...She was a frail old lady at the age of 92 with long grey hair and a small frame body. Helen looked at me with despair as I calmly approached to meet her acquaintance. Her caseworker, Anna, sitting by her side, attempting to reassure her safety and provide comfort makes the introduction. “This is Maria, you’re new caregiver, She will be staying with you tonight” she says to Helen as she writes it down on a pad of paper. “Oh Thank God, Oh Thank God” Helen responds. Helen relaxed her body with and sighed with relief. Dawn the current caregiver; an average height, blond, blue eyed middle aged woman had an attitude about her. She appeared to be anxious, impatient, aggressive and fed up with Helen. Dawn has had no previous experience with care giving and had taken this position on to support her family at home. Spending all days and nights with Helen for the past three months seemed to be taking a toll on her mental and physical abilities. Seeing that Helen was wrestles, afraid and paranoid, I reassured her safety. “No need to worry Helen, I will not leave your side”. I will make sure you are safe from now on and all your needs are met”. Helen looks back at me and smiles with a sense of comfort. “Thank you very much for bringing me an angel to look after me” she says to Anna. Reassures Helen that everything will be fine and leaves the apartment. It is Friday late evening, and as I sit next to Helen holding her hand, Dawn continuously approaches to speak with me. In a...
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...Narration My first serious argument with parents Our society is still very conservative. Among the narrow minded people of our society I never considered my parents as one. They have always allowed me to do almost everything and go anywhere regardless of my gender. But now I know that people change their thoughts and minds according to time and situation. That change was what I was against and thus happened our first argument. Once in every two years each class of our college goes for some sort of trip of 2-3 days and that year was ours turn to go. As most of the students of our class were adventurous and loved hiking we had decided to go trekking to ABC(Annapurna Base Camp). I was also one of the active students who had taken that decision. I was sure that my parents would allow me. I was over the moon just at the thought of that trip for I had always wanted to go there.That trek was all over my mind and at home that was the only thing I talked about to my parents. To my surprise, this time they didn't seem to be much interested in my jabber. It was almost like they were trying to ignore me. But as I was too much into that trek I didn't care about their reaction either. I was making plans with my friends and we were also discussing how to convince their parents. There were only three or four days left for the trek and we were also excited about going shopping for the trekking gear. I asked my parents for money, they usually didn't ask me why I needed the money...
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...Narration Essay It was a beautiful day outside when we had left Rhode Island after our week of being on vacation. I got in my sister’s car and sat in the passenger seat, like I always do. We weren't nearly close to being home when I realized how important my life was. I saw my life flash before my eyes in a split second, while hearing the screeching of the tires. There were vivid memories that stuck in my mind; home, happiness, and friends. The thought of how I took everything for granted. Suddenly the car jerked and a loud crushing of metal occurred. My chest was burning from the seatbelt, and somehow my forehead felt like it had been punched. This car accident made me realize how important life is and not to take home, happiness, and friends for granted. While listening to the tires yelling; my mind’s first thought was of home, of my family. Snow was falling on my nose and all six of us were in a huge Christmas tree farm. It is a competition each year to see which one of us finds the fattest and biggest Christmas tree to put in the living room. This was the memory that crossed my mind of my family. The memory of how I didn't tell them that I loved them that day, or even the day of the car accident. I had taken my family for granted; I didn't tell them just how much I loved them before the car accident. I thought about how my family would feel if my sister and I didn’t live through the accident. Thinking about my family made me realize just how important my life is. Happiness...
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...Material Recording a Narration If you are creating a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that people will view on their own machines rather than during a speaker-led meeting, or if you are archiving a presentation and want to include the speaker’s comments, you can add narration to the presentation. To record a sound, your computer must have a sound card. You also need a microphone—one might be built in to your computer, or you can connect an external handheld or headset microphone to your computer. Use the following steps to record a narration: 1. Open the presentation in which you want to record a narration and display the first slide. 2. Click the Insert tab, click the Sound arrow in the Media Clips menu, then click Record Sound. 3. Locate the Record Sound dialog box. Enter a name for the recording in the Name box, and then click the Play button. 4. Discuss the points associated with the first slide, just as if you were giving the presentation to a live audience, and then click the Stop button. 5. Click the Play button to review the recording. If you do not like what you hear, click Cancel and repeat Steps 2 through 4 to record the speaker’s comments again. 6. Click OK when you are satisfied with the recording. The recording appears on the slide as a sound object. 7. Repeat Steps 2 through 5 for each slide that you want to narrate. 8. Test the narration by running the presentation in Slide Show view. The narration plays with the slide...
