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Vivian Diep
Professor Walker
English 205
March 15, 2015
Time as a Robber of Success
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Everyone, no matter who they are, is affected by the factor of time all through their life whether it is for the best or for the worst. Throughout the novel, A Visit from the
Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, she writes about multiple characters that are all related to the music industry and continue writing about how their lives change later on due to time. Time is revealed in the book as a “goon” which can be translated as a thug or a robber. Time is a goon is interpreted to me, according to the book, as time being a phenomenon that slowly changes the person’s life without the person realizing it and they are not ready for the transformation. Throughout
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Raised up with rock music, it is hard to separate from it after spending the other half of his life with it.
Not only was Bennie a character that had his fame stolen from him through the effects of time but, a character name Bosco was too. Bosco is not a major character but, his comments throughout the novel consequently reveal the novels true insight on the author’s thoughts of time. For example, Bosco was a famous rock star back in the day and when he is revisited he complains, “The album’s called A to B, right?” Bosco said. ‘And that’s the question I want to hit straight on: how did I go from being a rock star to being a fat fuck no one cares about? Let’s not pretend it didn’t happen,’ (127).
Once a worldwide sensation, time turned Barco into a “normal” citizen that is unrecognizable as someone who was ever popular at any point of time. It’s unbelievable how time can quickly change peoples’ view. Especially in this culture where the internet is able to choose what trends and what does not. A person can go from zero to hero or hero to zero as quickly as a snap which is interpreted by the A and B and how chapters in part A represent a point in which they were either successful or failing and in part
The main character in the book The Batboy by Mike Lupica is Brian Dudley. Brian tries to solve a big problem with one of the players on the Detroit Tigers, Hank Bishop. Brian knows more about baseball than most MLB players. He tries to get Hank Bishop to be a good hitter again. Hank started going through a slump and almost nobody believed in him. He struck out or grounded out almost every time. Brian helped him get out of his slump and get to his 500 home runs. Brian had three big character traits, nervous, respectful, and helpful. His character traits affected him by making him who he is and making him a great person. Nervous changed him because he needed to tell Hank what was wrong with his swing but he waited a long time.
Similarly, the book’s three leading protagonists ultimately possess a common objective, escaping their unjust circumstances in pursuit of seeking the “warmth of other suns.” For this reason, they abandon the laws of Jim Crow and the familiarity of their hometowns as they flee to a better life. In the process, they all assume a level of risk in their decisions to rebel against the system. For example, Ida decides to embark on a precarious journey while in the beginning stages of a clandestine pregnancy. Any number of unpredictable events could have resulted from this judgment, including fatality. All of the migrants shared an unspoken agreement that the rewards would far outweigh the dangers involved.
If my life had no purpose, no individuality, and no happiness, I would not want to live. This book teaches the importance of self expression and independence. If we did not have these necessities, then life would be like those in this novel. Empty, redundant, and fearful. The quotes above show how different life can be without our basic freedoms. This novel was very interesting and it shows, no matter how dismal a situation is, there is always a way out if you never give up, even if you have to do it alone.
In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the reader has the experience to understand what it was like to live in an insane asylum during the 1960’s. Kesey shows the reader the world within the asylum of Portland Oregon and all the relationships and social standings that happen within it. The three major characters’ groups, Nurse Ratched, the Black Boys, and McMurphy show how their level of power effects how they are treated in the asylum. Nurse Ratched is the head of the ward and controls everything that goes on in it, as she has the highest authority in the ward and sabotages the patients with her daily rules and rituals. These rituals include her servants, the Black Boys, doing anything she tells them to do with the patients.
The Yakuza (Pollack, 1975) was an interesting movie using the blend of American and Japanese culture to help build the storyline. This neo-noir film is about a man that returns to Japan, after World War II, to retrieve the daughter of his friends. Though he completes his mission he is pulled into something deeper that could claim his life. His movie is mostly about relationships between characters and how they change with better understanding of each other. Not only that, but the relationship between East and West. Using the Japanese culture the audience is enlightened about “many salient social and anthropological facts about Japan and its culture.”(Meyer, 1998) Like for instance that “Yakuza” is formed from numbers that when combined equal 20, which in Japanese gambling is an unlucky number. I take this in direct correlation with what happens to the characters in the movie, they seem to lose a lot before thy make it through to the other side of the storm.
The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou are considered a representation of each other in some ways and prove more similar than it is commonly thought. Although the overall persona of each portrayal is quite different, it still illustrates the same message. A good lesson to be learned from this comparison is to contemplate your actions to prevent bleak situations from occurring. The characters in these tales had to understand the consequences by experiencing it themselves. Acknowledging the time period that these voyages took place in, they didn't have anybody to teach them proper ways to go about situations.
Warwick, Jacqueline. ““You Can’t Win, Child, You Can’t Get Out of the Game”: Michael Jackson’s Transition from Child Star to Superstar.” Popular Music and Society, 35:2 (May 2012): 241-258. Accessed April 27, 2014. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2011.618052.
The character(s) that I chose to diagnosis and treat are the Minions from Despicable Me. I would diagnose them with ADHD or “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” because they are extremely hyperactive, are constantly being distracted by random objects passing by, and had difficulty in properly carrying out Gru’s objectives because of their disposition to be distracted and wide-eyed at any little thing. In order to treat the minions’ ADHD, i would use behavior therapy which uses learning principles, such as classical and operant conditioning, to get rid of unwanted behavior and reinforced the desired behavior. Specifically, i would use progressive relaxation, despite the fact that it is used mostly to treat anxiety. Progressive relaxation
The one of the main themes in the epilogue, and in the entire novel is
, a feat that is considered career suicide for any mainstream musician. Sure they lack the fame, wealth, and prestige of any well known rapper or rock star displayed in the media with the acclaim of demigods, but their lack of creative restraint leads to an even greater connection between the sweet music they create and the limited individuals lucky enough to have heard of them.
“I don’t care, I love it” are the lyrics that describe Colonel Graff’s way of going about Battle School. He does not care about the kids or their feelings, he just wants to beat the Buggers. The biggest example of how selfish he is, is when he tricks Ender. He knew that Ender was not emotionally prepared to win the battle, but when he does and tells Ender, he is nothing but happy because he got what he wanted. On page 35 Graff explains to Ender “Then too bad. Look, Ender. I'm sorry if you're lonely and afraid. But the buggers are out there. Ten billion, a hundred billion, a million billion of them, for all we know. With as many ships, for all we know. With weapons we can't understand. And a willingness to use those weapons to wipe us out.
The Muppets, on the other hand, was painful to watch from start to finish. This might be because I grew up in a family that adores the Muppets, A Muppet Christmas Carol gets a lot of play around the holidays, and therefore I have high expectations for anything that they star in. Many other viewers also had high hopes for the show because they remembered watching The Muppet Show when they were younger. However, The Muppets did not capture the essences that made their previous television show or the movies loved by the fans. It tried to be an adult show, with adult themes, which would bring in these older viewers back to see their favorite characters in new situation, but destroyed the “Muppet” feeling that their previous media embodied. That feeling was what viewers wanted and were sadly disappointed.
...and through an unfolding of events display to the reader how their childhoods and families past actions unquestionably, leads to their stance at the end of the novel.
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“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” ( Maya Angelou ). The barber in Lather and Nothing Else and the sniper in The Sniper are both unique in their own special ways. Both of these characters have significant similarities and differences, some more than others. If we look at both of these characters diverse personalities we will see their distinguished differences and their closely related similarities.