...Between settings, tone, irony, themes and moral codes, there is always a vast array of each between authors. “Love in L.A.” by Dagoberto Gilb and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor are very similar in many ways but they do vary considerably. “Love in L.A” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” are two examples of the similarities and differences between the two styles. The setting of “Love in L.A” is on a highway to Los Angeles. The main character, Jake is a self absorbed, irresponsible protagonist driving along the highway. As with most drivers, you tend to be envious and dream about the more fancy or better vehicles on the road, as Jake did with the vehicle in front of him. The driver of the other car is an innocent young girl, Mariana. (Daroberto, 1993). There is a complete 180 with “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is set in a very rural community. Even though the precise location is not given, the story gives clues that it is located in mid-sized towns. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” takes place in numerous states as a family is taking a vocational trip. (Boston, 2012). Jake, is the main character in the short story “Love in L.A.”. He portrays love from the protagonist perspective. His expressions of love are in different fashion but none of which results in anything positive. In the story, Jake, is portrayed as being lazy, poor, irresponsible and a scam artist who is ultimately looking to free his soul. Throughout the story, Jake is true identity is seen as daydreaming...
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...Reflection of Life Phase 1 Individual Project Short Stories Prof. Lambert Colorado Technical University Gayla Burow Comparison Contrast Essay of Short Stories This paper is to analysis two short stories “A Good Man is hard to find” and “Love in LA”. Both of these stories have some common similarities, however, seem to be different eras in time. It seems that both were summer when the stories took place, both mention too of course be on a highway at some point in the stories. In both of the stories, there are accidents, one being much harsher than the other, one being a fender bender the other left the family bleeding with broken bones. I felt that most of the characters seemed to be very selfish with only thoughts of themselves. The setting for Love in La is Jake daydreaming about a better car than the one he owns and is why he hits the other character in the stories in the first place. The setting in “A Good Man is Hard” to find, takes place in Georgia mostly told through the grandmother's eyes. It seems she wants to go to Tennessee and her son wanted to go to Florida. She did not get her way even with all the whining about the misfits on the loose. After the cat causes a car crash the family comes across the Misfits, and the grandmother seems to use her faith to save herself and her family from death Characters Jake seems to be a very lazy self-centered nature, he is most defiantly a protagonist in this story. Jake is a dishonest man and does not want to take...
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...Technical University Prof. Eric Wright October 18, 2013 Abstract No two stories are ever the same, there may be a ton of similarities between the two but unless they are mere copies of each other, they are different. Two stories can be based in two completely different settings, have two different tones, and completely different characters, but they could expose the same message to the readers. Throughout this paper, I will discuss how “Love In L.A.,” and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” is similar, different, what their settings are, describe their characters, tone and reveal their messages. A Brief Overview “Love in L.A.” and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” are two short stories that portray the characters as arrogant, self-centered, triumphant people, but allows the readers to envisage the true demise of the characters from the beginning. “Love in L.A.,” revolves around a young man in his mid-twenties who goes by the name Jake. In the beginning of the story, you can tell that Jake is an unemployed jerk, which only cares about what he can get for everyone else, without having to lift a figure; he does not care what the cost may be as long as it does not cost him anything. He is the true definition of a con artist, he does not care about anyone other than himself, he is extremely shallow, and in all honesty in love with himself. “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” is a story about a self-absorbed, old fashioned, manipulating grandmother and her family...
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...As the examination of the short fiction piece “A good man is hard to find” By Flannery O’Connor begins we as readers will dive between the words and examine the morals lying there. Using morals as our guide it is key to begin by saying that the definition of moral does not always pertain to “good” and that our use of it will be mainly as a code of conduct that O’Connor’s characters act through. Mainly this idea will be developed further through the actions of the grandmother, but also with a couple moments that are shown with the misfit as he shows his character. As any reader may allow themselves to believe that the grandmother figure of a story may be one of wisdom and maybe even one of a historical viewpoint. Though as we see in “A good...
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...Study Guide for Henry’s Daughters (Without Graphics) Produced and distributed by the National Institute for Engineering Ethics Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism Edward Whitacre College of Engineering Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas [pic] Copyright © 2010 Henry’s Daughters is designed to raise awareness of the ethical aspects of engineering work, advance knowledge and understanding of professional standards and public obligations and expectations, improve skills in moral reasoning, and strengthen personal dedication to exemplary conduct. Henry’s Daughters is dedicated to the memory of E. D. “Dave” Dorchester, P.E. Past President, National Institute for Engineering Ethics; Past President, Texas Society of Professional Engineers Past Chair, Texas Board of Professional Engineers; Distinguished Life Member, NIEE Executive Board Dave was highly influential in promoting NIEE and Murdough Center ethics programs. In 1989, he established the Professional Development Program of the Texas Board of Professional Engineers. As NIEE President, Dave worked with Dean Bill Marcy to bring NIEE to Texas Tech University. and E. Walter LeFevre, Ph.D., P.E. Past President, National Society of Professional Engineers; Fellow, National Society of Professional Engineers Past Director, Vice President and Fellow, ASCE; Past President, Arkansas Professional Engineers Board; Distinguished Life Member, NIEE Executive Board Walt was the longest standing...
