...an Amontillado but in fact, he is going to lead Fortunato to his death. He led him to the catacombs of the Montressors and there, he buried Fortunato alive with "in pace requiescat" as his last words. Edger Allan Poe was famous for the use of Irony and Symbolism in his stories and this story is one of his masterpiece where he showed his talent. The cask of Amontillado have many Irony and Symbolism in it threw out the whole story. In this paper I am going to discuss about the irony in the story setting, the symbolism which shows the reverse physiology used by Montressor in his speech and other irony and symbolism in the story. The setting of the story have several ironic meaning which describe the faith which Fortunato will face at the end of the story. The story began at dusk which gives an ironic meaning because the beginning of the story marks the end of Fortunato’s life. The time dusk stands for the end of Fortunato’s life in this story. As the beginning of the story starts with the end of the day it is ironic. Another irony in the setting is the Montressor’s catacombs. When Montressor told Fortunato that he have Amontillado in his catacomb Fortunato didn’t believed it at first as because it is a very rare wine. Fortunato thought of himself as an expert in wine,...
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...Wright explains the meaning of progress and that with everything like technology having such big progress and the increasing growth of population in the twentieth century that it will cause implications later down the line for our environment and resources. In the book Wright also goes in the past to show us examples of this like Easter Island and Sumer both societies fell because they used up all their natural resources. A Short History of Progress is based off of three simple questions where did we come from? What are we? And where are we going? Making one think about what it means to be a responsible citizen and how as human beings we have to try and make a change otherwise we will be like all our past civilizations coming to our downfall because of our own blindness...
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...her heart. In the next stanza, the speaker states that they do not have time, since life is short and death is forever. He states that eventually, beauty will no longer exist due to aging and when she is dead, she will not be able to hear the speaker’s song when inside her coffin. Furthermore, the speaker states that the worms will try to take her virginity and will result in his no longer feeling love for his mistress. In the last two lines of the stanza, he comments that a grave is a nice and private place but does not have much room to be together and embrace. In the last stanza, the speaker once again compliments his mistress’s beauty and youth and that they should embrace just like the birds of prey and play games. In the last few lines, the speaker states that time cannot stop even though he wants to have more time; however, time gains the speaker pleasure with his mistress. | Speaker | The speaker of the poem is an anonymous male who speaks about his mistress extremely highly. He feels as if he has a lack of time and that time is a trap to the speaker. Ironically, the speaker needs time in order...
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...Chapter 1—Effective and Ethical Communication at Work MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Communication skills are |a. |not as important in technical fields. | |b. |critical to effective job placement, performance, career advancement, and organizational success. | |c. |required only for high-level positions. | |d. |not as important in a down economy. | ANS: B | |Feedback | |A |Communication skills are needed in both technical and nontechnical fields. | |B |Surveys of employers consistently show that communication skills are critical to effective job placement, performance,| | |career advancement, and organizational success. | |C |Communication skills are needed at all levels of employment. | |D |Communication skills are especially valuable in a gloomy economy in which hordes of job seekers vie for limited | | |openings. ...
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...Chapter 1—Effective and Ethical Communication at Work MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Communication skills are |a. |not as important in technical fields. | |b. |critical to effective job placement, performance, career advancement, and organizational success. | |c. |required only for high-level positions. | |d. |not as important in a down economy. | ANS: B | |Feedback | |A |Communication skills are needed in both technical and nontechnical fields. | |B |Surveys of employers consistently show that communication skills are critical to effective job placement, performance,| | |career advancement, and organizational success. | |C |Communication skills are needed at all levels of employment. | |D |Communication skills are especially valuable in a gloomy economy in which hordes of job seekers vie for limited | | |openings. ...
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...to a new “family”? A choice many groups of people feel is the answer to what family really is. Family is a word of different meaning. A word that has been here since the beginning. A word that carries such a powerful meaning to certain cultures and societies and little meaning to others. There are 23 definitions in our Webster dictionary for the word family. Which tells us that the word is short termed and is constantly changing in different societies today. The American culture is the most confused of all cultures. As a whole American society feels that a family “is any relatively stable group of people bound by ties of blood, marriage, adoption, or by any sexually expressive relationship; or who simply live together, and who are committed to and provide each other with economic support.”(Mary Ann Schwartz & BarBara Marliene Scott, 5) The authors have attempted to cram everything the American society feels in the meaning of family into one long definition. Family was once used by slave owners, they considered their slaves as families groups of same ethnicity. Like herds sheep and cows. The slaves then took the savage word and turned it into a meaningful word. They used the word to claim different primary groups of parents and child who lived together. The word then transformed to mean a group of people with the same blood lines. Meaning people whose ancestors are traced back to the original primary group. In polygamist group a family is made up a man and multiple...
