...I will begin this lesson by telling the students that today we are going to be focusing on describing the setting. (Can anyone give me an example of a well described setting?) I will tell them that I am going to read a book called The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey. I will activate their background knowledge by asking them questions about the cover page. (Where do you think they are going? Why is the boy on a bike with a bag on his shoulder? Do you think that the boy is running away?) After that I will begin reading The Paperboy. After I read the book, I will ask the students some questions about the book zoning in on the setting. (Did you notice that the author used both words and his painting to tell you where the boy was and how the setting was...
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...Fluent or Law of Demeter? Serban Gavrus Abstract The Law of Demeter is one of the most widely known programming principle, it‟s easy to respect and it assures some important code quality aspect. It can be briefly defined as “use only one dot”. Fluency is a popular choice for implementing interfaces because it adds readability and ease of use. Method chaining and fluency are in practice inseparable. These two aspects of programming seem to be contradictory, one can‟t have both. This essay argues that fluency and LoD can coexist and in the case where the developer must sacrifice one for the other, there is no clear rule to follow. 1.1 Law of Demeter The Law of Demeter was proposed by Ian Holland in 1987. It‟s a programming rule that applies to how methods are written, whose purpose is to assure a good programming style. It‟s been created as a metric to asses the quality of an object-orientated program. The direct purpose of the law is to condense several OOP principles(coupling control, information hiding, information restriction, information localization, structural induction) into a simple and easy to follow rule. The indirect purpose is to ensure loose coupling and stricter modularity. [1] The Law of Demeter is intended to be a guideline, not an absolute restriction. Misunderstanding and blindly following this law can lead to poorer code. [1] The law states that an object “A” should not access an object “B”, retrieved by calling a method of another object “C”, of...
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...Summary The paperboy who also is the new boy in the high school falls in love with Evangeline, a girl who ends up buying papers from him. The paperboy dropped them off every day at the only tree in her yard, The Osage Orange Tree. Later when she does not show up at their graduation and after the ceremony goes out looking for her, he can not find her. He asks her older brother, who works at the school as a janitor, he finds out that she was told by her parents that she was not allowed to go to their graduation. He later finds out that Evangeline was stealing the money set aside for her graduation dress, to buy papers from him, just so she could see every day after school. He also finds out as he is leaving her property for the last time that she put all of the papers under a bridge on the property with a stream flowing through. She sacrificed too much for love and it destroyed their relationship. The Narrator: This story is told from a 1st person point of view set in the past. The girl (Evangeline): when it comes to Evangeline, there isn’t a very precise description of her looks. When it comes to Evangeline she does as many young impoverished girls, tries her best to fit in at school. If that does not work, then quickly she learns to blend in so that she goes unnoticed. With only two dresses, the other girls like to make fun of her behind her back. Peer pressure would demand that Evangeline be shunned by those who have more than she does. The relationship between...
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...Harlem Renaissance An African-American cultural movement of the 1920’s centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life. Jazz and music Jazz was a new style of music created by African American musicians, featuring syncopated rhythms and improvisational solos It was so interesting because the improv aspect meant that no two performances could ever be the same Duke Ellington turned commercial radio into a place for music by performing jazz music from the Cotton Club, broadcasted to thousands of Americans Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday coined blues and jazz vocal solos Chick Webb (King of Swing) saved money as a paperboy to buy his drum set, and started playing professionally in Harlem at 11 years old, then later became the best-regarded band leader Louis Armstrong played jazz music on Broadway, a Creole Jazz Band, and at the Cotton Club. He played in many films and toured internationally. He was the man that made the most Americans begin to accept jazz into their culture II. Poetry Langston Hughes One of the most well known names of the Harlem Renaissance His writing reflected that black culture should be celebrated because is it just as valuable as white culture "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street...(these songs) had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." said Langston One of Langston most famous work was his essay entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"...
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...Money is something that is a necessity in life but it also comes at a price, 99% of the time. That price is work, whether it is working as a paperboy, to the CEO of a company both get paid for their work that they do for a company or business, the only difference between these two is the amount that they get paid and what their job involves. Recently there has been a request for a raise in the minimum wage, and the effects of this could negatively impact the average American citizen, small businesses and small business owners, and finally the effects on employment. Increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, could have a lasting impact on the average American. This would drive up prices in stores because the companies would have to pay...
