...Passage 2 “We left Madras on June 21st, 1977, on the Panamanian-registered Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum. Her officers were Japanese, her crew was Taiwanese, and she was large and impressive. On our last day in Pondicherry I said goodbye to Mamaji, to Mr. and Mr. Kumar, to all my friends and even to many strangers. Mother was apparelled in her finest sari. Her long tress, artfully folded back and attached to the back of her head, was adorned with a garland of fresh jasmine flowers. She looked beautiful. And sad. For she was leaving India, India of the heat and monsoons, of rice fields and the Cauvery River, of coastlines and stone temples, of bullock carts and colourful trucks, of friends and known shopkeepers, of Nehru Street and Goubert Salai, of this and that, India so familiar to her and loved by her. While her men-I fancied myself one already, though I was only sixteen-were in a hurry to get going, were Winnipeggers at heart already, she lingered. The day before our departure she pointed at a cigarette wallah and earnestly asked, "Should we get a pack or two?" Father replied, "They have tobacco in Canada. And why do you want to buy cigarettes? We don't smoke." Yes, they have tobacco in Canada-but do they have Gold Flake cigarettes? Do they have Arun ice cream? Are the bicycles Heroes? Are the televisions Onidas? Are the cars Ambassadors? Are the bookshops Higginbothams'? Such, I suspect, were the questions that swirled in Mother's mind as she contemplated buying cigarettes...
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...1. The daughter was beautiful and a happy baby. Emily was active, playful, and full of life like the other babies when she was young: She was a beautiful baby. The first and only one of our five that was beautiful at birth. You do not guess how new and uneasy her tenancy…….. She was a beautiful baby. She blew shining bubbles of sound. She loved motion, loved light, loved color and music and textures. She would lie on the floor in her blue overalls patting the surface so hard in ecstasy her hands…... (292) The mother’s comments about the baby show the readers the baby’s real nature. When Emily was a baby, she was joyfully and strong. However, the daughter showed her talents, strength, emotion, happiness and love like the other babies. Eventually, Emily experienced parental care, love, and attachment from her mother and this gave her freedom of expressing herself to the family and society. 2. The mother was nineteen when she had this baby and she was either employed or looking for work. The old man says to the mother that: "You should smile at Emily more when you look at her." What was in my face when 1looked at her? I loved her. There were all the acts of love” (293). The mother could hardly smile at her daughter because she often worried about how to afford Emily’s basic needs. The struggles of her life to earn the essential requirements for her daughter made it difficult for her smile at her daughter and this leads us to believe that she is not happy being a...
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...Dialectical Journal – Frankenstein Quotation (with Pg. #) Commentary Letters through Chapter 6 “…the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour.” ~ p. 1 The author uses personification to give a playful and happy mood to the sun. "I have often attributed my attachment to, my passionate enthusiasm for, the dangerous mysteries of the ocean, to that production of the most imaginative of modern poets." ~ p. 7 The author uses an element of Romanticism of nature to reveal the hidden secrets to the world. “Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?” ~ p. 8 The author allows each individual’s power to show a rebellious style of Romanticism. “…the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every...
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...CHAPTER 1: Nick is the narrator and one of the main characters. As the story is told through the eyes of the people around him, we can not guarantee that the impressions it receives necessarily true. And everything he says is not particularly take into account of himself as a gospel. So, what is also always on the conclusions of the character's text, keep in mind the person it is filtered through. Username raises important that it is from the Midwest. Towards the end of the book he says that all the actors were not from the East, and therefore not suitable to live there. Your past life interferes with their ability to their current life. He also says that he is from the middle class. The class is one of the main themes in the novel, and affects the characters santykius.Didelė part of how people can be treated to their class and social status are related. Daisy take an example. While Nick and Jordan are the lunch she talks about the fact that her little girl. She was very excited after the birth, because Tom was nowhere to be found. When the nurse tells her it girl Daisy said: "I am glad that this girl, and I hope that it is silly that the best thing in the world a girl, a beautiful fool to be" social status of women criticize here. Daisy is a witty and intelligent woman, much more than her brutal husband. But it is one considered inferior. Because she is a woman. This is also why Tom can flaunt your novel. It does not have to worry about the consequences. Later, when Nick sees...
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...Passage: “And so everything is new and brave, red poppies and good food, cigarettes and summer breeze.” (14) Point: After a major loss of men in a battle, Paul and his friends sit down on their toilets outside to have a talk leading to Paul mentioning just how great everything is sounding extremely grateful. Example: Paul remarks at every little thing he enjoys about his favorite part of the day, pooping. Explanation: After participating is grueling war the men come back to lucky to be alive considering the survival rate was just over fifty persent. This gives the men a sort of unattainable high because of how grateful they are for being alive and getting to partake in their favorite activity. They do not care about any of the events happening...
