Abstract
This paper offers a comparison and contrast of Jon Krakauer's tale "Into The Wild," and Eric Liu's "The Accidental Asian." "Into The Wild" is about Christopher McCandless, a survivalist who perished in the wilderness and Eric Liu's "The Accidental Asian" is an autobiographical account dealing with race and ethnicity as an Asian American in mainstream U.S. society.

From the Paper
"Despite being vastly different in subject and scope both Eric Liu's "The Accidental Asian" and Jon Krakauer's "Into The Wild" are quite similar in theme. For though Liu's work focuses on the assimilation experiences of a second-generation Asian American and Krakauer's focuses on the wilderness experiences of an upper-middle class White American, both at heart are an exploration of the protagonist's search for meaning and identity."

Tags:Alaska, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, ancestors, racism, prejudice, Thoreau, survivalist, identity, meaning, materialism, mixed marriage

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This paper discusses the concept of the 'accidental' documentary. It examines Abraham Zapruder's home video of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, entitled "Assassination of John F. Kennedy." The paper then compares the images and the style of the accidental documentary with Bruce Connor's 1967 documentary "Report," which also focuses on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

From the Paper
"Both the Zapruder and the Connor films never change, but the audience is changed, every time the images are seen. The Connor film's transposition of early 1960s naivete about Camelot with images of the funeral creates a kind of conscious memorial to a lost time in American history, while there is no depicted return, no sense of memorial in the Zapruder. Zapruder was innocent, after all, when he made his film. The memorialization in Zapruder solely exists in the individual's mind, as a witness to the artifact of history. Zapruder captures a public death and through the lens of his "personal viewing experience" and what the viewer sees is dependant upon his or her own personal view of the 1960s and Kennedy, or simply the death of a man, while Connor demands that the viewer accompany a filmmaker on his personal vision of what the death of Kennedy means (Bruzzi 16). But although one film is seemingly objective and accidental, the other subjective and deliberate, in trying to discover what the assassination, even what 'death' means, they are perhaps best viewed together, both highlighting the potential as well as the limits of visual culture to render the end of human life and the end of an era in our history."

Tags:JFK images, home video

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This paper discusses how Marie Clements' two plays, "Burning Vision" and "The Unnatural and Accidental Women", both feature primarily Aboriginal characters, and foreground Aboriginal issues. The paper examines how the two plays approach these subject matters in very different ways and how Clements situates Aboriginals as people who have been oppressed by colonizers from over the seas. The paper also looks at how Clements depicts urban Aboriginals as living in poor socio-economic conditions, vulnerable to white psychopaths, and how she seems to imply that Aboriginal people belong where they were before the colonizers came - if not physically, then at least psychically.

From the Paper
"Burning Vision is set in many different locations, as it is about colonialism and the atomic bomb. However, with regard to Aboriginals, it features the Dene people who mined pitchblende near Great Bear Lake in the North West Territory in the 1930s. The Unnatural and Accidental Women focuses on an entirely different group of Aboriginals, i.e. poor women living in Vancouver's Eastside in the 1980s. The two plays thus feature geographically and chronologically different people. However, certain commonalities can be detected, primarily related to the fact that both groups are the victims of colonization in one way or another."

Tags:vancouver, colonialism

Abstract
This paper takes an in-depth look at Marie Clements' two plays, "Burning Vision" and "The Unnatural and Accidental Women" which both feature primarily Aboriginal characters, and foreground Aboriginal issues.According to the paper, however, the two plays approach this subject matter in very different ways. This essay further examines what Clements seems to be saying about Aboriginals in these two plays.

From the Paper
" Marie Clements' two plays, Burning Vision and The Unnatural and Accidental Women, both feature primarily Aboriginal characters, and foreground Aboriginal issues. However, the two plays approach this subject matter in very different ways. This essay will examine what Clements seems to be saying about Aboriginals in these two plays. Burning Vision is set in many different locations, as it is about colonialism and the atomic bomb. However, with regard to Aboriginals, it features the Dene people who mined pitchblende near Great Bear Lake in the..."

Tags:clements, aborginals, vancouver

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The paper discusses "The Accidental Asian," a collection of autobiographical essays describing the author's experience as an Asian- American and his views regarding cultural identity. The paper shows Liu's belief that although cultural identity does exist, the connection between race or cultural belonging and the individual is not altogether definite. The paper discusses how, although Liu looks Chinese and shares a cultural background with his people, he does not feel that this makes him any less American.

