... English 111 Molly Dean Essay #3 Outline Families, Parents, and Children Specific Purpose Idea: To inform my audience how the story “This is What It Means to say Phoenix, Arizona” relates to the topic of families, parents and children. Central Idea: Broken relationship between the father and son in this story. THESIS: Phoenix, Arizona is not only a place but it is also the name of a bird in Egyptian mythology that rises from its very own ashes and becomes reborn into a brand new life, making this story a regeneration. Through symbolism, imagery and the language the author uses in “What it means to say Phoenix, Arizona” displays how the death of a loved one, another relationship that was lost in rekindled. TYPE: In the beginning of the story, Victor had suddenly just lost his job, his father whom he wasn’t close with died of a heart attack but little does Victor know, he will soon be the one in a great deal with pain but with Victor is quickly uplifted by a former friend who brings hope and relief (to his life) while taking on this journey to Phoenix, Arizona. Examples of symbolism: Thomas Builds-the-Fire: his name actually has a lot of meaning behind it. Thomas Builds-the-Fire has a lot of dreams and visions when it comes to unrealistic things and he has a lot of passion which Victor does not have. “Phoenix” is an old myth that indicates a bird rises from its own ashes and becomes reborn. (The title) The jackrabbit. Thomas and Victor both come...
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...Birds Sing by Maya Angelou Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Coming of Age The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros A Separate Peace by John Knowles Detective/Thriller Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries The “A is for…” series by Sue Grafton The Client by John Grisham Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Shining by Stephen King Watcher by Dean R. Koontz Fantasy The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony Any Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling Historical/Social Issues The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Lord of the Flies by William Golding Of Mice and Men and The Grapes ofWrath by John Steinbeck Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd White Teeth by Zadie Smith Inspirational/Spiritual Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For by Rick Warren A Simple Path by Mother Theresa The Tao of...
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...You've always been your own man. You love your family, but you have always been the more reserved one out of your family. You're the only member in the Wood clan to have ever been sorted into Hufflepuff house during your time at Hogwarts. You're awkward and a total geek, but your wife assures you that women like awkward men. It makes them feel special or something like that and so you roll with it. Of course, she then adds in true to her fashion that all of the quidditch fan-girls can back off of her man. It's a running inside joke with the pair of you. Vice versa. You are also well-aware that you don't look your age. People are still startled when you inform them that not only are you twenty-seven years old. You've also been married to Dean Thomas's daughter for four years now. Interviewers claim that you and your wife and fellow teammate are the new generation's Oliver and Katie Wood. You just laugh. You're not trying to follow your parents' footsteps. It was merely a coincidence that you and your wife both play for the Montrose Magpies. You're a beater. Your parents played Keeper and Chaser respectively. So, yes - you're a Wood. You're a professional quidditch player, but you want the world to know who the real Declan Wood really is. You are more than a surname that carries with a heavy weight and high esteem in the world of quidditch. Up close and personal with Declan Kendric Wood Qudditch beat interview circa 2030 Interviewer: Madeline Quigley Interviewer: "I'm just going...
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...A, THE BRITISH ACADEMY SOMERSET HISTORICAL ESSAYS SOMERSET HISTORICAL ESSAYS By J. Armitage Robinson, D.D, Fellow of the British Academy Dean of Wells 1921 London: Published for the British Academy By Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press Amen Corner, E.C. PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS BY FREDERICK HALI, 76$ J 9 2/ PREFACE The writer of these pages makes no claim to be a historian, but he is concerned with the materials which go to the construction of true history. Occasionally he is led to revise the verdicts of historians on the ground of a renewed investigation of some isolated problem, or in the light of fuller information which has but lately become available. He hopes that he has done this with sufficient modesty. As a rule he has avoided direct controversy and has preferred a positive presentation of the revised position. He is well aware that when offered thus silently the corrections he desires to make are less likely to attract immediate attention than if he directly challenged fallacies which shelter under honoured names. But he writes from mere love of the subjects to which he has been drawn by the circumstances of his position and by local patriotism ; and he has experienced more than once the temporary blindness pro- duced by the dust of conflict. On the other hand he asks for criticism, ...
