...Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” is about a boy and his father and their travels walking south in a post-apocalyptic world. On their journey they face and overcome many challenges together. The father is very loving of his son and would do anything to protect him even if that means killing him to save him torturing from the ravages that also walk the streets. The book often references grey skies or a soot covered ground, this suggests that the ground is covered in ash. McCarthy does not give the boy or man a name or their location but it is presumed that they are in the United states. McCarthy does not give a background explanation as to what happened to the world in which the book took place. Its to my belief that the earth was scorched by solar...
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...Hope Where All Hope Is Lost The novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is a post-apocalyptic story that consists of underlying biblical references. McCarthy, with or without intention, incorporates themes and stories directly related to the Christian Bible. The boy and the man are living in a seemingly godless world trying to survive, and the novel describes this as “On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.” (McCarthy 32). McCarthy creates a post-apocalyptic world in which a man and a boy are attempting survive off of hope, and he uses biblical references to exude this hope on their journey....
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...In the novel The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy, a young boy and his father are in a post-apocalyptic society with very few people and available resources, and trying to survive. They travel along a main road, heading towards the coast, and encounter some benefits, yet many obstacles as well. In this novel, McCarthy illuminates the idea that when people are faced with death, it causes them to realize the small happy moments, because they become more prominent and enjoyable. In this scene from The Road, Papa and the Boy are preparing for their first night after the post-apocalyptic event; beginning to comprehend and adapt to their surroundings. Papa is trying to be protective of his son by staying up until the Boy falls asleep. The Boy is...
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...Set in the aftermath of an unnamed apocalypse, Cormac McCarthy's The Road follows a father and son as they travel down the eponymous road attempting to navigate the difficulties of morality while surviving in a world that has lost all vision of society. To this end, the man encourages the boy that they are the “good guys” because they “carry the fire.” The fire is symbolic of what German philosopher Immanuel Kant called the Categorical Imperative, one fundamental principle that guides all of our moral duties by demanding that “one respect the humanity in oneself and in others, that one not make an exception for oneself when deliberating about how to act, and in general that one only act in accordance with rules that everyone could and should obey.” (Jankowiak) As the novel progresses and the...
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...Tutor: College: Course: Date: Carrying light in darkness The short story, “The Road,” is an interesting story about an unspecific journey about an old man and a young boy who set out to wander in fear of the scary incidences that were happening. The land that had once been admired had changed after the apocalypse where animal and plant life had been completely destroyed. The human survivors had become cannibals and would rampage through the streets looking for human flesh. The old man and the boy seemed to be the only glimmer of hope in the land after the mother of the boy committed suicide. The journey of the old man and the boy reflects a journey of hope in dire situations, whose goals, are realized when a man with his family approaches the boy after the old man dies. This paper creates an analysis of how the old man and the boy were able to carry light through darkness. The decay of the land that the old man had been living in is evident through the ash filled ground, barren landscapes, cannibalism, and the loss of hope to the survivors. All of the inhabitants of the land had been demoralized and the only two surviving lucky inhabitants, father and son were struggling to make it through every day. The mother of the boy had given up based on what she had seen about the land and the daily struggle that she had to undergo on keeping herself and the unborn baby. According to an analysis of the mother, she did not want the unborn baby to experience what she was already undergoing...
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...FREEZING OUT BEN & JERRY: CORPORATE LAW AND THE SALE OF A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ICON Antony Page* & Robert A. Katz**† INTRODUCTION The perfect duo. Ice cream and chunks. Business and social change. Ben and Jerry.1 Nobody wants to end up like Ben and Jerry’s, where soon after a multinational acquired it, key facets of its social mission were cut from the company.2 Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. was once the darling of proponents of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.3 It was a for-profit corporation that seemingly did not put profits first. Rather, it pursued, in the parlance, a “double bottom” line, seeking to advance progressive social goals, while still yielding an acceptable financial return for investors. It advanced its social mission in many ways, such as by committing 7.5% of its profits to a charitable foundation; conducting in-store voter registration; and buying ingredients from suppliers who employed disadvantaged populations.4 Ben & Jerry’s founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, held out their double bottom line approach (they called it the “double-dip”) as a model for others who wished to “Lead With [their] Values and Make Money, Too.”5 * Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis. ** Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis and Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. † Thanks to the organizers of the symposium “Corporate Creativity: The Vermont L3C & Other...
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...the opportunity of big data.” — Craig Vaughan Global Vice President at SAP “This timely book says out loud what has finally become apparent: in the modern world, Data is Business, and you can no longer think business without thinking data. Read this book and you will understand the Science behind thinking data.” — Ron Bekkerman Chief Data Officer at Carmel Ventures “A great book for business managers who lead or interact with data scientists, who wish to better understand the principals and algorithms available without the technical details of single-disciplinary books.” — Ronny Kohavi Partner Architect at Microsoft Online Services Division “Provost and Fawcett have distilled their mastery of both the art and science of real-world data analysis into an unrivalled introduction to the field.” —Geoff Webb Editor-in-Chief of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal “I would love it if everyone I had to work with had read this book.” — Claudia Perlich Chief Scientist of M6D (Media6Degrees) and Advertising Research Foundation Innovation Award Grand Winner (2013) www.it-ebooks.info “A foundational piece in the fast developing world of Data Science. A must read for anyone interested in the Big Data revolution." —Justin Gapper Business Unit Analytics Manager at Teledyne Scientific and Imaging “The authors, both renowned experts in data science before it had a name, have taken a complex topic and made it accessible to all levels, but mostly helpful to the budding data scientist. As...
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