Condor: Sell to Jewel, 20% chance to sell to one of Jewel’s competitors at $30/unit or 80% chance to liquidate at $15/unit.…
Akira Isogawa was born in 1964 in Kyoto, Japan. In his early life, he had an affinity with fabrics and fashion, purchasing his first own item of clothing at 12, and first fashion brand name garment at age 16. Isogawa originally enrolled in Welfare Studies at a Buddhist University in Kyoto, but quit the course before finishing. First embarking to Australia in 1986, he was on a working holiday and became so captivated that, at the age of 21, he moved to Australia to study fashion design at the Sydney Institute of Technology, despite his family 's wishes to remain in Japan and become a public servant. In 1993, only two years after graduating, he founded his fashion label 'Akira ' and opened his first 'Akira Isogawa ' boutique in the exclusive suburb of Woollahra, Sydney. Three years later, Isogawa presented his first major fashion show at Australian Fashion Week Sydney, which he entitled 'New Generation Collection '. 1998 was the biggest year for Akira Isogawa 's fashion career, with his first international show in Paris Fashion Week, 'Botanica '. In that year he started his long standing career creating costumes for the arts, designing costumes for Sydney Dance Company 's production of 'Salome '. A year later, Isogawa received the Australian Designer of the Year award, as well as the Womenswear Designer of the Year at the Australian Fashion Industry Awards. The Akira fashion label also featured in exhibitions such as Fashion of the Year retrospective at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum and the Tokyo Vogue Exhibition at the Brisbane City Gallery. Over the next three years, Akira Isogawa 's designs featured in over 10 exhibitions in Australia and one internationally, and the label of 'Akira ' had become one of the most well-known Australian fashion labels. In 2005, Isogawa expanded his label, and opened a boutique in Central Melbourne and another in The Strand Arcade, Sydney. He was also honoured for his contribution to Australian Fashion with his picture…
After accidentally throwing a book at his teacher, he was told to leave the reservation so he wouldn’t lose hope. As a result of leaving, Junior lost his best friend, gained a new friend, had an identity problem and now he feels to blame for the deaths of his sister. After leaving the reservation, Juniors sister mary got married and moved to Montana. Furthermore, Mary lived in a trailer home with her husband. After drinking so much one night Mary and her husband knocked out in their bedroom. Therefore, someone left the stove on and as a result of that, mary and her husband burned to death. Mary's dream was to write a romance novel but because she lost hope, after Junior left the reservation mary ran off to live her romance novel. At the funeral, Junior ran into the woods where he saw rowdy crying, “It’s all your fault… your sister is dead because of you left us. You killed her” (211). As Rowdy ran deeper into the woods, “I had killed my sister” (211). Afterwards Junior was starting to lose hope but his friends at Reardan gave him hope by standing up for him when he walked into class late. In conclusion, even though Junior left the reservation, lost his best friend, gained new ones, had an identity problem and blamed himself for the death of his sister Junior had a bright future…
One day, being happy waking up, Rudy decides to turn over his New Leaf, It doesn’t mean that he wants to betray his gang, Shamrock, but to do something new, meaningful for his life. He goes to school with happiness. In classroom, he starts to do the reading assignment which was given by Miss Bontempo. The reading is about a Mexican poor boy named Pancho, who was discriminated by his friends. However, he doesn’t get upset but to prove himself by scoring great points in a baseball game. Pancho is a good examble to people go get discriminated. Pancho doesn’t gives up his circumstances but to strive to prove himself.…
“We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by reservation standards. I had a brother and three sisters. We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food.” (p356) Telling us this part of his life means allows us to realize that he’s had a rough childhood. By using the word “managed” it made it seemed like it was always a struggle but somehow his family found a way to pull it together. The last sentence about hope and fear was there to ensure us that there were reasons why his life was hard while living on the reservation because of the situations his family was put through. He’s trying to make an emotional connection to the audience. Later on, he tells us a in particular paragraph in 3rd person that, “If he’d been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy. But he is an Indian boy living on the reservation and is simply an oddity.” (p357) With this sentence, he was referring to how kids thought it was strange for him to be intelligent and it wasn’t the norm to be that way. He’s making a connection to if he was anybody else but a minority, then he would have been acknowledged for his talents. So for us, as the audience, we make an emotional connection because he struggled fitting in and being…
“When we’re young, it sometimes seems as if the world doesn’t exist outside our city, our block, our house, our room. We make decisions based on what we see in that limited world and follow the only models available” (Moore, 178). Role models play a huge role in shaping an individual and the paths that they go down in their lifetime. In the case of Wes Moore and the other Wes Moore the different role models they had played a large role in shaping who they became and why they turned out so differently. The strongest influences in Wes Moore’s life were strong positive influences that helped guide him into the successful adult he is now, and unfortunately the other Wes Moore had several presences in his life that, although not intentionally, steered him down the wrong path. Both of their parents played a huge role in shaping who they became. Their mothers who were their primary caregivers parented them differently. Even their father had an influence because even though they were not present in their upbringing, the lack of their presence and the few memories the boys had of them affected the Wes Moore’s in big ways. The final role models that in large part influenced the lives of these boys were Tony, for the other Wes Moore, and the sergeants at the military school that Wes Moore attended. Wes Moore’s strong mother, caring father and respectable sergeants at military school helped send him down a good path, while the other Wes Moore’s mother, father and brother did not support him in the correct ways at important junctures in his life and did not stop him from making mistakes that ultimately landed him in jail.…
