...Essay of” New Year’s day” The short story “New Year’s day” is written by a female writer Fay Weldon. In this story there is a man called Alan, and two girls who are called Clare and Amy. Clare is in a relationship with Alan, and Amy is Alan’s ex-girlfriend. This text gives us an example of how difficult it is to find the love. The message in this story is that could be difficult and hard to find the one and only, the person you have to live the rest of your life with, and the one you love and who loves you. When you see messages like this, there is a big probability of, that it is a girl that is the writer, because often write girls about love, and boys about war. Clare is a thirty-two years old woman, who is Alan’s girlfriend. On the surface Clare is a happy person, who lives the life with her boyfriend, but internally she is an unhappy person, who is unaware of what she wants out of her life. What is nagging on Clare is that Alan has an ex-girlfriend called Amy. Alan has retained some of Amy’s things in his house, for example her bathrobe. Amy is kind of a role model to Clare, or Clare looks up to Amy. You can see that Clare looks up to Amy in this quote “Clare put on a pink silk wrap Amy had left behind and went down to answer the door” (P.53 l. 1-2). A girl would normally not see any of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend things. It’s normal to just be jealous on the ex-girlfriend, but Clare looks up to Amy, by wearing her things. As I said earlier Clare is an unaware person and...
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...New Year's Day When reading "New Year's Day", I think most people can relate to the main character in the story. When something is going good in your life, it can seem to be too good, in this case however, I think Clare is making a big deal out of many small things. Clare thinks that her boyfriends previous girlfriend, called Amy, is making her feel crazy, an example could be in Alan's apartment, when Clare apparently forgot to shut off the oven: "This is so spooky. I swear I turned the oven off last night." And she therefore stated, that Amy has been inside the house, without them knowing it. Alan call her paranoid, because she continues to find reasons and posibilities, how Amy got into the house, example "Amy could have got in … She could have turned the oven on. I expect she still has a key." Again Alan must demystify the things that Clare torment herself with. The relation between Clare and Alan is split up, Alan is truly in love with Clare, but Clare is perhaps afraid of finding a man, because she never had a standing relationship. We see where this is mentioned in this quote "Clare had had lovers but never lived with a man before." That’s why she in the end decides to go away from Alan, who stands powerless back watching his love going away without a word. But the whole problematic starts, when Clare feels that people are strange at the new year's party with Alan's friends. The day after, Clare only focuses on the strange things that happens, and forgot to look at what...
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...A New Day It is an early morning in the middle of a warm summer. I am on my familiar route heading to the beach. It usually takes me 5 minutes to walk there from home. Everything is still immersed in the darkness and coldness. The night’s dew remains on the leaves. The chilly winds gently rustle through the swaying coconut trees, and the waves crash the shore. These are the only sounds I can hear. In front of me looms a vast blue sea. It cannot be easier for me to find a good position to observe the sunrise at this time. While people are dreaming their dreams, I am enjoying my favorite part of a day. I leisurely settle down and wait with the excitement. A red streak is appearing at the horizon, growing until it spreads into an iridescent pink path. The sun is there, pink and round, still with the beauty just like the first time I ever saw it. Everything around me seems to not exist. The bigger and higher the fireball is, the more red and dazzling it is. The moment the sun changes its color from pink, red, into white happens in just a few seconds, and I never doubt that it is worth every milliseconds. I regret moving my eyes away from the source of light, down from the sky to the sea. The light starts covering a larger area and becomes too dazzling to observe. The darkness disappears into the nothingness to make room for more radiant colors of the blue sea, white sand, green coconut trees, and golden sunshine. I feel completely relaxed in this beautiful natural place. The...
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...Friday This is the day 1 of my On-The-Job Training. I just don’t have any idea at all; I don’t know what I’m going to be or which department I should assign so thank god we start at orientation. We talked about the company, policies and some other important details then our HM supervisor take me to my department, which is Dispatch Service Department, I don’t have any idea if what is going on in this department until my supervisor orient me about my task and this I meet and started to meet the Call Reports which is assigned to me for the rest of my training. My day have been so well and just exceeded my working hours. November 19-23, 2012 (Monday-Friday) This week I’m sorting Call Reports specifically the CM or the Corrective Maintenance, from the month of October sorting from 1st of October from the end of the month. I arranged it from banks to banks for it to be organized. I just had light duties by this time, I observed the call reports and notice that diebold has a lot of client, offering good services, offering products such as ATM, software and many more. Diebold Philippines Incorporation is a very huge company it has many branches in different part of the world. This ECE Company which is vision is to fulfill and exceed the customer expectations. The facilities and policies is just suit for the employee and to the firm. This office environment is just good for the working people. By the end of this week, I’m still adjusting myself for a new environment; this week...
