...Response Paper: Never Let Me Go The screening of the book Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro Kazuo was directed by Mark Romanek, not a very famous director but definitely a hard-working one. The movie includes such actors as Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield who act as the main protagonists of the performance. The movie starts with the final scene of Tommy’s “completion”. Then the viewer is presented with the retrospection of events that leads to this final scene. It is quite different than in the book. The writer tells the story from the very beginning and does not show the ending to the readers. While the movie is created in such a way that in the first scene the viewer knows how it ends, it does not mean that it is not interesting. In contrary it is a very well composed and striking film. From the beginning of the movie the audience is presented with the everyday life of a group of young people: Tommy, Kathy, and Ruth. They seem to be the average persons while in fact they are a part of a big project. They are simply genetically modified clones. They cannot have children, they have to be healthy, and from the very beginning of their lives they are prepared for donations. They give their organs and after one, two or sometimes three surgeries they just complete. Some of these people believe that they can get a deferral. In fact, there is no such thing as deferral and they are meant to die from the very beginning of their lives. Their struggle to postpone the...
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...997661472 PHL388 05.29.15 Analyzing Giants and How They Should Be Buried James Wood, in his review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, criticizes the work for its use of allegory which he argal and general what is implicit and personal in his best fiction” through the use of allegory. In other words it seems as if Wood believes that an author must more or less place some sort of an onus upon the reader to unearth messages within literary works with a bit of effort, which an allegory fails to do. In The Buried Giant’s case Wood argues the use of allegory “simplifies” and “literalizes”. As a result it is argued to not only discount from this particular author’s general writing style (as compared to his previous works) but more generally makes too obvious what should be left for the reader to, in the process of reading, uncover with a bit of work as opposed to having an allegory hand it to them on a platter. Wood argues the use of allegory fails as it, “points everywhere” and is couple with a fictional setting which is, “feeble, mythically remote, generic, and pressureless” making the work simultaneously literal and vague. He also adds that the use of allegory is, “antinovelistic, because it points away from its own story, gued he overlooks other characteristics which can be argued to be more significant when it comes to judging the success of a piece of literature. Wood may potentially believe that since the use of allegory in The Buried Giant has...
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...Situation: Jeannette and her older sister, Lori, talk about how many times they have moved in their life. At the time, Jeanette is four and Lori is seven when they have this conversation. Analysis: The passage shows how the parents kept moving their children around to so many different places that they never were able to get established in their community. In the book, it talks about how the family keeps moving and moving. When they move, they would find very remote or unusual places to stay that was not always the best living conditions for the children. The author chooses to add this to her...
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...King: Where is Alexandra? Queen: She better not be out on that horse again! She knows how much we disapprove of such rough activities Servant: Yes your majesty, Princess Alexandra is out on her horse, she has been gone for quite some time now, I’ll go find her. King: She needs to start cooperating with us so we can find her the right prince for her to marry. Queen: Remember your majesty, she will need to fall in love with him first! Alexandra: Sorry father I was out in the garden King: Never mind that lie, we need to discuss wedding arrangements! Queen: Prince Liam from Aarondell is a fine gentleman! Or even Prince Harry Alexandra: They’re both wimps! They couldn’t even beat me in an archery competition if they wanted! Queen: Alexandra! You need to stop fooling around and doing such manly activities! You are 16 now, start acting like the lady that you are! Alexandra: I told you I want to be called Alex from now on, please! Mother those dresses are so ugly and plus I feel more comfortable in my slacks! Queen: You’ve been like this since you were little and we have letting you get away with it but now that you are 16 and a young lady you need to present yourself as one! King: Such a mature and beautiful young lady and she still does not have interest in finding a prince to marry! Alexandra: Father I am sorry I just simply do not see myself with a man in my future! Queen: *gasp * You cannot stay single your whole life! Alexandra: Mother I do not intend to stay single...
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...child I was. Through this self analysis I’ve found out quite a few things about my younger self. As a child I exhibited a secure style of attachment, according to my mother. My separation and reunion isn’t quite binary as I lived in a large family as part of collectivist society. This allowed me to have multiple caregivers whenever I was distressed. My mother specifically recalls a time in which she had to leave and started to cry, however quickly after she saw my cousin pick me up which soothed me. There was an outlier with one of my caregivers, my uncle, Bob. Whenever he would take care of me, I was energetic and excited, as I normally was. When Bob would leave, I would not be soothed as easily and would...
