...Acting a certain way to fit in to please the people around us is a common trend all around the world. This is shown throughout the novel Paper Towns by John Green. The novel is about one ordinary, nerdy boy Quentin jacobsen who is in love with the popular, mysterious and adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman. After a wild night helping Margo get revenge on her cheating ex and lying friends, she disappears leaving a trail of clues for Q (Quentin) to find her, pushing him out of his comfort zone in order to find the girl he loves. Throughout the book Q learns the whole concept of ‘paper towns’ and ‘paper people’ and shows how many things are fake. This lesson is important to the novel as it shows him not to expect too much of people and for them...
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...Paper Towns tells about the mystery that was Margo Roth Spiegelman. She was in love with mysteries, and she loved them too much. For example, when she was nine, she found a dead body on the street. She became obsessed with finding out why he had done that to himself that she interviewed multiple people. She found nothing, but never gave it up. She may have loved them so much, that she became one. Multiple years later, it was close to PROM. Ben, Radar, and Quentin all didn’t really seem interested in PROM. That was until Radar asked his girlfriend. After that, Ben was kind of interested in going, but got rejected by a girl he liked. Moments later, Radar introduced his girlfriend, and they all just hung out. The boys were talking about why Radar’s...
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...loved? Margo Roth Spiegelman knows exactly what this feels like because she experienced it first-hand. In Paper Towns, Margo is trying to get revenge on everyone who knew her boyfriend was cheating on her. With the help of her old friend Quentin, Margo embarked on their journey. Many specific objects have meaning in this book, especially the minivan, the strings, and the spray-paint. In the beginning of the story, Margo Roth Spiegelman asks her old friend Quentin to borrow his mom’s minivan because she has important tasks she needs to complete. Because Quentin is an altruistic person, he said yes. Margo and Quentin had always been good friends in the past, until they experienced some traumatic events and no longer talked after they happened. The minivan in this story is what connects Margo and Quentin back together after years apart: “And so May fifth could have been any day—until just before midnight when Margo Roth Spiegelman slid open my screenless bedroom window for the first time since telling me to close it nine years before” (Green 24). The minivan was also important in this story because it was a home for Margo and Quentin to stay in. Quentin elaborates on how you can really make...
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...his book Paper Towns, he writes about the numerous adventures and discoveries of Quentin Jacobsen, a rule abiding senior from Orlando, Florida. From the night that Margo Roth Spiegelman, an old childhood friend and Quentin’s neighbor, comes through Quentin’s window and asks for his help to solving the case of Margo’s predicted disappearance Quentin will be in for major changes in his life. Throughout the novel, Quentin unfolds his determined yet cautious actions when dealing with Margo; he plays a role in being a criminal partner and becomes a hound for clues from Margo; and he recognizes his disregard of who people are instead of...
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...In this amazing book written by John Green a boy goes out with the help of his friends to find a girl who gone missing. It was nothing new that Margo has gone missing again. Her parents thought nothing of it they believed that she will turn up again in her own time. She’s been doing this ever since she was about in the 8th grade. Quentin grew up with Margo and he’s had a huge crush on her ever since. Then, on a joyful day of their childhood Margo and Quentin came upon a dead body at the park. In Paper Towns Margo stated that “I thought you closed your eyes when you died,” (Green 5). Later on that night on that same day Margo shows up at Quentin window and states that “Maybe all the strings inside him broke,” (Green 8). Skipping to their senior...
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...of thinking. John Green characterizes this fact in two of his novels, Paper Towns and looking for alaska. These books show this point by almost blatant changes in his characters. Furthermore, in the introduction of the books the main characters seem boring and opaque. When Miles “Pudge” Halter leaves Florida, things seem pretty stagnated. “The Week Before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing a going away party....
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...Paper Towns: An Analysis There are three types of books in the world. There are the ones that leave you emotionally numb. These are the types of books that you read, the books that occasionally make you smile, chuckle a little, finish them, close them, and then eventually place them in your bookcase never to be read again. Then you’ve got the books that you don’t read. You read them, but you don’t really read them. You do not care for the story. You do not relate to the characters. You do not feel that moderately pleasant feeling when a character does something adorable. You do not need your highlighter to highlight inspirational or well executed quotes. In many cases, these books are never finished. Then, on some very rare occasions, you...
