WATERSHIP DOWN by RICHARD ADAMS (1972) PART I The Journey 1. The Notice Board CHORUS: Why do you cry out thus‚ unless at some vision of horror? CASSANDRA: The house reeks of death and dripping blood. CHORUS: How so? ’Tis but the odor of the altar sacrifice. CASSANDRA: The stench is like a breath from the tomb. Aeschylus‚ Agamemnon The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood‚ where the ground became open and sloped down to an old
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The music video for "Lay Me Down" by Sam Smith shows how everyone will be stricken with grief after losing a loved one sometime in their life. The video starts out at a funeral and no music is playing. Smith is pictured in front of a casket at the front of a church standing completely still‚ ridden with grief. When the song begins‚ it is very slow paced. The people in the church can be viewed behind Smith holding candles while trying to control their emotions. As Sam Smith walks out of the church
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“Down to Tartarus.” The first person I would talk to is Chris Kyle the reason I would talk to him is because‚ when I was little my uncle was in the army and talked all about the navy seal sniper Chris Kyle‚ so I looked up to him in many ways when I was a kid‚ my uncle was an army lieutenant and new a lot about Chris Kyle and his work. Chris Kyle is a Navy seal from team 3‚ and is one of the best snipers to live taking down 160 enemies. When he died‚ I was sad‚ I would ask him what inspired him
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Black Hawk Down: A Review and Analysis by Jack Consenstein In the 1990s‚ Somalia is undergoing a famine along with a civil war. Many civilians have died as a result of the war‚ and so the UN has intervened and started a peacekeeping operation there‚ with a base just outside Mogadishu. Unfortunately‚ the Somalis‚ distrusful of the UN‚ have declared war on everyone involved in the operation. In response to this‚ the US army deploys Delta Force to aimed at
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decreasing its velocity while moaning and groaning in agony at the repugnance provoked by the vigorous bitterness. Down the path‚ geometrically rectangular pavements were decorated in a sequential pattern running horizontally like Dorothy’s symbolic bright yellow brick road. Unlike
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Breaking Down ROE Using the DuPont Formula By Z. Joe Lan‚ CFA Article Highlights • ROE calculates the return a company earns from shareholder’s equity. • The DuPont formula reveals the source of those returns: sales‚ marketing or debt. • Comparing a company’s financial performance to its peers can provide a useful context for analyzing ROE. R etur n on equity (ROE) is a commonly used profitability ratio that measures the effectiveness of management in generating earnings for shareholders
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’s controversial commercial or Snoop Dogg ’s latest drug related arrest. At one point in time people knew what was really going on in the world. It seems that the new infatuation with the popular and the scandalous has dumbed down our society. We ’ve been dumbed down enough to know that we have a problem and instead of trying to solve it we instead make fun of ourselves with reality game shows where our obvious lack of knowledge is a form of entertainment. Instead of being ashamed of not knowing
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Breaking Down Constructs: The Path from Resistance to Reconciliation What is the purpose of a border? Is it more than a line that separates two things? In an interview‚ American-Canadian author Thomas King explains how “borders are these very artificial and subjective barriers that we throw up around our lives in all sort of ways. National borders are just indicative of the kinds of borders we build around ourselves” (qtd. In Andrews‚ 172). His short story Borders documents the journey of a Blackfoot
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Challenge the Boss or Stand Down THOMAS set predictable problems that he failed to forestall. Instead of further poisoning his relationship with his boss by seeking to “expose” him‚ Tom should now start to repair the damage he’s done to both his professional relationships and his career prospects. Tom’s first mistake was in neglecting to consider that he was not his boss’s choice for the position of senior marketing specialist. From the outset he should have recognized the significance of that initial
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Tea Cake is different form Janie’s previous lovers as he treats her as an intelligent being. He is not gender-biased as gives her freedom to work alongside him as partner and not as a servant as Logan and Joe had done. Tea Cake hears Janie out and is a willing talker. Nanny‚ Janie’s Grandma‚ has complex relationship with her granddaughter. The old woman is the sole-support of Janie and rears her up with care. However‚ the trauma of slavery and subjugation at the hands of a white-master never leaves
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