...Helpful Neighbours I was pondering how some people can be clueless towards the existence of their neighbours even after living in that particular apartment for many years. It’s an irony since we were taught to co-exist in a community where we depend on each other to achieve a more meaningful living environment. Being friendly and helpful are just some of the traits neighbours should display willingly towards others. Helpful neighbours are rare in recent times but those who are out there are gems we should treasure. They are neighbours who expect favours in return, neighbours who help out of goodwill and those with the intentions of being meddlesome and invasive. These neighbours are just a door or few away to come to our rescue at any time of the day. As we have heard numerous times, good things don’t come easy. Some might need to observe you struggling on both hands with bags of groceries, only to ask but not offer help. While some willingly offer to collect and safe keep your daily papers sent at your doorstep knowing you are going out of town. However, not all of these are purely act of kindness. Some come with hidden agendas of their own. There’s a saying which goes, “There’s no free lunch in the world” to remind us to always be mindful towards others extreme kindness. Are helpful neighbours purely helpful? Some of them expected us to return favours for those help they rendered. They seemed like service providers expecting to get paid for the services they provided...
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..."Neighbours" by Tim Winton is an intriguing insight into the lives of a young couple who had moved into a Melbournian suburb. The challenges and ordeals faced by them place the reader in a position to observe varying values and attitudes which are connected with many aspects of Australian multi-cultural life. The text deals with the different lifestyles of Australia's ethnic minorities to Australians and we can see from the text how an author creates a good reader response. Examples wich contribute to the vast reading experience can be the cultural backgrounds, our own lifestyles, morals and values and the significance of the characters of the text. People who come from second world countries like Poland and Macedonia are renown for being hard workers and love cultural activities, and the characters in Neighbours proved to be no excep-tion. The text indulges in the view of cultural hard working ethnic family's, who surround the two couples who had just moved into the new neighborhood. At first the couples were having a hard time fitting in as they saw their neighbors to be a bit odd. A quote wich demonstrates this can be "It took six months for the newcomers to comprehend the fact that their neighbors were not murdering each other, merely talking" (pg 83). This quote demonstrates that the couple who had just moved from a quite and peaceful suburb are tormented and agonized with the level of noise they make. The way the neighbors lived their lives were also a shock to the couple...
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...In the short story neighbours, the author Tim Winton uses many different language features and stylistic choices such as characterisation, short sentences and connotations to communicate ideas and perspectives. The short story is about a young, newlywed couple who move into a western neighbourhood but they feel like foreigners in their own country. The couple seem to be uncomfortable at first but as the story progresses and the newlywed are surprised with a pregnancy simple actions and advice offering shows the coming together of the multicultural society. The characters are presented in certain ways to show their stereotypical ethnic background. For example the Macedonian family shouted, ranted, screamed. This shows the Macedonians as having unsociable behaviour. The old polish man spent most of his day hammering nails into wood only to pull them out again. This shows a strange vibe coming from another neighbour in their community. With the use of characterisation it helps reinforce the idea that they are uncomfortable in the neighbourhood and it makes the reader feel empathy towards the newlyweds. And the story evolves the Macedonians couldn’t help but offer advice when they see the newlyweds planting in the backyard. Small acts of kindness are shown gradually as the new neighbours start to come together. The polish widower slid through the fence uninvited and rebuilt a henhouse for the newlywed and they took gifts of grappa and firewood. After these acts of kindness the reader...
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...A friendly neighbour Neighbour war is a relatively common phenomenon now a day, though it is seldom that it goes as far as it does in the text: A friendly neighbour by Adam Johnson from the year of 2004. In this short story there is an ongoing conflict between the two neighbours Roger, and Frank Walker, which quickly evolves into and direct war between the two neighbours. Roger continuous to take a step further to prevent the evil deeds he anticipate his enemy to do, which leads to some pretty grim stuff, including family wonking and ending with a possible unintentional family slaughter. The main character Roger is seemingly paranoid, mostly at the end of the text. "[…] And I answered myself: What I would do is look around my house in a frenzy for something else dangerous, such as paint, such as thinner, such as household chemicals, and then either ring the house of my enemy with the toxics and set them on fire or pour some into the pool of my enemy […]” (p. 3 ll. 24 -27)s, he truly fears the evil of his not so friendly neighbour Frank Walker. He sort of imprison himself in his house, but mostly his children which are to stay indoor when the neighbour is at home, and besides that is he locking his doors just in case his enemy of a neighbour should get any funky ideas. Roger is rather aggressive in the sense that he quickly draws to weapon and wonks his neighbour before asking any questions. His perception of his not so friendly neighbour is that he is a lunatic who...
