...On my mother's side, my great grandfather Nels K. Nielsen was born in Denmark and at the age of two his parents and five siblings traveled on a boat to the United States. Their original plan to get to the United States was to come over on the Titanic but my great great grandmother became ill and they were unable to travel. Their trip then got pushed back for two weeks and once she was healthy they boarded a different boat for their long journey to New York. It was a very long boat ride, consisting of about two weeks. Once they ported in New York they made their long journey to Minnesota, the great state of 10,000 lakes. My great grandma Denise, Nels wife, was born here in Minnesota. Her parents originally came from Denmark right before she...
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...transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorized distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly. Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781409016915 www.randomhouse.co.uk Published by Vintage 2010 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Copyright © Isaac Marion 2010 Chapter heading illustrations from Gray’s Anatomy modified by author © Isaac Marion 2010 ‘Heart rose’ illustration on title page © Isaac Marion 2010 Isaac Marion has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser Excerpt from GILGAMESH: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason. Copyright © 1970, and renewed 1998 by Herbert Mason. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Last Night When We Were Young Lyrics by E.Y “Yip” Harburg, Music by Harold Arlen...
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...thought I was a patient man, but I was not until I met a nine year old boy. He let me know that people should pay attention to the small things, even a smile or a sound. I was almost tortured to the point of madness by my neighbors when I arrived in Omaha. I lived in a cheap place so I had to put up with the noise. One of my neighbors is a guy from Nepal, an international college student who only goes to school on Tuesdays and works six days a week for tuition and bills. Ironically he was a delivery man whose car engine sounded like an asthma patient with a megaphone. Every night when I had just fallen asleep in bed, the car would be back with its “cough” to wake me up. Another neighbor was Korean and bought a saxophone; he liked early morning practice the best. Every night I was devoid of sleep from drowsiness by the car, and I was woken up by the saxophone’s weeping sound in the early morning. I often, out of anger from sleep deprivation, wanted to make my way over to speak with them both, but didn’t right away. That car is the Nepalese guy’s career; and the saxophone is the Korean guy’s hobby. How could I let them give up their career and hobby? On behalf of my well-being, I decided to move out. I vented my grievances to Julie who is one of my friends, and I hoped that she could help me find a good place to live. I stayed in her townhouse; it was a wonderful place in downtown Omaha. It is quiet and beautiful, close to Omaha’s Old Market; people can take a walk in...
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...INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT | |Chapter Aims | |Definition of Management | | |Management Functions |This chapter aims to: | |Planning | | |Organizing |Introduce the foundation of management such as various functions, | |Directing |levels and areas of management in business | |Controlling | | | | | |Levels of Management | | |Types of Management | | | ...
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...When the Emperor was Divine is a novel written by Julie Otsuka which tells a story of a Japanese American family during the time of World War II. The novel exemplifies the typical life and actions of Japanese Americans of the time period. The novel is told from five different perspectives, the mother, the girl, the boy, the father, the boy and the girl. The chapters are described by the family members and it is expressed from a third person point of view. At first, the father is arrested by the FBI because of the suspicion as a spy from the government. Therefore, the mother has to take care of her two children. Later the family moved to the internment camp in Utah. After three years and five months, the family is released from the internment...
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...to read police reports and evaluate evidence in the police evidence room with Mr. Deffens” (Braswell, Miller, & Pollack, 2006). The intern went to the courthouse with Mr. Deffens and soon realized that attorneys spend every morning there whether or not they have a case or not. The reason they are there is due to docket call. Docket call is when the “judges assigned the indigent cases” (Braswell, Miller, & Pollack, 2006). Mr. Deffens takes court appointments along with his private clients. While at the court house you realized that Deffens is very flirtatious with a women named Julie. Julie is the court administrator for Judge Anderson. Later on, the intern went back to the court house to file papers and Deffens asked the intern to drop something off to Julie. It was an envelope with her name on it, nothing official. The intern soon realized that it was not sealed, the flap was left open and you see five ten dollar bills and a note that read “Armstrong”. After reading that note, you made a connection with the name Armstrong. Deffens had received an appointment for a case named Armstrong and the money was a type of compensation or “kickback” for the appointment. The intern then talked to Deffens about what he/ she found and he basically tells the intern that it happens all the time and everyone does it. He also tells the intern how everyone is webbed in this somehow; Judge Harris pays Judge Townshend’s wife seventy-five thousand dollars a year for two days a week and he, Deffens...
