J. M. Coetzee

bank is always hungry for more. The time it stops profiting, all the things will be taken away from you in a blink of an eye. In “Cinderella Man” the family had to send their kids away because they couldn’t afford to take care of them. The boxer James J. Braddock was so desperate to get his kids back that he had to go around and start begging for money. Eventually they lost their nice house and everything else. They started living in a much worse area and with no electricity. The main similarity…

J.D. Salinger and Holden Caulfield Psychoanalysis J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, writes about a cynical teenage boy named Holden Caulfield who has a difficult time expressing his emotions to other people. Salinger also had a hard time with his social life, so he composed this novel to express his own difficulties through Holden Caulfield. When analyzing this novel, it is clear to see the similarities between Salinger’s own personal life and the life he creates for Holden.…

What is adulthood? Biologically adulthood is after a person hits puberty, yet politically it is the day one turns 18 and their parents no longer are responsible for their care. However, none of these really describe adulthood. The novel, Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger is about a rebellious prep-school teenager trying to navigate into the life of a mature adult. Like adulthood, Holden struggles to find what maturity really is. He struggles to realize that maturity is not something that just…

software application is critical for a company’s success. Through research, we found that the Marriott Hotels use Customer Relationship Management in order to achieve success within their company. It all began with an A&W root beer stand. Founder J. Willard Marriott and his wife, Alice, got their young business off during Washington D.C.’s hot, muggy summers. Good food and good service at a fair price became a guiding principle for Hot Shoppes restaurants--and for Marriott International as it…

Steve Jobs and J.K. Rowling are two completely different people. They both give outstanding speeches towards college graduates during different times, but the speeches are on similar topics. The similarities throughout both the speeches is that they both talk about failure that they have experienced throughout their lives, and what they have done to move forward from failure. Another similarity that was used during both their speeches is that they both talked about imagination, and how…

The Dilemma with Measuring Sin This assignment covers a summary of three thoughts with two centered on reaching the lost with a message of Jesus Christ and another focused on the conversion experience from the works of three different authors. My effort in discovering a common theme to discuss was somewhat lost because of the direction in which each author approached sharing their information. However, in effort to complete a single cohesive flow I will discuss each situation independently and…

Some of the most powerful novels are ones that can emotionally touch readers. Ones that people can connect or relate to their own lives, or perhaps one of their companion’s lives. Chances are, if you enjoyed a book you read then you probably had some type of emotional connection to the main character or maybe with a side character. Let’s say a book with a sad ending made you cry. Why exactly can a book push you to tears? It is because the book built up a relationship overtime between you and…

“The Machinist” follows Trevor Resnick, a factory worker who throughout the film is fighting to decipher what is real and what is not. Trevor’s ever loosening grip on reality causes a stark decline in his quality of life and serves as the driving force of the films plot. “The Machinist” does feature multiple supporting characters but they serve as little else than reactionaries to Trevor’s increasingly erratic and aggressive behavior. This is a film about a man battling with a mental disorder,…

Should the broken dreams of a discriminated and disappointed father affect the dreams of an overjoyed and hopeful son? This is one of the main conflicts surrounding the play, Fences. Fences, by August Wilson, is set in 1950’s Pittsburgh and follows the lives of Troy Maxson and his son Cory Maxson. During this time some progress between race relations had been made such as sports were becoming integrated. However, this was before the civil rights movement and the south was still segregated and…

“4 Minute Mile” is a movie that goes through the life of a troubled teen who uses track to escape his social status. Throughout the movie, the boy overcame struggles and experienced failure, but with the support of one individual he overcame those hard-ships. Drew needed guidance, and he needed a strive for something. At the beginning of the movie, Drew’s dad overdosed on drugs, leaving his older brother to be the “man” of the house, and his mom was never really seen. Drew was growing up in an…