...After reading part 1 of Passing by Mark Haddon I was left with a bunch of questions. For example why is the English so poor in this novel? Mark Haddon is an English novelist, and the writing is very sloppy and all over the place. Also, the main character Christopher John Francis Boone seems to have some sort of disability. Most importantly what happened to the first chapter of this book? Why does it start on chapter 2 and who killed the dog? I want answers to all these questions in order to figure out Christopher’s Identity. This book begins with a boy named Christopher stumbling across a dead dog with a pitchfork in it. Just from reading the first paragraph I could tell that the main character had something different about him. I was trying to understand why this book sounded like a 5th grader wrote it. The next passage with Sioban kind of answered my question as to why the writing is so poor. Sioban is Christopher’s best friend, and she was showing Christopher faces with emotions on them and having Chris tell her what it meant. Christopher was having a lot of difficulty interpreting the emotion Sioban was showing him. This made me believe that Christopher has Asperger Syndrome or something that makes it hard for him to understand body language and other forms of human interaction. The sad part is that I can’t really see a clear identity in Christopher. He doesn’t know how to communicate with people, and that is key to having an identity. He is very socially awkward and...
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...Malcolm Evans Professor Schutte ENGL 102 CFA 04 April 2012 Passing I believe when Irene was with Clare in Chicago, they both experienced a dramatic time period in both of their lives. Since Irene’s memory is emotional with sharp remembrance of being humiliated, I think that both, Irene and Clare’s, true identities were exposed. The reason why I’m assuming that happened to them “that time in Chicago” is because they both suffered from an emotional event that caused Irene to have a flashback memory that took place two years prior to her reading the letter, and because of the title and information given on the cover of the book. By Irene looking at four words, she was able to create a sharp image of that moment like it happened the previous day of her reading the letter. The only time a person has a flash back memory is when an unexpected event in a person’s life occurs that has strong emotional associations, such as fear, horror, or joy (233 Ciccarelli). With that being said, Clare could also be talking about the time when she and Irene saw her father being brought in after dying in a saloon-fight. With them experiencing an unexpected emotional event like that in both of their lives at a young age, it makes that situation hard to forget. “Seen across the long stretch of years, the thing had more the appearance of an outpouring of pent-up fury than of an overflow of grief for her dead father (2 Larsen). I think with Clare having ivory skin, a scarlet mouth, and a green...
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...PASSING OFF – a common law Definition: Perry v Truefitt: Lord Langdale: a man is not to sell his own goods under the pretence that they are goods of another man; he cannot be permitted to practice such a deception, nor to use the means which contribute to the end. He cannot therefore to use names, marks, letters or other indicia by which may induces others to believe, the goods are manufacture by another. Erven Warninch v Townend: Lord Diplock: 5 characteristics: 1) misrepresentation 2) made by a trader in the course of trade 3) to prospective customers of his or ultimate consumer of goods or services supplied by him 4) which may injure the business or goodwill of another 5) cause actual damage to a business or goodwill of the trade Lord Fraser; 5 characteristic 1) In England, particular trade name applies 2) Class of goods clearly defined, trade name distinguish from other similar goods 3) Reputation lead to goodwill 4) Claimant must be owner of the goodwill 5) Suffered substantial damage, to his goodwill, because of the falsely described by the trade name of the defendant. Reckitt & Colman v Borden (Jif lemon): Lord Oliver Classic Trinity: * Claimant has reputation which lead to goodwill, * Defendant made a misrepresentation that is likely to deceive the public, * By inducing confusion, damages REPUTATION :who, trading, where,what Goodwill: definition: IRC v Muller: Lord Macnaghten: Goodwill...
