Inspiration of Arundhati Roy to an Activist Essays -- Activism Music

November 2nd, 2004 was a difficult evening for me. Having helped stage protests against the invasion of Iraq, having urged friends to support the HRC and the struggle for gay marriage, it was difficult to watch the election returns come in, making it seem as though all I had done had been futile. One of the things that got me through was Arundhati Roy’s CD, Come September, which I’d left in my car’s CD player. Driving home from the grocery store I heard her read an excerpt of her article, â€Å"The End of Imagination,† in which she offers a skeptical friend another way of dreaming: The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead. â€Å"Which means exactly what?† she asked, a little annoyed. I tried to explain, but didn’t do a very good job of it. Sometimes I need to write to think. So I wrote it down for her on a paper napkin. This is what I wrote: To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.1 When I think about it, the words are rather trite, easily imaginable within a pop song or a greeting card. These words, however, were being spoken by Arundhati Roy, and in the car I, like many others who have drawn inspiration from her words, from Howard Zinn, to Judith Butler, to Ani DiFranco, felt a little more able to go back in my house, unpack my groceries, and face the next four years. T... ...d from the CD version of â€Å"Come September.† 9 When I first wrote this paper, I wrote it as a presentation. I took this quote off of an article found on Lexis Nexis and did not mark down the information. I have since been unable to find my print out or log on to Lexis Nexis, as it has to be through a university computer. A final version of this paper will include the citation. Sorry, folks. 10 Taken from Singh’s interview, available online at http://www.narmada.org/archive/tehelka/eh100200arundhati1.htm. Seen Works Cited for complete citation. 11 Taken from Bunting’s article, available online at http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0307-01.htm. See Works Cited for complete citation. 12 Taken from the interview with Howard Zinn following â€Å"Come September.† See first footnote. 13 Taken from the interview following â€Å"Come September.† Please see first footnote. Inspiration of Arundhati Roy to an Activist Essays -- Activism Music November 2nd, 2004 was a difficult evening for me. Having helped stage protests against the invasion of Iraq, having urged friends to support the HRC and the struggle for gay marriage, it was difficult to watch the election returns come in, making it seem as though all I had done had been futile. One of the things that got me through was Arundhati Roy’s CD, Come September, which I’d left in my car’s CD player. Driving home from the grocery store I heard her read an excerpt of her article, â€Å"The End of Imagination,† in which she offers a skeptical friend another way of dreaming: The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead. â€Å"Which means exactly what?† she asked, a little annoyed. I tried to explain, but didn’t do a very good job of it. Sometimes I need to write to think. So I wrote it down for her on a paper napkin. This is what I wrote: To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.1 When I think about it, the words are rather trite, easily imaginable within a pop song or a greeting card. These words, however, were being spoken by Arundhati Roy, and in the car I, like many others who have drawn inspiration from her words, from Howard Zinn, to Judith Butler, to Ani DiFranco, felt a little more able to go back in my house, unpack my groceries, and face the next four years. T... ...d from the CD version of â€Å"Come September.† 9 When I first wrote this paper, I wrote it as a presentation. I took this quote off of an article found on Lexis Nexis and did not mark down the information. I have since been unable to find my print out or log on to Lexis Nexis, as it has to be through a university computer. A final version of this paper will include the citation. Sorry, folks. 10 Taken from Singh’s interview, available online at http://www.narmada.org/archive/tehelka/eh100200arundhati1.htm. Seen Works Cited for complete citation. 11 Taken from Bunting’s article, available online at http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0307-01.htm. See Works Cited for complete citation. 12 Taken from the interview with Howard Zinn following â€Å"Come September.† See first footnote. 13 Taken from the interview following â€Å"Come September.† Please see first footnote.

