...Feather girls - analysis and interpretation The short story 'feather girls' by Claire Massey, from 2010 is a very imaginary and well written story, which leaves you behind with the sensation of unknowing. I believe the text has a very deep meaning to it, which I will try to find. In the short story we meet a man called Bill. We can see from the text, that Bill is old "A collection of regulars cluttered the bar, all grey haired men similar age to him". Bill has a wife, who he does not see very often, as she has "flown off" by herself, as their children were grown. In the village, where the story unfolds it is common to give your wife a feather coat from feather girls, but Bill has fallen in love with a feather girl. The feather girl's name is unknown, but Bill and her have been seeing each other for a long time "All these years of going to meet her and yet still, every time, he felt like a lad. They have been doing the same thing over and over again, meeting each other at a local pub called the Hare and Anchor, eating vinegar crisps with salt "packet of salt and vinegar crisps. Here at the pub we are introduced to the landlady of the pub, Mary. Mary is the most interesting character in my opinion, because her curiosity about the couple is intriguing. Mary is described as stingy "Mary was stingy with the coal, still too early in the year for a fire whatever the chill in the air said". Mary is living in the past, and never throws anything away "Collections of one kind...
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...Abstract In the opinion of most Bonnie and Clyde where the most famous and most romantically involved criminals in American history, Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were two young Texans having and early 1930s crime spree before my time of birth would forever leave their legacy to be criticized by many and envied by most. Most people only live to tell the story of what was expected, but I am here to state the facts of who Bonnie and Clyde really were, grasping your attention, making your mind run full with imagination and placing yourself in the era owned by Bonnie and Clyde the 1930's. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker born October 01, 1910, Clyde Chestnut Barrow born March 24, 1909, both from Dallas, Texas and ambushed in Bienville Parrish, Louisiana on May 23, 1934 killed at least nine officers and other civilians, leaving Bonnie to always have her name placed first in the matter, as do to respect that ladies always come first. As most would lead you to believe by all the hype, what they say was a reality for the two young lovers, this let's the listener carry the idea of Bonnie and Clyde in all their fancy clothes, and broke all the rules of the norm. Bonnie and Clyde never feared the law and lived a life of infamous luxury keeping them on the run. Reality was different, Bonnie and Clyde and the Barrow gang lived a hard, uneasy life left by narrow escapes, botched robberies, injury, and murder. They became one of the first outlaw media stars after...
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...people that they have to act upon it in such ways that there is no turning back? And can a person really feel such hate for another human being just for behaving differently? These are all questions that start to form inside your head after reading the short story Son of Satan written in 1982 by Charles Bukowski. The story takes place in a small middle-class-type neighborhood near a larger city. It is summer, school is out and a group of three boys; the narrator, Morgan and Hass, in their early teens are sitting on the grass of the narrator’s backyard smoking cigarettes, talking about another boy, Simpson, who has claimed to have had sex with a girl under the house of the narrator. This leads to the decision of punishing him for lying: (Page 39, line 20-25) Though they are no more than eleven to twelve years of age, they do not behave as children like we know them. They do not play hide and seek or run about laughing or play video games. They swear, smoke and act like the grownups they see in video games. The protagonist does not mention his name neither do any of his friends. He is eleven and the leader of the pack. He is the one to set the agenda. He tells the other two what to do and they act upon request: (Page 41, line 26-32) On one hand he does not care about the consequences, which is described on page 43, last paragraph, to page 45, but on the other hand he is showing emotions and worries about what might happen. He does...
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...The Lovely Bones, written by Alice Sebold takes place in 1973 to 1981 in Suburban Pennsylvania and the afterlife of Susie Salmon. Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon gets murdered by her neighbor and ends up watching over her family from heaven. As she watches over her family she must control her anger and emotions of not being able to help her family go through the news of her death. While she is up in heaven, her killer is down on earth living with no guilt. She waits up in heaven hoping one day her killer will get what he deserves. Susie Salmon is an innocent young lady who becomes a victim of murder. She tells the story from memory in heaven after she has been murdered. She is the daughter of Abigail and Jack Salmon and sister of Buckley and Lindsey. Susie is a person who has many wonderful characteristics however these traits lead to her tragic death. She is a very kind young lady who sees the best in people and only wants to live a normal life who goes to highschool. She has a very curious mind that makes her intrigued to know more. Along with her curiosity, there is also kindness and trust. These three personality traits play a major role that gets her into...
