...truths. Modernism as a literary movement reached its height in Europe between 1900 and the middle 1920s. Modernist literature addressed to aesthetic problems and can be viewed largely in terms of its formal, stylistic and semantic movement away from Romanticism, examining subject matter that is traditionally mundane. It often features a marked pessimism, a clear rejection of the optimism apparent in Victorian literature. It attempted to move from the bonds of Realist literature and to introduce concepts such as disjointed timelines. Modernism as a literary movement is seen, in large part, as a reaction to the emergence of city life as a central force in society. Furthermore, an early attention to the object as freestanding became in later Modernism a preoccupation with form. Modernist writers were more acutely conscious of the objectivity of their surroundings. The most prominent modernist authors are: T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Gertrude Stein, Mikhail Bulgakov, MarcelProust, John Steinbeck, Ezra Pound, Katherine Anne Porter, Rainer Maria Rilke, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Boris Pasternak, Sherwood Anderson and a lot of others. Modern short stories only occasionally consist of an exposition. It usually comprises of an abrupt beginning, with the story starting in the middle of the action. The plots of short stories also have a climax, crisis, or turning-point...
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...Essay on “Owl” by Jackie Kay “Owl” is a story about two friends and their childhood encounter with an owl. It is a story about a childhood friendship that lasts longer than they could have imagined. Barn and Tawny is what they called themselves when they one holiday discover an owl together. These nicknames and the encounter with the owl stays with them all the way till their forties. Now they are all grownup, but did their childhood have an influence on the way they are today? It is a tale of how one experience can connect to friends forever. The short story takes places in several places. In the beginning, it takes place on the farmland where their parents went on summer holiday. This is the place where the two friends come across an Owl on the farm. The two friends bond over this owl and make up their first nicknames for each other. The narrator was named Barn and her friend was named Tawny. What they did not know was that this bonding experience would make them friends for long out into the future. Another thing that they find out, but do not pay much attention to, is that Barns parents are starting to like Tawny’s parents, meaning that Barns mother is starting to talk more with Tawny’s father, and vice versa with Barns father and Tawny’s mother. This might seem weird for the receiver; however, the main characters do not seem to realize it too much. Then in the middle of the text, they are suddenly at back home from the farm. A scene is described where Barn and Tawny...
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...The author did extensive research on the events and doesn’t imply his personal opinion or feelings towards the crime. Capote wants the reader to draw their own conclusion about the murder. For example when he talks about how the deeds is done and we can’t do anything about it. It is not right to hold a grudge. Only god can judge (Capote 107). However Capote does show bias between the murderers. Capote projects his own opinion that Perry was more innocent than Dick although they had been convicted of the same crime. Representing Perry as a sympathetic character describing his dreams making him childlike. He shows sympathy towards Perry based on his upbringing and shows Dick as a natural born killer. “I didn’t want to harm the man I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment...
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...11/0807/2414 Ryan Forde 11/0807/0858 The story being reviewed is titled “The Danger of a Single Story”; it is based on the perception that the media, journalists and story tellers only allow viewers and readers to see and read one side of the story. Chimamanda gave examples from her childhood, college life and her adult life to support her claims in the danger of telling a single or one side of a story. After viewing the video, as a journalist we learn that, what is depicted by the media and the press is what the viewers and readers will assume the individual’s life to only be and images portrayed by the media, is what people believe and conclude the situation to be. Secondly, aspiring journalist, storytellers and writers would believe that writing should be based on trend, this example was depicted in the video as Ms. Adichie explained her first set of stories were based on what she had read, therefore she believed that her writing should have taken the same pattern. These lessons can be applied to narrative journalism by creating a balance between the negative and positive side of the story but with Narrative journalism from the get-go, it requires extensive reporting so that the writer can pull from many different sources and anecdotes to develop the various layers of a story. It requires a kind of authorial confidence that comes across as an assured voice. And it requires time,...
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...Potts analyzes himself in “Tourist Snapshots.” Although well written, this section is immemorable - His description is cliche as he describes his average childhood and himself as a young, awkward, sexually repressed middle class boy. While this description offers insight into Potts, it detracts from the narrative aim. This isn’t to say that Potts’ writing has no redeeming qualities - his soft descriptions of falling in love and his careful word choice reveal a highly skilled author. Potts interweaves a history of photography, personal anecdotes and the significance of travel into one essay, and demonstrates exceptional writing - albeit, in an incohesive style that leaves the reader confused, dazed (and, in my case, disappointed.) Although “Tourists Snapshots” did not inspire me, I applaud Rolf Potts for attempting to inject vitality into the quickly shifting genre of travel...
