...Number 40 The feeling of forgetting a phone, a name, and an address is simply frustrating and can mess with your head. It can make you quite uneasy and ruin the rest of the day. Some part of you is not really there, when you forget you’re most valuable belongings. The feeling of forgetting and delirious is exactly what we see in the short “Number 40” by Sarah Butler, from the anthology The Picador Book of 40, 2012. In the short story Number 40 we meet the anxious and unbalanced Melissa. Melissa is feeling anxious because she forgets a lot of things, and this time it is her phone. The short story is told through a third person limited narrator, where the narrator follows the forgetful Melissa throughout the story, and the reader is only able to read only her thoughts and feelings (s. 1, ll. 1-2) Melissa is living with her fiancé Simon: “Now they were living together”. “The ring Simon has given her two weeks ago” – “Three neat diamonds caught in three gold claws”. Simon has proposed to her, just two weeks ago. Melissa felt sick at the time, Simon proposed to her (s.3, ll. 84-85) she either felt vile because of the food or maybe she had a bad hunch towards the relationship. Moreover the relationship did not always seem to go as smooth (s.1, ll. 1-7) She feels like he is ignoring her, like she is not even there. The narrator uses flash back (s. 1, ll. 14-27) where Melissa and Simon was on vacation, where everything seemed wonderful and happy. But as soon as they came home...
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...It’s the 21st of November and you are at the home stadium of Real Madrid for the el clasico. Fans cheer and sing the club anthem in this sense of pride and commitment to their respective teams. You begin to feel this surge of patriotism and worth of your very existence at this moment; what could possibly go wrong? A rampage of opposing fans? Projected Molotov cocktails? A potential black-eye? As crazy as it may sound, those were the potential outcomes of what was usually expected during the 1950s at a casual game of football, not by the fans, but by the infamous football hooligans, who are by far and large known as, ‘overzealous supporters’ (Wikipedia). The reasons for such shocking trial of events were mainly due to racism, sense of Identity with the team and, as petty as this may sound; issues with ticketing. Racism, being the ugly mark of human society, is still prevalent in this modern age. It doesn’t necessarily have to involve an occasional Rosa being forced to the back of the bus; but more of verbal slurs which lead to public display of violence. On the 12th of October, 2015, The Notorious fans of Israel’s Beitar Jerusalem football club are well known for shouting anti-arab slogans and throwing stones at Palastanian fans. Although there have been laws implemented to protect Palestanian fans and Arab players, atleast 25 Palestenian had been killed by the Israeli forces. As mentioned earlier, verbal offence towards a specific ethnicity especially when clubs are involved...
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...Melissa is a nearly 30 year old, Caucasian woman who recently experienced divorce five months ago with her husband of three and a half years of marriage. She lives with her daughter, and is supporting their new lifestyle through waitressing, which she has done for approximately give years. Melissa informs Dr. Wachtel that she is encountering some obstacles in making changes to her current career path. She wants to quit her waitressing job, and pursue an experience more related to her school counseling degrees. She voices that her main concern that brought her to seek help in therapy is making the correct and informed choice about her career change because she worries about financial stability given that she is a single mother raising her daughter on her own. Though Melissa is quite explicit about her concerns about her career choices and the issues she hopes to resolve in therapy, it seems as if there are other underlying issues that are in her unconscious. As the session progressed, it seemed as if Melissa also wanted to address how her family dynamics with her immediate family is affecting her decisions. There are moments where it felt like she is looking for justification and support for the events that took place in her life and her decisions that may have led to those events. This is not just about her career change (or lack thereof), but other sudden changes like her divorce that resulted in a new lifestyle that Melissa does not necessarily want to shift for the time being...
