...introduction and rising action of the story.. By writing a summary of what the narrator did to the old man, Poe shows the madness in the narrator. Throughout the story, his writing is used in a way to show how the narrator wants to prove his sanity. By using an unreliable second person point of view, symbolism, and syntax & sentence structure, this passage is used to prove the narrator’s point. In the reading, Poe utilizes an unreliable second person point of view. This means that the narrator either cannot or will not tell the reader what really happens in the story. In the passage, the narrator immediately states that his disease has made his hearing intensely powerful, rather than weakening his senses. He claims, “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I...
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... 2.) How do wetlands produce these natural filters that clean the water? 3.) If one quarter of a million people join the planet everyday, how many leave it? 4.) I did not know that vultures played such a big role in our everyday lives, what other animals play a big role? What do they do for us? 5.) How could you get involved in helping out or ecosystem? I read the article “Conservation for the people”, written by Peter Kareiva and Michelle Marvier. It was a very interesting article about how we could maintain our ecosystem and save some of the animals that are going extinct. It touches on a lot of key points and facts that I didn’t even know were real! Did you know, that vultures play a key role in our lives? When an animal dies, vultures usually come down from the sky to eat the animal. Well while it’s eating the animal it also eats all the bacteria and viruses that come with the deceased animal. If vultures went extinct then the animals would either decay or get eaten by some other animal. The animal they were looking at was the dog. Since vultures started to become endangered, the feral dog population has skyrocketed! Why is this bad? Well it comes with a threat of rabies! “Saving the vulture from extinction would protect people from dangerous disease.” (P.K, M.M 13) What are we doing to help prevent this? Well in 1988 a student from The University of Oxford named Norman Meyers came up with an idea called a “Hot Spot.” The basic idea was to identify areas with...
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...the text. For example, “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” This excerpt illustrates the narrator’s thoughts of mortality. “Yes, he was stone, stone dead”, depicts how the narrator continued to express the old man’s death in a conspicuous/ distinct manner. Edgar Allen Poe can build so much fixated context over the old mans “vulture eye”, amplifying the use of imagery in the text. “You fancy me mad...You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.” This is ironic because the man tells himself he is normal that he is killing a man because of his eye. Another example is, “a pale blue eye, with a film over it.” The symbol in this quote was the film over the eye, how the man couldn't see as well what was going on right under his nose. Poe creates confusion using his pandemonium literature to render the imagery of the story. Whether or not the old man was a vulture like person, the audience doesn’t know. However, that’s what he symbolizes to the narrator. If the narrator is afraid of the vulture’s eye, and vultures prey on the dead, does this mean the narrator was dead or almost dead? Tell Tale Heart is told from the narrative point of view. At the beginning, the narrator suggests that he is completely sane. For example, “I loved the...
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...Folk Tales & Historical Fiction, grades 3-9 Richard Nathan's Imaginative and Quirky Short and Long Plays, Horror and Science Fiction, etc. (small and medium size casts) CONTACT Jeannette Jaquish FunAntics Theater Scripts HOME PAGE ----------------------------------------------- If you like, Donate $1 to FunAntics at this link: ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form --------------------------------------------------- Many comics make good short skits. Check out: Calvin & Hobbes (sold in book form now) and Dilbert and Zits for skits using ordinary clothing and few props. Other comics in the newspaper make good short skits. Make a Laugh-In Joke Wall (ask someone born before 1959 what Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was). Slit a refrigerator box down one corner so you can open it up and make a \___/ shaped wall. Cut windows with flaps so they can open and close, and paint wild decorations on the wall. The actors pop their heads through the windows to ask riddles, knock-knock jokes, or short jokes. At the punchline, other heads pop through to laugh or groan. Tape the scripts inside next to each window. Check out the "Jokes" link. SEAT BELT PRIZE (4 people in car, 2 in the...
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...narrator speaks of murdering an old man and he uses this as an evidence of sanity. This is thus a crime and it reveals that he has monomania. From the story, it is clear that the murdered old man did not have any quarrels or any form of clashes with the author but still the author just chose to murder him. From the analysis of the story, there is nowhere in the book that the author talks ill of the old man. Instead, he praises him stating that he does not know what made him kill the man (Harper, 2013). From the story, the author loved the old man and he never wronged anyone, not even the person who killed him. Despite the old man having various treasures such as gold and other objects, the killer, that is, the author, never had an ill will against his possessions that could have made him kill the man to inherit his property (Harper, 2013). The man was a father figure and a property owner to the author, who was his servant. The only thing that could have made the author kill the man could have been his power shown by the vulture-like eyes that he had. It is normal for servants to develop a kind of fear to their masters based on the look of the eyes of their masters and other traits (Harper,...
