...Jeremy Linch Professor Merrow Explication Draft 2 March 3, 2016 In this essay I will examine a passage from Will Gibson’s Idoru was published in the year 1996 and is set in 21st century. I will start work with the passage on pages 191 and 192. The passage begins with “Steep, narrow stairs, walled with an alarming pink mosaic of glistening tonsil-like nodules” and ending with “Laney clicked through a series of images: abstract geometrics arranged in vanishing linear perspective”. First I will describe the constituent elements and the overall structure of the selected passage, not the entire essay. Then I will transition into a section about the relations that the constituent elements have to the other elements in the passage. Lastly I will discuss the different possibilities of meaning shaped by the structure. I will show the different structures, examine how they relate to each other and what that could possibly mean. I examined the passage in Chapter 21 where Laney is entering the chewing gum bar named “Le Chicle”. The main textual ideas include the combination of cultures, the importance of geometric shapes, and the lack of human attribute descriptions. It start on page 191 with the line “Steep, narrow stairs, walled with an alarming pink mosaic of glistening tonsil-like nodules.” The passage I examined ends with the quote on page 192, “Laney clicked through a series of images: abstract geometrics arranged in vanishing linear perspective.” Immediately prior to this section...
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...A Gumbo of Influences: Louisiana’s Slave History, 1763 to Statehood The state of Louisiana has a very diverse and rich heritage and unique history. The history that will be referred to in this essay is that of Louisiana's slaves and slave laws. Much of the country’s slave history is easily traceable through the original thirteen colonies before the Revolutionary War and declaration of the states’ independence from British rule. But what about the slave territories that were later added to the Union? Being the eighteenth state to join the Union, Louisiana’s slave history originates from a different colonial super-power; but which one? Many are lead to believe that to be the French. While they are not incorrect, they are not entirely correct in saying that. Louisiana was a territory transferred through the hands of many. Louisiana was most touched by the hands of the Company of the West Indies, the French Crown, as well as the Spanish Crown and each hand left its own print in the territory’s slave history. First, one needs to take an initial look into some general concessions about Southern Slavery and the so called Southern Slave System. The purpose of slavery was to acquire cheap labor. There is also what many people refer to as the “Chattel System” or “Chattel Principle” which held slaves to a numeric value. A fugitive slave, J.W.C Pennington, recalled this principle: any slave’s identity might be disrupted as easily as a price could be set and a piece of paper passed from...
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...Tanya Maria telling me the classes I’ve called about are firstBarrientos has rate: native speakers in charge, no more than six stuwritten for the dents per group. Philadelphia “Conbersaychunal,” he says, allowing the fat vow- 2 Inquirer for more than els of his accented English to collide with the sawedtwenty years. off consonants. I tell him that will be fi ne, that I’m familiar with 3 Barrientos was born in Guatethe conversational setup, and yes, I’ve studied a bit mala and raised of Spanish in the past. He asks for my name and I in El Paso, Texas. Her first novel, Frontera Street, was supply it, rolling the double r in Barrientos like a pro. published in 2002, and her second, That’s when I hear the silent snag, the momentary Family Resemblance, was pubhesitation I’ve come to expect at this part of the exlished in 2003. Her column “Unchange. Should I go into it again? Should I explain, conventional Wisdom” runs every the way I have to half a dozen others, that I am Guaweek in the Inquirer. This essay originally appeared in the collectemalan by birth but pura gringa by circumstance? tion Border-Line Personalities: A Do I add the humble little laugh I usually attach New Generation of Latinas Dish to the end of my sentence to let him know that of on Sex, Sass & Cultural Shifting. course I see the irony in the situation? We selected this reading because This will be the sixth...
