...impossible to go a day without being connected to the world through technology. You see it everywhere in classrooms, the dinner table, movie theaters, work people try to limit the hours teens spend on their phones. But you take away a phone from a teen and it’s the end of their life. They don’t know what to do, they feel isolated from everyone. Now imagine a person being completely disconnected from all of civilization and escaping through the wild? It’s not going to happen; life now is all about social networking. In Edward Abbey’s book, Desert Solitaire, the chapter “The Moon Eyed Horse”, is not merely about Abbey’s encounter with a horse but Abbeys desire to escape society for good. As the chapter begins Abbey is helping his friend Roy roundup cattle in the desert. When they stop to get their horses some water Abbey notices foot prints of an unshod horse, “a wild horse” (Abbey 171). Abbey comes to find out that the horse was Roy’s “Old Moon-Eye is what you might call an independent horse. He don’t belong to anybody. But he ain’t wild. He’s a gelding and he’s got Roy Scobie’s brand on his hide” (Abbey 172). The horse left the ranch ten years ago and never returned back after he received a beating from Viviano for throwing a woman off his back. They called this horse Old Moon-Eyed because of moonblindness: an inflamed condition in one of his eyes. Abbey decides that he wants this horse and questions how the horse could be alone because he is “a herd animal, like the cow, like...
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...were not capable of doing the job as all life is in the hands of God. 2. In the story of Joseph, an example of poetic justice is demonstrated. In the 27th chapter of Genesis, Isaac is said to be close to death so he calls his favorite son, Esau, to pronounce the blessings that belonged to him as the first born son (Genesis 27: 1-4). However, Rebekah, Isaac’s wife, seems to favorite their son Jacob. When Rebekah overhears that Isaac wants to bless their son Esau she calls Jacob to plan to trick her husband into blessing him instead of Esau (Genesis 27:5-10). Esau is mentioned to be a hairy man (Genesis 27:11) so Jacob uses the skin of a goat to cover his smooth skin to appear to be hairy as his brother and trick his father into giving him the blessing (Genesis 27:16). In chapter 37 Jacob now has his own sons and is mentioned to love his son Joseph more than the others (Genesis 37:3). Because of this, Joseph’s brothers hated him and envied him (Genesis 37:4) so they plotted a plan to get rid of him (Genesis 37:18-20). When they got rid of Joseph they killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s coat into its blood then took it to their father tricking him to believe that Joseph had probably been eaten by a wild animal and torn into pieces (Genesis 37:31-33). The broader theme in this example is that just as Jacob had fooled his own father using the skin of a young goat, his sons also used a young goat and its blood to fool him as well. 3. The matriarchs of Genesis 12-50 act as strategic...
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...How to analyse fiction When beginning to analyze a text of this sort – it may be helpful to ask yourself some questions beginning with wh-: Where does the story take place? When does the story take place?Who appears in the story? What happens? Why does this happen? These questions will help you get started – but to get into the details and a thorough analyses you might want to use the checklist below. Setting (time, place, social environment) Where and when does the story take place? Is it in the real or in an imaginary world? Does the setting/place change – is there more than one physical setting? Is there any indication of the social environment? Is it described in detail or is it hinted at? Does the setting create a particular atmosphere? Does it reveal anything about the character’s feelings? The time: is it flashback, chronological, flash forward, two events happening at the same time? Characters How many characters are involved in the story? Who are they – and what do we learn about them (age, appearance, family situation, background, education, job language, thoughts and opinions)? Who are the main characters and who are supporting characters? Are they all introduced at once? Do the characters remain the same throughout the story – or do they develop? Are they flat (a certain character described from one point of view – and not in any complex descriptions) or are they round/complex (described from different point...
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...if a person is entering college and is seeking employment in an area in which other people of the same age are not seeking higher education, there will be some conflicting priorities, needs and abilities that the person will encounter and have to cope with. Another term used to describe the person-in-environment theory is “ecological system” (Zunker, 2012, pg. 57). While this term is more commonly used when talking about flora and fauna in the wild, it is very applicable to career counseling as well. The career world is often congruent to that of the animal kingdom. There are hierarchies, competition for resources, and inevitably someone thrives and someone fails. By focusing on this corresponding model as an analogy to how one’s career may evolve over time and through various obstacles, a career counselor can help a person to focus on external issues and how to best handle them. This is contrary to the typical style of counseling which often involves looking introspectively at one’s own pathology, identifying and analyzing maladaptive thought patterns, and then challenging those thought patterns to create a more lucrative outcome for the person. While there are elements of this in career counseling, the person-in-environment theory takes the perspective of helping the person...
