...Summery: The short story “ Another Language “ by Craig Cliff, starts with an introduction of the main character, a seven-year-old boy named James. He is living in New Zealand with his Mother, Father and his brother Daniel. Every Saturday James is visiting his grandparent, Baba and Dedo. James decides to find out why Dedo always is sad and quiet. When he asks his grandfather, James is introduced to the expression ‘stuttering’. Dedo tells James, that he stutters when he speaks the language Serbian, and that’s the reason for his move to New Zealand. James finds his grandfathers words unreliable; therefore he investigates the matter by himself, by hanging out with Marcus Collins. - The only associate James knows with stuttering-problems. At a visit in the grandparents’ house, James tells his grandfather about Marcus and the stuttering that only appears when he talks. Dedo seemed uninterested, which is frustrating for James. When James talks with his father about the problem, he finds out the Dedo used the stuttering, as an excused for not talking about his past. * Characterization James is a bright seven-year-old boy. He has a cheerfully and delighted personality, especially towards his family. He has a burning desire for his grandfather, Dedo, James wants him to be like his other grandfather, who is telling stories: (pg. 9, l. 63) “I desperately wanted him to tell me a story like my other grandfather, my mum’s dad, but Dad’s dad never seemed interested in stories. James find...
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... an English king from a bygone era struggling to overcome a speech impediment, the movie appears to have touched the hearts of middle-America. Personally I was very moved by the film and the true story it portrays. It's British filmmaking at its best. And yet notwithstanding my enjoyment of the film, I found Colin Firth's performance as King George VI difficult to watch. Not because it was anything less than very fine acting indeed, but because it reminded me of many childhood days spent sitting across the kitchen table from my father, waiting patiently as he, like his monarch, wrestled with an often paralysing stutter. To have something to say and not be able to say it can only be excruciating, and yet it is something that an estimated 65 million people worldwide have to deal with every day of their lives. It's little consolation to know that kings can suffer as much as commoners, or that some notable orators, including Winston Churchill and movie stars such as Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt have had the same problem. If you stutter, life is different for you. Simple things that the rest of us take for granted, like telling a joke or addressing a group at work, giving a speech at your child's wedding, become potential minefields of embarrassment. No wonder my father had a short fuse. For him daily dialogue was an ordeal... frustration was a way of life. With any other condition one would have expected that treatment would have been sought, diagnoses made and preventive...
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...1. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, The reader is introduced to the horror of war in the first lines of the poem as Owen depicts the poor physical condition of the men.They are facing huge challenges and that they were not the men that they were at first because they were young men who were highly motivated. We cursed through sludge suggests to us how the soldier are off to war this shows that they are cursed and the word sludge suggests to us that they are off to fight in horrendous conditions. Additionally, at the end it shows us that rather being glories young men they turn into this horrible creature because they are being described as old beggars and hags and it shows that they are old before their time and they have got no control over their lives. They can’t walk properly and this tells us that they are very weak because it clearly shows that they are not prepared for it and that they were just brainwashed to go to war to fight for their country which was sweet and glory. Moreover, the soldiers are coughing like an old sick ugly women and this clearly defines how they are feeling and are compared to weak and old. This simile demonstrates how dirty and unhealthy the soldiers appear. The comparison to ‘old beggars’ Coughing like hags is a simile and they are compared to these old ugly women...
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...On a larger scale, our class, I think most of us struggled with coming up with ideas, contributing to the group and reinforcing their opinions with proof from the short genre. People should continue to read carefully and annotate properly, which was probably what caused people lack ideas. Likewise, everybody should contribute and engage with the discussion. The conversation was mainly between 8 people while we had 18 students in the class. Lastly, not much synthesizing or building off of other people’s ideas took place, making the discussion somewhat...