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...What is new year? Is there any change? Is it an on e day affair that we put our "the" best foot forwa rd? This thought was haunting me since morning, wh at is so NEW in another day that we usher so much and get excited. Certainly this is the day which g ets the centre of attraction as we have many new y ears as per our calendar. My fertile mind is incessantly trying to answer fo r these questions. We are at the same old house, s ame old fiends ( some might have got a few new), s ame old job, same old frustrations, same old vehic le that we have, same old partner, same old habits , same old anger, same old discussion, the same ol d crib for salary hike, same old search for better perks, same old fake people...uff the list goes e ndless!!! Also the same old Mr. Modi ji's visits, same old K ejriwal's ideas, same old scams, the same old unen ding salman's case, the same old corruptions, elec tions and the silly promises, the same old talks w ith Pakistan for peace! Everything seems to be soo ooooooooo old, and we say that it is a new year! A nd we insist on the word "Happy" attached to it wh en wishing. And now i got the answer, nothing is new...except our hopes and beliefs! We are hoping to change and ready to welcome the changes with a receptive moo d. Thus it will reflect in our deeds or words, We like to have a motivator to mend or amend our ways . Therefore we use this day as a catalyst for our benefits for our future. Let us grow the HOPES in us...
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...ACT TWO Scene 6 Interior, Peabody Hotel, Grand Ballroom, New Years Eve 1919. BENJAMIN's real age is 59 BENJAMIN's Physical age is 21 MARGARET is 64 HATTIE is 49 VERN is 55 BENJAMIN enters and almost runs into LINDA a 19 years old who looks and acts very similar to DOROTHY from Act Two, Scene 3. BENJAMIN I didn't see you there, forgive me. LINDA No problem, it's my fault. I'm trying to get to the roof to see the fireworks before midnight. You should come up. BENJAMIN Wow, WOW! You are so familiar, this is all so familiar. You're not here with a friend are you? LINDA No, I'm here with my parents. They met here 20 years ago today. BENJAMIN You're kidding? LINDA It's true, New Years Eve 1899. The turn of the century. (VERN enters. He is...
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...The little Match Girl It was terribly cold it snowed and it began to grow dark; it was also the last night of the year, New Year's Eve. In the cold and the darkness was on the street a poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet; yes she had indeed had a pair of slippers when she left home, but what could it do? They were very large slippers, her mother had last used them so big they were, and those lost little as she hurried across the street to avoid two carriages flashed at a terrible rate over; one slipper was nowhere to be found and the other ran a boy; he said he could use to cradle when he had children. In a corner between two houses, one went a little more to the street than the other, she sat down and huddled together; little legs she pulled up under her, but she froze even more and the home she dared not go for she had sold no matches, not a penny of money her father would beat her and it was cold at home as they had only roof to cover them and the wind howled, although that was stopped up with straw and rags in the largest holes . Her little hands were almost frozen with the cold. Alas! Perhaps a burning match might be some good. If she could draw it from the bundle and strike it against the wall, and warm her fingers. She pulled one out, " Ritsch " how it sputtered as it burnt! It was a warm , bright light, like a little candle , as she held her hand over it was a wonderful light! The little girl thought she was sitting by a large iron stove, with polished...
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...Case Title: HAPPY NEW YEAR: “Good News-Bad News!” | Summary of the key point(s) or problem(s) presented in the case.Marquis works for the Savannah, Georgia Street Department and had just earned his associates degree in supervisory management and was looking forward to moving up in his company. He heard that the city was experiencing some financial losses. Marquis was one of the 8 employees laid off. Now he has to find a way to support his family. | Question #1: The depressed economy has caused many organizations to eliminate thousands, if not millions, of jobs across the nations. This has had a profound effect on employee morale both for those whose jobs have been eliminated and for the survivors left behind who are expected to do more and more. What steps should the city’s HR department do to minimize the impact of downsizing on employee morale? On those who survive? | Answer to Question #1: The HR department should communicate with all of their employees and let them know what is going on and that there may be some downsizing. Everything should be stated clearly so that there is no confusion and no one spreads rumors about some people being laid off. | Question #2: What else could the HR department have done to soften the blow on the eliminated employees? | Answer to Question #2: The HR department could have used Upward communication to soften the blow on the eliminated employees and explain to them the reason behind it instead of just laying them off...
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...holiday. We usually exchange gifts and just hangout to watch a movie or sit by the Manila baywalk and just talk about things. This Christmas I also plan to do some charity work as a way of showing my love for the needy. Especially now that a strong typhoon had just hit Southern Philippines, many are in need. The host organization/foundation hasn’t been set yet. In line with peace as an element of Christmas, I will try my best to not be hot tempered and to avoid arguments. Although I am already consistently trying my best to do that, I still have times when I get into a hot argument. But this season is special and I will ultimately try even harder to achieve it. Most people create a list of New year’s resolution, well I’m planning to create a list of Christmas’ resolution. Hopefully by New year some of my bad traits will have already been eliminated. By completing this pledge I hope that this Christmas will be more meaningful...
