...Explore the ways Susan Hill presents Kingshaw in the opening 5 chapters of the novel. Edmund Hooper is presented as a troubled child who did not go through a normal childhood. We first get a glimpse of Hooper’s unusual nature in Chapter 1. Most people would sympathise with a dying member of their family. However, Hooper describes his Grandfather as “one of his dead moths”. This quote informs us about how cold and disrespectful Hooper can be. Also, it reflects on Hooper’s upbringing. Hill creates a sense that Hooper acts unnaturally because of how he was brought up, without a mother; he had no love or affection. At most points of the novel, Hooper’s narrative voice always seems to focus on him and there is always an evil tone in his voice. In Chapter 2, Kingshaw unexpectedly receives a not from Hooper saying, “I didn’t want you to come here”. This action makes us think that Hooper is unpleasant, mean and that he refuses to communicate with anyone who “doesn’t belong”. The author depicts Edmund Hooper’s greed for authority. Chapter 3 portrays the image of Kingshaw being followed by the “shining black” crow. The crow “circled over Kingshaw and waited for the right timing to attack. The diction also illustrates the image of a predator hunting its prey. Similar to Kingshaw being an “invader” in the field, Hooper shows predatory instincts towards to protect his own territory from an “invader”. Hooper is so easily able to control and terrorize others because he studies...
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...those dreams whereas you are plummeting towards the earth and right before you hit the ground your physical body drops and you are jolted awake as if it had been real? Many would say that having a dream like that would inquire a subconscious fear of failure in your waking life, or that something in your life is rapidly heading in a wrong direction. B. Relevance: Being college students, I know most of us go to bed every night and/or during the day and, many times have I woken up thinking “Wow, I just had the weirdest dream” but, you never think to ask the question why did I dream that. Throughout my high school career I kept a dream journal and every time I had a dream I would write it down and do some research on the internet about what it meant. According to Carl Jung, a famous psychologist who mentored Sigmond Freud, He believed that dreams were the “window into the unconscious mind”. C. Credibility: I have been interested in dreams for several years now. I took my first psychology class last year in the spring. however, I have had an interest in it before. It had all started when I woke up from a nightmare and I could not help but wonder, why was I so upset or unable to reach what I wanted? Its a dream, Why can I not control it? I looked it up online to find not only a few meanings of dreams, but a dictionary filled with them. D. Thesis: In order to understand the issues in our waking life we must first analyze our subconscious messages throughout our dreams in order...
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...Dreams: Informative Speech Thesis Statement: Understanding how dreams occur, how they affect our lives and what they mean help us grasp what dreams actually are. Intro: I. (Attention Getter) Have you ever dreamt that you were walking along the side of a road or along a cliff and suddenly you trip? You’re falling for what seems like forever, but before hitting the ground, you wake up? This is considered to be a falling dream, and ironically, falling dreams occur when you are falling asleep. They are usually accompanied by muscle spasms and twitches of the entire body. Although these dreams occur while we are falling asleep, they interpret a completely different meaning. Falling can mean you are insecure, you are losing grip, or you simply have fears that need to be faced. Patricia Garfield, the author of Creative Dreaming states: “there is some problem that is making you feel helpless like you have no support, so next time when you wake up startled from a falling dream, ask yourself what upcoming events do I fear I will fail?” II. (Introduce Topic) Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to understand the different functions of the human body, how we move, talk, and even act. Many of these physiological behaviors have been explained to some extent. However, one area of the human body that has baffled researchers, is that of the mind. Many things that go on inside the mind that don’t make sense, and serves no real explanation as to why or how things happen....
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...famous speech, "I Have a Dream". He delivered the speech in 1963 in Washington D.C. the theme of the speech was to describe the dream he had of a better America that was free from racial discrimination especially that of the black people. Luther begins his speech by illustrating the historical context of the injustices done to the black people due to their skin color. The introduction creates a base for the main theme of the speech where he shares his dream with the people about the America he wishes to see in the future. The discussion of the paper illustrates the effectiveness of the speech using the five canons of rhetoric. Invention The topic that Luther chooses is very captivating, and it is crucial to having a significant effect on the audience. First, the topic is in line with the current situations that are affecting the people. The people, therefore, feel they are part of what Luther is speaking about. The invention gives the black activists a future they are supposed to dream of. Secondly, the invention of the topic instills hope to the people. In a time of oppression and discrimination, the choice of the topic is efficient because it creates a sense of hope and a brighter future for the people. Connecting with the people's emotions determines the extent a speech has to the audience. Lastly, the topic motivates the audience to think about the future they would like to have. In the process of jogging their minds, they internalize the intended message of the speech. Arrangement ...
