UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS IGCSE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 0486 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Signalman Charles Dickens 2. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3. How It Happened Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Blue Wall Essay #4 The Blue Wall is a code of silence among police officers. It symbolizes police officers failure to report incidents of police misconduct that they observe and the unwillingness of officers to testify against each other. Many police departments are like a fraternity or brotherhood where police officers are committed to protecting each other‚ right or wrong. This wall of silence is re-enforced in New York by a 48-hour rule that exempts a police officer from issuing any statement
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Nature Experience: A Discovery of Self through Silence Silence is the sustenance of life. It is that luxurious space of textured absence that invariably connects all things. It is what philosopher William Penn calls “the true rest of the mind”‚ but from that “rest” has come some of the greatest universal truths and deepest wisdom ever known to man. The seers‚ the saints‚ the shamans and sages have all been sustained through nature’s silence; it’s presence being their greatest companion‚ their
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Klingova‚ Milena 10/3 02/04/13 SHORT STORY Final Draft She was walking home after a big trigonometry test‚ which in her head had not gone well at all‚ even though she had spent hours and hours‚ preparing for it. When I think about it‚ her thoughts cannot be entirely trusted‚ as she was highly competitive and ambitious‚ and even though she was only 16‚ she knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life. Who was she though? Her name was
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Practical analysis 1 While reading the following story‚ I noted its plot structure: 1. Are the events arranged chronologically? Do they catch and hold the reader’s interest? All the events arranged chronologically‚ they catch readers interest‚ because after two Soapy’s attempts ”to go to the Island” that were failed it’s interesting to know what’s the end will be. 2. What is the role of the exposition? The exposition is the beginning section in which the author provides the necessary background
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events. Sometime during the incident Achebe tells the reader‚ “All was silent‚” (123) a statement clearly lacking any reference to the time in which it took place. What causes a silence is imperative in determining the emotion in the silence‚ but without this the reader is pushed to consider for himself what caused the silence‚ the shock from Okonkwo’s gun exploding‚ or possibly of the sadness from the realization of the son of Ezudu being killed. To further this point‚ the sixth sentence of the paragraph
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good memories from their childhood. Everyone likes to remember their childhood. My childhood was rough‚ but I made sure that every night I got a bed time story. IN order for that to happen I had to pick out a book‚ 10 minutes before I had to go to bed. When I was growing up this was the best book in the world to me. Each time I wanted a story read to me‚ I would pick this book up and ask my mother to read it to me. This book brought so much hope and wisdom to me‚ it made me think about everything
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A perfect copy has the perfect grammar and an engaging tone that draws in the audience. As a writer‚ you may be able to write an engaging copy but misspelled words and grammar errors can make your writing seem below par. While drawing analogies and comparisons while writing your article might mean that your copy is good‚ you need to ensure that the analogies you write has to be perfect. You need to be able to have a copy that is flawless and people love reading it. Be it as your blog post or your
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and embarrassed when faced against the society in which they live in. One woman fought to overcome poverty and gain an education to support her family and to do something nobody in her family had ever achieved before. In her article “Overcoming the Silence of Generational Poverty‚” Donna Beegle effectively argues that generational poverty impedes social and educational improvement by incorporating a purpose that sheds new light on a stereotype‚ uses strong logical appeals‚ and establishes her credibility
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Silence Speaks Louder than Words: How to Communicate about CSR Engagement Effectively A Case Study of Noir Authors: Lea Tae-Mee Søndergaard Nielsen (282853) Gro Anna Haldrup Skovbjerg (282834) Supervisor: Michael Hübertz Characters: 98.895 Date: May 5th 2010 BA in Marketing and Management Communication Aarhus School of Business 1 Executive Summary This thesis seeks to shed light on the challenges companies
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