..."Ugh!" Stephanie Dwyer slammed her apartment door and stomped her foot. "Creep!" A picture fell off the wall and shattered. Water logged, droplets dripped from her nose, her hair, and her eyelashes, pooling at her feet. She scowled. Her new high heels were utterly ruined. Courtney hid a chuckle behind her hand. Pointing the remote control at the television, she clicked off the sitcom she'd been watching. Her lips crooked into a half smirk. "This one turned into a jerk, too?" Stephanie dropped her purse onto the coffee table and flopped onto the couch. She kicked her shoes off, scaring the cat who ran into the other room. Staring at the ceiling, she said, "All men should crash and burn." "That good?" Courtney sat forward, flicking her long black hair behind her shoulders. "There's got to be a couple of good men out there. All we need is one good man each. Is that too much to ask?" Stephanie lifted pained eyes to her roommate and best friend. "I don't think there's two good guys in this whole universe. I give up. I've had it. I'm not kissing any more toads." Courtney looked thoughtful, tapping her chin with her forefinger. "Maybe we've been looking in the wrong universe." Her friend was losing it big time. "What are you talking about?" Handsome Patrick had seemed so perfect, so wonderful. Until she'd caught him with Alyssa tonight, telling her the moon and stars shone only for her, that they were soulmates - the same pathetic lines...
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...Lying is ubiquitous. It is seen everywhere and it is truly an art form, it comes in many shapes and forms: white lies, doublespeak, and dismissal are some of many forms of lies. Whether lying is a positive or a negative thing is a question that many people have different views on. Humans are very selfish, everyone lives for themselves, everything someone does is something that is in their best interest. Whether you're a Politician, insurance salesman, a real-estate agent, or simply just an average Joe doing nothing special you're going to be lying countless times throughout your life to people you hate and love. And that is okay because it's your life and if you can get what you want or avoid trouble then why not. Lying is generally seen as a bad thing, if you've never met someone but you hear that person has a reputation for being a liar, then you'll probably avoid having a relationship with that person. However it's not always a bad thing because many lies will make people feel better about themselves. For instance, Stephanie Ericsson who wrote an essay on lying, "The Ways We Lie", discusses many forms of lying such as the white lie. This lie being one of the good lies "The white lie assumes that the truth will cause more damage than a simple, harmless untruth" (349). So if your kids draw you a dog on a piece of paper with crayons and it looks like a bunch of lines you would commend them on their effort rather than telling them they did a terrible job. This is a good thing...
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...Bradbury uses lots of similes, metaphors and personification to describe what the sun and what the characters might be comparable to. For instance, the children compared the sunny outdoors to “a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of Flesh like weed, wavering, flowering in this brief spring. It was the color of rubber and Ash, this jungle, from the many years without Sun. It was like the color of stones and white cheeses and ink, and it was the color of the Moon.” Another difference in the sories was how the setting affected the kids differently. The setting caused the children to become very depressed, lonely, and very mean to one and another which caused lots of tension in the story. For example, all the children were rude and always bullied Margot because they envied her, they also were impolite to their elders. The last variation in the sories was how “All Summer in a Day” ended super abruptly leaving the reader with lots of mystery, which was a different style that Isaac Asimov did not...
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...EN5314 Roots and Development of English 2014-15 Coursework assignment 1 (Old English) This assignment is worth 25% of your overall mark for this module Please submit your answers electronically, as a PDF document, by the deadline: Thursday 11th December 2014, 12noon Instructions This work must be completed on your own. Working with others is not permitted. Please word process all of your answers and convert your document to a PDF. Your student assessment number (but not your name) must be included on your coursework. Carefully follow the instructions on how to present your answers. Lack of clarity in your answers may lead to deductions in marks. Answer ALL the questions. SECTION A 1) Transcribe sentences a) – d) below as they might have been pronounced in the Old English period, using the phonemic alphabet. A modern English transliteration has been provided for reference only. Remember that a macron (line above a letter) indicates a long vowel. NB: Please use http://ipa.typeit.org/full/ and http://icelandic.typeit.org/ for the relevant phonemic symbols which are not part of the standard keyboard. 2) Identify all the noun phrases in sentences a) to d) below and in each case rewrite them in Old English and label them according to whether they are in the nominative, accusative, genitive or dative case. You must label all and only those words which form part of each noun phrase. A modern English transliteration has been provided...
