...1. Tell us about the book's structure. Is it a continuous story or interlocking short stories? Does the time-line more forward chronologically or back and forth between past and present? The book begins with a conversation between Lord Henry and Basil, a painter. Where Basil shows him his painting of Dorian Gray. That is where the story starts. The story has one flashback, what I remembered. That was at the first pages of the book, Basil telling the Lord how he met Dorian. The book interested me because of the time it is wrote in, 1890. The story took place in the Great-Britain, London, to be precise. 3. Think about the role that social class and/ or gender plays in the novel that you've read. What social classes are represented in the novel? To what extent is each class/gender depicted? How does class/gender influence the choices that are available to the characters and the decisions that they make? What I see is that Lord Henry is a rich Lord, and what I also see is that he is interested in art. Basil, the painter, is a loved painter by Lord Henry, and a friend too. He is neither rich nor poor. He belongs to the upper classes of the painters in his region. The other person is Dorian Gray, he is wealthy and belong to the same social class as Basil. You see that the Lord belongs to a higher social class, that is one of the reasons why he has influence on Dorian. When Sybil fell in love with Dorian, Dorian is more wealthy then she is, Dorian broke with her. She is so...
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...matter of art can include things that are morbid, because "the artist can express everything." The artist’s instruments are thought and language. Vice and virtue are the materials of art. In terms of form, music is the epitome of all the arts. In terms of feeling, acting is the epitome of the arts. Art is both surface and symbol. People who try to go beneath the surface and those who try to read the symbols "do so at their own peril." Art imitates not life, but the spectator. When there is a diversity of opinion about a work of art, the art is good. "When critics disagree the artist is in accord with him [/her] self." The value of art is not in its usefulness. Art is useless. CHAPTER 1 In a richly decorated studio an artist, Basil Hallward talks with a guest, Lord Henry Wotton about a new portrait he has standing out. Lord Henry exclaims that it is the best of Hallward’s...
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...titular characters descend into madness. However, the similarities in their stories end there. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the nominal character is selfishly chaotic, thus, his madness can never be forgiven. Contrarily, Hamlet, in the play titled after him, becomes deranged...
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...Book Review: Button, Button: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson | | |Available from Tor in the US and UK | |Trade Paperback, 208 pages | |April 2008 | |Retail Price: $12.95 | |ISBN: 0765312573 | | | |Review by Sheila Merritt © 2008 | | | |Richard Matheson has been thrilling readers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror for decades. | |Matheson’s initial contributions were to the SF magazines, although there was always a leaning toward | |the macabre: his first sale was a short story about a mutant, entitled “Born of Man and Woman,” 1950. | |That title was used for his first collection in 1954: 17 stories, mainly science fiction. His | |screenwriting began with the adaptation of his novel The Incredible Shrinking Man (novel 1956, film | |1957). For those of a certain...
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...Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, is a children’s book written and illustrated by E.L. Konigsburg. In 1967, Konigsburg published the book, along with her other book, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Jennifer, Hecate won the Newbery Honor Book Award in 1968, while Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal, making Konigsburg the only author to win both awards the same year (Admin 1). The story follows Elizabeth, the new girl in town, as she makes friends with a witch named Jennifer. Together, they kindle a friendship that provides a good story, and a significant lesson. Elizabeth and her family move to a new town, and with no friends, she walks by herself through a desolate path to school. While...
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...legend tells of a learned doctor who sells his soul to the devil in return for knowledge and magical abilities. Although Dorian Gray never contracts with the devil, his sacrifice is similar: he trades his soul for the luxury of eternal youth. • He is the last Lord Kelso's grandson. His mother was a Devereux, Lady Margaret Devereaux. Poor chap was killed in a duel at Spa a few months after the marriage. They said Kelso got some rascally adventurer, some Belgian brute, to insult his son-in-law in public. He brought his daughter back with him, I was told, and she never spoke to him again. The girl died, too, died within a year. • Lord Henry insists that “no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.” • Dorian enters, and he relates the story of his engagement, which was precipitated by his...
