...Farewell Speech The farewell dinner was on. The vice president was being given a farewell by the employees with whom he had worked for more than 25 years. Camaraderie, reflections, sharing of thoughts and memories, lots of wine, and plenty of food could sum up the mood of the party. The CEO walked in to join the party and he was soon requested to deliver a short speech looking at the mood and the spirit of the occasion. The CEO, an eloquent speaker, stood up and delivered a great speech, marked with touches of gentle humour, about life after retirement, what the vice president meant to the company and to him personally, how he had reached such heights and yet never compromised his values, and that his exit would be a difficult space to fill in. As the CEO spoke, all eyes were fixed on him. Most employees were serious, watchful, and paying full attention. Some were clearly indifferent. A few proactive listeners, however, enjoyed every bit of what the CEO said which was quite evident from their body language. Their smiling faces, twinkling eyes, and occasional head nods, in agreement with what the speaker said, were indicative of their level of involvement and enjoyment. In other words, they had tuned themselves to whatever the CEO was saying. However, midway through his speech, the CEO sensed that his speech was becoming a little too stretched; he cut short his speech and wished the vice president all the good health and peace. 1. What has happened here? Explain. 2. Did everybody...
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...The Farewell Speech The farewell dinner was on. The vice president was being given a farewell by the employees with whom he had worked for more than 25 years. Camaraderie, reflections, sharing of thoughts and memories, lots of wine, and plenty of food could sum up the mood of the party. The CEO walked in to join the party and he was soon requested to deliver a short speech looking at the mood and the spirit of the occasion. The CEO, an eloquent speaker, stood up and delivered a great speech, marked with touches of gentle humour, about life after retirement, what the vice president meant to the company and to him personally, how he had reached such heights and yet never compromised his values, and that his exit would be a difficult space to fill in. As the CEO spoke, all eyes were fixed on him. Most employees were serious, watchful, and paying full attention. Some were clearly indifferent. A few proactive listeners, however, enjoyed every bit of what the CEO said which was quite evident from their body language. Their smiling faces, twinkling eyes, and occasional head nods, in agreement with what the speaker said, were indicative of their level of involvement and enjoyment. In other words, they had tuned themselves to whatever the CEO was saying. However, midway through his speech, the CEO sensed that his speech was becoming a little too stretched; he cut short his speech and wished the vice president all the good health and peace. 1. What has happened here? Explain. 2. Did everybody...
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...The Farewell Speech The farewell dinner was on. The vice president was being given a farewell by the employees with whom he had worked for more than 25 years. Camaraderie, reflections, sharing of thoughts and memories, lots of wine, and plenty of food could sum up the mood of the party. The CEO walked in to join the party and he was soon requested to deliver a short speech looking at the mood and the spirit of the occasion. The CEO, an eloquent speaker, stood up and delivered a great speech, marked with touches of gentle humour, about life after retirement, what the vice president meant to the company and to him personally, how he had reached such heights and yet never compromised his values, and that his exit would be a difficult space to fill in. As the CEO spoke, all eyes were fixed on him. Most employees were serious, watchful, and paying full attention. Some were clearly indifferent. A few proactive listeners, however, enjoyed every bit of what the CEO said which was quite evident from their body language. Their smiling faces, twinkling eyes, and occasional head nods, in agreement with what the speaker said, were indicative of their level of involvement and enjoyment. In other words, they had tuned themselves to whatever the CEO was saying. However, midway through his speech, the CEO sensed that his speech was becoming a little too stretched; he cut short his speech and wished the vice president all the good health and peace. 1. What has happened here? Explain. 2. Did everybody...
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...The book, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston takes place in December 1942 through April 1972 in the California cities of Long Beach, Los Angeles, Manzanar, and San Jose. The following book starts off with news that the Japanese have bombed pearl harbor in Hawaii. This tragic news causes mama to move the family to the Japanese ghetto on Terminal Island and then to Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. Upon arriving at the camp, the Japanese Americans are forced into harsh living conditions with poorly prepared food, unfinished barracks, and whirling dust that blows in through every crack in the wall. The Wakatsukis slowly start growing apart, and the family begins to disintegrate until an unexpected surprise of papa...
