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Le Thi Diem Thuy’s book “The Gangster We Are Looking for” is about the difficult fate of refugees in America. There is a certain difference between immigrants who have decided themselves to leave their country and refugees who have had to do it involuntarily. When people are tearing off their homeland it causes psychological or traumatic disorders. Le Thuy depicts leaving the homeland as trauma for the main characters. The narrator presents all the consequences connected with this migration. Except for poor conditions and difficult obstacles, life in America is psychologically difficult for them. It is quite complicated to realize why they are forced to leave their country. They have the right to peaceful leaving in their own house in the land where they were born but the obstacles have made them leave this place. It seems that everything goes well and the mother of the narrator My works underpaid cook while her father Ba takes care of featureless green lawns (Gee, 2004). Although it seems that the whole family has coped with a new life in a new place it is psychologically difficult for them to live in new conditions. As we may observe from the book despite the efforts of the whole family to go through all these changes they are not able to bear it for a long time. Trauma is depicted as a deep wound connected with the distance from the motherland. The author does not depict this feeling as nostalgia it is depicted as a real trauma with all connected consequences. The dignity of Ba and Ma is traumatized as far as they are professionals in their work but they are underpaid in America. They have to live for their low salary while they could afford themselves a lot in their country. Although they have been fighting for a long time finally they give in. Ba begins to drink a lot and he becomes an alcoholic making his family unhappy. He tries to find the remedy from his deep trauma in the alcohol. Parents concerned with their own feelings do not pay enough attention to their children and the children have to cope with their trauma themselves. It is more difficult for them to go through the removal and be treated as refugees in an alien country. The only healing for the narrator is to return to her native country. Even if the parents understand that the return is impossible the children imagine that return is impossible. It is complicated for them to understand their parents who seem to do nothing to return home. That is why the narrator decides to run away from the parents looking for her native house. From the above said we may conclude that Le Thuy depicts the post-traumatic disorder in “The Gangster We Are Looking for” ( The Gangster We Are Looking for , n.d.). The trauma for every member of the family is leaving their home. The understanding of the fact that they are nobody in America makes their life unbearable. Everyone c
“The Birthmark” (1843) tells the story of a scientist Aylmer who was obsessed with the idea to remove his wife’s stain. “The Story of an Hour” (1894) is the psychological description of a young woman’s feelings when she hears the news of her husband’s death. The analysis of these two short stories shows that “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin apply the point of view and some themes similarly, but use tone differently. Although Hawthorne, in his story, raises many themes (perfection, the fight against natural laws, etc.), his story relates to Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” as it narrates the tragedy of oppression inside a family. Even if Georgiana earlier recognized that her birthmark could be seen as a charming feature, she decides to risk her life to satisfy her husband’s whim. She says: “Either remove this dreadful hand or take my wretched life!” (Hawthorne, 1102). As for Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” character, Mrs. Mallard, her thoughts about her husband’s death include reflections on lack of freedom in marriage. These are thoughts of “that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature” (Chopin, 276). Finally, in both short stories, husbands are the reason for wives’ deaths. In “The Birthmark,” Georgiana becomes the victim of her husband’s ideas of perfection and egoistic intention to play God. Louise Mallard of “The Story of an Hour” has a weak heart, and it breaks when the sudden appearance of her husband, safe and sound, destroys her dreams of freedom. Hence, the stories are similar in their coverage of the problem of marriage and the subordination of women to men. Tones of short stories are different: at the end of each story, readers have disparate feelings connected with the sense of predictability of the ending. Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” is full of mysterious signs of impending disaster. For example, Aylmer’s dream when he “was inexorably resolved to cut” Georgiana’s heart (Hawthorne, 1102), or description of Aylmer’s failed experiments. The text is full of words “frightful”, “mystery”, “shock”, “trouble”, “horror”, so the tragedy becomes a logical and expected outcome. Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, by contrast, has some unexpected twists. Its tone shifts throughout the story from a burst of suffering to calm sadness, from sadness to incredible feeling of deep happiness, and then from glee to frustration. That transition from “a feverish triumph” to sudden death (Chopin, 277) startles readers and produces an ironic effect. Therefore, the tone in each story works toward different aims to create the atmosphere of mysterious horror or ironically describe vicis
