...The Catcher in the Rye: A Struggle to Preserve Innocence Adolescence is a crossroads for many, there is the natural gravitation toward adulthood as that is the next logical step in life, or for others, like Holden Caufield, it is means never growing up. William Faulkner once said ‘The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.’ This applies to Holden at his core. He is a teenager struggling to balance his need for preserving childhood innocence and his desire to become an adult. In contrast to all adults whom Holden sees as riddled with flaws and phoniness, he sees children as pure, gentle, innocent, and perfect – frozen in time. His need to become the protector of the innocent or the “catcher in the rye” is deeply rooted in the traumatic loss of his younger brother Allie, along with his own fears of changing and growing up. This is what drives him to protect Phoebe and Jane as he might feel that if he can protect two people he loves from the thing he fears most, he can also protect himself. Holden was traumatized by the death of his brother Allie, sensitizing him to the reality of unjust death and suffering. His family’s impersonal approach to Holden’s expression of grief may have been an important contributing factor in the way he deals with figures of threatened innocence. Jane’s interactions with Holden occur a summer apart from the death of his brother. Holden states that ‘She was the only one, outside [his] Kanal2 family, that [he]...
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...There are two Holden's in this play. One is the character and the other is the narrator. His honesty is entirely internalized. He admits his faults and lies in narration, but can't do the same with other people. I personally like reading stories where the main character is telling the story. In this way, I have noticed some contradictions in Holden's personality. He criticizes everyone in society because they are being phonies when he lies all the time leading him to be a phony himself. Right from the beginning of the story he starts to "shoot the bull" with his history teacher, Mr. Spencer, who had flunked him. In chapter 3, his first line is "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life." Even as he's leaving Pency Prep, he gives a fake name to the mother of one of his classmates. It seems to me, his criticism of the world first lies within himself. He has shut himself out from the world, which makes him an outcast. And by criticizing everything around him, it seems to be a way for Holden to justify how the world is a bad place and to grow up and leave adolescents behind is just something that no one should do. Holden's journey takes him though a cross section of American society. From school, to bars, to the city, to his family, I think Salinger wants to portray how widespread phoniness has become. His relationship with his brother D.B. used to be something he respected until he moved out to Hollywood. Hollywood was a good place for Salinger to use because it's a...
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...Catcher in the Rye Essay Innocence Themes in literary works are recurring, unifying subjects or ideas, motifs that allow us to understand more deeply the characters and their world. In The Catcher in the Rye, the major themes reflect the values and motivations of the characters. Some of these themes are outlined in the following sections. As its title indicates, the dominating theme of The Catcher in the Rye is the protection of innocence, especially of children. For most of the book, Holden sees this as a primary virtue. It is very closely related to his struggle against growing up. Holden's enemy is the adult world and the cruelty and artificiality that it entails. The people he admires all represent or protect innocence. He thinks of Jane Gallagher, for example, not as a maturing young woman but as the girl with whom he used to play checkers. He goes out of his way to tell us that he and Jane had no sexual relationship. Quite sweetly, they usually just held hands. Holden comforted Jane when she was distressed, and it bothers him that Jane may have been subjected to sexual advances from her drunken stepfather or from her date, Holden's roommate, Stradlater. Holden's secret goal is to be "the catcher in the rye." In this metaphor, he envisions a field of rye standing by a dangerous cliff. Children play in the field with joy and abandon. If they should come too close to the edge of the cliff, however, Holden is there to catch them. His attitude seems to shift near the end...
