...Rivera 1 Rivera 1 Paola Rivera Wld Lit O Ms. Ziemlak Monday, November 28, 2011 Angela’s Ashes Questions: 1. I liked Angela’s Ashes a lot; I thought it was a very powerful literary text. The moment when Frank says, “ Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is a miserable Irish Catholic childhood” (6). At this moment I immediately could recognize that Angela’s Ashes was going to be an emotional memoir of the author’s life. I enjoyed the fact that this was a bildungsroman novel, meaning it was a coming-of-age novel. In being this type of novel we see how Frank evolves from a naïve boy into a man who is surely to prove nothing like his father. 2. Through the novel, I was able to identify the following themes: Drinking in Irish culture, Hunger and Food, Antagonism between Presbyterians vs. Catholics, Poverty, and Honor. Drinking in Irish culture, is seen as a way to escape the hardships of Irish life, Frank’s father uses this as an excuse to keep drinking, and he is also motivated by others to do so. Hunger and the value of food is one of the most important themes, given that a lot of the suffering the McCourt’s have to go through id the scarcity of food. Since their dad is an alcoholic who can’t keep a job, the kids usually suffered from sever hunger all the time, their dad would rather spend the little money he earned on a pint, and what was left was used on cigarettes for him and Angela. The Antagonism between...
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...Angela's Ashes is a book so filled with remorse and sadness, it's amazing that the reader somehow finds themself completely and joyfully satisfied. The novel revolves around the penniless childhood of Frank McCourt and begins in America with four-year-old Frank and his three year-old brother Malachy, who bears the same name as his father, and the infant twins, Eugene and Oliver, and the memories of the baby Margaret, "already dead and gone." Your heart goes out to the poor family, blessed with a loving mother, Angela, and yet cursed with a father who means well, but is constantly drunk or yearning for the "pint," as they call it. Early in his life, McCourt's family moves to Ireland, with help from his aunts and grandmother. Unfortunately, money...
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...Imagine having to run through the streets to keep warm in the february frost, while trying to get food for your mother who is sick above the bed, and your brothers are starving waiting for you to come back with bread. That is a prime example of poverty shown in one of these two stories. In "Angela's Ashes" by author Frank McCourt, poverty and perseverence is shown when he tries finding food for his family. Similarily, in "The Street", author Ann Petry describes poverty when looking for a place to live through a storm. In both Anglela's Ashes and The Street, the authors use charachters, events, and setting to show the theme of overcoming struggles when dealing with poverty. In Angela's Ashes, it developes the theme of overcoming poverty by...
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...Imagine having to run through the streets to keep warm in the February frost, while trying to get food for your mother who is sick above the bed, and your brothers are starving waiting for you to come back with bread. That is a prime example of poverty shown in one of these two stories. In "Angela's Ashes" by author Frank McCourt, poverty and perseverance is shown when he tries to find food for his family. Similarly, in "The Street", author Ann Petry describes poverty when looking for a place to live through a storm. In both Anglela's Ashes and The Street, the authors use characters, events, and setting to show the theme of overcoming struggles when dealing with poverty. In Angela's Ashes, it develops the theme of overcoming poverty by using...
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...In the two given sources, a theme is depicted in the stories called Angela's Ashes by the famous author Frank McCourt and The Street by Ann Petry. It is clearly portrayed throughout both stories that the theme is daily-life struggle. In Angela's Ashes, the author describes the setting and feelings of characters of being ravenous, dying of terrible starvation, and desperate for food. As well as in The Street, the author describes the characters of struggling through their daily life, with lack of food and supplies to last them through the day. To begin with, the author, Frank McCourt begins by introducing the characters in the story and their daily struggles. He emphasizes on the family members and what they do for a living. The children's father works in the North in an...
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...gul: setting rød: fathers outlook on lifr andet: se kommentar 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Eowyn Ivey As the Time Draws Near There are more ways to die in this place than a woman can count. Ridgemont1 Glacier calves, and crushes two sightseeing kayakers. A drunken man wanders from his village in the night and freezes to death alone on the tundra. A Bush pilot lands to deliver supplies at a remote cabin and the paranoid cabin-dweller shoots him with a 30-06 hunting rifle as the pilot steps out of the plane. A young mother wraps her newborn baby against her chest beneath her parka and heads out on a snowmobile to visit a neighbour, but when she arrives she discovers that the infant has been smothered to death, a tiny trail of blood dribbling from its nose. On Kodiak Island a teenage boy shoots his first deer, but the bullet passes through the animal and hits and kills his father, who is standing in the brush on the other side. Two girls drown while trying to canoe the Matanuska River. Piper’s father falls out of the sky. Her entire life she had been waiting for this news, though she didn’t know what form it would take. She had long since fled Alaska, but continued to watch from afar – television broadcasts, the Anchorage newspaper, emails from old friends. She marvelled at the spinning, diving, spectacular deaths. She watched and waited and wondered: how long could a daredevil like her father survive when there were so many ways to die? “Take...
