...Happiest Refugee” reflects the ideas of an outsider is how war has changed Anh and his families lives. “The year is 1976 and the Vietnam war has just ended”, “When the war ended her two older brothers, high- ranking paratroopers who fought alongside American and Australian soldiers, were put into communist re-education camps” and “My grandfather was in the army, so Grandma was left to look after ten kids on her own in a little hut” explain how the war has torn Anh’s family apart and has deeply effected how his father and mother lived throughout their childhood. When Anh’s Father is forced to almost single-handedly take care of his brothers, it builds and changes his personality and makes him far more responsible. When Anh’s uncles are put into a re-education camp, Anh’s father shows the leadership qualities and courage that he built over his childhood to free them from slavery. Chapter 1. From the start of the chapter, we can see the traits of an outsider, namely being a non-evident sense of belonging. When the communist guards were harassing the young lady; she was an outsider as she was being ostracised and segregated from the rest of the group in a nasty and threatening way. This was evidenced in the text from the quote “ ‘Lift up your trousers’ the guard demands. The girl lifts her black cotton pants to her ankles. ‘Lift them higher,’ he leers. ‘In fact take them off.’” From this quote, we can see that this person was an outsider momentarily as she was not safe in the eyes...
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...Do we as Americans make immigrants feel like outsiders? A flashback into 2012 reminds us Americans of our newly elected President Barack Obama, the outrage cry for equality in gay marriage, and the controversial death of Trayvon Martin. For authors Michael Jones-Correa and Louis Mendoza- 2012 however, was a year for increased immigration as well a time for equality with immigration. Both authors raise questions for its proposed audience. While Jones-Correa purpose is to inform and Mendoza to persuade, both prove to be very convincing in their arguments. Although both writers seem to be credible and effective in logical reason, Author Louis Mendoza achieves a more effective rhetorical analysis through his use of emotional appeal. Jones-Correa being a professor of government at Cornell University automatically has a strong set level of credibility. As well as being the co-author of the book “Latino Lives in America: Making It Home”. However, to strengthen his credibility he takes an informative stand point for his targeted audience. With an informative piece and/or standpoint its sole purpose is to do exactly that, inform. Relying solely on fact based interpretation, thus leaving no room for bias in his article. Keeping bias out of his work...
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...MLK Letter From Birmingham Jail Rhetorical Analysis- w/ focus on Ethos “...we are now confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of our Negro citizens, directed and led in part by outsiders…” In this quote, from the third paragraph of the letter written by eight Alabama clergymen, the term outsiders is used. Early on, this creates a label for Martin Luther King, outsider. Throughout his Letter From Birmingham Jail, King is able appeal to ethos in order to refute his title of “outsider” and generate a connection with his audiences, the clergymen and the people of America. King is able to do such a thing by alluding to multiple passages from the Bible as well as the figures it contains, which is done so that he may identify with the clergymen. When not speaking in reference to the Bible, King makes allusions and references to specific points and people in American history, which allows him to connect to his larger audience, the people of America. By demonstrating his practical wisdom, through the use of allusion, King attempts to strengthen his character with a visible appeal to ethos. King alludes to the Bible multiple times throughout his Letter From Birmingham Jail. These allusions are notable in paragraph three, where king refers to the biblical figures “Jesus Christ” and “the Apostle Paul.” The context in which these two are used is to reiterate the story of Paul leaving Tarsus, which King also mentions, to spread the word of Christ. In paragraph...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A few concepts that I chose from chapter 10 to focus on are executive succession: insiders versus outsiders, problems in retrenchment, managing diverse cultures following an acquisition, and total quality management (TQM). Strategy implementation is an important step that requires staffing and directing and puts strategy into action. According to McCarthy 'strategy implementation may be said to consist of securing resources, organizing these resources, and directing the use of these resources within and outside the organization.' The concept executive succession, is an integral part to a company. Whether to hire an outside or inside manager is better for replacement within a company depends on the circumstances of the company. If a company is doing well, then hiring someone from the inside would improve performance. If a company is on thin ice, hiring an outsider can save the company. Studies have shown that hiring someone from the inside results in better performance than hiring someone from the outside. I've learned that steps for top-management succession is exceptionally critical to a company and can stabilize its performance from sinking below average. A great CEO needs the experience, skills and expertise. Before my research and analysis, I believed that right CEO is one who's been working for the company for long time because of the amount of knowledge captivated during his/her years. However, that's not always the right choice because of circumstance...
