... During our family vacation the ladies always plan a special day of the week to go shopping. Of course, a vacation isn’t a vacation unless we do some shopping and site seeing. We love going to flea markets and malls looking for some great gifts for our family and ourselves. While the women are enjoying an evening out shopping the men are home grilling and watching the kids have fun in the pool. To wrap up a long day of shopping, we treat ourselves to a very nice dinner. Last but not least, THEME PARKS!!! Our family begins the day with an early rise to begin our adventure to as many theme parks we can handle for a day. My personal favorite is Disney World. I love the fairytale atmosphere where everyone can be a kid again. Next stop is Islands of Adventure/Universal Studios where the fun really begins. Water rides, 3D rollercoaster and live shows truly makes the vacation...
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...the wrong steps to fix it. I think the actual, real problem may have something to do with my attitude in general, and the way I prioritize things. People always tell me what my priorities SHOULD be, and I understand why they say it, but I don’t feel the same way about those things, even though I know I should. I’m passionate about a lot of unconventional things, and it’s a problem. I should find new things to take more interest in, instead of putting my time into things that will likely never benefit me in the future. I’ve never addressed my problem this way, and defining my problem in this way may help me put it to an end. My grades in high school tanked because of this, and I was put on probation at my job because of this. Hopefully I can stop myself from making my life a lot more difficult than it has to...
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...matter what you think should happen nature will continue doing things in its own way. In the chapters“Cooling the Lava” and “Los Angeles against the Mountains” the situations and catastrophes that have caused harm to these places demonstrate that Mother Nature has its own way of life and people cannot simply stop what is happening. With McPhee telling his readers that people who try to change or stop nature need to realize that this attempt is futile, because humans cannot control nature. They cannot stop the volcanoes from erupting lava or can we stop the boulders from falling down the mountain. In the book/monograph/treatise, in the chapter “Cooling the Lava” Thorbjorn, who is a native from Iceland has this idea that he will stop the lava from flooding by cooling. With his logic of cooling the lava, the water would reduce the heat in order to create a wall of cooled lava that would dam the flow. “The lava should be cooled not so much by the edge as by the acre, and that called not only for more pumps but also for the development of material and personnel up on top of the advancing flow”(McPhee 98). With this being said, it should be obvious that humans cannot be the ones to stop Mother Nature. The destruction the lava has made is a big mess we face. It is destroying the homes of many people, but that is only affecting the people who live there. It is hard having people who want to fix it when their is a lack of money and also a lack of people who care because their is no harm to...
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...positions being a small business. So the problem he faces is what the turnover creates. Gunter cannot expect to provide outstanding service as he seems to be constantly in training mode. The great employees that he wants to have on staff end up leaving for more opportunity. Case Questions Change Images used by each Gunter’s change image was that of a coach. The image or reputation of Green Mountain became that of being an excellent place to obtain training to advance one’s career. Gunter mentors those that provide outstanding service and helps them to become even better. The hospitality literature’s change image was that of the navigator. It described the turnover as a chronic problem and that something needed to be done to stop the turnover or the resort would fail. The consultant’s change image was that of the interpreter. He helped Gunter to see the turnover issue as a possible positive instead of a negative. Now the resort attracts and helps develop further highly motivated people which is a win win for both Gunter...
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...with the children. We also gave out toys as prizes and as gifts. I personally, enjoyed playing with the children. Activity #3: BOWLING For the 2nd time in my whole life, I got to play bowling. Although the bowling ball was too heavy for me, I still managed to strike once. Playing with my friends made it even more fun. Activity #4: DANCE PRESENTATION Through this activity, I was able to become closer with my group-mates. I got a chance to know them and bond with them. I didn’t hesitate to contribute any steps I know. Our dance may be simple but the bond I had with my group made it even more fun. Activity #5: WALL CLIMBING I may be afraid of heights but I conquered my fears. I managed to finish 2 phases of the wall. And I didn’t stop in trying the other walls. I had fun and it was very memorable for me since it is my first time to try wall climbing. Activity #6: CHOREOGRAPH SINGING It was nerve wrecking at first since I don’t sing that much. But our group tried our best to entertain our classmates with our Katy Perry mash-up. Activity #7: FOOD MAKING Our group made a clubhouse sandwich. The preparation was a bit chaotic due to slicing the breads, distributing the ham, the cabbage and the other recipes. We are very happy to know that our classmates liked our sandwich. We made sure that it is not just healthy but fills up our classmates...
