...Graduate Degree essay Why should I pursue a graduate degree? Is a demanding question that is often asked in one form or another among students that have completed their undergraduate degree. This question is a challenging question for many due to situations and circumstances that are taking place in student’s lives. Situations and circumstances include new marriages, new families, demanding careers, as well as, diverse social and networking activities in the church and community. Despite the situations and circumstances that are weighed against the options of pursuing a graduate degree or not pursuing a graduate degree: Choosing to obtain a graduate degree could prepare one for unlimited possibilities in personal, scholastic, or professional endeavors. I chose to pursue a graduate degree to mutually fulfill my life long learning commitment as well as my personal development commitments established before or during undergraduate school. One commitment I made to myself was to increase my self-confidence. It was the same reason I chose to join the US Army immediately following high school; since, I wanted to fulfill the army’s basic training requirements while increasing my self-confidence. Another commitment made to myself was to improve specific networking skills in my current job at UPS. For instance, I committed to improving my interpersonal skills, both oral and written communication skills. By improving these skills, I would be able to relate better with my coworkers...
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...Of all the characters that I’ve “met” through books and movies, two stand out as people that I most want to emulate. They are Attacus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird and Dr. Archibald “Moonlight” Graham from Field of Dreams. They appeal to me because they embody what I strive to be. They are influential people in small towns who have a direct positive effect on those around them. I, too, plan to live in a small town after graduating from college, and that positive effect is something I must give in order to be satisfied with my life. Both Mr. Finch and Dr. Graham are strong supporting characters in wonderful stories. They symbolize good, honesty, and wisdom. When the story of my town is written I want to symbolize those things. The base has been formed for me to live a productive, helpful life. As an Eagle Scout I represent those things that Mr. Finch and Dr. Graham represent. In the child/adolescent world I am Mr. Finch and Dr. Graham, but soon I’ll be entering the adult world, a world in which I’m not yet prepared to lead. I’m quite sure that as teenagers Attacus Finch and Moonlight Graham often wondered what they could do to help others. They probably emulated someone who they had seen live a successful life. They saw someone like my grandfather, 40-year president of our hometown bank, enjoy a lifetime of leading, sharing, and giving. I have seen him spend his Christmas Eves taking gifts of food and joy to indigent families. Often when his bank could not justify a...
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...Keith Williams Delite Gross Film appreciation 7 November 2013 A Film ahead of its time In the film the Graduate by Mike Nichols is considered one of the greatest films of all time for good reason. The film dealt with issues such as older and younger relationships, sex, lust, and infidelity in a unique method that had not been done at the time. Because of this the film has now become the blueprint for many films today such as Risky Business and The Heartbreak Kid. One of the main issues that the film talked about was older women dating younger men. Benjamin Braddock’s and Mrs. Robinson interesting yet unholy relationship was ground-breaking at the time of its release. The reason it was so groundbreaking was because during the 50s and 60s certain things where not discussed or talked about in film, radio, or television because at the time many those issue where to not be discussed and this topic was one of them. The idea of a women cheating on her husband was brilliant enough but add to the fact that Mrs. Robinson was an older woman who in fact, could be Benjamin’s mother, and she was cheating on her husband with a younger man and he was a family friend strictly and how she personally seduced him into the relationship, was just genius and scandalous. The thought of infidelity like this happening at the time was never before thought of especially, since the age difference was so huge and because Mrs. Robinson was married. This vision of Mike Nichols that something like...
