...for the ‘very highly placed’ such as the kings or kingly. Who does Miller think is a suitable subject for tragedy and how does he support his claim? Miller claims that the common man is a suitable subject for a tragedy meaning the masses or the working class. Miller supports his claim by saying that modern psychiatry does in fact base its analysis upon classic formulations, for example the Oedipus where he kills his father and Orestes which is the tragedy where he kills his mother and her lover to avenge his father’s murder. However even though these tragedies were acted by royal individuals; these similar emotional situations apply to everyone. So in other words the common man would be a suitable subject for a tragedy as the common man is likely to experience similar emotional situations. According to Miller what is it about the tragic figure which interests us? The tragic figure in Millers opinion interests us because it sparks a feeling within us when we are in the presence of a character who is willing to give up his life if need be. Miller believes that this shows a pure sense of personal dignity and shows the audience how the character is trying to attempt to gain their ‘rightful’ position in society. Miller then goes on to...
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...Comprehensive Literary Analysis “The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.”-Dalai Lama Literary works present culture, philosophy, and deep truths about the nature of humanity, but the interpretation of these texts is left solely to the reader. Analysis is the ability to understand the fundamental concepts of information received in any form by breaking down the complexities into essential features and their relations. One’s interpretation may change one’s view of the world or entertain them but, in seeking the purpose of the information one is presented one is able to question fundamental concepts and create his or her own ideologies. Kaiji the ultimate survivor is a literary text that tackles many these ideologies that one may...
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...Comparative analysis Comparative Analysis of two works E M. Tu English Literature 125 M V 05 August 2012 Comparative analysis Comparative Analysis of two works The creative process is often filled with emotions, and throughout it, it is not uncommon to experience the whole gauntlet of highs, lows and everything in between. The poems, “poetry” and “constantly risking absurdity” are two works that are filled with similarities in the creative process and yet they are very different. These two works give insight to the creative process from each poet’s perspective. They are both excited by it, but they achieve their goal through traveling different routes. As much as they like and appreciate the finished product you cannot help but believe that they are just as fascinated, captivated and even enthralled by the process itself. The creative process for them is a lot like certain aspects of life, and it is demonstrated in their work. Ferlinghetti’s experience is not one made up purely of joy, in fact; it is filled with struggle, but it is a journey in search of joy and of beauty. He must take risks and is willing to do so in pursuit of the desired goal every time he performs. He starts his poem in a manner using words that immediately catches your attention. You are immediately drawn in by his description of the risks that a poet must take each time he performs before an audience. There is always the possibility that he may end up looking like a fool (risking absurdity)...
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...Outside Reading Analysis Essay Sometimes in life, it just feels natural and easier to follow the crowd and be a part of a bandwagon. It is in the nature of a human being to not want to be singled out or alone in society. In the book, Drawing the Ocean, by Carolyn Maccullough, Sadie Caldwell, who is naturally a shy person, is experiencing this feeling of solitude that she slowly overcomes as time passes with a few bumps in the road. It is never easy to have a brand new start in life, especially when in the high school years, and be successful at it. Sadie must overcome the overwhelming beginnings of her journey, pass over the hurdles of peer pressure and influences, and then finally land in the place where she truly belongs. “Do you like it here?” asks Ollie. Ollie was once Sadie’s twin brother who died at the age of 12, but she can still physically visualize and hear him as if he were still alive; unable to get rid of his presence, he acts as her self-conscious and guardian angel. She slowly ponders on this question representing the start of her new life. Moving from California to Connecticut with only her mom and dad, she has no one to socialize with or even call her friend, however she makes it her resolution to rid herself...
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...ROGER B RUEDA WRITING CLASS 10 Kinds of Rhetorical Modes (1) Description Descriptive writing calls for close attention to details. Whether your subject is as small as a strawberry or as large as a football stadium, you should begin by observing your subject closely and deciding which details are most significant. Topic Suggestions: a basketball, baseball glove, or tennis racket a bowl of fruit a character from a book, film, or television programme a child's secret hiding place a city bus or subway train a closet a favourite restaurant a fridge or washing machine a Halloween costume a hospital emergency room a laptop computer a locker a mobile phone a painting a particular friend or family member a pet a photograph a pizza a rest room in a service station a small town cemetery a storefront window a street that leads to your home or school a treasured belonging a vase of flowers a waiting room a work table an accident scene an art exhibit an ideal apartment an inspiring view an item left too long in your refrigerator an unusual room backstage during a play or a concert the inside of a spaceship the scene at a concert or athletic event your dream house your favourite food your ideal roommate your memory of a place that you visited as a child your old neighbourhood (2) Narration At least one of the topics below may remind you of a particular incident that you can relate in a clearly organised narrative essay. a brush with...
