...little things in life can put a person in harm’s way is one of the important themes represented in The Illustrated Man. “Zero Hour”, “Last Night of the World”, and “Kaleidoscope” are three short stories in Bradbury’s frame novel that represent the theme that ignoring opportunities and little things can harm someone. The later part of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction story “Zero Hour” shows that ignoring little things and small opportunities can lead to harm. In the story Mink, a young girl, is playing a game where kids under the age of nine simulate about alien abduction. Mink tells her mom about the game and her mom is skeptical: ‘“Martins invading earth. Well not exactly Martians. They’re- I don’t know. From up.”’ Mink’s mom said, ‘“and inside”’ (Bradbury 64). Motioning the fact Mink is making all this up. For example, Mrs. Morris, Mink’s mom, then calls her friend in Scranton...
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...The sample ribbon below will help acquaint you with these new features in Office. Word 2007 Ribbon Office Button Quick Access Toolbar Tabs [pic] Groups Buttons (or Commands) Directions for Assignment: Carefully read and complete the following steps. Use the tools indicated and the hints to perform each task. Complete each step in order exactly as it says. Use the Word Help on the top right corner of the screen (Question Mark) if you need additional help. 1. Using Microsoft Word 2007, open[pic] a new Word document. (hint–Click the Office Button and choose New on the drop down list. Then, double click the Blank Document icon.) Note: Always begin with a blank document for each assignment. Do not use a template unless instructed. Save your document to your Network Drive folder as “frenzy.docx”. (hint–Office Button>Save As>Word Document) 2. Set the top margin at 0.5” and the bottom margin at 0.55” and the left and right margins to .75” (hint-Page Layout tab>Page Set-up group>Margins>Custom Margins). 3. At the top of the page, type your full name aligned in the center[pic]. Change the font and size of your name to Engravers...
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...Definitions to Know: * Natural Logarithm * Common Logarithm * Mathematical * Exponential Growth * Exponential Decay Question 1) Change the following from exponential form to logarithmic form (1 mark each): a) b) Question 2) Change the following from logarithmic form to exponential form (1 mark each): a) b) Question 3) Solve for WITHOUT using a calculator. Show all of your work. (Hint: Use the definition of a logarithm.) (2 marks each) a) b) c) d) Question 4) Apply the Change of Base Formula to rewrite the logarithms with the common logarithm. (1 mark each) a) b) Question 5) Solve for the variable. Show all of your work and all of your steps. (Hint: Use the properties of logarithms.) (4 marks each) a) b) c) d) Question 6) Solve for the variable. Show all of your work and all of your steps. Show the answer to 4 decimal places. (Hint: Use the common logarithm.) (4 marks each) a) b) c) Question 7) Solve for . Show all of your work and all of your steps. Show the answer to 4 decimal places. (Hint: Use the natural logarithm and the definition of a logarithm.) (4 marks each) a) b) c) Question 8) Ms. Mary bought a condo for $145 000. Assuming that the value of the condo will appreciate at most 5% a year, how much will the condo be worth in 5 years? Section 2: Conic Sections Standard forms to Know: * Parabola * Circle * Ellipse * And what does a hyperbola look like? (No formula necessary) ...
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...state of IT projects? What are key factors for successful IT projects? Hint: Refer to the summary of CHAO study IT Projects are showing higher success rates. Better project management tools & processes, smaller projects, improved communication among stakeholders, more skillful IT project managers What are four different approaches to improving the likelihood of success of IT projects? Hint: Understand the major characteristics of each approach. 1. Value-Driven Approach; Plain & Simple: IT Projects must provide value to the organization 2. Socio-technical Approach; It’s not just about the technology or building a better mouse trap 3. Project Management Approach; processes and infrastructure (Methodology), resources, expectations, competition, efficiency and effectiveness 4. Knowledge Management Approach, lessons learned, best practices & shared knowledge What is a project? And its attributes? Project: a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. Attributes: Time Frame, Purpose (to provide value!), Ownership, Resources (the triple constraint), Roles (Project Manager, Project Sponsor, SME (domain & technical)), Risk & Assumptions, Interdependent Tasks (progressive elaboration – steps & increments), Planned Organizational Change, Operate in Environments Larger than the Project Itself What are different roles in IT projects? Hint: Know the different responsibilities of project managers, project...
