adult life. The first section of the book depicts Pumpkin as a young girl. She is living with her mother in Tudu Court. Her father is very rich and pays Pumpkins’ Ma but he hardly visits and doesn’t seem to care very much. Their relationship is summaries in the scene where Ma’s car breaks down and she and Pumpkin are stranded on the side of the road when Tata’s car continues to drive past‚ abandoning them. Pumpkin doesn’t see her father for quite some time after that and she describes the basics
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Summary ——United Dominions Corporation Ltd Brian Pty Ltd（1985）HCA 49；157 CLR 1 This is an appeal which is against the decision upholding the previous appeal. While the legal issue is that whether UDC who is the appellant in this case had fiduciary relationship with Brian who is the first respondent and whether UDC acted in the breach of its fiduciary duty to Brian. Actually‚ the fact of the case is that UDC‚ SPL and others got involved into two arranged development of land which turned into
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Bordo Summary In “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body” Susan Bordo discusses the image of the male body. She starts by talking about how “the naked and near naked female body became an object of mainstream consumption” (168) while the male body has been gone with fashion. She tells about her first time seeing an ad using the male body. It was an underwear ad for Calvin Klein underwear. Bordo explains how this ad was different from other ads in the way the guy posed. In other ads the guys pose would
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Plot Summary By Michael J. Cummings...© 2009 .......Wounded‚ the narrator takes refuge at nightfall with his valet‚ Pedro‚ in an apartment in the turret of a grand but gloomy chateau in Italy’s Apennines Mountains. Pedro had broken into the building‚ which appears to have been temporarily abandoned‚ so that his injured employer would have a place to rest. .......The furnishings are elegant but old and run-down. On the walls are tapestries‚ armorial trophies‚ and modern paintings in frames
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Poem Summary(seafarer) Lines 1-5 The elegiac‚ personal tone is established from the beginning. The speaker pleads to his audience about his honesty and his personal self-revelation to come. He tells of the limitless suffering‚ sorrow‚ and pain and his long experience in various ships and ports. The speaker never explains exactly why he is driven to take to the ocean. Lines 6-11 Here‚ the speaker conveys intense‚ concrete images of cold‚ anxiety‚ stormy seas‚ and rugged shorelines. The comparisons
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Brian Gikunda Diamond ENC1101 09/17/2014 Assignment 1: Article Summary In this article‚ James Aston and John Wallis talk about the apocalyptic movies that are released before and after the attacks on the United States on September 11‚ 2001. They look at the fears and Issues following the 9/11 attack such as: the war on terror‚ American imperialism and other issues that involve the environment. This articles looks at movies with the same patterns and show the same disaster and apocalyptic genre
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Janet Sanchez Professor Cichelli Sociology 100 March 8‚ 2015 Article Summary In the article "Understanding American Worldview‚" the author J. LaVelle Ingram explains the cross cultural differences between Americans and immigrants. It also informs immigrants the atypical worldview of the American country they are adopting. Hence‚ these set of worldviews are categorized in five dimensions. In America‚ the first identified dimensions of worldview is that time focuses on the future instead of the past
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Kenny Osborne Dr. Lynn Summer English 1102 1/20/2013 Summary of Trifles Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a play written in the early nineteen hundreds. What happens is a farmer by the name John Wright is murdered and the culprit is thought to be Minnie Wright‚ John’s wife. This play takes place in the kitchen of John Wright’s abandoned farmhouse. This case is investigated by three men: the sheriff of the town Henry Peters‚ the county attorney George Henderson‚ and a neighboring farmer Lewis
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Jessica Carlson Professor Adrienne Cassel English 112 24 September 2010 Summary of “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Um…Focus …Focus” Alina Tugend According to Alina Tugend in the article “Multitasking Can Make You Lose” people are more prone to doing multiple things at once. Although multitasking may seem to preserve more time‚ according to many studies will produce less effective results. Since the early 1990’s multitasking has been thought of as an efficient way of saving time
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