Pharmaceutical Companies

Questions for Review 1. Pharmaceutical companies do collapse a debt instrument to distribute drugs for a low cost in developing and worthlesser countries. Africas GDP, and per capita income is very low so they cannot afford to buy top flavour medicines. One main argument for this approach is the AIDS epidemic in Africa. A main argument against this is that the treatment for AIDS is very high-ticket(prenominal) to provide to a whole country for free. 2. The principal arguments of pharmaceutical companies that compensate make exceptions to IPR law for developing countries are national treatment that is fit of foreign and domestic nationals.Most-favored-nation treatment and the equal treatment of all WTO members. Also, technical progress. One last argument is how to provide nice protection for this, and enforcing it. The arguments by NGOs and others to relax IPR laws are to end trade pressure on poor countries in health care industry disputes. 3. I would expect southwestern Af ricas decision to levy duties on drug imports from western nations to have a prejudicious impact on the international distribution of drugs to second Africa. If it is already expensive and hard to get drugs to AIDS patients in Africa, making them more expensive will not help. .In my opinion, I feel handle this was an appropriate change of policy because it did lower prices on drugs. Some negative ramifications of this resolutions is that the price wouldnt drop low enough. 5. I do not think it was necessary to relax IPR rules in order to ensure that adequate supplies of AIDS medications would be available for distribution in the developing domain of a function because the US took initiative to fix high drug prices and low-quality health infrastructures. 6. MNCs have an ethical responsibility in providing funding to international organizations wish the global fund to help cure AIDS

Hypercompetition

Jouma of trade Management, 1997, 13, 4 2 1 3 0 Evert Gummesson Stockholm University, School of Business, Stockholm, Sudden In wait of Marketing chemical equilibrium kin Marketing Versus Hyper rivalry This topic is a banter on work in progress conceming tke development qf relationship foodstuff (RM). It is cut officularly steeringed on the concept of trade counter eternal rest which is a groceryplaceing commission correspondence to mart equilibrium, the traditional concept of classical economic. The paper starts with a brief introduction to the authors accession to RJ4.It final payment with a summary of the concept of merchandising equilibrium. The next section is a discourse on hypercontention, a partiailarly intense type of contender that has been spy by several authors. RM poke outs a merchandising theory base on quislingism with various stakeh onetime(a)ers by long-run relationships, customer retention and loyalty. In contrast, hypercompetitiett claims th at customers uHU switch mingled with suppUers at an inaeasingly fast rate and that competitors pass on turn increasingly hostile to one an a nonher(prenominal).Two basic questions be raised do RM and hyper disputation represent two conflicting but coexisting trends that arc some(prenominal) growing in intensity? and How nates this coexistence or conflict be conceptu aloney handled? Tlie aim qf this paper is non to be complete and supply an answer, only to draw the readers attention to hypercompetition as an opposite trend to RMand to offer a platform for yet analysis and constructive and reflective scholarly converse. The 30R Approach to R M The 30R approach to RM is the out get set(p) of an ongoing look project on the refreshed markedng (Gummesson 1994, 1995). 0R refers to thirty reladonships that were assemble to exist in merchandise. During the research physical change, iii core variables stood out relatiorahips, networks and interacdon. A consequent definid on of RM wherefore became RM is selling seen as reladonships, networks and interacdon. The 3ORs wiU not be listed here, but their basic organise wiU be implementn. A distinction is gain between merchandise reladonships (reladonships between actors in the market such as suppUers, customers, compedtors and in boundaryedieiries), nd two types of non-market reladonships which physical exertion an influence on market reladonships, but ar not part of the market propier. These ar mega reladonships (reladonships in society, above the market reladonships, such as reladonships to political sympathiess) and nano reladonships (reladonships inside organizadons, such as intemal customer reladonships). Services markedng and ttie network approach to industrial trade have provided the primary theoredcal impietus for the author to explore the shortcomings 0267-257X/97/050421 + 10 $12. 00/0 1997nte Dryden Press 422Evert Gummesson of traditional trade management theory. both theories were bom in the 1970s and have continued to giow in importance. The authors idea to intermingle the two goes concealment to 1982 and has since been pursued and b bridle-pathened (Gummesson 1983, 1987, 1995). The term RM, however, was not used in a global sense until about 1990 (see e. g. Christopher et al. 1991 Groru-oos 1994 Gummesson 1994 Hunt and Morgan 1994 Sheth 1994). Instead, terms ukulele long-term inter alert relationships, interactive merchandise, network approach and a new concept of marketing were used.My resejtrch approach is theory generating and establish on comparative, qualitative analysis and syniiieses between data from inductive, real- military man studies received theories and new theories in the process of development. Marketing Equilibrium This section is an introduction to the general concept of marketing equilibrium and a discussion on certain aspects of the equilibrium. Marketing equilibrium is a serendipitous out buzz off of the authors research on RM. The concept is pass on elaborated in Gummesson (1995, 19%). The three forces of marketing equilibrium atomic number 18 competition, collaboration and formulas/institutions.Although Western economies are repeatedly referred to as market economies with sinless competition as their ethos, in reality they are mixed economies in which competition coexists with collaboration and regulations/ institutions. Marketing equilibrium contends that a sound market is the outcome of an optimal compounding of the three forces of competition, collaboration and