...Celia Behind Me In an ordinary neighborhood of Canada the story of two girls takes place Elizabeth and Celia. The story is written from Elizabeth’s point of view, the protagonist in the short story. Elizabeth is one among the group of girls that are bullying Celia, because she is different from the rest. Celia suffers from diabetes and are chubby which makes her an easy victim for the rest of the group. Even though she is being mocked and humiliated she keeps following the group, and especially Elizabeth. Elizabeth is kind of chunky and wears glasses, and she has been sucking thumb openly in kindergarten. Elizabeth is a very uncertain girl with a low self-esteem, and the fear of being the next in line has driven her to bully Celia. When Elizabeth was in kindergarten she got the nickname “Sucky” and the name had stuck with her until third grade. She knows how it feels to be the victim and being teased day in and day out, therefore she is trying to live up to the groups wishes. The problem that Elizabeth stumbles upon along the story is that her mother tells her to stop bullying Celia. The consequence if she chooses to ignore her will be spanking in public. The instructions from her family has now placed her in a bad position with the group, because now she has to protect Celia, in order to avoid public humiliation. Elizabeth is disgusted every time she lays eyes on Celia, and her hatred to her is building up for each day. What may be the cause for this hatred towards her,...
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...seems to have a bad conscience. The first time the narrator talks about his horrifying memories is with the unfamiliar African nurse, which tells us that he is an emotionally reserved person. He hasn’t been able to talk about his feelings. The narrator tells the story in past tense. In general the author uses a lot of describing adjectives and adverbs such as “small shock” and “sinister rustle”. The huge amount of adjectives makes the short story come alive. In the beginning of the text, we hear about something terrible that has occurred to Celia, and the narrator seems affected by it. The text says: “Her face has been with me every day for ten years”, which expresses that the narrator still thinks about Celia ten years after her death. At first the narrator seems careless about Celia, it says: “I asked little of her.” Although he doesn’t care about her in the beginning, they have something in common. The narrator notices that Celia is paying him attention and he gives her a set of drawing materials. They start drawing together and the narrator is very impressed by her skills. The simple...
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...Jordan Everitt October 21, 2015 History 1313 Celia, a Slave Trial The presented book, Celia, a Slave Trial, written by Douglas O. Linder, is an in-depth novel about the misfortune of a nineteen year old slave named Celia. For five years, Celia has been placed on a Missouri farm and has been perpetually raped by her fairly older owner. Eventually, Celia reached a climatic part in her life and had enough of being taken advantage of. The night of June 23, 1855, she attacked her owner in her cabin as he approached her and clubbed him fatally. This prompted a murder trial for young Celia and also leveled up as far as controversy about slavery went. Questions about slaves defending themselves against abuse were asked and ideas amongst everyone were...
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...About It? Order a Missed Call", an article from The New York Times website, 2008. 2. Andrew Keen, "Sex, Lies and the Internet", an excerpt from his book The Cult of the Amateur. How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy, 2007. 3. Stuart Jeffries, "Technophobia - the sign of a born leader?", a comment from The Guardian website, 2008. 4. Lee Drutman, "Review of Mark Bauerlein's book The Dumbest Generation", a review from Los Angeles Times website, 2008. B Write an essay (700-1000 words) in which you analyse and interpret Jo Cannon's short story "Insignificant Gestures". Your essay must include the following points: - a characterization of the narrator the relationship between the narrator and Celia the narrator's error of judgment the significance of time and place Text Jo Cannon, "Insignificant Gestures", a short story, 2007. Side 2 af 12 sider A TEXT 1 Matt Richtel Don't Want to Talk About It? Order a Missed Call When Alexis Gorman, 26, wanted to tell a man she had been dating that the courtship was over, she felt sending a Dear John text message was too impersonal. But she worried that if she...