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...By Jennifer J., Old Orchard Beach, ME My friend Milton sat in the back of our fifth grade class with a pack of Marlboros bulging out the chest pocket of his T-shirt. Carol had an abortion over the summer and is beginning her freshman year all smiles. Rob learned to hide vodka in his thermos at nine and Tammy's parents kicked her out last night after 13 years of hell. As for me, I only had to watch two people I care about destroy 12 years of Brady Bunch love and family values with one signature and a lawyer's bill for $5,000. My parents got divorced when I was 12 and I thought my life had come to an end. My mom left my younger brother and sister and me with my father in a huge house and took her Home Interior with her. A selfish 12-year-old, I wondered how Christmas would be with only one income and who would bake cookies before I came home from school. But it was not long before I realized that my mom took more than her silk flowers and ceramic owls. She took our favorite tutor, our maid to clean up after us and our mother to give us our daily support and comforting. Suddenly, all of these roles were to be replaced by me. Of course I wanted to help my father ease into his new role as Mr. Mom, but I never wanted to become a very young mother of two. The greatest challenge that faces me as a teenager, and continues to face children, is learning when to act like a child and when it's necessary to become an adult. When a 14 year-old child becomes pregnant, does it mean that...
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...Alma doesn’t arrive home. Wilhelm stood, waiting for the return of his sister who gave him strength. Many days pass and the father hands Wilhelm the newspaper with a grim expression. Wilhelm’s spirit slowly crumbles as he reads the title: 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke found raped and murdered in Gun Alley. Five. His first gang fight is in an alleyway with a boy much larger than him, albeit missing some teeth. He squints against the sunlight to see the other boy’s face, as beads of sweat collects upon the nape of his neck. From heat or anxiety, he is unsure. Before the boy delivers a blow that would make Wilhelm’s smile a spitting image of his, the boy is hit on the back of the head with a brick. Wilhelm smiles as his friend, Squizzy, the paperboy, recomposes himself. Covered in purple and maroon, dragging their feet and shoulders drooping, they help each other walk back to Wilhelm’s home. Six. Wilhelm stares at the other people, detached, watching from afar as he pities the foolish glint of hope in their eyes. Life is not kind. Life will take away everything people love. Squizzy pats Wilhelm on the back, a small act demonstrating his respects. His mother were good people, even if she painted Wilhelm with more red and purple than the gang fights. He watches as the sermon reads the piece of paper and his mother descend further into the...
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...famous for its ghost tours of the historic “Old Town” of Edinburgh. They are known as the original underground vault tour. They offer a variety of tours, including graveyard tours, underground vault tours, and torture tours. Don’t worry they won’t torture you, just show and explain to you torture devices from centuries ago. For those of you who aren’t fans of ghosts or being spooked out of your mind, Auld Reekie’s also offers historical tours of the Old Town, graveyards, and vaults. This tour is like no other and will leave you wanting more. Meet your tour guide at nightfall in the smack center of the Old Town on the Royal Mile at Tron Kirk (church). It’s hard to miss your tour guide when he’s dressed in an all-black trench coat and a paperboy hat. As you walk through the Old Town you will then be led to the Greyfriars Graveyard, this is the part that drags the most...
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...Technologically Lonely Hey, Hey! The old lady kept on yelling at the paper boy, yet he never noticed her. He had just hit her right in the face with the Sunday edition, but he could not realize anything that had happened. Because the paperboy was listening to his iPod, he was in his own world, caring about no one. It is clear that as newer technologies are widely available, teenagers are among the first ones to embrace its use. Unfortunately, in recent years, mp3 players, cell phones, and portable video games tend to negatively define how teenagers develop socially. The use of newer technologies without proper guidelines prevent teenagers from building healthy family relations, promotes teenage addictive behaviors and enforces loneliness although some may believe these devices and technologies connect teens further. Some might argue that electronics allow teenagers to keep in touch with their close ones. Many teenagers feel a lot more comfortable communicating with their friends through text, e-mail, or online websites as opposed to personally. People that support social networking say that the use of technology is a good way for shy people to talk to their friends, and express themselves over texting. Although it keeps teenagers connected, it doesn’t allow them to learn proper socializing skills to use with friends, family, or in their future professional life. First, portable electronic devices disable teenagers from building healthy family relations...
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...Dave Thomas, was born in Atlantic city, New Jersey on July 2, 1932. Dave Thomas died January 8th 2002, at the age of 69. Died of liver cancer at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Dave’s childhood was rough, because he didn’t know who his birth mother was, because he was adopted when he was 6 months old. His adoptive mother died when Thomas was 5. At the age of 10 Thomas lost two stepmothers as well. His father's name was rex. He spent summers in Maine with his adoptive grandmother, Minnie Thomas. She was the closest relative, and she had the biggest influence in his life. Thomas’ father always remarried, but when Thomas was a pre-teen Rex remarried. Thomas had to move to Fort Wayne Indiana. Thomas’ first job was a paperboy he delivered...
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...the death of her husband, Charlie's mother, became a chronically psychotic woman who was in and out of mental institutions. Charlie and Sidney, were placed in a charity home after their mother's mental health plummeted. Chaplin attended 2 years of school at Hern Boy's College. This was the only formal education that he ever received. Charlie was at school when his mother suffered a mental breakdown and was taken away to an institution. Completely alone, Charlie lived on the streets. When she was well enough, his mother took the children back and supported them by sewing. Between his twelfth and his fourteenth birthdays, Charlie's places of employment included a barbershop. From 1903 to 1906, Charlie performed in "Sherlock Holmes" as the paperboy,...
