Iceberg College Essays Samples For Students

Response - Our Iceberg is Melting

John Kotter's change management fable Our Iceberg is Melting is a fascinating read, not just because of its interesting surface story (that of penguins attempting to alert other penguins of the fate that might befall their iceberg), but of the allegory for dealing with change that the book provides. The premise of the book is simple enough, as Kotter himself introduces the book like a fairy tale: "Once upon a time a colony of penguins was living in the frozen Antarctic on an iceberg near what we call today Cape Washington" (Kotter). As one penguin, Fred, starts to notice that their iceberg is ...

As one of the most important writers of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway provided many innovations in the way poems and prose were written and read. One of the most important theories that have been developed by Hemingway in his writings is the ‘iceberg theory’, or ‘theory of omission,’ which alludes to his minimalist, almost workmanlike prose, which nonetheless manages to obscure a great deal of thematic depth below the surface. The iceberg theory is found throughout his works, as Hemingway’s prose just discusses what is right at the plot surface of the events unfolding in his stories, but ...

Introduction

In the early 20th century, there were hopes for a new, modern and developed era. With the development of industry, machinery and shipbuilding, people were waiting for something better and convenient for their life. Passenger liners to the "New world" were built together with people's hope for a new life. When the new liner appears, moreover with a reputation of being unsinkable, it is impossible that there would be such an unfair end.

"Unsinkable"
Titanic – the ship that defied the higher powers, the miracle of shipbuilding and the largest ship of its time. The builders and owners of the ...

Business: Cultural Competence

Cultural competence is defined as an individual’s ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. There are four components of cultural competence:

•awareness of one’s own cultural worldview

•attitude towards cultural differences
•knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews
•cross-cultural skills
Cultural competence is the skills need by individuals of different cultures seeking to collaborate. The skills set begins with self-awareness and spans to the required scope of skills required to adapt and collaborate with individuals from another culture. A key component of cultural competence is cultural literacy. Operating successful international business requires cross-cultural literacy (an understanding of how cultural ...

Background of the Titanic

The Titanic carried 2,227 people before the ship sank. The sinking of the ship can be attributed to the negligence of the captain of the ship. Before the occurrence of the instance, the titanic ship was warned six times of sea ice on 14 April but unfortunately, it travelled at a maximum speed towards the sighted iceberg. After it approached the region, the captain’s efforts did not work since titanic failed to turn quickly as it was required.
It was not until the captains of the ship realized that the ship was to starting to sink than ...

Abstract

Historical events have an impact on the lives of people living at the time, and those residing in the future. They also contribute to the evolution of societies in terms of their structure, attitudes, and preparedness for similar occurrences in the years to come. These events can be social, political, technological, economic, and ecological in nature. Nevertheless, one event can touch all these facets on either a minor or major scale. This paper explores some of the events that shaped human history, and their impacts on modern policymaking. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 revolutionized the way industrialized nations ...

2. Hemingway had an approach to writing he referred to as “the iceberg theory.” How does this theory apply to The Old Man and the Sea?
Santiago's struggle with the marlin throughout the story represents a profound importance that Hemingway placed on experience in his writing. This experience could be used in order to inform a deeper understanding of the subjects that he was presenting. His prose was written in an efficient, non-description manner, which requires the reader to make their own judgments and inferences based on their personal experiences. This seems to create an underlying tension that is ...

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Cat in the rain
Nobel Prize-winning American author Ernest Hemingway left a powerful and versatile creative heritage. Writer gives deep and talented analysis and recreates the contradictions of life in every short story. Multi-million readerships admire books written by Ernest Hemingway. In addition, the creative legacy of Hemingway is mastered in different forms of literary analysis. Critics highlight writer’s creative style, his work materials, correlate all this and more with the world of literature for a more complete mastery of spiritual attainment left by Hemingway. Reading Hemingway it is easy to notice that selfish cowards, in fact, cannot love. ...

