...Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell’s dad dies in 9/11 and Oskar goes on a journey to find the answer to the key he found. He bumps into many different characters along the way that all show various ways of coping with death. Jonathan Safran Foer shows that through death and loss people can get through hard times. Characters deal with grief and loss in their own way in order to balance happiness and sadness. Oskar deals with grief in his own unique kind of way. He thinks you would never get hurt if you just never met anyone. Oskar tells the limo driver that it would be great to make a limo you could just walk through from birth to death but the driver says you would never meet anyone. Oskar says “So?” (5). To get something is to risk losing something. Oskar invents to get his mind off of things. Oskar says “Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing” (12). When Oskar’s dad died he starts inventing a lot more. Oskar also deals with his loss in ways most young children would not even think of, with self harm. Oskar says “Even though I knew I shouldn’t, I gave myself a bruise” (37) Whenever Oskar feels sad, alone, or guilty he bruises himself. He has over forty all over his body. In result of losing Anna, Thomas Sr. can never truly love or speak again. At first he loses the word Anna. Thomas Sr. says “...but I couldn’t finish the sentence, her name wouldn’t come” (16). Sometimes people can’t stand...
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...form of anxiety, tension and/or hostility. The final stage is manifest conflict. Manifest conflict is not only perceived and felt, but is acted upon. At work I recently was witness to the progress of conflict in these three stages between two employees. One employee was very shy, quiet and kept to himself. On the other hand another employee was outspoken, rude and disrespectful. It was a known fact that conflict between the two existed, also known as perceived conflict. The loud employee one day said to the quiet “why don’t’ you ever talk or have friends.” The individual kept quiet but this type of action moved the conflict into the “felt” stage since obvious feelings such tension and hostility became present. Eventually, it moved into the manifest conflict stage. The quiet employee printed off a personal bank statement and went to pick it up at the printer and oddly enough the loud disrespectful employee was reading it and laughing. The quiet employee proceeded to punch the loud mouth in the back of the head several times. Needless to say, this is an example of manifest conflict. This is a type of conflict that should be avoided, especially in the working environment. 2. Stages of group development The performance of groups depends on both...
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...Loud Noises Just make it stop, please, let it stop. I'm spending every minute awake wishing I was asleep, and every minute asleep in complete terror. Every breath seems to drain more life from me than the last. I would take or do anything to make it stop. I would sell my soul to the devil himself if I could. I can't take this anymore, I'm giving up. I was never a normal child growing up. Well I was always told by my superiors that I wasn't a normal child. My parents always telling me how unruly of a child I was. I was described as a ball of hell fire, who spat at the rules like they didn't apply to me. I was diagnosed With every hyperactive disorder the doctors had, Bipolar, ADD, ADHD. I felt like I wasn't wanted by my family. It was emptying and caused me to lash out more. Instead of just giving me attention they just shoved medication onto me. When I wasn't drugged out I was making sure my hatred for my parents was well heard. Some of the medication I was on made me feel like I was outside of my body watching someone else live my life. I never interacted with other children because my intelligence dwindled. I was always in a fog, It took more energy to communicate with others than any kid should have to. It was like trying to swim through high tide just trying to talk to others. My mind strained, my muscles ached, all tastes and smells were dulled down. I stopped enjoying food and stopped eating. I lost interest in sports, especially since I could barely pull myself out...
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...The Loud Speaker Campaign Tactics BUS405 The Labor Relations Process July 30, 2011 Abstract This paper is focus on the Loud Speaker Tactics. Acoustical Enterprises makes commercial audio soundproofing material at a company in Echo, South Dakota. The Union filed an appeal with the NLRB requesting authorization as the private bargaining representative of Acoustical manufacture and maintenance workers On December 20. As the election came near, the key issue became the salaries and benefits obtained by the non-union workers at the Echo organization set against those received by unionized personnel at a Bronx, New York, business owned by the Acoustical Enterprise. The Board has petition a cross-application for implementation of its charge. Learning that the Board abused its freedom of choice in confirm the Union as the private bargaining spokesperson of Acoustic personnel’s. The Employer acknowledges refusing to bargain but argued that the Union had been incorrectly certified, and therefore no legal duty to bargain could be imposed (Holley, 2010). Explain the captive audience, 24-hour rule. Captive-audience policy applies to a legal rule prohibiting an individual from making intrusive language. This is identified as the captive-audience law. The rule is recognized under constitutional law and labor law. With the labor law, it veto’s a party to a union vote from speaking on company time to a form assembly of workers inside 24 hours of an election. A status quo in...