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...People only know the side of you that you choose to show. In the book Paper Towns, John Green employs plot to reveal that even though it seems like you know a person really well, you might not know them at all or people might not be what they seem to be. This is shown throughout the book many times, through many characters. Quentin and his friends soon realized what kind of person Margo actually is, how things you say about people can reveal who you really are, the different ways of viewing an individual, and Quentin seeing the value in accepting other peoples flaws. The characters come to realize the importance in accepting others values and flaws. While Quentin and his friends are on the dash to find where Margo might be,...
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...Looking at characterisation in Paper Towns Margo Roth Spiegelman: While she doesn’t appear in person for much of the book, there is no doubt that she is at its centre, the focus being the unravelling of her real identity as compared with others’ images. She comes to us through the Quentin, and is seen by her actions and reactions to what others say about her, and also in what she says about herself, although she may not always be right. Task: Create a mind-map for Margo. Some might empathise with her, others might find her a prima donna (overly dramatic). Opinions need to be supported by evidence from the book. I have given you some examples below to kick start the process... Actions: Page 15-16: Quentin documents everything she has done; Page 86: paying off the security guard at Sea World. Page 106: describing how she keeps things in check at school. Reactions: Page 104: Quentin says she is having the kind of fun we can only imagine Page 106: ‘Only now, after all this lost me, did I realise how terribly I had misunderstood both her game and the prize for winning it’ What she says: Page 39: being ‘hot’ is stupid to her Page 78: she maps out Q’s life for him What others say about her: Page103: Ben says ‘She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at Twenty-seven like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like the first-ever Nobel Prize for...
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...We’re nger stro ther toge The GenderWorks Toolkit is a practical, two-part guide to help: • Women’s groups campaign successfully on issues of gender, poverty and social exclusion and • Public bodies meet their obligations under equalities legislation and tackle poverty among women more effectively. The GenderWorks Toolkit ontents C Acknowledgements and Foreword 4 Toolkit credits plus how to order copies. A GenderWorks training participant and member of the Saheli Asian Women’s Group explains why this toolkit is so useful. Introduction 6 Why women? A look at the links between gender and poverty, and the need for women-only services. Women’s groups – the confidence to campaign 17 Real Women, Real Power 18 Five inspiring stories of women’s groups who achieved change in very different ways. Top tips for successful campaigning 32 Key messages from real women on how to achieve your aims. Self-analysis 34 Exercises and case studies to help you think about your group and how you can best achieve change. Lobbying letters 48 Practical examples to help you communicate with a range of audiences. Language, terminology and human rights 54 A look at the language used around issues of gender and poverty, and why switching the debate from needs to rights is important. If you’ve got a minute… 58 Practical suggestions about what...
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...thank the Oxford University Engineering Sciences Department and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology for hosting the “Machines and Employment” Workshop. We are indebted to Stuart Armstrong, Nick Bostrom, Eris Chinellato, Mark Cummins, Daniel Dewey, David Dorn, Alex Flint, Claudia Goldin, John Muellbauer, Vincent Mueller, Paul Newman, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Anders Sandberg, Murray Shanahan, and Keith Woolcock for their excellent suggestions. † Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1PT, United Kingdom, carl.frey@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk. ‡ Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom, mosb@robots.ox.ac.uk. ∗ 1 I. I NTRODUCTION In this paper, we address the question: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation?...
