...Sure Thing Paper The play Sure Thing, by David Ives, reveals the variations of boy, Bill, meets girl, Betty, and the ensuing pick up lines. The central theme throughout the play displays multiple varieties of a possible conversation that ends with a ringing bell that symbolizes a fresh start and a second chance to make a good impression. What results is a very funny sequence; a series of opportunities, of near misses, of crashing abject failures as Bill tries to engage Betty’s attention. Body language, communication, and first impressions are just a few factors that we can use to help start a new relationship if we use it right. When Betty is alone in the cafe reading her book one can assume she doesn’t want to be bothered just by looking at her. As Bill comes up to her and interrupts her reading the first couple of times Betty doesn’t want anything to do with him. But when Betty finally tells him he can sit down with her she still continues reading, not wanting to have a conversation. Body language is everything. It’s more important than words, more important than routines, and even more important than physical appearance. Bill should have known just by getting a glimpse of Betty that she didn’t want to be bothered. Solid body language is the best way to make a strong first impression. According to Joe Navarro (2008), who specializes in the area of nonverbal communication or body language, body language behaviors...
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...In The Play "Sure Thing" (Ives, p. 643), the characters Bill and Betty are strangers looking for a connection. Taking a chance, they engage in conversation as a bell rings they change their stories in each conversation if it does not lean towards a perfect match. Bill reinvents himself on multiple occasion to impress Betty for her approval. Testing the waters with Betty, he asks a series of silly questions and even makes a few statements in hopes to get the right response from her such as, “I believe that a man is what he is. (Bell.) A person is what he is. (Bell.) A person is . . . what they are. So what if I admire Trotsky? (Bell.) So what if I once had a total-body liposuction? (Bell.) So what if I don't have a penis? (Bell.) So what if I once spent a year in the Peace Corps? I was acting on my convictions. Nope. Straight-down-the-ticket Republican. (Bell.)Straight-down-the-ticket Democrat.(Bell.)Can I tell you something about politics? (Bell.) I like to think of myself a citizen of the universe. (Bell.) I'm unaffiliated. (Ives, p.646) I believe the question that he asks is the anxiety that we put on ourselves as society when we are out on a first date. We want the other person to like us, so we ask questions to have an understanding of the other person. Each scene starts over at the ring of the bell, I believe the bell ringing gives them the opportunity to correct any mistakes they may have made. This allows them to reinvent themselves going back to the part of the conversation...
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...The article talk about Ted Turner, John Paulson and other successful entrepreneurs businessmen “ predators” whose insights and decision have redefined and transformed the economy. The writer telling us about entrepreneurs characteristic of those predators and how adverse to what most of people imagine they actually seek the least risk possible while hunting. Temperament is one of the entrepreneurs main advantage , they are braver than rest of us , they have analytical advantage, they are better at figuring out a sure things rather than the rest of us they all done their home work and worked so hard to find sure things, that’s why they supremely confident of their decision and they are happy to put their their reputation on the line in the pursuit of the sure thing. They looked at the same marketplace as every one else but they were able to notice and identify different pattern and to interpret market behavior differently, that why they were encouraged and more comfortable with negative carry trade more than other competitors were. Quoting writer says “ you and I might might not have made hat deal but not because they are risk taker and we are cowards , its because they they are cold blooded bargainers who could find a billion dollar in some one back pocket that the person didn’t know he had The article discuss the main argument about corporate compensation policies,and the wrong perception from shareholder that risk taking is what entrepreneurs companies do...
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... Sure Thing by David Ives Sure Thing is a short comic play by David Ives including the meeting of two characters. The play begins with Bill approaching Betty in a café, asking "Is this chair taken?" To which she replies “Yes.” The bell rings and Bill repeats his question to which Betty says, “No, but I'm expecting somebody in a minute.” The bells rings again, and Bill poses his question again. This process continues until Bill is finally allowed to take a seat. The entire conversation is comedic and gives a different approach to the questions they are asking each other after the bell rings. I think that it is a lighthearted play. The setting have you as if you are there watching them have the conversation. Everything seemed unrehearsed and even though conversations do not take place like this it was an interesting play. When the bell rings they start their new conversation off with the last thing they discussed with a little comedic twist. The symbolic title of this play, “Sure Thing,” points to the need for a sure thing when dating. Throughout the entire play there is almost always one character that is looking for a sure thing in a relationship and in most of the situations this causes a bell to sound. In the beginning when Betty does not know Bill, to dismiss him she says “Sure Thing”. At the end she closes with “Sure Thing” now that she has made certain that Bill is in fact a sure thing. In the beginning we only see the relationship...
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...When we hear the words tragedies and comedies we can reference them to death and jokes; however, there is more to these concepts than can come to one’s mind especially in drama. In tragedies there is often the downfall of a tragic hero whereas in comedies the unexpected rise of the comic protagonist is to be laughed at due to the wit and humor used. Tragedies end in catastrophe as seen in the death of Romeo and Juliet unlike in comedies where the conflicts are to be made fun of, for example in Sure Thing, Bill the comic protagonist, makes every possible mistake when trying to pick up a girl in a café, but somehow still ends up getting the girl after many attempts. Tragedies and comedies are mostly defined by the emotions they evoke in the public...
