...Suffer the Little children Suffer the Little Children is an amusing sci-fi story written by Stephan King. The way the author expresses the story, gives the reader open space for imagining. The short story is about an old school teacher who faces uncommon difficulties. The leading role Miss Sidley is obligated to deal with a class of children unlike any other. These children are characterized as ‘different’ in a bizarre abnormal way. Miss Sidley’s actions base on her increasing level of fear, as she act in ways she never thought she would be capable of doing. As her fear phobia grows so does her ideas of getting rid of children, which eventually leads to murder. Miss Sidley seem to be the ideal dedicated teacher, who is methodical when it comes to her job. She knows when to keep her students quit in class, but the interested twist is that Sidley is the one which is suffering from a disturbing conduct and to whom ends up surprising her colleagues in school when she intentionally kills 12 pupils. King describes her as a small woman, constantly suffering, a gimlet-eyes woman. He later mentions that she is in the process of getting old, and the word Miss indicates that she is unmarried. Kings has an interesting way of presenting his characters. P.1 l. 1 ‘Miss Sidley was her name, and teaching was her game’, this introduction is used twice throughout the story P. 8 l. 41 ‘Buddy Jenkins was his name, psychiatry was his game.’ When this sentence is read, we instantly know...
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...Yellow analysis and interpretation A short story by Peter Carty In a contrast to nature mankind has always seemed small. Nature with its dark rivers, gigantic mountains, forests filled with danger and endless oceans. Nature can swallow you in one breath if you let it and can through your life make you scared and make you feel not noticeable and hopeless. Suicide is normally caused by problems like these that a person cannot seem to overcome and either way it’s a desperate act. In the novel Yellow written in 1999 by Peter Carty, a man named Jon is sent to Egypt to write an article about scuba diving. An Italian man named Berto is to teach him on a team containing Jon and another student, Brian. Through the considerations and reflections of this protagonist, Jon, the reader gains information about his fears, problems and inner conflicts, which end up causing his suicide. In this analysis of the story I will focus on characterization of the protagonist, Jon, narrative technique, language, the significance of the setting, symbols and at the ending and at last I will elaborate on themes, draw perspectives to other texts and finally make a conclusion. Through the analysis I’ll focus, among other things, on the question: can nature be tamed, owned and transferred into something that is subject to mankind? The story starts out with no introduction, in other words: in medias res. The reader is thrown directly into the story and that emphasizes that nothing is given to the reader...
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...Rachel Murray B. Sumey, Instructor Comp. II, TTH 3:00 18 Feb. 2012 Insanity In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is very insane and mentally ill. He is a murderer, does not sleep much, is very paranoid, and is unable to distinguish what is real and unreal. It is clear that Poe wants to create a character who is mad. First off, the narrator kills the old man. By doing so, he is considered a murderer. The death occurs “in an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him” (44). He is obviously not in his right mind to murder someone in such a manner. The narrator even claims to enjoy the event of murdering the old man. The narrator is crazy because he does not sleep much during the night. Instead of getting a good night’s rest, he takes the time to go and watch the old man sleep: “And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it – oh, so gently!” (42). Staying up every night affects his judgement because he does this for one whole week. “. . . that every night, just at twelve, I looked upon him while he slept” (43). The reason he stays up and watches the old man is so that he can be ready for anything that can possibly go wrong during his murder plan. The character sounds like he is hysterical. In the very beginning of the short story, this is evident by his saying, “True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous. . .” (42). The protagonist states that he can hear things that...
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...Nelson Mandela once said, “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” In Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the author writes about how Rikki-tikki had the courage to stand up to his feared enemy while defending his family members and friends. The theme of the fictional story by Rudyard Kipling is that people (or animals, in this case) are willing to do anything to protect those they love. Rikki-tikki is a courageous and cautious mongoose in the story. For example, Rikki-tikki is fearless when he was doing a much more dangerous thing than fighting Nag, for Karait is so small and can turn so quickly that unless Rikki-tikki bit him close...
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...controversial issues that the United States has ever seen. Nixon's role in the Watergate Scandal definitely warranted his impeachment. The Watergate Scandal remains well known throughout history today. This problem led toward Nixon resigning only two years in his 2nd term. Did President Nixon make the right choices? Can anybody truly trust the government after a situation like this?. Many Historians believe this altered the course of history and so we can't never truly trust the Government again. Although others believe that Nixon did not make the best decision; but, this should not alter the way the people view our Government. On June 18, 1972, a story about a robbery...
