Susan Orlean

What do these texts suggest about the conflict between pursuing a personal desire and choosing to conform? Support your idea(s) with reference to one or more of the texts presented and to your previous knowledge and/or experience. Sacrifice Praise for Self Success From a young age, children are told to by their parents to “Be yourself” in all circumstances. They are told that if they stay true to themselves, then they will have true friends, they will be content, and they will be successful

basal instincts that individuals must learn to control. However, a certain sense of liberating freedom is also attached to the idea of living in uninhibited by the guidelines that society imposes. “The Jackhammer Syndrome”, a poem by Al Purdy, and Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief present two different narratives concerning the pursuit of personal desire and deal with the consequences that ensue from this behavior. Their characters’ experiences suggest that the unchecked pursuit of personal desires

her specifically to be the lead in her country, England's, fight to victory in the Hundred Year’s War. These visions from God led her to leaving her family behind and somehow convincing the Dauphin to allow her to suit up and lead a French army to Orleans to battle. She became victorious in this battle and helped to crown the Dauphin Charles, as she had promised him. After this victory, Joan’s reputation began to be known among French forces. On her next travel to become involved in a Burgundian assault

individual is creating his or her sense of identity, self, or “place.” These ideals are made up of numerous different attributes, lending to a sense of community and solidarity among those from like places. After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Louisiana in September of 2005, the city was rocked by its heavy losses on both cultural and

taunting days, just like the residue she left behind, she also left residents with emotional, physical, and psychosocial scars. The onset of Hurricane Katrina proved to be the very element that separated the economically challenged residents of New Orleans from financially stable residents. The residents who resided in the suburbs were able to evacuate early because of accessibility to more resources. Inner city residents were forced to wait on the arrival of Katrina. This ideology of the residents

essay that David brooks wrote about hurricane Katrina is a sarcastic bitter piece taking jabs at government, who he blames for the catastrophe. Specifically, he pointed out their plan of action toward the hurricane they knew was coming. Many from New Orleans were angry that the government did little to help them from this dangerous storm. In his essay brooks stated, “Katrina was the most anticipated natural disaster in American history, and still government managed to fail at every level.” The plan was

situation, but how yellow journalism was utilized – by journalists – to provide false and inaccurate statements regarding Hurricane Katrina. For example, the way media televised, photographed, and displayed Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath – in New Orleans -- remarkably revealed the vast majority of those affected were African-American. These numbers were not only disproportionate to the sizable percentages of African-Americans within the city limits (CensusScope, 2006), but also how mainstream media

knowledge. It gives possibility of making a choice among several alternative solutions, not the first available and etc. One good example of the decision made according to the branch method in this case, would be the construction of the lock for the New Orleans Industrial Canal. This project was justified only economically, “without prior values or objectives” (Lindblom) and would never be approved by the “regular decision process” (Grunwald and Glasser). This suggests that if the root method was implemented

Jury of Her Peers,” Susan Glaspell articulates the suffrage women of her time had to endure brought on by the weaker sex stereotype that had plagued the human brain for quite some time. Annenberg Learner states that the short story is based on a true event Susan Glaspell had covered in 1900 while working as a reporter for Des Moines Daily News (Annenberg Learner; Glaspell 179). At first, “A Jury of Her Peers” was known as a play by Glaspell called “Trifles.” A year later, Susan Glaspell adapted the

In the 19th century Mary Shelley introduced us her first and unique novel Frankenstein. Almost 200 years later director Alex Proyas released his new blockbuster I, Robot based on the homonymous short story by Isaac Asimov. Both stories tell the viewer a fiction about creatures produced by human beings. These creatures feel itself as a stranger in the society and misunderstood. But even if the stories have the same beginning they are presented in a different way. So the question is: Is the movie I