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    consequences but it can also lead to a nice change. In the short story “Parent’s Night” Karen the daughter she is the nonconformists in the story‚ and her parents are the conformists. Karen joins a LBTQ after school club that makes her feel belonged for once. In spite she feels belonged her parents doesn’t really agree with her being in that club thinking she was confused. Likewise throughout the story Karen and her parents shows how they conform and nonconform. In the short story her parents

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    at the school Martha‚ her aunt‚ and Karen run. It begins by showing Mary being punished for coming to class late and lying to Martha’s aunt‚ Mary then tries to evade trouble by faking heart problems and fainting. Karen’s fiance Joe Cardin is a doctor that comes to treats Mary. Then Martha and her aunt have a row in the room next door which is overheard by two students Evelyn and Peggy. After Mary is said by Cardin to be healthy Mary is punished by Martha and Karen. Mary complains loudly and runs away

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    Character Analyses Table

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    Characters – The Story of Tom Brennan Using the information about the other characters given to you by the other groups fill in the boxes below‚ include: * Adjectives to describe their personal (how they act‚ what they’re like) and physical characteristics (what they look like) * How they deal with the crash & do they blame themselves for the crash? How? (Include a quote from the novel to illustrate this and explain why this quote is appropriate) * Outline how they have grown or changed

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    Summary Of The death Of Karen Silkwood The Death of Karen Silkwood is a story about the death of a 28 years old woman . Her  name is Karen Silkwood .  According to the author’s story ‚ she died in a car accident in 1974 .   The beginning of the story  is when Karen changes her job as a secretary to work as a laborer at an unclear factory . At the first ‚ she likes everything the wage ‚ the job and the workers too .She has a lot of friends immediately . The end was not as satisfying as

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    Your role is to decide if Karen is an independent contractor or an employee and discuss some of the preventative and ethical situations that are occurring in this case. Questions: 1. Do you feel that Karen is an independent contractor or an employee? What is your rationale for this decision? In my opinion Karen should be a considered a permanent employee as she has been working and promoted in the company for five years and she is considered an asset to them‚ she is paid in salary already

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    Counselling - Lee

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    Introduction Karen Lee the counselee is a middle age‚ middle class housewife with 3 teenage kids who reported general dissatisfaction over her uneventful and predictable life. The therapist in attempt to help her has studied her through psychoanalytic and cognitive behavioral therapies. The difference between these two therapies is very obvious in their length of treatment approach with psychoanalytic therapy requiring longer treatment period. Both also have differences in their substantial grounds

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    Belonging

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    written by Peter Skrzynecki in his collection ‘Immigrant Chronicle’ and ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’‚ a novel written by J.C Burke. ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ displays a Polish father being alienated by the unfamiliar Australian society and seeking belonging through his garden. ‘St. Patrick’s College’ is a poem of a school boy who experiences dislocation and alienation throughout his schooling life. ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ Feliks Skrzynecki: The poem ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ annotates the life of Peter Skrzynecki’s

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    The Peloponnesian League: an alliance of Peloponnesian cities with Sparta as the leading city. Sparta had a separate alliance with each city. ‘…we believe that the allies met as a council and could in fact overrule Sparta in a military decision. Thus Sparta‚ it would appear‚ relied on it command of influence and respect rather than outright military power in order to have its voice heard within its own band of most important allies.’ Welch‚ p. 169 Paul Cartledge: his work in the 1970s involved

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    different. The shifts in the meaning of the color can be related to the action in the story‚ and how Karen is feeling or being affected by her surroundings. Karen’s “red and sore ankles” in the opening of the story are the result of wearing wooden shoes in the winter. This redness is symbolic of her poor family‚ and also of her playful nature. As is shown in the rest of the story‚ Karen is a carefree child‚ and the type of girl‚ who even though she is wearing heavy wooden shoes‚ would

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    liberties issues such as the freedom of the press and lobbying to an interest group. Silkwood begins when the main character‚ Karen Silkwood begins her day at work the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site‚ making plutonium fuel rods for nuclear reactors. In order to visit her three children for the weekend‚ she convinces a friend to work an extra shift in her place‚ but Karen is blamed for a contamination that happens in her section directly after she leaves because the plant knows she wants the

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