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During the early 1980s, Americans of all races, sexes, and social statuses subscribed to the notion that one could be successful through hard work and determination. In his dark comedy Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet exposes this to be, as stated previously, nothing more than a notion. In this two-act play, working class men, including young and cunning salesman, Ricky Roma, do business in a sales office under the supervision of meek office manager John Williamson. The salesmen are forced into…

Together but alone which mean people exist in the room, but they actually not talking together and they are busy on their phone. Many people have addictive in their phone and usually not aware around them, which mean they usually do not have friends or talk a lot and usually they being shy when sitting with another person even though they know each other. For example, someone prefers to text on the phone and has a better skill then speak with others. Actually, when he/she sits with parent or…

Through various differences and changes within medium, David Foster Wallace’s original graduation commencement speech sends a completely message to that of the published book. This notion is due to how the published book “This is water” by the Little, Brown, and Company changed, removed, and added numerous word or sentences that inherently change the original meaning David Foster Wallace initially delivered. In David Foster Wallace’s original speech, he attempts to advice his audience to think…

Henry David Thoreau was a strong believer in using your conscience. When it comes to government he believes in a motto, “that government is best which governs least;”…””that government is best which governs not at all;” and when are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.” (page 177) He believes that you should trust in your conscience and not follow along with what you are told to do. Trust in what you believe in and do what you feel is right. Thoreau says,…

confabulation with Henry David Thoreau that day drowned me in the idea of the value of simplicity and its exceptional greatness. It was a shallow afternoon and the sun was hanging deeply in the sky, and because of my blissful ignorance, I wandered off into a place where peacefulness was a foundation of life. Walden Pond was the name, and a generous breeze devoured my body as night fell. I then, stumbled upon a man with an empowering presence. He introduced himself as Henry David Thoreau, a…

Nonconformity, “let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine."(Henry David Thoreau) what does it mean when he says that? Maybe he means that let your life be a good one, instead of a bad one. When reading “self-reliance” I personally thought it meant to reflect on the wrong choices you have made when you were younger and as you get older focus on the future and make better choices. But in Emerson’s story “self-reliance” he states that “To believe in your own thought, to believe that…

It is my belief that David Foster Wallace’s speech, This Is Water, reflects the importance of education and human consciousness. This blurb relates to the phrase “ignorance is bliss”. The proverb about fish may be readily applicable to humans living in the twenty-first century. The uneducated are the fish that do not know what water is, and knowledge is the fish that asks them “How's the water?” Many people avoid concerning themselves with various subjects when they do not learn the details of…

Fight Club is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher; starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Based on the novel of the same name, Fight Club takes you into the mind and world of “The Narrator” (Edward Norton) – AKA Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). As he struggles to take control of his life and of his reality. The film touches on multiple issues: Revenge, masculinity, and consumerism. It juggles all these issues while using a variety of editing, filming, and storying telling tricks and techniques. For…

have new and different challenges thrown at us every day that we have to face. Henry David Thoreau’s has six key themes about life and how he lived a simple life using these themes. These thoughts would include Hearing the different drummer, being awake aware and alive, examining desperate and deliberate lives, living in society, living in nature and confronting the mean and sublime. What I took away from Henry David Thoreau was that I loved the way he thought and I could understand where he…

While Reid seems to show some signs of respect for Hume, he does have many criticisms of the author’s work. The fourth chapter of Reid’s Active Power in General is a direct critique of Hume’s work. Especially Hume’s thoughts on the powers of the individual. His main problem with Hume was the way he used induction for the Treatise. Hume attempts to treat his thoughts on human abilities like a scientific experiment. Reid notes Hume makes exceptions to this, which is going against the scientific…