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...Kelly Haddix Eng Comp 2 Jason Elznic 04/25/2012 My essay will show how Marxism is portrayed within the two short stories, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and A Raisin in the Sun. The purpose of this essay is to explain the Marxism role within these two short stories. I will use an academic approach to accomplish this objective. The role of Marxism is portrayed within these two stories, and I will show how Marxism is portrayed and defined by comparing these two short stories. The similarities between the two stories are that both Walter and McMurphy are fighting against a society that is bent on repressing them. Walter with the white community, and McMurphy with the hospital staff at the mental institution, namely Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched represents the controlling party in the mental institution where as the white realtor Mr. Lindner represents the controlling party of the white housing community. According to Dictionary.com the definition of Marxism states that “society is basically the struggle between the social classes.” Randle McMurphy McMurphy showed signs of Marxism’s conflict theory, focusing on the struggles between the classes (nurses and patients).McMurphy violated the norms of society when he was charged with statutory rape and sanctions were imposed, sending him to prison. McMurphy creates a society amongst the patients at the mental institution, which largely affects the structure of the institution. His relationship with the other patients...
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...Concision and Repetition in Babel’s Collected Stories With laconic power, Isaac Babel tells short stories that are at once cold and full of exultation. This effect arises as much from his prose style as from the wrenching content of his narratives. In this paper, I will explore several techniques that compress his prose to the lapidary and one that is more expansive and cuts against his impulse to concision. One of Babel’s most striking tools for reducing his text to essentials is the simile (and more rarely the metaphor), a tactic that allows him to juxtapose images that complicate the text in a short space. He also has a knack for rendering psychological states in terms so compressed that they seem irreducible; for instance, at the end of a story when a character’s heart is constricted by a foreboding of truth, there really is nothing more to say. To an extreme, Babel makes his prose do more than one thing at a time: his descriptions of scenery frequently delve to the heart of the point-of-view character. Cutting against this tendency and made powerful by it, the stories indulge in the repetition of words, a tactic that can propel the prose toward exultation. §1 Simile and Metaphor Babel makes good use of simile and metaphor, both of which lend power, complexity, concision, and often violence to his writing. At times the similes are simply vivid juxtapositions that enliven the prose but do little else. “His stomach, like a large tomcat, lay on the silver pommel” paints...
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...One of the most enchanting things children do is learning how to talk. In a few and short years, most if not all children transition from crying and gurgling to explaining in details what they want and don’t want. From a baby’s gibberish first words through to pre-schooler, elementary to middle school; detailed and defined conversations, early language development milestones are among the most momentous events in any caregivers or parent’s life. For most children learning how to talk may seem easy but for some it is a stage of struggle and difficulty. Children learn how to talk more easily and faster if the adults in their homes spend enough time talking to them. Other children find it more difficult to develop speech because they do not hear their parents talk much. All children have the ability to learn how to talk. Learning to talk is a natural habit, a natural gift inscribed deep within mankind’s genetic inheritance ( Bardies, De Bevoise 1999 ). In about the second year after conception or one year after being born, a child will utter his first words. The swiftness and skills with which many children master the art of speaking has always fascinated many adults. Before a child knows how to coordinate his hands to snap a toy, he will utmost have understood some if not all the sentences addressed to him by an adult. Before they even how to tie up or knot their shoelaces they will virtually have mastered the art of talking their language. This special ability of acquiring language...
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...Throughout the story Junior faces many hardships from beginning to end. However, his personality allows Junior to fight through these hardships. Junior lives on a Native American Reservation is subjected to poor education and intimidation from the other children on the reservation for his disabilities. Nevertheless Junior acquires the chance to pursue a life beyond the reservation when he throws a book at his geometry teacher. As a result, Junior is moved to Rearden High School where he is the only Indian . This cultural conflict between his Indian side and integration into white society allows the reader to see that Junior’s must be able to manage both cultures. By Junior managing both cultures readers see that there are common traits between...