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...Abduction Around the world, people are abducted. Some for money, some to give the abductor a rush or a satisfaction. Lives are ruined by abductions, and some people will not be able to live a normal life. There have been cases all over the world where people have been kidnapped and been incarcerated in for example a basement for years. And after being escaped, they live in fear of the next person walking by, will abduct her or him to satisfy them selves. Another kind of abduction is what I would call a volunteered abduction where a person is convinced that is as in the text “abduction” is a good idea to move to London. But as seen the short story, written by Shelagh Delaney, it doesn’t turn out that well, and the “victim” ends up wanting to go back to when things were as before. “Abduction” written by Shelagh Delaney. The text “abduction” is about a girl called Ann, who after living her hole childhood in Manchester moves to the big city of London, to have a great job, and live her dream. She gets a wonderful job, but she is missing something, so she convinces her brother to come stay with her in London. He moves in with her, gets a great allowance, and learns a lot in the field of sex, drugs and alcohol. When he grows older he marries and have kids with a girl called Marianne. When this doesn’t work out, gets into a alcohol abuse. He ends up wanting to get away from all this, and go back to the time where he lived with his parents and his sister wasn’t pulling him...
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...another. Cultural traditions are expressions of a certain group’s views, they are techniques of preserving one’s identity and they help people in that group mark significant occurrences or life transitions. These traditions usually display response and care based on gender, age, life stage, and social class. While many traditions promote unity, happiness and fellowship, others weaken the trait of social cohesion and the psychological health and integrity of certain individuals. Just because tradition have been present for a while, it does not mean it is always right. Some traditions are passed on only because of the fear of a fading culture and the loss of one’s true self. These type of traditions have no meaning behind them and only exist because some people dread change. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the author maintains the use of many themes throughout the story. Examples of themes present in “The Lottery” include, society assigning a way to blame the sins on the community, and the theme that following the crowd and not stating opinions before it is too late can have consequences. However, Jackson focuses mainly on the theme of the reluctance of people to reject outdated traditions. The townspeople’s failure to comprehend the true meaning behind the lottery, the reluctance of having the full ceremony and the townspeople’s cold-blooded killing of Mrs. Hutchinson all show a blind acceptance of tradition. The first example that shows how the townspeople blindly accept tradition...
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...Lady Macbeth is the secondary character in The Tragedy of Macbeth, she is the wife to the main character Macbeth and they plan to murder their way to be king and queen. At first Lady Macbeth showed strong will and pushes Macbeth to kill the King of Scotland. But slowly through the story she loses self control and begins to show weird signs of some mental illness. The mental illness i'm diagnosing her with is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD). For lady macbeth Having PTSd occurred during the killing of King Duncan, Banquo and The Macduff family excluding Macduff himself. Killing people has to be one of the most traumatic incidents a human being can experience, and I will explain what PTSD is and the side effects it causes, My reasoning for...
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...Abstract The research aims to understand the great human values expressed through works of short story "Love of Life"by Jack London - a major authors of modern literature. Through the research process, we not only found a deep insight of life of Jack lonlon toward life and people, but also discovered the harsh struggle, to find the intense human value Hidden deep within the noble work. I. Introduction 1.1. Reason for study With this work , we have the opportunity to explore the short story genre with detailed castings, large capacity and style have many implications, giving depth of work that hard to say. Not everyone has experienced the brink of life and death so this research is the logical choice 1.2. Purpose and aim of study The purpose of this research was to understand profoundly the meaning of life , Survival battle between man and wolf in the love life is intense, but it appears much simpler than the struggle that find out yourself, just how to get rid of social ties Unfortunately, that was re-created by human. The truth value of the first affordable life is the truth value of each individual life? Go find it, as we seek answers to these questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where will we go ? to uncover the nature world around him, and discovered a conflict can not be overcome, a conflict can not be explained by the management and victory his philosophical theories. Death is the only salvation. There is even a despicable other world...
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...Managing Organizational Change WMMC Case Study Ronald A. Roberts 02/21/2013 Introduction: Who Moved My Cheese? Is a simple story of four characters that live in a maze and are constantly looking for cheese. Two of the four characters are Hem and Haw, who are little people about the size of mice, they are complex people just like humans. They rely on their emotions, and experience in life to make achievements, but also like humans they can become very comfortable and be oblivious to what is happening around them. The other two characters Sniff and Scurry are mice. They rely more on instinct and their senses to conduct everyday life. Although they are simple minded and not very smart, they do not get hung up emotionally when things work against them. They have the power of adaptation, which allows them to continually maintain a productive life no matter how things change around them. They expect change and are ready and prepared to embrace it, whenever it may occur. "THE CHEESE" represents different things to different people. It is a metaphor for what keeps you going, and what makes you happy. To some people "THE CHEESE" is money, to others it is their job, and to some it is just being able to wake up and be happy that you have a good life, and enjoy living it. Change and the Resistance to Change: As the story begins, one day, the mice (Sniff and Scurry) and the little people (Hem and Haw) find a huge mound of cheese in the maze. The little people feel that the mound...