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...of watching too many scary films. Well, for Cas Lowood, that eerie feeling in the pit of your stomach, like like your guts are tightening, means that he has to yank out his father’s athame quick, unless he wants to get killed by the dead. Ever since his father’s death. Theseus Cassio, or ‘Cas’, for short, has taken over his job--someone who quite literally hunts ghosts. He and his mom travel across the world in search of the most scare-worthy spirits and puts them in the ground....
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...father’s freshly murdered body into the basement and emerges with a neglected kitchen appliance. This subtle gesture marks the beginning of a killing spree that will drive Kit and Holly across the apathetic plans of South Dakota. A rampage that fictionalizes the true life story of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate as a violent portrait of myth and meaninglessness. Asserting its difference amongst other crime films,Terrence Malick’s Badlands departs significantly from classical Hollywood norms through conventions that portray a narrative in self conscious ways. In a quiet, subtle, and oblique way it transcends New Wave films by being radically different and...
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...The story of Rapunzel and Mother Gothel has been told many times since its publication in 1812, and has been utilized by numerous writers of various genres to reflect the changing culture and values of the corresponding audiences. From the original publication by the Grimm Brothers, to the graphic novel entitled Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale, Rapunzel’s story has certainly proven to be malleable in nature, and provide for the opportunity to analyze the differences between these texts. This adaptability is, arguably, especially present in the animated film, Tangled (Disney’s version of the story). In comparison to the original Grimm publication, the variances in details about key characters and their backstories, along with the way that animation portrays these characters in all point to a very clear message about gender roles in...
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...historical, physical—and its relation to the human condition. Each poem is associated with one of the four classical elements air, earth, water, and fire.Outline Research Paper Thesis Statement: T.S. Eliot wrote poems that expressed his negative views of life, the human race, and the world around him by personifying" I’m not sure what this means: "comparing and highlighting the negative facts about them. The thesis statement should be able to stand alone so you would have to elaborate T.S. Eliot wrote poems that expressed his negative views of life, the human race, and the world around him by personifying and intensifying specific aspects and metaphors in his writing. Background Information Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 Sept. 1888-4 Jan. 1965), poet, critic, and editor, was born Thomas Stearns Eliot in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Henry Ware Eliot, president of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, and Charlotte Champed Stearns, a former teacher, an energetic social work volunteer at the Humanity Club of St. Louis, and an amateur poet with a taste for Emerson. Eliot was the youngest of seven children, born when his parents were prosperous and secure in their mid-forties (his father had recovered from an earlier business failure) and his siblings were half grown. Afflicted with a congenital double hernia, he was in the constant eye of his mother and five older sisters....
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...form of government * 3. Sky Woman, Wolverine, and Turtle are all important figures in which of the following types of literature ? * d. Native American oral tales * 4. In line 1, “offspring” most probably refers to the author’s * b. book of poem * * 5. “My rambling brat” (line 11) is an example of * d. personification * * * 6. Place the name of teach of the Colonial era figures beside the British colony with which he is most closely associated. A. John Smith- The Virginia Colony B. John Winthrop- The Massachusetts Bay Colony * C. Roger Williams- The Colony Of Rhode Island * * * 7. The passage above is an example of a. Puritanism * * 8. Thomas Pain’s Common Sense had a direct influence on which of the following Revolutionary era works? * c. Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence * 9. The passage above is from * a. William Bradford’s The History of Plimouth Plantation 10. All of the following are writers of the Colonial era EXCEPT b. Margaret Fuller 11. The passage would best be described as an example of d. Sentimentalism 12. The first paragraph of the passage provides an example of which of the following figures of speech ? c. Apostrophe 13. Which of the following best describes a theme of Whitman’s poem “ Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’’? e. The awakening of the poet to his vocation 14. Which of the following did NOT write...
