...Cosi “The Australian drama Cosi, and its themes, is a reflection of the characters’ immediate world, as well as the world at large. Explain this statement with reference to the text.” The Play Cosi, written by playwright Louis Nowra, is about members from a mental institution, who with the help of the protagonist Lewis are presenting an opera called ‘Cosi Fan Tutte.’ The opera tells the story of two officers, who pretend to leave for war to test the fidelity of their lovers. The themes of madness, attitude towards the mentally ill, transformations and growth and fidelity and love are portrayed through the conventions and techniques of symbolism, play within a play, setting and characters. Readers are positioned to respond to the immediate world and the world at large with complete madness, as it seems the world at large is a world apart from society. The play explores the theme of madness through the convention of setting. The idea of an inside world and outside world is shown through the symbolism and paranoia of society. The dark, derelict burnt out theatre is a metaphor for the world at large, and the drama that is enacted on its charred surface is a reflection of the larger dramas taking place outside. The outside world is noticed to have fear about the spread of communism, the mass casualties and the war crimes, for example the massacre of civilians, the torture of people and the rape. Readers respond to the absolute madness at times with confusion, as it’s hard...
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...23 September 2015 Risks Worth Taking? A Reflection on the Effects of Memoirs The primary purpose of my research paper is to present a cross-section of the current conversations taking place around the way memoirs affect the writers who publish them. Based on my research, it appears that the effects tend to involve emotional and psychological consequences, as well as legal troubles in some instances. The discovery of this conversation helped me to refine my research topic into the question, “Do the benefits of publishing a memoir outweigh the risks of their effects for writers?” This research explores the positive and negative effects of memoirs on their writers to determine whether or not the risks are worth the rewards. Although writing a memoir can result in lawsuits and family discord, it more often proves to be therapeutic and can be the starting point of a nonfiction writer's career. What if I told you that memoirs are incredibly important to our society, because they document the human experience in such an honest way? Although they are valuable, they can also be risky. One key issue is that a memoir’s admissions risk causing major drama for writers, including legal trouble. In addition, they can be a catalyst for burning bridges with former employees. They can also potentially destroy long-term personal relationships. In this paper, I work to discover if it is worth all the drama to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. As I began my research...
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...Study Fishes are caught essentially for consumption. However, catching fish happens to be a well-known recreational pastime as well. Recreational fishing is also known as sport fishing. The main motive behind recreational fishing is pleasure or relaxation along with competition in some cases. It should not be mixed with subsistence or commercial fishing. While subsistence fishing is for basic survival, commercial fishing is essentially for profit. In some countries, recreational fishing has various rules as well as regulations to follow and enjoy the process. The regulations that are imposed on recreational fishing include the laws and the licensing restrictions that deal with limiting the procedures by which the fish might be caught. The most typical of these restrictions include prohibition in using nets and using hooks that are not into the mouth. The most usual form of such fishing is done with the aid of line, reel, rod, hooks, etc. These devices should be used along with the huge range of available baits. In order to help the individuals in the act of fishing, devices called terminal tackle are also used widely. The devices that are generally considered under terminal tackle include floats, swivels, weights, etc. These devices usually help to complement the bait that is being presented to the target. Sometimes lures, instead of baits are also used in recreational fishing. Some of the enthusiastic individuals insist on preparing their own lures instead of using the ones...
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...Fishing is not a simple of tossing a string with a worm on it into a pond like young boys would do on hot summer days. Well, it can be but if you want to catch as many fish as possible, there are many different factors that need to be taken into account. Fishing is a very complicated activity and there are dozens of things that one must consider if they expect to catch the big one. From time of day to where you fish, there are always things one can do to increase the odds. An angler is someone who fishes with a rod and line for fun or sport. There are an estimated “60 million anglers in the U.S.” (Sportfishing in America 5). All over the country people are casting out a line to try this rapidly changing sport. Fishing generates $48 billion...
