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Film: "The Notebook", 2008.
This paper analyzes Erik Erikson's life stage theory by using the 2004 film "The Notebook", as a test of the validity of this theory.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper explains that Erik Erikson's life-long model states that the individual does not reach his or her ultimate integration of personality and the final target of maturity and wisdom until the final life stage. The author then argues that this model is lacking in applicability within the modern culture as presented in the 2004 film "The Notebook". The paper states that the film depicts the lives of a couple at two stages in their relationship. The author relates that one stage of their adult life, shown through flashbacks, is when they are younger adults building their relationship, their courtship and the setbacks they faced before finally getting married and that their final stage, in present time, is now their relationship living in an old-age care facility. The paper contends that the two main characters in this film, even at the end of their lives, have remained at Erikson's life stage of young adulthood and will never complete all of the stages in Erikson's model.
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"It is possible that Noah is engaged upon a journey that would be similar to Erikson's model of the late adulthood stage, but the film certainly does not present us with any such knowledge about him. Instead, he focuses completely on Allie, lives in an old-age care facility when he does not need to and ignores his children's pleas for his return home. The fact that they say that they miss him, and that he is absent from his children and grandchildren, seems to matter less to him than being with Allie, even though she no longer recognizes him."
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"On Keeping a Notebook", 2007.
An analysis of cause and effect in the essay "On Keeping a Notebook," written by Joan Didion.
724 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 25.95
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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the essay "On Keeping a Notebook," written by Joan Didion. Specifically, it discusses cause and effect reflected in the essay. The paper describes the writing of Didion and the memories that she records in her notebook. It then discusses how these entries illustrate the concept of cause and effect.
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"Another cause and effect of Didion's notebook are the memories she chooses to record there. Often, she makes them up, rather than basing them in reality, and they change her memories of events and family get-togethers. She notes the often say, "'That's simply not true,' the members of my family frequently tell me when they come up against my memory of a shared event" (Didion). Her mind does not record events the way they happened, it records events as she would like to see them happen, and this is very distressing to many of the people around her. So, her notebook causes her to change or bend her own reality into something more pleasing or more memorable. The cause and effect is that it causes others to question her memories, but it adds details and interest to her writings when she incorporates these unreal memories. "Similarly, perhaps it never did snow that August in Vermont; perhaps there never were flurries in the night wind, and maybe no one else felt the ground hardening and summer already dead even as we pretended to bask in it, but that was how it felt to me" (Didion). She indicates that reality is not nearly as important to her as the ideas and memories she has created in her notebook, and she does not understand why others are so bound to what "really" happened."
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"The Golden Notebook", 2002.
An analysis of Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook".
1,715 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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?The Golden Notebook? provides a detached critique of Anna?s attitudes about writer?s block as expressed in ?Free Women.? Offering self-conscious critical detachment, ?The Golden Notebook? shows Anna?s ability to create lies within herself, independent of any external factors. This paper shows how this realization of her complete freedom to write produces Anna?s sense of responsibility to create ?Free Women?, in which she can ironically treat her prior belief system. Therefore, through her ?unremitting self-consciousness?, Anna reveals her ?complete freedom,? and finds the ability to generate writing.
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"According to Friedrich Schlegel, ?irony?stems from the artist?s critical self-detachment and unremitting self-consciousness; it denotes his complete freedom?and becomes manifest in the liberty with which he creates, decreates, and re-creates.? (Furst, 26) In Doris Lessing?s The Golden Notebook irony manifests itself in a similar manner as a means to sincerely meditate on the writing process. ?Free Women,? apparently the primary narrative, appears to be authentic articulation of the impossibility of producing a genuine text when words retain no transcendent meaning. The philosophy in ?Free Women? progresses toward a ?decreat[ion]? of literature reflected in Anna?s total disavowal of fiction writing. At the same time however, this progression leads to ?The Golden Notebook? which in turn subverts ?Free Women,? embracing writing in all its limitations and allowing for ?re-creation.? The recreation necessitates that ?Free Women? be reread with the added consciousness of ?The Golden Notebook,? revealing it as an ironic testament regarding the frustration of language. The enhanced reading of ?Free Women? indicates that only through an ironic understanding of language can the writer obtain a ?complete freedom? given the fact of perpetual productivity."