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...Thesis: In Shirley Jackson’s “The lottery,” symbolism is used to hint at the overall theme of the story. In Shirley Jackson's short story “The Lottery,” symbolism is used to hint at the overall theme of the story. The lottery in this particular story is not used for good fortune but instead is used for death and sacrifice. Jackson combines characters, objects, and actions to create the symbolism. There are many characters, both major and minor, that demonstrate symbolism in this story. Jackson uses seemingly normal people from an apparently normal town. The postman is named Mr. Graves, a name that symbolizes death. He holds a leading role as an official in the lottery. Mr. Summers is another character who holds a major role. His name projects thoughts of summer and the season of life. His name is ironic due to the dark ritual and the part he plays in the lottery. Jackson uses various symbols to portray this grim event along with particular elements that hint towards the ending of the story. The story shows the coldness people can have which can be seen in their values and tradition. The black box is a symbol of the past. The color black represents evil or death. The box embodies the past and shows what’s to come. In the story, the villagers were afraid to even follow Mr. Summer’s idea for making a new box because they did not want to upset tradition. While the lottery was taking place, Mr. Adams said to old man Warner, “over in the north village they are talking about...
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...ending of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a surprise. However, there are numerous hints and clues that foreshadow what is to come. The lottery is conducted by Mr. Summers. Mr. Summers, the lottery official, arrives in the town square where all the villagers have gathered. He carries with him the first of the major symbols Jackson employs in her story, a lottery box. The reader does not know until the very end of the story that the lottery is about death and sacrifice, but the box itself reveals hints of its true purpose. The box is black, old, and decaying , “The black box grew shabbier each year: by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained ( 137; par 5) . In many cultures, black is often associated with death. When Mr. Summers calls her family's name to draw a lottery ticket, Tessie Hutchinson tells her husband, "Get up there Bill" (139; par. 29). However, when Bill draws a black-dotted Lottery ticket, Tessie puts up quite a protest, saying "It wasn't fair" (140; par. 51). She claims her husband was rushed and did not have time to pull the ticket he really wanted. Later, when Tessie pulls the ticket with a black dot during the Hutchinson family drawing, she continues ranting with similar protests. At this point, winning the lottery doesn’t seem to be a good thing. Another hint to this not being a happy occasion, is the lottery beginning at ten o'clock and only...
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...young I have been involved with dance. Due to this, stories and even a word by itself is translated into movement in my mind. I envision a dance in the creation of a story from Hint Fiction through a different medium for this reason. The similarity of having to analyze word content for this genre in order to understand the story applies for dance as well. Both of these mediums have an aspect of drawing from the material and connecting the dots in a way to try to understand the story. One story I was drawn to when envisioning each of them as movement was, What Didn’t Happen by Janet E. Gardner. In this story the moment of death is created to be not a flash, but only a taste remembered from childhood. I imagine that this specific taste “of lemon buttercream frosting” was made by his mother and enjoyed throughout the summers of his youth (Gardner 64). I conceptualized this idea because lemon buttercream is not a flavor commonly picked up at the story, so I believe that it may be homemade. If this is the case, his mother may have been the one to make it for him during summer when lemons were ripe. Gardner describes the man in his final moment, “his mouth filled with the taste, perfectly remembered from childhood” (64). This flood of taste he so clearly remembers from...
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...Helpful Hints for ACADEMIC MODULE BY GARRY ADAMS & TERRY PECK Practice Tests and Hints for IELTS Listening • Reading • Writing • Speaking fully updated for new IELTS Speaking Test format 101 Helpful Hints for IELTS PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The publishers are grateful for permission to use copyright material. We would like to acknowledge the original sources of text material listed below. Permission has been sought to reproduce all material whose source could be identified. Information that will enable the publishers to rectify any error or omission in subsequent editions will be welcome. The nine Band Score descriptions on page 12 are reproduced from The IELTS Handbook, a joint publication of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, The British Council, and IDP Education Australia: IELTS Australia. The reading passage "Regional Student Survey" on page 97, is adapted from The ELICOS Student Contextualised - Facts & Figures by Ms. CM. Bundesen, with permission of the author. AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to acknowledge the support of the following people: Bruce Bell, HelenkaPiotrowski, Laurent Seibert, Andrew Thomas (Sydney English Language Centre), and Soon-Young Yoon. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Terry Peck and Garry Adams have extensive IELTS coaching experience, both having been involved in implementing and designing IELTS coaching programmes. Terry Peck was an IELTS examiner for a number of years in Sydney, Australia. AVAILABLE...
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...The Going, the first of the 1912-1913 poems on the death of Emma Hardy on 27 November, 1912 Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, You would close your term here, up and be gone Where I could not follow With wing of swallow To gain one glimpse of you ever anon! Never to bid good-bye Or lip me the softest call, Or utter a wish for a word, while I Saw morning harden upon the wall, Unmoved, unknowing That your great going Had place that moment, and altered all. as if you didn’t care end your time alive ever anon – ever again lip me – give, with your lips Why do you make me leave the house And think for a breath it is you I see At the end of the alley of bending boughs Where so often at dusk you used to be; Till in darkening dankness The yawning blankness Of the perspective sickens me! You were she who abode By those red-veined rocks far West, You were the swan-necked one who rode Along the beetling Beeny Crest, And, reining nigh me, Would muse and eye me, While Life unrolled us its very best. Why, then, latterly did we not speak, Did we not think of those days long dead, And ere your vanishing strive to seek That time's renewal? We might have said, "In this bright spring weather We'll visit together Those places that once we visited." the cliffs near St Juliot, Cornwall swan-necked – long beautiful neck beetling - projecting ere - before Well, well! All's...
