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His path to success reaffirms the importance of perseverance and learning to find the meaning and value in adversity. However, designers must also go the extra mile by being aware of their audience at all times. An awareness of audience allows designers to target these individuals and sell them on skills and abilities.
Communication Communication, then, is tied directly to cultural awareness. In order to sell a project, designers need to build relationships with clients and discuss their ideas in a way that makes sense. Once ideas have been discussed, and a project is started and soon finished , a designer needs to articulate his or her creative process, ultimately explaining why they believe it will work for the specific client.
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In the last two years of his isolation, he returns to the sciences and philosophy. He makes a desperate plan to kill the lawyer so he will not have to pay the debt. However, on his way to carry out his plan, he finds a note written by the lawyer. In the note, the lawyer explains that his time in isolation has changed him, and he believes that it is best to renounce his wealth and live simply.
Material goods are fleeting, and he now despises them in favor of knowledge. Because of his newfound belief, he wishes to renounce the bet. The banker is moved and leaves the lodge weeping. He is relieved that he does not have to carry out his plan. Although the lawyer technically won the bet by proving he could survive fifteen years of solitary confinement, he also loses the bet by renouncing it. This story touches on the idea that confinement can fundamentally change who a person is.
In death, there is no chance for this great change, but confinement might give a person a chance to have a transformation of character. The lawyer begins his journey with the intention of winning a great deal of money, but in the end, his experience leads him to a completely different way of viewing life.
One interesting theme is the idea of experience. The lawyer claims that through his confinement, he was able to read about all manner of human experiences, and he concludes that this is the same as having the experience itself. Chekov leaves it up to the reader to decide if the lawyer has wasted some of the best years of his life, or if he has transformed for the better through his epiphanies about the nature of experience.
The clear thing is that this transformation saved his life when the banker changed his mind. Another fundamental theme of the story is that of life and death. In the original argument, the guests are unsure which would be more humane or more implicitly a worse punishment. Is life worth the price of death if that life is lived in confinement? What is it that makes life good enough to live and is death preferable to life without freedom?
An implicit theme of the story is that of humanity. Johnson also tracks the subversive community and communications of enslaved people that stretched across America. In Chapter 3, Johnson moves on to examine the culture and rhetoric that pervaded the slave market. Plantations and slave pens were filled with the propaganda of patriarchy, honor codes , and notions of white sophistication.
Chapter 4 explores the rituals of performance and prurient examination that evolved to validate the sale of human beings. Slaveholders invented categories based on skin color and skills to support their pricing structures. Johnson claims that specific language and conventions were required to legitimize the sale of people. Johnson argues that biological racism enabled the widespread commodification of people.
Chapter 6 reflects on the performativity and power struggles for which the slave market was the stage. Acts of sale suggest that slaveholders and slaves waged war through the manipulation of slave-selling etiquette. Court records show how frequently negotiations devolved into litigation. As an afterword to his exposition of life in the antebellum slave market, Johnson turns in the final chapter to the way slaves lived after they were sold.