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...Desiree Williams Professor Kempler English 225: Children’s Literature 11/27/11 Farewell to Manzanar When choosing a well written children’s book, we always find ourselves wanting to pick a good book. Usually when selecting a “good book,” we sometimes skip over or forget what type of standard we must go by. So what are some of the standards a good book must have? In Children’s Literature, Briefly by Tunnel, Jacobs, Young and Bryan they briefly begin to list some of the reasons we pick “good books (Children’s Literature Briefly 9). The lessons they teach, the characters which the authors use, themes and tension to leave readers wondering what will come next are just a few qualities we use to make a judgement of what we think is a “good book” or not. Although there is a huge variety of children’s literature to choose from such as picture books or pop up books, they can’t always provide the story line with themes or learned lessons, but children’s chapter books can. Farwell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki is truly a good book because it includes themes the reader can relate to, tension that leaves readers on edge at times, and a point of view that is relatable. First, in the story Farwell to Manzanar Houston and Wakatsuki provide themes that teach the reader about friendships through barriers, not being shamed of our roots and where we come from and always standing up for what is right. Racism after Pearl Harbor was bombed was at its...
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...Farewell to Manzanar is the memoir of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston who experienced the hardship of being a Japanese American during and after the World War II. She especially focuses on the diverse experiences when her family was put in the Manzanar Relocation Center. Jeanne began to establish her early journey when her father was captured in Ocean Park, near Santa Monica. She recalled that her family was the only Japanese family in the neighborhood. Unlike other Japanese, her father preferred it that way because he didn’t want to be “labeled and grouped” by anyone. Therefore, when Jeanne’s family moved to Terminal Island, where they can live among the Japanese, Jeanne was terrified because of her fear with the Oriental faces. Jeanne explained her fear...
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...Farewell to Manzanar (2002) is a book written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and her husband, James D. Houston. Being first published in 1973, the book describes an experience of Japanese Americans throughout their imprisonment at the Manzanar Camp, created due to the United States government’s policy during World War II. According to the chapter “Chronology”, included at the beginning of the book, the Manzanar Camp, in Owens Valley, California, existed almost 5 years, from March 25, 1942, till November 21, 1945, when the camp was officially closed. Through the discussion of the events that took place before and after the imprisonment, Houston tries to analyze the ambivalence of the conditions she and her family were placed in. Nowadays, there...
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...Does consuming excessive media kill beloved literature characters? That is what the Madrid Book Publishers Association is trying to say. The Maridad Book Publishing Company has made a series of creative ads that make a very valid point. Books are not as popular any more. One of the three ads shows what initially seems to be a scene straight out of “Saving Private Ryan”. A picture taken in the middle of a battle during World War II. Four WWII-era soldiers can be seen in the photo, three of them are backed against a wall for cover. One soldier is kneeled down and peeking around the side of the wall, aiming his rifle into the distance. The second soldier is slumped on the ground next to the first soldier, either wounded or dead. A third soldier, a combat medic, and is yelling while kneeling over the fallen soldier. A fourth soldier can be seen more towards the background, taking cover behind a pile of rubble and aiming his rifle in the same direction as the first soldier. Window shutters can be seen on either side of the photo, and a white line borders all around the edges of the photo. Dog tags hang from the top left corner of the photo. When initially viewing, the ad could easily be mistaken for a video game ad or something similar, but upon closer inspection you’ll notice something that’s out of place. The wounded/dead soldier seems to be from a completely different era than the soldiers around him. While the other three soldiers seem to be American or British soldiers from WWII...
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...Hemingway in his novel, A Farewell to Arms, makes a statement about the relation of religious beliefs to the war. Catherine tells Frederic, “You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.” (Chapter 18). Henry implies that he has no religion. The priest advocates religion under very difficult conditions and admits he is hopeless. Through the characters of the novel a portrait of religion is provided. Frederic Henry, the narrator of the story, describes his experience in the war. Henry portrays himself as a man of duty. He attaches to this understanding of himself no sense of honor, nor does he expect any praise for his service. Even after Henry was severely wounded, he discourages Rinaldi from pursuing medals of distinction for him. Time and time again, through conversations with the priest, Henry distances himself from abstract notions of faith. Faith means nothing to him beside such concrete facts of war as the...
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...War has existed since the dawn of time and, since the beginning, has impacted humanity in various ways. While wars do mold and transform nations, more importantly, wars have had and will have a great impact on soldiers, those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country. The novels A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien give us a glimpse into how war has impacted soldiers and those close to them. The novel A Farewell to Arms talks of a man who falls in love with a woman he works with, a nurse in the hospital, Catherine Barkley. The narrator, Frederic Henry, meets the nurse while he is working in the army. They soon begin a romantic relationship. One day, around the same day that Catherine gives him her Saint Anthony necklace that serves as a good luck charm,...
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...Melvin Aponte 1/30/18 Honors American Literature In “A Farewell to Arms”, the main protagonist Lt. Frederick Henry, an american, is working in the Italian army as a paramedic on the front lines. The story begins with Henry being introduced to a girl by the name of Catherine Barkley by his dear friend Rinaldi. Henry really doesn’t want anything serious with Catherine, although as time passes, their feelings for each other begin to grow. Soon, Henry is sent to the front lines and gets injured by a mortar shell explosion. He is sent to receive medical care in a hospital in Milan where, coincidentally, Catherine is also being sent to. During the summer that Henry is there recuperating, he and Catherine spend much more time together and begin to get even closer. During that summer, they fell so in love...
