...Reaction Paper-Fiction: Short Story “Misery” by Anton Chekhov Scott Battaglioli University of Phoenix “Misery,” written by Anton Chekhov is a story about a lonely old sledge driver in 19th century Russia. In the story, Iona Potapov has just lost his son a week before. He is drowning in grief, expressed by his sitting still on his sledge and allowing himself to be covered in snow. He is a man who seems to have lost all hope. The only thing that Potapov wants is to discuss the loss of his son with another human being. He longs to connect to someone and try to make sense of the situation. Maybe he just seeks to connect so that he does not feel so alone. In this story Chekhov was trying to illustrate his belief that people have grown accustomed to the suffering of others, and therefore pay little attention to it. Chekhov shows us different characters with different personalities, but all indifferent to Potapov’s plight. The military officer is impatient and rude. He pretends to be deep in thought to avoid the conversation with Potapov. The three young men are self-absorbed and rowdy. They take advantage of Potapov’s grief and pay him an unfair wage. They also so abusive behavior towards him. The young cabby at the yard shows complete indifference to the older man’s suffering by falling asleep while Potapov bears his soul. Potapov’s final chance to get his feelings out comes with his horse. Though she cannot answer, she can listen. I think most people can...
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...Short Paper: High and Low-Context Cultures High-context cultures, as India, are relational, collectivist, intuitive, and contemplative, meaning that people in these cultures emphasize interpersonal relationships (High-Context & Low-Context Culture Styles. (n.d.)). According to Edward Hall, these cultures prefer group harmony and consensus to individual achievement. They focus more on a speaker’s tone of voice, facial expression, gestures, posture, etc. than the actual words said. Travel effect stated four reasons why American workers chose not to use their vacation time. The first reason was the dread of returning from a vacation to piles of work, followed by the belief that no one will be able to step in and do their job for them while they're gone, not being able to afford going on vacation and lastly the fear of being seen as replaceable. “Indians are more efficient. Americans believe in more action and fewer words.” (SocialPC. (n.d.)). As previously stated, there are many differences between American and Indian work culture. Americans tend to be more relaxed work wise, while Indians tend to be extremely hard working. Due to their hard work, Indians quickly learned to adapt to new cultures and are very successful in other countries. Many of the differences between American and Indian culture arise from the fact that Indian cultures are based around their religions. Americans tend to be more individualistic and live life at their own will while Indians tend to...
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...FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT GUIDE FOR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL SEPTEMBER 2008 Questions about this guide may be directed to the National Endowment for the Arts, Office of Inspector General, Room 601, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20506, Telephone (202) 682-5402. Questions about the terms and conditions of grants and cooperative agreements may be directed to the Office of Grants and Contracts, Room 618, Telephone (202) 6825403. Table of Contents Page Use of the Guide .................................................................................................................................... 1 Accountability Requirements ................................................................................................................ 1 Financial Management Standards ............................................................................................. 1 Internal Control Standards ........................................................................................................ 2 Audit Standards ......................................................................................................................... 3 Reporting Standards .................................................................................................................. 4 Subgranting .............................................................................................................................
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...Assignment 3 Unit 9: 5. Procedure: - Several pairings of NS (lining up to take the free kick) and US (embarrassingly missing). - US (embarrassingly missing) leads to the UR (feelings of anxiety) Result: - CS (lining up to take a free kick) leads to the CR (anxiety of missing) 8. i) Recognize and change negative thinking: one way to reduce stress caused by thinking negatively about an event is to change the way you think about an event – also known as cognitive reappraisal. Example: a soccer player who has the task of scoring the penalty shot to save their teams’ tournament hopes might think to him or herself “if I miss this shot, my team will lose the tournament”. The player could reappraise the situation by thinking “I am able to score this shot. This is a penalty shot, just like all of the others I have scored during practice. I just need to do what I always do”. ii) Structure the environment to “tune out” and prompt relaxing thoughts: although we encourage athletes not to think about negative outcomes just before or during a contest, it may be easier said than done. Sometimes an effective strategy is to help the athlete find ways to “take their mind off the game”. Doing so gives them a mental break. Example: soccer players who need to be fully focused during the 90 minute game will often joke around or meditate during half time in order to get their mind off the game and “freshen up” their minds for the second half. 10. Five guidelines to eliminate...
