...Response Paper: Never Let Me Go The screening of the book Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro Kazuo was directed by Mark Romanek, not a very famous director but definitely a hard-working one. The movie includes such actors as Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield who act as the main protagonists of the performance. The movie starts with the final scene of Tommy’s “completion”. Then the viewer is presented with the retrospection of events that leads to this final scene. It is quite different than in the book. The writer tells the story from the very beginning and does not show the ending to the readers. While the movie is created in such a way that in the first scene the viewer knows how it ends, it does not mean that it is not interesting. In contrary it is a very well composed and striking film. From the beginning of the movie the audience is presented with the everyday life of a group of young people: Tommy, Kathy, and Ruth. They seem to be the average persons while in fact they are a part of a big project. They are simply genetically modified clones. They cannot have children, they have to be healthy, and from the very beginning of their lives they are prepared for donations. They give their organs and after one, two or sometimes three surgeries they just complete. Some of these people believe that they can get a deferral. In fact, there is no such thing as deferral and they are meant to die from the very beginning of their lives. Their struggle to postpone the...
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...For our case, we were given 14 firms from 14 different industries and 14 different balance sheets. The challenge is we have to match those 14 cases with 14 balance sheets logically. To start the case, we look at the type of industry we are working on. Overall, the 14 firms consist of 2 main industries, the goods and services industries. There are 5 companies that work in the service industry and 9 companies that Service industry E, G, L, M, N Advertising company corresponds to E because as a service firm, this agency does not contain inventory (0%). The number of inventory turnover is not applicable in this account also because originally they do not have products to sell and the programs or plans they provide to their customers cannot be contained in inventory. They generally provide credit term to their clients which leads to a high amount of account receivable (37%). Since account receivable is high, the company needs to finance their account payable through common stock (25%). In addition, their receivables collection period is high as well (201) because normally a project would take about more than three months to finish. Health maintenance matches with balance sheet G because they have low plant and equipment (only 7%. Building is all they need to work. Similarly, their inventory is also low (0%) since they are Service Company. This explains why the inventory turnover not applicable for this type of business. In addition, they have a high account receivable (51%) because...
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...December 2015 Whether to Let Go Sometimes as stay-at-home mothers, we are forced to believe we only play certain roles in a household. That our only contribution to a household is to cook, clean, and watch the children. Not many people ever figure out how much their mother did until it is too late. Linda Lohman is Arthur Miller’s enigmatic character in “A Death of a Salesman”. Linda Loman goes from being a naïve matriarch, who is there just for household duties to a matriarch ruling over the family. From the daily conflicts, we get a clear comprehension of Linda Loman, who has grown from a figurehead to having full authority. Her metamorphosis is shown by her devotion, protectiveness, and strong-willed. Linda Loman’s devotion is a pivotal detail of her character throughout her passage as matriarch. Within the story, Linda shows devotion, saying to Biff, “He’s the dearest man in the world to me, and I won’t have anyone making him feel unwanted and low and blue” (1477).Linda will not tolerate the boys disrespect. Although Linda is weary of Willy’s illness, her making sure his last days are happy ones shows her devotion to her husband. It doesn’t matter how terribly he treats her, the love she feels and thinks Willy deserves shines through. Another instance is Linda stating, “No. You can’t just come see me because I love him” (1477). Linda Loman’s devotion to her husband super cedes her sons. At this moment, it is made clear to Biff and Hap that while they go about living their lives...
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...Directions to a Meeting Mark: Linda, do you know how to get to Daniels Co.? I've never been there before. Heather: Are you driving or taking the train? Mark: The train. Heather: Right. Take the no. 9 train from Stellenbosch train station. Get off at Bellville station and find a taxi. Go across town and get off at the police station. Once you’re there you can walk north on Park Avenue and Daniels Co. will be on your left hand side. There are also many nice restaurants in that area. Mark: Just a moment, let me write this down! Heather: Take the blue no. 9 train from Stellenbosch station. Get off in Bellville and get a taxi to take you to the police station. Got it? Oh, and don’t leave your bags unattended unless you don’t want them anymore. Mark: Yes, thanks. Now, once I get to the police station, where do I go from there? Heather: Get onto a taxi. Go across town and get off at the police station. When you’re there you should walk north on Park Avenue. Mark: Can you repeat that once more please? Heather: Grab a taxi. Go across town and get off at the police station. Get out and walk north on Park Avenue. Daniels Co. will be on your left hand side. Mark: Thanks Heather. How long does it take? Heather: It takes about a half an hour. When is your meeting? Mark: It's at nine. I'll leave at eight-thirty. Heather: That's cutting it a bit fine. You should leave at eight. Mark: OK. Thanks Heather. Heather: No problem. Justification This text is a dialogue...
