...Big World- theme paragraph A major theme in Tim Winton’s award winning short story, ‘Big World’ is self-discovery. Throughout the short story the main character and his best mate Biggie struggle to decide what they want to do with their lives. The author shows how young adults may struggle with life immediately after their school life finishes, and how these people cope with the uncertainty of their futures. Winton explains how the two main characters are feeling trapped and unsure, by using phrases such as, “the Southern sky presses down,” (on them), and “week after week an endless misting drizzle wafts in from the sea.” The first person narrator talk about his “dreaded exam results,” and how “the news is not good,” this explains why he is...
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...External factors (analyzed using key PESTEL factors) PESTEL analysis helps us to understand the overall picture of the operation of an industry. A. Political Factors The operation of any organization is regulated by the individual state policies enforced by each government and the packaged food industry is no exception. For example, in the U.S., Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently directly regulates between 1/5 - 1/4 of the U.S. GDP and possesses significant power over product entry (the ways in which food and drugs are marketed to consumers), and the manufacturing practices of food and drug firms. Where as in UK, there is a stable political situation where the government pressure firms to promote healthy eating and several packaged food companies voluntarily include calorie information on their packaged foods. Another example, in the Middle East region, the government doesn’t allow pork meat or non-Halal foods to enter their market. Thus strong laws and restrictions are set in place for it. Packaged food has to be certified with ‘Halal’ certification. Economic Factors General economic conditions affecting the food industry may affect our business. The Retail food and Supply chain services segments are sensitive to a number of economic conditions that may affect businesses, such as: Foreign exchange & global economic conditions: Operating in global market is not the same as operating in a local market. This is because of the involvement of currency exchange...
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..."Only the Dead Know Brooklyn" Notes and Homework Questions ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BROOKLYN--NOTES BY THOMAS WOLFE THE STORY PREMIS: • YOU WILL NEVER LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW THE WHOLE OF BROOKLYN. IT WOULD TAKE A GUY A LIFETIME TO KNOW BROOKLYN THROUGH AND THROUGH. AND EVEN THEN YOU WOULDN’T KNOW IT. THE AUTHOR • BORN 1900 AND DIED 1938 • HE WAS BORN IN ASHERVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA AS THE 8TH CHILD IN THE FAMILY • HE ENTERED COLLEGE, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHAPEL HILL, AT THE AGE OF 15. • HE TRAVELED TO THE WEST COAST AND BECAME ILL WITH PNEUMONIA • HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JOHN HOPKINS FOR SURGERY WHERE HE DIED OF MILITARY TUBERCULOSIS OF THE BRAIN. THOMAS WOLFE IN HIS WRITINGS TRIES TO PUT ALL OF HIS EXPERIENCES OF THE HUMAN HEART ON THE HEAD OF A PIN. • THE THEME OF THIS STORY IS COMMUNICATION. • • The author is an American journalist and essayist. With wit and an eye for detail he describes the outward trappings which reveal the inner meaning behind the attitudes of his subjects. HOMEWORK: DUE THE DAY AFTER WE COMPLETE THE STORY. ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BROOKLYN by Thomas Wolfe A. For each of the following words, provide an appropriate translation from the Brooklyn dialect into standard English. Then write a sentence for five of the words. Sentences must reflect the story. 1. eveh 2. dat 3. den 4. duh 5. neveh 6. befoeh 7. hoid 8. yuh 9. foeh 10. heah 11. bawn 12. somp’n 13. ast 14. dose 15. keh 16. boids 17. troot 18. dere ...
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...This is the story about a girl who lives within a collection of tiny islands. Each island has a god-speaking leader that sends one child from every household on a boat to one of the uninhabited islands. They do this in the hopes that they will come back as warriors. But the children are told that they will be sent to the afterlife to greet their ancestors and live in harmony with them. The girl is set on a raft, and the raft lands on an island several miles away from original. There she encounters a large ape like creature that she follows around and starts to like. They eventually become friends and she spends 15 years of her life with him, eventually leaving the island on the same raft. As she turns back, she sees that the creature turned to stone once she left. And she looks forward towards her new future off the island. A old important man of a prominent royal family dies, and secrets from his past are recovered bit by bit. As both sides of his family prepare for the funeral, there’s a big debate over how he should be buried based on his conflicting religious views. What if different types of hatred or prejudice were characterized as monsters? And depending on how big and evil the hatred was made the monster uglier, scarier, smarter and harder to destroy. What if there was a group of people dealing with different forms or hatred and prejudice that had to fight these monsters for the sake of their people or community. The process of them being defeated and learning more...
