...“The Wanderer”, written and composed by anonymous, is an old poem in English poetry. The date that this poem was written in is still unknown, along with the original composer. The sorrowful mood of the story attracts the reader’s attention. This Anglo-Saxon poem has been passed down generations, originating from an Exeter book. The anonymous author used the right setting for imagery to help readers visualize what they are reading. The anonymous author of “The Wanderer” divides the poem into two distinct parts, considering the poem transitions from personal experience to providing a lesson, giving this story multiple narrators. The central perseverance of this Anglo-Saxon poem is to communicate a message about morality- Christian...
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...Wanderer I have heard the phrase “what a small world” too many times to count, but at the age of nine I figured out how untrue that statement was. The summer after third grade, I traveled with my family to Germany for the first time. I was surrounded by unfamiliarity; unfamiliar people, places, food, and languages. Growing up in a small town, the concept of how big the world is and how small you are is very hard to grasp. Although I realized that German was an entirely different language than English, it was so strange to see the signs, TV shows, and text messages were all in German. I felt like I had gone back to before I learned how to read because very few of the words made any sense to me. Although I enjoyed the trip, it was not until I returned last winter that I had discovered my love of traveling. The term wanderer essentially means traveler and it defines me because of my love of the traveling, traveling between groups of friends, and...
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...The Wanderer is in a constant state of longing and sadness, while Sir Gawain is determined and optimistic. The Wanderer spends much of his time in self-pity, lamenting his exiled state and finding everything that is wrong with the world. On the other hand, Sir Gawain is resolved to positivity despite his dire straits. Although Sir Gawain remains motivated, he experiences many of the same feelings as the wanderer when he is on his journey. “He had no friend but his horse in the forests and hills, no man on his march to commune with but God,” (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 38, lines 695-696). Sir Gawain tends to see his situation as a glass half full, while the Wanderer sees it as half empty. “Time and again at the day’s dawning I must...
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...1. My preferred leadership style was resolution. 2. Let's take a look at the six components of team dynamics. We'll also look at how they affect team performance and implications for managers. Objectives to be effective teams must agree on clear objectives and be committed to achieving them. Implications for the manager is getting the group to set specific objectives with a target date.Group size is next. If a group is too small or too large it may have a negative effect on the team.Implications for managers they usually have no say so in the size of their groups. Team norms are the group's shared expectations of it's members' behavior. Implications for managers is that the team norms can be positive or negative. Group cohesiveness is the attractiveness and closeness group members have for one another and the group . Implications for managers strive to develop cohesive groups that accept positive norms. Status within the team is the perceived ranking of one member relative to other members of the group. Implications for the manager they need to have high status. Group roles are shared expectations of how group members week fulfill the requirements of their position. Implications for the manager to be effective a team must have members who play task roles and maintenance roles, while maintaining self-interest. 3. Let's discuss the five stages of team development. Stage one is orientation it's characterized by low development level, high commitment, and low competence...
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...includes various types of works including elegies. Some of these elegies include: The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament,” which share common beliefs and ideas taken from every day Anglo-Saxon life. These three elegies share common ideas and literary devices, but overall, Anglo-Saxon poets, through “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament,” reveal that isolation from exile causes great hardship and loneliness. In “The Seafarer,” the poet writes about the journey of a man who voluntarily exiles himself from society to take on a life of sailing the seas. The poet shows the journeyman’s...
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...had no desire to read, and if I somehow felt forced to read, I would pay hardly any attention to the content. This influenced my writing in negative ways. However, I was still unable to recognize or identify the exact mistakes or flaws within my writing. Initially I had sought out the mistakes, but eventually lost hope and felt that there was no way to correct my writing. My horrendous writing skills were set in stone…or at least I believed so at the time. It was not up until I received the shameful grade of a “D+” on my paper, “Following Faith”, that I could fully identify my problems as a writer. I had not been expecting an “A” on my paper- in which I argued that although many turn to God for comfort in desperate times, the wanderer from “The Wanderer” seemed to stray way from religion when in search for comfort- I had not been expecting such a low grade, either. I was both shocked and embarrassed...
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...focused on the smaller segments with high premium and continuous innovation in their products. The strategy seems to be positioned as a focused differentiator which is exactly the same as our company, making it our closest competitor. However, in period 4, they have produced and marketed a product for the hermits which are price sensitive and lesser demand for features and portability, which may imply as their strategy as a broad differentiator. 2. Target Segment – The target segments for Foxtrot and Golf for the first four periods is mentioned below Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Golf – P,T,B. P,T,W P,T,W,B P,T,W,B Foxtrots P,T,B P,T,B P,T,B P,T,B,H P – Pragmatists H – Hermits T – Tech-Geeks W – Wanderers B – Bluebloods Apart from the Period 4, where Foxtrots introduces a new product for the price sensitive segment of the market, the focus of both the companies has consistently been on the...
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...Three speakers? There are many! But to give a brief summary: it begins with some long religious poems: the Christ, in three parts; two poems on St. Guthlac; the fragmentary "Azarius"; and the allegorical Phoenix. Following these are a number of shorter religious verses intermingled with poems of types that have survived only in this codex. All the extant Anglo-Saxon lyrics, or elegies, as they are usually called--"The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," "The Wife's Lament," "The Husband's Message," and "The Ruin"--are found here. These are secular poems evoking a poignant sense of desolation and loneliness in their descriptions of the separation of lovers, the sorrows of exile, or the terrors and attractions of the sea, although some of them--e.g., "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer"--also carry the weight of religious allegory. In addition, the Exeter Book preserves 95 riddles, a genre that would otherwise have been represented by a solitary example. The remaining part of the Exeter Book includes "The Rhyming Poem," which is the only example of its kind; the gnomic verses; "Widsith," the heroic narrative of a fictitious bard; and the two refrain poems, "Deor" and "Wulf and Eadwacer." The arrangement of the poems appears to be haphazard, and the book is believed to be copied from an earlier collection. Copied upon the following web pages are those riddles translated from the Anglo Saxon language to modern day English. After a thousand years of wear and tear (at one point the books front...
