...…………………………………………..2 2. Statement of Objectives of the Study.....…………………………………………..2 3. Method of Study ..…………………………………………………………………..2 4. Chapter wise summary and critical analysis...……………………………………3 5. Theoretical framework & Relating to practical aspects..………………………..5 6. Learning and Conclusion ...............……………………….……………………….7 7. Group Working and Team Roles…………………………………………………..8 8. References...................................................................................................................12 Page 1 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY The Godfather, written in 1969, by a renowned Italian-American author, Mario Puzo, is based on the organized crimes that New York witnessed post World War II. The book opens with the wedding of Connie Corleone, daughter of Don Vito 'The Godfather' Corleone, head of the most powerful of the five great Mafia clans or 'families' of New York. He is a paradigmatic mafia don. Don Corleone is shot at by a new contender for power in the city, Virgil 'the Turk' Sollozzo, who plans to obtain power by the lure of vast profits in the drug trafficking trade. In Don Vito’s absence, his elder son Santino Corleone assumes the responsibility of the don to manage the family business. Hearing of his father’s news Michael returns home and during his hospital visit saves his father’s life from yet another murder attempt. These incidences filled Michael with vengeance and he plans to kill Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey and convinces Santino and Tom (family’s...
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...Paul Privitera MGMT 5894 The Leadership of Michael Corleone Biographical Sketch Michael Corleone, played by Al Pacino, is the main character in the Godfather movie trilogy. He is the youngest son of Vito Corleone, and brother of Sonny, Fredo, and Connie Corleone. In the first Godfather, Michael is introduced in his 20’s. He was enrolled in Dartmouth college, but to the chagrin of his family, he dropped out to join the Marines during WW II. He was awarded for his military service in the Pacific, and re-enlisted at Dartmouth. Michael did not want anything to do with his the Corleone family business. His father knew that he was destined for better things as well, and wanted him to go into politics. However, as his father got older and the mafia landscape evolved, Michael was forced to involve himself. After an attempted assassination on his father, Michael felt it was his duty to defend his father. In retaliation, Michael suggests that the people that tried to murder his father must be killed. He decides that he will be the one to avenge his father, and kills both men in a restaurant. Shortly after, Michael flees to Sicily for two years. While in Sicily, he got married to a woman named Appollonia. After he is married, he learns that his brother Sonny was killed back home. His wife was then killed by a car bomb which was intended for Michael. Since Sonny was murdered, Michael decides to return home to serve as the new heir apparent to the Corleone family. ...
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...Division of Arts and Sciences Communications Department ENGL 1220-C1607 – Composition II Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:25 PM August 20, 2013, to December 12, 2013 MCC Center Campus B-112 Instructor: Sharon Cicilian Email: cicilians@macomb.edu Phone: 586-286-2145 Mailbox: B-111 Office Hours: By appointment only Required Texts and Materials McMahan, Elizabeth, et al. Literature and the Writing Process: Backpack Edition. Boston: Pearson, 2011. Print. ISBN: 978-0-205-73072-8 Schwartz, Linda Smoak. The Wadsworth Guide to MLA Documentation. 2nd ed. Boston: Cengage, 2011. Print. ISBN: 978-1-111-34737-6 Students will also need a notebook for note taking, college-ruled, loose-leaf paper for assignments and quizzes, and black or blue pens. It is also strongly recommended that students purchase a folder or binder to store their course materials in. Required and suggested materials can be purchased at the Macomb Community College Bookstore. Course Description Prerequisite: ENGL-1180 or ENGL-1210 No credit after ENGL-1190. The focus of this course is the writing of critical essays based upon readings in literature, and the further development of writing skills learned in ENGL-1180 or ENGL-1210. The course places extensive emphasis upon research. Students who have completed ENGL-1190 successfully should not take ENGL-1220. Students will not receive credit for both. (3 credit hours) Course Outcomes Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course the student will...
