...For this assignment I choose to go to my local Starbucks café. I find myself very busy through out the day so the best time to go was actually during the morning at around 7:00am. Before I begin to go into detail about what I observed during my visit I will say this. I wonder if the results I got for this assignment was simply because of the time I decided to go. I say this because during the time I went most of the relationships I saw were more so business professional. I actually went in and ordered my normal Caramel Macchiato with my Classic coffee cake, I did not want it to look like I was just taking notes on the people there. I see lot’s of people rushing in to get there morning coffee with a side pastry to go, most people all appear to be in a hurry like they need to be in and out quickly. I can only assume they need to be somewhere important like work, school, or possibly an appointment. I have noticed some other people that appear to be a bit more relaxed more so just enjoying there morning. These people can be found sitting inside reading the Los Angeles Times while sipping on there hot coffee. Some people appeared to be checking up on emails or maybe even completing assignments. Because I did see a few people using there MacBook’s. All in all I find that most people are just so consumed with themselves that they are not really taking the time to actually interact with the people that are in the same room with them. Seeing lots of people all of there cell phones that...
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...Summary of “So Much Water So Close to Home”: The story features Stuart, his wife Claire and their son Dean. They live together, as a married couple, we don’t know where they live, but it seems like a small town of some sort. One day Stuart and his friends leaves on a fishing trip, in the mountains, for a couple of days, to play some poker, drink some whiskey and obviously fish. One night one of the guys finds a body, floating around in the water. The men ties the body to a tree, and gets back to drinking. They drink and have fun for the rest of the trip, but decides to leave a day earlier than planned. They call the sheriff about the body, and head home. He tells his wife about the incident the next morning, this leads to a lot of problems. Not only is she mad that he waited to tell her a story like that, but they slowly seem to drift away from each other. In an attempt to deal with the situation they drive out to a pond to talk about things, but a similar story from Claire’s childhood, seems to overwhelm her, and she slaps Stuart. After a while they drive home. Everything just gets worse, after some time Claire sleeps on the couch, and she won’t let Stuart touch her anymore. Claire learns about the funeral, and heads up for it. There she finds out that the killer has been caught, but everything isn’t back to normal. She seems to despise Stuart more and more, and their relationship reaches some sort of a breaking point as the story ends. Character Sketch of Jerry: Jerry...
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...Chapter 1 It has always been said that two people are destined to be together, like soul mates and their love can conquer all. That is true for the most part, but in my life that truth is the opposite in every direction. My name is Cinder; I was born of a time that has long been forgotten and the people along with it. My people were once part of the proud populations of Indians that used to inhabit the continent of North America. Suffering, war, famine, love, and a bad harvests, have pushed my people to be scattered across North America. Legends of my people have traveled far and it begins before the land shifted into the world as it is today. Great change has made my people reap the lands with crop and animals to provide for their needs and the needs of the tribes. Many years they have lived, and many years they have suffered, but this is where my story begins, it the midst of it all, the year is 110 B.C., and 10 years before my birth. First let me explain to you a little about my speech. I have lived a long time, as you can tell, I am immortal. I have the human language well and can speak over 30 different languages, not including the Native American languages. I am not into using large and hard to understand words; their meanings are pointless if you don’t know what the word is. My father had a wife that couldn’t bear children, and for the chief of a tribe, it is important to have children to carry on the tribe’s traditions, bloodline, and heritage. Every...
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...------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Middle Times ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saxon Period — Monday, March 11, 457 — 1 page 1 coin __________________________________________________________________________________________ Husband and Wife robbed of pudding! By: Drew BaudoinThe small town of Bath has been experiencing a very steep rise in robberies around the uptown area. One of these robberies turned out to be a pretty frightening event for one couple. A husband and wife on North Brighton drive in northern Anglo were both robbed in the late night on March 9th. According...