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... But you don’t get second chances”- insignificant gestures (ll. 11-12). One wrong decision can haunt your mind for life – especially those decisions you take at a life-threatening point. These wrong decisions can be the cause of a long-term damage like Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and because of the emotional consequences; it can change our lives and personalities completely. That is the main theme in Jo Cannon’s short story insignificant gestures from 2007 – how one mistake can change a person’s life and personality. The narrator himself, who is the main character, tells us the story through his own flashbacks from his past. By the flashbacks we also get an insight of the reasons behind the cause of the narrator’s emotional trauma. Two different errors of judgements is the cause behind the trauma. Our narrator made these errors 10 years ago back in Africa, when he was a volunteer doctor. After his ten years of services in Africa he moved back to Britain, but not as a doctor – he changed his work to psychiatry. He did not leave his traumatic experience in Africa and cannot forgive himself. Before his misjudgements he had a passion for drawing, but now he is afraid of the places his mind will be when he draws. He also suffers from insomnia and anxiety “Even now, when a passing lights up my wall I jerk awake with hot rivulets of anxiety running through my limps” (ll. 74-75) all this is the consequences Africa has left him – but he has not always been like this. Before...
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...Pilar also constructs her own romantic visual of her grandmother. Pilar catches her father kissing another woman and decides to run away to Cuba and imagines how her grandmother would react to her arrival. “I imagine Abuela Celia’s surprise as I sneak up behind her. She’ll be sitting in her wicker swing overlooking the sea and she’ll smell of salt and violet water. There’ll be gulls and crabs along the shore. She’ll stroke my cheek with her cool hands, sing quietly in my ear” (García, 26). Pilar claims to have memories of Cuba even though Pilar was only an infant. Pilar relies on these memories to create an image of her grandmother overlooking the ocean in Santa Teresa del Mar. She remembers the scent of the saltwater, the ocean water, and...
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...As You Like It Summary How It All Goes Down Sir Rowland de Boys has recently died, leaving behind sons Oliver and Orlando. Since Oliver's the eldest son, he's inherited just about everything. This includes the responsibility of making sure his little bro finishes school and continues to live the kind of lifestyle he's become accustomed to as the son of a nobleman. (By the way, this lifestyle looks like a sixteenth-century version of MTV's Teen Cribs.) Oliver, however, treats his little bro like a servant – he refuses to pay for Orlando's education and never gives the kid any spending money. Also, he tells the local court wrestler it would be a good idea to snap Orlando's neck, but Orlando doesn't know about this. Naturally, Orlando is ticked off that Oliver treats him so badly and he's ready to "mutiny" against his older bro. Instead, he channels all of his pent up anger into a wrestling match, where he beats the court wrestler to a bloody pulp. Orlando's wrestling skillz catch the eye of a local girl named Rosalind, who has her own family drama to worry about. (Ros is the daughter of Duke Senior, who used to rule over the French court but was overthrown by his snaky, backstabbing brother, Duke Frederick. Because Rosalind's dad is living in exile in the Forest of Arden, Rosalind has been crashing at the palace with her BFF/cousin, Celia. Did we mention that Celia is the daughter of snaky, backstabbing Duke Frederick? And you thought your family had issues…) Rosalind...
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...Buckinghamshire, Hascombe, and University of London and in London’s roads. The setting indicates that the story happened during the World War II. It was in a farm where a simple family lived. The father was away at war so the mother of three Green children has to keep the farm while she ran a job in the village shop. The overall atmosphere of the setting was cheerful. It was a family movie that is why most of the scenes were happy. There were no symbolic elements in the scenery because the main focuses of the story were the characters and the lessons of Nanny McPhee. Given the storyline of the movie, the actors and the actresses conveyed their roles well especially Emma Thompson who played Nanny McPhee. She looked wicked in her first appearance but behind that was a kind, good-natured lady. She was very good in controlling her emotion. I also liked Oscar Steer who played as Vincent Green. He was a cute little boy. Despite his age he was excellent in acting. He acts natural like he was just playing around. Eros Vlahos suits his role as a spoiled brat. He exhibited real emotions of a rich kid who seeks attention and a real friend to his cousin, Norman Green. He was Cyril Gray in the movie. The characters relate to each other. They express their lines well and put themselves into the roles that they have. There was the emotion, the attitudes, and the appropriate actions to their characters. I have no unpleasant reaction about their acting. Since the movie was a sequel and was based on books...
