...The Romantic Age created a new path for American literature and promoted different ways of viewing life. Since writers of this time were more idealistic, they looked at life at how it could or should be, not as it was. Great literary works such as Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker," Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," and Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" are representative of their literary age because they exemplify numerous Romantic Age characteristics. In Washington Irving's short story, "The Devil and Tom Walker," great use of imagination is shown. As Tom is walking through the forest, several inventive stories explain what he sees. A firm piece of ground is said to be from an Indian fort for refugee squaws and children during...
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...Rappaccini`s Daughter Rappaccini`s Daughter is gothic story written by Nathaniel Hawthorn in 1844.the story begins with a young man Giovanni who comes to Padua to study medicine at the university of Padua .He rents a room a ‘’high gloomy chamber’’ above a magical garden .The garden belongs to Dr. Rappaccini who lives with his own daughter ,Beatric who has been poisonous by his father .Giovanni sits by window which overlooks to the garden ,he is fascinated by garden which are full of strange flowers and plants .One day he is attracted by Rappaccini`s daughter Beatric He falls in loves with her but he is warned by his father`s freind professor Baglion to stay away from her because of her poisonous nature.So professor gives him the antidote for Beatric to get rid of her Poisonous body which is isolated her.But the story ends tragically when Beatric falls into death. Analysis of Rappaccini`s daughter In ‘’Rappaccini`s Daughter ‘’,Nathaniel Hawthorn examines the combination of good and evil In people through the relationship of story`s main characters.Once Giovanni finds out that she is poisonous he hates her because he is unable to separate her poisonous body from her pure,spiritual and innocent soul.So it is Giovanni`s disability to see Beatric through her soul,eventually leads to Beatrice`s death.In other words Giovanni kills her. Rappaccini`s Daughter is an allegorical to the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve were Satan who misguided them .So it is important to...
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...GENERAL INPUTS CHAPTER 3: THE HUMAN PERSON In the context there is a phrase that says "it is essentially difficult to define man," yes, thats true because man is the most complex form of being created by God. Man has its own style of manipulating things according to what he want to do. It is essentially difficult to define man. This perspective aims to revisit and challenge, in all humility , our perception of human nature; and the possibility of achieving a productive society through the actualization of a person's highest potential. Eddie Babor discussed in his book “The Human Person, Not Real But Existing” that the human person have several characteristics, among which are the following: rational, free, unique, social being, and sexual. Considering the characteristics, and their definitions, given above, it can be deduced that a human person is the ultimate expression of the Supreme Being that has the freedom, capacity and ability to reason, reflect and relate to his co-existence. Maslow‟s theory pointed out that a person must satisfy first the other lower needs before he can actually realize his self worth and potential. Accordingly, when lower needs are unmet, the person cannot fully devote himself to fulfilling his potentials. He theorized that self - actualization is the driving force of human personality. Thus, a person cannot appreciate intellectual and aesthetic learning when the person is hungry and his safety is difficult to obtain. Furthermore, every...
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...teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task. Big Ideas and Key Understandings: * Students should work through the idea that different levels of intelligence, emotional and intellectual, lead to different types of interactions with people and society. * Students should evaluate moral/ethical decisions of characters. Synopsis A mentally challenged man is presented with an opportunity to have an operation that will triple his intelligence. The story chronicles the journey that he takes as his intelligence progresses and regresses. 2. Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings. 3. Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary. During Teaching 1. Anticipatory Set: Discuss the following questions with students to guide deeper understanding of the main themes of the story: What is intelligence? Can a person ever be too smart? What is meant by the saying “ignorance is bliss”? 2. Students read the entire selection independently. 3. Teacher reads the text aloud while students follow along or students take turns reading aloud to each other in pairs or small groups. Depending on the text length and student need, the teacher may choose to read the full text or a passage aloud. For a particularly complex text, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2. 4....
