...Enduring Love Character Profile Joe Rose Joe Rose is the first person narrator of the novel. He describes himself as a “large, clumsy balding fellow. He always wanted to be a scientist, but because he was too old to do research he wrote science books instead. He is 48 years old (calculated by assumption because Jed Parry is 28 and he is 28 years younger than Joe. He is very intelligent, an analytical thinker; however, because he is so analytical it causes him to dwell on his emotions. He is extremely guilty about the accident and one of his goals in the novel is for him to rid himself of that guilt. He is the object of Jed Parry’s affection, and while he may not do it purposefully some believe that he encourages the attention from him to fill what he may be missing in his own life. He is married to Clarissa for seven years. The relationship with her is the only one that existed prior to the accident. They are unable to have children, yet are good with kids and care deeply about their godchildren. He is devoted to her and seems to be surprised that she could love him as well. However, because of poor communication he damages their relationship. Joe is the narrator of the story and when he is not telling the story it is from another person’s point of view. By having Joe as the narrator is empowers him, allowing him to decide what parts of the story the audience sees. In the movie, his physical appearance is obviously much different from the book. In the book he is described...
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...Enduring Love is a postmodern novel that explores themes of narrative and knowledge through the relationships of the central character, Joe Rose. Joe is a science journalist in a "childless marriage of love" with Clarissa Rose, an English professor of Keats. Although Joe approaches the world through rationality and Clarissa approaches it through emotion, they are happy together and have a stable, comfortable world. Joe is the main narrator of the book and he often makes references to narrative choices of exclusion or inclusion of details. He explains that he chooses his beginning because it is the point that makes the most "sense." Joe starts the story with Clarissa and Joe's reunion picnic being interrupted by a hot air balloon accident. Joe and a few other men try to save a child trapped in a balloon, but the high winds force all the men except one to drop the ropes. That man, John Logan, a doctor and family-man from Oxford, is carried up into the sky by the balloon until he eventually falls to his death. His shocking and senseless death deeply upsets Joe and Clarissa and they try to comfort each other and make "sense" of the event by telling it as a story. Also at the balloon accident is a lonely, religious young man named Jed Parry. He shares a look with Joe and becomes convinced that they are in love. Later that night, as Clarissa and Joe are falling asleep, Parry calls Joe to tell him that he loves him. Joe tries to cope with the disturbing accident by writing an article...
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...Unit 6: Lesson 2 Assignment 1. What is your initial impression of this work? This is a love story. Some of the main themes covered in this work are the difficulties in love, magic, dreams and the relationships between fantasy and reality. The customs of the ancient Greek dictated that a father had to choose the husband for his daughter. If the daughter declined her father's choice then she was supposed to be killed on the fourth day. The main character, Hermia, doesn't approve her father's wish for Demetrius to be her suitor. Hermia must now choose to be a nun, get married to Demetrius, or death. Hermia's true love is Lysander and he offers to take her to his aunt where the law doesn't not apply and there the will get married. 2. What is...
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...Marcela Hernandez 1 November 2015 Mrs. Serna AP Lit Chapters 1-5 discussion Chapter 3 1. Nanny is more practical with her idea of love. She sees it as something that has to happen at one point. Nanny was most like forced to marry as well so she doesn’t believe in the idea of marrying for love. Janie has a fairy tale dream of love and marriage. She believes that to marry someone means that you need to be in love with the person in order to be happy. Nanny is more practical while Janie is more romantic. 2. There seems to be a tone of resignation. When Janie is forced to marry, her dreams of finding true love in marriage are crushed. She is beginning to realize that her dreams wouldn’t happen and she feels resignation. Nanny also feels resignation in a sense that her attempts to give Janie what she thought would be a successful life, would ultimately fail because she was obviously not happy about it. Nanny also realizes that she has done all that she can for Janie at this point and proceeds to give up....
