...Will Grayson, Will Grayson The novel that I read was titled Will Grayson, Will Grayson. The novels is split up into two different ways. The first Will Grayson lives in uptown Chicago, the author presents his side of the story like a normal book would be written. The other Will Grayson who lives in downtown Chicago, the author presents him by not using any capital letters while writing his side of the story. The first Will Grayson is straight and likes a girls named Jane. Jane likes Will throughout the first half of the book. It isn’t until she gets a boyfriend that Will realizes that he is in love with her. Will best friends name is Tiny, which is ironic because he is the opposite of Tiny. All 3 of them attempt to get into a concert, The Maybe Dead Cats at a 21 and over bar. Of course Will expensive fake I.D. does not fool the bouncer at the door. Will tells Tiny and Jane to go ahead in and to call him when they decide to leave. So Will is stuck wandering around town and decides to go into Frenchys. the other will grayson is gay. he meets a guy online named isaac, they have everything in common and will believes that he is in love with isaac. they finally set a time, date and place to meet up in uptown chicago. once he gets off the train he find the place where they are supposed to meet, frenchys. he doesn’t believe it at first, that isaac wants to meet at frenchys, because frenchys is a porn shop. once inside he finds two guys inside, a pierced guy standing...
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...Erin Coutts Professor Buck Jane Austen Pop Culture 7 October, 2015 Understanding Jane Austen It truly amazes me how the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and the rewrite of Pride and Prejudice by Seth Grahame-Smith can encompass the exact same story plot, yet still be different in so many ways. Jane Austen’s original book is a romantic drama that describes the difficulties faced when dealing with love and family. Her style of writing focuses on language and verbiage. Alternatively, Seth Grahame-Smith is able to rewrite this drama into more of an action thriller including zombies, ninja warriors, and sword fights through his creative and unique writing that instead focuses on characters’ actions and behaviors. While readers may initially wonder how this drastic transformation is possible, Seth is able to effectively deepen the reader’s understanding of the book through his inventive, modern concepts which help create new perspectives that the reader might have otherwise overlooked. As one of the most important sentences in the book, Jane Austen begins the first chapter with, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” (Austen 1). This sentence describes the theme of marriage which encompasses the majority of Pride and Prejudice. Seth’s version instead encompasses the life of zombies and zombie-slayers in comparison to single men and women. Thus, he updates this first, crucial sentence- “It...
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... Reviewer question: What is the author’s thesis? a. He does not have one. He is starting the paper off as an essay. I made sure that my paper had a thesis and that it was clearly stated. 2. Reviewer question: Is the thesis clearly stated? If not, how would you help the writer restate it? a. I know his topics but I do not know which way to guide him. I made sure that my paper was clearly stated and my thesis was clearly stated. Writer question: List the changes made based on this feedback. Also list those suggestions that were offered but that you did not make, and explain why you did not make the suggestions. 3. Reviewer question: Does the essay’s body stick to the main topic? If not, where does it digress, and how could the writer revise the paper to make it stay more on the main topic? a. Unfortunately, I think that the paper was very patchy and wordy. I think that if an outline was completed, Christopher would have a smoother transition in his paper. Some places were okay but then he would go back and rewrite what he just mentioned a few lines above. I made sure the essays body stuck to the main topic. Also I made sure that my essay was not repeating the same information over and over. Next time I will spend more time creating an outline. Writer question: List the changes made based on this feedback. Also list those suggestions that were offered but that you did not make, and explain why you did not make the suggested changes. ...