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...Analysis of “Barn Burning” The main issue that arises in this short story is right versus wrong. Colonel Sartoris “Sarty” Snopes is a young man who feels the building pressure of his conscience, but extreme loyalty to his father. Sarty possesses a keen sense of right and wrong. The opening seen begins with his father, Abner Snopes, expecting his son to perjure himself. This would allow Abner to not be prosecuted for barn burning. He strongly believes in the kinship bond the “old fierce pull of blood.” He doesn’t focus on the consequences of his actions…nor does he care. Abner Snopes is very poor, paranoid, vengeful and full of rage. He despises those who are more financially stable. Unlike his bitter father, Sarty subconsciously questions his father’s devilish actions. He is unable to fathom the reasoning why his father feels justified to ruin these wealthy properties. His loyalty is demonstrated in the scene which the young boys call out, “Barn burner!” Sarty immediately strikes out and punches the boys. This shows the reader that he does feel personally threatened. It is apparent that he yearns for a normal father…One that he could idolize and learn positive attributes. Abner feels that by burning down these properties it is doing justice. He is exhausted from working as a farm hand, so he preys on those who he feels threatened by. Sarty hopes that his father will stop eventually as he states, “Maybe he’s done satisfied now, now that he has”…then he stopped himself. The...
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...In William Faulkner’s story “Barn Burning,” Sarty, a ten year old boy, struggles to find his own identity due to choosing between his father’s ideals of loyalty to family and justice. Sarty lives and travels with a very poor white family, and they work on farms of rich landowners, but they get paid very little. As the beginning of the story begins, Sarty and his family are in court for Abner’s decisions of burning landowners’ barns. In the process, Sarty is pressured to choose between two paths, in which Faulkner shows “the classic conflicts of good versus evil, son versus father, and individual versus familial identity” (Ford). At the end Sarty’s final resolution develops his identity. Sarty’s conflict with his father is very strong, because Abner Snopes believes family loyalty is everything. Sarty is unable to make his own choices due to Abner’s ideals, because from the beginning Abner enforces Sarty to “stick to your own blood”(Faulkner 175). In the opening scenes, Sarty’s conflict is unveiled. Sarty loves and respects his father, but in court he does not want to lie. This causes Sarty to recognize his father’s enemies as his own enemies, and this puts Sarty in a very uncomfortable position. As Ford states, during the first trial with Mr. Harris’ Barn, the Justice of the peace banishes Abner from town instead of testifying...
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...maybe he couldn’t help but be” thinks Sarty (4). Sarty hopes that his father will finally change his ways. Sarty experiences more thoughts like this are William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” which depicts bildungsroman while deals with his father Abner’s pyromania. Sarty shows submission by complying with his father’s will even though he doesn’t want to. Sarty reveals this by thinking “ He aims for me to lie… And I will have to do hit” (1). This shows that Sarty is afraid of disobeying his father. Sarty also displays his compliance to his father by saying: “He won’t git no ten. He won’t git one.” (9). Sarty is trying to defend his father even though his father messed up the rug on purpose. Finally, Sarty displays compliance by thinking, “our enemy he thought in that despair; ourn! Mine and hisn both! He’s my father!” (1). All of these reveal Sarty’s submission to his father’s will....
