...J.D. Salinger's repeated use of the word "phony" to describe characters illustrates the protagonist's internal conflict toward accepting adulthood. Holden Caulfield perceives reality with a cynical point of view. For example, he deems Mr. Spencer's remark, "Life is a game that one plays according to the rules," as shallow and superficial (Salinger 11). Through indirect characterization, readers ascertain that Caulfield is repulsed by hypocrisy and disingenuous appearances. In addition, Caulfield is critical of the banal social formalities that adults partake in. For instance, Caulfield delineates headmaster Mr. Haas' behavior of shaking hands with parents and giving them a "phony smile" (17). Caulfield's condemnatory tone is manifested when...
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...fail was English. Holden tells the readers that he had come back to Agerstown, Pennsylvania though he was traveling with his team for a fencing contest, he lost all of the foils in a New York Subway, and so the match was cancelled instead. Holden even mentioned that on the way home his mates treated him to silence and he found this very amusing. Though there was a football game going on, Holden didn't go down and watch it, instead he went to visit his old history teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer is a very old man who wants to help Caulfield in his studies (since Holden has also been expelled in a few other schools as well) and at some point Mr. Spencer even read out Holden's examination paper and the little note that Holden had written in the end saying that if Mr. Spencer would like to flunk him then he'd be all right with it, Holden explained to the readers that the purpose of this note was not to irritate Mr. Spencer but so that Mr. Spencer would not feel bad about failing him. After this, Holden leaves Mr. Spencer's house and goes to his dorm. The dorm at this time is very quiet due to the football game where everyone is. Holden then just wears this red hunting hat with a peak that he bought in New York City for a buck and started to read again 'Out...
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...best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at number 15 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The novel also deals with complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation. Plot summary Holden begins his story at Pencey Prep, an exclusive private school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday afternoon of the traditional football game with rival school Saxon Hall. Holden misses the game. As manager of the fencing team, he loses their equipment on a New York City subway train that morning, resulting in the cancellation of a match. He goes to the home of his History teacher named Mr. Spencer. Holden has been expelled and is not to return after Christmas break, which begins the following Wednesday. Spencer is a well-meaning but long-winded middle-aged man. To Holden's annoyance, Spencer reads aloud Holden's History paper, in which Holden wrote a note to Spencer so that his teacher would not feel bad about failing him in the subject. Holden returns to his dorm, which is quiet because most of the students are still at the football game. Wearing the new red hunting cap he bought while in New York City, he begins re-reading a book, but his reverie is temporary. First his dorm neighbor Ackley disturbs him, then later, he argues...
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...The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a novel published in 1951. Holden Caulfield is the sixteen-year-old protagonist in the novel. He's a cynical character who has allowed grieving from his eleven-year-old brother’s death from leukemia to form the way he thinks about life, society, and himself. After getting kicked out of Pencey, a boarding school, he goes on a journey to New York City where he tries to connect with people he knows, like Sally Hayes, Carl Luce, and Mr. Antolini, and people he meets, including girls at the bar, the prostitute Sunny, Maurice, two nuns, taxi drivers and little kids. He protects himself a lot and prevents himself from connecting by using critical cynicism. He alienates himself from other characters through this misanthropic view on life, but he connects with readers through a conversational and informal style and his sense of humor. Though Holden has a...
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...The novel takes place over three days in December 1949. Holden begins his story at Pencey Preparatory, an exclusive private school (fictional, though based on Salinger's own experience at Valley Forge Military Academy) in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday afternoon of the traditionalfootball game with rival school Saxon Hall. Holden ends up missing the game. He is the manager of the fencing team and loses their equipment on a New York City subway train that morning, resulting in the cancellation of a match. He goes to the home of his history teacher named Mr. Spencer. Holden has been expelled and isn't to return home until after Christmas break, which begins the following Wednesday. Spencer is a well-meaning but long-winded middle-aged man. To Holden's annoyance, Spencer reads aloud Holden's history paper, in which Holden wrote a note to Spencer so his teacher wouldn't feel bad about failing him in the subject. Holden returns to his dorm, which is quiet because most of the students are still at the football game. Wearing the new red hunting cap he bought in New York City, he begins re-reading a book (Out of Africa), but his distraction is temporary. First, his dorm neighbor Ackley disturbs him, although Holden is patient about it. Then later, Holden argues with his roommate Stradlater, who fails to appreciate a composition that Holden wrote for him about the baseball glove of Holden's late brother Allie. A womanizer, Stradlater has just returned from a date with Holden's...
