...they have moved in their life. At the time, Jeanette is four and Lori is seven when they have this conversation. Analysis: The passage shows how the parents kept moving their children around to so many different places that they never were able to get established in their community. In the book, it talks about how the family keeps moving and moving. When they move, they would find very remote or unusual places to stay that was not always the best living conditions for the children. The author chooses to add this to her...
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...18, 2011 Conflict Analysis Part I A. People The people involved in the conflict that I witness recently were my father and my mother. My parents have been married for a little more than 22 years and according to my mother, they have been arguing since the beginning. The relationship between my parents certainly impacted the way the conflict was conducted. My parents know what pushes each other’s buttons and many times they try to avoiding hurting the other person. They have learned that if the conflict gets to intense or heated they should take a step back and return to the issue after they’ve both had time to cool down. B. Logistics The conflict took place at our home on Sunday afternoon. It was a very informal, unplanned small argument that arose after they came home from church. It wasn’t planned since before the conflict arose everything was fine between them. Because it was at our house, my parents were able to pursue and finalize the issue. I know that if the same issue would’ve come up at a friend’s house they would’ve waited until home and then resolved it. C. Observations It all seemed like a normal Sunday afternoon. We had all gone to our Sunday church service and my husband and I made it home before my family. We were waiting for them all to come so that we can eat lunch together. My family walked through the door like they usually do, laughing and joking around with each other. My dad had just hung up his...
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...Running head: FILM ANALYSIS OF AKEELAH AND THE BEE 1 Film Analysis of Akeelah and the Bee Miranda Clark (5568546) Word Count: 1561 Brock University Running head: FILM ANALYSIS OF AKEELAH AND THE BEE 2 This film is about an 11 year old girl by the name of Akeelah Anderson who has a hidden talent of being a really great speller. However her environment around her seems to interfere with her ability to be more independent and focus on school. Her dad was shot when she was only six, her family ignores her for their priorities such as work, children, and friends. Akeelah joins a spelling being to avoid having to attend detention for her absences at school suggested by her principal and teachers. Akeelah ends up succeeding and making it to the Scripps National Spelling Bee where she ends up winning the competition. I chose this film over the other films that were options because it was a film I have not seen yet as well as I felt like it would be a great film to analyze because of the black community the film is based in due to the fact that a lot of neglect and racism happens in black communities. Depending on the surroundings of these communities, children react differently based on what occurs. In this film, children and youth are depicted very differently depending on their surroundings as well as family situation. Akeelah is growing up in a community where bullying and racism occurs more often due to race and culture. An example of this in the film is when some...
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...Special episodeOn April 5, 2007, Fuji Television aired a three hour special of the series set five years after Aya's death and focuses on Haruto Asō, who has now become a doctor at the same hospital Aya was treated in and Ako Ikeuchi, Aya's younger sister who is a nurse in training. Haruto is caring for a 14-year-old female patient, Mizuki, who was bullied in school because of her disease, the same one that Aya had. Because of the bullying at school, Mizuki-chan decides not to receive therapy of any sort that would make her better, because she has lost her will to live. Haruto remembers how Aya fought her illness and lived her life with her disease; therefore, he offers support to his patient. Aya reappears in the episode using a number of flashbacks from the series and in new scenes.[1] [edit]Main cast Erika Sawajiri - Aya Ikeuchi Ryō Nishikido - Haruto Asō (Aya's later love interest) [edit]Other cast Naohito Fujiki - Hiroshi Mizuno (Doctor) Hiroko Yakushimaru - Ikeuchi Shioka Takanori Jinnai - Ikeuchi Mizuo Riko Narumi - Ikeuchi Ako Yuma Sanada - Ikeuchi Hiroki Ai Miyoshi - Ikeuchi Rika Saori Koide - Mari Sugiura (One of Aya's best friends) Kenichi Matsuyama - Yuji Kawamoto (Aya's first love interest) Yuya Endo - Takeda Makoto (Yuji's friend in the Basketball club) Kana Matsumoto - Saki Matsumura Momosuke Mizutani - Kohei Onda Ryo Hashidume - Keita Nakahara Hiroshi Katsuno - Yoshifumi Asō (Haruto's father) Asae Onishi (大西麻恵...
