...Nyonza Musinguzi 7/22/14 American Lit Death of A Salesman The story Death of A Salesman takes place in Brooklyn. It is all about a family that plans to live the American dream. Willy is a sixty three year old father married to Linda and they have two sons named Happy and Biff that are now currently living with them during the play. Biff is a “go with the flow” type of person that currently is moving from job to job trying to find his way in life. Happy is a successful businessperson so far living in the city working his was up the corporate ladder. Willy seems to be determined in his brain that his boys are not reaching their potential and it is his fault. Linda holds it down at the house and is very concerned in Willy’s mental health. Every family in the world main goal is success on all levels, this family has a very difficult path to reach success but they are heading the right direction. Success in America is living comfortably everyday in our economy. You do not have to be super rich to be considered successful, but you cannot be struggling to have food on the table and be behind on payments and still be successful. Some one successful is someone that wakes up and has a job to go to everyday that they enjoy their work and is passionate about it. This person will always have a meal to eat and light to shine in their homes. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the...
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...not what you know, but who you know and how well you are liked. At one point in time Willie was a very successful salesman, when Howard’s father ran the company. Many promises were made between Willie and Howard’s father across that desk in the office. Despite the fact that Willie worked hard his entire life, and was rewarded very little, the promises that he believed in for all his years of work and strived towards fell through. Now that he is old and not able to keep up at the pace he used to Howard thinks he is useless to the company. Evidence of this is found on page 81 when Howard says to him “Kid, I cannot take blood from a stone”. By saying this Howard implies the fact that since he is not getting the amount of sales he wants from Willy, he has to let him go. The environment in which a person lives has a very large impact on the type of decisions as well as how the person perceives...
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... Willie Loman has failed to live up to the standards of being a tragic hero because he neither accepts nor admits to his faults. Willy loses his dignity and one of his biggest faults is his failure to be a good father. Willy’s problems come from his own delusions, the American Dream and his misunderstandings of his job and family. All of this tells the story of everyday people in American Society. His environment is changing faster than his beliefs which are why he is in the dilemma that he is in. Willy Loman delusions are a result of his father to succeed in life. At age 63, He still believes he is a popular, respected and good looking, which is not the case. Willy s delusion was that there would be many people from across the country at his funeral. Nobody liked him that much and very few people attended his funeral. In the moments where he would realize the truth, his wife would support his delusions in attempt to make him feel better about himself. A tragic hero is someone who dies for personal dignity. Willy dies for his sons dignity . In act two, Willy reveals his desires to win back Biff’s respect by committing suicide. During one of his illusions, Willy says “Ben that funeral will be massive...that boy will be thunderstruck, because he never realized I am known”. In trying to persuade Biff that their father is a great man, Willy will not accept any challenge to his dignity. He refused to realize that the ideas he set for himself and Biff are false and he in fact...
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...Demographic and Environmental Timeline Demographic transition is the process by which a nation/country moves from high birth rate and high death rates to low birth and low death rates as the growth population in the interim (Weeks, 2005). Some of the nations that have gone through this transitions are; Canada, Germany, United States and England. The demographic transition to an industrialized society is harmful to the environment. Industrialized countries also have the largest ecological and carbon footprint comparative to developing/non-industrialized nations. Nevertheless, demographic transitions have some notable advantages. Countries that have gone through demographic transitions have low birth and death rates. Citizens in industrialized nations have fewer children thus it is easier to control the population size (Dyson, 2010). The following is the demographic and environmental timeline of Germany between 1800 to date. STAGE YEAR SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY Stage 1 1800 Major Historical Changes: The country is resisting Napoleon, who wants to take control of Germany and cities such as Austria. Prussia provides military education to its military before it defeats Austria and France in the war. The country is under Ottoman Bismarck who improves it by introducing Liberal measures and welfare policies such as insurance for workers against illness and accidents. Changing Population Size: There is a decrease in population due to such wars between Napoleon and other cities...
