...In Edgar Allan Poe’s Romantic work, Ligeia, the character lady Rowena represents rationality and the stern coldness of English Empiricism. Her nature is based on observations, calculations, and analysis. Lady Ligeia represents the irrationality and sensuality of German Romantic customs, which is closely related to the Gothic. IN LIGEIA, POE PARALLELS THE NATURE OF LADY LIGEIA WITH THAT OF LADY ROWENA TO AID THE READER IN DIFFERENTIATING THE DISTINCT TEMPERMENT OF THE PAIR. This technique is used to help portray the distinct relationship of Rowena and Ligeia with the unnamed narrator. The setting is undefined in many Romantic works to show that everyone can relate to it. It is a universal story. Poe uses contrasts between light and darkness to symbolize the conflict of two theoretical customs. Ligeia’s mind is the center of the irrational and mystical, not the rational. The cold Lady Rowena she represents rationality and embodies soberness. The unnamed and unreliable narrator describes the qualities of Ligeia, as a beautiful, passionate, and knowledgeable woman. He believes that he met “in some large, old decaying city near the Rhine” (705). Besides the vague speculated place of origin, he is unable to recall anything else about Ligeia’s past, including her “paternal name.” However he does seem to remember her stunning appearance quite clearly. Ligeia dies after reciting a poem that she wrote...
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...Rhetorical Analysis on Letter to John Adams from Abigail Adams In colonial America, women were treated as second class citizens. While men were protesting taxes and fighting wars, their wives were often relegated to completing housework and tending to the children. They lacked basic rights, and were even compared to slaves. In author Abigail Adam’s letter to her husband John Adams, Abigail explains the need for women’s rights. Her purpose in writing this letter is to convince her husband that women deserve to be included in the Declaration of Independence. She adopts an authoritative tone in order to emphasize her request, in an attempt to persuade her husband to “Remember the Ladies”. Her topic, women’s rights, is strengthened by various...
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...Kimberley Brown Joe Gogel / WW Research Paper September 22, 2011 Dean Foods vs. Dutch Lady Milk Industries The dairy industry will be our point of interest as we look at two very different companies in two different countries. Dean Foods is located within the United States, and Dutch Lady is located in Malaysia. This analysis will look at both sets of financial statements for 2009 and see how they compare. There will be many different variables that will play into how these financial statements measure up to each other. Dean Foods production began in 1976 and is part of a larger organization called Fresh Dairy Direct-Morningstar. We will only be looking at the financial statements for Dean Foods out of this organization. Dutch Lady's incorporation began in 1963 and is also a part of a larger organization called Royal Friesland Campina. With this organization we will only be looking at the financial statements for Dutch Lady. By taking two dairy organizations that are small parts of larger corporations, it might seem to make the companies appear to be more of an "apples to apples" comparison. The two companies that we are looking at in 2009 are both publicly traded on the stock market. Dean Foods can be found on the New York Stock Exchange, while Dutch Lady would be found on Bursa Malaysia, the local stock exchange in Malaysia. (www.dutchlady.com.my) As we look at the stock market data from 2009, we learn some interesting facts about both of these companies...
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...The man and the lady exchange looks which it only makes my gut twist even more. “He is not here, he is getting some analysis done. Sorry,sweetie.” Nodding as if nothing’s wrong, I say my ‘thank you’ and ‘have a good day’. I look at my mother and I translate everything the lady said. As we are walking out of the building and heading to the car, I get interrupt by the same lady who spoke to me having the man next to her, “Maybe we shouldn’t be saying this, but did you get the news from Jose?” I didn’t even bother to translate to my mom I want to know what is going on that is making my gut twist. My mother and I look at each other with confusion and shake our heads. The gut twisting feeling is back and this time is ten times worse, my hands start to get sweaty and my heart is speeding. As they start telling us the horrible news all I remember is “ He passed away.” I feel warm water streaming down my cheeks and an ache to my heart. The gut twisting numbness and pain. I step to the side while my mother maintains herself and got more information from the lady. . Regret hit me all at once, I feel like this is a dream. This is just a...