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...Rose just had the most disturbing dream about Lisa and Christian. She thought it was about her and Dimitri but boy was she wrong, she was in Lisa's head while she was asleep. She woke up from that horrid nightmare and went outside in the middle of the day(since vampires sleep in the daytime) while it was winter in her p.j’s and slippers. She did an amazing job on getting past all the guards in the building but when she got outside, she ran into Dimitri, the outside guard. After talking for a bit he made her walk her way inside, not before someone yelled for Dimitri of course. Rose hid and Dimitri talked to the head of the noviences(aka dhampires). After that she saw what she thought was Mason(who had been killed by a strogie attack). She went...
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...any longer would cause him to burst into flames.” Zep jokes leering at the flustered and blushing girl as she takes off after Brando. Sister Mary grinds her fist into the palm of her other hand, “Her name is Erina and she’s only 16, so don’t try to woo her away from the lord” she says plainly to the priest. Father Zeppeli comically shocked, “Sister! Perish the thought, we are all in the service of the lord!” fingertips against his bottom lip. Sister Mary draws closer to priest, letter her breasts press against him, “Fine, you can borrow Jonathan, but have him back at the orphanage before Dinner.” her hands make their way to Zep’s waist “And maybe after dinner we … could -”. Zeppeli takes hold of Sister Mary's hands and smiles, “I would love to stay for dinner but, the chur-” Mary interrupts her face painted with distress and anger “You haven’t been over to see him once, he’s already walkin-”. Erina walks into the entrance of the church, Brando across her shoulders in a hanging back-breaker. “Are we heading back Sister?” Erina asks shouting over the wailing of Brando. Sister Mary nods her face turned away from Erina. The nuns and the children head down the hill towards town while Jonathan runs back into the church, closing the double doors behind him. In the church Zeppeli walks towards one of the back rooms with Jonathan close behind. Zeppeli removes his holy garbs as he enters the sacramental room and takes a seat on a wooden box next to the silver plates, while holding unleavened...
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...Module 1: Children with Mothers - at - Work Lesson 1: Loving My Mother (Love) Objectives: The students are expected to: 1. Identify the things that their mother is doing 2. Participate in the given activity 3. Show appreciation in the things that their mother can do. Materials: Pictures of community helpers, Human Bingo sheet, and pen, and journal notebook Mood Setting - Name the Picture Procedure 1. Show the picture of some community helpers and ask the participants to name them: a. doctor f. house helper b. nurse g. policewoman c. teacher h. soldier d. dressmaker i. firefighter e. chef j. flight attendant 2. Invite the students to give a short description of the main responsibility that each community helper is doing. a. doctor – cures the sick b. nurse – assists the doctor in healing the sick c. teacher – teaches children to learn things in school d. dressmaker – creates clothes e. chef – cooks food f. house helper– employed to do household work g. policewoman – empowered to enforce the law, protect property and reduce civil disorder h. soldier – defends the country against bad people i. firefighter – fights fire j. flight attendant – assists persons in an airplane Processing 1. What can you say about the gender shown in the pictures? 2. Are women good enough to attend to those kinds of responsibilities? 3. What are their advantage as a woman in their chosen field? Activity – Human Bingo Procedure...
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...January 27, 2010 War on Afghanistan We are all humans, and as other creatures we are imperfect and full of sin. We might have wrong thoughts, unique beliefs, or even dour doctrines. However, all these features shouldn’t drag us to be authoritarians under any circumstance. These words precisely illustrate the situation that was ongoing in Afghanistan under the rule of Taliban government. I tended to think that killing cannot be justified in defense of the innocent against unjust attack, whether the victim deserves it or not. But that right is not absolute; someone can forfeit that right if they willfully threaten or taken the lives of innocent people. Therefore, the American involvement in Afghanistan was fair and justified in order to bring the Afghan’s sorrow, tyranny, and violation of rights to an end. Historically, the country of Afghanistan was devastated by the successive wars. The people were exhausted from the consecutive occupations and tyranny. As a result, it summed in an enormous human and economic toll. After the Soviet withdrawal, the government steadily lost ground to the extremist forces. In early 1992, Kabul was captured, and Al-Qaeda militia men set up a new government consisting of a 50-member ruling council. The new brutal government started imposing their extremist, strict beliefs on people. They used radio broadcasts to coerce residents into adhering to their strict edicts. The extremists spread fear and despair among the Afghans by their brutal...