In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway adopts the use of simple language to explore the ravages of World War I through his main character Jake. Interestingly, Hemmingway does not succumb to the temptation of using colorful adjectives to describe his characters and the events narrated in the novel. Instead, Hemmingway uses short and direct phrases that leave the reader in suspense. In addition, the style makes the writer omit many details that would have otherwise been useful in dissecting his characters as well as the themes and motifs discussed in the novel. Nonetheless, the style is likeable for ...

The Winter Olympic Games is an international sporting event that is usually held once in every four calendar year. These games were first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. The first original sports of this event included curling, bobsleigh, ice hockey, military patrol, Nordic skiing, and skating. Following the Second World War, the Olympics games were interrupted and later returned in 1948 under the management of the International Olympic Committee. This paper gives detailed information about iceberg skating, and specifically ice dancing as a Winter Olympic Sport.
However, the Olympic Games have undergone stages of evolution, and has currently ...

I chose to write a literary essay based on a story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” written by genius American author Ernest Hemmingway because I have always admired the originality of his works and the unique style of their composition.
While writing this paper I have consulted such sources as Oliver Evans “The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Revaluation” (1961), Ernest Hemmingway “The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories” (2014), Michael Hollister “Analysis of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (2015), Nicole Smith “Analysis of The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway: Major Themes Explored” (15 Jan. 2012), Arthur Waldhorn “A reader’s ...

- So this is the ship they say is unsinkable.
- It is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship.
Every once in a while the conversations with friends or newly met acquaintances turn to favorite movies. Every once in a while “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion comes on radio or music TV channel. Every once in a while close people talk about how true love never dies and how legends are never forgotten. And every single time Titanic is mentioned like a strongly attached, inseparable, and ultimate representation of the above mentioned categories, ever-present and ever-green.
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International Business

Question One: Implications of cultural literacy on business location
Cultural literacy may be defined as the development of awareness through the acquisition of knowledge on matters that relate to a particular culture. In that regard, such knowledge is fundamental in ensuring the sustainability of relationships during cultural interaction. In essence, international corporations such as Multinational Corporations (MNCs) should be culturally literate. The need for cultural literacy for MNCs has direct implications on their costs of business. Hence, it is important for the management of an MNC to carry out substantive research that would help divulge issues regarding cultural dynamics. ...

Introduction

The movie opens with Jack Dawson who wins the class titanic tickets in the game of a porker. His friends want to accompany him in their hometown, in America by the ship. The ship leaves showing the first class passengers as Rose De Witt, the mother Ruth and her boyfriend Cal Hockley. Rose is planning to marry her boyfriend, and they have made the plans to protect their wealth. Consequently, this plan annoys Rose, who attempts suicide out of anger; she tries to jump out of the ship. Jack comes in to rescue her by convincing her to move out ...

The novel “The Sun Also Rises” was accepted by the audience from all around the world from the moment it was published till this day. It provides a delicate and somewhat masked picture of the time in which the plot of the novel took place. The inspiration for the main characters in Hemingway’s piece lies in his own life experiences. Although his writing is very simple, it represents a treasury of hidden and concealed observations.
The historical climate in which the plot of the novel takes place is very important for understanding concerns and behavior of the protagonists. It ...

The general description of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is through his famous analogy of the personality to an iceberg. According to Freud, comparing the mind to an iceberg, as shown in the visual representation below, the apex of the iceberg is considered the conscious level; the middle portion or the pre-conscious level as the readily accessible awareness facet; and finally, the unconscious level is depicted down below as inaccessible and hidden (Rana par. 5). As such, Freud identified three levels of consciousness: the conscious, unconscious, and the preconscious. The conscious level is aptly describe as the most evident ...

Ever since Hemingway published his novel “The Sun Also Rises“ he was in the center of attention of the world's reading audience. It was obvious that he shared his personal experiences with his audience through novels. Hemingway took his life experiences and gave them shape turning them in to simple prose. However, the simplicity in his writing hides complicated and implicit meanings.
In order to understand this novel we have to look back and analyze the political and social context of the time the novel was written. The United States participated in World War I and after the ...

