...David pins her froggy hands to the dissection tray. He spreads her froggy legs and pins her froggy feet,” (Anderson 81). Once again this frog is like Melinda. During the assault Melinda describes a feeling much like what she experiences as she is about to cut the frog open. Anderson describes when this princess’ hands and feet are pinned down she suddenly becomes less than a princess and just a frog again. The position of the frog evokes the same image a that victim would. It shows the same helpless Feeling that many victims feel even when in safe environments. After losing the feeling of independence from someone taking it away by force, fear becomes preminanate. Fear will affect even the smallest of choices in any victims life after an assault. The frog represents this feeling of fear and hopelessness. This pattern is used again when a dead dog is spotted on the side of the road. While in the car with Mr.Freeman, Melinda thinks to herself. Anderson states, “As I thaw, I count the mileage markers on the side of the road, keeping an eye out for interesting roadkill...We pass a dead dog. It doesn't have a collar," (Anderson 121). Melinda has been left astray....
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...Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 into a family of nine children at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, between Castledawson and Toomebridge in Northern Ireland. Heaney initially attended Anahorish Primary School and when he was twelve-years-old, he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in Derry. In 1957, Heaney travelled to Belfast to study English Language and Literature at the Queen's University of Belfast. During his time in Belfast he found a copy of Ted Hughes' Lupercal, which spurred him to write poetry. Heaney's work often deals with the local surroundings: that is, his surroundings in Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland, where he was born. Allusions to sectarian difference, widespread in Northern Ireland, can be found in his poems, but these are never predominant or strident. His poetry is not often overtly political or militant, and is far more concerned with profound observations of the small details of the everyday, far beyond contingent political concerns. Some of his work is concerned with the lessons of history, and indeed prehistory and the very ancient. Other works concern his personal family history, focusing on characters in his family and as he has acknowledged, these poems can be read as elegies for those family members. Liz Lochhead (born December 26, 1947) is a Scottish poet and dramatist, originally from Newarthill in North Lanarkshire. After attending Glasgow School of Art, she lectured in fine art for...
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...A japanes song By: Aomori When summer comes, The paddy pools grow warm The mud lark and the singing frog Are happy, are happy Thinking they're in bath. When winter comes, The paddy pools are filmed with ice, The mud lark and the singing frog Must think their heaven has stretched Has stretched and grown above. When spring comes There's water in the paddy pools The mud lark and the singing frog Are happy, are happy Thinking they're in the sea. When autumn comes, The hills and dales turn red The mud lark and the singing frog Craning their necks above, Must think of the hills are on fire. The Tame Bird and the Free Bird by: Rabindranath Tagore THE tame bird was in a cage, the free bird was in the forest. They met when the time came, it was a decree of fate. The free bird cries, 'O my love, let us fly to the wood.' The cage bird whispers, 'Come hither, let us both live in the cage.' Says the free bird, 'Among bars, where is there room to spread one's wings?' 'Alas,' cries the caged bird, 'I should not know where to sit perched in the sky.' The free bird cries, 'My darling, sing the songs of the woodlands.' The cage bird sings, 'Sit by my side, I'll teach you the speech of the learned.' The forest bird cries, 'No, ah no! songs can never be taught.' The cage bird says, 'Alas for me, I know not the songs of the woodlands.' There love is intense with longing, but they never can fly wing to wing. Through the bars of the...
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...is or can really be reactiveness in disguise. The person only takes action because of the emotional reactiveness like fear or something else but not to make something really happen. The fourth disability is the fixation of events. This means that the organization is only focused in the daily happenings in the organization which can distract the organization in the long term events that can greatly affect them. These are the events that happens on a daily basis or short term events that can affect the organization in the short run and by focusing on these; they will have a hard time in solving the long term effects of the said events that are not instantly shown in the organization. The fifth is the parable of the boiling frog. The story behind this is that when we put a frog in warm water and slowly put heat on it, it will not react until the water reaches the boiling point where the from will be cooked to death before it can react. The reason behind the frog not reacting is because it adapts the slightly increasing temperature to the point that its body cannot handle it anymore and it is too late to react because it will be already cooked. This can be related to an organization because when an organization adapts to small changes and does not react to the change because they are not assuming what will happen in the long run much like the frog. If the frog assumed that the temperature will rise until he is cooked, then he would’ve reacted immediately and potentially saved his...
