... the main character, a pregnant and jilted wife, Mary Maloney, violently murders her fickle husband. The murder was spontaneous and provoked by her husband’s announcement that he was leaving her. Prior to his announcement, she had been a devoted housewife as seen through the many kind thoughts and actions that occur throughout the exposition. This kind nature, coupled with her cunning ability to think on the fly makes her an unlikely suspect. To begin, Mary Maloney’s soft and kind-hearted personality as demonstrated through her kindnesses towards her husband and her worries concerning her unborn child makes her an unlikely suspect. Firstly, shows her kindness...
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...story cases the foe is the most vital character. The writer can change the way somebody peruses the story in light of the fact that the fundamental character can change from hero to the opponent. A few demonstrations of wrongdoing should be possible with no intention by any means, yet should be possible if under much stretch. In Roald Dahl's short story, "The Lamb To The Slaughter", the improvement of the topics treachery and tricky misdirection inside of the character Mary Maloney are exhibited with homicide, an explanation, and freeing of the homicide weapon. Mary Maloney's general disloyalty is resolved when her spouse abandons her, overlooks her commitment towards him, and at last when she kills Patrick Maloney. Patrick Maloney's disloyalty is affirmed when he disregards the colossal devotion his wife gives him. Patrick has gotten back home and he his wife are taking a seat discreetly after his day of work, after he completes his refreshment " [Patrick pauses]… a minute he [gets up] and strolls over to get another beverage.. [Mary cries I'll get it!]..., bouncing. [yet Patrick says, sit down]. " Mary Maloney is attempting to be a devoted wife to her dedicated spouse as much as she can after his work. She does this in light of the fact that Patrick's occupation is to a great degree troublesome. Notwithstanding her devotion towards her spouse, his disloyalty is affirmed when he advises Mary that he is abandoning her. When she lets him know is as yet going...
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...Feminism in “Lamb to the Slaughter” In the socially stagnant post-war United States of the early 1950's, Mary Maloney is content with the routine she has established for herself as a homemaker. She spends each day anticipating the return of her husband, police officer Patrick Maloney. In this waiting period, she tidies up his house, prepares his food, and periodically glances at the clock until he arrives. For Mary Maloney, her husband's return is "always the most blissful time of day" (Dahl 24). Patrick's presence completes Mary, in that she is dependent on him both economically and emotionally. In Roald Dahl's 1951 short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter," Mary Maloney comes to embody a feminist heroine by escaping her husband's oppression. Her behavior in the beginning of the story is docile and therefore socially acceptable; she is the willing and conscientious housewife that all women should be. She has no choice in the matter, for "the Western family structure helps to subordinate women, causing them to be economically dependent" (Bressler 186). As soon as her husband Patrick reveals that he is leaving her, Mary's whole character changes. She murders her husband, who has provided her with the security she has come to take for granted. The cultural, linguistic, and bodily elements that differentiate the female from the male are apparent in "Lamb to the Slaughter," therefore marking it as a highly subversive feminist text. It...
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...Roald Dahl’s books only ever appeared once. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 and died in 1930, Arthur Conan Doyle was a trained doctor which would have been helpful in writing his stories as he would know the medical view on his cases and that would have helped him to write his books which featured Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson what makes this book different to the speckled Band is that Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson appear more than once in Arthur Doyle’s books. When reading the two short stories I noticed that in the Lamb to the Slaughter the story was being told by a narrator and we were following the story though Mary Maloney’s eyes and how she feels, In The Speckled Band the story was being told by doctor Watson and how he feels about Sherlock Holmes and the case and also he added what he thought might of happened. Also The Speckled Band seems to be a true Murder Mystery because we don’t know who killed Helen’s sister so it is a mystery to us as well as the characters and that adds suspense to the story and also is more interesting as we try to work out who is the murderer and how they killed the person, but in Lamb to the Slaughter we knew that Mary killed her husband and the only suspense was if the detectives will work out that Mary killed him. The stories both have different layouts and are written differently, In Lamb to the Slaughter all of the action takes place in one night...
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...Avantika Ranabhat, Bancroft: Patrick Maloney, a detective, was found dead in his living room in Bancroft, Ontario. Yesterday (Thursday) evening, the police arrived at the crime scene after Mary Maloney, Mr. Maloney's wife, called them sounding panicked. The police were shocked to find their colleague and friend dead in his house. They have found no suspect. For this reason, the investigation is still ongoing. Mrs. Maloney had stepped out to but some vegetables and when she came home she was baffled finding her husband dead. The murderer was swift and clean; he or she got in and out of the house before Mrs. Maloney came. There were no fingerprints found other than the Maloney's. Being a detective comes with a lot of risks and enemies, as a...