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...The Graduate – 1st person narrative My name is Benjamin and I’ve just graduated as a teacher. Now I’m home, and I’m waiting for a party. It is because that my parents are proud of me because I’m now able to become a teacher. Actually, I didn’t enjoy the party at all. I had so many things on my mind that I didn’t care about all the guests. I know that they just wanted to congratulate me, but I just didn’t enjoy it as much as I could. You see, now when I’m done with my graduation my life and mind has become very trivial. The days look like each other, and I don’t know what to do anymore, so I have to think about it. I have to think a lot..about everything. I went up to my room to think, but someone suddenly came in of the door. My father had a business partner and it was his wife, Mrs. Robinson, who was there. She wanted me to follow her home, and I felt like i had to do it because she wasn’t sober..at all! I drove her home. As soon as we arrived at her house I wanted to go back home, but she had other plans. She tried to seduce me. She even got bare naked and let me see her. She told me that she was avoidable for me, but I just wanted to go home so I did so. However, after travelling a lot I wanted to see her and have sex with her. So I arranged a meeting with her in a hotel. But because of that I only got problems because I felt in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, Elaine. And I don’t know how to make her mine; because I’ve had sex with her...
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...The Graduate The Graduate is 1967 film that was based on a 1963 novel, The Graduate. I have viewed both the screenplay and the trailer of this film. The trailer took important scenes and presented them in such ways that could actually change the plot of the movie in some ways. The trailer combined so many key shots of the film that gives you just enough to engage you emotionally and spark your curiosity. As the trailer begins you immediately hear an asynchronous sound (Sikov, 79) of background music. The song playing is The song of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel (wikipedia.com). The trailer opens up with a long shot of a young man sitting outside in front of a fountain and there’s a flag waving right above him. The camera then cuts to an extreme long high shot to capture the entire landscape of the university and students walking around the campus behind the young man. The next few shots are various close-up shots complied together that shows several people coming up to Ben rubbing his head and hugging him congratulating him on his graduation. You hear a one lady ask him “what are you going to do now?” And his reply was “I was going to go upstairs for a minute”. This showed that he was definitely clueless that the question pertained to his future career. In the first thirty seconds of the trailer you are already aware that the movie is based on a guy named Ben who just graduated college and with only a few spoken words you can derive to the conclusion that he is undecided...
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...[pic] Aston Martin Graduate Scheme Application Form |In order to consider you for our graduate opportunities it is necessary for you to complete this application form in full. | | | |Prior to submitting this application form: | | | |Make sure you have answered all of the questions | |Complete the declaration form and criminal history pages | |Save your form in the following format: Surname_Forname_1st Choice | |E-mail the form once complete to graduates@astonmartin.com in either Word or PDF format. | | ...
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...Graduation Speech It has been a long four years, but here we are, ready to graduate. We worked hard to get to this point, but we did not do it by ourselves. We owe a huge debt of appreciation to our teachers for sharing your talent, knowledge, and time with us. We know it was your job to do it, but you made sure we stayed focused, and reached our goals. You took time to explain assignments, and allowed us to come to your classroom after school for extra help when you could have gone home to spend time with your family. You put in effort to make lessons more interesting so we would not tune out. You demanded excellence from us whether or not we wanted to give it. To our parents, thank you for supporting us in more ways than it is possible to count. You dragged us out of bed each morning, made sure we were fed and clothed for school. You made sure we was out the door on the bus stop on time, or drove us to school yourselves. You helped us with homework, paid our class fees, and listened to our complaints. You commiserated over our daily dramas, but you tried to give us enough space to learn how to work things out for ourselves. To our custodial staff and lunchroom attendants, thank you for keeping our school clean and safe. To our principal, vice principal and all the office staff, thank you for keeping things running smoothly so our teachers could concentrate on us. To our guidance counselors, thank you for listening and trying to keep us on the right track for graduation...
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...Before you start writing your application for Unilever, you’ll need to have done this essential preparation: * Checked Unilever’s application timetable * Researched Unilever’s internships and graduate schemes * Reviewed Unilever’s graduate competencies Key thing to remember if you want a graduate job at Unilever: Unilever’s graduate programme is specifically designed to train graduates as managers, the idea being that they will be ready to take on a management role after two years. If your career goals don’t include management, then this may not be the scheme for you. If you’re sure the scheme is right for you, it’s important to keep this in mind throughout the application process. Make sure you learn Unilever’s key competencies (tellingly called ‘standards of leadership’) and take every opportunity to demonstrate your leadership potential in your application form and at interview. Answering questions on Unilever’s graduate application form Each competency and motivation question on Unilever’s graduate application form must be answered within a maximum of 250 words. For each of the questions, Unilever helpfully provides a list of additional questions you should address in your answer. It’s important to look carefully at these, because this is extra information that Unilever recruiters want from you, and which any good candidate would provide. Question one: ‘What attracted you to apply for the Unilever Future Leaders Programme? What attracted you to your chosen...
