...lament.Every night his father abused him in unimaginable ways while his mother watched and cackled, loving the sounds of her child's cries of agony.Sorrow only goes so far until you want revenge.And that's exactlly what Boy wanted.He wanted them to feel the pain he felt.He wanted them to suffer the way he did.It was now night the clock struckt 11pm.Boy slowly got out his bed and crept into the kitchen where he grabs a blade, gallon of gasoline, and a match set.He steps outside and begins to drench the house in gasoline.He knows his parents are still asleep and takes the advantage of lighting the match.Boy backs away into a safe distance and throws the litted match.The house begins to cut afire and a sinister smile is plastered on Boy's face.Screams from upstairs he hears his parents wail in terror slowly the screams died and there wasn't a sound but the crumbling house...Boy ran into his back woods where he slid down against a rotting tree.He kept the knife with him and slid it acros his risk watching his crimson life leave his body...As the night went on boy had died either expecting to be in heaven or hell but what he wasnt expecting was to be in the same forest and sittingnext to do a dead boy with an all too familar blade. That's when boy realizes that this boy is him.He is a lost...
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...I selected Boy at the window by Richard Wilbur. The author of this poem said he wrote the poem after seeing how distressed his five-year- old son was about the snowman they had built. This poem starts by using a depressing and somber tone from the overly dramatic perspective of a young boy. The poem is told by an omniscient outside perspective. The poet starts by describing the outdoor aspect of the snowman’s situation as being a lonely and terrifying experience as seen in lines three and four of the first stanza. “The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare/A night of gnashing’s and enormous moan.” (Clugston,2010). It is apparent that, to this boy, this is a huge frightening storm blowing in and threatening his poor snowman. Furthermore, the use of personification and metaphors are used to describe the prediction of the storm’s violent behavior as gnashing and moaning, both are which human qualities that can sometimes express pain and anger. Specifically, gnashing paints an image of something being grinded up through extreme impact, almost like a tornado’s behavior. The poem also gives a description of the snowman’s facial expression as seen by the young boy, showing a desperation and betrayal. This poem gives a touching depth to the fear that the boy grasps and represents the emotional transfer to the snowman in the boy’s mind. The use of personification is showing when the author describes the snowman’s face “the pale faced figure with bitumen eyes”. I found this part really...
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...There was once a boy who always treated his mother horribly, shouting at her, insulting her. It didn't matter to him how sad he made her. One day, without knowing how, he woke up in an immense and lonely place. He was sitting on a rock from which four huge pillars rose up into the sky, appearing to support the entire world. He was all alone, but soon an enormous flock of crows with beaks made of steel landed on the rock, and set about violently chipping away at it. After the crows left, a mysterious door in one of the pillars opened, and through it came a charming and pretty girl. -"Have you come to help us? That's great! We need all the people we can get." The boy was puzzled, and spotting his confusion, the little girl explained. -"So you don't know where you are? This is the centre of the Earth. These pillars support the whole planet, and this rock keeps the pillars in place." -"And how can I help you?" said the boy, confused. -"Well, to help look after the rock, of course. Anyone can see by your face that you're the best person for the job," answered the girl, -"The birds you saw are only increasing in number, and if we don't look after this rock it will eventually crumble and everything will come crashing down.” -"And what do you see in my face?!" exclaimed the boy, surprised. -"I've never looked after a rock in my whole life!" -"But you'll learn how, even if you've never done it. Here, look in this mirror," said the girl, holding one in front...
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...What makes this ghost story so interesting is that it is so unexpected. Sitting on a cold bench, right before practice, I figured I would ask around to see if anyone had any good ghost stories to tell. Little did I know that I would find one that would send chills down my spine. As the oldest sibling growing up in their two story house in Bergen county, Dana remembers a lot of her childhood as well as her brothers, who is only a couple of years younger. She made known that her house was in fact a vacation home that had the luxury of having the lake right in the backyard. It is a two-story house and after moving in they decided to put on addition. Prior to the addition and back when it was just a vacation home, a family who had two little boys occupied the house. The events that took place...
