social actor through its treatment of the automobile, an entity that is both a material thing and a social site. In Kerouac's On the Road, a semiautobiographical account of his road trips in the late 1940s, the car plays no less potent a role in facilitating male bonding and in constituting the social world of the novel. To capture the distinctiveness of that world, the chapter contrasts it with the representation of two other automotive subcultures—the hot-rodders and the Merry Pranksters—in seminal works by Tom Wolfe that appeared in the wake of On the Road. Then, the chapter turns to the writing of Joan Didion, arguing that Play It as It Lays functions as a self-conscious response both to Kerouac's novel and to the mythology of road-tripping that it fostered.

Road-Related Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment and Economic Evaluation

2012 ◽  
Vol 610-613 ◽  
pp. 624-629
Author(s):  
Xiao Chun Qin ◽  
Bo Chang Dong ◽  
Yi Shen ◽  
She Gang Shao
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Variation Rule

60%~70% of air pollutants are vehicle emissions. With the soaring increasing of Vehicle Population, automobile exhaust is becoming the leading cause of air pollution. In this paper space-time variation rule of road-related atmospheric pollution is analyzed based on the characteristics of air pollution on the road. And the basic methods of road-related air pollution health risk assessment are determined in the analysis of the relationship of road-related air pollution and health. The economic evaluation of road-related air pollution is also made which would provide the methods for reference in the related research on road air pollution.

scholarly journals The Real America: Representation of American Society in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Based on Michel Foucault’s Notions of Institutions, Normalization, and Surveillance

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iraj Soleymanjahan ◽  
Nasser Maleki ◽  
Hiwa Weisi
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Jack Kerouac ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Government ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Road ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
On The Road ◽  
American Society ◽  
Fitting In

This study aimed to scrutinize and analyze the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac in the light of the political theory of Michel Foucault. The focus, however, would be specifically on the concepts of normalization, institutions and surveillance put forward in his book Discipline and Punish (1995), coupled with some other works that wrestle with the close links of power, society, and institutions. This research seeked to describe the real America in the 1950s, a decade that witnessed both conformism and radicality, represented in the novel. The study pointed out that the novel was a depiction of the American society in the 1950s in which distinct, overlapping institutions did a great deal in restricting the freedom of individuals who seeked liberation and authenticity. The American government draws on the power of the law, police, prison, academia, family, and different other overlapping and satellite institutions, working hand in hand to create a matrix. The concept of matrix, therefore, highlights the nexus through which the normalization and conformity of the individuals are guaranteed, leading to the creation of perfect institutionalized men who are reduced to the level of simpletons. The whole novel becomes the story of some men who advocate abnormality as their credo to live a free life. Quite the contrary, they are transitioned into meek and docile bodies whose identity hinges on being like others in fitting in and following the norms through different dominant fragmenting institutions.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Female Characters in On the Road

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuting Liang
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Beat Generation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Road ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Bible ◽  
On The Road

On the Road is the masterpiece of Kerouac who is one of the most important writers of “Beat Generation” in America in the mid-20th century. It is acclaimed to be the Bible of “Beat Generation”. The novel narrates the stories of how Dean and his friends——some representative characters of the Beats travelled across continental U.S. several times and searched for new lifestyles and new faith on the road. In this novel, male characters are the main characters and the descriptions of all the female characters account for just one sixth of the whole book. Although the portrayal of the female characters is not profound like that of the male characters, the different personalities Kerouac endued the female characters are also the highlights of the novel. As a novel with strong nature of autobiography, Kerouac put his attitude and emotion into his portrayal. So it also can be a reflection of Kerouac’s female concepts. This paper aims at analyzing the female characters in On the Road by studying the types of the female characters in the novel and summarizing Kerouac’s female concepts reflected from the novel.

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