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Fight Club and the Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Fight club is an American drama film produced in 1999 following a novel publication of the same in 1996 by Chuck Palahniuk. This drama film incorporates a number or renowned actors, producers and directors. Norton is the Protagonist in the drama play. Norton is an everyman discontented with his white-collar job. He quits his job and forms a fight club that would bring a little more satisfaction in his life. Tyler Durden, a soap maker, joins him in the fight club, who later welcome in a number of men who also harbor the enthusiasm of recreational fights. The protagonist embroils himself in a relationship with a dissolute woman by the name Marla Singer. The main aim of the director, Fincher, in taking upon this film, was to develop them about violence. The fight club drama is all about recreational fights for money or for the dead (Palahniuk 22).
The director intends to use the violence portrayed in the film as a metaphor for the conflicts that occur between the advertising value system and generation of young people. The story provides an in-depth analysis of how violence and crime shape the character of an individual. The unnamed narrator is a sole travelling personality who uses an automobile moving from city to city. He is a victim of insomnia, and as such suffers greatly from lack of enough sleep. However, he attends a support group for people suffering from testicular cancer, after he fools them to think that he is a fellow victim. He later on meets Tyler Durden in a flight, and after a few drinks, engages in a fistfight outside the bar for fun, attracting crowds (Palahniuk 22).
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar is a 2007 bestselling novel written by a Dominican writer by the name Junot Diaz. This particular novel deals with the experiences that Diaz had in his ancestral homeland, of New Jersey. The book covers chronicles from the life of Oscar Wao
Fashion Designers And Fashion Business
Fashion Designers And Fashion Business
Fashion designers design clothing such as coats, dresses, suits and other varieties of clothing. They prepare design sketches either by hand or on the computer. From these sketches the designs become the clothing. Designers find this job difficult but an enjoyable career. They enjoy making or designing clothes and seeing people wearing them. Many designers start out as an assistant designer to learn the basics of designing and process clothing. Then they advance to higher position as they gain more experience. In the U.S., the salary ranges from “$13,780 to more than $1 million” (Wallner, 4). The starting salaries for most of the designers are “between $21,000 and $30,000” (Schmidt, 6). Most assistant designers receive a salary of “$15,000 to $30,000 a year” (Giacobello, 16). The more customers buy their design, the more money they will earn. However, designers who have the most skills and are well known earn the most.
In the fashion business, designers compete with ideas. In order to be ahead of others, they must be observant, unique, creative and self- motivated. Thus, in order to succeed as a designer, one must go through schools of education, adapt to the career, and seek opportunities to advance.
To become a designer, it is best to begin at a young age and develop their talents. A fashion designer should be artistic and full of imagination and ideas. In addition he should be able to work hard, be open- minded to other workers, which includes self- motivation and the ability to work under pressure. Once such talents are discovered they should be developed in school. A high school diploma is required to enter college. In addition, students must take some classes to prepare to enter an art institute college. They should also take other academic classes such as “fine arts, home economics, mathematics, and chemistry to meet the requirement to obtain high school diploma” (Wallner, 5). Students should also take other extra curricular art classes to further develop their skills and to prepare a portfolio. You need a portfolio in order to be accepted in any art school you attend. The portfolio is essential to enter Art College. A portfolio is a book that you gather to display your work. You must prepare a year in advance to enter the college that you desire.
Some colleges offer a 4year program but 2 or 3- year programs are most common. Two of the best schools are Pasadena Art Center and Otis. At Pasadena Art Center, students who are enrolling must make a deposit before you begin. If you are a new student, the cost of the deposit is $200 and it is nonrefundable. The deposit holds the classes that they want to take. If you are a returning student, the cost of the deposit is $100 and it is also nonrefundable. The minimum educations in the U.S. are your “associate’s or bachelor’s degree.” (Wallner, 4) You need a portfolio in order to be accepted in any school you attend. At the beginning, you will be assigned as an apprentice. Then after working as an apprentice you will move up to be an assistant designer.
There are many advantages as well as disadvantages to being a designer. One of the advantages of having this career is working with other people and traveling all over the world. Working with other staff members such as a head designer, assistant designers and a few people who make the samples can be exciting. Another advantage as a designer is that they are able to showoff their creative and artistic talents. They get to see the result of their effort in the final design. Designers also have the opportunity to impress their clients with their designs.
