...Just Like That is a novel by Michael Richards. Michael Richards writes about two persons. Thenovel takes place in the outback, Australia. Michael describes the environment with kangaroosand the Gibson Desert. It may sound weird but in the story killing a kangaroo is like a test of manhood.The father has made his son believe that if he kills a kangaroo he will become a man. I believe the son is inhis early teens. There is a time in your life where you have to grow up, find out who you are and slowlybecome a man. The father uses the very same method to show your manhood as the aboriginals. Thefather uses the aboriginal’s rituals as a test to the manhood. The boy reacts very fascinated at first, whenhe sees the man shoot a kangaroo.After the boy has shot his first kangaroo he is surprised how easy it was. He does not have any feelings forthe dead beast and he can’t see how this will make him a man.The boy said two different sentences through the entire story. "Yes, I can do it" and "Dead".Only an obvious answer to the man’s question and a repeating of the man’s earlier words, after the boyhave killed the man. There is no statement in the words he say, meaning that the only reason we knowwhat the boy thinks (except from his actions), is because Michael Richards had full access to the boys mind.He does not like the man, leading to the boy, end the man’s' life, as a revenge for all the blood the manalready have got on his...
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...Richard Knight 2008 Sorry for Disturbing You The short story Sorry for Disturbing You by Richard Knight is written in past tense and limited 3rd person narrator. It starts in media res, our protagonist Ian opens the door, and a man is standing on his doorstep. By starting the story it makes the readers wonder what is going on, and it is like you are having the same exact reaction as Ian when he opens the door. The readers can identify themselves, and understands Ian’s feelings, why he does the things he does. And it is all because of the start of this story. Mistakes happen but the important part of mistakes is learning from them. Like Eleanor Roosevelt once said “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself” Ian learns from Michael, who one day knocks on his door, drunk and lost. Our protagonist Ian Harder who is a father and a husband seems loving and caring about his daughter “Go back in, Corry. (He looked at her knowingly, hoping no to frighten her….)” And he also thinks about what his wife Karen would have thought about letting a stranger in the house who also leaved a dark print on the bright yellow wall, but she was staying at her mothers house. They had things to sort out. When Michael Phelps knocks on the door Ian invites him in to the house even though he is drunk. He could have easily closed the door, but he chooses to go after his instinct and helps the man. As Ian is trying to help Michael, he finds out that he has...
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...little sign next to the railing, “The big one is called Richard, and the female is Kamba. And look,” he says, pointing to a pink piece of paper, “it says Richard is forty-five today.” Julia says, “They’re cute!” Michael mimics Julia, then he calls her a big dork. “Look babe, he’s–yep, he’s jerking off!” Kyran says, grabbing...
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...From novels to history, males have always played a pertinent, and occasionally overbearing, role in the world around us. In the past, they have been depicted as domineering social figures in a patriarchal world. Now, as times change, people are trying to look more into the struggles that men face regarding their own identity and masculinity. One such person is Dr. Michael Kimmel, a sociologist who works to uncover the dynamics of becoming a man and what it means to be a man. He documents his collection of such experiences in Guyland and analyzes the thought process of many young men go through when determining their own worth. These complex encounters of sociability, sexuality, and masculinity parallel to Richard Blanco and his memoir, The Prince of Los Cocuyos. Richard must battle with his family’s immigration, conforming, and all the negative repercussions of doing so, or not. His thoughts of maintaining a strong mental and physical appearance, to friends and family, troubles him as he tries to explore his differences. Although everyone faces...