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...Security and ICT Audit Assignment 2 12-11-2012 A business continuity plan is the totality of plans made to recover the business operations following a disaster. A disaster is an event that causes a significant and perhaps prolonged disruption in the system availability. In this case the disaster is a fire which burned the office to the ground. Nothing could be salvaged from the ashes. There are a few measures included in the Business Continuity Plan of this travel agency, in order to provide an effective response. In this way they are still able to serve their customers and to continue their business operations. One of the key elements of a BCP is to consider what processes are critical and how quickly they should be resumed. In this way, you know what processes should be given priority and which may be delayed. By taking the critical processes as a basis, you can identify the critical resources and record them in the BCP. Those are the resources that are absolutely necessary to run the critical processes at an acceptable level. Measures: * From an IT process perspective: * Back-ups of the entire IT environment should be created frequently and tested periodically. Databases may contain e.g. information regarding reservations/bookings made, booking history, client databases and destinations. IT applications used for operational activities may also be recovered. * It should be possible to replace the back-up on new IT equipment. * From a facilities...
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...Alex Narvais English 1302 Professor Hawley 2/10/13 Love and Time Shakespeare’s uses three of his poems to describe love and the passage of time. Sonnets twelve, sixty-four, and seventy-three all share this meaning by Shakespeare. Love comes in to play by explaining to “love well” cause time is not endless. Each poem has its own different plot on time and love. Sonnet sixty-four deals with the speaker telling his loved one that time will soon take them from each other. In Sonnet twelve the speaker is preaching that the only way to defeat time is to procreate. Finally, in Sonnet seventy-three an old man is reflecting on his past life and telling it to a younger man, hoping the young man will understand how quick life goes. The poems all start off with the speakers explaining what they have seen or have been through over their lives. The beginnings to the poems are very emotional and serious. They all use interesting word choice to describe how quick time has gone by. Sonnet twelve begins “When I do count the clock that tells the time, / And see the brave day suck in hideous night (Shakespeare, 1-2).” The word clock was used to explain how the speaker has watched time pass and night fall as his life has gone by so quickly. Sonnet seventy-three begins “ That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang (Shakespeare, 1-2).” The words behold and hand describe that the speaker is describing his life like the season autumn. The speaker...
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...Donald Bradman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Bradman" redirects here. For other uses, see Bradman (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Sir Donald Bradman DonaldBradman.jpg Personal information Full name Donald George Bradman Born 27 August 1908 Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia Died 25 February 2001 (aged 92) Kensington Park, South Australia, Australia Nickname The Don, The Boy from Bowral, Braddles Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[1] Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm leg break Role Batsman International information National side Australia Test debut (cap 124) 30 November 1928 v England Last Test 18 August 1948 v England Domestic team information Years Team 1927–34 New South Wales 1935–49 South Australia Career statistics Competition Tests FC Matches 52 234 Runs scored 6,996 28,067 Batting average 99.94 95.14 100s/50s 29/13 117/69 Top score 334 452* Balls bowled 160 2114 Wickets 2 36 Bowling average 36.00 37.97 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling 1/8 3/35 Catches/stumpings 32/– 131/1 Source: Cricinfo, 16 August 2007 Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest Test batsman of all time.[2] Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 is often cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.[3] ...
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...“Faster, faster… come on!” I urged under my breath, pedaling furiously. A thunderstorm had started, I was soaked to my skin, my stomach was growling and yet my bicycle refused to move faster. Getting back home was quite literally an uphill task as it was on top of a hill, sitting like a cream colored cherry on top of a green colored hill. The rain was not helping my quest to get back home in time for a nourishing dinner and a full night’s sleep, both of which had been recently denied to me due to the pressures of my new job. Avoiding the puddles formed in the potholes of the road, I made my way forward slowly but steadily. Thoughts of my father crept into my mind. His smile, his booming laughter, the fierce frown when someone, anyone, told him what to do were my most vivid memories. He had departed for his next life now; a tumor in his lungs made sure of that. Even though it had now been a year since his death, I still missed him. My mother had left me and my father when I was a mere 3-year old girl, impressionable and then, heart-broken. I have never trusted anyone completely ever since. I huffed and puffed up the hill and when I was close enough, I saw something which made my blood run cold. A streak of lightning. A fire. On the very top of the hill. I cycled like I had never cycled before. Memories of my father building the house swirled into my mind, too fast to separate. Panic seized my throat. I could not let it burn down. It was my only tangible...
