On The Waterfront Essay

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In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with love, anger, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Each character faces a conflict that affects the course of his or her life. The characters in this conflict are Remedios, la curandera of the small town who listens to people’s stories and gives them advice, Marta, a 16 year old teenage girl, who was raped and became pregnant. Chayo is Marta’s big sister and Calendario is Chayo’s husband. Justo Flores, his conflict is person vs. self. One of the most important conflicts in this story is person vs. person, then person vs. supernatural followed by

In, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, several events take place to describe the little city of Santiago, Mexico. This town is just south of the border by El Paso, Texas. The book focuses around a lady known as the Remedios. She is a very old healer that helps people with their problems of love, hate, etc. She is the "good" in the book, whereas El Brujo, the warlock, is the bad man in the book. This book's other strong point is that it has several short narratives that focus on one, or a few citizens of Santiago. A few examples are, Candelario (the salad maker), Marta (16 year old that's pregnant), Fulgencio (the photographer that loses all of his equipment) and Don Justo Flores

"The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod is the story told from the perspective of university teacher looking back on his life. The narrator relates the first memories of his life until his father's death. The story focuses on the conflicting relation between the mother and the father, and their different perspectives on how their children should lead their lives. MacLeod uses features of setting to present the tension between tradition and freedom.

In the movie, “On The WaterFront”, I would apply the theory of virtue ethics to the problem that Terry faced in corrupt union. According to virtue ethics, “we know what is morally correct because it is what the virtuous person or one who has good characters would do” (module 7). Virtue ethics is different than the theory of utilitarianism and deontologism. The action isn’t judged by its outcome or rule but by a person who acts. Virtue ethics looks deeply into a person’s soul. It looks for a person’s good characteristics. It claims that no matter what you do as long as your are a virtuous person, your action is morally correct. For instance, a honest person is put into a situation where he has to choose either to tell his Mom about his Dad’s affair or not to. He loves both of his parents. He knows his Mom would leave the house if she knew the truth. He nevers wants them to be separated. His Dad will be in big trouble if his secret gets revealed. But, it wouldn’t be fair for Mom staying home and cooking for the family while Dad is happy with another woman. Also, he never hides things from his parents before. Therefore, he decides to tell his Mom the truth despite of the fear of separation and Dad being mad at him. We are not born with innate good character traits. We develop good potential from time to time as we grow. In order to develop virtues, we have to keep practicing them until they become a habit.

Kazan’s 1954 film “On the Waterfront” highlights how the corruption on the waterfront is due to the union exploiting their power. Kazan shows how characters in the film are scared to speak out against the corruption on the docks, as the union instils fear to all workers. The unions is controlled by Johnny Friendly who is seen as the leader, who controls everyone on the New Jersey docks. Kazan also integrates the use of symbols and metaphors to show the extent of the union power and authority.

Crude oil is one of the world’s most valuable resources it is a multi-billion-dollar industry, has caused more problems ,each day we use this energy source. Causing severe damage to our surrounding environment. Gray harbor the largest city in Aberdeen, is being targeted by oil companies wanting to build Three New Oil-By-Rail terminals in this fishing industry part of Washington causing more traffic land and sea. Grays harbor offers great selection of fish both fresh and saltwater, the ecosystem within grays harbor is outstanding. By building new terminals in this location, it will not only damage the Grays Harbor's environment but also its economy. Washington government should not allow developers to build three new Oil-By-Rail Terminals in Grays harbor because it will impact the fishing industry.

“ Crime on the Waterfront” is a multi-article Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalism series into the criminality of the harbors which was written by famed newspaper reporter Malcolm Johnson and Kazan and his partner using this as inspiration adds legitimacy and realism to his screenplay. According to Filmsite Movie Review “The series chronicled actual dockside events, labor racketeering in New York’s dockyards, and corrupt practices… It revealed rampant bribery, extortions, kickbacks to union officials, playoffs, theft, union-sponsored loans sharks, murder..” and the overarching tyrannical rule a select few people had over the New York dockyards. Criminal syndicates had taken over certain territories and often innocent men were drawn into these enterprises. An example of this is Terry Malloy who was pulled in by his brother (Charley) who had already secured his involvement with the mob. Throughout the film Malloy witnesses murder, has his life threatened by mob-affiliates, is assaulted, and as a result of these experiences challenges his own beliefs on criminal activity, morality, and such.

The novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman was an engrossing sci-fi novel. The story, largely told through flashbacks into the protagonist’s past, set in his early childhood, at the age of seven years old when he met an eccentric girl named Lettie Hempstock. His flashbacks are of his and Lettie’s adventures and when everything went awry on their lane.

In The Artificial River, Carol Sheriff describes how when the digging of the Erie Canal began on July 4, 1817, no one would have been able to predict that the canal would even be considered a paradox of progress. One of the major contradictions of progress was whether or not triumphing art over nature was even considered progress. People were not sure during the nineteenth century if changing the environment for industrialization was necessarily a good thing. Another contradiction to progress that resulted from the Erie Canal was when people started holding the state government responsible for all their financial misfortunes. An additional contradiction to progress that the Erie Canal displayed was how many of its workers were either

Stephen Crane is well known in the literary world for his many underlying themes. In Stephan Crane's "The Open Boat," one of the many themes that can be seen is that of community. He brings to life the importance of the each individual's role in the group setting. Crane uses a dire situation in which men's lives are in the hands of each other to show that without group togetherness no one would make it. He shows the group being given false hopes from outside forces but, how in the end the group must band together for survival and not rely on anything but themselves. "The Open Boat" is one of Crane's best known works. Throughout the story, paralleling an actually event in his life Crane brings the

The film The Sea Inside shares the heart warming real life story of a man named Ramon Sampedro. At the young age of twenty-six he suffered an accident while diving into shallow waters of the ocean that left him a quadriplegic. Now at the age of fifty-four, Ramon must depend on his family to survive. His older brother Jose, Jose’s wife, Manuela and their son Javi do their best to take care of Ramon and make him feel loved. Although Ramon is extremely grateful to his family and friends for their help all these years, he has come to see his life as aggravating and unsatisfying. He wishes to die with the little dignity he has left in his life. However, Ramon’s family is dead set against the thought of assisted suicide and the

1. How should Smooth Sailings’ management perform the recoverability test for the cruise ship as of December 31, 2010? In addressing this question, consider:

While the act of deviance isn’t naturally inherent,through social context and interaction society’s reaction to the act itself interprets deviant acts. In order to show how behaviours of individuals are transformed into deviant acts sociological theories from those of Merton and Miller will be applied to through the stimulus ‘The Boat That Rocked’.A film exploring themes of periodical deviance and ambivalence between the traditionalist styled government and a subculture group under the name of ‘Radio Pirates’. Furthermore theories such as Merton’s strain theory,the 5 types of adaptation and Miller Walter’s subculture theory ( cultural relativism ) aid to explain deviance within a social context.

On the Waterfront is a classic, award-winning and controversial film. It received eight academy-awards in 1954, including best-picture and director. The director, Eliza Kazan, in collaboration with Budd Schulberg wrote the film’s screenplay. Based on actual dockside events in Hoboken, New Jersey, On the Waterfront is a story of a dock worker who tried to overthrow a corrupt union.