...“Me Talk Pretty One Day” “Me Talk Pretty One Day” is a non-fiction essay written by David Sedaris. The essay was written in 2005 and it is about Sedaris’ personal experiences when learning to speak French. The main theme of the essay is the attitude to learning a new language. My analysis of “Me Talk Pretty One Day” will include an interpretation of the language, tone and the attitude to learning a foreign language. In “Me Talk Pretty One Day”, David Sedaris writes about his struggles when learning French. As a 41-year old writer, Sedaris moves to Paris to learn the language. The essay is about his experiences at the school and with his awfully strict French teacher. At the very first day the teacher tears Sedaris down and takes all self-esteem out of him. She humiliates and demeans him and all his new classmates, because they cannot speak fluent French. This results in him being so afraid of saying anything wrong, and he therefore avoids doing things that requires him to speak, such as asking for directions, answering the phone and ordering coffee or food. The text is well written and the language is informal and simple, yet still very clever. It is written in an everyday language with dialog and a vocabulary that is also informal and simple; to give an example he uses phrases as “nerve-raking” and “rattle off” (page 1 line 15 and page 1 line 17). The tone in the essay is casual and informal, as Sedaris uses a lot of humour and sarcasm. This makes the text funny and...
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...Poverty is a state of mind – essay By Lasse Tobberup Poverty is worldwide, and millions of people live in poverty. There are a lot of people who is doing everything in their power to get food on the table. There are a lot of people who everyday go to bed hungry, and a lot of people who can only dream of a life in luxury with vacations and more food than they could ever eat. Many people lives in poverty. An example of a man who lived in poverty is Bernard Hare in the text “Poverty is a state of mind” from 2012. The main claim in the text “Poverty is a state of mind” is “Poverty is a state of mind”(l. 320). The ground is “As far as I was concerned, we had warmth, love, shelter, enough to eat (…) and a safe community environment to run around and play in.”. Bernard Hare tells that he had little idea that they were poor. According to him they had what they needed. So the fact that poverty is a state of mind is all about whether you think you are poor or not. This is also mentioned in another one of his claims: “If you think you’re poor, you’re poor. If you think you’re rich, you’re rich.”(l. 320). Bernard Hare’s ground to his claim is: “Poverty isn’t only about a lack of money and resources. The worst poverty is found when there is a lack of education, understanding, hope(…)”. He believes that poverty isn’t measured in money and resources, but also in many other things – and if you keep telling yourself that you are poor, then you are poor. Bernard Hare believes that you...
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...Walter and Frank hello. (to say) 8. The cat under the tree. (to sit) 9. You water. (to drink) 10. She the lunchbox. (to forget) 1. I good marks. (to get) 2. Rita exercises. (to do) 3. We often the table. (to lay) 4. Tim and Pat pictures. (to upload) 5. Oliver always fun. (to have) 6. Maria sometimes their room. (to tidy up) 7. He often new shoes. (to buy) 8. The dog never out of the house. (to run) 9. You your glasses. (to need) 10. She snakes. (to touch) 1. Tom stamps. (not/to collect) 2. You songs in the bathroom. (not/to sing) 3. Julie in the garden. (not/to work) 4. I at home. (not/to sit) 5. Tina and Kate the windows. (not/to open) 6. Adam French. (not/to speak) 7. His sister lemonade. (not/to like) 8. We to music. (not/to listen) 9. My father the car every Saturday. (not/to clean) 10. Johnny and Danny in the lake. (not/to swim) 11. We handball at school. (not/to play) 12. Laura her room. (not/to clean) 13. Mark his homework. (not/to do) 14. Susan and Jerry TV. (not/to watch) 15. They at 6.30. (not/to wake up) 16. You shopping. (not/to go) 17. Mrs Smith a big box. (not/to carry) 18. My brother English. (not/to teach) 19. The teachers stories. (not/to tell) 20. I in a plane. (not/to fly) Put these sentences in the negative form: 1. I sit → 2. Peggy washes → 3. they go → 4. you watch → ...