As much as there are advantages to being a designer, it is also important to know the disadvantages. One disadvantage is working late shifts and overtime, without receiving much salary. The advantages can be in a way disadvantages. While working with other people there might be conflicts or a possibility of fighting with difficult coworkers. Another disadvantage is that designers work in a room that is very noisy and distracting. Fashion designers work the hardest when it is right before a deadline or a fashion show. They cram everything, which places more pressure on them during this time. Last but not least, fashion designers have a difficult time trying to find one specific type of clothing that fits all the people.
The best location for the fashion industry is in the European countries. Many popular designers are found in London, Milan, and Paris. However, another good location is found in the U.S. There are many schools, manufacturers, shows, and designers that are centered in the fashion district of New York City. There are also markets located in “Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles” (Giacobello, 17). There are several cities that specialize in certain apparel such as “Boston for bridal’s wear, Denver for skiwear, and Miami for children clothing” (Wallner, 18).
People wore garments in the past for they can maintain warm body temperature. “Dress design became popular around the 1600’s” (http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos090.htm). The garments were made by hand until the sowing machine was invented. Elias Howe invented the sowing machine in 1846. One of the first designers was Rose Bertin. Rose Bertin was a French milliner who dressed Marie Antoinette and “influenced women’s fashions during the French Revolution” (Encyclopedia of careers and vocational guidance, 17). French designers are the most popular designers worldwide. A man named Charles Frederick Worth opened a salon also known as fashion houses. He was the first designer to make garments by fabric and present it to customers. He was also the first designer to show his clothes with live models.
Fashion designers will always have competitors as long as there are people buying clothes. And as long as there are competitors, there always will be job opportunities for designers. The best chances for success will come to those who are most skillful and trained. Job openings are always available because designers come and go all the time. Designers who develop their artistic skills through education, training, and experience will advance in their career. With consistent effort, hard work, and preparation assistant designers will move up to become head designers within the firm or by advancing to a bigger firm.
I will enjoy this career because I love to draw and come up with fun, imaginative ideas. Hard work and diligence will lead to success. The fashion business is fun and gives me the opportunity to be imaginative. I work well with other people and enjoy sharing ideas and listening to their ideas. I will also enjoy it because I will be one of the first people to know what is in style and what will be in style the next season. As much as I would enjoy myself as a fashion designer, this career will always be a learning device for me to observe the making and designing of clothing.
I can serve God by becoming a designer. I will make clothes that are modest but in style. I can thank God and pray everyday so I may be able to succeed in life as a designer. Also I will serve God by putting a symbol of Christ on the clothing to show the customers that I am a Christian. Making fashionable but modest clothing is how I can serve God in the fashion business. God gave me this talent, and I will use it to serve God and succeed in life.
Bibliography:
“Fashion Designers.” Career discovery encyclopedia (1997), 2, pp. 170-171.
“Fashion Designers.” Encyclopedia of careers and vocational guidance (2000), 3, pp.
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Giacobello, John. Choosing a Career in the Fashion Industry. New York: The Rosen
Publishing Group, Inc., 2000.
Schmidt, Peggy. Careers Without College: Fashion. New Jersey: Peterson’s, 1992.
U.S Department of Labor: http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos090.htm
Wallner, Rosemary. Career Exploration: Fashion Designer. Minnesota: Capstone Press,
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FIFTY YEARS IN CHAINS
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FIFTY YEARS IN CHAINS
Charles Ball was sold while naked. In his entire life as a slave, he never had clothes on. In this instance, Charles must have suffered from the biting night cold that swept the city where he was enslaved. Charles suffered psychologically especially when he remembers the horrors that befell him on the day they parted ways with her mum. The cruelties done to her mom, the blows administered to her mum have truly affected him psychologically. “Young as I was, the horrors of that day sank deeply into my heart, and even at this time, though half a century has elapsed, the terrors of the scene return with painful vividness upon my memory,” (Page 11). The many sacrifices made by her mom towards him and his many siblings was indeed disheartening. Charles recalls her mom being kind and good. She would even divide the meager food allowed by her master to all her children and dare go to bed on an empty stomach.