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...Narrative Conventions in My Girragundji The novella My Girragundji, based on true experiences, tells a heart-warming story about a boy, who, in times of stress, turns to a little green tree frog for support. Narrative conventions are used to display the changes Girragundji, the frog, makes on the protagonist’s life and identity. The language, plot, and characters all have a big influence on the main protagonist’s life. The writers Meme Mcdonald and Boori Pryor use the narrative convention of language to show change in the boy’s life. At the beginning of the story, the boy’s language is pessimistic and scared. Quotes from the book confirm this statement. ‘I’m too scared a hand will come through and grab me in my sleep’ (Page 10) suggests that the boy is too scared to sleep with his head near the window as he thinks a quinkin (Referred to in the book as a ‘hairyman’) will grab him in his sleep. Another quote states ‘I wonder what’s the point of living’ tells the reader the main character is negative and possibly thinking suicidal thoughts. However, when Girragundji enters his life, all traces of negative thoughts are gone, and he is much more positive. ‘The bullies don’t seem so big anymore’ is a quote from when after the frog enters his...
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...when he was up for punishment, he would tell a story of the irony of the situation and the punishment. His death is a mystery just as much as his life was. The myth is that he won so much fame throughout Greece for his short stories, that he became the target of resentment in the town. Aesop supposedly stole a golden cup from town, and in result he was tossed from the cliffs as punishment for the theft. The fable The Hare and The Frog is about a group of hares living in the forest always frighten by other animals, even scared of there own shadows. The hares said they would rather die then to live in fear and shame. So the hares raced down to the pond in the forest to drown themselves. While the hares were racing down to the pond, they made so much noise, they were heard by the group of frogs. The frogs were so frighten by the hares. The hares came to realize that they are even some creatures in the forest that are scared of them. The hares noticed that don’t have it as bad as they think. Aesop’s fable The Hares and The Frog speaks to me because I was so ungrateful for my past life. I have one situation that can be applied to this short story. When I was nineteen my favorite uncle was murdered. My uncle was the most generous man ever, the type of man that would give you his...
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...Reyes, Charles Jourdan F. January 14, 2013 V BS Biology Bi183.1 Section A Exercise 1: Baseline Data Results Figure 1. Force (N), ECG (mV) and heart rate (bpm) of the pithed frog. Figure 2. Force (N) per unit time (s) of the pithed frog. Figure 3. ECG (mV) per unit time (s) of the pithed frog. Table 1. Time between QRS and the start of ventricular contraction(s). 1. Observe the heart and describe its behavior. Is this behavior consistent with what is shown in the data above? Yes. The heart of the frog rhythmically contracts and relaxes. This behavior is supported by the general fluctuations observed force values and the consistent patterns of the ECG occurring in regular intervals. 2. Explain the basis for the delay between the atrial and ventricular contractions. The said delay is mainly caused by the A-V node and its adjacent conductive fibers, causing an overall delay of 0.13 second (Guyton and Hall 2006). Conduction in the transitional, nodal, and A-V bundles is dampened by the decreasing number of gap junctions along the pathway of conduction, creating great resistance against the conduction of excitatory ions from one fiber to another. This ensures that the atria completely empty blood into the ventricles before ventricular contraction occurs. 3. Describe the relationship between the ECG QRS complex and the beginning of ventricular contraction. What is the physiological significance of this relationship? ...