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...The Easy Rider Motor Company The Easy Rider Motor Company manufactures a recreational vehicle - specifically a truck camper - called the Free Spirit, which it sells through franchised dealers at a retail price of $12,000. (A truck camper consists of a pick-up truck and a housing cabin. The housing cabin is mounted on the bed of the pick-up truck, just behind the driver’s cabin. Consumers typically use truck campers for driving down to holiday spots like forests, lake sides, sea shores, mountain valleys etc. and camping there for a short holiday in the comfort of the housing cabin).The dealers have been pressuring the company to add a second recreational vehicle to the line at the higher end. In response, the company has designed the High Rise and is about to set its price to dealers and customers, Here are the major facts: 1. The company has enough plant capacity to produce up to five hundred units per year of the new model. Any more than this would require investing in new plant capacity. 2. The fixed costs of producing the High Rise are estimated at $500,000. The direct costs are estimated at $10,000 per unit. 3. There is a major competitor producing a high-quality recreational vehicle retailing for $14,000. The competitor charges its dealers $11,200 - a 20 percent dealer discount off the retail price. The company estimates that the competitor's profit margin is approximately $1,400 per unit. The competitor sells about six hundred units per year. 4. The company would like its...
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...Makahil Abdinoor Many people know him as the business turnaround king. Lemonis become successfully by his perseverance, tenacity, and determination. Lemonis is the chairman and CEO of camping world, and it is the nation’s largest RV and outdoor retailer. Lemonis determination, and his unique vision made him to be successful. Lemonis helps grow struggling business, and small business around the country from a variety of industries, and he uses three principles such as people, process, and products to help grow struggling business. Lemonis was born in war-torn Beirut, Lebanon in 1973, and he was adopted by a Lebanese family living in Miami FL at nine months old. His family owned Anthony Abraham Chevrolet, and that is where he started gaining experiences of prosperous business value. At age of 12, his entrepreneurial spirit bloomed, and he started a lawn moving service to generate money for candy business. Lemonis graduated from Christopher Columbus high school, and he attend Marquette University, where he studied Political Science, Criminology, and Economics. After lemonis graduated from college, he ran for a seat in the house of representative of Florida, and with no political experience, lemonis earned endorsement of the Miami Herald. After, Lemonis lost the campaign, he refocused to become business man, and it was Former Chrysler CEO Lee Lacocca, who advised lemonis to get into the RV business, which eventually lead him to become chairmanship. Lemonis has contoured...
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...Winnebagel Corp. currently sells 30,000 motor homes per year at $68,000 each, and 12,000 luxury motor coaches per year at $105,000 each. The company wants to introduce a new portable camper to fill out its product line; it hopes to sell 25,000 of these campers per year at $14,000 each. An independent consultant has determined that if Winnebagel introduces the new campers, it should boost the sales of its existing motor homes by 2,400 units per year, and reduce the sales of its motor coaches by 1,100 units per year. What is the amount to use as the annual sales figure when evaluating this project? Sales due solely to the new product line are: | 25,000($14,000) = $350,000,000 | Increased sales of the motor home line occur because of the new product line introduction; thus: | 2,400($68,000) = $163,200,000 | in new sales is relevant. Erosion of luxury motor coach sales is also due to the new campers; thus: | 1,100($105,000) = $115,500,000 loss in sales | is relevant. The net sales figure to use in evaluating the new line is thus: | $350,000,000 + 163,200,000 − 115,500,000 = $397,700,000 | Keiper, Inc., is considering a new three-year expansion project that requires an initial fixed asset investment of $2.7 million. The fixed asset will be depreciated straight-line to zero over its three-year tax life, after which time it will be worthless. The project is estimated to generate $2,080,000 in annual sales, with costs of $775,000. If the tax rate is 35...
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...The narrator will choose sheila because he can always go back and try to catch another bass The narrator loves fishing, because he never goes anywhere without his fishing rod . He would sit in his drive way practicing casts , and he would tie his line to his dog to test the drag on his reel , and when he wasn't doing any of those he was fishing in the river. The narrator knew it's a big bass because of the splash it made in the river . He also knew it was big because of how it had hit his lure. . The narrator figured it was a old bass because a young one probably wouldn't have known that the rocks were where it was headed to . He also figured it was an old bass because the way it trailed his lure. A reason why he might choose sheila is because he was attracted to her. He would also do anything to be invited to one of her parties He also watches her when she's on the beach . He knows all of her moods by the way she moves , talks and looks. He also gets her attention by doing endless laps between his house and the vermont shore where she lays. He would do his best flutter kick in front of her to win her attention. The narrator makes his choice between Sheila and the bass. He decides to choose Sheila over the bass because he doesn't want to get embarrassed/look dumb in front of her because she hates fishing and thinks its dumb. She thinks it's dumb because her and her grandpa went one time and she said all we did was sit there and wait for a fish which is super boring...
