The Rationale of this task was to create a dramedy of three stereotypes created in society to bump heads in one another, as based off of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit. Three characters, President Bill Clinton, Marilyn Monroe, and Dana were selected to all fit into one enclosed space, an Art-Deco themed elevator, as a different representation for Hell. For this instance, the characters were all representations of stereotypes the 20th and 21st century had developed, in hopes that each opposite would create an interesting dynamic. Bill Clinton was selected to provide the face of the stereotypical perverted-politician. His language of modern patronization towards the two other females with sexual lingo, and simple southern vocabulary created his…
Reinalde Silvestre was forced to go into the army as a doctor, and he staged as a plastic surgeon in Miami Beach, Florida. When he first came to the United States he started to treat his patients in his home. He later then opened Ocean Health Center as a surgical office.…
Toussaint Breda who was later called Toussaint L'ouverture was born in Saint Dominique which is now known as Haiti. It was controlled by the French. Toussaint learned of Africa from his father, who had been born a free man there. Toussaint was fortunate in having a liberal master who had him trained as a house servant and allowed him to learn to read and write. He would read books that he could get his hands on. He admired the writings of the French Enlightenment Philosophers who spoke of individual rights and equality.…
The narrator acquiring the knowledge of individualism changing his perspective on life hence the maturing of his mind. “But Jean-Christophe, with his fierce individualism… was a salutary revelation. … my poor educated and re-educated brains had been incapable of grasping the notion of one man standing up against the whole world.”(110,Sijie). The narrator was born and raised China during the Cultural Revolutionary period which in turn limited his knowledge of the world as compared to kids in more stable, rich countries. Through the consumption of western literature, his views on the world changed and he was able to recognize his place in the world and his ability to stand up against…
Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford) is an American novelist, editor, play writer, and professor. Her nickname, Toni, came from her baptismal name, Anthony. She became Catholic and received this name at the age of 12. She is the first African American who won the Nobel Prize in literature. Morrison also won many other honorable awards. Her novels are famous for epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters.…
Jean Valjean, a criminal, that will always be known as a criminal. Although he shouldn’t deserve that name for himself because in reality he was just a man who wasn’t self-centered. Jean Valjean, after being let out of prison, though he was free but in reality he just manages to get back into a world filled of hate for convicts. Even after he decided to through away that passport was he still feeling the obligation to give away? Was Valjean really free after encountering the Bishop and promising to become an honest man?…
Sartre believes that in order for anything to have a function, its existence must come prior. For example, the function of a knife, which is to stab and cut, did not come before the existence of the knife. The saying “existence precedes essence” is Sartre’s answer for the objection saying that Existentialism is pessimism. Sartre says no, existence is not pessimistic but instead it is optimistic. An individual does have action and choice to how they want to live their life and that there can be meaning. Existence can be described as biological, while essence can be known as a social form that an individual picks up through interaction. Even though an individual cannot choose who they are biological…
Born Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle on 22 November 1890 in Lille, France (Fenby, 2010). Charles De Gaulle rose from a young college student at the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr (Fenby, 2010), to war prisoner, to President of the Fifth Republic (Fenby, 2010). During the Liberation of Paris from Nazi Germany in 1944, Charles De Gaulle had identified France’s greatness with his own. De Gaulle had selvedge France’s honor through the force of charisma and tenacity. Much like the influences of Martin Luther King Jr., Charles De Gaulle became a national hero and could easily motivate a nation. Charles De Gaulle reshaped the future of France’s political status after WWII, envisioning a democratic, two-party system, instead of the multi-party rules. On May10, 1940, the German Armies attacked Holland and Belgium, and fell upon France with concentrated armament, supported by dive-bombers and paratroopers (The History Channel, “Britain and France declare…
