...Mad Men Season 1 Episode 1 has many scenes, which convey different themes in the show. One scene in particular depicts non-Jewish characters, discussing Jews. The scene, which takes place between Don Draper and Roger Sterling in Draper’s office, was one that really caught my attention. I was a bit annoyed by the conversation that took place between Draper and Sterling. Clearly these men are not Jewish, yet they are carrying on about Jews like it is some bad thing to be a Jew. “Have we ever hired any Jews?” -Sterling “Not on my watch.”- Draper “Sorry most of the Jewish guys work for the Jewish firms.”- Draper “I know, … make them feel more comfortable.”- Sterling “Want me to run down to the Deli and grab somebody?”- Draper The pieces of dialogue above are excerpts from their conversation. When Draper says, “Not on my watch,” it is clear that he is attaching a negative connotation to being Jewish. Then, he highlights a Jewish stereotype when he asks if he should, “run down to the deli and find one.” In this time period of the late 50’s and early 60’s Jews were not well liked, especially by wealthy Christian businessmen. There is a vivid attitude that is shown towards Jews throughout the entire series of Mad Men. The fact that the men don’t even know if they have any Jews working there is insulting. Later in the episode, Sterling gets a Jew from the mailroom to sit in on the client meeting to “make them feel more comfortable.” Overall, the negative connotation that...
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...drama series Providence.[15][16] Hamm made his feature film debut in Clint Eastwood's 2000 space adventure Space Cowboys. His role consisted of one line. More substantial roles followed in the independent comedy Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)[17] and the war film We Were Soldiers (2002).[18] Hamm played the recurring role of police inspector Nate Basso on Lifetime's television series The Division from 2002 to 2004.[15][16] Other television appearances included roles in What About Brian, CSI: Miami, Related, Numb3rs, The Unit, and The Sarah Silverman Program.[15][16] [edit] Breakthrough role Hamm's breakthrough role came in 2007 when he was chosen from more than 80 candidates[14] to portray protagonist Don Draper in AMC's drama series Mad Men, despite...
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...Frankenstein This is an extract from a roman, written by a woman named Mary Shelly. The story is about a man named Victor Frankenstein who is trying to develop a new scientific discovery. He completes his mission and creates a monster. This monster is getting ostracized because of his looks. When Mary Shelly started writing “Frankenstein” she was only 19 years old, and she had just lost an unborn child. That made her think about scientists, who were able to regain life. In this essay I will focus on Victor, as a mad scientist, his responsibility, his self-confidence and my own opinion on Victors morals and personality. In this extract of Frankenstein written by Mary Shelly, she shows us that Victor Frankenstein is a mad scientist by using long descripting sentences to describe how Frankenstein get’s sick in his passion to accomplish his mission. For example “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree;” By writing this, she gives us a chance to understand Victor’s eagerness to complete what he thinks is his duty for mankind. He works while he is sick. A part from that, Mary Shelly also describes how Victor get’s and furnished his materials from a slaughterhouse and a dissecting room. “The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials;” once again by writing this, she shows that he will do almost anything to complete his duty. All from breaking in to a slaughterhouse and steel and use materials, to...
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...that two guys would travel round together, that’s uncalled of out here. But after analysing the situation, I realised that they needed each other and their friendship is what many of the people here would admire and perhaps be jealous of. Who am I to judge? George confined me about the troubles he had with Lennie and with the major problems they dealt with in Weed. It was hard to hear about such a terrible occurrence. I felt deep sympathy for George but I knew that Lennie meant no harm. I can tell a bad guy from a mile off. Still, I was to become quite weary of Lennie. His strength was his biggest weakness. He seemed to be unable to control it. But still, the poor guy wanted a pup, so I gave him one of my lasses mutts so that he could have a distraction. I knew he would kill it but the guy just wanted to pet its fur, what harm was that to a runt? We saw Lennie’s full power when he crushed Curley’s hand in the bunkhouse. I’ve never seen something like it! George told Lennie to get him and by god did he ruin that son of a bitch’s hand. He had it comin’ to him, purposely aggravating the poor fella. Lennie knew it was wrong to hurt the guy but stupid Curley carried on until it was inevitable. Even though Lennie was the one who hurt Curley I felt most sympathy for him, that why I told Curley to not tell no one about it as I wanted to protect George and Lennie. They have had too much trouble already. The rest of the guys on the ranch seek my authority. The ranch guys and I took...
