...Charles Dickens Questions 1. From the biography, what incident changed Dickens' life and helped to shape him as a writer? · His father was imprisoned and he was forced to work at Warren’s Blacking Factory 2. How old do you think Pip is? · Seven 3. Quote the specific language in the selection that leads you to this conclusion. · “As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.” “I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.” 4. Reread the sentence highlighted in orange. Notice the intense descriptive language Dickens uses. What do you think is the author's purpose for including such an extraordinarily long descriptive sentence? · He wanted the reader to be able to “see” the churchyard in which Pip was standing, as well as the man who was approaching him. 5. List 10 words from this same sentence that produce a frightening tone. Now choose synonyms to substitute for these words you have selected and rewrite the sentence with the words you have chosen. Is your new sentence as effective as Dickens'? Explain why you think it is or is not. · Bleak- dreary · Overgrown- overrun · Dead- deceased · Dark- gloomy · Flat- level · Leaden- grim · Savage- rugged · Lair- den · Rushing- surging · Shivers- tremors · At such a time I found out for certain, that this...
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...With reference to Aristotle and/or Kant, explain the nature of friendship. How does the nature of friendship affect our moral obligations? Friendship involves a relationship between two beings pertaining to the elements of freedom, choice and love; “an association of two persons through equal and mutual love and respect” (Kant 1965, p. 469). Friendships offer support, affection, companionship and a sense of connection with another being. Aristotle and Kant hold similar views on friendship and recognise that the notion plays a central role in a meaningful and happy life, and also has a profound effect on our moral obligations. As individuals, we experience three main types of companionship, namely the friendship of utility or need, the friendship of pleasure or taste and the friendship of good or disposition. These three categories signify that we love or like our friends on the basis of three varying motivations. Furthermore, these encounters impact upon our psyche and belief systems to various degrees, changing us as humans and augmenting our views and morals. The friendship of utility or the friendship of need states that each person does not love each other for their personal qualities, but rather that they derive some benefit from one another. “This friendship comes about when men can trust one another in the mutual provision for the needs of life. It was the original form of friendship amongst men, and is encountered mostly in the crudest social conditions” (Grunebaum...
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...Location Tracking System for Smartphone Users Abstract: Ubiquitous availability of GPS receivers and internet in Smartphones has made mobile navigation systems widely used in people’s daily life. Due to the rapid growth of mobile navigation systems, users put forward higher privacy demands on location-based services (LBS). Knowing the whereabouts of family, friends, delivery staff, and team-members is common requirement especially in Metropolitan cities. We have designed and implemented a mutual location tracking system that uses location information while observing privacy concerns. Our system provides opportunity to implement a variety of mutual location tracking scenarios. It enables users to establish proper credentials to share each other’s location with mutual consent. Users are provided with each other current location and previous trajectory on map. This capability can enable many other location based applications. Keywords: Location Based Services, Location Based Collaboration, GPS, and Navigation. 1. Introduction: The system we have developed uses the GPS satellite to track the current location of others (Friends, Relatives etc.) By sending/receiving sms/REST notifications. Current version of the system is available for android Devices. Every person doesn't feel easy in sharing personal location with anybody but sometimes access to location in case of emergency and for some other purpose is necessary. Here are two of the scenarios best explaining the system key...
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...is a special covenant between a man and a woman. The bible does tell us to leave our parents and cleave to our spouses. However, it is very healthy to keep good friends in your circle. It is necessary to build a strong healthy marriage, while maintaining healthy relationships. You must communicate to your friends’ boundaries and expectations. Let your friends know how your priorities have changed since you are married. Every married couple should desire to be married well. Being married well takes commitment, dedication and planning. Married Well Planning and keeping a schedule, for your marriage life, work, school, and even your friends will require you to keep a set schedule to live by. It may seem like a lot of work, but it will create an environment that will allow you to become married well. You will develop a habit of checking with your spouse before making plans that could possibly cause a conflict for a prior engagement. You never want to break arrangements with your spouse to go out with friends unless this is a mutual agreement. You do not want to start a new marriage with any type of suppressed resentment. Being married well is not just about being happy. It’s about love, respect, admiration for your spouse and the strong desire to please them. Being married well is not just about giving up your friends to be married; it’s about setting boundaries at home, with your friends, school and even at work. Being Fully Present Bishop T. D. Jakes, says “when...
