...Resources for Teaching Prepared by Lynette Ledoux Copyright © 2007 by Bedford/St. Martin’s All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. 2 1 f e 0 9 d c 8 7 b a For information, write: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116 (617-399-4000) ISBN-10: 0–312–44705–1 ISBN-13: 978–0–312–44705–2 Instructors who have adopted Rereading America, Seventh Edition, as a textbook for a course are authorized to duplicate portions of this manual for their students. Preface This isn’t really a teacher’s manual, not, at least, in the sense of a catechism of questions and correct answers and interpretations. Because the questions provided after each selection in Rereading America are meant to stimulate dialogue and debate — to generate rather than terminate discourse — they rarely lend themselves to a single appropriate response. So, while we’ll try to clarify what we had in mind when framing a few of the knottier questions, we won’t be offering you a list of “right” answers. Instead, regard this manual as your personal support group. Since the publication of the first edition, we’ve had the chance to learn from the experiences of hundreds of instructors nationwide, and we’d like to use this manual as a forum where we can share some of their concerns, suggestions, experiments, and hints. We’ll begin with a roundtable on issues you’ll probably want to address before you meet your class. In the first section of this manual, we’ll discuss approaches to...
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...9-197-103 REV: MAY 21, 2004 WILLIAM J. BRUNS, JR. Precision Worldwide, Inc. In late May 2004, Hans Thorborg, the general manager of the German plant of Precision Worldwide, Inc. (PWI), scheduled an afternoon meeting with his sales manager, accountant, and development engineer to discuss the introduction by the French firm Henri Poulenc (a competitor) of a plastic ring substitute for the steel retaining rings presently used in certain machines sold by Precision Worldwide. The plastic ring, new to the market, not only had a much longer life than the PWI steel ring but also apparently had a much lower manufacturing cost. Thorborg’s problem stemmed from PWI’s large quantity of steel rings on hand and the substantial inventory of special steel that had been purchased for their manufacture. After a thorough survey, he had found that the special steel could not be sold, even for scrap; the total book value of these inventories exceeded $390,000. For nearly 90 years PWI had manufactured industrial machines and equipment for sale in numerous countries. The particular machines involved in Thorborg’s dilemma were made only at the company’s plant in Frankfurt, Germany, which employed more than one thousand people. The different models were priced between $18,900 and $28,900 and were sold by a separate sales organization. Repair and replacement parts, which accounted for a substantial part of the company’s business, were sold separately. As with the steel rings, these parts could often...
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...4141- 4141--- Cherished and Cursed:Towarda Social History of The Catcher in the Rye STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD THE plot is brief:in 1949 or perhaps 1950, over the course of three days during the Christmas season, a sixteen-yearold takes a picaresque journey to his New YorkCity home from the third private school to expel him. The narratorrecounts his experiences and opinions from a sanitarium in California. A heavy smoker, Holden Caulfield claims to be already six feet, two inches tall and to have wisps of grey hair; and he wonders what happens to the ducks when the ponds freeze in winter. The novel was published on 16 July 1951, sold for $3.00, and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Within two weeks, it had been reprinted five times, the next month three more times-though by the third edition the jacket photographof the author had quietly disappeared. His book stayed on the bestseller list for thirty weeks, though never above fourth place.' Costing 75?, the Bantam paperback edition appeared in 1964. By 1981, when the same edition went for $2.50, sales still held steady, between twenty and thirty thousand copies per month, about a quarter of a million copies annually. In paperback the novel sold over three million copies between 1953 and 1964, climbed even higher by the 1980s, and continues to attract about as many buyers as it did in 1951. The durabilityof The author appreciates the invitationof Professors Marc Lee Raphaeland Robert A. Gross to present an early version...
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...“We left the gym about 8 p.m. to go to my house. When we got to Taft Ave. in Beltzhoover, a police car sped up behind me and turned on its red and blue lights. I pulled over immediately wondering why I was being pulled over now! Then out of everywhere, other police cars start surrounding my car! I was on the phone with my neighbor, Robin Player, having one of our many conversations about improving one’s self, improving one’s community, etc., before the police got behind, so she was on the phone when it all transpired.” Events like the one he was about to encounter would rankle anyone. But Rayco had been through this before and he was ready. At least, he thought so! As with every encounter he had with the police, what was about to unfold was nothing short of theater. “Police cars, lights,... more cars,... more lights! Then a voice over the intercom says, ‘Exit the vehicle with your hands up!’ I holler out of my window, ‘What am I being pulled over for?’ The same voice, ‘Exit the vehicle slowly with your hands up!’ Now I notice that there are a lot of guns drawn and aimed at me! Jelani is crying! Lil Rayc is quiet. Now I’m getting worried, not for me, but for my children! My windows are tinted 100%! The police can’t see in my car! So I start to holler, ‘My babies are in the car!’ The police didn’t care! They just hollered back, ‘Get out the car and get on the ground or you will be tazed!’ I had to think fast! If one of my young partnas would have came by and they had heat...