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...Curtin Business School (CBS) School of Marketing Unit Outline HOSP2000 Hospitality Industry Management Semester 2, 2015 Unit study package code: HOSP2000 Mode of study: Internal Tuition pattern summary: Note: For any specific variations to this tuition pattern and for precise information refer to the Learning Activities section. Seminar: 11 x 3 Hours Semester Fieldwork: 1 x .5 Days Semester This unit contains a fieldwork component. Find out more at the fieldwork education website: ( fieldworkeducation.curtin.edu.au ) Credit Value: 25.0 Pre-requisite units: Nil Co-requisite units: Nil Anti-requisite units: Nil Result type: Grade/Mark Approved incidental fees: Information about approved incidental fees can be obtained from our website. Visit fees.curtin.edu.au/incidental_fees.cfm for details. Unit coordinator: Title: Name: Phone: Email: Building: Room: Dr Jong-Hyeong Kim +618 9266 4389 jong.kim@curtin.edu.au 408 2006C Teaching Staff: Name: Phone: Email: Building: Room: Jong-Hyeong Kim +61 8 9266 4389 Jong.Kim@curtin.edu.au 408 2006C Administrative contact: Name: Phone: Email: Building: Room: Kelly Nowak +618 9266 3882 Mktg@curtin.edu.au 408 2014 Learning Management System: Blackboard (lms.curtin.edu.au) HOSP2000 Hospitality Industry Management Bentley Campus 28 Jul 2015 School of Marketing, Curtin Business School (CBS) Page: 1 of 7 CRICOS Provider...
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...1)How does Atticus Finch represent the ideas expressed by President Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address? Why? Atticus represents the ideas of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address because in the court case, he works hard stress the importance of the jury needing to be fair and treat all people equally. “‘Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal,’" (Lee 274). Atticus states this because he knows that the jury is biased, but he’s dedicated to trying to level the playing field, have the jury treat all men equally, and in doing so he’s representing the ideas in the Gettysburg Address, because he’s fighting to make sure the Union’s soldier didn’t die in vain, and that all men are equal. 2)How does the theme presented in the poem by Langston Hughes relate to the verdict handed down to Tom Robinson? Does the verdict represent the ideas expressed by President Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address? Why? The theme of Langston Hughes’ poem represents the unfairness of the verdict that was given to Tom Robinson, and how it doesn’t represent President Lincoln’s ideas from the Gettysburg Address. Langston Hughes refers to the justice system as a blind goddess, and in doing so he’s saying that just like a goddess the justice system has a lot of power over the fates of people, and just like a blind person the justice system is impaired. In Langston Hughes’s poem the goddess is impaired...
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...1. Review the Prepare tab where you’ll learn about New Heritage and its corporate strategy; 2. Navigate the Analyze tab to view detailed financial reports at the divisional and company levels. Here you can also evaluate projections for each of the available projects; 3. Proceed to Decide tab to submit your final project decisions for that year; 4. The simulation advances to the next year and presents the financial results of your investments. The Case Study is a real-world case study, which will help you to know what’s going on in the real corporate world. Curtin University has bought the copyright from Harvard Business School and paid almost half of the Finance Simulation: Capital Budgeting, New Heritage Doll Simulation for each student. The simulation is a useful software and tool containing all information and calculations in order to help the CEO to make capital budgeting decisions. Curtin students only need to pay $7.50USD to use this simulation software. Please submit your simulation online and written document electronically through Turnitin on the Blackboard (Assessment/Case Study/Case Study View/Complete). You can play the capital budgeting simulation as many times as you want before the submission. For example, if...
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...year’s investment plan using any evaluation criteria you deem appropriate. There is more detailed information provided in the case study and you also can: 1. Review the Preparetab where you’ll learn about New Heritage and its corporate strategy; 2. Navigate the Analyze tab to view detailed financial reports at the divisional and company levels. Here you can also evaluate projections for each of the available projects; 3. Proceed to Decide tab to submit your final project decisions for that year; 4. The simulation advances to the next year and presents the financial results of your investments. The Case Study is a real-world case study, which will help you to know what’s going on in the real corporate world. Curtin University has bought the copyright from Harvard Business School and paid almost half of the Finance Simulation: Capital Budgeting, New Heritage...