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...The GDR: “Workers’ and Farmers’ State” or “Second German Dictatorship”? Between 1949 and 1990, the German Democratic Republic existed as an independent socialist state behind the Iron Curtain. Defining itself in its constitution as “a socialist state of farmers and workers”, it aimed to become a “socialist utopia”, without class boundaries or social restrictions. However, the controversial means of controlling the population employed by the government and the dominance of the Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) in East German Politics has led many scholars and experts to claim that the GDR was a “Second German Dictatorship”. Fulbrook (2009: 159) says “A combination of methods was employed to ensure the compliance of the East German populace, including terror as well as attempted ideological indoctrination, as the SED sought both to control the state means of administration, policing and justice, and to exert its influence in education, the media and all avenues of opinion formation.” Characteristics of the GDR resemble those of a twentieth century dictatorship, where oppression and fear were parts of daily life. This essay will examine the GDR, determining ultimately whether it was, as its government suggested, a “workers and farmers state” or, as suggested by many theorists, a “second German dictatorship.” Jarausch (1999: 341) says that the SED “glorified the GDR as an egalitarian and open society on the path towards a communist utopia.”...
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...The German Democratic Republic is a world built behind a wall made of lies. The consequence of these lies makes it very difficult for Funder to make sense of what is real and what is missing important chunks of information and what is altered by emotions. When investigating these stories Funder has to come to terms with the idea that some people are just not interested in knowing what happened and some would rather just forget it ever did. As years pass memories fade and accuracy is damaged. From the beginning Funder has to accept the idea that some people do not want to hear the stories from within the German Democratic Republic. When making the suggestion to Scheller and Schmidt they both believe “there’s no point” dragging up the “past” and that Funder “won’t find [a] great story of human courage”. Throughout Funders journey she encounters evidence of people attempting to put the GDR and its stories behind a glass wall and label it the past. As her journey begins to concluded it becomes clear that even the United German government does not want to acknowledge the past in its entirety, building a museum that presents a “sanitised” version of the dark past and putting “pitiful” resources towards putting together to puzzle pieces the make up the German Democratic Republic, making it almost impossible to ever fully piece together what truly happened. Years have passed since the wall came down, at the start of Funder journey it has been 7. As time passes the memories of what...
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...example of low key lighting in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is when Willy is with her father as a child and they are discussing the cons of candy by the low light fire. This example creates a sad and depressive mood because of how dark the place is and how Willy lives in a strict household and style. This also helps the viewer understand how Willy feels sometimes when he is with his father. An example of low key lighting in Edward Scissorhands is when we first see Edward hiding in the corner of the attic in the mansion. This example creates a suspenseful and eerie tone because we don’t know what Edward looks like and how creepy and mysterious he might be based on what experiences he might have been through. This provides some suspense for the viewer. An example of low key lighting in Big Fish is when Edward is observing the dark and quiet forest that lays in front of him. This example creates a mysterious and creepy mood because the darkness of the forest establishes a mysterious feel of what might be in the forest beyond what the eye can see. This creates a scary and chilling feel in the viewer. Burton’s use of low key lighting provides an effective tool to help the audience feel like a part of the film and create many different types of moods/tones such as creepy, and mysterious to the...
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...Assignment #1—Description of Venture Entrepreneurship & Innovation July 17, 2011 1. Introduce the company and the product/service idea for the new venture. If you live in a highly industrialized city or region of the country that has many factories, some individuals do not even know what goes on inside these industries. This venture, Factory Tour Guides will be profitable for cities and/or regions. Factory tours will become extremely popular in the next decade, as more and more people are seeking different and interesting ways to spend their hard-earned vacation dollars. The first step in establishing a factory tour business is to find companies that will permit tours of their factories. This is not very hard to accomplish as the companies can be compensated by way of shared tour revenues. Often factories will sell their manufactured goods to the tourists at wholesale or factory-direct prices. A good example of a manufactured factory that would benefit greatly from this factory tour business would be electronics, oriental rugs, computer direct factories, and the list goes on. Factory Tours can be a home based operated business and can also be operated part-time. The estimated start-up cost can range from $10,000 to $50,000 (Entrepreneur). Factory tours have been around for centuries and the industry is growing. Many tourists have enjoyed touring tire factories, potato chip factories, coffee plantations as well as coal mines. With the strong work ethics in America, vacations...
