...English: GCSE Controlled Assessment – Of Mice and Men Heroes and Villains: Explore the ways Sympathy and/or Dislike of a character is created in Of Mice and Men. Even before plunging into profound depths of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, it is unequivocal that the novel is a microcosm of American life in the 1930s. As a result of the Great Depression, the setting is abundant with hardships which immensely mould the reader’s ambivalent feelings towards the most dominant female character in this book: Curley’s Wife. Steinbeck’s depiction of this flirtacious but “lonely” temptress has the reader leaping from heartbreaking sympathy to nurturing an intense abhorrence for Curley’s Wife. In the very first few moments that the novel introduces Curley’s Wife, she is immediatley condemned to the reader’s dislike because the author depicts her character as a threat to not just George and Lennie, but their aspirations to “live off the fatta the land”. The author intends to establish Curley’s Wife by labelling her to be an ominous threat from the very beginning as “the rectangle of sunshine was cut off” by her mere first appearance. Steinbeck’s particular use of the word “sunshine” is symbolic of hope which is derived from the main theme in this novel – the American Dream, or rather a paradise that has resulted in false hope flourishing in their hearts. This is in correlation to the “sunshine” which is evidently referring to George and Lennie’s vision of owning a farm. Furthermore, the...
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...Upon initially reading the instructions for this post, I thought I was going to have an incredibly hard time writing it, seeing as I do not believe myself to have a phobia. When I hear the word phobia, I think of someone who absolutely cannot handle being in a specific situation, suffering from increased heart rate, hyperventilating, mental/emotional breakdowns, and even passing out as a result of being overwhelmed by the entire situation. I looked up the definition of “phobia”, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary a phobia is an extremely strong dislike or fear of someone or something. I considered what my fears are and had troubled. I cliff jump and love heights, I don’t like bugs but they don’t scare me, and the dark can creep me out but usually only after a scary movie. Then I realized I am afraid of not making my dreams a reality. I am afraid of failure. I typed in fear of failure and according to a few different websites, including phobialist.com, fear of failure is a real phobia called Atychiphobia. I read that A person afflicted with atychiphobia considers the possibility of failure so intense that they choose not to take the risk. Often this person will subconsciously undermine their own efforts so that they no longer have to continue to try. I was doing this! This is a good assignment for me, because it has forced me to get out of my own way and focus on school. I have had a rough start for the past month or so, but now I am fully dedicating myself to my education...
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...ethnicity and race, however, it demonstrated heteronormativity as being the society’s expectation and define the role of the gender within the society. It started with the main character Britney, a rich and popular girl, who just became captain of a cheer team. She is dating the most popular guy in school, who is the star quarterback of Pacific Vista High School, and everybody envies her at the school. Britney's life turns upside-down when her father's work takes her family to Crenshaw Heights, a minority working-class neighborhood east of Los Angeles. She felt shut out and belonged nowhere in this new school, except joining the cheerleading team. Like any normal person, she tries extremely hard to fit in the Crenshaw Heights Warriors cheerleading squad. Britney and her new teammates work extremely hard to prepare for the audition for Rihanna, adding some new moves (Krumping) into their performance. Britney was under pressure when she had to compete against her former school. In the end, the Crenshaw Heights Warriors squad won the competition by impressing Rihanna with their demonstration and were chosen to be in Rihanna’s video. In this movie, the viewer is first exposed to heterosexual as being the society's expectation. With utterly no references to the alternative diversity of sexual orientations or gender. There was no discussion or scenes of any sort of transgender or gay people as everyone is expected to be and portrayed as a cisgender person. In addition, all the other sexual...
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...Brad Skytte Runner Character Assignment In my opinion the main character in this book is Kyle. I have come to this conclusion because the book follows Kyle through his search in Calgary, to find his sister Meghan who ran away from home. The novel follows Kyle through the dark and scary streets, to uncover clues to bring him closer to find his sister against the race of time. Although the book focuses on finding Meghan, Kyle is the main character who takes you through the ruthless journey there. Kyle is a simple physical looking character. Kyle is a very tall boy standing at six and half feet tall: “Kyle began to slowly rise from the tiny bench. He saw both boys eyes grow wider as he stood to his full height” (McPhee 4). Kyle has short shaven black hair and frequently wears his football team letter jacket. However, McPhee describes Kyle as having a baby face on his big built body: “In spite of his baby face, he was proud of his size and the effect it had on others” (McPhee 5). As Kyle goes through the journey through the tough streets of Calgary, his personality and style switches from a jock to a street kid (grubby and dirty). Kyle’s emotional traits change enormously throughout the novel. Kyle started out as a careless jock that used football to release his anger. He then later changes his whole outlook because of witnessing first hand and experiencing the life street kids endure. He shows his love for his troubled sister by going through the brutal journey...
