...these events it’s called contemporary world literature. In Junot Diaz’s story “Drown”, contemporary literature is clearly shown through the characters Yunior and his mother. The characters issues and how they deal with or “drowning” in them is a way to see contemporary literature used. In Drown, the characters are drowning in the everyday events of their lives which recur because of their lack of purpose, or direction. “Drown” is a short story about a boy named Yunior who is currently living with his mother in a run-down apartment and who wants to be with Yunior’s father, who left her to be with another woman in Florida. The mother continues to dream fruitlessly of a reunion with her husband, even though she will not risk taking the measures she needs to make it happen. She will neither cut off conversation with him completely and move on, nor accept the invitation he gives her. According to the story, he has told her, "if she moves down there (Florida) he'll leave the woman he's living with" (1246). She remains in limbo, suffocating, instead of moving in one direction or the other. Though she remains home she misses the man, because she would still reach out to him hoping one day he would come back. Even on the phone with him, “she sounds hurt or nervous” (1246). Another thing that made the narrator feel as if he was drowning was his confusion over his sexuality. His homophobic experience with Beto, his friend, was a lot for him to deal with. He says, “My mother tells me...
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...you don't have friends, you'll never win. You'll never feel better about yourself.” Although fears are hard to face, it’s often worth the struggle to stand up to fears. In Junot Diaz’s short story collection, Drown, the main character Yunior and his family from the Dominican Republic, often come face to face with their fears in the United States, but can’t take their stand. In “Negocios,” Yunior’s father immigrates to America and struggles to earn enough money to bring his family over, and ends up cheating on Yunior’s mother. Yunior later connects with this woman. In “Fiesta, 1980,” Yunior faces his harsh cheating father while deliberating...
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...Horse in the Night" is a story that blurs the lines of reality and our narrator's dream, putting it into the category of magic realism. The story begins with the setting of our narrator's home, when she gets a surprise visit from her lover. After a hot drunken night with Beto, Chiquita is tortured after the police come looking for him. The police then start breaking her belongings and torture her for information about her beloved. The theme of this story uses a stereotypical female who is only wanting love and a man who is only wanting a bed for the night. Both of our main characters are flat, as we know hardly anything about them let alone their real names. This story is fiction however the events seem all too real, especially to a female reader reading from a female's point of view. Mrs. Dutta Blog Mrs. Dutta is a heartfelt short story about a woman who moves to America to live with her son's family after their strong suggestion. The point of view this story is written in is third person; as an outsider telling the events. Mrs. Dutta, being the main protagonist in the story, is struggling to adapt to her new life in America. The biggest change that Mrs. Dutta is struggling with is being a housewife stereotype. The most interesting thing about Mrs. Dutta is the subplot containing her flashbacks back home and the conversations between herself and Mrs. Basu. Being such a round character, Mrs. Dutta shows a lot of progression at the end of the story by finally admitting to her...
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...difficult decision, so congratulations to our 2012 winners. Dillon Jay Hageman Dillon is a local Las Vegas player and a freshman at UNLV. He plans to major in Engineering or Computer Science and apply his education to designing games. In his essay, Dillon talked about how games have given him a positive outlet when dealing with some tough personal circumstances. There are a million different reasons to play games, and everyone has their own unique story. I’ve had a tough childhood. My parents got divorced when I was just six years old and my dad hasn’t been in my life worth mentioning ever since. … Throughout my younger years I was one of the most athletic people I’ve ever known. Injuries and family issues caught up to me, and sports faded out of my life. … For some people, games are just a way to pass time. Games for me have always meant just so much more than that. When I lost the ability to compete in sports, games supplied that thrill of competition for me. More than anything though, they allowed me to escape from life for short periods of time and kept me sane when things were difficult. … I’m majoring in engineering/computer science because games have done so much for me and I want to help design a game...
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...is now very old it is useful to reflect on current television programmes to consider the relevance of Horton and Wohl's observations. The original page numbering has been noted to facilitate citation. Please refer to the pagination provided and the source shown above (Horton and Wohl 1956) rather than citing this online extract. [start of p. 215] One of the striking characteristics of the new mass media - radio, television, and the movies - is that they give the illusion of face-to-face relationship with the performer. The conditions of response to the performer are analogous to those in a primary group. The most remote and illustrious men are met as if they were in the circle of one's peers; the same is true of a character in a story who comes to life in these media in an especially vivid and arresting way. We propose to call this seeming face-to-face relationship between spectator and performer a para-social relationship. In television, especially, the image which is presented makes available nuances of appearance and gesture to which ordinary social perception is attentive and to which interaction is cued. Sometimes the 'actor' - whether he is playing himself or performing in a fictional role - is seen engaged with others; but often he faces the spectator, uses the mode of direct address, talks as if he were conversing personally and privately. The audience, for its part, responds with something...