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...“He rationalized that he was so bewildered upon his arrival that he allowed such a thing. The basement was the only place for him as far as he was concerned.” Page 207. In this passage, Max has just awoken from a three day sleep, this after the (no doubt) stressful journey to arrive at what will be his hiding place for the next chapter of his life. As he becomes fully alert and processes his location and situation he is in, he is mortified. Perhaps it was because he discovered he awoke in a room belonging to a young girl and the appearance of impropriety bothered him? Maybe it was because he understood the potential danger to the family, and being in that room (if only in his own mind) increased the risk to his gracious hosts? Or perhaps...
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...The first significant quotation to me is, when the man is studying the country to the south. He walks out onto the road and wonders how long it would take to get somewhere warm before it was too late, even though he has no clue what time of the year it is. “He thought it was October but he wasn’t sure. He hadn’t kept a calendar for years”(4). I feel like this is a good quotes to be in the novel because it shows loss of time. To them, time doesn't really matter anymore because of how many years have passed and the fact that they don’t know when or if this will ever end. This I feel can relate to me when i’ve been counting down something for so long it just doesn’t seem to matter any more and slips my mind because I feel like it will never come. “When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him”(3). This is a major example of how the man cares for the boy. Every second he can, he reassures that the boy is safe. Reasoning to why this relates to me would have to be the fact of how selfless the man is. He puts the boy first in everything by passing all of his own needs. To me, I would try my best to put my loved ones first in a tough situation. “What would you do if I died”(11)? The young boy is faced with a really hard quotations. The instant the man asks the boy, the boy is forced to ponder this situation and start realising that one day that something like this may happen. Basically forcing him to grow up...
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...There’s something reassuring in the fact that nothing is truly permanent. No matter what I’m going through or what’s happening around me, it can always change. Maybe the good times don’t always last long enough, but at least the hard times don’t linger around forever either. Just like the plot of a novel, I have developed with each chapter of my life. Chapter one is about a scared and confused young girl. She doesn’t understand why her mom is acting strange and not sleeping. She doesn’t know why her grandmother comes to her house and calls an ambulance. She asks the men where they are taking her mom. She cries when her mom isn’t there on her eighth birthday. She smiles when her mom comes back and everything goes back to normal. Chapter two...
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...seven…“How many places have we lived?” I asked Lori. “That depends on what you mean by ‘lived,’” she said...We counted eleven places we had lived, then we lost track. (pg. 29) Situation: Jeannette and her older sister, Lori, talk about how many times they have moved in their life. At the time, Jeanette is four and Lori is seven when they have this conversation. Analysis: The passage shows how the parents kept moving their children around to so many different places that they never were able to get established in their community. In the book, it talks about how the family keeps moving and moving. When they move, they would find very remote or unusual places to stay that was not always the best living conditions for the children. The author chooses to add this to her...
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...Lord of the Flies Journals Record three quotes that demonstrate characterization, tone, diction/connotation, narration, simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, and/or plot development. Jot a note about the literary device and the significance. Make inferences. You may use the tool below to complete your entries, write entries on binder paper, or type entries in your own LitQuake Journal document. Chapters 1-2 Quotation Significance page 11: “I expect we’ll want to know all their names.” William Golding writes“They used to call me piggy.” Before Piggy told Ralph that his nickname was piggy, he was being called fat boy. This was clearly offensive to him. When he asked Ralph to call him something else, it shows about his character. William...
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...1. “While on their way, they would make the dense old woods, for miles around, reverberate with their wild songs, revealing at once the highest joy and the deepest sadness. They would compose and sing as they went along, consulting neither time nor tune.” (8). Some slaves that selected by their overseers will have the chance to go to the Great House Farm. They regard it as a high privilege and the evidence of confidence showed by their overseers. While on their way to the Great House Farm, they will sing the song with the easiest words but their deepest feelings. As a slave, most of them were not well educated. They were unable to compose their songs with flowery and impressive words, but they do express their joy and sadness through these songs. They were joyful because they had a “privilege” to work in the Great House Farm. However, they were sorrowful indeed, for they were slaves after all. The working place is the only thing that would possibly change by their owners. “Freedom” was never imaginable and reachable for slaves since they do everything on the purpose of serving their owners. The everlasting slavery and hopeless life makes their heart burdened. 2. “When we got about half way to St. Michael’s, while the constables having us in charge were looking ahead, Henry inquired of me what he should do with his pass. I told him to eat it with his biscuit, and own nothing; and we passed the word around, ‘Own nothing;’ and ‘Own nothing!’ said we all. Our confidence in each other...