Behavioral Problems with Budgeting and Beyond Budgeting Model

All organizational Managers have to do certain management functions such as planning, control, coordination, staffing, motivation, leading, communication and organizing.These functions differ from organization to organization due to different organizational cultures, nature of activities and its complexity, size, staff profile in terms of values and skills, internal political activity its intensity and is level external environment in which they exist in terms of social, political, legal and environmental issues they face and its nature in terms of stable or dynamic and the Management philosophy of the senior and executive level of management.The traditional Budgeting is a tool for planning and control activities such that it enable the organization direction as well to coordinate activities and compare actual performance with Budgets so that to identify variance and investigate the causes and determine whether they are controllable or uncontrollable and revise plans if the organizat ion cannot achieve the panned performance because of uncontrollable factors. The traditional budgetary process has many advantages.The advantages are that it forces managers to formulate detailed plans for achieving the targets for each department and operation, promotes coordination and communication, clearly defines the areas of responsibility for the achievement of the budgets, enables remedial action to be taken as variance emerge, motivates employees by participating in the budgetary process of setting or formulating the budgets, improves allocation of scarce resources. Economizes management time by using the principle of management by exception. However they have serious drawbacks, They are mostly of a behavioral type. Page: 2The drawbacks of the traditional Budgets are that budgets may be perceived by the lower level managers and employees as it is imposed by the senior management and thus affects labor relations as well it may also tend to have inaccurate record keeping, In addition budgets may increase conflict over the resource allocation or they may blame others if they don’t meet the targets as well in practice it is difficult to reconcile individual goals with corporate goals and the plans cannot be accurate in a dynamic environment and detailed planning consume considerable time and resources of managers and they mayPerceive it as a futile activity. The budgeting also may induce mangers to spend all what they get even though they can spend less because of the attitude â€Å" we better spend it or we will lose it†. In the traditional Budget as a plan and control tool managers can also over estimate expenditure because of the fear they will be blamed if expenditures are not within the budgets and sales budgets will be under estimated for the reason that the sales people may fear if they don’t meet the sales target and for the fear of losing performance pay if such a rewarding system exists.In a global economy in the current 20t h an 21st century the changes in technological economic social and political climate have become more rapid and dynamic as well unpredictable than ever before and the competition has increased mostly in all industries at least in advanced industrialized countries and in some parts of Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and in Middle East. In this context if organizations are not adaptive and responsive in a timely manner to meet customer needs compared to its competitors and Page: 3have products tailored to satisfy these needs organizations must react quickly and its planning and decision making mechanisms must be flexible and managers must be able to make decisions and must have the authority and responsibility to react quickly and organizations must devolve power to managers of profit centers and decentralize organizations and performance measured in general terms relatively measured comparing different profit centers and be customer focus culture at all levels in general terms an d allow managers to make decisions to make returns on equity more than its competitors by satisfying customer needs profitably and have an information system to assist such process rather than plan in detail which is traditionally done which may stifle innovation and flexibility of the organization in a dynamic environment. The Beyond Budgeting Model is a model to address the limitations and behavioral disadvantages of the traditional budgeting in organizations. As well it is not a new planning tool but it is a new management idea. That is to change the organizational structure and organizational culture from a hierarchical organization to a network organization and decentralize decision -making and to devise a management information system, which enables mangers to share knowledge and instill new ideas and empower managers to make decisions to respond to unexpected events and to create an entrepreneur culture.That is to make the organization to become more flexible and adaptable an d create systems processes and products, which satisfy customer needs profitable, compared to its competitors and monitor emerging needs and respond quickly Page: 4 to satisfy the emerging needs more effectively than its competitors and benchmarking its processes and products on a continuous basis. There fore the success or failure of Beyond budgeting depends on how the model is introduced in the organization and the phase of its introduction and how management has overcome resistance to change and how mangers are trained and the phase of overcoming competitive culture and become a more co-operative and team culture and the possibility of this happening in the organization.So in effect the success or failure of Beyond Budget Model itself depends on how it is