..."The Necklace" in a number of ways. Both are the protagonist of the story. Maitre Hauchecome was accused of stealing a pocketbook from someone and Madame Loisel lost her friend’s expensive diamond necklace. In both cases, the characters do not have an item they should have had in their possession or accused of having. Nevertheless, Maitre Hauchecome is angered when he realizes that nobody believes him for not having the missing item with him, while Madame Loisel feels deep distress and anxiety about loosing her item. Maitre Hauchecome also somewhat acts like Monsieur Loisel because he appears to be a caring, gentle, poor man who tries to please people. The characters reacted to their situations differently. In "The Piece of String," Maitre Fortune Houlbreque resembles Madame Forestier in "The Necklace" because Maitre Fortune Houlbreque lost a pocketbook and Madame Forestier’s friend lost her diamond necklace; both characters were missing an item. Also, Maitre Malandain from "The Piece of String" and Monsieur Loisel from "The Necklace" are characters who are quite different; Maitre Malandain told people that Maitre Hauchecome was guilty of the crime against him; he didn’t want to help him at all. Monsieur Loisel bent over backwards to help find the diamond necklace her wife lost and even helped to pay for the replacement. As you can tell, there are many differences and similarities between the two short stories. The plot of "The Piece of String" goes as follows. Maitre Hauchecome...
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...Things They Carried” is a short story that describes a group of soldiers and the tangible and intangible items with which they chose to burden their bag packs and hearts. The author creatively manipulates two different ideas, such as ambiguous morality and loneliness to exaggerate the theme which is of physical and emotional burdens. The soldiers carried vital items for survival during this difficult time of their lives. The men tried to take comfort in the personal items and memories they brought with them while they were away from home. With a list of each item a solider took to war, the author carefully pieces together a puzzle about who these characters are. O’Brien’s use of imagery helps to visualize the battle field and understand the soldiers. As the story starts to unfold, the reader is greeted by a love struck narrator by the name of Lieutenant Cross. O’Brien describes the relationship between the narrator and Martha, a girl from back home who he is in love with, but she in return does not share the same feelings. Cross carries letters she wrote and fantasizes daily of their illusive love. His love for Martha becomes more of an obsession. “He loved her so much he could not stop thinking about her” (O’Brien 598). His constant question of her love for him causes Cross to fall short of his responsibilities as the leader of the platoon. “Slowly, a bit distracted, he would get up and move among his men, checking the perimeter--he would return to his hole and watch the...
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...Poverty, Love, and Each Other “The Gift of the Magi” remains one of the most recognizable and frequently read stories in American literature. During its time the tale was extremely popular. Today the story is considered juvenilia and has not garnered much serious critical attention. “The Gift of the Magi” initially appeared in one of O. Henry's best-known collection of stories, The Four Million, which was published in the late 1906. This story’s plot has two main characters on Christmas Eve. A young married woman named Della has cut and sold her long beautiful hair in order to gain enough money to purchase her husband a Christmas present. The present that she wants for her husband is a platinum chain for his pocket watch. However when her husband Jim returns he is stunned to see that she has cut her hair. He is in turn has sold his pocket watch to purchase her a pair of tortoise-shell combs for her long hair. The author throughout this story is trying to explain to us the feeling of mutual respect people have for one another as well as the love that these two people feel for one another even though they are poverty stricken . As the author tells the story he is sure to describe the mutual feeling, love and respect that Jim and Della have for one another. He also is showing how much they were devoted to one another and gave themselves to one another to ensure that the other one was happy no matter what their situation may be. Jim and Della were totally devoted to each other...
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...the future and to the past. In the story ‘Janus’, Andrea is is unable to forget about her past, which she represents using a specific item. In this case, the symbol is a bowl. The reader is able to learn about how to bowl came to be in her possession and what it represents. Andrea uses the bowl as a way to dwell on her past, which she is seemingly not willing to let go. “The bowl was a mystery, even to her. It was frustrating because her involvement with the bowl contained a steady sense of unrequited good fortune; it would have been easier to respond...
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...Financial Analysis JET Task1 Western Governors University Prepare a summary report in which you do the following 1. Evaluate the company’s operational strengths and weakness based on the following: A. Horizontal analysis of financial statements involves comparison of a financial ratio, a benchmark, or a line item over a number of accounting periods. This method of analysis is also known as trend analysis. Horizontal analysis allows the assessment of relative changes in different items over time. It also indicates the behavior of revenues, expenses, and other line items of financial statements over the course of time. Horizontal analysis of financial statements can be performed on any of the item in the income statement, balance sheet For example, this analysis can be performed on revenues, cost of sales, expenses, assets, cash, equity and liabilities. It can also be performed on ratios such as earnings per share (EPS), price earnings ratio, dividend payout, and other similar ratio. Horizontal Analysis from the income statement: 1. Net Sales: There was an increase in sales from year six to year seven in the amount of 1,495,000 resulting in a 33.3% increase and a decrease in sale from year seven to year eight in the amount of 897,000 resulting in a 15% decrease in sale. In this analysis, the product of competition Bikes Inc. were good with the public from year 6 to year 7 and the increase in sale resulted to a 29.4% of an increase in pay to the executives...