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...A Friendly Neighbour The ability to think is partly what has gotten man to the top of the food chain. It is hard to imagine a world in which no one is able to think ahead; predict what is going to happen. Yet, what would happen if our thoughts became our only reality? That is exactly what happens to Roger in Adam Johnson’s short story ‘A Friendly Neighbour’ from 2004. Roger lives in a typical neighborhood with his family and seems well off with a swimming pool. Unfortunately, Roger has had some disagreements with one of his neighbors, Frank, in the past: “I never could stomach Walker… (p. 1 l. 1),” which had led him to the belief that Frank is pedophile and violent towards his family. Roger loves his family more than anything else, and with Frank that close, he feels threatened and wants to protect his family – at all costs. Consequently, he has to keep the doors shut and the kids inside. The frustration accumulates, and Roger ends up killing Frank and his family in an insanity of fear. In Roger’s head, the act was fully justified: “It is human nature (p. 3 l. 14).” Nevertheless, no matter how many good excuses Roger comes up with, it is an explicit sign that something is completely wrong with him. Roger is possessed by thoughts; actually, most of the story is just Roger thinking. Roger is aware that he thinks too much, and something deep within him actually briefly tries to recognize this: “No, no, no, I was thinking, not acceptable (p. 1 l. 11).” That is Roger’s...
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...MY NEIGHBOUR I live in Kafr ELSheikh which is a very big city. The area where I live is inhabited by people belonging to different trade and professions. Some of them are government servants. The others are school and college teachers, doctors, engineers and businessmen. Happiness, is a person who has a good neighbours. Fortunately, I am one of them. I have the best of relations with my neighbours. They are frank and sociable. They whole-heartedly cooperate with one another. They share one another joys and sorrows. There has never been any trouble between us. Our life has been smooth and peaceful. We have lived in harmony for years. My neighbours are like my relatives. In fact, we behave as if we are members of a family. I have many neighbours, but the best among them is the one who lives on my left. He is a doctor by profession. He is gentle, and kind. He is always polite. He is the father of a happy family of four children. His wife is a highly cultured and civilized lady. One of his sons is of my age and all our programmes of study and recreation go jointly, Inspire of their wealth and status, they are not at all proud. My neighbour shares joys and sorrows of their neighbours. He is full of sympathy for everyone. He has always been helpful to me. Whenever I have had any trouble he has come to help me without asking for it. He has never charged any fees for attending any patient in the locality. My neighbour is full of mirth. I have never seen him glum or gloomy...
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...Essay on ”A friendly neighbour” Revenge and violence have always been a part of our everyday normal life, but is it becoming worse, and actually even starting to take overhand? A friendly neighbour, don’t know if we can say that. Walter is living in what sound like an all normal neighbourhood, he just got one problem with his certainly violent neighbour Roger. Walter seems kind of innocent in my opinion, as you don’t really get to know what he actually was doing in his underwear at Roger’s house. Roger really don’t seem to like Walter, and finds him very provocative, and can’t go one day without thinking what Walter is going to do to him, and his family. Roger seems very paranoid, and is taking this whole situation to a whole other level. He don’t really know himself what happened the day Walter was in he’s house, he just assumed right away that he was doing something bad. We are getting everything from Roger’s point of view, which makes Walter look really bad, and like he deserves to be “wonked” all the time. (And as he says on page 2, 18. After he “wonked” Walter in front of he’s kids: Great now they hate me, like I’m the bad guy in this) Throughout this story Walter is getting really pissed, even though he seemed like a nice person in the start, he starts to look with these evil eyes at Roger, like he want to do something bad too him. All this drama makes this a bad environment. Because as it looks like a normal family neighbourhood, now just with these men creating...