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...Did big brother kill Doodle? Can Pride be a destructive force? Pride is a sense of one’s own proper dignity or value; self respect. Pride can be a destructive force. Brothers pride was destructive when he let his little brother die. Brother was always leaving Doodle behind. He was always talking about killing him, and he was embarrassed about having a disabled brother. Did big brother kill Doodle? There is a lot of evidence on how big brother did kill Doodle. On page 345 it says, “I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.” He planned on killing Doodle with a pillow. So, ever since Doodle was a baby, big brother, planned on killing him. On page 353 it says, “ The faster I walked, the faster he walked, so I began to...
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...English 2333 25 Oct 2012 Midterm Both of these texts describe situations in which the lone character got into big problem(s), and ultimately, was unable to reach full success. Things just did not work out. The question is, is there evidence in the text, is there reason to believe, that the author would have wanted the character to do anything differently, so that the end result was successful? That is, might the author like us to think that these two situations, Santiago’s fishing trip(s) or Amelie at Yumimoto Corporation ----2. that the author never intended for the character to succeed, never cared about succeeding; the character failed in a big way because it was a story about failing; the point was not to advise the reader ‘don’t do it like this’; the point was, ‘there are important lessons people should learn about failure and humiliation. Answer Both the stories, Old Man and the Sea and Fear and Trembling have similarities. The main character go through hardships, suffering till the end, Santiago with catching the fish but losing it and Amelie getting hired at Yumimoto as a translator ends up cleaning bathrooms there. I believe that Hemingway never really cared about succeeding. I agree that the character failed in a big way but the point was not to advise the reader ‘don’t do it like this’; the point was, ‘there are important lessons people should learn about failure and humiliation.’ Santiago does not catch a single fish...
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...In my own opinion it started very different, it caught my attention in a way I thought I wouldn’t be caught. Usually it is action, describing of a character or the intro to the story like how the world was and how it acted such saying I am a large fan of fantasy books. In The Name of the Wind it started with a descriptive way of an empty inn, that I didn’t expect and how descriptive they explained the silence was also what caught my eye. The Name of the Wind started out not like any book or story I have read or found online, it caught me well and as I explain further, those will see that I am very keen on reading more. I may read more later into the evening but for now, I wish to talk about the first few pages I have read. As the setting starts in the late night, what seems to be a small crowd gathered in a tavern as one named Cob would tell stories to those around. Cob seems to be the fun of the group from first impressions of him, the one that you would go to have fun but never take the advice he gives. The group is of five that seem to know each other well, good friends from what it seems. A blacksmiths apprentice from first impressions seems to be the curious one of the five, the one that wants to learn more and seems quite interested in Cobs stories. There are three others, Jake, Graham and Shep. They don’t go into detail with Graham and Shep except Graham is still known as new in the small town even though he lived there for a year, but that is how it is when you live in...
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...Mouth, and I must Scream is a story about a supreme computer essentially designed by humans to fight wars. This, however, backfired on the humans. They had made this computer into an all knowing, all powerful, and all being thing. Something like a god, according to the five humans in the story. This mastermind computer, completely abolished human kind, keeping only five alive for over a hundred years just for its own amusement. AM does sadistic and revengeful things to these five humans. Ted, the narrator of the story, thoroughly describes the events that take place in the story. He tells that the five survivors, including himself, been trapped for over a hundred years. They were kept alive but for all five of them dying would've been a better option. Am kept them alive just to torment them. Throughout the story Ted and the other four humans, Benny, Nimdok, Ellen, and Gorrister decide to travel to some ice caves where they think they'll find something to eat. They go through a lot of hardships in their journey. AM tortures them and for it, it's all just a never ending game. In the end, they all end up killing each other and Ted is the last one alive. AM was furious, however, he couldn’t do anything about it. He couldn’t revive them. This made him take out all his anger on Ted, converting him into a big chunk of jelly. This, it did so that Ted wouldn’t try and kill himself in any way possible. One theme that I found to be relevant in the story is "Desperation can make you...