implemented and whether the managers perceive this as another method imposed by the senior management and how senior management can overcome such behavioral constrain. If this can be done given the managers profiles in terms of their entrenched management practices and the senior managements effectiveness and their leadership qualities to change behavior Beyond Budget may become a more adaptive process and may overcome some grave disadvantages of the traditional budgeting system. That is in other words to be a workable model the Beyond Budget Model must have the appropriate culture and structure introduced effectively. In practice it is not an easy task and there is no silver bullet. However in practice it has been implemented in some organizations particularly in large, small and medium organizations.But the number of organizations adopting this model is very small even in large organizations. As well this model is mostly applicable to knowledge industries mostly than other organizations and the traditional model with good budgeting practices may work effectively than the Beyond Budget Model. For example Sevenska Handelsbanken a Swedish retail bank with Page: 5 branches all over Northern Europe and in Gre at Britain have had no Budget since 1970. (http://www. juergendaum. com/news/02_24_2003. htm). As well other examples of Beyond Budget model implemented successfully are Toyota an Automobile manufacturer, Aldi a German Retailer, South West Airlines, the American Airlines. (http://www. 12manage.com/methods_fraser_beyond_budgeting. html). In addition there are also other less well-known examples adopting Beyond Budget Model. They are Ahlshell, the Swedish materials wholesaler, ISS, the International Danish facilities service group, World Bank and small non-profit Sight savers International, a UK charity. (http://www. 12manage. com/methods_fraser_beyond_budgeting. html). As mentioned above in page 4 these examples demonstrates the Beyond Budget Model can be successful in any size however it is mostly applied by Knowledge Industries and the examples are very few this may be due to the fact this model is a recent model and it may increase in the future.However there are many organization s using the traditional budgeting model indicates the traditional model at least to be perceived by these organization to have some value to them as well it may be effective for many organizations or they adopt good budgeting processes. In summary it can be argued that the Beyond Budget Model certainly can overcome some behavioral problems in budgeting. However it has its own behavioral issues to be resolved to be more effective and in some circumstances it may not be effective and traditional budgeting process may work more effectively than Beyond Budget model as discussed Page: 6 Above. Its effectiveness is dependent on many factors as well as discussed above. Applying these behavioral issues as discussed above to the scenario one must assume about the organizational culture and organizational structure.If suppose one assumes the organization is a centralized organization and the top management believes in the beyond budgeting process and value the usefulness of budgeting and mana gers want to compete with other managers with resources and there exist considerable political activity then it can be argued it is very difficult to implement by top management the beyond budgeting model due to excessive conflict and empire building processes which may inhibit the successful implementation of the new Beyond Budget model. Any new model will have resistance due to changes in the status quo and managers may resist changes to protect their power and turf in the organization.There fore if the senior management does not have the leadership to influence and overcome resistance and change behavior and introduce the model in a phase which, is perceived by the managers and staff as imposition it may affect their performance and effective implementation, That is the top management must consider behavioral issues involved in introducing Beyond Budget model because it is a radical change from the traditional model and the culture may resist such change and it may be counter pro ductive and may not reap benefits theoretically expected by introducing this model. As well even if managers in this scenario do not like detailed budgets they may not have the skills and motivation and hindsight to plan and if the organization is a centralized organization not a decentralized organization the beyond budget model may not work in such circumstances. In effect management must consider Page: 7 the behavioral implications and behavioral issues of this model before considering this model and not considering good budgeting processes and use of technology and tools for budgeting as the traditional budgets have several advantages to organizations as well to its own behavioral limitations.As discussed above the Beyond Budget Model do not overcome all issues in Budgeting and even it addresses some issues it has its own behavioral issues to be resolved to be effective in all organizational circumstances and the behavioral issues may vary from one organization to another. It is also necessary to recognize to change a culture takes time and any culture cannot be changes in short time. This is a very important to consider because the Beyond Budget model is a radical change in culture and insists and based on considerable behavioral modification and change. This is a very important limitation of this model in practice and management must be aware of this before planning to introduce this in to organization without giving prior considerations of the complexity and the radical nature of its model in terms of behavioral implications, which is very difficult to predict.