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...Most of all I want to travel all around the world. I want to see new places and learn about different cultures. I love travelling so travelling around the whole world would be a dream come true. There are so many places I want to visit. I have been in 8 countries. One of them is England. I want to tell you about that trip, because it was a dream holiday. The trip lasted for 4 days. It was a girl trip, only me and my mum. We had to take the coast bus to Haugesund very early at the morning. We arrived Haugesund airport and took the plain to Stansted airport in London. I was very excited and had huge expectations because I had heard a lot positive about London before. When we took the bus from the airport to the hotel, I looked at the places we drove true. The houses were different from norway, a lot of them were made of brick. I could see already that london was a lot bigger than Stavanger. We came to a hotel, called Picadilly hotel or something, because the hotel was in a place called Picadilly sircus. Me and my mum were both tiard after the trip, so we decided to relax a bit this first evening. We took the sightseeing bus and looked at all the nice buildings, and for me who is interessted in culture (buildings, nature and so on) this was awsome. The bus trip lasted for about one hour. In the beginning of the trip it was light and we saw everything perfectly clear, we saw big ben, buckingham palace, and a lot of other increadablebuildings. After some minutes it became a bit...
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...SEINFELD: THE UNTOLD STORY Throughout Seinfeld’s eight-season stint on network television the show and its creator’s have stereotyped everything from young Puerto Rican boys to Jewish Priests. The main stereotype of this sit-com is the very florid portrayal of the generational age groups of the characters. The main characters represent the beginning of the Generation X culture. The parents and relatives of Jerry Seinfeld and that of George Costanza present the presence of the members of the Silent or GI generation. Throughout the television series we have seen the elderly as stereotypically helpless individuals with little or no purpose. The character’s Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Elaine Benes, and Cosmo Kramer, represent the Generation X culture. These half-witted characters are often unreliable and uncaring about the society they live in. These characters often care about nothing more about life outside their own. The stereotype of these characters and the success of this very popular television show have contributed to the media’s wide usage of stereotyping generations. The article, “My Inner Shrimp,” can be directly correlated to George’s eccentric ego trips with his problems with shortness, unemployment, and baldness. George’s character is often portrayed as a very loud, very rambunctious person who is often seeking to be on top. Elderly: Helpless or Not Throughout the series we have seen the elderly characters of Seinfeld often being absent minded, senile...
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...In honestly and truth, am a follower of your teaching ,someone I could want to grow to be like. You are a father to all and nobody can dispute that. Everybody respect you and will never want to do anything that will make you bad perception about them. I have great experience working at the commission and the support you render to me sacrificially, I appreciate and love you. And God almighty will bless you. MY CONFESSION Everybody makes mistake, my mistake was combined with a lot of tears, regret, honestly and desire. I didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to lie to you, am not that kind of person. Have always been honest, smile a lot, share the way I feel, my story to people to know. I lost everything when I wanted to go for my visa first interview, when I was asked to resign even tho have not got the visa. I lost the plead to get a visa, I was left stranded and people I told, told me how stupid I was to have been honest with my employer that people don’t do it. I wake up everything, asking myself ”am I really stupid” ? I cried. Fortunately, with your kindness, you gave me back my job, but on probation with reduce salary. Which was not big deal and I was very grateful. Not long after that, Yetunde had to leave for her masters, (everybody knew how brilliant yetunde was) she was celebrated, rewarded with the short time notification she gave that shes leaving. Yetunde got her visa before she told the commission (don’t know if the management know about that ) and gave...
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...”Blackbird Pie” by Raymond Carver 1. Sum up the short story The story is about a divorce between the narrator and his wife. His wife leaves him a letter where she tells him, that she can’t live with him anymore. She has to go her own way and figure out things on her own. The narrator doesn’t believe the letter is from his wife because he doesn’t recognize the handwriting. However, it turns out the letter really is from his wife and as he confronts her about it in the front yard the sheriff and a guy named Frank shows up. They are collecting 2 horses, which walked up on the narrator and his wife’s property. When the sheriff and Frank leave, they take the narrators wife with them and leave the narrator alone. 2. The narrator doesn’t believe that the letter he receives is from his wife – why not? Why does the narrator spend so much energy and so many words on trying to convince the reader that the letter is not written by his wife? I think he is in denial. The fact that he doesn’t recognize his wife’s handwriting indicates he doesn’t know his wife anymore. He spend so much energy on trying to deny that the letter is from his wife, because he, in my opinion, knows it’s coming – it inevitable (in-evitable). 3. What does this letter indicate about the couple’s relationship? The letter indicates that there is a lack of communication between man and wife. During the years of marriage the man have become withdrawn – he has withdrawn himself from his marriage. He spends...