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...Summary: It’s a story about a little family consisting of Oskar, Margret, and their little child Jonas. They live by the lake and their son Jonas is about 6 years old. They are all sitting in the living room making conversation and drinking their coffee. Margret is holding her son as he is falling asleep in her arms. Shortly after she takes Jonas to the bedroom and makes sure that he is safe and sound. Later on Oskar decided to keep his promise about going fishing with Jonas. Margret weren’t so excited about that idea because she meant it was too late. Oskar and Jonas didn’t catch any fish on their journey, so there was no satisfaction shown from Jonas’s side. Oskar tells Jonas that it’s time to go home, and that the fish has gone to sleep. Before they decided to go home, Oskar wanted to give his son some turns in the boat. But accidentally they hit tiller and the boat collapsed. Oskar was in the water swimming around and trying to find Jonas, when a white boat suddenly appeared. A man in the white boat (Vilhelm) helped them back to shore. Characters Margret: As a person Margret is very careful and loving, as we read when she safely puts Jonas to sleep. But she seems to be the weakest link in the relationship between her and Oskar. She is easy to manipulate. Oskar: Oskar is a very irresponsible father who does not understand the consequences of his actions. For example he tries to impress his son Jonas by driving wild and crazy with the boat and he loses his...
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...Who Moved My Cheese? This is a compelling story involving four different characters who look at changes in different ways. While the story discusses Sniff, Scurry and Hem, I consider Haw to be the main character that the story revolves around. The story is about change, and forces one to think about which character from the story they are like. Who Moved My Cheese? is a story about change and how people acknowledge or deny changes that occur in their life. Some are like Sniff; they can smell change coming and are ready for it. Others may be like Scurry; once change happens, they run around to adapt to the change, but sometimes get lost with it. Even more are like Hem and Haw; they become comfortable in their routines and do not notice when change is happening or needs to happen. Hem refused to acknowledge the change and blamed others for it. He felt he was entitled to his ‘cheese’ and did not believe it was gone. While Haw did the same for a while, he eventually began to look at the situation and decided that he needed to change and not let his fears keeps him from doing anything. Being able to leave his familiar territory, Haw went out in search of ‘new cheese’ despite his fears. He took control of his situation and with his new found confidence, despite his hardships, moved in a new direction. He imagined himself with his ‘new cheese’ and the more real it became. When you change what you believe in, you change what you can do. I can incorporate this lesson into not...
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...Professor Wruz 20 March 2014 EVERYDAY USE Alice walker Alice walker’s “Everyday Use” is a story about the differences of a family split between tradition/heritage and the allure of dreaming big. Told in 1st person point of view, the narrator is the matriarch of the family dubbed “mama” throughout the story. The narrator’s name is never revealed because her role as speaker, through lengthy inner monologues, diminishes the “true focus” of the story which is on Maggie and Dee, “Mama’s” two daughters. So, to counteract this problem the author doesn’t give Mama a name thereby shifting focus to the interactions between the daughters. Race plays a major part of this story as the author capitalizes on the idea of heritage; however, she does not let it overwhelm the plot, slowly dropping subtle hints about their appearances/ race using situations of happenstance. She writes when explaining a thought, “Who can even imagine me looking a white man straight in the face” (590) and “Don’t ask me why: in 1927 colored ask fewer questions than they do now.” when explaining her reasons for never having a proper education. We find out over a span of a couple paragraphs that the characters are black. Two worlds clash as the narrator guides us through the lives of her two daughters who are completely different, one living a life of “golden opportunity” the other a life of simplicity. The story opens as Mama is awaiting the arrival of her eldest daughter Dee, who is portrayed as materialistic...