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...Buckie Best Answer - Chosen by Voters Nella Larsen's second novel Passing on the other hand concentrates on the issue of skin color. As we can see from our own experiences, everyone is not the same shade. Many people of color were affected by this both dark- and light-skinned especially during Nella Larsen's era. While the light-skinned black people were dominating the black establishments, the dark-skinned black people were feeling rejection from their own kind. Passing addresses this issue through the character of Clare Kendry who was also an atrractive light skin fine haired women who manages to escape poverty by passing for being a white women. She marries a wealthy white man who also believes that she is white as well. Her journey across the color line is completely sucessful until she reunites with her old friend Irene. Irene Redfield is married to an attractive and sucessful black physician who Clare finds herself attracted to and he to her, so Clare decides to pursue him. Irene was aware of Clare's threat to her marriage and arranges for Clare's disappearence. Clare falls to her death from an open window just before her husband is about to confront her with his discovery of her black roots. Passing can be related more to Nella Larsen's actual life; she was also a light-skinned women who dominated the black intellectual etablishments and because of her color could have and may have at some points in her life passed for a white woman. I don't think Nella Larsen wanted...
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...My Part Time Online Job Have you heard about online job? What do you think of it? Are your mind questioning about it? Or you may just let it passing by. Well if I were you, you must have to convince yourself to make it real. I know it’s interesting right? Even if your mind speaks that it’s a difficult one and you can’t do anything or you don’t know about it, there are many online jobs there are just easy to do, then maybe you have a hidden skills that is not improved yet, so you must try this and maybe soon you will have a successful business or you may be a good writer that made your life a successful one. Online job is one way of earning money in your own ways you can sell anything, you can have a business with it and you may work with clients. All you have to do is to worked and focus on it as if it is a part of your life. First, Online Job is not only refer in working on different projects, it is also refer in selling, we all know that selling is the fastest way to earned money. As we have noticed, many websites there are selling products and searching for buyers, it means that we can market our products by using online internet sources. To do so, we must create an account in a different marketing websites like sulit.com.ph or ebay.com, and then do some listing or posting your product items in order to sell. Though Online Selling has no permit, all we have to do is to contact any buyers and costumers and deal with them. In terms of...
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...everyone started to develop as the recording of the film came through; the acting skills, leadership and teamwork. This was some of the features you could see during one of our recordings. For my personal development I could see some very positive things during the recording. At the start I had the idea of doing a comedy, but I missed one lesson and my teammates changed the whole idea of the subject. I needed to give up for my idea, this is something I really don’t like to do, but I did it for my team. After the first recording I realised that it was a really easy paper to play and a good story. Throughout the recordings I felt that my drama skills got better in some ways. For example there was a scene were there were a lot f small children passing by and we needed to speak really loudly for the camera to hear us. It was an opportunity to project my level of voice; this was something I never had a chance to do before. I think that a good teamwork is something very difficult to gain, especially in a group of people you don’t actually work a lot with. This was a good way of gaining patience and learning what every over teammate had to offer. The ways in which the team was divided was seen very fast; Emilia had the power about organization, doing everything good and quick, Alexa was like the one that helped with everything, recording, doing the script, etc. Alexis and me were...
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...by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and colour of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every colour and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this picturesque scene. One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man could not hear the band - he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Days, weeks and months passed. One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch,...
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...‘Without Love’ is a song from the 2007 musical ‘Hairspray’. It is sung by Link Larkin, Tracy Turnblad, Seaweed Stubbs and Penny Pingleton, in Act 2. The song explains the troubles the teens have gone through to find love with each other, as they all come from different worlds, that normally shouldn’t be together, Tracy being a plus size teen, contrasting with Link being a teen actor, and Seaweed being of a race, who wasn’t allowed be with Penny, a Caucasian teen with an overbearing mother. This song fits into the Greek category of Eros. This is the sexual type of love that was often looked down upon by the Ancient Greeks, as being dangerous, irrational and loss of control, which is contradictory of what today’s love is described as, falling...
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...judgmental and cruel to Clare, or does Clare get the treatment she deserves as punishment for her “passing”? Putting myself into Irene's shoes allows me to see only one reason that has lead her to hate and judge Clare to an extreme, jealousy. In world where African Americans are constantly being shoved down by their society. We as the African American community look for ways to climb back up into the social bubble where we feel unmanipulated. If you've been given an opportunity to finally climb back up, but in return would have to leave your people behind, Would you? A risk that one takes in hopes that all works well for themselves. What you risk is the thought that your blood community will not accept you back, but...
