...Lies, damn lies and fiction-Answers and Questions 1. Explain what “unverifiable” means and how it is important in this article. Saying something is unverifiable means that it is impossible or rarely able to be confirmed, or proven to be true. The article “Lies, damn lies and fiction” talks about Stephen Glass, a The New Republic reporter that wrote unreal events. The word “unverifiable” is important in this article because Glass’ sources in his articles were not able to be proven to be true. 2. Describe “Hack Heaven” and explain the story behind Ian Restil. "Hack Heaven", an article written by Glass redacts the story of Ian Restil; a 15-year-old computer hacker who broke through the online security system of a "big-time software firm" called Jukt Micronics. Once inside, Restil posted every employee's salary on the company's web site alongside a bunch of nude pictures, each bearing the caption "THE BIG BAD BIONIC BOY HAS BEEN HERE BABY." According to Glass, instead of reporting this case, The Company executives decided that they required to hire the teenage hacker, who had obtained the services of an agent, Joe Hiert, described as a "super-agent to super-nerds. 3. Ultimately the sentence “a frightening story. But not true” is repeated twice. Why? Consider as well where this sentence is placed. What is the effect on you-the reader? The use of the sentence typed twice...
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...captured. The reason Julio came to the United States was for better opportunities he states “ I am going to go because my brother had and improved his life. I am desperate for money and can’t imagine trying to live off so little”. From this we know why Julio wanted to leave and come to the U.S. He came for better opportunities and a better life, he believed that it was worth taking the risks of getting caught. Another story from Shattered Dreams is about a woman named Carmen. She was from Mexico and came to the United States when she fifteen years old. When she was younger her parents had to leave for America first because they barely made enough money to provide food for them. When she grew up she barely had any toys to play with because...
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... Stephen Glass has been groomed perhaps even before high school in the art of creating illusions to entertain others. In Highland High, he participated in Adventures of the Mind, which drew like minded imaginative students who loved the thrill of writing and thinking up scenarios. Quick wit became second nature to Glass. According to Vanity Fair, "...they were asked to prepare a musical in 15 minutes. Or come up, rapid-fire, with clever commercial slogans. Or act out raising a chair off the ground to see if it would float. It was the perfect fodder for smart kids." He got away with lying because of his calculating personality, disillusioned coworkers and white privilege. To illustrate the spell Glass's personality cast over his coworkers there was an incidence where The New Republic editor Michael Kelly, "wrote an angry letter to CSPI calling them liars and demanding the organization apologize to Glass (Wikipedia)." "Hack Heaven," was both Glass's piece de resistance and fall from grace. Nearly all of his coworkers were eating out the palms of his hands at that point in his career and none believers were nonexistent. Glass was tough on other, more junior, writers about their facts. This might've made everybody assume he was just as tough on himself; the true Glass was just covering his back. Criminals become overconfident after getting away with deceiving many times. Their egos gets overinflated, so they start trying to pull of riskier moves and they also get careless. The same...
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...“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know,” is an infamous quote from Ernest Hemingway. Stephen Glass has never read this quote. Glass is infamous for his fabricated articles in The New Republic. He could have learned a thing or two from Hemingway. Although, journalists could learn at least three things from Glass. The first thing a journalist can learn from Stephen Glass is that fact-checking is vital to an article’s success. In “Shattered Glass,” Glass fooled The New Republic’s entire system of verifying with perfect ease! Even though each article was proofread three separate times, no fabrications were brought to light until Chuck Lane thrusted them into it! And thank God he did. Speaking of Mr....
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...A Shattered Visage: Modernity and its visual role in Shelley's Ozymandias Barring some unforeseen individual circumstance, you can always count on your eyesight as one of your primary avenues of perception. This has always been the case for mankind, our gift of vision has allotted us the ability to reproduce images of the world around us in our own right. We can craft a version of the world entirely out of our minds. We have created billion dollar industries on the reproduction and sale of images and effectively monetized one of the most basic forms of perception. But what if vision, something we like to swear by in our media-saturated society, doesn't work the same ways at the same times? Does the experience of looking at the Mona Lisa in 1814 differ from looking at it in the year 2014? Did the Sistine Chapel mean something completely different to someone first seeing it as opposed to someone seeing it on some tour in the present day? The two pieces I chose to discuss deal with these questions a lot. Percy Bysshe Shelley's seminal sonnet “Ozymandias” deals with a traveler looking at the remains of a massive statue and empire hundreds, if not thousands of years later. Jonathan Crary's “Modernity and the Problem of the Observer” deals with how our modes of visual perception have changed drastically from the pre-industrial era into the digital age, where the infinite replication of images is the norm. In marrying commentary on both of these literary artifacts, I will attempt...