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...Instructions: ”Sorry for Disturbing You” Write an essay (900-1200) words in which you analyse and interpret Richard Knight’s short story “Sorry for Disturbing You”. Part of your essay must focus on the function of dialogue in “Sorry for Disturbing You” I will correct the following elements: * Verbal concord * Personal pronouns (he, him, she, his, her etc.) * Spelling * Paragraph structure * Introduction + thesis statement Text: “Sorry for Disturbing You”, a short story by Richard Knight, 2008 Sorry for Disturbing You is a short story written by Richard Knight and its main theme is regretting some of the choices made in life. Two guys are regretting things in this story – an old man called Michael and Ian, who is also the main character. Michael is an old sick man one night knocking at Ian’s door asking for a phone to call for a cap. Ian doesn’t feel like letting him in, but he follows his instinct and finally lets him in to help him. Ian following his instinct turned out to be a good thing, because letting Michael made Ian change The story is told by a third person limited narrator, as it is only Ian’s thought that appears in the text. So reading this story Ian is our eyes and ears. Every description is given to us by his point of view, which means that the impression of the characters that we get is affected by what Ian’s thoughts of these people. The fact that the narrator is a limited narrator, also has the effect that Ian can only be described...
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...century have brought about some great music. It is better known as popular music and appeals to a much larger variety of people. Some of the styles of music we have enjoyed are the “Classic” American Music, Early Rock ‘N’ Roll, Pop, Heavy Metal, dance-pop, and rap. Some of the great composers of the “classic” American music are Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Richard Rodgers. Cole Porter was a major songwriter for the Broadway Musical Stage. His well known works include “Fifty Million Frenchmen”, “Can-Can”, “Anything Goes”. But his most successful musical was “Kiss Me, Kate”. Irving Berlin was responsible for over 3000 songs including the beloved song “God Bless America”, “Puttin’ on the Ritz”, and “White Christmas”. He also composed the musical “Annie Get Your Gun”. Richard Rodgers was responsible for “Oklahoma”, “South Pacific”, and “The Sound of Music” along with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. Early rock and roll became the craze in the 1950’s with a rhythmic accompaniment called rhythm and blues. Little Richard and Chuck Berry were the driving sounds behind these early beginnings. Little Richard gave us great tunes like “Tutti Frutti”, “Long Tall Sally”, and “Good Golly, Miss Molly”. Chuck Berry was responsible for “fast songs with an irresistible beat” (Yudkin, 2010). Billy Haley and the Comets got us really swinging in 1955 with “Rock Around the Clock”. Along with Bill Haley & the Comets, teenagers were rocking to the sounds of Elvis Pressley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy...
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...even save a relationship or life. This short story called “Sorry for disturbing you” written by Richard Knight, depicts a fortuitous meeting between two strangers, our main character Ian and the old man Michael. The meeting ends up being much more powerful than expected and makes Ian rethink his entire life situation. Ian realizes the mistakes he has made but learns that it is not too late to set things right. Ian is the main character of the story. He’s a father, who seems very loving and concerned about his family. He cares about his daughter’s safety and thinks a lot about his wife. But everything isn’t perfect in his life and family. E.g. Ian and his wife, Karen, aren’t living together at the moment: “Karen was staying at her mother’s for a while. They had things to sort out.” This indicates that there might be some issues between them. However it seems like Ian cares a lot for Karen and is very attracted by her, which we see in his descriptions of her, where he talks about how she’s always smiling, laughing, hugging etc. We also hear that Ian wants her to get back home: “He felt better now she was coming.” and “He missed her being at home.” So Ian is described as a loving father and husband who really loves his family. They do have some problems though but he doesn’t seem to be aware of his behavior in the beginning. Throughout the whole story Ian keeps interrupting Michael so he never really gets the chance to...
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...Running head: Dell Inc. E-Business Task 1 Soufiane Khalil Western Governors University The organization that I chose to talk about is Dell Inc. Dell Inc., began in 1984 by Michael Dell in his dorm room. Michael was an A student, really smart one. He was always attracted by computers, building them and spec’ing them out. He has built his own. However, he wasn’t happy the way PC providers were building theirs, especially from the way their supply chain was doing business. So Michael decided to start building his own computers, and selling them to other students. The concept of building and selling computers grew fast, and he found a lot of success doing it. His passion expanded from other students market. He grow to other businesses then expended out. The thing about Michael Dell, is that he knew how to make the supply chain works in his favor. He did it so well that it differentiated him from the business leaders back such as IBM. Dell became a company and started growing and growing. The profit the first year was $50 Million, and the next year was $150 Million. Dell kept growing and growing and became a success story hiring more and more people, expanding all around the globe. Dell went public in its early years, and kept growing. It entered the enterprise market in 1992 by building their first server. Dell kept dominating the pc market for both home systems and enterprise. Dell kept leading. In 2002 Dell built their first blade server, which was really revolutionary...