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...Ten Ways School Prepares You for the Work World The first day you pack a briefcase and head off to a professional job interview may seem far away, but the time to build strong skills and valuable habits is now. School is full of opportunities to develop the qualities most important to employers. Writing Skills If you dread essays and other writing assignments, consider this: in a recent survey of employers, communication topped the list of skills they look for most. By doing your best on every research paper and lab report you write, you're preparing yourself for a career. Health professionals keep patient charts, researchers and artists depend on the money they collect by writing grant applications, software engineers write technical specifications, and nearly everyone writes email to people inside and outside their organization. And before you even get the chance to interview, you'll need to represent yourself in cover letters and resumes. Speaking Skills Next time you're assigned a class presentation, think twice before dismissing it as an unimportant part of your education. Employers look for speaking skills in job hopefuls and it's never too soon to practice good eye contact and other public speaking techniques. Teamwork Skills How many times a week does your class count off and break into small groups to tackle a challenge? You practice voicing your opinions, listening and responding to others, and reaching compromises. By the time you leave high school, you can be an...
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...Name:______________________________________________________ Date:_____________ REVIEW FOR PHRASES AND CLAUSES TEST Identifying and Classifying Infinitive Phrases Identify the infinitive phrases and infinitive clauses in the following sentences, and tell how each is used: as a subject, a predicate nominative, a direct object, an adjective, or an adverb. Example: 1. Everyone in the class was eager to learn more about the life of Maya Angelou. 1. to learn more about the life of Maya Angelou – adverb 1. Our assignment was to read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. to read I Know Why the Caged Bird sings – noun (predicate nominative) 2. I decided to write a report on May Angelou’s descriptions of her childhood. to write a report on Maya Angelou’s descriptions of her childhood. – noun (direct object) 3. To grow up in Stamps, Arkansas, in the 1930s was to know great hardship. To grow up in Stamp’s Arkansas in the 1930s – noun (subject) 4. Maya Angelou tried to show the everyday lives of African Americans during the Great Depression. to show the everyday lives of African Americans during the great Depression – noun (direct object) 5. To accomplish this purpose meant including many descriptions; one such passage told about the process of curing pork sausage. To accomplish this purpose – noun (subject) 6. Angelou has an extraordinary ability to capture vivid details in her writing. to capture vivid details in her writing – adjective 7...
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...English essay – The Arizona immigration law We get an assignment, to write an essay about the Arizona immigration law. We get some material as, facts, articles and interviews with Barack Obama. In the following part I would make a summary of the materials. To discuss the problems about the Arizona immigration law, I need to know something about the US political system, how you approve the law. In the USA, there are two types of laws: The Federal legislation there applies to all Americans and all the states. It's about everything that is common to all. For example, the civil rights, immigration law, foreign policy laws. There is also The State legislation that stands for the law in the single states, things there can be different from state to state as taxes. In this text we will mostly work with the state Arizona, where the governor signs the Immigration law. ” Immigration - local impact of Arizona law” summary In TV-program about “the Arizona Immigration law”, are about the state Arizona and a new immigration law. The new law makes it possible for Arizona’ police department to check every person they suspect as illegal immigrants. They can hold them at the station, to the suspects background where discovered. Neighborhood state California, see the opportunities in the law because of the many immigrants in California. “President Obama on fixing the broken Immigration system” summery The American President Barack Obama talks about the immigration system. He said every American...
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...Madrid, Spain. What I hope to accomplish by completing this analysis? I hope to gain a better understanding of Pablo Picasso, and his artwork. For decades, I was curious about what made this painting so famous. Was it the theme, style, or form? I wish to know by the end of this analysis. Why did Picasso create Guernica? What is the best way to protest against war? In 1937, Picasso was demonstrating his resentment against war with Guernica; his mural-size painting was an exhibit to millions of people at the Paris World’s Fair. From the time it was an exhibit, it is now the 20th century’s most robust indictment against war. What did Picasso hope to accomplish from this painting? He wanted to create awareness of the war by raising funds for Spanish refugees. Reasons, he was terrified of the destruction and death. Guernica is his optical response, his memorial to the brutal...