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...sap, I can’t turn away from these movies no matter how bad. And they do get bad sometimes they are almost always disappointing. The movies that tend to have these aspects in them tend to be awful, and extremely predictable. But I still fall for it every time. Because what is more heartwarming than a couple brought together by fate when they were separated to never see each other again? Love causing people to crash into each other, over and over again like the waves do when reaching out to the beach sand. That’s Romantic, and I can’t keep my hands off of it. In this movie the two Jonathan Trager (John Cusack), and Sarah Thomas (Kate Beckinsale) meet in a Burlington store looking for gifts for their significant others but when they both go to grab the same pair of gloves they end up face to face with each other. From then on they connect, and a short romantic sequence starts with them at a café called serendipity, and at ice skating bonding, and getting close. It’s a sort of instant love connection that they begin to form within a few ours that both began to feel confused about it since they are both currently with other people. This leads to an elephant in the room neither know each other well enough to address so they discuss parting ways, and a scene happens in which Sarah explains her beliefs of fate, and serendipity and does a few things to demonstrate that. Then has Jon write his name, and number on a $5, as she writes her info on a book. She buys something with...
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...St. Thomas University School of Law St. Thomas University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-01 THE DEAN'S ROLE IN BUILDING A POSITIVE WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT Douglas E. Ray Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2011129 RAY_FINAL.DOC 8/15/2011 2:46 PM THE DEAN’S ROLE IN BUILDING A POSITIVE WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT Douglas E. Ray* UCH of a dean’s job involves reaching out to various communities. We reach out to and build relationships with alumni and donors for needed financial support. We reach out to and build relationships with members of the bench and the bar to help expand employment opportunities for our students. We reach out to and build relationships with members of the University community to ensure cooperation and access to resources. We reach out to and build relationships with our students. This essay is about reaching out to and building relationships with our most important communities: those who work within the law school. In these difficult economic times, most law schools face the challenge of doing more with less. Budgets have been reduced, staffing levels have fallen, and there are limits on how much we want to raise tuition in light of the economic conditions our students face. To do well in this environment and to provide the most effective legal education and student services we can, we must make identifying and fostering the “people potential” of our institutions a high priority. This essay is about treating...
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...affect their life, but can also change the way they think and what they believe both religiously and not. They call this kind of upbringing brainwashing, because you are raising them to thinking what and sometimes how you think. As a parent you are to train a child in the way they should go through life in regards to their spiritual walk. They are teaching them about their religion at earlier and earlier. According to Wendy Thomas Russell in her PBS article “How young is too young to talk to your kids about religion?” kids between the ages of 4 and 6, are prepared to start exploring spiritual ideas and concepts. Although this is true at the ages of 12 and 13, it may be too late says Ms. Russell. They do this so the child grows up with a rooted foundation of their religion. Despite this foundation a lot of children are falling away from the church and entire religions themselves. There are many reasons as to why someone, mostly teens who just started college would decide to abandon their childhood faith. These reasons include Shallow belief system. Kenda Creasy Dean explains in her book “Almost...
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...M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 0 2 Volume 20 Number 2 SPANNING THE GLOBE Duke Leads the Way in International Law Teaching and Scholarship inside plus Duke admits smaller, exceptionally well-qualified class Duke’s Global Capital Markets Center to launch new Directors’ Education Institute from the dean Dear Alumni and Friends, It is not possible, these days, for a top law school to be anything other than an international one. At Duke Law, we no longer think of “international” as a separate category. Virtually everything we do has some international dimension, whether it concerns international treaties and protocols, commercial transactions across national borders, international child custody disputes, criminal behavior that violates international human rights law, international sports competitions, global environmental regulation, international terrorism, or any number of other topics. And, of course, there is little that we do at Duke that does not involve scholars and students from other countries, who are entirely integrated with U.S. scholars and students. Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences...
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... He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),[2] the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.[3] In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, even being translated to classic Greek.[4] His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks he filed for protection from his creditors via a bankruptcy filing, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles...
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...M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 0 2 Volume 20 Number 2 SPANNING THE GLOBE Duke Leads the Way in International Law Teaching and Scholarship inside plus Duke admits smaller, exceptionally well-qualified class Duke’s Global Capital Markets Center to launch new Directors’ Education Institute from the dean Dear Alumni and Friends, It is not possible, these days, for a top law school to be anything other than an international one. At Duke Law, we no longer think of “international” as a separate category. Virtually everything we do has some international dimension, whether it concerns international treaties and protocols, commercial transactions across national borders, international child custody disputes, criminal behavior that violates international human rights law, international sports competitions, global environmental regulation, international terrorism, or any number of other topics. And, of course, there is little that we do at Duke that does not involve scholars and students from other countries, who are entirely integrated with U.S. scholars and students. Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences...
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