The Illiad Book 1: Summary: The Iliad begins with the Trojan War already in progress. Greek audiences would have been familiar with the background of the story‚ and here a brief summary of events is necessary to help the reader to put these events in context. It is important to remember that these stories had a life outside of Homer: he did not invent his characters or the main events of the epic. He did make key choices regarding which events and characters were to be emphasized and reinterpreted
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Quantification of Stylistic Traits: A Statistical Approach Summary of the Study This study attempts to identify the distinct stylistic features of the three contemporary Tamil scholars named Mahakavi Barathi (MB)‚ V. Kalsanasundaram (VK) and Subramaniya Iyer (SI) by using their literary works. These three scholars wrote articles on India’s Freedom Movement in the magazine called India. Initially‚ all the three scholars have written articles by attributing their names however‚ because of the
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WRITING A SUMMARY OF AN ARTICLE WHAT IS A SUMMARY? A summary restates the main ideas of an author in your own words. It keeps the essential information from the original passage while eliminating most supporting details‚ such as the examples and illustrations. A good
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Case Study#1 Summary Problems facing by Strategic Marketing Unit Two (SMU2) of Fine Food: Unfairly allocated costing system Unreliable performance evaluation standard leads to undervaluation of SMU2 and negative motivational effect on employees. Key Findings: Fine Foods allocates some period costs (including sales and marketing costs‚ media and sales promotion costs‚ and freight out cost) based on weight of product sold. SMU2 thus seems less profitable because the main product of SMU2 is Product
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PRESIDENTS Examiner 1: ……………………………………………………… Examiner 2: ……………………………………………………… Field Study Code : THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE : 60.22.15 This thesis will be presented to the Examining Committee at the University of Danang on October 30th 2010 M.A. THESIS (SUMMARY) This thesis is available found at the library of DANANG - 2010 - College of Foreign Languages‚ University of Danang. - Information Resources Center‚ University of Danang. 3 4 Chapter 1 the stylistic devices can bring in the speech. In order
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My IN-Depth Summaries of Warriors Don’t Cry Chapter 1 Summary In this chapter‚ we learn some basic things about the main character‚ Melba‚ and we know that she is born on December 7th‚ 1941. Melba’s birth was a complicated one‚ but she eventually made a full recovery and on top of all of that‚ Melba also had to go through the harsh reality of segregation when she was five years old. Chapter 2 Summary In this chapter‚ the local newspapers talk about the Brown Vs. Board Of Education
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Something Upstairs Something Upstairs by Avi is a historical fiction book based on the main character Kenny who has just moved into his new house in Providence‚ Rhode Island. He soon finds out that a ghost lives in the connecting room to his room because of the scratching sounds he hears coming from his closet. The ghost was a slave who was murdered in that house. Caleb‚ the ghost and Kenny are able to transport to the past‚ because of Caleb’s abilities. Kenny figures this is a great way to go
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James Knight 12-6-11 Extra Credit Crash: Racially Charged The movie CRASH pertains to a day of encounters of people of different races. An interaction between strangers ended in chaos‚ hatred‚ and fear. The movie portrayed interactions of different races causing clashes between victim and aggressor‚ superior and inferior and an idealist and racist. Racism was portrayed as a common attitude of the characters played. Crash is an eye opener to the problem of our society; racial discrimination
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5. Violets It is dusk‚ and cold. I kneel to pick frail melancholy flowers among ashes and loam. The melting west is striped like ice-cream. While I try whistling a trill‚ close by his nest our blackbird frets and strops his beak indifferent to Scarlatti’s song. Ambiguous light. Ambiguous sky Towards nightfall waking from the fearful half-sleep of a hot afternoon at our first house‚ in Mitchelton‚ I ran to find my mother‚ calling for breakfast. Laughing‚ “It will soon be night‚ you
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How to Lie with Statistics” by Darrell Huff was a great book to read for a student like myself that is entering a course in statistics. It gave me the insight that I needed to know what statistics is all about and even the ‘tricks’ about using statistics that I can use when I get older and maybe have an important business job for example were I must present for the company and this book proves to be my savior. Though anyway it’s still very influential. This book wasn’t very hard to get through and
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