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...A modest proposal – essay “Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” According to Niels Bohr, difficult times force us to change our ways of thinking, in order to find a solution. In 1729 Jonathan Swift wrote proposed a solution to such a difficult problem, and in order to carry out the solution, a radical change of thinking was needed, to say the least. The full title of his satirical essay is “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick”, but to the general public, it is known as “A modest proposal”. Covered up by numbers, expert opinions and other rhetorical devices, he presents the idea that the Irish should kill off their young ones at the age of one, and thus relieving themselves from the burden of feeding a flock of children. By proposing such a barbaric idea in a professional manner, Jonathan Swift deceives the reader into thinking that his proposal is genuine. Although it quickly becomes clear that he is being sarcastic, Jonathan Swift uses his sarcasm as a device to create awareness about the dreadful situation in Ireland. Swift engages the reader by appealing to all three modes of persuasion: Pathos, Ethos and Logos. He begins his essay with the lines: “It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town (…), when they see the streets, (…), crowded with...
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...listening to his father, Karl squandered his father’s money and became engulfed in debt. Along with debt, Karl also indulged in drunkenness and even engaged in a duel. Karl chose to use his years at college learning Greek and Roman mythology. To add to his selfishness, after schooling Karl married much to his families’ consternation. Karl also refused to support his mother and sisters after his father had died. Karl grew disgusted at his mother and wanted her to die so he could gain her inheritance. There are many things Karl Marx did growing up that God’s Word speaks against. I believe Karl Marx proved early on just how selfish he was. In Ephesians 6:2 the Lord wishes us to honor our parents. There are also countless warnings about drunkenness and being in debt. But we must heed these warnings and not ignore them. Karl Marx was Jewish and raised a Lutheran so I believe he was taught proper morals. Often the choices we make in our early years define whom we become. God gives us the opportunity to repent. But Karl Marx chose to pursue his sinful desires for selfish gain. He also seemed to have some troubling thoughts. One of these thoughts came not from his beliefs but rather from his poetry and writings. Before Karl Marx became well known he pursued his first ambition as a poet and writer. One of the...
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...written in 2002, a year after 9/11. So the setting is the post 9/11 America contributing the sense of uncertainty and insecurity of America’s future and the fear of changes in American people’s lives. The female narrator She isn’t given a name, probably she’s used to represent ordinary Americans whose pleasant, enjoyable lives have been afflicted by 9/11 attacks, becoming frightened, anxious and longing for their past ways of life. Before the incident, she says she have always dated many men, then she meets Victor who is older, strong, intellectual and she knows that she can rely on his permanent shape. She finds Victor’s dark humor about the medieval age, or his love of penal things and conflicts charming, she’s still a kid. Their particular relationship allows her to be a naïve, uncorrupted girl and what’s so funny is when Victor writes on her essay “See me,” and they have sex in his office. These sound like a common love story, pretty naughty and funny; a young college student girl and her professor having an affair in the university. But her life and her thought after the 9/11 are changed. She says that they haven’t had sex and haven’t taken a walk together for a long time; their lives are less sexual and sweet. Then she’s attached by Paul, or specifically, his long elegant fingers which make her think that he may be a cellist. There comes the image of sexuality, the cello looks like a woman curve and he plays on that body. It tells us that she desperately wants to go back...
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...soldiers of the 29th Regiment What really happened during the Boston Massacre is still a mystery, as many people had a different view about what they saw. The Boston Massacre took place in Boston Massachusetts, on March 5th, 1770, by the French and Indian War. More specifically it happened on the corner of Devonshire St. and State St., in front of Boston’s customs house between the soldiers of the 29th regiment and the citizens of Boston. Boston was a peaceful town until the government started passing tax acts such as the Stamp act and others. The Stamp act was later repealed but it’s effects on the people didn’t completely wear off, as some was still aggravated. There were other taxes that were also passed, as well as a board of commissioners; who was in charge of administering the local government. The Board of Commissioners was supposed to bring relief and keep the peace of Boston’s commerce. Instead, it did the opposite and brought up more trouble than it should have. First off, their residence was supposed to be at a place that was convenient for the town, but instead they didn’t take consideration of the citizens, placing it at the middle of the town. The Board of Commissioners was actually detrimental to the political interests of the people of Boston. Many of the peoples votes were not being counted for and some were criticized about what they voted for. In the case of Captain Timothy Folgier, he voted against what the commissioners wanted him to, which in turn got...
