...The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a fictional novel written in the early 20’s about a traveling salesman named Gregory Samsa, who is spontaneously transformed into a bug. The Metamorphosis gives no clear explanation as to why many of the events in the novel occur including why the metamorphosis occurs. Life itself gives no explanation to why things happen. Gregor does not understand the forces shaping his life, and neither do we, but we are free to interpret them as we wish. And although nobody’s interpretation of their own life or someone else’s for that matter, is the same, no interpretation is wrong. Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to come to the realization that he has transformed into a bug. “It wasn’t a dream” (The Metamorphosis). Gregor, However, does not seem at all concerned that he has unexpectedly woken up as an insect. Although he is a bit perplexed, he doesn’t seem worried or petrified as one might assume. He simply notices his odd state of being and tries to go back to sleep hoping to “forget this nonsense” (The Metamorphosis). He cannot find a comfortable position to sleep because his insect body does not allow him. Samsa is a bit bothered but immediately begins to think about his job and the regret of becoming a salesman, considering it is such a strenuous job. "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business...
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...Have you ever killed a bug? Anyone human will more than likely have answered yes. Now, think of reasons as to why you chose to kill it. Was it because it was annoying or pesky? Was it because you just wanted to because you like to think that you are better? "The Scarlet Ibis" written by James Hurst, similarly relates to the idea of the bug's death. The difference of the situation is that this thing happens to be between siblings. There are two main characters in the story, two brothers, the older brother's name is unknown, so he is referred to as Brother. Doodle, the young sibling is physically disabled, as it had been expected for him to die after birth. Surprisingly, Doodle lived and began to become a little better and he survived....
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...that it’s a trap everybody, move to the door over there,” yield Indie. “Not there, that’s where we came through.” “I knew that.” I said. So we ran to the entrance but it had no door handle and the time is wasting, the walls are closing on us. “Why didn’t I see that it had a sign on it, Push to open the door?” So we pushed the door and it opened but we weren’t alone there was the ‘Cat Woman’ “Sorry for intruding, seems like you have a competition for now on,” Cat Woman smirked and went off like a feather in the air. So we rushed to the next door and that’s when I stepped on the trap. “INDIE, I’m kind of in trouble right now,” “What?” “I can’t move, if I do the pointy arrows will narrow us down, you have to leave me behind,” “I’m not leaving you now, slowly move your foot and I’ll put this massive rock on it. Move your leg slowly.” “Thanks, Indi I owe you one.” So I moved my leg slowly and Indie slipped the rock on the trap. I was free so we were being careful where we stepped. Once we got out we set camp I collected some sticks for the fire and Bugs did, well nothing actually except eating his carrot and he won’t shut up for some reason, his worse than my cousin. When we got ready to go to sleep I snug up near Bugs, gosh he talks in his sleep, I just looked at the sky wondering if I ever made it out alive and seeing my parents again before I’m grounded or something I better call...
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...bacterial infections will simply run their course, causing considerable but temporary suffering, others will kill their hosts, or develop a symbiotic relationship, making the human host a perpetual propagator of lethal disease. Here’s the shocking fact: We are the ones creating these super bacteria. While evolution plays a role, we are helping it to strengthen mankind’s number one living enemy. The evolutionary part is simply that some bacteria do survive antibiotic treatment and its drug-resistant genetic material gets passed on to other bacteria. It is precisely because of this that health authorities in developed countries urge us to consume all the pills in a prescription: While we may feel better after a few pills have killed most sieging bacteria, the few that are left behind due to an incomplete treatment are likely to be the strongest, most resistant ones. That batch may lay dormant waiting for the next hiccup in our immune system, or may jump to vulnerable folk around us with little or no defence against such formidable bugs. What’s more, antibiotics are hard on the body: Some bacteria are actually good for us. For example, our digestive system relies on many types of...
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...Negative Effect: When a person first walks into the cramped "L" shaped bedroom, they first need to open up the dirty white door with the rusty doorknob. Moving forward there is an oversized, unmade bed with tons of blankets, a pink carpet, and dog stains that makes it look like water was splashed all over the room. To the right, there are a bunch of bins, and a clothing rack. It looks like the room is cramped together, which causes the room to look smaller than it really is. It looks like a potential episode of “Hoarders,” the TV show, or a consumer prison with all the endless wants and needs of too many “new” clothes and things. To the left there is an overfilled dresser where the clothes in the drawers are popping out like popcorn in the microwave. In the closet, there is a broken purple laundry basket that has scantily clad high heels in it, and two more bins along with that, making the closet seem more cluttered. The walls are painted a dull white color, with butterfly wallpaper in the middle, and a boring white trim that seems everlasting as it goes around the room. Below that is a purple wall color that looks like "Barney the purple dinosaur.” There are piles of clothes on the floor, that are as tall as the Rocky Mountains out west of the United States. The pictures on the wall are dull and need color. Faith, Love, Laugh are in tan letters that don't match the walls at all. There is a Bret Michael’s poster hanging that looks like a five year old made it, but in truth an...
