...Literature goes beyond life "Literature goes beyond life. It is art; it is an imaginative creation that can tell truths gracefully, subtly through narrative, poetry and the movement of characters on a stage. Any imaginative act suggests possibility, and this is another reason to continue studying literature" (Florence Dee Boodakian). Literature has been the most influential art in the history of man. It passes down information from one generation to the next and unites all people from different places with a diverse culture. For examples, in Shakespeare, Walker, and Frost's works, it teaches and inspires us in lots of ways; emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. It also initiates change throughout our lifetime. It affects how people live and see the world in a bigger picture; another example of Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" it inspired and touches the hearts of many, that heritage is what binds one’s culture. Literature instills the skills needed by an individual to analyze critical things, to make a significant impact and differences in their lives and future. Literature is not a repository old scrolls and tomes, but great laboratory where the relation between man and the environment has been analyzed, experimented with and redefined over the history of civilization. The act of reading literature can change and shape how we perform and study things. Literature is the expression of oneself and the social life and thoughts through language that resemble one's heritage...
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...Abortion: Pro-life or Pro-choice Abortion has been one of the most argued topics. Those who are against abortion are known as pro-life, and those who support it are known as pro-choice. Whether or not people support it, the biggest argument is whether or not the unborn child, or fetus, is human. Everyone knows it is wrong to kill a human, but at what point does an unborn fetus become a human. Most pro-lifers say it’s right at conception, and pro-choice say it’s when the fetus is born. Pro-life supporter, Don Marquis goes on to argue in Why Abortion is Immoral that abortion is a form of murder. He goes on to support his argument that such killing is immoral because it deprives us of a future of value and it falls under the same category of murdering an innocent human being. When someone is murdered, the murderer nor the victim’s friends suffer a loss as big as the victim did. The loss of a person has a big effect, but the bigger loss is that person not being able to have a future anymore. By murdering an unborn fetus that is stopping them from getting a chance in life and of a future. Marquis believes that unborn fetuses have the same rights as humans do,...
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...Slaughterhouse-Five is an extraordinarily figurative piece of literature via Kurt Vonnegut. The most distinguished rhetorical gadgets in the textual content are repetition, similes, and personification. Repetition is used every time the writer states “so it goes.” This motif is continuously repeated in this novel following any mention of death. A clear instance of this is in chapter 5 (pg. 106) while Vonnegut claims “A lot of people were being wounded or killed. So it goes," while talking of the “children’s crusade.” The limitless quantity of instances this phrase is presented within the novel displays the huge quantity of death Billy experienced during his life illuminating the grotesque destructiveness of war. Repetition is also molded to...
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...$976 - $3,855 (Asian Pacific - $1,600) Low income = GNI per capita $975 or less (Africa - $300) Exercise 2. Starting with a hypothetical population of 14,000 people and an even age distribution (1,000 in each age group from 1-5 to 66-70 years), assume that the population initially has a total fertility rate of 2.0 and an average life span of 70 years. Using the spreadsheet for exercises 1-3, estimate how the population will change from this generation to the next under each of the following conditions. a. Total fertility rate and life expectancy remain constant. Population stays at 14,000. b. Total fertility rate changes to 4.0; life expectancy remains constant. Population goes from 14,000 to 28,000. c. Total fertility rate changes to 1.0; life expectancy remains constant. Population goes from 14,000 to 7,000. d. Total fertility rate remains at 2.0; life expectancy increases to 100. Population goes from 14,000 to 20,000. e. Total fertility rate remains at 2.0; life expectancy decreases to 50. Population goes from 14,000 to 10,000. F. Total fertility rate changes to 4.0; life expectancy increases to 100. Population goes from 14,000 to 40,000. Most developed countries have infant mortality rates of around 5...
