This year is 2011. Teenager Zoe enters her friend‚ Regina’s bedroom. ZOE (placing her hand on Regina’s shoulder) Regina‚ what’s wrong? (No response) (sincere eye contact) You’ve been standing there‚ staring out that window for who knows how long. What could be so bad that it would make you lock eyes on that gloomy patio for an eternity? REGINA (shrugs her shoulders) Leave me alone‚ Zoe. Go back to your learning record .You won’t want to write an extra of 50 words‚ right? ZOE I can’t work with
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Waiting for the Mahatma (1955) is perhaps the most controversial novel of R. K. Narayan. Apart from its artistic merits and demerits (which are considerable)‚ many Indian readers of the novel have felt dissatisfied with it and found it difficult to warm up to it particularly because of the way the Mahatma is portrayed in it. Non-Indian readers however have more or less favourably reacted to it‚ while being alive to its artistic lapses. An extreme instance is H. M. Williams who regards it as one of
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The absurd central character belongs to the absurd world around him but‚ pathetically and tragically attempts to struggle out of it into the world of humans – and dies in despair. Nabakov‚ Lecture on Metamorphosis Discuss the above statement with reference to at least two texts on your course. ’CURSED CURSED CREATOR! Why did I live’ ? Words vented out of frustration and self pity by the initially kind natured monster in the novel Frankenstein. It could be argued that had Gregor Samsa found
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! ! Activity 2.2.1: The Neuron ! Introduction You are waiting to cross the street at a busy intersection. All of a sudden‚ two cars collide right in front of you. Your hands instantaneously fly up to shield your face. You hear the horrible crunch of metal. You smell the burning rubber of tires and you open your eyes to see the skid marks on the road. Reaching for your cell phone‚ you dial 911. Your heart races as you run out in the street to see if you can be of any help. So much is happening at
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Jethro and Mr Sommers We had to create a still image ‘statue’ of Jethro. Underneath the statue‚ I chose to show Jethro as being hopeful. I was on my knees but had my fist clenched and to the side of me‚ suggesting that there were still issues with the way that people were treated‚ the time that the statue was meant to be made was during the peak of slavery. The clenched fist representing that Jethro and his fellow people would fight towards freedom. Dan played Mr Sommers‚ he stood with folded arms
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Page 217 C H A P T E R Waiting Line and Queuing Theory Models 14 TEACHING SUGGESTIONS Teaching Suggestion 14.1: Topic of Queuing. Here is a chapter that all students can relate to. Ask about student experiences in lines. Stress that queues are a part of our everyday lives and how things have changed at banks‚ post offices‚ and airports in just the past decade. (We now wait in a common line for the first available server.) Teaching Suggestion 14.2: Cost of Waiting Time from an Organizational
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such as such prolonged waiting time may tremendously influence the nature of the public opinion in regard to the entire health care system. The wait time in the emergency room begins as soon as a patient steps foot in the emergency room and only ends the moment the patient is admitted to the hospital or discharged home. Typically‚ the causes of long wait times are complex and maybe unique depending on the general organization of the hospital.
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The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus? Why That’s Absurd! Before the mid-twentieth century‚ “tragedy” was a special word reserved‚ as Aristotle wrote‚ only for those in power. Modernist literature (spearheaded by Arthur Miller’s Tragedy and the Common Man)‚ however‚ muddied the waters — depicting many different types of people as tragic heroes. Among the first of these so-called commoner tragic heroes was Albert Camus’ Meursault. Like the classically tragic Sisyphus in ancient Greek mythology
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In the two texts "A letter home" and "Waiting for Dan" it has come to my attention that there are plenty of similarities but also many differences between the two stories in the text. In the two texts "A letter home" and "Waiting for Dan" there are a few similarities that string along between the two texts as well as there are differences. In the text "A letter home" the story is basically all about people’s feelings and how they feel about the military raiding Cambodia‚ "any students were outraged
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Introduction Vinegar Tom was written by Caryl Churchill‚ a feminist‚ in 1976 but set in the 17th Century. The play was inspired by the women’s rights act of 1970‚ and the discrimination of women. The title comes from the name of a horrible creature which is supposed to be a witch’s familiar. It is about how four naïve and innocent women’s lives are affected throughout the Salem witch-hunts. Modernised song‚ dance and rhythm are used to combine the horror of the past and attitudes which have carried
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