English literature

The 19th and early 20th century had to face a reality characterized by social, political and economic issues. Furthermore the World War One dramatically changed the already complex and troubled frame which gave birth to the Modernism. Indeed during the 19th century the traditional Victorian society turned itself into a modern and industrialized society, where cities were growing fast and the old ethical and religious values were rejected. This massive change also involved all the traditional forms of art, literature, architecture, philosophy, science and even all the aspects of the everyday lives.
Salient of the Modernism Era is the ...

When it comes to visual marketing, the images used to advertise products are usually strategically selected to capture the attention of the target group and lure them to buying the product. The main idea is to communicate visually in the most simple and precise way possible. For any visual advertisement to be effective, it must take into account three aspects: the laws of the visual perception, the cognitive psychology of humans, and economy mostly of space.
In one advertisement of Coca-Cola soft drink, polar bears have been used to endorse the product. The image shows a father and baby ...

Film Studies

Introduction
Titanic is one of the most expensive films ever produced in American history, which had been reported to cost about $200 million. It brings to life the tragic sea accident that in April 15, 1912. It became one of the highlights in the life and career of director James Cameron. The irony of Cameron’s film “'Titanic” is that it has in its own right created an overreaching greatness that broke all blockbuster phenomena throughout the entire movie history. The film itself took the risk to gamble its stake on the visual splendor and technological achievement that ...

Psychoanalytic theory was developed Freud Sigmund. He asserts that personality and behavior of a person develops through the constant interaction that operate in three different levels the person is aware. The three levels of awareness include unconscious, preconscious and conscious. Psychoanalytic theory is the first theory to talk about personality. Psychoanalysis is the practice of psychiatry. The theory had many controversies and it influenced many societies around the world through different disciplines. The ideas of Freud did not only influence the discipline of psychology but it also had profound impact on film theory, art, cultural studies, philosophy and history. The ...

The world greeted Sigmund Freud, whose profound and vigilant mind became the laboratory for psychological discoveries which have shaken the complacent conventions of Western civilization (Puner 1) on the sunny day of May 6, 1856 in a little town of Freiberg, Moravia (now known as Pribor in the Czech Republic). Sigismund (later changed to Sigmund) became a firstborn in the family of five girls and three boys. He had come into the world covered with a growth of pitch-black hair, which his loving mother, Amalia Nathanson Freud, interpreted as a special sign of distinction (Puner 2). Remarkably, she was quite right at her ...

Hemingway novel is well known for the styles that have been used. The style is described variously as modern, understated or hard-boiled. As a journalist and novel writer in Paris, Hemingway learned the modernist style of writing from Ezra Pound. He pared away sentimentalism, used understatement and made a scene and images presentation without an explanation of their meaning, notably in the book’s conclusion where there are multiple Brett and Jake future possibilities. He created a style that was in accordance with the ethics and esthetics of raising emotional temperature to the universal truth level by shutting door on sentiment and ...

Modern Life

The release of The Sun Also Rises in 1926 heralded a new era in American literature. Ernest Hemingway parlayed a background in journalism and a talent for tight, compelling writing into a a style that made him one of the most unique stylists in the history of American letters. Hemingway worked closely with the poet Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald in developing the modernist prose style that made The Sun Also Rises one of the 20th century’s most notable literary debuts. Critics have accused Hemingway of self-indulgence, even shallowness of vision. Yet he crafted a remarkably impactful method for conveying a deeper meaning through ...

After viewing the movie China Blue identify and explain one example for each level of the Iceberg Metaphor (p. 28­–37) that you observed in the movie. The levels are (1) Surface-level culture; (2) Intermediate-level culture; (3) Deep-level culture; and (4) Universal human needs. How are the examples you selected from Chinese culture similar to or different than U.S. culture?
The movie China Blue shows the life of laborers in China and the human rights violations therein by following the life of a teenage Chinese girl who works in a company called Lifeng Jeans. If the iceberg metaphor is applied ...