...small town in Louisiana, Truvy Jones’s beauty parlor is home to style aficionados and local gossip. Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie, a sweet young woman of 25 years old, is ecstatic to marry her soon-to-be husband. Shelby has always loved children and being active in her community, much to M’Lynn’s, her mother’s, worry. While getting her hair done at Truvy’s, Shelby suffers from a seizure; it is later revealed that Shelby is a diabetic. After this episode, the day carries on as before, and the duo and their beloved friends carry on with their joy over Shelby’s marriage. Time moves forward into December, and the women are back at Truvy’s salon. The scene opens with M’Lynn and Shelby, who first make small talk. After a friendly exchange of words, Shelby reveals some news that alarms her mother: she is pregnant. Much to her dismay, M’Lynn has an argument with Shelby over her daughter’s health. In response, Shelby assures her safety and reaffirms her desire to have a child, even if she only as “thirty minutes of wonderful.” In the end, M’Lynn wearily accepts her daughter’s decision. Soon after, the rest of the women enter the shop, catch up on the local gossip, and reminisce on past memories....
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...worked at a sheltered work center near Hartford, where he was often asked to fetch a tool or pack a specific number of balloons into small bags; but H.M. could not remember what that number was, and he would forget which tool was needed by the time he reaches the store. He would meet and tell the same story to the same person over and over without realizing that he had told it before. Moreover, H.M. could not remember the deaths of his loved ones, making every confrontation with the fact of a long-ago passing as devastating and painful as the first. H.M. and those around him left notes and pictures as a way to remind him of things that he would otherwise forget. His supervisor at work started providing him with a picture of the tool needed, and his caretakers started leaving notes in the bathroom to remind him to raise the toilet seat. Unable to keep in mind that his father had passed away and that his mother was in a nursing home, H.M. kept a note in his wallet to help him...
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...Part I : Summary The book started with two men who are talking. It was Mr. Shelby, the master and a man who lend Mr. Shelby money, named Mr. Haley. They were talking about Mr. Shelby’s debts and how he could pay the man. They came up to the idea that Mr. Shelby will pay the man through his slaves. He will give slaves to Mr. Haley and the man agreed to it. Mr. Shelby decided that he will give Tom, one of his honest slaves and the Harry who was the son of, Eliza and George Harris. Eliza heard what Mr. Shelby said and he planned on escaping with his son because he don’t want to be far from it. She told her plan to her husband hoping that they will reunite in Ohio. Mr. Haley knew this and followed her when she tried escaping. She escaped in Ohio using only a floating ice on the river and that made her escape Mr. Haley. On the other hand, Tom stayed with Mr. Haley because he believes that Mr. Shelby will be disappointed if he will run away. Mr. Haley and Tom, traveled. While they were travelling, Tom saved a little girl from drowning which was Little Eva. Augustine St. Clare bought Tom from Mr. Haley to make him the personal servant of Little Eva. Eva and Augustine were both kind, unlike the mother of Eva. Tom and Little Eva became close to each other and comfortable. Eva became ill and when she was about to die he gave something to the servants so that they will remember Little Eva. Augustine promised Tom that he will be freed but even before that happened, Augustine...
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...Chapter Four Case Study Scenarios Edgar Martinez Ashford University Interdisciplinary Capstone Benjamin Hegedish June 24, 2013 One of the many gifts a teacher must possess in order to be successful in the classroom, is the inherent ability to be able to make quick assessments and provide guidance based on individual students’ performance traits. Again, like I have stated before, one must be able to accept daily challenges and face them with a smile. Chapter four of our book, “The final step: A capstone in Education” teaches us the importance of assessment in our classrooms and makes us question exactly what do know about assessments? We are exposed to theories behind assessing that vary from feedback to monitoring and a teacher’s required ability to be able to record, observe analyze and respond to their student’s responses in the attempt to improve student learning. The importance of descriptive feedback is once again enforced by its innate effect on student learning. Taking a look at Andre’s social studies class and how his minor dilemma is trying to figure out what to do with the last 10 minutes of his class’ time. At the end of the unit, his students face a 50 question test that will assess their knowledge of his student’s textbook reading of the French Revolution. One activity that Andre can incorporate into his last ten minutes of class is to engage the students in a question-answer comprehension round. Without giving the students a clear heads up that the...