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...day. This will be possible ONLY with advance permission, otherwise electronic versions of the essay will not be accepted. Essay Specifications: 5 to 6 pages, double spaced, 12 point font (the Title page and Works Cited should be on separate pages and do NOT count in the page count). Please submit it WITHOUT any cover (plastic or otherwise) stapled together (a stapler will be provided on the due day if you do not have one) with a cover page and Works Cited (neither of which page will be part of the page count). The minimum length is 5 full pages; the maximum is 6. If you submit an essay that is less that 5 pages or more than 6, you risk losing ½ % per half page over or under. Late essays will only be accepted with a doctor’s note or similar documentation to explain and support the late submission. HOWEVER: If you find yourself nowhere near finished as the deadline nears, please inform me; a one or two-day extensions may be granted if requested in advance. Don’t just give up and decide not to submit your essay. No one can afford to lose 20% of their final mark. Without documentation (described above) or without an extension, late essays will receive a zero. PLEASE REMEMBER: Plagiarism of any kind, including faulty citation and group work/sharing, no matter how little it may be in your essay as a whole, is a VERY serious matter and could earn you a zero for the assignment and possible of Academic Misconduct, so don’t take this very risky shortcut that one or more students...
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...now would mean potentially higher profits for Owen. A dilemma exists about whether or not Luke should tell his brother about the upcoming building of the adult entertainment store, which would decrease the property value of the house he is trying to sell versus disrespecting ABC Company and their confidentiality agreement. Should Luke protect his brother and advise him to not sell his house or should he respect ABC Company and keep the information to himself until it is publically announced? It is clear there is an ethical dilemma in this situation: a matter of doing the right thing and not breaching confidentiality (loyalty to the company) vs. being a good person and saving a family member grief from making a financially poor choice. ANALYSIS: Applying the ethical lenses/theories UTILITARIANISM: Utilitarianism is a theory that states that moral action is most effective when it maximizes utility, which is defined as...
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...Report Vincent Renda Applied Leadership - mgt331 Baker College Dr. Julia Teahen 3/28/16 Provide a brief summary of the movie you chose. Be sure to provide a description of each major character, their leadership style, and why you believe they were important to the story. Brief Summary Movie-APOLLO 13 NASA’s Apollo 13 mission was a mission to the moon, but because of mechanical problems the Apollo 13 not only failed to reach the moon, it was almost lost. The Apollo 13" mission showed men solving problems with their intelligence, their skill sets, bravery and most of all teamwork. This mission raised issues of loyalty for the individual against the loyalty of the team as a whole. It represented how the success of the mission became more important than the need of the one. Ken Mattingly one of the astronauts that was supposed to be on the Apollo 13 mission but was cut for a “maybe” health issue, played the role of the person who saved the mission. He showed that even with bad luck that prevented him from being on the mission, means even if you are not on the first team, you can still play the most important in saving the mission and become a hero. Each astronaut, was a positive male role model in their own right. (NASA, 2016). Major Characters Jim Lovell: Apollo 13 commander, was the world’s most traveled astronaut. He participated in three mission and had 572 hours of spaceflight experience. He demonstrated transformational leadership qualities...
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...Position: Present support for your side of the argument. Identify the strongest two to five major reasons why you believe you are right about this issue. Pick your best reasons and devote your time to explaining them. d. Clarify your Position: Show your readers that you are aware of the complexities of the issue. You do this by pointing out new information or events that might alter your ideas and approaches to the topic. e. The Conclusion: Your final words should leave readers with a clear statement of your purpose and a sense of commitment to it. Restate your main point or thesis, in stronger terms than you used in the introduction. Reemphasize the importance of the topic and offer a look to the future. 6. Get into character, imagine yourself in the role as an actor; Imitate a well know writer, try imitating the style of a well-known critic or commentator whose work you like to read; Match your tone to your readers expectations, know the context for your document, here your commentary will appear...
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...Amendment can be misunderstood, the case Korb v. Raytheon is being reviewed. In the case, a young man was in charge of a division. Mr. Korb was highly praised, and always stated to be the prominent source for the company. He went off to lunch as it had been a long day at a press conference, where he had to get a hold of the general population. Mr. Korb then proceeded to made comments that were of his personal views, which had gotten him in trouble with the company’s headquarters. Raytheon offered Korb to stay on the payroll, however, he was told to resign and relocate to another state where he can have a less influential position. He sued the company for wrongful termination and in violation of his right with the first amendment. Case Analysis Facts: Lawrence Korb worked as the Vice President of Raytheon Corporation, a major weapons company for military forces, who was in charge of their Washington Operations. After Korb was hired, he was believed to make a positive change within the company. While working with Raytheon, Korb joined the Committee for National Security (CNS). During a lunch hour, CNS scheduled a press conference and Mr. Korb made derogatory remarks that were later seen in a news article that went against the company’s wishes. Once headquarters heard about Korb’s statements, they informed him that his job was at risk and offered him the opportunity to resign and continue on their payroll in a different city. Korb later issued his statements, saying he was...