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...story through a psychoanalytic lens, a person uses the work of Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychology to interpret the text they are reading. Through the psychoanalytic lens, the reader is able to compare the characters of Harrison Bergeron to parts of a person’s personality, for example, Harrison Bergeron can be compared to the Id, George can be compared to the ego, and the Handicapper general can be compared to the Superego. The Id runs on the pleasure principle whose goal is to increase pleasure and decrease pain, like the Id, Harrison’s goal is to break free of the handicaps that he is forced to wear in order to increase the quality of his life. The Id is the basic storehouse for human’s basic needs and drives. Harrison contains such an incredibly strong drive that it causes him to make irrational decisions. One can say that Harrison even suffers from cathexis because of his obsession with rebellion. Similar to the Id, Harrison does not learn from its mistakes. When Harrison...
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...Essay on hooliganism In this essay I will discuss why hooliganism exist, what makes a person become a hooligan and what characterizes a hooligan and hooliganism as a whole? They hunt in packs like wolves, fueled by drugs, hooked on violence. Some are as young as 15. They make a plan to arrange showdowns against other rival ''firms'' at agreed locations. This is a quotation from the French documentary ''Fucking Hooligans''. But why does hooliganism exist in general, there are a lot of reason to it, but the main ones are mentioned. In the text ''Among the Thugs'' and the film ''Fucking hooligans'' it expresses the lifestyle of a group of lads who have a lot of things in common. They drink a lot, smoke a lot and foremost they love to fight, the typical formula for a hooligan. They're the most dangerous. They're the ones who start most of the fights.(p.4-l.12-13). The hooligan culture is not just a culture for some people but a bond between brothers, or in other words it is another family for them. There are plenty of reasons why ''someone'' becomes a hooligan. People normally become involved through two ways, either through friends and family or their choice of a new lifestyle. The main reason why people decide to become a hooligan is that it is just fun when it kick's off. It's an adrenaline thing, you cannot get that kind of buzz through anything else. But half the time it's not even about fighting, it is about being around your mates, having a laugh on a match day and...
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...Powerful moments of stillness can lead us to a true understanding of self, but to understand who we are we must look at what makes us unique as an individual human being. In Gwen Harwood’s “Alter Ego” she is at peace with the world and lives and breathes music. Her views are often overlooked in modern day society, but she remains true to the fact that she believes that we never really have a full understanding of our identity. Opposing this in Tim Winton’s “Land’s Edge” his true self resides in the ocean, a place where he feels most at home, his Australian coastal background, his main influence of his sense of identity. Both composers examine the moments of stillness in our lives and how it is only then that we truly get a glimpse or a sense of who we are. In “Alter ego” Harwood describes the alter ego as a part of herself that has intimate and complete knowledge of her yet acknowledges that her conscious mind does not have a complete and full understanding of this ‘other self’. Harwood uses the rhyming of the first, third and fourth line in the first stanza to add a flowing effect or enjambment, this flowing effect also reflects Harwood’s love of music and piano playing as she is an accomplished pianist. Music is an integral part of Harwood’s ‘other self’ and is used as a motif in Alter ego. Throughout the poem she portrays her two selves as the spiritual and the physical parts of herself, she also uses first person language to create a voice for the physical persona of herself...
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...2_03The_Anti_Federalists Name:_____kiana obsaint___________________________________ Date:________2/27/15_________________________________ School name:____dr.michael krop______________________________ Directions: Replace the information on this document with your own information. Choose whether to argue as a Federalist or as an Anti-Federalist. Review the lesson to make sure you understand their main points. Using quotes from the Federalist Papers, write an opinion article for a newspaper, or create a speech podcast to convince people in your state to agree with your position. Title (Are you a Federalist or Anti-Federalist) I am on the side of the federalist because they want alteration for the great unwashed where being a anti -federalist want to hitch within a monarchy. Being in a monarchy had already appearance to be problematic and they weren't willing to change much for themselves. Their politics was show to be corrupt because only their high course of instruction had power in the governance due to their wealth while lower category had no say, leading to a struggle for the lower class. Federalist wanted to separate the great power of the political science into their respected branches, avoiding a corrupt regime. I don't believe having a United States Army would take away from their indecorum because it was made to defend the rural area not cause bother with citizen which their officer had be seen doing. Federalist wanted a government for the masses. They believed...