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...Basic Rough Draft There is a person who is relatively new to G-E-T this year, that I have the upmost privilege to be friends with. My girlfriend Kayla is one of the most amazing people I have ever known in my lifetime. For the short period of time that we've known each other,we've been through quite a lot together. Kayla and I are basically like siblings in a way. We met our first day of junior year in high-school. If I can remember correctly, we were both to some extent terrified about the coming year. I was relieved to know that she had a locker close to mine. I had a feeling that she didn't know that many people in our school, and I remember her casually mentioning that she didn't know anyone in our class. I told her everything would be fine, and that if all else fails, at least we still have each other. Kayla Purney has long dark brown hair that falls almost down over her shoulders,and deep dark brown eyes with a smile that brighten's people's day. I really like her sense of humor, because it's almost like mine and we tend to laugh about everything together. When she laughs you can see her amazing white teeth that she brags about brushing at least three times a day. I don't like to admit it but envy her teeth sometimes. I've made a joke to her before that her dentists must be proud of her. When she smiles or laughs her eyes grow huge with excitement. She is such a happy person that her good attitude and bright personality is almost contagious. If I'm having a...
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...Becoming a U.S. Citizen I remember when I got my U.S. citizenship. It was the summer of 2007 in Fort Worth, Texas. I have achieved some goals, but the U.S. citizenship has always been the most important. First, I came to the United States legally thanks to my dad. He had to work hard in order to have enough money to pay for the resident card for my five brothers and me. Knowing all the sacrifices my dad went through for us, I immediately set a goal of becoming a U.S. citizen. I wanted to show my dad how much it meant to me. At that time, I never realized how difficult it would be for me to achieve this goal. I had to go through a very hard process in order to get my U.S. citizenship. At twenty years old, I remember I had to work to collect money, nearly five hundred dollars, to pay for the application fee for the citizenship. It was not easy because I did not speak English; I did not understand anything. I got a job working in a factory that made military tanks, it was so dirty. I came home covered in oil and grease; it even got in my hair. Later, I decided to learn English. It was the only way I could pass the U.S. citizenship exam. Then, I found an English school, named “Yes I Can.” I spent two years in it. During this period, I learned how to read and speak English, but not fluently. I did not have enough time to study because I had to work at the same time. Being a full time student and full time worker made me tired; I was a little sleepy every day at work, and my...
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...Direct Indirect Designed by Mr. A.M. Dey and Mr. Sukanta 1. Direct Narration: End Quotation Object Preposition Some features ( How to know Direct Narration): Stop Direct Speech Quotation Comma Reporting Verb Speaker Rita said to me , “ I will go to my friend’s house .” 1. Indirect Narration: Object Some features (How to know Direct Narration): Stop Inedirect Speech Reporting Verb Rita told me that she would go to her friend’s house . Linker Roporter Narrator Chart of Reporting Verbs used in Indirect Narration Sl No | Sentence Names | Direct Narration | Indirect Narration | 1 | Assertive | i) Says to ii) Say to iii) Shall say to iv) Will say v) Said to vi) Said | Tells Tell Shall tell Will say Told Said | 2 | Interrogative | Said | Asked or enquired of | 3 | Imperative | Said | OrderedAdvisedRequestedCommanded *** For Let construction: Suggested to Proposed to ( According to expressions) | 4 | Exclamatory | Said | Exclaimed with joy/sorrow/wonder/surprise/ anger etc. | 5 | Optative | Said | WishedPrayed( According to expressions) | Linkers SL. No | Sentence Names | Indirect Narration | 1 | Assertive | That | 2 | Interrogative | If/ Whether But no linker is used when the indirect speech starts with Wh- word like what , when or how. | 3 | Imperative | To In...