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...today’s society, many arrogant individuals feel that making themselves seem better than the rest of the crowd causes people to look up to them. In reality, the crowd actually believes that they are foolish. In the story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the author addresses the consequences of poor judgment and how this leads to the death of the main character. The grandmother attempts to talk her son and his wife into going to Tennessee instead of Florida because a man called the misfit has escaped prison. After they stop at the tower and speak with the owner, Red Sam, the grandmother remembers an old plantation that she would like to see again, and she even exaggerates about the house so her son will stop by. After having an accident on the dirt road leading to the plantation, the grandmother realizes the house is actually in Tennessee. The spoiled old lady waves down a car for help, and the people in the vehicle turn out to be the misfit and his henchmen. She makes a mistake by announcing that she knows who they are. As a result, the misfit and his crew kill her and the rest of the family, leaving her last to die. Through the author’s use of tone, symbolism, and characterization, O’Connor proves that labeling someone as “good” is only true if he has morals and grace, not selfishness and blindness. The grandmother describes someone as “good” if he is similar to her. However, she is gullible and has poor judgment. She believes Red Sam is a good man just because...
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...It Might Have Gone Something Like This In “Queen of Knives”, Neil Gaiman exemplifies how unreliable our narrator is in dealing with death and derangement. Through this naïve narration, we are presented with a story in which the narrator; a young boy at that time, recalls how a magician vanishes his grandmother during a magic show. Upon closer analysis we will see that Gaiman actually implies that the grandmother has died causing the grandfather to go crazy from the death of his wife. In order for our narrator to cope with traumatic experience of losing a loved one and witnessing his grandfather lose his mind he blends the story with memories. The poem is set up as a flashback which further gives credibility to our narrator’s erroneous memory. My analysis will scrutinize the diction used throughout the poem as well as the crucial symbolism in order to uncover the hidden meaning behind the text. When someone reads “Queen of Knives” for the first time it is likely that they will ponder the outcome with confusion. They may also conclude that the grandfather murdered the grandmother or that she ran off with the magician. It is understandable to arrive at this conclusion when the literal meaning of the passage points to such answers, but once we examine how dynamic this piece of literature is we can conclude much deeper meanings. Gaiman himself stated that this poem was like his other work “Mr. Punch;” a story in which a young boy’s grandfather went mad. The songs Daisy Bell and...
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...Analysis and interpretation of “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan Most parents wish their children the best. That can be through spoiling the child materialistic, but it can also be seen, as they want their children to unfold their wings and become the greatest among basically everyone. From time to time it can even occur, that they want more than that as they choose to live out their own dreams through their children. The latter is what the text ”Two Kinds” by Amy Tan deals with. The short story Two Kinds is a text written with a first-person narrator. The agonist in the text is a girl named Jing-Mei. Both of her parents are from china, but they now live in America, where Jing-Mei is born. As the story moves on, we follow Jing-Mei, and how her parents, mostly her mother, have always had extremely high expectations to her. We see, that she enjoys this in the beginning: “In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.”(P. 107, L. 22-24). What we also can draw out of this quote, is the aforementioned expectations from her mother, as we hear that the mother is excited for her daughter perhaps being a prodigy. Following Jing-Mei further, we see that she goes through a development. Every night after dinner her mother gives her some tests, in hope of her daughter becoming a prodigy – and as time goes on, she grows tired of these tests. Ultimately this results in her disappointing...
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...William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Analysis of the following chapter: Chapter XLVIII: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company In the chapter Rebecca Sharp finally is presented at Court — the height of her ambition. The omnipresence of the author making philosophical diagrations on different matters is a characteristic feature of the novel. The passage contains of two paragraphs, and the most part of it is the author’s phylosophical and ironic contemplation on Vanity Fair representatives’ relation to those being presented at Court and to the King himself. The figure of the King is the central one in the extract. Portaying the King, Thackeray uses the words with positive connotations: “the Good, the Magnificent, the Great”, etc. They acquire the opposite sense in the context. And this is a common feature of ironic description. Irony turns to be the key device of the passage. In the presence of the monarch the representatives of the Vanity Fair seem to be going into ecstasies: “How they cheered, and cried, and waved handkerchiefs. Ladies wept; mothers clasped their children”. We observe here many sentences with homogeneous parts, parallel constructions, which are used to give a full image of a crowd cheering in the presence of their monarch. And, so, George V is represented as The King of the Vanity Fair. The process and consequences of being presented to the Sovereign at Court are likened to the sacrament of the Eucharist. In the first paragraph...
