...The dress The dress is a short story by Julia darling. The novel follows the story of Rachel, Flora adn their mother. We get to know the bond between both sisters and their mother. We get to know the different point of views in this short story. The family consists of 3 people, the mother, Rachel and Flora. The father is distant, and is refered to at the end of the story. It all started when Flora decided to take the dress Rachel was going to wear at their mother's birthday. Rachel already knew who the culprit was, but could not get to Flora. Rachel is now lived, and decides that it's no use to go after the same dress, so she decides to choose another. Meanwhile Flora was having fun, and enjoying her newly possesed confidence. While Rachel was fuming and Flora was creating a mood of warmth with the dress, the mother was all sad. As a bereavement counselor, she had to deal with sadness. So moving on, the family goes to a expensive restaurant, where the 40'th birthday of the mother is celebrated. The atmosphere at the restaurant was very cosy, but the mother and her daughters, wasn't enjoying that much because of the little fire between the girls. So when they headed home, The mother plopped herself on the sofa, while Rachel went upstairs to get her belongings. When she returned with her suitcases, she told her mother about the dress, and left with the father. Flora couldn't explain herself properly, and the mother was so upset with her, that she told Flora to leave. The...
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...In the short story “Low Visibility” written by Margaret Murphy the main character is called Laura. Laura is, because of her husband who has been repressing her for a long time, a very insecure person. She does not have the courage to fight back when he gives her orders. In the text it says, that she used to be a spirited person who “could make the whole room laugh” but because of her marriage with John that energy has slowly left her. John wanted to marry her because of her spirit but day by day she drifted in to the sad and hollow frame of mind John himself was trying to escape from. Laura has no liberty in their marriage and John sees her only as an object. In every healthy marriage there is love, but it does not show in this marriage. Perhaps there was a little spark in the beginning but that love is certainly gone. He hurts her both physically and mentally and of course she is not satisfied with this but she has become afraid of him and does not dare to go in his way. If she does oppose him he either yells at her or hits her. She feels as if she is invisible and she feels that no one can see that she is suffering. She is very troubled and it seems that only a small thing would push her over the edge into madness. In the story, Laura and John are watching TV. They are watching the news about the riots that are happening in the streets. In the streets all kinds of violence and crime are happening. People are clearly furious about something. John does not feel...
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...police officer and banging on his squad car window. Keep in mind Michael Brown is 6”2 and the police officer described the experience of Brown standing over him to be “Like a toddler holding onto Hulk Hogan.” The police officer said he felt as if Brown was trying to imitate him in a way. The boy that had been reportedly walking down the road with Michael had taken off to running after he had handed him the cigarillos they had just stolen from the store up the road. The boy told police he ran because he saw them start to fight and the bullets being shot. Michael did not live to be able to state his version of the story, but his autopsy spoke it all. His autopsy revealed that Michael had been fighting the police officer and that the officer had fired the gun more than 3 times and hit Michael. Michael had been shot a few times in the arms and in the top of his head. The police officer never told of how he was able to bet the bullet to shoot Michael directly in the top of his head, because of Michael being so tall and the police officer being very short. The officer claimed that he had told Michael and his friend to get on the sidewalk because they were holding up traffic walking through the streets. The officer said Michael had started being disrespectful using profanity towards him, cursing him out. He reported that when he had tried to exit his police squad...
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...process of completing this assignment. If it is found that cheating and/or plagiarism did take place in the writing of this paper, I understand the possible consequences of the act/s, which could include expulsion from Indiana Wesleyan University. Final Paper: Barn Burning In the short story, “Barn Burning,” William Faulkner wrote to show us the uncertainty of our individual futures. In many instances, author’s write from personal experience and perspectives, and like stated in our assignment description, they write, “both as reflections of and influences upon their culture.” Here, Faulkner gives us a safe look at the different classes of people in the Old South, where race, monetary value and differences in social class are all derivatives of his purpose. The thesis of “Barn Burning” is implied throughout the story. In my own words, the thesis of this story is given through the analysis of a young and impressionable boy who struggles between moral choices of family loyalty and the moral expectancy of civic justice. In this essay, I will identify and discuss literary elements such as plot, conflict, setting, character analysis, point of view and symbolism suggested in the story. The plot of “Barn Burning” is shadowed with the beginning of young Colonel Sartoris Snopes life and his brush with the law. In this case, Sartoris’ father Abner has been accused of burning a barn. The plaintiff insists Abner had sent word to him through a black man that...