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...Adventures of a Long Road Trip Back in the Fall of 2006, my wife and I decided to take the kids to Disneyland. We left on our trip in the cool darkness of the early morning. As we drove down the road, my wife started wondering if we forgot anything. We were about four blocks away from the house when she yelled out a few choice words, then said,’ We forgot the package from the travel agent!" I turned around immediately and went in and grabbed it. As we got to about the same spot, she remembered another thing we had forgotten. This happened about three times. That should have told me right there that this was going to be a trip for the ages. The trip all the way to Disneyland went off without a hitch. So we ventured on down to San Diego to go to Sea World. As we got closer to San Diego and driving down I-5 doing about 80 mph so we could just keep up with traffic, I thought I heard something on the roof of our Ford Expedition, where our travel bag was in a net and strapped down. When all of a sudden something in the rearview mirror caught my eye. I hollered a few choice words and said " There goes our travel bag!" It went flying in the air like a dead body falling from the sky. It landed in the third lane of southbound I-5. I pulled over to the side of the freeway, and got out to see how I was going to get it back. Luckily traffic was sort of light and it didn't hit or land on anybody's vehicle. My wife called 9-1-1 and a State Patrol officer showed up not too long after...
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...The movie begins with Melinda Sordino’s first day of high school. Melinda is an introvert and quiet girl that doesn’t have any friends. Throughout the movie she has flashbacks of a night she went to a party with her friends. In the firsts flashbacks she seems to be a very outgoing teenager, the opposite of what she is now. As the night went on, Andy Evans, a popular senior, told Melissa that she was beautiful and they start dancing and kissing. After a while, they went to Andy’s car and started kissing in the passenger seat and even though she tells him several times to stop, he continues. He sexually abused her. She got back to the house of the party, picked up the phone and called 911. She didn’t say anything so the police tracked her call and went to the house. The party ended and everyone knew that the fault was hers but nobody tried to know why and she didn’t find the courage to tell. Her best friends stopped talking to her. One day she went to a game and when she saw that her ex-best friend Rachel and Andy were dating, she ran away. Melinda wanted to tell Rachel what happened in the summer but she thought she wouldn’t believe her or would hate her. A time later she went to the place where she was sexually abused and had, once again, flashbacks of that night. That was when she decided to tell Rachel the truth, so she went to school and found her in the library. After finding out that Rachel was going to prom with Andy, Melissa picked up Rachel’s pen and wrote ‘I was raped’...
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...Metamorphoses in Dune Alexandru Maniu In Dune, people can be both men and animals. For purely artistic reasons, the coexistence of different life forms under the same mask is a constant in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In Orphism, nothing is immutable and everything is subject to change. For Ovid, this postulate must have had some limits generated by the artistic process: “nor can the arts that cure others cure their lord”. Transformed characters – so punished for ill behavior or challenging the gods – eventually acquire immortality, just like the poet himself. Deities can be either anthropomorphic or theriomorphic, yet they can change according to their own will and they don’t lose their divinity in the process. Ovid’s metamorphoses are usually final and the poor misfortunate loses some of his humanity forever. By far the cruelest fate is for one to lose his power of speech or his free-speech, as in the case of Acteon, changed into a stag, Callisto, changed into a bear or Lycon, who becomes a wolf. On a more subtle level, the nymph Echo is left only with the power of speech, but her words are not her own, as she is forced to repeat whatever she hears. All these stories cover a more complex level of understanding that deals with religion and ritual, and should not be taken as mere parables of morality. The myth of Artemis and Acteon encapsulates the confrontation between crude human conscience and the mystery of life, epitomized by the maternal deity (Isis, Artemis, Diana), with...