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...Beowulf finally arose. Engulfed in darkness he is bewildered. He recalls his fight with the dastardly dragon that sought to destroy his people. He also remembers the honorable Wiglaf, who fought by his side, while his men fled, and betrayed him. He walks. Beowulf thinks of where he is, and why he is where he is. It isn’t until Beowulf hears a loud voice. “Beowulf,” it said. Frightened, and perturbed, he replied, “Hello, who is speaking. Show yourself. Who are you?” The voice speaks again. (1) “Beowulf of the Geats.” There is a long pause. Beowulf, now frustrated with his situation begins to speak once more. “Hello! Yes, I am (1) Beowulf of the Geats. Whom are you? Where am I?” Then, a man steps from the dark. He introduces himself. “I am Odin....
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...Thinking Out Loud Bottom of Form When your legs don't work like they used to before And I can't sweep you off of your feet Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70 And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23 And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways Maybe just the touch of a hand Oh me I fall in love with you every single day And I just wanna tell you I am So honey now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Place your head on my beating heart I'm thinking out loud Maybe we found love right where we are When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades And the crowds don't remember my name When my hands don't play the strings the same way, mm I know you will still love me the same 'Cause honey your soul can never grow old, it's evergreen Baby your smile's forever in my mind and memory I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways Maybe it's all part of a plan I'll just keep on making the same mistakes Hoping that you'll understand But baby now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Place your head on my beating heart I'm thinking out loud That maybe we found love right where we are, oh (Ah la la, la la la, la la la, la la la la) So baby now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Oh darling, place...
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...Loud Silence The hammer made a heavy blow to his head and with that he fell back, landing with a great thud. It was now time to go, this had already gotten complicated enough. Jonathan Davidson was a quiet high school student who spent his days with his head in books. He never truly had any one that he could call a friend, he found the other students superficial interests and personalities absolutely unbearable. To the point where he would rather never have “friends”, than conform to the distorted social structure that teenagers have a tendency to practice. Jonathan felt in a sense, he had developed a superiority complex. Though, at the same time he never really as if he was exceptional in any given topic. Jonathan’s attention once again drifted...
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...Ha guys wait up! I rushed telling to my friends Molly, Kelsey, and Ellie. Why are you late for the sleepover? Ellie sayed to me in a mad way. My teacher gave me datenchin again for talking in class. I was going to have it for two hours but I have my ways. I answered to Ellie. Aaaa! Molly screamed. What is it! I asked her in a panic. there is a bee! she answered me in a scream. It is gust a hony bee and I am so happy to see one because I am making a blog about them with class. I told my friends. O.M.G. Kelsey said ina suprised voice. Oh no. Why did you say that out loud Lily. I told myself. Any other secerets? Molly asked. Well I gess it is time for me to also tell you I never get in datenchin. I gust tell you that because what I rely do a...
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...In this case, the officer had every right to stop the van for its loud music, because it was violating the city’s noise ordinance, and could be considered a disturbance to the public. The officer had every right to give this person a ticket for the loud music, also if you are going to try and search a person, witch I think the officer was going to do because of his past with drugs. If you don’t write the ticket for the reason of the stop, the defendants layer could get this dismissed on this alone, the officer had mere suspicion that their might be drugs in his van, witch would fall under standards of proof. When the officer asked if he could search him, the driver did give him consent. This would fall under the 4th amendment “field interrogation” also “stop and frisk”. When the officer didn’t find any drugs he then asked if...
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...Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Why I’m not where you are, is a chapter from the novel “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” the main characters is Oskar Schell, his grandpa and his grandma. The chapter is about Oskars’s Grandpa, who loses his ability to speak, but not suddenly, he loses his words one at the time, so therefore he has yes and no tattooed into his palms. And wherever he goes he brings a note book so he can write answers when people ask him questions. When Oscar’s grandpa loses his ability to speak, he also loses his freedom and is trapped inside his own body. When he loses the last word, which is “I”, he also loses his personality. He begins to lose the ability to talk, on the day he loses his wife Anna. Each main character has lost someone they loved, and that is why the chapter and the novel is about how people reacts when they lose loved ones and how they get over it. Oskar has lost his dad in 9/11 and that is grandpa’s son, and the letter grandpa writes is to his unborn son, Thomas, Oskar’s dad, grandpa’s name is also Thomas. So grandpa writes the letter to his unborn child long time before Thomas is born, he writes how he feels when he loses his ability to speak. The themes in the novel are very clear, lose, love, lose of love, loosing yourself and death. The novel is taking place in New York and Manhattan and that is where grandpa meets his new wife, she takes care of him when she find him homeless on the street and that is where grandma askes grandpa...