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...Morgan Peoples English IV CP Blankenship 3/21/14 Maya Angelou Known as one of the most influential voices of our time, Dr. Maya Angelou is a global renaissance woman, a celebrated poet, novelist, educator and holds many other titles. She has proven the point that sex and race cannot hinder dreams and goals. In this paper, Dr. Maya Angelou’s failures as well as successes will be recognized and discussed. Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou's former name was Marguerite Ann Johnson. Maya got the nickname from her older brother Bailey, who had a speech issue and could not pronounce Marguerite (Longly, 2013). He started calling her Maya because he read a book on Mayan indians, and the name stuck. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture (Angelou, 2012). Growing up in Stamps, AK, Angelou learned what it was like to be a black girl in a world whose boundaries were set by whites (Longly, 2013). As a child, she always dreamed of waking to find her "nappy black hair" metamorphosed to a long blond bob because she felt life was better for a white girl than for a black girl (Franks, n.d.). Despite the odds, her grandmother instilled pride in Angelou with religion as an important element in their home. Maya Angelou contributed to black history...
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...the exchange is to make the enterprise obtain the full abilities of productiveness and profitability, to be capable to remedy it does possess problems. The first journal article based on the topic is Organisation Development and Strategic Intervention for Enterprise Sustainability: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria. Author of this article is Khairuddin Idris (Ph.D). The second article is Understanding Large Group Intervention Processes: A complexity theory perspective by the author Michael J. Arena, PhD. The last article is Evaluating Group Interventions: A Framework for Diagnosing, Implementing, and Evaluating Group Interventions by the two authors Jacob de Lichtenberg and Manuel London. Based on these articles the authors mainly concern about how to help facilitators use current intervention idea and study to consultant their observe. Other than that, the significant relationship between teamwork and performance, for that reason the gain knowledge of endorsed human method interventions by means of workforce building within the business enterprise considering the fact that group-constructing interventions are directed in the direction of the evaluation of the effectiveness of workforce procedures similar to main issue solving, determination making and interpersonal relationships, a diagnosis and dialogue of the...
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...In this essay, I would like to compare and contrast gender roles/marriage and primarily show through two literary works found in my textbook the differences and likenesses of each story, as they are being told to the audience. The short stories that I have chosen to discuss for this essay are “The Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, by James Thurber. I will try to compare and contrast both stories and give the audience a brief summary, explaining the likenesses and differences and engaging the reader, while doing so. In the short summary of the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". This short-story tells the tale of Walter Mitty while on a trip into town with his wife, the bossy and serious Mrs. Mitty. Walter is sadly incompetent of doing many things; he forgets a lot of things, is very absent-minded while driving, and cannot handle the simplest tasks. But, what makes Walter unique throughout this short-story is his imagination. While Walter goes through his tasks, he escapes into a world of many fantasies, each brought on by reality. While driving his car he starts to day dream that he is a commander on a “Navy hydroplane" going through a storm. (Clugston, 2010). While passing a hospital, he believes he is a famous surgeon, known throughout the world for saving lives. He imagines he is being interrogated in court on a case, when he hears a newsboy shouting about a trial. Also, when he is waiting for his wife, he imagines himself...
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...A Write an essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyze and interpret Karen Shephard’s short story “Popular Girls”. A part of your essay must focus on the narrative technique and the many references to labels and certain locations in New York City. Popular Girls A short story by Karen Shepard You know who we are. We're Kaethe and Alina, CJ and Sydney. Stephanie. Our hair is blonde or brown or black. Rarely red, rarely curly. It's thick and straight, and falls back into place after we run our fingers through it and hold it away from our faces long enough for you to see our striking eyes. When we do this, you get shivers. It's 1982, and we sit on the benches lining our New York private school's entrance, after classes are over and before we head home. They are old church pews, and we are from another world. Our canvas book bags mass at our feet. They're from Sweden. They come with an excess of zippers, a plastic ID tag on a small chain, and a ruler that we never use. We buy them at Chocolate Soup, on Madison, the store for cool kids. We say things like "Tenth grade is the Howard Johnson's of school life." You can sit on these benches too, but we do not notice you. Last fall we excised some of you from our group by taking you aside five minutes before chapel and saying "It just isn't working out." We see everyone who walks past us, in and out of our 200-year-old originally Episcopalian school. We sweep you with our eyes as if you were a landscape. We've seen...