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...chores. I am a military child. My parents got a divorce when I was four years of age. I now live with my dad and stepmom, who is adopting me by the end of January, and my seven year old, little brother. I love to hang out with my family because I believe that if I don’t hang out with them now our relationship will not be as strong in the future. My mom and dad are in the military. My mom is currently deployed and in Afghanistan. My dad has been deployed three times to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait. My little brother is in the first grade and has gorgeous blond hair and blue eyes. My favorite thing about myself is my smile, and eyes. I dislike my height, my acne problem, and having to wear braces. I love my smile because it shows my personality and to me my smile is what can change a day that is going wrong into a day that can be perfect. I like my eyes because they have a certain shine to them that no one else has and they show who I am. I also like my personality I might have my moments like everyone else but I know who I am and my personality helps me keep in touch with myself. I would most like to change my height because I hate being teased about my height and being shorter than most of my friends. I would also change my acne problem because to me with...
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...SELF ASSESSMENT REPORT Being an introverted type I represent the fore thinkers of the society who cannot live life until they understand it. I exhibit reserved attitude showcasing an inner world of ideas and understanding. I see myself more at home in the world of ideas than in the world of people and things. I am intense and passionate and my weakness lies in a tendency towards impracticality. I face life observantly with a craving for enjoyment, loving life as it is and am mostly contented. I dislike any and every occupation that requires the suppression of sensing and is most reluctant to sacrifice present enjoyment for future gain. My strength lies in living according to plans, standards and customs to which the situation of the moment must conform. Being rational, I depend on reasoned judgments and aim to be right in any venture. My judging attitude towards life helps me to stay purposeful and exacting. I am naturally friendly but find it difficult to be brief and businesslike. I value informality, sincerity and genuineness in human affairs thereby exhibiting enfolding angle of my personality. I am a patron of stability and inner strength and value parental ties to the core. I form a close attachment to a small circle of friends and am never awed by fads. I am the type who would settle into a job and see it through a full conclusion obtaining great satisfaction from a job well done. I am an internally oriented person with a firm believer of my future being controlled...
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...encouraged her children to receive higher education because neither she nor Leona’s father pursued higher education. Leona was very smart so she was able to skip some grades and graduate from high school at the age of fifteen then she went on to graduate college at age of nineteen. Tyler got her Bachelors degree at the University of Minnesota at age 19 and a Ph. D in psychology at the University of Minnesota. After graduating Leona did what most women that were highly educated did back in those days, she taught school. After teacher her students for a number of years Tyler found disciplining the students to be no longer desirable to her. Tyler taught at several institutions following her graduating college. These institutions included Muskegon Heights and University of Oregon. Tyler was fascinated by the things she read in the writings of her students and how diverse the writings were, which fueled her interest in individual differences. She got to see firsthand how some forced choices and pressures of life would shape her students’ futures. Tyler opened a counseling center for soldiers returning from WWII where she spent one third of her time counseling. With all the resources she had to make money Tyler was able to publish her first book in 1947 entitled, “The Psychology of Human Differences”. After all her years of study, teaching, and counseling Tyler came up with the theory of possibilities. Her theory states that all creatures are characterized by multipotentiality (http://www...
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...fact, my parents used to always mention how inquisitive I was. My world got difficult when I turned five. My parents thought it would be a good idea to hire an intense tutor to prepare me for school. At first, I liked my tutor, things were going well, but soon I became so overwhelmed by the pressure of studying that I began to rebel. As it turned out, all that preparation was a big waste of time. When trying to enroll several months later, new enrollment rules further inhibited me because I was too young. The school would not accept me until age seven and as a result I spent one more year with my tutor preparing for school. When I finally entered school, I was so bored because I already knew most of the material. As the years passed, my dislike for school slowly dwindled. I always wondered why we study all that stuff in school. I knew that if I could understand the purpose, I would be more motivated to study, which finally happened one day. It was a sunny Sunday; my father had a plan to remodel his garage into a workshop. At that time, I was fourteen years old and in the seventh grade, and of course I was eager to help him. The day before, we had cleaned his jungle-like garage. We were going to start to equip the garage with table saw, jig saw, drill, and other machines, but we had a problem. There was no electricity for the light or to run all the machines which we wanted to install. There was a way of fixing it by just stretching a wire from our house to the garage, but the...