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...The State of NJ vs. Mr. Heart-Prosecution Imagine if a loved one was murdered by a cold-blooded person, who took their life only because of one little flaw. Good evening ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today we have the case of the State of New Jersey v. Heart. Heart´s testimony provides us with clear evidence, and leads me to believe that he knew exactly what he was doing, when he took the life of the innocent man. Reading through Mr.Heart’s testimony proves without a single doubt that he is guilty due to the evidence against him showing it was a premeditated, malicious, and deliberate murder. To commence this argument, many people may wonder what premeditated murder is. Premeditated is when an act is thought out beforehand and is willingly...
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...The man goes into his bedroom opens the door to see if the eye is open or not. As Poe says, "And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously--oh, so cautiously--cautiously (for the hinges creaked)--I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye." (Poe). The man does this every night at twelve o clock for seven nights to get the old mans vulture eye. He will sit there watching the old man sleep....
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...their own motives for wanting to help someone in need. Some people help because that’s just the type of person they are also known as altruism. There are some that believe that if you help someone, you will be rewarded for that deed; which is also known as the social exchange theory. In some cases, the person who is trying to help another person feels empathy for the person they are trying to help; which is different from sympathy. Empathy is the feeling of oneness with the emotional state of another. Sympathy is a sense of feeling sorry for another person. There are different motives for wanting to help another person in need; but when are we suppose to help? Are we supposed to help a stranger on the street who is trying to feed themselves? What about helping to feed a starving child? Are we supposed to help our family and friends more than strangers? When do we help? These are some questions that everyone should ask themselves. In most cases, some find it easier to walk away from a person in need then to take out time to help. One famous term for not helping a person is the bystander effect. The bystander effect refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the numbers of people present, the less likely people are going to help a person in distress. When an emergency situation occurs, observers are more likely to take action if there are few or no other witnesses (Wagner). In the past forty-six years, there have been many incidents in which a violent crime took place...
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...Other Countries Facing Bankruptcy 4 Case study 2 6 Argentina Bankruptcy 6 Argentina towards Bankruptcy 6 What Happens When Argentina Goes Bankrupt? 8 Background to the Crisis 9 Argentina's Unemployment Rate 10 The Facts of the Case 12 Riots, Rate, Default and Resignations of Argentina 13 Research Matrix about Bankruptcy 16 CONCLUSION 17 REFERENCE 17 INDRODUCTION Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which a person who cannot pay his or her bills petitions the court to get legal protection from creditors and to obtain a fresh financial start. Although a bankruptcy filing is a court proceeding and all documents are signed under oath. However, in most bankruptcy cases you do not need to go before a judge. At the moment your bankruptcy is filed, the automatic stay goes into effect. The automatic stay immediately stops your creditors from attempting to collect debts from you in any way, including phone calls, letters and pending court proceedings. There are some exceptions to the automatic stay including criminal or government proceedings or those related to most domestic relations matters. Part of the bankruptcy petition is the completion of a Means Test. The Means Test averages then annualizes your gross monthly income for the six months prior to filing to determine your Means Test Income. If your gross income varies from month to month, your Means Test Income may not necessary be your actual annual income. If...
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...RICK RIORDAN THE CROWN of PTOLEMY A Percy Jackson/Kane Chronicles Adventure PUFFIN Contents The Crown of Ptolemy ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rick Riordan is the creator of the award-winning, bestselling Percy Jackson series and the thrilling Kane Chronicles and Heroes of Olympus series. Don’t miss his new series: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. According to Rick, the idea for the Percy Jackson stories was inspired by his son Haley. But rumour has it that Camp Half-Blood actually exists, and Rick spends his summers there recording the adventures of young demigods. Some believe that, to avoid a mass panic among the mortal population, he was forced to swear on the River Styx to present Percy Jackson’s story as fiction. Rick lives in Boston, Massachussetts, (apart from his summers on Half-Blood Hill) with his wife and two sons. To learn more about Rick and the Percy Jackson and Kane Chronicles series, visit: www.rickriordanmythmaster.co.uk The Crown of Ptolemy ‘CARTER!’ I SHOUTED. Nothing happened. Next to me, pressed against the wall of the old fort, Annabeth peered into the rain, waiting for magical teenagers to fall out of the sky. ‘Are you doing it right?’ she asked me. ‘Gee¸ I dunno. I’m pretty sure his name is pronounced Carter.’ ‘Try tapping the hieroglyph multiple times.’ ‘That’s stupid.’ ‘Just try it.’ I stared at my hand. There wasn’t even a trace of the hieroglyph that Carter Kane had drawn on my palm almost two months back. He’d...
