ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP REFLECTION “ANY GIVEN SUNDAY” - COMMUNICATION 1. Movie Summary / Synopsis American Football is a popular team sportin the United States. With roots beginning in 1869‚ the full contact sport has become known as a defining feature of American culture. Players are regularly hit by opposing teams with a huge amount of force and this poses huge risk of serious injuries such as concussions. Professional athletes in the sport
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In “Those Winter Sundays” Robert Hayden conveys a parent’s love for their family. He does not understand why his father is so resilient to provide for his family‚ nor does he question it. The author speaks of his astonishment in lines 19-20 where he says‚ “What did I know‚ what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices.” Another subject shown by the author is isolation because although his father works each and every day out of love‚ he leaves his child without a father. He exemplifies his
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“A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” had a style that‚ once I took a closer look‚ surprised me somewhat. The painting seems to be made with many dots. It’s very impressive that the artist took the time and had the talent to use dots in such a way. Of course‚ it may have been the type of brush he used‚ or it is a painting technique that I do not yet know‚ but it certainly adds to the feel of the painting. I was also curious about the border of the painting. Rather than not have a border or having a simple
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Similar to me‚ the speaker “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden‚ had a different view on love as a kid and love as a mature adult. Acts of love‚ as kids‚ appear to be what parents are supposed to do‚ not things parents want to do to make your life easier as they love you‚ an important realization that comes with maturity. Parents constantly attempt to provide opportunities for their children‚ even without the best circumstances. When the speaker was a young boy‚ he never considered the action
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parental love need not be shown in obvious ways‚ it can be shown in the simplest forms but it may be hard to notice or appreciate it at the time it is given‚ but is always there. In “those winter Sundays‚” Robert Hayden stated a lot with very few words. Hayden’s ability to incorporate a lot of meanings to his word‚ and paint pictures in the minds of his audience‚ of his dedicated father and his family who showed no gratitude to him was possible due to brilliant use of imagery‚ metaphor and sound
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The poem Those Winter Sundays is about the relationship of the author and his dad. In this poem‚ he uses literary elements to show the reader what he senses and what is happening in his surroundings. Imagery is used many times‚ and he uses them so he can show what is going on and is easy for the reader to understand like the sounds he hears and the visions he sees. Imagery in this poem really created a vivid image for the readers to see in his “shoes.” in other words he uses imagery for people to
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In the poem‚ “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden‚ the author uses subtle symbolism to reflect the speaker’s distant relationship with his father. The title of the poem immediately tells the reader that the poem takes place in winter‚ a time that connotes both coldness and gloominess. Hayden starts his short‚ redolent poem by writing that the speaker’s father put his clothes on in the‚ “blue black cold” (Hayden line 2). The reader instantly feels the cold and iciness inside and outside the house
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In the poems “Sunday Mornings” by Oscar Penaranda and “Some keep the Sabbath” by Emily Dickinson‚ the speakers challenge the idea of traditional worship by reflecting on how they perceive God in nature. Neither speaker feels it is necessary to attend a traditional church with a congregation in order to have a strong faith. Both poems utilize impassioned diction‚ auditory imagery‚ and figurative language to express the speakers’ attitudes. The diction is “Sunday Mornings” is picturesque‚ whereas the
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Literary Analysis Essay Linde Betsens Thomas Van Der Goten‚ Els Schoonjans‚ Joanna Britton English Language and Textual Proficiency III 23 April 2014 Imagination and Biblical themes in William Blake’s poem “To The Evening Star” Some say that imagination has no boundaries‚ but in fact it does and this concept preoccupied William Blake. Blake – an English poet‚ engraver and mystic of the late 18th century – believed that imagination is “the body of God” (Frye et al. 50). Thus it is not surprising
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The clocks seem to speak for time‚ but in fact they represent the human marking of time. Time exists as a continuum‚ but clocks take the concept of time and force a structure on it. In this way‚ the clocks speak for time far less than they speak for society’s rules and conventions.The formatting of the poem reinforces this notion. The rhyme scheme is an abcb defe pattern that demonstrates the dichotomy between the constant flow of time and the structure forced upon it by society. The unrhymed lines
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