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...In recent times we have seen the income distribution in many developed nations expand, meaning that the gap between rich and poor has grown. Coupled with this is the resultant degradation of economic and social mobility. This serves to show that they there is a tendency for those that are poor, to remain poor. There are a number of causal factors that seemingly predicate this fate of a poverty cycle. The issues that contribute to this range from the education and wellbeing of the individual, societal influences and values, their spending habits, their living conditions as well as their ability to access funding as a means of fuelling entrepreneurial endeavours. Those that are born into poor families will not have access to the resources that those who are born into more fortunate families will be. This is highlighted by the education and wellbeing levels that are typically seen amongst the poor. In poor families there is typically a child who is unable to attend school or is unable to make a satisfactory attempt at learning due to the family’s inability to provide appropriate resources. Instances like this result in high illiteracy rates amongst the poor. This, from the outset of the child’s life, ensures that their career will be significantly hampered and job finding will be far harder, if not impossible. A similar trap exists with regards to the malnourishment of typically poor people. Those who are undernourished will be drastically less productive at work and in turn, will...
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...Legal Methods Outline How a Dispute Becomes a Case (16-29) I. Cases A. Procedural Posture: The movement of the case and the legal issues they hinge on. II. Reversing v. Overruling A. A court reverses the decision of a lower court in the same controversy. 1. Lower court is bound by precedent of higher courts – no exception. B. A court overrules itself - it disavows in a later, different case what it itself had ruled in a prior, different, but factually similar case. 1. Higher courts can overrule themselves – not bound by precedent. III. Res Judicata v. Stare Decisis A. Res Judicata – X may not ever again sue Y over this particular issue. 1. Res judicata - important in federal system of both state and federal courts because stops state court losing and then going to federal courts for the same issue. B. Stare Decisis – Requires following “the law,”/rule laid down by another case. 1. Appellate courts create stare decisis through opinions. 2. Law of the case – requires same defendant in every case. If the plaintiff wins, then those who come after can use it as well. A Case Timeline I. First Step - Is there a case? A. Is there a reasonable claim or cause of action? Is there a legal right for a remedy? – is this a question of “law”? – If no cause of action, then can’t be a case, but can be settled or just be dropped B. Can the individual prove by a preponderance...
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...2013 Pest Management Standards For Food Plants i INTRODUCTION T he National Pest Management Association is pleased to release the 2013 Pest Management Standards for Food Plants. Since 2007, these standards have been the cornerstone of NPMA’s Commercial Division activities. Of note in the 2013 revision is the move away from prescriptive instructions regarding placement and monitoring frequency of pest management devices. Instead, a more results-oriented approach to pest management, based on pest trends, inspection observations, and professional knowledge is embraced. As stated in previous editions, these standards also do not preempt local, state, provincial, and/ or federal regulations. Any service provided must comply with government regulations or statutes governing pest management, safety, and food protection. In addition, food plants may have requirements more stringent than these standards. By embracing these standards, pest management firms demonstrate the industry’s role as protectors of food and property. In addition to these standards, a comprehensive online testing site can be found at www.npmatesting.com. This website includes the study guide and other resources noted in the standards. Through this site, NPMA is working to provide the tools necessary for pest management firms to comply with the standards and raise the level of competency of pest management professionals servicing food plants. We hope that you find these standards to be a...
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...not required. The aim is high availability in clustered system whereas in multiprocessing it is time saving. In order for two machines to provide a highly availability service, the state on the two machines should be replicated and should be consistently updated. When one of the machines fails, the other could then takeover the functionality of the failed machine. Answer 1.19: An interrupt is generally initiated by the hardware (devices like the hard disk, graphics card, I/O device, etc). The purpose of interrupts is to causes the CPU to stop what its doing, save its context, jump to the appropriate interrupt service routine, complete it, restore the context, and continue execution. For example, a serial device may assert the interrupt line and then place an interrupt vector number on the data bus. The CPU uses this to get the serial device interrupt service routine, which it then executes as...