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...Next Term, we’ll Mash You By Penelope Lively Do you know about violence or bullying, or just heard about before? If you have or want to hear a short story about this kind of story, you might lie down and read this. In the text ”Next Term, we’ll mash you” we hear about this boy Charles who get threatened by some guys at his new school, because he is the ”new member.” How bad can it actually be? Next Term, we’ll Mash you is about a young boy named Charles who is sitting in a car with his parents. They are going to visit St Edward Preparatory school where Charles is going to start. When they come to the school the mother consider it as a lovely place. Charles and his parents are waiting for the headmaster, but meanwhile is the headmaster’s wife taking Charles out to see some of the boys and see what he might be letting himself in for. After seeing the boys at the school, he finds out how they are treating new members. ”Inside the car it was quiet. The boy sat on the back seat, a box of chocolates unopened, beside him and a comic folded” inside the car is there a quiet unhappy boy who is sitting in the back seat, while his parents drive him to his new school. The atmosphere is quiet because it is tens inside the car, nobody are talking especially not Charles. He has nothing to say, because this is not his own option for the new school. His parents have choosing the school for their own sake and not for his. Charles parents want him to go at that school because they have...
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...father and his young son, who travel and attempt to survive post apocalyptic Earth. They set out to the south west in hopes to find people just like themselves, who are still morally correct in a world full of cannibalistic savages. The father shows the boy how to survive through making fires, dispersing their daily intake of food, sleeping in various locations, and other ways just to be safe and healthy. The father teaches him that they are the few morally correct people still left on Earth, as he wishes to teach his son as much as he can, before the father’s time runs out. The boy is seen as a God-like figure to his father as he is a beacon of light in a world full of darkness, the hope of the future, due to his correct moralities, as this reflects onto the father in various situations through the novel. It is quite notable that though the father plays an influential figure for the boy to look up to, the boy also is able to praise teachings upon his father to restore faith in himself. The bond between the father and son is one of the learning, as the father finds himself learning from his son. To start with the case of the son teaching his father, the two spot a young old man ahead of them on the road, to which the young boy insists on helping him, going against...
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...In "The Achievement of Desire," an autobiographical essay, Richard Rodriguez reflects on his life as a young boy as he suffered to balance life in the academic world and the life of a working class family. Through out his essay, he identifies as a “scholarship boy”, someone who pushes his family and friends away all for the sake of “knowledge”, a definition he found in a book he came across called The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart. Rodriguez explains that in order for him to achieve success, it was necessary to disconnect himself from the life he knew before education. Even though leaving home and branching out towards new ways of thinking are considered key elements in education, it does not necessarily mean that we have to alienate ourselves in the process to become successful. Rodriguez is present in three different forms in his essay, the child, the graduate student who first comes across The Uses of Literacy, and the adult who has “completed his path” in education. The first section in his essay focuses on his life and the difficulties he faced growing up in a bilingual environment. We notice how he associates academic success with alienation from a very young age; as he mentions in his essay “He takes his first step toward academic success, away from his family” (Rodriguez, pg. 4). Rodriguez also focuses on his parents a lot and elaborates how they helped shape the person he is today, and not strictly in a positive way. In the begging of his essay, Rodriguez mentions...
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...two – maybe more people. This can causes further conflict, as you may not agree on how to deal with conflicts and how to progress the development. In the movie and the book "About a boy" a lot of different developments are looked into, and brought up in all sorts of ways. This happens most often through the two main characters' life and everyday. The movie and the book use multiple viewpoints. The story is told by only one character at a time, but the viewpoint switches between the two main characters throughout the course of the movie and the book. In every chapter of the book it changes from Marcus viewpoint to Will’s, and in the movie it changes when we as viewer follows Marcus’s actions to Will’s. We know what Marcus and Will thinks, which gives us a perspective from several different angles and in this case keeps the story fresh and exciting. The author has done an incredibly good job, as he has managed not to lose the viewer/reader through the multiple viewpoints, and that is because the transitions are well done. The narrator is a 3rd person narrator and it is character-bounded to Marcus and Will. In the movie and the book, there are two main characters – Marcus and Will, who both are round characters because they develop much though the story. Marcus is a special 12-year old boy and seems very grown-up for his age. In the beginning of the story he is very influenced by his mother, Fiona, but as the story...
