...SEINFELD: THE UNTOLD STORY Throughout Seinfeld’s eight-season stint on network television the show and its creator’s have stereotyped everything from young Puerto Rican boys to Jewish Priests. The main stereotype of this sit-com is the very florid portrayal of the generational age groups of the characters. The main characters represent the beginning of the Generation X culture. The parents and relatives of Jerry Seinfeld and that of George Costanza present the presence of the members of the Silent or GI generation. Throughout the television series we have seen the elderly as stereotypically helpless individuals with little or no purpose. The character’s Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Elaine Benes, and Cosmo Kramer, represent the Generation X culture. These half-witted characters are often unreliable and uncaring about the society they live in. These characters often care about nothing more about life outside their own. The stereotype of these characters and the success of this very popular television show have contributed to the media’s wide usage of stereotyping generations. The article, “My Inner Shrimp,” can be directly correlated to George’s eccentric ego trips with his problems with shortness, unemployment, and baldness. George’s character is often portrayed as a very loud, very rambunctious person who is often seeking to be on top. Elderly: Helpless or Not Throughout the series we have seen the elderly characters of Seinfeld often being absent minded, senile...
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...and centuries of habit has deeply ingrained this behavior into society. It has developed a sort of "functional autonomy" meaning that the modern implication of "bless you" is detached from its roots (Psychology Today). Acknowledging a stranger, be it holding the door or elevator, is not only tied to the impression an individual gives, but it has become a norm and an expectation in everyday behavior. Some may even be offended or hurt when others do not conform, leading to a dispute like the one between Robin and Michael in Seinfeld's "Good Samaritan" episode. Analyzing the social context makes it apparent that society uses norms to guide behavior and pressure people to conform while frowning upon those who stray from expectations. In a Seinfeld scene where Robin, Michael, Elaine, and George have dinner at a moderately classy restaurant, Robin sneezes and George hesitates before saying "bless you." George then proceeds to joke that Michael, who is Robin's husband, ought to have the responsibility of saying "bless you" first (Seinfeldology). George points out Michael's lack of adherence to the social norms demanded in such a formal setting. In this case, there is a variety of factors that shape the level of formality. The group is in a relatively upscale environment where appropriate attire applies, wine is served, and diners ask instead of reaching over for the bread basket. This adds to the social pressure that comes with proper dinner table manners and...
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...RSMITH 1 Rhonda Smith Professor Palumbo Writing Literature 13 October 2012 Seinfeld "The Pitch" 1). What does George mean when he says the proposed show should be about "nothing"? Why is George's idea both a comic and a serious proposal? What George means when he says the proposed show should be about "nothing" is a show with no plot, or no stories. The show should be about the lives they lead and the minutiae therein is the way to go. George's idea is both a comic and a serious proposal because George was nervous about meeting the NBC executives. Jerry tried to calm him down but he overdoes it and when George was called into the meeting he wanted to really impress them but they really did not like Jerry's ideas. 2). How the does stage direction "Suits enter" serve to characterize Stu and Jay? Write a description of how you think they would look. They were two professional executives who wore suits and ties. I think Stu and Jay were two Caucasians who were slim with blonde hair, well trimmed, who wore tailor made neutral color suits with nice professional business ties and shiny dress shoes. 3). What is revealed about George's character when he spells Crespi's and Dalrymple's names? George is not very good at spelling last names. He has to sound them out in order to spell the last name...
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...A.1 Company History Mango 1984- First store in Barcelona’s Paseo de Gracia. 1985- First store in Valencia. National expansion begins. 1988- Improvement to the stock management system: Production, Logistics and Distribution apply the Just-In-Time system (production according to market demand). The concepts of product, interior design, quality, price and brand image are defined. 1992- Our international expansion begins with the opening of 2 stores in Portugal. We open store nº 100 in Spain. 1994- Implantation of a business management system which still exists today, based on specialised and coordinated teams. 1995- Our website Mango.com is created. 1997- For the first time, foreign turnover exceeds domestic turnover. We open a flagship store in Paris, in the famous Boulevard des Capucines. 1998- MANGO positions itself as Spain’s second largest textile exporter. 2000- We open a new flagship store in London, in the central Oxford Street. We launch our online shop, Mangoshop.com, being pioneers in our sector. 2002- With 630 stores in 70 countries, we continue our expansion into new markets such as Australia, Bulgaria, China, Italia and Tunisia. 2003- We exceed the annual number of openings, by opening new stores in countries like Honduras, Serbia and Montenegro. 2004- We enter new markets such as Azerbaijan, Estonia, El Salvador, Macao and Vietnam, and we end the year with a presence in 75 countries. 2005- MANGO TOUCH is defined as a new fashion venue dedicated exclusively...