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...For the guys: So, you like two girls. Maybe more, it sucks, torn between them, not knowing which one to go for, right? The bad idea is to go for both (or in some cases, “all”) of them. What I’m here to do is try to help you narrow down which girl you should go for. Not to be mean or picky, but it’s just sort of a guideline. How do I know which one to chase after? More often than not, each of these girls will be different, both in personality or lifestyle. Maybe from different cliques, different cultures, whatever, but I’ll try to go over what I can. Girl #1 - DGAF Chick This is sort of self explanatory… the DGAF girl doesn’t well… give a fxck. She likes to party, flirts a lot, and has fun being single. There’s a good chance that she drinks, hopefully no drugs, but she’s fun to be around. Usually hangs out with a lot of guys, so that could prove, um, “worrying.” The fact that she hangs out with all these dudes can mean that you’ll get jealous, A LOT, and that you’ll get sort of protective of her. The constant flirting also sends off a lot of mixed messages. Do not go for this girl.Chances are, you’ll be happy that it seems like she’s into you up until you find out she’s like that to almost every guy. You got played, son. Girl #2 - The Shy Girl The Shy Girl is usually really cutesy, and usually hangs out with a lot of other cutesy girls too. Probably a little awkward around guys, but in a good way. They’re usually really nice, and actually pretty...
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...how they did that until this film. To be honest it always made me somewhat mad that all my favorite athletes were in the tabloids all the time because they let all that money gets away from them. Little did I know, outside influences were taking everything away from them. It is important to express my overall reaction and also talk about something that really shocked me. First of all, after the film ended I had an instant reaction and opinion on the film and it’s subjects. I really felt for the former players who were thrown into this world of big money, fast cars, and women. There were so many influences that affected the way they spent their cash. For example, these guys are thrown into this world as 18-21 year olds that many had never even cashed a check before. Before they even get that first check people are trying to take advantage of that, as agents and bad parents look out for their own interests. These agents take a big piece of the pie, and sometimes cycle money into personal investments without these young men knowing it. On the other hand, parents start taking money from these young men in order to pay off their mortgages and other debt that has piled up. Then the extended family and friends try to get a piece of the pie as well until, like Bernie Kosar, they end up paying for 5 mortgages or 25-50 people’s cellphones, etc. Besides the agents and parents that try to take money from these guys, there are women...
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...successfully it into a cartoon in 1951. In this video clip we can see Alice seeing Mad Hatter and March Hare in a tea party, all though there are many chairs and tables, there were no one except them. Alice also wanted to join the tea party with them, but when Mad Hatter and March Hare saw her, they said her that’s there's no room for her ,although there were plenty of space .Then Alice apologized and said she enjoyed very much their singing and praised March Hare and Mad Hatter. Then they accepted her in to the party, Alice said it's a very enjoyable Birthday Party, but then said it's not a birthday party, but an unbirthday party, but Alice didn’t understand it, then they explained her what's an unbirthday is. Then they got to know that it's an unbirthday of Alice too. So, they celebrate it by singing a song. Then Mad hatter takes out a cake out of his hat. When Alice blew the candle, it goes p like a firework, and Dormouse comes out of it and he’s falling with the aid of a little umbrella, singing Twinkle,Twinkle. By watching this video, we can obviously see that how successful Disney was, converting the novel into a cartoon. The expressions and acts of the characters that can be seen it this video,show us a great humor which sometimes we can’t get by reading a text. We can also see many nonsense and unrealistic things, such as dancing tea pots, creating a cake out of a hat etc and the way Mad hatter and March Hare talk is simply...
