Comp II Reading Journal Student’s Name___________ ___________Date_______________ Story___ ______________ “The Red Convertible” ____________ Author_____Louise__Erdich______________________________________ Date Written_________1984___________________________________________________ Point of View__First-person___________________________________________________ Protagonist______Lyman Lamartine_ _____________________________________ Antagonist Henry (Lyman’s
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“The Red Convertible” The Red Convertible is narrated by Lyman Lamartine. He tells a story from his recent past about his older half-brother‚ Henry. As Lyman tells the story‚ the year is 1974. The story about the relationship between the two main characters who are brothers living on a reservation in North Dakota. In this story lyman is a hard worker and always carry a good luck‚ at a very young he became the owner of a restaurant but unfortunatley disaster happens and it is blown over in a tornado
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Louise Erdrich was a concessioner at the Gilles Theater in Wahpeton‚ North Dakota at the age of fourteen. At her workplace‚ she could watch the movie after the completion of her assigned work. She had watched every movie again and again; nothing was good to her except Costa- Gavra’s Z‚ a French film in 1969 that changed her life‚ regarded as the best movie in her life. She had changed herself in many ways: She realized that her parents were right about her career‚ she practiced to be success and
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The Red Convertible is a story about the ups and downs of brotherly love. The way that the author presents the story is rather unique he uses the red convertible as a symbol of rebirth and death repeatedly throughout the story. The rebirth and death of the car match with actions taking place with the two brothers‚ Henry and Lyman. One would think that since Henry and Lyman both worked so hard that they would have a car. Lyman says‚ "Don’t ask me why‚ because we never mentioned a car or anything
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The Native Family Versus the Dominant Culture in "American Horse" by Louise Erdrich The current interest in what has come to be called "multicultural" literature has focused critical attention on defining its most salient characteristic: authoring a text which appeals to at least two different cultural codes. (Wiget 258) Louise Erdrich says she’s an emissary of the between-world. (Bacon) "I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life." Her stories unfold where native family
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The stories "Love in L.A." and the "Red Convertible" compares and contrasts in a couple ways. In both stories the car is used to progress through problems and to start problems. The setting‚ plot‚ characters‚ and other factors make both stories have common features and differ. Jake in the "Love in L.A." and Henry from "Red Convertible" both compare dramatically‚ though they contrast also. Settings in both short stories differ from country to city. In both stories the car causes conflict but also
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The characteristic of a convertible bond The convertible bond is one kind of equity-linked bonds. The term of the bond entitles bondholder to convert bonds into shares of the company or another company in the same group‚ at an agreed-upon conversion price‚ among a fixed period. The reason why it is made in this form is that the issuer can benefit from four aspects as follow‚ (1) better terms. A convertible bond have a lower interest rate‚ less restrictive covenants or the subordination of bondholders’
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Is Convertible Debt a Substitute for Straight Debt or for Common Equity? Craig M. Lewis Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University Nashville‚ TN 37203 Richard J. Rogalski Amos Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College Hanover‚ NH 03755 James K. Seward Graduate School of Business University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison‚ WI 53706 August 1999 *The authors thank Kooyul Jung‚ Yong-Cheol Kim and Rene Stulz for providing their equity and debt security offer data set.
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simple imagery. Louise looks out the window and sees a beautiful spring scene‚ with merchants and peddlers working hard‚ and wildlife blooming and growing. She focuses on the “patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds” as she reminisces on her husband’s life. The focus on the blue patches rather than the clouds shows that Louise is being positive and looking on the lighter side of things. Looking at a better side is how one can come to find gain in loss‚ which Louise soon does. As
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Convertible Bonds A convertible bond is a bond that can be converted into shares of common stock. Therefore‚ these are two sources of value for this security: the value of the bond components‚ and the value from possibly converting the security into shares of common stock. Features of a Convertible Bond The basic features of a convertible bond can be illustrated by a hypothetical example. On November 1‚ 2003 ("today")‚ Apple‚ had $400 million in 8.80 percent (annual payments) convertible bonds due
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