Essays on Bleak

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The possibility of more European Countries drifting away from the Euro lies in limbo considering the adverse impacts that Brexit has on Britain’s economy. Even before the eventual secession of the UK from the Europe Union, the country has begun to feel the heat and economic turmoil of disengaging with the rest of the countries that form the confederation. Politically, UK is losing grip in the control of Europe as Russia emerges as the best bet to control the entire region. Therefore, leaving out the EU is both an economic and political misery to any country, since the ...

Literature

Edgar Allan Poe and his most predominant themes Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, writer, and editor. He is also known for literary critics. He is one of the most important literary figures in Romanticism from 1840 to 1849. Poe’s work was of such dynamic nature that it has resulted in “massive impact” (3). He has also associated nature with good. Poe’s well-known fiction works are Gothic, and "Metzengerstein" was his first published Gothic tale. Some of his works were also satiric and comic such as “A Tale of Jerusalem”, “The Duc de L’Omelette” (humorous ...

The film Suzhou River by Lou Ye tells a story of a young courier who knows the city of Hong-Kong very well and never asks questions. Having spent a lot of time on the banks of Suzhou himself, Lou Ye knows very well what kind of mood prevails there and is aiming to recreate this atmosphere in his film. The very beginning of the film is marked by the complete darkness and female voice asking a male voice questions. The voices are calm and somewhat monotonous; however, they are clearly defined as not being lively or happy but rather ...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic, and a representative of the literary movement called Romanticism. He became popular thanks to his dark and grim short stories. Poe is considered to be the founder of the detective-fiction genre and psychological prose in literature. He is immediately recognized by his famous poem “The Raven.” But the writer proved his ability to create dread and fear not only in poetic lines, but also in prose. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” that takes an honored place in Poe’s gallery of nightmares and horror accurately ...

It needs to be reckoned that literature goes on to mirror the society and the culture. Innumerable examples can be cited where the authors have delved into the socio-cultural or socio-economic factors of the world around in their texts through their creative eyes. Now, after the Second World War, the literature of the world saw the responses of the creative artist catering to the needs of the post-war era that encompassed human existence with all its surmounting effect. One can take into consideration the works of the stalwart poet, T.S. Eliot, who engaged in exploring the socio-political dynamics during ...

The first thought in reading the title of the short story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway is to wonder what the title means. Once the reader gets into the story and becomes caught up in the interaction between the man and his female companion, the title may slip away after the first and second mention as symbolism and the author’s presentation of gender characteristics. However important and interesting the other aspects of Hills Like White Elephants may be, it is proposed that the entire story is based around the premise of the representation of the hills ...

In the world of journalism, one may think that words are all that matter. However, images are just as or even more important, as demonstrated by the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” This saying remains a cliché because images can convey a sentiment that all people can understand regardless of translation or intellect. Particularly powerful are images of people such as the one photographed by Iranian Newsha Tavakolian. The image depicts the subject’s desire for female equality and liberation in the Muslim world through a tense body language, worried expression, and overall bleakness, including the writing. Upon first ...

Kurt Vonnegut and His World Views

Kurt Vonnegut's interview on NPR's The Infinite Mind provided a sweeping insight into the life and world-view of the author. This interview was completed towards the end of Vonnegut's life and followed the publication of his latest book, A Man Without a Country. His world view, although a bit jaded, still offers a glimmer of optimism. Vonnegut argues that the only way humanity will be able to survive is through the teams created across nations and social groups. In the West, we must move beyond traditional family units, which serve to isolate and create friction between groups, and open up our lives to ...

Question # 1

Summary This sort of comparison also serves as a benchmarking tool. Due to the gap created, it is imperative to ascertain that the club is putting necessary efforts while establishing budget commitments to attaining the new desired level. Use of the symbolic automobiles to elucidate the strategic mission and vision statement of the club will result in a more modest agreement with regards to the clubs’ positioning after members of the board evaluate the projected costs. This gap directs members of the club to appraise its actual status rather than the ideal, and it demands for constructive participation by members ...

