...Big World- theme paragraph A major theme in Tim Winton’s award winning short story, ‘Big World’ is self-discovery. Throughout the short story the main character and his best mate Biggie struggle to decide what they want to do with their lives. The author shows how young adults may struggle with life immediately after their school life finishes, and how these people cope with the uncertainty of their futures. Winton explains how the two main characters are feeling trapped and unsure, by using phrases such as, “the Southern sky presses down,” (on them), and “week after week an endless misting drizzle wafts in from the sea.” The first person narrator talk about his “dreaded exam results,” and how “the news is not good,” this explains why he is...
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...Did big brother kill Doodle? Can Pride be a destructive force? Pride is a sense of one’s own proper dignity or value; self respect. Pride can be a destructive force. Brothers pride was destructive when he let his little brother die. Brother was always leaving Doodle behind. He was always talking about killing him, and he was embarrassed about having a disabled brother. Did big brother kill Doodle? There is a lot of evidence on how big brother did kill Doodle. On page 345 it says, “I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.” He planned on killing Doodle with a pillow. So, ever since Doodle was a baby, big brother, planned on killing him. On page 353 it says, “ The faster I walked, the faster he walked, so I began to...
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...Essay - Inside Out Inside Out is a short film from 1999 made by Tom and Charles Guard, also known as The Guard Brothers. This short film shows how opposites attract, but it also shows how a big chaotic city can make love difficult. In Inside Out the male character and the female character never really connect, they never really talk or touch each other. They never meet, because they are separated by the fashion shop's window. The window is like a barrier. Still they kind of have an instant "connection", like eye contact. When the man sees the woman he lights up, becomes energetic and he seeks her attention, he tries to act funny. The complete opposite of what he was before, a frustrated man, because no one would sign his papers, they just ignored him and walked on by. The woman is entertained by him, but she is also very shy and she tries to hide behind some mannequins. Though this could also be flirting, because she is alternately hiding, coming out, hiding again etc. This shows their differences. Two opposites meet and attract. At the end of the short film it shows that the attraction is not strong enough. The city forces them to go their separate ways. A city which is very chaotic and not to mention, big. The cinematic techniques amplify the chaos in the city, for example: There is a lot of short takes and close ups on peoples feet which shows that the citizens are always on the move. There is also hand-held camera and this certainly gives the idea of action and chaos...
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...ABSTRACT SOCIAL CLASSES IN THE SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD , Bachelor of Arts in English, Central Mindanao University, Musuan, Bukidnon, March 2015. Research Method Instructor: Mayflor Prantilla-Aramabala, MELL This study is limited only to the study of five (5) selected short stories of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald “F. Scott Fitzgerald” The Winter Dreams, The Diamond as Big as Ritz, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Jelly Bean, and The Offshore Pirates. The researcher used the descriptive study in which the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. This study specifically focused on the discussion of interaction of characters from different short stories. Also, this study will identify and enumerate the different social classes, roles and status using the Marxist theory. The study uses descriptive design. It was found out that in the five short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald the three types of social classes were present namely: the upper, middle and lower class. Thus, this study concluded that the most common social classes found in the short stories are the upper and middle class. The social roles and status are almost alike. The issues were identify and interpret the interaction of the characters in the short stories. Keyword: Roles, Conflict, Society, Conflict Theory, Marxist Criticism, Short Stories Chapter I INTRODUCTION Reading of short stories is one of the people’s way of spending their spare time. Some are obliged to read such because it is one of...
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...Have you ever thought about how you were going to present yourself in a certain situation, but then when face to face with that situation, you react in a completely different way than expected? We can see this sort of pattern in both the poem, ‘Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol and the short story, “Big Black Good Man” by Richard Wright. When we compare these two works of art, we are able to see how both of these authors use literary elements such as theme and metaphor to help get their point across and engage their readers on an emotional level. These two works and their literary techniques play a significant role as they tell of a time where not everyone was treated with equality. It is time to end these unethical and corrupt habits. The poem,...
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...Executive Summary Big Apple Executive Training will expand its top-quality professional development and training to include short courses in project management fundamentals, project planning and control, project finance and budgeting, and project risk and quality management. As with other classes and boot camps, the project management courses are designed to help those with little experience in project management gain an intermediate understanding of what it takes to manage a project effectively. Since Big Apple Executive Training has already established a presence in the training market, the marketing plan for a new course rollout will focus on the pricing, promotion and place of our new courses. Although Big Apple Executive Training already offers an extensive line of high quality management training courses and boot camps, it has become apparent that the company is missing an area that is desired by our core customers. Over the next year, Big Apple Executive Training will start offering a new suite of courses that focus on project management. Since Big Apple Executive Training already provides high end courses at a reasonable price, the biggest challenges will be separating our products from those offered through PMI New York City and New York University’s Stern College of Business. Target Customers Big Apple Executive Training will focus on the small business and entrepreneur segments for these courses. Although Big Apple Executive Training can handle larger...