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...Mrs. Hale, upon discovering the shattered jars, says, “It’s a shame about her fruit… She’ll feel awful bad after all her hard work in the hot weather” (Glaspell 507). These broken fruit jars represent all of the hard work that Minnie had put into gathering and preserving the fruit, and how her efforts were completely wasted in the end. This is much like the relationship she has with Mr. Wright since it also did not turn out worth it and they also symbolize Minnie’s breaking point. When John Wright had wrung her little canary’s neck, Minnie broke just like the shattered fruit jars in her cupboard. These fruit preserves shattered because of the extreme cold outside, which show a comparison to how Minnie’s relationship shattered because of the frigidness she had with Mr. Wright. This also ties into the real events in the short story, “The Hossack Murder”, in the same way the canary did. They are both symbols for a cold and unloving relationship. It is through this symbol of the broken fruit jars and their representation of hard work in a loveless marriage that makes me consider this short story to be one of best examples...
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...experiences and coming of age. Jem's visitation to Calpurnia's church had introduced him to the many negative qualities of Maycomb and its people. He also takes in the flaws of prejudice and judgment through his time with Boo Radley. Particularly, it was the trial that shattered his innocence entirely. Jem's witnessing of the harsh racism and brutal injustice during Tom Robinson's trial brought it two steps further, and he broke down. Innocence is something many strive to maintain, but life experiences and viewings of racism and injustice as portrayed by Harper Lee prevent just that. Calpurnia’s church had greeted Jem with prejudice, poverty, racism, as well as the birth of Jem’s realization of how Maycomb truly was. Upon arrival to Cal’s...
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...It all got shattered that day. It was hot with a cold breeze about 3:00 I had just gotten off of work. You know I had just got paid. So I had to go shopping I told my mom To go to Walmart and she said ok. So we got to Walmart it was so busy there was like huge mobs going everywhere everybody screaming and yelling it was too much. But I kept right along going I went to the electronic section just as I do and found a nice tripod for my new camera. as I was walking to go to the register it seemed to be that all the lines were too long. But there was one that only had 2 people so obviously i went into that line. So I had finally made it up to the register person and she was not very nice. She just threw the tripod in a bag and I grabbed it. As I was walking out the person standing at the door asked to check for my receipt and I...
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...Michael Poteet Poteet 1 Professor Lesser English 116 December 8, 2011 Comparisons and Dissimilarity of Love Octavio Paz, Franz Kafka, and Anton Chekhov, despite living in different eras and locations had similar sentience while going through many different experiences in life. This fact demonstrates the value of comparison but also the ability to contrast to understand life. Through “The Lady With the Dog”, “The Hunger Artist”, and “My Life With the Wave”, the reader is able to conclude: The stories while being decidedly different in diegesis’s also contain similarities in the symbolic contrivances used throughout all three stories Upon reading “The Lady with the Dog” by Chekhov the reader cannot help but sympathize with Anna and Dmitri. Sadly the timing of the relationship is unfortunate. The characters ultimately act in ignorance, because they do not find satisfaction in the relationships with their spouses so they choose to find it somewhere else. This is where are the pain the characters are feeling is coming from. Because sexual intimacy is so powerful and brings couples together into one “person” it causes so much pain for the couple because they have felt that feeling and cannot have it. They both meet their fate in love by finding their true match in one another, but very rarely do fate and timing coincide with one another, so they are forced to continually meet in secrecy through out the story. Poteet 2 Throughout...
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...Shattering the stained glass window Have you ever stubbornly resisted someone else’s opinion only to discover that even though it was different from your own, you could see how it made sense? Thought you would hate summer camp and making friends with complete strangers but found life long friends? Judged someone without knowing them and ended up loving them? Experiencing any of these situations can be incredibly hard because we innately stand strong to our thoughts and opinions. Despite the difficulties, it is enormously liberating to have a long-held idea or cherished notion suddenly shattered for us, forcing us to think in new ways. Everyone has different views when it comes to just about everything. In my eleventh grade government class we took a quiz where we read political situations that had an outcome that was either more republican or democratic. To respond, we had to say on a scale of 1 to 5 how much you agree or disagree with the outcome. As someone who sided with the Republican Party because that was my family’s affiliation, I thought for sure that when my points were added in the end, the result would be that I was a Republican. To my surprise, my results put me as a moderate democrat. To be honest, I was a little ashamed when I realized how easily I believed in something that I knew nothing about. From then on, I find it very difficult to simply accept a position rather than researching and making sure I actually support it. Everyone also has different...
