...A: 1) Text 1 – The Sandra Bullock Trade Text 1 is written by David Brooks and was brought in The New York Times in 2010. In the beginning the text focuses on Sandra Bullock’s life. She has just won an Academy Award for best actress, but beneath the surface, something seems to be very wrong. Brooks uses Bullock as an example of his later conclusion. He puts a spot on the relationship between happiness and economic wealth. According to Brooks there is something a lot more important than economic wealth. “Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being”. Brooks uses a lot of statistics to support his points of view. From one of the statistics, he deduces that winning the lottery does not make you any happier. Instead he tells that we are happiest after our retirement. “The overall impression from this research is that economic and professional success exists on the surface of life, and that they emerge out of interpersonal relationships, which are much deeper and more important”. The main point in this text is that marital happiness is way more important than economic wealth. Text 2 – But will it make you happy? Text 2 is written by Stephanie Rosenbloom and was brought in The New York Times in 2010. It focuses on the fact, that we are in an economic crisis and we do not spend as much money as we did before the crisis. Because of that, we have to use our money properly. “..people are happier when they spend money on experiences...
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...For a writer with quite a small oeuvre--a novella, a volume of poems, and a book of short fiction--Chicana feminist Sandra Cisneros has become widely read and known. Cisneros blurs lines between genres, calling her fiction, often vignettes rather than structured narratives, "lazy poems" ("Do You Know Me?" 79). Her Bildungsroman, The House on Mango Street, is read both as a young adult novel and as a work of adult fiction, and her most recent book of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), includes prose poems similar to those in Mango Street [The House on Mango Street], and longer works. Most of her fiction is composed as first-person narratives told to us by the central protagonist. She speaks for people like herself or whom she has known--Mexican and Chicana girls and women who grew up "on the borderlands." According to Cisneros, "If I were asked what it is I write about, I would have to say I write about those ghosts inside that haunt me" ("Ghosts and Voices" 73). Part of those ghosts are the myths and legends of the borderlands, which can hold women back in their quests for self-identity, or, when creatively adapted, can offer possibilities for constructing new cultural motifs. In The House on Mango Street, like Cisneros's childhood home, located in Chicago's barrio, the protagonist Esperanza says, "Mexicans don't like their women strong" (10). One could say that all of Cisneros's female characters either struggle to be strong and succeed, thus transcending...
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...Two things happened to Sandra Bullock this month. First, she won an Academy Award for best actress. Then came the news reports claiming that her husband is an adulterous jerk. So the philosophic question of the day is: Would you take that as a deal? Would you exchange a tremendous professional triumph for a severe personal blow? On the one hand, an Academy Award is nothing to sneeze at. Bullock has earned the admiration of her peers in a way very few experience. She’ll make more money for years to come. She may even live longer. Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don’t win. Nonetheless, if you had to take more than three seconds to think about this question, you are absolutely crazy. Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being. If you have a successful marriage, it doesn’t matter how many professional setbacks you endure, you will be reasonably happy. If you have an unsuccessful marriage, it doesn’t matter how many career triumphs you record, you will remain significantly unfulfilled. This isn’t just sermonizing. This is the age of research, so there’s data to back this up. Over the past few decades, teams of researchers have been studying happiness. Their work, which seemed flimsy at first, has developed an impressive rigor, and one of the key findings is that, just as the old sages predicted, worldly success has...
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...ROBERT FROST Born on the day of March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California, Robert Lee Frost was one of America’s most famous poets. Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes before he died in 1963. The first one in 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, then in1931 for Collected Poems, in 1937 for A Further Range, and the last on in 1943 for A Witness Tree. Married to Elinor Miriam White, who was his co-valedictorian at high school, he lived in various locations throughout his life, in San Francisco, California for the first ten years of his life, then moved to New England where he lived most of his years; he also lived in Great Britain for three years where he met Edward, T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound. Pound would become the first American to write a review of Frost's work; it was also in England that Frost wrote some of his best work. Robert Frost attended Dartmouth College, where he stayed for a little over a semester, and also Harvard University for two years. Robert Frost grew up in a state of turmoil. From his tumultuous childhood right up until his death, Frost was a character who could speak at Harvard and live on a farm in New Hampshire. He could dazzle the brightest students with poetic ingenious, but boil life down to, “It’s hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it. And what’s in between doesn’t make much sense. If that sounds pessimistic, let it stand”. Robert Frost’s poems “Mending Wall” and “The Road Not Taken” both exemplify the struggle...
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...Sandra Cisneros is a Chicana writer that had wrote many stories that are about and how her American identity and the American culture had influenced most of it. And the way she has grown. Cisneros wrote this story, “Mericans,” which main theme focuses on American identity and how is been influenced by its other side which is the Mexican identity. It uses a lot of details so as readers we could visualize the cultural environment that is presented throughout the story. Sandra Cisneros is trying to influence us and make us see the sense of the traditional culture in Mexico instead of drawing assumptions based on physical characters presented in the story. That could confused our idea of what exactly the story is about and how is been affected by this outsiders who are bringing liberalism ideas that confront its traditional culture in this small town in Mexico. She uses different spanish words in the story that begin to focus on what the story idea is about such as, “La Virgen de Guadalupe,” and...