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...The speech was delivered at the George Washington University in the year 2013 on May 19. This is where the actress Kerry Washington gave her insightful and motivated speech. Before she reached the podium, one of the faculty members introduced Kerry Washington. His tone was educative, and informative when speaking to the audience. He spoke about Kerry Washington’s childhood background, and how she achieved several accomplishments, not just as a student at George Washington University, but on a nation scale with her awards and nomination from the NAACP. Overall, Kerry Washington’s speech is intimate, insightful, and motivating. When Kerry Washington finally begins to talk, the first words she says is “I love you too” to the audience. This sentence...
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...Afro-American women who became Lieutenant Governor, served to America in the Army and forms part of the minority group of immigrants. Jennifer Carroll came to give a speech at the institution of Broward College, honoring the black history month. Carroll started her speech and gained the attention of the audience by telling some background of her early life. This woman came from Trinidad and Tobago with her parents looking for the American Dream in the United States of America. While the speaker was comparing herself with the audience, she was making a bond with them due to her explanation of how she has evolved her ambitions and achieved the position that she has in her life. The first Afro-American Lieutenant Governor and also the first woman in the position, talked about her days in the army and how that serves as an example for students that at some point in their life have to face issues that may need hard decisions. In fact Carroll used specifically a personal story to illustrate the importance of keep going and never give up. In the army, during duty, she had a friend that was pregnant and for it, the woman was afraid of telling her superiors due to the possibility of leaving her out of her job. Behind the speaker was running a presentation that she didn’t use, but had information related to the content of the speech as in the case of important dates for American history, and names of prominent figures. The only thing about the presentation is that it was distracting due...
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...Informative Speech Outline Name: Speech Title: “Chicago” Specific Purpose Statement: “I will inform my audience about the city of Chicago. I will explain what things you can see, do, eat, and the teams that that make Chicago, Chicago to all the Chicagoans.” Thesis Statement: Chicago - a city that is not overrated. I. INTRODUCTION A. Gaining the Audience's Attention: How many of us have lived in a city known to be famous by many and never taken the time to enjoy it? The key in life is not to be that person. B. Preview of Main Points - (1) Major sites in Chicago that you must see. (2) Places and things you must do while in Chicago. (3) The best food to eat in Chicago that doesn’t taste the same anywhere else. (4) The teams to go watch in Chicago. II. MAIN BODY A. First Point: Major sites in Chicago that you must see 1. Sears Tower a. It overlooks downtown Chicago and its surroundings b. It is one the tallest building in the world (Statistics) (Hasan, 2008) 2. Visit two of city’s largest parks a. Lincoln Park b. Grant Park i. Millennium Park ii. The Cloud Gate iii. Buckingham Fountain 3. Field Museum B. Second Point: Places and things you must do while in Chicago 1. Go to the Navy piers a. Boat tours b. Bike rides 2. Go to downtown Chicago walk around and shop ...
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...“Speech Title” General Purpose To Inform Specific Purpose To inform the audience about Childhood Cancer Thesis Today I am here to talk to you about childhood cancer and inform the audiences how many innocent lives are taken away, I. Introduction Jalene, age 5, Marshall, age 4, Jax, 3 months old, Abby, age 16, Molly, age 12, Kylie, age 1 and Stephanie, a family member and the strongest person I’ve know, age 11. Each of these kids has a face, has a dream, is someone’s pride and joy, But all have cancer. Some of these kids are fighting to survive, some are in remission, and some have fought hard, but have left this world. Are you aware that more than thirteen thousand children 18 and under are diagnosed with cancer a year? That’s more than a classroom of kids a day. According to the National Cancer Institute, Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children and teenagers in the United States. Children are phenomenal people and deserve to grow up and live their dreams, but childhood cancer never takes a break. It’s not right, it’s not fair, and it’s defiantly not rare. I will discuss throughout this speech how many children are diagnosed yearly, the survival rate and the side effects of treatments. II. Body A. The loss of a child to cancer is one of the worst tragedies a family can face. Each death means the loss of an entire lifetime. And most survivors face serious medical complications. According to the National Cancer Institute, Thirty Five thousand...