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...Abstract This is a comparative analysis and interpretation of two selected short stories: “Nørreport” from 2004 by Katrine Marie Guldager, and “Loose Change” from 2005 by Andrea Levy. We analyse the aspects of the short stories, including how they describe the “big city” and how its citizens behave towards each other, particularly towards those below them on the social ladder. After each individual analysis, we take a closer look to the similarities and difference between the two short stories, along with what image the texts give us of the big city’s influence on human individuals and their relations towards each other. Our conclusion is that it is clear that inhabitants of the big city does not normally help the people who are in need of help, even though they want to lend a hand. The two short stories give us a picture of how the modern big city inhabitant indulges in self-satisfying activities such as coffee drinking and art viewing. To get a broader view in our analysis, we use the book “Litterary History - by side and by width” (loose translation) from 2012 by Barbara Kjær-Hansen and Tinne Serup Bertelsen to help us draw a line from the novels and back to both the time in which they were written, and also to our modern time. Indledning I denne opgave tager vi et kig på to noveller; Katrine Marie Guldager’s “Nørreport” og Andrea Levy’s engelsksprogede “Loose Change”. Vi vil herudfra se om vi kan danne os et overblik over deres budskab og tema - i særdeleshed om disse to...
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...taken or will take. This way of living life in a modern society is depicted in the short story A Gap of Sky. The story is about the young, nineteen year old girl Ellie, who lives in London. She deals with an environment full of temptations as drugs and alcohol - but she definetly feels the freedom of todays society, especially in the big citites. The main character in the short story is 19 year old Ellie, as mentioned in the beginning of the essay. She lives alone in appartment in London. This means has the responsebility for her own life now. She has been send here by her parents to study at UCL. Ellie has her own way of living life and that is by staying until late. When she is at a party drink a lot, but she also uses drugs. This might be some way of dealing with her loneliness, but she faces the reality when she wakes up the morning or in her case the afternoon after. It seems as Ellie might think it is difficult to find the whole meaning of life, but she is surrounding by things in the big city who leads her on to an answer on that question. A Gap of Sky is told by a third-person narrator, which means the reader has the oppotunity to know a little about what the character is thinking, and it makes it easier to indentify with Ellie in this short story. The languange, composition and sentences is very important for this story, becauses it says a lot about the character. There are many short sentences and it seems as it is written as a stream of thoughts in Ellie’s head;...
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...C. Boyle also known as Tom Coraghessan Boyle is the author of 25 works of fiction and more than 100 short stories. According to an article T. Coraghessan Boyle written by Knudsen, James Boyle’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire and The New Yorker, and has been translated into more than 25 languages and won numerous awards. He is also a professor at the University of Southern California, where he found the creative writing undergraduate program. Boyle holds a Ph.D. in 19th-century British literature from Iowa State University. Currently he lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and three children. His latest publication is a second volume of short fiction, T.C. Boyle Stories II. Boyles has been recognized consistently for his work. This paper will cover his writing style, accomplishments, and critiques According to an article named, ‘ T Coraghessan Boyle’ written by Adams, Michael; Long, Douglas says many of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the baby boomer generation. His themes, such as the often-misguided efforts of the male hero and the smooth appeal of the anti-hero, appear alongside brutal satire, humor, and magical realism. His fiction also explores the pitiless and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unintentionally takes on the environment. T.C. Boyle is a writer of American Literature. He writes fiction in the form of short stories and novels. According to Charles, May; Rambo, Catherine: Satire is a dominating force in Boyle’s...
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...I remember him being visibly upset about selling the house, but since I was so young I did not understand the current crisis America was facing and the consequences my dad was acquiring by short-selling the house. I learned about the Financial Crisis of 2008 by sophomore year of high-school, but I did not realize that was the event that caused my family and many other Americans to lose their house. The epiphany of connecting the two events did not occur until I watched The Big Short. After watching the movie, I called my dad and he said the movie was a very accurate description of what caused the financial crisis to happen, and that the Financial Crisis was one of the main reasons we sold our first house in...
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...Joyas Voladoras is a short essay by Brian Doyle. Brian Doyle is a Canadian writer who writes about his experience growing up in Ottawa and vicinity. The short essay “Joyas Voladoras”, is about how people or creatures can feel pain in their hearts. In “Joyas Voladoras” Brian Doyle portrays that even though you are big or small everyone can feel pain. In “Joyas Voladoras” the blue whales represents how the largest creatures can also feels pain. Doyle is describing how many blue whales there are but he reveals how little everyone knows about them. He states, “But we know this: the animals with the largest hearts in the world generally travel in pairs, and their penetrating moaning cries, their piercing yearning tongue, can be heard underwater...