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...that wind developments can disrupt migration routes; while bird's foraging and nesting habitat are at risk of being lost when turbines are put up. Windmills don't affect all birds, but they do affect birds of prey, disproportionately. The main reason this occurs has to do with bird's genetics. For example, species like vultures have blind spots in their visual field. This means they cannot see objects directly in front of them (like wind turbines) when flying. Concerning amounts of bird deaths; large birds like hen harriers, eagles and vultures are slower to reproduce than other species, so their populations are more likely to have a small number of deaths. Unfortunately, there are specific locations in the world where windmills have caused a great number of fatalities amongst birds of prey. In the Almont pass in California, one study found that about 4,000 wind turbines killed 67 golden eagles and 1,127 birds of prey in a year. In Southern Spain, 252 wind turbines located in an area used by many birds of prey (on the migratory path of many large birds) killed 124 birds of prey in a year. At another location in southern Spain, 256 turbines killed 30 griffin vultures and 12 common kestrels. Johnson 2 The RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) references these studies, and concluded that some poorly sited wind mills in California and Spain have caused the most...
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...Netherlands In the Netherlands they are known for their commercial history and famed adaptability. This means that they import goods to re-export them at a profit. Fifty percent of all trucks in Europe are from the Netherlands. Some of the cultural differences between the United States and the Netherlands are work floor, education, business structures, management style, communication styles and prestige. Work Floor In the United States workers what to be rewarded for a job well done. Some companies may give out an employee of the month to the best performing employee or some might give out bonuses for performing well. In the Netherlands it is a general opinion that it is normal to do a good job, expected without reward. Also Dutch employees will stay with one company for a long period of time, showing their loyalty and interest in long-term goals. Another big difference is the labor laws. The Dutch laws are very stringent which make it difficult to dismiss employees. So for a company to downsize it is difficult and can be very costly. Education Education and grades are much more important in the United States than in the Netherlands. In the US having a degree is about the only way one will get very far in any business anymore. The Dutch on the other hand as long as you have a diploma that is enough and grades don’t matter. With that being said the Dutch as a nation are highly educated. A large percentage of the country’s GDP is spent on education. Business Structure ...
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...Name; Subject; Date; Instructor; The great pyramid of Giza The pyramids of Ancient Egypt are as entrancing and interesting, as they are amazing. Egyptologists and history specialists have since quite a while ago faced off regarding the topic of who manufactured the pyramids, and for what reason. There are a wide range of and regularly clashing hypotheses as to the development of the Great Pyramid of Giza. At the point when turning back the pages of history, it is found that various speculations have been produced to clarify the nearness of such a critical authentic milestone. Speculations differ from a tomb for a lord, to an uncommon synthetic plant, a reference point for extraterrestrial aircraft's, a stone type of the Bible, a conceivable approach to contact a Higher Being and a stone declaration of the second happening to Christ. Such case of shifting questionable hypotheses has started various theories to the riddle of the Great Pyramid of Giza. As indicated by customary Egyptology, the Great Pyramid of Giza was worked by Egyptian pharaoh Khufu amid the Fourth Dynasty around .the year 2560 BCE Schillings, M. : 1999 : Sheet . It has been proposed that the Egyptian civilization succeeded in setting up an unpredictable and sorted out work power of individuals to make and manufacture an astounding entombment tomb for the pharaoh in help of his voyage to the great beyond. Be that as it may, in opposition to this recommendation, one must inquire as to why the present day...
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...com/biography/chuang-tzu/ It is said that Chuang Tzu did not desire material things and had little interest in occupying positions of high status. He rather cared, enjoyed and was mystified by dwelling in natures surroundings as well as the personal freedoms that it offered. He cared little for anything relating to positions of higher office. "When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples expressed a wish to give him a splendid funeral. But Chuang Tzu said, With the heavens and earth itself for my coffin and shell; with the sun, moon, and stars as my burial regalia; and with all creation to escort me to the grave—are not my funeral arrangements already well in hand? We are afraid the vultures will eat the body of our master, said the disciples. To this Chuang Tzu replied, Above ground I shall be food for vultures; below I shall be food for worms and ants. Why rob one to feed the other?" (Giles & Quaritch, 1926) Here he is...
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...now virtually certain. So far, default has been staved off by the transfer of wealth from taxpayers – Argentine and international – to bondholders. Last Friday, the government paid Dollars 900m in interest on its foreign debt, in part by using money confiscated from private pension funds and by pressuring domestic banks to roll over Treasury bills. By the end of the year, the Institute of International Finance calculates, Argentina will have paid Dollars 12bn to foreign creditors, at the same time as domestic capital has been fleeing the country. The money to finance this has come from the IMF, the World Bank and the Group of 10 industrial countries – in other words, taxpayers around the world. But avoiding a foreign debt default does not mean that Argentina has met its commitments. The price demanded by the IMF and the US Treasury for their support has been that the Argentine government, at the same time that it pays foreign creditors, should default on its domestic promises. Pensions have been cut by 13 per cent. Many state employees have not been paid for months. Bank depositors have had their accounts partially frozen. The most...
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