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...Center (RSSC) - EUR, where he plans, engineers, and coordinates satellite communications network accesses for four unified combatant commanders. In this function he interacts great with people from all services, government civilians, and even other country representatives. He has represented the Space and Missile Defense Command and the Army well in many missions and consistently displayed competence and abilities expected of a Warrant Officer. 3. SFC Smith will surely benefit the Army by serving as a Network Management Technician for many reasons. He has all the correct skills and proven experience in tough, high tempo organizations. What really makes him the correct choice to be a 250N is his determination to succeed. During Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, SFC Smith led his eight-man team into a hostile area and installed a communication network in two hours versus the eight hour average. Additionally, he earned the distinction of Honor Graduate during his ANCOC attendance and also secured a place on the Commandant’s list. I am fully confident that he will represent the Warrant Officer Corps superbly. 4. I am available for further discussion of this matter at Commercial (123)...
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...TO: Families of Fallen United States Military Service members and Corporate Sponsors FROM: Doris Straight, Marketing Director Military Veterans Foundation DATE: 11 November 2013 SUBJECT: Donations for Fallen Heroes Monument in Virginia As the marketing director and for a military veteran’s foundation I take great honor in representing our military here in Virginia. When providing marketing communications to our sponsors and military families to discuss getting sponsorship or donations to our organization it is important to look at demographics and psychographics in order to be able to target the correct audience. Demographics and psychographics affect the way consumers buy in to products. The demographics I am appealing to for our organization is location and age. There are a lot of Virginia residents that are have an affiliation with the military either by having served, serving now or as a retiree. Building this monument for Virginia residents gives them a symbol of something meaningful that honors their families and it is right outside their front door. Another demographic would be age. I am appealing to the age range of 15 years old and up. Fifteen year olds are in high school and some of them may be a part of their Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at their school. Some may be in the class just to get a credit but most times their parents or a family member served or is currently serving in the military. When dealing with psychographics I would try to...
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...Eqbal Mohammad Cleared Linguist with CI Polygraph 10429 Rapidan Lane Manassas, VA 20109 Cell: 571-839-1523 meqbal30@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------- Profile More than 9 years of experience in translation , interpretation and Linguist management for Senior U.S Military Personnel and Afghan National Security Forces in Afghanistan which included translation of hundreds of documents and simultaneous and near simultaneous interpretation of dozens of Senior Leader Seminars for Afghan military and civilian officials hosted by U.S military. In addition, I have managed and supervised more than 75 linguists supporting Operations Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. More than 2 years of experience instructing Dari and Pashto languages including a working knowledge of Afghan Culture to the U.S. military in U.S. ------------------------------------------------- WORK EXPERIENCE Dari/Pashto Linguist/Translator Feb.2011-Jun-2014 Mission Essential Personnel LLC.| Afghanistan. * Translated hundreds of projects from Dari to English and vice versa. * Translated military, medical, legal and Afghan Government documents from Dari to English and vice versa * Edited translated documents from Dari to English and vice versa. * Translated/Interpreted for U.S army during Detainees Operation in Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan. Dari Instructor Jan.2009-Feb.2011 American Federal Contractor, (A.F.C) Fort Polk, La, USA * Provided professional...