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...platforms, such as Facebook, have risen portraying a new form of communication for friends and strangers alike. To say that the growing age of social media has impacted popular culture would be an understatement. Traditionally, friendships have been formed off of face-to-face interaction, and with the steady rise of social networking, those types of connections seem to be few and far between. In the article, Why I Am Not a Friend, Mariam Thalos expressed her concerns on the topic saying that “…social networking might make a wide range of face-to-face interactions obsolete,...
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...entire situation. So for two years, I was a father to her daughter. I still had doubts in my mind and was very curious to know the truth. When I read this chapter and actually gave this situation some thought, there were actually two methods that I used to come to the solution that I came to. The first method I used was step 2 and that was just simply talk with people who were familiar with the problem. I sat down with a mutual friend of ours one day and I told her that I had my doubts as to whether or not I was really the father of her daughter. Fortunately for me, this mutual friend is totally unbiased towards either of us and she revealed some valuable information to me and also gave me some priceless advice. She told me that my ex told her that she really wasn’t sure who her child’s father was. The mutual friend then told to that it would be in my best interest to get a DNA test done. Having a DNA test performed leads me to the other step that I used which is step 4: Confirm All Key Findings. After having that conversation with this mutual friend, I made up my mind to have a...
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...support awakens us and in return our sympathy increases. As an older adult creating and maintaining friendships can become almost a form of therapy. As we age, we become more aware of the precious time we have on this planet. This makes the time we spend with friendships more memorable, we cherish it and continue flourishing it. Caring and loving these friendships in return expands our sympathy not only to them but also to others. Some common aspects of friendship include a Reciprocity of sorts, Mutual trust, Goodwill, Honor bestowed. True friendship can only be attained between two animate objects, something that is alive or given life. For instance, it is impossible for...
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...will last a lifetime. As the saying goes “All good things must come to an end”. My memory of our relationship will always be a permanent staple in my life. The stage where the relationship ended was the termination stage. We decided to end the relationship to give each other the space we both were seeking. 1. Initiation – We met through a mutual friend at a restaurant on her birthday. I often told her I was the best birthday present she ever received. After a few cocktails, we engaged in deep conversation ranging from the weather to family. She was a breath of fresh air. We immediately “kicked it off”, we discovered we had the same taste in music and both had a passion for sports. Although it was her birthday, I was the one who received the gift. 2. Experimenting – Reflecting on my relationship, I found this stage to the most fun. This is where I was trying to impress her every time we spent time together. I will always acted on my best behavior and tried to think outside of the box to form a good impression. This stage is where the most flowers were sent, where the restaurants were tested and where we really enjoyed each other’s company. It was an adventure every time we met because we never knew what to expect from each other. 3. Intensifying - “Bri” and “Dre” were the nicknames we used for each other. Our favorite cheap wine was Lambrusco, and our favorite weekend getaway was Prague, CZ. We knew what to order for each other when one of us...
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...is a friend?” or “What is the meaning of a true friend?” Friendship is one of the most precious gifts in life it makes the world around us more exciting and thrilling. It can lead to success and open opportunities for new adventures depending on how you choose your friends. There are 3 types of friendships, acquaintances, mutual friends, and best friends. An acquaintance is the beginning of a new friendship it is a stage where you’re still learning that person they won't always have you back when needed because you aren't that close. Mutual friends are friends you don't really know personally but you know of them through the people you are associated with. Last but not least we have the best friend...
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...Friendship. A relationship of mutual affection between two or more people. By the official definition that is correct, but friendship goes beyond the literal meaning given by dictionaries. There are multiple levels of friendship. For example you have your friends that you only see at school, friends you hang out with every weekend, friends you only talk to through social media, and your best friend that you think you couldn’t live without knowing. Luckily for me, I have all four. Even though I have multiple friends that fall under these categories, I’d like to talk about four of my friends that are very special to me. I have so many caring friends that I see at school, but one stands out. Aletha. No matter what I went through she was there...
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...Some people are destined to be an influence and do great things, while others are here solely to be cogs in the clock that keeps the world turning. Regardless on where one stands in relationship to their fellow man, we all have been charged with civic and moral obligations to those in our inner most circles of friends and family, as well as to our employers. After living approximately a quarter of my life, I believe that I have discovered these duties and moral obligations. They can be found in my religion as a Christian as well as in the Boy Scout law. In attempts to find linearity between different ethical view points and my beliefs, Jane English’s theories about families, and Kant’s virtue ethics can be compared to my moral guidelines. Through the years, some friends choose to come and go as they please, where as others will stay by your side no matter what. Your family will stay with you for life; you did not ask for it, and perhaps they did not ask for you. No matter who you have by your side, it is to these people who you should have the most obligations to. To begin, looking to religion under the Ten Commandments, we see the first commandment instructing a moral obligation to our family: “Honor thy mother and thy father.” This first commandment allows for a number of different circumstances where it may be applicable. When referring to mothers and fathers, sometimes the real mother and father may not always be around due to deaths, adoptions, remarriages, etc...
