...In both “The Use of Force” and “Many Rivers to Cross”, communication plays an important role. Both stories show that one must communicate efficiently to accurately depict their problems. In “The Use of Force”, the characters do not accurately communicate the problem. Mathilda does not cooperate when the doctor investigates her illness. She refuses to obey orders and open her mouth to reveal her true sickness. Anger builds within the doctor as he tries to conquer the little girl’s persistence and immaturity. Mathilda’s parents try to coax their child into talking with the doctor. However, they only dictate a few words themselves. The doctor continues to get mad as he tries to unlock the secret the child is holding in her mouth. In the end, the doctor wins and pries the girl’s mouth open to take a throat culture as she is screaming and resisting....
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...artistic work. Has anyone ever stop to gaze at a finished masterpiece, and marveled at the creativity of the craftsman’s handiwork? The creativity is not limited, but has vast scheme of illustrations, and illusions, and visions beyond space and time, that stems from the imagination. It can be a painting, a written work, for example a short story or poem, or even exists in nature itself. Envision walking through a forest. High atop a tree, there is a mother robin, who is building her nest. What mastery to witness, as she flies swiftly from ground to branch. She is gathering twigs and stems to create her well-knit dwelling. Kept accessible in her mind, she has an original blueprint that she follows. While constructing her tri-layered home, she intermingles the twines, laboriously securing and anchoring each one in place. The way she strategically weaves each twine will enable her nest to be suitable against a manner of weather, and ideal for her offspring. Her nest, like the web of a spider, is individually and distinctly crafted, displaying her creative mind, character, and style....
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...pressure was 170/90 and she admitted to forgetting to take her medication that day. When Emma was admitted they suspected a right CVA due to her symptoms. The best way to test for a stroke is an MRI immediate magnetic resonance imaging or also known as an MRI showed that Emma sustained a right cerebral vascular accident. According to, (Schellinger, 2010), “MRI scans can help reveal how severe some types of strokes are. These scans also may help find lesions early. In addition, the guideline found MRI scans more accurately detected lesions from stroke and helped identify the severity of some types of stroke or...
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...Ultra bold. Gill Sans has 24 different weights, the bolder the font the more illegible the font is, due by the legibility of the stroke weights within the font. The stroke weight of Gill Sans is even throughout the alphabet, but you can see that the letters “a”, “e” and “r have different weight in the strokes. The two-story lowercase letter “a” has pronounced contrast in strokes: it has a small bowl and the heavy top arm. The top of the “a” bowl meets its stem (the vertical stroke) bluntly, and the terminal is curved and oblique. There are contrasts between Gill Sans regular and Gill Sans italic; the counter on the lowercase letter “a” is completely different. In the italic type there is no swooping stroke at the end of the letter “a” and the counter is more prominent. The crossbar of the letter “e” is a thin stroke, the thin opening at the counter part is also seen in “a” and “g”. The thickness of the strokes is one of the trademark characteristics of the Gill Sans typeface. The two-story letter “g” is a recognizable eyeglass shape, unlike other popular sans serif fonts such as Arial and Verdana. The “g” has a distinctive peculiar ear that is parallel to the baseline, but the ear is lost and the link with thicker strokes. The letter “g” link varies with Gill sans ultra bold; the thick stroke does now allow the two counters to sit within the three-story vertical space, and the letter completely changes form. Monotype website stated why gill sans is a successful font." One...
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...LATERAL METHODS OF LOCALIZATION - assign specific functions to particular places in the cerebral cortex - LESION STUDIES: any pathologic or traumatic discontinuity of brain tissue - SURGERY: Wada Test (anesthetize one hem), Tumor Removal, Split Brain - INFERENCE STUDIES (talk while balancing broom) - FUNCTIONAL IMAGING - PET (positron emission tomography): track blood flow associated w/ brain activity; used to assess physiology, including glucose & oxygen metabolism, and presence of specific neurotransmitters - SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography): measure blood; takes 2 days to eliminate radioactive tracer - MRI: visual imaging; most detailed brain structures; good spatial resolution & images in short time periods - MEG: 3D magnetic field can be calculated; expensive, not readily available for clinical applications DOUBLE DISSOCIATION - if you damage A, you lose X but not Y - if you damage B, you...
