...Sunday morning. 11:04 A.M. *Knocking* My bedroom door slides open. I woke up in an instant. Rubbing my exhausted eyes and stretching out my stiff back I sit up in my warm messy bed. My Dad slowly inched into my disastrous clothing lined room with his head hanging down like a puppy that just got in trouble, his eyes completely bloodshot with sorrow. Struggling to spit the words out he wiped away a flood of tears that were spilling out of his eyes. “Your Mom died.” Disbelief and resentment rushed through my mind. It was as if my mind had been twisted into infinity loops and all of my thoughts were crashing into one another, never-ending. “No, n-- she wouldn’t… that’s not right.” Frantically I ripped the blankets off my bed searching for my phone. When I found my gold iPhone I pressed the home button and all that displayed was ‘Voicemail from Mom at 2:07 A.M.’ My heart felt as if it had sunk to the center of the earth. Denial and floods of tears washed over me for days, which seemed like months. I was laying in bed, motionless as if I was the one that just died. That morning, part of me did. My venture back to school after this tragic event was not one I enjoyed. Being the ‘new’ kid at school and suddenly having something like this happen isn’t exactly a recipe for a happily ever after. I felt numb, and not the kind of numb you feel after visiting the dentist. It was like my mind just shut off, and I felt nothing but...
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...“The event that had the most impact on me was 9/11. I was working in Washington DC when the Pentagon building was hit. I was able to see the smoke from my office and it was just chaos that day. It changed my life forever.” Looking back on your younger years what you remember is your closest friends and what you did together. The friends that you choose forms how you are as a person and what you will experience. “I’m a selective person when it comes to friends and through most of my high school years I only had two real friends. One of them was named Maricio, but his nickname is Mickey. I knew the guy since middle school. He was a real good guy, very genuine and always had my best interest. We hung out all the time and even when he went away on vacation we would write each other letters. As kids we even tried to start our own comic book called Jason vs. Freddy, we wrote a few pages and had some...
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...article Popular and Official Responses to 9/11 in Germany and The United States written by scholar Peter Knight. The article critically analyzes the conspiracy theories that emerged in American society years after the tragic events of 9/11. Knight’s main assertion through out the article, is that 9/11 conspiracy theories have more in common with the official reports of the events of 9/11 than many people would assume. He does this my showing comparing and contrasting the two accounts, highlighting the similarities in their narratives. Firstly, the author supports his claim by showing how they both reinforce an essentialist framework of thinking. Firstly, there was a rejection of any blame or accountability, as president Bush...
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...drawings are being left "for posterity," Berger finds something more important at work here (qtd in Berger 576). Instead he argues that it is through personal narrative (and art) that latter generations can truly comprehend the horror of this action (and others like it). He likens the images to "hell" and labels the action as one of terrorism--one that can never be justified no matter what political side one supports or what aims one hopes to accomplish. Response: Based on the types of readings I have assigned for this class, I don't think it should be any surprise that I believe in the power of the personal narrative. So, on this point, I completely agree with Berger. Reading the number of those who died in the Holocaust, or lost their loved ones in Pearl Harbor, or fell with the Towers on 9/11 has a power on its own. But it is too easy to become immune to numbers. A personal narrative prevents an audience from de-humanizing an issue, and hopefully focus on what is truly important. Rhetorical Analysis: Berger makes two rhetorical choices that are especially effective. The first is that he interweaves excerpts of personal narratives into his own essay. While these narratives support his point, he does not refer to them orexplicate them in any way. Instead he lets them speak for themselves. Since his point is that the personal narrative brings history into "living consciousness," this move highlights his thesis (575). Second, he uses language that polarizes his readers. By using...
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............................................................3 ABOUT THE AUTHOR...............................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY GUIDE............................................................................3 MEETING COMMON CORE STANDARDS.............................................................3 THE SLAVE NARRATIVE GENRE...............................................................................3 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW..........................................................................................................4 DURING READING.....................................................................................................................6 SYNTHESIZING DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.......................................................................9 ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES.......................................................................................................9 ACTIVITIES FOR USING THE FILM ADAPTATION........................................................ 11 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES................................................................................................... 13 ABOUT THE AUTHORS OF THIS GUIDE.......................................................................... 13 Also available in a black-spine Penguin Classics edition Copyright © 2014 by Penguin Group (USA) For additional teacher’s manuals, catalogs, or descriptive brochures, please...