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...Sandra Day O’Connor Sandra Day O’Connor had a very unpredictable political opinion. In many of her decisions, it was difficult to decide which side she was on; for or against. Mrs. O’Connor was influential in many monumental rulings on freedom. Mrs. O’Connor was also very influential in cases concerning harassment and discrimination. Even though Mrs. O’Connor did not always vote how women felt she should have, they still considered her to be a great role model. Sandra Day O’Connor’s influence was strong in the Supreme Court on the decision of many cases. Sandra Day O’Connor was one of four justices to rule on the case of Bush v. Gore. This is a case concerning the miscalculations of votes in four counties in the State of Florida. These votes had to be recounted several times. All ballots had to be verified that they were correctly marked with no question on how the voter intended to vote. The vote for 2000 Presidential Candidate was up for debate. The parties of the current President George Bush and Al Gore were at odds. The largest county in Florida had to recount and verify each and every vote cast in the election. There were numerous hours and thousands of dollars spent to come to an agreeable conclusion. To solve this election question, there were several suits brought before the Court system, one being Bush v. Gore due to the interpretation of the Florida election law. Something needed to be decided to stop the recounts. Ballots had to be electronically...
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...“Eleven” a short story written by Sandra Cisneros, is a story about a young girl’s birthday. The story goes through the young girl’s birthday, Rachel, and she explains her thoughts about growing up, the emotions, and the struggles she faces on a day that is supposed to be happy. Rachel wakes up feeling about the same as she did the day before, even though she is now eleven. She comes to conclude that she won’t feel eleven until she grows into her age, and also starts to see you still can keep traits from your younger age. She concluded this on an event that took place. In class there is a very unattractive sweater is in the lost and found, and her teacher is trying to find the owner. A young girl in class claims it to be Rachel, Rachel protests...
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...In the novel Women Hollering Creek, the author Sandra Cisneros writes about the growth of a women's independence from dreams to reality. With being married off, to the first time he slapped her, and finally the end of it all, this novel discusses the difficulties of what being a woman can bring. Sandra Cisneros writes about Cleofilas, a young teenager, she visions life like the one shown on the telenovelas. She dreamed of doing her hair like the women on the novelas and having the same makeup. She wanted to have money in her marriage and be able to wear the finest clothes. Cleofilas has been waiting for passion and love things that both come with marriage but when the time came this was something she had not received. Therefore, when Cleofilas's father Don Serafin, gave her away to a man named...
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...The novel The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros is a story about a young girl named Esperanza who lives in an all hispanic neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Esperanza is a girl who would like to live in a house of her own and live the life she want but she is anchored down by the constraints of society. The story captures the idea of how women are portrayed and their role in society. Relying on men seems like the only way to live for women. Throughout the novel, Esperanza begins to notice how women are treated by men. She notices how gender inequality is common in lives of those dealing with the injustice. Some women find that getting married at a young age is their way to freedom, others find that education is the key to their...
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...Forum Two – Justice Sandra Day Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor born in 1930 in Arizona, educated in Stanford, nominated by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the Senate by a 99-0 vote in 1981. Justice O’Connor was an essential share of the most significant decisions of the twentieth century, issues of affirmative action, abortion, Federalism and separation of church and state to name a few. New York Time Columnist summed her impact on the Court as, “ We are all living in now in Sandra Day O’Connor’s America” was reported by New York Times columnist, Jeffery Rosen (Segall 2006, 108). Justice O’Connor rose from job as secretary to the first female Supreme Court Justice of the United States of America (Stevens 2006, 99). However, It is disingenuous to claim Justice Sandra Day O’Connor as just the first female Supreme Court Justice with the impact she left upon the Court and America. The late Chief Justice Rehnquist once stated, “...
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...Name: QIJIA CAO Class: ESL 103 Demeaning Love Show Hurts “The Bachelor: Silly, Sexist, and, to Many, Irresistible” by Mimi Avins, displays the factors in the reality show that make people deeply fascinated by and crazy about it. According to Avins, first of all, she remarks everyone is voyeuristic, which means that people want to know something mysterious or private to satisfy their own curiosity and watch tragedies such as a beautiful woman being rejected, which makes them feel good. Secondly, shallowness is another factor that attracts the audience’s attention. The elaborate editing enables people only to see the amusing parts of the characters, so the audience can guess the rest of those people’s personalities and get involved in the show. Next, as the author mentions, the humor of the project makes people have fun and get some interesting topics to chat about at parties. Also, she writes that the romantic, gorgeous settings in the show tempt us so well since everyone loves fairy tales and beautiful dreams. Moreover, Avin also mentions that people think they can learn some tactics about how to be alluring, find a lover, date and get engaged. Ultimately, the article ends in complaints about the program. In her words, the show is demeaning and disrespectful to women to some extents. In addition, some participants are not seriously looking for love; they just want to show off and be on TV. Avin’s complaint that The Bachelor is demeaning to woman is indeed correct...