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...Failures POS/355 August 26, 2013 UOPX Failures Distributed systems emerged recently in the world of computers. A distributed system is an application of independent computers that appear to work as a coherent system to its users. The advantages of distributed systems consist of developing the ability to continually to open interactions with other components to accommodate a number of computers and users. Thus, stating that a stand-alone system is not as powerful as a distributed system that has the combined capabilities of distributed components. This type of system does have its complications and is difficult to maintain complex interactions continual between running components. Problems do arise because distributed systems are not without its failures. Four types of failures will characterize and the solutions to two of these failures will address on how to fix such problems. Before constructing a distributed system reliable one must consider fault tolerance, availability, reliability, scalability, performance, and security. Fault tolerance means that the system continues to operate in the event of internal or external system failure to prevent data loss or other issues. Availability needed to restore operations to resume procedure with components has failed to perform. For the system to run over a long period without any errors is need and known as reliability. To remain scalable means to operate correctly on a large scale. Performance and security remains needed...
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...Acct 202-01 ETHICS: BUSINESS AND MANAGERIAL 1. List the relevant facts. -Janice is a highly paid top executive in charge of research and development. -John is her underpaid assistant that always has more than adequate evaluations, but is still underpaid -John designed a software package that addresses major concerns in the company and shares it With Janice in hopes of receiving a promotion or raise. -Janice’s boss asked her to design a sotware package but she hasn’t had time because of the pressure from work -Janice is thinking about passing off John’s program as her own. 2. Who are the primary stakeholders(people that might be affected by this situation)? Name atleast 3. -One primary stakeholder would be Janice, the top executive -A second primary stakeholder would be John, the underpaid assistant and his family -A third primary stakeholder would be Janice’s boss -The company itself may also be affected by this situation 3. What are the possible alternatives for Janice? Provide atleast 2. -One alternative for Janice would be to talk to John about presenting the software package program to Janice s boss together so that John gets most of the credit and some recognition from Janice’s boss -A second alternative would be for Janice and John to get together and look at the software package and maybe have Janice put in her input as well, possibly making the package...
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...Parting at the Crossroads: The Development of Health Insurance in Canada and the United States, 1940-1965 Author(s): Antonia Maioni Source: Comparative Politics, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Jul., 1997), pp. 411-431 Published by: Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/422012 . Accessed: 12/10/2013 14:05 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Comparative Politics. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 130.63.180.147 on Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:05:01 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Parting at the Crossroads The Development of Health Insurance in Canada and the United States, 1940-1965 AntoniaMaioni Frequentlyraised in recent discussions abouthealth care reformin the United States has been the model of the Canadianhealth insurancesystem.' While debates about health insurance often...
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...their family complex as a child can make or break them, and this is visible in the case of Clare Kendry of “Passing, as her past experiences greatly influenced her future. Her double in the novel, Irene Redfield, has multiple qualities that lead her to make the decisions she chooses. In Nella Larsen’s novel, the audience...
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...The choices we make often define not only our character, but our future. We exhibit these careless behaviors and get caught in the aftermath. In Nella Larson’s Passing, Clare loses her life due to the choices she has made, as in Toni Morrison’s Home, Cee prospers in hers. While each character makes bad decisions initially, it is the way they handle the aftermath of the situation that defines them as people. The end of Passing has Clare Kendry’s body on the street after mysteriously tumbling out a window, following her husband discovering she is not white. Clare was a rebel in her finest moments. She was black, yet did everything she could to become white and successfully did so for some time. Once deciding she was bored of being white and longed for a feeling of familiarity, she attempted to...
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...Racial Passing is the act in which an individual of one race chooses to actively participate in another race, as a result of the political, economic and social benefits. However the act of “passing” is often a result of self- loathing, the dissatisfaction with self, in relation to societal ideals. In the novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, the topic of racial passing is widely explored through the theme of self- loathing. In the text Morrison portrays the human condition through the contrasting views of protagonist Pecola Breedlove and her foil Claudia Mac Teer. Morrison uses various literary elements within the text to convey her take on the ideals of racial passing, such as symbolism, imagery, and point of view. In the text...
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