regulatiorw/institutions. As all kinds of equilibria in dynanuc envirorunents are unstable, it is a matter of heading toward a pitiful target, orJy rarely reaching it and only rarely staying there for any long-term period of time.Whereas traditional marketing management literature primarily deals with competition, RM highlights collaboration. coaction implies that aU parties actively assume responsibility to propose relationships function al. The authors conclusion is that The focus on collaboration is the about important contribution from RM, with an impact on both marketing management and economics, and that collaboration in a market rescue needs to be treated with the same attention and resped as competition. Although the third force, regulations/institutions, is not the theme of this paper, a fewer words go out be said about it.Regulations indude both formal regulations through legislation, and open codes of conduct through culture institutiorts are both formal regime whose task is to ascertain that regulations are enforced, and phenomena such as the family or godliness that enforce a certain behaviour. In marketing rhetoric, regulations/institutionsand to a vauntingly extent as well collaboration are treated with suspidon and as inhibiting competition and the fighting(a)s Inputs to the 30R concept as well came from traditional marketing management, sales management, gauge management, orgaruzation th eory, and other areas. The term real world data is iised here alternatively of empirical data. Thereasonis that too often researchers in business subject slide empirical for qiiantitative, while in the geiieral language of sdence empirical refers to all types of data, whrther they come as qualitative, quantitative, or in any other format. In lookup of Marketing Equilibrium Rdationship Marketing vs Hypercompetition 423 of an economic system. In narketing practice, however, they are ubiquitous. Douglass noneth, Nobel Prize honorable in the economic sdences in 1993, has sh possess that regulations/institutions are dynamic and inevitable elements of a narket economy (North 1993).Marketing equiUbrium attempts to see the role of marketing management in the stage setting of sodety and on an industry and economics level. It should not be confused with the market equiUbrium of neoclassical theory of economics ( likewise referred to as microeconomics or simply bell theory). In neocla ssical economics, the core variables are supply and demand equilibrate by the invisible hand of price in a market of free competition. The market is assumed to be striving in the management of a longterm equiUbrium in which aU prices are equal and all products are standardized. Customers and providers are anonymous masses.Companies and industries are not managing their production and sales, they are orUy adjusting to exogenic market influences. All deviations from this idealized model axe referred to as cast-off(prenominal) im idealions. Although marketing management is offen described as an adaptation of neodassical economics, it is blatantly unmistakable from nevertheless a simple real-world study of markets, industries and singular companies, that a variant plantation for a marketing management theory is imperative. For example, services which induce anything from 60 to 90% of todays economies (depending on definition) are not considered.The assumptions of neoclassical e conomics are simply not vaUd. There are signs that the interest in coUaboration is gaining ground not only in real business bearing but also in marketing theory the most axiomatic being the upsurge of literature on RM and related subjects such as customer loyalty and alUances. Brandenbuier and Nalebuff (1996) introduce the term co-opetition, which is a combination of co-operation and competition. They show that zippy theory is one possible focussing of exploring this combination (the prisoners dilemma).Gray (1989) points to coUaboration as a solution to multi-party problem and says (p. 54) Despite regnant incentives to collaborate, our capacity to do so is underdeveloped. In the same spirit Senge (1990), in his treatise on learning organizations and the need for dialogue says (p. 10) Interestingly, the practice of dialogue has been preserved in many primitive cultures but it has been almost tout ensemble lose to modem sodety. Today, the prindples and practices of dialogue are being redbcovered and put into a modern-day context.EMalogue UteraUy elbow room tlunking together There is ein extensive literature on competition both in marketing and economics. Particularly the books by doorkeeper (1979, 1985) have received the attention of marketers. No effort wiU be made here to review the various aspeds of competition the treatment of competition pass on be directed to its role in the marketing equilibrium and to the properties of hypercompetition. In market economies, competition is hailed as the device driver of economic evolution and a necessary condition for wealth. The customer is given a choice, and a supplier can never be sure to have the customer in its pocket.ITiis is a traditional view advocated by the business community, and to an extent also by the pubUc sector in many countries where deregiilation and privatization have become foreeful strategies. The countries of the Westem worldthe capitalist sodetiesare not genuine draw Hunt and Morgan (1 995) for further analysis of the shortcomings of neoclassical theory. 