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...south, and vice-versa. “It’s the same here in Thailand” one bright student chimed, “the folks in Bangkok and the north think everyone down here in the south are stupid, ignorant and to be viewed with extreme suspicion. But we have a very rich cultural heritage” she went on to explain. “We have history and stories that have been passed from father to son, from mother to daughter, for centuries.” So, it was agreed, the students would mine the Southern Thai Culture for the myths and legends that go to make folk tales. These would be documented and translated into English. This was to be a useful extra-curricular activity in the student’s quest for better English usage and understanding. The project ‘grew like Topsy’ and before long we had plans afoot to publish a small book that could, with a bit of luck, help to narrow the cultural divide between north and south Thailand. And, of course, educate and amuse us poor, ignorant, foreigners! Together with my friend and former colleague, Ajarn Kevin Marshall, we agreed to edit the student’s submissions, bring the often-archaic language up-to-date and inject modern usage and idioms whilst retaining the spirit of the original. It was a big idea but one that, ultimately, came to naught. Students became involved in the imperatives of finals and left to make their way in the world. I moved on and the whole project gathered dust, if that’s the right expression, on the hard drive of my laptop. Gathered dust that is, until a few weeks ago while...
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...Story Element Lesson Plan 1 Story Element Lesson Plan Heather Sines ECE335: Childrens Literature Instructor: Karen Foster April 21, 2015 Story Element Lesson Plan 2 Story Element Lesson Plan Grade: Preschool Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed By Emily Pearson Lesson Plan: Monday Subject: Beginning, Middle, and End Story Element Grade: Preschool, ages 3-5 (covering Kindergarten Common Core ELA Standards) Topic: Being Nice Duration: 1 School day (Monday) Story Element Lesson Plan 3 Goals/Objectives: | We will Identify the parts of a story using the beginning, middle and end of a “being nice” themed multicultural book. The children will be able to divide a story into the beginning, middle and end, and be able to identify the settings in each. Within identifying the settings and the sections of the story, they will be identifying how one person’s kindness can affect another’s. | Standards Covered: | Reading Standards for Literature K-5 Kindergarten-With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in the text.-Identify characters, setting and major events in a story.-Ask and answer questions about unknown words in...
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...Hello Here are 10 ways to do it. 1. Build momentum. The first cardinal rule of opening lines is that they should possess most of the individual craft elements that make up the story as a whole. An opening line should have a distinctive voice, a point of view, a rudimentary plot and some hint of characterization. By the end of the first paragraph, we should also know the setting and conflict, unless there is a particular reason to withhold this information. This need not lead to elaborate or complex openings. Simplicity will suffice. For example, the opening sentence of Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” tells the reader: “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida.” Already, we have a distinctive voice—somewhat distant, possibly ironic—referring to the grandmother with a definite article. We have a basic plot: conflict over a journey. And we have a sense of characterization: a stubborn or determined elderly woman. Although we do not know the precise setting, we can rule out Plato’s Athens, Italy under the Borgias and countless others. All of that in eight words. Yet what matters most is that we have direction—that O’Connor’s opening is not static. Immediately, we face a series of potential questions: Why didn’t the grandmother want to go to Florida? Where else, if anywhere, did she wish to go? Who did want to go to Florida? A successful opening line raises multiple questions, but not an infinite number. In other words, it carries momentum. 2. Resist the urge...
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...Salvation is a story from The Big Sea, which was written by Langston Hughes, an African American poet, playwright and fiction writer. He was one was the earliest innovators of the then new literary art form, jazz poetry. This is a story that took place during the author’s childhood, when he was going on thirteen. This story is about how he lost his faith as a child when during a revival meeting he remained the lone “young lamb” that did not see Jesus. In the end, the young Langston decided to deceive the whole congregation by pretending that Jesus had come to him. Hughes shows us how the thoughts and actions of the people around us can affect our actions, and how complete trust and innocence can result in a complete lost of faith. Hughes uses vivid imagery and simple language to convey a believable child’s point of view. Hughes starts his essay with two contradicting statements: that he “was saved from sin…but not really saved” (). This is a signal to the reader that the title Salvation does not mean what one would think it means. Initially the author went to a revival meeting at his aunt’s church with the full intention of being saved. She told him “when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside! And Jesus came into your life! And God was with you from then on!” (). His use of exclamation marks punctuating these sentences portrays a picture of a child who was excited and enthused about this upcoming event. He completely believed his aunt and his...
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