...Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. ered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He was best known for his novels and short stories, but he was also an accomplished journalist and war correspondent. Hemingway's trademark prose style, simple and spare, influenced a generation of writers. His writing is still impacting literature and writers to this day. His distinct writing style is still recognized everyday. New writers are still being inspired by his work. He was fearless as a war correspondent, and courageous as a writer. His writings were blunt and removed any “fluff” around the cold true details. He invented a radical modern approach to the formation of sentences...
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...Lottery” and D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” the characters are built and the story is wrapped around the individual characterizations. In both Jackson’s and Lawrence’s short stories the reader is allowed to assume any of the possible details to fill in the missing parts of the story. It is not until the end that the reader understands that the characters were giving away the ending the throughout the story. Along with the relationships established, the dialogue and simply executed actions of the main characters the story begins to unfold. The family and friends that are closest to the main character tends to make the story. In both cases of “The Lottery” and “ The Rocking Horse Winner” the extras of the short stories help to reveal the main characters real attitude, honest behavior, and their transparent emotions. In “The Lottery” it is evident that the characters closest to the main character can easily fall in line with the rest of society; in “The Rocking Horse Winner” family and friends can do all they can to help and still not be enough. In “The Lottery”, Jackson begins by setting the up the events that will inevitable come to pass. A few characters are introduced towards the beginning but who they are is not as important as their actions. Following the imagery of the location Jackson introduces Mr. Summers, one of the most prominent characters. As described in the short story, Mr. Summers is the head of the town activities; he seems to have...
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...! 1 Running head: SPEECH ANALYSIS Speech Analysis Marianna Henud Cresci UBIS University ! SPEECH ANALYSIS 2 Abstract: This paper responds to two questions presented by professor Philippe Laurent of Organisational Communication course related to the weekly learning material and analyses Steve Job’s speech at Stanford University. ! SPEECH ANALYSIS 3 1. As a listener, what are the biggest clues you have that a speaker has not taken the time to adapt the presentation so it is appropriate for a particular situation? Think of examples of speeches you have seen that did not take into account the situation (audience, speaker, and occasion). What was the impact of this negligence? There are several questions to be asked when watching a presentation that will help identifying if the speaker was prepared or/and if the speaker adapted the presentation to the particular situation. - Is the speaker adapting to the time? For example, consider a formal presentation at an office that was scheduled at two in the afternoon and was rescheduled to six in the evening. The speaker did the exact one hour presentation he spent days planning, without considering that the listeners are tired and itching to go home. Consequently, leaving the speaker frustrated from not getting the expected response from the colleagues. An attentive speaker would have changed his approach to a quicker, more direct presentation. - Is the presenter repeating information that was already given by the previous...
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...“The Judge’s Wife” by Isabel Allende is a short story about Nicolas Vidal, a bandit, who is destined to lose his head at the hands of a woman. Therefore, Vidal is constantly avoiding any contact with women and only does so every now and then to cheat loneliness. Allende uses foreshadowing, cosmic irony, and flashbacks to emphasize that no one can outrun fate. Foreshadowing is when the author foretells future events by using dialogue or imagery early in the story. In “The Judge’s Wife “foreshadowing runs rampant. At the very beginning of Allende writes, “Nicolas Vidal always knew he would lose his head over a woman. So it was foretold on the day of his birth” (283). Allende then immediately introduces Casilda, who is the wife of Vidal’s archenemy. Nicolas Vidal is unattracted by her looks and thinks no further of her. Allende specifically sates “He cast aside all precaution and, when the fateful moment arrived, forgot the prediction that usually weighed in all his decisions” (284). This statement has no context where it is written, which signifies foreshadowing. Another sign is when Allende writes “Though outwardly he remained the same-he...
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...colour. However, unlike Alec I used vibrant paint to portray such a lively, colourful character who the story suggests is very active and used to a lot of exercise. I creatively used my fingertips as my technique to create tiny dots in the background of my artwork. From my own knowledge, I know that aboriginals would not have always of had the man made resources that are available now such as paint brushes and would of had to use wood or maybe their own fingertips to create such small detail. The background is filled with small detail like in most aboriginal Art, however I have chosen to smudge some of the dots to give the impression that they are some of the falling leaves in the dreamtime story. I took a risk by using a very different type of media that is not used in any of the aboriginal Art that I have seen to create some of the leaves in my painting. In my opinion it was a successful risk as it makes...
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...advising him to “make sure she gets the attention and resources she needs to succeed this summer.” The young woman’s career has been on the fast track ever since. So what can you possibly say over canapés and white wine to create so many powerful advocates so quickly and effectively? Think through the following ideas before you craft your pitch: 1. Have a compelling reason for why you want to be there, as in “why did you decide to join the firm?” 2. Know what it is that uniquely qualifies you for the position so that you can answer the how, as in “how did you actually get a job here?” 3. Be able to explain what ties together past and current experiences in a way that is compelling and makes sense — what is the glue that holds your story together?...
