...Fantasy Versus Reality Fiction Analysis Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Truth Blinded by Fantasy It's not uncommon to catch ourselves snapping out of a daydream only to realize how extent our Imagination was. Not only do we fantasize what isn't possible, but also what we want to believe disregarding how close it is to reality. Joyce Carol Oates, the author of a short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" uses Connie's character to successfully portray the conflict between fantasy versus reality. Connie, who views the idea of maturity as being experienced with men and exceedingly independent, tries bit too hard to follow those approaches to appear sexually attractive. However, Connie's flirting comes to an end as Arnold's unexpected visit to her house escalates into a horrific incident of kidnapping. This experience forces Connie to confront the reality, ultimately having her fantasy world crumbled. As mentioned previously, the biggest fantasy of Connie's is her perception of maturity. Oates describes Connie as an attractive fifteen year old girl who had a "habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors, or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right" (323). Clearly, Connie's major concern consists of finding her sex appeal and having her looks approved by older boys. Without having any proper preparation, Connie throws herself into the merciless world of adulthood. "Someone leaned out a...
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...won with their fantasy picks. You’ve seen the ads because they’re everywhere. The marketing pushes behind daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel—where sports fanatics assemble fantasy lineups and bet on them—have been huge. They’re on your phone. The websites you visit. Your podcasts. And, of course, on your TV, where these two 900-pound gorillas have taken up seemingly permanent residence. According to ad tracker iSpot.tv, DraftKings and FanDuel outspent the entire beer industry in the month leading up to and including the NFL’s opening season. At their peak, the two brands together aired almost as many ads (1,285) as there are minutes in a day (1,440). Between the two of them, they aired an ad on national television every ninety seconds for three weeks straight. To do that, iSpot.tv says, DraftKings spent $131.6 million on 41,064 ads, while FanDuel spent $75.4 million on 22,058 ads so far this year. That’s up from 8,743 DraftKing ads and 14,017 FanDuel ads in 2014. The ads brought the two companies a lot of attention. And now they’re getting attention of an entirely different sort. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that a DraftKings employee inadvertently released company data on player lineups before the third week of NFL games. That same week, he won $350,000 at FanDuel. Company employees aren’t allowed to place bets on their own sites, but it seems plausible that the employee, a midlevel content manager, could have had an advantage...
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...are thrown into a dream Diane has. In this dream many of the characters and people in her actual life are integrated into her dream with new identities. The last part of the movie we are brought back to Diane’s actual reality. Only once I was brought into Diane’s reality did I realize the importance of the fantasy. I believe Diane has realized the hard, cruel reality of Hollywood and this has caused her to have a breakdown. She has lost the love of her life to this Hollywood scene and is faced with the fact that she is a failed actress. These inner conflicts and struggles have caused her despair and ultimately her demise. David Lynch is highly praised in this movie because of his ability to mesh fantasy and reality. The fantasy part digs into Diane’s deepest desires and conflicts. A lot of the things that happen in the dream part of the movie, I feel display the way she wished things had happened, mostly with her relationship with Camille. In order to understand Mulholland Drive you must be able to distinguish between Diane’s dream and her reality. The movie starts with Diane arriving to Hollywood, she is very excited and thrilled for her new opportunity. In the fantasy Diane is introduced as Betty and is described as wholesome girl who has come to Hollywood after winning a Jitterbug Contest. Throughout the movie many odd things happens with different random characters. One of the first things that happen is an old couple that Betty befriends on her plane ride to Los Angeles...
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...negatively comment on His Honor, as deep down, and with all the career issues stripped away, he is a likeable fellow. I also have a high regard and respect for the position and difficult responsibilities of the position of Mayor. However, likeability and regards/ respect does not equate one with correct analysis, evaluation, ideology, or execution of office responsibilities. His Honor's statements seem to indicate either an uncaring political motivation, or a total disconnect with the day to day operations of Police & Fire services. To insinuate that our firefighters are sitting on their duffs at the "firehouse" waiting for the alarm to sound (and in this line of thinking, I presume, then needing to move...
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...measurable project benefit. We have to start the project somewhere, but something is often missing in the kickoff meeting; something that is an obvious part of the football analogy—analysis and strategy. Before that kicker sends the ball across the field, coaches spend a lot of time reviewing tapes, applicable statistics, and more—what we in the web business call “research.” What /When is a kickoff meeting? You’ve been hired or the budget’s been approved and there’s a loose idea of the project’s duration and key milestones. Now you’ve got to formally launch the project. To put names to faces and begin to understand the problem at hand, the traditional kickoff meeting assembles the core team around the table for introductions and light discussion. So what’s the problem? How many times have you heard this? “Oh, if only I had been involved, I would have explained that to you sooner/told you that idea would never work/made everything right in the universe.” By dubbing the first core team meeting the “project kickoff,” you are creating a project history that gives the impression that decisions are being made before everyone in the larger group has a chance to make their voice heard. So don’t do that. Call that meeting the “pre-kickoff meeting,” or the “kickoff planning meeting.” Sure, start by meeting with trusted colleagues on the client side, but save the name “kickoff” for a much more robust experience. Have a process that allows everyone to have their say before the project...