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...Saxonville Sausage Company | Marketing Management II | Executive Summary Saxonville Sausage Company located in Saxonville, Ohio has been a family owned business for 70 years. They strive on their quality and ability to produce always fresh never frozen bratwurst, breakfast sausage and patties as well as their recently launched Vivio Italian brand of sausage. The Vivio brand never received the attention that it required however now with the Italian sausage market growing annually at a rapid pace they have hired Ann Banks to create a marketing plan and launch the Italian sausage product properly. Ann decided to keep the name Vivio Italian Sausage but add that it was from Saxonville because everyone knew their reputation of quality, healthfulness and freshness in their pork product. In addition to the name of the brand Ann added “ A family tradition for 70 years” to the label giving the product an emotional feel for the potential consumer. The target market that was chosen was the “Home Maker Mom” due to the research provided by the Director of Market research Laura Bishops. The Home Maker Mom was 93% of user and the family member most frequently preparing dinner. Furthermore because of the family background and Italian symbolising family Ann decided it was best to promote the “Family Connection” as oppose to “Creative Cooking.” Ann will price the product a little higher than their competitors to remain complementary to the high quality they offered. The product...
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...Myplace: The Place for Diversity Multimedia Analysis Mary Hoffman COMM/315 March 3, 2014 Dr. Jody Kehle Myplace: The Place for Diversity Multimedia Analysis Diversity is a term that has grown in its use over the years. Simply put, the term refers to all of the ways in which people are different and unique. These include each individual, groups of people, and cultural differences (Bucher, 2010). So often, our society judges people by outer appearance (for example: color of hair, color of eyes, and clothes you wear), the social groups people are associated with, the home/neighborhood you live in, the car you drive, and even the school you attended or graduated from. It’s just like judging a book by its cover. I think everyone does it a little, whether they mean to or not. During my review of the Myplace multimedia analysis on the University of Phoenix student web site, I noticed that began to look for superficial characteristics in the individuals photos to match the profile. Example 1: “I received my bachelor’s degree in English and worked as the managing editor of a weekly newspaper while pursuing my master’s degree in communications. Shortly after attaining my master’s, I worked for a large company as a graphic specialist before I began teaching for Axia College online. While working on my master’s degree, I lost my mom to cancer. Soon after, I struggled to find myself and experimented with many drugs, only to find that they weren’t the answer and that my mom wasn’t...
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...“He’s getting a gun!” How many people can say that their mom openly screamed about the possibility of getting murdered? I didn’t think that I’d be among this miniscule group, but here I am. “Did you have fun?” my mom, who is about as brave as a mouse, questioned me. The reason she’s asking me, and not trying to discuss with me, is pretty obvious. My mom is a total, and utter scaredy cat. We just finished swimming with dolphins, or in my mom’s case, recording us swimming with dolphins. “Us” being my dad and I. He’s the complete opposite of my mom. He does anything and everything. My mom’s cowardice is going to come back to bite her one day, and I think she knows it too. My dad is a big part of this too though. He loves to take every chance he gets, to scare her, or just make...
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...INS/H1500 Glass Castle Analysis September 27,2012 Jeanette Walls opens her memoir with a scene in which she is three years old cooking hot dogs by herself and her dress catches on fire which escalates to her torso. She yells for her mother to help her and the neighbor takes her to the hospital where she gets to sleep in a clean bed and eat real meals for a few weeks. When she is almost healed but not completely, her Father comes and checks her out “Rex Walls style”. The incidents regarding Jeannette's burns and recovery, and Dad's decision to pick up and move the family, provide greater insight into both her parents and their philosophy toward parenting. To begin, these sections reveal more of Mom's attitude toward life and parenting through her treatment of Jeannette: First, Jeannette is given great independence even though she is only three years old; Mom's logic for this is that Jeannette is mature. Later, Mom commands her to stop crying about the family cat her father throws out of the vehicle, instructing her not to be sentimental. These moments show that does not hover over her children or worry about their physical and emotional well-being. Instead, she is confident in their strength as individuals to deal with whatever happens. Dad shares a similar attitude toward parenting and life, as shown through his scorpion story and his idea of the "skedaddle." The story of Lori's scorpion sting and treatment by a Native American healer shows that Dad eschews traditional notions...