Since the discovery of fossil fuels, man has made significant strides in the industrial revolution. So far, fossils fuels have provided the much-needed energy to run industries, households, cars, and institutions. It is beyond any reasonable doubt that fossil fuels have enabled the technological and mechanical progress witnessed in the world today. However, uncontrolled use of fossil fuels has resulted in grave consequences, which require urgent attention. The world has been reluctant in finding suitable alternatives to fossil fuels for centuries resulting in wide spread environmental degradation. Perhaps the latest cases of tornados, increased desertification, lose of arctic ice and marine life, and catastrophic storms, all attributed to global warming resulting from excessive use of fossil fuels, should act as a warning to humanity. The best solution to these problems is the adoption of alternative fuels. Despite the controversy surrounding the adoption of alternative fuels, they provide the best alternative for human survival. Alternative fuels are substances such as bioalcohol, biodiesel, nuclear reactors, hydrogen, vegetable oil, chemically stored electricity, and compressed natural gases, which can provide energy other than the known conventional fossil fuels. Biofuels, for instance, are an excellent silver bullet that provides humanity with an opportunity to continue enjoying the use of trains, cars, and planes without harming the environment. Biofuels harnessed from crops provide an opportunity for farmers to earn a decent income and should be encouraged. Despite the hard work and commitment to feeding the world, farmers have earned little credit and appreciation, and should be paid back by adopting biofuels. Alternative fuels are effective. Compressed natural gas, for instance, offers an exceptionally clean burning alternative and produces power that is equivalent to fossil fuels. Nuclei reactors also fall in this category, as they produce immense power and emit no harmful gases in the atmosphere. It would be understandable to sideline alternative fuel sources if they were ineffective, but that is not the case. Alternative fuels also provide an opportunity to save money in the long run. Pump prices always seem cheap for many people. However, this may not be true in the end, as their use destroy engines fast leading to a need for replacement or frequent services. Many alternative fuels are “friendly” on engines, which leads to longer service life. Most importantly, alternative fuels are renewable unlike fossil fuels, which cannot be renewed. In fact, this in itself is an adequate reason to adopt them as the principal energy source for powering the world’s economy. Fossil fuels are almost exhausted due to over exploitation. As such, considering alternative fuels is inevitable. Failing to harness the power of alternative fuel sources is planning to fail. Our responsibility to our future grand children demands that we adopt alternative fuels. By taking small and decisive steps today, we may he
The merchandise budget The merchandise budget is a clear plan of the sales anticipated by a retailer over a given period in the future. The merchandise budget influences the amount of commodities to be purchased by the retailing company. It also highlights the possible reductions and markups that the company might have to embrace. The merchandising budget should be prepared after considering the anticipated sales, the stock on hand, and the required gross margins for the company to attain higher profits. The language of the budget should be clear, and the budget must be based on a specific timeline. For instance, most retail firms create a six-month merchandising budget. The variables contained in a merchandise budget include the planned sales, planned BOM and EOM inventories, and the retail reductions. The budget must also contain the purchases at retail and cost, as well as the planned gross margins of the buyer. Retail accounting statements There are three retail accounting statements. These include the income statement, balance sheet, and the statement of cash flow. The income statement highlights the profit or loss made by the company over a given period. The balance sheet is a financial statement that highlights the company’s liabilities, assets, and shareholder’s equity at a given time. The assets must balance with the liabilities and the equity held by the shareholders. The cash flow statement breaks down the effects of different financial activities on the cash available for the retail company. Inventory valuation Inventory valuation entails calculating all the costs involved in the process of placing the items in the inventory in place. There are two methods of accounting inventory systems, and these include the cost method and the retail method. Inventory valuation also includes inventory pricing systems, which may follow the first-in-first-out (FIFO) procedure or the last-in-first-out (LIFO) strategy. Merchandise buying and handling Steps in Merchandise buying and handling The first step is identifying the most viable sources of supply. This involves identifying the best manufacturers. The second step involves contacting the suppliers. The third step entails conducting an evaluation of the prospective suppliers. This process results in the identification of the best supplier. The fourth step entails negotiations on prices and services associated with delivery. The last step is the purchasing process, which entails making payments and receiving the merchandise on the part of the retailer (Dunne, Lusch & Carver, 2013). Dollar-merchandise planning Dollar merchandise planning influences the allocation of cash in the company because it determines the best way to balance the stock and sales. The plan highlights the desirable rate of spending for the company (Dunne, Lusch & Carver, 2013). Dollar-merchandise control The retailer must control the dollar plan by limiting the commitments on merchandise that would exceed the dollar amount that the buyer can safely spend. Dollar-merchandi