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...Mike Nichol’s “The Graduate” A Real Graduate In Mike Nichol’s, “The Graduate” Ben (a shy, antisocial, college graduate) who attended school on the east coast for four years -more than likely to get away from his parents- returns home to his family and a life full of high expectations, confusion, and a love triangle. Most parents who want their children to be successful, ideally, would not want to have full control over their child’s career path. Unfortunately, this is not the case for Ben. The day he came home his parents threw him a graduation party -considering none of his real friends were invited- that was really for Mr. Braddock’s (Ben’s father) friends and business partners to associate. Though, the average 20 year old would be thrilled to receive a car for graduating college (or on any occasion for that matter). When Ben’s parents surprised him with an Alfa Romeo or as his dad’s guests might say “A wop-job” he didn’t seem too excited. After he became irritated with all the bogus compliments about graduating college, he raced up to his room to escape the madness. Thinking he was alone, Mrs. Robinson (one of Mr. Braddock’s business partners) walked into Ben’s room intentionally and exclaimed, “Oh I’m sorry, I thought this was the bathroom.” Afraid of her impeccable presence and his lack of experience with a woman, Ben becomes extremely nervous as she bluntly invited herself to sit on his bed. But her demanding tone of voice and her promiscuous personality was just the first...
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...should be quite familiar with the term. Even though many professionals are involved in its creation, the director is the one that oversees the entire mise-en-scène and all of its elements. Not just that, but during the early stages of pre-production, the director or his AD sits down with set designers, prop masters, location managers, costume designers, and scenic artists to determine the look and feel intended. In some instances, the mise-en- scène is used to evoke lasting feelings throughout the movie and not just for selected scenes. In the German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), distorted shapes and claustrophobic scenery is implemented to disturb the audience and enhance the horror. Mike Nichols’ The Graduate (1967) has been praised by its amazing, exciting, and multi-layered visual...
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...The Graduate (1967) Mise en scene is an every complex technic that director Mike Nichols usually to portray seduction Between the main charterers of The Graduate (1967) The film follows the protagonist Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), As a recent college graduate who has achieved High standard and remain intellectually focus until recently he struggles to find a way in his life. Benjamin was force to drive Mrs. Robinson home, which leads to the seduction scene. As they walk in Mrs. Robinson seduces Ben and lets him know that she is available by the way she acquired of her jacket . She stalls him with drinks, puts on some music, As she open her legs with the director shooting a low angle to show that Mrs. Robinson is in control. Ones Mrs. Robinson feels that she losing control of Benjamin she force him upstairs. Next thing he knows, Mrs. Robinson has locked the door and is standing before him, glaring naked with Benjamin point of view shoot which the director show that Mrs. Robinson change his mind when led him to the hotel room the next day. In The scene when Benjamin encountered Mrs. Robinson in the hotel room, the shot was taken so seriously, with such stylish of clothing and the energy the humor is just fantastic. Mrs. Robinson's waiting to blow out her mouthful of smoke the way she focuses on rubbing the stain off her collar made Benjamin bang his head, This show how cleverly Mrs. Robinson stimulations Ben into doing what she wants. Benjamin as a confused and isolated...