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...Choose a novel or short story in which the writer explores feelings of rejection, isolation or alienation. Explain how the writer makes you aware of these feelings. Go on to show how this exploration enhances your appreciation of the novel as a whole. In Robin Jenkin’s novel, “The Cone Gatherers” we follow the malevolent character of Duror who goes through an internal struggle to try and control his hatred for deformities. Duror’s mental decline is driven by the presence of Calum, a hunchback who is collecting cones in the forest in the estate where Duror is the gamekeeper. We are exposed to the dark and twisted nature of the tortured gamekeeper’s mind through his fixation with Calum, the sickness of Duror’s wife, Peggy and the isolation he encounters in the forest. Jenkins explores the nature of good versus evil through the development of Duror. Calum’s arrival in the wood had unsettled Duror due to his deformities and the gamekeeper became obsessed with him. Calum as he saw it ‘defiled’ his sanctuary. He was alone in his obsession and he unreasonably felt that if he destroyed Calum, these bad feelings would go and everything would return to normal. Jenkins had told us that Duror was repulsed by anything that had ‘imperfection, deformity or lack’. However there is also a more historic root to his mental state as in Chapter 2 when Dr Matheson encounters Duror and is worried about his state of mind. His wife Peggy was a ‘haunting ‘ figure; a ghost of her former self;...
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...Candice Swanepoel Dr. Gary Montaño English 1302 13 February 2013 Forbidden Love Kate Chopin’s short story “The Storm” tells about Calixta’s adultery and unhappiness with her husband. Bobinôt and Bobi, Calixta’s husband and son, are at Friedheimer’s grocery store. Bibi notices clouds starting to build, followed by a threatening roar. They both decide to wait at Friedheimer’s store until the storm is over. Bibi asks and wonders about his mother all alone in the house. Meanwhile, Calixta is at home sewing furiously. She is very occupied and does not notice the storm. She finally looks up and goes outside to gather the clothes. She sees Alcee, an old friend of hers. Alcèe asks Calixta if he can wait with her until the storm is over. They are both in her room, as she starts feeling nervous, Calixta stares out a window as Alcee follows, looking over her shoulder. Lightening strikes a chinaberry tree and frightens Calixta, and he comforts her. Alcee brings her close to him. While she worries over Bibi, Alcee looks at her with passionate eyes and remembers the times he has desired her. He cannot resist her beauty. White neck, red moist lips, and her blue eyes disturb him powerfully. As he kisses her, it reminds him of Assumption. They talk about Assumption how he had kissed her. He looks at desires her body, and he compares the white couch Calixta is laying on to her firm flesh. Alcèe starts pleasing her, and they both give themselves up. The rain is over and the sun comes up....
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...Introduction The movie of Stanley Kubrick: A Space Odyssey base on Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”. The core theme of the movie was fiction and the story of Clarke reflects the same. “The Sentinel” provided the original basis for Kubrick’s film version and the story itself published after the film’s release. “A Space Odyssey” book reviews discuss the plot, characters and themes found in the story. One can learn more about the different literary elements that should be examined in the story. According to the plot of the movie the space navigators David Bowman and Frank Poole, along with three frozen hibernauts and a talkative computer named Hal, are aboard the spaceship Discovery on a mission to Saturn. They told that the purpose of the mission is to enter and explore the atmosphere of the planet. Trouble arises, however, when Hal announces that the computer's Fault Prediction Center indicates failure of one of the units within seventy-two hours (Angelo, 2003). Although the faulty part, that is not the end of the astronauts' problems. Hal still insists there is trouble ahead. Faced with an increasingly frustrating and odd-behaving Hal, Bowman threatens to turn the computer off. Before long, navigator Poole, working outside the ship, disconnected from his safety lines and drifts off into space. The sleeping hibernauts also disconnected from the pods that maintain their bodies and die. Bowman left alone with Hal (Angelo, 2003). Realizing that the computer killed the others...