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...female-centric voices of the political and gender struggle tends to suppress women’s perspectives, consequently inhibiting a gender-inclusive imagining of the nation. This article argues that discourses about gender struggle in Zimbabwe’s post-2000 crisis have not sufficiently addressed the question of space; that is, the significance of the oppressed women’s physical and social space in shaping their grievances and imaginings of exit routes. Similarly, the article argues that representations of this historic period in literary fiction have accentuated the wider political and economic struggles at the expense of other (especially gender) struggles, thereby rendering them inconsequential. Using two short stories by Valerie Tagwira (“Mainini Grace’s Promise” and “The Journey”), the article explores the stories’ focalization of gender-entangled women in an urban space to understand the literary evocation of the condition of women caught up in a crisis in urban settings. INTRODUCTION The Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and...
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...tunnel underneath the Houston Ship Channel in Texas, America, could not cope with the increased volume of road traffic and had to be replaced by a bridge. This large amount of traffic required four lanes with full shoulders in the each direction. A detailed investigation resulted in two independent beams as the most economic solution. The busy ship traffic between the Gulf of Mexico and Houston Harbor required a navigational clearance of 53 m. The towers were protected against ship collision by locating one of them on shore and the other one in shallow water and surrounding it with an artificial island. The project was awarded for $ 91.3 and the bridge was designed in accordance with American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and international codes. All structural parts were designed in service limit state and ultimate limit state. The concrete for the roadway slab was C 50 standard and for the tower C 42, the reinforcement had a yield strength of 420 N/mm2 and the structural steel ultimate strength of 520 N/mm2. The high winds experienced in the area were the primary concern of engineers especially since the Fred Hartman is part of a main route for hurricane evacuations. The aesthetically handsome result, a double-diamond tower configuration, creates “truss-action” for greater lateral stiffness to resist inevitable hurricane-force winds. The tower and deck configurations had never been tried in real world applications. As noted, technically, they deliver...
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...Victoria Wright Wright 1 WRT 102 10190 Erin Armstrong 11/23/11 “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson A Life of Crime Isn’t Hard to Find The movie Crime d'amour, (or Love Crime), exemplifies the human ability to manipulate and so deceive oneself of morality, as does O' Connor in "A Good Man is Hard to Find". In regards to the subject of moral judgment, psychologists and scientists alike have been baffled at the way human beings rationalize what behaviour is ‘moral’ or ‘immoral’. Are the things our society encourages us to see as bad concrete rights and wrongs, or does everyone develop their own right and wrongs based on their beliefs? When seeing Love Crime and reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find” I saw prime examples of human beings choosing to react irrationally...
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...Unit 1 Research Assignment 1: Exploring Programming Languages Computers don't do anything without someone telling them what to do, much like the average teenager. To make the computer do something useful, you must give it instructions in either of the following two ways: * Write a program that tells a computer what to do, step by step, much as you write out a recipe. * Buy a program that someone else has already written that tells the computer what to do. Ultimately, to get a computer to do something useful, you (or somebody else) must write a program. A program does nothing more than tell the computer how to accept some type of input, manipulate that input, and spit it back out again in some form that humans find useful. Table 1 lists some common types of programs, the types of input that they accept, and the output that they produce. Essentially, a program tells the computer how to solve a specific problem. Because the world is full of problems, the number and variety of programs that people can write for computers is practically endless. But to tell a computer how to solve one big problem, you usually must tell the computer how to solve a bunch of little problems that make up the bigger problem. If you want to make your own video game, for example, you need to solve some of the following problems: * Determine how far to move a cartoon figure (such as a car, a spaceship, or a man) on-screen as the user moves a joystick. * Detect whether the cartoon figure...
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...Traffic Engineering Design This page intentionally left blank Traffic Engineering Design Principles and Practice Second edition Mike Slinn MVA Limited, MVA House, Victoria Way, Woking GU21 1DD, UK Paul Matthews MVA Limited, Third Floor, One Berners Street, London W1T 3LA, UK Peter Guest 8 The Grove, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 6QR, UK AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 30 Corporate Drive, Burlington, MA 01803 First published by Arnold, 1998 Reprinted 2003 Second edition 2005 Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a license issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1T 4LP. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science and Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (ϩ44) (0) 1865 843830; fax: (ϩ44) (0) 1865 853333;...