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...Would you go on some random adventure that could help your friend and maybe even save your friend's life, but could also kill you? Bilbo Baggins joins Thorin Oakensheild and his company, alongside Gandalf, to go on a quest to reclaim the dwarves home and kill Smaug the dragon. Bilbos life is completely changed the day 12 dwarves and a wizard come for tea. Bilbo goes against his people's way of life to go on an adventure. He finds his strength to battle against giant spiders to save his friends. Bilbo goes against his people's way of life to venture off with a bunch of dwarves. Hobbits normally live in the Shire their entire life and go about their daily business, but Bilbo changes that for the better. "To the end of his days Bilbo could never remember how he found himself outside, without a hat, walking stick or any money, or anything that he usually took when he went out; leaving his second breakfast half finished and quite unwashed-up, pushing his keys into Gandalf's hands, and running as fast as his furry feet could carry him down the lane, past the great Mill, across the Water, and then on for a whole mile or more" (30 Tolkien). This is significant, because it shows that Bilbo leaves his home and life behind, racing out of the Shire to catch up with the company. Bilbo goes against his people's nature and way of life to go on an adventure....
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...Plot: A man and a woman have a son late in their life. They are farmers and attached to their land and work of planting. When their son grows up he goes to live in the city and dies at a young age. The couple try to get over their loss through their connection to nature and understanding of the cycles of life and death. Introduction: Hatch and his attachment to the earth is introduced through his family story. Hatch’s father becomes invalid when Hatch is still a child. At a very young age he had to develop a relationship with nature and the cycles of birth and death. Inciting incident: It occurs with the death of their son. Development: Hatch is a very good farmer and he likes his farm very much and he marries a school teacher and they have a son called Will. Will goes to Chicago to study. His parents miss him very much. They become preoccupied with reading their son’s letters. After their son dies in a traffic accident they are able to incorporate their loss in to their perspective of cycles of nature. Climax: It is when Hall goes to their house to give the bad news. Resolution: The family gets over the death of their son by connecting to their society bt proceeding what they usually do. Characterization: Hatch is a very calm and tidy person. He is very sentimental. He is a hardworker and devoted to his land. Will is very social, successful and he is an artist. Theme: The cycles of life and death. Life goes on...
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...interpersonal relationships, ethics, and more. For as long as I can remember, my Dad has preached the importance of a balanced life, and I used to brush him off because I never fully understand what that meant. “Son, you need to maintain balance,” and “Son, the key to success is your life balance” sounded like stale clichés until I realized that balance and its corollary “wellness” were actually at the heart of everything I sought to accomplish in life. The overall wellness and effectiveness of individuals depends wholly on their ability to balance all dimensions of life. And I would argue that the same goes for brands – we are most effective when we focus our message on multiple dimensions of life. The true aim of marketing is not to sell stuff, but rather to create balance and wellness for people. Im strongly determined towards becoming a marketing director in __________________. In that context, I have been thinking about how I can be a better leader and manager. At the risk of sounding like Martin Lukes, here is my personal manifesto. These are my goals as a manger. I would welcome feedback – both from my own staff (positive and negative feedback welcomed) and from others. 1. It is amazing what you can achieve if you don’t care who gets the credit. If something goes right, I’ll make sure the credit goes to the people who did the work. If something goes wrong, then the buck stops with me. It is my responsibility to ensure that the team has the right resources, leadership and...
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...you care about the person and their safety, you respect them, and you want the best for them in life. You can love someone as a friend, family member, or a significant other. In this movie we see the main character, Tim, find out he can go back in time, to a specific part of his life. He goes back for multiple reasons, but the most important reason...