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...within their genres, and generally within the TV industry. The Uses and Gratifications theory can be applied to both these texts to show how they attract audience using the 4 stages. Firstly, personal identity, as X Factor is a contestant based show, and the people start the show as average everyday people, and this is connoted in their interview before their audition where they talk about their current life, and have very casual dress codes in a public and busy mise-en-scene. As the show progresses some of these contestants start to turn into ‘celebrities’ by gaining publicity, and this is connoted due to their change in dress codes, which is now smart and classy compared to casual before. Also connoted through their confidence, as at the start they are very nervous and modest, and as the competition progresses, depending on good results a person will gain self-confidence and gain more and more fans. An example of contestants that used the X Factor as a way to gain fame is One Direction who have toured the UK and America and succeeded heavily in both. This way of gaining fame could relate to the ‘American Dream’ ideology and the idea that normal people (the contestants) can be rich and famous because of the X Factor. Similarly, the CSI franchise can appeal to its audience through personal identity due to the way it uses realism in crime scene investigation. The heavy...
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...ENGL124 Literature Analysis Nov.11 2014 The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel written by Mohsin Hamid, set in the year following 9/11, constructed through a conversation between a Pakistani named Changez and an unnamed American in a café in Lahore.. The Reluctant Fundamentalist uses a variety of narrative strategies that contribute to the novel’s atmospheric world. This essay is going to focus on the metaphorical and symbolic techniques used in the novel and analyze the connection between them. It will also elaborate how does the metaphor relate to the first-person narrative in the novel and how do these two methodologies work together to derive the deeper meaning of the author’s intension. After analyzing the use of metaphor in the book, we could see better the real meaning and power of metaphor used in literature. The book is riddled with allegory and metaphor. Take names as the most significant example in the novel. First of all, let’s talk about the name “Changez”. While several reviewers have assumed that “Changez” is too obvious a name for a character in this situation, Hamid has pointed out that it doesn’t signify “change” but is instead “the Urdu name for Genghis, as in Genghis Khan.” He elaborates: It’s the name of a warrior, and the novel plays with the notion of a parallel between war and international finance, which is Changez’ occupation. But at the same time, the name cautions against a particular reading...
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...opportunity to understand better the material being studied. What does the research say about peer tutoring? In reviews of peer tutoring programs, researchers found: * When students participated in the role of reading tutor, improvements in reading achievement occurred * When tutors were explicitly trained in the tutoring process, they were far more effective and the students they were tutoring experienced significant gains in achievement * Most of the students benefited from peer tutoring in some way, but same-age tutors were as effective as cross-age tutors (Burnish, Fuchs & Fuchs, 2005; Topping, 2008) Some benefits of peer tutoring for students include higher academic achievement, improved relationships with peers, improved personal and social development as well as increased motivation. In turn, the teacher benefits from this model of instruction by an increased opportunity to individualize instruction, increased facilitation of inclusion/mainstreaming, and opportunities to reduce inappropriate behaviors (Topping, 2008). There is an old saying: “To teach is to learn twice.” Peer tutoring is a beneficial way for students...
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...Otherness: Essays and Studies 1.1 October 2010 Haunting Poetry: Trauma, Otherness and Textuality in Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days Olu Jenzen Early conceptions of trauma are intimately linked not only with modernity but specifically with the height of industrialisation (Micale and Lerner 2001). This is converged in the opening of Specimen Days particularly in the image of an industrial accident at the ironworks where a young man is killed by the stamping machine. His young brother, replacing him at the machine after the funeral, then experiences an apparition of the dead brother still trapped inside the machine, which leads him to believe that all machines house entrapped ghosts of the dead. Writing on the Victorians’ anxieties about internal disruption caused by the advent of the railway, Jill Matus (2001, 415) has pointed out that, Freud himself remarked in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), [that] there is ‘a condition [which] has long been known and described [and] which occurs after severe mechanical concussions, railway disasters and other accidents involving a risk to life; it has been given the name of traumatic neurosis’ (12). Freud’s remark brings to the fore the traumas of the industrial age as both individually and publicly experienced and negotiated. This condition of trauma as private and public, individual yet also societal is held in tension throughout Cunningham’s novel. Reflecting on the otherness of trauma and its vexed relationship to representation...
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...Out of this week’s readings, I much preferred the short story, Fear & Loathing in America to The New York Times article. I found myself rather bored reading the article about the many sporting events being called off, immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I will admit that I am not much of a sports fan - especially not American sports teams – however I tried to read the article with an open mind. Litsky and Williams (2011) wrote the article in a very fact-based, typical news story way, which meant that if the reader is not at all interested in the subject matter, the narrative style does nothing to make the reader interested in reading on. Even the title sparked little interest; I was surprised they did not use the words, ‘terrorist attacks’ in the title, as most media like to grab the reader’s attention immediately. Thompson (2011) on the other hand, wrote a completely different kettle of fish that did not focus so much on sport, but more about the shocking 9/11 attacks. Thompson (2011) aptly described, “Football suddenly seemed irrelevant, compared to the scenes of destruction and utter...