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"The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge", 2007.
An analysis of the novel "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge" by Rainer Rilke.
862 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 30.95
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The paper discusses how Rainer Rilke attempts to expose the core ingredient of the human psyche in his novel, "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge". The paper explains that, in the book, Rilke attempts to strip away the veneer of self-concept, symbolized by "incredible tedious material" in an effort to reveal the fundamental heart of the self.
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"Discovering interior universal truth about the human condition remains a timeless philosophical quest for authors. Notwithstanding, the German author Rainer Rilke attempts to expose the core ingredient of the human psyche in his novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. The author states the novel's primary purpose during the "Is it possible" segment. The author writes; " Is it possible... that's been covered with an incredible tedious material, which makes it look like living-room furniture during the summer vacation? (23). This thesis foreshadows Rilke's attempt to strip away the veneer of self-concept, symbolized by "incredible tedious material" in an effort to reveal the fundamental heart of the Self."
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'The Notebook', 2006.
A comparison of 'The Notebook', the novel by Nicholas Sparks and the movie screenplay by Nick Cassavetes.
3,314 words (approx. 13.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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This paper reviews the book and the screenplay of 'The Notebook' comparing the differences. The paper discusses the changes made from the novel to the screenplay and explains the reasons for these changes.
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"The story is told in two lengthy sections, one as a wrap-around and the other as the body of the novel. In the wraparound, the story is told in the first person, directly by Noah, though he is not so identified until late in in the novel. For most of the novel, he is merely the unidentified man reading from a notebook, reading the story about Noah and Allie to the woman he wants to reach. The central portion is what he reads to her, and in that story, there is no clear resolution because the story only takes the couple to a point where Allie has to make a decision and faces her fiancee, Lon, at that moment. She has by this time written to Noah and seems to be telling him she loves him but perhaps that they will only have memories of each other, while she approaches Lon without knowing what she is going to say to him. The irony is clear in that this talk of memories is belied by the current day situation in which Allie has lost her memory entirely, while Noah tries to revive it by reading the same story each day."
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Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebooks, 1997.
Author's possible purposes (including publication). Looking at its contents, missing parts, order and secretive handwriting.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, $ 55.95
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" Leonardo had several purposes in writing the manuscripts that are known as his notebooks. It would be difficult to make a complete list of every subject that he addressed in them, but the briefest list shows his reasons for writing. The pages include plans for books to be written, notes on Latin (which he did not study until he was over 40), notes on anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany and optics, lists of his own notebooks, speculations on proportion, observations of natural phenomenon, numerous speculations about the movement of water, long passages from books he had read, lists of words he had learned, mathematics he was learning, designs for machines and weapons, calculations of various kinds, reminders of questions he wanted to ask, ideas about painting, jokes and riddles he had been told, and sketches related to almost all these subjects. Clearly the.."
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Doris Lessing, "The Golden Notebook", 1999.
A critical review of the novel's plot, characters, themes and process of subverting traditional novel's structure & formulation.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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"Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, a novel about the process of subverting the traditional novel, is the embodiment of the new type of fiction envisioned by its protagonist. For the novelist Anna Wulf the problems of achieving authenticity in life and in fiction are inseparable. Her compulsive desire to write fiction is constantly frustrated by her inability to produce work that imposes order on a world that she sees as descending into chaos. Such a fiction will provide a new way of viewing the world but it cannot be achieved, she feels, because she cannot impose such order on her own life--the source material for this transcendent fiction. Anna fears that the inability to achieve authenticity in her own life--demonstrated by her inability to get an ordering grip on it--means that she will never be able to write this type of book. Lessing's novel, with its multiple ..."
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The Beholder's Beauty, 2002.
An examination of the concept of beauty in Toni Morrison?s "The Bluest Eye" and Toi Derricotte?s "The Black Notebooks".
1,756 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 56.95
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A look at the way the characters in "The Bluest Eye" and "The Black Notebooks" perceive beauty. These perceptions are compared to each other and to the cliched phrase of "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". "The Bluest Eye" tells the story of a young black girl growing up in the 1930's and how, even though she is pretty, does not consider herself beautiful because of racial laws lowering her self image. "The Black Notebooks" tells of a boy, Junior, who is obsessed by his skin color and the way people perceive him. Both novels deal with the way a child is perceived by others and how this influences their opinions of themselves.