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...lakes, and sea coasts. Choctaw hunters primarily used bows and arrows. Fishermen generally used fishing spears and nets. The women were farmers they farmed mostly corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers. Most Choctaw people speak English today. Some people, especially elders, also speak their native Choctaw language. Choctaw is a rhythmic language that is nearly identical to Chickasaw. They were a part of a group called the Muskogeans. They believed that along with other tribes they emerged from the earth and through a mound called Nanih Waiya in Mississippi. They believed the mans job in the tribe was to hunt and sometimes go to war to protect their families. The women were farmers and took care of the children and cooked. They have many sories about little people. They weave baskets, they are bead workers dancers, and musicians. Toli a lacrosse like stick and ball game was very popular for boy teenagers and young men. Girls usually played guessing games or played with their beaded dolls. Football, swimming and foot races were also a popular pastime...
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...The Transformation of Language and The Pardoner’s Tale Summary: The Pardoner’s Tale is a moral story of greed and treachery, in which three young hooligans go on a quest to find Death so they can kill him. Instead of finding Death, they find a golden treasure, and their scheming over the hoard leads them to murder each other, so that their original purpose is fulfilled. Although this is a solemn tale teaching that “greed is the root of all evil,” the Pardoner is a con artist of the highest degree, a rap artist who preaches morality strictly for his own profit, merchandising and scamming his way to a fortune at the expense of his poor fans. Baba Brinkman’s solo performance, “The Rap Canterbury Tales,” first appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in 2004. It is a re-creation of Chaucer’s fourteenth century poem, in which a group of pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury enter into a tale-telling contest. Every element of the performance closely parallels Chaucer’s original text, but in a contemporary setting. Baba Brinkman plays Chaucer, who is both the narrator and a participant in the pilgrimage. In this case, he is a hip-hop fan who goes to a rap concert and manages to stow away on the tour bus after the show. The rappers, to his surprise, decide to stage a storytelling battle to help pass time on the road between gigs, and each of the Tales is an exact retelling of one of the pilgrim stories. As the narrator, Brinkman/Chaucer attempts to recount the exact experience...
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...Jefferson, a black man condemned to die by the electric chair in the novel, A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines, is perhaps the strongest character in African-American literature. Jefferson is a courageous young black man that a jury of all white men convicts of a murder he has not committed ; yet he still does not let this defeat destroy his personal character. Ernest Gaines portrays Jefferson this way to illustrate the fundamental belief that mankind’s defeats do not necessarily lead to his destruction. The author uses such actions as Jefferson still enjoying outside comforts, showing compassion towards others, and trying to better himself before dying. These behaviors clearly show that although society may cast Jefferson out as a black murderer, he can still triumph somewhat knowing that he retains the qualities of a good human being. The first trait Jefferson demonstrates after his incarceration is the fact that he still enjoys the outside comforts of small things such as a radio and diary. The fact that Jefferson still wants these things shows his imprisonment does not defeat him. In one of his last diary entries, Jefferson says , “shef guiry ax me what I want for my super an I tol him I want nanan to cook me som okra an rice an som pok chop an a conbred an som claba” (232). Jefferson still enjoys his aunt’s cooking, an outside pleasure from prison. The fact that he can still take pleasure from these small outside things clearly demonstrates that Jefferson...
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...A Disgusted Diction Many stupid choices are made by a dare or when their made fun of. Many effects of these choices are usually not good. This has happened many times including in the short story shooting an elephant. A Even though George Orwell appears to be an authority figure in the short story the author's diction, is a tone of disgust and mockery. To begin, Orwell portrays the mocking tone of the Burmese people as harsh insults. For example “There were several thousand of them in the town and none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans” (Orwell). The diction that sticks out in this sentence is the word jeering, cause jeering itself sounds like an insult and it also sounds really...
