...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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...leads to a very terrible mistake. Status, money and power can be very intriguing and Penelope Lively’s short story “The Happiest Days of Your Life”, 1978, is a great example on how one can outshine the other. The parents in the story clearly have the best intentions for their only child, Charles, but the lack of communication between them and their child will result in a bad choice. The short story “The Happiest Days of Your Life” is told by an omniscient author in 3rd person. The story’s point of departure is the protagonist Charles who is the child of the two other characters we meet, Charles’ parents; “He looks straight a head of him, at the road coiling beneath the bonnet of the car. His face is haggard with anticipation. 'Next term, we'll mash you...’” (p. 59, l. 5-7) is a great example of the omniscient author since the author tells us how the child feels and thinks. On the other hand the author does not know of Charles’ father’s thoughts or the other characters we meet throughout the story. We also get a bit of an expression of the mother’s thoughts and feelings, but not as much as we get to know Charles. We are introduced to two different environments in the story; the car and St. Edward’s Preparatory School. The environment in the car is introduced on the way to the school and slightly in the end, when the family is driving back from the visit at St. Edward’s Preparatory School, but the story mainly takes place at the school. “The building was red brick, early nineteenth...
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...middle class, and want they son to… Charles is the main character in the short story “The Happiest days of your life”. He probably the only child in the family, since his parents want to send him to an expensive school. Charles is a quiet boy, and probably 8-13 years old, since he is beginning at a preparatory school. He had smooth black hair, and his ears was big. His clothes was new and shine…. Charles parents Mr. and Mrs. Manders don’t think about Charles, because they decide that Charles has to go at St. Edwards’s Preparatory School, and they said: “Would you like to go there, Charles? Like Simon Wilcox? ... The child does not answer” so his parents know someone else who goes there, and they want Charles to go there to. And he didn’t answer his mother question, and it can maybe be an allusion to, that he doesn't like the school and maybe don't want to go there… “next term we’ll mash you” it says “We always mash new boys” Charles kept thinking about what the boys said to him at school. And he could be afraid of them and didn’t like the...
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...which is an upper class area in the south of England. The story also tells us that it is a rich environment; when they were going to the school, they drove through a road with highly priced period houses (p. 1 l. 3). The school applies to upper class families, as you can read about how good the facilities is in the school and some of the facilities are not that common for boarding schools. The school is called St. Edwards’s Preparatory School, which is running by the headmaster James Spokes. By the name of the school you can also tell that the school is applying for the families with a lot of money, as it is a preparatory school, which means that it is a fee-paying school. It is a 3rd person omniscient narrator who tells the story, from Charles’ point of view. The narrator is partially omniscient since some of Charles’ feelings are known; A bell goes, somewhere beyond doors and down corridors, and suddenly the children are all gone, clattering away and leaving him there with the heaving floor and the walls that shift and swing (p. 4 l. 28-30). A non- omniscient objective 3rd person narrator would never know that Charles has the feeling that the floor is shaking and the walls is moving. In the end you also hear Charles‘ thoughts;...
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...of questions and Charles feels very uncomfortable about the whole situation. Afterwards the parents and Charles leaves. Stram afsnittet mere op The title of the story could mean two different things. The first one could be that the parents are very glad and excited with the decision about the preparatory school, because there is a lot of prestige if you go there and it would probably do well for their image. The other one is meant in a sarcastic way, because Charles will probably experience the worst day kun én dag? of his life. The story is wrtitten in 3rd person limited omniscient narrator. ’’A bell goes, somewhere beyond doors and down corridors, and suddenly the children are all gone, clattering away and leaving him there with the heaving floor and the walls that shift and swing.’’ (p. 65 l. 7-10). A non-omniscient 3rd person narrator would never be able to tell how Charles is feeling, how the floor is shaking and the walls are moving. + what is the effect of the narrator? Charles knows that he is going to get bullied as soon as he starts at the new school, which is not objective either. ‘’Next term, we’ll mash you...’’(p. 65 l. 25-32). Charles gets really scared of the other boys but he do K not mention anything about it to his parents, probably...
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...Essay: The Happiest Day of Your Life Life changing decisions isn’t easy, especially not when somebody wants to make them for you and not guide you. Your future is entirely decided by someone else. When silence seems like it couldn’t be any louder and nobody takes notice. This will be my interpretation of the novel named The Happiest Day of Your Life by Penelope Lively. The novel is written in third person narrative, an example of that would be in the beginnig when the narrator describes the setting the boy and his family are in. We hear about the characters different actions and feelings but the narrator doesn’t comment on them, which makes it omniscient without comments. The narrator describes Charlie directly in the beginning of the novel, where the mother is described through her comments and behavior. Modes that are used are direct and indirect conversations and descriptions of different settings. The novel takes place in St. Edward’s Preparatory School in the suburbs of London. The novel begins and ends in the car. The parents are very excited and the atmosphere in the car is quite tense. It differs from Charlie to the parents. Charles doesn’t seem to care much about the interview, since he doesn’t say a word. On the other hand his parents talk a lot about the headmaster and the school. The mother even says “I could do with a drink. Hope they lay something on” (p. 61, 10). It seems like she wants to relieve some of her nerves throughout the interview. The atmosphere...