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...DELL "You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."-Michael Dell Michael Dell wasn't the only young entrepreneur to ride the computer boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s from rags to riches. Like Rod Canion of Compaq and Steve Jobs of Apple, Dell turned a fledging start-up into a multibillion-dollar computer empire. But unlike the ill-fated Canion and Jobs, who lost control of their creations as they grew, Dell has managed to hold on to the reins of his maverick venture and achieve the unique distinction of being the computer industry's longest-tenured CEO. Following the simple idea that by selling customized personal computer systems directly to customers he could best understand their needs and provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs, Dell has made Dell Computer Corp. the world's leading direct computer systems company. Dell's parents wanted him to be a doctor. But by the time he was in junior high, Dell was hooked on computers. While most of his classmates were tinkering under the hoods of old cars, Dell loved to tinker with his Apple IIe. To please his parents, Dell enrolled as a premed student at the University of Texas in 1983, but by then his only real interest was in computers. During his first semester, Dell spent his spare time buying up remaindered, outmoded PCs from local retailers, then upgrading and selling them from his dorm room. He was so successful...
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...The assignment is to write an analysis of the erdely essay on binge drinking among young people. In your crritique discuss the writing techniques that erdely uses to make her illustration essay convincing. Use this analysis as a springboard to address the issue of drinking in our culture and the often tragic results of drinking irresponsibly. Share personal views, as well as experiences and/or obervations related to the issue. Think of targeted audience for your essay as well as your purpose for writing. Below is the essay that we are to do the analysis of: Binge Drinking, A campus Killer by Sabrina Rubin Pregame tailgating parties, post-exams celebrations and Friday happy hours-not to mention fraternity and sorority mixers-have long been a cornerstone of the collegiate experience. But on campuses across American, these indulgences have a more alarming side. For some of today’s college students, binge drinking as become the norm. This past February I headed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, rated the No. 2 party school in the nation by the college guide Princeton Review, to see the party scene for myself. On Thursday night the weekend was already getting started. At a raucous off-campus gathering, 20-year-old Tracy Meddler struggled to down her beer as fist-pumping onlookers yelled. "Chug! Chug! Chug!" In the kitchen, sophomore Jeremy Budda drained his tenth beer, "I get real wasted on weekends," he explained. Nearby a 19-year-old estimated. "I’ll end up having 17,18 beers...
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...Reading; A Blessing Or Curse Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Ahhh, but wait, what if you can’t? Then what? That paperboy trying to sell his papers sure isn’t going to tell you what’s going on because he would be losing a sale. So how are you going to get that juicy bit of news? How are you going to find out what is going on in the world around you? Sure, you can ask a neighbor or somebody else passing by, but that can only get you so far. The written word is here to benefit us all. Things we may not have thought of are out there somewhere written down to be shared with everyone. How could you not want to know what’s out there; what else lies beyond this sad little bubble that may encompass one sad illiterate, uneducated soul. Just the teensy tiny bit of curiosity can help you embark on a never ending wealth of knowledge. Question is, what will you do with this newly acquired knowledge? Will you read up on the atom bomb and find a way to make one and then threaten the world with it? Or maybe you’ll read about the atom bomb and protest its use and other nuclear devices, lobby for all of the world’s nuclear devices be dismantled and deactivated. How will you use this information? Reading can provide so much knowledge. Is there such a thing as too much knowledge? There are bound to be conflicting views on every topic out there. Pro-choice, pro-life, gun control, is the grass really greener on the other side? How do you know which side to choose? You may have had...
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...young boy Warren Buffett could be described as a math guru, he was able to calculate large tables of numbers in his head; a skill he still shows off today. Warren Buffett would often visit his father’s brokerage shop and write stock prices on the blackboard. Being so close to the industry allowed an 11 year old Warren Buffett to invest in three shares of Cities Service Preferred stock, costing him $38 per share. The shares dropped to $27 but he remained patient and waited for them to rise to $40 before selling for a small profit. Regrettably the stock soon rose to $200 but this didn’t faze young Warren Buffett, as he says “It was an early lesson in patience in investing.” (biography.com). At the age of 13 Warren Buffett ran a successful paperboy business where he filed his taxes and used his bike as a business deduction of $35. In high school Warren Buffett and a friend purchased a use pinball machine for $35 and installed it into a barbershop. The two were able to take the profits from the machine and purchase more machines. Warren Buffett sold his three machines, in three locations, to a veteran of war for $1200. By the age of 16, in 1946, he had enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study business. From 1949 through 1954 Warren Buffett made his first $100,000. After being rejected by the Harvard Business School, he enrolled in...
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