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...Michael Richards Just Like That is a short story written in 1987 by Michael Richards. It’s about a man and a boy, whom are out shooting kangaroos. The purpose is transforming the boy into a man. The story takes place in Australia. Language: The language is easy to read and understand. There are some direct speech but mostly it’s storytelling. Narrator: It’s a third omniscient narrator from the boy’s point of view. We know how he feels and what he thinks about the events that are happening. Themes: Growing up. Pressure: the man pressures the boy. Characters: The boy is on his first kangaroo hunt, I believe. Read: p. 25 l. 40 – p. 26 l. 2. He seems very fascinated by how easy it was to kill the kangaroo. When the boy uses the rifle it’s like he’s dead for a second – read: p. 26. l. 24-25. He can’t remember pulling the trigger. At first I don’t think the boy likes shooting kangaroos but later he becomes this sort of machine, which just does it. The man might be the boy’s father, we don’t know that. The man puts a lot of pressure on the boy. When he wants the boy to do something he says: if you can’t do it now you never will. (Ex. p. 26 l. 17) Symbolism: The man in the story says several times: don’t walk behind me. I think that he knows what it does to a person, when they start shooting. I mean, the boy gets really fascinated about it, and how easy it is to kill another living being. Ending: Read: p. 29 ll. 18-21. We don’t know exactly what happens, but I kind...
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...Sorry for Disturbing You – Assignment A &B A) Write an essay (700-900 words) in which you analyse and interpret Richard Knight's short story "Sorry for Disturbing You". Regret is defined as a feeling of sorrow or remorse for a fault, act, loss or disappointment. In spite of this melancholic definition, regret is inevitable in our lives. But it is often said, that “if we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.” Hence, we must strive to reach a state of mind, where the regret that fills our lives and its consequences are accepted. The consequences of not reaching this state, is what Michael, a character in the short story “Sorry for Disturbing You”, is living with. This so-called story is written by Richard Knight in 2008 and presents the encounter between a man, filled with regret, and a man, ready to defeat upcoming and predicted regrets. The story starts in medias res, when one of the main characters Ian opens the door to a drunken and sick stranger called Michael. Ian lets the stranger enter his home, whilst making him tea and helping him call a cab. But in the end Ian ends up driving Michael home, as Michael apologizes, saying he was “sorry to disrupt [his] evening”. Also, signifying the title of the story. So on one hand we find Ian, a young man following his instinct, as he lets in the drunken stranger. Initially, Ian is surprised and confused to find this man on his doorstep, but...
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...as a real band. They are doing solo now but get together sometimes to play, and now McCartney is working with Famous rapper Kanye West RNB singer Rihanna. I think the real reason McCartney is working with them has to do with the fact that true geniuses in their fields tend to get bored easily, so they'll often step outside their comfort zone to make things interesting. That's why Paul often has side projects in classical works, experimental electronica, etc. This is just one more experimental side project, nothing more. So I think they should have not retire because they are artist and they should always be on the scene. I really like the fact they are still touring because they enjoy what they do and they grow up playing music and I think they should never retired just so the new generation get to know about the Beatles. Their style has change a little bit, but only because we live in a different time period, but they still wear suit and look classy as always. Very interesting that Paul goes into Ballet but I like the fact that that he interested at different type of music and that is what make him a legend. During the show in New York, he sung a song that was enjoyable for the public and really danceable. I believe that the Beatles are the greatest band ever because they did something that no band ever did. The Beatles built they career and became...
