Alfred Hitcock Lifeboat

Willie has offered to pay for Josie’s college in New Orleans. Willie wants to go to school in the East, she wants away from her life and she thinks if she moves nobody will know her. At the end of the story the madam Willie dies and leaves everything to Josie, making her a wealthy

     The single most weighted factor that edges Willie to his demise is his inability to make a living and achieve his “American Dream”. After being a salesman for many years, Willy just can’t cope with the fact that he hasn’t been successful at all. He believes that he is a terrific salesman. His imaginative thinking won’t let him accept the fact that he has become a failure instead of a wealthy businessman. Willy believes that to be well liked is the means to being

The Open Boat, written by Stephen Crane is discusses the journey of four survivors that were involved in a ship wreck. The oiler, the cook, the captain, and the correspondent are the survivors that make onto a dingey and struggle to survive the roaring waves of the ocean. They happen to come across land after being stranded in the ocean for two days and start to feel a sense of hope that they would be rescued anytime soon. They began feeling down as they realize nobody was going to rescue them and make an attempt to reach shore. The story discusses an external conflict of man vs nature to help state clearly the central idea. The central idea of the story conveys man’s success against nature when ones’ abilities are combined together to increase the chances of survival. The use of 3rd person limited omniscience and character analysis helps to explain how the journey of the men’s survival to get out of the ocean and reach shore is able to succeed while Stephen Crane uses symbolism to demonstrate the unity created amongst the survivors.

"The Open Boat'' begins with a description of men aboard a small boat on a rough sea. These men are all survivors of a shipwreck. There is the cook, overweight and sloppily dressed, who is trying to remove water from the bottom of the boat. The oiler, a physically powerful man named Billie who is rowing with one oar. There is

When Linda refers to Willy as a "little boat looking for a harbor," another wind blows against Linda, pushing her to act with pity (1247). To her, he is nothing more than a small, helpless old man. She blames the business for forgetting Willy in his old age, and passing him over like an orange peel. Toward the end of Act I, Linda presents a sorry image of Willy, describing his past greatness as a salesman and ending with a sad description of treachery. She tells her sons that Willy is "exhausted" from driving 1400 miles without earning a penny, and that his reward from the ones he loved the most, his sons, is spite and rejection (1237). The picture she paints of her husband is on filled with pity and sorrow.

Even though Willie’s psychological barrier motivates most of his actions, his psychological barrier was altered by the end of the play. Willie’s psychological barrier was cracked by Sam at the end of the play. “Willie: ‘Me? Spit at me like I was a dog?’ (A thought that had not occurred to him before)” (Fugard, Page 57). Sam asked Willie how he would feel if he was spat on by Harold. Willie’s psychological barrier started to rip in half. He started to see what really was going on between him and Harold. He started to see how Harold had been taking advantage of him and the control of Harold on him. Willie let loose and became rebellious. He did not want to be under Harold’s control anymore. Along with stopping Harold’s control on him, he realized what he should do next with Hilda. “‘You right. I think about it and you right. Tonight I find Hilda and say sorry. And make promise I won’t beat her no more’” (Fugard, Page 60). Since he broke out of Harold’s control, he does not need to beat Hilda anymore. The only reason why he beat Hilda was

The Lifeboat, by Charlotte Rogan, explains that no matter what challenges life brings, there are always ways to make it through a tough time. The novel tells a story about Grace Winter and her husband, Henry, traveling across the Atlantic in search for a better life in America. When their ship goes down, Henry forces Grace onto a lifeboat with 39 other people. While on the lifeboat, Grace has to go against her morals and kill others in the lifeboat to improve her chances of survival. In The Lifeboat, Rogan uses imagery and Grace’s point of view as she struggles through a difficult period of her life and to show that there is always a way to make it through hard times.

There are two basic kinds of egoism, there is ethical egoism and there is psychological egoism. These two different forms of egoism are different because ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that what is moral is to be done in self-interest. This is different from psychological egoism which states specifically that people will only act in their own self-interest. Ethical egoism is broken up into two forms. There is act egoism and Rule egoism. Act egoism says

The theme, confusion between reality and illusion leads to a downfall, applies here because in a way suicide is the ultimate downfall. Charley, a voice of reason, counter argues that “nobody’s worth nothin’ dead” (98). Charley is consistently in reality and is one of the most successful people in the play. So, the fact that Charley recognizes reality in the harshest and brightest light is what kept him from experiencing a downfall in his life. If the Willy was not confused about the reality of his life, there may not have been such a great fall when his life amounted to less than he expected, and when Biff’s life did not turn out to be what he had hoped.

The good thing about this story is that, finally after Willie listened to everything the white man said about what happened to earth, he realize that it was no worth it to continue with all the revenge thoughts he had, so he forgive and could move on with his life.

Supererogatory acts go above and beyond the call of duty. Epictetus reflects through many aphorisms in The Handbook about heroism and how to tackle challenges set before you. The documentary Boatlift depicts how many volunteers in extraordinary circumstance banded together and went above the call of duty to rescue those in need on September 11th, 2001. Boatlift is the story of many boating captions that couldn’t stand idly by and watch their fellow man trapped in Manhattan when the city of New York was attacked. Vincent Ardolina justifies his action with, “ A person can’t stand by and watch others suffer.”

Willy was illusive thinking that he was good enough to get a better a job, instead he end up looking as a

He is a salesman. His importance is derived from that designation. Thus, his self-dignity is directly related to his occupational success. According to Willy, some weeks he averaged two hundred dollars, in actuality it was closer to seventy. However, he still found solace in that he was doing what was expected of him.  One example of his incessant need to be successful  as a salesman is, that he misses many opportunities which life affords him. He could have gone to Africa and become a rich man, but he stayed in New York simply because he is a salesman. Here is merely another example of his identity being associated with his vocation.

When he confronted Willy in he end, he just yelled at him and brought him to the realization that he wasn't special, and that he was a dime a dozen. Willy eventually realizes this, and that is why he crashes the car and kills himself.