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...humans must be protected but is it equal protection? The question that the most people are asking is what is considered a human being? Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception [they defined fertilization and conception to be the same] marks the beginning of the life of a human being — a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings." Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981, WHY CAN'T WE LOVE THEM BOTH by Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Willke state that once sperm breaks the egg and fertilizes the egg it is considered to be human being. Even though this is a single cell it is considered an individual human being because no one in history will ever create this cell again. This being is complete, i.e., nothing else — no bits or pieces — will be added from this time until the old man or woman dies — nothing but nutrition and oxygen. This being is programmed from within, moving forward in a self-controlled, ongoing process of growth, development, and replacement of his or her own dying cells. (WHY CAN'T WE LOVE THEM BOTH by Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Willke)? This individual human being prepares its own birthday and helps the mother body prepare for its coming into the world. Physicians, biologists, and other...
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...table. But I couldn’t be bothered to look and see who Sidney was talking about, since my boyfriend, Seth, was sitting next to her, smiling up at me…that smile that’s been making girls’ insides melt since about the fifth grade, when we all started noticing Seth’s even white teeth and highly kissable lips. It still freaks me out that out of all the girls in school, I’m the one he picked to kiss with those lips. “Hey, babe,” Seth said to me, blinking his long, sexy eyelashes—the ones that I overheard my mom telling Sidney’s mom over the phone are totally wasted on a guy. He snaked an arm around my waist and gave me a squeeze. “Hi,” I said, a little breathlessly. Not just because of the squeeze, but because I had a twelve-top (Mrs. Hogarth’s ninety-seventh birthday party) that was running me ragged, refilling their iced tea glasses and such, so I was panting a little anyway. “How was the movie?” “Lame,” Sidney answered for everyone. “You didn’t miss anything. Lindsay should stick with red; blond does nothing for her. Seriously, though. What’s Morgan Castle doing here?” Sidney used the menu I’d just given her to point at a table over in Shaniqua’s section. “I mean, she’s got some nerve.” I started to say Sidney was wrong—no way would Morgan Castle be caught dead at the Gull ’n Gulp. Especially at the height of the summer season, when the place was so packed. Locals—like Morgan—know better than to try to set foot near this place during high season. At least, not...
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...BHM329 STRATEGY, CHANGE AND LEADERSHIP Number of Aston Credits: Number of ECTS Credits: 15 7.5 Staff Member Responsible for the Module: Dr Yves Guillaume Work & Organisational Psychology Group Aston Business School, South Wing, Room 8017, Extension 3252 Email: y.r.f.guillaume@aston.ac.uk Dr Nicholas Theodorakopoulos Work & Organisational Psychology Group Aston Business School, South Wing, Room 8015, Extension 3472 Email: n.theodorakopoulos@aston.ac.uk Availability: See Blackboard or contact WOP Group Administrator Mrs Jenny Thomson, SW802, Extension 3257 Pre-requisites for the module: None. Mode of Attendance: On Campus Module Objectives and Learning Outcomes: Enhance understanding of different forms and levels of organisational change, using key concepts from organisational theory and practice. Introduce students to theoretical concepts and tools that can be used to manage effectively organisational change. To provide students with the most current, and best available scientific evidence on approaches of leadership effectiveness and development in organisations to enable students to critically evaluate the validity and usefulness of these approaches. To provide students with the knowledge and practical skills to enable them to work most effectively in organisations through leading and influencing At the end of the module students will be able to: Appreciate the organisational and environmental factors that drive organisational change. Understand different...
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...JetBlue Questions for Discussion 1. Give examples of needs, wants, and demands that JetBlue customers demonstrate, differentiating these three concepts. What are the implications of each for JetBlue’s practices? * First of all people who go to an airline are because they have the need to travel, which the main feature is. Inducing the consumer or person, as their main need. * JetBlue customers to contract your travel company this time JetBlue, wanted a good service during the flight, as the other American airlines had a basic customer service, which did not feel very comfortable, where they found an airline that will feature an extensive variation of national destinations, also where the client does not feel comfortable with the treatment of the service on board, where he had nowhere to eat, no technology on board, little comfort seats and above very low value of the company to its customers. * National Flights In United States, apart from being very basic and failing to meet the expectations of consumers and transform routine travel to something kind of awkward for people, also did not have the best rates, and this is what people demand, apart from good service to meet their needs also need to optimize resources. The implication for the needs, wants and demands of customers because the bad services of the other airlines it provoked that JetBlue was renewing all his ideology and it will begin to be employed at his culture focusing especially in...