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...Quarter 2 (7th)‐ “Melting Pot” and “How I Learned English” Stage 1 – Desired Results Standards LRA 3.2 (Fall EOC) Identify events that advance the plot, and determine how each event explains past or present actions or foreshadows future actions. ARG LRA 3.4 (Fall EOC) Identify and analyze recurring themes across works (e.g. the value of bravery, loyalty, and friendships; the effects of loneliness). ARG V1.1 (Fall EOC) Identify idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes in prose and poetry. V 1.3 (Fall EOC) Clarify word meanings through the use of definition, example, restatement or contrast. WA 2.5‐ (STAR) Write summaries of reading materials. SUM WA 2.2 (On Demand/ STAR) Write Responses to Literature. ARG WS 1.2 (On Demand) Support all statements and claims with anecdotes, descriptions, facts and statistics, and give examples. REF WS 1.3 Use strategies of note‐taking, outlining and summarizing to impose structure on composition drafts. AN, SUM, REF WS 1.4 (Fall EOC) Identify topics and evaluate questions and develop ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research. AN, ARG WS 1.7 (On Demand, Fall EOC) Revise writing to improve organization and word choice after checking the logic of ideas and the precision of vocabulary. ALANG WOC 1.4 (On Demand) Demonstrate the mechanics of writing (e.g. quotation marks, commas at the end of dependent clauses) and appropriate English usage (e.g. pronoun reference). ALANG Big Ideas & Understanding(s): ...
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...you for offering the opportunity to work on this topic. Despite many limitations, we have tried my best to make this analysis accurate and reliable. If you have any further enquiry concerning any additional information, we would be very pleased to clarify that. Thank you. Sincerely yours, Executive summary: This report analyzes on how to create an effective IMC plan for the Dhaka Zoo. Dhaka zoo is largest zoo in Bangladesh situated in Mirpur, Dhaka. Because of some shortcomings such as mismanagement and frequent deaths of rare animals Dhaka zoo has started to loss its appeal. As a result Dhaka zoo is losing its visitors and its revenue is decreasing frequently. By creating an IMC plan, this paper aims at identifying and analyzing the factors that will motivate visitors for visiting Dhaka Zoo. First of all, we have created a mission and vision statement and also a catchy tagline for the Dhaka zoo. Then we have set our strategic goals and objectives in which the main objective was to regain the lost glory of the Dhaka zoo. We did a market analysis and tried to do the positioning of the Dhaka zoo in a effective way. Our target market is mainly the children between the ages of 5 and 15 as well as their families (by association). Then we have set our communication and marketing objectives which include creating a strong brand image in the current market, developing an integrated advertising campaign, developing the...
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...When people think and/or hear the word graffiti, they relate it to gangs and vandalism to property. Other people see it has a way to express and communicate with others. Graffiti artist or “writers” as they prefer to be called are passionate, skilled, community- oriented, and socially conscious in ways that profoundly contradict the way they’ve been portrayed as common criminals and vandals. Graffiti has a negative stigma that typically relates to crime. To the artist, they are not committing any crime but to outsiders they are committing illegal acts. Keywords: Graffiti, Banksy, interpretation, crime, vandalism Open interpretation of Banky’s graffiti art When people think and/or hear the word graffiti, they relate it to gangs and vandalism to property. Other people see it has a way to express and communicate with others. People may see graffiti written on walls, buildings, trains, buses, freeway and/or road signs, billboards, and any space an artist wants their work to be seen. With the many surfaces that graffiti will be written on, public or private, it is vandalism and illegal. Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place (Ferrell 2006, pg. 6). Common terms for graffiti are; tagging, pieces, and throw-ups. Graffiti artist or “writers” as they prefer to be called are passionate, skilled, community- oriented, and socially conscious in ways that profoundly contradict the way they’ve been...