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...“A Friendly Neighbour” by Adam Johnson, 2004 I never could stomach Walker and then one day he’s standing in my kitchen, in his underwear. Facing in the direction of my kids’ room! So I wonk him in the back of the head and down he goes. When he stands up, I wonk him again and down he goes. Then I roll him down the stairs into the early-spring muck and am like, If you ever again, I swear to God, I don’t even know what to say, you miserable fuck. Karen got home. I pulled her aside. Upshot was: Keep the doors locked, and if he’s home the kids stay inside. But after dinner I got to thinking: Guy comes in in his shorts and I’m sitting here taking this? This is love? Love for my kids? Because what if? What if we slip up? What if a kid gets out or he gets in? No, no, no, I was thinking, not acceptable. So I went over and said, Where is he? To which Lynn said, Upstairs, why? Up I went and he was standing at the mirror, still in his goddam underwear, only now he had on a shirt, and I wonked him again as he was turning. Down he went and tried to crab out of the room, but I put a foot on his back. If you ever, I said. If you ever again. Now we’re even, he said. I came in your house and you came in mine. Only I had pants on, I said, and mini-wonked him in the back of his head. I am what I am, he said. Well, that took the cake! Him admitting it! So I wonked him again, as Lynn came in, saying, Hey, Roger, hey. Roger being me. And then he rises up. Which killed me! Him rising up? Against...
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...Love Thy Neighbour The phenomenon Reality TV has grown tremendously since the nineties. Today we're obsessed with the fact that we can watch people, who are placed in certain situations, on our TV. Many people, especially teenagers, are in fact obsessed with reality TV and spend many of their evenings watching reality shows such as Big Brother and Paradise Hotel. The short story Love Thy Neighbour written by Jennifer Moore in 2005 showcases a couple who becomes obsessed with watching their neighbours through a porthole as if they were a live reality show. We have all tried it, being curious about our neighbours. However, the husband and wife are so curious about what is going on, that they start peeking through the hole, which makes them fanatic. They are so curious about what is going on next door, that they start to observe the neighbours everyday life. They seem to shut everything else out, just to watch their neighbours everyday life. The husband is staying home from work to watch them, they do not watch TV anymore, and all their life is about is watching their neighbours through the hole. When the little boy in the story is being abducted the couple does not seem to care about the boy in the start, but they soon realize how stupid it is, and they start the search after the little boy. after the boy is found, they go back to peeking through the hole, and their level of fanaticism is just increasing. again they are just watching how their neighbours and the police gets...
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...Brazil has traditionally been a leader in the inter-American community. It has played an important role in collective security efforts, as well as in economic cooperation in the Western Hemisphere. Brazil supported the Allies in both World Wars. During World War II, its expeditionary force in Italy played a key role in the Allied victory at Monte Castello. It is a member of the Organization of American States (OAS) and a party to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty). Recently, Brazil has given high priority to expanding relations with its South American neighbors and is a founding member of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI); the Union of South American Nations (UNASUL) created in June 2004; and Mercosul, the customs union of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil, with Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador as associate members; Venezuela's full membership is pending. Brazil is a charter member of the United Nations and participates in its specialized agencies. It has contributed troops to UN peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cyprus, Mozambique, Angola, East Timor, and most recently Haiti. Brazil is currently leading the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti. In 2010-2011, Brazil served as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Prior to this, it had been a member of the UN Security Council nine times. Brazil is seeking a permanent position on the Council. ...
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...person narrator, also the voice of the short story. He lives in a house located in a normal upper middle class environment with his wife Karen and his two little kids Melanie and Brian. He is a man with prejudices and an angled view on life, and therefore a completely unreliable narrator. The reader stays trapped in his point of view throughout the story, and is therefore forced to gain an experience of all characters by what they say and do. Fear and paranoia control Roger’s life; he cannot distinguish light and darkness. He is frightened by his own shadows, and cannot any longer decide what is right and wrong. When your world has gone small and scary, the only thing you can focus on is to survive your worst enemy. Roger regards his neighbour Walker as his enemy. The biased point of view pictures Walker as an unstable, dangerous pervert, and there is, according to Roger, no limit to what this maniac could be up to. Roger is scared, and all other feelings than fear, insecurity and the overriding will to protect his dearly loved family...