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...In the poem “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, the boy speaks of how his father shows his love by the physical things he does for his family. The dedication and commitment of hard work through the week the boy’s father does to provide for them is unrecognized by outsiders. “with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.” (3-5). It was not until the boy became a man that he realized just how much his father loved him without ever saying it. Somehow humans have an unspoken connection that can translate into love without ever uttering a single phrase. One simple gesture can make all the difference in the world to an unsuspecting individual. The father, a blue collar worker, with hands that show drudgery aches of winter, manages to care for the well-being of his family by waking early to warm the frightful chill that looms in the air. The loyalty of a father and caregiver never end, “who had driven out the cold.” (11). There are days I would wake up on my day off and wish I did not have responsibilities that day. Like everyone else in the world, life continues on whether we want it to or not. The boy’s father knew he had no choice but to take care of what needed taking care of. “Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold.” (1-2). As the bitterness winter chill subsided from room to room, “When the rooms were warm, he’d call.” (7). The boy not knowing or caring that his father stoked the fire that...
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...Boots’ amateur till guard to thank for that. She has a piercing just above her lip and to the left. Cool, and an ear stretcher from Primark. ‘#Rebel’, she posted. Charlotte knows what she wants, and she knows exactly how many blowjobs she has to give before she gets it, a real go getter in school, she even has her name on the girl’s toilet wall, next to another kid called ‘Slut’. They must know each other well, because it’s written everywhere else too! So anyway, Charlotte is lonely at the minute, with all the boys she knows all either in prison or another girl, she’s lost. Looking for the new angry birds to pass the time, she comes across a brand new app, Tinder. ‘OMG!’ she shrieked. Amazed, she swipes eagerly through all the other people too lazy to put on shoes and go outside and get drunk and do drugs like all the other kids, all the boys who haven’t quite got a firm grasp on their sexuality yet and all the people pretending to be pop stars. Suddenly though, she come across the perfect guy, Dan, boy is he dreamy, with his remarkably blue eyes, like two swirling oceans of cute, his black hair in a swift, cool quiff to complement those great dimples she wishes she could just fall asleep in. She types to him, and they fall in love. It’s only been 6 minutes but it’s like they’re, it’s like they’re connected somehow. Soul mates, if you’re a moron. Her daily Facebook astrology post did say this would happen! She is a Taurus after all. It’s been a whole day since she ‘met’ Dan...
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...The Achievement of Desire RICHARD RODRIGUEZ Hunger of Memory, the autobiography of Richard Rodriguez and the source of the following selection, set off a storm of controversy in the Chicano community when it appeared in 1981. Some hailed it as an uncompromising portrayal of the difficulties of growing up between two cultures; others condemned it because it seemed to blame Mexican Americans for the difficulties they encountered assimilating into mainstream American society. Rodriguez was born in 1944 into an immigrant family outside San Francisco. Though he was unable to speak English when he entered school, his educational career can only be described as brilliant: undergraduate work at Stanford University, graduate study at Berkeley and Columbia, a Fulbright fellowship to study English literature in London, a subsequent grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In this selection, Rodriguez analyzes the motives that led him to abandon his study of Renaissance literature and return to live with his parents. He is currently an associate editor with the Pacific News Service in San Francisco, an essayist for the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and a contributing editor for Harper's magazine and for the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times. His other books include Mexico's Children (1991) and Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (1993), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. I stand in the ghetto classroom - "the guest speaker"...