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...Guide to Preparing Your Essay Outline (N.B. This guide is to be read in conjunction with the ‘Introducing Philosophy’ booklet handed out at the beginning of the course) An essay outline for this course comprises two components: • A thesis statement • A section-by-section summary of the developing argument. • References A thesis statement Your essay should be a good philosophical argument. Such an argument, at minimum, provides good reasons in support of a conclusion. Thus, the first step in writing a good essay is to be clear of the conclusion, i.e. the claim that you are going to be defending. It should be possible to present the claim in no more than a sentence or two that tells the reader what it is that you will argue, and why and how. This is what is known as a thesis statement, and your essay outline should begin with this. A good thesis statement should: • Be no longer than a sentence or two • It should be something philosophically controversial (though not necessarily sensationalist), in that it should not merely be a statement of fact, nor of style, nor of context. • It should include a reference to the target idea or text. Examples: “Pascal’s (1632-62) famed defence of religious faith by appeal to the utility of believing in God rather than the truth of the belief is unsatisfactory since, although it professes to start from a position of metaphysical ignorance, in practice it smuggles in unwarranted assumptions...
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...portrayed in Frankenstein. Wanderer above a Sea of Mist (1818, Hamburg, Hamburg Kunsthalle) and Woman at the Window (1822, Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie) are visual dynamics that invite a deeper exploration of how men and women engage with the natural world. Both works strikingly capture Shelley’s own experience as a woman left behind by men who sought the transcendence of nature and informed her women characters in the novel. In Wanderer above a Sea of Mist, a lone man, a wanderer, gazes out from a precipice at an expansive landscape of mountain peaks and ridges. His back is facing his observer. His stance is one of heroic contemplation of the view before him and that view is awesome. Not unlike Victor who expresses in his narration of his climb from a valley floor, “as I ascended higher the valley assumed a more magnificent and astonishing character…the scene ‘augmented and rendered sublime’ by the mightily Alps, whose white and shining pyramids …belonged to another earth…which caused a tingling long-lost sense of pleasure …which came across me.“(97-98). The external physical, the aspect of the nature surrounding him, profoundly affects his internal spirit. It is ‘other-worldly’ but it is this ‘otherness’ that men wish to infiltrate and know. There are perhaps elements of self-reflection, a nervous ‘tingling’ fear at Nature’s impartial power. John Lewis Gaddis in The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past finds in the Wanderer, “a sense of curiosity mixed...
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...I was very pleasantly surprised by the novel Poison. I had expected the book to be like the other young adult dystopian novels that I have read recently, which I still enjoy, but it was very different. Poison is the first novel in the Wind Dancer series written by Lan Chan. It is the story of a 16 year old girl named Aurora Gray, and takes place in post-apocalyptic Australia where scientists known as the seeders have poisoned the plan and made it illegal to save any seeds for future use, in order to maintain control on the country. Aurora is what is known as a wind dancer, and when she was a child worked in the circus at the citadel as an aerialist. When Aurora was six, her mother was killed by the seeders for being a Wanderer, and six years...
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...Professor Stephen Clifford English 233 18 February 2014 Challenging the American Dream Does the American Dream still exist? Did it ever? There is evidence of doubt in this concept that dates even as far back as when James T. Adams coined the idea in 1931. The 1930’s faced a new wave of violence and sexuality in America, and the American ideals that founded this country were being questioned in the eyes of its residents. James M. Cain’s novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, shows the lack of hope that most Americans had in a society where hard work and good intentions were no longer bringing opportunity. His main characters Frank and Cora, a wanderer and a femme fatale, reflect the suffering that surrounded the Great Depression and the feminist movement. Cain reveals the American Dream to be flawed and easily corrupted by desperation and hardship. What exactly is the American Dream? The reason this is so hard to define is because “the American dream” is an intangible concept like “love” or “peace.” This dream is usually different to every individual, but one thing is for sure, it starts in America; so as far as definitions go we can think back to the Declaration of Independence in 1771. It states that all men in the United States are given certain “inalienable rights” that consist of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” This means that men and women had the right to be recognized by their knowledge, talent, and hard work instead of their race, class, religion...
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...In the novella of Mice and Men and the TV show Fargo, the idea of masculinity and its surrounding ideas are played with allot. From the idea of a male partnership to animal symbolism, these texts show similar events happening to similar collections of people, however, these two texts are different in the audience that they are appealing towards. In Steinbeck’s novella, it is very much a piece of its time, being centered around the great depression and a man's struggle to find work in these hard times, very much reflecting on Steinbeck’s own life. Whereas Fargo focuses more on the ideals of the American dream, following a lowly ‘failure’ of a man as his life gets ripped from him. The idea of the traditional Lone Wanderer is portrayed in both...
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...Article 6 – KayLee Kuehl – Lazariilo De Tormes – 10/12/16 1.) A very prominent theme in Lazarillo is food—getting it, keeping it, and losing it. What does this tell us about the life of the poor in sixteenth-century Spain? During this time period, it’s safe to assume that the poor lived terribly. From the story of Lazarillo, those who were misfortune became wanderers of the city, sleeping on the streets and thieving for items de-valued to others who were better off. Food over gold and silver was the most prized necessities for the poor. It was a precious commodity, extremely scarce but hungrily sought for more than anything else—its presence having the ability to seal or doom an individual’s fate. The blind man in this tale kept what little food he had secured in something similar to a knapsack, padlocked...
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