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...Poetry Analysis Questions Choose one of the poems in The Norton Introduction to Literature (assigned or one of your choice) to use as a focus for answering the following questions. Provide a 4-5-sentence paragraph for each answer to the numbered questions. Give details from the story to support your answers. Use the Norton as a reference to help guide your understanding and writing about poetry. Grading Criteria (50 Pts). All submissions must be saved in .doc or .docx file format and in normal size 12 Times New Roman font (or equivalent). You will be graded on the following: • Providing in-depth, accurate, and objective answers to each question on this worksheet. • Answers should be a developed paragraph, 4-5 sentences each. No brief answers. • Original writing and thought, using examples and/or quotes from the poem to support answers. • Use of language for writing about poetry as demonstrated in both the Norton and the Field Guide (pt2). • MLA format for quotes and paraphrases, using parenthetical citations. • Correct grammar, style (see concision exercise) proofreading, editing, clarity, syntax, use of 3rd person only. • Completion this assignment and adherence to guidelines. Note: Some important information regarding writing about poetry and MLA documentation is available in the Field Guide for this week. Provide your answers in the boxes after each question. When finished, save and submit this into the dropbox, folder titled: Poetry Analysis Questions...
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...Seeing as how the years stretching from 1960 through 1969 encompass some of the most volatile in American history, it is only fitting that one of the most polarizing letters of all time finds its birthdate among them. Dr. Martin Luther King’s bluntly-titled “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is, on one scale, a tactful reply to public statements released by eight white religious leaders from the South who condemned the involvement and communal acceptance of “outsiders” in local civil rights protests; on another, it is an impeccably dense treatise regarding both the philosophical and biblical histories of human rights in the context of the 1960s decade. Even within a piece meant to unite rather than divide, however, King bears both the risk of alienating...
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...following analysis and interpretation, I will unravel the tangled threads of the complicated affair, by giving a characterization of the mother and revealing the relationship between the sisters. In addition to this, I will touch on the symbolism, structure and the themes of the short story. The plot begins at home, when Rachel discovers that her sister has stolen her new silk dress. For the evening the family have planned to eat at a modern restaurant, and for the occasion Rachel, the older sister, has bought a beautiful perfect blue silk dress. Flora finds the dress, when she is home alone and finds it impossible to resist the urge to try it on. Suddenly she finds herself strolling down the street, feeling elite and confident all because of the dress; qualities she sees in her sister, but fails to see in herself. By accident she ruins the dress, and in desperation and fear she buries it outside the house in the garden. When they later meet up at the restaurant, Rachel is furious with her sister making an uncomfortable mood at the table. The mother, as the bereavement counselor and low self-confidence woman she is, tries to avoid the fight by babbling on about unimportant stuff like, what is on the menu, quote p. 2 of 5, 57-58: ” The mother sat between them, nibbling olives, talking incessantly, aware of the hollow silence between them”. If she could change the circumstances, she would rather have gone to the cinema, where there is no need to talk to each other; quote p. 3 of...
