The Catcher in the Rye Topic Tracking: Phonies Chapter 2 Phonies 1: Holden’s first mention of phonies is with Mr. Spencer. "Phony" is a word Holden uses to characterize insincere people and their language (like Spencer’s word "grand"). Phonies‚ like his fellow students‚ are more interested in playing a part or looking good than in doing or saying anything honest. Chapter 3 Phonies 2: Ossenburger is the first "phony" Holden goes into detail about. Everything we hear about him reveals hypocrisy
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While growing up i had a lot of ups and downs. When I was a kid i had an imagination like every other kid in the world. I went thru good and bad life events throughout the years.I was able to grow out of them little by little. While i kept growing i started to realize the real world and started to get knowledge about the things that were happening to me. While i was still a child the life events would not hurt me at all‚but as the years passed i was able to understand the life events. Out of all
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As soon as I sat down on the tube‚ I thought to myself “ I’m totally going to wipe out.” We were about 100 feet out from our campsite. Right when we started we went about twenty miles an hour and the tube jerked so hard I thought I got whiplash. We were being thrown around so much that we were almost never in the wake our boat left behind. As we flew out to the right‚ I put my hand up to my neck and moved it back and forth‚ indicating the to driver that I needed to stop. Everybody told the driver
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the U.S. to pursue his Ph.D. in English during 1985. In 1989‚ out of the fear of Tiananmen Square incident in China‚ Jin decided to remain in the U.S. for his English career. Jin’s first book‚ Between Silences‚ was published in 1990. In Frank Bidart’s book review‚ he concluded Jin’s Between Silence was
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Silence‚ a term defined by the lack of sound. The consequences of silence were not evident to me until I came across a story called “Terrible Things” by Eve Bunting. Bunting was able to convey to me how keeping quiet has the ability to do more damage than good. The story of animals quietly watching others get caught by the “Terrible Things” only resulted in most of the animals in the forest to be caught and taken away. The animals were only concerned about the creatures that looked like them‚ so
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If the mass marketing or undifferentiated marketing has been applied during the beginning of the 20th century‚ the market segmentation has been applied during the last half of the 20th century. Most of the 20th century‚ consumer products companies decided to tie up with mass marketing‚ mass producing‚ mass distributing‚ and mass promoting for the same product in the same way to all customers. These companies defined that mass marketing will create the large potential market which leads to lowered
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When this bad experience of my life happened‚ I was about ten. I went to my native place which is called Madurai to spend my summer vacation. The way to the city was too long‚ but it was very amazing to listen birds’ songs‚ to notice sunrise behind mountains‚ to watch awakening of nature and the lifestyle of hardworking people in the field. When I reached there‚ my grandparents became very happy to see me. The next day‚ my grandparents were going to work in the field. I wanted to go there with
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ocial networks are becoming increasingly important in higher education as the format of course delivery changes to include hybrid and online models‚ and as the social network offers students a way to stay in touch‚ creating face-to-face like conversations and other interactions away from the physical classroom. From this perspective‚ social networks are particularly important for adult learners who often have complex‚ busy schedules that may not enable them to participate in face-to-face events
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815‚ p=0.004) between pleasant music and silence at without task performance (Task 1). Figure 4.20 shows that the mean heart rate was less (74 beats/min) while listening to pleasant music when compared to silence (78.4 beats/min). The mean heart rate was significantly different (Z=-2.823‚ p=0.005) between unpleasant music and silence at Task 1. The mean heart rate was significantly high for unpleasant music listeners as compared to participants in silence mode. Under task performance (Task 2)‚ the
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The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1356-3289.htm Silence during intercultural communication: a case study Misa Fujio Tokyo Fuji University‚ Tokyo‚ Japan Keywords Communication‚ Cross-cultural management‚ Languages‚ United States of America‚ Japan Abstract This is a case study of USA-Japan intercultural communication‚ analyzing
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