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...Garrett Byrd Dr. Brown English-110 30 March 2015 Not Your Typical Grandmother Great characters make a story. As avid readers, we often remember our favorite stories not based on the story line, but based on the strong characters within the story. In the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” written by Flannery O’Connor, the grandmother is the central character. Posed as a “know it all,” she thinks of herself as a proper lady, honest, wise, and bases her life on the past. O’Connor portrays the grandmother as a very manipulative, highbrow, selfish, ungodly old woman, unlike your typical grandmother. These are clearly uncommon characteristics of what one would consider to be a maternal grandmother. It is these characteristics which make the grandmother such a strong and memorable character in O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” As early as the second line of the story, O’Connor introduces the reader to the grandmother’s manipulation. “She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind” (O’Connor 294). From the onset, O’Connor begins to set the stage and reveal the grandmother’s manipulation skills. “Now look here, Bailey,”… “see here, read this,” and she stood with one hand on her then hip and the other rattling the newspaper at his bald head. Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these...
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...For AD 3166 / 1116 anno in finem the plot of this story in mostly in chronological order. This story begins with defining sacrifice, even though most people know what this word means the definition is making sure you understand that sacrifice means something will be lost before going into the story. Then Solla is introduced as the mother of Ann during what is known as the Eleventh Plague had sacrificed something to save her daughter. The plague and the virus are not explained, left to an air of mystery because the focus is that Ann is saved from the plague. Then we have an unknown man enter this scenario, who is explained through a rhyme. It is obviously implied that he has something to do with saving Ann and what Solla sacrificed. The little...
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...didn’t care about and didn’t waste his parent’s money taking those courses. He took a calligraphy course that he loved and later on actually incorporated it into his mac computers. He mentions that this was one of the best decisions he ever made. He then speaks about Apple. He started it up with a friend at the age of 20 and in ten years it grew to be a two billion dollar company with over 4,000 employees. He talks about how he eventually got fired only to go on and start up a company called Next and Pixar. He then says that this was also one of the best decisions he ever made. I believe that any decision he makes will end up working out because he believes in himself. He says you can’t connect the dots looking forward, only looking backwards afterwards, so you have to trust that they will connect. You have to trust in something; your gut, karma, destiny, something. He believed in something whatever that something was. Steve Jobs said he used to walk downtown to receive one good meal a week. He slept in his friends dorms every night. He made the sacrifice, he took the risk, never settled, and he never gave up. He did what he loved and did “great work”. Every characteristic of an entrepreneur I can think of, Steve Jobs has it. As a future entrepreneur, this video inspires me to make sacrifices. Every good entrepreneur must make some sort of sacrifices in their life to do what they love and truly believe in. Whether that’s living off ramen noodles for a couple years, sleeping on...
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...The Blair Witch Project | A report for advertisement | | This report includes the marketing analysis of this project, including the PESTLE and SWOT analysis. It also includes the problems this project faced and solutions to them, with the comparison to some similar movie projects. | | | Submitted to Prof. SHAM SHARMA | | A presentation report for advertisement Submitted by: Name | Roll no. | Section | Ankit Tomar | 10 | FA2 | Deepanshu Tyagi | 13 | FA2 | Neha Srivastava | 19 | FA2 | Ritika Chhabra | 31 | FA2 | Vaishali Dhiman | 47 | FA2 | Acknowledgement Any accomplishment requires the effort of many people and this work is no different. We take this opportunity to thank Prof. Sham Sharma for providing us valuable guidance at various stages of my project. Well! We do not have any long list of names to give them any credit for this project report as the credit mostly goes to us. But as we are being humans by the time of our birth, we are also dependent. We owe our sincere thanks to the college faculties, who always believe that the last bencher is not capable of doing nothing, their criticism challenged us to prove them wrong. We like to thank all our colleges at IIPM, New Delhi who always do their best by helping us to enjoy the life at its peak by bunking the lectures and spending time with PVR cinemas. We like to remember the wisdom provided by GOOGLE and ALTAVIST.com, for their valuable suggestions and auto completion dialogue...
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...We never knew for sure whether it was real, what caused it or whether it was limited only to the left side of the curve. But the Flynn Effect appears to be at the end of its days in Europe, at least. This from the Times:- WE ARE ABOUT AS SMART AS WE’RE GOING TO GET, SAYS IQ PIONEER * Test Results are starting to level out * Morality skills are the next step It is a common refrain, repeated in response to every new television reality show and every bumper crop of school exam results: society is dumbing down. Scientists have long argued the opposite, pointing to the now widely accepted “Flynn effect”, which shows that over the past century average IQ scores have improved across the developed world, irrespective of class or creed. Now the man who first observed this effect, the psychologist James Flynn, has made another observation: intelligence test scores have stopped rising. Far from indicating that now we really are getting dumber, this may suggest that certain of our cognitive functions have reached — or nearly reached — the upper limits of what they will ever achieve, Professor Flynn believes. In other words, we can’t get much better at the mental tasks we are good at, no matter how hard we try. If we are to make any further progress, we will have to start exercising different parts of our brain, particularly the parts controlling language acquisition and empathy, according to Professor Flynn, an emeritus professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. So a...
