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Analysis of The story “The Curator.”
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Analysis of The story “The Curator.”
In the story “The Curator” by Brian Evenson, a monstrous human-made poisonous cloud sweeps everything in its way. It ravages through the world, making everything the air and water toxic as well. The human race gets wiped out, and one woman remains. She was part of a team of an archivist who collected data on everything about the human race. She is left to handle all this data which included strands of human DNA that were to be used by whoever might find it to be aware of the human race, know of their existence, and instruct on how to revive it. She is left to decide whether to leave the information on the human race for the benefit of the human race. The rest of the team travels outside earth to find a new habitat to start over again. She begins to think of how the human race destroyed the planet themselves and how they were the architects of their extinction. She eliminates part of the information by getting rid of some of the DNA strands. She was now not an archivist but rather a curator. She decides what is to be preserved and what is not to be kept and destroys what she deemed not fit for display. The Curator eliminates all the research that involved painstaking work to gather. She decides the fate of humanity and determines they should not exist again to destroy it again.
The evil and destructive nature of humanity is depicted. The creation of the cloud is one clear indicator of man’s evil spirit (1). Why would man create such a wrong thing that would one day mean his extinction from the face of the earth? The thought of the protagonist that humans should not come back (4) is another crucial display of humans’ destructive nature. The actions by the protagonist also prove that humans tend to be evil at times. She is left to protect human history, but she thinks and does otherwise. She prevents the prospects of ever springing humanity back to life.
Human self-belief is another theme presented through the story. The protagonist believes that she is doing an act of justice by determining the fate of humanity. She thinks she is justified in not doing her due diligence as she was instructed to. The image she decides to live behind is only the evil side of humanity. She disregards all the good man has done and chooses only the dark side to be known in the future. The protagonists assume that humanity is a curse and seem convinced that she was morally right to destroy all good that humanity had made and only decides to live what she believed would be punished. There is nothing good or morally right in her actions. She avoids committing to her obligations, chooses to feed her inner self-perception, and decides to leave only the lousy forgetting that she was also part of humanity. Through this action, she was also proving evil. This should serve as a lesson that sins do not make a right.
Betrayal is portrayed in the story as well. The protagonist chose to betray her colleagues and paints them as the perpetrators. She claims that humans destroyed their world and then traveled to the moon to find a new place to eliminate. In contrast, these were not the team’s intentions when they went out of space. They had gone to look for a new home that they could set up and start human life again. She backstabs her teammates by blaming them for what they did not do and paints a false image of their mission outside earth.
The story “Curator” can be applied in the present world. It is a reflection of some of the world’s evil doings. The existence of nuclear weapons, which seems to be a competition between countries, represents the poisonous cloud used in the story. How the cloud ravaged the world is the same as the COVID 19 virus wiping humanity. The fact that both the virus and the cloud were all artificial proves that humans are their own biggest enemy. We can use the story to establish that we are responsible for our fate. If humans became extinct, then it would be of our own doing.
Social media and fashion bloggers
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Social media marketing is the process of promoting a product or a service by use of the website traffic or social sites. The social sites include MySpace, facebook, and twitter. The marketer strives to seek attention of the online users to the product. The fashion bloggers involve in marketing of their products. The blogger is also an online marketer. Fashion blog considers accessories, trending clothes, and celebrity designer products. Most fashion blogs are also shopping blogs where customers can make an order for a product of his choice and make payment online. The steady increase in fashion bloggers has affected the advertisement for fashion products. In the same magnitude, the social media marketing has revolutionized the advertisement and marketing industry. This paper focuses on the development and growth of fashion blogger and social marketing.
Social Media and Fashion Bloggers
Over the past five years, the statistics of businesses that use the social media to advertise their products has increased. Today, out every ten-business units, eight are using social media marketing strategy. The commonly used social media are twitter, facebook, Google plus and MySpace. Most companies and firms prefer these social media sites since there are many people who spend most of their time there (Zarrella, 2010). Therefore, promoting a product through these sites enhances the ability of the product to reach a wider market segment. In addition, the fashion blogger has also risen in the recent years. The bogging trend has been on the rise, currently, out of five firms, three have their fashion promotion going on different blogging sites.
The use of social media is fast growing in different parts of the world. Although this has not kicked off well, all factors indicate that this is the way to go. Benefits accrue to businesses that engage social media in their marketing strategy. Social media help the management to stay in the know of trends in the industry (Zarrella, 2010). Alternatively for a firm to stay at par with the ever-changing business environment is to be in touch with the social media. In addition, it helps the firm to network with professionals outside their company (Zarrella, 2010). It enhances the company’s collaboration with its peers. It compares its operations with the other competing firms. Consequently, it is true in the case of fashion blogger. The social media and the fashion blog are methods of adverting that targets the market segment that is ever on the social sites.
Besides, the social media marketing it is critical to the organization. For marketing, a product, one must consider the various factors that determine the consumption pattern of the particular product. Firms make use of the social media to cut down the cost of advertisement. The form of printing billboards, television, and, radio is expensive. These processes are expensive to use. The fashion blogger also in the same capacity tries to ensure that most people read the blog (Zarrella, 2010). To achieve this, the fashion blogger ought to design the blog perfectly before posting it to viewers. Fashion blogging is vital the same way social media marketing.