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...In 2005, Pepe first appeared in the comic “Boy’s Club.” The idea of a zen, socially awkward frog was appealing to many others, and his popularity skyrocketed. Over the years, thousands, or perhaps millions of manipulations of Pepe have been spread over the internet. Pepe even found himself in the tweets of popular figures, such as Nicki Minaj or Katy Perry. However, even if many find a meme appealing or lovable, their immense popularity often leads certain internet groups to claim a meme as their own. On darker forums, websites such as 4chan, users create and distribute “offensive Pepes” to try to make him less appealing to mainstream audiences. 4channers claim that “normies,” groups of people who use social media and follow popular opinion, dangerously overexpose Pepe. These offensive Pepes are often subtle attacks towards minorities, but are usually socially acceptable in informal settings. Subsequently, the casual internet racist is born (“The Rise”). Pepe’s take over by ironic racists was certainly detrimental to internet culture; however, the greatest damage done was when white nationalists groups saw the potential in this ever-relaxed frog, and claimed him as one of their own (see fig. 1). In fact, nowadays Pepe is officially known as a symbol of Nazism (“Pepe The Frog’s”). When the ADL, the Anti Defamation League, added Pepe to their list of hate symbols...
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...George Washington University Commencement A) On May 19, 2013 George Washington University of Washington, D.C. held their graduation and commencement ceremonies. For their commencement speaker, they brought in Kerry Washington to send the graduates off to the real world. Kerry Washington attended George Washington University on a performing arts scholarship over a decade ago. She is a 1998 graduate of George Washington University with majors in Psychology and Anthropology. Since her graduation, Kerry has been on a path to stardom in Hollywood. She has been featured in movies such as Our Song, Bad Company, Ray, Fantastic Four, I Think I Love My Wife, For Colored Girls, and most recently in Quentin Tarantino’s hit western, Django Unchained. Kerry is also the star of her own television series, Scandal, where she plays a fixer who cleans up scandals and other problems for her clients (biography 1). Kerry’s background is an important factor in her message to her audience. Her background is her credibility, as well as her attention getter. Kerry is not only a famous actress that has a proven track record in Hollywood, but she is a graduate of the university she is speaking to, making her success seem more possible to the audience as well as putting weight and meaning to her message. Kerry’s commencement speech was given to arguably one of the hardest audiences to speak to, a group of some five thousand college students. Kerry is speaking to the large graduate class...
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...is in power. He tells Delia “Ah ain’t gointer have it in mah house. Don’t gimme no lip neither, else ah’ll throw ‘em out and put mah fist up side yo’ head to boot.” Once again, pushing his delusion of control. His terrorization of her through physical violence is all he truly has, because he is not actually running anything. I believe he brings in the snake into the house, because it is his final plot for ultimate control. The snake then becomes a symbol of his authoritarian masculine energy. I believe Hurston intended this as Delia's true fear. It also reflects the shifting women's issues at the time. At this time many women were gaining rights to vote, and finding their independence. So, the collective fear for women in society was often the heavy- handed dictatorship of a man. Contrasted, the men in society were afraid of losing their control over women. Parallel with this, we can see Delia’s anxiety of the snake also being her fear of Sykes rule over her. The snake looming in the...
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...Still in the Gilded Age There are many things in life that appear attractive on the outside, but turn out to be quite the opposite on the inside. The forgotten fruit that was left to rot on the kitchen counter, the empty promises of a government body, the two-faced colleague at work… there are many of examples of beauty being only skin deep. Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” and Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” explores this theme of the gilded side of humanity. Roethke opens “My Papa’s Waltz” through the eyes of a small boy, lending an initial tone of naivety and innocence. This mood is reinforced through his use of rhyme scheme, which adds to the childish effect. However, this feeling is quickly subverted, as a more sinister interpretation can be seen midway through the poem. The boy describes, “The hand that held my wrist/Was battered on one knuckle;/At every step you missed/My right ear scraped a buckle.” (9-13), leading the reader to question what the actual meaning behind this “waltz” is. The minor mentioning of the unhappy mother, as well as the phrase, “But I hung on like death:” (3) is suddenly relevant; it suggests that the father may be an abusive alcoholic, deviating from the prior assumption that he was simply a happy drunk spending time with his son. This shift in reader interpretation can also be attributed to Roethke’s unique word choice. Take for example the word “waltz,” which is used exclusively in the beginning and ending stanzas...