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...300 Jonathan Hewitt ENG 225 Cicely Denean-Cobb October 2, 2012 The film I have chosen to do my critique on is Zack Snyder’s 300. 300 is a film about King Leonidas, the King of Sparta, and his 300 Spartan warriors who all stood up against the God-king Xerxes and his massive Persian army from annihilation. After watching the film very closely for my critique I believe there is a serious underlying theme that everyone has the right to be free and sometimes you have to stand up and make sacrifices to keep your freedom. Standing up for freedom is never an easy task as shown in 300 but, everyone deserves to be free. In discussing the storytelling, acting, cinematography, editing, sound, style and directing, the impact of society on the film, genre, a formalist approach to analysis, and the overall textual theme of 300 I will attempt to back up my belief. Storytelling 300’s narrative structure is the first-person point of view of Dilios, a Spartan solider under the command of King Leonidas. The film is presented in chronological order and takes place in Sparta and Thermopylae, Greece. The major conflict in the film is that the Persian army has come to Sparta and requests their submission or will kill them and enslave their women and children. King Leonidas makes the decision to stand up to the Persians but; is not allowed to go to war with the Xerxes, the Persian God-king, because the Ephors deny him the right. The Ephors are later found out to be traitors. Unfortunately,...
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...that offers an explanation for the appearance of a groups cohesiveness, consisting of shared emotions, motives, and meanings. Symbolic convergence theory provides a description of the dynamic tendencies within systems of social interaction that cause communicative practices and forms to evolve. This theory allows theorists and practitioners to anticipate or predict what will happen and explain what did happen. One thing SCT does not do is allow for prediction and control of human communication.[1] To foster this cohesiveness, dramatizing or using fantasy stories are significant types of communication involved in SCT. SCT explains that meanings, emotions, values, and the motives for action are in the communication contexts by people trying to make sense out of a common experience.[2] It explores the human tendency of trying to understand events in terms of the people involved, who have certain personality traits and motivations, and have agency over how the events unfold.[3] SCT was first proposed by Ernest Bormann in the Quarterly Journal of Speech in 1972.[4] Symbolic convergence is related to attribution theory in that it deals with the human tendency to attribute meaning to signs and objects in order to make sense of them.[5] The process of symbolic convergence resembles empathic communication.[5] SCT has a three-part structure: 1. elucidation of the recurring forms of communication involved in a shared group consciousness 2. illustration of why group consciousness...
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...University Dear Sir, In this Project of “Bringing the Life Back In The Zoo”, we have tried to implement our learning from this course. We would like to thank you for offering the opportunity to work on this topic. Despite many limitations, we have tried my best to make this analysis accurate and reliable. If you have any further enquiry concerning any additional information, we would be very pleased to clarify that. Thank you. Sincerely yours, Executive summary: This report analyzes on how to create an effective IMC plan for the Dhaka Zoo. Dhaka zoo is largest zoo in Bangladesh situated in Mirpur, Dhaka. Because of some shortcomings such as mismanagement and frequent deaths of rare animals Dhaka zoo has started to loss its appeal. As a result Dhaka zoo is losing its visitors and its revenue is decreasing frequently. By creating an IMC plan, this paper aims at identifying and analyzing the factors that will motivate visitors for visiting Dhaka Zoo. First of all, we have created a mission and vision statement and also a catchy tagline for the Dhaka zoo. Then we have set our strategic goals and objectives in which the main objective was to regain the lost glory of the Dhaka zoo. We did a market analysis and tried to do the positioning of the Dhaka zoo in a effective way. Our target market is mainly the children between the ages of 5 and 15 as well as their families (by association). Then we have set our communication and marketing objectives which include creating a strong...
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...Analyzing films is considered an art form that attempts to “break up the whole to discover the nature proportion, function, and interrelationships of the parts” (Boggs and Petrie, 2008). Final Fantasy, the first CGI (computer generated image) film featuring synthetic human actors, opens with its protagonist, Dr. Aki Ross, surveying her barren, alien surroundings. Aki wakes from the recurring dream and looks out at earth from the window of her spaceship. As the music swells, our heroine wonders if she will be able to save the world from the “phantom” spirits that have invaded it. Two scenes later, we learn that the phantoms also have infected Aki, effectively linking the fate of the devastated planet with that of a beautiful, young though entirely computer-generated into a female body. I’m introducing the film by way of Aki’s dubiously raced, female body for two reasons. First, Hironobu Sakaguchi, its creator, director and producer has made it clear in press releases and the supplemental documentary on the special edition DVD that the film functions as a showcase for the protagonist. “Identifying the theme can be considered both the beginning and the end of film analysis” (Boggs and Petrie, 2008). According to Sakaguchi, Aki represents his mother (the two share the same name) and his coming to terms with her death (Pham, 2001). Second and more to the point of my essay, critical reception of the film places strong emphasis on the character, which often is treated as a metonym for...