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...immediate feedback, and to balance skills and action opportunities (548). Csikszentmihalyi discusses a study he and his students conducted on employees of a factory that assembled railroad cars. Csikszentmihalyi goes on to describe the workplace as “a huge dirty hanger where one could hardly hear a word because of the constant noise” (545). The general morale and attitude of the employees were poor and most waited for the end of the day to hurry out of the factory to drown out every day monotony of factory life with other activities. There was one employee in particular, Joe, who Csikszentmihalyi describes as a married, sixty-something year old, almost illiterate man who was self taught to fix everything in that factory. Joe and his wife had a large rock garden filled with misty fountains that Joe built. Even when it was dark out, the fountains made a rainbow. The other factory workers had respect for Joe and would ask for his help to fix things. Csikszentmihalyi asks,“ What makes a life like his serene, useful, and worth living?” (545). Csikszentmihalyi goes on to discuss that often different parts of life do not line up with all parts. He describes how work may require to be very focused on a project and that at the same time there may be anxiety of home life. This goes to describe the first part of “flow” the Idea that there has to be a clear and conscience goal. The example given in the excerpt is that of skiing. Skiing requires great concentration to do. There is not room...
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...setting: In real life, this process gets complicated because of many exceptions and unusual items on the statements. Luckily for you, interviews are not real life and those scenarios are unlikely to come up – so we can create a step-by-step process for linking the statements: 1 1. First, Net Income from the bottom of the Income Statement becomes the top line of the Cash Flow Statement. 2. Second, you add back non-cash expenses from the Income Statement (and flip the signs of items such as Gains and Losses). 3. Third, you reflect changes in operational Balance Sheet line items – if an Asset goes up, cash flow goes down and vice versa; if a Liability goes up, cash flow goes up and vice versa. 4. Fourth, you reflect Purchases and Sales of Investments and PP&E in Cash Flow from Investing. 5. Fifth, you reflect Dividends, Debt issued or repurchased, and Shares issued or repurchased in Cash Flow from Financing. 6. Sixth, you calculate the net change in cash at the bottom of the CFS, and then link this into cash at the top of the next period’s Balance Sheet. 7. Seventh, you update the Balance Sheet to reflect changes in Cash, Debt, Equity, Investments, PP&E, and anything else that came from the Cash Flow Statement. A few more rules to keep in mind as you link the statements: 1 2 1. Reflect each Balance Sheet item once and only once on the Cash Flow Statement, and vice versa. 1 2. If an Asset goes up, cash flow goes down; if a Liability...
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...Being a man by Paul Theroux Paul Theroux is an American writer and novelist. He has wrote many stories and essays. One essay he is famous for is called “Being a Man”. In “Being a Man” he talks about his point of view of his life from when he was a little boy to being a man, and also he talks about his insecurity of being a man. In the essay he says: “everything in stereotyped manliness goes against the life of the mind”. This quote is true because this is what is stereotyped everyday. Theroux tells us that America's view of "Being a Man" means to be stupid, obedient, and soldierly. This idea goes against everything that Theroux is. Theroux has many examples that back up his belief ."In paragraph nine he says “everything in stereotyped manliness goes against the life of the mind”. This means that writing is not a manly behavior. Theroux believed the idea which is why he hates being a man.Theroux goes into detail about how sports harms little boys and how it make boys every violent."Just as high school basketball teaches you how to be a poor loser, the manly attitude toward sports seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and just plain louts I regard high school sports as a drug far worse then marijuana.." I have witnessed two experience similar to Theroux. One was when I was in the 3rd grade. My teacher had gave the class an assignment to do. We either had to write a peom nature...
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...Jared Odom 4th Mr. Fish 9 December 2016 The Life Of Holden Caulfield “The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. Born on January 1, 1919, in New York, J.D. Salinger was a huge writer. His novel, The Catcher in the Rye, set a new course for writing during World War One America and made Salinger famous in the literature world. What inspired J.D. to write Catcher in the rye was the sights and sounds of a guy named Devon in the town of Tiverton where J.D. Salinger spent three months during World War 2. Salinger Served in the U.S Army and was one of the soldiers that landed on Utah Beach on D-Day while serving in the army Salinger wrote this well known novel “The Catcher in the Rye”. The main theme of the novel is the protection of innocence the story follows the life of Holden Caulfield and shows how he develops and comes of age. Holden starts out as a 17 year old boy that goes to school at a school named Pency High School which is a more formal and rich high school. In a result of not applying himself in school he was kicked out of the high school....
