...In a story of hardship and perseverance, a troubled child grows into an incredible man with many recognizable accomplishments. In Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, Louie Zamperini was scrawny and mislead as a child, who was bullied aggressively, stole instinctively, and eventually turned out to be a superstar at track. Zamperini’s past tremendously influenced his life during adulthood because of the many mistakes he took credit for, turning them into a learning experience. Zamperini was a troublemaker as a child, and it benefited him during his time in the war and at the Olympics because he was good at it and needed it. Following this knowledge further, he would steal food with his older brother, Pete, who never got caught. Zamperini would always...
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...The novel, Unbroken, is based off of true events where the main character, Louie, faces many exciting moments yet many hardships in his life. As a young kid, he was a troublemaker, he always stole goods and got caught by authorities countless times. But when his brother introduced him to track, his entire life changed. As he grew, he became more and more of a runner. Until later in his life he became an Olympic runner. But when WW2 started, he was drafted into the Air Force as a Bombardier. He flew on many missions over the Pacific against Japan in his trusty B-24 Liberator, the Super Man, and his crew. Some time later, the Super Man had to be put out of commission after surviving a bombing run with 594 bullets in it and the crew had to go...
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...Zamperini went through it all. As a child, Louie was devious and rebellious. He smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol, however as young Louie matured, he stopped doing bad things and began running. The older Louie became, the better he became at running, and before he knew it, he was off to the Olympics.“Unbroken” written by Laura Hillenbrand, demonstrates how resilient and determined Louie was through his actions throughout his lifetime. To begin, the first paragraph of the book reveals Louie’s determination. For instance, when Louie was in the raft and jumped out he was determined to live through the Japanese attack. The first quote from this section shows how Louie is determined by jumping...
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...He would sneak around and steal many things. But little did he know that once he had got involved in war, the plane he was in, would crash with only 3 people surviving including himself. Louie and the two men that had also survived try to find ways of staying alive, using the objects that they only had in the raft. Once one of their partners passed away right in front of them, they soon got captured by the Japanese and were very mistreated. After Louie had stopped stealing, his brother Pete had encouraged him into running. He then started practicing and ran everywhere. Soon enough, he had won about every meet he had, even beating the high schoolers. With everything coming so fast, Louie then realized he was at the Olympics. In the novel, Unbroken Lauren Hillenbrand uses Louie’s life experiences to show his two most important...
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...was a child he was often getting into fights, drinking alcohol, to smoking, not to mention Louie was resilient towards stopping being a troubled child until Louie’s brother, Pete, got Louie into running Throughout the whole book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand the reader learns that Louis (Louie) Zamperini is both courageous and rebellious Throughout the book, the reader can obviously see that Zamperini is a rebellious child and even a rebellious adult One example of Zamperini being rebellious is, “Shaving the Weasel’s forehead, he thinned...
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...What is Resilience? Resilience is the ability to cope with problems and setbacks, In the book Unbroken, Louie, Phil and Mac were stranded on a Raft for many days and they faced many obstacles that threatened their survival. Those who showed resilience survived and the ones who showed weakness perished. Louie and his comrades went thru hell after the plane crashed due to mechanical difficulties, only three of the 11 survived the crash. After the crash it is up to Louie for his survival out in the ocean, and his characteristic resilience will help him survive the disaster he is in. Louie showed great resilience throughout his odyssey, First, He demonstrated every part of it. He was aware of the situation that he was in and...
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...Forgive and Be Loyal But Never Forget Louie Zamperini, from olympian and airman, to castaway and prisoner of war. Louie Zamperini, a troubled boy in the past to runner, trained for the olympics. When they were cancelled, he went to war. With a sudden plane crash, he was lost at sea and became a prisoner of war where he was beat unconscious. When America won the war, Louie lost himself but remembered a promised he had made to serve god, therefore forgiving everyone who had tortured him. Unbroken, a novel written by Laura Hillenbrand, has shown people the many sides of Louie Zamperini, including his best traits, being forgiving and loyal. Louie Zamperini learned to forgive people who had hurt him and that violence wouldn’t solve his problems. In Louie’s interview with Laura Hillenbrand, he was asked “If you had killed the Bird, do you think you would have gotten over the war?” (291). In reply, Louie explained “I don’t think so… but I don’t know what kind of satisfaction that would be,” (291). Because Louie is very forgiving, he realized that hurting the Bird wouldn’t solve anything. He realized that forgiving someone is the right thing to do and that forgiving someone is the only way that you can actually move on and live your life. When Mac ate all of the chocolate, Louie “...understanding that Mac had acted in panic, he reassured him they...