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...unquestionable impact on the British Empire and has become one of the most important figures in British Imperial history. The rapidity of his progress in South Africa is quite phenomenal; from the age of 37 he had become the Prime Minister of Cape Colony, and was part head of De Beers Consolidated, a diamond mining company which possessed a near monopoly of the global diamond market. However, this essay will claim that Rhodes as a businessman was not the main element in his imperial notoriety, prioritising NM Rothschild & Sons finance and subsequent corporate decisions over those made specifically by Rhodes. I will argue that Rhodes’ significance was mainly to the detriment of the British Empire, as his political blunders and capitalistic short-sightedness greatly tarnished public opinion towards Empire - nationally and internationally - and facilitated Britains losing independence in the Boer war of 1899. Rhodes’ methods were questionable to say the least, and his ability to strengthen Britain, whilst at the same time tarnish her long standing reputation as justified sovereign of her colonies was, impressive, to say the most. It has been said that Rhodes’ impeccable success as an imperialist can be greatly accredited to his success as a businessman. For it was his speculation in diamond and gold mining proper which facilitated his amass of wealth. Needless to say, the role of international financiers have been historically undermined, allowing Rhodes’ business acumen to be wholly...
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...described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat. Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961. From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company,...
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...From the Writer “Dorian Gray the Escape Artist” is the culmination of my work in my WR100 seminar, Fantasy at the Fin-de-Siècle. The final assignment was to create a research paper based on an interesting problem or paradox I had found in Oscar Wilde’s book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. For me, one of the book’s most fascinating elements was Dorian’s immature behavior; though he grows older, he never seems to “grow up.” At first, I investigated how my idea related to aestheticism and what Dorian’s immaturity showed about aestheticism; however, I could not find a solid way to prove my thesis. My greatest problem was being unsure of how writing a paper based on a research problem in The Picture of Dorian Gray constituted a researchable argument and not just a literary analysis. Hoping to gain a different perspective on the assignment, I met with fellow classmates to talk out my problem. It turned out that they were having the same issue with their essays, and through discussing my paper with them, I realized that my topic was too narrow to be easily supported by sources; the idea of Dorian growing older without growing up was interesting but could not easily be supported with sources outside the novel itself. With this in mind, I modified my thesis, claiming that though Dorian Gray demonstrates aesthetic behavior in The Picture of Dorian Gray, his fascination with artistic things serves less to pursue aestheticism and more to evade his dark past. In this manner, I argued,...
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...will accompany it or you will make your own way. Edgar Allan Poe narrates a situation in which making dilemma and concluding murder, feeling of guilty, and addiction in his story Black Cat. Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He was 34 when the story Black Cat was produced. The Black Cat was first produced in the United States, The Saturday Evening Post on August 19, 1843. As the story begins, the narrator is in jail awaiting his execution, which will occur on the following day, for the brutal murder of his wife. At that point, the rest of the story is told in flashback, as the narrator pens “...the most wild, yet homely narrative...whose events have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed him.” The story, which is whole text, has many adaptations. For example, Universal Pictures made two films titled The Black Cat, one in 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and another in1941 starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone. Both films claimed to have been "suggested by" Poe's story, but they don’t resemble to the story. The middle segment of director Roger Corman's 1962 anthology film Tales of Terror combines the story of “The Black Cat” with that of another Poe tale, “The Cask of Amontillado”. This version stars Peter Lorre as the main character (given the name Montresor Herringbone) and...
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...to anybody. This was evident in many of his works. The only novel he ever published, The Picture of Dorian Gray was brimmed with the idea of aestheticism. Not only was the book an example of his beliefs, it reflected many other areas of his life as well. Oscar Wilde’s upbringing, personal beliefs, and behavior greatly influenced the ideas of indulgence, morality, and aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Picture of Dorian Gray is about a young boy (Dorian Gray) who moves to London. When he first arrives, he is the purest form of beauty in every sense the word. He is described to be extremely beautiful and good of heart. He is innocent to the point of naivety and this is causes everybody around him to admire him. His best friend, Basil Hallward, is quite fond of him. When the scene opens he is speaking with his friend Lord Henry Wotton, where he raves about his new found companion (Dorian)...