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... The term is also applied to types developed from it, such as Fraktur, Gothic and Old English. Bold: A version of the Roman cut with wider stroke. Also called medium, semi-bold, black, super or poster. Book: Weight of a typeface suitable for setting large areas of text. Caps: Typeset with most or all initials in capitals and other letters in small caps instead of lower case. Condensed: A narrower version of the Roman cut. Decorative: Fancy or speciality fonts for headings, etc. Dingbat: A decorative device usually incorporated with pi format. Expanded: Type that is elongated in width proportionate to its height. Italics: A version of the Roman cut that angles to the right t some point between 7-20 Degrees. Oblique: A slanted version of Roman cut. Often mistakenly referred to as “italics”. Plain: Roman: The basic letterform. Sans Serif: A font without decorative serifs. Typically with little stroke thickness variation, a larger x-height and no stress in rounded strokes. Script: A typeface designed to imitate handwriting. Serif: A small stroke at the end of a main vertical or horizontal stroke. Also used as a classification for typefaces that contain decorative rounded, pointed, square or slab serif finishing strokes. Slab Serif: A font with heavy, squared off finishing strokes, low contrast and few curves. Small Caps: Capital letters which are smaller than the standard and usually aligned with the x-height of the...
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...hanged on a bridge the day after a federal scout was spying in the area. While Farquhar is being hung, he goes in between life and death and is put into an imaginary world where he escapes the hanging and gets back to his family. That is, until reality snaps back into place and Peyton dies, never having escaped the federal army. In the short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Ambrose Bierce uses similes, inner thinking, and specific details to build a mood. First off, similes build the mood by comparing one thing to another. “...a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith's hammer upon an anvil...” (Bierce 2). In this part of the story, author Ambrose Bierce compares the metallic percussion that Farquhar is hearing to that of a blacksmith’s hammer upon an anvil, building the mood and getting the reader to predict what this sound is like, and...
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...Ambrose Bierce creates suspense in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” by asserting different techniques. This short story describes Peyton Farquhar as a respected plantation owner in Alabama being executed for interfering with the advancing railroad. During Farquhar’s execution, Bierce portrays Peyton’s escape to keep the readers in suspense. Bierce uses a variety of techniques to build suspense and even with a twist to the story’s ending. Bierce writes the short story in media res to create suspense. In media res refers to the structure of the story which implies starting in the middle of things and creates the story out of chronological order. In media res creates flashbacks as in this story. The entire part two is a flashback as to why Farquhar is being executed and why he is interfering with the railroad despite the posted signs. This story is written out of chronological order; Bierce should have written the story starting with part two, then part one, and ending with part three. Introducing the story in this particular order,...
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...items such as the bomber and the hoody / Mid denims in raw and rinsed finishes / Focus is on reinventing denim as a mid-Winter fabrication / Strong urban sensibility Dusen Dusen Remi Relief Native Youth Forestin' Gear Babakul Forestin' Gear A trend that has already started to emerge in retail becomes essential for F/W 13. Unisex parka silhouettes appeal to all markets / All-weather looks and cocoon-like oversized fits / Down-filled denim appeals to freezing temperatures / Retro inspired toggles and heavy duty military fastenings / Fur and fleece linings and collars / Utility-driven detailing such as upsized bellows pockets and functional drawstrings / As called out in our F/W 13 Denim Outlook: Items report Ones Stroke Tortoise Forestin' Gear Edun A strong look for menswear...
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...little when he opens his mouth. You see, Casablancas doesn't sound like the ultimate hipster. He has slipped in at 6pm for an early-evening drink after a photo shoot and he orders a Coke in a distinctly nerdy nasal tone. On record with his band, The Strokes, Casablancas's vocals often sound as if they were recorded down an ancient, buzzing telephone line. It comes as quite a shock to realise that these are not special studio effects. This is what he sounds like in real life. "I'm trying to shrug off a cold I think," he says. He's ordering "soft" because of this but also because he no longer likes boozing it up. Also, his wife, Acacia, is expecting their first child within four weeks. Besides, Casablancas famously got into his rock 'n' roll meltdown quite early. He was 13 when he first got drunk, and his father John Casablancas, the founder of the Elite modelling agency, sent him for counselling and then packed him off to his own former private school, Le Rosey in Switzerland. "Ah, they thought I had an issue but I did it because I thought it was fun," he says. "Or because I was bored. I was a teenager and that's what kids did then. It was seen as a rite of passage. But now I know that the benefits of drinking are very, very short term and as you get older all you remember are the hangovers." Casablancas, 31, is not what you'd expect from anyone remotely associated with "the coolest man" tag. There's no sneer or attitude or...
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...Corey Campbell “Pool” The short story ”Pool” is written by Corey Campbell in 2009. The short story “Pool” plays out at Trevor and Mandy’s (who are married) house. At their house, we follow the main character Darla who is in a relationship with Jon. Jon is also good friends with Trevor. Darla and Jon had an accident the day before where a condom had split. Darla and Jon then went out and bought morning-after pills, but Darla was still afraid of getting pregnant. It made her think a lot on her future, and if she where even going to be a good mother. Darla then studied Mandy’s, to see if Mandy’s live was something for her. Again, the Main character is Darla. Darla is an okay young girl and doesn’t like to take chances. One thing that she makes clear is that she do not want to be a mother. For example at page 1 line 16 the narrator says, “ Their condom had split the night before, so they’d spent the morning going to two different Rite Aids to get the morning-after pill”. Therefore, Darla does not want to take any chances, even when the first Rite Aids doesn’t have the morning-after pills. In addition, when Jon ask Darla if she wants a sip of his beer, she says no, since the box says no alcohol. Darla is afraid of the changes that will come if she and Jon gets a child. As she/trevor says on page, 4 line 158-160 “it all changes with a kid”. In addition, one of her fears of having a kid, as she says on page 3 line 80 “I’d be horrible at it. I’d start drinking. I...