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... Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours depicts a day in the life of Mrs. Dalloway author Virginia Woolf, fifties housewife Laura Brown, and nineties publisher Clarissa Vaughn who, along with other complex characters, Woolf’s husband Leonard and Vaughn’s best friend Richard intermingle to create a story with a strong message about the treatment of disease especially among the homosexual community. Only after applying Deconstructionist literary theory does Cunningham’s comment on the plight of the homosexual reveal itself. When examining the story from a Deconstructionist viewpoint, Clarissa Vaughn acts as Richard’s binary opposite. When Clarissa and Richard first meet in the story, Clarissa brings Richard flowers, a traditionally masculine role. Richard, in contrast, is describes as having a mind “eaten to lace,” a decidedly feminine image and Clarissa equates his home to “the hold of a sunken ship” a yonic image further depicting Richard as the female in the scene. If, in the novel, the female Clarissa was a literary genius suffering from AIDS feminist literary critics would have dubbed her “the mad woman in the attic;” however, this “mad woman in the attic” concept applies instead to Richard the homosexual man in the story. By applying this feminist terminology to Richard, Cunningham compares the plight of the artistically repressed woman of the 19th century to the repressed homosexual of the late 20th century. During this modern time period when Michael Cunningham...
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...mechanism’ or gagée ‘tool’. (Oxford Dictionaries) http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/gadget The history of gadgets spans as far back as humanity itself - since hominids began creating tools to make their lives easier. Humans have always created devices and appliances with specific practical purposes that were initially thought of as novelties, due to unfamiliarity with and initial unwillingness to accept the technology. Today, industry has augmented the creation of new gadgets, while certain retailers, including Brookstone and Richard Thalheimer's RichardSolo.com, specialize in popularizing them. What famous inventors Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Leonardo da Vinci, among others, had in common was foresight. They understood that a lifetime spent playing with what others viewed as toys and senseless gadgets would eventually result in indispensable technology. From just that small group, the groundwork for electricity, communications, film, and flight was laid because of their gadgets, which obviously possessed more...
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...Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25 Review The amount of amps to kill a human is somewhere between 100-200 mA(.1-.2 amp). This may not seem like a lot but this would kill you instantaneously. The amount of electricity to be contained inside of you would be unimaginable. This is another story for the character Michael Vey, he is known as the living taser and that is exactly what he is. Carrying enough amps, and volts, to kill a full grown crocodile. This book was without a doubt amazing, the amount of action, plot development and comedy within it. When I first read this book I was instantly hooked on the series and just had to keep reading. With Michael learning to control his power there was no doubt this would be interesting. The Elgen are...
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...Good morning everyone. Today I am going to share with you a story of how fragile life can be. It is the story of Formula 1 driver, Michael Schumacher. Michael Schumacher is known as Formula 1’s greatest ever driver, having claimed 7 world championships. Schumacher was born in Germany on Jan 3rd 1969. He started racing karts at the age of 4, and at 18 he won the German and European Kart championship. When he was 21 he won his first major single-seater title, clenching the German Formula 3 crown. In 1991 he made his Formula 1 debut, for Jordan in Belgium. In the year 2000, Michael won the world championship for Ferrari for the first time since 1971. From his very first race in Formula 1, he was bold, confident, and passionate about being behind the wheel. His love for racing and speed never got in the way of safety, as Michael knew the dangers of racing better than most. He was accomplished at knowing how to deal with every twist and turn in the fastest way possible. After 308 races, going around international F1 tracks for practice and races (approximately 10 000 in his career), at some points being over speeds of 300 km/h, experiencing G forces as high as 5.5 G’s, this German racing driver certainly knows how to handle speed, has highly tuned reflexes and a great sense of anticipation! His body was conditioned for extra stamina and handling tight space conditions and extreme heat. His strength and endurance allowed him to handle all of the forces...
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