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...Kylie Tennessen-Porter Butalla ENG 151-013 14 November 2011 What Can AA Do for Problem Drinkers? Does Alcoholics Anonymous work? Many people have family members and/or loved ones that have a drinking problem. So what should they do to get help? There are many different abstinence programs; Alcoholics Anonymous, also known as AA, is one of the programs. An analysis of the AA program reveals that the program can be very effective, but only if the alcoholic wants help and gets the help they need. AA celebrated their 76th anniversary this year. They counted two million members participating in 115,000 groups worldwide, half of them in the U.S. AA started its first meeting in Akron, Ohio, in 1935. Bill Wilson, a businessman, and Bob Smith, a physician, started the association. They were both alcoholics. Bill Wilson achieved sobriety mainly through his association with a Christian movement. Smith was inspired by Wilson, and also stopped drinking (Does Alcoholics Anonymous Work 1). They were determined to help other alcoholics, so the men published “The Big Book”. “The Big Book” explained their philosophy, methods, and principles. One method that became very famous, and still is famous, is the 12-step method. The 12 steps are what a recovering person must go through initially and repeat in order for the process to work. For newcomers, the steps are often grouped into three major categories: trust God, clean house, and help others (Does Alcoholics Anonymous Work...
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...survey to because I knew it needed to be honest. After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to go with my dad, cousin, and my best friend. The reason I chose these three people is because each of them has always provided me with very honest answers and have never let me down. Upon giving the survey, I found that I need to change my perception of how I am seen dependent on other people. Survey Summary When handing out the survey, I knew that some perceptions would be different from mine or the same. My dad, best friend, and cousin either perceived me to be the same or one was different than the rest. For example, my father and cousin perceive me to be a procrastinator as do I, but my best friend perceives me to be diligent. Another example would be my dad perceiving me as a dependent person and my cousin and best friend perceive me as independent. Then there were a lot that were the same as me being organized, interesting, accepting, outgoing, etc. Each of these perceptions is the ones I see in myself all the time so seeing the same answers makes know the way I perceive myself is true. Analysis Perceptions All my life I have perceived myself to be helpful and very friendly to everyone. After receiving the survey from each of them, I found out that they all perceive me to be the same. I had never perceived myself to be a popular person, and neither did my dad. However, my best friend and cousin perceive me to be popular with many people. Another way I perceive myself...
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...love for his father, despite his father’s alcoholism and abusive ways. Although the poem states playful interactions between the father and son, the majority of the poem focuses on the father’s drunken aggression towards the boy. After discussing the poem in class, I realized, it is about a young boy, remembering a night with his father when they danced around the house aggressively. With this analysis, there is no intentional abuse on the father’s part, yet there is clear evidence of alcoholism, (“The whiskey on your breath”). Now I believe the poem is about that of my second interpretation, but both interpretations are satisfactory. There is a wide amount of evidence that, “My Papa’s Waltz,” is the story a young boy revealing the trouble he has lived through with his alcoholic father, while still possessing a great love for his dad. The boy would then be the narrator of “My Papa’s Waltz” and thus the son of an alcoholic father. It is easy to focus on the physical abuse, and anger the father has, which was targeted at the boy. In the first line of the poem, the son is speaking to his dad and says, “The whiskey on your breath/could make a small boy dizzy.” The son is telling his father, that his drinking is a problem, and the boy is worried. In the next line, he says, “But I held on like death: such waltzing was not easy.” Apparently, the thoughts here are aiming towards abuse. The son is telling his father, that he struggled to survive (mentally and physically) in the home...