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...Exercise: Link Stories to Topics Start to think about your stories as they connect to general topics and make a list of what areas they could be included under. Remember the connection can be quite loose and rely on the right introduction (setup) or takeaway to make it work well in a business content that initially seems unlikely. For example, my list looked like this: Funny File 1 Technology /New Users: My Dad sending me long emails all in the subject line. 2 Market Entry (know your competitive landscape or you may learn a painful lesson): As a child, urinating on an electrical fence by accident 3 Maslow’s Hierchary of needs/ Compensation: Getting a job offer from a startup that told me they had no budget for me but could “buy me a few nice...
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...people? Anne Billson handles these questions in the short story Sunshine from 1993, through a 1st person narrator of the female main character, who is never named. She arrives to London, snotty and frustrated by “…a gaping void within me, waiting to be filled.” (p. 80 l. 30-31) Even tough she “…earned lots of money …” (p. 80 l. 28-29), something was missing and she felt “… I was going places, but never seemed to arrive.” (p. 80 l. 30) But suddenly the story’s pivotal point, Charlie, shows up and fills her gaping void with desire and knowledge about “…that, at last, I had found my other half.” (p 81 l. 10-11). To look in his eyes started an “…extraordinary wave of emotion…” (p. 81 l. 9) and she was saved as a new person. This is the explanation to the first part of the story, which is a scene from the tube in London where the main character plays the guitar to delight the passengers. It starts in media res, which captures the reader’s attention and clarify the story’s themes through the act. We wonder why she does this, and is left with unexplained information. This flows into an unfulfilled feeling in lack of coherence and we need to read on. Later we are explained Charlie’s functions as the leader of a harem, whose members he found “lost and alone” in the city of London. His explanation to why he only “saves” women from the pit of London and its lost souls, is that “…only women deserved to be saved.” (p. 81 l. 26) They all live in Corydon, an absolutely normal suburb...
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...The greatest scientific accomplishment ever is almost complete. What could be a greater accomplishment than man on the moon? Only one thing comes to mind, mapping of the human genome. The human genome is 3.2 billion letters long. Ninety-seven percent of it is useless trash. The Human Genome Project was created a little over a decade ago. With the project coming to an end researchers will be able to figure out exactly how each gene functions--and, more important, malfunctions to trigger deadly illnesses from heart disease to cancer (Time 1999). There is a mad race to see who will finish first. A couple of companies are in the running to finish by 2003. Independently funded Celera Genomics Corp. is in first, closely followed by the Human Genome Project, which is funded by the US government, and behind the most powerful country in the world is The Sanger Centre in England. James Watson and others started the Human Genome Project in 1988. James Watson was also the co-discover of the structure of DNA. The human instruction book was thought to take fifteen years and three billion dollars, but the project is ahead of schedule and under budget. At first people felt that we weren’t ready for the start of the Human Genome Project. The Human Genome Project started off slow, but gained much momentum after key scientist and computers were involved. The Celera Genomics company is in the lead because Craig Venter the leading scientist of Celera. Pharmaceutical companies fund Celera Genomics...
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...less mysterious it proves to be…” –from The Red-Headed League (Doyle, “The Adventures of…” 26). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish doctor, author, and poet. He is most remembered for his stories involving the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Although his fictional crime stories revolutionized the detective genre, he also wrote a great deal about spiritualism. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an intelligent child who wrote his first novel at age six. Though initially educated at home, his wealthy uncles soon realized his potential and enrolled him at a Jesuit Preparatory School (Carr 5). Soon after he graduated to Stonyhurst College he began writing long letters home to his mother and adventure stories that he would read aloud to his classmates. They ended up serving as models for Conan Doyle's most famous characters, in particular two brothers named Moriarty and Sherlock (Person 10). After attending Stonyhurst, he entered Edinburgh University as a medical student in 1876 where he received his medical degree in 1882. In his spare time, however, he began to write stories published anonymously in various magazines (Person 11). In 1885, he married Louise Hawkins and moved to London, where he began his small practice in ophthalmology (Carr 10). His practice, however, remained small since patients were slow in coming. So, Conan Doyle wrote to pass the time. After a few of his short stories were published in famous magazines, he began to seriously devote himself to writing (Carr...