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...I will be comparing the soldiers’ experience from ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’, a television sitcom written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis with ‘Journey’s End’ which is a play that projects the reality of the war written by R.C. Sherriff. These are two texts that convey a dark impression of WW1. The similarities between both the texts is that they both were set in the final stages of the war but with ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’ set in many different places whilst ‘Journey’s End’ was set in one common setting. However the differences in genre can sometimes increase or decrease the severity of the impression created for the audience. I personally think that ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’ is an anti-war message, where it mocks the way WW1 was orchestrated by the Generals and the government, whereas in ‘Journey’s End’, a serious play, the focus is more on the psychological, claustrophobic conditions of the war and what really happens in the war. Thus it has been said that ‘Journey’s End’ is a compelling account of warfare, based upon Sheriff’s own experience as a Captain in the East Surrey regiment, depicting war as a meaningless and destructive. However this leads me to the conclusion that Journey’s End creates a darker, sombre impression and mood with its realism rather than the comical Blackadder even though it had a tragic outcome. R.C Sherriff mostly tries to implant a realistic picture of the war by looking at the horrors of war through its physical setting. Also the playwright used one...
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...In the book, My Brother Sam is Dead, Sam Meeker goes off to war. Before he goes off to war he goes home to tell his family that he has decided to fight against the British in the Revolutionary War. Sam’s father, Life Meeker, is a loyalist. He disagrees with Sam and says that he should stay home. Sam and life get into and argument about who was correct. Sam’s father tells him to leave. Sam decides to disobey his father and goes off to war anyways. Who was correct? Life was, Sam should not have went off to war. One of the biggest reasons Sam should have stayed home was because war ends in blood and death. Sam’s father states, “‘And I carried my best friends bod-sewed up in a sack. Do you want to come home that way? Do you think I want to hear a wagon draw up one summer morning and go out to see you stiff and bloody and your eyes staring blank at the sky?’” Life is trying to explain the cruelty and pain that war can cause from one of his past experiences. He is explaining about some of the painful things that he saw when he was in war and he doesn’t want to see his son that way. Another quote in the book states, “‘ You’re father is dead, Jeremiah Sanford is dead, Sam Barlow is dead, David Fairchild is dead, Stephen Fairchild was wounded, and more.’” This is Sam's mother explaining...
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...Fleshmarket By Nicola Morgan The theme of obsession is important in the novel ‘‘Fleshmarket’’ by Nicola Morgan. ------------------------------------------------- ‘‘Fleshmarket’’ is set in Edinburgh in 1828. Two of the main characters are Robbie and Essie who are brother and sister. They live in an awful, poverty stricken environment in the old town after everything changed when their mother died at the hands of Doctor Robert Knox. Robbie Blames Knox for his horrible life and suffering as he believes Knox has not suffered yet and he took away the good life Robbie nearly had before Knox operated on his mum and this leads to his deep obsession with Knox. Robbie’s obsession begins when he is outside the lecture theatre and inside his mum is getting her operation ‘‘He had felt her pain as though it was his, it had burnt him and left its mark.’’ This suggests that Robbie suffered too and he is scarred by hat his mum had to endure emotionally and permanently. When she gets home she is told to rest but on the fourth day Robbie witnesses his mum in hallucinating and in pain ‘‘she did not recognise her trembling son with his eyes so wide and wet. She threw her sweat-soaked blankets off, rattled with bone-deep cold, screamed at the snakes, writhing before her eyes, vomited, clawed, moaning at the blackening rash that crept over her body.’’ This shows that Robbie is so scared and worried at his mum hallucinating and fighting infection due to the operation Knox preformed and this is the...
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