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...Harvard Daniel Vorhaus As we follow Kathy, Tommy, and the rest of their clone cohort from their early days at Hailsham to the “completion “of their lives, it is painfully obvious that these clones carry unique names, faces, and personalities. By the time Ishiguro lets us in on his dirty little secret—that society has created these children to serve as biological vessels intended to exist only long enough to reach maturity before their organs are harvested through forced donation. It is too late the as the clones have already established themselves as ordinary people. They laugh, cry, squabble, reconcile, grow old, and they ultimately fall in love. While Ishiguro’s tale has unmistakable air of science fiction to it, it is difficult for the reader to view it as. It should not be a surprise that society that view them as clones, are anything but normal. Tommy and Kathy are every bit the intelligent, compassionate human beings that you and I are, exactly the sort of people that you would want to be friend. If they differ from the society surrounding them it is because of their society’s inability to conceive of them as anything more than “shadowy objects in test tubes”;not because of their conception in a laboratory. Despite this, even those that know them best remain afraid. Review on Never Perspectives Marvin Mirsky growing practice of familial decisions to have an “extra child “for use as a source of organ transplants when needed for earlier or favoured children, has...
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...Let go of your Crutches! A persuasive essay on personal responsibility GEN 200 January 23, 2012 Let go of your Crutches! A persuasive essay on personal responsibility The lack of personal responsibility in the United States is mounting in epic proportions continually putting a strain on our social and economic foundations. Some people search for any and every excuse to try and gloss over their poor decision making. Excuses such as poverty, education disadvantages, and deprived childhood rank as the top three. I will briefly discuss these topics and give examples of successful people who overcame these difficulties and much more to become great. Many people like to use the crutches of financial inequality, academic shortcomings, and absentee parents as excuses for their own personal bad decisions (or for criminal acts) to remain wards of the state. Instead of pulling themselves up “by their bootstraps”, they continue to receive government hand-outs, reside in government funded housing, and collect government subsidies. There are many examples of people who have overcome these and even greater hardships; here are three. Poverty: Oprah Winfrey was born to an un-wed teenage mother who was in such grave poverty, that she had to give her up to her grandmother to rear. Her grandmother was also impoverished and at a later date was returned to her mother. Oprah was somewhat of a rebel, going against the social and racial norms of her time,...
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...997661472 PHL388 05.29.15 Analyzing Giants and How They Should Be Buried James Wood, in his review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, criticizes the work for its use of allegory which he argal and general what is implicit and personal in his best fiction” through the use of allegory. In other words it seems as if Wood believes that an author must more or less place some sort of an onus upon the reader to unearth messages within literary works with a bit of effort, which an allegory fails to do. In The Buried Giant’s case Wood argues the use of allegory “simplifies” and “literalizes”. As a result it is argued to not only discount from this particular author’s general writing style (as compared to his previous works) but more generally makes too obvious what should be left for the reader to, in the process of reading, uncover with a bit of work as opposed to having an allegory hand it to them on a platter. Wood argues the use of allegory fails as it, “points everywhere” and is couple with a fictional setting which is, “feeble, mythically remote, generic, and pressureless” making the work simultaneously literal and vague. He also adds that the use of allegory is, “antinovelistic, because it points away from its own story, gued he overlooks other characteristics which can be argued to be more significant when it comes to judging the success of a piece of literature. Wood may potentially believe that since the use of allegory in The Buried Giant has...
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...the concept of purpose which is defined as” the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.”(Dictionary.com) The clones lack the capacity or will power to create and find their own purpose in life, it is easier for them to go along with what others want them to do. Another key concept in Ishiguro’s novel is passion which is defined as “an intense desire or enthusiasm for something.”(Dictionary.com) The clones lack passion, the do not have the initiatives or the urge to venture out and explore the world around them or find something meaningful to do with their lives. Another major key concept in the novel is perception, which can be defined as “the way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something: a mental...
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...Kazuo Ishiguro paints vivid pictures of scenes from Kathy’s life in his novel, Never Let Me Go, with an unrestrained level of detail, yet it he reveals little to the reader concerning the geography of the world of the novel. The geographical specificity or lack thereof in many cases in Never Let Me Go reflects the sense that Kathy and the characters in the novel don’t have a place on a map or in their hearts that they can feel they belong. The primary manifestation of this idea is Hailsham, where the characters grow up and go to school. Kathy describes Hailsham richly to the reader through minute details which creates a specific vision of the grounds of Hailsham and Kathy’s feelings associated with it. She does this when she describes...
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...Never let me go is a novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro. The story tells of us about a place called Hailsham and Kathy is the antagonist of the story. She narrates about her life and also her memories of other characters . As she tells her story the more the reader realize that something is mysterious about Hailsham. Hailsham is an institute where human clones grow up for the purpose of donating organs to others ,like a donor organ farm. The children somewhat knew their fate but never pressed for more information because they did not want to know. Guardians are the people that watches over the children and educates them, similar to a teacher and even parents. Kathy tells us about her friends and focuses a great deal on Ruth and Tommy since those are two most important characters in this novel. Ruth is Kathy's best friend through the story however they quarrel. Everything about Ruth is told through Kathy's eyes and she tells all of it,...