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...What a Luv-ly Company: Southwest Airlines Executive Summary This case study delves into Southwest Airlines, analyzing their tactics for growth and sustainability, and how they compare to the airline industry as well as how they compare to privately owned companies in general. According to Southwest’s fact sheet, they have reported more than 40 years of consecutive profit as they have grown from an intrastate Texas airline into an international phenomenon. Southwest is the largest air carrier in the United States. They have taken a fun-loving attitude and turned it into a money maker, as well as being a fantastic place to work. Southwest has had only two fatalities since its start, with neither death being a direct cause of a crash. Southwest operates only one type of aircraft, Boeing 737s, thus making maintenance much more streamlined and cost effective. Southwest is heading the effort to make commercial flight more eco-friendly, with lighter, more comfortable seats as well as new types of customer comforts such as in-plane Wi-Fi and free streaming music and movies. Southwest is not only a great model for the airline industry, they are a model that many companies can learn from. (2015) Introduction: A Few...
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...ESSAY #1 From a historical standpoint, just about every culture on the planet has venerated males as dominate figures, while scorning females as the lesser sex. Japan is surely no exception to this method of opinion. Although, ironically male writers paved many of the pioneering days of shojo manga, many female writers emerged and revolutionized the shojo manga market and further gave women within Japanese society who read Shojo manga a sense of exemplification and ‘an air or authenticity’. This was an important mark within Japanese society, because it very closely related to the rise of femininity within Japan, as there were not many female artists before or after the World War. In came the era of the 1970s, and many female artists appeared to express their opinions by manga; their work met the demands of Japanese girls to read manga written from the female point of view. The development of manga had portrayed reality quite well, and sales within these girls’ magazines skyrocketed. As female artists maintained and developed more individuality within their art, Shojo manga in turn depicted the social roles and reduced responsibility that Japanese women had in society. Many of these magazines ‘pushed the envelope’ within society, as many of the relationships created within the stories were doseiai, or same sex romances. The writing and imagery reinforced a “visual of monotony, as many of the characters had similar facial features, and wore identical school uniforms as they...
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...the creature is inhuman, it is only because he is imitating the inhumanity of the human species. Therefore, I think that the novel presents Victor as being more inhuman. * Victor is alien in his society in the way that he removes himself from others, for example when he goes about creating the daemon/creation. Victor is very secretive and seems to like it that way... he doesn't really try to understand people like the creation does. The creation tries again and again to belong in the community, its his greatest desire. With Victor, on the other hand, there seems to be a gulf between him and the rest of society. * Justine’s trial testifies to the inhumanity of man. What is important to note is the way this links in to a vital theme of the novel, which is the presentation of the creature himself. He starts off innocent and wanting a relationship with his maker. It is the way that he is shunned by his maker and by humanity and treated cruelly that forces him into cruelty, but this cruelty is only paralleled by the monstrous nature of humanity as displayed in incidents such as the trial of Justine. We cannot expect the creature to be good when he has no model of goodness on which he can base his behaviour. * Frankenstein's lack of personal responsibility lead to tragedy? 1. Victor's decision to make the monster and then doing nothing to take care of him demonstrates his selfishness and unwillingness to accept that what he does has consequences not just for him but...
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...Journal of Postcolonial Writing ISSN: 1744-9855 (Print) 1744-9863 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjpw20 “He does not understand our customs”: Narrating orality and empire in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Jarica Linn Watts To cite this article: Jarica Linn Watts (2010) “He does not understand our customs”: Narrating orality and empire in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart , Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 46:1, 65-75, DOI: 10.1080/17449850903478189 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449850903478189 Published online: 27 Jan 2010. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 501 View related articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rjpw20 Download by: [Indiana University Libraries] Date: 24 February 2016, At: 16:43 Journal of Postcolonial Writing Vol. 46, No. 1, February 2010, 65–75 “He does not understand our customs”: Narrating orality and empire in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Jarica Linn Watts* University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Downloaded by [Indiana University Libraries] at 16:43 24 February 2016 jarica.watts@utah.edu Jarica 0 100000February 46 2010 &Article OriginalofFrancis 1744-9855 (print)/1744-9863 JournalandPostcolonial 10.1080/17449850903478189(online) RJPW_A_448194.sgm TaylorLinnWatts 2010 Writing Francis This article delineates different strains of...