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...Time is a Healer In Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Fly”, she tells of a man and his struggle with the loss of his son. The setting starts out in the boss’s office, where he is talking to a man we know as Mr. Woodifield. Mr. Woodifield is an older gentleman whom since he had a stroke his family keeps him boxed up in his home every day of the week, expect for Tuesdays. Mr. Woodifield and the boss talk about the new decorations of the boss’s office, there is something though that Mr. Woodifield struggles to remember that he wanted to tell the boss. He remembers that is was his daughters had ran across the boss’s son grave while looking at Reggie’s, his son whom he had lost in World War One, grave. He goes on to tell the boss of how well the place is kept, and how his son and Reggie were quite close to one another. After Mr. Woodifield leaves the boss tells his office messenger that “I’ll see nobody for half an hour.” He begins to attempt to grieve over the loss of his son the way he used to be able to. He finds himself unable to weep and he finds himself easily distracted by a simple fly. The fly falls into the ink pot and the boss watches him struggle over and over until he is finally unable to overcome and dies. The moral of this story seems to be that time can heal all grief. Mr. Woodifield is a gentleman whom was a former employee of the boss. He has retired after the stroke he had and comes to visit the boss on Tuesdays, when his wife and girls let him...
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...Details in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” The complicated details used by Ernest Hemingway made a stroke of genius of secrets in his story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber". The anonymous secrets does not reveal itself to the reader until the end of the story, yet it leaves a lot to the imagination. At the end of the story Margaret Macomber kills her husband by accident, in order to save him from being attacked by an enormous Buffalo while trying to kill it in the safari in Africa. The anonymous secret is whether or not this killing was truly accidental, or premeditated with an accomplice Robert Wilson. If it would of to be considered premeditation; therefore, it would certainly have to be evidence in the story suggesting such, with a clear motive as well. What makes this story so unique is the conflict theories that Hemingway gives the reader a very virtuously instances that would lead the reader to create a standard motive, yet Hemingway shows the reader that this killing or accident could not have been premeditated. From a virtuously impartial analysis of the story, the reader would see far more evidence supporting the theory of a premeditated killing rather than an unintentional criminal act. The narrator of “The Short Happy Life”, Wilson, is very blunt, tough hunter and tourist. He is a realistic and static character whose awareness, thoughtful environment and impartiality to those around him greatly aid his telling of the story. His current custodies...
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...The story under the title “Cat in the Rain” was written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the most favourite American novelists, short-story writer and essayist, whose deceptively simple prose style has influenced wide range of writers. So, the story begins with the description of the hotel where two Americans stopped. It was raining, that’s why the couple stayed in and just a cat in the rain attracted the young woman’s attention. She wanted to get the cat inside but failed and was brought another cat. The problem of the story lies very deeply and we are to uncover it. The story is written in one mood which constantly and directly increases. It starts from the beginning where it’s created by a persistent and repeated use of the “rain” with a number of phrases associating it, such as puddles, deserted square, glistening war monument. Repetition is one of the widely used and favourite stylistic devices of Hemingway. Here he applies it to reveal the relationship of the protagonist to the old hotel owner (she liked ... , she liked...). As the verb “to like” is not used to characterize relations of the wife to her husband, this contrast is full of the concealed but easily read meaning. Though the cases of repetition in the story may seem a bit obtrusive, their modifications enter into the core of the narration very organically. They carry emotional character, however penetrating the story the deep sorrow becomes evident gradually. We realize that little, as if meaningless, capricious...
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...different in many ways and the most beautiful people in the world are the ones who know they are different and do not look at it in a negative light, but a positive one. In this short story, The Scarlet Ibis, by James Hurst, the character Doodle was portrayed as persevering, imaginative, and saint like. In the short story the author described Doodle as persevering, imaginative, and saint like. Hurst shows that Doodle is persevering by stating in the story, “When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to move straining himself terribly. The doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn’t. Trembling, he’d push himself up, turning red first, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed like a worn-out doll”(Hurst 464). This is showing that even as an adolescent in unbearable pain, that should have killed him, he still fought to make sure that he could get up on his own. He understood that he has difficulties and hardships, but works through them so maybe one day his problems will be less challenging and less frequent. The author depicted Doodle as imaginative by articulating, “ My lies were scary, involved, and usually pointless, but Doodle’s were...
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