The Definition and Usage of Optimality Theory

In linguistics, the theory that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints (i.e., specific restrictions on the form[s] of a structure). Optimality Theory was introduced in the 1990s by linguists Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky (Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar, 1993/2004). Though originally developed from generative phonology, the principles of Optimality Theory have also been applied in studies of syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language change, and other areas. In Doing Optimality Theory (2008), John J. McCarthy points out that some of the most significant work on OT is available for free on the Rutgers Optimality Archive. ROA, which was created by Alan Prince in 1993, is an electronic depository of work in, on, or about OT. Its a fabulous resource for the student as well as the veteran scholar. Observations At the heart of Optimality Theory lies the idea that language, and in fact every grammar, is a system of conflicting forces. These forces are embodied by constraints, each of which makes a requirement about some aspect of grammatical output forms. Constraints are typically conflicting, in the sense that to satisfy one constraint implies the violation of another. Given the fact that no form can satisfy all constraints simultaneously, there must be some mechanism selecting forms that incur lesser constraint violations from others that incur more serious ones. This selectional mechanism involves hierarchical ranking of constraints, such that higher-ranked constraints have priority over lower-ranked ones. While constraints are universal, the rankings are not: differences in ranking are the source of cross-linguistic variation. (Renà © Kager, Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1999) Faithfulness and Markedness Constraints [Optimality Theory] holds that all languages have a set of constraints which produce the basic phonological and grammatical patterns of that particular language. In many cases, an actual utterance violates one or more of these constraints, so a sense of well-formedness applies to that utterance which violates the least number or least important constraints. Constraints can be classified in two types: faithfulness and markedness. The faithfulness principle constrains a word to match the underlying morphological form (such as plural tram -s in trams). But words like buses or dogs do not follow this constraint (the first falls foul of the constraint that prevents the pronunciation of two consecutive /s/ sounds and the second places a /z/ instead of an /s/). These two examples, though, follow markedness constraints, and in these cases the particular markedness scores higher than the faithfulness constraint, so the alternate forms are allowed. Differences between languages, then, are a ma tter of the relative importance given to particular constraints, and a description of these constitutes a description of the language. (R.L. Trask, Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts, 2nd ed., ed. by Peter Stockwell. Routledge, 2007) Constraint Interaction and the Domination Hierarchy [W]e assert that the constraints operating in a particular language are highly conflicting and make sharply contrary claims about the well-formedness of most representations. The grammar consists of the constraints together with a general means of resolving their conflicts. We argue further that this conception is an essential prerequisite for a substantive theory of UG. How does a grammar determine which analysis of a given input best satisfies a set of consistent well-formedness conditions? Optimality Theory relies on a conceptually simple but surprisingly rich notion of constraint interaction whereby the satisfaction of one constraint can be designated to take absolute priority over the satisfaction of another. The means that a grammar uses to resolve conflicts is to rank constraints in a strict domination hierarchy. Each constraint has absolute priority over all the constraints lower in the hierarchy. [O]nce the notion of constraint-precedence is brought in from the periphery and foregrounded, it reveals itself to be of remarkably wide generality, the formal engine driving many grammatical interactions. It will follow that much that has been attributed to narrowly specific constructional rules or to highly particularized conditions is actually the responsibility of very general well-formedness constraints. In addition, a diversity of effects, previously understood in terms of the triggering or blocking of rules by constraints (or merely by special conditions), will be seen to emerge from constraint interaction. (Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky, Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Blackwell, 2004) The Richness of the Base Hypothesis Optimality Theory (OT) does not allow for constraints on the inputs of phonological evaluation. Output constraints are the only mechanisms for expressing phonotactic patterns. This idea of OT is referred to as the Richness of the Base hypothesis. For instance, there is no input constraint that forbids the morpheme *bnik as a morpheme of English. The output constraints will penalize such a form, and evaluate this form in such a way that the optimal output form is not faithful to this form, but different, e.g. blik. Since forms such as bnik will never surface in English, it does not make sense to store an underlying form bnik for blik. This is the effect of lexicon optimization. Thus, the phonological output constraints of a language will be reflected by the input forms. (Geert Booij, Morpheme Structure Constraints. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology: General Issues and Subsegmental Phonology, ed. by Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, Keren Rice. Blackwell, 2011) Optimality-Theoretic Syntax [T]he emergence of OT syntax seems to fit into the general tendency in syntax to blame the ungrammaticality of a sentence on the existence of a better alternative. This view on grammaticality is also found in [Noam] Chomskys Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995), although Chomsky takes optimization to play a much more modest role than OT syntacticians do. Whereas Chomskys only criterion for evaluation is derivational cost, the inventory of violable constraints assumed in OT syntax is richer. As a result, the OT constraints interact and conflict with each other. This interaction is exploited by the assumption that constraints are ranked, and that parametrization can be reduced to differences in ranking between languages. Chomskys economic conditions, on the other hand, have no such direct parametrizing effect. In the Minimalist Program, the locus of the parametrization is the lexicon. (Introduction to Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition, ed. by Joost Dekkers, Frank van d er Leeuw, and Jeroen van de Weijer. Oxford University Press, 2000)

Market Failure Poverty and Income Inequality - 1968 Words

Market Failure: Poverty and Income Inequality Donna Butler South University Online ECO2071 Principles of Micro-Economics Week 5, Assignment 1 Professor Brandt May 29, 2015 Market Failure: Poverty and Income Inequality Every country in the world needs basic information on the residents that live there. This information is needed for planning, for development and for trying to improve the quality of life for those residents. In order to have good planning, reliable, accurate, detailed information and information that is up-to-date needs to be gathered. This is one of the things that the census does. It gathers information for many different reasons and uses. The information is used to make it possible to plan better services,†¦show more content†¦The official poverty rate in 2010 was 15.1 percent—up from 14.3 percent in 2009. This was the third consecutive annual increase in the poverty rate. Since 2007, the poverty rate has increased by 2.6 percentage points, from 12.5 percent to 15.1 percent. In 2010 the poverty rate jumped up by almost a full present. It was the third consecutive annual increase in the poverty rate and the fourt h consecutive annual increase in the number of people that were living in poverty. In 2014 there were over 46 million people that lived in poverty and this was defined by the low level of income for those households where they made about $22,000 a year in a family of four. For children that were under the age of 18, that lived in poverty jumped from 20.7% to 22.0%. This was a total of 16.4 million kids that live in poverty. The total number of citizens that lived in poverty was equal to the population of the fifty largest cities in the US. The absolute number of people living in poverty is at the highest since the government started calculating these numbers in 1975. 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Essay on Descartes vs Locke - 1257 Words

The study of knowledge, or epistemology, contains theoretical methods in which information is learned. Of these methods, there are two that are most widely accepted. Rationalism and empiricism are also the most widely debated methods of knowledge. Rationalism claims that a priori processes and intuition gain knowledge. Rationalism claims that knowledge is innate; but that it varies among humans. At the other end of the spectrum, empiricism claims that knowledge is gained largely by experience, observation, and sensory perception. Renà © Descartes and John Locke, both seventeenth century philosophers, are often seen as two of the first early modern philosophers. Both Descartes and Locke attempt to find answers to the same questions in†¦show more content†¦For both Descartes and Locke there is something about man, which sets him apart from machines and animals. 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The Common App Fallacy Critique In the essay Common App Fallacy by Damon Beres, the author states that getting into college by using Common Application will not help fulfill students individuals qualifications and searches. He argues that it only exists as a cheap system to create money and it saturates the applicant pool. Beres makes a lot of interesting arguments against Common Applications, although he does not provide credible proof rather just persuading the reader to agree. Beres opens this essay with data stating New York University only accepted 11,000 students out of 34,000 applicants. To further build his argument he informed the reader that his friends with a GPA that resembles the population of China and extracurriculars that make Jimmy Carter look like a lazy old coot (Beres, 79) werent able to access their desired schools. Beres explains that striving for higher education is a common and competitive goal. The creators of the Common App tried to solve this by allowing students to photocopy their applications and send it to as many colleges as they can and hopefully get accepted into any one of them. We will write a custom essay sample on The Common App Fallacy Critiqu or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page Fundamentally, Beres argues that students apply to whatever school with higher education without worrying about being interested in the