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...Everyone encounters emotional struggles throughout their day. They may not be as elaborate as the ones Tessie, Mary, and the Republican Sniper appropriate with but they still affect our life. Tessie, Mary, and the Republican Sniper face an inner struggle as a result of them being pitted against society which results in their defeat. These character's inner struggles will be shown and explained in this essay. In Lamb To The Slaughter by Roald Dahl Mary Maloney is faced with an internal conflict. She is at war with herself when she finds out her happy home is not happy and about to disappear all together. She solves this conflict by killing her husband. "Her first instinct was not to believe any of it. She thought that perhaps she'd imagined...
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...As Mary Maloney started to clean up the dishes from dinner the policeman gave her there prayers and left. She began to feel guilt that Patrick never became a father and that her baby will have no father to love. Also she began to worry about money and what she is going to do with her baby once the baby is born. Meanwhile the policeman put a notese out on the radio to see if anyone saw or heard anything weird at the Maloney’s residence. A month later,Mary began looking for a significant other to support the family and becomes interested in Jack. She went up to him and asked if he would go on a date with her. Jack was a little hesitant at first but then he said yes. and So thayz out on their first date but during the date a person cam in...
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...Lamb To the Slaughter: Is Mary Evil? By Tony Cui In the short story Lamb to the Slaughter written by Roald Dahl, who was a famous British author. One of the main characters Mary Maloney killed her husband, who was a police officer during a conflict due to a conversation. Afraid of getting caught, she plans a perfect alibi and made the police destroy the evidence for her by invite them to ate the lamb leg she used as a weapon to kill her husband. Although some suggest that Mary is evil and both her murder and covering it up is due to her evilness; I think the truth is just the opposite, Mary isn’t evil and both her murder and cover up are due to accident and necessity. There are three reasons that support my viewpoint: “Firstly, before the accident has occurred her husband was the person who acted cold and refused everything Mary said to try to make him happy, so it suggest that Mary is not a wicked person; secondly, her husband betrayed her first and she was mad due to this; lastly, the reason for Mary to cover up the murder is because that she is pregnant with a child, and she wasn’t sure that if the court would let her born the child before her death penalty. In the story, Mary’s husband acted cold after he went back to home, he rejected all suggestion Mary made to try to make him happy. He refused to have some cheese, going out to eat, and to have some cheese and crackers. When Mary wants to refill his drink, he ordered Mary to “sit down” and he went to do it himself. The...
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...Nowadays, freedom is a fundamental right for each man and woman, but it is not a perfect concept. When one’s freedom is endangered, he can do unimaginable things, especially when love is at stake or can react weirdly when he acquires it. It’s exactly what Kate Chopin, a female American author during the 19th century, did when she treated about women’s conditions in the short-story Story of an Hour in 1894, where a woman falsely learns about his husband’s death. Almost 60 years later, Roald Dahl wrote Lamb To The Slaughter, set in Great Britain, where a woman kills her husband and hide the evidences cleverly. These two short stories are not only comparative on the two female protagonists and the imagery used, but also on the main themes which are freedom and betrayal. Freedom is one of the major theme in The Story of An Hour. Indeed, once she learned her husband’s death, and after she was crying alone in her room, she feels slowly happier: yes she is sad that her husband died but still, she starts to feel something that was never felt before, a feeling that embraces her which is the emotion of being free: “ ‘Free, free, free!’ and “Free! Body and soul free!” she kept whispering’ “. Married, she was the innocent, loving and inferior to her husband, but now that was a widow, well that I what she thought, she felt that the era of her freedom was beginning :“There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will...
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...Equal Rights Amendment and Its Implications for Business BMGT 380 Business Law The Equal Rights Amendment as proposed in 1923 was to specifically promote the equality of all persons regardless of gender. Arguments for and against use scary rhetoric to convince others that their side is the only option. The ratification of the ERA could diminish legal battles, as it would negate the traditional assumption that males hold rights and females must prove that they hold them. However, highly controversial and emotional issues such as abortion rights and gay right continue to cloud the overall intent of the Amendment. An Equal Rights Amendment would remove that differential assumption and shift the burden of proof to the alleged discriminator. The ERA while not creating a radical shift in most businesses, could affect industries and jobs that have been seen as traditionally male career fields including professional sports, the military and other highly physical or hazardous careers. Women would have the option to participate in these career fields and be subject to military conscription. “The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was the most highly publicized and debated constitutional amendment before the United States for most of the 1970s and early 1980s.” (Answers.com, 2009) The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) stated "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account...