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...HISTORY OF MALAYSIAN ARTS Malaysia is a very unique country that have multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-ethnics and multilingual as this country consist of 50% Malays, 30% Chinese and 20% India and this country also consist of various ethnics as well as migrants and colonial settlers that comes from Portugal, British and Japan afterwards all of these factors contributed to the development of arts in Malaysia. Malaysian arts also have been influenced by the Hindus and Islam in architecture design, music, language and literaturer. We can see the Hindus influential mostly in the classic literaturer for instance Hikayat Jaya Lengkara and Hikayat Indera Bangsawan while Islam has influenced Malaysian architecture design, music and paint such as Sultan Abdul Samad building has Islamic style design like floral and geometrical shapes furthermore to spread Islam reformation Arabian people encouraged local people to sing songs that shows praisal and worship the almighty Allah and His messenger Muhammad. Malaysian artists have different styles in paintings and they adopted artistic techniques from British, Chinese and Middle East creativity. Generally Malaysian arts have been influenced by the exterior factors and help to build great and diverse Malaysian arts. The Music of Malaysia Music and dance are almost inseparable in the Malaysian culture. Where there is one, the other is not far behind. True to Malaysia's heritage, dances vary widely and are, if not imports direct from the source...
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...FB 02 Anglistik/Amerikanistik L3 Englisch Teaching Short Stories – A beneficial piece of teaching material by Christoph Kant Matr. Nr. 282-345-86 Kurs: Short Stories in the EFL-Classroom Dozent: Stephen Mason Kassel, 20.09.2012 Content: 1. Introduction3 2. A brief history of EFL teaching-styles3 3. Teaching „the skills“4 4. Motivational advantages8 5. Providing literary knowledge8 6. The cultural aspect 10 7. Encouraging/developing critical thinking 11 8. Conclusion 12 References 14 1.) Introduction: In this paper I would like to discuss the advantages that teaching the short story as a major part of a teaching concept brings to the EFL classroom and present several example tasks of how to integrate short stories into ones „teaching portfolio“. Whereas some people might believe that teaching the short story benefits students only from a linguistic standpoint, those people really do not get the big picture. Yes, there are obvious linguistic benefits you can draw from teaching short stories, but the most important factor is motivation. This hales from the structure of short stories themselves. As almost all of them have a beginning, a main part and an ending, students are most likely encouraged to read the story all the way through, to see what the outcome might be. Sure, the structure of most novels or plays might be similar, but the length of the short story is the big advantage. If a student knows, that he does not have...
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...16.3.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 64 A/1 V (Announcements) ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES EUROPEAN PERSONNEL SELECTION OFFICE (EPSO) NOTICE OF OPEN COMPETITION EPSO/AD/177/10 — ADMINISTRATORS (AD 5) (2010/C 64 A/01) Are you interested in working for the European institutions? Does your profile meet our criteria? Why not apply? Give yourself a chance to succeed. The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is organising admission tests and an open competition, based on tests, to constitute a reserve from which to recruit administrators (*). EPSO/AD/177/10 — ADMINISTRATORS (AD 5) in the following fields: 1. EUROPEAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2. LAW 3. ECONOMICS 4. AUDIT 5. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) The purpose of this competition is to draw up reserve lists from which to fill vacant posts in the institutions of the European Union. Before applying you should read carefully the instructions in the guide published in Official Journal C 57 A of 9 March 2010 and on the EPSO website. This guide, which forms an integral part of the notice of competition, will help you to understand the rules governing the procedure and how to make an application. (*) Any reference in this notice to a person of the male sex must be deemed also to constitute a reference to a person of the female sex. C 64 A/2 EN Official Journal of the European Union CONTENTS 16.3.2010 I. II. GENERAL BACKGROUND DUTIES III. ELIGIBILITY...
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...“Airien, bangun!! Matahari dh terpacak. Apa la nak jadi dengan kau neh”. Malas betul”. Begitula leteran mama ku setiap pagi selaku pensyarah tak bertauliah sejak aku abes stpm. Aku bukannya malas cuma segan nak bangun awal. Biasalakan baru sekarang dapat berehat dari dari rutin harian sebagai student. Kira lepas geram la ni. Hehe. “ye ma, Ien bangun la ni. Jangan la bagi ceramah lagi”. Sambil memeluk mama. “ish, apa punya anak dara, pegi mandi dulu. Busukla belum mandi dah peluk mama”. Bebel mama sambil tersenyum. Almaklumlah, anak dara dia sorang je. Aku bingkas bangun ke bilik air. Rutin harian aku bangun, mandi, makan dan tengok tv. Itu je jadual yang dapat aku isi. Keluarga aku, cuma ada mama, papa dan abang ku sorang yang tengah study kat UUM jurusan arkitek. Aku pula belum tentu lagi nak jadi apa. STPM aku cuma 3.8. papa cadangkan aku sambung dalam bidang perubatan, mungkin aku sesuai untuk itu. Harap-harapla. Kehidupan aku boleh di katakan mewah juga. Semua kelengkapan disediakan secukupnya oleh papa ku. ”Mama macam mana? Dah sampai surat tawaran untuk ien?” Soal Airien tidak sabar ketika melihat mamanya membelek beberapa keeping sampul surat. “Tunggu surat dari boyfried ye’”sakat Puan Hasni. “Mama ni, ien singgle and available lagi tau. Tak main la bercinta masa belajar” bidas ien. Puan Hasni terus melemparkan sepucuk surat milik anak kesayangannya untuk mengelakkan ien dari terus membebel. Tanpa menghiraukan mamanya, Airien terus gelojoh membuka...