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...Todd Terje-Inspector Norse (Dope as Fuck) Twin sister – lady day dream (coo) Twin sister – I want a house (coo) Mr twin sister – Blush (Dope AF) Mr twin sister – Sensitive (nice AF) Clark – winter linn (coo) Mr twin sister – Rude boy (Dope) Jodeci Acapella on soultrain(the intro) Boyz 2 Men – Don’t go/can you stand the rain (live) Jodice – What about us (This is a hit!!!) Jodice – Alone (dope) Isaac Hayes – Ik’s Mood (dope) Mark Asari –Revive (dope AF) Michael Jackson – The Lady in my life (Dope) Ericka Baduh – didn’t u know (ill) Switch- I call your name(coo) Erick Sermon – Fat gold chain (Dope AF) Silver Convention – Fly robin, fly (Checkit) SWV – Weak Mikey Dread – Roots and Culture (nice) Charles Earland – Happy ‘cause I’m goin’ home (Dope) Cortex – Juit Octobre 1971 (dope AF) Cortex – Triypeau bleu (coo) Cortex – Chanson D’un jour D'hiver (This shit is crazy!!!) Carole King – It’s to late (nice) The Shirelles – Baby it’s you (???) Tony! Toni! Tone! – Pillow (???) Luther Vandross – So Amazing (The Montserrat session) (nice) Melvin Sparks – Cranberry Sunshine Kaskade-Fire and Ice (kaskade mix) (Coo) Blank & Jones – Face La Mer (this shit is ill) Zeb – The Circle (This is it!!!) Smadj – Sel (Dope AF) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Summertime (the end is trill) Joe – All the things (the break down in the middle is ill) Earl Klugh –A Certain Smile (intro) Earl Klugh – Another Time, Another Place Earl Klugh – Could it be I’m falling...
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...UNIVERSAL PICTURES and EMMETT / FURLA FILMS Present A MARC PLATT Production In Association with OASIS VENTURES ENTERTAINMENT LTD / ENVISION ENTERTAINMENT / HERRICK ENTERTAINMENT / BOOM! STUDIOS A BALTASAR KORMÁKUR Film PAULA PATTON BILL PAXTON JAMES MARSDEN FRED WARD and EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Executive Producers BRANDT ANDERSEN JEFFREY STOTT MOTAZ M. NABULSI JOSHUA SKURLA MARK DAMON Produced by MARC PLATT RANDALL EMMETT NORTON HERRICK ADAM SIEGEL GEORGE FURLA ROSS RICHIE ANDREW COSBY Based on the BOOM! Studios Graphic Novels by STEVEN GRANT Screenplay by BLAKE MASTERS Directed by BALTASAR KORMÁKUR –1– CAST Waitress Margie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDSEY GORT Roughneck #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HILLEL M. SHARMAN Robert “Bobby” Trench . . . . . . . . . DENZEL WASHINGTON Roughneck #3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AARON ZELL Marcus “Stig” Stigman . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK WAHLBERG Roughneck #4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HENRY PENZI Deb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAULA PATTON CREW Earl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BILL PAXTON Admiral Tuwey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRED J. WARD Quince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES MARSDEN Directed by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BALTASAR KORMÁKUR Papi Greco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Screenplay by . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...STUDENT SIGNATURE ------------------------------DATE ii APPROVAL PAGE This is to certify that this research was carried out by Abi Thomas Augustine Reg. No: CST/2009/378 of the Department of Computer Science/Information Technology , Faculty of Natural Sciences Caritas University Amorji-Nike, Enugu State. ____________________ _______________ CHIZOBA EZEME (MRS) DATE SUPERVISOR _______________________ _______________ ARINZE NWAEZE (Ph.D) DATE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT ____________________ __ _______________ Dr. BONIFACE EKECHUKWU EXTERNAL EXAMINER DATE iii DEDICATION This work is dedicated to the Almighty God for giving me the knowledge, wisdom and understanding in the pursuit of my academic career. I also extend this to my late father Chief A. E. Abi, mum, brother and sisters for all you love. May God bless you all. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I want to use this medium to express my immeasurable and inestimable gratitude to my supervisor Mrs Chizoba Ezeme, my able Head of department Dr. Arinze Nwaeze, my Late Father, Chief Augustine Ekpo Abi for seeing me through up to this stage of my life; to my mother, Mrs. Juliana Abi for her unending love and support. To my sisters, Ene Abi, Lenwang Lenchang Abi, Nelly Abi, my late sister, Kokomma Abi, My dearest and only brother, Abi...