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...> 168159 CD >m Gift of YALE UNIVERSITY With the aid of the ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION 1949 OSMANIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Call No. Author %&V/S#/ 2-^ & Accession No. - . This bookihould be returned on or before the date last marked below. WHAT IS LITERATURE? JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Translated from the French by BERNARD FRECHTMAN PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY NEW YORK Copyright, 1949, by Philosophical Library, Inc. 15 EAST 40th Street, New York, N.Y. Printed in the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword I II What Why is Writing? Write? Whom Does One Write? 7 38 III For IV Situation of the Writer in 1947 161 Index 299 67 FOREWORD want to engage yourself," writes a young imbecile, "what are you waiting for? Join the Communist Party." A great writer who engaged himself often and disengaged himself still more often, but who has forgotten, said to me, "The worst artists are the most engaged. Look "If you at the Soviet painters" "You want tres is to murder An old critic gently complained, literature. spread out insolently all Contempt for belles-let- through your review." A petty mind calls me pigheaded, which for him is evidently the highest insult. An author who barely crawled from name sometimes awakens men accuses me of not being one war to the other and whose languishing memories in old concerned with immortality; he knows, thank God, any number of people whose chief hope it is. In the eyes of an American...
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...S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II www.ibscdc.org 1 Transformation Corporate Transformation Korean Air: Chairman/CEO Yang-Ho Cho’s Radical Transformation A series of fatal accidents, coupled with operational inefficiencies snowballed Korean Air into troubled times. Then, at the beginning of the 21st century, its CEO/ Chairman, Yang-Ho Cho undertook various transformation initiatives - for instance, improving service quality and safety standards, technology integration, upgrading pilot training, better business focus; putting in place a professional management team, improving corporate image through sponsorship marketing, etc. He gave a new corporate direction in the form of '10,10,10' goal. However, Korean Air is held up by a slew of challenges. Among which are inefficiencies of - Chaebol system of management, possible clash of its cargo business with its own shipping company, limited focus on the domestic market and growing competition from LCCs. How would Korean Air manage growth as a family-owned conglomerate? The case offers enriching scope for analysing a family business’s turnaround strategies, with all the legacy costs involved. Pedagogical Objectives • To discuss the (operational) dynamics of Korean Chaebols - their influence/ effects on the country’s industrial sector and the economy as a whole • To analyse how family-owned businesses manage the transition phase - from a supplier-driven...
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...Territorios de diferencia: Lugar, movimientos, vida, redes Arturo Escobar Departamento de Antropología Universidad de Carolina del Norte, Chapel Hill Territorios de diferencia: Lugar, movimientos, vida, redes Arturo Escobar Departamento de Antropología Universidad de Carolina del Norte, Chapel Hill © Envión Editores 2010. © Del autor Primera edición en ingles: Duke University Press. 2008 Titulo original: Territories of Difference. Place, Movements, Life, Redes. Primera edición en español Envión editores octubre de 2010 Traducción: Eduardo Restrepo Arte de la cubierta: Parte superior basada en un grabado producido por el programa Gente Entintada y Parlante, Tumaco, a comienzos de los noventa. Parte inferior, basada en una ilustración tomada de Los sistemas productivos de la comunidad negra del río Valle, Bahía Solano, Chocó, por Carlos Tapia, Rocío Polanco, y Claudia Leal, 1997. Mapas: Claudia Leal y Santiago Muñoz, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá Diseño y Digramación: Enrique Ocampo C. © Copy Left. Esta publicación puede ser reproducida total o parcialmente, siempre y cuando se cite fuente y sea utilizada con fines académicos y no lucrativos. Las opiniones expresadas son responsabilidad de los autores. ISBN: 978-958-99438-3-0 Impreso por Samava Impresiones, Popayán, Colombia. Contenido Prefacio Agradecimientos Introducción: regiones y lugares en la era global Lugares y regiones en la era de...
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