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...Catharsis(es) In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Is there a catharsis in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? If so, when does it happen for Oskar, and if applicable for the reader? Discuss. To discuss whether there are catharsises and if so where, it is important to have a clear definition of ‘catharsis’, so there can be no confusion. According to ‘Oxford’s: Literature Criticism and Style’ a catharsis is: “The purging of emotions which takes place at the end of a tragedy.” A good catharsis closes a story and does not leave the audience, or reader with questions. According to the Oxford definition of a catharsis, it is important to determine whether Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a tragedy, but for this essay, the focus will be on the purging of emotions and the closed ending. First of all for Oskar. On one hand there is a catharsis for Oskar. There are two moments where there could be a catharsis for Oskar. The first possible catharsis is on page 315. On this page Oskar opens up to Ron for the first time. Ron explains that he had a family, but they died. There is a small purging of emotions by Ron. Oskar opens up to Ron, which suggests he accepts that he is there. The acceptance is very important for a catharsis. Acceptance is important, because it creates a closed ending. The acceptance is also important in the second possible catharsis for Oskar, which starts on page 324. The last couple of pages are filled with the purging of emotions, which is a characteristic...
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...Sculptures: Loud vs Quiet For the past year, I have continuously walked past buildings and statues paying little to no attention to them. Ask me what sculpture was in front of the tower and I had no idea. However, after observing Luis Jimenez’s Progress II, and Seymour Lipton’s Guardian, I have a whole new appreciation for the difference in artwork. While some pieces are meant to draw you in with their loud presence and bold figures, others are very quiet with an audacious meaning. Once closely examining both realms, there are many contrasts such as orientation, materials, subject matter, and expressive content. One essential contrast between Luis Jimenez’s Progress II, and Seymour Lipton’s Guardian is the varying orientations. While Progress II has a clear front and back, Guardian does not. I found Guardian to be much more open to interpretation than Jimenez’s artwork due to the lack of clarity and definition within the piece. I originally found the side facing the main entrance to the reading room to appear as if the piece was “cut in half” and you were experiencing a cross-sectional view whereas Progress had a clear front and back from first glance and was less open to interpretation in that sense. Luis Jimenez carefully sculpted the red-eyed longhorn, horse, and cowboy to appear in motion in a specific direction. This sculpture is slightly larger than life and slightly above eye level, placed on a base. Raising the work off of the ground allows the viewer to truly capture...
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...And I just wanna tell you I am So honey now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Place your head on my beating heart I'm thinking out loud Maybe we found love right where we are When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades And the crowds don't remember my name When my hands don't play the strings the same way, mm I know you will still love me the same 'Cause honey your soul can never grow old, it's evergreen Baby your smile's forever in my mind and memory I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways Maybe it's all part of a plan I'll just keep on making the same mistakes Hoping that you'll understand But baby now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Place your head on my beating heart I'm thinking out loud That maybe we found love right where we are, oh (Ah la la, la la la, la la la, la la la la) So baby now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Oh darling, place your head on my beating heart I'm thinking out loud That maybe we found love right where we are Oh maybe we found love right where we are And we found love right where we are Read more: Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud Lyrics | MetroLyrics Read more: Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud Lyrics |...
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...Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 left America and the rest of the Western World in a state of deep shock. Not only did the attacks lead to many human losses, they also had an immense impact on the minds of people all over the world – especially in the US, of course. An incident that has affected so many people will inevitably find its way into literature, but how exactly can we treat such a tragic event in fictional writing? In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, author Jonathan Safran Froer tells the story about the consequences of 9/11 from the perspective of a boy named Oskar, who has lost his father in the attack on the Twin Towers. Oskar is a 9 year old child who struggles to get back on track after the death of his father. His sense of humour plays an important part in the forming of a picture of his personality, more precisely that of an exceptionally bright and knowledgeable child. Oskar makes several witty puns such as “Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake” and “Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?”. Not many 9-year olds are able to exploit the fact that some French and English words sound alike and that it is possible to substitute English curses with French words, and probably even fewer of his age know who Balzac is. Oskar is deeply affected by the loss of his father, which has left him in great distress and deprived him of his old dreams and childish curiosity: ““I want to know...
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...Change is essential for life. Some people prefer to spend their lives doing the same things and avoiding change. However, others think that change might always a good thing. This occurrence is commonly shown on different types of literature. “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer are two genuine examples that exposes changes throughout the book by leading the reader to develop their own ideas of different events that takes place. Gregor Samsa from “Metamorphosis” changes physically in the first part and then mentally, while Oskar Schell from “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” changes emotionally and also he changed his perception of the world. One day Gregor Samsa wakes up as...
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