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...Is Odysseus admirable or not? In “The Odyssey,” the main character Odysseus commits many foolish actions that affect his men. First off, Odysseus is a braggart who brags when he gets the situation his way. Next, he is very curious when a situation is present, affecting his men negatively. Lastly, he is cursed because of the actions he commits with the cyclops in his journey. Due to his clumsy actions, Odysseus is not an admirable leader because he is a braggart, curious, and cursed. Furthermore, Odysseus is not an admirable leader due to him being a braggart, being a very curious person, and is cursed. Firstly, when he blinded the cyclops, he made a foolish decision to scream out all of his personal information when on his ship getting away...
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...September, you’ll find me in the corner. Hanging on the noose you made me wore. On the day I died, I cursed you. I hope your happy but surprise! YOU’LL DIE TOO! Kylie Isidro, You debunked my secrets and made me look worse. You tainted me and made me pitiful. You took the only thing I had and put it in your neck. You silenced me. I held out my hand to you but you let go. You deleted me from your eyes. On the 18th of September, you’ll find me in the corner. Hanging on the noose you made me wore. On the day I died, I cursed you. I hope your happy but surprise! YOU’LL DIE TOO! Athena Mendoza, You debunked my secrets and made me look worse. You tainted me and made me pitiful. You took the only thing I had and put it in your neck. You silenced me. I held out my hand to you but you let go. You deleted me from your eyes. On the 18th of September, you’ll find me in the corner. Hanging on the noose you made me wore. On the day I died, I cursed you. I hope your happy but surprise! YOU’LL DIE TOO! Mr.Dela Cruz, You debunked my secrets and made me look worse. You tainted me and made me pitiful. You took the only thing I had and put it in your neck. You silenced me. I held out my hand to you but you let go. You deleted me from your eyes. On the 18th of September, you’ll find me in the corner. Hanging on the noose you made me wore. On the day I died, I cursed you. I hope your happy but surprise! YOU’LL DIE TOO! Gabby Galvez, You debunked my secrets and...
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...The movie Howl’s Moving Castle was a movie about a young woman cursed by witch and now is old. She begins her journey to look for her sister but comes upon a castle… Not a normal castle… A moving one to be exact. No one actually excepted Howl which was the demon guy, that’s why he had a cloak to hide the castle he lived in. This story included several types of themes including war, love and etc. The theme of war means that people are about to fight because the prince was kidnapped. A young woman named Sophie and a Witch formerly known as The Wicked Witch of the Waste had a love connection with a demon named Howl. A love connection theme is when there is a romantic telling that’s going on in a story for example The Howl and...
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...no reason other than the desire to kill. Having underestimated their opponents' defences, they were slaughtered, with Kimimaro the sole survivor. Wandering soon after, Kimimaro was eventually found by Orochimaru, and recruited as one of his most loyal ninja.[2][3] Kimimaro and Jūgo. Under Orochimaru, Kimimaro found purpose in his life as he desired to ensure the continuation of his master's dreams and ambitions. Though Orochimaru took him under his wing to be one of his future hosts, Kimimaro did not mind such a fate if it meant being of aid to his master. Soon after, Kimimaro met Jūgo, a berserker whom Kimimaro felt a kindred spirit with. Kimimaro's friendship with Jūgo led to the events that resulted with him being branded by the cursed seal that Orochimaru developed from his research on Jūgo, whom Kimimaro talked into being experimented on in hopes that it would help him. With his new-found powers, Kimimaro defeated all four members of the Sound Four single-handed to be inducted into the renamed Sound Five. However, before his appearance in the storyline, Kimimaro became afflicted by an unknown disease that destroyed what remaining worth he was to Orochimaru. Kabuto Yakushi attempted to cure Kimimaro, but to no avail due to Kimimaro's unique structure and lack of medical information on his clan. Kimimaro was left bedridden to extend his wavering lifespan, unable to participate in the invasion of Konoha, which Kabuto claimed to be the factor that led to their defeat and...
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...It's Not God’s Fault; Blame the Hypocrites! God has been the subject of criticism among the agnostics, atheists, the not-so believing, and the innocent. Whenever natural calamities strike humanity, the enemies of God have a ready target in the person of somebody whom they do not believe to exist — rendering themselves as idiots (Jude 1:10) “But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.” If only they are using their power to think, their allegation that, “If there is a God, why is He permitting these things to happen?”, they should have realized the truth that there are things that happen on earth beyond the control of all humanity; proving that somebody more powerful than man is doing such things. Their criticism, if investigated, will compel them to believe in the existence of God. The notion that, “If there is a God these should not happen” gives honor to God whose existence they deny. They are unwittingly proving that God is a God of goodness — who must not permit these things to happen. Let us investigate. Earthquakes (like the very recent one in Haiti), volcanic eruptions, and tidal waves are acts of God. (Job 9:5-6) “Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.” (Amos 9:6) “It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded...
