In the short story South of the Slot by Jack London‚ an iron crack runs down the center of Market Street. It is the twin slot that guides the horsecars on their way‚ similar to the famous cable car tracks in San Francisco. It also separates the northern commercial areas and good neighborhoods from the southern industrial areas‚ working class neighborhoods‚ and slums. As a symbol‚ the slot represents the class cleavage of San Francisco‚ the unbridgeable separation between respectable citizens and
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Ellie Rich Unit 3 – Health‚ Safety & Security in Health & Social Care P3 – Carry out a risk assessment in a health and social care setting I will be carrying out a risk assessment to ensure it is safe for a child aged 7 with down syndrome to be taken to a outdoor local playpark by a careworker for a bit of fun. The young person may be vulnerable as they are only 7 years of age and have Down syndrome which can affect their sense of awareness. The purpose of a risk assessment is to review the potential
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Civilized vs. Natural Life The Oxford dictionary defines civilized as “The comfort and convenience of modern life‚ regarded as available only in towns and cities”. Huck is forced out of the only lifes he knows and into civilization by the Widow and Miss. Watson. Everyone seems to think that because Huck is worth a fortune he needs to be integrated into society and become a proper young man. He is taught civilized people go to school‚ read the bible‚ and have absolutely no fun. As Huck and Jim continue
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incomplete housework as evidence to crack the case. The incomplete housework holds different meanings to each gender based on how they live. In Susan Glaspell’s 1916 play Trifles‚ the incomplete housework recognized throughout the story included the dirty rag‚ the messy kitchen‚ and the incomplete quilt. A clean house was something that the men were accustomed to coming home too. In their eyes‚ the work they were responsible for and their wives could not be compared. When the topic of messy kitchen came
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Have you ever walked down Euclid Avenue in Little Five Points only to have someone repeatedly solicit you for money? I must admit that it gets a little irritating after the first attempt. When my friend and I went shopping at Rag-o-Rama‚ a woman wearing tattered clothing stood in front of the entrance and asked us for money. About 30 minutes later‚ she was still standing outside of the store asking us for money as we walked out. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ Atlanta has an unemployment
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intimidates Pip by turning him upside down. The main themes in the novel are childhood‚ rags-to-riches‚ society and class and orphan. The novel is opened with Pip as a poor young‚ orphan boy who has no relatives apart from his sister‚ Mrs Joe Gargary. Society and class relate to ‘Great Expectations’ because Pip is of lower class and gets looked down on and he had big dreams of growing up to be a gentlemen. Rags-to-riches is also a main theme in this novel because Pip is in poverty right at the start
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How does the author use humour in Out Island Doctor? In the autobiography‚ Out-Island Doctor‚ Evans W. Cottman has a dream of exploring the Bahamas. He contacts a commissioner in the Bahamas and soon makes plans to visit. Cottman arrives in the Bahamas and endures a very difficult sail to Mangrove Cay where he meets a man who influences him throughout the autobiography‚ Percy Cavill. Cottman then has to adapt to a more primitive lifestyle compared to Indiana. After his visits to the Bahamas‚ he
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real world‚ problems and complications come up and happily ever after’s don’t exist. Sexton takes the classic story of “Cinderella”‚ reworks it‚ and makes it into her own twisted version of a fairytale. She starts the audience off with a few little “rags-to-riches” accounts comparing modern culture’s unrealistic dreams to what life really is like. Then she goes into telling the readers the famously known fairytale in a sardonic tone. The audience gets a sense of frustration from her way of expressing
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In the story as well as in the movie‚ they were both based around the same thing plus they were similar in many ways. The story of a girl named Hannah‚ or Chaya‚ that had hated going up every year to celebrate her religion of being a Jew. Yet‚ when she drank too much watered wine‚ she had passed out‚ then experiencing a vivid dream state of her in a fantasy world‚ during the time of the Holocaust. Yet‚ from experiencing and comprehending the movie and reading the novel‚ you can see how the director
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face reality and see how life really is. People just walk past the homeless‚ pretend nothing is wrong and life is perfect; forgetting about the other humans in rags‚ starving‚ and living day to day on the street and in parks. For most it wasn’t a lifestyle chosen‚ yet people only see what is right in front of their eyes; “An awareness of rags with voices that make no sense and scream in inarticulate rage”(38). Ascher believes and states that‚ “Compassion is not a character trait like sunny disposition
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