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...Tim O’Brien The this short story “ The Things They Carried” take place during the Vietnam War. The narrator describes his story in the third person and speaking through accounts of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Lt. Cross is an active duty combat soldier completing a tour of duty in Vietnam. Lieutenant Cross is preoccupied by thoughts of Martha, a young woman he met prior to enlisting in the Army and going off to war. Lt Cross uses his personal time to think about a young woman he met. The young lady is named Martha who sends Lt. Cross letters, keeping him updated on the events of home. Each evening after completing a force march Lt. Cross prepares a place of safety by digging a fighting hole (foxhole). He settles down in the safety of the fighting hole where he...
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...The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury is a collection of short stories with many possible connections, the one that is most prevalent is manipulation. Such as, manipulation to obey, kill, and save. This collection of stories involves multiple missions to Mars by the people of Earth. During the multiple missions there is Martian contact. With contact made, Earth people manipulate themselves and the Martians. First, manipulation to obey connects several stories. Such as, spousal manipulation. In this setting, Mr. and Mrs. K, married Martians. The wife, Mrs. K, dreams of the first mission to land on Mars. Mrs. K tells Mr. K of her dream, that in the dream the captain asks her to return to Earth with him. Unhappy with this information, Mr. K fabricates a story to keep Mrs. K at home, as a result, he...
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...Mrs. Carole Borowski Eng 1102 May 6, 2013 Gift of the Magi “Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to (Albom).” In this essay I will take a look at O Henry’s background, his life experiences and how it reflects in his work, “The Gift of the Magi”. As I travel through O Henry’s life you will see how there was no life event he regretted. Nor did he allow his life’s challenges to overtake him. If anything he used those challenges as opportunities to excel in his writing career. In his writings he is able to take all that he had experienced and learned by showing people in their ordinary form, just as he sketched the customers at his uncle’s drugstore. William Sydney Porter, an American writer from North Carolina is better known as O Henry (Langford). He is known to have changed his name twice. The first time he changed the spelling of his middle name from Sidney to Sydney (Langford). The second was after trying several pen names, he settled on O Henry. The final name changed occurred after he had gone to jail for robbery, though he persisted he was innocent (Langford). It was his hope, once he changed his name, he would be able to forget the embarrassing ordeal he had faced. O Henry was not immune to suffering. “At age three he lost his mother to tuberculosis” (Langford). Growing up he was an avid reader, reading everything from the classics to comics. O Henry several early years of career accomplishments...
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...Haley Huntwork AP English 30 August 2013 “A Rose for Emily” Plot/Structure The plot of “A Rose for Emily” separates from the structure of most short stories by not following the typical chronological order. William Faulkner uses flashbacks to give a better understanding of the external conflict between the protagonist, Miss Emily, and society. The nonlinear plot structure of “A Rose for Emily” creates a different way of comprehending the narrative by keeping the true nature of Miss Emily questionable. Faulkner begins the first section in present time, giving a recap of Emily’s life as the local townspeople attend her funeral. The funeral is being held at her home, which no one had entered for over ten years, drawing the entire town to attend. Faulkner uses flashback in the second section to give you a hint as to what is to be discovered at the end. The flashback occurs thirty years earlier, when Emily refused an official inquiry when the townspeople detect a powerful odor coming from the property. The cause of the smell is revealed at the end. Another flashback occurs in section three, recounting when Miss Emily first begins seeing the man people believed she would marry, Homer Barron. Miss Emily ends up going to the pharmacy to purchase arsenic. This keeps the reader in suspense because the real reason of purchasing the arsenic is never revealed. The last flashback is in section four, when the people of the town believe Emily was going to commit suicide. This causes...
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...Analysis of Fiction paper The Intangibles they carried Every person has items one needs to carry but they are incomparable to that of a soldier. Tim O’Brien emphasizes this in his short story, “The Things They Carried” as he takes on the narrative role explaining what he observed of the soldiers he once fought alongside. Chronicling both the intensities and tragedies of war he tells the stories of fellow soldiers and reveals truths of war at the same time. In precise detail and intentional metaphorical language O’Brien describes what it is that each soldier carries and how that relates to them as an individual. While some are intangible, such as guilt and fear, others are specific physical objects, including matches and morphine. Simultaneously, he frames the struggles not only of each man but of the war in general and the shame and emotion involved. It is what he does not directly say but rather implies with his descriptions of each soldier that bring the deeper message to the surface. The detail and element of characterization Tim O’Brien uses to describe each soldier in “The things they carried” reveals the deeper meaning that the emotional baggage each soldier carries with them weighs upon them more heavily than the physical items, essentially interfering with their duties of war. Jimmy Cross, the main character O’Brien highlights, appears to carry the most emotional baggage with him as the story opens explaining how he carries “the letters from a girl named Martha (274)”...