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...therefore making it difficult to win the war itself. Glossary Compile a comprehensive list of words/ terms/ phrases/ places from the text and from the period in which the novel is set in. These words and terms should then feature in your coursework and text responses. * Trench warfare * Western Front * Alliance * Mother Country * Over the top * No mans land * Parapet * Sniper * Artillery * Shell Shock * Shrapnel * Minewerfer – mine throwing trench mortars * Parados – the wall of the trench * Blighty – England * Bosch/ Heine – derogatory term for a German * Estaminet – French café * Propaganda – exaggerating the truth * Lice/ louse – small parasitic insect * Funk-hole – a cavity carved out of the inside of the trench * Raid * Interrogation Quotes Choose at least 3 quotes per chapter and attach who said it and a page number. Chapter 1 - Recruits Major events and observations: * A final night of booze and sex with prostitutes before going to war * Anderson’s pleas to the men to stop misusing/ abusing their bodies * The 17 year old recruit vomiting * The euphoric fanfare of war * The narrator considering fleeing with the girl he has just met Quotes 1. “…God...
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...Books for Military Children ENG 290 1422 South Tech Lane, Meridian, Idaho, 83642 November 26, 2013 Mr. Thomas Luna Superintendent State Board Of Education 650 West State Street, Boise, Idaho, 83720 Dear Mr. Luna, We are a concerned group of students from University of Phoenix who want to address a lack of appropriate reading material for our students from military families. These children, and their families, are seemingly always on the move. The culture shock a typical military child goes through every time his family moves can be stressful. Although there are communities within the confines of the base, the world outside the gates can be overwhelming and even scary. Within the gates and fences there is relative safety, and a sense of security. However, outside those parameters are challenges that most children may have no idea how to handle or what to expect when they arrive in their new temporary home. There is a need for children of military families to make friends easily, and to find a community of his or her peers, but many of them find it hard to be accepted into a group when continually viewed as a temporary “new kid.” Rarely do military children have lifelong friendships from their childhood. They will better equip themselves to make friends easier and form meaningful relationships if they would prepare themselves with a sneak peak at the culture they will be living in ahead of time. Our goal is to put more books regarding these issues into...
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...encourage teachers and other education stakeholders to email their feedback, comments, and recommendations to the Department of Education at action@deped.gov.ph. We value your feedback and recommendations. Department of Education Republic of the Philippines i Let’s Get Better in Reading – Grade 3 Learner’s Materials First Edition, 2014 ISBN: Republic Act 8293, section 176 states that: No copyright shall subsist in any work of Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the government agency or office wherein the work is created shall be necessary for exploitation of such work for profit. Such agency or office may, among other things, impose as a condition the payment of royalties. Borrowed materials (i.e., songs, stories, poems, picture, photos, brand, names, trademarks, etc.) included in this book are owned by their respective copyright owners. The publisher and authors do not represent nor claim ownership over them. Publisher by the Department of Education Secretary: Br. Armin A. Luistro FSC Undersecretary: Dina S. Ocampo, Ph.D. Development Team of the Learner’s Material Reviewers: Nemah N. Hermosa, Roderick M. Aguirre, Merry Ruth Gutierrez, Felicidad Pado, Ma. Lourdes Tayao Mil Flores Ponciano, Esperanza Diaz- Cruz, Ana Lou Caspi, Criselda DG Ocang, Jeanette V. Sison, Raymond Bustamante, Rose B. Pamintuan, Jelly L. Sore, Aurea L. Mazo, Myra R. Labay, Ivy Romano, Leah Bautista, Dinah Bonao, Evelyn Mamangon, Josie Mendoza, Authors: Illustrators:...
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...the late 1990s, those employees were aging rapidly and the core membership needed to be increased. NCRCC offers two golf courses. One is an award winning, championshiphosting course on the PGA tour. But it wasn’t attracting new members, especially younger families. This case is about a membership study done as part of a larger management initiative to evaluate several strategic directions the club might take to expand its membership. www.ncrcountryclub.com >The Scenario Used with permission of Pamela S. Schindler ©2001. NCR Country Club (NCRCC) started in 1954 as an employee benefit of the National Cash Register Co. but is now an open-membership club. This country club located in Kettering, Ohio (near Dayton), hosts two 18-hole golf courses. The NCR South course, a par 71 championship course of 6,824 yards of heavily wooded rolling countryside, the site of the 1996 PGA Championship, the 1986 U.S. Open, and the 1998 U.S. Mid-Amateur, is consistently ranked by Golf Digest as one of the top 100 courses in the United States. The prairie-links style of the North course, a 6,358-yard par 70 course, is considered challenging. In southwestern Ohio, the active golf season usually lasts from May through October. Within a 30-minute radius of NCRCC, the avid golfer will find eight other private golf and country clubs as well as 29 public golf clubs and courses. In 1997, after the purchase of NCR Corporation by AT&T, AT&T provided a $4.0 million interest-free loan...