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...points, or 15% of your grade • Due via email or Blackboard by 12/9 at 11:55pm • Report format must be Microsoft Word document, with .doc • Late submissions will lose .5 points per day late • Report should be 3 to 5 pages, no longer than that please You have a hypothetical $1 million portfolio of your own which you will use as the basis to create a financial plan for your future. Using the information contained in Chapter 14 of the textbook, Managing Portfolios: The Practice, you will use the Nine-Step Investment Process to create your own personal investment plan. Details of the Nine-Step Investment Process are found beginning on p. 14.3, and they include the following: The Nine-Step Investment Process 1. Develop an understanding of the client’s goals (your goals) 2. Identify a target rate of return 3. Agree on a time horizon 4. Determine the client’s tolerance for and capacity for risk 5. Define the asset classes 6. Determine an appropriate asset allocation 7. Create the IPS 8. Select the investments themselves 9. Monitor and adjust as needed Instead of planning for a client, you are planning for yourself and your own personal goals, assuming you have just received $1 million today. In doing so, you should consider your own investment horizon and specific life situation, as well as the current condition of the global markets. Your report must contain a narrative section for each of the 9 steps of the investment process, except for Step 7. You do not need...
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...commonly use by international relations theorists to pinpoint factual historical data that can either support their hypotheses or contradict theoretical hypotheses made by theorists who oppose them. Historical cases and individual events can be, and are often selected differently by those who have different approaches. In the case of realists, they have an objective view and often use the factual, scientific and quantifiable evidence to understand theories. For the case of 9/11, a realist would only look at this event as an occurrence that was simply a terror attack with explosions and the death of civilians. Realists would view cases such as this as happenings that simply support a theoretical approach along with several other similar cases in history, due to the fact that it is experienced evidence that is universally known and understood. A constructivist however would select and look at cases based upon historical memory and they way they were experienced by multiple different populates. For the case of 9/11, a constructivist would view this historical case as a terror attack that caused trauma to the United States of America and is an event that is more than the deaths of thousands. They would dissect historical events and convey the emotions that were felt, as well as the explosions that ensued, because these theorist believe that there can’t be an objective and single-fact overview of historical events, instead they are subjective yet all true at the same time. Objective...
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...The narrative of Venture and the database of slave voyage illustrates different parts of the slave trade. The narrative of Venture Smith tells of his journey before reaching the slave ship in more detail and with more passion and emotion, although it is based of memory and could have distortions. On the other, the slave voyages database give us reliably general data on the journey itself, and it can be used as a reference to check the validity of a narrative but also to see what was left out or excluded and for what reason. By putting Venture’s narrative and the voyage database information together, we can see the general journey that the overall slave population took, and how the ship started in north America, then went to Africa, followed...
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...interview someone who does this work. You then apply the information from this course, as well as in an interview you conduct, to your understanding of what it means to be a mental health counselor. *Please note that it is NOT acceptable to interview a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, addictions specialist, school counselor, or other mental health provider for this assignment. Although the Final Project includes interview material, this is not the only component of this assignment. Please make sure to review the full project description below. The Final Project is a 7- to 10-page paper that consists of a summation of an interview, a story, and a reflection. Final Project Due Date Day 7 of Week 11. Although the Final Project is not to be submitted until Week 11, you should become familiar with the project requirements and have them in mind as you proceed through the course. The Final Project requires you to prepare and complete your project throughout the course, including an...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1352-2752.htm YouTube: an opportunity for consumer narrative analysis? Stefano Pace ` Universita Bocconi, Milano, Italy Abstract Purpose – The aim of the paper is to discuss a possible extension of narrative analysis to a new medium of expression of consumer behaviour, specifically YouTube. Design/methodology/approach – Marketing and consumer behaviour studies often apply narrative analysis to understand consumption. The consumer is a source of introspective narratives that are studied by scholars. However, consumption has a narrative nature in itself and consumers are also storytellers. YouTube is a new context in which subjects tell stories to an audience through self-made videos and re-edited TV programs. After defining the pros and cons of different approaches to the study of YouTube, narrative analysis is presented as a possible means of understanding YouTube. Findings – Some preliminary evidence is presented by discussing several YouTube videos. These indicate that YouTube content can be better understood as stories, rather than example of other approaches, such as visual analysis, media studies, videography, and others. Research limitations/implications – From the analysis conducted, preliminary managerial implications can be drawn. It seems unlikely that normal TV broadcasters will be substituted by YouTube videos. For the most part, YouTube content draws its sense and shared...
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