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...as well as integrating plenty of old-fashioned tape and first-hand observation to analyze players and teams. Now, we're following in the footsteps of our predecessors at Baseball Prospectus and our college counterparts by providing that same level of insight in book form. Pro Basketball Prospectus 2009-10 features: Essays on all 30 teams Five-year team trend tables Info-packed tables on every player who saw NBA action in 2008-09 or who can be expected to be seen in the upcoming season, including their advanced stats for the last three seasons, their skill ratings and their contract status Commentary on every player Team and player contract information and salary-cap analysis The results of Kevin Pelton's dynamic SCHOENE projection system, both for players and teams Exclusive quotes from key basketball-operations personnel Insight from blog authors on their teams A special section for fantasy leaguers, including an essay from veteran fantasy NBA writer Brian Doolittle as well as our unique player-rating system which utilizes SCHOENE's projections An essay explaining the microfracture procedure from Will Carroll, as well as essays on the NBA's economic future and how reinterpreting the rules on hand-checking has affected the modern NBA game The preseason version of the Prospectus Hoops List "This is partly a reference book, but every NBA fan should sit down with this book before the season and read it cover to cover, like a novel. It's a story of my...
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...Analysis of Joanne Fedler’s short story “A Simple Exchange of Niceties” There are many great moment of every humans life. But one of the biggest moments – maybe the biggest of all – in a woman’s life is the time when her first baby enters the world, and she hold the baby in her arms for the first time. The feelings in a moment like this can’t be described – they have to be felt, to be understood. Those are the feelings our main character in Joanne Fedler’s short story “A Simple Exchange of Niceties” faces in the end of the story. But before she is ready for those feelings, an important meeting with another woman takes place. When we first meet the narrator, she seems like a woman with low self-esteem. A misunderstood soul in a world she doesn’t fit in to. She is alone in the park, confused and miserable; she has just realized that she is pregnant, and has decided to get an abortion. She doesn’t feel like she is worth loving; neither by the man who got her pregnant, and afterwards referred to her as a trashy whore, or by her mother, who has never cared much for her. She went to prison for three months, when she was caught in shoplifting. She feels like she haven’s achieved much in life: “I’ve never done anything with my life”, she says on page 11, line 37. During the story, she only mentions her friend Barbie as an important person in her life, which makes her seem a bit lonely. She fits in in the box of outsiders which exists in every community. The bench plays an important...
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...018 The Invention of Wings Analysis Sue Monk’s novel The Invention of Wings describes both the life of a slave, Handful, and her master’s daughter, Sarah, and their relationships with each other, family, and outsiders. They relentlessly fight for their freedom in hope to alter the American society’s ideas of slavery. Monk uses narrative voice and characterization to bring her story to life. Monk uses two narrators throughout the course of the book. The first narrator is Handful, the slave, and the second narrator is Sarah, her master. The novel is written in first person point of view. The use of these literary techniques allows the reader to see this story from the perspective of a slave master and from the perspective of a slave. The audience...
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...Anika Her 10/18/15 ENG 5 Guerin The Ballot or the Bullet Speech Analysis Malcolm X gave his speech by persuading African Americans to inundate their differences, only to learn that they all had the same issue: “political oppression, economic exploitation, and social degradation at the hands of the white man.” Noting that 1964 was the year of the elections, he asked his audience to choose whether they wanted to merge with white communities as one to receive equal rights along with voting for who will sit in the White House and who will sit in the dog house, or to stand up through the years of injustice they have received. He then warns them by declaring that it will end up in a situation where bullets will take place instead of not putting in a ballot. While delivering his speech, it is seen that he attempts to reunite all African-Americans by using rhetoric. Malcolm also mentions that every human should be treated equally and given equal rights no matter what race you were. In addition, he also impersonated these issues into his perspective for his audience and to hopefully persuade them as well by providing characteristic uses of both language and imagery. Then, he reveals how democrats are deceivers and portrays that as long as the Americans had control of both the Senate and House, the African-Americans will never gain a helping hand from them. His describes himself through a quote by stating that he was not an anti-democrat or an anti-republican. All he wanted was...