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...Engelsk mundtlig eksamen Different worlds * Film: Once Were Warriors It is a movie from New Zealand about a family where the mother comes from a fine old tribe, and the father comes from a slave tribe. The family lives in a house in the modern civilization, and the father goes to a pub every day because he is fired. See the Plot document. * Going Home Going Home is about a black boy called William or Billy. He is very successful as a painter and football player, and he has forgotten all about his aboriginal roots because he is ashamed of them. One day he meets his disgusting aunt and another day his uncle sleeps on his veranda so William has to move because the neighbors look at him. He decides to visit his family, but it’s not easy and he doesn’t feel comfortable. He gets a gold watch, because it is his 21 years birthday, but when he walks out of the door the next day he is grabbed by a policeman and so is his brother. * The Guilt The Guilt is about an old woman who lives alone in South Africa. She is afraid when black people come to the gate in the high wall around her garden. She becomes irritated when they ask for money, but she feels guilt for being white and she always give them some change, food or clothes. One day a young black man called William comes to her gate and asks for a job, she says she don’t have any and gives him 5 rand. He says that he can’t accept it and starts fixing the garden. When he is finished he goes into her house and demands 10 rand...
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...'LORD OF THE FLIES' by William Golding “Revision notes can never replace knowing the books thoroughly” J.W.Evans These notes should be used as pointers to the directions that your thoughts might take. They are not meant to replace your reading of the novel, you must still do that yourself.. CHARACTERISATION Never forget that we are talking about a group of boys whose maximum age is twelve. RALPH Does he represent all that is good in people? Tall, fair-skinned, blond hair, very athletic, natural leader although not that good a leader as many of his decisions are questionable, which ones?. He is middle-class, father a naval officer. Elected leader but not forceful enough to maintain position. Eventually he loses support and is reduced to the status of an outcast who must flee for his life. Ralph is an idealist and a dreamer. He needs Piggy to think for him. He finds the Conch but Piggy tells him how to use it. At the end of the book, he is a disillusioned realist who now sees his world and its inhabitants for what they are. JACK MERRIDEW Does he represent the worst in people? He is thin, tall, with red hair, light blue eyes and freckles. Leader of the choir, he becomes the leader of the hunters. Increasingly in conflict with Ralph and more particularly, Piggy, he breaks away, forms his own tribe and splits the group. He manages to get the support to do this by offering the boys the attraction of the hunting life and then by terrorising them. In the...
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...any true exercise of thought. Mankind has become lazy and stupid because of the excesses of technology. In fact, the people no longer know how to do simple things because some machine has been designed to do everything. Although there are some familiar things in this society, like neighborhoods, cars, and trees, there are also many fictional creations, like the Mechanical Hound, a robot designed to track and kill violators of the law once it has been programmed with their scent. Houses are so fireproofed that firemen start fires rather than put them out. Houses have built-in alarms that ring when someone has a book in his possession, alerting the firemen to go there and begin the burning. There are so many suicide attempts that traveling orderlies are always on hand to pump stomachs or stitch self-inflicted wounds. In the craziness of this futuristic world, it is comforting to find that beds still have to be made and breakfast still has to be eaten. In short, Bradbury has created a world alien enough to be exotic and threatening, but familiar enough to seem real. LIST OF CHARACTERS Major Characters Guy Montag A fireman in the 24th century who burns books and the homes of the people that own them. He begins to question his life when he meets an extraordinary and fresh young girl. His new sense of purpose propels him headlong into life-threatening danger. Mildred "Millie" Montag Montag's wife....