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...The Graduate Scene Analysis/Review Like literature, film is full of areas which can have deeper meaning than the actions occurring at the moment in the story. The magic of film however is that these actions can be visibly seen and can do this not only with the script but with camera angles, music, sounds, lighting and many other factors that would have to be imagined in a novel. One film that clearly uses this to its advantage is Mike Nichols “The Graduate” which is centered on Benjamin, a young man who finds himself in a love-based dilemma with a woman and her daughter. The film nearly abuses these techniques to create a masterpiece with both a meaningful and enthralling story. One scene that stands out from the rest in the movie is in a montage where Benjamin finds himself drifting in water and making the beast with two backs with the older woman. However, this montage comes to an abrupt stop when Benjamin hears his father’s voice calling to him in a rather upset tone. There is then a cut to a close up on the fathers face, blocking out the sun and giving him a darker more authoritative appearance. This creates the illusion that Benjamin’s father represents the strictness of reality compared to Benjamin’s drifting. And as the upset father talks to Benjamin about the life that he is wasting it becomes apparent that Benjamin’s laid back appearance lacks control when compared to that his father. Another noteworthy scene is after Benjamin buys gifts for Elaine, whose family...
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...comprised of different types of questions such as closed ended, open ended and liker-scale questions that provides greater accuracy on the different aspects that should be tackled in each question. The questions are also created after doing research on finding out the problems or issue that are currently the most prominent when talking about unemployment so that the information gained from the survey would be of great help to access the main problem. The survey is conducted in a shopping mall, specifically in Sunway Pyramid, where a wider scope of audience can be reached. The surveys were then handed out to 10 random people that have graduated or are going to graduate from their higher education. This methodology is very reliable as it is made sure that the people who had completed this survey only consists of graduates or people that are in their final year in university and are going to face this situation of unemployment very soon, showing a result that is more 'true' to the current situation. Also, as different types of questions were used for different questions, a greater accuracy of the public's opinion could be obtained. Lastly, the survey questions were created after doing tons of research so that the biggest problem in this issue could be addressed within the questions that the people...
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...There are quite a few great movies that came out in the 1960’s, The Great Escape, Bullitt, and A Fistful of Dollars. Another exceptional movie of the 60’s was the movie The Graduate starring Dustin Hoffman. The movie embodies the issues that were part of the 60’s and the conflicts that were faced during that period in time. There was a lot of exploration of how people could be their own individual and express themselves as individuals. I am going to discuss the plot and the story of the movie. I want to discuss what makes this movie special and memorable for the audience such as the acting and camera techniques used. Also talk about the soundtrack that was used for the film and what made the soundtrack special. Overall, I want to discuss all the aspects that made this movie one the best movies in history. The Graduate stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, a recent college student who just graduated. He returns home to be greeted by his parents and they want to throw him a welcome home party to congratulate him for his hard work. During the party all the relatives and neighbors ask him what his plans are but he tries to get away upstairs. Upstairs he finds Mrs. Robinson sitting in a couch drunk and offers to take her back home. When they arrive at her house she starts flirting with Benjamin but rejects her at first. He decides to go ahead with the affair but later realizes there is nothing between them so he wants to break the affair off. The next day his mother...
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...dfdfdd kjkj df The 1967 film by Mike Nicoles “The Graduate” is about Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who is at a crossroads in his life. He is caught between adolescence and adulthood searching for the meaning of his upper middle class suburban world of his parents. He then began a sexual relationship with the wife of his father’s business partner, Mrs. Robinson. Uncomfortable with his sexuality, Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson continue an affair during which she asked him to stay away from her daughter, Elaine. Things became complicated when Benjamin was pushed to go out with Elaine and he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson sabotaged the relationship and eventually the affair between Mrs. Robinson and Benjamin is discovered. Understandably, Elaine runs back to college. Benjamin follows her to school determined not to let her get away and ultimately disrupted her wedding. In the end, Elaine runs off with Benjamin uncertain about her pre-determined destination. “The Graduate” cannot possibly begin to unravel the several very complex themes that run throughout the film. The coming of age story as the film attempted to relay a message of innocent being push in an unwanted direction through a society filled with expectations. It focuses on the development and the maturing of the young college graduate and his journey from child to adult as well as sex and relationship. It captures what it is to be young, restless, skeptical and confused. It is reflective of a time when...
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