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    Future Impacts of MIS on the Glass Industry China looks set to dominate various markets in the near future (Hughes‚ M (2011) Week 3 “IS in a Changing World”‚ MS102‚ National University of Ireland Galway‚ unpublished) The glass industry should be a target for them. China is the best in the world for glass production and consumption. China’s flat glass production accounts for 40 per cent of the world today‚ which is about 38 million tons per year‚ and the processed glass industry is improving quickly

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    Hailey Schwab Block 3B Ms. Cyr 9/19/14 The Glass Castle The memoir entitled The Glass Castle‚ written by Jeannette Walls is a story of the eventful life Jeannette endured growing up with her three siblings and her parents. Jeannette lived a tough life‚ she was constantly moving‚ never had nice clothes to wear‚ and had to grow up faster than most children. The reason for the constant struggles in Jeannette’s life led back to her parents. Her father Rex Walls was outrageous‚ always making spur of

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    Williams uses several symbols in the play‚ The Glass Menagerie. One of the biggest symbols in The Glass Menagerie is Laura’s glass collection. Laura is a shy‚ delicate girl. In a way‚ her collection of glass animals is a perfect representation of herself. Like the glass‚ she is fragile‚ unique and “breaks so easily” (Williams 86). The glass collection can also represent the world Laura sees; a place she goes to explore her imagination. The glass unicorn is the best representation of Laura

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    of space through perspective. But perspective implied continuity between the space of the viewer and that of the picture‚ and this was difficult to sustain when pictures were painted high up on walls. It was even harder when they were painted on ceilings‚ where the logical viewpoint was from underneath. Discuss the different approaches to space in the following two works‚ and why an artist might adopt one or the other. __________________________________________________________________ Annibale

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    Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie uses an extensive pattern of symbolism that describes the characters of Tom‚Amanda‚Laura and Jim.Glass‚light‚color and music constitute the substance of the dominant symbols and motifs‚serving to reveal deeper aspects of characters and underlying themes of the play.Tennessee Williams wrote the play so that each character had a special symbol which resembled their personality.But he didn’t only give the characters of the play a a resembling

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    The Glass Menagerie Communities and society can often set people up to be the same. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams represents this with Laura Wingfield‚ one of the characters. Laura faces the standards in the society in which she lives. They affect her and she responds to these standards. The most important inanimate object in the play is her broken glass unicorn. Laura is a part of all these. Her actions are solely in response to these high expectations and she finds comfort in her material

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    The film Shattered Glass presents the ethical issues of fabrication and the deception of the writer‚ Stephen Glass‚ to his editor and co-workers. He deliberately sensationalized his stories in order to gain his reader’s attention. His facts were partially‚ if not completely‚ inaccurate and he presented notes that he fabricated as facts for each of his pieces at the New Republic. Journalists in the media have a duty to the people to report the truth and follow an ethical code whenever reporting stories

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    Enmeshed. Low self-esteem. Personal struggles of the twenty-first century or those of the past? In his play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ Tennessee Williams portrays a southern family of the 1940’s attempting to cope with life’s pressures‚ and each of their own conflicts‚ after they have been deserted by their father and husband. In attempting to create a modern-day movie adaptation of The Glass Menagerie from the original play‚ a parallel element would still be conveyed to the audience- inner and intra personal

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    In Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie‚ the mother‚ Amanda‚ is very outgoing‚ controlling‚ and manipulative. Tom‚ Amanda’s son‚ provides the support for Amanda and Laura‚ his sister. Laura is very shy‚ self-conscious‚ childlike‚ and handicapped. Tom feels as if he is entrapped by his family and desires to leave. Amanda controls Tom by making him find Laura a gentlemen caller‚ who eventually gains Laura’s affection and then leaves‚ telling her that he is engaged. Each character’s desires

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    Annotating (Glass Castle)

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    Annotating (Glass Castle) Glass Castle Did you notice anything unusual about Jeannette Walls portrayal of poverty‚ or homelessness? * Even though they had bad times with food and other necessities‚ they still were happy as a family * When she was young‚ she viewed life as an adventure and when she got older and in West Virginia she started to see reality of her life and she didn’t want to be seen as the girl who lives in the beat up house and the family that didn’t always have food

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