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...Character Analysis of Abigail Williams Author Miller’s drama The Crucible takes place in the seventeenth-century in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem suffers from witch-hunts, trials, and false accusations. In effect, the town is full of worry and suspicion; and when young girls falsely accuse self-righteous neighbors in Salem of witchcraft, the town goes against itself, which ultimately causes a conflict between power and aggression. The personality of Abigail Williams, the understood leader of all the young girls, ultimately causes the whole play to go into effect. Abigail displays that she is sinful, envious, and manipulative. Abigail Williams’ characteristic of sinfulness causes her to be the antagonist of the whole play. Abigail commits...
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...Act 1 Scene 1 BENEDICK That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor. DON PEDRO I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love. BENEDICK With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord, not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid. DON PEDRO Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument. BENEDICK If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder, and called Adam. DON PEDRO Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' BENEDICK The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted, and in such great letters as they write 'Here is good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.' Act 2 Scene 1 ANTONIO In faith, she's too curst. BEATRICE Too curst is more than...
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...plan for me, I know it. However, lately I have gone through the low country. It's eating me away, I said to God. It's rotting in my mind, it's like a cancer. Is there anything at all to numb the nothingness? I need a reason to breathe, it's eating me away. It nibbles at my brain, the question of my existence and this matter of pain. I shake my fist at the cosmos and my insignificance. I need a reason to breathe and it's eating me away. Save me from my rage and my humanity. I'm more nothing than being, is this my legacy? I feel it eating me away. All that I am, all that I want, all that I lack, PLEASE, come on and save me. My pal Edric Prim texted me a quote the other day that I’m trying to remind myself of, from Joel Osteen. It was, “don’t let your setbacks become your identity”. Amen to that. I don’t need to stay here in this state of mind. Nibbling at my brain, I truly think too much and I drive myself crazy. The problem is if I knew exactly how to make my brain stop eating itself away, I would do it. All that I am should be enough to overcome any insecurities that I may have. I’ve never felt like this before. My life has pretty much always been an open book so, here it is. There was a lot of pressure and things happening at once at the beginning of February and then they came crashing down when the one thing I thought I had to hold on to was gone. I never really had any insecurity about me before this year and I think its my own fault that I let it bother me now. I didn’t...
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...of Polynices would suffer a death due to the fact that he was a traitor of Thebes. The conflict of the play involves Antigone who disobeys Creon’s authority. In the speech between Haemon and Creon an Antigone is revealed between the two that exhibits Creon’s misogyny and Haemon’s analysis of his father’s discriminating attitude toward women in general. Note the tone in the following quotation: Creon: “Oh Haemon, Never lose your sense of judgment over a woman. The warmth, the rush of pleasure, it all goes cold in your arms, I warn you…a worthless woman in your house, a misery in your bed. What wound cuts deeper than a loved one turned against you? Spit her out, like a mortal enemy- let the girl go. Let her find a husband down among the dead” (1328). Creon expresses misogyny in this quote. He consults with his son Haemon about his wife as if she’s not a person because she is a woman. He goes on about Antigone to his son as if there are many other women for him to choose from and one women being put to death should not matter. He’s belief that anyone going against his authority is their enemy. Creon discusses with Haemon about Antigone as if she is a worthless girl. Creon says, “Never lose your...
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...mass shootings. The effects of this were, of course, tragic. Violence has always been part of this world, and it will never disappear. Also, the effects it has on people will not disappear, especially on the youth. The group of people who are still developing to adulthood will be greatly affected by any type of violence. Provide a brief summary of Elie’s experience. Elie, a 15 years old, who himself had experienced mass violence survived The Holocaust. Elie was only a teenager when he was taken to a concentration camp where this would be the worst time of his life. In this camp, abuse of the worst kind was done to him and others. He was beaten, starved,...
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...Process Recording Nurse (Me) | Client (T.J)) | Analysis | “Hi, I’m Jenny, (gesturing, I put my hand out to shake his hand) one of the nursing students here with you guys today. What is your name?”(Friendly, open eye contact is my appearance) | “My name is Abu-Jammar”. I’m from outer space the planet ??Nepto (I think this was the neologism that he used. ? Neptune/Pluto mixed?).I’m gonna call you Mars. | Communitication Technique: Nonverbal/paralanguage (smiling) open-ended communication. Evaluation: broad opening allows him to either talk to me or not talk to me. Putting my hand out is to offer peace and introduce myself. He answered me and seemed receptive to having a conversation. | “I’m not sure I understood. You’re saying my name is Mars?” | “Yeah, last week you wore a purple/orange shirt and the rings of mars are like that so I’m gonna call you Mars.” | Communication Technique: Active listening, Restating/ ClarificationEvaluation: Restating/ Clarification allows him to know what I’m listening to him. | “Oh (tilting my head to the side) so the rings of the orbits you’re saying are orange/purple and I wore the shirt that resembled that so you call me Mars. I hear what you’re saying. Go on.”(silence) | “Yeah it’s near my home planet. Have you ever heard of Nepto?” | Communication Technique: para-language.general leads, silence, clarification, active listening.Evaluation: Silence allows me to collect my thoughts. Clarification allows me to tell him that I understand...