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...Suffering and Compassion No one anticipates whether something good or something bad will happen to them. People hope to find the answers to these questions and to relinquish their heart ache that has been given to them, so people look for answers where they cannot be found. Some believe that it is a simple act of nature, luck, and even the power of God that causes pain even though the reason of these occurrences that happen to us cannot be known. When Bad Things Happen to Good People is a book in which the author Harold S. Kushner asks the question: why God? When his son is diagnosed with a degenerative disease Kushner cannot understand why such an act of pain is happening to him and his family: “People try to make sense of the world suffering by assuming that we deserve what we get. That our misfortunes come as punishment for our sins” (Kushner, 1995, 12) can this statement make sense? How can it? Kusher is a rabbi, and helps others through their difficult times, listening to people confess the pain that they are feeling. Kusher is one of God's holy followers, so how can this statement explain the loss of his son and the feeling of emptiness in his heart that may never be filled. Spiritually, one would like to believe that religion can be a form of comfort in a situation of suffering, but questions emerge, such as how can there be a kind and loving God who is responsible for the bad things that happen to people. This forces us to question the power of God. (Kushner 1995, 34)...
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...The story revolves around the relationship between a mentally challenged father and his daughter when he’s falsely accused of murder and incarcerated. During his time in prison he’s met with hatred and scorn for the perceived terribleness of his crime, which not only includes killing a little girl (who so happens to be the police commissioner’s daughter), but of cruelly kidnapping and molesting her as well. Perhaps because the dead little girl is the daughter of such a prominent man does the case fly through the courts without anything resembling due process, and it’s as if no one realizes that the perpetrator lacks the mental faculties needed to represent or stand up for himself when everyone is against him from the start—even including the policemen and lawyers whose job it is to assume his innocence. Instead, they work only to prove his guilt, because there’s literally nothing to stop them. Especially not the law. What follows is a story that takes place in two time periods. There’s the modern storyline, where the father’s grown-up daughter works as a lawyer to clear his name—though that takes up far less screen time than the flashback to 1997, the year that her father was accused and imprisoned in Cell No. 7. It was there that he met the cellmates who would become not only his friends but also family to him and his daughter after they devise an (admittedly improbable) plan to sneak her into the prison. Soon the entire prison population joins in the effort to try and save...
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...hardships. Junior lives on a Native American Reservation where he encounters poor education and intimidation from the other children because of his disabilities. Nevertheless, Junior grasps the chance to pursue a life beyond the reservation when he throws a book at his geometry teacher, resulting in Junior to move to Reardan High School. Furthermore, Junior is the only Indian at Reardan High School. This cultural conflict between his Indian side and white society results in a rift. However, this rift is reduced by traits common between his life on the Reservation and his life at Reardan. Junior manages both cultures through these common traits which ultimately defines Junior as a hero. In the story Junior asserts, “… if you are fourteen years old, like me, and you’re still stuttering and lisping, then you become the biggest retard in the world”(Alexie 4). Junior exemplifies resilience in that society labels Junior as an idiot, but Junior does not let society define him as stupid. Junior’s resilience again appears when Junior has to walk twenty-two miles when there is not enough gas to get to school (87). Junior wants to go to school, and will fight the conditions so he can receive a better education. Since Junior seeks a better education, his personality carries over from the reservation to Reardan High School. This crossover serves as common ground for both cultures, resulting in the trait resilience to serve as the resolution. Readers understand that resilience serves as...
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...My warm Hi & Hello to my unknown readers around the globe. Please don't dare to steal my work this is actually my first entry as a neophyte writer on your site. Please do bear with me my dear readers. I am be very, very much sorry for my grammatical errors, punctuation errors and spelling errors I have no more time to proofread because the second semester is fastly and highly approaching. Sorry if it's kinda boring this is the real state of the characters and the real flow of the story. Honestly, this is a true to life story excluded after 5 yrs after. I hope I can gain more comments on this first mechanical story of mine. Your positive and negative comments are highly and very much appreciated. I wish I could earn more readers, friends and great-minded analyst in the field of writing to criticize my work, make some corrections and leave some tips to improve my way of writing. By the way, this is "myballpen" the original author and the female lead character of the story. Hope you'll like it. Once gain, don't forget to leave your comments.Thank you. You Are Mine and I’m Yours Lead Characters: Jheanne Nockingston Jerrad Bosh Supporting Actress/ Actors: Jacciene Sue - Clark Jorraine Lautner - Hongo Jarylle Qeue – Laurito Arbie Clark Jaymar Laurito Chassy Ford - Diesel Man / Vince Tucker Woman / Jocelle Famstord - Tucker Child / Josephine / Sophie Tucker At the school… It was the opening of Willis University, academic year 2013-2014. While the world was...