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...the “Assignments” link on the Blackboard no later than 11:00 p.m. After 11:00 p.m. the link will no longer be operational. PAPER WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED VIA EMAIL. Make sure that you understand and follow the instructions in “A Guide to Case Analysis” posted in the “Course Documents” link. Please remember that analyzing a case does not mean to write up a history of the firm - please refer to the “Guide to Case Analysis” p. 2, under “Identification.” The Coach case provides an excellent example of a best-cost strategy discussed in Chapter 5. It contains ample information to conduct an industry analysis: dominant economic characteristics, driving forces, Porter’s Five Competitive Forces (chapter 3), SWOT analysis, VRIN framework (chapter 4), five generic competitive strategies (Chapter 5), etc. Start with an analysis of the industry (reading the case you will recognize the other companies in the industry) – identifying the dominant characteristics, doing a five forces analysis, assessing the impact of driving forces, and identifying the key success factors. Then you can proceed to look at the company’s strategy, do a SWOT analysis, and conclude with recommendations. The following questions MUST be addressed in the case analysis: 1. What are the defining characteristics of the luxury goods industry? What is the industry like? 2. What is competition like in the luxury goods industry? What competitive forces seem to have the greatest effect on industry attractiveness...
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...tragedy or both moral and academic education, the modern media adopts its philosophy. Shakespeare is trying to educate, and the ever-pending battle is the matter of character vs. society; relationships differ even today between parent and child, and the way it may be interpreted is affected by women’s role in society in Elizabethan England and how the audience’s perspective of prejudice and patriarchy. Shakespeare explores emotions and allows adjustments in the relationship in an attempt to drop the audience’s jaws open in eras of both old and new. In this assessment, I will examine just how the way Shakespeare presents the relationship between Juliet and Lord/Lady Capulet with supported evidence. Lord Capulet: the very wealthy patriarch of the Capulet family and empire, probably just as important, the husband of Lady Capulet, the uncle of Tybalt, potential father-in-law of Count Paris, legitimate (but unknowingly) the father-in-law of Romeo Montague… and the father of Juliet Capulet-Montague. Very typically speaking, Lord Capulet is a traditionalist in a traditional society. His wealth is empowered by social hierarchy, thus his iconic reputation; he owes his privileged lifestyle to the world that he lives in, in gratitude, expects his heirs to follow this theory. This pride allows Lord Capulet to meet with Verona’s handsome eligible bachelor, the Count Paris of the Escalus house, and...
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...Suffolk Community College Dr. Dawn A. Saliba English 101 Fall 2014 Essay #3 Deconstructive Analysis For this assignment, choose one aspect of pop culture—a song, a television show, an article about a celebrity, etc. and, through a critical lens that focuses on gender, race, orientation, or class, analyze how it represents a particular group of traditionally stereotyped people. The group can be any of your choosing (women, African Americans, homosexual people, etc.), but be sure that you concentrate on only one group. Remember: you need a very specific video, image, song or text to analyze. Don't just choose NWA, choose NWA's video Express Yourself as shown on Youtube. Don't just choose SouthPark, choose Episode 513: Kenny Dies. Be sure to have at least three aspects of the work to examine. If you are looking at a video, deconstruct—or break apart—the different elements (staging, casting, costuming, etc.) and analyze the way your group is represented. If you 're working with anything regarding text, be sure to include quotations! Look at different lyrics of the song or elements of the dialogue or plot. Be thorough in your analysis. Discuss whether the work depicts your group in a positive or negative light. Determine whether it reinforces or tears down pre-established stereotypes. What do you believe its effect on society is? Because you'll be working with outside sources here, you'll need to cite them in your Works Cited page. You will need to save...
