The Ballad of the Sad Café (part I) 1. For how long does the store remain a café? The store remains a café for four years. 2. Before his arrival‚ who sleeps in Cousin Lymons’s room? Before Lymon arrives‚ Marvin Macy slept in the room. 3. Describe Amelia’s Room. Miss Amelia’s room is very simple. Her room is smaller than Lymon’s and is composed of an narrow bed made of pine‚ curtains‚ rugs or ornaments‚ 4. What does Miss Amelia’s velvet box contain? The velvet box contained two grayish
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In the song “Sad Song” by Scotty Sire it talks about how sad he is and gives us the listeners many examples/reasons to be sad. Some that we can all relate to. In this song it talks a lot how he seems to be the saddest person of all‚ when really it’s just little things that seem to drive him nuts. In the end he does realize though that it is not the end of the world and that that’s just how life is‚ and that if he can move on so can you. The song titled‚ “Sad Song” by Scotty Sire seems to the occurring
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story “A Good Man is Hard to Find‚” shows a family vacation to Florida that ends in tragedy. Although The Grandmother and her selfish attitude seem to be the only causes of the accident‚ the actions and personalities of the other family members also play a large role in this turning point in the story. In this story‚ the Grandmother considers herself “the lady” of the family. The Grandmother considers herself having higher standards of other people and frequently passes judgment on others. She is
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in “broken English” the grandmother is keen to narrate the events surrounding her daughter Natalie‚ her granddaughter‚ Sophie‚ and her son-in-law John who is also Irish. She does not agree with the American way of raising kids and wishes she could discipline Sophie the way a proper Chinese girl should be raised. The main focus is on how a woman’s granddaughter is growing up differently than how she raised her daughter‚ which brings conflict between the grandmother and her daughter‚ Sophie’s mother
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The story of “Her” is about Theodore Twombly‚ a man nearing the end of his marriage who seems relatively ordinary in the beginning. As the movie progresses‚ he purchases the OS1 operating system that is advertised as being the first artificially intelligent operating system that acts as a real human would. Throughout the movie‚ Theodore is drawn to the operating system (also known as Samantha) and begins to fall in love. The most creative move is simply putting the emotional attachment millennials
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The Incredible Journey by Shelia Burnford tells the extraordinary excursion of the mysterious disappearance of three animals‚ their unbelievable adventure‚ and their eventual return. Two dogs—one old and one young—and a cat wander off into the wilderness. At one point‚ they are separated by a river‚ and a girl finds the cat and decides to take care of it and ultimately take her in. Even though the cat is brought with great comfort and attention‚ it does not forget its two companions and eventually
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Grandmother Flannery O’Connor brought to life and portrayed the grandmother as a very manipulative‚ selfish and talkative old lady in the story “A Good Man Is Hard to find.” Grandmother presented herself as a proper little lady who lived in the past and believed her way to be the best way. Throughout the family trip‚ that she wasn’t warmly welcomed to attend‚ the Grandmother ran her mouth consistently and frustrated her son Bailey as well as his wife and eldest children‚ John Wesley and June Star
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Incredible Years Intervention University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work Purpose Statement The purpose of this paper is to explore the intervention Incredible Years (IY) and its effectiveness on youth that exhibit behavioral and emotional problems. The program was designed by Carolyn Webster-Stratton‚ PhD to address these concerns. It is aimed at both prevention and treatment. This paper will outline the significance and the prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems among school
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the main character Adeline’s sad childhood.In the novel‚ Chinese Cinderella by Allen Yangma is depressing. It is depressing because she is mistreated‚ treated like a servant‚ and sent away. Mistreated‚ to be mistreated is the act of being unfair to others‚ this is exactly how Adelines childhood was. For example‚¨ I meant so little to him‚ I was such a nobody that he didn´t even remember my name (Yen Mah 124). This is depressing because her own father doesn’t even know her name. This is important because
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‘Literature about love is invariably sad. It shows that the price we pay for love in youth is an age spent grieving its loss’ It can be argued that romantic literature is not invariably sad as although most literature about love spends a great deal of depth on the grieving of characters this is always prevailed by some form of inner happiness or realisation even if it is through death. Gatsby‚ in Fitzgerald’s novel can be argued to have not grieved from his loss of love as he never gains that realisation
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