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"Beauty, we have all been told practically since we were born, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Toni Morrison?s The Bluest Eye ? and to a lesser extent Toi Derricotte?s The Black Notebooks ? provide us with a very new way of understanding this very clich?d clich?. For while we are theoretically enabled to search for beauty wherever we might find it in the world, we are in fact limited by our own eyes, by the ways in which we can see. Morrison asks us to take this adage seriously: The eyes that we physically see the world through determine what of beauty is available to us. For Derricote, her understanding of the role of the eye of the beholder is somewhat more metaphorical. But for both authors, the relationship between vision and the ability to see clearly is central to their understanding of race."
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Clyde Edgerton's Female Characters, 1999.
Examines the authenticity and strength of women in novels about Southern society. ("Raney", "Walking Across Egypt", "Killer Diller", "Floatplane Notebooks").
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 13 sources, $ 39.95
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"The female characters of novelist Clyde Edgerton represent a variety of points of view for women in the South today. The characters in these novels are examples of different social and political attitudes, and Edgerton often points up what he sees as the self-centered and foolish nature of these views. Edgerton makes his characters real, in terms of both their dialogue and their behavior. These women are strong and make themselves known in what is more commonly seen as a man's world.
Edgerton's ability to write women characters has been praised by critics and readers, and Edgerton himself has noted his view of why this is so:
I've been very satisfied to know that women who read the book believe that the voice sounds ..."
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Life Lessons.
This paper is a personal essay about two important life lessons learned while an intern at a summer camp.
760 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 27.95
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The author narrates that, as an intern ,she was taught to keep a notebook of her ideas and plans, general phone numbers, and other information; the author lost the notebook, but found out that the secretary had saved the contents of that notebook. The paper explains that the author learned to value people because, in the past, she had looked at a secretary as nothing more than the hub of an office that keeps things running smoothly. The paper also relates that the author learned to make copies of everything that she considers important.
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"Last summer, I volunteered to work as an intern in the student ministry of a local church. As an intern, I was to help the student pastor, be available for students, and attend, as well plan, activities for the students. There were going to be three interns and I was the first to arrive. I grew up going to this church and I remember being in junior high and high school coming into the very office I would now be working in. Things certainly seemed different after a few years."
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Automating Land Survey Data, 2006.
A look at the methods and reliability of cataloging land survey data electronically.
2,094 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 65.95
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This paper attempts to define a series of system integration and process re-definition strategies to enable field notes obtained during land surveying to be electronically cataloged and automated for more efficient use. The paper addresses the reliability of the data itself, which is captured and noted in field notebooks. The paper focuses primarily on how to automate what is today a highly manual repository of data existing in the 200 field notebooks that comprise the accumulated data to this point.
Outline:
Executive Summary
Starting with Change Management Is Critical
From Data Repository to Enterprise Content Management System
Advantages of Creating a Land Surveying Content Management System
Disadvantages of Creating a Land Surveying Content Management System
Proposed Costs
Considerations of Change Management
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"The disadvantages of implementing an automated system to better manage the land use notebooks center mainly on both the time needed during work hours to train users in new procedures for using the system, in addition to the costs of integration with other systems to keep the current one relevant over time."
"In the majority of instances there are many more costs associated with implementing a content management system than initially appear during the forecasting stage (Columbus and Murphy 2), and the level of integration with other systems continues to drive up the costs of these types of implementations. With all these shortcoming said however, the savings in efficiency and accuracy of queries does have a significant effect on the Return on Investment (ROI) of this type of program."
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The Bastard Son of the Renaissance: Da Vinci, 2008.
An analysis of Da Vinci's opinions according to Julia Conway Bondanella and Mark Musa's "The Italian Renaissance Reader."
1,615 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper discusses the four basic new ideas, values and opinions in the notebooks of Da Vinci, as analyzed in Julia Conway Bondanella and Mark Musa's "The Italian Renaissance Reader." The paper discusses the idea of intellectual elitism, the idea that painting is subtle and sculpture is crude, the idea of creation versus reproduction and the rejection of book learning and the emphasis and preference for observation and experience.