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...BOOK REVIEW UNBROKEN: A WORLD WAR II STORY OF SURVIVAL, RESILIENCE, AND REDEMPTION 1. About the Book (a) Title of the book : Unbroken - A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (b) Author : Laura Hillenbrand (c) Year of publication : November 15, 2010 (d) Publisher : Random House. (e) No of pages : 473 Nos (f) Type of book : A biography of World War II hero (g) Other works of Author : Sea biscuit(An International Bestseller) (h) Price : $27 2. About the Author (a) Laura Hillenbrand, born on 15 May 1967 in Fairfax, Virginia is an American author of books and magazine articles. Hillenbrand spent much of her childhood riding bareback "screaming over the hills" of her father's Sharpsburg, Maryland, farm. A favorite of hers was ‘Come On Seabiscuit’, a 1963 children book. (b) Hillenbrand suffers from debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome, and remains largely confined to her home. On the irony of writing about physical paragons while being so incapacitated herself, She reportedly stated that she was looking for a way out of her dull home-bound life and she couldn’t have lived it physically, so she was going to have it intellectually. It was, therefore, an exhilarating experience for debilitated Hillenbrand to ride Seabiscuit in her imagination and it was just as fantastic to be there for her alongside Louie as he was breaking the NCAA mile record and with people...
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...Richard Slotkin is part of a group called “Old West” historians who ascribe to the Myth-and-Symbol School when interpreting American history. This thought-process stresses a collection of popular sentiments of the Frontier era in order to create an environment that has some structure. A result of this approach is that it allows continuity to the reader when studying the frontier. For instance, Slotkin notices in his analysis of “The Adventures of Col, Daniel Boone that: “Filson creates a character who becomes the archetypal hero of the American frontier, copied by imitators and plagiarists and appearing innumerable times under other names and in other guises -- in literature, the popular arts, and folklore -- as the man who made the wilderness safe for democracy” (Slotkin 268-69) This shows how his character became an archetype to himself and all other frontiersmen. Because of this, the circumstances may change in the frontier, but its actors do not. As Slotkin describes the character of he furthers this argument and identifies “the most distinctive trait of Boone’s character was his love for the wild land” (Slotkin 298). While this approach is valuable due to minimal historical documentation, its methodology is intrinsically too simple to be taken seriously. Additionally, “Old West” perspectives usually only interpret the traces of the “white imperialist”. However, starting in the 1960’s a new wave of American historians sought to uncover the “untold” immigrant and minority past...
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...DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY. 8 CHAPTER TWO REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.0 INTRODUCTION.. 9 2.1 CONCEPT OF HOME, SCIENCE STUDENTS AND EDUCATION.. 10 2.2 IMPORTANCE OF THE HOME. 13 2.3 NEEDS OF SCIENCE STUDENTS AS CHILDREN.. 15 2.4 THE ROLE OF HOME IN SCIENCE STUDENTS EDUCATION.. 18 2.5 BROKEN HOMES. 19 2.6 INFLUENCE OF BROKEN HOME ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SCIENCESTUDENTS 20 2.7 CONCLUSION.. 24 CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 INTRODUCTION.. 25 3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN.. 25 3.3 POPULATION OF THE STUDY. 26 3.4 SAMPLE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUES. 28 3.5 INSTRUMENTATION.. 28 3.5.1 VALIDITY OF INSTRUMENT. 29 3.5.2 RELIABILITY OF INSTUMENT. 29 3.6 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION.. 30 3.7 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS. 30 CHAPTER FOUR DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS 4.0 INTRODUCTION.. 32 4.1 DATA PRENTATION.. 33 4.2 ANALYSIS OF DATA.. 46 4.3 DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS. 49 CHAPTER FIVE SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 5.0 INTRODUCTION.. 50 5.1 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS. 51 5.2 CONCLUSION.. 52 5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS. 53 5.4 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY. 54 REFFERENCES....
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...Name: Nikita Kuzin Class: E44 Course: 420 Critical Reading of Literature in English Faculty responsible: Ms. Anna Born Institution: Glion Institute of Higher Education Date: May 14th 2013 Project Title: Critical Analysis of Great Gatsby novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald Introduction The Great Gatsby is may be the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest novel. This novel offers damning and insightful views of the American nouveau riche in the 1920s. It is an American classic and a wonderfully evocative novel (Bloom, 2010). The author seems to have a brilliant understanding of lives that are characterised by greed and incredibly sad and unfulfilled. The Great Gatsby is at once a romantic and cyclical novel about wealth and habits of a group of New Yorkers during the Jazz Age (Bloom, 2010). Fitzgerald’s work is magnificent as he paints a grim portrait of shallow characters that manoeuvre themselves into some complex situations. The use of symbols and articulate language makes the novel to be best appreciated by mature readers; and this enables them to analyse literature and think critically (Bloom, 2010). The plot Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is a love story of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The initial meeting of the two lovers takes place two years before the novel is written. Daisy was then a legendary young Louisville beauty while Gatsby was an impoverished officer. The two fell in deep love, but while Gatsby serves...