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...About Dyslexia & Reading Problems Developmental dyslexia is a condition related to poor reading. Children with dyslexia have difficulty learning to read due to one or more information processing problems such as visual perceptual or auditory perceptual deficits. Many but not all children with dyslexia have difficulty with reversals of numbers, letters or words. New research points the way to specific methods of instruction that can help anyone learn to read well no matter what the underlying problem may be. Following the links will provide interesting new information as well as extremely effective solutions for all types of reading problems including developmental dyslexia. What is dyslexia? Children who have an average or above IQ and are reading 1 1/2 grades or more below grade level may be dyslexic. True dyslexia affects about 3 to 6 percent of the population yet in some parts of the country up to 50% of the students are not reading at grade level. This means that the reason for most children not reading at grade level is ineffective reading instruction. The dyslexic child often suffers from having a specific learning disability as well as being exposed to ineffective instruction. Children may have dyslexia or a learning disability if they have one or more of the following symptoms: * Letter or word reversals when reading. (Such as was/saw, b/d, p/q). * Letter or word reversals when writing. * Difficulty repeating what is said to them. * Poor handwriting...
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...E-Commerce A Brief Examination of a Popular Electronic Information Technology The purpose of this assignment is to “demonstrate an understanding of information systems, define and display how information technology may be used strategically in organizations.” The following discussion specifically focuses on the electronic business of E-Commerce and identifies how this industry uses information technology to compete, provide goods/services and offer innovative trends within the consumer market place. Characterizing Commerce Commerce is generally defined as “a division of trade or production which deals with the exchange of good and services from a producer to the consumer.” It also encompasses the “trading of information and funds or other entities” that maintain economic value. Characterizing E-Commerce E-Commerce is commonly referred to as “electronic marketing.” It consists of buying, selling or the exchange of goods and services over an electronic medium such as the internet or other computer based networks where a transaction or “terms of sale” are performed electronically. E-Commerce Popularity Since the advent of the internet and the potential uses information technology brought to the business environment, nearly all main stream commerce related industries discovered an opportunity to establish a presence in the electronic marketing environment due to the low entry cost and reductions in transaction expenses that provided increasing...
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...E commerce The purpose of this assignment is to “demonstrate an understanding of information systems, define and display how information technology may be used strategically in organizations.” The following discussion specifically focuses on the electronic business of E-Commerce and identifies how this industry uses information technology to compete, provide goods/services and offer innovative trends within the consumer market place. Characterizing Commerce Commerce is generally defined as “a division of trade or production which deals with the exchange of good and services from a producer to the consumer.” It also encompasses the “trading of information and funds or other entities” that maintain economic value. Characterizing E-Commerce E-Commerce is commonly referred to as “electronic marketing.” It consists of buying, selling or the exchange of goods and services over an electronic medium such as the internet or other computer based networks where a transaction or “terms of sale” are performed electronically. E-Commerce Popularity Since the advent of the internet and the potential uses information technology brought to the business environment, nearly all main stream commerce related industries discovered an opportunity to establish a presence in the electronic marketing environment due to the low entry cost and reductions in transaction expenses that provided increasing access to a “global” market place, which could also maintain and secure...
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...and the winnings can be very high, about few millions. Throughout much of the recorded history, the purpose of lotteries was to raise money for funding public works. The lottery games started about 205 to 187 B.C. during the Han Dynasty, which is China today. The reason why the lottery started was to finance government projects, including one of the most famous - the Great Wall of China. Today, in the 21st century, hundreds of years latter the lottery has not changed much. It is still a gambling game, which people choose to play, hoping to win a prize, and the money is still use for government projects. 2) What good questions can you ask as you read the story that will help you understand the story on a deeper level? • Why does the writer mention the pile of stones and how are they connected to the rest of the story? • What is the reason the writer mentions that Mr. Summers had no children and that wife is scold? And why does she mention it with his job? • What was the reason of the hesitation among the villagers when Mr. Summers asked for some help? • Why do the villagers not want to replace the old lottery box with a new one? Why is the old box so important to them if it is just an old box for the lottery? • Why does Watson the boy draw for himself and his mother? Where is the father? • Why when the distribution of papers is over, when everybody ask “who got it”, did they ask especially about Dunbars and Watsons? Is there a connection to the...
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