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...A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway Book Summary Next About A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms begins in the Alps around the frontier between Italy and present-day Slovenia. Allied with Britain, France, and Russia against the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany, Italy is responsible for preventing the Austro-Hungarian forces from assisting the Germans on the war's western front, and Russia in the east. The novel's narrator and protagonist is eventually identified as Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American who has volunteered for the Italian army because the United States has not yet entered the war. Henry supervises a group of Italian ambulance drivers. After a wintertime leave spent touring the country, Lieutenant Henry returns to the captured town at the front where his unit lives. One evening his roommate, a surgeon and lieutenant in the Italian army named Rinaldi, introduces Henry to two British nurses: Catherine Barkley and her friend Helen Ferguson. Catherine and Henry talk of the war and of her fiancé, killed in combat the year before; clearly she has been traumatized by the experience. On his second visit to the British hospital, they kiss. When Henry again visits Catherine, she tells him that she loves him and asks whether he loves her. He responds that he does. One night, Lieutenant Henry and his fellow ambulance-drivers settle into a dugout across the river from the enemy troops. While the drivers are eating, the Austrian bombardment wounds Henry in the leg...
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...In the book, Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsukis reflects back on what her life was like during World War Two. Jeanne lived in Manzanar, which was a place for Japanese Americans to live. Throughout the book, Jeanne tells about all of the hardships that her and her family faced during her childhood. The hardships that they faced were caused mostly because they were a Japanese American family. The Wakatsukis were even relocated from their homes many times because it was not safe for them during this time. World War Two began when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Because of this, everyone else began to fear the Japanese. They did not think that they could trust anyone who was Japanese anymore. This fear began to take its toll and Jeanne and her family. The Wakatsukis and other Japanese families were soon forced into a concentration camp, by the Unites States government. The Japanese did not try to resist the move, because they were scared of what might happen to them if they refused to go. They would soon regret this, because the...
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...1. Identify three examples of aspects of life in Manzanar that are culturally ignorant/insensitive to Japanese Americans. Explain your choices. There are numerous examples of the aspects of life in Manzanar that not only culturally but immorally is insensitive to Japanese Americans. Just the fact to racially profile individuals for investigating or deterring terrorist activity is ethnically insensitive. Jeanne in “Farwell to Manzanar,” describes the entire situation at the camp as “especially in the beginning-the packed sleeping quarters, the communal mess halls, the open toilets-All this was an open insult to the private self, a slap in the face you were powerless to challenge.” (Houston, 34) #1. Regardless of their origin or culture, just the idea of the conditions in the barracks when the Japanese and Japanese Americans first located to Manzanar was horrid. “The barracks had been divided into small units and were crowded. Dust and wind blew in from the outside through cracks in the walls. The only furniture was Army surplus cots, blankets, and mattress covers.” (Huston, 29). Which eventually “the War Department issued military surplus clothing to the people in the camp. They also brought in sewing machines and turned one barracks into a clothing factory.” (Huston, 29) The reason why I believed that moving into an over crowed, unfinished camp was ignorant or insensitive is because it is truly hard to understanding moving a family from living a fairly okay life to living in...
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...A farewell to Arms The novel A Farewell to Arms possesses a circular plot. This is because in the beginning Henry is alone and he is still alone in the end. Another reason is because the first chapter reports the death of soldiers whereas at the end the novel deals with Catherine’s death. A sense of somberness runs through the whole novel (Merklein 2003). The main theme that stands out in this novel is that of a flattering perception of love and a negative perception of war. The novel is neither a love story nor is it entirely an anti-war piece. This paper explores Hemingway’s use of symbolism in the novel and some of the criticisms that concerning his use of this literary tool. Symbolism The author, Ernest Hemingway, effectively uses a variety of symbols to represent abstract concepts or ideas. It will be observed that there are some key symbols running throughout the novel. They are; mountains, rain and plains. The first chapter introduces mountains which recur throughout the novel. They signify dignity, love, good life, happiness and health (Dahiya 1992). Further on, they symbolize respect to God and a sense of worship to Him. In contrast, plains serve to signify suffering, death, irreligiousness, war, obscenity, disease and indignity. In the novel, the priest talks of his Abruzzi, his homeland. He tells Henry how it is a place with natural beauty, hospitality, polite and kind people and surrounded with mountains with snow. In this context the mountains are contrasted to...
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