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...Delprøve 1a Nedenstående sætninger er fra novellen “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” af Walter Dean Myers. Beskriv, hvordan de understregede ord og udtryk afviger fra standardengelsk. Brug relevant grammatisk terminologi. 1. “What you young people talking about?” (side 16, linje 13) Korrekt sætning: What are you young people talking about Forklaring: Singularis form, pluralis kongruens. 2. “Ain’t none of them could beat Jack Johnson,” Mr. Lynch said, parking his old butt on the chair. (side 16, linje 19) Korrekte sætning: ”None of them could beat Jack Johnson,” Forklaring: None er i sig selv et benægtende ord. 3. “Ali would have eat him up,” Willie went on. (side 19, linje 23) Korrekte sætning: Ali would have eaten him up Forklaring: kort tillægsform; eat bøjes til eaten 4. The cop looked over at us and didn’t say nothing. (side 17, linje 5) Korrekte sætning: The cop lokked over at us and didn’t say anything. Forklaring: dobbelt benægtelse, hvis der både skullde være didn’t og nothing. 5. Once I got on the ground I figured I was gonna stay on the ground until the mess was over with. (side 19, linje 11) Korrekte sætning: Once I got on the ground I figured I was going to stay… Forklaring: gonna er en samentrækning af going to 6. “What they mean about some automatic weapon?” Pedro asked. (side 20, linje 2) korrekte sætning: What do they mean about some automatic weapon? Forklaring: Manlger hjælpeverbum do. 7. “We...
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...of the hero, Neo, is nothing new. In fact, it starts and it ends like all the other journeys that preceded it, with the advantage of being rich in thought-provoking themes in comparison to the other movies of the genre. In order to help in the development of those themes, the Wachovski brothers use a lot of allusions, references from religions, myths, philosophy, literature, without changing the pattern of their hero’s journey which is clearly the same as the one represented in Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey. Using the latter, it would possible to understand the use of certain figures of imagery, camera movements, and other tools by the Washovski brothers in the making of this film. 1- Departure Just like any other hero’s journey, the story of the matrix starts with the departure, which is comprised of five steps: a) The call to adventure b) Refusal of the Call Fotso 2 c) Supernatural Aid d) The Crossing of the first threshold e) The Belly of the Whale During this first stage of the journey, the hero has to separate from the world he knows, and in the movie “The Matrix” there are lots of symbols, motifs with connections to sleep, dreams, reality and choice. a) The call to adventure “The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.” (Heros) Right before Thomas Anderson (at that point Neo), the protagonist is seen for the first time, the...
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...'Twerk' is now in the dictionary, thanks to Miley Cyrus By Elisabeth Donnelly August 28, 2013, 7:56 a.m. Thanks to Miley Cyrus, the word "twerk" has been everywhere this week. And now it's going in the dictionary. Cyrus' gyrations during her performance at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards caused a stir and put the word "twerk" on everyone's lips — and in the Oxford Dictionaries Online. Dictionary officials call them "buzzworthy words added to Oxford Dictionaries Online" — "twerk" joins "bitcoin," "selfie," and "girl crush." They'll all now found in the Oxford Dictionaries Online, which is tasked with staying up to date with modern words. The Oxford Dictionaries Online is one of the largest in the world and adds about 1,000 new entries to its online version every year. Oxford Dictionaries' spokeswoman Katherine Connor Martin told the Associated Press that "twerking" dates back 20 years, and "the most likely theory is that it is an alteration of work ... with dancers being encouraged to 'work it.' The 't' could be a result of blending with another word such as twist or twitch." Its sibling publication, the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary, won't be updated with these words anytime soon, unless "twerk, verb" proves to have staying power. Or as the Oxford Dictionaries Online's usage example puts it: "twerk it girl, work it girl." Taking her daughters to remote Australia to sleep on the ground Australia's Northern Territory is just the place to get...
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