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...Knowledge Management. Contemporary Trends and Issues ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING Povilas Brilius Baifoteka Ltd, Lithuania, povilas@baifoteka.com Abstract: Organizational Learning (OL) is recognized to have established itself as a discipline. However, it remains unclear what it is primarily focused onto – practical problem solving or theoretical descriptive analysis. Due to largely fragmented literature, sometimes interweaving concepts and a variety of attitudes, practitioners find it difficult to easily apply this field, meantime theorists call for more comprehensive understanding of OL. This article focuses on contemporary trends in OL research. It argues and unveils that current OL investigation has made a shift towards holistic and integrative approach in which individual has more powers to make a decision. Article illustrates such contemporary shift of mind by (a) summarizing most important literature in the field (b) providing examples of latest research in OL area. For a smoother analysis, author builds and applies working framework of dichotomies between concepts (dialectical approach). Keywords: organizational learning, contemporary trends, holism. JEL Classification: D800, D830 1. Introduction During the last 50-60 years Organizational Learning (OL) has undoubtedly established itself as a discipline – a number of concepts have been constructed and applied theoretically, numerous schools with distinct models have emerged. However, a question may be posed – to what...
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...Abstract Through narrative therapy a counselor can help clients gain access to preferred story lines about their lives and identities taking the place of previous negative and self-defeating narratives that destroy the self. Presented in this paper, is an overview of the Narrative therapy and the Social Construction Model and several facets of this approach including poststrucuralism, deconstructionism, self-narratives, cultural narratives, therapeutic conversations, ceremonies, letters and leagues. A personal integration of faith in this family counseling approach is presented and discussed also in this paper. NARUMI AMADOR’S FAMILY CONSELING APPROACH Introduction Narrative therapy is found under the Social Construction Model. Using the Narrative approach, the therapist will not be the central figure in the therapeutic process, instead he will be influential to the client, helping him/her internalize and create new stories within themselves to draw new and healthier assumptions about who they are. This process enables clients to distract from focusing on the negative narratives which defined their past, redefining their lives into future positive stories. Narrative therapists define the problem as the problem instead of defining the client as the problem. The therapy process begins redefining the problem, externalizing it and getting it out in the open. The narrative therapist uses the questioning technique and creates alternative narratives...
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...social life. Everyday life and sociology are undoubtedly two distinct terms and situations, but nonetheless, they hold a dialectical relationship. While sociology studies human interaction, everyday life consists of everyday human interaction. Everyday life is permeated by human beings interacting with one another, institutions, ideas, and emotions. Sociology studies the interactions with all of these and shows how mere interaction resulted in things like "ideas" and "institutions". Everyday that you wake up and come into contact with what you do and the people you speak to is sociological. You wake up and interact with objects. Some of these objects you see yourself in such as your clothes, your music, your journal, etc. We would call this the sociology of identification. If you live with your parents and siblings, you wake up and interact with them, by saying good morning and having breakfast with them. Thus, you recognize and participate in the family institution. When you go to school, or church, or your job, you know what's expected of you and you know how to act in the way that is labeled "normal" or "right". Thus, you interact with a set of norms by conforming to them or breaking them(deviancy). The fact that we have an "everyday life" in which there are patterns and streams of ways of living is what sets a very foundation for sociological analysis, and for being a witness in what we do, in order to understand ourselves better. You use sociology in many ways everyday...
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...Borderline Personality Disorder: DSMDiagnosing and Empirically-Based TreatmentKelli RodriguezCapella University1 Borderline Personality Disorder AbstractThe DSM-IV is widely used in the mental health field. Some of its many uses include providinga common language among professionals about psychopathology and delineating criteria for diagnosing individuals with mental disorders. This paper explores the purpose, history, andlimitations of the DSM diagnostic approach. A case study is provided and the DSM-IV-TR isused to diagnosis borderline personality disorder. The disorder is described and an empirically- based treatment plan is offered.2 Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder: DSM Diagnosing and Empirically-Based TreatmentThe APA (2000) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is widelyused by mental health professionals. It provides a common language about psychopathologyamong clinicians, researchers, students, and other mental health professionals. Since its inceptioninto the field of mental health, it has made a huge impact on clinical practice, research, andeducation. Although it has advanced the field of mental health, there is still criticism of theDSM classification system. Despite its limitations, it continues to be considered an importantreference for mental health professionals. This paper will explore the DSM’s use within the fieldof psychopathology. Then it will be applied to a case study of a 15 year-old girl with...
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