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...challenges for short play writers like developing characters as well as trying to develop the plot in such a small amount of time. There are also benefits of writing short plays like keeping the audience’s attention throughout the whole play rather then the audience sitting bored through a full play, they also take less time to write, so the play writer could get more than one story done a year for their publisher. In the plays Sure Thing and The Philadelphia in David Ives’, All In The Timing, David Ives demonstrates how he succeeds as a short play writer. Ives uses techniques like repetition and rhythm in both of these plays to inform and entertain his audience....
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...Continuing Academic Success Essay John Smith GEN 201 Continuing Academic Success Essay Even though you're scared of academic failure, make sure you know yourself because knowing what your goals are and how to accomplish them and to know what resources are available will help you succeed. Going back to school can be terrifying, especially after being out school for so long. You, like myself, are probably telling yourself that you can’t do it. You haven’t been in school in so long; things have changed so much. We all hate the thought of failure; the truth is you won’t know until you try. There are things you can do to help yourself prepare for returning to school, and I’m going to go over some that I have learned along the way. The most important thing you need to know when returning to school is yourself. You can’t be successful if you don’t know your strengths and weaknesses. By taking a look at yourself, you can get a grasp on what areas of learning you might struggle with and what part of learning should come easy. There are many factors that can influence how we learn. These factors can include your behavioral characteristics, how much life experience you have, which of your senses are most predominant and whether or not you are self-directed in your learning (Reuter, 2000). For instance, I know that I need to be shown a few times, then I need just to dive in and try it myself. If I don’t get that hands on experience, all the telling me in the world doesn’t...
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...with. Reading the article on the minimizer made me think of the thing that people say “There is no I in team”. This is the opposite approach of how most people typically refer to this phrase however, it still applies here. Mark (the minimizer) is actually part of a team, a team that includes three other people but yet he seems to think that he should only focus on his particular job duties and not have to play a part in the team project that he has been put on. The first thing I have to do is ask myself rather or not volunteered himself to be part of this project or if he was asked/chosen involuntarily to be part of this project. If he was asked/chosen to be on this project I would say that Mark should have been honest in the beginning and told whoever asked him that he was not interested in doing anything other than his specified job description. If Mark volunteered then I would have to ask myself why would a person like this who clearly knows that he does not have any interest in doing anything other than his particular responsibilities volunteer himself for something like that. HE clearly has no interest in furthering himself beyond the position that he is currently in and he is clearly content with performing only his specified job responsibilities. Project Review Meeting First things first, because this is my project that I am leading and as the project manager I am still responsible for making sure things are moving forward as planned and as smoothly as possible. Monday...
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...Chapter I “How are you feeling now? Do you still ‘see’ those weird things?” “I am fine; for now. I just really hope that it’s working as intended to be.” “That’s good,you’ll be up and well again in no time. Don’t worry - you’ll get used to those implants soon.” “I really do hope so…” The pale girl was still uneasy despite what the physician said, probably just because she was still recovering from her recent operation. It was just like what most patients that have undergone a major one would feel. Everything looked mundane and seemed in order. The room’stemperature regulated, spacious enough, and everything was tidied and regularly checked by sanitary personnel; the flowers on the vase on top of the table beside her bed was frequently changed by her visitors. However, there was something that kept bothering her periodically during her whole stay in the hospital while recovering. She could not describe nor explain it, but there is definitely something bothering her. “Well I’ll be going now Ms. Lilde. Make sure you call any of the nurses immediately if ever something happens again.” “Will do sir.” “I’ll see you again later for your next check-up.” The physician left the room after checking the condition of the girl’s eyes. She was still not allowed to remove the bandages and open her eyes yet but seeing that she’s in a steady rate of recovery, it would just be a short amount of time now before she could finally see the light again. Or so they...
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...Network security is the process of protecting the user from things that can potentially ruin a computer or leak information that other people should not have access to.Some things that can attack a network system include viruses,worms, as well as trojan horses, spyware along with adware,attacks called zero hour,attacks by hackers,denied service hacks,data interception and theft,and the last on being identity theft.In order for network security to work it needs to have both hardware as well as software to protect the network which is done with things such as anti virus and spyware software.It also needs a firewall which is responsible for blocking the unauthorized user from gaining access to the network.Intrusion prevention systems which are tasked with identifying attacks such as zero hour.The last thing to make network security work is a virtual local area network which provides secure remote access. By using these various methods of protecting the network it will benefit the businesses by receiving the customers trust in the company by making sure their privacy is protected in such ways as making sure things like credit card data or sensitive data is stolen and exploited.It also makes sure the network is secure even if it is being used by someone remotely as long as they...