424 Evert Gummesson market economies. They are mixed economies in which market forces and regulations have entered into wedlock. In totally unregulated markets only few can obtain the necessities of life.For example, free markets give large corporations the freedom to trigger competition, and those who cannot compete on the labour market are left to bounty or misery. The oppositetotal regulation leads to rigidity. There is no general formula that tells us in what projx)rtions individual discretion and collective regulation should be mixed. Every market and period have to find their own specific solution. competition is a driver of certain types of change. Even if RM puts dialect on collaboration, I would like to see RM as a deductive reasoning of competition, collaboration and regulations/institutions.The issue is which combination of these will create the balancethe marketing equilibrium in each sptedfic si tuation. If either of the three forces becomes unduly powerful, the economy will suffer regulations/institutions is the sole force of a planned economy. To whatsoever extent there is a naive belief in competition to set everything right. The global wave of privatization and deregulation is a reaction in markets that have become stified. It is an effort to find a marketing equilibrium. bureaucratic and legal values have often led to a misguide interference by politidans and an unreal belief in centralized promise of sodety.Although the term deregulation implies that regulations are abandoned, it is a search for more(prenominal) comme il faut laws and institutions which can become supportive to constructive forces of sodety and hold back negative forces Deregulation is reregulation Some of the more conspicuous results from deregulation are found in the split up of Bell in the US and bailiwick telecom operators in many countries have lost their monopoly the privatization of Brit ish government bodies such as the British Rail and the Airport Authority and the most dramatic of all, the breakdown of the communist planned economies.However, nobody so uttermost has been able to overview the long-term effects of deregulation and privatization. There are necessary elements of the market economy that competifion and the free market forces do not master. They can be expressed in two paradoxes. The graduation paradox says regulations are needed to secure that free competition will not be curbed. In spite of adl sweet talk about competition, every individual company or industry prefers to be spared the hazards of competitions (but they consider it essential for other comparues and industries). The second paradox says The finding of competition is to get rid of competition. controversy attempts to flinch the infiuence of other suppliers by lower costs and prices, differentiated and difficult-tocopy offerings, or ascendency of aimed market niches. Hypercompetition The ideas on a new type of competition will be assembled under the umbrella concept of hjfpercompetition. They are taken from many sources, among them DAveni (1994), Hamel and Prahalad (1994), Moore (1996), and Verbeke and Peelen (1996). The term hypercompetition was first found in DAveni and the ensuing discussion on hypercompefition is mainly based on his concepts, but the comparison with RM strategies and the conclusions are my own.In marketing management and strategy, the recommendation is usually mod that companies should build a sustainable competitive favor, thus limiting In Search of Marketing Equilibrium Relationship Marketing vs Hypercompetition 425 price competition or redden creating a monopoly-Uke situation. Hypercompefition is the opposite a company should actively disrupt status quo and the accepted competitive advantages, both its own and those of competitors, in an environment of hypercompetition, advantages are cursorily created and eroded.Hypercompefition tre nds are identified in four scene of actions of traditional competition (DAveni 1994, pp. 13-17) /. cos/ and quality arena For example, upstarts Uke Southwest Airlines attack estabUshed carriers by slash costs or enhancing quaUty, thus lowering the bottom of the market and rhytidoplasty the top of it. This behaviour counteracts the RM strategy of frequent flyers programmes. 2. Timing and know-hot/ arena The first mover in the nnarket whitethorn create an advantage and sets up impediments to imitation. succeeding(a) quickly try to overcome these, fordng the first mover to change its tactics.The know-how put-upon by one company is imitated by another and imitation becomes scurrying and faster eventually the innovator cannot recapture its R&D investment. 3. Strongholds arena Companies create entry barriers to keep the competition out Entrants circumvent the barriers, adult rise to a series of attacks and counterattacks. This is au and soticly happening in intenontinental send ser vices between major American carriers and national European carriers. The current war for mastery over the Intemet, with Microsoff and Netscape as the combatants, is another example. 4.Deep pockets arena This souseds having more money than the competition. The finandally stronger and usuaUy larger companies can endure price competition from smaUer companies. The latter, however, can caU upon govemment regulations and form aUiances with others, thus balancing out the financJal advantage. In marketing equilibrium, regulations is one of the balancing forces, and alliances is a collaborative RM strategy. For example, Microsoffs financial advantage has been counteracted by the aUiance between IBM and Apple. Information technology is a driver of hypercompetition.By using databases it is possible, and wiU be more so in the future, to quickly survey prices and other conditions, and select the best combination at each point of time. Purchasing then becomes close to the system of exchanges. But even if comparisons of suppUers are made easier for customers, so many conditions are not comparable, for example, to 426 Evert Gummesson what extent can you effrontery the supplier. Trust and security are basic condidons for collaboradon and trust has proven to be a driver of business in all types of sodedes (Fukuyama 1995).DAveni concludes that the battle for compeddve advantage is eventuaUy driving the market back into a price-compieddve market. The outcome is the neodassical long-term equilibrium, although the road to this equiUbrium goes via marketing equilibrium and not just via price adjustments. He refers to the old compedfive equilibrium as looking stable because it moved so late that it appeared stable. Hypiercompeddon is a coristant invoke of disequiUbritim. DAveni deploys a revised 7Ss framework to propose hypiercompeddve strategies.The professional 7Ss designed by the McKinsey consulting companycomprise seven factors for success structure, strategy, systems, st yle, skills, staff, and divided up values. Successful hypiercompeddve firms need a new set of Ss in sound out to create disrupdon (p. 31ff). The first new S is stakeholder satisfacdon, referring to new ways of creating fulfil customers and a modvated eind empowered work force. The second is strategic soothsajdng a process of seeking out new knowledge necessary for predicting or even creating new temporary windows of opportunity that compiedtors wiU eventuaUy enter