Essays on Vladimir

Question 1

The play “Waiting for Godot” functions with explicitly stipulated rules. The main characters in the play are Vladimir and Estragon. They are referred to as tramps in the play. The world in the play contains a lot of uncertainty. Nothing happens in the play, and there is always nothing to do. Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for a man referred to in the play as Godot. The tramps are uncertain about their actions. There are not sure they are waiting for Godot at the correct location and if it is on the right day. They are also unaware if ...

Introduction

According to the Cliff Notes critical analysis of the play “Waiting for Godot”, the story has no definite conclusion or resolution. The notes also highlight that the play is not an ordinary traditional play since its setting is a little vague. However, the main aim of the absurd theater is to present something out of the ordinary. The absurd movement sought to move out of the status quo and present literature in its most unique form. In the case of “Waiting for Godot,” the resolution is found within the main themes of the play. The two vagrants resolve to ...

Communication Skills of Effective Managers

Communication Skills of Effective Managers Who is an effective manager? An effective manager is a person who can organize, lead and control people, so they perform their task well and in a timely manner. Effective managers are those who do not create a new vision and mission for the unit, but help the lower managerial level to succeed in their task fulfillment (Baldoni, 2003). Who is an effective leader? It is the manager with the ability to clearly state a vision and mission of the business unit (as well as country) and psychologically inspire people to do actions for ...

The Institutional Affiliation

“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought” - this true and inspiring quote belongs to one of the most charismatic leaders of all times, Pope John Paul II. Him and many other leaders who used similar approach, managed to influence not only the life on millions of people but the past and present of many countries. They inspired, encouraged, lead the masses and changed the history which, indeed, would have been different without them. Most of the world’s most famous leaders are characterized as charismatic. In the ...

Texas will carry out an election for the president of the United States in November, 2016. There are two representative parties: Democratic and Republican. Texas is one of the 12 states holding presidential election. Two major candidates of the current presidential election are the Republican nominee Donald Trump and the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. I will try to outline the strategy Hillary Clinton should use to increase an amount of her voters in Texas. As you know, the Asian American population in Texas has grown in recent years. The well-known fact is that Ms. Clinton responded to the Arab ...

Throughout time, people have asked themselves what it means to be human. This has the obvious correlate of how one should lead one’s life. If it does not have intrinsic meaning, as many people started to believe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, then one is left to one’s own devices to make something out of it. Artists have depicted this in many ways; Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot are two masterpieces that discuss the importance of making the most of one’s time on Earth. They ...

The short story of Franz Kafka “A Hunger Artist” is a vibrant masterpiece of classic literature. It penetrates deeply into the readers’ minds and sets a challenge to recognize a unique grandeur and understand a great mission of this text. In his “confession” story, Franz Kafka touches upon complex and serious themes of art, death, isolation, asceticism, spiritual desolation and disharmony of human and the world. Therefore, it triggers an exceptional interest on how the readers treat and interpret the text, what thoughts, feelings and emotions come into their mind, how they perceive the main character and what they ...

Introduction

The Gero Crucifix and Vladimir Madonna both have contention in portraying religious concepts and a drawing of Jesus. The so-called ‘Gero Crucifix’ ranks as one of the earliest preserved monumental carved crucifixes and the oldest image of the dead Christ on the cross, in contrast to earlier images of the crucified Savior, which presented him alive and glorious over death. The Gero Crucifix was displayed surrounded by golden rays as if visualizing the triumphal second coming of Messiah. In a similar connection, the “Vladimir Madonna” which is often cited as the icon of contemplatives teaches about the human condition ...

Throughout the course of history of the Russian state and Russian empire, it was marked by terror and numerous executions. Part four of the documentary film "Russia, Land of the Tsars" depicts the Tsarist-era of free hand and absolute power of Ivan the Terrible, that was the time when no one had the right to question the Ivan's dark disorder and the representatives of opposition had to pay with their lands and their lives. After the Time of Troubles, otherwise referred to as Russian Smutnoye Vremya, Russia defended its independence and entered a new stage of its development. In ...