Individual report

Introduction The task of the following individual report is to discuss critically two questions using economic models and objectives. The first question is “The recent price wars in the supermarket and mobile phone industries have been beneficial to both consumers and their respective industries. The discussion of that topic is about the recent price wars between the UK supermarkets – the monopolists Tesco, Morrison, Sainsbury and Asda and the German supermarkets Aldi and Lidl. German supermarket gain the half of the British market by low prices for their goods and it lay the beginning of the price war. The ...

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Written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, The Third Man has been rated as "one of the greatest British thrillers of the post-war era, in the best Alfred Hitchcock tradition, and beautifully produced" (AMC Filmsite).Voted as the number one British Film of the 20th Century by the respected British Film Institute, this film set in post-World War II Vienna begins with the protagonist Holly Martins, played by Joseph Cotten, arriving in Vienna from USA to meet and work with his childhood pal Harry Lime, played by Orson Welles. It is the friendship between Harry Lime and ...

Global recession is often thought of as a serious problem or threat considering that it affects an individual’s or a family’s financial capability to maintain their lifestyle. Even if people deny the effects of global recession, some are in an advanced state of panic as people deem their businesses, employment, and plans are over. In reality, the inconveniences and life-changing situations vary depending on where one is geographically located, how much of the business is at stake, and how long the financial crisis lasts. Despite the apparent doom and gloom the situation presents, there is still much that can ...

Child narration is not an easy technique in writing novels, yet in the novel “Beasts of No Nation”, Iweala uses the technique most effectively to create an elucidating picture for his audience. Through the eyes of a child, he presents the issue of war, loss of childhood and death in a way that adults can remember and question the damaging effects of these issues on children. The child narrator question the things adults take for granted and can make a horrible situation more appealing to a reader. In addition, the author uses the voice of the child to show the reader the inner ...

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on gender differences separating the boys from the girls. It considers historic gender based roles and looks at how those roles are perpetuated today. It reflects on how the gender roles are reinforced from before birth in how the parents and their friends design the nursery and plan the layette. This paper also reflects on how those roles continue to receive reinforcement during the educational process and how it might affect adult men and women.

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Thesis: The early conditioning boys and girls receive results in vastly different treatment and life choices later on. Argument: ...

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This paper will reflect over the New Deal. It will reflect over the New Deal about the events that led to the New Deal. Last it will reflect why this is important throughout the paper.

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America was facing the Great Depression. This was in reference to the market crash in 1929. There were also other factors that led to the Great Depression. These factors were banks were crumbling; the drought from the Mississippi River in 1930 was part of this cause, America policy relations with Europe led to this factor and people not buying products for them no longer ...

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Power and authority have become an important tools to influence employees in an organization. Especially in case of leadership styles, different types of authoritarian attitudes can have different types of impact on employee performance and their morale.

This paper attempt to answer three questions based on the case of BrandMaker.

Ques 1. What are the Key Challenges to be addressed by CEO Tom Morris and his management team at BrandMaker.

Ans. The key challenges before Tom Morris and the team are:

- The power struggle developing at the top of the company - Confusion and disagreement regarding the consolidation regarding EAD( European Advertising Division) and CIM ( Corporate Identity Marketing) - Changing clients' needs - Cultural differences that exist across the ...

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The main reason behind the increase in the median age of the global population is a reduction in fertility and two decade increase in the average life span in the 20th century. These factors together with increased fertility in several nations throughout the 20 years post World War II will lead to elevated number of citizens aged >= 65 years throughout 2010 to 2030. The rising number of older adults results in an increase in demands on the public health system as well as on the social and medical services. One of the diseases affecting older adults is chronic disease ...

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Both the noir film and literature present the audience a scenario of worldview that is bleak pessimistic and doomed about the entire humanity. No person can win without loosing also the heroes are flawed as villains, it an upside down world. Crime offenders go scot-free, villains unpunished, justice denied and unresolved. In the midst of all these failures, the characters find themselves trapped in the same scenario in that they stated from scratch again so that they find the way out. The world offers a chance ton make a hero to protagonists, it offers a soft landing in making you a hero if you ...