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...1102/S.E.1.3 February 6, 2014 Toni Cade Bambara’s The Lesson: The Impact of Poverty on Education Toni Cade Bambara’s short story The Lesson told in first person by a character named Sylvia. Sylvia is a poor student who resides in the ghetto of New York with her friends and family. The story begins in the summertime in New York, where the children are out of school, playing and having fun; but when a new neighbor Miss Moore move in, things change. Miss Moore is an educated African American woman, who embarks on an educational journey with the children. She realizes that the children lack experience and knowledge of a world outside of poverty, so she takes them on a trip outside their element. According to Marchino’s critical analysis, the goal is that they “realize wealth is unfairly and unequally distributed (2)”. In doing so, Miss Moore have the children figuring cab fare, tips, prices of toys, evaluating unnecessary spending, and diversity. Sylvia recalls her youth by stating “‘back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right’” (Bambara 385). According to Sylvia, community elders did not know anything, but that she had all the answers. She appears to be an intelligent, smart mouth and disrespectful youth because of her tone throughout the story. Her foul language throughout the story appears distasteful and unwarranted. However, to someone who understands where she come from and shares similar experiences...
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...features--->known as user stories Collection of all user stories-->product backlog Into a particular release which user stories v r gng to put resp of Product owner makes sure that the right features make it into the product backlog rep the users n customers of the product,she helps consider the direction of the product resp of Scrum master-->project is running smoothly, every member fulfills their job,sets meetings and monitors the work being done and facilitates release planning other team members Developer build the product Tester test it to make sure it runs smoothly Customer use it n hopefully pay fo it executives u cant build any product without them Release Planning Strt with product backlog n identify the user stories thy want to put in release. these user stories thn become part of release backlog the team prioritizes the user stories and allocates time for each story so thy get a rough idea of time taken for estimated work lots of techniques for creating good estimates Estimates: some prefer estimating in story points where estimates are made relative to building a small component with a known level of a known level of difficulty. Story points dont estimate when will my product ship so v go to estimate work in hours--> 1,2,4,8 hrs for smaller items and 2,3,5,10 days for larger items(9 day work will go to 10 day bucket ) ...very large ku 1,2,3,6 months n break down into hrs... With the help of release backlog (prioritized set of user stories )and estimated...
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...11th Grade Afro-Asian Literature Course Syllabus | Educ 508 – Principles of College Teaching | Submitted by:Jonathan Jay F. BaniagaSubmitted to: Dr. Wilhelmina Q. Tomas | LONDON.MANILA.TOKYO.SEOUL Tomoeda Academy Tomoeda Academy Julia Vargas Avenue, Ortigas, Pasig City 11th Grade World Literature Course Syllabus Mr. Jonathan Jay F. Baniaga 2015- 2016 I.Subject Code: English 101a II. Subject Description: Afro-Asian Literature III. Credit Units: 3 IV. Pre-Requisite: none V. Duration: 18 weeks (54 hours) – 1 meeting per week (3 hours per class session) VI. Course Overview: Afro-Asian Literature is a survey course in reading and writing. The text focuses on selected works of Afro -Asian literature ranging from 3,000 B.C. to the present and is augmented with a wide array of novels and other supplemental materials. All literary genres will be covered. Students are expected to critically read all genres of literature and write cohesive, clear, and well-structured analyses/critiques about what they have read. Students will write a variety of rhetorical modes and for a variety of purposes including narration, information, and persuasion. Students’ papers will reflect a sophisticated level of original analysis and include references to the read text or to outside sources where appropriate. VII. Course Objectives: Students...
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...it was. Great literary works such as Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker," Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," and Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" are representative of their literary age because they exemplify numerous Romantic Age characteristics. In Washington Irving's short story, "The Devil and Tom Walker," great use of imagination is shown. As Tom is walking through the forest, several inventive stories explain what he sees. A firm piece of ground is said to be from an Indian fort for refugee squaws and children during...
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...Tony Dass Prof Shaw Egl 2219 March 2nd 2016 Kate Chopin who had an Irish father and a French-creole mother, she was born on February 8, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. The O'Flahertys were members of the Creole social elite and were fairly well-off. When Kate was very young, her father Thomas O'Flaherty died in a work-related accident. He left behind a family of four generations of women all living in the same house. Kate was very close to her maternal great-grandmother, Madame Charleville, who first introduced her to the world of storytelling. Madame Charleville spoke only French to Kate and told her elaborate, somewhat risqué stories. Family tragedy surrounded the young Kate. When she was eleven, Madame Charleville died, and her half-brother George was killed while fighting in the Civil War for the Confederate side. Yet, Kate seems not to have completely despaired; she earned a reputation as the "Littlest Rebel" when she tore down a Union flag that had been tied to her front porch by Yankee soldiers. Had Kate not been a young girl at the time, the incident might have resulted in serious consequences, but since she was, her act became famous as local legend. While attending a Catholic high school, Kate studied both French and English literature and became an accomplished pianist. She attended numerous social events and became very popular in St. Louis high society. She also became interested in the movement for women's suffrage although she never became very politically active...
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