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...and those of American colonial officials, especially around the relationship between English and the vernacular languages. Both conceived of that relationship in terms of a war of and on translation. It then turns to an important but overlooked essay by Nick Joaquin published around the same time as Constantino’s, “The Language of the Streets” (1963). By closely considering Joaquin’s views on “Tagalog slang” as the basis for a national language, we can see a different politics of language at work, one based not on translation as war but as play. Whereas Constantino was concerned with language as the medium for revealing the historical truth of nationhood that would lead to democratizing society, Joaquin was more interested in the conversion of history into language as a way of expanding literary democracy. Abstract Vicente L. Rafael is Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle. He grew up in Manila and graduated from the Ateneo in 1977. His books include Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule (1993), White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (2000), and The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines (2005). He is currently at work on a book on translation, war and the historical imagination between the Philippines and the US ....
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...The independence movement in Spain In its long history as a unified country, Spain is currently immersed in one of the strongest independent movements, that does not only affect the social life but has generated an unstable political sphere. In the moment this paper was written, the current government of Spain is “in functions” and has little to no power in taking decisions, what consequently generates a big loss to the Spanish economy. Spain’s political sphere is divided between 4 major political parties, Popular Party (PP) and Ciudadanos (translated as “Citizens”) on the right wing and Socialists (PSOE) and Podemos (translated as “We Can”) on the left wing. As of early 2016, PSOE and Ciudadanos have signed a coalition but the other two major political forces, PP and Podemos, have refused to join the accord, what leaves the coalition in a situation where they still do not have the majority of seats necessary to govern1 . In this essay, I will illustrate how the Catalonia's independence movement has created a political and economic instability. In order to understand the current political crisis, it's necessary to examine the recent history of the country. In 1975, after the death of dictator Franco, Spain found itself in a desperate rush to become a free and democratic state, as not only the Spaniards were eager to move on but the international ...
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... | |Name of the Student | | | |11/10/2013 | | | | | Essay Introduction The targeted industry on which the effect of globalization will be studied is the garment industry, and the two companies which we will study in this regard are Zara and H&M. All the top garment industries notability Zara and H&M are doing a fine job in the garments industry as they have adopted well-defined quality standards. There is a diverse research made on the garments and fabric business as they do change with respect to the trends and fashion. Both H&M and Zara are strategically safe players and they have all what it takes to be the front runner in the market. Their stores are in the different areas of the world and most specifically in the main and posh markets. Globalization brings about your extension associated with overseas ethnical, financial, along with political actions (Boudreaux, 2008). As folks, concepts, understanding, along...
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...Put these verbs in the present simple form: 1. We our dog. (to call) 2. Emma in the lessons. (to dream) 3. They at birds. (to look) 4. John home from school. (to come) 5. I my friends. (to meet) 6. He the laptop. (to repair) 7. Walter and Frank hello. (to say) 8. The cat under the tree. (to sit) 9. You water. (to drink) 10. She the lunchbox. (to forget) 1. I good marks. (to get) 2. Rita exercises. (to do) 3. We often the table. (to lay) 4. Tim and Pat pictures. (to upload) 5. Oliver always fun. (to have) 6. Maria sometimes their room. (to tidy up) 7. He often new shoes. (to buy) 8. The dog never out of the house. (to run) 9. You your glasses. (to need) 10. She snakes. (to touch) 1. Tom stamps. (not/to collect) 2. You songs in the bathroom. (not/to sing) 3. Julie in the garden. (not/to work) 4. I at home. (not/to sit) 5. Tina and Kate the windows. (not/to open) 6. Adam French. (not/to speak) 7. His sister lemonade. (not/to like) 8. We to music. (not/to listen) 9. My father the car every Saturday. (not/to clean) 10. Johnny and Danny in the lake. (not/to swim) 11. We handball at school. (not/to play) 12. Laura her room. (not/to clean) 13. Mark his homework. (not/to do) 14. Susan and Jerry TV. (not/to watch) 15. They at 6.30. (not/to wake up) 16. You shopping. (not/to go) 17. Mrs Smith a big box...