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...following the writing process will help. I’m going to explain what each stage of the writing process involves, and I’ll offer some tips for each section that will help out if you’re still feeling stuck! 1. Prewriting Have you ever sat staring at a blank piece of paper or a blank document on your computer screen? You might have skipped the vital first stage of the writing process: prewriting. This covers everything you do before starting your rough draft. As a minimum, prewriting means coming up with an idea! Ideas and Inspiration Ideas are all around you. If you want to write but you don’t have any ideas, try: * Using a writing prompt to get you started. * Writing about incidents from your daily life, or childhood. * Keeping a notebook of ideas – jotting down those thoughts that occur throughout the day. * Creating a vivid character, and then writing about him/her. See also How to Generate Hundreds of Writing Ideas. Tip: Once you have an idea, you need to expand on it. Don’t make the mistake of jumping straight into your writing – you’ll end up with a badly structured piece. Building on Your Idea These are a couple of popular methods you can use to add flesh to the bones of your idea: * Free writing: Open a new document or start a new page, and write everything that comes into your head about your chosen topic. Don’t stop to edit, even if you make mistakes. * Brainstorming: Write the idea or topic in the center of your page. Jot down ideas that arise...
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...better path. This is exactly what happened in this movie. Derek had to embrace the aspects of being in a situation that he was not comfortable with and do the best that he could with it. Even though he had a swastika tattoo on his chest, the prison officials forced him to work with the black men. Prison changed the way that Derek thought about life, causing him to change his way as well as no longer practicing in or for the KKK. The movie American History X is about two brothers, Danny and Derek Vineyard who are skinheads. Derek was the older of the two brothers. The movie beings as with three black men pulling up trying to break into Derek’s truck, so Derek comes out with a pistol and shoots and kills one, curb stomps the other, and the one as the driver gets away. The effect of his actions landed himself a conviction of voluntary manslaughter and three years in prison. Danny’s history teacher had the student write a paper on a civil rights person that is of their choice. Danny decided to write about Hitler and titled it Mein Kampf. The history teacher went to the principle because he believed that the paper is out of line. The principle elects to reprimand Danny for the paper that he wrote and instructs Danny to rewrite the paper except this time it is to be on his older brother Derek that was due the next day. The principle would become his new history teacher and decided to call...
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...To the Big Screen Introduction I Who doesn’t like sitting in a big cool movie theater watching the newest action movie or the latest suspense thriller? It’s hard to believe though that the two hours you watch on the big screen took months if not years of hard work and preparation to make. II Movies aren’t just made out of thin air ready to be enjoyed. There is a process that every movie goes through in seeing that it gets made. III This process varies slightly depending on the size of the movie, but overall every movie made, from the amateur film student using the video camera on his phone or the latest summer blockbuster goes through a three-step process. However, the focus on my speech will be more on Hollywood movies rather then lower budget movies. IV The three steps a movie must go through to be made are preproduction, filming, and postproduction. Transition: So, what happens when a movie goes through pre production you may be wondering? Body I Preproduction is the period of time when you plan and prepare for the movie you are making. A First and foremost a movie is nothing until you have a script written. 1 A movie studio will can either make a movie based on a liked script 2 Or hey can also ask a writer to create a script based on a certain idea, story, or past event. Transition: Once the script has been written then the real work begins to get...
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...Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper Author: Jim Pryor, Princeton University [pic] Philosophical writing is different from the writing you'll be asked to do in other courses. Most of the strategies described below will also serve you well when writing for other courses, but don't automatically assume that they all will. Nor should you assume that every writing guideline you've been given by other teachers is important when you're writing a philosophy paper. Some of those guidelines are routinely violated in good philosophical prose (e.g., see the guidelines on grammar, below). Contents • What Does One Do in a Philosophy Paper? • Three Stages of Writing o Early Stages o Write a Draft o Rewrite, and Keep Rewriting • Minor Points • How You'll Be Graded What Does One Do in a Philosophy Paper? 1. A philosophy paper consists of the reasoned defense of some claim Your paper must offer an argument. It can't consist in the mere report of your opinions, nor in a mere report of the opinions of the philosophers we discuss. You have to defend the claims you make. You have to offer reasons to believe them. So you can't just say: My view is that P. You must say something like: My view is that P. I believe this because... or: I find that the following considerations...provide a convincing argument for P. Similarly, don't just say: Descartes says that Q. Instead...