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...[pic] School of Business Term Project Students will complete a final project that assesses understanding of course material and encompasses the major leadership skills developed throughout the semester. As part of a team, students will assess and properly frame a series of problems, and offer solutions in the form of a final report and presentation. As part of this effort, you will build a team, find ways to manage conflict, and cultivate influence. To begin, choose a (maximum) 5-person team, and everyone should read the scenario on page 3. Next, each team member must choose one section to complete. Individual team members must then reread the chapter material associated with their section. Your paper should specifically refer to and incorporate relevant material from the class textbook, and add additional relevant critical thinking about the topic area. Seek out and make proper use of additional information as needed. Do not answer the questions by simply quoting text material. Rather, summarize the material and offer additional insights. Report Requirements ▪ Cover Page: Name, Date, Course/Section, Title. Staple your paper in the upper left-hand corner. ▪ The body of the report will contain a minimum of 7 full typed pages[1] and a maximum of 10 pages answering the topic areas of your choosing (the “Cover” and “Works Cited” pages are not counted toward the page minimum). o Reports must begin with a one to two paragraph introduction that...
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...12 Remoting and Background Jobs 13 Remoting: Configuring Applications and Services 14 Errors and exceptions 15 The PowerShell ISE and Debugger Part 2 USING POWERSHELL 16 Working with paths , text, and XML 17 Getting fancy—.NET and WinForms 18 Windows objects: COM, WMI and WSMan 19 Security, security, security appendix A Comparing PowerShell to other languages appendix B Admin examples appendix C The PowerShell grammar appendix D Additional PowerShell Topic ©Manning Publications Co. Please post comments or corrections to the Author Online forum: http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=542 Licensed to Andrew M. Tearle 3 1 Welcome to PowerShell Space is big. Really big! You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts compared to space! Don’t Panic. —Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ©Manning Publications Co. Please post comments or...
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...Building Data Science Teams The Skills, Tools, and Perspectives Behind Great Data Science Groups DJ Patil THE SIMPLEST WAY TO BRING MapReduce and SQL www.asterdata.com Optimized in One Database Appliance Everyone knows data is the new black. The Aster MapReduce Analytics Portfolio enables customers to quickly make use of their data for actionable insights, analysis and product innovation. - Jonathan Goldman, Director of Analytics, Teradata Aster (and former Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn) Learn More www.Asterdata.com/MapReduce Change the world with data. We’ll show you how. strataconf.com Sep 25 – 27, 2013 Boston, MA Oct 28 – 30, 2013 New York, NY Nov 11 – 13, 2013 London, England ©2013 O’Reilly Media, Inc. O’Reilly logo is a registered trademark of O’Reilly Media, Inc. 13110 Building Data Science Teams DJ Patil Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Tokyo Building Data Science Teams by DJ Patil Copyright © 2011 O’Reilly Media. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://my.safaribookson line.com). For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: (800) 998-9938 or corporate@oreilly.com. Editor: Mike Loukides Printing History: Many...
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...For the exclusive use of Q. WEI2015. 9-699-012 REV: JULY 23, 2002 STEFAN THOMKE Innovation at 3M Corporation (A) On the evening of October 23, 1997, Rita Shor, senior product specialist at 3M, looked across the conference room at her team from the Medical-Surgical Markets Division. She wondered when to draw to close the intense ongoing debate on the nature of the team’s recommendations to the Health Care Unit’s senior management. A hand-picked group of talented individuals, the team had embarked on a new method for understanding customer needs called “Lead User Research.” But this initiative to introduce leading-edge market research methods into 3M’s legendary innovation process had now grown into a revolutionary series of recommendations that threatened to rip apart the division. While senior management wanted the “Lead User” team to execute a manageable project involving surgical draping material to protect surgery patients from infections, the team now wanted to rewrite the entire business unit’s strategy statement to also include more pro-active products or services that would permit the upstream containment of infectious agents such as germs. This went against the incrementalist approach that for so long had pervaded 3M. After all, as Mary Sonnack, division scientist and an internal 3M consultant on the new Lead User methodology, noted “3M gets so much revenue from incremental products . . . like a blue Post-it note instead of just a yellow one.” ...