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...[pic] VISUAL LEARNERS 65% of learners belong to this group. Visual learners prefer written information, diagrams and pictures. They prefer to take down notes during a presentation, They will even make their own notes even when they are given printed hand-outs. They are better at written communication. These learners have the ability to think in pictures as well as see and create images complete with shapes colours and size. They tend to remember faces but not names. A LOOK AT VISUAL LEARNER A typical visual learner uses visualization techniques to remember things. They often have a good sense of direction because they visualize maps and directions in their mind. Many prefer to read information in a textbook or on the whiteboard rather than listen to the teacher lecture. They also enjoy doodling and drawing. Visual learners typically use sight words in their everyday terminology. For example, they might say "Let's take a look at this." or "Let's look at this from a different perspective." They remember details including colours and spatial arrangements. VISUAL LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS Visual learners are those who learn through seeing things. Look over the characteristics below to see if they sound familiar. A visual learner: • Is good at spelling but forgets names. • Needs quiet study time. • Has to think awhile before understanding lecture. • Is good at spelling. • Likes colours & fashion. • Dreams in colour. • Understands/likes charts. • Is good with...
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...when speaking to people’s feelings. In this article Martin Webster explains how Kotter’s 8-step change model gets to the heart of how successful organisational change actually happens and answers the question “how do you go beyond simply getting your message across to truly changing people’s behaviour?” You’ll also learn how The Heart of Change can alter the way organisations and leaders approach change management. Since this guide covers a lot of ground and is a long read (3,000 words) you may want to check out the table of contents below for some quick jumping around. And if you want to read more high quality articles please sign up for email updates and never miss another post. Want to read something shorter? Visit our related post: The Heart of Change. Or download the ebook of this article from our member resources section. Table of Contents * Successful Change Management * Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model for Leading Change * Creating a Climate for Change * Increasing Urgency * Building the Guiding Team * Getting the Right Vision * Engaging and Enabling the Organisation * Communicate for Buy-in * Empower Action * Create Short-term Wins * Implementing and Sustaining Change * Don’t Let Up...
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...James Lee English 110 AA Dr. M Brennan February 16, 2014 In the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin the theme is that in order to be truly happy, one must stand up for what’s right, even if it means leaving everything that they know. Society creates traditions and ways of thinking that are not easy for everyone to follow. In Omelas, the citizens have the choice to ignore the suffering of a child locked in a cellar, or leave the life and the city they are familiar with. The people of Omelas must ask themselves whether it is better for a child to suffer for the city’s happiness and wealth, or should the city suffer, just to give the child a shot at happiness? It is ironic because Omelas is a utopian city however they treat a feeble minded child horribly for the good of their city. The symbols and themes of this story play a huge role of how I interpreted the story, such as the horse, bird/swallow, flute player, and the cellar child acting as a ‘scapegoat’. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” begins with the narrator describing a beautiful utopian city called Omelas. It is a city with more happiness than can be imagined. The scene shifts from a bright Summer Festival to one of a child locked in a cellar. One reads of the isolation, neglect, abuse, and fear that this child suffers, and all of the citizens are aware of what the child is going through. They have also seen the child and decided that they are helpless. They believe that...
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...ten weeks ago, I decided to print all documents related to it. Upon reading that an Integrative Paper was required to complete the course, I wondered how best to accomplish this task. According to MGNT 5590’s catalogue description, the intent of the course is to introduce students to the basic principles of human behavior effective managers’ use when managing individuals and groups. This include theories related to individual differences in abilities and attitudes, attribution, motivation, group dynamics, power and politics, leadership, conflict resolution, organizational culture, and organizational structure and design. This same description can be best summed up in “The Heart of Change” – Real Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations. To fulfill the final requirements of MNGT 5590, it is my intent to provide a summation of The Heart of Change, how the books ties into the course’s main text, “Organizational Behavior and Management, and how both books are interwoven into various facets of my life, and finally, I will provide some closing thoughts related to my interest in the Heart of Change and the class in general. Written by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen in 2002, the Heart of Change is based on Leading Change, a book written in 1996 which described how it is not systems or strategies that make organizations successful. Rather, it is the human nature (behavior) of people that make organizations...
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...Cold Mountain Cold Mountain, a novel wrote by Charles Frazier, is a Civil War story, a magnificent love story between a wounded Confederate soldier – Inman who deserts and begins a lonely, dangerous journey to find the way back home, and his lover – Ada who tries to survive after her father’s death. The Cold Mountain is the destination Inman wants to arrive at, and a place where Ada transform from a city girl into a mountain woman. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying to rebuild their lives from the desperation and disaster of the war, all the while trying to find a way to see each other again--whilst they are so far apart. Cold Mountain opens with Inman staying in a Virginia hospital trying to recover his wound from the war. One day he speaks to a blind man he usually saw through the window of the hospital’s room. When the blind man asks Inman to “cite me one instance where you wished you were blind,” Inman doesn’t know where to begin. There are many like: Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Petersburg, but “Fredericksburg was a day particularly lodged in his mind.” At that time, he wishes that he himself had been blind at Fredericksburg when his regiment shot down thousands of Federal troops. He wishes that there is no war that takes many lives of soldiers, partitions families and makes him shatter by the violence he has witnessed while fighting in the Confederate army. Inman returns to the ward and opens his copy of Bartram’s Travels at random. He finds...
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