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...Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits By BENEDICT CAREYSEPT. 6, 2010 retrived from :http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/health/views/07mind.html?scp=1&sq=Study%20Skills&st=cse Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. Set goals. Set boundaries. Do not bribe (except in emergencies). And check out the classroom. Does Junior’s learning style match the new teacher’s approach? Or the school’s philosophy? Maybe the child isn’t “a good fit” for the school. Such theories have developed in part because of sketchy education research that doesn’t offer clear guidance. Student traits and teaching styles surely interact; so do personalities and at-home rules. The trouble is, no one can predict how. Yet there are effective approaches to learning, at least for those who are motivated. In recent years, cognitive scientists have shown that a few simple techniques can reliably improve what matters most: how much a student learns from studying. The findings can help anyone, from a fourth grader doing long division to a retiree taking on a new language. But they directly contradict much of the common wisdom about good study habits, and they have not caught on. For instance, instead of sticking to one study location, simply alternating the room where a person...
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...colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1861 a political and military war between the Northern and Southern states began because they had different views of the human rights and the southern states still used blacks as slaves in some areas. This war was called the Civil War. The short story “The Whipping Boy” is about the three slaves Martha, Mikey, and, Tommy, who have lived as slaves during the Civil War. It’s a short story about slavery, freedom and their revenge on Sterling Gage who has tortured the three slaves throughout their lives. The short story is published in 2011 and is written by the author Richard Gibney. The short story shows how harsh and brutal it was to be a slave and how they fight to achieve freedom. It also shows how revengeful the slaves were because they were treated very badly throughout their lives. The short story takes place in the United States in the end of the American Civil War. “It was the day after the boy from the Union had come to the farm to let the slaves know they were freemen” (Page 1 lines 1-2). This is the first quotation in the short story and it already tells us that it takes place in America in the Southern states. The key word “the Union” says that the story takes place in the Southern states because the Union is in the North and the boy came from the Union. The slaves in the Northern states were already free at this moment and they fight for freedom of the slaves in the Southern states. Therefore, we can assume that it takes place...
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...In the words of Dr. Seuss, “Fiction is my addiction!” Fiction has been my addiction this summer. I was required to read two books, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and Calico Joe by John Grisham. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a book essentially a book about what it means to be human. The book is about a family’s life in poverty and their struggle to get out of it. Calico Joe is about an aspiring, young baseball player who is breaking all the records. Then a tragic incident happens causing his baseball dreams to be ruined. When reading these books you learn the true meaning of “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” At first glance, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith seemed very intimidating. The mere size of the book made me think it...
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...Paulette Smithmeyer CWV-101 April 20,2014 Dr. Jim Uhley Worldview Christian worldview is distinguished by portraying our universe, individualism and at unlocking the issues we find ourselves in. Thoughts and opinions that society hold perpetually, move their logic and demeanor. Worldview/life-view are opinions and living views that affect your mind, body and your daily life. Looking at worldview it is a point of view. It can be values, emotions, ethics, cultural, etc. It is how someone interprets the world. We all have our own point of view or opinion. I can agree or disagree with how you perceive it. That is what makes each of us our own individual and each one of of unique. We have our owns thoughts, beliefs, ideas and certainties. The existence of God is forever. There is no beginning and no end. One of God's attributes is love. He has loved his creations from the day that he formed man out of dust. God is a God that does not change, does not lie, does not change his mind as we a human beings do. The Bible shows that God reveled himself many times and in many ways. Each of these were to offer the insight into his personality, attributes of his character such as his love, his authority power and righteousness. When a man dies he who has been faithful unto the Lord will have eternal life. We have the glorious life that never ends. It is God's own life living in us. We will be full and free, like a natural spring that keeps bubbling up and producing clean...