subjects. He continues arguing against the Common App saying that it diminishes students individuality and special characteristics that would shine in a letter of recommendation. Beres adds that the students are not at fault for the college board and several universities advocate the use of the Common Application. He backs it up by informing us that the College Board allows students to project their SAT scores to numerous colleges and how the Common App is able to transfer a multitude of applications with the click of a mouse. Throughout the essay Beres brings up accurate and credible statistics and then he also adds some questionable data. When arguing about students not being able to get into the schools they deserved, he added that he asked people the average amount of schools they applied to seems to be around 10, though many that I know have applied upward of 16 (Beres, 79). He does not include how many people he asked. It may have been three people he interviewed. He did not even bother to add on who these people were and their background, therefore not credible information to use in a argument. He also failed to include those of which that did not even apply to Universities and took the community college route or not even going to college route. Although some information that he provided wasnt reliable, he did bring up a few dependable statistics. He states that colleges have disclosed that applications have grown over the years. He adds that it is a good and bad occurrence because it would mean students are intrigued with higher education or it could mean that some students are settling for a college because they arent getting into their dream school. This information makes sense, because it couldve only gone one of those two ways. It was an educated assumption and I enjoyed that he shared it with the reader. Fast forwarding to the end of the essay, Beres dabbles in using emotions and evoking sympathy from the audience. He says maybe the College Board and the Common Application should go all out..and charge more to send out scores and applications to discourage students to sending them out with reckless abandon (Beres, 80). This statements digs a hole into chest. It makes me feel like after his whole argument he is just going to give up. He just presented us with all this information and if he feels too defeated to do something about it then the audience should take the situation into their hands and try to demolish the use of Common App. His argument in this portion fluctuates between being good and bad. This statement was powerful and it made me feel something, but its going to much into my emotion he forgets to implement a logical explanation. To finish off his emotional rouse, he ends his essay with an analogy about winning the lottery and getting accepted to a college. He states that Princeton University accepted 1,838 out of 18,942. I have about a one-in-five chance of winning on a Crazy Cash scratch-off ticket. (Beres, 80) Arguing that students should have a better chance of getting into college than winning a lottery. The essay The Common App Fallacy by Damon Beres brings up several interesting points that I agree with. The Common App should no longer be an option for applying to colleges because it only saturates the application pool and lets students become lazy. It overshines students uniqueness. Beres is very good at trying to persuading the reader, but only that. He fails to bring up a good amount of correct and credible sources to support him.

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Looking At A Summary Of Daniel Defoe English Literature Essay Essay Robinson Crusoe was born in 1632. He leads an easy and quiet life, and his pa wants him to acquire an office occupation. But His boy wants to research the universe and canvas all over the universe. One twenty-four hours he went to the seaport and goes on a ship. The ship comes right into a storm, but all the ship members are safe in clip. When he is back at the seashore he has a pick: or he goes back to place, or he went farther on his canvas journey. He chose the last option en sailed with a captain of a ship to Africa. On their manner they are raid by plagiarists. Robinson Crusoe is from this clip the slave of the captain of the plagiarists. After 2 old ages he thinks about a program to get away from the captain. On a journey he threw the captain in the ocean and tells the ship members that he is the captain of the ship. After al long clip they arrive at Brazil. Their Robinson Crusoe sells his boat and start with a plantation. After a short clip he quiets with his plantation and st arts to sail once more to Africa. Besides this clip, the ship comes in problem and capsizes. Robinson Crusoe is the lone 1 who survived the accident and swim to a nearby island. Every twenty-four hours he went back to the boat because it did nt drop. From the wood of the boat he builds a raft. Besides he picked up some nutrient, apparels and tools. After 12 yearss the boat sank. We will write a custom essay sample on Looking At A Summary Of Daniel Defoe English Literature Essay specifically for you for only $16.38 $13.9/page Order now We will write a custom essay sample on Looking At A Summary Of Daniel Defoe English Literature Essay specifically for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9/page Hire Writer We will write a custom essay sample on Looking At A Summary Of Daniel Defoe English Literature Essay specifically for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9/page Hire Writer On the Island he builds a place in a cave. He builds a fencing and he made chairs en tabular arraies for his place. One twenty-four hours his cave prostration and he has to seek another topographic point where he can kip. He wants to the other side of the island and so he builds a canoe from a tree. After 5 old ages the canoe is eventually finished. After 11 old ages he discovers a footmark that he ca nt acknowledge. 