In conclusion, it is evident that the world is fast changing. The technological factor’s pace is fast, from the statistics, out of ten companies, eight of them have migrated to the social media, and, migrated too to fashion blogging. Although there are challenges that these two faces, it is worth noting that social media marketing is doing it for the various organization. Therefore, the use of social media and fashion blogger is vital to most companies and the companies that do not have that ought to arrange and migrate.
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Zarrella, D. (2010). The social media marketing book. Beijing: O’Reilly.
Analysis of the red convertible
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Louise Erdrich’s “The red convertible” is a narrative about two brothers who come from an ethnic Chippewa background in the United States. The red convertible is to date one of the most successful short stories of its time. This is owed to the elements that the writer displayed in the book. The writer uses the main theme which is scarifies to show the relationship between two brothers who were connected by a red convertible (Erdrich, p.1-512).
The focus of this paper is to analyze the contents of a short narrative. The narrative in this case is Louise Erdrich’s “The red convertible. The paper will provide a short summary of the book. It will then provide an analysis based on one of the elements used in the narrative. The element in this case will be symbolism which contributed immensely to the success of the book.
Summary
The story is narrated by young Layman Lamartine originally from the Chippewa tribe. He lives on a reservation with his older half brother and parents. In his narrative he talks about life in the country at the time and the hardships that he and his community had gone through over the years. Despite this, layman is able to use his saving skills and raise money for a convertible. “How did I earn enough money to buy my share in the first place? My one talent was I could always make money” (Barnet, p. 232). The two brothers use the convertible to drive outside the reservation and experience a different life from their routine. When they reach home, Henry sets of for the army leaving layman to take care of the convertible. When Henry returns from the war, he is not the same. This results in a series of events that lead to the diminishing of their relationship. As their relationship continues to deteriorate, so does the convertible. This continues until Henry succumbs to his death (Erdrich, p.1-512).
Analysis
The book displayed several elements that bring out the characters and the themes of the story. One of the elements that stand out is the use of symbolism. The title of the story is symbolic on its own. The two brothers lived in a world that was filled with a number of trials that were as a result of their ethnic background, inequality, unemployment and corruption. A convertible at this time was the car that defined freedom in that it could convert into from one shape to another. When the brothers first purchased the car, they decided to take it for a ride so that they could escape the world that they could escape their normal life. This in turn, gave them freedom from their lives in their hometown. It was important that the brothers take some time away so that they could spend quality time alone before Henry set off to Vietnam. This was a hard time for Layman in that he was losing his mentor to the war which was not essential to him. The convertible thus acted as their comfort zone and at the same time was an extremely comfortable car (Erdrich, p.1-512).
The author’s main intention was to bring out the significance of family in the society. The brothers came from a close nit family which was reflective of their ethnic community. Before Henry went to Vietnam, he handed the keys over to his younger brother. I always thought of it as his car while he was gone, even though when he left he said, “Now it’s yours,” and threw me his key” (Dwyer, p. 125). This was a pivotal time in that it served as a rite of passage from one brother to another. At this time, Henry had not yet talked to Layman about his departure. Giving Layman the keys was a way of telling him that he was responsible for the car. This further indicated that Henry would not be around for a while (Barnet, p. 232).
When Henry comes back from Vietnam, it is evident that he has totally changed. He has been affected by the war to the extent that he has acquired post traumatic disorder. “When he came home, though, Henry was very different, and I’ll say this: the change was no good.” This is as a result of the experiences he had in Vietnam. Layman tries his best to get back the brother that he loved so much. This is however not the case in that Henry has become a lost cause. He cannot be helped out of his depression and is better of dying. Henry thus succumbs to is wishes by dying in the river. Despite the memories of Henries last moments, Layman chooses to remember Henry as a caring, loving and most of all courageous brother. The red car is thus symbolic on its own in that red is known for danger and courage which is reflective of Henry’s life (Bachmann and Barth, p. 231).
Written at a time when the country was at war, the story displays the way the society was affected by the war. Through Henry, readers get a feel of the live of the families that were directly affected by the war. Henry made it out of their ear alive, despite this he had lost his soul and the reason to live. The author uses Henry’s situation to compare it to a person who is already dead. It also shows that death may not be the worst result of the war. “My face is right out in the sun, big and round. But he might have drawn back, because the shadows on his face are deep as holes” (Erdrich, p.1-512).
In conclusion, the red convertible tells the story of two brothers whose love for each other was unstoppable. Erdrich brings out the happy and sad times that the boys experienced with the convertible. The book thus not only acts as a source of entertainment but as an educational tool for the reader.
Barnet, Morton B. W. B. W. C. Instructors Manual. S.l.: Longman, 2001. Print.
Bachmann, Susan, and Melinda Barth. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric, and Handbook. New York: Longman, 2007. Print.
Dwyer, Jim. Where the Wild Books Are: A Field Guide to Confection. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2010. Print
Erdrich, Louise. The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. Print.