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...“Behind the Fair Façade” Representations of Femininity in Three Walt Disney Animated Features Bachelor Thesis Bethany Schouten, 3278972 Media en Cultuurwetenschappen Genderstudies Supervisor: Domitilla Olivieri May 31st, 2011 “Behind the Fair Façade” Representations of Femininity in Three Walt Disney Animated Features Bachelor thesis by Bethany Schouten, 3278972 Index Introduction 3 Methodological and theoretical Framework 4 Corpus 9 The Research: SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS 11 The Research: THE LITTLE MERMAID 18 The Research: THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG 24 Findings and Interpretation 31 Identity Formation 35 Conclusion 38 Literature 41 Media 43 Introduction The Walt Disney Company’s cultural products have been a great influence on popular culture since the 1930s and an inspiration for generations all over the world ever since. For many, including myself, the Princes, Princesses and fantastical creatures of Disney’s animated fairy tales have become symbols of their youth. Seeing the films gives rise to a feeling of nostalgia, they become a memento of one’s childhood world. But what kind of world is this? What kind of realities do Disney’s fantastical representations construct? In my thesis, I will analyze a specific element of Disney films: gender roles constructed through the representation of femininity in their animated...
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... With the upcoming unveiling of the next-generation iPhone, speculation is running wild regarding the name to be bestown upon it. iPhone 4G? iPhone 4S? iPhone 4GS? iPhone 5? iPhone SomethingElseEntirely? We don’t know (and won’t know) until Apple tells us, but some conspiracy theorists have noticed some promoted half-truths coming out of AT&T’s marketing department about what exactly constitutes cellular “4G” speed. Says Chris Ziegler, We’re well past the dream of saving the term “4G” to describe 100Mbps mobile networks, which was the original intent laid out by the UN’s International Telecommunication Union early in the last decade. We’re also well past saving it for LTE and WiMAX… But I’ve realized today that the term has reached new levels of irrelevance, because [At&T and T-Mobile are] not even saving it to describe the full capabilities of their newly-upgraded HSPA+ networks. The takeaway from this line of product-designation is simple: “4G” no longer means “4G,” nor does it even mean the slower 21 Mbps HSPA+. No, “4G” now means anything in the ballpark of 14.4 Mbps transfer capability. Or, you know, “3G.” The Qualcomm chips in Apple’s current iDevice lineup feature the hardware to operate at these speeds already. And it isn’t a stretch to think they’ll just call the new iPhone the “iPhone 4G.” Maybe that means next year’s model will be called “iPhone LTE.” After all, if they call it “iPhone 5″ and keep increasing the digit by one every year, soon we’re going to have...
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...A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE SIGNET CLASSICS EDITION OF G EORG E B E R N A R D S HAW ’S PYGMALION By LAURA REIS MAYER BUNCOMBE COUNTY SCHOOLS, ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA S E R I E S E D I T O R S JEANNE M. MCGLINN, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Asheville and W. GEIGER ELLIS, Ed.D., University of Georgia, Professor Emeritus 2 A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion TABLE OF CONTENTS An Introduction .......................................................................................3 Synopsis of the Play .................................................................................3 Prereading Activities .................................................................................6 During Reading Activities ......................................................................13 After Reading Activities .........................................................................21 About the Author of this Guide .............................................................29 About the Editors of this Guide .............................................................29 Full List of Free Teacher's Guides...........................................................30 Click on a Classic ..................................................................................31 Copyright © 2007 by Penguin Group (USA) For additional teacher’s manuals, catalogs, or descriptive brochures, please email academic@penguin.com or write...
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...1.0 Introduction: Strategic management is a continuous activity that appraises and controls the industries and the business in which the company is involved; evaluates its rivals and sets organizational purpose and strategies to address with all existing and potential competitors; and then reevaluates each strategy after a definite time period to determine how it has been applied and whether it has thrived or needs replacement by a new strategy to meet changed environments, new rivals or new political, economical social, technological environment. Strategic management is very important and broader area than any specific functional management area. It determines whether an organization excels, survives, or dies. It is very essential because it leads all the functional arenas of the business. It is generally believed that businesses, which develop formal strategic management systems, have a greater possibility of success than those, which do not. (Jauch and Glueck,1988,) Strategic management helps organizations predict future problems and opportunities. It endows with crystal-clear vision, mission, objectives, and strategies that guide organization into the secured future. Strategic management is a stream of decisions and actions. (Jauch and Glueck,1988). It is a procedure by which top-level management decides and does for the success of the company. It helps to determine the best possible strategy so that company could win the game in competitive business environment...
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