Introduction In the era of films filled with special effects, where computers do much of the work, it is hard to find a film, especially in the genre of action, that bears some idea behind the fast sequences of computer-generated graphics. “The Matrix” by Larry and Andy Wachowski, is one such movie, where some of the viewers might miss the point, and the others will find it after the second time. The point is, this movie will never leave the viewer indifferent, although the impressions may vary depending on what aspect of the movie made the viewer think deeper than it initially expected. This paper analyzes the aforementioned film, particularly the first of the trilogy, based on the possible theoretical concepts that can be related to the ideas behind it. Specifically, the paper is addressing the idea of knowledge that is represented in the film, related to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” in the sense that represents constraints of ideology. Overview The film’s main idea is behind a young programmer, Neo, who meets Morpheus, a mystical personality, who tells Neo that the whole world surrounding him is just a data set of visual illusions called the matrix- a simulated reality. In reality, the world is not as it seems where it is seized by machines, which use the people as energy cells. Neo and other rebels form a resistance against the machines to awaken the people. The allegory of the cave is a dialogue told and interpreted by Socrates and written by Plato in his famous work “The Republic”. The allegory describes a dark cave with chained people who are prisoners there since their childhood. They only can see in one direction, in which they see shadows of puppets of various objects such as plants, animals, and people which are projected from a fire behind them which they cannot see as the fire is on a ledge. The sounds of these puppets are heard as an echo from the shadows they are watching. That is the only reality these people knew and they are competing in guessing and identifying the shadows. When one of the prisoners manages to free himself from the chains as a supposition and climbs to the exit, he will be blinded by the light of the sun. By the time he gets acclimated to the light, he starts to realize the true nature of the objects and the world surrounding him. Analysis The basis of the parallel that can be driven from the film is the idea of knowledge and the false reality that can be mistakenly taken as the truth. In the film, this false reality is represented by “the matrix” a created simulation of human life. In the allegory, it’s the cave, wherein in both cases, the people think that this is the ultimate truth, due to the fact that they never had known another one. The pain which Neo suffered when his organs started to operate is like the pain of the light when coming to the cave for the first time. Cypher can represent all the people who
Introduction In 2007, the world suffered from a global financial crisis that was believed to have originated from the United States of America Mortgage industry. Two years down the lane, companies were struggling to meet their corporate goals and objective amidst the hard economic time. Nucor is an American Steel company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina; it is the largest steel recycler and second-largest steel company in the United States. To remain competitive is the steel industry the company’s management makes strategic decisions to address prevailing challenges. However, in 2009, the company made the largest loss in its history of $299 million; the loss was the first annual loss since 1966 (Nucor Corporation Official Website). This paper undertakes an internal and external analysis of Nucor; it will focus on the situation of 2009. Background of the company Nucor is the second-largest steel manufacturer in the United States; it was incorporated in 1955 as Nuclear Corporation of America and listed on New York Stock exchange. The company has the following subsidies: Nucor Building Systems, Nucor-Yamato Steel Company, Nucor Grinding Balls, Vulcraft, Nucor Cold Finish, Nucor Bearing Products, and Nucor Fastener. The main business approach/strategy adopted by the company is the drastic undercutting of the foreign and domestic markets. To maintain a leadership position in the industry, the company has an organizational culture that motivates employees to be innovative, creative, and inventive. In the late 1960s, the company launched the steel minimill industry which focuses on recycling and the flat-rolled market. In 2009, Nucor made a sale of $11.19 Billion (the revenue was its consolidated revenue both from subsidiaries, and sub-subsidiaries) which resulted in an operating loss of $293 million. According to the company’s management, the result was the poorest the company has ever had; other than in 2009 the last year that the company had had an operating loss was in 1966. The number of employees in the company as of 2009 amounted to 20,400 up from 6,600 in 1997 (Nucor Corporation Official Website). The external environment in 2009 The year 2009 is characterized by aggressive business policies aimed at mitigating the negative effects of the global financial crisis, during the period, the world was on a recovery track and individual countries and companies were enacting policies to recover. Th