Willy Loman’s ultimate American dream was a fantasy. He believes any person can rise from misfortunate beginnings to greatness. Willy searches for a moment in his memory where he started to fall off. Willy’s flaw is that he’s delusional with the reality of his work ethic. Willy doesn’t let his own children find themselves. “Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets…
This story shows how when things get bad in life , it's better to have someone their for you then trying to overcome everything by yourself . In the story Sonny went through a lot but with the help of the narrator , things didn't turn out as bad as they could have . If it weren't for these events in the story then Sonny's life would have been very different and he would have been all alone . The narrator plays a big part in helping Sonny overcome many obstacles by the end of the story and is the reason Sonny ends up doing as well as he…
The oldest brother in the family has strong values but can't understand how his brother could get himself into so much trouble like this. He explains in the story that he and his family were trying so hard to be a model middle-class family in the Harlem 1950's. The brother, Sonny, had just returned from the military and didn't seem to be much of a hero, more of a rebel, kind of like he stuck out to the family. He starts to get into things that his family would never imagine him doing, drugs and trouble.…
1. The Great Society and the War on Poverty are associated with which presidential administration?…
Diane moved out of her friends house and began going to college, but her ruined childhood impacted her experience tremendously moving forward. “My parents constant struggle to remain in America defined my childhood, but it was…
In this past week the class read a short story written by Sherman Alexie. The name of this particular short story is “Superman and Me.” The story is actually an autobiography he wrote about his younger years as a child on an Indian reservation on up until he made something of himself. Alexie used many different strategies to get his point across to his readers. He wanted his readers, especially young Indian children, to become inspired from his life story and prosper into their fullest potential.…
One time there was a violinist named Bert Flapp who wanted to become famous really bad he was good at playing the violin,but he wasn't the best.He tried so hard to become famous practice every night.He went on stage one night to try to win the competition for best violinist.Sadly he lost.He was so upset for years he wanted to win this competition it would of made him number one. He thought maybe if he won his dad would accept him back into the family. Since Bert told his dad he wanted to be a famous violinist, bert’s dad kicked him out the family and told him to get a real job.His dad wanted him to work in the coal mines like him or anything else other than playing a violin. Since he lost the competition , he was very upset . So he went on…
Not every boy has the same luck like Mark Salzman. Many of them try to fight against obstacles, and many of them lose their hope when they fight against obstacles because they still lived at Juvenile Hall. For instance, Francisco is another boy at Juvenile Hall. He used to be a very bad boy, so the staffs that worked in the prison always said that he was a big troublemaker. However, he felt sorry about what he did to his mother. In order to pay for the Attorney's fee, his mother borrowed a lot of money from the others. Not only did she borrow the money, but she also sold out all her stuffs. This made Francisco feel guilty when he faced his mother. He wanted to carry her in his arms and cry. However, he said he would never do like that because he had to pretend that he was stronger that he had been before. He made sure that he won’t ever make his mother worry again. Therefore, he didn’t want to send his letter to his mother even though the whole writing class inspired him to send…
One night at the North Forbes Park district of Makati, there was an old man who happened to lie down on his couch alone in his living room. He was thinking about his humble past, his soaring achievements in the course of his long life as a simple individual. And he knew very well that in reality, life has never been easy for him. He knew that he wasn’t born to be the man who he is right now. Most likely, fate must have been cruel on him as a child. All he knew was that he was once just a dreamer, probably a wide dreamer in a sense of view meaning that early had he learned by heart that is not bad to dream after all. Like a rags-to-riches fairytale claiming that “a dream is a whish your heart makes”, never had he imagined to reach the very peak where he is today, the extraordinary Cinderella man who people look up to right now. As a towering magnate in society who has become an inspiration to many, he never expected his impact in a society’s economy would be so towering, a legacy that has sprouted from the pure hard work of a third world individual. He was that impoverished little boy from long ago who came from a far away land to set up his seeds of ambition and industriousness in this foreign land that has opened a lot of doors to him. Had he not done so, he wouldn’t be sitting in his comfortable wooden bungalow mansion right now. This luxury log cabin alone is worth $2 Million with its wooden materials exclusively brought over from North America. He once spent many years of his life living in a small condo unit. He knows all the hardships of life better than any…