but are not now served by anyone else (p. 2). The comparafive advantage of these two factors is the abiUty to win each dynamic strategic acdon with compiedtors (p. 32). The third and fourth Ss are spieed and surprise, both capabiUdes for disrupdon. The hypercompeddve company both reacts more quickly and is proacdve, thus taking the market with surprise. The final three are tacdcs for disrupdon. Shifting the rules includes new ways of sadsfying the customers and playing the marketing game with a new set of rules. Signals refer to announcements of strategic intent with the purpose of stalling acdons and misleading compiedtors.For example, a preannouncement of a coining product may make customers wait to see the new version and postpone planned purchases of competing products. simultaneous and sequendal strategic thrusts are used by hypercompieddve firms to harass, paralyze, induce errors, or square block compiedtors (p. 34). Several acdons are taken at the same dme in combinadons that make it difficult to understand what a compiedtor is actuaUy up to. In summary, whereas RM strives for stabiUty through long-term reladonships, hypercompieddon strives for continuous disrupdon at an increasingly faster rate.In RM, security is found in stabiUty in hypercompeddon it is fotind in the ability to continuously counteract instabiUty. The RM concept is by many authors broadened to comprise more than the suppUercustomer dyad,* for example, reladonships through alUances which is a way of counteracting hyperco mpieddon. The imaginary organizadon is a network-based company which transcends the tradidonal organizadonal boundaries. It can more freely lease Jind drop resources through outsourcing (or rather resourcing) instead of investing in tradidonal ontogenesis (intemal or through acquisidon) the advantage of the deep pocket is thus offset. See Christopher et al. (1991), Kotler (1992), and Hunt and Morgan (1994), who have approached marketing as relationships with a series of stakeholders. This is in line with the 30R approach, but flie 3ORs go further and also establish relationships based on other than the stakeholder dimension. See Hedberg et al. (1994). Other terms representing the same phenomenon are virtual organizations, boundarykss organizations, and rwtwork organizations. In Search of Marketing Equilibrium Relationship Marketing vs Hypercmnpetition 427DAveni (1994) discusses the role of co-operation and collusion and says that they should only be used for hypercompetitive purpo ses. They are not long-term relationships, they are merely temporary strategies. He lists a fig of generic instances of hypercompetitive use of collaboration (pp. 338-339) to gang up against others groups to limit the land of competition to biuld resojirces to buy time to gain access and to leam. Hunt and Morgan (1995) allude a comparative advantage theory of competition within a marketing management paradigm, and they present a devastating critique of neoclassical economics.DAvenis conclusions are contrary to Hunt and Morgans he rewrites neoclassical theory, using marketing management theory as a lever. Interpreted in my terms, we drop by the wayside from the original and simple form of neoclassical market equilibrium, go through a phase of marketing equilibrium, and arrive at a more sophisticated level of market equilibrium. Hjrpercompietition goes beyond the neoclassical theory of perfect connpetition and restores it on a new level. Through a series of luxuriant moves, where competitive advantage is surpassed, an escalation toward perfect competition develops.This means that we are back in transaction marketing, the very evil to which RM is held to be the antidote. Conclusions for Discussion This paper has dealt with certain aspects of marketing equilibrium, one of several RM issues that preoccupy the authors nund during the ongoing research joumey into the world of RM. The paper is limited to the two trends of collaboration, advanced by the RM concept, and hypercompetition, advanced by authors on strategy and competition. A paradox is seemingly a contradiction it is not in actual fact a contradiction. An oxymoron is a combination of two phenomena that cannot be combined.So the first question in the line of descent of the paper could be rephrased are RM and hypercompetition forming a paradox or an oxymoron? When I read up on the current literatxire on competition, I found that the new competition was described as more fierce and faster than ever before . It had affinity with marketing warfare which was in vogue in the 19S0s. It certainly seemed contradictory to the RM idea of long-term relationships and collaboration. In my present suppose of ignorance the answer is within the concept of the marketing equilibrium, both competition and collaboration coexist. They can do so and will do so.Our attention has to be directed to both of them. When competition becomes hypercompetition, collaboration may become hypercollaboration. Could it be that hypercompetition is the current driver of the upsuiging interest in RM and that RM tries to neutralize the effects of hypercompetition? To be Continued As this is work in progress, the issues that have been presented are not complete and the views are tentative and wiil be further studied. Among other issues concerning marketing equilibrium that are also being studied are the following Tlie marketing equilibrium which has so far been described could be seen as 28 Evert Gumntesson partial marketi ng equiUbrium. The RM researdi project is suggesting an extention into complete marketing equilibrium. It consists of a synthesis of RM and the theory of imaginary organizations where not only the market but also the organizations (suppUers, customers, competitors and others) and sodety are included in a network of interactive relationships (Hedberg et al. 1994 Gummesson 1996). In traditional marketing management and economics, the market is outside the company and nrketing activities are directed toward extemal customers.But there are also markets inside the company and marketing activities take place between intemal customers. This is laid bare in the treatment of the nano relationships of the 30R approach. Both intemal and extemal customers interact in networks of relationships. The boundaries between the inside and the outside have dissolved and both can be seen as parts of the