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...The boy lay on the sidewalk bleeding in the rain. He was sixteen years old, and he wore a bright purple jacket, and the lettering across the back of the jacket read THE ROYALS. The boy's name was Andy and the name was delicately scripted in black thread on the front of the jacket, just over the heart. ANDY.. He had been stabbed ten minutes ago. The knife entered just below his rib cage and had been drawn across his body violently, tearing a wide gap in his flesh. He lay on the sidewalk with the March rain drilling his jacket and drilling his body and washing away the blood that poured from his open wound. He had known excruciating pain when the knife had torn across his body, and then sudden comparative relief when the blade was pulled away. He had heard the voice saying, 'That's for you Royal! " and then the sound of footsteps hurrying into the rain, and then he had fallen to the sidewalk, clutching his stomach, trying to stop the flow of blood. He tried to yell for help, but he had no voice. He did not know why his voice had deserted him, or why there was an open hole in his body from which his life ran readily, steadily, or why the rain had become so suddenly fierce. It was 11:13 p.m. but he did not know the time. There was another thing he did not know. He did not know he was dying. He lay on the sidewalk, bleeding, and he thought only: That was a fierce rumble. They got me good that time, but he did not know he was dying. He would have been frightened had he known...
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...The Miraculous Revenge is ostensibly about a dead man so vile that decent folk wouldn't be caught dead (literally) beside him. It is in actuality about a character, very much alive in the short story, who is so vile that no one living can stand him. Wolfe Tone Fitzgerald's reputation was unsullied by good praises, he was a dirty, drunken, blasphemous blackguard. He carried these distinctions to the grave; so much so that when he was buried in the town's cemetery, the next day it was discovered that everyone else's graves had moved, leaving Fitzgerald's grave lying alone. It would appear that even the dead shun those of ill repute. It is this miracle of prejudice, of graves moving by themselves because they care not for the qualities of their neighbor, that Zeno Legge is sent to investigate. Zeno has much in common with the late Wolfe Fitzgerald and this leads him to feel sympathy for the man, I looked down a the grave with a pang of compassion for the unfortunate Wolfe Tone Fitzgerald, with whom the blessed would not rest. It is telling to note that among all the characters in the short story, Zeno only identifies with Fitzgerald. Zeno is a man of great energy and passions. It is readily apparent that he is a man of quick wit (early in his conversation with his uncle he alludes to Poe), as knowledgeable in the arts as he is with stirring up controversy. Yet, as is common with those whose spirits flare so brightly, he is of a melancholy disposition, consumed by something he...
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...What factors created an opportunity for Bob Reiss & the TV Guide game? The following are the factors that created an opportunity for Bob Reiss and TV Guide game: * Having a prior work experience in the games industry working as a consultant he had the ability to understand the nuances of the business * With his capabilities, he had increased the sales upto $12000000 within three years * He could easily foresee the rise of Trivial Pursuit in Canada and its potential market and thus success in the US market (US market had approx 10 times the sales of Canada) * TV guide thought of involving themselves because of the monetary gain that the venture assured and supported the idea of working with a small company instead of a big one * Apart from the this Bob due to his earlier network had come up with an amazing idea of coming up with a TV board game * As an average American spent 7 hours on an average watching TV and thus the theme had chances of being enormously successful (The success of Trivia) * Kaplan had ample experience to be a good business advisor and guide * Lastly, an association with Kaplan brought Reiss in contact with Swiss Colony and HellenFactoring who were the other partners in Trivia 2) What risks & obstacles have to be overcome in order to pursue the opportunity successfully? How did Bob Reiss accomplish this? (Cover the Risks & Obstacles and steps by Bob Reiss in pursuing the opportunity successfully) * In this...