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...Pitney Bowes System Marcus Simeon CMGT 410 November 23, 2010 Susan Peterson Abstract The project addresses two major problems that could affect the implementation of the Pitney-Bowes tracking system in the warehouse. The first is an operational problem that involves the material handlers. The second would be a technical problem that could occur during the interface between two components in the tracking system. Two contingency plans are offered in the project in helping resolve the two problems likely to arise. Description of Operational Problem The warehouse in Naval Medical Center San Diego are managed by material handlers, half of which are composed of old veterans who have a hard time adjusting to new ideas. The old timers are accustomed to writing down the tracking numbers and call numbers on a tracking sheet. The material handlers find this method easier and faster. The material handlers would need to have on-the-job training to get familiar using the barcode scanner, downloading it to the assigned computers, printing out the tracking sheets, processing the receipts, updating the processed tracking sheets, delivering the supplies, and making sure to scan the material again and have the supply technician sign the receipt and barcode scanner. The material handler then, needs to download the contents of the barcode scanner to complete the entire procedure. If for some reason one of the procedures is not followed...
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...who we are: 1.Commonly known as coles. an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. 2.employs over 100,000 employees and,[2][3] 3 together with rival Woolworths, accounts for 80 per cent of the Australian supermarket market.[ organizational objectives: Provide fresh food and better shopping experiences * Increase profit from sales. * To expand the business and become the biggest retail store in Australia organizational business model: where to find customers? find potential customers(both on physical store and online store) what the special and experience can the business provide ?provide the most convenient and generalized shopping experience with the lowest price for customers how can business provide such serve for customers? by cutting down the product cost and selling cost RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification): Introduction:is the wireless use of electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for the purposes of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to objects. How does RFID work? the tags contain electronically stored information. Some tags are powered by electromagnetic induction from magnetic fields produced near the reader. Some types collect energy from the interrogating radio waves and act as a passive transponder. Other types have a local power source such as a battery...
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...Assignment 1: Inventory Management Systems Systems Analysis and Development April 18, 2014 My sister owns a small clothing store. During a conversation at a family dinner, she mentioned her frustration with having to manually track and reorder high demand items. She would like an automated system but has a very small budget. Manually tracking orders is not an effective way to do business. A good example would be if you were tracking inventory using EXCEL you could accidentally delete the file, or a virus could destroy your system. Pen and paper tracking is absolutely not efficient, and it leaves a lot of room for human error. The purpose of inventory management is to provide uninterrupted production, sales, and/or customer service levels at the minimum cost. Since for many companies inventory is the largest item in the current assets category, inventory problems can and do contribute to losses or even business failures (What is inventory management, n.d.). Inventory control is important for the largest companies, but it is equally important for the smallest businesses as well. For instance, my sister’s small clothing store needs to be able to track its best-selling items along with its slow moving items. It needs to keep a higher on-hand count of the best-selling items, so that customers will not be disappointed if the item that they are looking for is not in-stock. A good inventory system creates efficiency and increases profits. My sister’s budget is very limited. So...
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...Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a rapidly emerging technology for voice communication that uses the ubiquity of IP-based networks to deploy VoIP client devices—such as desktop IP phones, mobile VoIP-enabled handheld devices, and VoIP gateways—in an increasing number of businesses and homes around the world. Windows CE 5.0 is a robust, real-time operating system platform that enables original device manufacturers (ODMs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), service providers (such as Internet service providers [ISPs], cable companies, and carriers), and enterprises to rapidly develop and deploy a wide range of devices that are part of an IP network and that have integrated VoIP functionality. The latest version of Windows CE includes an integrated, easy-to-use Telephony User Interface (TUI), a VoIP Application Interface Layer (VAIL) with extensive call control functionality, an interface to access contact and calendar data on Microsoft Exchange servers, advanced provisioning capabilities, and a complete network layer stack that facilitates VoIP-enabled device development and infrastructure integration. The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the...