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...Connect’s built-in middleware Chapter 9: Express Chapter 10: Web application templating Chapter 11: Deploying Node web applications PART 3: GOING FURTHER WITH NODE Chapter 12: Beyond web servers Chapter 13: The Node ecosystem APPENDIXES Appendix A: Installing Node and community add-ons Appendix B: Debugging Node ©Manning Publications Co. Please post comments or corrections to the Author Online forum: http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=790 Licensed to Roger Chen 1 Welcome to Node.js 1 This chapter covers: What Node.js is JavaScript on the server Asyncronous and evented nature of Node Types of applications Node is designed for Sample Node programs So what is Node.js? It’s likely you have heard the term. Maybe you use Node. Maybe you are curious about it. At this point in time, Node is very popular and young (it debuted in 20091). It is the second most watched project on GitHub2, has quite a following in its Google group3 and IRC channel4 and has more than 15,000 community modules published in NPM (the package manager)5. All this to say, there is considerable traction behind this platform. Footnote 1mFirst...
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...informational purposes only. Since each individual situation is unique, you should use proper discretion, in consultation with a health-care practitioner, before undertaking the diet and exercise techniques described in this book. The author and publisher expressly disclaim responsibility for any adverse e ects that may result from the use or application of the information contained in this book. NOTICE ON FOOD HANDLING This book is about cooking; it’s not a food processing and handling manual. I strongly encourage you to read and follow the established safe food processing and handling guidelines available through the USDA, FDA, and Department of Health and Human Services, including: foodsafety.gov fsis.usda.gov fda.gov/food/foodsafety NOTICE ON INTERNET RESOURCES My full curriculum is within the covers of this book. For those of you who want to “go beyond” in your research, I have provided links to Internet resources. My team and I have worked to check that these links are accurate and point to resources available when this book was released for publication. But Internet resources change frequently, and other confounding variables beyond my control intervene. So, for various reasons, the links may not direct you to the resource I had intended. In many cases, you will likely be able to use your favorite search engine to locate the correct link. Where links to a good resource are not working, and avid readers among you let me know, we will work to provide updated and...
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...2012 – The Facts Hi there, Thank you for making the effort to become more informed about 2012! The 2012 meme is huge. Hundreds of books have been written, numerous documentaries have been made, and of course there was a blockbuster movie. Unfortunately the facts have been deeply buried, and virtually every piece of information you come across is speculation and trickery, disguised as fact. The aim of this article is to ignore all the extreme speculations and fabrications, and just present the known facts. Plus I’ll throw in some of the more plausible scenarios, to help you understand what might soon be upon us. Everything that follows is either accepted fact, or will be denoted as being disputable or an opinion. Regards, Robert Bast - Melbourne, Australia, 2010 The Long Count Calendar The ancient Mayans had roughly 20 calendars, all of which were short in duration, with the cycles equating to astronomical phenomena, or were intended to relate to history repeating over and over again via prophecy. Except for the Long Count calendar. The Long Count is the Mayan equivalent of our calendar, in that it assigns unique dates over a long period of time. A short numerical description (like 12/6/1976 in our calendar) pinpoints a place in time. Unlike our calendar, which starts with the birth of Christ and heads towards infinity in two directions, the Long Count has a definite beginning and a definite end. The start date of the Long Count calendar rarely gets a mention...
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...Welcome to the most unconventional weight loss book you’ll ever read! Wait—let’s stop there. To be honest, I kind of cringe at the thought of this being a weight loss book, because I firmly believe that we are so much more than numbers and that what really matters in life is who we are, not what we weigh. But I understand that you probably picked this book up because you’d like to be healthier and weigh less. I get it! I am very grateful that you are here, and I am excited to share my story and what I’ve learned from working with thousands of women just like you. So even though we’re not calling this a weight loss book, it definitely is a book that will help you release weight. What’s so unconventional about it is that it will tell you to stop dieting, to eat what you love, to ignore the numbers on the bathroom scale, and to change the way you think about controlling your weight. And, unlike most books about weight, we won’t be spending tons of time talking about what to eat. Instead, you’ll learn about balance, which will help you kick dieting and self-loathing to the curb. Listen, I know what you’re thinking: Balance, schmalance. You don’t care about balance. You just want to get rid...
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...business, organization, or even a city is based on being perceived as unique. Look at any market leader and you’ll find they each own a place in the consumer’s mind. They have positively differentiated themselves from the rest of the competition. Branding is creating that individual niche in the consumer’s psyche and owning it. More than just marketing, branding is the entire effect that creates a memorable identity. A successful branding program is also based on differentiating yourself as unique. Effective branding creates a perception that there is no other product, service, organization or community quite like yours. Whether the distinction is a result of function, form, ease of use, price or prestige, the consumer believes you offer something exceptional. For example, factors affecting the brand of an organization can be both tangible and intangible, including office décor, personnel attire, organization philosophy, product/service quality, design of...
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