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...Submission versus Retaliation – Quarter 1 Independent Reading Journal It is in the eyes of common people that life and liberty are reasons to fight for. Perhaps this is a disillusionment created by the promotion of action and resistance in films and the media, demonstrated in the ending of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, when a tight-knit group of clones submit to a predestined life, one where their purpose is simply to live long enough to donate their vital organs, completing, or perishing, in the process. After the first completes, the remaining two lovers, Kathy and Tommy, realize the unique lives they have held for the last thirty years; they were fortunate to be born into Hailsham, one of the only schools for clones that do not mistreat them, but instead promote them and secretly advocate for their rights. Therefore, it is expected by many readers and critics that, upon hearing this, they will lead a campaign against the common people and end the mistreatment of clones. They do not; they stay submissive and succumb to their predestined lives, causing readers to say the ending is not conclusive and does not provide the pleasure of significant closure. However, they fail to see that Ishiguro proves a message with this uncertainty – this idealistically non-conforming ending. He shows that, in certain instances,...
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...Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go”. The futility of relationships in these works is part of what makes the worlds in which they are based seem so bereft of hope and consequently, dystopic in nature. Never Let Me Go is a supreme dystopian example of a modern day 1984 because the authors give hope to the characters and the audience, they both have an intrinsic human emotion to hold on to, and the people’s future isn’t clearly explained. The vision of humanity’s future, the only truly acceptable thing to ‘love’ is Big Brother. The Party restricts all other love so as to break down the ties between family, friends and lovers whilst transferring this loyalty to the Party itself as a form of control. The Party is said to have, “cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and women.” This does not just show the breakdown of relationships, but the reduction of the self. The Party is removing the essential links that allow humanity to be more than a collective of individuals and instead uses this to its own ends, although what these are, beyond a desire for control, we never truly discover. It is partly this lack of knowledge of the Party’s overall goals that makes the situation seem so desperate, it is as though love is being removed without explanation or justification, making the whole process seem devoid of hope as there is no specific element against which to rebel. A similar lack of knowledge also plagues the children of Hailsham in “Never Let Me...
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...Symbolic interaction theory gives great meaning to everything that Michael has encountered in this movie based off of a true story. For instance, he is a homeless teenager trying to fit in. Michael remains quiet most of the time (especially at the beginning) until he feels very comfortable with his life during the end of the movie. He struggles to fit in at school knowing that he does not have the education that his peers do. A symbolic interaction theorist may look at the day that Leigh Anne and Sean picked him up off of the side of the road in the pouring rain and let him sleep on the couch as a symbol of poverty and homelessness. When Leigh Anne finally brought him into their home before he began to feel a part of their family, she took him shopping for some new clothes since his were worn and dingy. This is also a symbol viewing that he was poor and did not have any clothes besides the dirty ones on his back. After buying him a shirt that Leigh Anne thought was unstylish, they stopped by his drug-using mothers house. In the movie symbolic interaction theory of homelessness is shown by the ghetto neighborhood. As Michael steps out of the car by a group of intimidating men he is stern that she better stay in the car until he gets back. The symbols of drug use, a ghetto...
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...Time for School There has been a lot of controversy about students' sleep times. On one hand people believe that students should be going to school later. But, on the other hand people say that having their child go to school earlier or at the same time would be a better option. Many schools also took the matter into their own hands, for example, schools have made students go to school later than normal. Some other schools have done the opposite, and made students go to school earlier than normal. Alot of people think that some schools should let students go to school later in the day. The benefits of this idea would be, students would have a better life in general. (3:3) Students would receive higher grades than before due to more focus and a release of sleep hormones.(3:2) Kids would be able to take in more knowledge of the subject and therefore would be a better student. Opponents to this idea would say that the students that had sports such as swimming, baseball, football, etc. would have less time to play these sports, or would have to play them in the dark. While this is true, the school could implement light so people could see. Another area of...
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...In the article “Let it go: Making Peace with Princesses”, the author Annie Pfeifer uses a wide range of appeals such as pathos, logos and real life experience with her daughter to make their her point to every woman and young girl that many disney princess film don’t encourage creativity or empower young girls to think for themselves. She begins her article by using pathos to explain her own personal disgust towards Elsa, “Not only was Elsa no longer that cool, but...The glittery, gaudy, pink, prissy, princess décor gives me a migraine.” The words gaudy and prissy show her strong disliking towards princesses in general. This personal opinion really connects the author with the audience because the majority of people agree that the repetitive...
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