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...The Island In the year 2019, the world is contaminated. Thousands of ‘people’ are led to believe that they live in an isolatet building, which contains noncontaimed survivers. What they do not know is that they are clones; created to be harvestet for their bodyparts and that there is no contamination what so ever. Because they have been manipulated, the only thing that they strive for is to win the lottery, meaning to be chosen to go to The Island – the only uncontamined place left on the planet, the place which gives them hope and a purpose in their lives. The lottery is only an excuse to get the clones to leave their safe surroundings willingly, without them knowing anything about their destiny and to avoid any suspicion. Their sponsors – the people who pay a lot of money to be cloned are not aware of what is actually going on. They have been told that the clones are maintained in a persistent vegetative state, that they never achieve consciousness. The clones are participants in a huge unethical project, which the rest of the world is oblivious to and the man who runs the company, Dr. Merrick is the one behind the fraud. The building the clones live in is portraied as a very cold and sterile enviroment. Every room is bright and white. The white color is a consistens feature and the residents are all wearing identical white outfits. Everything from moodswings to a little change in sleeppatterns are automaticly recorded, sexual behavior is non-existent, because the clones...
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...Is it important to have respect for how we treat our food? The background behind the food on our table can change how consumers see a McDonald's hamburger or an organic apple. Blake Hurst, author “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals” sees industrial farming as the more efficient way to go. The film, Food, Inc., however, shows how organic farming will benefit the consumers in many ways. These two groups can only criticize half of the consumer process because the other knows the other half is better than their way. Both Hurst and Food, Inc. want something to be done about the current food system but neither can agree on the perfect farmer characteristics. These groups seek to find more support for various types of...
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...has been around for many years and it is now just becoming more and more of an issue. I think if a same sex couple wants to be together and live together then they should be able to have the same rights as every other couple. Otherwise when something drastic happens there would be no one around to make the decisions needed. Being if it has to be about their house, kids, possessions, and final arrangements. In same sex marriage since it has become legal and recognized they are now allowing there partner to make their final arrangements when they die. “Married couples can combine their estate tax exemptions. This means that the second spouse to die can leave property worth up to $10 million free from federal estate tax. Unmarried couples do not get the "portability," so that the second partner in a relationship to die can leave only $5 million tax-free. (www.nolo.com.) When it comes to the children involved in these relationships they are given the same rights as a heterosexual couple would have unless written different in a will or other legal paperwork. If adopted it would be up to the adoption agency and the stipulations they established during the...
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...Technologies PLC’s cost of quality. Pinewood offer a dealer management system (DMS) called Pinnacle to retailers in automotive industry, offering a wide range of features integrated in one software. We have examined Pinewood’s cost of quality by following the Six Sigma framework DMAIC, utilising Project Charter, Cause and Effect Diagram, 5 Whys and Affinity Diagram. To start off the project we spent the first day at their offices, where we were given an induction talk by Tim Barney, Pinewood’s quality leader. After the meeting we received a comprehensive set of data comprising details of their business, allowing us to start our analysis. Firstly we created a Project Charter to define our project and Pinewood’s problem, which we would investigate. Further on, the Cause and Effect Diagram was used to identify possible factors causing increased quality costs. At this stage we received the data from Tim Barney, but this was initially really hard to analyse as it only gave us an overview. However, by applying the 5 Whys analysis we managed to go beneath the data and find the root causes for why Pinewood experienced a high volume of support issues. After the 5 Whys analysis we applied the Affinity Diagram which allowed us to organise and categorise all of Pinewood’s barriers to quality, and to discover their key barriers: limited communication, limited staff to accommodate their increasing demand and an overcomplicated software. Our recommendations derives from these findings; implement a horizontal...