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...This is a story about a very unusual boy, and an even more unusual monkey. The boy was out of the ordinary as boys go, because he didn’t like chocolate. No, not at all. Not even one little bit. And I must say, I’ve never met a boy like that. Not in my entire life. And the monkey was unusual because he absolutely adored chocolate – this particular monkey went absolutely bananas for it – and as you may guess – very few monkeys are mad about chocolate, if only because, they’ve never even tasted it. The boy was called Jim. And the monkey was called Theodore, or Theo for short. One day, Jim’s Aunty Judith took him to the zoo. Jim’s mother had told her that Jim didn’t like chocolate, but she didn’t believe that. “Poor little thing,” she said to herself. “His mum won’t buy him chocolate because she’s too mean. But I’ll buy him a nice lovely bar and give it to him while we are out.” And that’s what she did. Only it was true. Jim really didn’t like chocolate. “Oh thanks Aunty Judith,” he said when she gave it to him. “That’s really kind of you. I’ll just save it for later, if you don’t mind.” But he did like seeing all the animals in the zoo. The prowling bears weren’t at all cuddly – but they were super cool all the same. The giraffes had lovely soft noses. The snakes in the snake house made Jim’s blood run cold – but he liked being scared really – just a bit. And the monkeys – well everyone loves monkeys. They looked silly but intelligent all at the same time. And in particular...
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...The 1990s is remembered for its economic boom, yet that economic growth was not present in the first half of the decade. This first half was characterized by the political conservatism of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush’s respective presidencies. During this period of political conservatism, women were overlooked by a consistent dismissal of the Equal Rights Amendment and affirmative action. Those policies do not uphold the traditional values of an all-American family. It was still expected that women marry, have kids, and work in fields that were deemed appropriate for women. Some refused to adhere to this outdated vision of an American woman. Blue Steel tells the story of woman that goes against the traditional values of America at the time by becoming a rookie policewoman. The story takes place in New York City as she...
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...11 years old and thrown into Nazi, Germany during World War 2, not knowing a single person. This was Liesel Meminger, and this was her situation in a classic novel by Markus Zusak. How did she unconsciously cope? What started with an innocent picking-up, turned into fence jumping and window crawling. Liesel's growing and declining habit of stealing books has an overall domino effect on her life, which is threaded through each page of The Book Thief. In the end, Liesel’s thievery keeps her alive. The Grave Digger’s Handbook was the first to be in the possession of Liesel Meminger. It was black with silver writing on the cover, found lodged in the snow of a “nameless” (22) town. After the burial of her little brother, Werner, had been cut short and Liesel and her mother would soon again board the train from the cemetery (this time with one less person), Liesel spotted the rectangular...
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...made us laugh as much, Charlie Chaplin moved us more deeply, but no one had more courage than Buster. I define courage as Hemingway did: "Grace under pressure." In films that combined comedy with extraordinary physical risks, Buster Keaton played a brave spirit who took the universe on its own terms, and gave no quarter. I'm immersed in his career right now, viewing all of the silent features and many of the shorts with students at the University of Chicago. Having already written about Keaton's "The General" (1927) in this series, I thought to choose another title. "The Navigator," perhaps, or "Steamboat Bill, Jr.," or "Our Hospitality." But they are all of a piece; in an extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies. Most of these movies were long thought to be lost. "The General," with Buster as a train engineer in the Civil War, was always available, hailed as one of the supreme masterpieces of silent filmmaking. But other features and shorts existed in shabby, incomplete prints, if at all, and it was only in the 1960s that film historians began to assemble and restore Keaton's lifework. Now almost everything has been recovered, restored, and is available on DVDs and tapes that range from watchable to sparkling. It's said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn't care. I think he cared, but was too proud to ask. His films avoid the pathos...