The piano was Debussy’s favorite instrument and in Claire de Lune, he achieved his most sensitive speech with it. At one point, in help financially, Debussy became a music critic under the pen name M. Croche. He became well known for his unrivaled wit within his critiques. Debussy has been described by various handles such as unsociable, catlike, sensual, hedonistic, and rebellious. However he was extremely indifferent to the opinion of others, in fact he preferred the company of his cats to that of men. Also a convinced atheist, he once said “I have made a religion out of mysterious nature.” Although he cared little for the company of other people, Debussy was married several times…
I believe that the best practices in early childhood education include children’s ideas, parent’s values and teacher’s suggestions. All of these will benefit children’s learning as well as give them a good understanding of the environment around them. Teachers should be flexible with the daily schedule and open to different learning opportunities. This way, children will have less structured time and more opportunities to explore and learn. As I observe in some of the childcare centers, children do not have enough time to play or finish their investigation and projects. They are hurried to be putting their toys away, and this does not benefit their learning. Teachers should encourage children to explore and investigate the topic further. The center’s policies should exclude time outs, as it does not improve children’s behavior, but rather stimulates him to get more attention. Teachers should encourage children to solve problems, and help them out if they see that serious issue occurs. Also, the physical environment has a big impact on best practices too. It should be filled with warm colors and feel like home to children. If the children will feel like at home, they will feel safe, which will benefit their learning.…
I believe that children learn best when they are taught under certain conditions and in certain ways. Some of these are……
I decided to write about Claude Debussy because I believe he was an extraordinary composer and his works really influenced the 20th century. Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862, in France. Debussy, showed a significant interested in piano since he was a kid. This passion about piano, opened the door for a new path regarding music, that changed his life in a very good and beneficial way. Although, he did not come from a rich family, Debussy became a very honorable person. His journey in the music’s life started at the age of 7, when he began to take piano lesson. As a result, he entered at the Paris conservatory at the age of 11. During his years at the conservatory, he showed his talent and outstanding confidence while playing the piano.…
Isaac Asimov was a russian science fiction, history, scientific divulgation, mistery and fantasy writer, and a biochemistry profesor at Boston’s University, nationalized as an American when he moved with his parents at the age of three (on the eleventh, January of 1923) to Brooklyn, in New York from his homeland…
Toni Morrison, a premier contemporary American novelist, chronicles the African-American experience. Morrison has written six novels and a collection of essays and lectures. Her work has won national and international acclaim and has been translated into 14 languages. Her writing has been described as lyrical and she has been applauded for “writing prose with the luster of poetry.”…
Jean Paul Sartre – Nausea Reflection Most tend not to question, confront, or analyze the meaning of their own existence; rather they shy away from it. Within the writing of Jean Paul Sarte – Nausea the protagonist, Antoine Roquentin declares “I exist” and feels the freedom to do so. However with that stance he must also take responsibility to declare his freedom. He comes to this conclusion by his occupation as a historian to research the late Marquis Rollebon, a political French aristocrat who became an image Roquentin used to justify his existence. Roquentin had been using Marquis to hide from his own existence. Upon abandoning his historical research, Roquentin transparently looks at the change of objects. He cannot see the essence within, only objects making up a whole devoid of meaning. Physicality grows on him in a way that it hides the truth of an objects existence. His “nausea” roots in his perception and how his imagination interprets the external world. Roquentin confronts the bare existence of things by looking through their essence. It stems from the moments when he realizes he is creating an essence of an object and tries to see through its existence. Color is just an idea which blinds the truth of its meaning. Objects and people become a mask to the nothingness they exist in. Perhaps living alone has prevented connection to the external world. R’s disgust of objects, his reflection, his past are all linked with the present so how does he not believe there is meaning between them? The solitude seems to spark the belief that only he exists. His consciousness becomes transparent and soon he realizes that consciousness is aware of existence but existence is nothingness. As any other, human beings should feel confident to exist. Live a life of action and embrace the responsibility to act. Use the power of your decisions. Survive nausea as Roquentin did by acting responsibly and writing a novel to cure the ambiguity of his existence.…