...The Dreamer Page 1970 question # 2- Analyze the complexities and contradictions to be found in a well-rounded character from a play of your choice. Tom Wingfield introduces himself as an ambitious man who wishes to escape his own reality in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie (1945). He is the breadwinner of his family, providing for his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura, by working at a “shoe factory where his father worked” (1612). Tom narrates the play from his dreamer perspective. He constantly goes to see movies in an attempt to provide adventure to his lackluster life. At first Tom struck me as sympathetic, but as the play progresses he reveals himself to be a very selfish individual. Tom narrates each scene from “memory and [they are] therefore unrealistic” (1614). He remembers his life as an imprisonment, where he is stuck doing undesirable work to provide for his family. His father’s abandonment left him as the sole provider for his family. His family displays “a blown up photograph of the father [that] hangs on the wall of [their] living room” (1614) in their disheveled apartment “flanked on both sides by dark, narrow alleys” (1614). We are continuously exposed to Tom’s viewpoint and the difficulty he has with separating his life from his vision. Amanda’s son emphasizes the smothering nature of his mother throughout the play. Amanda habitually badgers Tom telling him, “Honey, don’t push with your fingers. If you have to push with something, the thing...
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...Changing a baby’s diaper is a hard, messy, and smelly job. There are many different ways that people change their babies diaper. But as the writer has discovered there is no right or wrong way to change your child’s pamper. In the following essay you will learn one way to change to change your child, in which you’ll be able to do in a darkened room. First you must wash your hands, or clean them with a hand sanitizer or a baby wipe. Make sure that the table or place that you change your child on/at should be clean, dry, and warm surface. If you are using a changing table, then lay a blanket, towel, or a changing mat on the bed or floor. Gather your supplies, to include: a clean diaper, wipes or wet cloths, diaper rash cream, if your baby has a diaper rash. Open up the clean diaper and place the back half under your baby. The top of the back half should come up to your baby’s waist, now the clean diaper is ready to be put on. Unfasten the tabs on the dirty diaper and to prevent them from sticking to your baby, fold them under. Next, pull the front half of the diaper down, if you have a boy make sure that you pull the front half of the clean diaper up, so that you won’t get wet if he pees. If there’s poop in the diaper, use the front half of the diaper to clean some of the poop off your baby. Fold the dirty diaper under your baby, the correct way to do this is by holding your baby by their ankles and lift up. Clean your baby’s bottom from front to back, especially if you have a...
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...The Dreamer The smoothness of this three dimensional human shaped two-sided head along with the many different dreams of wishes, ideas, and possibly real life experiences has one looking at this piece for an extended period of time. A faceless child sitting in a tree that seems to extend and branch out into many of the other scenes along with the words “In my Dreams” makes one begin to wonder and look more deeply into the other scenes happening in this head of dreams that seems to come to life. An unusually small baby held in the palm of a hand, some well detailed birds, a staircase that leads to an eye watching a bird or perhaps the child in the tree or even something else entirely, gives this side of the sculpture a happier feel. In other scenes one can see a clock in the background of the tree and an animal, maybe a ferret crouched, possibly ready to pounce. A circular hole cut into the upper back part of the head allows one to see through and out the other side through a square cut hole. Turning to the other side of the head brings on a more frightening feel. The overall coloring is relatively darker and the branching of the tree becomes the veins in the wings of an unnerving butterfly or moth, a house elevated by stilts with a raging fire burning out the doorway and a feather falling below. A frog hanging on to the bottom of the butterfly wing as if they were part of a tree branch with one foot on what is possibly the San Francisco Bridge. The frog is looking upward...
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...volution of Strategy at Procter & Gamble Founded in 1837, Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble has long been one of the world’s most international of companies. Today P&G is a global colossus in the consumer products business with annual sales in excess of $50 billion, some 54 percent of which are generated outside of the United States. P&G sells more than 300 brands—including Ivory soap, Tide, Pampers, Iams pet food, Crisco, and Folgers—to consumers in 160 countries. Historically the strategy at P&G was well established. The company developed new products in Cincinnati and then relied on semi-autonomous foreign subsidiaries to manufacture, market, and distribute those products in different nations. In many cases, foreign subsidiaries had their own production facilities and tailored the packaging, brand name, and marketing message to local tastes and preferences. For years this strategy delivered a steady stream of new products and reliable growth in sales and profits. By the 1990s, however, profit growth at P&G was slowing. The essence of the problem was simple: P&G’s costs were too high because of extensive duplication of manufacturing, marketing, and administrative facilities in different national subsidiaries. The duplication of assets made sense in the world of the 1960s, when national markets were segmented from each other by barriers to cross-border trade. Products produced in Great Britain, for example, could not be sold economically in Germany due to high tariff duties...
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...It’s morally wrong to offer dreamers the American dream and then snatch it away. One of the biggest reasons DACA hasn’t been legalized permanently is because Americans believe that the Dream Act serves as amnesty for illegal immigrants and it would trigger a chain migration. However, Dreamers have a low crime rate, DACA has been a huge help for many illegal immigrants to achieve their dreams, and they have a positive effect on the economy According to the DACA requirements, you must not have been convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor, or more than three misdemeanor. Therefore, Dreamers crime rates are significantly low. In fact, Dreamers have lower incarceration rates than native born Americans of the same age and education level....