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...People refer to my ability to get last minute tickets this year as some sort of miracle, when the magic is truly attributed to a lack of attachment to outcomes and a trust that life will put me where I belong. I planned to buy tickets at the last minute like the cool kids and thus decided that I probably wouldn’t go when the tickets sold out and people started hawking them for thrice the price. Even if I could have afforded it, I refused to pay more than ticket price as making money by scalping tickets goes against the basic gifting-economy premise of Burning Man and I did not want to contribute to the demise of such beauty for my own desire to party. Theoretically I was fine with the idea of missing it and even relishing the convenience of extra time for planning out my September California silk-selling mission. Though my smallest riteous voices couldn’t believe that I would not get to kiss the dust, for my body wanted saturation by the dust. About a week before the event started a ticket fell in my lap via my first silk painting student, beautiful Katha—a burner whom I was helping to paint a silk scarf for every pretty person in her camp. At first I wondered if I might be crazy to take on such a huge extra project to coincide with my own end-of-summer production crunch and now I understand that my path to the mystic dust lay in the joy of helping another with art and love (of course!). So one ticket came and then another soon after that from a long lost friend who had...
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...Hannah Higginson June 23, 2013 ENG 120 Sec B03 Summer 2013 Literary Analysis Essay 1 A Strong Bond The theme in “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner revolved around the strong bond of a family. The main character has to make a decision between what is right and wrong. This drives a wedge between him and his family. The rest of the family believes that blood is thicker than water and that you should stick with your own kin. In the story the strong bond of a family causes conflicts within the main character. Faulkner starts “Barn Burning” with a view of a small courthouse. Sarty sits outside as his father, Abner, argues with the Justice of the Peace. This shows just how little respect Abner has for the law. Abner is being accused of setting someone’s barn on fire. The Justice rules that Abner should pack his belongings and leave the country before dark. Abner and his sons then head out to the wagon where the rest of his family awaits. They ride for a while before camping out in some trees. The next day they arrive at the house and begin unpacking. Then Abner leaves and sets route to the De Spain’s house. Upon arrival he barges through the door and calmly wipes his feet over the expensive white carpet. He has no respect for others or their belongings. A couple hours later a man arrives with the rug and tells Abner to clean it. He does not only clean the rug, but he also sets it on fire to prove that he is above the law. After getting in trouble with the Justice of Peace...
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...First Draft Barn Burning is a short story that was written by an American author- William Faulkner. Faulkner has brought out a mysterious characterization of Snopes. It is a story that has ten year old Sarty Snopes as the main character who is faced by a conflict. Sarty’s father is a barn burner and he is divided as to whether he should let it to the judges that his father faces on two different occasions. In the first case, his father is taken to court and charged with burning Mr. Harry’s barn. Even though he is guilty, he walks away scot free and the bad thing about it is that it is not the first and is not going to be the last barn he burns as we see in the story later. It is an injustice and he wishes that he could stop it, but on the other hand, he should protect the family name. this brings out the basis upon which the story rotates. The stor’s main theme is a conflict in which Sarty has to find which one among his family and his community he should identify with. Abner Snopes, Sarty’s father keeps on reminding him that family relations are very important and that “he was getting to be a man. He got to learn to stick to his own blood or he wont have any blood to sticking to him” (Main story: p 3) the major theme in the book is about finding one’s identity, or choosing what to identify with. There is constant identity crisis. Sarty is caught off guard this time by his father’s intension to burn Mr. de Spain’s barn. He even tries to delay his plan by suggesting the sending...
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...women, alongside rape, bride burning, eve teasing, and acid throwing. It is widespread in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal. Sri Lanka and some regions of Africa. Pakistan has the highest reported rates of dowry-related deaths per 100,000 women in the world. India[edit] Most dowry deaths occur when the young woman, unable to bear the harassment and torture, commits suicide. Most of these suicides are by hanging, poisoning or by fire. Sometimes the woman is killed by setting her on fire; this is known as "bride burning", and sometimes disguised as suicide or accident. Suicide and murder are two causes of fatalities in dowry deaths. Death by burning of Indian women have been more frequently attributed to dowry conflicts.[1] In dowry deaths, the groom’s family is perpetrator of murder or suicide.[2] According to Indian National Crime Record Bureau, in 2010, 8391 dowry death cases were reported across India[3] This means a bride was burned every 90 minutes, or dowry issues cause 1.4 deaths per year per 100,000 women in India.[4][5] For contextual reference, United Nations reports a worldwide average female homicide rate of 3.6 per 100,000 women, and an average of 1.6 homicides per 100,000 women for Northern Europe in 2012.[6] Although India's dowry death rate per 100,000 is lower than equivalent rate for Pakistan and Bangladesh, it is a significant social issue in India. According to Indian police, every year it receives over 2,500 reports of bride-burning [7] The Indian National...