same networks. Another area is the black economy with tax evasion, bribery, fraud, and organized crime as additional and disrupting forces of competition. One of the relationships in the 30R approach is named The Criminal communicate.For example, Blumberg (1989) has pointed out that the strength of the market economy competition and the profit incentiveencourages fraud. It pays to cheat He calls this the paradox of the market economy. Everybody is old(prenominal) with it from jobs and private consumption, but it is swept under the carpet in marketing theory and textbooks. The Literature prefers the idealized image competition as the driver to create customer satisfaction and customer perceived quality to give customers everything they want and are willing to pay for and to offer numerous options for consumers.Customers are asked about satisfaction and quality, but their knowledge is limited and the ignorance of the customer is exploited. neither market economies through competition, nor command economies through regulations, have proven themselves fit of handling environmental a nd ecological issues. What has been achieved is primarily the outcome of voluntary printing press group activity and law enforcement. warring forces have clearly not provided enough incentive for the market to innovate and reinnovate in the field.One of the relationship in the 30R approach is The Green Relationships, adding a relationship angle to environmental issues. plausibly most of the achievements for a long time will only come through legislation (regulations), tight control and litigation (institutions). Can the marketing equilibrium conceptually include environmental and ecological issues? After the topic Presentation An Addendum In the discussion following its presentation, the paper was criticized on two points in peirticular (1) The choice of the term marketing equiUbrium.The critics said and some were dearly provoked by the term that it gives the wrong connotation and that the term is so heavily committed to neoclassical economic theory that large number will not be able to see my point. Suggested substitutes were dynamic balance or optimal combination. EquiUbrium, it was claimed, conveys the idea that such a state exists and it is just a matter of time long-term, though) before it is reached. In defense force of the term but I intend to give it more thought) I would like to claim that equilibrium can be perceived as dynamic and unattainable, but still have a value n Search of Marketing Equilibrium Relationship Marketing vs Hypercompetition 429 in providing direction, although the trip is a never-ending journey. Perhaps the provocation as such is o( value. When a new thought or term is met with aggressions from several established scholars it may have hit a sore spot it may even be important. The original intention was to show that equilibrium from the idealized and imrealistic assumptions of neoclassical theory could be supplemented by a marketing management-oriented equilibrium based on real-world premises.Neoclassical economics current ly seems to be no more than a computer game for adult entertainment and career boosting under the dissemble of sdence. To me, the contrast between market and marketing, designating an economics versus a management approach but still indicating affinity, makes the term expressive. Whatever term I choose, however, I am confident that economists and me-too researchers wiU not be impressed. 2. Hyper was claimed by Americans to mean too much, for example a hyperactive child is active to a degree that implies mental and/or physical disorder.The British perceived it as very much, for example a hypermarket which is a bigger European version of a supermarket. 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Penn foster study guide Essay

Welcome to Fundamentals of Early childhood Education We expect that this course will add to your knowledge and helpyou form impertinent opinions about a subject in which yourealready arouseeducating young children.KNOW YOUR TEXTBOOKYour textbook for this course is Foundations of EarlyChildhood Education Teaching Children in a Diverse Settingby Janet Gonzales-Mena. Its important that you read thematerial in your textbook and lead until its completelyfamiliar to you. This is the material on which your examinations are based. The satisfy of the textbook is divided into three sectionsPart 1Foundations of the Teaching- eruditeness ProcessThe spot of the Early Childhood EducatorPart 2Foundations of Curriculum intend forLearningPart 3Foundations for Formal Education Planning forLearningAs you read the chapters within those parts, youll discover the following featuresChapter introductions, which provide overviewsChapter outlines, which range key topicsSections titled In This Chapter Youll Discover, which provide a list of things you should deal in the chapter Marginal links that connect key content to the guinea pig Association for the Education of Young Children earlychildhood program standardsYour examples should be descriptions of specific incidents. For example, a child may have had a enigma separatingfrom a parent the day that you observed.You woulddescribe exactly how the caregiver or teacher handledthe situation and redirected the child. Giving a generaldescription or providing brief examples of how the caregiver or teacher interacts with the all the children in the dwell isnt sufficient for this part of your summary.3. What is the guidance and discipline policy utilise at thefacility?Clearly explain how misbehavior is handled.4. What did you like beat and least about the program?This part of your summary should state your views ofthe program. cover three points you liked about theprogram and three points you didnt like. offer specific examples t o illustrate each point.5. What are some suggestions for improvement? In this partof your report, discuss some ways in which you feel the grapheme of the program could be improved. What do youthink could be done other than that would better meetthe needs of the children in the setting? Remember, eventhe crush environment can be improved. List at least cardinalsuggestions for improvement.Make any other needed revisions. Revise as some times asyou feel necessary, and then correct your report for spell and grammar. Your final submission should be typed in a12-point font with type formatting.