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...Mockingjay: Destroyer of all Fear The never ending tasks given by the Oppressors. The Oppressed feel as if no one is on their side. Hope has disappeared from every corner, but people are sick and tired of being sick and tired. These people who have been shut down their whole life and have been told what to do since day one have begun to realize they have some power of their own together. In Suzanne Collin’s “The Mockingjay” the districts are fed up with the Capital’s actions and are ready to pursue an uprising. From little on we are taught to fear our mother, fear our father, and even to fear the Lord. This fear is holding us back from accomplishing anything that we want to pursue ourselves and causing us to be in the palm of someone else's hand. These people don’t hesitate to finish the task that was forced upon them by someone who is a higher power from them. They also aren’t doing it because they enjoy it. They are working because the fear has taken over and left them with no hope. Collins describes each district as having one job, and each district has their own separate job. The Capital is described as such a glamourous place with thousands of glamorous people living there, but without the other twelve districts the Capital would be powerless(“The Hunger”). These districts don’t feel powerful or don’t see the power they have because the Capital only allows them to know limited things and have limited opportunities. All district ...
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...aspect of human life has been impacted by the change. What lies ahead is even more dynamic and uncertain. I would like to use this opportunity to share with you some of our own guiding principles of staying afloat in a changing world. This is based on our experience in Wipro. Hope you find them useful. First, be alert for the first signs of change. Change descends on every one equally; it is just that some realize it faster. Some changes are sudden but many others are gradual. While sudden changes get attention because they are dramatic, it is the gradual changes that are ignored till it is too late. You must have all heard of story of the frog in boiling water. If the Temperature of the water is suddenly increased, the frog realizes it and jumps out of the water. But if the temperature is very slowly increased, one degree at a time, the frog does not realize it till it boils to death. You must develop your own early warning system, which warns you of changes and calls your attention to it. In the case of change, being forewarned is being forearmed. Second, anticipate change even when things are going right.Most people wait for something to go wrong before they think of change. It is like going to the doctor for a check up only...
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...Transcription de How is Classical Conditioning used in advertisements Classical Conditioning in our daily lives Examples: This advertisement makes the viewer associate smoking with death and provokes the sensation of fear of smoking again because there´s the risk that they die due to the cigars they smoke. Classical Conditioning is used a lot in the education ambit specially in younger grades, because small children tend to learn better the Conditioned Response Advertising for low-involvement products usually attacks the consumer through affective means because nobody wants to think (cognitive) about purchasing low-involvement products. Advertising and sales promotion (event sponsorship) are the most common forms of classical conditioning in marketing. Classical conditioning is used in a plethora of advertisements. The idea behind it is a simple one. Make an ad (US) that elicits a positive response (UR) in the person exposed to the ad. The product or brand within the ad then becomes the CS. The goal of advertisers is to get the exposed person at the grocery store or what have you, to associate the positive feeling they had for the ad with the product. This makes the positive feeling now the CR. Event sponsorship is very similar to this. With event sponsorship the sponsor wants the person viewing the event (US) to project the positive feelings (UR) they get from the event with their product. The big advantage to event sponsorship is that the person being exposed has generally...
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...The Cloning Debate The first attempt in cloning was conducted in 1952 on a group of frogs. The experiment was a partial success. The frog cells were cloned into other living frogs however, only one in every thousand developed normally , all of which were sterile. The rest of the frogs that survived grew to abnormally large sizes. In 1993, scientist and director of the in vitro lab at George Washington University, Jerry Hall and associate Robert Stillman, reported the first ever successful cloning of human embryos. It was the discovery of in- vitro fertilization in the 1940’s that began the pursuit to ease the suffering of infertile couples. After years of research, scientists learned that "in a typical in-vitro procedure, doctors will insert three to five embryos in hopes that, at most, one or two will implant" (Elmer-Dewitt 38). And that "a woman with only one embryo has about a 10% to 20% chance of getting pregnant through in-vitro fertilization. If that embryo could be cloned and turned into three or four, thechances of a successful pregnancy would increase significantly"(Elmer- Dewitt 38). The experiment the scientists performed is the equivalent of a mother producing twins. The process has been practiced and almost perfected in livestock for the past ten years, and some scientists believe that it seems only logical that it would be the next step in in-vitro fertilization...
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