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...ARE WOMAN REALLY SAFE IN INDIA? The condition of women in India has always been a matter of grave concern. Since the past several centuries, the women of India were never given equal status and opportunities as compared to that of their male counterparts. The patriarchal nature of Indian society, which even though gives respect to women as they are our mothers and sisters, has greatly hampered both the independence as well as the safety of women. One of the main reasons of violence against women is the mentality which deems women inferior of men and merely limits their importance to the maintenance of the household, the upbringing of children and pleasing their husbands and serving other members of the family. Violence against women is present in every country, cutting across the boundaries of culture, class, education, income, ethnicity and age. Even though it is now forbidden in most parts of the world, the reality is that violations against women’s rights are often sanctioned under the garb of cultural practices and norms or through misinterpretation of religious tenets. Moreover, when the violation takes place within the home, as is very often the case, the abuse is effectively condoned by the tacit silence and the passivity displayed by the state and the law-enforcing machinery. In India even in the 21st century, women cannot step out of their house at any given time, assured of her physical and sexual safety. Everyday women in this society face more problems than men.The...
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...edge of the tall trees I come to a stop and wait impatiently for my friends to strap into their snowboards, eyeing my track down the mountain. As my poles dig tiny holes into the ground, I am off with a push. Coming down the hill I try to avoid the other skiers and the snowy mounds, staying on the outside of the trail, I watch to my sides as powder comes screaming up my past my shoulders. Then taking a quick turn I retreat to the woods and take a seat made by mother-nature on a mossy fallen tree. My friends follow close after and kick up a snowy tornado upon stopping. As I look through the snow-topped trees, I notice a bluebird flying by and infinite beams of sunshine coming through and hitting me faintly in the face. The combination of the warmth and the sound of nothing but my breath and powder falling off branches leads you to a feeling that brings you to an ultimate euphoria. A feeling that extends to the depths of your brain letting you know that no matter what had happened earlier that day, earlier that week, earlier that month, that on this run, it does not matter. The ground appears dark, as you have just removed your goggles to see more clearly. You drop. As you weave in and out of trees trying to stay away from exposed rocks and roots at the same time as trying to find pillow lines full of powder. You start to slow as you approach a cliff, the edge approaches quickly, your heart begins to race, you shoot off the end. Time stops and is roughly resumed almost immediately...
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...HUMANITY There are many aspects pertaining to literature that cause readers to consider it good literature. Some may analyze the plot, setting, narrative structure, character, mood, or theme. Others may choose to analyze or focus on literary techniques such as imagery, hyperbole, personification, or irony. Though we may choose to focus on any of these facets, as well as many more, the one condition that we all seem to be looking for in literature is connection. We want to be able to relate to the characters in the works we read. We want to read stories that we can comprehend and identify with; stories that allow us to associate ourselves with the characters, see the story through their eyes, put ourselves in their shoes, feel their pain, and celebrate their victory. Good literature fully explores the depths and aspects of humanity through empathy, morality, madness, vulnerability, and pride. The White Troops Had Their Orders, but the Negros Looked Like Men by Gwendolyn Brooks exemplifies empathy through the white troop meeting the black troops, likely slaves, for the first time. The poem starts us off by showing how the white men had been trained to look at the black men. They had been given the formula on how to treat them until their empathy sets in after seeing the black troops for the first time. “But when the Negros came they were perplexed. These Negros looked like men” (Brooks, 2495). In fact, they appreciated the similarities so much, they didn't have the time or frame...
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