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...Subscribe Sign In Join Home News Reviews How-To Video Business Laptops Tablets Phones Hardware Security Software Gadgets Security Games Productivity Audio Business Software Photography Utility software How to Encrypt Your Windows PC More Stories in this Series Security software Business security , Encryption , file management, encryption How to Use BitLocker to Encrypt Your Hard Drive By Eric Geier, PCWorld Oct 26, 2011 7:00 PM e-mail print Even without knowing your Windows password, intruders can easily gain access to files and passwords stored by Windows and other programs on your computer. They can do this by booting into their own operating system (Windows or Linux) from a special disc or USB flash drive. After doing so, they can access your hard drives just as you can when you're logged into Windows. The only way to protect your data completely is by using encryption. You can encrypt select files, but to protect your system files and saved passwords, you must encrypt your entire hard drive. This operation takes more time and effort than encrypting select files does, but it offers more security--and it's great for laptops and netbooks that can easily go missing. If your computer is running the Ultimate or Enterprise edition of Windows 7 or Vista, you can use Microsoft’s included BitLocker feature to...
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...historically opinion, one might talk about the World Wars’ effect on Tolkien and his novels. Another approach that could be taken is one based on the archetypes seen in The Hobbit; the hero, Bilbo Baggins, and the villain, the dragon Smaug. One could connect the archetypes and events of The Hobbit to those of Beowulf. The Hobbit could also be seen as a novel of the genre bildungsroman, which means “coming-of-age” and focuses on the emotional and physical development of the main character. The use of mythological criticism in the analysis of J.R.R Tolkien’s first novel The Hobbit is by far the most popular among renowned literature critics – one of whom was CS Lewis, an author of children’s fantasy novels himself. It is easy to explain the story from a mythological point of view; many ancient texts have themes similar to those of The Hobbit, including those of both a physical and emotional journey. The first of many works that are said to have influenced Tolkien’s work on The Hobbit is the Elder Edda from ancient Norse mythology. Tolkien got many of the names for his dwarf characters from the Poetic Edda, and he even named the mountain range over which the company had to cross to get to the dwarves’...
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...being filed—making the Tyco scandal one of the most notorious of the early 2000s. Founded in 1960 by Arthur J. Rosenberg, Tyco began as an investment and holding company focused on solid-state science and energy conversion. In 1964, Tyco became a publicly traded company. It also began a series of rapid acquisitions – sixteen companies by 1968. The expansion continued through 1982, as the company sought to fill gaps in its development and distribution networks. Between 1973 and 1982, the company grew from $34 million to $500 million in consolidated sales. In 1982, Tyco was reorganized into three business segments: Fire Protection, Electronics and Packaging. By 1986, Tyco had returned to a growth through acquisitions model and had restructured the company into four core segments: Electrical and Electronic Components, Healthcare and Specialty Products, Fire and Security Services, and Flow Control which Tyco maintained through the 1990s. The company changed its name to Tyco International in order to signal its...
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...Ernest Hemingway has been the most influential writer of the last century. His writings have proved to be jewels in English literature. From 1925 to 1929, Ernest Hemingway produced some of the most important works of 20th century fiction; including the landmark short story collection In Our Time (1925) which contained "The Big Two-Hearted River." In 1926 he came out with his first true novel, The Sun also Rises (after publishing Torrents of Spring, a comic novel parodying Sherwood Anderson in 1925). He followed that book with Men without Women in 1927; it was another book of stories which collected "The Killers" and "In Another Country." In 1929 he published A Farewell to arms , arguably the finest novel to emerge from World War I. Let us consider the following essays for today’s discussion on the topic of Hemingway’s artistry skills. • Sudden Unexpected Interjection by David Gagne 1 • An Essay on In Our Time by Nathan Kotas 2 • Preludes to a Mood in The New York Times October 18, 1925 3 • Love and War in the pages of Ernest Hemingway by Percy Hutchinson 4 Ernest Hemingway had the most unique and colourful style of writing . He used symbolism. His style of writing involved getting right to the core of the scene without spending much time on building of characters. He used simple and declarative language. But this unique style of writing, made many feel that Hemingway was an artist in his essence. Lets find what these four people have to say on this particular aspect of Ernest...
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