Essays on Overheard

Just about anywhere you go you can probably here someone gossiping about their friends, relatives, famous actors or singers. Gossip is everywhere and everyone gossips. There is no age limit, no set gender or race – everyone loves to chit chat. The little children in the sand box, teenagers in the mall, old ladies on the bus and grandpas on the benches – we all are guilty of gossiping every now and then or maybe even every day. You may hear your parent gossip about the neighbors or other family members. You most likely have heard you grandma gossip about the ...

In any conversation regarding dystopian literature, there are works that cannot be ignored due to their importance in the landscape not only within the genre, but also within the enormous oeuvre of English literature. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, where American society has outlawed books and other written works, is perhaps one example. Another would be Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, where the year 2450 is marked by extreme class government, where citizens born into the lower class are enslaved through drugs and other nefarious substances. More recently, the recent spate of young-adult dystopian novels, such as Suzanne ...

The use of mobile phones has an impact on many people in both bystanders and those who are talking through their mobile phones. With the increase in the dependence of many cell phone users on their mobile phones, the conversion is becoming an issue for many people in public places. Research has been undertaken to show the effects that conversations on cell phones affects the driving. There is no research that has been done to show the distraction this has in public places. This paper focused on the effects of a one-sided conversation against two-sided conversation with mobile phone users. ...

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This is a case study of the Waterway Industries and its CEO, Cyrus Maher – the problem of increasing the benefits and salary of Lee Carter, the person in charge of the marketing department and is also the star player. This is focused on the decision he needs to make to either move his company forward or not make to keep his company how it used to be for over twenty seven years. This case study gives a typical scenario experienced by most CEOs when their companies expand and they have to either go along with the expansion or risk losing the ...

Some movies are meant to be taken lightly, while some others pretend to be as monumental and deep as to stay in spectators’ memory for many years to come. Among the latter bunch, there are only a rare few films that live up to this expectation. My Name is Khan, a 2010 Bollywood production directed by Karan Johar, is definitely one the cinematographic masterpieces that, to a some degree, transforms its audience’s interpretation and evaluation of “the otherness” in our own society and illuminates the phobic aspects of the U.S. political reality in the aftermath of 9/11, as well as brings ...

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably one of the most famous plays in world culture and, although it was first performed over four hundred year ago, it is still frequently staged and speaks anew to succeeding generations of theatre goers. It will be argued that Hamlet portrays what is in contemporary society still a devastating problem – the problems concerning the privacy and scrutiny of what we now call celebrities. Hamlet is, in terms of sixteenth century Denmark, a celebrity. He is the son of the recently deceased king and might even be regarded as his father’s natural successor. Towards ...