something he didn’t want to be. Gregor was always responsible. He was a traveling salesman‚ and still took responsibility for his family. He was always up on time which showed he was responsible and cared for his job. All the payments were on him and that didn’t even give him the opportunity to have a relationship with someone. For example‚ the picture he had of the woman that showed he didn’t have anyone special in his life. How could he anyway? All he did was work and think about the family payments
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The bombardment of Pearl Harbor is seen as significant not solely because of its level of catastrophe‚ but also considering the fact that it caused Americans to join together in a war effort. Before‚ Pearl Harbor‚ the country was divided due to the fact that not all Americans wanted to be a part of World War II; however‚ after Pearl Harbor‚ the decision to go to war became unanimous. Pearl Harbor motivated Americans to fight for what they believed in‚ even after World War I debilitated them of most
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........................................................3 1. Early life…….………………………………………………………………………...4 2. Ford’s first car….……………………………………………………………………...4 3. Ford Motor Company….……………………………………………………………...5 4. Ford’s philosophy of management….………………………………………………...6 5. World War I…………………………………………………………………………..8 6. Final years…………………………………………………………………………….9 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….11 Reference………………………………………………………………………………...13 “You say I started out with practically
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In Joan Didion’s "Los Angeles Notebook" her portrayal of the Santa Ana winds includes a unique‚ "Twilight Zone" tone. Her utilization of foreboding vocabulary made an uneasy tone and complexity of the Santa Ana’s with regular life. Didion’s utilization of complex components‚ for example‚ parallelism‚ difference‚ and imagery passes on that by and large‚ the robotic Santa Ana winds speak to differentiation of a regular‚ normal existence with the stress that accompanies the Santa Ana winds. The movement
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Paris 36 starts with confession by the protagonist Pigoil(Gérard Jugnot) to a police officer‚ accused of murder. It turns to a flashback to the year 1936 depicting the unstable district in a Paris faubourg‚ suffered from depression and the rising pool of involuntary unemployment. Pigoil has lost his lifetime job in a liquidated musical hall and his wife runs off with another man. More miserably‚ Pigoil cannot keep the custody of his beloved son- JoJo(Maxence Perrin) because of his financial inability
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concept of cool. One of the essential characteristics of cool is its mutability—what is considered cool changes over time and varies among cultures and generations.[1] Nick Southgate writes that‚ although some notions of cool can be traced back to Aristotle‚ whose notion of cool is to be found in his ethical writings‚ most particularly the Nicomachean Ethics‚[2] it is not confined to one particular ethnic group or gender. Although there is no single concept of cool‚ its definitions fall into a few
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In Joan Didion’s‚ “Los Angeles Notebook‚” Didion utilizes an uneasy tone to characterize the Santa Ana winds. Her choice of words creates an uncanny feel to the text which gave a description to the life people in Santa Ana live. The Santa Ana winds changed the behaviors of people it touched‚ made people act differently‚ and even took a toll on the residents’ health. Didion’s usage of many stylistic elements such as syntax‚ diction‚ and figurative language greatly contributed to her essay‚ in the
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Case Study 1: Tree Values Within this case‚ forest landowner Joe Smith was given an offer to sell some of his timber. Within his forest he has a variety of trees‚ according to Karen Benet only a select few of his trees are worth selling. The central problems Mr. Smith faces are how many of his trees he should sell‚ and when he should sell them. According to Ms. Bennett‚ Mr. Smith has 300 trees per acre‚ but only 60 crop trees per acre‚ out of 40 acres. Out of these 60 crop trees‚ 30 are 12”
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The Significance of the title‚ “Fences”‚ and how it relates to the characters. Many people tend to over look family and relationship problems. May people sit around and watch the struggles‚ the drama‚ and the happiness of relationships built and destroyed. Not many people can understand the circumstances or the thoughts of the people involved in the “tragedies’ or the “fantasy”. Troy‚ Cory‚ and Rose express the deepest problems or “fences” throughout the most of the scenes. The emotion given off
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achieves this by careful word selection in his description of the future. Phrases such as "old and gray‚ "full of sleep‚ "nodding by the fire‚ "slowly read‚ "dream of the soft looks” all serve to calm readers‚ lull them into the same drowsiness that the narrator imagines the subject of his poem will be in so many years’ time. The punctuation enforces this feeling‚ by heavy use of commas to slow the pace of the sentences. The second stanza is an expression of his love for her‚ claiming that only he loved
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