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...It begins With a Conversation written by Judy Brunner and Dennis Lewis Article Summary – This article is about bullying, but it is more specifically about cyber bullying and digital harassment. Cyber bullying can be just as harsh as physical and verbal bullying. While cyber bullying is not a new concept, it is gaining more attention every day. The authors, Judy Brunner and Dennis Lewis, are conveying the frustration and discouragements of teachers and principals dealing with cyber bullying in schools. It states that although cyber bullying is not technically an “on-campus” issue, it is brought on campus when it affects the “teaching and learning environment” [ (Brunner & Lewis, 2010) ]. The article also states that many feel that nothing can be done since it is not on campus, but that is not always the case. As the title of the article says, “It begins with a conversation” [ (Brunner & Lewis, 2010) ]. A conversation needs to happen between the educators, the students involved, and their parents. Brunner and Lewis tell that not only do the school policies need to be laid out in front of them, but also legal aspects. The article also lists several instances of what cyber bullying can consist of including; rumors, altered photographs, text and instant messages, emails, etcetera. I have been a victim of cyber bullying, which is why I chose this subject specifically. I have had social networking accounts since they first became popular, and have personally dealt with...
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...Loose Change The short story is a about a woman who lives in London or a ”Londoner” as she calls it. One day her period comes early as she is walking into the National Portrait Gallery to get warm. She doesn’t have any change for the tampon machine so she asks in the bathroom if anyone has got some change she could borrow. One girl responds. The girl and her brother fled from Uzbekistan, she is now homeless and all of her money can be kept in one pocket. The woman decides to take her out for a cup of tea out of gratefulness for the change she borrowed from her. The girl tells the woman about why she is now in England and how she and her brother are now sleeping on the streets of London every night. At one point the girl starts crying. The woman leaves to get her some napkins, but as she has the napkins in her hand she turns around and leaves the café. The story is written in first-person narration and has a linear structure. The story is reaching towards many well discussed topics such as immigration. In the story we follow a classic “Londoner” who keeps to herself and minds her own business. You can say that she is a very reserved personality (pg. 1 line 1-3). The conflict appears when she “befriends” a refugee from Uzbekistan. The girl is different, and she looks different as well. The woman wants to help her but for some reason something is stopping her. She seems to think that she, as a single mother, she has enough problems already. The woman seems very insecure especially...
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...An ethical dilemma is a situation that will often involve an apparent conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another. This is also called an ethical paradox since in moral philosophy, paradox plays a central role in ethics debates. For instance, an ethical admonition to "love thy neighbour as thy self" is not always just in contrast with, but sometimes in contradiction to an armed neighbour actively trying to kill you: if he or she succeeds, you will not be able to love him or her. But to pre-emptively attack them or restrain them is not usually understood as loving. This is one of the classic examples of an ethical decision clashing or conflicting with an organismic decision, one that would be made only from the perspective of animal survival: an animal is thought to act only in its immediate perceived bodily self-interests when faced with bodily harm, and to have limited ability to perceive alternatives. – Think about what we include into the childcare environment to include cultural diversity. Such as: - Singing songs in different languages. - Adding foods on the menu from different cultures. - Providing different costumes from different countries for the children to dress up in. - Providing resources and equipment that promote different culture. For e.g. adding multicultural foods in home corner, using multicultural dolls during play time, displaying posters that promote cultural diversity. - Reading stories which...
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...Beneficence is a duty Beneficence, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary, it’s the quality or state of being beneficent or producing or doing something good. Beneficence is a duty, according to Wikipedia, He who often practices this, and sees his beneficent purpose succeed, comes at last really to love him whom he has benefited. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," this does not mean, "Thou shalt first of all love, and by means of love (in the next place) do him good"; but: "Do good to thy neighbour, and this beneficence will produce in thee the love of men (as a settled habit of inclination to beneficence)." There are four elements of beneficence which a; One should not practice evil or do harm; one should prevent evil or harm; one should remove evil or harm; and one should practice good. As for me, I think I did something good when I was a child until now. Every day of my life I at least did one good to other person. I also did good to my neighbor, friends, family, classmates and other peers whom I had interactions for example I did good to the person because I just want to or he/she did good to me in the first place. I didn’t practice evil yet I commit sins and also didn’t harm others for I don’t want others harm me. I did evil things and harm others but I prevented doing it to others by thinking it twice before doing what’s on my mind. For what evil I’ve done, I remove it by praying to God and beg for His mercy to forgive. As to the...
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