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...Review on “The Mustache” and “Ashes to Ashes” Both The Mustache and Ashes to Ashes by Sabina Berman and Harold Pinter, respectively, were great plays however I only thoroughly enjoyed the Mustache because of its humorous nature. The Mustache started out as a very comedic play but transitioned into a serious gender based play. Both actors were acting his/her false sexual orientation when together but deep down each character was homosexual. Ashes to Ashes was just a very confusing play to be however I progressively began to understand the allusions to massive killings, perhaps in the case of Nazi Germany. However, each play consisted of its own values and ulterior meanings, and I was able to understand each play’s message. The Mustache was a very interesting play with a married couple starting their morning as such of a typical relationship. However, the couple progressively turned from sunshine into a bickering mess. The wife was at first angry because the husband had been wearing her mustache at the party they had attended. I didn’t expect this at first because a mustache is usually what is grown on men as a sign of both masculinity and age. They then started talking back about the party and the husband’s encounter with an archetype of a woman. This started to make me realize that there was a gender and sexuality message within the play as soon as the husband started listing out what his girl had possessed. Words such as young, beautiful, skinny, etc. were used to describe...
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...THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS TRILOGY BOOK REVIEW SHADOWHUNTERS. The word that really caught my attention while walking down the hall of our local bookstore. The Mortal Instruments Trilogy is a young adult paranormal romance/urban fantasy, set in a colorful version of our reality where humans walk unaware of not just the vampires, werewolves, fey and warlocks, but also demons and their part-human enemies – the Shadowhunters. The author Judith Rumelt better known by her penname Cassandra Clare is a bestselling American author of young adult fiction. The books are inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, Cassandra’s favorite city. As I progress through, I found that the books are fast flowing with vivid characters, a lot of action, and interesting twists. The City of Bones, the first book of the trilogy, tells us about a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, who live in New York City, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a race of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures. As I read through the book I found each and every character such charming personalities, as if they where real. I become aware of there presence and starts to worry. The words used by Cassandra...
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...Angela’s Ashes: 5 Comments/ Questions 1. Why is the title of the book Angela’s Ashes? The title of the book is called Angela’s Ashes because it represents Angela’s struggles in raising her family and the problems she has to overcome to keep her children from starving. Angela’s Ashes can also be the death of her children, the fireplace she put on every day, and the ashes from her woodpines. 2. Why is Angela’s mother so cruel to Angela, her husband, and her children? Angela’s mother is so cruel to Angela and her family because she may not like that her daughter married a man from the North with an odd manner and had children with him. She feels like she is paying for her daughter’s mistakes. Irish women need to be strong and can block out emotions and compassion to their children even though she gave birth to them. 3. Why didn’t the nun allow Frank and Patricia to talk to each other and keep each other company while they were trying to go through their sickness in the hospital? The nun did not allow Frank and Patricia to talk because maybe she thought they would like each other and approach one another in a sexual manner since they were a boy and a girl or she might have feared they would catch each other’s sickness. 4. Why does Angela sleep with Laman Griffen? Angela sleeps with Laman Griffen because she is at a moment of weakness and since she lives under his household for free she feels she has to serve him in any way he wants or he would...
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...Barugo Sx of Crows Crooked Kigdom · Dark Water---Georgia Blain · Anna----Kendare Blake Anna Dressed in Blood Girl of Nightmares · The Darkest minds-----Alexandra Bracken The Darkest Minds Never Fade In the Afterlight · Fahrenheit 451-----Ray Bradbury^^^^ · Red Rising-----Pierce Brown C · House of Night----- P.C Cast Marked Betrayed Chosen Untamed Hunted Tempted Burned Awakened Destined Revealed Redeemed Kalona’ Fall (If possible, get the hardback books with the paper cover for the House of Night series.. B/C on the back of the paper cover is a poster.. I want to collect them.. If not, that's cool) · The Mortal Instruments----Cassandra Clare^^^^ City of Bones City of Ashes City of Glass City of Fallen of Angels City of Lost Souls City of Heavenly Fire · Nevermore-----Kelly Creagh Nevermore Enshadowed Oblivion · Catherine, Called Birdy------Karen Cushman D · The Maze Runner series-----James Dashner^^^^ The Maze Runner The Scorch...
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...All that Rowan Ashe came to be, all that she was meant to be, had its beginning on her thirteenth birthday. Before that day, Rowan Ashe had been a typical girl. Certainly, her looks were nothing out of the ordinary. Her height was an average five feet four inches tall, her build was reed thin. Like most other girls, she wore her dirty blonde hair in a loosely drawn ponytail and dressed in blue jeans and a tee shirt most of the time. Her blue-gray eyes, which she thought should have been her best feature, were unfortunately obscured by the thick bottle-glass lens she wore to correct her severe myopia. Her white, almost pasty complexion was blessedly free of the acne that troubled so many of her contemporaries. Her nose was long and thin, her...
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