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...“Goodbye Lenin” The movie that was planned on being shown, “The Miracle of Bern”, was replaced with “Goodbye Lenin” because the DVD was region locked for Europe and could not be played on an American DVD player. “Goodbye Lenin” was a story of a boy named Alex who saw his mother fall into a coma, and when she wakes, he tries to keep her from knowing all that has happened in the eight long months since she was last conscious. “Goodbye Lenin” starts out in 1989 in East Germany. The Kerner family is made up of Alex (main character), his mother Christina, and his sister Ariana. Alex’s mother is a huge believer in the DDR and when she sees Alex fighting against German police control, she faints in the street as he is taken away. He finds her in a hospital in a coma. Skip forward eight months and the Berlin wall has been taken down and the DDR no longer exists. Christina wakes up from her coma, but Alex is warned by the doctor that any sort of shock could scare her enough to kill her. So for the rest of the movie, Alex does everything he can to keep his proud, DDR supporting mother from knowing what has happened the past eight months and what the current state of West and East Germany is. It’s a bit difficult to write about what I learned from the film, solely because I just got back from a trip to Berlin a few weeks ago and I learned a lot about the history of West and East Germany. This film was more of an entertainment film, rather than an educational one. I suppose...
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...7. Berlin Wall What made people fight for change and press the German/German wall to fall down in 1989? How did it effect the lives of West and East Germans? Are East Germans more free now? How would you explain the reasons for the phenomen of "Ostalgia" (people longing back to the former DDR) that is nowadays living in Eastern Germany? Why did I choose this topic? I think it is very interesting that after twenty years there are still so many problems with East Germany. Why there still is a higher unemployment rate in East Germany than in West Germany, and why people want to go back to the time of the Berlin wall (ostalgia). The fall of the Berlin wall influent the lives of the West and East Germans both on different ways where the East Germans got freedom what they never had before and West Germans got influence of new people of a new culture. But how can effect this still after 20 years? Why is there still such a difference between East and West, did not the western people though to easily that the East Germans will assimilate easy, did the East Germans got the time and the chance to build up a new life in reunited Germany? All those problems I think is very interesting, how people think and act. Proposition: They should never built a new Berlin wall, nobody will end happy than. You can understand on some way that people want to go back in time, because of the good things: education, health care. But the people forget that there was also the Stasi. East Germans...
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...The Comparison of JAWS And Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home Some films often have themes and messages in them that are only relevant to the time the film was made. One such example is the movie Jaws, which depicts a shark as the main antagonist. For its time the movie was incredibly successful playing upon the fears people had of sharks while swimming. However with awareness of the planet increasing and people understanding that sharks are endangered species which humans are invading their habitat in the first place, movies like Jaws are less acceptable. This is the reason why most rip off movies of Jaws are these terrible B grade movies. The only way a movie like this could exist in this current time is by having a really far out plot like a mutated or genetically modified shark terrorizing everyone. The focus of this essay will compare Jaws (1975) to Free Willy 2 (1995). The focus is on the treatment of animals and how they are represented in these two films. As well as this other events such as what happened between these two periods will be looked at to understand not only how both films are different but why they are different. Jaws was originally made in 1975 by director Steven Spielberg. Spielberg is a good example of a director who has perfect timing to releasing a film at a time when the public wants it. Due to the films success and the nature of Spielberg means that Jaws is an expression of the society’s conscious and articulates the current fears and trends...