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...* introduction Study habits are the ways that you study - the habits that you have formed during your school years. Study habits can be good ones, or bad ones. Good study habits include being organized, keeping good notes, reading your textbook, listening in class, and working every day. Bad study habits include skipping class, not doing your work, watching TV or playing video games instead of studying, and losing your work. It means you are not distracted by anything, you have a certain place to go where it is quiet everyday where you study and do homework. Basically it means that you are doing the best you can to get the grades you want. It means you are not distracted by anything, you have a certain place to go where it is quiet everyday where you study and do homework. The manner with which you consistently use to study for school or college or even for next day lesson plans if you're a teacher. Study Habit of every student is one of the most important factors that affect his or her understanding regarding a certain subject. It means, if a student possesses poor study habits, she has a greater chance of getting failing grades, if compare to a students who has a good study habit. But “habit” as it was defined from the Introduction to Psychology, means “a learned, or fixed way of behaving to satisfy a given motive”. By this definition alone, we can say that the person involves is the one making or forming his own habit. Maybe, habits can be affected by outside interference...
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...Personal Responsibility: An Oxymoronic Perspective Nick Summers Gen/200 March 28, 2012 Vlad Bolmar, Instructor Personal Responsibility: An Oxymoronic Perspective By definition, an oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory words and turns them into an acceptable and understandable phrase. For example, “jumbo shrimp” and “pretty ugly” are common oxymoronic expressions. In fact, the word “oxymoron” itself is an oxymoron taken from the Greek words oxy (meaning "sharp" or "pointed") and moros (meaning "dull"). Regretfully, the phrase “personal responsibility” in today’s society is fast becoming an oxymoron. This is because so many of today’s young people are being raised with a sense of entitlement, ease, and luxury. Many of them don’t see the correlation between responsibility and success. And, as a result, when life’s misfortunes arise—and they always will—their first knee-jerk reaction is to blame other people or circumstances for their own personal woes. This, in turn, only compounds the problem by making the person feel as if they are a victim: powerless, helpless, and unable to change themselves or control any future condition. Consider the words of Steven Reiss, Ph.D. (2010), “We live in an era where few people are held responsible for their misbehavior. From elementary school children who don't do homework to oil company CEOs who engage in criminal behavior, the consequences often seem to fall on the system rather than on the...
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...theories. He believed that universal, mythic characters— archetypes—reside within the collective unconscious of people the world over. Archetypal images represent fundamental human desires and evoke deep emotions. There are 12 archetypes which symbolizes a basic human need, aspiration or motivation. In other words, an archetype is a human type in its purest form: the classic hero, outlaw, ruler, etc. Each type has its own set of values, meanings and personality traits. 1. The Innocent Motto: Free to be you and me Core desire: to get to paradise Goal: to be happy Greatest fear: to be punished for doing something bad or wrong Strategy: to do things right Weakness: boring for all their naive innocence Talent: faith and optimism The Innocent is also known as: Utopian, traditionalist, naive, mystic, saint, romantic, dreamer. The Innocent provides an identity for brands that: * offer a simple solution to an identifiable problem are associated with goodness, morality, simplicity, nostalgia or childhood * are low or moderately priced are produced by a company with straightforward values need to be differentiated from brands with poor reputations. 2. The Regular Guy/Girl Motto: All men and women are created equal Core Desire: connecting with others Goal: to belong Greatest fear: to be left out or to stand out from the crowd Strategy: develop ordinary solid virtues, be down to earth, the common touch Weakness: losing one's own self in an effort to blend in...
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...Nicole Crespo Professor Tomko WRT 201 27 April 2015 The Beautiful “Annabel Lee” In his poem “Annabel Lee” Edger Allen Poe writes about a forbidden love that ends in a horrible tragedy. Poe uses many elements of poetry such as imagery to give the reader an impression of profoundness, symbolism to give a sense of setting, and tone to let the reader know the feelings behind the poem. With the elements of poetry the readers better understand used Poe’s theme of eternal love. It also helps us have an insight of how Poe’s perspective on the idea of love was to him. Given the background Poe’s life wasn’t an easy one which can be seen in the Poem Annabel Lee. In the poem, Poe uses visual imagery to describe many different scenes in the poem. One for example is when he describes the death of Annabel Lee, “ that the wind came out of the cloud by the night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee”. (25) This quote shows how Poe wanted his readers to get a visual of a tragic cold night that resulted in the death of a woman. The poem is written in a musical way, one can imagine the cold night. The reader could feel it chilling themselves and could feel the heart break of the young lover’s death. Another example of imagery is when Poe writes, “So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulcher In this kingdom by the sea” (17-20) the image given is her family taking her away from her lover to lock her up in a vault by the sea where she...
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...Schuster. INTRODUCTION Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, habits constantly express our character and produce our effectiveness or our in effectiveness. In the words of Aristotle, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” I identify here seven habits shared by all truly effective people. Fortunately, for those of us not born effective (no one is), these habits can be learned. Furthermore, the collective experience of the ages shows us that acquiring them will give you the character to succeed. Some years ago, I decided to read all the success literature published in the United States since its beginning in 1776 - hundreds of books, articles, and essays on self-improvement and popular psychology. I noticed a startling thing: Almost all the writings that helped build our country in its first 150 years or so identified character as the foundation of success. The literature of what we might call “The Character Ethic” helped Americans cultivate integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, and the Golden Rule. Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a prime example. Compared with the early success literature, the writings of the last 50 years seem superficial to me - filled with social image consciousness, techniques, and quick fixes. There, the solutions derive not from the Character Ethic, but the Personality Ethic: ...
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