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...McAlister 1 Daniel McAlister Dr. Gaines Writing 101 10 April 2013 Along The Mountain Pass I remember it was a cold December evening. Thick storm clouds covered the night sky. The absence of any light, from the moon or stars, allowed the darkness to suck me into its cold, damp, chilling shroud of fear. The brisk, icy frost that hit my throat each time I inhaled was quickly soothed by the warm, moist air that would escape from my lungs, like a cloud of smoke, as I exhaled. “I knew I shouldn’t have served Mr. Sanford those last few drinks,” I said to myself that night, as I walked to my car. I had not been expecting the weather to turn so bad. Mr. Sanford was a 72 year old retired Navy Master Chief. He once told me that since the age of 13 there had not been a day that went by when he did not drink. He was kindly referred to by his drinking buddies as, “a salty dog.” Most nights, Mr. Sanford had no problems getting himself home safely. It was just a couple of miles down the road from the bar to his driveway. But that night was different. I recall sitting in my car after work allowing the engine to warm up. As I sat there, I started thinking about all of the statistics I had just learned a couple of months earlier, when my fellow co-workers and I had attended an alcohol training class. It was required of us by the state liquor board in order to continue working as bartenders. In 2008, 46 percent of all car crashes, in the state of Colorado, involving one participant with a...
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...Krebbs ran up about three hundred dollars’ worth of long distance calls, set his couch on fire in five different places, killed his cat and avocado tree, and tore the door off of his medicine cabinet. He sensed that Krebbs was in his karass even though he never saw the man as he disappeared. He said that Krebbs was a wrang-wrang and according to Bokonon, is a person who leads people away from a line of speculation by reducing that line. John says on Sunday of that week, he figured out that Franklin Hoenikker was alive. He said the news of Franklin still being alive was in a special section of the New York Sunday Times. John found an ad for San Lorenzo, a tiny country that stood as a republic. The advertisement showed a young woman by the name of Mona Aamons Monzano, this girl was actually adopted by the controller of the country. John immediately figured out that he had romantic feelings...
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...Maynard/Stow — “Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.” This was the concluding sentence of a short essay by Ian Frazier appearing in the New Yorker magazine, February 2011. You know – like mountain tops, the Grand Canyon, the Empire State Building or the bow of the Titanic (before it sank). Maynard and Stow offer remarkably few opportunities to be in a place where distant vistas are a view. Once upon a time Summer Hill, now tree-covered and trail-crossed, was open pasture. History Society pictures taken as recently as World War II show an expanse with few trees. Decades earlier, state surveyors installed an official stone marker atop Summer Hill, with the expectation that from that point, clear viewing was available in all directions. Marble Hill, at 440 feet, the highest elevation in Stow, is similarly tree-obstructed. Stow does offer a hill with a present-day view. Stories hold that ships’ pilots in Boston harbor used the stand of pine trees atop Pilot Grove Hill as a navigational landmark, suggesting that in the reverse direction a person atop the hill could see Boston’s skyscrapers. Alas, not so. Mayhap from a treetop, but not from ground level. However, Birch Hill Road, elevation 370 feet, does offer a glimpse of Mt. Wachusett, twenty miles to the northwest. Bridges can offer vistas. White Pond Road over the Assabet River, on the Stow/Maynard border, offers good views up and down river – albeit less than...
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... 1 Transforming an Organization Linda Nance MGT 435 – Organizational Change Instructor: Dr. Brian Collins October 12, 2015 Running head: ORGANIZATION 2 Transforming an Organization Whether you have a large organization or a small one, the only thing that you can count on, the only thing that is constant is change. Change is needed in order to for companies to move forward and keep up with the needs of their customers. If you are the owner or the manager, you know that you need a change, but you are uneasy about the challenges that you may face, or unsure as to how to go about making the change happen. One organization that is constantly changing is Walmart. It is considered to be the largest retailer in the world (http://www.viewamerica.net/art/en-walmart.html). For a large organization such as Walmart they need to be able to keep up with the needs of the customers by reinventing themselves through change. Being relevant to customers and maintaining their high standards has been one of the reasons why Walmart has been so successful. Over the past eight years, I have had the opportunity to get a first-hand look at how the company has changed using different approaches such as Kotter’s eight step method – create an urgency, form a powerful coalition, create a vision for change, communicate the vision, remove obstacles, create short term wins, rebuild on the change, and anchor the changes in corporate culture. The history of a company is...
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