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...Aim: Engagement Campaign for IMT Ghaziabad Facebook Page Group’s underlying criteria for the creating of the page: The idea of this campaign is to engage the MBA aspirants who have short-listed IMT-G as one of the colleges they are willing to apply to. Hence we wish to design a campaign that will provide a platform for better engagement with this TG and rouse their interest towards the college. The contest will be a quiz (not very serious but related to the world of business) which is broken up into 5 parts, one for each day. The subjects covered each day will broadly cater to all the major aspects of MBA. The idea is to acquaint the aspirants to the life in a typical b-school and create that aspirational connect with IMT-G. The broad topics in mind are: (i) Branding, (ii) Product Management (iii) Supply Chain and operations, (iv)Finance, (v) HR The deliverables for this assignment are as below: 1. Designed FB cover page: 2. Terms & Conditions for participating in the contest: As a part of engagement activity, it will be mandatory for all the participants to log into the page for a period of 20-30 mins every day to play the quiz. Anyone failing to do so on a particular day will be disqualified from the quiz. This will ensure a guaranteed participation from the serious aspirants throughout the campaign period. Though we will allow anyone to take a quiz any of the 5 days to test their knowledge, just that they would not be considered for the evaluation purposes...
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...Burning Down the House: A Case Study in Forensic Instrumental Analysis by Adam M. Boyd and Randolph K. Larsen III Chemistry and Biochemistry St. Mary’s College of Maryland As Dr. Marie Stanforth steered her cumbersome suv into an unoccupied space at the scene of the latest fire in upstate Michigan, she instantly recognized the address. It was the current residence of her ex-husband. Yet, with the same calm and collected demeanor with which she approached every crime scene she ever visited, Dr. Stanforth confidently opened the door of her car and walked purposefully towards the extinguished blaze. Her boots crunched through a thin layer of snow as she trudged toward the scene. The record cold—the coldest morning to date that winter—gave rise to a light snow slowly blanketing the entire state for the first time that year. Marie marveled at how snow seemed to cover everything in a forgiving white veil. “Poor jerk,” she thought to herself as she approached the smoldering blaze with her hands tucked in the pockets of her heaviest parka. “I wonder where he’s going to live now.” Before she reached the scene, however, she was met by her partner, Adley. “So what happened?” she dryly asked Adley as she tried to maneuver closer to the extinguished blaze. “There was a fire,” Adley recounted. “There was a real bad fire.” “Thanks for the update, partner,” Marie laughed as she put her hand on Adley’s shoulder. “Let’s have a look,” she added as she tried to push her way past Adley’s outstretched...
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...The Red line Analysis The short story takes place in London. We know this because the different sections in the story are named after subway stations in London; another way we can tell is the characters statements about the city: “Cathy had been at work, so the boyfriend had shown him around London” (p. 64, l. 25 - 26). The story unfolds in the subway’s underground system of London in the late 19’hundreds but could as well be set as today, because the way our characters describe their surroundings: “You couldn’t walk, always it had to be busses and what the English called the tubes” (p. 64, l. 29-30). Here we get an impression of a modern city where everything has to be fast and there is no time to waste. All of the main characters meet in the underground system at the end of the story. All the characters are placed here and throughout the story we hear their individual stories and get an impression of how they are and how their personalities are, these flashbacks and changes between the different characters can make it confusing at the beginning of the story, but at the end it makes good sense. This is a post modernistic narrative technique, and it is used because we have to hear the story from everyone’s point of view, to understand what is going on. I think the narrator has chosen the city of London because it’s a modern world city where everything has to go fast and it’s easy to get confused like Berto got. The title is called The Red Line. I think the narrator probably...
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...Final Paper “We’ll be listening to you.” This phrase sparks the final unraveling of a man on the edge of his sanity in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation. The heartbreaking last scene of this film encompasses nearly all the key themes of the tragic story. Through aspects of editing, cinematography, sound, and mise-en-scène the final sequence not only highlights Caul’s characteristics and his dramatic descent into desolation, but also emphasizes the audiences understanding of the pervasive nature of voyeurism, the destructive power of paranoia, and the illusion of security. The editing of the final scene, although perhaps the least notable of the four aspects, still plays an important role in heightening the tension of Caul’s downfall. The first half of the scene consists primarily of longer, steady cuts, allowing the tension to simmer before it explodes. It is not until Caul destroys his Virgin Mary statue that the pacing of the edits increase, along with the tempo and drama of the music, to emphasize Caul’s faster and faster decent into madness. By cutting quickly from Caul destroying one thing to another, in his search for any trace of a bug or surveillance device in his apartment, emphasizes his panic, which climaxes as he rips up his floorboards. At this point, Caul sits completely disheartened and beat, and the editing appropriately returns to a more steady, downtrodden pace. In addition to the editing accentuating the intensity of the scene, it also reminds the...