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...Blindness and Insight In Othello the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare, Othello is blind to what is going on around him; similarly in Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex is ignorant to the fate he was tragically born into. Both Oedipus Rex and Othello commit suicide at the end of the play because they gain knowledge of what they have been blind to throughout the entire drama and cannot live with what they have done. Othello cannot live with the knowledge that he murdered his wife whom had done no harm upon him; he was tricked by Iago. Furthermore, Oedipus cannot live with himself after the truth came out that he had murdered his own father and married his mother. Both of these psychological dramas remain timeless because the motifs within them remain to exist in today’s culture. First, in Shakespeare’s “Othello the Moor of Venice," Iago wants to rid Othello and take his place. Iago convinces Othello that Desdemona is the mistress of Cassio, and has been unfaithful to Othello. To convince Othello of Desdemona's infidelity, Iago steals Desdemona’s handkerchief and sets up Cassio to make it seem as if he is having an affair with Desdemona. Othello’s jealous rage blinds him to the plot going on around him and he murders Desdemona without a second thought. “But words are words; I never yet did hear that the bruised heart was pierced through the ear”, as stated in Literature quotes. After the deed was done, Iago’s wife tells Othello the truth, and he makes himself...
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...her own children. The mother calls herself unlucky because she married an unlucky man and therefore everyone in the family is unlucky, but the boy refuses and says that he is lucky and does not know why when asked. Bassett and master Paul( the child) have been gambling on horse races and are discovered by uncle oscar who does not believe them when it is said they know who is going to win. It can be assumed that the boy has been cursed with the sin of lust and made a deal with the god mammon to know who shall win the race in exchange for his life....
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... | |14 |17 | |The Lord God said to the serpent, |And to the human (Adam) he said, | |‘Because you have done this, |‘Because you have listened | |cursed are you |to the voice of your wife, | |among all animals and among all wild creatures; |and have eaten of the tree | |upon your belly you shall go, |about which I commanded you, | |And dust you shall eat All the days of your life. |“You shall not eat of it”, | |15 |cursed is the ground because of you; | |I will put enmity between you and the woman, |in toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life; | |and between your offspring and hers; |18 | |he will strike your head, |thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; | |And you will strike his heel.’ ...
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...that he created He placed man in the Garden of Eden and told him he Could eat from every plant except from the Tree of Good and Evil. God felt that man needed a Companion so God put Adam to sleep and took out one of his Ribs and formed a woman and called her Eve. God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden so they could take care of it, and bare children. One day Eve came across the serpent and he tricked Eve into eating from the tree of good and evil. Then Eve caused Adam to eat from the tree when God discovered this he cursed them including the Serpent he cursed the serpent to crawl on his belly, and the woman to bear children with great pain and to Be subject to her husband, God said that the Serpent and the man and woman’s offspring would be Enemies from now On and that man would crush the head of the serpent and the serpent would bruise The heel of men. for the man’s sin God said the soil would be cursed and that he would have to work Sweat to produce food from the Earth, and then God made them clothes to cover up there Nakedness and put them out of the Garden but God was already making plans for a Savior to Save the world from their sins and the sin Nature of man from Adam and Eve to Noah God is dealing with man’s sinful nature. After God put them out of the garden of Eden Adam and Eve Had two sons, first Cain and then Able. Here we have the signs of jealousy and the first Murder. Cain was jealous of his Brother Able...
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...Kshatriyas. Brahmins believed that Kshatriyas had no right to officiate as a Purohit(priest) at a sacrifice. Thus a dispute emerged as the Brahmins had the priviledge to officiate at a sacrifice. The story of Trishanku,narrated in Ramayana is an immediate instance of the dispute between the Brahmins and the Kshatriyas. This contention is particularly on the third point that is the right of the Brahmins only to officite at the sacrifice. King Trishanku wanted to perform a sacrifice by which he would go bodily to heaven but Vasishtha, the brahmin rishi says that it was impossible. Then Trishanku sought the help of the hundred sons of Vasishtha who very angrily dismissed the request . Then Trishanku was seeking others’ help and was cursed by them to become a Chandala, the lowest caste in the caste hierarchy or rather an outcaste. Trishanku later resorted to Vishvamitra, the Kshatriya, who promised to perform the sacrifice on his behalf. Vasishtha and his hundred sons were very angry on hearimg...
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...Christian Allegory in Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" is a lyrical ballad that seems to be more like a miniscule adventurous story. However, not only it is a ballad depicting the adventure of an old mariner who is cursed for the entirety of his life because he kills an albatross; even deeper than that, it is also a religious allegory that conveys a plethora of themes pertaining to Christianity. On one hand, if a person were to read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" simply as a tale at sea, the poem stands to be remarkable because of its rhyme of simplicity and easy flow. On the other hand, if one reads much deeper into the intricate details, symbolism, themes, and literary aspects, Coleridge will have produced a masterpiece in their eyes. Furthermore, a multitude of critics agree that there are several connotations that signify religion in this ballad; however, very few agree upon it being an allegory that mainly reflects the specific ideology of Christianity. Christianity preaches that life is basically a test by which we either pass and go to heaven, or fail and go to hell. Also, the human body is a victim of the human thought and action, which is represented by the soul. Therefore, in relation to the ballad, we can refer to the ship as the human body and the Mariner who steers the ship and leads it to destruction as the human soul. This ship led by the Mariner goes through a trial of storm and winds, but fails because...
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