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...jstor.org This content downloaded from 137.158.153.205 on Fri, 14 Feb 2014 01:39:42 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Self Presentation through Appearance: A Manipulative vs. a Dramaturgical Approach The sincerity of self presentation through personal appearance was examined through contrasting an interac- Efrat Tseeion* tionist interpretation o Coffman’s dramaturgy with an The University of Sussex f “impression management” approach. “Impression management” position treats dramatization and conscious attention to one’s performance as analogous to insincerity. In contrast, a dramaturgical interactionist position regards dramatization as the control of the style of performance, and as irrelevant to issues of sincerity. Analysis of forty accounts (open-ended questionnaires) of British women highlighted the oversimplification...
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...LACAN AND CONTEMPORARY FILM EDITED BY TODD McGOWAN and SHEILA KUNKLE OTHER Other Press New York Copyright © 2004 Todd McGowan and Sheila Kunkle Production Editor: Robert D. Hack This book was set in 11 pt. Berkeley by Alpha Graphics, Pittsfield, N.H. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Allrightsreserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Other Press LLC, except in the case of brief quotations in reviews for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. For information write to Other Press LLC, 307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1807, New York, NY 10001. Or visit our website: www.otherpress.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McGowan, Todd. Lacan and contemporary film / by Todd McGowan & Sheila Kunkle. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59051-084-4 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Motion pictures-Psychological aspects. 2. Psychoanalysis and motion pictures. 3. Lacan, Jacques, 1901- I. Kunkle, Sheila. II. Title. PN1995 .M379 2004 791.43'01 '9-dc22 2003020952 Contributors Paul Eisenstein teaches literature and film in the English department at Otterbein College, Columbus, Ohio, and is the author of Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject (SUNY Press, 2003). Anna Kornbluh...
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...When Do We Learn Empathy 2 Discussion What is the role of empathy within a school culture? Is it learned by being taught? Is there social empathy in adolescence? Answers to these questions were sought by conducting a search in at various online databases such as PscyINFO and ProQuest using search input of empathy; social integration; peer relations; adolescents; social network analysis; school culture; affective empathy; cognitive empathy; sympathy. The article being reviewed is “The teaching of empathy for high school and college students: Testing Rogerian methods with the Interpersonal Reactivity Index” (Hatcher, Nadeau, Walsh, Reynolds, Galea, Marz, 1994). This particular article focused on the teachability of...
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...| Medica tour Ltd | Business plan | | Zrinka Vrdoljak | 6/20/2012 | Table of Content: 1. Executive summary 2 2.1. Objectives 2 2.2. Mission 2 2. Company summary 3 3.3. Company ownership 3 3.4. Industrial overview 3 3.5. Start-up summary 4 3.6.1. Start-up funding 4 3.6.2. Start-up requirement 4 3. Marketing analyse summary 5 4.6. Marketing segmentation 5 4.7. Competition 6 4.8.3. Competitors strengths 6 4.8.4. Competitors weakness 7 4.8. Closely related competitor 7 4. Strategy 8 5.9. SWOT analyse 8 5.10. Marketing mix 8 5.11. Sales strategy 9 5.12.5. Sales forecast 9 5.12. Milestones 10 5.13. Technology 10 5. Financial plan 12 6.14. Pro forma cash flow 12 6.15. Pro forma profit & loss 13 Appendix 15 Reference 18 1. Executive summary The company Medica tours Ltd. was established for the performance of the organization of tourist visits for medical purposes. The main activity is providing services for travel, accommodation and activities related to health care. Services include: contact with selected health care organizations, organizing transport, accommodation and additional tourist activities. Their services exclusively performed in accordance with business partners such as dental clinics...
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...passivity, nor is it stupidity”. Objectivity in media, specifically in journalism, has been the golden standard of news stories since the beginning of time. The meaning of objectivity in media, however, has been lost in translation. Nowadays, objectivity has been altered to fit many different definitions, frequently ones that include not having an opinion, or those that include the stale cliché “there are two sides to the story”. There are arguments as to whether true objectivity can genuinely be reached, and some people believe that news without bias is nothing but a fantasy. Objectivity in media is very much attainable, but people are going about reaching it incorrectly. Gio...
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...Is porn adultery? The notion that watching porn and fantasizing about other women leads to divorce and infidelity has been floating around for ages. The reason this debate has never been settled is because of the ambiguity between a person watching naked women and physically touching another woman that’s not your wife. I think porn has the potential to not only keep a marriage afloat but also strengthen it. A closer analysis into real life interviews with college students, porn statistics and a deep look into Ross Douthat’s essay on porn, it can be concluded that porn, in fact, isn’t a gateway drug to adultery. I was introduced to porn during my freshman year of high school. At the time, I was still attending T.A.S.O.K (The American School of Kinshasa), an extremely diverse private Christian school in the Congo. I vividly remember that Friday afternoon in the men’s locker room after the basketball team had finished practice my friend Jeremy coming up to me with a big smile on his face. He said something along the lines of “James check this out!” He pulled out his new Nokia that he had received as a gift from his parents for his birthday. I remember looking at the screen of the phone and seeing a man and a woman having intercourse and staying in the locker room with the entire basketball team for next thirty minutes. There were lots of fist bumps and laughter as we were all exposed to this simple tape that was part of a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry. According to...
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