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...a way where the words relate in the context but the meanings are different but I then forms a play on words. This is a pun due too the play on words where it says the pianist were in a marriage which they weren’t they were just close, and the way they were in chord which is a piano term. Hyperbole - "I will love you till the end of time" (Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans ) A hyperbole is a great exaggeration that greatly makes certain words have a larger significance than what they really have. This is a hyperbole due to the exaggeration of her saying till the end of time, which is impossible, because they cannot live forever. Understatement - "Cannibalism is frowned upon in most societies." (In 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, quoted by Willy Wonka) An understatement is a when someone lowers the signifigant value on something making it seem lees valuable or lowering its grade to give a different kind of impression. This is an understatement because the light intensity based on the words and the very lack of intensity that you can sense from the quote. In reality cannibalism is a very serious matter if it came up and is not only frowned upon, it is absolutely banned from the world. Oxymoron- "Sweet Serial Killer" (Serial Kiler by Lana Del ray) An oxymoron is a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect. It is the subtly and the way they combine two words which can never really fit in the same sentence. Sweet has to do with...
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...Draw on Bloom's taxonomy to demonstrate the value of thinking about thinking. Good morning/afternoon/evening, wherever this presentation finds you. I will be drawing on Bloom’s taxonomy to understand and demonstrate the importance of thinking about thinking. I will be discussing a brief history surrounding the taxonomy, what it means today, the different levels of thinking involved and how they differ, plus demonstrate how we can reach sophisticated thinking within academia and our lives using fictional examples. First, a bit of history to understand the subject at hand. The original framework was conceived as a means of measuring educational objectives. Benjamin S. Bloom initiated the idea, beginning in 1949, with a final draft published in 1956 (Krathwohl, 2002). Initially, the term taxonomy was unfamiliar as an education term and misunderstood, receiving little attention at the time (Krathwohl, 2002). The revised framework, was developed 45 years later by Anderson and Krathwohl in 2001 in order to fit the more outcome-focused modern educational objectives (Huitt, 2011). The differing frameworks are illustrated and you can see the similarities between the two. They are arranged in a hierarchy from less to more complex. I like the acronyms used here from LOTS (lower order thinking skills) to HOTS (higher order thinking skills). Further to revision of the taxonomy, Anderson and Krathwohl added a conceptualisation of knowledge dimensions (as shown) within which these processing...
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...Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques in various ways. The use of cinematic techniques is to bring mood and tone into the story or scene. The three cinematic techniques that Burton uses best is lighting, shots and music. Tim Burton uses lighting to change the different mood in a scene. For example in "Edward scissor hands" Kim's scene of dancing in the ice shavings of Edwards art went from romantic to a hurtful scene. The lighting made the mood feel this way because of the brightness and the dimness of the lighting. In Charlie and the chocolate factory the lighting technique was best used when Charlie had high hopes of finding the golden ticket in his birthday chocolate bar. The lighting technique went from a very twinkling scene to a droopy scene when the ticket wasn't in the chocolate. In "big fish" both scenes where Edward bloom First got to that very happy, secret,beautiful village of there's and when he finally came back. The lighting was all happy cheers and bright in the beginning but when he came back it was dark,old and full of lost hope. Secondly, Tim Burton uses different types of shots to verify the tone he is trying to send out. For example in "Edward scissor hands" when Edward was getting a makeover to change and clean his look. The shot that was used is the close up shot. Burton used this shot to show all details of Edward's body. Second example is in the movie "big fish" where the giant and Edward bloom was walking together. In this scene Burton used the double...
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..."Charlie & The Chocolate Factory" is pleasant to look at, but Johnny Depp gives the most awful act of his profession as the candy maker. Wilder reinvented Willy Wonka and the dim undertones of the book were lay elsewhere in an extra effortless to get to way for all. In the original, we don't see the kids and their parents leaving the factory. We don't know if they are alive, dead, or still strapped down in the dejuicing room. That is what made the original so astonishing. Tim Burton is an excellent director -- one of the best -- but he needs to spotlight on original work instead of these remakes. If he insists on the remakes, he needs to pick something rather less frightened than the best family movie ever finished. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is about a strange candy maker Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) and Charlie. Charlie is a charitable boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five of the fortunate children, counting Charlie, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided expedition of the well-known candy-making facility. Dazzled by one remarkable picture following another, Charlie is drained into Wonka's unbelievable humanity in this surprising and endure story. Texture of the film’s scenery is shown the dull developed city surrounding as Wanka’s factory is excellent. The more or less colorless...
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