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...Brian S. Ekasala ENC1102-170861 Professor Martin-Buchanan May 29, 2013 Journal Response #2 Retrospective Narration of “Orientation” “Orientation” written by Daniel Orozco (McMahan 454) was to me, mostly a comical read. I have that dark sense of humor I guess. I liked the way the story was presented. By using primarily first person narration, I felt as if I was the one being shown around the office on my first day of work. I found myself conjuring up question after unanswered question as I was being pulled into a story line about yet another employee. I became less interested in the particulars of who exactly was the narrator, the intended audience, or the office itself; and more interested in the inner workings of the office dynamic. I guess I had not much of a choice since the narrator nor the audience was ever clearly defined. One thing that did break the cycle was when the narrator pointed out “this is your phone.” and “That was a good question. Feel free to ask questions” (McMahan 454), this was the basis for my assumption that I was the intended audience. I found it interesting that there were a number of things “you may be let go” (McMahan 454-457) for. This phrase seemed to squelch my desire to clarify just who the audience was meant to be. No one wants to be “let go” not even me, the reader! The setting was immediately painted with the comment, “These are the offices and these are the cubicles” (McMahan 454). By painting such a dull picture in the beginning...
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...Harrington offers a narrative in how poetry’s entity to the public shifted from rather an everyday outlet or enjoyment to that of a scholarly, more objectified and purposeless craft. He starts his overview explaining how F.O. Matthiessen is left having “discovered a renaissance for American Literature that did not include poets,” (Harrington P.496) besides a sole exclusion: Walt Whitman. Poetry has always hung on the precipice of whether being literature or not; swayed, back and forth, by the changing movements of the decades. I’ve come to understand after reading Harrington that poetry is constantly being redefined and reorganized by its place in society and its critics. Yet generally over the last several or more decades its’ art has remained secular from what is knows as ‘American Literature’. Harrington believes “the institutional history of poetry in the US suggests both the importance and the genealogy of the literary- critical split between American poetry and American literature,” (Harrington P. 496.). He notes that poetry used to play a crucial role in cultural conflicts and almost digesting the current day-to-day. He then goes on to argue in which I agree, that by now holding aside poetry as something less in turn stripping its influence on us, literature to us is a contradictory thing. Not including poetry in literature for the people reading it is silly for the two are so intertwined. So much fiction has taken from or found inspiration from poetry. Harrington states...
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...Narrative Essay 9/23/2014 The Relaxing Road Trip The Grand Central station of American the West where Lewis and Clark passed through, crazy horse fought for freedom, and the evergreens so thick they make the hills look black. It’s time for family road trip to the Black Hills. The whole family already has her bags packed and are ready to go. I’m the last one to leave the house and get into the car and I am not ready for this road trip. I said myself “this is going be the most boring trip ever, just mountains and trees and a 14 hour car ride of agonizing pain and misery with nothing else to do but sit there and look out of the window at corn until we get there. My sister I don’t normally get along with is kicking the back of my seat screaming that she doesn’t have enough leg space. 30 minutes into the trip she starts to cry about how hungry she is. And instead of my parents providing a reasonable solution to the problem like giving her some food from the cooler they just turn the music up louder. Which made it way worse for me, as her death screeching screams began to rise and started to kick harder on the back of my seat. I sat there and pondered on the thought of me just staying home at a friend’s house or anything just to be away from my family in a car for a whole day. Parents begin to talk about what we’ll see up there. Faces of presidents on mountains, crazy horse, all the colorful mountains and the thick forests. All that sounds very boring to me. Going up...
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...Back to College Narration Brandy Balma Crola College Online ENG: 101{30031502} Prof, Benta Kay Hallem Abstract My main reason why I decided to go back to school and obtain my Bachelor Degree is not anything out of the ordinary. In today society, I see several working individual adults pursuing their degrees to acquire security and self-fulfillment. While others are searching for the advancement in pay and position in their current or new job. There are a number of those who need to obtain more confidence in their skills to do a good job for their company and feel that by getting a degree, they can achieve this goal. All of them pertain to me. Especially to the current economy, I strongly feel that there is a great advantage to having a degree versus not having one when it comes to searching for a job. The potential benefits of obtaining College education are numerous but differ for every individual. For several years, I had entertained the idea of returning to school, but I always managed to create an excuse as to why the time was not right. Underneath all these excuse was low self esteem, lack of time and fear. My past failure crippled my enthusiasm. To my surprise, that is about to change. I am the oldest child of three, one sister, and one brother, we are raised by my mother, in a predominately Hispanic community, in Elpaso, Texas. My mother is a young industrious lady who has always instilled...