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...Spring Crappie Fishing "Got one!" My fishing partner softly set the hook and pulled in the day's first fish, a ten inch crappie. A beautiful, warm spring day prompted an evening of crappie fishing on our favorite lake. It was just what we needed to spur recovery from the off-season inactivity here in Minnesota. The scene above is repeated over and over again every spring on Central Minnesota's lakes. Crappies are a fine, sporting fish that often provide fast action in the spring when the season is closed on the high profile species - walleyes and bass. Instead of longing for the opener, get out and chase the crappies! Spring crappie fishing starts in dark bottom bays and protected canals where the water is warmest shortly after ice out. If crappie fishing is not an annual event for you, ask the local bait shop where the crappies are biting. They can usually get you started in a good location. Since crappies are in quite predictable locations at this time of year, a map of a good crappie lake can put you on fish in short order. Look for protected bays. If the bay has a dark bottom with reeds or cattails you are in a good starting location. Now, let's find the crappies. They will generally be in shallow water less than ten feet deep. It the water is cold, less than 50 degrees, a good way to start is a with a small minnow on a float rig with a small jig to anchor the minnow and prevent it from moving too much. Cast into the shallows and slowly retrieve the bait with long pauses...
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...Daelyn Sagert May 1, 2018 Comp. 2 4th hr. Pgs 5&6 Angling and Bait Varieties A common bait that is used for mainly bass is called a jig. A jig consists of a heavy weighted jig head and a skirting. The skirting is normally a soft plastic, but can also be a feathered material or buck tail. Jigs are mainly used by more experienced anglers, but beginner fishermen can also use them. These baits take practice to get the hang of, mainly because there are many different types of jigs (Pelton 2018). The main types of jigs are casting and swim jigs. Jigs have a certain fishing finesse that is used. An angler has to cast the jig out and let it sink to the very bottom. Once they have done this, they can jump the jig off of the bottom. This is continued until a fish is caught. This type of bait is fished in thick cover areas. These areas are where there are sunken logs, debris, lily pads, thick weeds, or under thick trees. These baits work very well in these areas because they do not need to be cast out very far. This is because anglers are just bouncing the bait off of the bottom repeatedly. The angler can choose which size and color pattern they think will work best. Smaller jigs sink slower because they weigh less, but it is easier for all fish to fit small jigs in their mouth (Pelton 2018). Jigs are mainly fished in lakes, because these baits do not require a current to move it and high cover areas do not usually have much water movement. Water clarity is not an important factor with...
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...Red Drum Fisheries Management of Coastal Florida Danny W. Lyles COMM/215 May 7, 2012 David Mumford Abstract This paper is intended to evaluate the success or failure of the fisheries management regarding Red Drum or Sciaenops ocellatus in the coastal Florida area of the United States. The Red Drum, or the common name “Redfish”, is a popular sport fish among anglers due to its reputation as a formidable adversary, and the value of it on the market for table fare. The advent of blackened recipes from the bayous of the southeast has also increased its popularity. Red Drum Fisheries Management of Coastal Florida The Red Drum inhabits inshore, near shore, and offshore waters throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. The adults spawn in rivers, bayous, and tidal areas and the fry will reside there for up to four years. This species can reach lengths of forty five inches and weigh as much as fifty pounds. Spawning is triggered by cooling waters and a decrease in daylight hours associated with late summer and fall. In 1989, the Red Drum was considered overfished in large part due to the fishing pressure placed on the species by recipes of “Blackened Redfish” introduced in Louisiana Cajun style restaurants and the chef’s that enjoyed success from the new menu item. In an attempt to control and regulate the harvesting of the species, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) instituted a slot limit of eighteen to twenty – seven inches...