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...Informative Speech General Purpose: To inform my audience about Nightmares Specific Purpose: Top inform my audience about the concept of Nightmares Thesis Statement: What are nightmares? According to Merriam-Webster, a nightmare is an evil spirit formerly thought to oppress people during sleep; a frightening dream that usually wakens the sleeper; something (as an experience, situation, or object) having the monstrous character of a nightmare or producing a feeling of anxiety or terror. Introduction I. Attention Getter: “Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins…” -Friedrich Nietzsche II. Thesis Statement: Nightmares are dreams that occur during (REM) sleep that results in feelings of strong terror, fear, distress or extreme anxiety. This phenomenon tends to occur in the latter part of the night and oftentimes awakens the sleeper, who is likely to recall the content of the dream (Psychology Today, 1991-2015). III. Preview: I am a junior in college, working on my B.S. of Science in Psychology. I do not have any formal training on this topic, but I have always been interested in what causes nightmares in adults and children, and different ways to cope with them. I have done some research on this topic and I hope I am able to shed some light on any questions you may have on it. A. Nightmares begin in children between the ages of 3 and 6 and decrease around age...
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...inform: To inform my audience on dreams Intro: Can you remember the last dream you had? Maybe you could fly or were falling down an endless dark tunnel. Perhaps you were awakened by a horrific dream in the middle of the night. If any of you are like me you experience vivid dreams. I would like to start by share one of my dream experiences with you all. About two months ago I had a dream that my boyfriend was cheating on me, now I know all you girls and guys can relate to this. I wake up in the morning with my dream still fresh on my mind and in a horrible mood. I am furious at my boyfriend, and for what reason? He hasn’t even done anything, but the thing is in my mind he has, because my dream is so vivid and real to me. So guys maybe this will help you understand that your girlfriend isn’t crazy and girls take it easy on them, it was just a dream. John Lennon once said, “I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.” Indeed he’s not, because all of us experience dreams. You may have many question unanswered about dreams, like why you can’t remember all of your dream right after you wake up, or what your strange and wild dreams are really about. All of your questions can be answered once you are informed of the history of dream, the process of remembering dreams, and all the aspects of interpreting dreams. I have completed countless hours of research on dreams and what they mean, so today I hope to help answer some of your lingering questions about dreams. So let’s get stated by talking...
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...Informative Speech Outline Name Morgan Van Horn Specific Purpose: To Inform about Dreaming Introduction You are trapped in a dark hole screaming for your life, not knowing where or how you got here. Everything around you is fogy that it all starts to fade away and then you wake up with sweat dripping down your back and your heart racing a mile a minute. Five minutes after this dream about half of its content is forgotten and in 10 minutes 90% of it is gone. According to the New York time study done on October 20, 2013 by Gary Matter you spend about 6 years of your life dreaming. That’s more then 2100 days spent in a different realm. So today, lets look at how dreams really do occur, the part of your sleep cycle that dreams occur in and lastly different types of dreams. Transition: So where do dreams really start? Body I. REM Sleep A. Rapid eye movement sleep, the part of your sleep cycle charactized by rapid and random eye movement B. Occurs in the cycle for about 90-120 minutes throughout the night 1. REM sleep dominates the latter half of the sleep cycle 2. Five minutes after you wake up half of your dream is forgotten and 10 minutes 90% of it is gone. C. The eye movements may relate to internal visual images of the dreams that occurs during this stage of sleep 3. Associated with the brain wave spikes in the regions of the brain that is involved with vision 4. Studies...