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...Neuron, Vol. 44, 379–387, October 14, 2004, Copyright 2004 by Cell Press Neural Correlates of Behavioral Preference for Culturally Familiar Drinks neural responses, and the modulation of both by nonodor or nonflavor stimuli—that is, the sensory problem. Ultimately, such sensory discriminations and the vari- Samuel M. McClure,1,2 Jian Li,1 Damon Tomlin, Kim S. Cypert, Latane´ M. Montague, and P. Read Montague* Department of Neuroscience ables that influence them serve to influence expressed Menninger Department of Psychiatry behavioral preferences. Hence, there is another large and Behavioral Sciences piece of the problem to understand. For modern huBaylor College of Medicine mans, behavioral preferences for food and beverages 1 Baylor Plaza are potentially modulated by an enormous number of Houston, Texas 77030 sensory variables, hedonic states, expectations, semantic priming, and social context. This assertion can be illustrated with a quote from Anderson and Sobel (2003) Summary profiling the work of Small et al. (2003) on taste intensity and pleasantness processing: Coca-Cola (Coke) and Pepsi are nearly identical in chemical composition, yet humans routinely display “A salad of perfectly grilled woodsy-flavored calastrong subjective preferences for one or the other. mari paired with subtly bitter pale green leaves of curly endive and succulent petals of tomato flesh in This simple observation raises the important question a deep, rich balsamic dressing...
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...Abstract This paper will discuss fire safety for special needs students. It will discuss the organizational strategy that will include the intervention, the audience, goals, measurable learning outcomes, content outline and its relationship to other elements within the course. There will be an intervention designed for the course that will include the following: the topic, the time it will take, the room setup, the interactions of the students, the media, materials, learning objectives, Gagne Level, Taxonomy Level, Instructional strategy and the assessment plans. The conclusions that are drawn will be discussed. Fire Safety for Special Needs Students Project Name: Fire Safety for Special Needs Students Project Mgr: Linda Lee Learning Intervention It appears that the students in Ms. Lee’s special education class seem to be having difficulties learning basic survival skills. The classroom for children with special needs is designed like a home. Children are taught basic survival skills so that they will know what to do in an emergency. During a recent fire drill, the students held their hands over their ears instead of lining up at the door. Once we got them to the door we told them we are now going outside and four of the students turned toward the gym instead of toward the door that had been opened for them. In another case, while role-playing, the students were told that a classmate’s dress was on fire and was asked what to do, instead of answering...
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...INTRODUCTION As described in the chapter 1, the banking industry around the world has been changing very rapidly since the early 1970s. The industry has experienced a substantial change in competitive conditions as a result of a number of factors. Therefore, what makes an excellence bank strategy? What strategy as it applies to banking? Is it because of new competitors entering the financial services market made new approaches to servicing corporate clients? There are a lot of questions comes into our mind but we will answer all the questions later. For your information, banks potray themselves as a “One Stop Financial Services Centre”. Banks no longer remain in their traditional service market because they are now more aggressive in providing a full menu of services that will cater for its customer’s needs. Therefore, what is the type of services that bank provide for their customers that make them satisfied with the speed efficiency and cost involved? Then, as described in the chapter 2, we can conclude that the main goal of any financial service organization is to create for itself a “sustainable competitive advantage” in the market place. So, in order to do this, it has to generate products, services or ideas that offer superior value for its customers that is not easily imitated by competitors. Financial services especially banks should used 4Ps which is price, product, place and promotion for their marketing tools for influencing customers. Therefore, in this assignment...
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