Glenn Miller

unfavourable outcome is guaranteed for those who do not follow the proper criteria for success. People are occasionally blind to the fact that they are incapable of performing a task at hand. Throughout the play Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller, the aspirations of many individuals are a mystery as they strive for something unattainable. Failure is a recurring incident that is explored with the use of certain characters. Willy Loman, a husband and a father of two, circumvents his…

It doesn’t matter the type of person you are! “Power comes with everyone.” In the story Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, there are two people who have a specific goal. Their goal is shared with other on the ranch who might want to join them in pursuing that goal. The two people were George and Lennie. George and Lennie wanted to get a beautiful farm with lots of rabbits and other animals. The characters George, Slim, and The Boss, all show the use of some sort of power. First, George plays a…

Equally important, is that technology helped create the telegraph, which played a major part in the civil war. At first many members of congress thought of the telegram as a joke that would be no help for the government, but one person that was interested in it himself was president Abraham Lincoln. In a time of need Lincoln was forced to use the telegraph because of the industrial revolution. The telegraph was not used that much until a telegraph office was coincidently built next to the white…

In chapter one, A boy name Moon shadow talks about him wanting to learn more about the Golden mountain. When Moon shadow was born his father left the Middle Kingdom. The Middle Kingdom is where all the Tangs lived. But the white demons called the Middle Kingdom China. In the day Moonshadow goes to the Golden Mountain. The Golden Mountain is America. Tang people calls America the Golden Mountain. As he arrived Moon shadow is frightened of the white demons so he starts to run. As he runs he sees…

Willy Loman, the sixty-year-old salesman, is a perfect case of self-deception paired with misguided life goals. In his view, one’s most important life goal is to be well-liked, successful in his job and reach material success. In reality he is far from those: has only a few friends (if not only Charley), was never really good as salesman, all his material wealth is covered by credit and he lived his life in debt. But these he is unable to admit, as if he would, he would admit that his life was a…

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” This quote by Larry Elder is an explanation of the entire theme of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. It is a short way of explaining that without having a strategy and plot to achieve the ideal that is to be pursued; it will not exactly turn out the way it is expected to. Many have taken wrong turns in life and can prevent the goal from being reached and being the best person possible, this is a similar situation in which Willy Loman has to suffer…

In the tragic play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller there is a man by the name of Willy Loman who happens to be a traveling salesman who extremely headstrong. The play is a prime example of how men in that time and still today feel the need to provide everything, including all the luxuries of life for their families. Willy’s character has many flaws in the play with his pride and stubbornness seen through out getting in the way, poor parenting and husband skills, and never learning that…

Without images…how could a graphic novel like “Watchmen” exist? Images allow the reader to be taken on a crazy ride through the lives, and stories of the characters all while using both words and images to create a new type of language for the reader to learn. Images, like stated in McCloud matter. In the novel, images are what make the material being read so appealing. Immediately on Page 1, the reader is exposed to a non-sensory image of a blood stained sidewalk which grasps attention right…

Our name is a title which we are given from birth, and it also reflects our reputation throughout our lives. All of our decisions and actions have a direct impact on our name. Such as in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller the value of a name versus the value of the truth is compared. Some villagers in Salem Massachusetts are accused of being witches and in association with the devil. The people who were accused were all innocent but they would confess to avoid being hung for denying that…

Arthur miller was born in the year 1915 in Harlem, New York. His father owned a coat manufacturing business but unfortunately the business didn’t last and lost almost everything in 1929. And because of this he and his family had to move to Flatbush, Brooklyn. He attended the University of Michigan. During his time in college he won the school’s Avery Hopwood Award for his first play, No Villain. After this he moved back East to pursue his career as a playwright. And soon after that he married…