Black People and James Baldwin

Deborah Lee full stop 1 May 28,2012 Supplemental Reading Assignment A. The theme of Baldwins essay is alludeity. He establishes this theme in his essay with the juxtaposition of a poor white man and a slow man. In this essay, Baldwin speaks of how pack atomic number 18 continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white commonwealth in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. He says that batch say that world black is not that bad because there are white hoi polloi in the same situation and that there is still hope for the black because of large number like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis but it is still not something to be regarded with complacency because the situations of Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis are just rare. Equality in the States at the time was possible with determined will, but still really rare. Another way James Baldwin established the theme of equality in this essay was when he mentioned the projects, more specifically, Riverton.Baldwin estab lishes this theme of equality through mentioning Riverton for Riverton was a physical representation of the inequality of blacks and whites in America back then. Baldwin said, The people in Harlem know they are living there because white people do not think they are skilful enough to outlive anywhere else. There was going to be no equality if people were told to live in certain places because of their color. Baldwin also makes this theme extremely effloresce when he says, Negroes want to be treated like men. B.The tone of the essay, ordinal Avenue, Uptown A letter from Harlem by James Baldwin and the tone of the verse, study for English B by Langston Hughes are similar. They are similar for some(prenominal) authors show that there is hope for equality through the tone of for each one text. In the poem, Theme for English B, Hughes says You are white / yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. / Thats American. Hughes expresses that although he may be the only black person in his class, he is still American like the rest of the class and should be con lookred equal.The tone of the essay and poem is different from the poem Incident by Countee Collen. This poems tone is complete opposite from the other poem and essay for Collen uses more of a doubtful tone. This poem is more close to just being sad and bothered that blacks and whites are not equal instead of being hopeful for the equality of the two races that is soon to pay back like the other poem and essay. C. The locations on race in these texts are different than in To slay a Mockingbird for in To Kill a Mockingbird, genus genus Atticus retrieves that there is good and bad in everyone and that nothing should be hated or claimed as all bad.In the book, Scout asks Atticus if it is okay to hate Hitler but Atticus says that you shouldnt hate anybody, no matter how bad they are because there is a good side to them. This shows that Atticus perspective on race is different from the authors of the po ems and essay for the authors believe that the whites are bad people because blacks and whites are not equal. While Atticus is just like the authors for he wants equality between black and whites, his perspective is different for he believes that this equality will be brought once the good side comes out of the white people.

Ambition Essay 11

?Ambition Nowadays, many people think aspiration is antisocial, it is neer a pretty prospect to ponder. But in my opinion, competition is valuable and necessary for our society. Ambition is a fundamental skill of accumulating originator and living a good life. It produces action. It makes choice possible. It is a narrative or context of concerns and commitments that brings forth moods of passion, assessments of situations and actions, strategies and tactics, requirements for power, and skill. What if a person does not reach an competition?A person without ambition has no commitment to take consider of their future. They may want, desire or prefer a good future, but they lack commitment to do so. They do not act in the present to produce favorable consequences in the future. And to think of it, what the world pass on be like without ambition? The highly developed society hangs derriere and new give voiceion disappears. New discovery vanishes. All of which human beings cre ates provide never come to our life. Thats an unbelievable phenomenon.So in my opinion, ambition is so important and necessary for both individuals and our society that we will never cast away falling in it. To begin with, I think if ones ambition is great than the others, he or she will get more at last. For example, In the Three States conflicts, a famous leader named Cao Cao, whose ambition is to climb up to the summit of great rights. Through a list of methods such as absorbing some knowledgeable person makes him succeed finally. Secondly, some compulsive ideas contribute to the success of our society.If we dont dream flying like the bird, well never invent the plane. f we dont want to stay in the waters for a yen time, well never make the first submarine. If we dont want to step on the moon, well never create the spaceship. Ambition is like a flower, whose smell is so angelic that lure people to get it. Ambition is like a hawking, whose vista is to fly high and high to t he blue sky. If a person doesnt have ambition, his life will be dull. If a person doesnt have ambition, his colorful world will fade. a person dont have ambition, he will achieve nothing. Someone will say, ambition may be destroy the building of modern moral society, which built by our ancestor. To the contrary, its because of the ambition that the building could be existed. I dont think that someone is an thought-provoking person is wrong. In a word, I am totally concord that ambition propels our life and make our world go around. Its so important and necessary that well all have to stick to it if we want to make a difference.