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...book. When something seems fake or out of the order, it is considered phony to Holden. It almost seems as if Holden views and separates the world as either a fake or real and never considers the other possibilities that may both be real and fake. 3) “I’M THE MOST TERRIFIC LIAR you ever saw in your life.” (22) Holden directly states that he is a terrific liar, which display a part of his personality. His lies are always nonsensical and never correlate with what he’s really trying to mean. 4) “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.” (24)...
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...COMM317 – Interpersonal Corporate Communication Self-Awareness/Self-Analysis Most individuals believe they have a good understanding about what makes them tick therefore are not consciously aware of those aspects that need improvement. Self-analysis is not easy but is necessary for one’s self to be an effective player in a professional environment. Currently, I work for an organization that has been hit hard by the downfall of the housing industry. I have watched numerous colleagues lose their jobs to layoffs, been part of tough budget cuts and project eliminations and still must cope during these unstable times feeling the pressures of double work, less pay and an unhappy environment. In my immediate department I work with one gentleman that displays such negative behavior and attitude that trying to be productive under extreme conditions is hard enough without hearing his daily rants about his lack of entitled respect, lack of appreciation from management or the fact that he feels he is entitled to give his two cents where I feel quite frankly, he is not entitled. The problem is that I listen to his rants but I have failed to eliminate this negative behavior put upon myself by not speaking up and communicating my thoughts to this gentleman. I continue to encourage this behavior by not speaking to him but feel, at times, this little gesture of compassion is all that he needs. Unfortunately, I am not truthful in this compassion as he has become an irritant and I am quickly...
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...role they played in each other lives, their flaws, and strengths and emotions that they evoked at particular settings in the course of this tremendous story. Achilles, the great Greek Warrior and principal character of this epic all along said things, did things and made choices that essentially took the story to a different direction. However, the question that still remains is if any of those choices changed Achilles himself. An analysis of books one, nine, sixteen, eighteen and twenty four from the Iliad will help us bring more clarity to this assertion. In book 1, Achilles expressed various types of feelings. As the greatest warrior of this whole war, he felt strong, powerful, proud and all mighty because he always came back victorious from battles with his army of Myrmidons for the past nine years. On the other hand, he also felt disrespected and concerned because Agamemnon decided to take possession of his “Timé” and members of his troops were dying. For all those reasons, Achilles decided to leave with the remaining members of his troops and go back home: “So home we sail…if we can escape our death-if war and plague are joining forces now to crush the Argives.” (68-70) In book 9, a delegation of 3 people (Odysseus, Phoenix and Ajax) was formed by Agamemnon to convince Achilles to bring him back to continue to fight for the lord of men. Because of his absence, the Greeks were being defeated by the Trojans. Previously in book 1, Achilles was talking out of anger because...
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...Technical Analysis ©Smart Investor http://www.jagoinvestor.com Email : manish.pucsd@gmail.com All other content © 2007-2009 Jagoinvestor.com - All Rights Reserved Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. Difference between Fundamental and Technical Analysis How to use Support and Resistance How to use Trendlines to find Support and Resistance How to use Oscillators to BUY an SELL Who must Read this Book This book is going to teach you some basic and most important concepts of Technical Analysis . Anyone who trades or Invests in any Markets like Stock Markets , Commodities , Currency etc, can use these concepts . These Concepts in themselves do not guarantee any success , there is much more than Technical Analysis which you need to understand and Learn like Money Managemenet , Investment or Trading Psychology and Discipline in Stock Markets . Important Points ● ● ● ● Each Chapter has example's to help reader understand the concepts well. You are Free to share the content “provided” you link back to http://www.jagoinvestor.com and give proper credits to Author ie. Manish Chauhan . If you have any questions or concerns , mail me at manish.pucsd@gmail.com Do not Use this ebook or its contents for any commercial Purpose . Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis There are two important questions which you have to answer when you want to buy shares ? They are "What to buy" and "When to buy" ? You may be familiar with Fundamental Analysis , Fundamental Analysis answers...
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