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...Теги: Дискотека 80-х | | | (I'll never be) Maria Magdalena | Мария Магдалина | You take my love You want my soul I would be crazy to share your life Why can't you see what I am Sharpen the senses and turn the knife Hurt me and you'll understand I'll never be Maria Magdalena (You're a creature of the night) Maria Magdalena (you're a victim of the fight) (you need love) Promise me delight (You need love) Why must I lie Find alibis When will you wake up and realize I can't surrender to you Play for affection and Win the prize I know those party games too I'll never be Maria Magdalena (You're a creature of the night) Maria Magdalena (you're a victim of the fight) (you need love) Promised me delight (You need love) | Ты берешь мое сердце, Ты желаешь мою душу, Я была бы сумасшедшей, если б разделила с тобой жизнь Почему же ты не видишь, кто я? Заостри чувства и поверни нож, Сделай мне больно — и ты поймешь Я никогда не стану Марией Магдалиной (Ты создание ночи) Мария Магдалина (Ты жертва борьбы) (Ты нуждаешься в моей любви) Пообещай мне, что будешь восхищен (Ты нуждаешься в моей любви) Зачем мне лгать? Я найду оправдания Когда же ты проснешься и осознаешь, Что я не могу сдаться тебе? Играй, чтоб возбудить чувства, И получи награду. И я знаю эти подлые игры. Я никогда не стану Марией Магдалиной (Ты создание ночи) Мария Магдалина (Ты жертва борьбы) (Ты нуждаешься...
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...Building a New Structure – NFPA Codes Susan Wint ITT Technical Institute NT1310 Physical Networking Author Note This paper is being submitted on October 4, 2015, for Professor Carlos Miranda NT1310 Physical Networking. Building a New Structure – NFPA Codes The FCC issues guidelines that govern the installation of telecommunications cabling and the design of communications devices built or used in the US must follow a code of ethic like local, state, county, city and NEC, and that local codes would take precedence over all other installation guidelines. LPFM stations must protect authorized radio broadcast stations on the same channel or frequency, as well as broadcast stations on first or second-adjacent channels above or below the LPFM station's frequency. This protection would be accomplished through the use of minimum distance separation requirements, which are set forth in 47 CFR 73.807. Second, section 79.2 of the FCC’s rules requires that emergency information provided on television be accessible to individuals who have vision disabilities. This means that broadcasters must describe any emergency information that is shown on the screen, and must accompany any emergency information that is not orally described with an aural tone which instructs individuals with vision disabilities to turn to a radio or another source for more information. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 704 is a standard maintained by the U.S. based National Fire Protection...
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...Text 1 is written by David Brooks and the title is "The Sandra Bullock trade" The text focus lies on money, David Brooks opinion is that money doesn't make us happier! Person relations are much more important than a career and a lot of money! In the start of the text he uses an example of Sandra Bullock that gives us a view on the relationship between wealth and happiness. Sandra won a big price and was ensured a good future with lots of money and acknowledgment, what many people would se as a dream future, but at the same time her husband turned out to have cheated on her. The question is know, what is most important? 1. A job with a lot of money or 2. A happy relationship Brooks own opinion is that the relationship is the most important, as he says in text it doesn't matter how many setbacks you go through in your life, when you just have a successful relationship and the other way if you have an unhappy marriage, does career triumphs not make you happier, you will always feel unfulfilled. Brooks says that the relationship between money and wellbeing is complicated, but the correspondence between relationships and happiness is not. We gain happiness through our daily activities like: having sex, socializing, having dinner with others and so on. Brooks uses an example in the text, which says that being married produces gain equivalent to more than 100.000 dollars a year. By this example Brooks also maintain his claim about how happiness doesn't come through money and well...
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...Sandra Bullock Makes The Proposal Stands Sandra Bullock is one of the greatest actresses in the history of cinema. All her movies are beloved movies and are very close to the heart of the audience The proposal movie is a unique addition to her history. Sandra Bullock asserted in this movie how a skillful actress she is because she had the courage to choose a hateful mistress role and excel in it despite of being different from type of characters she used to present before, she could transit smoothly and professional from frigidness, to comedy, to romance, and she undoubtfuly could make us enjoy the movie despite of its easily predictable and stereotypic events. Bullock used to play the role of an ordinary woman who finds herself suddenly in the face of an extraordinary events and obstacles. Yet, in this movie, she portrays a powerful, cranky, pushy, and bossy woman. This “pitch” has been hated deeply by all her employees especially the miserable Andrew who had a lot of ambitions that he worked hard to achieve(). His devotion to his work is the thing that made him the perfect candidate for blackmailing by Margaret who threatened with ruining his future if he did not comply with her demands. She...
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