Charles as depicted earlier did not have any decent clothing. Yearly, his master would give him a mere pair of shoes alongside a pair of stockings, a jacket, a hat, two shirts and two pairs of trousers. No other form of clothing was later allowed for the entire year. Despite the amount of workload, despite whether the clothes would be torn in a weeks time, Charles would not get any other clothes until the year came to an end. Charles suffered a lot from the cold during winter. Oftenly, he had to drive the team of oxen to the market as they hauled tobacco and in most instances only returned home very late at night with the distance much long and the oxen travelled slowly from the load and tiredness.
Charles was compelled to work in the woods with scanty clothes to keep him warm during the winter period when there was deep snow on the grounds. He was even determined to a greater extent to talk to his master in a bid to sell him to some other master in order for him to be closer to his wife and children plus to escape the miseries he had been going through. Unfortunately, a different fate awaited me.
Charles was once more sold to another master, a rogue master who mishandled him. This man came up to him, seized him by the collar, shook him violently, saying he was his property, and must go with him to Georgia. Together with several others, he was handicuffed and chained plus had to sleep on the naked floor. He suffered a lot insomnia, spending many nights awake thinking of his wife and children and knowing full well he would never again get a chance to see them anymore his entire life. On the other hand, he would have horrendous dreams that would distress him and cause loads pains. The sights of his wife and children appearing before the master weeping and begging him down on their knees to live their dad and husband were unbearable. He walked very long distances all through to South Carolina and the hope of ever meeting up with his wife and children died out completely. This prompted him to largely contemplate of committing suicide. Fortunately, he did not get a rope. To him, life had completely lost meaning.
Eventually, Charles had walked for a total four weeks and five days. It was equally this same time that the irons that had been riveted upon him were removed. It was indeed some big relief having been released from the many weeks confinement. To him, the fact that he was in a foreign country was enough harrowing experience. To add salt to injury, he later learnt that the life of a black man was not so much regarded as it would be that of an ox except for instances whereby the man was worth plenty of money in the market at that particular point. Charles is knocked down with a cane by his masters, beaten severely and ordered to cross his hands to have them bound with a rope that had been hanged in the kitchen. The reason being having been found with mutton meat. The cord was bound so tightly round his wrists, even before morning there was blood that had burst out under his finger nails. The cruel master had slept soundly not even knowing or having a glimpse of what had transpired through the night for Charles. The situation was actually permitted up to long after sunrise. He was referred to as a thief. Despite the night long punishment that had almost rendered him numb from the overnight cord around his wrists, each of his fellow slaves was compelled to give him a dozen lashes in turn with some roasted and greased hickory gad until at the end of it all he would have received two hundred and fifty lashes on his bare back.
From exhaustion and bleeding as a result of the cord that had dug deep in Charles’s wrists causing lots oozing of blood from his finger nails, he keeled over. However, upon waking up from his condition, a rope was tied around his neck with the other end fastened to the mill post. To the masters, Charles had actually feigned that he had fainted. He was denied of any food or drink. Fro having stolen the sheep, it was wholly agreed that he would be whipped. This whipping would take place at some specified time with so many people in attendance including masters bringing their slaves to get to learn the consequences of stealing sheep as would be seen from Charles serving as the perfect example in that case.
Charles received a dozen lashes instead from an overseer white man. His bruised, raw back was then sprinkled with hot water mixed up with pepper producing some tormenting feeling and a burning sensation that could not even be explained or described by any language. This exercise went on in exchange until Charles had received ninety six lashes with his back scalded and entirely lacerated so badly. The strokes from the whip and the gashes of blood had bruised Charles up to about three inches deep. Much as Charles begged and implored for mercy from his tormenters, he was still kept bound to the post with his entire weight hanging upon his thumbs, an hour and a half on. Despite all the pain Charles had been going through, the mistress implored that he had to be thankful much as the lacerations were just skin deep it still did not come off so bad as it ought to have been. There was excruciating pain, Charles could not even bend let alone turn in bed. His whole body was sore with pains.
Charles coped with the difficulties by either accepting the various situations and the amount of horrible things he went through. For instance, even after the masters had wanted to know who else had been in his plan of stealing the sheep, Charles would never have gone ahead to tell them a thing. He was the sacrificial lamb and served that well. He was ready and had made up his mind to suffer and to bear all hardships: not without complaining though, but without attempting to resist his oppressors or to escape from their power
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