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...The philosophers tell us that art consists essentially, not in performing a moral act, but in making a thing, a work, in making an object with a view not to the human good of the agent, but to the exigencies and the proper good of the object to be made, and by employing ways of realization predetermined by the nature of the object in question. Art thus appears as something foreign in itself to the sphere of the human good, almost as something inhuman, and whose exigencies nevertheless are absolute: for, needless to say, there are not two ways of making an object well, of realizing well the work one has conceived -- there is but one way, and it must not be missed. The philosophers go on to say that this making activity is principally and above all an intellectual activity. Art is a virtue of the intellect, of the practical intellect, and may be termed the virtue proper to working reason. But then, you will say, if art is nothing other than an intellectual virtue of making, whence comes its dignity and its ascendancy among us? Why does this branch of our activity draw to it so much human sap? Why has one always and in all peoples admired the poet as much as the sage? It may be answered first that to create, to produce something intellectually, to make an object rationally constructed, is something very great in the world: for man this alone is already a way of imitating God. And I am speaking here of art in general, such as the ancients understood it -- in short, of art...
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...started searching with close attention at every corner of my head and I discovered that the rebellious hair was not alone, he had made some friends of his kind, and to make things worse… on my face I also had crow’s feet!! Those wrinkles my mother has!! Let’s face it, I’m only 25, couldn’t those elderly symptoms appear later on? It’s hard to see in the mirror an image you don’t feel identified with, I think I’m still 18 years old, in fact I still do the things I did when I was that age, but with new residents in my head and face which show that time has passed for me too, that I’m not that teenager I once was, that every candle I blow on each of my birthdays marks an year more in my life, marks the flow life is, which never gets rest. However, I still think that every hour, every minute and every second that we go through is an instance of learning. Time helps us not only grow up physically, but also mentally and spiritually. Those wrinkles and white hairs only show that we have experienced more things than younger generations, that we have different stories to provide the world with; who doesn’t love listening to our grandparents’ stories?, they uplift our lives, they teach us, and not because they are better than us, but because they have lived more, because more time has passed for them. Of one thing I am sure in this life full of uncertainties and it’s that time passes and regardless of how much effort...
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...“Knowing your Audience” By: Nicholas Findlow August 16, 2013 When reading about an accident or and incident you have to think about everyone that is involved and how that may affect them. Whether it be towards the family or the company that it effects. It may be difficult to explain everything because when you do have to explain these things you will not have all the answers. When reading “Miners Trapped At Giant Freeport Mine in Papua” and “Over 30 Workers Trapped After Chilean Copper Mine” it was rather difficult for me to think of how I would personally address the family or the company about these situations. First off I think that I would speak with the families individually because I understand that each case would be different. Such as going to there homes, sitting them down and telling them that we are doing our best to get to the trapped miners and safely bring them home. The biggest thing that I feel we would offer to the families is support and up to day information on the process of rescuing these people. “ I am deeply saddened to have to come and speak with you today. At 1:00 p.m. this afternoon the eastern tunnel collapsed and your husband was one of the men trapped by the collapsed tunnel. We are doing everything we can to safely rescue him and the other men trapped. We completely understand your concern and are here to support you during this difficult time. If there is anything...
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...century when America faced with lots of immigrants who ate very seasoned food that was unusual for locals. Also the author wrote about assimilating the immigrants by the government. I highlighted the main question of the text: What makes an immigrant a citizen? And I surely know the answer. It is Assimilation, that includes a lot of things. First of all, to assimilate an immigrant must speak local language in his everyday life. Language is the most important part of assimilation. Without speaking local language, like English in USA, an individual is not able to communicate with people around him. Without ability to communicate with others, an immigrant can not get a job, buy anything, ask others for help, etc. People use language to say others what they need, to do any work together, in general to live in society, be a part of it. For example, there are some people in USA who doesn’t really speak English, like people of Brighton Beach, Chinatown in New York City or another “national districts”. People there can not go and do anything outside of their neighborhood. They can’t get a well-paid job in rich neighborhoods like Downtown. So, the first thing an immigrant must do to become a part of the society and assimilate is to learn local language as well as he can. Also, assimilation includes eating the same food as others. To become an American, an immigrant should eat what Americans eat every day. Immigrants of the past century were different. They did not eat American food...
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...stress? Stress is your body’s reaction to the things which you perceive as pressures. Stress occurs when you feel that you cannot cope with those pressures. Our bodies are designed to react in 2 ways to stress: to fight against the pressure, or to run from it. This is called the fight or flight response and it is controlled by the release of a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol makes your body react in ways that allow you to fight harder or run faster and it focuses your attention on the thing causing you stress. This response enables you to deal with stress effectively by either battling to get through the problem, or by removing yourself from a situation which is causing you to feel stressed. Sometimes we see so many pressures around us that stress can become a long term problem. Although being stressed for short periods of times can be good for us, long term stress can have negative consequences and lead to problem such as high blood pressure, anxiety and depression. © Microsoft Stressors Stressors are the things around us which can cause a stress response. There are different types of stressors, some of them are environmental (e.g. too much noise), daily pressures (e.g. being late), life changing events (e.g. divorce), social stressors (e.g. family commitments), chemical stressors (e.g. alcohol) and workplace stressors. The stressors you experience in college could be called workplace stressors, and the main thing likely to cause you stress at college is your...
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