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...prime-time television. Throughout this article, the authors make an argument they think is important, but in all reality, most readers would not find this information important enough to hold their full attention due to the complicated wording, biased examples, and the very repetitive information. The authors begin the article with a brief abstract which summarizes what it is the readers can expect from their article. The article is broken down into sections which separate the different topics that the authors are discussing. On the top of page 203 in the article, the authors clearly state, “Building on this previous research, the current study examines whether female and male characters continue to inhabit traditionally sex-typed roles. Such analysis is important in light of the fact that popular press accounts regularly boast about the rapid evolution of the portrayals of gender in prime-time” (Lauzen, Dozier, Horan p.203). When constructing their research, the authors used a variety of different sources to attempt to make their point clear to the reader including past and more current studies. The sources include many female writers who explain how their field is dominated by males, and these firsthand sources give the reader confidence in the message the authors are trying to present. Toward the end of the article, they use their own method to calculate the stereotypes in the 124...
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...The Concept of the Outsider Literature often persecutes the most vulnerable, a person who lacks support and therefore power within society. Described by Terry Eagleton for The Guardian as the “literary mainstream”; these characters are often referred to as the Outsider due to their exclusion from the community in which the text is set. The characters who are referred to as Outsiders can be portrayed in different ways; their initial exclusion from society can ultimately lead to a narrative of their acquisition of power throughout the text but similarly, can portray a story of their maintenance of the minimal power they have over the course of the text’s plot. However, this is not to argue that some Outsiders presented within literature do not have power over the course of the development of the text so, as a consequence, remain excluded from the society. In this case, the text would then be considered an exposition of the character’s experience from their position in society rather than the author’s attempt of trying to integrate their character into society through their work. Furthermore, the author themselves may be considered an Outsider through their own status in society; they command their readers to be Outsiders themselves within the novel. As well as to read and observe the narrative in order to emulate the same feeling within themselves, within the reader or to have a specific impact on the issues surrounding humanity at the time. The contrast in the ways in which...
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...Critical Analysis Essay “Letter from Birmingham Jail” In arguing, writers use different techniques to effectively convey their message to their intended audience. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was a response to "A Call for Unity" by eight white clergymen in which King’s presence in Birmingham and his methods of public demonstration were questioned. King’s letter was not only a response to his presence in Birmingham, but he also used the opportunity to address the unjust proposals by the clergymen that Negroes wait for the legal system to abolish segregation and unjust laws. King uses rhetorical modes of persuasion such as ethos, pathos and logos to meticulously address and discredit the claims made by the eight white clergymen. Throughout his letter, King also makes many comparisons to effectively illustrate how the Negro pursuit of freedom was timely. To answer the question of his presence in Birmingham, King uses both ethos and pathos to explain why he is qualified to be present leading the demonstrations. To argue the perception of him being “an outsider coming in”, King first states that because he has organizational ties in Birmingham, he has an obligation to be available whenever he is needed. This statement discredits the notion that he is an outsider. To lay the foundation of his argument, King states, “But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.” This statement is used to make King’s presence seem less personal...
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...Southwest Airlines Calsouthern University Introduction “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else (Sam Walton, 2015).” Millions of people fly everyday. Southwest airlines provide low-fare travel among 58 cities in the United States. Although the airline industry suffered greatly in the aftermath of September 11, Southwest was able to continue to hold strong. Southwest airline continues to maintain steady sales as much of the industry was affected by changes in laws/regulations and competition entering the market. In the following report there is a brief introduction to Southwest Airlines and their strategy and then what, if anything, they need to do or not do to remain at the top and competitive in the airline industry. The Problem The major problem of the company is whether they can continue growing and at the same time keep offering the same services to their clients. To continue growing, Southwest Airlines needs to analyze the external environment in order to ensure their success. The solutions that will be presented for Southwest airlines have to attack two main issues: 1. How will they be able to keep their “Southwest airlines LUV” 2. How to keep their expansion and not affect the image of the airline. Southwest Airlines has a list of infinite options, many will hinder their image from the inside out (employees to costumers) while providing a set of services...
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