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...Gilgamesh morality improved over the course of time, once he experienced platonic love, showed control over his life, and grief. Through that he was able to become a wise king for his people. Gilgamesh like any ancient kings was a tyrant, terrifying his subjects for his own amusement and raped women before they get married. During his reign before meeting Enkidu, Gilgamesh imitated the gods in his actions through the way he treated his subjects. Meeting Enkidu, the one who is his equal in strength, height, and will becomes the positive influence and balance Gilgamesh needed to be open to new experience. For the first time Gilgamesh experienced love, friendship, the true meaning of companionship and started listening to advices. One of the many influence Enkidu had on Gilgamesh behavior was expressing his dislike about the king’s treatment of women. “Enkidu with his foot blocked the door of the wedding house, not allowing Gilgamesh to enter”. Gilgamesh for the first time listened and this lead to inseparable friendship and becomes the first step to Gilgamesh moral...
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...a) Chapters 1-3 1. Why does Mr. Lockwood go to Wuthering Heights? What kind of welcome does he receive? 2. Why does Lockwood return to Wuthering Heights uninvited, and how do the results of his visit affect the remainder of the novel? 3. When Lockwood first enters Wuthering Heights, who lives there? 4. What feeling do we get from Wuthering Heights and its occupants in these first few chapters? 5. Describe Heathcliff. 6. What glimpses from the past does Lockwood get when he discovers Catherine's books? 7. Whose ghost visits Mr. Lockwood? What is Heathcliff's reaction to the ghost? B) Chapters 4-8 1. Who is Nelly Dean? 2. What do the gifts that Hindley and Catherine ask their father to bring them reveal about their characters? 3. What are Heathcliff's origins? 4. Why does Hindley despise Heathcliff? 5. Characterize Catherine. 6. Compare and contrast Catherine's and Heathcliff's reactions to the Lintons at Thrushcross Grange. 7. Why did Edgar get applesauce dumped on him? 8. Catherine is pained by Hindley's punishment of Heathcliff, yet she continues to entertain her guests. What change does this reveal? 9. What does Heathcliff begin to plan? 10. Who is Hareton Earnshaw? 11. How does Frances' death affect Hindley? 12. Edgar gets a good look at Catherine's "other side." What is his reaction? C) Chapters 9-10 1. Who saves Hareton's life? 2. Why does Catherine accept Edgar's...
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...Developing a healthy child. 1. Nature versus Nurture: an ongoing debate describing the differences in child development. The prime question of this debate is whether genetic factors or environmental factors determine the development of a child. Nature or genetic factors refers to biological or hereditary genes imbedded in a child. Nature factor determines a child’s physical appearance like the eye color, hair color, height and other traits that are inherited. Nativists or a group of people who believe strongly in Nature, form an assumption that each individual is different due to his individual genetic code. Characteristics that are not observed at birth but which emerge later in life are formed due to maturation. On the contrary, environmental factors or Nurture refers to a child’s daily interactions with various people. The Nurture factor determines a child’s personality which he adapts due to his surroundings. Empiricists or people who are strong believers of Nurture, believe that a human mind at the time of birth is a blank slate or tabula rasa and is gradually formed due to environmental influences. They believe that psychological characteristics and behavioral differences that emerge through infancy and childhood are a result of learning. (Book) * A child’s reaction of a specific behavior and the influence of Nature-Nurture Anger, an emotion characterized by resentment toward someone or something you feel has deliberately done something wrong to you. Anger can...