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...conversations, I have had the opportunity to talk on various issues and with personalities, some familiar relations and some temporary acquaintances. And our subject of discussions have often been turbulent fright , taste of the food served on board, establishing casual friendship, explaining some points from books read and sharing the fun from “Tom and Jerry” or “Mr. Beans” videos. To confess, the main intent of my airborne conversations is often to buy time on long distances and find shield from the torture of fear and trepidation that often hardly goes away from my air travel psyche. I travelled by air scores of times but I haven’t got use or immune to the torture of fear it unleashes. August 24 flight from Accra to Monrovia, however relatively short, remains memorable. A particular conversation between me and a Ghanaian, still gyrates in my mind and brings aching memories. I still feel the twinge of anger which, of course, I deliberately surprised least my fellow discussant, my Ghanaian friend, noticed an inkling of it. Pondering over the conversation today, I am happy that my anger was never displayed visibly. I would prove naïve and stupid to do so. Yes. I felt offended. I was bitter. His funny ridicule was irking. But I kept my posture. I kept my cool. I wonder why I was feeling shame; so imprudently carried away by a sense of patriotism, nationalism or whatever spirit that may have fueled me to feel very unease and discomfort internally during my conversation with my Ghanaian friend...
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...BUSINESS SCHOOL HARVARD SUCCESSFUL 65 APPLICATION SECOND EDITION E S S AY S APPLICATION BUSINESS SCHOOL HARVARD SUCCESSFUL 65 ECSNS A IYI O N S SE O D ED T With Analysis by the Staff of The Harbus, the Harvard Business School Newspaper ST. MARTIN’S GRIFFIN NEW YORK 65 SUCCESSFUL HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL APPLICATION ESSAYS, SECOND EDITION. Copyright © 2009 byThe Harbus News Corporation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For-information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.stmartins.com Library of Congress Cataloging...in..Publication Data 65 successful Harvard Business -School application essays : with analysis by the staff of The Harbus, the Harvard Business School newspaper / Lauren Sullivan and the staff of The Harbus.-2nd ed. p.em. ISBN 978...0..312...55007...3 1. Business schools-United States-Admission. 2. Exposition (Rhetoric) 3. Essay-Authorship. 4. Business writing. 5. Harvard Business School. 1. Sullivan, Lauren. II. Harbus. III. Title: Sixty...five successful Harvard Business School application essays. HF1131.A1352009 808'.06665-dc22 2009012531 First Edition: August 2009 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction ix xi I. Defining Moment Stacie Hogya Anonymous Anonymous David La Fiura Anonymous Avin Bansal Anonymous Brad Finkbeiner Anonymous 4 7 10 13 17 20 23 26 29 ii. UndergradUate experience John Coleman Maxwell Anderson...
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...God's Not Dead is a 2014 Christian drama film directed by Harold Cronk, and stars Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, David A. R. Whiteand Dean Cain. The film was released to theaters on March 21, 2014, by Pure Flix Entertainment.[4] ------------------------------------------------- Plot Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper), a Christian college student, enrolls in a philosophy class taught by Professor Jeffrey Radisson (Kevin Sorbo), an atheist, who demands that his students sign a declaration that "God is dead" to get a passing grade. Josh is the only student in the class who refuses to sign and is then required by Radisson to debate the topic with him, with the class members deciding who wins. Radisson gives Josh twenty minutes at the end of the first three lecture sessions to argue that God exists. In the first two debates, Radisson has counter arguments for all of Josh's points. Josh's girlfriend Kara (Cassidy Gifford) breaks up with him, fearing that standing up to Radisson will jeopardize their academic future. Ultimately, it comes down to the third and final debate between Radisson and Josh, who again both make compelling points. Josh then halts his line of debate to pose a question to Radisson: "Why do you hate God?" After Josh repeats the question twice more, Radisson explodes in rage, confirming he hates God for his mother's death that left him alone despite his prayers. Josh then casually asks Radisson how he can hate someone that doesn't exist. In the end, Martin (Paul Kwo), a foreign...
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