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...A Friendly Life with the Dolphins As a culture being a learned behavior for humans, it is for the animals as well. Humans have grown, evolved, adapted, and developed to survive; and their acquired skills and consistent improvements have accelerated such developments. Surprisingly, dolphins also have acquired such skills to live more convenient life by working with the humans. The article “Dolphins help fishermen to catch fish” describes how dolphins and fishermen work together. This article explains the special relationship between the fishermen and the dolphins in Laguna, Brazil, where dolphins help to catch fish by herding the group of mullet towards the fishermen, then signaling the right time to throw the nets (Welsh, 2012). This cooperation is noted to be very important and helpful for both parties’ survival, since they both depend on each other for catching fish, fish being the main source of income for the fishermen, whereas, fish being the main source of food for the dolphins (Welsh, 2012). Apparently, this teamwork with the dolphins had become the tradition for these Brazilian fishermen as they worked together for more than 15 years (Welsh, 2012). This cooperative behavior of both has created a unique culture that both fishermen and dolphins pass on their tradition by teaching. From a cultural anthropological perspective, this is a very interesting issue since humans and dolphins do not share any biological similarities as they do with primates, like apes, monkeys...
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...On the date and time listed above Sgt. Purcell responded to 6217 Tradewinds Way located in Lacasa Trailer park in referance to juveniles kicking a ball against the complainants trailer. When Sgt. Purcell arrived to the area he observed numerous juveniles in the area of the complaint. Sgt. Purcell stopped in front of the complainants (Pamela Mcdougald) residence and a black female was standing on the porch. The complainant started to tell Sgt. Purcell what was taking place and before Sgt. Purcell could even approach the complainants Sgt. Purcell could hear yelling from the complainants neighbor yard. When Sgt. Purcell exited his patrol car he observed the offender (JaJa Johnson) walking from his yard towards the complainants yard yelling profanity and violent language towards the complainant. There was numerous juveniles under 14 in the area of the trailer park so Sgt. Purcell attempted to speak with the offender although he became angryer and Sgt. Purcell was afraid the offender might become violent towards the complainant or himself so, Sgt. Purcell advised the offender to place his hands behind his back. The offender refused to do so so Sgt. Purcell advised the offender once again to place his hands behind his back. The offender refused to comply with Sgt. Purcells lawful orders so after numerous attempts to get the offender to place his hands behind his back Sgt. Purcell o.C. sprayed the offender in an attempt to safely take the offender into custody with out using physical...
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...management of Southern Recreational Vehicle Company of St. Louis, Missouri, announced to relocate its manufacturing and assembly operations by constructing a new plant in Ridgecrest, Mississippi. The firm, a major producer of pickup campers and camper trailers, had experienced 5 consecutive years of declining profits due to production costs. The costs of labor and raw materials had increased alarmingly, utility costs had gone up sharply , and taxes and transportation expenses had steadily climbed upward. In spite of increased sales, the company suffered its first net loss since operations were begun in 1982. When management initially considered relocation, it closely scrutinized several geographic areas. The importance to the relocation decision were the availability of adequate transportation facilities, state and municipal tax structures, an adequate labor supply, positive community attitudes, reasonable site costs, and financial inducements. The management of Southern Recreational Vehicle Company was impressed by the efforts of the Mississippi Power and Light Company to attract “clean, labor-intensive” industry. Two weeks prior to the announcement, management of Southern Recreational Vehicle Company finalized its location plans. An existing building in Ridgecrest’s park was selected; initial recruiting was begun through the state employment office; and to lease or sell the St. Louis property were initiated . Among the inducements offered Southern Recreational Vehicle Company...
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...function within my personal work environment. I had to review the past and present management alongside the mass media and how it would pertain to this paper; Giant RV has neglected to update their technology to increase their ability to overcome past setbacks. Technology, mass media, and outstanding management have never been a large importance in the recreational vehicle industry. This industry has been behind in technology for many years, it has become increasingly harder to improve standards to public when management will not spend the extra cost to explore new avenues. It would be to the companies benefit to explore the Internet, radio, newspapers, television, and to other industries to increase knowledge on how other companies venture out to expand their profit through mass media. If management within the recreational vehicle industry would implement new standards to improve how the recreational vehicle industry does business this might increase revenue throughout the United States and within Giant RV. By doing this it could change many of the standards already in place throughout the United States and how other recreational vehicle dealerships do business. Mass Media With many ways to explore how management can overcome this setback they could look at how the mass media has implemented suggestions within the population so that many will follow the media’s recommendation on trends and political thoughts. These thoughts and suggestions usually implemented throughout...
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