Introduction

The Empire Cruises is a private New York based cruise business, which offers public dinner cruise and private event charters. Major services of Empire Cruises include Birthday Cruise, Prom Cruise, Graduation Cruise, Anniversary Cruise, Sweet 16 Cruise, Cocktail Cruise, Lunch Cruise, Holiday Cruise, and Cruise Rental. It was established in 2010 and owns the city’s most popular event yachts that aim at offering the best cruise experiences at special events. The fleet of Empire Cruises is comprised of five incredible yachts namely Lucille, Jacana, Harbor Lights, Nautical Empress, and Liberty Belle. The deluxe experience offered by the Empire ...

The chance to reinvent ourselves is one of the most compelling in the vast human experience. It is what compelled James Gatz to become Jay Gatsby, and to leave the life of a dirt farm family to own a series of ostensible pharmacies that sold illegal liquor out the back door, all so that he could win the love of Daisy and be everything that she wanted. It is what compels audiences to watch movies that show stories of change and transformation. Change can be complicated because it can end up leading to consequences that we did not expect, ...

Where in the World We Might Be Headed Next?

It is almost certain that the world order that it was – when the United States was the only superpower – is now changing. In fact, the profound social change from the initial simple world characterized by democracy and common desirable goals seems to be less dominant. Today, nations are more divided as they lack a particular common drive that is truly an international agenda. Expertise commentaries suggest that there are several possibilities that could happen in the next decade. According to Doug Saunders (2014), the possibilities can be forecasted according to five contemplates scenarios. This paper selects “a New Cold ...

Introduction

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is also referred to as FCA. It is an Italian American multinational and currently sits as the seventh largest car manufacturing company globally. The organization was formed in the year 2014 following the merger of Fiat S.p.A. Fiat S.p.A. consisted of many brands including Fiat, Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, the Chrysler group amongst many other models. The company merged and incorporated in Netherlands into Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Fiat was established in 1889 and has been involved in many endeavors including railway manufacturing, railway engines, military cars, aircrafts, and farm tractors. Over the years, the company ...

The twenty-year stay of Nabokov in America, which began May 25, 1940, was associated with a typical emigrant life issues. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge taught at Stanford and Cornell University, he taught Russian language and literature, as he himself said, “the sons and daughters of the industrial America” (Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, 47). Summer leisure time he spent traveling through the vast continent, without ceasing to write, and catch butterflies, which was associated with it work in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. No matter how Nabokov insisted during the last 20 years of ...

Political culture is a component of the general culture, a cumulative indicator of political experience, a level of political knowledge and feelings, examples of behavior and functioning of political subjects, the integrated characteristic of a political way of life of the country, a class, the nation, social group of individuals. A feature of political culture is that it makes not policy or political process, but their understanding, an explanation. In the political sphere often the importance is gained not only by real actions and measures of the state but also, by the way they are estimated and perceived in ...

The Use and Abuse of History in the Recent Ukrainian Crisis

A revisiting of Ukraine's geography and historical narrative would clearly shed light on the recent Ukrainian crisis and how the turmoil and sentiment in the Orange Revolution and the 2014 confrontation originate from a long history of struggle over the delicate status of Ukraine between East and West. Through the correct use of history, one would understand that history drew the dividing lines and spurred the conflict that spanned centuries. Eastern Ukraine was occupied by Russian imperialism in the 1800s, followed by Western Ukraine. This provides an explanation of the reason Eastern Ukrainians have largely remained loyal to politicians ...

Abstract

This paper seeks to examine and analyze Russia’s connectedness to the global economy. It does so by exploring how oil prices affect social, political and economic outcomes. The argument is that specialization in the single industry of oil and gas has made it possible for individuals to embrace corruption and cheating. The research uses literature from the Economist and the BBC in exploring Russian integration into the global economy. It denotes that low oil prices have adversely affected Russia’s position as a powerful emerging market economy. Low prices also force the Russian government on military adventures and ...

Communism The communist government is a political and socioeconomic entity that is founded on the principles of common ownership of production, and the non-existence of social classes. The ideologies behind the communist government are also based on the theories of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels and Vladimir Lenin. These theories have in common the debunking of the relationship between the capitalists and the laborers in a society, and thus the state should own all the means of production such that there ought to be an equitable distribution of the fruits of production among all the members of society. Thus the ...