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...advert. Before I saw this advert I thought since it was Christmas it was going to be the best advert I’ve ever seen, with wonderful lovely music. I expected it to be in a Sainsbury’s shop where lots of magical things actually happen because obviously it is Christmas and that is what I’m seeing in most Christmas adverts. To be honest the advert had no message in it. The only I actually got was the fact someone doesn’t know how to fix a Christmas tree and there were steps they could follow. It didn’t make any sense since one would walk into a shop and buy a Christmas tree, take it home, open it up and definitely find a manual in it. This completely made no sense! The advert is basically this homemade video and it all started with a potbellied guy singing a Christmas carol and it was totally horrible he looked like he had been dragged to the set to sing the song... Have you ever sat in front of the television and watched an advert almost four minutes long that did not make any sense? All I see was annoying kids running around a building. You don’t know how much was spent just to make this advent. It cost a fortune that could actually build a house, be donated to charity. And sadly it was wasted on almost a four minute advert that was definitely not worth it. I couldn’t study the advert because it didn’t make sense children hopping around was the most useless thing ever. At some instance because the video was a home video the voice of the characters kind of faded and it became extra...
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...Sarah Bonkowski Brian Heaney ENG 1112 August 26, 2014 Mad World The song Mad World by Gary Jules is about existence. He realizes that there is no point in existence and that life is just very trivial. Gary Jules sees the world as worn out, dry, and wonders if its really worth it. Children are completely oblivious to the outside world. During the time when a child feels so excited about an event that an adult finds almost insignificant, they display true ignorance and obliviousness. The singer yearns to be a child and have such mentalities, but as he cannot, he sees no reason to exist. Lyrically the song is pretty loose. It throws together a lot of different images to paint a picture without saying anything specific about the world. He starts the song off with “All around me are familiar faces, Worn out places, worn out faces. Bright and early for their daily races, going nowhere, going nowhere. Their tears are filling up their glasses. No expression, no expression. Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow, no tomorrow, no tomorrow” (line 1-8). The familiar faces, worn out places, and worn out faces indicate that he has seen all their is to see, and that to him, all faces look the same, worn out and tired of life. If one considers the commute from home to work, at the end of the day its just the same cycle over again the next day. He continues to wonder where life is really going. When he sings bright and early for their daily races, going nowhere, he means the daily races...
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...Xxxxxxx 1 xxx xxxxxx DRAFT xxxxx xxxxxx Composition and Literature February 3, 2016 Want a good laugh? Want to retreat from the seriousness of life? If so, read The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll. Alice follows a rabbit down a hole and escapes to a crazy world full of talking animals, living playing cards and disappearing smiling cats. Often literature that is so far off from real life, it trying to symbolize problems with the real world. maybe not. If Lewis Carroll doing this in Alice? Perhaps, but The popular scene in chapter 5 at the Mad Hatter’s tea party shows 3 themes that could symbolize something in real life. Three possible symbolic themes from the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party include: nonsense, rudeness, and meanness. Nonsense is used without the book, but at the tea party. Toward the end of the party the March Hare tells Alice to take the some more tea. She replies that she can’t take more because she hasn’t had any yet. The Hatter jumps in and replies “ You can’t take less, it is very easy to take more than nothing.” That was obviously a nonsense statement. Another nonsense part of the tea party is when they are talking about the purpose of a watch. After Alice points out how strange March Hare’s watch is in that is tells the day of the month but not the time, the Hatter jumps in and asks “Why should it? Does your watch tell what year it is?” Alice tries to explain that a year lasts a long time and you...