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...594 9th Avenue, 2cd Floor New York NY 10036 212 581 1700 HENRY’S DAUGHTERS SCRIPT – Version 7.0 - Page 1 of 25 1 MONTAGE OF PHOTOS 1 2 EXT. HENRY’S BOAT’S BRIDGE, DAY NARRATOR #2 This is Henry. He’s done well for himself - first as a professional engineer and now as a semiretired lobbyist for a select group of transportation companies. He lost his wife, the mother of his two daughters, to a heart attack when she was just fifty-five. 3 INT. STATE DOT, DAY NARRATOR #2 This is his elder daughter Laura. She’s close to her dad. She’s an engineer, with her professional engineer’s license, for the state department of transportation. The gossip at the DOT is that her quick rise has had more to do with her father’s connections than her skills. 4 INT. TEST GARAGE, DAY NARRATOR #2 This is Julie. She is eleven years younger than her sister. Henry tends to coddle her. Following the family into engineering by recently completing her degree, Julie has accepted a year-long contract with OUTOCAR. She’s going to be living with her sister while working at her first job. 5 EXT. HENRY’S BOAT, DAY NARRATOR #2 This, then, is the story of Henry and his daughters and the complications that arise as they all work - at different levels, on different tasks, and for different people - on the same project. 6 EXT. HENRY’S BOAT’S BRIDGE, SUNSET BOB Okay, guys. You’ve wined me and dined me. We’ve gone fishing. Now, tell me about this halfbaked pipe dream of yours. HENRY Take a look. Let’s say you’re cruising...
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...has a younger brother who will begin school the next school year. In talking with the parents the feeling was the grandparents treated the child very well and read to the child on a daily basis when the child was in the grandparents care and the child has a great love for school and strives to be the very best in his class. The male child is about to turn seven years old and is in the first grade. The child attends a school that the mother and father are not employed and the grandparents are responsible for picking the child up after the school day is complete. The parents are very involved in the students’ school work and provide support for the student every evening when they are at home. In visiting with the student before we began our reading assessment I found the student to be very mindful and attentive. We discussed the students’ interests and I found the student was very interested in video games and games in general. During spare time on weekends the family likes to play games together and the student was very proud to tell me that the family owned an x-box and he could beat his brother in any game that they chose to play. So I decided I would make my assessment into a game and would challenge...
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...A funny new twist on a classic love story, WARM BODIES is a poignant tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human - setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world As much as I enjoy "The Walking Dead" on AMC and movies such as "28 Days Later," one of my ongoing complaints about the explosion of the zombie genre is the general mopery and overall predictability of those ever-staggering creatures. They lurch. They snarl. They sniff the air for the scent of human flesh. They pounce and gnaw. They pound windows and doors, and express frustration when confronted with 10-foot-high cyclone fences. And then they get shot in the head and die. That's pretty much it. We almost never get inside the rotted mind of the zombie or see things from the zombie point of view. They're forever penned in as the Big Metaphor. One of the many exhilarating pleasures of "Warm Bodies" is the flipping of that script. This is a bloody fresh twist on the most popular horror genre of this century, with none-too-subtle echoes of a certain star-crossed romance that harks back to a certain bard who placed a certain...
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...ENG2602/101/3/2015 Tutorial letter 101/3/2015 GENRES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE: THEORY, STYLE AND POETICS ENG2602 Semesters 1 & 2 Department of English Studies IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This Tutorial Letter contains important information about your module. CONTENTS Page 1 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 3 2 PURPOSE OF AND OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE............................................................... 4 2.1 Purpose ........................................................................................................................................ 4 2.2 Outcomes .....................................................................................................................................4 3 LECTURER(S) AND CONTACT DETAILS................................................................................... 5 3.1 Lecturer(s) .................................................................................................................................... 5 3.2 Department ................................................................................................................................... 6 3.3 University ...................................................................................................................................... 6 4 MODULE-RELATED RESOURCES ..................