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...Jocasta is very happy that surely this is evidence that the prophecy Oedipus heard is insignificant. Still, Oedipus is deeply bothered that he might eventually fulfill the prophecy about marrying his mother, Merope, a apprehension that Jocasta later on tells him to not worry about. The messenger offers what he believes will be consoling information. What he had to say was that Polybus and Merope are not actually Oedipus' real parents. In fact, the messenger himself gave Oedipus to the shepherd who then gives him to Lauis and Jocasta . Oedipus is on a mission to find the shepherd. Jocasta requests him to discontinue the search of the truth, and then runs off to the palace, wild with grief. Self-assured that the most awful thing he can hear is a story of his lonely birth, Oedipus willingly awaits the shepherd. At first the shepherd refuses to speak, but then he was threatened to be killed. He informs him that Jocasta and Lauis or Oedipus’ biological parents. So, in spite of his safety measures, the fate came to be true . when he found out that he married his mother and killed his father, Oedipus is tormented by his fate. He later finds out that Jocasta killed herself. Oedipus grabs the needles from her gown and gouges out his eyeballs, so that he will never see what he has done. Now blinded Oedipus begs Creon to kill him, but as the play finishes, he submits to Creon's leadership, and waits for the oracle that will make the decision if he will reside in Thebes or be leave permanently....
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...Analysis of Memento Leonard Shelby, the main character of the movie and former insurance claims investigator, began to suffer from anterograde amnesia after an injury to his brain while he was attempting to stop two intruders from raping and killing his wife in the bathroom in their home. He shoots and kills one of the murderers. He can remember memories before and during the incident, although he can not make new memories. His life mission thenceforth is to avenge his wife's brutal death by locating and killing the second perpetrator. He overcomes memory limitations by writing important details on his body with ink, writing notes on paper, and taking Polaroid pictures of people and locations. The movie begins with Leonard shooting Teddy in reverse order. Leonard stays at a local hotel, where the phone rings repeatedly. He picks up the phone and is greeted by someone who claims to be a cop, and who has a lead on John G. Leonard takes a picture and writes “Teddy” on it, following the undercover cops suggestion. Teddy drives Leonard to a warehouse and tells him that John G. will be arriving soon. The man who shows up is named John G., but it's not the person who raped and killed his wife. Leonard kills him nevertheless and takes his car and suit. A note in a suit-pocket reads “Meet me after.” Leonard meets a bartender named Natalie at the bar she works at. While staying at her house, Leonard discovers that she is helping him because she has lost someone also. The...
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...Writing assigment and Web #2 Playing sports is an important and common activity in The United States. According to The Center for Kids First, 30 million to 40 million children get involved in organized sports in the course of a year (Wilson, 2011). A recent study indicated that between 4 and 4.5 million children in the U.S. play football annually (Benzel). In my personal opinion, sports are important because it gives children a sense of team work and it also gives them responsibility and keeps them busy at the same time. Even though it is good for them in a way, it can also cause tragedy and pain for everyone that is involved in it. Each year the U.S. emergency departments treat and estimated 173,285 sports-and-recreation-related traumatic brain injuries, including concussion, among children from birth to 19 years old, and each year TBIs contribute to a substantial number of deaths and cases of permanent disability (CDC, 2010). With this information in mind, parents, athletes, and coaches have to be very careful when it comes to concussions, a concussion can happen without the knowledge of the person involved and it can show itself right away after the injury or it can take up to days or weeks after it (brainline.org). The Frontal and Temporal lobes are the most affected...