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...---------------------- NAME OF STUDENT SIGNATURE ------------------------------DATE ii APPROVAL PAGE This is to certify that this research was carried out by Abi Thomas Augustine Reg. No: CST/2009/378 of the Department of Computer Science/Information Technology , Faculty of Natural Sciences Caritas University Amorji-Nike, Enugu State. ____________________ CHIZOBA EZEME (MRS) SUPERVISOR _______________ DATE _______________________ ARINZE NWAEZE (Ph.D) HEAD OF DEPARTMENT _______________ DATE ____________________ __ Dr. BONIFACE EKECHUKWU EXTERNAL EXAMINER _______________ DATE iii DEDICATION This work is dedicated to the Almighty God for giving me the knowledge, wisdom and understanding in the pursuit of my academic career. I also extend this to my late father Chief A. E. Abi, mum, brother and sisters for all you love. May God bless you all. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I want to use this medium to express my immeasurable and inestimable gratitude to my supervisor Mrs Chizoba Ezeme, my able Head of department Dr. Arinze Nwaeze, my Late Father, Chief Augustine Ekpo Abi for seeing me through up to this stage of my life; to my mother, Mrs. Juliana Abi for her unending love and support. To my sisters, Ene Abi, Lenwang Lenchang Abi, Nelly Abi, my late sister, Kokomma Abi, My dearest and only brother, Abi...
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...Dr. Pepper-Snapple Company Kim Hayes Deonta Samilton Jordan Narcisse Tori Wallar Professor Cary Accounting November 11, 2013 Section 2: Introduction Dr. Pepper-Snapple Group, Inc. 5301 Legacy Dr. Plano, TX 75024 Industry: Beverages (Non-Alcoholic) Sic Code: 2080- Beverages Major Products: Canada Dry (Ginger ale,) 7-up (lemon-lime,) A&W (Root beer,) Sunkist (Orange,) and Sun Drop (Citrus.) Competitors: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. Stock exchange: 47.33 Ticker symbol: DPS Name of outside auditors: Deloitte & Touche, LLP SIC (Standard Industry Classification): 2080 Beverages * History: Today, Dr Pepper Snapple Group is one of the leading producers of flavored beverages in North America and Caribbean. The have 6 of the top 10 non-cola drinks, and 13 of their 14 leading brands are ranked in the top two of its flavor categories. The DPS market more than 50 brands of carbonated soft drinks, juices, teas, mixers, water, and other premium beverages. Dr Pepper Snapple group include: 7UP, A&W, Canada Dry, Clamato, Crush, Hawaiian Punch, Mott's, Mr. & Mrs. T mixers, Penafiel, Rose's, Schweppes, Squirt and Sunkist soda. We are able to thank DPS for inventing the first carbonated drink. In 1783, Jean Jacob Schweppes created the world’s first carbonated mineral water. Schweppes’s was the original inventor of this new product, shared his invention with a young pharmacist in Waco, Texas, named Charles Alderton. They both invented Dr Pepper in...
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...M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 0 2 Volume 20 Number 2 SPANNING THE GLOBE Duke Leads the Way in International Law Teaching and Scholarship inside plus Duke admits smaller, exceptionally well-qualified class Duke’s Global Capital Markets Center to launch new Directors’ Education Institute from the dean Dear Alumni and Friends, It is not possible, these days, for a top law school to be anything other than an international one. At Duke Law, we no longer think of “international” as a separate category. Virtually everything we do has some international dimension, whether it concerns international treaties and protocols, commercial transactions across national borders, international child custody disputes, criminal behavior that violates international human rights law, international sports competitions, global environmental regulation, international terrorism, or any number of other topics. And, of course, there is little that we do at Duke that does not involve scholars and students from other countries, who are entirely integrated with U.S. scholars and students. Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences...
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