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...At the age of 68, Connie Chung was a trail blazer for women and Asian – Americans in the television journalism industry for over three decades. She has worked for four of the major news networks, received numerous awards for both her reporting and her contributions to society, and has interviewed everyone from the president of the United States to actor Marlon Brando. It is because of these accomplishments that I am nominating her to receive this award. Connie was the only child out of her parent’s five daughters to be born in the United States. Her family had just moved to Washington D.C. for her father’s job, when Connie was born on August 20, 1946. Being one out of five girls, Connie says “I could never get a word in so, I was the quite little sister.” Coming from the Chinese culture, she wanted to compensate for her father not having a boy. She said “I always wanted to be the son that my father never had, so I was going to make Chung memorable.”...
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...I am Connie Nappier IV. The name has spanned my family’s lineage for five generations. (That was no typo, I do mean five... and no, I have no children to speak of!) Legally speaking, I am Connie Nappier IV, but in actuality I am the fifth. My great grandfather, born Connie Nappier Jr. took the title of senior after his father walked out on the family. Since then, the name has been passed on, without waiver, to the one son that each of the men of my namesake have helped conceive. For every person that I have told this story to, one question has not failed to be asked… “So are you going to name your son Connie?” The Nappier name, in itself, holds a long inundated history that would place a weight on anyone’s shoulder. In the midst...
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...teenage girl named Connie. Originally, this story is based on a tragic case of murders in history. The writer uses these events in the main character's life as a trigger to speed up her adolescence. This makes Connie is a dynamic character on the reason that her persona changed from the beginning of the story towards the end. The story begins with Connie’s mother pointing out all of her daughters flaws and comparing them to her older sister. She says “stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you’re so pretty?” and “What the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk.” She is a strict parent so that Connie will turn out like her sister, instead she accidentally hurts her mentally. Connie’s behavior is fueled by her mother’s expectations to grow up in her sister’s footsteps. A number of people would see that Connie is only putting up this act so she could be seen differently by her family and friends. She even has thoughts that she wished her mother was dead and she was dead too, so that her life would have no more problems. That...
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...game. That historical game was the Washington Senators against the Philadelphia Athletics. While the Senators won that game (much to President Taft's pleasure) the Athletics went on to have a fantastic year and eventually took home the pennant at the 1910 World Series. The Athletics were led by a man named Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy who was responsible for making the Philadelphia Athletics a force to be reckoned with. Known to all as Connie Mack he was born during the Civil War in East Brookfield, Massachusetts. He started out his career in baseball as a catcher for the Washington...
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...Throughout the story, Connie is portrayed as having inconsistent character. She has different personalities when she is home and when she’s out or at school. She’s very concerned about how she looks to others and is constantly checking herself in the mirror (Oates 244). At the end of the story, it seems Connie is changed after she tries, and fails, to call the police. It seems that Connie has lost her will when it’s said that “She was hollow with what had been fear but what was now just an emptiness” (Oates 254). Connie no longer felt in control of her own body, thinking about her heart “for the first time in her life that it was nothing that was hers, that belonged to her, but just a pounding, living thing inside this body that wasn’t really hers either” (Oates 254). As Connie walks out the door, she feels as if she is watching herself from outside of her body. She does not own her body and is no longer in control of it, and she gives in to Arnold Friend. In the excerpt “Night March” from “Going after Cacciato” by Tim O’Brien, a new soldier, Paul Berlin, is feeling overwhelmed by his circumstances and the recent death of his friend...
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...Connie is the main character in the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”. She is what one would call a stereotypical 15 year old girl. She has an obsession with looks, as expressed in the quotation “…habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking people’s faces to make sure her own was all right” (316). She also has a desire for a relationship with a boy. Connie tries acting like an adult, wanting to seem older than she is. Throughout the story, we see Connie’s attitude develop from a girl desperately trying to be an adult, back into a scared little girl. The arrival of Arnold at her doorstep (321) causes her to quickly realize the realities of adulthood, and it is not at all what she imagines. Connie was pulled out...