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...Helpful Hints for ACADEMIC MODULE BY GARRY ADAMS & TERRY PECK Practice Tests and Hints for IELTS Listening • Reading • Writing • Speaking fully updated for new IELTS Speaking Test format 101 Helpful Hints for IELTS PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The publishers are grateful for permission to use copyright material. We would like to acknowledge the original sources of text material listed below. Permission has been sought to reproduce all material whose source could be identified. Information that will enable the publishers to rectify any error or omission in subsequent editions will be welcome. We would like to acknowledge the support of the following people: The nine Band Score descriptions on page 12 are reproduced from The IELTS Handbook, a joint publication of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, The British Council, and IDP Education Australia: IELTS Australia. The reading passage "Regional Student Survey" on page 97, is adapted from The ELICOS Student Contextualised - Facts & Figures by Ms. CM. Bundesen, with permission of the author. Bruce Bell, HelenkaPiotrowski, Laurent Seibert, Andrew Thomas (Sydney English Language Centre), and Soon-Young Yoon. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Terry Peck and Garry Adams have extensive IELTS coaching experience, both having been involved in implementing and designing IELTS coaching programmes. Terry Peck was an IELTS examiner for a number of years in...
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...Girls by Paula Bomer In the course of history, the ideal of a woman has changed a lot. In newer, postmodern times, the female body ideal has changed radically. With the technology advancing significantly in this period, it creates an even easier way of setting more focus on how the ideal woman should look. The medias, commercials and famous fashion houses are now defining what the perfect woman is supposed to look like. This often results in teenage girls starving themselves to loose weight, and tries to strive for this unachievable woman ideal. The story “Eye Socket Girls” by Paula Bomer takes this up to a postmodern perspective, where we follow an anorectic girl at a hospital. The time is hard to pinpoint exactly, but there’s some hints throughout the story. A TV, and the American actress Winona Ryder are mentioned when the narrator describes how obesity takes over “weak” High-School girls. This description indicates that the story takes place in the late 90’s or early 00’s. The female ideal at this time was to be as thin and bony as possible as described in the story “We look voraciously at one another. We envy the protruding bones of someone who is that much closer to not being here at all” (p. 112, l. 11-12) when she tells about the anorectic ward where she is hospitalized. The story takes place in an American hospital ward, where the only patients are anorectics. The story signifies that it is taking place in America, since the narrator is talking about high school...
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...is usually relating a thought process or a state of mind. O’Connor starts the family’s journey by presenting many clouds that cover the clear, blue sky that references to the blindness behind the thought process and obstacle that encounters the information. Each character in the story has their own “cloud” or specific obstacle that prevents them for seeing the bigger picture. The grandmother has her own ideology of what goodness means and how being a “lady” gives her an advantage to receive that special goodness. The statement by the misfit “Don’t see no sun but don’t see no cloud either” shows the clarity and reality of the situation as the family meets the misfits. O’Connor uses of diction is powerful that supports the reader visual the hints given through light and sky. The reference of no clouds reaches the conclusion of presenting no obstacles that would cloud her judgement, also the absence of light shows the absence of certainty. O’Connor’s use of this quote specifically in this scene is to help show that the grandmother’s state of mind is free from cloudiness and misjudgments as there is no good or evil...
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...Faulkner tended to base his stories on fictional location, based on his life in the South. He lived from 1897 to 1962, in a time where Civil War was a big influence and where his family lost all their wealth. He liked to express not only local history, but also issues of the human heart, especially a heart in conflict. In 1950, he won a Nobel Prize for Literature writing stories as this one. A Rose For Emily, was a part of a collect of stories from that year. This particular story is about Emily Grierson, and it reflects many a personal conflict in regard to her person identity, as a woman in the south. Emily is an elderly woman who is deeply admired by the community. The community places her in high esteem and sees her as a tradition...
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...For example, the text says, "Today, she made her own path...vaguely keeping an eye out for snakes." The author is showing us that Myop's usual routine is disrupted because she decides to go on an adventure all on her own, something she has never done before. Additionally, the author shows us some of her fears and hints towards something bad happening as she goes further into the forest. These techniques cause the reader to be more aware of the difference between Myop's perspective of the world and what the world is really...
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