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...E is for Elias I was going to use “empathy” for my word for today. But Elias, my ten-year-old firstborn son has taught me so much, I would be remiss to leave him out. Being a mother has changed me in ways I didn’t expect. It’s brought out all sorts of fears and anxieties, but it also helped me rediscover my creative, fun-loving side. I do things for Elias that I would not do for anyone else, even myself. He’s curious, enthusiastic, kind, smart, generous and forgiving. I could go on all day, but I will spare you too much of the proud mom talk. He makes me want to be a better parent, a better person. He teaches me more about forgiveness and kindness than I could ever hope to teach him. One day when he was in first grade, I was walking him to his classroom. If you have a boy, you know that when they see wide open spaces, this screams to them RUN! So instead of walking nicely beside me all the way to his class (and what boy does that anyway?), he ran ahead of me. When I finally caught up to him, I took him aside and lit into him with a lecture about walking with me, not running down the hall, yada yada yada. He said not a word the whole time, just stood there and looked at me. When I was done, he stood there for a second, looked right at me, and gave me a big hug before going off to class. Talk about feeling like a schmuck. Now that he’s ten, he does get mad at us more often, but it never lasts long. In five minutes, he’s back to normal, asking ten million random questions...
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...Jokes * “If toast always lands butter-side down and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast to the back of a cat and drop it?” -Steven Wright * “I like rice. Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want 2,000 of something.” –Mitch Hedberg * “A friend will help you move. A best friend will help you move a body.” –David Attell * “It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.” –The Great Jerry Seinfeld * “According to most studies, people’s No.1 fear is public speaking. No.2 is death. Death is No.2. Does that sound right? This means, to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” –The Great Jerry Seinfeld * “Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.” –The Great Jerry Seinfeld * “If we’re all God’s children, what’s so special about Jesus?” –Jimmy Carr * “Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m a schizophrenic, and so am I.” - Billy Connolly * “God gave men a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.” - Robin Williams * “I’m not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.” - Richard Pryor * “A woman told her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor said, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman said, ‘I...
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...they improve and eventually decide their success. So the more specific and intensely any person trains on a specific skill, the higher the probability that they’ll be successful in that skill. In Clear’s writing, deliberate practice is not correlated to how much you practice on trying to improve a skill; but more about what in particular about that skill you’re trying to improve. In the article, Clear brings up Jerry Seinfeld's, “ ‘don’t break the chain’ strategy is all about deliberately practicing the skill of writing jokes.” In other words, in order for a comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, to improve in his career he needs to practice the particular skill of writing jokes to be successful. Jerry’s term “don’t break the chain” simply means to not break the chain of jokes. This correlates to Clear’s perception of improvement stemming from training deliberately versus training without a purpose. The strategy Seinfeld uses to improve his comedic ability is what has made him successful in his field as a comedian through long nights of studying, coming up with, refining, and memorizing new jokes. In Clear’s writing, it isn’t just deliberate practice that affects success, but the time put in as well. The amount of time someone puts into is what separates the mediocre from professional. Clear...
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...1. Visit the American Express web site (www.americanexpress.com) to learn more about the different cards that American Express offers. Select three of the macro environmental forces discussed in the chapter. How do the different card options reflect the changes in those forces? • The three macro environmental forces are the following: Demographic Environment: American Express issued their first card back in 1958. They only had one card for everyone. But as time changed, population increased and so did the consumer needs. American Expressed produced different cards to meet consumer needs. American Express offers many different card options for personal and business use, as well as cards geared towards the young, and wealthy. Economic Environment: American Express has adjusted its marketing trends with the changing economy. They generally do not influence any law, it is continuously changing, therefore becoming flexible in order to adapt to the changing environment and customer demands. They have developed cards for personal use, travelling, business purposes and this gives customers a vast choice to choose for their different spending types. Technological Environment: Although there may be competition and rivalry in a market, Globalization means that there is always the threat of substitute products and new competitor. With a wider environment and constant change, the marketer’s need to compensate for changes in culture, politics, economics and technology. American Express has...
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