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...PRACTICE LISTENING TEST ONE Narrator: Listening Test One. This is a practice listening test which resembles the International English Language Testing System Listening Test. The test consists of four sections. Answer the questions as you listen to the recording. Note that the recording is played once only. Please turn to Section 1. Section 1 Narrator: Section 1. George and Lisa are overseas students studying in Britain. They are returning home for the summer holidays. Look at the Example and Questions 1 to 4. (10 second pause) For each of the questions four pictures are given. Decide which picture is the best match with what you hear on the tape, and circle the letter under that picture. First, you have some time to look more carefully at Questions 1 to 4. (10 second pause) Now listen to the following conversations, and answer Questions 1 to 4. Taxi Driver: That'll be £23. Right. There's your change. Have a nice trip. Oh, I'll just get your bags out of the boot. Lisa: Thank you very much. Now, George, let's find the check-in desk. George: Yes, but with all the changes they have made here at the airport, I'm not sure where the check-in desk is. Lisa: Iknow. It's strangeisn'tit? Why don'tweaskforhelp? George: Good idea. What about that man sitting down over there? Lisa: Which one? The one with the hat on? George: But what about the man with the blue uniform and the cap sitting on the trolley? He's bound to know. He looks like he works here. Lisa: OK, I'll ask him. Excuse...
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...The Best Musical in the World “Do a deer a female deer, Re a drop of gold sun, Mi a name I call myself, Fa a long long way to run, So a needle pulling thread, La a note to follow So, Ti a drink with jam and bread, and that would bring us back to do, do, do, do.” The Sound of Music aired in the year 1965. It was set in Austria in the 1930’s. The movie is a biography, drama, family, musical, and a romance. There were three main actors in this film. The three were Julie Andrews (Maria), Christopher Plummer (Captain VonTrapp), and Eleanor Parker (The Baroness). The director was Robert Wise. Wise has directed other popular movies like West Side Story and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The film won five Oscars, twelve awards, and had another eleven nominations. The Sound of Music has a four-star movie rating. The Sound of Music does a stupendous job of creating a cute love story mixed with a musical, has a very noticeable character development, is interesting and catchy, but it incorrectly portrays the true story behind the movie. The movie begins with Maria, a nun, living in an Austrian convent. Maria does not fit well into the nun life. She was sent to the VonTrapp’s to be a governess by her Mother Superior. When Maria arrives at the house, she finds the children to be very rude and unwelcoming. She finds the father as very strict and uptight. She then realizes that she needs to help this family come back together. After only a day the children begin to love Maria. Maria loves...
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...wearing a crown. It's more about who you are inside." Hello, I am Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, but most just call me Julie. I was born on October 1st, 1935, in Surrey, England. I was raised by Barbara Ward and my step father. I am told that the first word I uttered was "home", which is the name of my bestselling autobiography about my life. As for how my performing career started, my parents quickly discovered my freakishly but undeniably lovely four-Octave singing and immediately got me into a singing career in whatever was available. My first appearance on a tv production was when I was 22, on the hit production "Cinderella" in 1957. I then married Tony Walton in 1969 who I later divorced....
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...Reporter’s Name: Michael Guest’s Name: Lewis This is a tv show, tonight’s episode is guest starring Lewis from Cosi Fan Tutte. Michael: Good evening and welcome to the ‘The today Show’ and thank you for joining us tonight Melbourne! Tonight we have a very special guest, he has just come from directing his play ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ which has been a huge success, can we all give a round of applause for Lewis!! Lewis walks on stage, thanking everyone in the room that are clapping, he takes a seat opposite to Michael. Lewis: Thank you Michael, appreciate you having me here today! Michael: My pleasure Lewis, now before I get into the more serious questions, can you just give our audience a brief summary into what Cosi Fan Tutte is. Lewis: Of course, Cosi Fan Tutte is an opera and is set in the city of Naples, Italy where two fellows named Guglielmo and Ferrando are in a coffee shop and they are wanting to test their girl’s fidelity. They met this old fellow named Don Alfonso who told them this plan and it was to pretend to fight in the war. Instead of actually going to war, they disguise themselves as Albanians and ‘woo’ the girls. But there is a bit of a twist when the girls meet them, Guglielmo’s girlfriend falls for...
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...Over the last few weeks, I have finished the last pages of Meg Waite Claytons book, The Wednesday Sisters. The books plot concluded to be: Linda becoming a breast cancer survivor, Kath not divorcing Lee but finding happiness and peace out of letting go, Brett and her Mrs. Americas book becoming a best seller ,and she got connected with surgeons to get her hands scrutinized, and Ally had her forever mused, baby boy and Frankie has a life of happiness, and peace at how blessed she realized she was. I also read Louis Duncan’s I know what you did last summer. I would describe this book as a mildly intense thriller with some suspense. The book starts off with the group of four close friends (Julie James, Barry Cox, Ray Bronson, Helen Rivers), who...
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