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...The Price of Desire “I do not consider myself to be a follower, just a lonely deserted soul in a barbaric city, who walks his own treacherous path in life.” (McGready, 10) I, like many women before me covet love deep in my soul. I have gone to many lengths to protect that desire from those that seek to destroy it, at a price only I will know. An all consuming desire so strong as to change the course of the soul, back into ones self. How far will one go for the craving of love? What part of your soul will you be willing to sacrifice in exchange for the need to fill the void in your heart? When we look at stories about desperate love and the longing of the human heart we might look at William Faulkner. Born in 1897 into an old Mississippian family, the reader may find that most of his stories focus on the vast emotions that one feels when trying to understand the heart and the soul in small town southern life. “A Rose for Emily” written by Faulkner in 1950, tells the story of a proud southern belle robbed of her chances for love and to belong, by an overbearing father and a culture so stifling as to lock her away her with desire forever. Faulkner writes this story from an objective point of view as the reader is told only what Miss Emily does with her life as it is picked apart by the town gossip. “The Griersons held themselves a little too high”, as most would say and Miss Emily, a well bred southern daughter, described as “a slender figure in white”, (Faulkner...
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...utilize the availability of this information and integrate according functionalities in to their websites, creating a better experience and positively influencing sales. But although revenues in online shops are increasing, physical stores still retain their attractiveness to customers. A reason for that is certainly that the overall shopping experience created in a shopping mall or a corner store is very different from shopping with a web browser. As for a traditional travel guide book publisher, Lonely Planet, it also can use this good opportunity to release new product in order to change customers’ ideas about this company, which can help the company to change its impression of traditional consumers. Besides, it can also address consumers’ concerns about the timelessness and currency because the new products that used in mobile devices can provide real-time information and update information constantly, which traditional travel books cannot do. Requirement 2 As we know from the case, Lonely Planet was always looking for ways to expand its market and brand image through new technologies. For example, it offers audio phrasebooks and city guides that can be downloaded to several brands of smart phones....
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...Flash animations in sites such as these. Consider the retailer’s objectives, the characteristics of the products being sold, and the type of customers who visit these sites. Case 1. Lonely Planet In 1972, Tony and Maureen Wheeler were newlyweds who decided to have one last adventurous travel experience before settling down. Their trip was an overland trek from London to Australia through Asia. So many other travelers asked them about their experiences that they sat down at their kitchen table and wrote a book titled Across Asia on the Cheap. They published the book themselves and were surprised by how many copies they sold. More than three decades and 60 million books later, their publishing enterprise has turned out to be one of the most successful in history. The Wheelers’ publishing company, Lonely Planet, has grown rapidly, with typical annual sales increases of 20 percent or more. In 2007, BBC Worldwide purchased a 75 percent ownership interest in the company and purchased the rest of the company’s stock in 2011. Lonely Planet TV now produces a variety of travel and documentary programs that appear on cable networks throughout the world. As a BBC subsidiary, the company does not release sales figures, but industry analysts estimate current annual revenues to be about $110 million. Lonely Planet publishes more than 600 titles and holds a 20 percent share of the travel guide market. The company has more than 450 employees in its UK, U.S., French, and Australian offices...
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...a small railway station stop in North Platte changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people for the better, both visitors and volunteers. The Canteen became legendary and the small city of North Platte. It, along with many cities surrounding made history around the world because of their commitment to and sacrifices for the soldiers that stopped albeit briefly at the “Canteen”. The Canteen in North Platte was born by accident, but clearly addressed a real need both emotional and physical for the local citizens and the soldiers that stopped there on their way across country during a very difficult time. When a group of local families from North Platte were told the train arriving on Christmas Day in 1941 was to have the local boys of North Platte on the train they prepared to meet their families with food, and drinks. Items made by hand and with love for their loved ones. What they found when the train arrived were soldiers that in fact were not their loved ones. Although they were disappointed with the fact that the young men that arrived were not their family, they saw the young soldiers were so happy to be met by them. So much gratitude from the soldiers that stopped that day, and true appreciation for the kindness of the locals who could have handled their disappointment in not seeing their own families differently, but chose to still share their treats and gifts to help make the scared young soldiers feel appreciated, even if only for a short time. It helped...
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