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...Id, Ego, and Superego As with personality theories, Freud’s theory and other psychoanalytic theories may be difficult to test and prove in court. Analyze Freud’s theory and discuss the impact that it has on the development of criminal behavior. What roles do the Id, Ego, and Superego play in problematic behavior, and what influence do defensive mechanisms have on the development of criminal behavior? Discuss the pros and cons of Freud’s theory and how you feel it would hold up in court. Sigmund Freud’s tripartite model of self that separates the human mind into id, ego and superego. This model replicates the method where the ego and superego help to regulate and suppress id urges. Id The id is present at birth and is the make-up of the personality that functions to the same degree to the pleasure notion. According to Freud, dysfunctional personality and behavior comes from the failure of the superego to control the inappropriate inclination of the id. “The restraints that the ego and superego place on the id create aggression and resentment that is directed against the self and manifests in disorder and maladaptive conduct” (DeLisi, 2013). Ego The ego grows from the id and is the part of the personality that can change to the restrictions of the real world, dealing with problem solving aspects of the personality that set it apart from fantasy to reality. “As children develop and realize that life comprises more than simple pleasure gratification, they...
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...Unit 1 Assignment Dan SItkowski 1. Cell phones uses both voice and data networks. It uses data to get information and to also be allowed to access the internet. It also uses voice when you make a call. 2. Land phones use both networks. It uses data for caller ID and to send the information to find out where the call will be going. It also uses voice to transmit back and forth so that you can have a convocation. 3. SMS/Text messaging uses data networks. It only uses data networks because you are sending a message to another person. And in that message you can have files attached to the message as well. 4. Fax machines uses a data network. It uses this network because you put a document or photo threw the machine and it takes the image of that and creates a file. It then takes that file and sends it to another location. Then that location opens and prints or views the file. 5. Pagers use only data networks. It only uses data networks because when you send a file containing only text and then send it to a pager. The pager then takes that file and opens it showing the text for that person to read. 6. VOIP (voice over IP) uses data networks. VOIP uses data networks only because It uses the internet to talk to people instead of the traditional voice network. This allows someone to bypass the phone company. It works by taking the conversation and converts it to a file that is sent to the other location where it is opened. The problem with this is that if the...
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...price on the package for new subscribers is $120.00 a month for 12 months. The package includes ultra-fast Internet speeds that have no buffering what so ever especially when watching movies or videos online due to the state of the art cabling such as fiber optics. Down loads speeds can reach up to 80Mbps. This is a celebration for clients that play online games and suffer the dreaded “Lag”. All 400+ channels will be in High Definition, DVR capabilities comes standard and all the premium channels are free for the first year and $10.00 a month extra after that. The package also includes unlimited local and long distance calls to anywhere in the world due to the fact the company uses both fixed line and cellular networks. Voice mail, caller ID and Call waiting is included as well. Subscribers to Lightspeedtelecom will be very satisfied due to the fact it’s cheaper than its competitors and offers the leading state of the art technology to its clients with no catch or hidden cost. Any questions on the subject matter, please feel free to contact me: Mecate, Ryan...
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...to help propel a business forward including Riordan. Many consider VoIP to be a new technology that has provided new uses for telephone systems. It has seen much technological advancement since its inception. In the past, one gave little consideration to transporting voice over data circuits. One currently treats voice traffic, because of its high growth rate, as an important application to be given special consideration. VoIP is a natural progression and has changed how consumers and business use the telephone system. (voip.com, 2006). The voice switches allow connection to analog lines providing a 10/100 Base Twisted Pair (TP) Ethernet connection. With the addition of a VoIP switch, the telephone system provides private dialing, caller id, interoperability with other VoIP systems, and the ability to manage the telephone system over the Internet using a web browser. Features provided with VoIP switch include Quality of Service (QOS), network support, and line trunk group capability. Some of the benefits include interoperability with other networks, scalability to larger networks, and flexibility to allow use of incoming and outgoing trunks. VoIP systems implementation challenges consist of interoperability between multiple voice and data standards; networks transmission characteristics and...
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