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...In their confusion, they begin to long for things that are no longer a part of them. The poem “Dreamers”, written by Siegfried Sassoon, describes that “Soldiers are dreamers; when the gun begin/ They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives” (7-8). When the gunshots began, they are awaken into reality which creates the desire of comfortable pasts that are no longer present. One’s normality becomes nonexistent and the they start to fall apart by predicting their own fate. The only thing that they could do is to dream and reside in their unrealistic views of returning home. Likewise, in Image A, it flaunts pictures of empty cookie cutters, and cookies that are fully in shape next to each other. This demonstrates that there are ultimately two sides: the past and the present, which relates to “Dreamers.” The cookie cutters are the ones that shape the cookies in various forms. However, in this image, the cutters are appeared to be empty, which parallels to the soldier’s mindset in experiencing the war. For instance, they were once filled with their own morals and rules to life, however, having to go through the war, they become empty. Due to this, they are changed into new forms of cookies...
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...A Safe Player or A Passionate Dreamer? The Choice Is Yours By Dishi Solanki: Life does not give you what you deserve. Life only gives you what you demand ~ Anonymus A year back when I was in India, I too had a dream. Dream of landing in USA, getting my MBA & making a mark at the exact opposite end of the globe. Sure enough, here I am sitting in my desired country doing exactly what I had envisioned. It was not a smooth jog & required dedicated sleepless nights but dream it was which manifested into reality. I have always demanded with my head held high from my favourite pal “Dear Loving God” and he has never let me down! Never beg for what is ours, you and only you can grab it. So, demand and work steadfastly. Before Michelangelo could make impossible possible in his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he had seen the unseen as a visualization in his mind. No one else saw the impossible dream until it was finished in 1512. My heart bleeds to say that with growing age comes constantly fading credence to dream. We seldom realize the incredible power that we have within us; the power to believe in ourselves & live our visions. Ironically we tend to focus more than needed on the criticism & pessimistic talks pelted on us making us believe in 1000 reasons to not set out fearlessly to achieve the dream that we have. I would like to share the story of 3 Frogs that I read a while back: There was once a bunch of 3 tiny frogs, who arranged a running competition...
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...In American Dreamer by Bharati Mukherjee, who is a very opinionated writer talks about her views as an immigrant. Coming from her village Fardipur in India, Mukherjee talks about how Americans and immigrants should look to the new American culture and should not be bogged down by old customs. Mukherjee talks about being lonely and detached from her roots while in Canada where the population is not as accepting. In her words they "resists culture fusion." I agree with her statements on Canada and think the U.S. while it is known for racial and cultural tolerance is underrated on the world stage. Surprisingly most countries, such as Canada, still draw lines between being a true Canadian and a Canadian of color. Mukherjee felt that the switch between a foreign student and U.S. citizen was a big change. She also says that she takes being an American citizen very seriously. I think that there is a significant difference in outlooks on citizenship between people whom immigrant here and people whose families have known nothing but the Americas. Like Mukherjee says, "I became a citizen by choice, not by simple accident of birth." I believe it is fair to embrace Mukherjee's choice to drop the hyphenated American title. I think that (like Mukherjee) the hyphenation is a way of categorizing the different cultures that speckle America. I feel like you are not truly embracing the country you live in by having the need to label yourself as an Asian-American, Latin-American, etc. By celebrating...
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...Pioneer or Dreamer? -- Analysis of the “Shanghai Tang: The First Global Chinese Luxury Brand?” case 1. Introduction According to the case “Shanghai Tang: The First Global Chinese Luxury Brand?”, Shanghai Tang was struggling for more than 18 years to be the first global Chinese luxury brand, but unfortunately, until today, Mr. David Tang, the founder of this brand, still has to face a lot of problems: international brand awareness, costumer approval, operation & marketing strategies, relentless competitions, intercultural communication and multicultural integration, etc. It may be on the right track, maybe not. Is Mr. David Tang a pioneer? Or is he just a dreamer? In this analysis report, I will separate all these arguments into four parts: the company’s activities and current development; comparison of competitors’ strategies and tactics; intercultural issues and costumer behaviour in the luxury industry, especially Chinese market; recommendations and alternative solutions for Shanghai Tang’s future strategies. In this report, I will focus on the two most important factors: “inter Culture” and “luxury”, which will impact on the future strategies of Shanghai Tang, and I will defend my standpoints by analyzing the environment of luxury industry and cultural context in China. 2. Shanghai Tang’s current development and business situation Since 1995, the Swiss luxury company Financiere Richem SA (Richemont) became the main shareholder of Shanghai Tang, Tang’s company...