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...Emergence of Lingua Gioco (Gamers’ Language) Enrichment or distorter of the vocabulary? Paul M. Feliciano BSE-English Rizal Technological University Boni Ave., Mandaluyong City Rationale: Different games have emerged throughout the years that captured the attention of many youth. Some perceived this as a hindrance for a good study habit and a disruption to the focus of the students involved to their scholastic activities. The researcher however, has noticed a positive effect of his that with the emergence of these I serves as cradle for language progress, that this is the epitome of the idea that language is continuously progressing and improving. As gaming has evolved over the years, gamers have come up with all kinds of different terminology to refer to different aspects of video games. Not known by the general public and may call it as gamers’ language. Often times these gamers spill terms they learned online or just simply playing through their favorite game and when they use it, they are not understood by the one whom they talk to Languages that are being used in these games are actual English words but has different meaning. Gamers devised these words to create a special kind of an in-game communication. Aside from this, these formulated languages add up to the repertoire of language of the gamers, making it useful rather than an impediment to learning. But as they say, too much positive is also bad, the use of these languages became frequent and uncontrollable...
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...scanned into a worldwide database in order to be recognized in business. Or, the mark might be some kind of smart chip implanted into the body. In Revelation 14:9-12, the third angel warns of wrath and retribution to all those who bear this mark on their heads or hands. The number 666, which supposedly represents the name of the Antichrist, is another source of controversy. There are various theories about the meaning of this verse, and there have been many attempts to show that a person is the Antichrist by relating his name to the number 666. One interpretation is simply that 666 represents humankind in general because of the special significance that the number has in the Bible. Six is known as an "imperfect number" because it is one short of seven, the "perfect number" (seven days in the week, seven tongues of flame, seven spiritual gifts...). So three (the number of the Trinity) sixes is seen as extremely imperfect. Therefore, 666 represents...
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...scanned into a worldwide database in order to be recognized in business. Or, the mark might be some kind of smart chip implanted into the body. In Revelation 14:9-12, the third angel warns of wrath and retribution to all those who bear this mark on their heads or hands. The number 666, which supposedly represents the name of the Antichrist, is another source of controversy. There are various theories about the meaning of this verse, and there have been many attempts to show that a person is the Antichrist by relating his name to the number 666. One interpretation is simply that 666 represents humankind in general because of the special significance that the number has in the Bible. Six is known as an "imperfect number" because it is one short of seven, the "perfect number" (seven days in the week, seven tongues of flame, seven spiritual gifts...). So three (the number of the Trinity) sixes is seen as extremely imperfect. Therefore, 666 represents...
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...It is only when a member of their crew, Barry Brown (Joel Edgerton) is effectively executed by the police that the order starts to fall apart. Not only is that catalyst that sparks the rest of the events in the film, but it also signals the loss of “J”'s only real father figure, Barry Brown was the only one that was ever truly nice to him or cared about him and now with the absence of his “surrogate” patriarchal figure, “J”'s moral compass becomes unhinged. Jacki Weaver's matriarch is nothing short of disturbing, and not just because she continually insists on kissing all of her grown sons on the lips, one might not find this unusual but she lingers beyond the threshold of acceptability. Despite her small stature and soothing voice, the matriarchal Cody is anything but, she can be cold, manipulative and utterly deceiving, evident when “J” is being held in witness protection and effectively is the prosecutions only witness in the trial of 'Pope' and 'Darren', her only remaining sons, does she contact the family lawyer and utter, without a nanosecond of hesitation that he must “go”, he must “disappear”. The juxtaposition of the average working-man's traditional pastime of watching the cricket with “J's” piecing together of what his uncles...
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...Elic-Tech: Going Further on Electric Fuel John Ashi Lisa Gonzales Celeste Maldonado Chris Navarro University of the Incarnate Word Abstract Although little is known about Faraday Future it that has not stopped this mysterious new startups ability to gain attention from its top competitors. Faraday sees everyone as a potential competitor for example, major automakers like Audi, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and others. When Faraday was asked who their main competitors were, they replied our current competitors for Faraday include Tesla and Apple, even though Apple doesn’t have a car. Faraday Future’s (FF) vision is focused on the equal importance between automotive and technology. The company wants to build a brand that will change the world by making intelligent vehicles. This will certainly be a challenge for Faraday’s design team who claim to have a pioneer spirit and don’t need a safety net. The designer’s enthusiasm reflects the company’s vision in technology and design which could make a difference in the way cars are made in the future. New technology in vehicles could actually improve safety and reduce auto-related fatalities. Faraday is ready for the challenge and making a difference. Tesla Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Silicon Valley who wanted to prove that electric cars could be better than gasoline-powered cars. With instant torque, incredible power, and zero emissions, Tesla’s product would be cars without...
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