Prom Night Prom Night is a horror movie about a girl, Donna Keppel, who goes to prom and is being chased by her deranged high school teacher, Mr. Fenton who is obsessed with her. She witnessed him murdered her family to be with her. Prom Night engages viewers through suspense, conflict, and unexpected endings. This movie has a lot of suspenseful parts. One part is when Donna is having a night mare about her past, when Mr. Fenton comes to her house and murders her family. This is suspenseful because after Mr.
Fenton kills her father and younger brother he chases her mother into her room and chokes her and this happens as Donna is under her bed witnessing her mother being killed. Another part that is suspenseful is when her friend goes up to their hotel room and Mr. Fenton is hiding in the closet, this part make you kind of scared. Also the most suspenseful part ,in my opinion, in the movie is when Donna goes back for her scarf and Mr. Fenton is disguised as a bellboy, he could have killed her when she went back up. Conflict comes up in this movie often.
There are three types of conflict; man vs man, man vs self and man vs nature . Mr. Fenton escaping from prison is a conflict because he was sentenced to life in prison that is man vs man. When Donna is being chased after him that is also man vs man. Mr. Fenton goes to the hotel where the prom is at and finds out the room Donna and her friends are staying in and hides in the closet and kills them one by one this is also man vs man. Unexpected endings are very shocking including the ones in this movie. Like, Mr. Fenton is in the hotel room as Donna gets her scarf and closes the door and sees Mr.
Fenton’s reflection and gets chased by him. This is an unexpected ending because I did not expect him to actually be behind her I just though it was her imagination playing with her. Another unexpected ending is when Donna gets home and sleeps, has a nightmare and wakes up and everything that happened in her dream happens. She goes to the bathroom and goes back to her bed ,she hugs her boyfriend but he does not move she lightly shook him and a slit is revealed down his throat, this is unexpected because I did think her boyfriend was going to be killed.
When Donna sees this Mr. Fenton covers her mouth with his hand and then Donna bites his hand and runs but trips and Mr. Fenton slips and Donna kicks him in the face ans screams this leads Detective Winn to hear her and run to her room where Mr. Fenton is on top of her getting ready to stab her, he gets one shot in the chest and dies. I though that Mr. Fenton was going to kill Donna. Prom Night engages viewers through suspense, conflict, and unexpected endings. This movie is very good it is both scary and memorable. I would give it 5 stars!
The Local Government Debt In China
This paper Introduced the related incepts of local government debt and analyses the potential debt risk as well as the cause of it, finally proposes some suggestions about the large scale of local government debt. As we know, china’s economy Is mainly driven by “the troikas”, Investment, Import- export trade, and consumption. And the investment conducted by the local government accounts for a large percentage of the three main channels of economic gain, like the infrastructure investment, culture and education investment and so on.
Therefore the local government debt Is defined as a kind of deficit which Is caused by the imbalance of expenditure and income. With the increase of expenditure, that means the income of local government should increase symmetrically. Otherwise, when the government expenditure exceeds the income, it tends to cause the local government debt and even the bankruptcy of the local government If the amount of the debt Is large enough like Detroit filed for bankruptcy recently.
To be specific, the debt can be divided into two categories, the implicit debt and the explicit debt. The implicit debt primarily consists of the debt from financial institutions, including the mortgage loan, trust Investment etc. , which makes up the main part of china’s local The scale of china’s local government debt has extended In a very large degree these years. In 2011, the data from Chinese auditing administration showed the local government debt has reached 10. 7 trillion, and it’s predicted to be 14. 8 trillion In 2013.
But the question here is this official result is difficult to win people’s trust because the total debt Is believed to be undervalued and It’s hard for china’s central government to know the accurate amount of debt from local government nationwide. Due to the continuous increase of local government debt, the potential trust and troubles has been emerged. First, the local government debt expands the structure contradiction. These debts occupy a large amount of capital resource, which hinders the efficiency and the further development of local economy.
On the one hand, it gives rise to the distortion of the resource allocation. On the other hand, these debts may For example, a massive amount of capital has been Invested In the advancing building of infrastructures like airport, transportation network, high-speed rail, thus forming a huge gap between the fiscal Income and expenditure resulting from these unrealistic government investments and its low OFF government debt in the long term. The default of the local government debt is likely to trigger of the regional even the nationwide panic.
That is because the debt perhaps has already permeated among massive individual investors, who has a relatively low level to burden the potential default of government and always believe it’s impossible for any level of Chinese government to default. Besides, the large scale of debt is blowing up the risk in the financial system. In the past years, the local government has directly intervened in the financial market through holding or Unholy-owned local financial institutions, forcing the risk in the local government debt to transfer towards the financial market.
