We Are Not Alone A Look At The Man And The Women Professor Ramos Blog

We Are Not Alone A Look At The Man And The Women We all have busy lives and we are always caught up in our daily tasks which leaves no time to think about what we want and how we can really be happy. In the short story â€Å"There Was a Man There Was a Women† Sandra Cisneros brings two very similar characters to life. A Man and a Woman who both living very similar lives even though they do not know each other they go to the same bar to drink on the day that they get paid but they get paid on different days. The author writes the story as a Parable presenting portraits without explaining the meanings readers should see in the relationship of the two characters. The types of events happening in this story are very similar to things in real life. While a lot of individuals who are single are complaining about not being in a relationship and how they want a change, most lack the ability to make a progression towards the change they are trying to make. Especially if they follow a routine and never have time for new things or for meeting new people. It feels safe and secure, something concrete and controllable in a sea of shifting goals and unforeseen catastrophes. It becomes their rhythm of life. Anything that breaks that routine is a danger to their sense of the world and the way they act. They have their schedule and stick to it meticulously (Spayde). The man and the woman went to the Spot Bar to drink on different days and they laughed with their friends while they drank. What I understand from this is that the man and the woman drank each pay day because they were trying to get away from their everyday routines and to have a good time. Ther e is clearly something both the man and the woman are trying to express. Perhaps a feeling of loneliness or fear of change. For some people, the challenge of altering their routines brings fear of what may happen, or anxiety about how they will respond (Spayde). It seems that some people drink to make it easier to talk to people because they have social anxiety or they are really shy. In the story, the man and the woman drank with their friends and believed if they continued to drink that the words would slip out more readily, but usually they both simply drank and said nothing (Cisneros 133). Both characters are experiencing the same things so they share a type of connection, which leads the reader to think that there is hope. The connection may lead to many opportunities dealing with social anxiety. It is very difficult dealing with social anxiety but they think the answer is to drink. The parable â€Å"There Was a Man, There Was a Woman† presents portraits without explaining the meanings readers should see in the attitudes of the two characters. The man and the woman both go home after drinking a couple glasses depressed and lonely because they can not   get what they need to say to come out. When they get home they stare at the same moon and wonder how many have died and worshiped the same blue light they look at every night. We all can make our own decisions and sometimes we just do things to fit in and we think that is the answer. But in the end we still have an emptiness to fill that drinking or drugs can not fill. It is always better to seek for help. Like counselors or even talking things out with someone can help. At the end the woman raises her pale eyes towards the moon and cries while the man looks and swallows. The moon is a symbol of hope at the end, it seems like they both are looking up in sadness and despair in search for an answer. As   suggests, the moon acts as a unifying force in this moment, though it also emphasizes the unlucky rift separating this man and woman from coming together. And while their story is sad and lonely, it’s also hopeful, since neither one of them would ever even suspect that the other is out there feeling the same exact thing in the same exact scenario. By allowing readers to see how these two characters are unknowingly connected, Cisneros suggests that nobody is ever as alone as he or she might think (Lannamann). There is also a look in Diversity in the story. Cisneros is trying to explain that no matter our gender a man or a woman we all experience similar things. We are not alone. Although the man and the woman both handle their situation differently, at the end of the day they are going through the same thing. There is always someone out there that understand what we are going through. It is not just you. All you have to do is look for each other in search for help. Together we can overcome our fears. Consequently, the characters of Cisneros’s story feel trapped in the routine and rely to drinking to feel happy or try to express themselves. If the man and the women would have gone out of their routine and did something different at least one day, their whole life would change drastically and maybe meet each other and find that they had a lot in common. The author is trying to convince the reader that what we do makes us the way we are and if just one thing changed in our routine, it would get us closer to who we are are trying to be in life. Overall it is a story of depression social anxiety and problems that most people deal with on a daily, maybe not the same way they do but in one way or another everyone deals with some sort of depression and anxiety when they are around people not knowing if they will one day come out of there shell and become social and happy. Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek and other stories. London: Bloomsbury, 2004. Print. To quote the story. Lannamann, Taylor. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories There Was a Man, There Was a Woman. LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 25 Jan 2018. Web. 18 May 2019. Spade, Jon. Stuck in a Rut. Experience Life Magazine. (Stress Relief). April 2010. https://experiencelife.com/article/stuck-in-a-rut/