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...expect some (most or all) of us will feel strongly about certain issues, we need to treat each other respect even if we disagree. Be careful with the words you choose and your delivery. We don’t have to agree but we do have to treat each other with respect. Objectives * Students will be familiar with writing for different audiences. Part of the UHWO GLOs (General Learning Outcomes) requires students to effectively communicate information for an intended audience. The UHWO catalogue explains that part of being able to effectively communicate information will necessitate utilizing different type of information literacy. * We will become familiar with using primary and secondary texts in our research papers. This course will ready students for their future term papers as they continue their journey at UHWO. * Students will learn the...
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...Throughout my 8th grade writing career, I have changed a lot. I used to despise writing assignments, and I always procrastinate when I have to work at home. Now I find myself enjoying some of the writing tasks. I still think some papers are pointless, but I have started to enjoy prompts such as narrative writing. In fact, I have even started to write my own story for fun. As a writer, I’d say I use pretty good language. I can describe things well, I’m good at organization, but I can improve on all of these. I also need to work on concentrating so that I don’t have to work late. A writer always has room to grow. While one may be excellent in some parts of writing, they’re not the best at everything. For me, I’d say I’m good at descriptions,...
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...Technology(IJAET) ISSN 2231-1963 CALL FOR PAPER IJAET is a carefully refereed international publication. Contributions of high technical merit are to span the breadth of Engineering disciplines; covering the main areas of engineering and advances in technology. IJAET publishes contributions under Regular papers, Invited review papers, Short communications, Technical notes, and Letters to the editor. Book reviews, reports of and/or call for papers of conferences, symposia and meetings could also be published in this Journal Author Benefits : • • • • • • Rapid publication Index Factors and Global education Index Ranking Inclusion in all major bibliographic databases Quality and high standards of peer review High visibility and promotion of your articles Access of publications in this journal is free of charge. PUBLICATION CHARGES: A small publication fee of INR3500 upto 10 pages is charged for Indian author and for foreign author is USD 100 upto 10 pages for every accepted manuscript to be published in this journal. All the transaction Charges will be paid by Author (Inter Banking Charges, draft). Submission Guidelines: Guidelines Authors are kindly invited to submit their full text papers including conclusions, results, tables, figures and references. • The text paper must be according to IJAET Paper format and paper format can download from our website (www.ijaet.org).The Full text papers will be accepted in only .doc format. • The papers are sent to the reviewers for...
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...My writing process often begins with good intentions. As soon as I receive an assignment, I begin planning my essay and gathering my ideas. However, I often have trouble actually getting work done until I feel motivated by my time constraints. This is a weak point that could potentially cause my work to suffer. Once enough time has passed that I am under some pressure to start putting pen to paper, I gather my laptop, a pencil, and some paper. I prefer making notes about the topic of my assignment on a piece of paper before actually writing any drafts. I make short, simple notes, so it does not usually take very much time. After I have researched my points, I make a basic outline for my essay. This helps me keep my paper organized and make...
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...go fuck urself Paper is a thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon, drawing or for packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. Paper is a versatile material with many uses. Whilst the most common is for writing and printing upon, it is also widely used as a packaging material, in many cleaning products, in a number of industrial and construction processes, and even as a food ingredient – particularly in Asian cultures. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Papermaking 2.1 Chemical pulping 2.2 Mechanical pulping 2.3 Deinked pulp 2.4 Additives 2.5 Producing paper 2.6 Finishing 3 Applications 4 Types, thickness and weight 5 Paper stability 6 The future of paper 7 See also 8 References and notes 9 External links History Main article: History of paper Further information: Science and technology of the Han Dynasty and List of Chinese inventions Hemp wrapping paper, China, circa 100 BCE.The oldest known archeological fragments of paper date to 2nd century BC China. Papermaking is considered one of the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China, and the pulp papermaking process is ascribed to Cai Lun, a 2nd century AD Han court eunuch.[1] With paper an effective substitute for silk in many applications, China could export silk in greater quantity, contributing to a Golden Age. Paper spread from China through the Islamic...
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...When I was in eighth grade I had a huge project in my American History Class. In this project I had to write a ten page paper about the decade of my choice, come up with a question from the decade I chose, find people from the era to help me answer my question, and create a display. This was one of the hardest and most time consuming projects I had ever done. It didn’t help that I was in a lot of other tough classes and in a lot of extracurricular activities. I didn’t know how I would be able to finish it but I eventually did. I was extremely proud of the project I completed and all the work I put into it. The project began in the fall of my eighth grade year and it was due at the end of the year. This project seemed overwhelming. The teacher...