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...the former English Teacher, Miss Coral who is caught between a rock and a hard place. Today people have to be perfect and everything we are occupied with must be done flawlessly. The author Anna Metcalfe emphasizes exactly this issue in the short story “Number Three”, where Miss Coral is trapped in a culture clash. She´s replaced with a so called “Real English Teacher” – the contemporary ideal person, Mr. James. Miss Coral is replaced with Mr. James who is supposed to be a better teacher than her. Her boss says he has done her a favour by making her an international hostess, in charge of an English teacher program. After all he could have chosen to fire her, “The director was keen that she should not take the redistribution of her skills as a sign of promotion (…) she has been withdrawn from teaching on grounds of incompetence”, (line 13-15). Throughout the short story “old” Miss Coral is equated with the Tianfu slum. She is replaced with Mr. James, who is modern and new. The old city is also replaced with something better and fresh, “The shanty town shacks of Tianfu, half flattened, are making way for settlement housing”, (line 19-20). The setting plays a major role in the short story as it refers to Miss Coral´s state of mind. The big polluted city has “flattened” Miss Coral and her career. The smog and dust in the city are described negatively just like the negative “clouds” over Number Three and her as a teacher. At the end of the story the Tianfu slums are removed like...
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...decline, net profit loss, and poor cash flows. Revenue fell 2.4% in 2011, losing $1.23 billion in 2011. Net profit shrank in the fiscal year 2012 to 1.23 million from a net profit of 1.27 million in 2011, or loss of $3.36 per share. Best Buy’s cash flow decreased from $2.2 million in 2010, to $1.9 million in 2011. This report will conduct a situational analysis for causes of revenue loss, profit decrease, and poor cash flows, including a summary for each problem. In 2011, Best Buy’s revenue dropped 2.4%, following a 4.7% decline from the previous year, and accumulating a loss of $1.23 billion. Best Buy faces revenue problems due to closure of its “big box” stores and a 62% loss of its main revenue generating market, the US. Revenue problems are due to the closure of fifty “big box” stores in the US, as well as additionally closing “big box” stores abroad in the UK, Turkey, and China. The closure of its stores created fewer consumers and a decreasing number of units sold in the previous year, which disrupted revenue growth for the company. In the previous four years, Best Buy saw “17% value CAGR in its internet retailing operations, while store-based retailing has seen a value CAGR of just 6% […] despite this pace of growth internet sales account for only 5% of the company’s total sales value in 2011” (Passport). The remaining 95%, or the bulk of revenue for Best Buy, suffered as it closed down stores, which cut deeply into revenue. The company additionally lost revenue in depletion...
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...one of such cities is Newark (New Jersey) where they still face problems of unemployment, health care cost and decrease in retirement benefits. The article shows how different cities are facing big debts because they borrowed a lot of money to take care of short term problems. These immediate problems included balancing city budget in order to take care of things like retirement benefit and the rising health care. Many leaders are forced to borrow money from financial institutions which force them to pay big interest later, these are such big decisions to make. Although cities face a lot of challenges, leaders are able to borrow money to take care of immediate problems to fix budget issues but the money borrowed comes with a big price of putting cities in long time debts which affect the development of various projects.Unemploymet is the biggest problem because people are forced to ask for help from their local governments through food and housing because many people cannot afford food and pay rent, this has led to overspending hence putting cities in more debts. According to the article, these long time debts are caused by leaders who don’t have financial knowledge that end up just borrowing money to solve short term problems hence putting cities in big debts down the road by paying big interests. According to the article, the financial meltdown that happened in America in recent years has affected the central government and cities across the country. In order to overcome all...
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...Saving Mr Ugwu The short story „Saving Mr. Ugwu“ is written by Lin Anderson in 2012. The main character is Mr. Ugwu, a black man, but he feels like he is a white western man. The main plot is about him and the changes in his life. The story deals with equality and different cultures. Mr. Ugwu is the main character and the story is from a third person narrator, with focus on Mr. Ugwu. He is a black guy, but he feels as a white man. He and his family live in the bush in Nigeria. He belongs to the Christian Igbos, this one of the biggest tribes in Nigeria. His family moved from the biggest city Lagos, what also was the capital in Nigeria until 1991, to the bush in Nigeria, because of Mr. Ugwu’s job. Mr. Ugwu doesn’t think well about the bush, but he reminds himself every time that the company has been good to him, so he would do whatever it takes to keep his job. He doesn’t feels that the bush is his home, and he wants to go back to Lagos. Every time it rains he feels a bit like he is “home”, he probably thinks about Lagos. Mr. Ugwu is not really happy with his life, “he becomes angry. Angry at the Hausa, angry at his wife, angry at his Baturi neighbour, all of whom treat him like a dog.” In this quote from the text can you see that Mr. Ugwu isn’t really happy with his life, although he have a good position in his job, and earned good money even though that he wasn’t white. An important thing in the story is the setting, specially the garden at the Ugwu family’s house. In the...
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