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...Informative Speech Outline Topic: Taylor Swift Albums General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To Inform about Taylor Swift’s Albums Attention Getter: clip Thesis Statement: The success Taylor Swift has gained and accomplished through out each album she has released Main Points: I. Taylor Swift • First album released on October 24th, 2006 • 39,000 copies sold its first week • Contains 11 songs • 5 singles released: Tim McGraw, Teardrops On My Guitar, Our Song, Picture To Burn, Should’ve Said No • Later released a deluxe edition that included 3 new songs II. Fearless • Second album released on November 8th, 2008 • Sold 592,000 copies its first week • According to a listening session held by the Nashville Chapters and The Producers & Engineers Wing, Taylor mentioned Fearless was her breakthrough album • 5 singles released: Love Story, White Horse, You Belong With Me, Fifteen, and Fearless • Love Story was her first number one single to go International • Contains 13 songs • Later re-released as Fearless Platinum Edition which included 6 new songs and a DVD with her recent music videos • 7 total Grammy nominations, won 4 III. Speak Now • Released on October 25th, 2010 • Her first album to sell one million copies its first week • Contains 14 songs, deluxe edition includes 3 new songs • 6 singles released: Mine, Back To December, Mean, The Story Of Us, Sparks Fly, and Ours • 3 Grammy Nominations – won 2 • Taylor stated in an interview that...
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...| | CCRS | CONTENT STANDARDS | EVIDENCE OF STUDENT ATTAINMENT | RESOURCES | 91929384130 | EIGHTH GRADE: TO BE COMPLETED THROUGHOUT THE COURSEREADING LITERATURE: RANGE OF READING AND LEVEL OF TEXT COMPLEXITY By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.8.10]READING STANDARDS FOR INFORMATIONAL TEXT: RANGE OF READING AND LEVEL OF TEXT COMPLEXITY By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RI.8.10]WRITING STANDARDS: RANGE OF WRITING Write routinely over extended time frames, including time for research, reflection, and revision, and shorter time frames such as a single sitting or a day or two for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. [W.8.10]KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. [L.8.3]VOCABULARY ACQUISTION AND USE Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. [L.8.6]SPEAKING AND LISTENING STANDARDS Engage effectively in a range of...
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...night Garden and Swallows and Amazons How do ‘the lure of the real’ (Bogan,A.2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300,Block 4) work together in any two of the set texts in Block 4? ‘The lure of the real’ (Bogan,A.2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300,Block 4) are used to create dramatic effect and depth to narratives, in interesting and diverse ways. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. When the real and the fantastic combine, truly delightful and often informative, stories are created. Novels differ in their proportional use of realism and fantasy. Realism is commonly used to convey a sense of believability, to give gravitas to characters and to enable a child reader to understand through the presentation of the familiar and recognisable. Fantasy can be viewed as a “departure from consensus reality.” (Hume cited in EA300. Block4.p169). This could exist in the form of imaginary play, dreams, unworldly creations or literal impossibility. This essay will concentrate on Swallows and Amazons and Tom’s Midnight Garden. Each text has different approaches to the use of reality and fantasy. However, they convey similar themes and messages through various presentations of ‘the real’ and ‘the fantastic.’ Ransome and Pearce anchor their stories in reality by creating a “powerful sense of place and” a “celebration of freedom underpinned by family security.” (EA300, Block4) Ransome achieves this by distinct geographical representation of the Lake District...
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...Speech 10 Informative Speech Outline Specific Purpose/Goal: I want my audience to know about an emerging basketball star that has broken the stereotypes and has proven to everyone with will power and with the faith of god, you can accomplish anything. Intro: It’s Feb 14th and the Toronto Raptors are hosting the New York Knicks. It became an exciting game when the Knicks rallied from a 17 point deficit to tie the game at 87 points late in the fourth quarter. With twenty seconds left in the game, Knicks possession, Imran Shupert, who plays Guard position, missed a bank shot, but Tyson Chandler got the rebound and tossed it to Jeremy Lin at the top of the key. With about ten seconds left Lin briefly glanced at Mike D’antoni to make sure his coach was okay with an isolation play. Jose Calderon was guarding Lin and gave him some space. With seconds winding down Jeremy Lin stopped his dribble, pulled up and launched a three pointer with Calderon in his face trying to block the shot. SWOOSH! The crowd goes wild. Lin beats the buzzer and wins the game for the Knicks 90-87. Now who is this guy you may ask, and where did he come from? He’s gained stardom in such a short period of time, 3 weeks and counting. Well we’re going to learn about his childhood life, his college career and lastly we’ll talk about his astonishing rise to NBA stardom. He’s breaking barriers and making history. First let’s jump right into his background I. Early Life of Lin A. Lin was born...
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