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...Language Critique Assignment “Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts” Education is not simply learning things; it is learning to learn things. In his classic essay “Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts” William G. Perry Jr. of Harvard University in 1963, using a mix of anecdote and analysis, humor and seriousness, considers the different kinds of answers students tend to give on exams and how they reflect on different kinds and ways of thinking. Perry Jr. categorizes, questions, and attacks the academic arrogance that surrounds the age-old learning style of curriculum based instruction that is used throughout school systems. He uses key terms such as bull and cow. Besides, he uses emotive language that makes the essay rich of knowledge. He discusses the problem of the theory of knowledge in terms of grading "bull" and what he names "cow." The incident that impelled him to write is interesting. Briefly, one Mr. Metzger (a pseudonym for a Harvard student, class of '47) rocketed to celebrity/notoriety after impulsively and for no apparent reason taking an exam under the name Smith in a social science course for which he was not registered and which he had never attended. Cheerfully, I gather, he wrote an essay discussing a book he had never read. The scandal resulted when, because a real Smith was absent, Metzger's essay was graded and returned-with an A - . It is relevant to the resultant controversy that a conscientious friend of Metzger who had taken the course received a C+...
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...faith. Stanza 1 I. Explain interpretation of the poem II. Explain the interpretations throughout Stanza 1 III. Demonstrate how T.S Eliot captures the senses of the reader Stanza 2 I. Explain the interpretations throughout Stanza 2 II. Explain how the folly is resembling T.S Eliot’s own battles with finding faith Stanza 3 I. Explain the interpretations throughout Stanza 3 II. Compare how the poem relates to the Christian faith Conclusion Thomas Stearns Eliot, also known as T.S. Eliot is one of the greatest poets in the 20th century. He was a poet, critic, and a dramatist during the modernism period. T.S Eliot was born in America but later moved to the United Kingdom where he settled and became a British subject. He attended Harvard University, Merton College, and Oxford. One of T.S Eliot’s most intriguing poems is the poem Journey of the Magi is a poem written about the story of the Magi, the three wise men who traveled to Bethlehem to see baby Jesus. T.S. Eliot’s poem is referring to the story that is told in Matthew 2:1-12. The poem, Journey of the Magi, has many different hidden meanings but all have a connection to the Christian faith. Journey of the Magi is written in a perspective form one of the Magi’s that traveled to Bethlehem to witness the birth of Jesus and to bring the new baby gifts. A common interpretation of this poem is that it is the journey that T.S. Elliot converting to the Christian faith. In the first section of the poem there are many physical...
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...Nguyễn Lê Việt Anh - 1314140007 Anh 28 – CTTTKT K52 December 21, 2014 CO150 College Composition 2014: Fall 2014, Instructor: Phuc Vu Project 3: Annotated bibliography Academic Actions, Academic Integrity Chace, William M. “A Question of Honor.” The American Scholar 81.2 (2012): 20-32. Academic Search Premier. Web. 22 Mar. 2013. Chace raises our awareness about many problems that American higher education is confronting such as the decreasing of quality and student integrity. At first, he pointed out the declining of academic quality. The tuition fee is raising, but the outcome is not. Then he tells us the biggest reason that causes the problem – it is academic dishonesty. Later, Chace highlights why students cheat and how college cheating damages academic integrity and harms collegiate institutions’ reputations. Finally, he strongly states “To do nothing is not an answer”; therefore, we must find some solutions. William Chase is both President and Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University. The American Scholar, the publisher of this article is a very famous magazine in American, as they describes themselves in the website “The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won five National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest...
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...MANAGEMENT REPORT BATNA Basics: Boost Your Power at the Bargaining Table www.pon.harvard.edu Negotiation Management Report #10 $50 (US) Negotiation Editorial Board Board members are leading negotiation faculty, researchers, and consultants affiliated with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Max H. Bazerman Harvard Business School Iris Bohnet K ennedy School of Government, Harvard University Robert C. Bordone Harvard Law School John S. Hammond John S. Hammond & Associates Deborah M. Kolb Simmons School of Management David Lax Lax Sebenius, LLC Robert Mnookin Harvard Law School Bruce Patton Vantage Partners, LLC Jeswald Salacuse T he Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University James Sebenius Harvard Business School Guhan Subramanian Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School Lawrence Susskind Massachusetts Institute of Technology About Negotiation The articles in this Special Report were previously published in Negotiation, a monthly newsletter for leaders and business professionals in every field. Negotiation is published by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, an interdisciplinary consortium that works to connect rigorous research and scholarship on negotiation and dispute resolution with a deep understanding of practice. For more information about the Program on Negotiation, our Executive Training programs, and the Negotiation newsletter, please visit www.pon.harvard...