Film/novel; Winter's Bone/Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell/Debra Granik

‘Hope” is the beauty and the very essence of life. A day follows a night, every sunset is followed by sunrise, light at the end of the tunnel – you can ramble on and on so forth. Art in any form, be it a painting, a literary work or a movie is supposed to celebrate the gift of life and most of the time it does. Every fairy tale has a happy ending, a lovely piece of melody fills us with joy of living and a beautiful painting reminds us about the existence of God. But novels and movies cannot always be preaching how good conquers ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

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Mass culture is often used as an opposite term of high culture, and refers to a culture form that is linked to the contemporary society. An analogy of atomization is used in describing the mass culture, where it is argued that people relate like the atoms found in a compound. The culture covers the majority of people. It is also described and mostly related to globalizations since it is closely linked to the institutionalization of different processes and their different lifestyles. It has been resourceful since problems to deal with mass culture are at the moment being experienced in the society. ...

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The Raven is a dramatic monologue, a narrative poem and one of the most popular poems of Edgar Allan Poe. The poem shows different stages of the speaker’s mood which is pensive and sorrowful throughout as his beautiful beloved has died. Loneliness and alienation as well as beauty and death are the themes of the poem. The speaker is reminiscent of the beauty of his beloved, and also her untimely death. The speaker shouts out in the end, “Leave my loneliness unbroken!” because it also helps him reflect upon himself.

It is certainly a long poem of eighteen stanzas comprising ...

"Trifles" by Susan Glaspell "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell is a play replete with symbolism. While the men go and search the crime scene for forensic evidence, their two wives solve the crime by examining the small trifling details in the kitchen. Each of these is symbolic of a greater truth in another woman’s life. More by what is left unsaid than spoken it is clear they can do this because they relate to the small details of a marriage turned bleak. They can do this because the symbolism of these trifles is so strong that the third woman never appears on ...

Victorian era saw many social, political, economical and religious changes. French and industrial revolution changed the whole cycle of this era and this massive metamorphosis is visible in the novels and essays of this time. The Bronte sisters, Dickens, Jane Austen and Eliot portray the effect of these changes on the lives of the people quite aptly. Bleak House by Charles Dickens is not only a story about passions, unfulfilled love and heart break but also about the major differences and clashes between the upper class and lower class. Similarly Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte shows the love of ...

Social care is defined as a profession wherein the practitioner is closely working with individuals that are disadvantaged or marginalized or those that have special needs. Social care workers are committed to deliver and plan for creating programs geared towards providing quality care for groups or individuals that with identified needs. For example, people with physical disabilities, children, homeless people, victims of abuse and drug and alcohol dependent need specific aid in order to re-integrate themselves to the society to live a normal life. Social work is necessary to alleviate the constraint that hinders the marginalized society in achieving their goals ...

In the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed novel The Road, John Hillcoat remains extremely faithful to the spirit and essential plot of the book. Its tale of a post-apocalyptic epic journey with a father (Viggo Mortenson) and son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) struggling to survive is a poetic and heartbreaking tale in either format. One of the essential components of the story is the father attempting to teach his son how to remain one of "the good guys" in a world of thieves, murderers and killers. The man states that they are "carrying the fire" of the goodness of humanity, remembering a time in which ...

Theatre Review: A View from the Bridge performed at the Lutcher Theatre in Orange, Teaxs on April 14 2012

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A View from the Bridge is an intriguing play which sheds light on an ordinary working man’s life which initially appears to be going through a good patch but which turns sour after some family business which ruins him. It is an intriguing play which demonstrates that the working class have their own emotions too and are allowed to think and act although the end result is quite tragic to say the least. I saw the play at the Lutcher ...

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This excellent book by Joseph Damato examines a murder which took place in the early 1980’s by father and son who were both farmers and who were on the brink of destitution with their farm abandoned and mortgaged off to the bankers who eventually met their end in a grisly murder. The murders took place in rural Minnesota, a land of superstition and loneliness where James and Steven Jenkins had to face ostracization from their peers for failing to perform on the farm. D’Amato delves deep into the psychological problems of the father and son with the former having ...

Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008) bear striking resemblances to each other. Both novels are set in an apocalyptic dystopian future; both novels use modern advances in the media as a central part of their plot; and both could be argued, in a way, to address the issues of male/female relationships. They are linked too by critical confusion over their genre. Are they both science fiction novels? Are they fantasies? Are they informed predictions of the fate of humanity? Atwood has always been adamant that her earlier novel The Handmaid’s Tale was ...