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...paragraphs, he described and explained the way to do a free writing and desperation writing, which were both helpful to reader writing in future. In short, free writing is doing an unplanned writing without stops and thinks. The main point of free writing was to keep writing, and try to not to make a stop. Also, writer didn’t need to edit the paragraph while in process writing; sometimes, it was even incoherent. And the non-edit function also became the advantage of free writing because most of time people were being stuck in how to write the paragraph right, which would omit the content of the paragraph. Therefore, Dr. Elbow encouraged writer to apply free writing to improve writing. In addition, free writing is considered a workout to the writing; the more you do the more your writing gets shaped. As to desperation writing, it is a method to help people who have had trouble writing; or to save people who were hard to produce a coherent speech or thought. The main point and key of this method is to keep writing as though you were drunk. Keep on doing this until you will find out that there are some usable materials on your paper. Moreover, you can take a piece of paper or pad or card to write down your ideas, feelings, thoughts, perceptions, etc. this would help you build up your writing ability as well. Afterwards, you reorganize the papers or cards and you will receive some new ideas, which should be the return of your work. And it will give you more inspiration. And just keep on...
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...When entering a graduate class such as evidence-based practice, I didn’t think I would have challenges that I would face when researching a topic to write a paper, since during school we had to do several research writings. As I progressed in this class, there were a few challenges I faced when conducting a partial literature review for a topic that interested me. It was important for me to find a topic that I could understand and relate to that demonstrates quality work. I wanted to focus my research on a topic that I experience a lot when many of patients receive chemotherapy. The challenging part of writing a literature review was being able to find a topic that I will identify and locate an appropriate number of research articles that...
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...Cards o Studio portraits o MP3 downloads o MP4, PSP, CP Games Downloads o Souvenir Items V. Location ? Near School Area and also in residential place. ? Near Market but secured place. ? Very populated place. VI. Target Market ? People needing photo requirements like ID. ? Students who do their research and projects in school. VII. Competitiveness on the Market ? Affordable photo printing ? Cheapest digital ID ? Fastest services ? Customer Friendly Staff ? Well Ventilated Place. Marketing Strategies o Promo for Discounts/Membership. o Flyers and Posters. VIII. Capital Section 1. Machines/Gadgets * Computer set with 19in. LED Screen With table and chair * Photo Printer with conversion * A4 Paper cutter * A3 Plastic Laminator/li> * Memory Card reader * Bluetooth device * Infrared devices * USB Port * Digital Camera | * 18,000.00 * 10,000.00 * 900.00 * 3,300.00 * 300.00 * 350.00 * 300.00 * 200.00 * 5,000.00...
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...have read my novels or short stories or feature articles; when they ask, "Have I seen any of your stuff?" I shrug and the conversation moves on. If I want attention for an hour or so, however, I'll tell them my horrible secret — for several years I made much of my freelance income writing term papers. I always wanted to be writer, but was told from an early age that such a dream was futile. After all, nobody ever puts a classified ad in the paper that reads “Writers Wanted.” Then, in the Village Voice, I saw just such an ad. Writers wanted, to write short pieces on business, economics, and literature. It was from a term paper mill, and they ran the ad at the beginning of each semester. Writing model term papers is above-board and perfectly legal. Thanks to the First Amendment, it’s protected speech, right up there with neo-Nazi rallies, tobacco company press releases, and those "9/11 Was An Inside Job" bumper stickers. It's custom-made Cliff Notes. Virtually any subject, almost any length, all levels of education — indulgent parents even buy papers for children too young for credit cards of their own. You name it, I've done it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the plurality of clients was business administration majors, but both elementary education majors and would-be social workers showed up aplenty. Even the assignments for what in my college days were the obvious gut courses crossed my desk. "Race in The Matrix" was a fashionable subject. The term paper biz is managed by brokers...
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...writing. In fact, the three universities that I have attended in the past have all required me to use the APA style of writing. As I recall my high school years, the APA style of writing also seemed to be a favorite amongst my high school teachers. They all required that term papers be written in APA style as well. This type of writing actually does not differ much from the ones included in the text reading. The text mentioned the APA style of writing several times. In my opinion, it appears to be the most popular style of writing, especially amongst college students. Based on the results of the quizzes, my grammar skills were actually a little better than average. I actually had expected to do better, but I guess my grammar skills are not as good as I thought they were. In any event I feel very confident when it comes to spelling, as I have always been a great speller. Even in grade school, I was a good speller. I learned at a very young age to challenge myself when it comes to spelling. Challenging my-self in that area really paid off as I became older, as I’ve never had a problem with spelling. However, I feel that I need more help with run on sentences and with thought patterns. Though I proof read my paper several times, it’s hard for me to see that I have several run on sentences until after I get my grade back. In general, I feel that my writing is just mediocre. However, I also believe that when it comes to writing, I am my own worst critic. Reason being, I am never...
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