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...Racial prejudice is the belief that one group of people is superior and better than those of a different colour or “race”. Many times in history one group of people has dominated and persecuted another group. One example for this is the history of black Americans in the United States. The USA has always suffered from divisions between white and black Americans. Many times white people have stopped black people from being equal citizens. White people thought that Africans were inferior and uncivilised. This idea justified the discrimination and exploitation of black people. But of course these justifications were nonsense: There were important kingdoms and great civilisations in Africa at the same time as people in Britain were living in primitive iron-age huts. Moreover from Egypt came ideas about geometry, arithmetics and astronomy. The proofs of their skills are for example the pyramids which are also one of the seven wonders of the world. Different words have been used to describe black Americans. For a long time they were referred to as negroes and often the word ‘nigger’ was used to insult them. Many whites called them ‘coloured people’. Since the 1960’s the term ‘black’ has become normal, although some people prefer the term ‘Afro-American’ as a reminder of their original roots in Africa. THE BEGINNING OF SLAVERY IN THE US The history of blacks in North America began in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought the first Negro slaves to Virginia. The first imported Africans...
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...“If the greatness of a novel were based solely upon its popularity and sociological impact, then Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin would undoubtedly be one of the greatest American novels of all time” (Levernier). When it was published, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold out of its first edition within two days and it generated immediate controversy. This paper works to give insight into Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ideas behind the novel and to explore the reaction by readers in the North, South, and globally. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut into a prominent family of preachers. Later in life, while living in Cincinnati, Stowe came in contact to actual runaway slaves. Stowe was appalled by the stories she heard...
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...The Ingenuity of Narrative in Memento Abstract: Narration, simply put, is telling stories. However, the way movies narrate tales is not like that of novels developing plot in words or drama unfolding in stage space, but has its own special method for narrative - moving images. In Memento, through its unique nonlinear narrative structure and intense structure contradiction, the motifs of memory, self-deception and revenge and the philosophical exploration of existential angst are demonstrated in an elaborate and subtle way. Key Words: Memento narrative structure narrative contradiction Memento recounts the story of Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia, who distorts his own memory to deny the harsh reality in a both conscious and unconscious way. Living in a world full of lies fabricated by himself, the ill-fated protagonist makes the very principle of his life consist in the pursuit and systematic exercise of the revenge for his wife’s death which is actually caused by himself. In Memento, the splendid way of narration gives audience not only indelible psychological experience, but also a test on their ratiocination. Below is the analysis of narrative advantages in Memento from aspects of narrative structure and narrative impetus, compared with novels and dramas. I．Narrative Structure Narrative structure is the structural framework that underlies the order and manner in which a narrative is presented to a reader, listener, or viewer. Compared...
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...Attempted revolutions have a terrifying tendency to destroy societies and lead to extreme acts of violence. For example, Roland Joffé’s The Killing Fields follows the story of an American reporter (Sydney Schanberg) and his interpreter (Dith Pran) who are in Cambodia during the country’s civil war and their subsequent paths during the reign of the militant communist group, the Khmer Rouge. Watching Pran’s story in particular highlights the harrowing experiences that many Cambodians went through during the regime change. Even considering the horrific conditions under which Pran lived while working as a laborer and prisoner, he must be considered one of the lucky ones because he did not die. During the Khmer Rouge’s time in power nearly two million Cambodians were killed in a massive genocide of religious and ethnic minorities meant to “purify” the population. The violence and upheaval that the Khmer Rouge caused in their effort to create an equal and communistic society proves that any sort of uprising like Marx imagined would...