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...into something frightening and unacceptable. The recent tendency in literary analysis of monster characters is that each monster corresponds to the epoch in which it was created or re-created. That is why the original Beowulf tale Grendel is very different from the one described by Gardner and Grigsby. While the common sense would argue that the eating flesh monster of the dark ages has very little to offer the contemporary audience, the reality is that the character of Grendel became quite popular in the modern culture (Farrell 934). Jennifer Farrell argues: “Part of Grendel’s allure is the fact that he remains a mystery. His past is only alluded to, his species of origin is circumvented, and the original poet goes great length to make him as alien as possible… As Grendel lives in the water and drinks human blood, the taboo formation of his name makes his ties to evil and Cain that much stronger” (935). The original author aimed to distance his audience from understanding what is actually behind the mask of monstrosity and ugly looks. He alienated Grendel from the audience as an entirely different species without intellect or understanding of the surrounding environment, right or wrong, or the value of human life. However, in the modern time interest to the character and his inner mystery could not be destroyed by a simple condemnation of its monstrosity. Contemporary people want to understand what is behind that mask of evil. This is exactly what Gardner and Grigsby did...
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... Try this! Do read the Teacher Notes at the start of the resource – they contain a number of great ideas to spice up the activity and develop learning. Or this! Get students to complete their own paragraph plans for a tense, atmospheric narrative. Use the given plan for ‘The Assassin’ to establish the requirements of a successful plan i.e. simple three-stage plot; few characters; logical, cohesive structure etc. Or this! Display the paragraph from sheet 1 describing the character (beginning ‘He shuffled forward …’) on the board. Get pupils in turn to underline / highlight the most expressive words and phrases (start off by focusing on adjectives and adverbs, then look at verbs and key nouns). Then get everyone to rewrite the paragraph, substituting the words marked to change the tone of the piece completely. Turn it into the opening of a love story, perhaps! Or this! Having looked at sheet 1 with the class, provide them with a version of the sheet which has all the examples particular to ‘The Assassin’ deleted (see the example, plot character and setting SHEET 1a, below). Ask pupils to recreate the worksheet with a new title (The Rescuer?...
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...One great way to briefly turn the conversation toward myself at a party is to answer the question, "So, what do you do?" with, "I'm a writer." Not that most of the people I've met at parties have read my novels or short stories or feature articles; when they ask, "Have I seen any of your stuff?" I shrug and the conversation moves on. If I want attention for an hour or so, however, I'll tell them my horrible secret — for several years I made much of my freelance income writing term papers. I always wanted to be writer, but was told from an early age that such a dream was futile. After all, nobody ever puts a classified ad in the paper that reads “Writers Wanted.” Then, in the Village Voice, I saw just such an ad. Writers wanted, to write short pieces on business, economics, and literature. It was from a term paper mill, and they ran the ad at the beginning of each semester. Writing model term papers is above-board and perfectly legal. Thanks to the First Amendment, it’s protected speech, right up there with neo-Nazi rallies, tobacco company press releases, and those "9/11 Was An Inside Job" bumper stickers. It's custom-made Cliff Notes. Virtually any subject, almost any length, all levels of education — indulgent parents even buy papers for children too young for credit cards of their own. You name it, I've done it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the plurality of clients was business administration majors, but both elementary education majors and would-be social workers showed up...
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...Tiffany Houpt Professor Habbestad English 104 2 December 2013 The Pleasure Scale As we go through life we will experience different events that will help shape the scales that we use in life. Biss talks about how pain is our own experience and no one else can feel the same intensity of pain that we feel at any given point in the day. I believe that it can also be turned around no one can feel the same type of pleasure that I feel. There is no way that I can write a scale of pleasure that fits every person that is on the earth; the only scale that I can make is one where I use the pleasure that have happened to me during my life time. As we age we tend to go through events that will change our outlook on life. Something that may have been a pleasure to us when we were younger may not be pleasure to use when we are older. Take for instance playing on the playground as a young child, that was to time of the day we all waited for we got to go outside and play on the jungle gym. That would not bring me pleasure it would make me depressed just for the fact that I can no longer play on the jungle gym because I am not small enough to enjoy to the level that I would want to. 0 Imagine a world where there is no such thing as pain. Now that you have done that do you think that there would be pleasure in that world? If there is no pain there can be no pleasure they go hand in hand. If you have never felt pain then how can you know what pleasure is? Biss talks about how there is not...