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...man’s fallen nature, but at the same time inspires the reader to consider the moments of grace that are offered to everyone. Some individuals recognize and accept this free gift of grace, while others ignore it. Evidence and analysis of the grace offered to the two main characters will be presented in this study of “A Good Man Is Hard to find”, written in 1953. The story is about an unpleasant family who plans a car trip to Florida from their hometown in Georgia. The reader is introduced to the spiteful and manipulative grandmother, her disconnected son, Bailey, his passive wife and baby, and their two older, hard-to-please children, June Star and John Wesley. The grandmother wants to go to Tennessee instead of Florida, so she tells her family about and escaped convict she read about in the news paper to scare them away from going to Florida. Bailey refuses to switch routes and tells her it is nonsense, and the family settles into the car. While on the trip, the children act up, so the grandmother tells them a story about an old house, supposedly near by, that has a secret door. The children become intrigued and demand to see it. They finally convince Bailey to detour from the main road, and he heads toward the house. Then the grandmother suddenly remembers that the house is not a short drive away, but instead it is in Tennessee. Embarrassed, she accidentally...
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...that horse again! She knows how much we disapprove of such rough activities Servant: Yes your majesty, Princess Alexandra is out on her horse, she has been gone for quite some time now, I’ll go find her. King: She needs to start cooperating with us so we can find her the right prince for her to marry. Queen: Remember your majesty, she will need to fall in love with him first! Alexandra: Sorry father I was out in the garden King: Never mind that lie, we need to discuss wedding arrangements! Queen: Prince Liam from Aarondell is a fine gentleman! Or even Prince Harry Alexandra: They’re both wimps! They couldn’t even beat me in an archery competition if they wanted! Queen: Alexandra! You need to stop fooling around and doing such manly activities! You are 16 now, start acting like the lady that you are! Alexandra: I told you I want to be called Alex from now on, please! Mother those dresses are so ugly and plus I feel more comfortable in my slacks! Queen: You’ve been like this since you were little and we have letting you get away with it but now that you are 16 and a young lady you need to present yourself as one! King: Such a mature and beautiful young lady and she still does not have interest in finding a prince to marry! Alexandra: Father I am sorry I just simply do not see myself with a man in my future! Queen: *gasp * You cannot stay single your whole life! Alexandra: Mother I do not intend to stay single my whole life. I just do not find men attractive… King:...
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...tragedy or both moral and academic education, the modern media adopts its philosophy. Shakespeare is trying to educate, and the ever-pending battle is the matter of character vs. society; relationships differ even today between parent and child, and the way it may be interpreted is affected by women’s role in society in Elizabethan England and how the audience’s perspective of prejudice and patriarchy. Shakespeare explores emotions and allows adjustments in the relationship in an attempt to drop the audience’s jaws open in eras of both old and new. In this assessment, I will examine just how the way Shakespeare presents the relationship between Juliet and Lord/Lady Capulet with supported evidence. Lord Capulet: the very wealthy patriarch of the Capulet family and empire, probably just as important, the husband of Lady Capulet, the uncle of Tybalt, potential father-in-law of Count Paris, legitimate (but unknowingly) the father-in-law of Romeo Montague… and the father of Juliet Capulet-Montague. Very typically speaking, Lord Capulet is a traditionalist in a traditional society. His wealth is empowered by social hierarchy, thus his iconic reputation; he owes his privileged lifestyle to the world that he lives in, in gratitude, expects his heirs to follow this theory. This pride allows Lord Capulet to meet with Verona’s handsome eligible bachelor, the Count Paris of the Escalus house, and...
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...Character Analysis “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” The grandmother is the central character in the story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find’, by Flannery O’Connor. The dysfunctional family is planning a trip to Florida, Bailey his wife, the baby, two children (boy and girl) the grandmother and a stowaway cat. Upon reading about the Misfit escaping from Federal Pen and are in Florida the grandmother tried to change their destination. The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving woman who lives in the past era of the south. She has the same prejudice attitudes of that time. The grandmother’s untruthfulness while on the trip will cause certain doom for the family and her Christian faith would be put to the test. The grandmother tries desperately to change her family's vacation destination as she tries to manipulate her son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida. Her reasons for wanting to go Tennessee were to make connections with some of her peers. The grandmother was also concerned about the children seeing Tennessee since they had already been to Florida. “The children have been to Florida before,” the old lady said. ”You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad. They never have been east to Tennessee”. The children made comments to the grandmother “If you don’t want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay home?” The grandmother asked what you would do if the Misfit caught you. “I’d smack...
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