A Timeline of the Suez Crisis

A Timeline of the Suez Crisis Learn what events lead to the Suez Crisis, which was an invasion of  Egypt  in late 1956. 1922 Feb 28:  Egypt is declared a sovereign state by Britain.Mar 15:  Sultan Faud appoints himself King of Egypt.Mar 16:  Egypt achieves  independence.May 7:  Britain is  angered over Egyptian claims to sovereignty over Sudan. 1936 Apr 28:  Ã‚  Faud dies and his 16-year-old son, Farouk, becomes King of Egypt.Aug 26:  Draft of Anglo-Egyptian Treaty is signed. Britain is allowed to maintain a garrison of 10,000 men in the  Suez Canal Zone and is given effective control of Sudan. 1939 May 2:  King Farouk is declared the spiritual leader, or Caliph, of Islam. 1945 Sept 23:  Egyptian government demands complete British withdrawal and the cession of Sudan. 1946 May 24:  British premier  Winston Churchill  says the Suez Canal will be in danger if Britain withdraws from Egypt. 1948 May 14:  Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel by David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv.May 15:  Start of the first Arab-Israeli War.Dec 28:  Egyptian premier Mahmoud Fatimy is assassinated by the  Muslim Brotherhood.Feb 12:  Hassan el Banna, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood is assassinated. 1950 Jan 3:  Wafd party regains power. 1951 Oct 8:  Egyptian government announces that it will eject Britain from the Suez Canal Zone and take control of Sudan.Oct 21:  British warships arrive at Port Said, more troops are on the way. 1952 Jan 26:  Egypt is placed under martial law in response to wide-spread riots against the British.Jan 27:  Prime Minister Mustafa Nahhas is removed by King Farouk for failing to keep the peace. He is replaced by Ali Mahir.Mar 1:  The Egyptian Parliament is suspended by King Farouk when Ali Mahir resigns.May 6:  King Farouk claims to be a direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed.July 1:  Hussein Sirry is new premier.July 23:  Free Officer Movement, fearing King Farouk is about to move against them, initiate a military coup.July 26:  Military coup is successful, General Naguib appoints Ali Mahir as prime minister.Sept 7:  Ali Mahir again resigns. General Naguib takes over the post of president, prime minister, minister of war and commander-in-chief of the army. 1953 Jan 16:  President Naguib disbands all opposition parties.Feb 12:  Britain and Egypt sign a new treaty. Sudan to have independence within three years.May 5:  Constitutional commission recommends 5,000-year-old monarchy be ended and Egypt become a republic.May 11:  Britain threatens  to use force against Egypt over the Suez Canal dispute.June 18:  Egypt becomes a republic.Sept 20:  Several of King Farouks aides are seized. 1954 Feb 28:  Nasser challenges President Naguib.Mar 9:  Naguib beats off Nassers challenge and retains the presidency.Mar 29:  General Naguib postpones plans to hold parliamentary elections.Apr 18:  For a second time, Nasser takes the presidency away from Naguib.Oct 19:  Britain cedes Suez Canal to Egypt in new treaty, two year period set for withdrawal.Oct 26:  Muslim Brotherhood attempt to assassinate General Nasser.Nov 13:  General Nasser in full control of Egypt. 1955 Apr 27:  Egypt announces plans to sell cotton to Communist ChinaMay 21:  USSR announces it will sell arms to Egypt.Aug 29:  Israeli and Egyptian jets in fire-fight over Gaza.Sept 27:  Egypt makes deal with Czechoslovakia arms for cotton.Oct 16:  Egyptian and Israeli forces skirmish in El Auja.Dec 3:  Britain and Egypt sign agreement granting Sudan independence. 1956 Jan 1:  Sudan achieves independence.Jan 16:  Islam is made state religion by act of Egyptian government.June 13:  Britain gives  up Suez Canal. Ends 72 years of British occupation.June 23:  General Nasser is elected president.July 19:  US withdraws financial aid for Aswan Dam project. The official reason is Egypts increased ties to USSR.July 26:  President Nasser announces a plan to nationalize Suez Canal.July 28:  Britain freezes Egyptian assets.July 30:  British Prime Minister Anthony Eden imposes an arms embargo on Egypt, and informs General Nasser that he can not have the Suez Canal.Aug 1:  Britain, France, and the US hold talks on escalating the Suez crisis.Aug 2:  Britain mobilizes armed forces.Aug 21:  Egypt says it will negotiate on Suez ownership if Britain pulls out of the Middle East.Aug 23:  USSR announces it will send troops if Egypt is attacked.Aug 26:  General Nasser agrees to five nation conference on Suez Canal.Aug 28:  Two British envoy s are expelled from Egypt accused of spying.Sept 5:  Israel condemns Egypt over Suez crisis. Sept 9:  Conference talks collapse when General Nasser refuses to allow international control of the Suez Canal.Sept 12:  US, Britain, and France announce their intention to impose a Canal Users Association on the management of the canal.Sept 14:  Egypt now in full control of the Suez Canal.Sept 15:  Soviet ship-pilots arrive to help Egypt run the canal.Oct 1:  A 15 nation Suez Canal Users Association is officially formed.Oct 7:  Israeli foreign minister Golda Meir says the UN failure to resolve the Suez Crisis means they must take military action.Oct 13:  Anglo-French proposal for the control of the Suez Canal is vetoed by the USSR during the UN session.Oct 29:  Israel invades  the Sinai Peninsula.Oct 30:  Britain and France veto USSR demand for Israel-Egypt cease-fire.Nov 2:  UN Assembly finally approves a cease-fire plan for Suez.Nov 5:  British and French forces  involved in the airborne invasion of Egypt.Nov 7:  UN  Assembly votes 65 to 1 that invad ing powers should quit Egyptian territory.Nov 25:  Egypt begins to expel British, French, and Zionist residents. Nov 29:  Tripartite Invasion  is officially ended under pressure from UN.Dec 20:  Israel refuses to return Gaza to Egypt.Dec 24:  British and French troops depart Egypt.Dec 27: 5,580 Egyptian POWs exchanged for four Israelis.Dec 28:  Operation to clear sunken ship in Suez Canal starts. 1957 Jan 15:  British and French banks in Egypt are nationalized.Mar 7:  UN  takes over the administration of the Gaza Strip.Mar 15:  General Nasser bars Israeli shipping from Suez Canal.Apr 19:  First British ship pays Egyptian toll for use of the Suez Canal.