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...have tasted that the Lord is good. 2 Peter 1: 5-8 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, LOVE. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. These verses are some of the basic foundation for having a relationship with our Lord Jesus. You may be asking yourselves what does this have to do with building up each other as women. It has a lot to do it; we a cannot minister half full or cannot give what we did not receive. In this relationship with our Lord, we receive, grace, peace, love and all the other fruits. Fruits is something that we share. For instance if you have a garden or fruit trees at harvest time you alone cannot contain all that it produces. You have probably met and known many different people in your life. Most of them may simply be acquaintances, while others you might consider friends. Of these, there may be only a few that you would consider close friends. Then, perhaps, there is that one person who is as close to you as a brother or sister or perhaps, as the Bible says, “is...
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...My father asked me this morning what I like most about myself. After a young lifetime of remembered and forgotten experiences, I am more than a laundry list of attributes and anecdotes. I can’t pull out a statistic from the spider web of interrelated knowledge and understanding that makes up who I am at this moment. I can only describe a process, the best process I know of that has developed my aspirations, desires, and subconscious tendencies. The one process that has defined who I was and became, has been football. I played football all through middle and high school. I started playing it as just another sport. I was always a very active kid, and played as many different sports as I could. Originally I loved the fast pace of the game, and that it afforded me a chance to hit other kids without penalty. Over the years, however, football came to mean more to me than a free-for-all arena. Especially by the time I entered high school, football was a community: the most important community in my life. Simply through getting up early day after day in the summer for grueling 2-a-days, and continuing that effort to just show up, battered and bruised, day after day, to get better and help my teammates achieve success, I forged myself a niche. The wind sprints, bag drills, lifting sessions, and hitting drills were, in a way, ways to achieve a sense of place for myself that I could feel like I earned, and that people respected. Not only was I working with others to achieve a similar...
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...and was looking for that special someone. I knew that I wanted to start dating and it would be difficult, but I kept asking myself How I can love someone? The relationships between the two stages are complex and many people define themselves through intimate relationships with others; and the proper sequence of the stages can be reversed in many people. Women in our society traditionally exemplified a merging of intimacy and identity issues such as women identify being defined by her intimate relationships. Sometimes it’s difficult to separate the differences between the development of intimate relationships and adult self. Erikson believes that a person is unable to be truly intimate with others until he or she has made progress with addressing their own identity. Macias, the researcher of identity status, developed a similar idea designed to determine the quality of intimacy in a person’s life. A person answers several questions about dating, friendship, and interpersonal he/she commitments may be classified into four categories; Intimate- works at developing mutual personal relationships, has several close friends, involved in a committed love relationship, and is able to express both affectionate and angry feeling in the relationship. Preintimate- person has dated but is not involved in a committed love relationship,...
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...Analysis of Mutual Fund for SBI Mutual Fund and Securities Ltd. Final Managerial Economics Submitted by: SHUBHAM SHARMA Division: B Roll No: 42 Class: BBA.LLB PRN NO: 14010224105 OF Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA Symbiosis International University, PUNE In March 2015 Under the guidance of Prof. Sweta Saurabh & Prof Pushpa Negi Course in charge Index S.NO | PARTICULARS | PAGE NO. | 1. | C E R T I F I C A T E | 3 | 2. | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 4 | 3. | INTRODUCTION | 5-6 | 4. | HISTORY | 6 | 5. | DIFFERENT TYPES OF MUTUAL FUNDS | 6-8 | 6. | LITERATURE REVIEW | 8-11 | 7. | OBJECTIVES | 11 | 8. | RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY | 11 | 9. | ANALYSIS | 11-12 | 10. | CONCLUSION | 13 | 11. | REFERENCES | 14 | C E R T I F I C A T E The project entitled “Analysis of Mutual Fund for SBI Mutual Fund and Securities Ltd.” submitted to the Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA for Managerial Economis as part of Internal assessment is based on my original work carried out under the guidance of Dr.Pushpa Negi and Professor Sweta Saurabh from 17th December,2014 to 15th March ,2015. The research work has not been submitted elsewhere for award of any degree. The material borrowed from other sources and incorporated in the thesis has been duly acknowledged. I understand that I myself could be held responsible and accountable for plagiarism...
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