Rick Brag: Essay

genuine Southern pride is a great way to describe a man like Richard Bragg. He has each(prenominal) the Southern charms and out accounts on life. Richard Bragg writes emotion eachy-moving belles-lettres that wobbles the lives of everyday hatful. Richard Braggs writing generally deals with the lower categorize Americans. This is a reflection of his life, for he grew up as a lower class American during the Civil Rights Era. Born in rural Alabama on July 26, 1959, he was the first of his family to graduate from high school. Richard Bragg is nonetheless alive at present and is currently a professor at Alabama University (Kingsbury).Richard Bragg is known as one of the best southern story tellers of his time. Many wonder how he developed this ability, and when asked he said, Well, I come from a long tie of liars and story tellers. (Rick 2) Richard Bragg credits his way of telling a story to his male parent, grandfather, and all the drunks that he liked to hang out with. (Autho r) Bragg would sit down on his front porch for hours and listened to these men speak. Although he listened to all these drunks tell of drama, comedy, and tragedy, Bragg tends to welcome a more feminine way of writing.He got this from his m separate and sisters who tell gentler stories nearly babies born, funerals that were beautiful, and the nicer, sadder, sweeter side of growing up in rural Alabama in the 1960s and 1970s. (Rick 3) Richard Bragg generally writes about the lower class American. He grew up as a lower class citizen. He likes to urinate out to these people and make people aware of poverty all over the world. In his story All Over still the Shoutin, and in this countersign he shows the darker side of poverty and his life(Abbe). This book gives the inside look of what it was like growing up in poverty during the 60s and 70s.Richard Braggs berth life was not one of a loving family. His father left hand frequently all through his life, and officially left when Brag g was just 10. He did have a caring mother who did everything for her family. She worked in the cotton handle with poor coloreds and white trash who had no other skills and no other possibilities. (Rick 3) Brag latter paid tribute to her through his book All Over but the Shoutin. Richard Bragg grew up during the Civil Rights period. Braggs father erst moved his family to a white house in Anniston, Alabama, that was once the ain house on a plantation. Bragg had never seen a black person really until he moved there. All the black people lived about a mile up the road. At first they threw rocks at each other. It was an onward battle until one day they got curious and started petition each other question about how different both races were but it seems now that our innocent questions about our differences were kind of nice, kind of sweet. (Rick 7) Richard Bragg is still writing today. He writes from his little office at the University of Alabama. Who knows what he pass on write a bout next?One thing is for sure we all know that it will make an emotional impact and that it will change how people view certain topics. Works Citied Page Abbe, Elfrieda. Rick Bragg on the art of storytelling. 115. 12 n. page. Web. 28 Sep. 2012. Author Information Rick Bragg. This tidy Land . (Apr 30, 2009) n. page. Web. 28 Sep. 2012. Etlinger, Marion. Rick Bragg Biography. Book Browse. 01 08 2010 n. page. Web. 28 Sep. 2012. Kingsbury, Pam. Rick Bragg Biography. encyclopaedia of Alabama. Alabama 2008. Web. 28 Sep 2012. Rick Bragg Biography. UFDC Images n. pag. Alabama Virtual Library. Web. 28 Sep 2012.

Loneliness in Of Mice and Men Essay

These are notwithstanding a few of the times in which candy has shown thoughtfulness.The last character John Steinbeck has developed, Curleys wife, shows devastation for trinity terra firmas. For ane, she states, I get l matchlessly. You thr champion talk to people, moreover I cant talk to nobody but Curley on page 87, which shows that she has loneliness because she doesnt engender everyone to talk to but Curley. Specifically, people wont talk to her because they have intercourse that Curley will get jealous and want to commence a trash. In a nonher reason, she says, Im miening for Curley on page 31, which shows that she, touchye up an excuse to construe adult conversation. dulcify does not seem to have a day ambition until he meets George and Lennie. He is swept up in the plausible reality of this dream, a dream he would probably be too scared to initiate by himself. candy is not happy with his life on the spread head, but he doesnt think that there is anything el se that he can do. He has one arm and is quite an old man, he employ to have a dog that was in addition very old and roundone else shot it for him.He was very miserable afterward the finish of his dog and he said, I ought to have shot that dog myself, George. I shouldnt ought to have allow no stranger shoot my dog.His dog was the only precious bullheadedness he had at the ranch and it was interpreted a sort from him.He ever soywhereheard George and Lennie public lecture ab reveal their dream and later approached them and told them his generous offer. He had more than fractional of the deposit money and George was very grateful of that and let him in on their once unattainable dreamSteinbeck was of German and Irish ancestry.Curleys wife tries to get the men to feel sorry for her but withal has a tidy and mulipative side to her by jeopardizeing Crooks.I could get you string up on a tree so easy it isnt even funny. Curleys wife is abusing her government agency by using i t to threaten Crooks and make him under persist what kind of position he is in. She says this by overweight to get Crooks lynched, the hate of dour people during this time is unimaginable.The men in the barn would rather listen to a light woman over a black man. He helps them get closer to actually owning the ranch because he has a lot of money saved away in his bank and offers it towards the ranch.Crooks is also crippled in his jeopardize and because of this he works as a stable buck. Like Candy he also has nothing to look forward to. When Lennie tells Crooks about his and Georges dream of owning a ranch, he is very cynicalEvery damn one of ems got a little piece of land in his head. An never a god damn one of em ever gets it. Crooks mentions how George and Lennies dream will be unattainable but after earshot what Lennie has to say, he wants in but..But after a go he believes that they might actually get their ranch and decides he also wants in. His expects are soon crushed b y Curleys wife taunts and changes his forelandGeorge and Lennies dream to buy a plot of land is a powerful symbol of the American Dream, Steinbeck uses Candy as a narrator. At the abrasion he gives commentary of the characters to introduce them, he says how curleys wife is a tart, curley abuse for king-sized computed tomographys and what the boss said in the morning and what he is like.Candy seems to know about Curleys wife and her giving the eye to lissom and Carlson. I seen her give Slim the eye, An I seen her give Carlson the eye.If he was white he would have such a nicer life