The Deadline

Since the modernization of technology in the last century, engineers often face the task of meeting demanding constraints in order to satisfy the consumers’ needs. For some professionals, many years of preparations are critical in becoming proficient in the industry. Therefore, they practice since secondary or post-secondary education in order to gain positive habits that will make those aspired innovators conscientious in their fields. Engineers always practice these methods to meet the government’s regulations as well as keeping the consumers happy with the technology. Fulfilling the requirements is not easy, but may stall a project from completing its designated deadline. In order to accomplish meeting the deadline, engineers often need…

Throughout the next few weeks of our presentation, I became a true member of the team, following the leader and helping any classmates who were unsure about a certain assignment. It was through these next couple of weeks that I developed a more humble mindset. The only thing I would keep the same would be to remind Emily that our deadline was quickly approaching. As a teammate, I had the right to voice any concerns in an appropriate manner to the leader. Unfortunately, the way I did so was…

Describe a major problem you have faced and how you dealt with it. During a school coding project, I noticed one of my teammates was heading in the wrong direction. He was trying to solve a problem by using abstract classes that, albeit they would have worked, took a lot more effort to implement than regular classes. The regular classes would have done the job, and although it would have been nice to customize our classes, we had a deadline and at our current rate, we were not going to make it.…

Even as the deadline to get this project done drew ever closer, I still couldn’t even decide on a person to write about much less knowing what I was going to write about said undecided person. Maybe if I had actually enjoyed this project or the class that had resulted in this assignment, then this knowledge of an ever closing in deadline would have given me new found motivation and writing prowess but this was not the case. To tell the truth, the deadline sort of knocked the fight out of me, I…

The essay is a personal review on the riveting documentary Obit: Life on Deadline, by Vanessa Gould is stark and beautiful portrayal of the life of obituary writers. Gould provides us through her art with a livid picture about the different layers of journalism. The structure will include a brief discussion on some of the essential aspects of the documentary like the picture of journalism that it slowly creates in front of our eyes. The documentary is 1 hour 33 minutes long, providing the…

Why are deadlines even important? I'll tell you why. Deadlines are important because it can turn into a bad habit, it’s disrespectful to teachers, and it could affect your future career. Doing your homework and turning in papers before the deadline is a very big deal. The goal in life is to succeed and by doing that we need to turn in our work in on time before the deadline not after. Not doing the work on time could really turn into a bad habit because after awhile you might think it's just…

Deadline by Chris Crutcher is about a boy names Ben who is eighteen years old, a senior in high school and lives in a small town in Idaho. One day when Ben went for his sports physical his doctors tells him that he has a blood disease and only has less then a year to live. Ben decided not to tell anyone about his disease and to not take treatments. The doctor wasn’t very happy about Ben’s decision, but there was nothing he could do about it, because Ben was eighteen and could legally make his…

Sometimes people help other to help themselves. The book Deadline by Chris Crutcher is about a senior in high school, Ben Wolf who found out he has one year to live and tried to make the most of it. Ben tries to take care of others even if they can’t be helped because he cares about others feelings more than his own and believes he can control the outcome, but is he really care about his family if he doesn’t take the treat. Throughout Deadline he known as a caretaker and tries to save his…

“The truth hurts”, a wise man once said, but Ben, the main character of Deadline, never expected to lose all of his close friends. The book Deadline, by Chris Crutcher, is about an eighteen year old Ben Wolf, the protagonist, who discovers he has one year to live due to a terminal blood disease. In the beginning of the novel, he decides that it is best to not tell anyone, but this decision comes back to haunt him. Throughout the novel, Ben becomes close with some people in Trout, the city in…

The three films Citizen Kane, Ace in the Hole and Deadline: USA all exhibit qualities of their journalist characters in dramatically different ways. Each film emphasizes the main characters’ moral sense and tries to piece together the underlying foundations of the newspaper industry. The movie, Citizen Kane, takes place in the 1940s and begins dramatically, Charles Foster Kane whispers “rosebud” and then passes away. Kane was a very important and influential. newspaper publisher world wide,…