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...as defined at dictionary.com is: “A continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.” On the other hand, per the American Heritage Dictionary, attribution is: “Something, such as a quality or characteristic, which is related to a particular possessor; an attribute.” Therefore, this section introduces with examples of social behavioral problems in the work place. Everyone is shaped by his or her experiences because of company culture, unique situations, personal history, and other individuals they work with. We all learn and grow as we learn through these experiences…… Story 1 – But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others Summary of Material Our first story talks about the fact that there is a hierarchy of executives, managers, and workers within an organization. If we are well socialized in an organizational culture, we can see why certain people hold the jobs they have within that company. Usually, it is because they have certain special attributes which make them a good “fit” for that job. Therefore, we can attribute the abilities and motives of managers as the reason they have been given (earned?) the jobs which they now have. This perception can be self-fulfilling. That is to say, “the company must know what they’re doing or that person wouldn’t be doing it.” There are also symbols, rituals, and myths which help to explain attributions of...
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...News 5, 2011). The same source refers to the Shelby County Emergency Operations Center heavily monitoring the status of low-lying areas, those adjacent to flooded tributaries, and along the Mississippi River itself. This student was also an emergency responder at the time and was selected to assist in the monitoring of the availability of a major hospital in east Memphis, adjacent to the largest Memphis-area Mississippi River tributary. Preparedness actions taken for this incident included evacuations, the use of emergency services to block dangerous areas, and a careful monitoring, documentation, and reporting of the state of different parts of the city by emergency services. The situation was handled professionally and few injuries were reported, mostly from those who would not heed official warnings. A similar flood event has not caused the same type of incident since 2011 in this locale. References Simonovi S.P. (2011). Systems Approach to management of disasters: Methods and applications. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. The Washington Post (2011). Mississippi River crests in Memphis, residents evacuate as flooding spreads. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mississippi-river-crests-in-memphis-residents-evacuate-as-flooding-spreads/2011/05/10/AF2tlqiG_story.html?utm_term=.b82067ca03d3 WMC Action News 5 (2011). Mud Island residents watch rising Mississippi River warily. Retrieved from http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/30871091/water-approaching-homes-on-mud-island-ms-river-at-flood-stage...
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...The Celluloid Presidency Literally millions of dollars are spent calculating, measuring, and predicting presidential approval ratings by campaigns, pollsters, and pundits. All this money and effort is expended so that political elites can get into the heads of the American people. But what if people are much less sophisticated in their political decision making? What if they just react to stimulus they are provided with little to no regard to the quality of that that stimulation? While many factors go into forming the public’s opinion about the President and the job he’s doing what if one the biggest factors is how the President is portrayed in the media. Not the news media, but on the silver screen. The Clinton Presidency has its shares of ups and downs but it also had several movies that featured the President of the United States as a character. Did these film’s change people’s opinions of President Clinton based on how they portrayed their fictional presidents? Observing approval ratings during President Clinton’s tenure in office we can see if a pattern emerges that is consistent with the portrayal of the President in various films during the Nineties, and if that change correlates with box office receipts, which will serve as a measure of viewership. President Clinton took office on January 20, 1993 and like most presidents his approval ratings started out artificially high. Having won the 1992 Presidential campaign with only 42% of the vote his approval rating started...
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...businesses at the top of their list or in the front of their minds; however almost any and every city of any size will have to encounter this type of business at some point in time. Adult entertainment type businesses come with their own type of issues when it comes to tax laws, business permits, and so forth, but in the past these types of businesses have been able to utilize their First Amendment Rights to defend their style of business, but when these types of businesses are utilizing local tax money to protect and defend their businesses when is enough, enough? It is well known that many people will turn to adult entertainment, not only for entertainment but for work for the simple fact of making a significant amount of money in a very short time; however what kind of impact do these types of businesses have on local governments and societies when the majority of the employees do not pay any taxes on their income? The following paper will describe the effects that adult entertainment businesses have on local governments, the tax laws, and the effects these taxes have on the society of the environment the business is in. Throughout history there have been many different types of entertainment for the masses. In recent years the idea of adult entertainment has shifted form to a style that is all in its own. With this new style of entertainment has come a high amount of changes that have had to be made by local government officials for the ethical and moral sake of the town they...
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