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...Helping Your Child Learn Science U.S. Department of Education Margaret Spellings Secretary First published in September 1992. Revised in 2004 and 2005. This booklet is in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part for educational purposes is granted. While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, the citation should be: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Communications and Outreach, Helping Your Child Learn Science, Washington, D.C., 2005. To order copies of this publication in English or Spanish, write to: ED Pubs Education Publications Center U.S. Department of Education P.O. Box 1398 Jessup, MD 20794-1398; or fax your request to: (301) 470-1244; or e-mail your request to: edpubs@inet.ed.gov. or call in your request toll-free: 1-877-433-7827 (1-877-4-ED-PUBS). If 877 is not yet available in your area, call 1-800-872-5327 (1-800-USA-LEARN). Those who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a teletypewriter (TTY), should call 1-800-437-0833. or order online at: www.edpubs.org/webstore/Content/search.asp This publication is also available on the Department’s Web site at: www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html On request, this publication is available in alternate formats, such as Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette. For more information, please contact the Department’s Alternate Format Center at (202) 260-9895 or (202) 205-0818. Children’s books and magazines are mentioned in this booklet...
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...how it is beneficial. Also, identify one area where project management software is not beneficial to project management and explain why you feel this is the case. Explain the rationale behind your answers. Answer Benefit of Project Management Tool We have seen that there are lots of project management tools are introduced in the market in which one of the famous tool is Microsoft project management tools. Basically, there tools are developed to quantifying the project cost , requested efforts in development and testing, project planning, help to divide the project into sub parts which will improve the quality of product. So, these are the tools which help us to manage the project in various areas. Three of main areas are given below: * Project Planning * Managing the task * Sharing and Collaborating on Documents 1. Project Planning These tools help project manager to plan the each phase of project. They provides how the each tasks are interconnect to each other and also define the project schedule like which task will be done in which date , help to understand the critical path view of project. So In vast it will help in many way like: * Define task allocation * Help to define the time estimation for each task * A detailed breakdown of tasks to be completed. * Define task dependency * Schedule the leave of allocated resources * Help to break project in many task which will help in completion of project successfully. * Give...
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...Have you ever noticed a silvery bug crawling in your house with many legs? You may have seen a silverfish, otherwise known as Lepisma Saccharina. These little creatures are usually a light silvery gray or blue and they have a slightly fish-like appearance, hence the name silverfish (sometimes also known as fishmoth). They are tear-dropped in shape and usually measure around 12 to 19 mm. They like to eat carbohydrates such as starches and sugars. Silverfish can be a nuisance around the house. Luckily, they're not much of a health concern since they don't sting, don't bite and don't carry diseases, but they're still pests that no one likes to see crawling around inside. In some cases, if there is an infestation in the kitchen, they've been known to lay eggs in food such as sugar and cereal, and that can be a cause for concern. There are a...
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...about it all as if it would go back to normal. When he tries to though he realizes the way he is used to sleeping is impossible in his new state. This isn’t the biggest of his problems however, he now realizes he cannot be seen by anyone because he doesn’t know how they will react but he knows somehow he needs to get to work. He decides to just stay in and hope it goes away but he is never sick so his family and manager begin to suspect something more is going on. Finally he gets the strength to get up as his family and manager are persisting he unlocks his door but realizes maneuvering is a lot more difficult as this bug like thing he now is. Eventually he gets to the door and uses his teeth to unlock it and when his father opens the door and he reveals himself he is suddenly a disgrace to his family. All of them leave his locked in his room and don’t know what to do with him other than his sister, Grete, who occasionally brings him food. As time goes by his family is struggling with supporting themselves as well as dealing with Gregor. He is left in his room to hear all the criticism about him. However one day he hears the sound of something familiar from the days when he was normal. It’s his sister’s violin and she is playing for their new house guest’s since they’ve had to bring in people from the street for their...
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...Emma moved to Fairhaven, Massachusetts while Lizzie moved to a beach house with some friends on Buzzards Bay on the Massachusetts coast. While she was there, she tried to buy prussic acid from a pharmacy so that she can kill the bugs that were always around her fur coat. The pharmacists wouldn’t sell it to her unless she had a prescription from a doctor. It brought attention to her, and she decided to drop the whole thing altogether. Lizzie then found out that her father was yet again giving ownership of his land to Abby, this time it was a farm. Lizzie told her friend, Alice Russell, that her father’s business was always bringing him enemies and that she felt something terrible was going to happen. Lizzie decided to go back and stay with them for a while. On August 3rd everyone in the house, including Lizzie, became sick. Andrew assumed that they had all been...
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...How to Pack a Backpack for Hiking The first time when I was backpacking for my hiking trip, it took me a hell lot of time. I was inexperienced and also naïve, which is why I had to leave a lot of stuff behind as there was no space in my backpack. But now I am quite happy that I learned how to efficiently pack my backpack for hiking. It can be quite tricky for a first timer to pack their backpacks. So here I am helping you out with some of the best tips. The backpacks that you can carry to college can also be carried for hiking and trips. And usually they have all the space and storage you need to carry the essential items with you. However there is no specific way to pack your backpacks, but before you go ahead and start packing, remember that...
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