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...Impact of Visual Communication in Rural Markets Submitted By: Name: Sujit Mishra Course: PGDM- Marketing Roll No: 056 Under the guidance of: Dr. Ramkishen. Y Faculty in Marketing K J SIMSR K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research IV Trimester, 2012 Abstract: Rural marketing involves addressing around 700 million potential consumers, over 40 per cent of the Indian middle-class, and about half the country's disposable income. According to a NCAER study the consuming class households in rural equals the number in urban and awareness The recent NCAER publication "The Great Indian Middle Class" further reveals that the Indian middle class consisted on 10.7 million households or 57 million individuals of which 36 per cent lived in rural areas. Companies are always looking for tools and ways to increase the brand visibility and communication. Brand communication to the consumers is always an important marketing goal of marketers. In doing so, they spend a lot through their marketing services firm, which provides the advertising and communication services to the client firms. Promotion of brands in rural markets requires the special measures. Due to the social and backward condition the personal selling efforts have a challenging role to play in this regard. Going by some of the characteristics of the rural public, which are high brand loyalty, low income influenced by seasonal fluctuations, low...
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...MNUALLL/301/0/2013 Tutorial Letter 101/0/2013 General tutorial letter for proposal, dissertation and thesis writing MNUALLL Year module Department of Health Studies IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. Note: Copyright pertaining to Mouton (2006) has been ceded to Unisa CONTENTS Page 1 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.3.1 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 5 5.1 5.2 5.2.1 5.2.2 2 WELCOME ................................................................................................................................... 6 SECTION 1: BEING REGISTERED FOR THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL MODULE (RPM) .... 7 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 7 Application .................................................................................................................................... 7 Registration for Research Proposal Module (RPM) ...................................................................... 7 Registration................................................................................................................................... 8 Appointment of supervisor ............................................................................................................ 8 Guidelines for writing a proposal ...............................................................................................
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...GONE GIRL August 29, 2013 GONE GIRL Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn Screenplay by Gillian Flynn TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX 10201 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT AUGUST 29, 2013 Revisions September 15, 2013 & September 27, 2013 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. COPYRIGHT 2014 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. NO PORTION OF THIS SCRIPT MAY BE PERFORMED, PUBLISHED, REPRODUCED, SOLD OR DISTRIBUTED BY ANY MEANS, OR QUOTED OR PUBLISHED IN ANY MEDIUM, INCLUDING ON ANY WEB SITE, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. DISPOSAL OF THIS SCRIPT COPY DOES NOT ALTER ANY OF THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH ABOVE. GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn Based on the Novel By Gillian Flynn Yellow Revised Pink Revised Blue Script White Script — - 9/27/13 9/15/13 8/29/13 7/30/13 Al BLACK SCREEN NICK (V.0.) When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. FADE IN: INT. BEDROOM SOMETIME Al - We see the back of AMY DUNNE’S HEAD, resting on a pillow. NICK (V.0.) I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, Nick runs his fingers into Amy’s hair. NICK (V.0.) Trying to get answers. He twirls and twirls a lock, a screw tightening. NICK (V.0.) The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? AMY wakes, turns, gives a look of alarm. * BLACK SCREEN 2 EXT. NORTH CARTHAGE MORNING 2 - A carved faux-marble entry—reading FOREST...
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...Sam Walton Made in America My Story by Sam Walton with John Huey BANTAM BOOKS NEW YORK• TORONTO• LONDON• SYDNEY• AUCKLAND This edition contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition. NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED. SAM WALTON: MADE IN AMERICA A Bantam Book/published by arrangement with Doubleday PUBLISHING HISTORY Doubleday edition published June 1992 Bantam edition/June 1993 Photographs without credits appear courtesy of the Walton family. All rights reserved. Copyright© 1992 by the Estate of Samuel Moore Walton. Cover photo copyright© 1989 by Louis Psihoyos/Matrix. Cover design by Emily & Maura Design. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-18874. ISBN 0-553-56283-5 Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada Bantam Books are published by Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Its trademark, consisting of the words "Bantam Books" and the portrayal of a rooster, is Registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. Marca Registrada. Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OPM 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 Contents Acknowledgments 4 Foreword 5 1 Learning to Value a Dollar 9 2 Starting on a Dime 14 3 Bouncing Back 25 4 Swimming Upstream 33 5 Raising a Family 44 6 Recruiting the Team 50 7 Taking the Company Public 58 8 Rolling Out the Formula 68 9 Building the Partnership 77 10 Stepping...
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