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"The rejection of book learning and the emphasis and preference for observation and experience was an additional notion birthed in the period of the Renaissance. Da Vinci was not a university man, or a churchman. He highly valued experience and experimental behavior over any other type of learning. Da Vinci found that experience was far better and superior to any knowledge you could gain through institutions, such as schools and universities. He felt that learning from books, literary knowledge, was quite mediocre compared to experience. Experience and experiments were the ultimate learning tool for Da Vinci. The mere knowledge of text, without experience of what the literature spoke of was not the type of learning Da Vinci emphasized. "They will say that since I have no literary ability, I cannot properly express what I wish to deal with, but what they do not know is that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words; and experience has always been the mistress of those who wrote well." Da Vinci knew that dealing with the subject itself was much better for the expanding of the mind and learning than merely reading about it, and thus greatly emphasized observation, experience, and experimentation."
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Dell, 2007.
This paper provides an overview of the Dell computer company.
2,872 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 85.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the Dell company credits itself on providing services and products that allow businesses and individuals to develop an Internet structure. The writer points out that Dell's product line includes laptops, mobile workstations, handhelds, printers, projectors, servers, peripheral products, software and notebook accessories. The writer then examines the company and looks at the issue of competition. The writer maintains that a merger between Dell and HP would spawn a whole new generation of products and technologically driven ideas. However, the writer concludes that it is still too early to tell whether or not such a merger will ever take place, as both companies are still doing much better than their competitors in terms of sales and profitability.
Outline:
Overview & Brief History of Dell
Effect on US Financial Market when Dell came into the Market
Problems with Dell now (present) including Competition
Causes of such Problems
Future of Dell / Possible Solutions
How is Dell affecting US Financial Market (present)
If Dell goes Bankrupt, Effects on US Economy
Merger between Dell & HP
How will the Merger affect the US Financial Market?
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"According to a report published by Dell Inc., the Dell effect involves several different outcomes. The most pronounced outcome has to do with minimizing the cost associated with the purchase of technology. The company has been able to accomplish this with a built to order business model that set it a part from the competition."
"As it relates more specifically to effect that Dell has had on the financial market in the United States when the company first entered the market, the company could easily outperform the competition because of the business model in adapted. This business model, in which all products are sold over the internet, eliminated the cost of running brick and mortar stores. In addition Dell was able to make the computers at a reduced cost and these savings were passed on to consumers. In time this gave Dell a considerable share of the market."
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The Dell Computer Corporation, 2002.
This paper is an extensive analysis, including Porter?s Five Forces and SWOT, of the Dell Computer Corporation.
5,545 words (approx. 22.2 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 135.95
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This paper states that Dell is the leading world direct supplier of computers and is the leading computer manufacturer in the United States. The paper points out the Internet and Dell?s business model are complementary to one another. The author concludes, after using the strategy exercises, that Dell must leverage its internal competencies by continuing with the direct-to-customer model and leverage its external competitive advantage by using the Internet and other value added channels to improve the production and delivery of its products. Many charts and tables.
Table of Contents
Introduction
History
Dell?s Vision Statement
Dell?s Mission Statement
Company Details
The Dell Idea
Dell Products and Services
Desktop Computers
Notebook Computers
Workstations/Servers
Software and Peripherals
Services
Dell Today
Key People
Financial Performance
Strategic Overview
Stakeholders
Human Resources
Health Plans
401 (k)
Profit-Sharing/Bonus
Stock Purchase Plan
Dell Learning
Other Benefits
External Environment
Internal Environment
Porter?s Five Forces
Competitive Rivalry
Product Substitutes
Barriers to Entry
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Conclusion
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"Michael Dell?s idea in the personal computer industry was: Bypass the middleman who adds little value to the products and sell custom-built PCs directly to end-users. By using this innovative direct-marketing approach and by pioneering the industry?s first service and support programs, Dell Computer Corporation has established itself as one of the top vendors of personal computers worldwide. In 15 years, the company?s sales have grown from $6 million to $25.3 billion for the past four quarters. Since its first international subsidiary opened in the United Kingdom in 1987, Dell has opened sales offices in 34 countries around the world, and its 36,500 employees serve customers in more than 170 countries and territories."
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