on the ranch, crafty this he is depressed therefore like many people the coarse depression. Crooks is a nice psyche but being black the reader finds it hard to see that he has feelings and also his arched back makes him look twice as questioning of an outsider.Steinbeck has written this novel in the hope that people would understand what happened back in his child years. He also wanted to convey his feelings of the violence and anger in the 1930s he had experienced. In the novel the violence mentioned is where curly exhibits himself in the baffle set up because he does not like big people.There was a rank system in America that was similar to an unwritten law. This ranking was used on the ranches and unfortunately put Crooks at the bottom. In America black people were oppressed and were not allowed to prosper. On the ranch Crooks had his own bunk and kept himself to himself.However, any sympathy that we might have felt for Curleys wife is reduced because of the cruelty she shows when talking to the men and by the way she treats Crooks. She is contemptuous of Candy, Crooks and Lennie, referring to them as a nigger an a dum-dum and a sordid ol sheep and she laughs at their dream of having a ranch of their own, dismissing it as Balony. Far worse though is the way she removes all Crooks pride and dignity when he dares stand up to her and saying how she can get him lynched.w ould say that loneliness is one of the main themes throughout the novel and I also think that Crooks is rebelliously the loneliest. He is a Negro stable buck and the only reason he does not get beaten up is because the ranch the reach are not aloud to use their feet to fight because Crooks has a bad back.I aint wanted I cant play because I am black Those quotes show that Crooks is feeling lonely Says George in a way that says I know I cant force you but I dont want you here. This is of course because of what frizzy did. She is taken aback by this, she is used to being ignored but not told to leave by anyone other than her husband.I just want whatever one to talk to. She says.you got a husband, go talk to him George replies.yeah I got a husband. She says almost in a disappointed way.She then asks how Curly got his hand broken. To which George lies and says he got his hand caught in a machine. But this doesnt fool her so seeking an answer she asks Lennie who she knows wont have th e mental capacity to make up a lie.how did you get those scratches on your face? she asks. Lennie looks to George and then looks away saying,he got it caught in a machine. He answers.is that so? She says with a look that is trying to work out how Lennie thinks. nigh as if she is concerned for him. She then quietly leaves. In this scene we catch to see that she isnt stupid she can work things out. Also that she doesnt like Curly and being married to him. The possibility that all she wants is some one to talk to is again present.it differs the way Curleys wife is perceive in the film and book, we dont see how clever she is and how she uses her knowledge, power and position to be malicious.In the book, there is a quite unrealistic scene towards the end, when Lennie is by himself in the brush. He gets agitated with himself over what he has done and all of a sudden, a short, plump lady appears, his auntie Clara. She starts speaking to him in Lennies voice. Then after she is finished disappears. Then, a giant rabbit scuttles out of Lennies head and starts shouting at him. Unfortunately, this is never visually seen as it is left wing out of the film. It would have been a funny scene and with it being right near the end, would have fumble the mood therefore, it was left out.Another scene left out so not to detract the mood, was when Lennie has his dead puppy in his arms after he has killed Curleys wife, and he has the idea of throwing the pup away so it wouldnt look so bad. The last two scenes would have caused wild laughter in the middle of two important and emotion separate of the film, which would have lessened the viewers emotions.Along with missing out scenes, a fair number of scenes were added.For example, in the film there is a scene when Lennie enters the bunkhouse with the tipple of his dungarees puffed up and him cradling it. As Lennie had tried to uprise his pup into the bunkhouse before, Lennies suspicious behaviour hints to George that he is tryi ng to do it again. afterwards George scalds Lennie for his attempt to sneak the pup in again, Lennie lies on the bed and slaps the bib of his dungarees, flattening it, and finishing the joke. An amusing practical joke obviously thought up purely by Lennie showing he does have an intelligent and a funny side. John Steinbecks Of Mice And Men expresses George and Lennies relationship brilliantly just like a marriage, not in a sexual expressive style but in a mutual loving relationship. This occurs throughout the novel.(then examples)Curley has a very poor attitude in that he believes beating up people that are large than himself would make him a hero, however if the bigger person beat him up people would call the bigger person a bully and be sympathetic towards Curley. This backfires horrendously one day when comprehend that Lennie has a childs mind he tries to pick a fight on him only to find that Lennys reaction left him with a badly broken hand. Due to this event, Curley then ba res a detestation on Lenny throughout the play and the death of Curleys wife fits in nicely as it gives Curley an excuse to go after Lenny. Steinbeck does this cleverly so that there is already bad blood between Lennie and Curley before the death of Curleys wife.More than anything, Curley has his wife as a trophy wife. At no point in the book does he show any sort of love or affection toward her. Steinbeck does this so when his wife is pitch dead he isnt bothered about mourning hes focused on getting Lennie.eorge had told him not to speak, so he didnt answer. Curley authentically got angry. George answered for him and he answered,An you wont let the big guy talk, is that it?He wants to be big and tall. He picks fights with anybody that is larger, in a way superior to him. He only has respect for Slim we know this because he listened to Slim.I think you got your han caught in a machine.He knows what really happened. He didnt want to get laughed at either, so he listened and obeyed Slims instruction.But you jus tell an try to get this guy canned and well tell ever body, an then will you get the laugh.Curley concur to this statement, otherwise he will be laughed at for starting the fight and then losing it. Even though Curleys hand was totally ruined, and Lennie got a couple of bruises and cuts nobody got in any more trouble.When his wife was killed he was really mad. Not mad for losing a loved one. He was mad at Lennie for killing her, and instead of staying with his wife, he hurried off to find Lennie and to kill him. We notice that although Curley was very protective over his wife, he didnt show any interest in her, and showed no signs of love. Nobody like Curley, not even his wife.Curleys wife was an outcast, because she is the only female on the ranch and wore a lot of red.