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...Derek Bok Summary In the beginning of this article Derek Bok talks about how some colleges across the United States have problems with freedom of speech and racial tension. He begins to tell about how to students at Harvard University hung up two confederate flags on campus. Some students took that as offensive and racist. After that situation happened, a third student hung up a swastika to protest. A portion of the Harvard students urged to take the offensive symbols down, others wanted them to stay because they believed that it was free speech. Some universities came up with a code that makes these symbols banned because it hurts the feelings of others in the community. Bok claims that we should be able to tell the difference between what hurts our feelings and what is protected under the First Amendment. He says that even though speech is protected under the First Amendment does not mean it is right in any form or fashion. Bok says “I am sure that the vast majority of Harvard students believe that hanging a Confederate Flag in public view—or displaying a swastika—is insensitive and unwise”(p.70) Bok believes that these actions were insensitive. He thinks that just because we do not like a certain form of communication does not mean that we have the right to get rid of it. Cities do have the option to limit their amount of communication in the form of graffiti and too much noise, but confederate flags and swastikas are not under that category. Bok says “If we begin to...
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...What are the problems of Harvard housing problems in the case? Vacancies are few, student flow is high What are you feelings as you go through this survey? Yes it is too long. There are answers to some questions in section E that could be retrieved by using student ID. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this survey? Strength: survey is thorough; large number of response; replicable over years. Weaknesses: too long and boring; there are hard questions (trade-off questions); the questions are made out of simplistic assumptions such as locations and features instead of more sophisticated human factors. Recommendations: What can be added to the 2005 survey? More human factors: Entertainment habits, dinning preferences. Allston initiative: Questions that help Harvard build a more favorable community for students. (Facilities, with/without varied school composition, transportation). Faculty members could also be consider as a survey object as they are building Allston community. What can be removed from 2001 survey? Factual questions. What can be modified in the 2001 survey? Merge the trade-off questions into a table with five scales from least important to most important. Questions about transportations should also be changed – public transportation would be different in 4 years. Relate to ourselves --- what if we are to design a survey for our final project? How to design high quality surveys? Factors that we think are important when designing a survey: ...
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...including Nature and Science. In 2004, Hotamisligil was able to demonstrate that excess fat, by itself can cause stress signals and medical problems. In the field of metabolic health and disease it is clear that Hotamisligil has played an extremely important role in its development, with his numerous contributions and many publications in the field. Since starting his career back in the 80s he helped to shape the modern view of metabolic health and took important steps towards understanding underlying causes of Type 2 diabetes and metabolic disease. 2. The agreements between Syndexa and Harvard were complex because the agreements required exemptions to many of Harvard’s internal policies and issues on conflicts of interest. Although both Harvard and Syndexa recognized that a simultaneous execution of a license and sponsored research agreement was necessary. The negotiations between Syndexa and Harvard was not atypical,...
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...9-201-129 REV: OCTOBER 23, 2001 Harvard Management Company (2001) In February 2001, Jack Meyer gazed out of his fifteenth floor office window at a cold Boston Harbor and reflected on the set of issues facing Harvard Management Company (HMC). The HMC Board would soon be reviewing the Policy Portfolio – the long-term asset mix that was designed to balance Harvard’s aversion to risk against its needs for long-term endowment returns. The Policy Portfolio was the cornerstone of endowment management at Harvard, the “neutral” portfolio mix that anchored the central tendency of actual asset allocations over time, as well as the benchmark against which actual performance was measured and incentive compensation was calculated. The Board was also interested in a variety of related issues, including the complexity of the investment strategies employed, the effectiveness of their risk controls, and the design and administration of their compensation systems. The Role of the Endowment Harvard University had been founded in 1636, and from the beginning its endowment played an important role in the financial structure of the institution. As of June 2000, the endowment managed by HMC totaled approximately $18.2 billion. Each of the various schools within the University owned “units” in the endowment, much like an individual would own shares in a mutual fund. Spending from the endowment was distributed pro-rata to all schools on the basis of the units each school owned. The annual spending from...
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