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...analysis Strategic Management Topic: PEST ANALYSIS OF JAPAN. Submitted To: Sir Faiez H. Sayel Submitted By: Ali Ahmad Majoka 006 Ifrah Javaid 045 Muhammad Habibullah 084 Nayab Ameen 115 Sharjeel Arslan 139 Zahid Yousaf 166 Qaiser Abbas 175 Section: MBA-13C COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore PEST Analysis of Japan: Political analysis: • Political System: Japan is a democratic country, but it is a very different kind of democracy to that prevailing in most of Europe in countries like France and Germany. The main reason for this is the dominant position of one party – the Liberal Democratic Party – which held power almost unbroken for more than 50 years. The Diet Japan is a parliamentary kingdom governed by a Prime Minister and his cabinet. The parliament is called the Diet and is composed of the upper House of Councilors and the lower House of Representatives. The House of Representatives can be dissolved anytime by the Prime Minister. The lower house holds most of the decision power. The party which achieves a majority in the lower house can nominate the Prime Minister (usually the party president). Political parties The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is the only stable party of the last 4 decades. It has been in power since its foundation in 1958, keeping an undisrupted...
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...Gatsby decides to take the blame and suffers the terrible consequences for Daisy’s recklessness. Daisy doesn’t even attempt to take any responsibility for herself. When he is killed by Myrtle's husband, Wilson, she doesn’t bother to even make an appearance at her former lover’s funeral, something that she causes. Instead, she flees from the city with her family and deserts the event. This was her final act of deceit. She continues to preserve herself no matter what. As said in Robert Ornstein’s analysis, ““In Daisy’s case the answer is simple. We remember that Nick Carraway has described Gatsby’s personality as an “unbroken series of successful gestures.” Superficially, Daisy finds in Gatsby, or thinks she finds, that safety from human reality which the empty gesture implies.” (Scott Fitzgerald’s Fable of East and West.” 2016) Daisy was never truly in love with Gatsby. Similar to him, she was in love with the idea of a man who would grant her freedom and an escape from the rest of her life. She couldn’t love him forever, as much as she or Gatsby may have wanted her...
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...Strategic Management Topic: PEST ANALYSIS OF JAPAN. Submitted To: Sir Faiez H. Sayel Submitted By: Ali Ahmad Majoka 006 Ifrah Javaid 045 Muhammad Habibullah 084 Nayab Ameen 115 Sharjeel Arslan 139 Zahid Yousaf 166 Qaiser Abbas 175 Section: MBA-13C COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore PEST Analysis of Japan: Political analysis: • Political System: Japan is a democratic country, but it is a very different kind of democracy to that prevailing in most of Europe in countries like France and Germany. The main reason for this is the dominant position of one party – the Liberal Democratic Party – which held power almost unbroken for more than 50 years. • The Diet Japan is a parliamentary kingdom governed by a Prime Minister and his cabinet. The parliament is called the Diet and is composed of the upper House of Councilors and the lower House of Representatives. The House of Representatives can be dissolved anytime by the Prime Minister. The lower house holds most of the decision power. The party which achieves a majority in the lower house can nominate the Prime Minister (usually the party president). • Political parties The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is the only stable party of the last 4 decades. It has been in power since its foundation in 1958, keeping an undisrupted majority in parliament. At the moment, the second most popular party is the newly founded Democratic Party...
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...psychoanalysis of literary characters. While there is much to ponder in Sullivan's essay, there are two points, both involving dualisms, that I would like to discuss. In the first case, Sullivan argues insightfully and convincingly against an absolute distinction between how we know and think about fictional characters and how we know and think about real people. In the second case, however, Sullivan insists on an absolute (Cartesian) mind-body dualism as a cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory. I would like to repeat and extend Sullivan's argument in the first case, but refute it and deny its validity in the second. First dualism: Fact/Fiction Sullivan cites as representative of a certain widely-shared approach Maud Ellmann's insistence that there is an important distinction between a “human being made of flesh and character made of words” (5), a distinction that allows us to make one kind statement about the former but not the latter. Ellmann is not alone in making the real-life/fictional distinction a fundamental matter of ontology. We are all familiar with arguments like hers, having heard * For a response to this response, see “Don Quixote & the ‘Third Term’ as Solvent of Binary Dualisms: A Response to Howard Mancing”, by Henry W. Sullivan, Cervantes 19.1 (1999): 177-97. -F.J. 158 19.1 (1999) Against Dualisms: A Response to Henry Sullivan 159 them often enough specifically with respect to Cervantes. The case made in terms of fictional characters here is part of a larger...
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