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...Fight At The Investment Club It started with a fight over Big Macs. The members of the Golden Years Investment Club rarely disagreed with each other about where to put their money. In fact, most times they left the final decision to Lenn Width, the septuagenarian leader of the group, whose 34-year track record with Golden Years had led Business Week to call him "a dazzling role model" for individual investors in a cover story last May. But on this crisp October evening in 1992, one of the newest members -- David Korn, a young architect who had joined the 26-member club a year earlier -- decided it was time to dump one of the group's longtime holdings. "We should sell McDonald's," Korn announced. "It's a stagnant company." Width was taken aback. He'd been a loyal McDonald's shareholder for years, and had no intention of bailing out now. "It's a growth company," he countered angrily. "Brinker International and Buffets -- those are growth companies," Korn shot back in a voice that now carried an unmistakable tone of condescension. "They're growing at 20, 30 percent a year." The other members sat in shocked silence; no one ever talked to Width this way. "They're too speculative," Width said, his voice rising. Finally, Korn couldn't take it any longer. "I despise McDonald's," he practically shouted. "The bathrooms are filthy, and the food isn't that great." This is not the sort of exchange that you normally read about in the press coverage of investment...
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...Da David Levithan is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Boy Meets Boy, the New York Times bestselling Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green), and Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (with Rachel Cohn), which was adapted into a popular movie. He is also an editorial director at Scholastic in New York. David lives in New Jersey. THE LOVER'S DICTIONARY DAVID LEVITHAN The paper used in this book is manufactured only from wood grown in sustainable regrowth forests. The Text Publishing Company Swann House 22 William Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia textpublishing.com.au Copyright © David Levithan 2011 The moral right of the author has been asserted. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright above, no part of this publication shall be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. Originally published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York This edition published by The Text Publishing Company 2011 Cover design by W. H. Chong Text design by Jonathan D. Lippincott National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: Levithan, David. Title: The lover’s dictionary / David Levithan. ISBN: 9781921656910 (pbk.) Dewey Number: 813.6 For my parents, with...
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...inflamed. When pancreatitis occurs, it's largely due to digestive enzymes attacking and digesting the pancreas, which produced them in the first place. There are two types of pancreatitis: Acute pancreatitis - when the inflammation develops quickly, over a few days or so. It often goes away completely and leaves no permanent damage. Sometimes it is serious. Chronic pancreatitis - when the inflammation is persistent. The inflammation tends to be less intense than acute pancreatitis but as it is ongoing it can cause scarring and damage. Gallstones are the most common cause in the UK. A gallstone can pass through the bile duct and out into the duodenum. This usually does not cause a problem. However, in some people, a gallstone gets stuck in the bile duct or where the bile duct and pancreatic duct open...
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...Welcome to the Case Analysis Coach This tutorial is designed to start you down the road toward becoming an expert at analyzing business cases. You'll learn how to identify and define the business concepts raised by a case, as well as to develop analysis-based solutions, recommendations, and action plans. These skills will prepare you for class discussions and exams. You will have access to a complete real case, called Komatsu Ltd. and Project G., so that you can apply what you learn to a concrete example. You will also get other helpful resources, such as a Case Analysis Worksheet and samples of classdiscussion notes on the Komatsu case that were prepared by real students like you. In addition, smaller excerpts from other real cases are used to illustrate some of the steps in case analysis. 1 Introduction to Case Analysis Types of Cases The "case method" is an approach to learning that encourages students to extract useful lessons from the experiences of others ("cases"). Students study accounts of specific events in order to discover general principles that they can apply in other situations. Cases tend to fall into one of three categories that sometimes overlap: • • • Decision Cases describe a decision faced by the case protagonist. The student ultimately must choose among a finite set of distinct decision alternatives. Problem Cases require a student to diagnose a problem in a business case and to formulate possible solutions. Evaluation Cases illustrate a...
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