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...DEPOSITS A deposit account is a savings account, current account, or other type of bank account, at a banking institution that allows money to be deposited and withdrawn by the account holder. These transactions are recorded on the bank's books, and the resulting balance is recorded as a liability for the bank, and represents the amount owed by the bank to the customer. Some banks charge a fee for this service, while others may pay the customer interest on the funds deposited. Individuals and corporations need money to pursue their daily business. They place the money on deposit to earn interest, using the money market. Types of deposits are: * Call deposits, the depositor has the right to use the money at any time, sometimes short notice periods are agreed. As the depositor can show up any time to request the deposit back, it is also called sight deposit. * Fixed deposits bear a fixed time and fixed interest rate, and are therefor also called term or time deposits. * Overnight lending occurs usually from noon to noon, using a special rate. to give as security or in part payment. Major Types * Checking accounts: A deposit account held at a bank or other financial institution, for the purpose of securely and quickly providing frequent access to funds on demand, through a variety of different channels. Because money is available on demand these accounts are also referred to as demand accounts or demand deposit accounts. * Money market account: A deposit...
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...Little Dreamer nce upon a time there was a young girl named Ava. Her mother was the queen of the land, Her best friend is A little boy named flounder. Ava also has six brothers their names are Justin, Jacob, Joshua, James, Jack and John. Ava has always wanted to be a mermaid, she always visited aquariums, read mermaid books and watched mermaid movies and loved fish. Ava lives right on the water and she goes down to the water all the time even when she's not allowed. She loves going down to the water and talking to all of her little fish friends and her best friend is Seth the bird. Her mother always gets mad at her for going to the water. Ava gets really upset with her mother because of not letting go down to the water with her friends....
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...In “The Dreamer,” Junot Diaz reflects on his mother’s childhood. Diaz’s mother lived in a Third-World country, Dominican. His mother worked on his grandmother’s farm and would not let her get an education. Although one day the county got a new dictator Trujillo, which he put into effect mandatory education to children under fifteen-years-old. Diaz’s mother tried so hard to acquire an education because her dream was to one day become a nurse. I am inspired by Diaz's essay both because of what his mother did in order to education and also because of what a mother’s abilities can go on their son. To begin with, Diaz’s essay was an inspiration to me because his mother had to go a remarkable length to get an education. Firstly, Diaz writes “Her...
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... There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do-and I believe that. - Derek Jeter. Do your best and don't let anyone work harder than you. It fits my beliefs because granted there are people who have way more talent and skill than me, but I won't ever let them out work me ever I strive to gain and get stronger to be the best to my ability. No matter how talented anyone is, or how skillful they are don't let anyone work harder. Arnold worked hard and trained to get where he is today, he never let anyone train harder than what he did. Arnold worked hard to earn the title of Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia. Arnold won a lot of competitions that he entered in, “He won his first bodybuilding title in 1965 and eventually was named Mr. Universe five times and Mr. Olympia seven times” (Vavreck 1). Arnold had to work hard to become Mr. Universe, and Mr. Olympia, these guys are the best of the best in their line of work. Arnold worked hard by starting out his career at a young age. Arnold started lifting weights in the beginning of his youth, “He decided on a career in bodybuilding at the age of 15” (Vavreck 1). Arnold started out at a young age in his career, it takes dedication to commit to his choice of career which means that you have to work hard. Arnold worked hard to get as big as he is. Along the way Arnold earned a few nicknames, “ Schwarzenegger was known as the Styrian Oak, or Austrian...
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...Bharati Mukherjee’s “American Dreamer” covers issues about the difference between the United States and America, cultural identity, and citizenship. Mukherjee discusses her transition from India to the United States, and then from Canada back to the United States. Mukherjee proclaims her ideas about mosaic or melting pot countries and their effect on a nation’s identity. Multicultural mosaics negativity effects a nation’s identity. Cultural mosaics affect multicultural countries. A cultural mosaic consists of different ideologies, physical appearances, and religions. The individual pieces represent different people illustrated by the shards of glass formed into different sizes and shapes. Spaces in between the pieces symbolize that the individual...
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...The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Chronic Day Dreamer in a Depressed Society By: Rebecca Moore In the Great Depression of the 1930’s, there was a strong social and economical struggle that inhibited both men’s wishes and fantasies. The very idea of finding a paying career with high social status, was quite impossible to achieve and challenges the masculinity inside men, including Walter Mitty. Thurber’s short story;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is of a man whose ultimate escape from a boring and miserable reality by making his own, depicts the hunger of excitement and success, as well as escapism that many others wanted in the Great Depression. Mitty’s desires to become more than who he is, and to be the centre of attention in his own fantasies, are the result of external and internal factors, that belittles and emasculates him. His patronizing wife, superior men, his self image, and his rather systematic life, causes him to isolate himself and escape the 1930’s time warp. Walter Mitty; there is little known about him except that fact that he is a chronic dreamer and has controlling wife whom he is submissive to. Goonetilleke’s article The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Overview expresses Thurber’s point of view on how women have won the battle of the sexes through Mrs.Mitty who stifles Walter’s masculine role in their relationships. She patronizes him about seeing a psychiatrist, putting on his gloves, getting overshoes, all the while reminding him that “you’re not a young...
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