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...Time and time again, debates have emerged about the origin of primates and human beings since their physical and some psychological aspects are somehow similar. Primates have over time become a major area for research and curiosity due to this reason. Numerous reports and journals have been written over time to try and explain and understand the biology and behavior of these human-like primates. This essay in particular seeks to bring to the light the biology and behavior of the mountain gorilla, and by the end also attempt to show the reasons and attempts to conserve this critically endangered species of primates. The mountain gorilla is considered one of the biggest primates in terms of physical attributes. The classification of this type of gorilla is very direct. Under the kingdom Animalia, the taxonomy flows to phylum Chordata, then subphylum Vertebrata, then class Mammalia and then its specific order Primates. The family is Hominidae, which is the same family as human beings, thus explaining the similarity in some attributes. This family also houses the chimpanzees and orangutans. The Hominidae are characterized by the existence of thumbs and also relatively big toes, of course excluding human beings. Further, they have well developed forearms for holding things and relatively longer legs for locomotion. More often than not, this family is confused with the family Hylobatidae which houses the apes and gibbons. However, the distinctive difference is the fact that Hominidae...
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...about 3 pounds and 15 inches long. He could now also use his four senses – hearing, vision, taste and touch. In the third semester, the skin begins to thicken with a layer of fat, lanugo gas almost gone and hair on the head is present. The baby’s head has turns down in preparation for birth. Towards the end of 9th month, the baby will exit the mother’s womb usually more than 19 inches long and weighs 6 – 9 pounds. The baby’s heart pimps 300 gallons of blood per day. Infancy Attachment theory was based on the observation of John Bowlby. He concluded that it is essential that the infants must build an attachment to his main carer because it has a major impact on his emotional and social development. From the word itself, attachment is the strong emotional tie that binds and attaches the carer and the infant. It is the infant’s first social learning and the product of nature and nurture interacting over time. It may be shown by frequently interacting with the infant, holding the baby whilst feeding, responding every time the baby cries and staying close to the baby when someone new is around Infants need someone who they can call their primary carer for him to establish trust. If there is trust, the child will feel confident to explore in a strange environment because he knows that his carer will protect him. So in this early age, he could already establish self-esteem. Also, it will make him feel safe and secure which may lead to a healthy development. However, if the carer tends...
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...in coping with illnesses and pain. A positive attitude can enhance an upbeat feeling which can reduce the risk of stress. The mind and the body work together to promote health, because positive thinking helps to reduce stress, which is the cause of many health issues. Strong social support also helps to ease the stress of pain and sickness and make coping easier. The material will address Aunt Phyllis situation and provide information as it relates to the effect of her attitude on her illness and the benefits of social support. It will discuss, hardiness, positivity and optimism as apply to her and how these skills can help her to cope with her illness. Evidence –based intervention will be recommended for intervention. Effects of Attitude Attitude is a feeling of like or dislike towards something to the extent that it affects behavior. According to McLeod (2009, par. 1), “Attitude is a relatively enduring organization of beliefs, feelings and behavioral tendencies towards socially significant objects, groups, events, or symbols.” It has three components which are affective, behavioral, and cognitive. The affective component deals with the feelings of the individual, for example, he or she does not like heights and is scared of it. So the fear influences the persons behavior and he or she will not climb a ladder. The cognitive component is the person’s belief that ladders are dangerous and he or she will fall from it (McLeod, 2009). Attitude plays an important role in the...
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...Apple Computer, Inc.: Maintaining the Music Business while Introducing iPhone and Apple TV Leave a reply Topic: Apple Computer, Inc.: Maintaining the Music Business while Introducing iPhone and Apple TV Subject: Business Details: 1. Strategic challenges facing Apple Computer. 2. Dimensions along which company success can be measured. 3. Critical external and internal environmental factors that have strategic implications for Apple\’s future. 4. Dow Apple\’s strategy stands up against industry rivalry. 5. Recommendations you would make to enhance the effectiveness of the company\’s strategy or to change its strategic approach for better results. Abstract: Apple computers were started some 35 years ago by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the garage of Steve’s home. It has achieve tremendous growth and is currently one of the largest companies in the US marketing electronic technological produces such as the iPad and many other such items that are used extensively by consumers. The company is dedicated to providing its customers the best know-how and understanding through its original hardware, software, and computer related devices along with the best possible services. The major tactical challenge that Apple computer is facing is that the company’s competitors try to surpass its accomplishments and that they are bringing into the market comparable products that are much cheaper than the products marketed by Apple Inc. Introduction Apple Computer was started...
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