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...MODULE 1: Note: My “Ride-A-Long” portion was completed in two sessions: Saturday September 6, 2014 From 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM and on Saturday September 20, 2014 from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. 1. Why did you become a Police Officer? (Answered by Officer V. Vasquez.) “Ever since I was a child, and as far as I can remember, I was attracted to Police work. When I turned 14 I enrolled in the Police Explorer program at my local Police Department. Later on, when I became an adult I worked in loss prevention for a National Department Store, so when I was 20 years old I attended West Coast College in Orange County and graduated from their police academy in two years. “ 2. Is the career everything you expected it to be? (Answered by Officer V. Vasquez.) “Yes, my work is everything I expected and more. Police work is very exciting and demanding, but at the same time is very rewarding, because I get to help people. Often times I use my interactions with the public to educate them on the law. Usually, after I explain the reasons for stopping them, they react in a very positive way.” 3. Did you purposely choose the type of agency you work for? (Answered by Officer E. Romo.) “Yes. I was a Cadet with the Santa Monica Police Department and after I graduated from the Police Academy at Rio Hondo College, I applied with different Municipalities and the City of Monterey Park hired me five years ago.” 4. What do you like the most about being a Police officer? (Answered by Officer V. Vasquez...
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...had died in 1799. After his death, their mother was expected to become a civil servant of the Prussian state. Money was involved and left after her death. Alexander took accept ion and it helped him along the way to start his exploration. His passion for travel and exploring was a big thing. He devoted himself to preparation into becoming a scientific explorer. At the University of Hamburg, he studied commerce and foreign languages and also geology at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. He then graduated from Friedberg and was offered a job as an inspector in Bayreuth. During his period as a mine inspector, Humboldt demonstrated his deep concern for the men he saw and met laboring in the mines. He was nice enough to open a free school for miners where paid out of his own pocket. It became an unchartered government school for labor and training. When Humboldt requested authorization from the crown to travel to Spanish America, it was given positive response. He made it possible because most importantly, he aided himself by...
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...Typical Filipina Of Today “Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. These stories were our family fairy tales.” Perhaps, this was the reason why Angelica’s descendants have known her to be the perfect and ideal person ever. A lot has been said about her, but those may all just be tales and the truth was just hidden. What they don’t know is behind that seemingly wonderful and flawless life of Angelica are problems, hardships, betrayals, and challenges in life, love, and family, which basically means that she is just like a typical Filipina of today. This is a novel surrounded with great sorrow, rejection, destiny, age, and curse that is caused by love and beauty. The authors made use of Angelica’s eyes to signify her different attributes, her life to mirror the life of an ordinary being which is not perfect at all, and her pregnancy to symbolize the attempt of the Filipino people in attaining freedom. (Brainard, Cuizon, Evangelista, Montes, and Sarreal, 2010). Angelica’s Daughters is a dugtungan novel – a genre of Tagalog novel popular in the 20th century where one writer starts the story or creates a chapter and hands it off to another without consulting him and allowing him to do whatever he pleases to do with it – by five Filipina authors who cherish their Hispanic, Filipino and American cultural roots. One of them is Cecilia Manguerra Brainard who teaches, edits, publishes, and distributes books, and pulls women together to empower themselves through...
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...Ma. Francesca S. Ronario Entry to United Nations Academic Impact Student Essay Contest “No matter how complex global challenges may seem, we must remember that it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. It is therefore impossible that they are beyond our power as human beings to resolve. Returning to our humanity, reforming and opening up the inner capacities of our lives, can enable reform and empowerment on a global scale.” Daisaku Ikeda wrote this quote as words of wisdom and looking into the quote marks the challenge and the truth of global citizenship. Our world is consisting of 150 countries and covers diversity of nationalities. Languages, culture and tradition are the factors that prove that our world, the Earth, is diverse in the line of people. I do believe that the problem of a certain country is a problem of the world and the success of a certain country is the success of the world. What the world needs is unity, equality, solidarity, prosperity and getting people to start carrying out, acting and performing like Global Citizens is the only way to accomplish this. Executing our roles is what the world needs and what the humanity needs also. We have a duty to protect each other as humans. We have a duty to take charge of our life and other people’s lives despite diversity in race, language, nationality and citizenship. Citizenship is about the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, freedom and duties of a citizen. It is a state...
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