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...The Physics of Flight A brief look at Newton’s Laws of Motion and Bernoulli’s Principle of Pressure Celia Lowman 12/5/2013 The Physics of Flight A brief look at Newton’s Laws of Motion and Bernoulli’s Principle of Pressure Celia Lowman 12/5/2013 When I was a child I was obsessed with miniature wooden and paper airplanes, I was always gluing Popsicle sticks and clothes pins together or making my mother mad by using all the printer paper on new airplane designs. The thing that fascinated me was that I could never fully grasp what made them glide in the air the way that they do but never fly. In my mind the small plane should have flown better than a 100,000 lb. metal object. It wasn’t until I was older and had my first physical science class that I really started to get a grasp on what was really going on to make something that large liftoff and continue to fly. There are two names that stand out when speaking about the physics of flight: Sir Isaac Newton and Daniel Bernoulli. Without them there would be far less understanding of the forces of flight and the physics behind the art of flying. Sir Issac Newton was a mathematician and physicist who transformed the scientific world in 1666 with the development of the theories of gravitation at the young age of 23. Twenty years later in 1686, Newton published Principia Mathematics Philosophiae...
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...As You Like It presents an ideal world, just as The Merchant of Venice did. The Forest of Arden has as much romance, as many delightful lovers, more laughter and Joy. Lamb, Charles and Mary. Like A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, it is built by means of two worlds: the world ruled by Duke Frederick and the world of the Forest of Arden. Lamb, Charles and Mary. The effect is not the "separate but equal" envelope structure of A Midsummer Night Dream, nor the interlocking and necessary alternation of The Merchant of Venice; instead, Frederick's world first seems dominant and then dissolves and disappears into the world of Arden. Lamb, Charles and Mary. Its life seems to be in the play not so much for itself as to help us understand and read its successor. There is a set of contrasts between the two worlds of this play, but the contrasts are describable not in terms of opposition of power, as in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, but in terms of attitudes of the dominant characters, as in Much Ado About Nothing, and in terms of differences in the settings and of changes in behavior for those characters who are part of both worlds. Lamb, Charles and Mary. These contrasts are easy to describe because Shakespeare points the way clearly, making each world an extreme. Our approach will be to examine the qualities of Frederick's world, then to examine the qualities of Arden, and finally out of this contrast to see how the characters behave in...
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..."The Beauty and Joy of Computing: Computer Science for Everyone", Constructionism 2012, Athens. About the development of CS 10, Berkeley's new CS breadth course for non-majors. Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs matters In 2011, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT, the Boston Globe made a list of the most important MIT innovations, and they asked me to explain the importance of SICP. This is what I sent them. "Bringing 'No Ceiling' to Scratch: Can One Language Serve Kids and Computer Scientists?" (with Jens Mönig, a talk at the Constructionism 2010 conference in Paris). Scratch is the brilliant grandchild of Logo, from the MIT Media Lab, that uses drag-and-drop visual programming to achieve, truly at last, the "no threshold" half of Logo's famous promise, combined with a half-million-strong social network of kid programmers sharing projects and working collaboratively. But Scratch deliberately drops the "no ceiling" part. How hard would it be to do both at once? Not hard at all, we think, if we remember Lisp's core idea of procedure as data. BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks) is an experimental implementation of this goal. "Speech at UCB CS Graduation, 2005"At Berkeley every department has its own graduation ceremony. At the one for the Computer Science majors in the College of Letters and Science, there are a bunch of student speakers, then a faculty speaker, and then a famous-outsider speaker. This year I gave the faculty speech, about the sorry state...