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...fifteen year old girl named Connie is forced to grow up entirely too fast by a man named Arnold Friend. Without meaning any harm, she flaunts herself around town acting like a mature woman, showing the world she thinks she ready to grow up. Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” illustrates how evil and manipulative one man is to a not so innocent Connie. Although Connie thinks she wants her independence as a woman, Arnold Friend, who is not who he seems to be, destroys her youthful innocence and introduces her to a world of evil. Connie begins to find independence in her appearance. She is constantly admiring herself in the mirror and being scolded for it by her mother. She tries to make herself sexually attractive in search of her own independence (SparkNotes Web). Connie goes out with her friends and flaunts her beauty and body, making herself look interested in older men; she thinks she is doing no harm when she is flirting. Like most teenagers, Connie wants to express her independence by going places alone with her friends. Being only fifteen, she is not able to drive, so she is dependent on the older people in her life. Connie is resentful of not having her full independence, but her family and friends constitute as the only life she knows. While Connie believes she is only making herself look older in order to appear beautiful, she is actually luring an older man who can quite possibly destroy her. As Connie enjoys her independence as...
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...In the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates we are introduced to a character named Connie. Connie likes to sneak out with her friends and hangout with boys who are older than her. One night Connie was asked to go to dinner by a boy named Eddie. When they are walking through the parking lot they come across a man in a gold convertible that says “Gonna get you, baby” (Oates 862). Then a few days past by and Connie is home alone while her Mother and sister went out for a family barbeque. While Connie is alone she notices a car coming up, she realizes that it’s the same gold convertible she saw that one night with Eddie. The reader finds out the the owner of the gold convertible is a man name Arnold Friend....
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...young girl named Connie and her uncomfortable encounter with a man named Arnold Friend. Many critics believe that the short story had almost a dreamlike impression. In the story, Oates incorporates several binaries and repetitions to underscore the theme of reality versus fantasy. First and foremost, Oates begins the story with an internal/external binary. Oates describes the protagonist, Connie, as a young fifteen-year-old girl who spends most of her time thinking about her appearance Oats writes, “habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was...
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...es. Oates is trying to teach us about stranger danger. Connie the main character is stuck between reality and fantasy. In the 1960’s Connie and her friends are going to a local diner to hang out with the older teenagers. This where Connie met a boy named Arnold Friend. In the story, the author is using symbolism to mainly talk about the purpose of meeting Stanger in public. In the beginning, Connie view the car as important symbol of independence, power and freedom. When she first recognized the car “she draw her shoulder up and sucked in her breath with the pure pleasure of being alive” (Oates 201).When Connie noticed the car “convertible jalopy painted gold” she knew it was Arnold Friend. When she first saw Arnold “Connie slit her eyes...
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...the author presents the main character Connie in daydreaming and fantasies of love songs and moments she encounters with boyfriends. Being in a teenage, Connie uses most of her time vanished in recognizing herself as well as her place in the world. Her mother has even realized that Connie usually daydreams because when she compares her two daughters, she praises June because of her commitments in various duties, but she notes that Connie does nothing, but she is just occupied with “trashy dreams” (Keilbach,1). Through Connie’s daydreaming conduct that is portrayed all through in the story, I believe that her...
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...The Effects of Distress in the Mind In “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, Arnold Friend is a manifestation of Connie’s subconscious. Illustrated within the passage Connie, who is under emotional distress, seeks salvation from her family life. Neglection and abandonment from the family, subconsciously induced depressed and rebellious impulses within Connie. Arnold Friend is a figment of her imagination whose persona helps combat her depression with fear, this makes her stronger and more independent. On account of the neglection and lack of attention on Connie from her family, it is inevitable that Connie would become depressed and attempt to seek help. Subconsciously, Connie’s desperation for help goes to the extreme of conjuring up an imaginary male figure to help her in a time of despair. In the story, Connie's Father plays a...
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