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...adapting the American culture to be very difficult. Gish Jen’s work, “In The American Society,” discusses a Chinese-American family and how they try to adapt to the American culture. Edwidge Danticat’s short story, “New York Day Women,” discusses the story of...
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...The New World Order: Not Built in a Day Luke Nosko 2011-04-02 David Tabachnick Word Count: 3028 The end of the Cold War, marked by the collapse of the Soviet Union, was the beginning of an unprecedented geopolitical scenario in modern times, namely the existence of a lone superpower nation which easily dominated the other countries of the world in terms of military strength and international economic and political influence. With this never-before-seen position of power in the modern, globalized world came the heightened importance of American foreign policy decisions, and the world waited to see how the US would react to being thrust abruptly into this role of the unipole of world power. The first test of US foreign policy as the sole superpower would actually come before the official dissolution of the USSR (though it had been in steep economic decline for some time), when Saddam Hussein lead the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. US President George H. W. Bush would place this conflict into perspective for the countries now looking to the US for leadership in his address to a joint session of Congress and the nation on September 11, 1990, and it was then that he most famously claimed that the US would strive to establish and protect the concept of a New World Order (NWO): “We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these...
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... 大みそか is celebrated the last day of the year( December 31st) but their celebration is much different from America. Japanese people run around a lot to welcome a New Year with a clean state of mind. Therefor おそじ (big cleaning is to be done and finished by December 31st to remove clutter and dirt from the old year ant-to purify the home for the coming year. Behind this is that years are considered completely separate with each New Year’s providing a fresh start. 女や is the night of New year’s Eve. Just before the night, temples throughout japan strike their big bells 108 times, once for every human desire. The peal of a large bell on 女や is called 女やの金。Ringing the bell for the passing year and ringing the bell for the upcoming year after the busy work. Japanese people welcome New Year’s Day quietly with their families. A special dish is made before New Year’s; Japanese people eat during the New Year Celebration. A variety of ingredients such as fish, beans and rolled help are used. They are cooked in a way they can keep long and served in a set of layered lacquer boxes. モチ(rice cake) are also eaten during the new year celebration. ネオがじょare new year’s greeting postcards sent out for wishing their friends, relatives and customers a happy new year; This is similar to the western practice of exchanging Christmas cards. The postcards usually have the chines Zodiac sign of the New Year as each year is represented by...
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...it that way. In fact I make it a point to celebrate Christmas with the family every year. New year's however has never been celebrated with the family from the time I turned 18. I always thought that celebrating with the family wasn't "cool". I made sure I had plans to party out on New Year's Eve. But its different this year. It's the last year we celebrate New Year's eve as a nuclear family. My sister is getting married in 30 days. Next year, all common celebrations will have to be shared with her new family. Its a new beginning, a beginning that I wished never begun. But it is a new beginning nevertheless, a beginning of new traditions. In the meantime, someone sent me a beautiful and haunting poem. Enjoy. Another Christmas, Another year ending; A year of pain and loss and bewilderment, Of beauty and fear, With a little love to make us go on struggling, A little joy to make it worth the struggle. Another Christmas, Another dream over. Do we dare to remember last year And the years before? So much is gone, so many memories, How can we stop what remains from becoming a shadow? Another Christmas, Another pause in the fighting. Can the pain that we give to others And the pain that we cause for ourselves Really be laid to rest by a Christmas card Or a sprig of mistletoe? Are we not as afraid of dying on Christmas Day? Another Christmas, Another pause for reflection: The morning I walked out alone in...
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...Thingyan festival – Water Festival – Myanmar New Year - in April The country Myanmar is Known as the "Golden Land" in the world since every pagoda is decorated and painted with gold. Myanmar is full of very colourful and deep rooted festivals. There are 13 most popular year around festivals in Myanmar. One of them is the celebration on Thingyan Festival, as the Water Festival or Myanmar's Traditional New Year Festival. Myanmar people celebrate the Water Festival all over the country for 4 days before New Year day by throwing water on each other. It takes place on April13th to April 16th of every year. It is believed that Water Festival washes away sins and welcomes the New Year, April 17th. The Mandats, water throwing and playing places with the large signboards are every where, not only in the cities but also in the villages. In major cities such as Yangon, garden hoses, huge syringes made of bamboo, plastic water pistols, bowls, cups and other devices from which water can be squirted are used. All these whole days, people are going round to the Mandats with their bicycles, motorbikes, opentop jeeps and trucks to play the water with each other. It is a hottest time of the year and a good dousing is welcomed by most. Everyone is fair game except the monks and obviously pregnant women. After playing around and having fun throughout the country, people welcome the New Year on the 17th by cleaning the floors of the pagodas and monasteries, washing old and aged peoples' hair...
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