From the Paper
"Both the hints to political issues and the vivid portraits of his family members, like his father or his grandmother are musings on the theme of identity and its exact nature. Whether Liu speaks about such scandals as the "Asian Money" scandal involving president Bill Clinton, for whom Liu had written many speeches, or the Chinatown in which he and his family accidentally encounter his grandmother among other Chinese people, or about his father's life and character, all the scenes that make up the book revolve around the same idea- Liu's feeling that race and identity are almost impossible to define."

Tags:identity, culture, race

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Robert Cringely's book is a witty, wide-ranging examination of the PC industry's humble origins, haphazard but phenomenal growth, and competitive future. The author was there at the beginning in the early 1970's, when Intel introduced a microprocessor device and outlaw engineers used it to build a PC that could be assembled by hobbyists, and has seen it all. His book is a highly entertaining history of the personal computer industry, highlighted by insightful profiles of the rather eccentric personalities at its core Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mitch Kapor.

Tags:review, accidental, empires

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A comparison and contrast of two men's search for personal meaning and identity in the midst of a society that fails to relate to their own unique sense of self and their values. The paper examines Jon Krakauer's tale of Christopher McCandless' journey into the Alaskan bush, "Into The Wild," and Eric Liu's tale of assimilation as an Asian American in "The Accidental Asian."

From the Paper
"In "Into The Wild" and "The Accidental Asian" authors Jon Krakauer and Eric Liu respectively provide us with stories of young men in search of an alternative to contemporary society. In "Into The Wild" Jon Krakauer provides an account of the journey into the wilderness of a young man named Christopher McCandless. McCandless is a graduate of Emory College who after graduation abandons all material possessions and hitchhikes his way to Alaska."

Tags:education, school, girls, mixed marriage, survivalist, Thoreau, materialism, consumerism, race, ethnicity, heritage, prejudice, lifestyle

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The title of this research article, "Decreasing Unplanned Extubations In The Surgical Intensive Care Unit", concisely and clearly states the theme as it goes on to discuss the skin irritation and discomfort caused by wearing of an endocracheal tube and also clearly mentions it in the title. The readers are able to understand the overall purpose of the article, which is to conduct a prospective evaluation of all intubated patients in the surgical intensive care unit to examine the effects of three parameters on the likelihood of accidental extubation.

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Mental and emotional pressures can affect performance and productivity of a worker on the job. One of the biggest influences of today's worker is on-the-job stress. This paper explains that job stress occurs when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. This consequently affects how a person would normally deal with customer service problems, grievances, violence, conflict, and decisions on the job. The paper shows that stress is an inevitable part of everyday life and is therefore a distinct part of a person's job. To properly control the outcome of stress, there are certain previsions and methods that should be taken, some of which are covered in this paper.

From the Paper
"There are many ways to reduce stress in an organization. The first of which is to educate their employees about the causes and the different methods that are available to reduce stress. An easy and economical way of reducing stress is to allow employees to talk with one another freely. Doing this increases productivity and problem solving and enables employees to defuse potentially stressful situations. Another way is to support employees' efforts. To do this managers or supervisors should ask employees how their work is going. The managers or supervisors should be able to listen to their employees and be able to address issues that are raised and convey the message that employee contributions are appreciated (Shoor 28)."

Tags:National, Institute, for, Occupational, Safety, Health

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This paper compares Crusoe's efforts on his island with the guidelines Bacon sets out in his essay "On Plantations". The social structure of each story is examined individually and the compared to each other.

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Daniel DeFoe's The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) sets out to tell the story of one man's misadventures, predominately, Robinson Crusoe becoming stranded on a deserted, tropical island for nearly thirty years. Whether or not it was Daniel DeFoe's intent, he has Robinson Crusoe follow to some degree many of the precepts of a good plantation that Francis Bacon specifies in his 1625 essay "Of Plantations." Bacon believes that a good plantation will have a skilled, unforced labor base, a thought-out food production system, a monarchial government, and good relations with the indigenous peoples. Robinson Crusoe one man meets, to various degrees, nearly all of Bacon's plantation precepts."

Tags:bacon, crusoe, daniel, defoe, francis, plantations, robinson