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    Let Your Voice Be Heard

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    Diamond Johnson August 5‚ 2010 Final Draft Let Your Voice Be Heard Everyone has a story or past that needs to be shared‚ whether it is good or bad. There may be someone out there who is going through or who went through the same thing you did. The only way to find out is by opening up. By openly sharing your experience‚ others will follow suit. If you have ever been in an abusive relationship you know what I am talking about. We have to stand together as one‚ we have to be brave and help others

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    Quyen Tran WR 121 January 23‚ 2012 Summary Response #1 Summary In “Innocent Afield” Buzz Bissinger says that high school sports has grown to be only about winning in too many places in America. High school sports create social barriers from athletes to non-athletes. High school athletes are more competitive than college athletes or professionals. An issue arose was that many coaches are being paid too much‚ close to $90‚000 a year‚ without having to teach a class. Rather than using private

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    The Fly by Katherine Mansfield Summary The story “Fly” throws light on the fact that time is a great healer and it conquers grief. Mr. Woodifield comes to see his ex-boss. He is retired and is a heart patient. He praises the new setting and furniture of the office. Then the boss offers him whisky. After drinking it‚ Mr. Woodifield remembers what he has forgotten. He tells the boss that his daughters have visited the graves of the boss’s as well as Mr. Woodsfield’s son. Actually‚ they have died

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    The Fly” “The Fly” illustrates the concept of overcoming grief through time. The value of life‚ the conquest of time over grief‚ and the helplessness of man before fate are some of the key lessons the narrator emphasize throughout the story. The author usage of the fly as a metaphor allows the reader to explore the emotional‚ physiological‚ and benevolent force a human being faces. The narrator is unknown throughout the short story but is a reliable source of information. An omniscient presence

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    Academic Planner JTW 106E/4 JTW 105E/2 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION Academic Session 2012/2013 Video ConferencE | Session | Date | Time | 1 | | | 2 | | | 3 | | | 4 | | | 5 | | | 6 | | | 7 | | | [Students need to fill the date and time of video conference session. Please refer to the video conference time-table for Academic Session 2012/2013 provided.] JTW 106E/4 / JTW 105E/2 – BUSINESS COMMUNICATION PENGURUS KURSUS : PUAN JAINAMBU BINTI

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    Flies

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    Introduction: ​The common fruit fly‚ Drosophila melanogaster‚ is mainly used for genetic studies. Fruit flies are easily cultured and can reproduce in as little as two weeks at the proper temperature. (Book) The purpose of this experiment was to study the transfer of genes between homologous chromosomes by crossing over. During our experiment we studied three X-chromosome genes: white (w)‚ miniature (m)‚ and forked (f). ​To begin this experiment we started with four types of flies; sepia‚ dumpy‚ wild

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    to be bright and friendly. The boss then notices a fly struggling to get out of the inkpot on his desk. The boss helps it out of the inkpot and observes how it dries itself. When the fly is dry and safe‚ the boss has an idea and starts playing with the fly by dropping ink on it. He admires the fly’s courage and continues dropping ink on it‚ watching it dry itself continuously. By this time‚ the fly is weak and dies. The boss throws the dead fly‚ along with the blotting paper‚ into the wastepaper

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    The Fly

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    The fly is a short story written by Katherine Mansfield. The protagnist of this story is the boss who kills a petty fly in order to remove his personal frustration and agony about his only son’s death at war.The boss is both a self indulgent boss as well as a bereaved father. Firstly the boss is a bevered father. He loves his only son implicibaly and cannot come in terms with his death. He is so taken aback by his sons death that he does not even want to remember it or think about it. This can be

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    The Fly

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    The fly First impressions of the story: A meeting between a boss and an employee. They talk about old times meaning that they have known each other for quite some time. The conversation was a distraction on reality. The first impressions of the story may trail your reference to the word fly‚ for example minority. A second meaning for this could be the result of power taking over others. Comparison of the two | The boss | woodifield | How he speaks | Talks down to woodifield. Believes he is more

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    The Use of Symbolism in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly”      “The  Fly‚”  by  Katherine  Mansfield‚  is  a  short  story  which  can  be  understood  best  as  social  criticism.  It  has  long  been  a  staple  of  literature  for  authors  to  veil  social  criticism  with  allegory  and  symbolism in subtle ways‚ thus forcing the reader to determine for himself what a story may actually  mean.  For  example‚  the  act  of  the  boss  dropping  ink  onto  the  fly  repeatedly  to  see  what  it  will 

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