Ding-dong. As I lazily got up to answer the door of the short stories in my hand‚ I was surprised to see a blind man‚ named Robert and a long lost grandson‚ named Jorge. Perfect Sunday by Jose Ayala and Cathedral by Raymond Carver both revolves around the host-visitor dynamic. Raymond Carver’s Cathedral revolves around the interaction of the character of the husband and his wife’s long time blind friend‚ Robert and Jose Ayala’s Perfect Sunday delves into Jorge’s visit to his grandmother. As both pairs
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Through the conversation in the night between the blind man and the narrator‚ the narrator learned some valued lessons from the blind and from himself. These good lessons are not only for the narrator but also for us. In the beginning of the story‚ the narrator thought that the sighted man can see anything and of course he was better than the blind. However‚ from the blind man’s stories about his life‚ the narrator learned that the blind man just was physical blind but he knew everything like
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Arab Open University Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) FACULTY OF LANGUAGE STUDIES A210B TMA COVER FORM (2013) Branch: | Program: | Course Title: | Course Code: | Student Name: | Student ID: | Section Number:: | Tutor Name: | Mark Allocated to TMA | STUDENT MARK | 20% | for content : a max of 20 marks | marks deducted for lang. & communication errors: a maximum of 4 marks | Earned Mark | | | | | Notes on plagiarism: A. According to the Arab
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Analyse the macro environment of the Europran Tour Operation with PESTEL analysisi from 2003 until today. TUI illustrates one of the most amazing and successful strategic changes of a firm among the largest European companies‚ the undisputed European leader in the tourism industry with a fast growing but very volatile and competitive industry. Thery operate in over 180 countries worldwide serving more than 30 million customers offering a wide range of leisure travel experiences. TUI travel ( tour
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Things Aren’t Always What They Seem To Be Raymond Carver’s use of generalization of “key” events serves to help further evolve the simple theme. Without the presence of supporting details‚ the story ends with the right amount of emphasis on what is necessary to understand the basic concept. This basic and simple theme expresses the use of food as a type of consoling agent. Throughout this story‚ references to food show up during times of tension‚ stress‚ or grief. The story‚ for example‚ begins
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Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” and Tess Gallagher’s “Rain Flooding your Campfire” are good examples of intertextual dialogue between two writers. These two stories show us how two writers can grow and develop short stories differently from the same experience. There are similarities between the stories‚ such as the use of a first person narrator‚ the plot‚ setting‚ and also there is an interchange between the narrator and the blind man in both stories. But within these similarities there are also
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Joycelyn Anne Ellis Book: To Kill a Mockingbird Topic: ‘Cry about what‚ Mr Raymond?’ ‘Cry about the simple hell people give other people.-without even thinking…’ 1479 Words ‘Cry about what‚ Mr. Raymond?’ ‘Cry about the simple hell people give other people.-without even thinking…’ In the novel "To kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee‚ one of the main ideas depicted is about "the simple hell people give other people." In "To kill a Mockingbird"‚ this idea is cleverly written through a number
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The Elusive Nature of Love in Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Every love relationship is different somehow. Maybe we love different persons differently. Maybe we love differently. It is hardly difficult to characterize love‚ and also to put it in words. People talk about love all the time‚ complaining about it‚ complaining about their relationship. Sometimes they don’t talk about it with their partners‚ and the lack of communication causes much more problems. In
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so many great writers throughout the history of writing‚ and with so many genres it is very difficult to appeal to everyone when an author finishes a polished piece of fiction. Raymond Carver’s Will You Please Be Quiet‚ Please? however will appeal to the mass audience of fiction readers throughout all genres‚ because Raymond Carver allows for his readers to become lost in his vivid and continoues dreams which he concurs with raw splendor and sinster truth. Carver’s book is a collection of fictional
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Everybody Loves Raymond is a television sitcom based on a seemingly typical modern American household. The show is based around a loving but somewhat unequal marriage between Ray and Debbie. Thrown into the mix is Ray ’s overprotective mother‚ his domineering father‚ and his insecure brother. Most or these characters play into the American perception of what a man or a woman should be. Each personality has it ’s own way of portraying one ’s gender‚ in turn making the sitcom more appealing to Americans
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