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...GENERALS DIE IN BED – Charles Yale Harrison JR’s TEACHER NOTES Explain and speculate what the title of the novel is inferring about the Generals. A. * The title is a pun or is having a go at the generals. * Generals die in bed while the soldiers die on the front lines. * Generals don’t fight. Instead they command soldiers from a safe distance behind the frontlines * The title suggests that there is a total lack of respect for generals or for people in positions of power/ authority. If this happens in war then there is a breakdown in the chain of command, therefore making it difficult to win the war itself. Glossary Compile a comprehensive list of words/ terms/ phrases/ places from the text and from the period in which the novel is set in. These words and terms should then feature in your coursework and text responses. * Trench warfare * Western Front * Alliance * Mother Country * Over the top * No mans land * Parapet * Sniper * Artillery * Shell Shock * Shrapnel * Minewerfer – mine throwing trench mortars * Parados – the wall of the trench * Blighty – England * Bosch/ Heine – derogatory term for a German * Estaminet – French café * Propaganda – exaggerating the truth * Lice/ louse – small parasitic insect * Funk-hole – a cavity carved out of the inside of the trench * Raid * Interrogation Quotes Choose at least 3 quotes per chapter and attach who said...
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... 2011 13 Reading, Inquiry, and Research ■ PART 2 | Using What You Have Learned to Share Information 57 TANYA BARRIENTOS Se Habla Español MEMOIR he man on the other end of the phone line is 1 Tanya Maria telling me the classes I’ve called about are firstBarrientos has rate: native speakers in charge, no more than six stuwritten for the dents per group. Philadelphia “Conbersaychunal,” he says, allowing the fat vow- 2 Inquirer for more than els of his accented English to collide with the sawedtwenty years. off consonants. I tell him that will be fi ne, that I’m familiar with 3 Barrientos was born in Guatethe conversational setup, and yes, I’ve studied a bit mala and raised of Spanish in the past. He asks for my name and I in El Paso, Texas. Her first novel, Frontera Street, was supply it, rolling the double r in Barrientos like a pro. published in 2002, and her second, That’s when I hear the silent snag, the momentary Family Resemblance, was pubhesitation I’ve come to expect at this part of the exlished in 2003. Her column “Unchange. Should I go into it again? Should I explain, conventional Wisdom” runs every the way I have to half a dozen others, that I am Guaweek in the Inquirer. This essay originally appeared in the collectemalan by birth but pura gringa by circumstance? tion Border-Line Personalities: A Do I add the humble little laugh I usually attach New Generation of Latinas Dish to the end of my sentence to let him know that of on Sex, Sass & Cultural...
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...and finally, relatively low salaries. But these strands lead to new questions, wider causes which have nothing to do with social yarn. These new questions have to do with rhetoric and the enduring association of nursing with “women’s work” and “femininity.” Matthew has the audacity to ask how the rhetoric of femininity actually functions. How and why are we compelled to accept images and tropes as ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ when they are anything but normal and natural? Is it possible that the rhetoric of nursing is responsible for the shortage? Or perhaps it is the rhetoric of femininity and masculinity as such? But how did such a crime take place, right under our noses, when so many of us never noticed that an injustice ever took place? This essay is brilliant and provocative because it will not stop until the crime...
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... For thirty years he was an obscure failure; then almost overnight a local celebrity and eventually the man around whom the whole of world policy revolved.” (Haffner, p. 1) The biography of Adolf Hitler is unique among the great political leaders of history. But as a human being, he was always a failure; or at least strangely incomplete. As Sebastian Haffner put it: "His life lacked everything that normally lends weight, warmth and dignity to a human life: education, occupation, love and friendship, marriage, parenthood. Apart from politics his was an empty life and hence one [that] was strangely lightweight, and lightly discarded.” (Haffner, p. 4) What sort of person was Adolf Hitler? Here is one clue. In 1939 Hitler ordered the complete destruction of the Austrian village of Döllersheim. The tiny village, birthplace of his ancestors, was converted into an artillery range for the army and blasted beyond recognition by guns and mortars. Why did the leader of the Greater German Reich order the obliteration of his father's birthplace and destroy the site of his grandmother's grave? Perhaps Hitler was obsessed with the possibility that he was one quarter Jewish; or just as likely, Hitler did not want to reveal too much about the tangled web of inbreeding in his family history. In 1930, he brought his nineteenyearold nephew Patrick, whom he had never met before to Munich where he told him never to grant interviews to the press: “You idiots”. He shouted, “you’re going to do me in...
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