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... Hoffman, Raabe, Maloney, and Willis, CPAs 5191 Natorp Boulevard Mason, OH 45040 March 5, 2010 Mr. Donald Dewey 4321 Mt. Vernon Road Dover, DE 19901 Dear Don: At the recent Chamber of Commerce meeting, you asked me about the tax advantages of having Van, your son, claim Debra, your daughter, as a qualifying child. If Van can treat Debra as his qualifying child, he qualifies for a dependency exemption, the child tax credit, and the earned income tax credit. On the other hand if you claim Debra, the only benefit available is a dependency exemption—your income is too high to permit the use of either the child tax credit or earned income tax credit. A dependency exemption yields a greater tax benefit to you than to Van, but the tax saving is by far outweighed by the unavailability of the two credits. Consequently, the family would save taxes if Van claims Debra as his qualifying child. In such a case, you would have to forgo the dependency exemption for Debra. Until 2009, the procedure suggested in the preceding paragraph was permissible. However, in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Congress changed the rules. Under current law, another eligible taxpayer may claim a person as a qualified child only if he or she has an adjusted gross income (AGI) higher than the highest AGI of any of the person’s parents. Clearly, the new condition eliminates Van because his AGI ($16,000) is not higher than the AGI of both you and Mary. Therefore, regardless...
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...Click here to download the solutions manual / test bank INSTANTLY!! http://testbanksolutionsmanual.blogspot.com/2011/02/accounting-information-systems-romney.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accounting Information Systems Romney 11th Edition Solutions Manual Accounting Information Systems Romney 11th Edition Solutions Manual Accounting Information Systems Romney 11th Edition Solutions Manual Accounting Information Systems Romney Steinbart 11th Edition Solutions Manual Accounting Information Systems Romney Steinbart 11th Edition Solutions Manual ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL BOOK. YOU ARE BUYING the Solution Manual in e-version of the following book*** Name: Accounting Information Systems Author: Romney Steinbart Edition: 11th ISBN-10: 0136015182 Type: Solutions Manual - The file contains solutions and questions to all chapters and all questions. All the files are carefully checked and accuracy is ensured. - The file is either in .doc, .pdf, excel, or zipped in the package and can easily be read on PCs and Macs. - Delivery is INSTANT. You can download the files IMMEDIATELY once payment is done. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Our response is the fastest. All questions will always be answered in 6...
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...A Witch Hunt or Not Today, we are exposed to many details pertaining to a time when superficial abilities/powers were thought to be real and practiced. One of these situations was known as a witch hunt. A witch hunt was commonly known to take place when there was a search for those that were supposedly witches. Once caught, these individuals were usually persecuted. As time has passed, witch hunts have evolved and are looked at differently. Witch hunts now are viewed as campaigns against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views which leads to persons with any known reasons wanting to punish another sometimes even for personal gains. This leads me to my question: Were people too quick to judge and given too much freedom to decide the fate of individuals whose actions were unproven, deemed against the law, or just misunderstood? It is hard to comprehend sometimes the decisions made by people and their effects on others. When decisions/judgments are made based on nothing but assumption and emotion, they can be sickening when we think about the pure injustice on the obvious innocence of the victims. These types of situations are considered, witch hunts. Sometimes, the very officials that proved whether or not the accused were guilty or innocent, forged evidence to support their own claim. Honestly, I have a difficult time looking into these stories because of how “stupid” (in my opinion) some of these people were and how outrageous their claims...
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...TORTS OUTLINE 1) INTENTIONAL TORTS (3 -5) a) Intent b) Battery c) Assault d) False Imprisonment e) IIED f) Tresspass to Chattels g) Conversion 2) PRIVILEGES (5 - 7) a)Consent b) Self Defense c) Defense of others d) Defense of Property e) Recovery of Property f) Necessity g) Authority of Law h) Discipline i) Justification 3) NEGLIGENCE (PAGES 7 - 11) a) History b) Elements of A Cause of Action c) A negligence formula d) Standard of care i) The RPP ii) The Professional iii) Aggrivated Negligence e) Rules Of Law f) Violation of Statute (NEGLIGENCE PER SE) i) Applicability of Statute ii) Effect of Statute g) Proof of Negligence i) Court and Jury: Circumstantial Evidence ii) RES IPSA LOQUITUR 4) CAUSATION IN FACT (11 - 12) a) Sine Qua Non b) Proof of Causation c) Concurrent Causes d) Problems Determining Who Caused the Harm 5) PROXIMATE CAUSE (12 - 14) a) Unforeseeable Consequences b) Intervening Causes c) Public Policy d) Shifting Responsibility 6) JOINT TORTFEASORS (14 - 17) a) Liability and Joinder of Defendants b) Satisfaction and Release c) Contribution and Indemnity d) Apportionment of Damages 7) DUTY a) b) c) d) e) OF CARE (17 - 19) Privity of Contract Failure to Act Pure Economic Loss Emotional Distress Unborn Children 8) OWNERS AND OCCUPIERS OF LAND (19 - 21) a) Outside the Premises b) On the premises 1) Trespassers 2) Licensees 3) Invitees 4) People outside the established Categories i) Children ii) Persons Privileged to enter outside of Owners consent iii) Rejection...
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