Bernard Tschumi offers an alternative viewpoint on the relationships within architecture and its consideration in the framework of modern trends and changes. The author makes the main emphasis on disjunction that is evident in all aspects conventionally discussed in the context of architectural studies. He stresses the change of paradigm and the presence of violence that governs the dynamic, at times incompatible relationships within architectural objects determined by the human intrusion in them and reconsideration of function and form, space, and events taking place within them (Tschumi, 1996). The thesis of the author is that architecture is impossible within action and events, consequently, there are always elements of violence present in the creation and further utilization of architectural objects (Tschumi, 1996, pp. 121-122). Tschumi examines the notion of violence as a reciprocal concept in architecture – he assumes that both space and human bodies violate each other. The former violates the latter by becoming a part of his/her consciousness and cognition, affecting human behavior, mood, and perception (Tschumi, 1996, p. 124). The latter in their turn violate the former by ruining the balance when intruding into the architectural space, i.e. the empty building (Tschumi, 1996, p. 123). The author further notes that architects have always been trying to purify the uncontrolled violence of the architectural events and the way to this purification is seen in the ritualization of these relationships, which appears empirically impossible because of the inability of anyone in the world to design the mechanism of everyone’s movement and interaction and to define the programs of events (Tschumi, 1996, pp. 125-127). Tschumi (1996) introduces an innovative phenomenon in architecture: a program. He states that programs and space can enter diverse relationships (either independent, with many buildings
Nowadays, the debate around the use of marijuana is gaining momentum in the United States. The most common ideas discussed within a framework of this debate are connected to the issues of permission to keep marijuana at home for personal needs such as medical needs, and a total ban on the use of marijuana by any person rather that the representative of medical establishments. The opponents of the use of marijuana explain their position by the fact that often addiction to this substance destroys people’s lives when they commit terrible acts under the influence of drug intoxication. The proponents of legalizing marijuana argue that people are to be provided with a chance to be free in their choice to use marijuana because it is not a strong drug, and it may be also used for medical purposes. Overall, judging on a row of critical issues which are rife with the problem of marijuana control, it seems that a better solution for this problem may come out of stricter rules for using marijuana. First, discussing the problem of marijuana control, the history of the use of this substance by people is to be addressed. Since the very beginning of human civilization, the plant Cannabis sativa used for the production of marijuana has been used for many purposes on a daily basis. According to Earleywine (3), Humans use nearly every part of the infamous green weed Cannabis sativa. The stalks help produce fiber; the seeds provide food and oil. The flowers, leaves, and resin appear in medical and intoxicating preparations. Each day, smiling teens buy hemp shirts. Retailers sell snacks made from the seed. Glaucoma patients puff cannabis cigarettes in hope of saving their sight, and many people worldwide inhale marijuana smoke in an effort to alter consciousness. These industrial, medical, and recreational uses for the plant go back thousands of years, contributing to i
Were the policies that seemed to favour the interests of Central Canada, necessary as nation-building endeavors? Policies which depicted favoritism of Central Canadian interests were unnecessary in nation building. This is because they resulted to charges of intolerance among different Canadian provinces for example Alberta and Ontario which seemed to conflict over the National Energy Policy (1). Charges of intolerance are a hindrance to nation building as they challenge Canada’s cherished self perception as a peaceful and non-racist society. According to Shawn, there are considerable economic disparities in Canada (2). Therefore a policy which seems to favor central Canada worsens these disparities and is likely to be the cause of charged intolerance among disadvantaged provinces hence being a hindrance to nation building (3). The varying dynamics among Canadian provinces in terms of resource endowment, geographical location, racist perceptions and policy implementation causes competitive undercurrents (2). According to Simeon and Robinson, these were worsened by