Audience Essays

Poverty deeply affects those involved. Both Jo Goodwin Parker (“What is Poverty?”) and Jonathan Swift (“A Modest Proposal Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public”) employ strategies that call attention to the …

One of the most crucial elements of Rear Window, and a very clever tactic used by Hitchcock, is realism. In other words, most if not all things that happen in this film, and everything that every character feels and emotes, is entirely plausible in real life – perhaps not witnessing …

1. Introduction Achieving success in workplace is closely associated with the ability to communicate effectively, both in workplace and with outsiders. Unlike in the past, today we face a high volatile world where everything is in a state of flux. Most of the changes associated with this transformation revolve around …

With the high quality our product and sophisticate marketing plan, Madcap Craftbrew & Bottleworks, Inc. (MCB) has already surpassed the expectation of many of its breadth of distribution. At the same time, to ensure company’s long term viability, management at MCB is committed to increase the sales of Zebra beer …

Many people have enjoyed and laughed at the strange tale of Tim Burton’s “Edward Scissorhands” but beneath this comedy underlies many more themes and genres which portray the average stereotyped suburban community and . The movie shows the audience how the lives of typical suburban housewives get disturbed by the …

One of my most challenging roles at Exxon was as coordinator for an internally resourced improvement program focused on cost, throughput and quality. The project had multiple objectives: establishing performance baselines, setting stretch targets, ensuring robust end products and developing an implementation plan. Yet my greatest challenge was convincing the …

In The essay, “Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres”, Jean-Loup Bourget discusses what is implied about social groups in movies. In the last paragraph of the essay, Bourget asks “Must American society be like this? Must the Hollywood system function like this?” (57). Bourget actually answers these questions within his …

The main theme within ‘Stand by Me’ is the closeness of pre-teen boys, ‘hanging around’ in gangs and generally trying to grow up too fast. It is in the ‘coming of age’ movie genre. The opening sequence reflects the close bond still shared by the two main characters (Gordie and …

In his speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, Frederick Douglass passionately argues that to the slave, and even to the freed African American, the Fourth of July is no more than a mockery of the grossest kind. Douglas uses many rhetorical strategies to convey his powerful …

In John Updikes excerpt of The First Kiss, Updike uses metaphors and other rhetorical devices to convey the audiences attitude of the opening season baseball game. The audiences clearly have great interest of the environment around them as they optimistically keep their eyes glued to the players. The way that …