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...OZYMANDIAS (Percy Bysshe Shelley) I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: ”My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. Analysis of Ozymandias "Ozymandias" is a fourteen-line, iambic pentameter sonnet. It is not a traditional one, however. Although it is neither a Petrarchan sonnet nor a Shakespearean sonnet, the rhyming scheme and style resemble a Petrarchan sonnet more, particularly with its 8-6 structure rather than 4-4-4-2. Here we have a speaker learning from a traveler about a giant, ruined statue that lay broken and eroded in the desert. The title of the poem informs the reader that the subject is the 13th-century B.C. Egyptian King Ramses II, whom the Greeks called “Ozymandias.” The traveler describes the great work of the sculptor, who was able to capture the king’s “passions” and give meaningful expression to the stone, an otherwise “lifeless thing.” The “mocking hand” in line 8 is that of the sculptor,...
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...the idea of war Bush was able to create a desire for revenge into all American citizens which would escalate into a raging war in the Middle East. The last couple paragraphs of the speech evoked feelings such as unity and sympathy. Bush asks for “prayers” for all those who lost someone or something due to these “despicable” deeds. By asking for “prayers” Bush is asking that all Americans pray, even if they don’t believe in it, in a desperate attempt to help find any sort of healing into those whose life’s were “shattered” by these acts of terror. Bush could have asked people to donate their money, blood, or their time to help those who were destroyed by these attacks, yet he asked for their prayers because that is the one thing that every single American could do to potentially assist those affected by the evil acts sought out earlier that day. Diction choices like “shattered” really impact the audience due to the severity behind the word. When something is shattered the object had been ruined or deemed irreparable. So by using this intense word Americans could really sympathize for those who have seemed to have lost everything. ...
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...Alike his altered attitude towards faith, John Grady Cole’s original purpose of withdrawing from Texas also denatures from the impact of shattered dreams. Initially, John Grady Cole leaves Texas to Mexico, where he can pursue his dream of maintaining a ranch and playing with horses all day, unrestrained by his mother. In the sunrise, John Grady Cole and Rawlins flee “like young thieves in a glowing orchard,” energized from his enthusiasm to pursue his ideals in Mexico (McCarthy 30). The sunrise, as the birth of a new day, inflames John Grady Cole with promise of adventure and bravery, in which he mistook for a sign of inviolable strength. Again, the belief of unrestrained power and control, a trait common in children, adversely fuels young...
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...ENRON Background and Overview: • Enron was famous in the business world. • Known as the innovator, technology powerhouse and a corporation. • It was named the America’s most innovative company for six years by Fortune’s Most Admired Companies survey. • The fall of Enron in 2001 shattered not just the business world, but also the lives of the employees and the people who believed that their soar to greatness was genuine. • It turns out to be the America’s biggest corporate bankruptcy. Before the fall of Enron: • The sale of natural gas and electricity. • It turn from a energy company to trading company. • Jeffrey Skilling’s mark-to-market method. • The method requires estimations of future incomes when a long-term contract is signed. • The price or value of a security is recorded on a daily basis to calculate profits and losses. • Special Purpose Entity • Are legal entities that arte created only to carry out a specific or temporary tass. • To handle assets either by funding or by risk management. • To dodge the traditional accounting convention. • To hide debts. The Fall of Enron: • The used of mark-to-market method became backfired. • It has corrupted books and had allowed the company to ba far too optimistic in its assumptions about the future profits. • Lack of responsibility of doing the company’s projects. •...
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... by making him fall out of the tree and onto the riverbank, leaving him with a broken leg. After his fall, Phineas is taken to the infirmary and is told he is unable to participate in sports anymore, one of his favorite activities. Phineas then lives through Gene, forcing Gene to play sports and train for the Olympics. The setting is a major part of representing betrayal within the story. Finally, symbolism is a technique laced throughout the entire story. Knowles uses symbols such as the breaking of Phineas’s leg and Phineas’s untimely death to show that Gene and Phineas’s friendship is slowly breaking apart. “Eventually a fact emerged; it was one of his legs, which had been ‘shattered’,” (Knowles 61). The break being described as shattered can also represent the friendship being shattered and show Gene’s betrayal of Phineas. Now that Phineas has fallen out of the tree, possibly because of Gene, this begins to rip apart their friendship. Phineas refuses to believe his best friend could do it, and Gene is unsure whether or not he caused it and begins thinking something else was to blame. “As I was moving the bone some of the marrow must have escaped into his blood stream and gone directly to his heart and stopped it, “ (Knowles 193). The author’s incorporation of Phineas dying this way aids in showing Gene’s betrayal of Phineas. Prior to Phineas’s death, he and Gene had been fighting much more than they normally did, and Phineas ended up telling Gene he was upset that...
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