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...Certain individuals have a drive that can lead them to achieve what they desire most. In the Short story “The Rocking Horse Winner”, D.H Lawrence shows this through character motivation and symbolism. He furthers this using pursuit of desire, and how if you take it to a certain extent it can result in tragedy if the individual chooses not to conform. Paul wants to please his mother because his mother feels that there family has no luck, but Paul believes that he is lucky. Paul suddenly becomes consumed with this sudden spree of good luck and feels this is the only way he will be able to gain to the affection of his mother. D.H Lawrence reveals that Paul has a certain flaw that turns him to believe that the only way he will be able to gain his mothers love and affection is by winning money in the horse races. He leads this pursuit of desire to the standards he thought he wanted to, but not to the standards that would have achieved what he wanted, which leads to his down fall. When individuals desire love from another, they may choose to conform their beliefs and actions to that person. At first they may feel successful, however if they sacrifice everything, in pursuing this kind of goal, they may pay a heavy price instead of gaining there hearts desire. Paul desire his mother’s love more than anything. However he believes he needs to prove he is lucky. He struggles to prove that he is to make his mother happy. Paul wants his mother to love him more than anything. For Paul’s...
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...28 Long Range Planning, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 28 to 36, 1992 Printed in Great Britain 0 002+6301/92 $3.00 + .OO 1992 Pergamon Press plc Managing Strategic Change Strategy, Culture and Action Gerry Johnson One of the major problems facing senior executives is that of effecting significant strategic change in their organizations. This paper develops a number of explanatory frameworks which address the links between the development of strategy in organizations, dimensions of corporate culture and managerial action. In considering such linkages, and by illustrating them with examples from work undertaken in companies, the paper also seeks to advance our understanding of the problems and means of managing strategic change. A good deal has been written in the last decade about the links between organizational strategy and culture, the problems of strategic inertia in firms, and the need for managers to manage the cultural context of the organization so as to achieve strategic change and an adaptive organization to sustain the change for long term success. Howcvcr much of what has been written, whilst striking chords of reality for managers is frustrating because it lacks precision in explaining links between organizational culture, strategy and managerial behaviour. This paper seeks to help remedy this situation. It does so by clarifying the links between the development of strategy in organizations and organizational culture...
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...History and Analysis in Popular Music:1 Prof. Francis Amora Music of the Philippines: Traditional music:Main article: Filipino folk music Philippine gong music can be divided into two types: the flat gong commonly known as gangsa and played by the groups in the Cordillera region of the bossed gongs played among the Islam and animist groups in the Southern Philippines. Kulintang refers to a racked gong chime instrument played in the southern islands of the Philippines, along with its varied accompanying ensembles. Different groups have different ways of playing the kulintang. Two major groups seem to stand-out in kulintang music. These are the Maguindanaon and the Maranaw. The kulintang instrument itself could be traced to either the introduction of gongs to Southeast Asia from China from before the 10th century CE, or more likely, to the introduction of bossed gong chimes from Java in the 15th century. Nevertheless the kulintang ensemble is the most advanced form of music from before the late 16th century and the legacy of hispanization in the Philippine archipelago. The tradition of kulintang ensemble music itself is a regional one, predating the establishing of borders between the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. It transcends religion, with animist and Christian ethnic groups in Borneo, Flores and Sulawesi playing kulintangan; and Muslim groups playing the same genre of music in Mindanao, Palawan and the Sulu archipelago. It is distantly related to the Gamelan...
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...Executive Summary The U.S. Soup Market has been facing a decline in its profitability and sales over several years. The newly emerging consumer trends place higher importance in health, diet, and convenience, and products that benefited these areas are being popularized. Even as the biggest company in the soup industry, Brannigan Foods has been facing a fall in its sales, market share, and profitability in the soup division for the last three years. The loss in market share is likely due to Brannigan’s lack of adjustment to the new consumer trends that have been arising, which many other companies have been able to do. Many small companies have been offering innovative product lines in the soup market which have paralleled the consumer trends and therefore have been receiving positive result, which explains Brannigan’s market share decrease in the industry. Furthermore, there have been increases of Private Labels offered by retailers, which have also been taking Brannigan’s market share along with its shelf space in retail stores. Some of these new products include premade “deli soups”, dry-mix soups, and microwaved packaged soups. Bert Clark, VP and GM of Brannigan Foods’ Soup Division, is to come up with a solution to reverse falling profitability and increase profits by 3% by the next year. After reviewing the suggestions made by his four key managers, the recommendation is that Clark...
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