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...Guide to Guys (1995), the introduction of which is included here. Despite its title, "Guys vs. Men" is not a comparative study of these two basic types of males. Men and manhood have been written about far too much already, says Barry. But guys and guyhood are neglected topics, and even though he "can't define exactly what it means to be a guy," Barry's essay lays out "certain guy characteristics" that distinguish his quarry from other warm-blooded animals in the field. This is a book about guys. It's not a book about men. There are already way too many books about men, and most of them are way too serious. Men itself is a serious word, not to mention manhood and manly. Such words make being male sound like a very important activity, as opposed to what it primarily consists of, namely, possessing a set of minor and frequently unreliable organs. But men tend to attach great significance to Manhood. This results in certain characteristically masculine, by which I mean stupid, behavioral patterns that can produce unfortunate results such as violent crime, war, spitting, and ice hockey. These things have given males a bad name. And the "Men's Movement," which is supposed to bring out the more positive aspects of Manliness, seems to be densely populated with loons and goobers. So I'm saying that there's another way to look at males: not as aggressive macho dominators; not as sensitive, liberated, hugging drummers; but as guys. And what, exactly, do I mean by "guys"? I don't...
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...Caroline Passed a few months ago, she had been trying to fully die since she was 13. She was a girl who hated who she was and what she did. She was a fake, a cutter, a bulimic a hoe and infact, she was the preachers daughter. She was the girl who demanded attention from guys to feel any sort of joy. Caroline was used by many guys and even sometimes abused by one boy. Sad part is, some days she was not only the victim, she was becoming the user. She started hurting innocent guys just to feel like she was getting revenge on the one guy she refused to forget, or to let go. He was out of her life, yet he was still controlling her thoughts, er mind, and even her heart.. Some-days It got so bad, he started to control her worth. She allowed him to do all this, even after he was out of her life. She eventually gave up on revenge and decided to just be careless and give herself out to any man who would give her any sort of attention. Even if it was only for her body, she didn't care, she just wanted to feel something. She searched everywhere possible just to find this love, this love that could be found in Christ. Caroline was a horrid person, she was used, abused, and eventually became villan. She was hated by many and will not be missed. But, no worries! Ivy is now loved, forgiven and treasured by God, and in him is where her pure joy lies...
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...My reason for thinking this is that unlike athletes in other sports who only have to prepare and take care of themselves and their equipment, a rodeo athlete has to ensure that himself, his equipment, and his horses are all in good working condition to be a true winner. Normally when a guy loses at a rodeo it is because he hasn’t spent the time in the practice pen that is needed for winning or his equipment failed him from lack of upkeep, but a true winner comes prepared for the day of battle and never loses but only gets beat from time to...
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...Matthew LaMountain Evaluation of season 7, episode 8 of Mad Men The episode starts off with a dream sequence in which Don Draper and some other business cohorts appear to be choosing a model for a line of fur coats. After two models are passed by, Racheal Menken (a former lover and client of Don) comes into the room. Don is shocked to see her there as she was formerly the head of a major clothing store. I feel that Racheal’s appearance in Don’s dream was a sign that she was one of the few women that Don has slept with that actually meant something to him. Coincidentally enough, he’s having this dream while in bed with a woman he hardly knows. Later in the episode, Don is casually told by his secretary that Racheal had died of leukemia a week prior. Knowing not to get overemotional, Don stands silently while the secretary leaves the room to get him a sandwich. In another scene, Don and Roger Sterling are sitting in a diner, surrounded by women. Don thinks he recognizes his waitress, but can’t recall where he’s met her. Roger pays the tab with a 100 dollar bill, which the waitress (who is a sex worker on the side) sees it as a payment from Don for a future “meeting”. Surely enough, Don comes into the diner a few days later and tries to talk to the waitress, asking again where he knows her. The waitress does not know him besides them meeting a few days prior. She takes a break and leaves through the back door, hinting at Don to follow. They proceed to have sex in the alley behind...
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...from itself." Act 4 Edmund speaks of his feelings as he walked home in the fog. 7. "I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred sky." Act 4 Edmund tells his father about the ecstasy of some of his experiences at sea. 8. "For a second you see-and seeing the secret are the secret. For a second there is meaning." Act 4 Edmund talks about the meaning of his peak experiences at sea. 9. "Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got-nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if more of the suckers won't admit it." Act 4 Jamie finally confesses the truth about his own life. 10. "The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!" Act 4 Jamie's sardonic remark when his mother enters the room, apparently unaware of her...
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