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...Extensive Backlog Time for Equipment Upgraded by Contractors in Afghanistan I served in Kandahar Afghanistan from January 2011 to December 2011 during Operation Enduring Freedom with the 655th Transportation Company (TC). My task was to supervise the maintenance of ground equipment, specifically Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, and manage Class IX parts to which provided convoy security for movements between outposts. During that period I encountered extensive backlog times for upgraded equipment completed by contractors that often left vehicles dead-lined in excess of 90 days. Observation 1: Poorly operating or inoperable air conditioning units awaiting upgrades left equipment dead-lined for extended periods. Discussion: The 655th Transportation Company was tasked with providing convoy security for supply movements between outposts in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan. Due to the extreme heat experienced in this region during the summer months non-functioning air conditioning becomes a deadline issue for the MRAP classes of vehicles. One MRAP in particular, the International MaxxPro, had an insufficient electrical system to power the air conditioning units resulting in melted wiring and reduced fan speeds. Contract maintenance was doing retrofits of the electrical system for this issue; however, due to the number of vehicles needing conversion, a significant backlog was created. The work could be done by the motor pool mechanics but the kit was not...
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...* Read the scenario. Using the information provided in the references and lesson, arrive with your best possible solution. You are a squad leader in “Sapper” platoon, Special Troop Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. Your unit will deploy to Afghanistan to conduct operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. One of your critical tasks in preparing for your deployment is to train your squad on the laws and regulations that we must implement to protect our environment from being damage and contaminated. The 586th Assault Float Bridge (AFB) Company will conduct a five-day FTX in the Anatuvak training area of Camp Yukon. The unit will depart Fort Chilly and convoy 120 miles on limited-access highways. The commander establishes several rest areas and tactical refueling and maintenance points along the route. Reconnaissance team indicated the trip to take approximately 8 hours. Upon arrival at Camp Yukon, the unit will move into the Anatuvak training area and set up a bivouac site, preceded by their quartering party. During the FTX, the company will conduct tactical-bridging operations on the Yukon River. The FTX will involve normal operations (12 to 16 hours a day), with some night and limited visibility operations. The operations will include the use of pyrotechnics and blank munitions. The FTX will not include live fire due to budgetary constraints. The area has hills, wetlands, several winding streams, and one large river. Signs in the area identify and mark...
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...Afghanistan : The Reality Why US is failing in Afghanistan and what should be its response National Strategy. There are a numerous strategic errors committed by US in Afghanistan in the past and these errors are haunting them now. The strategic errors committed are difficult to undo. But , correcting them will be worse. It’s like leaving Saddam in power after the first Gulf war and then tried correcting it with Gulf War II...with worse results and losing all the goodwill and invincibility they had built after the first gulf war. The coalition forces were welcomed by Afghanis when Taliban was dismantled because they looked powerful, asserting and someone who could improve lives of normal Afghani. Today, things seem different. They look powerless, difficult and worse something which is making ordinary Afghani life more difficult than it was under Taliban. For coalition forces , If someone like Taliban can make them look like novice in war-fighting then they have to take a hard look at their national, operational and tactical strategy. I would like to start with what is AIM of coalition forces....is it making life of ordinary Afghani more prosperous and peaceful or ensuring security of US. These aims look different but actually they are co-terminus. One will lead to the other but start point has to be to develop Afghanistan and not the other way around which Secretary of State Hillary enunciated a few days back. If the strategy is making Afghanistan prosperous and peaceful...
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...Dyess Air Force Base, Texas is formally known as a military hub for the famous B-1 and C-130 aircraft and for being an active part of the Global War on Terrorism. From December 2003 until April 2013, the base was a vital part of Operation Enduring Freedom as well as Operation Iraqi Freedom and was deployed consistently for almost 3,400 days during that time. Dyess Air Force Base, located 4 miles west of Abilene, has valued and contributed to the community of Abilene throughout its history. Formerly named Tye Army Air Field, Abilene Army Air Base, and Abilene Army Air Field, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas has been “dropping warheads on foreheads” in the name of freedom for over seventy years. Although only remnants of Tye Army Air Field exist...
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