7 old ages subsequently he besides discovers human castanetss. He builds a stronger fencing around his place because he s a spot frightened. After 24 old ages he saw the man-eaters for the first times. On their boat are 2 victims. When they arrive one of the victims attempts to get away but 3 of the man-eaters chase the victim. One of the pursuers stops after a will and went back and the other 2 pursuers has been killed by Robinson Crusoe. He called the victim Friday. He taught him to talk English, and that Robinson Crusoe is his foreman and that cannibalism is truly bad. They become friends. After a twosome of old ages the man-eaters arrive once more with 2 victims. Now Friday and Ro binson Crusoe killed all the man-eaters and salvage the victims. One of the victims is the male parent of Friday. Robinson Crusoe orders them to step in the canoes of the man-eaters and acquire some aid. After 8 yearss they come back with a immense ship. The crew on the ship is all English. Robinson Crusoe Asked them what happened and they told it was mutiny. Friday went into the Forest with the some people of the crew and he makes them lost. The other crew members have been killed. The 4 people, Robinson Crusoe, Friday, Fridays male parent and the Spaniard went back to England with the ship of the English work forces. So After around 28 old ages Robinson Crusoe went back to England. Creative assignment Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Jeroen new wave Lieshout A5d What has to be in the article surely? The jobs he had, The canvas journeys, His clip as a slave, The friendly relationship with Friday. 28 old ages on an Island Robinson Crusoe has been lived on an Island for 28 old ages. Robinson Kruetznaer, born in 1632, has lived on an island for around 28 old ages. Robinson Kruetznaer, besides named as Robinson Crusoe was a immature energetic male child with a dream. He wants to explorer the universe and canvas over all the great oceans, but one storm changes his life straight. It starts with an artlessness trip to the seaport but it ends 28 old ages subsequently. Robinson Crusoe went to the Harbor and takes a expression at a ship, when the boat starts to sail. The captain told him that there was no manner back and so his escapade starts. After a few yearss the boat came into a storm, but all the crew members were salvage in clip. They sail in their deliverance boats back to the seashore. Robinson does nt travel back to place, no he sailed further. He met a captain and he is allowed to sail with the captain. But non every journey is safe. This one is non safe to. This clip the job is plagiarists, who raid the boat. After the foray Robinson Crusoe is taken with the captain. He became a slave and has to work hard merely like every slaves in the 16th until the nineteenth century. Bondage is really difficult, the slaves have to make all the work and the wages is largely a little piece of old staff of life. After a short clip he went with the captain on a boat to Africa. On their manner he threw the captain in sea and he became the captain. For a slave it s really surprising what he did, but the dramatic thing is that all the ship members agree with the fact that he is the new captain. They sail to Brazil and their he starts an ain plantation. But as a existent mariner, he stopped after a short clip with the plantation and went back on the sea. This clip he sails to Africa, but besides this clip the journey is nt without problem. The ship and Robinson Crusoe came into another storm. All the crew of the ship is dead, except Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe and Friday together on the Island. He saw a nearby island and swam to it to convey himself in safe place. When he arrived his ship was still drifting on the H2O. Robinson Crusoe seems to be really clever, because he swam back and take everything that he could acquire, that made an easy life on the island. With the wood of the ship he made a raft. He besides took the Canis familiaris with him to acquire anybody on the island. The most surprising thing is the fact that he grabs animate beings non for nutrient, but for his pleasance. He grabs a parrot, a cat and a caprine animal. With his new household physique he a new hereafter, with a place in a cave including chairs and a tabular array. But another job happened: his place prostration and he has to seek a new place. On the island there are many trees, so he felt one and construct a canoe of it. With his new canoe he sailed to the other side of the island where the exciting began. He saw other peoples, man-eaters, with two victims. One of the victims escaped and run to Robinson. They became friends and learned each other different things such as the linguistic communication, how to contend and that Robinson Crusoe is the Boss. Robinson called the victim Friday. Together they destroy the man-eaters and 2 new victims enjoy their group. One of them is the male parent of Friday. Robinson sent them back to the ocean to acquire aid and after a short clip a immense ship is come ining. Robinson en Friday made the crew lost and Robinson Crusoe and his 3 victims enter the boat and canvas back to England. After around 28 old ages Robinson Crusoe eventually acquire back to the chief land of England. Robinson Crusoe salvaging all his goods out the wreck of his ship.