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...a black maid who specializes in taking care of children, her current commitment is Mae Mobley, a child desperate for her mothers approval receiving only agitated looks and scolding in return. Because of this and the recent death of Aibileen’s son, she becomes more attached to the child than normal but can’t help feeling dread in her gut, knowing that one day Mae Mobley will grow up and fall prey to prejudices. Can she convince her that black is just a colour? Meanwhile Minny, another black maid with some serious attitude and a love of answering back gets fired from her job for ‘stealing.’ As a last resort she finds herself employed by a strange woman who spends every day sitting inside on her bed. Will Minny ever understand the mystery behind her strange behaviour? In contrast a white woman named Skeeter struggles and fails to live up to her mothers expectations of the perfect southern woman. She is haunted by the mystery of her disappearing childhood maid and cannot get rid of the nagging feeling that the help are mistreated. She comes up with the idea of writing a book...
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...Patil 1 Journeys Out Of the Body: Sleep Paralysis Finding answers to our curiosity can sometimes be a daunting task. When every attempt, to find a scientific explanation behind a phenomenon fails, to believe in something beyond is the only way. There are many events, incidents, etc that science failed to explain, that lead us to believe in parallel world, dark world, life beyond Earth etc,. To prove the experiences that are within the body is possible, but to explain experiences out of the body seems impossible. This research paper focuses on Out Of Body Experiences in relation to Sleep Paralysis. Out Of Body Experiences a.k.a. OOBE An out-of-body experience (OOBE) is an experience that involves a feeling of floating outside one's body and, in some cases, the feeling of perceiving one's physical body as if from a place outside one's body (autoscopy). In 1943 G. N. M. Tyrrell introduced the term ‘out of the body experiences’ in his book Apparitions. Later this term was adopted by researchers such as Celia Green and Robert Monroe as an alternative to belief-centric labels such as "astral projection", "soul travel", or "spirit walking". Body experiences something that is not happening on physical level, but spiritual level. These experiences can be spontaneous and induced....
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...Magsanay Bumasa (Basahin ng paulit-ulit) _________________________ jgeca A. ma ma mu mu mi mi mo mo me me ba ba bu bu bi bi bo bo be be sa sa su su si si so so se se tat a tut u ti ti to to te te la la lu lu li li lo lo le le na na nu nu ni ni no no ne ne B. ba sa sub o tab a ta sa mu ta ba so se bo ta bo ti sa ta mo bi sa ba ta tu bo tu so tu ma bi so bo te tu ba ta si te ma sa ba bo ta ti ba tu si Ti mo si ba bu to ta bi ma ta ta ma te la la ta bu la ba ba sa ta lo lu to ba la ma ba ba ti la li to bu to sa sa ma tu lo ...
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...Several characters in Shakespeare’s plays undergo transformations that allow for both propelling the works’ momentum and allowing for a social layer to preside within the work. In As You Like It, Rosalind and Celia traverse into the Forest of Arden where they find themselves disguised as lower class citizens, and find truth, innocence and love. In Measure for Measure, the use of disguise is used by the Duke to reveal the innocence of Claudio, and the deceit of Lord Angelo. Yet, if any elaboration is to be made on the use of disguise in King Lear, defining the term as it adheres to Shakespearean scholars must first be made. In “Disguise in King Lear: Kent and Edgar,” a scholarly journal by Hugh Maclean, he discusses “Disguise in Elizabethan drama [to be] ‘the substitution, overlaying or metamorphosis of dramatic identity, whereby one character sustains two roles; this may involve deliberate or involuntary masquerade, mistaken or concealed identity, madness or possession’” (Maclean 49). In much of Shakespeare’s work, according to this definition, the development of one’s character can often be seen as close to the margin of disguise. Yet, King Lear exhibits characters whose disguises make significant class distinctions, favorably casting a positive light on the lower class. For some examples of this; King Lear finds himself without a home and caring daughters, he learns to sympathize with a beggar, and unclothes himself in an act to regain his lost innocence. Edgar, the victim of...
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