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...Alex’s lemonade stand is fighting for the cure for cancer for kids all over the north american continent. We have already funded over 800 research projects. Not only have we done that, our hero’s love us too. From many testimonials, all of the kids that have been helped, or were being helped, seemed to really love what the foundation has done for them. This organization was started by a little girl named Alexandria Scott when she was just four. She got cancer right before her first birthday, but luckily it went away. It came back when she was 4 years old, and she held her first lemonade stand in her yard, raising over 2,000 dollars. Her goal was to raise 1 million dollars, and she reached that amount shortly after she passed away at 8 years old. She said she didn’t want any kid to go through what she was going through. Our mission is “to change the lives of children with cancer through funding impact research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer” (Our). We are certainly putting forth a lot of hard work and effort into this group. Alex’s Lemonade Stand is working with 135 different hospitals, and have raised over 150 million dollars. We do it for our heroes like Amanda Snowbarger and Aidan Loney. Amanda Snowbarger was just a ordinary girl going attending her first year of highschool. She made the varsity softball team as freshman, but after practice she would begin to feel irregularly tired, and her parents started to...
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...APPLICATION FOR A TEMPORARY RESIDENT VISA – CHECKLIST Complete and place this checklist on top of your application. For information, forms and instructions, please consult the website of one of our visa offices: Buffalo, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle or Washington, DC. Failure to submit all required documentation may result in the refusal of your application or processing delays. Unless otherwise indicated, submit only photocopies of the documents requested. The doc uments you provide with your application will not be returned. Documents not in English or French must be accompanied by a certified translation. Provide both a photocopy of the original document and the translation in English or French. False statements or submission of fraudulent documents will result in refusal and may lead to legal action against you. We do not offer pre-assessment or counselling services. Submit your completed application with all your supporting documents and the appropriate fees and an Immigration Officer will assess it. You must submit the following: Each applicant, including accompanying children, must complete, date and sign their own: Application for a temporary Resident Visa made Outside of Canada (IMM 5257) Answer every question. If not applicable, write N/A. Please note: Only the application form above will be accepted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. If the application form is submitted without the barcode page...
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...Huizhen Long 09/22 Assignment 1 English 205 1.8 B. Tyson’s words were full of ambiguity and were very euphemistic. The problem arose because he lacked language skills. Help means assistance, and making things easier for the person seeking for help. It does not mean that the helper has to do all the work. As a team leader, Tyson is responsible for contribution to the team. It is inevitable that Alicia was resentful when she found out that Tyson counted on her to finish the entire customer inquiries and shouldered no responsibility. Both of them also bypass the messages they wanted to pass on. C. The sentence is commanding people to follow the supervisor’s own order. Receivers would find such tone unacceptable. According to the textbook, senders must take feelings of the receivers into consideration. The supervisor did not consider about the receivers’ feelings. Effective communication focus on the audience and using the tone and words that receivers will not accept. D.” Pull up” means pulling up the airplane to a degree that is safe. As a non-native speaker, the Chinese pilot could be familiar with operating the plane but not English. The pilot’s lack of language skill and poor listening comprehension skills brought about misunderstanding. Also, the sender had a different farm of reference than the Chinese pilot, and he assumed that he would be understood by using the word “ Pull up”. However, the outcome is the opposite. So it is very important to think in terms of the...
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...1. Free Maintenance As we know that Dr.Martens is with the light skinned shoes boots. If shoes do not maintenance will easy get dirty and look old. Nowadays, people are regard to designer shoes but they only buy the shoes do not know how to maintenance. As I know in Malaysia do not have this kind of after sales service and the maintenance thing of shoes are not popular in Malaysia. Moreover, shoes has maintenance compare with those which do not maintenance are easier to distinguish, although those pirated products are look exactly the same as original’s but you get what you pay for. Those pirated are using inferior material to produce with a time period people can distinguish the original and pirated. Therefore, Dr.Martens should using this for sales promotional tools to promote their shoes, FIRST that other brands do not have this kind of service; SECOND easy to defeat those pirated products to imitate Dr.Martens design. 2. Lucky Draw Lucky draw is the simple way to attract people attention but the important part is the reward of the lucky draw. Dr.Martens can provide the 1st place a pair of special design shoes that the design is not selling at all. When the reward was attractive, Dr.Martens should set the condition of the lucky draw. The condition of lucky draw can be buy over RM1000 can get 2 name card for lucky draw. However, Dr.Martens normal price is between RM500-RM600, people may find friend to buy together or buy over RM1000 by himself because of the special design...
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