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...Cut Apart From Submerged Privacy It can very be difficult for a reader to understand a piece of literature if he or she has not undergone the process of research through background info about different aspects of the literary work. Analysis of the piece can always help, but it is not as effective without background information to back it up. Analysis and background information work hand and hand to cut literary pieces apart from their submerged privacy and uncover very important details hidden between the lines. Mark Doty’s “A Collection of Minerals” is an autobiographical poem, and it paints a very clear picture of when, where, and how he feels about that time in his life. Analysis and background information about the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mark Doty himself can help give the reader more insight into Doty’s emotional journey in “A Collection of Minerals.” In “A Collection of Minerals” Doty yields just enough detail and well thought out descriptions in order to inform the reader of when and where the story takes place. He allows the reader to know exactly how he feels. Doty uses allusion and symbolism tell the story of how his innocence faded away during a troubling time in his personal life and a troubling time in the country. “This was Titusville, Florida, / the year our class practiced/ climbing under our desks,...
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...2.06B Text Analysis: “Unit 2 Journey to Identity” Text Analysis Title: The Boy In The Striped Pajamas.|Author: John Boyne|Publication Date: | I chose this book because (respond in at least 2 sentences): I chose this book because it has a deep story. After seeing what happened in the movie and reading the book it is so sad to see what happens and how things come out to be.| Discussion Questions Use the text and your analysis to prepare two interpretive or evaluative discussion questions. Then identify the type of question you have created. Question|Is your question interpretive or evaluative?| 1. What is it about the house that Bruno doesn't feel safe about?|Interpretive| 2.What kind of person is Bruno based on how he acts in the story?|Evaluative| Connecting with Character: Protagonist’s Name _____Bruno_______________________ How do you relate to this character?| I am similar to the character in the following ways…|I am different from the character in the following ways…| Beginning: Bruno started to feel unsafe when he moved. He felt like he didn't belong there. He felt alone because his family paid mind to something other then his feelings and how to felt when they moved.End: Bruno started to realize that no one felt the same way he did , they just ignored him.|Beginning:Bruno has relationship problems with his family. He feels like no one cares about him. So maybe that's why he started to run away. End: Bruno ends up dying in that room that he was in with...
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...Alexis Mr. Daily Literature April 23, 2012 Chapter 1 Analysis In the book “The Great Gatsby”, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator Nick Carraway tells about his life. At first he tells about some advice that his Dad gave him. His dad told him to never judge anyone or hold anyone to his own standards. If he did, then everyone would fail in his image, because everyone has different morals and standards. Nick also went on to say that throughout his life, others looked to him for advice. Through college he was always the go to person for questions to be answered, but he would always pretend to be too busy to talk. Nick moved from Minnesota to New York to work in the bond business. He looked for a new house and found one to rent on a part of Long Island in a place called West Egg. Compared to another place called East Egg, it was a place for the newly rich. East Egg was more conservative, while West Egg was a place that individuals blew their money in extravagant ways. One night, Nick drives back to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. They also have a friend named Jordan over for dinner. That night, Jordan tells Nick that Tom is having an affair. Throughout chapter one, I find that Nick is trying to analyze a story. But he is involved in a large part in the story. I feel that he is trying to point out others flaws even though his father told him not to. There are so many things that tempt Nick into falling into society’s trap, but so that...
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...mentors – my friends, parents, and school teachers – warned me about the current job market and demonstrated numerous examples of business failures and emphasized the importance of obtaining good and stable job. It was around 11th grade when I first came across this book called “Rich Dad and Poor Dad” written by Robert Kiyosaki – who is an American investor and businessman selling over 26 million copies of his financial books which stress the importance of financial literacy – which had slightly converted my perspective. I was depressed by how people emphasize getting a decent and high income job and neglect the financial education. Kiyosaki’s knowledge informed me how today’s market changes at rapid speed as it demands infinite amount of new information due to the rising global market and technological inventions. Understanding the flow and the structure of this complex market is crucial financial knowledge that will prevent people from becoming victims of recessions and support them to make responsible, rational, and economical decisions. Inspired by this perspective, I was determined to become an economic consultant who can guide individuals and firms to choose reasonable path based on through analysis of market condition. I believe that becoming the member of the University of Washington Economics Department will help me to achieve my aspiration as its education will grant me the comprehensive perspective toward different economic models and quantitative skills such as analyzing...
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