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...The Five Traps of Performance Measurement Jude Buffum | by Andrew Likierman 96 Harvard Business Review 1524 Oct09 Likierman layout.indd 96 | October 2009 | hbr.org 9/4/09 12:38:55 PM I of Frasier, the television sitcom that follows the fortunes of a Seattle-based psychoanalyst, the eponymous hero’s brother gloomily summarizes a task ahead: “Difficult and boring – my favorite combination.” If this is your reaction to the challenge of improving the measurement of your organization’s performance, you are not alone. In my experience, most senior executives find it an onerous if not threatening task. Thus they leave it to people who may not be natural judges of performance but are fluent in the language of spreadsheets. The inevitable result is a mass of numbers and comparisons that provide little insight into a company’s performance and may even lead to decisions that hurt it. That’s a big problem in the current recession, because the margin for error is virtually nonexistent. IN AN EPISODE So how should executives take ownership of performance assessment? They need to find measures, qualitative as well as quantitative, that look past this year’s budget and previous results to determine how the company will fare against its competitors in the future. They need to move beyond a few simple, easy-to-game metrics and embrace an array of more sophisticated ones. And they need to keep people on their toes and make sure that today’s...
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...The Five Traps of Performance Measurement by Andrew Likierman In an episode of Frasier, the television sitcom that follows the fortunes of a Seattle-based psychoanalyst, the eponymous hero’s brother gloomily summarizes a task ahead: “Difficult and boring—my favorite combination.” If this is your reaction to the challenge of improving the measurement of your organization’s performance, you are not alone. In my experience, most senior executives find it an onerous if not threatening task. Thus they leave it to people who may not be natural judges of performance but are fluent in the language of spreadsheets. The inevitable result is a mass of numbers and comparisons that provide little insight into a company’s performance and may even lead to decisions that hurt it. That’s a big problem in the current recession, because the margin for error is virtually nonexistent. So how should executives take ownership of performance assessment? They need to find measures, qualitative as well as quantitative, that look past this year’s budget and previous results to determine how the company will fare against its competitors in the future. They need to move beyond a few simple, easy-to-game metrics and embrace an array of more sophisticated ones. And they need to keep people on their toes and make sure that today’s measures are not about yesterday’s business model. In the following pages I present what I’ve found to be the five most common traps in measuring performance and illustrate how...
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...THE FOUR MOBILE TRAPS The Most Common Mistakes Made by Mobile Apps and Websites SUMMARY SUMMARY: FOUR COMMON MISTAKES PLAGUE MOBILE APPS AND WEBSITES Companies creating mobile apps and websites often underestimate how different the mobile world is. They assume incorrectly that they can create for mobile using the same design and business practices they learned in the computing world. As a result, they frequently struggle to succeed in mobile. These companies can waste large amounts of time and money as they try to understand why their mobile apps and websites don’t meet expectations. What’s worse, their awkward transition to mobile leaves them vulnerable to upstart competitors who design first for mobile and don’t have the same computing baggage holding them back. From giants like Facebook to the smallest web startup, companies are learning that the transition to mobile isn’t just difficult, it’s also risky. This whitepaper describes the four most common mistakes that companies make in mobile apps and websites. The traps were identified through thousands of mobile user tests run by UserTesting.com. The mistakes are common because they grow out of some of the best practices that make a company successful in the traditional computing world. The more successful you’ve been in traditional computing, the more likely you are to make these mistakes in mobile. In the pages that follow, we’ll describe the traps, how to recognize them, and what you can do...
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...Bash Guide for Beginners Machtelt Garrels Garrels BVBA Version 1.11 Last updated 20081227 Edition Bash Guide for Beginners Table of Contents Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................1 1. Why this guide?...................................................................................................................................1 2. Who should read this book? .................................................................................................................1 3. New versions, translations and availability.........................................................................................2 4. Revision History..................................................................................................................................2 5. Contributions.......................................................................................................................................3 6. Feedback..............................................................................................................................................3 7. Copyright information.........................................................................................................................3 8. What do you need? .......................................................................................................................
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...Nowadays rap has molded into a subgenre called “Trap” originating in the slums of Atlanta. Trap is the new style of rapping that coincides with the increase of drug abuse and distribution in the United States. Trap is mostly rooted in the culture of drug making and distribution, and has reached rappers all over the world, especially in South America and the Caribbeans. The sub genre is mostly focused on rapping about selling crack cocaine, abusing prescription drugs such as, promethazine, codeine, and all the violence and crime that ensues. Although it is a considered an eye opening dark side to rap with very explicit content, what is most appealing about this type of music is the very well produced trap beats, and lyrics. Trap has once again risen the bar to another level. The evolution of hip-hop has taken many directions, but what always stays the same is the art of lyricism, its delivery, and musical composition. “The Culture of Hip-Hop” by Michael Eric Dyson opens up the understanding of the original style of hip-hop and gives context to the then misunderstood genre. I recommend his essay to anyone not familiar with why people...
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