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..."Who is the enemy? An analysis of the ironic third person limited narration in Empire of the Sun" Thesis: "How does Ballard utilize irony to convey the idea that there may be more than one way to look at things (show Jim's competing and unexpected perspective towards the Japanese and Chinese). Quotes: “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” ~Ivy Baker Priest “The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.” ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22 “I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.” ~Denis Waitely "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein “Not for the first time Jim realized that the Japanese, officially his enemies, offered his only protection in Shanghai.” (P.60) Here are the page numbers: 60, 78, 103, 113, 126, 180, 283, 286, 296, 304, 309, 330. Enemies are your best friends? In J.G. Ballad’s Empire of the Sun, Jim’s perspective on the Japanese and the Chinese respectively is sharply at odds with the general opinions of other characters. In general, Ballard shows that many of the books’ characters regard the Chinese more positively than the Japanese. The Japanese as a cruel occupying force are shown to be despised by the...
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...The first chapter of The Great Gatsby sees Nick Carraway attend dinner with the Buchanan’s having moved to New York recently from his mid western respectable country home. Fitzgerald constructs his character as a well spoken yet slightly snobbish young man who is “inclined to reserve all judgements”. However Fitzgerald presents Nick as an unreliable narrator, reflecting upon the events in the book remarking and judging all the other characters and their actions making Nick as bias as the rest of the Fitzgerald’s constructs. Therefore the reader is exposed to the post First World War America through Nicks bias eyes. The boundaries, rules and attitudes of Americans at this time were in change, with the constant aim in life to be having fun or making lots of money. The reader sees this attitude not only within Nick “I decided to go East and learn the bond business” but within Jordan Baker “we ought to plan something”. Within the first chapter of the novel the reader can empathise completely with Nicks feelings as he drives away from East Egg feeling confused and disgusted. Characters within the first chapter, seen through Nicks judgement, are used by Fitzgerald to elicit a range of responses from the reader. Daisy Buchanan, Nick Caraways cousin is constructed as an innocent coquet with fairy like qualities. Daisy’s voice is mentioned many times, being a focal point of her overall description; she's said to have a “thrilling”, “glowing” voice which “compels” Nicks attention. Her...
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...Narration * Recounting of events; real or imagined * General Classification * Objective narration – narration of fact * Events control the narrative composition * Subjective narration – purely imaginative narration (fiction) * The writer controls the narration of event * Three Elements of Narration * Setting * A narrative must happen somewhere * “background” must be plainly indicated * Either by incidental references here and there * Or by formal description * Characters * There must be actors * Must have definite personalities * Can be described formally when they appear * Or described themselves by their words and actions to the reader * Plot * Series of related events * (Imaginative) the writer invent the plot * (Fact) the writer finds it in a sense ready in hand * Motion and Time in Narration * Motion * Narration give us a moving picture * Its emphasis is not on the thing in motion but on the nature of motion itself * Narration does not tell about a story, It tells the story * Time * The movement of series of incidents follows the order of time * Chronological order of arrangement * The series of events must have significant relation with one another * Point of View * A person who bears some relation to the action * Either as observer or participant, and whose intelligence serves as the index of the action for the reader * Three...
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...the unreliable narrator The unreliable narrator is a technique used by authors where a scenario is created in which the reader cannot trust the narration of the book usually done in the first person. In American psycho, Ellis explores the sinister nature of Wall Street yuppie culture by examining the sanity of the narrating protagonist Patrick Bateman using the unreliable narrator. Ishiguro also uses this, exploring ideas of regret and also self-justification in the character of Mr Stevens in The Remains of the Day. Unlike Ellis who examines Bateman during his early working years, in his mid-twenties and presenting a snapshot of his life, Ishiguro uses his take on the unreliable narrator to look at Stevens towards the end of his life using a series of flashbacks narrated unreliably, by Stevens. Both novels are comparable in the sense they examine the topic of failure using unreliable narrators that will do anything to escape the idea that they are failures. A popular debate regarding American Psycho is whether Patrick Bateman is a murderer or not, certainly Bateman describes in detail of murders he commits and why he commits them, however, certain factors bring Bateman’s reliability of narration into question. Bruno Zerweck argues that due to the lack of ‘detective framework’ and ‘unintentional self-incrimination’ the narration of the novel is reliable. Jennifer Phillips in her article on the subject disagrees citing examples such as Detective Donald Kimball as evidence of...
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