Once the risk erupts, these potential risks are big enough to cause the serious system risk in a lager wide. In order to solve these problems and potential default risk, we have to find the roots of the increasingly increased gap. Many scholars think the imbalanced income and expenditure can go back to the tax-sharing reform in 1993, which expanded the scope of local government administration and decreased the number of items as the source of local government income. That reform partially released the pressure of central government resulting from the less powerful control to the local governments.
However, added responsibilities and decreased source of income of local government make it hard to maintain the balanced of income and expenditure, resulting in other financial tools to offset such a huge gap. Therefore, the priority for China’s administration should make clear of the accurate scale of the government debt especially the implicit ones and adjust inter-government distribution system to solve the mismatch of responsibilities and income. That requires the central government to delegate powers to lower level and start to share more responsibilities for the necessary expenditure at the same time.
For instance, the local government has more power for taxation and is allowed to issue the local government bonds for Obtaining more chances to expand the scope of income. But all of these should be controlled in a certain scale which will not arouse the feeling of more tax and cost burden from individual enterprises and common people. Also, the government has to be more transparent to their budget. That means every level of government is expected to incorporate all items to the fill-covered budget management.
As a result, the public can easily see the specific use of these budgets and supervise the efficiency of expenditure, avoiding any corruption that lead to the unreasonable use of fiscal income. Besides, the local government should not only set the gain of GAP as their unique indicators for official performance but pay more attention to the welfare of individuals and provide a fairer platform for thousands of enterprise to compete. Conclusion: As the points showed above, the risk of Chinese local government debt as become one of the potential dangers in the development of china’s economy.
Symbolism: Everyday Use Comparison W/ A Rose For Emily
Home Identity and Privilege: The Tale of Two Stories It is said that your home is a reflection of you. When you walk into someone’s home, you should get a sense of who they are as people. The decor, the smell, the cleanliness, down to the choice of linen fixtures, and appliances could give insight to a persons past and present. Meanwhile, how those things are used may give insight into their future. In the short stories “ A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner” and “ Everyday Use by Alice Walker,” this concept is displayed with its main characters respectfully.
While, the homes give the main characters their identity, or lack their of, the sense of entitlement and privilege only deepens their connection to the their houses. In “A Rose for Emily,” the main character Miss Emily Grierson, a sheltered daughter born into a well respected, well off family dies leaving behind a home that is window into her life’s past. Like her home Miss Emily grace and appearance fell with time. Once a beautiful, clean, and well kept property through the years the place began to decay become an “eyesore of eyesore. As her life progressed, who was once a beautiful, promising, yet sheltered envy of the town, slowly became just the neighborhood obligation and nuisance. What connected her to that house was her privileged life and sense of entitlement that showed when she refused to pay her taxes. Not only does she connect with her home through privilege but through the experiences she had in that home. Due to her life on the high end, her fathered sheltered her from finding love. So when he died and she found just that, she longed to keep it in the home.
She also brought things into the house that reflected her lifestyle like the embossed toilets. Everything that went in the house or came out (like the smell) reflected her past or present disposition. When she died, the people came not to see her but to see her house which was a reflection of her. What she left behind was a expression of her wished for future. In “Everyday Use,” the house is definitely a prototype of the main characters and an insight to their past or perceived past, present, and hoped for future.
This story is made up of three characters, a mother and her two daughters. Set in the time of sharecroppers, the home reflected the run down yet humble appearance of the mom and daughter Maggie. The home also reflects what Dee (Wangero), the other daughter, is so ashamed of, and the root of her delusional concept of heritage. The sisters, who are so different, reflect exactly what their home identity perception by how they choose to use the very things that are in the home.
Maggie, literally and figuratively wears her home identity. When their first home burned, she burned also, which left scars visibly seen. Her demeanor reflects the humble settings, and her lowly nature reflects the home’s run-over appearance. The way she used the things her sister perceived as heritage, as what it was meant for represented the reality of life for Maggie and her mom. Meanwhile, Wangero wore her home identity differently. Beautiful and privileged to be sent away to school, Wangero, was ashamed of her humble home.
She may not have burned physically, but she carried the weight of such lowly living conditions, that she burned internally a desire to leave. She despised her connection to her home, so much so, that she refused to identify with anything concerning it. Those things that she did identify with she assigned new meanings to them, disregarding her sister and mom’s feelings and need for survival. Because she was so- called educated, and sometimes envied by mom and sister, she grew a sense of entitlement, displayed in the items she wanted to take.
Her connection to that house is why she desires a new future. To two very different sisters, that house represents past, present, and future’s reality for one and future’s fantasy for the other. In both stories there are so many examples of how the homes reflect the characters and give so much insight to their developed reasoning and behaviors. A home can be a true reflection of a person and with these stories, a house may and may not have been a home, it may or may not have been a perceived symbol of pride and heritage, but they surely were true, insightful, reflective images of the characters.