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...‘How do adults perceive that significant others in their lives (i.e. people who are or have been important to them) have affected their development?’ Abstract John Bowlby’s theory of attachment asserts that in childhood attachments are formed between the infant and the caregiver. It also asserts that these attachments form the basis of adult relationships. This qualitative thematic analysis of an interview with Chloe attempts to show how early attachments form a framework of later development. This study shows some support for Bowlby’s theory of the continuity of attachment behaviour but also shows that the nature of attachments can change throughout life in particular due to adult relationships and life experience. Introduction The field of developmental psychology is concerned with understanding how our mental outlook can change over the course of a lifetime. It considers both the effects of cultural and environmental factors and the internal motivations of the individual. One of the main area of research is understanding the degree of continuity in how behaviour is formed and to what degree it can be influenced by past experience. In the area of human relationships, Attachment theory (as cited in Wood et al., 2007) explores how relationships develop. Bowlby (as cited in Wood et al., 2007) proposed that we have a basic biological drive to form an attachment to a ‘mother figure’ at birth. The nature of the attachment gives rise to a ‘internal working model’ in...
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...Term Paper Psyc 400, Spring, 2015 Title of Paper: Factors Contributing to Literacy Skills in Children from Low-Income Families In American society, education is considered by many to be an equalizing force for people from all walks of life. It allows the nation’s best and brightest to distinguish themselves from their peers through intellectual merit - at least in theory. Unfortunately, the reality of the situation does not live up to the ideal, especially for children from low income families. Children who are already growing up with the disadvantages of poverty are further hindered by underfunded and ineffectual primary schooling, setting them even further behind middle and upper class children. Before beginning a discussion of the factors or strategies contributing to early literacy, it is important to first establish that there is in fact a discrepancy between low-income children and their more affluent peers in the first place. A review of the research literature is required to lay certain inaccurate stereotypes to rest, such as the notion that poor children are simply lazier students, and do not face additional difficulties with the acquisition of literacy skills. A comprehensive empirical study by Babuder et al (2014) explores the relationship between poverty and reading skills in children, with the results being unanimously negative. The study goes beyond assessing the reading skills of the children, and measures the basic phonological and semantic skills needed...
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...“Compare how Vera Brittain and JG Ballad present the theme of ‘WAR’ in Testament of youth and Empire of the Sun” Both the novel and the memoir are set during a war that disrupts the main characters life in a way that allows the reader to experience the raw brutality of war, whether that is physical or emotional. Testament of Youth (ToY) is set in WWI and Empire of the Sun (EotS) in WWII, the 27 year gap between the wars meant there were technological differences such as communication, aircraft and weapon advances. These factors highlight that the later war would have been more sophisticated in both ground and air defence/fighting techniques. This could possibly be why both characters envision the war differently, although there are other factors such as gender, geographical location and political positioning to consider. Ballad writes in a 3rd person emotionally detached manner whereas Brittain’s first person perspective allows us to empathise with her situation. The extracts I will be using to explore the way in which war affects the thoughts and feelings of each protagonist are page 30-33 from EotS where on the eve of pearl harbour Jim investigates Hungjao aerodrome and comes across an old fighter plane. This is when we see his fascination with warfare technology. I will compare it to pages 67-72, chapter 8, in ToY when Vera sees her future fiancé, Roland, receive his awards on speech day at her brothers school and both Roland and her brother are appropriately attired in...
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...Frances Cornford Childhood Frances Cornford, granddaughter of Charles Darwin, was born in Cambridge, England, in 1886, where she also died, in 1960. She was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 1959. ‘Childhood’ explores a dual perspective on the ageing process. On the one hand, it is a child who watches ‘through the banisters’ and is ‘helplessly young’, but the whole poem is a memory – ‘I used to think’. Between the lines, the reader understands that the crafting narrator is moving towards old age. Both young and old are ‘helpless’ in the progression of time. These wider considerations are based on precise, particular memories and observations. The first section vividly describes the physical features of old age, while the second centres around the moment of realisation about ‘My great-aunt Etty’s friend’ and her rolling beads from a broken necklace. Though written in one stanza, consider the effects of Cornford’s use of short lines. The first serves to complete the childish observation before the epiphany in the poem’s second section, while the final short line provides the ambivalent conclusion. Note the way too that the couplets, established in the early part of the poem, break up in the last four lines. Compare with My Parents Stephen Spender For Heidi With Blue Hair Fleur Adcock Praise Song for My Mother Grace Nichols Follower Seamus Heaney Country School Allen Curnow A Quoi Bon Dire Charlotte Mew Songs of Ourselves: Section 5: Notes 3 ANALYSIS...
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...this newly developed meaning may not even be remotely comparable to the marketer’s initial intended meaning. The underlying meaning behind a brand, whether intentional or not, can be conveyed and interpreted through the influence of multiple factors. From culture, religion, politics and travel exploration in an increasingly global landscape; to multiple media platforms including film and television; to internal factors such as past experience and memories revived from childhood; consumers can use their own awareness, surroundings and experiences to form their own interpretations on a brand’s meaning. Culture can often have a great influence on brand meaning. The addition of all the customs, beliefs and values that impact a society’s consumption patterns formulate that society’s culture (Schiffman et al. 2014, pp. 392). These beliefs and values highlight the majority views on the meaning behind a brand, which can often be intense enough to coerce the greater population. This is particularly apparent in many Middle-Eastern countries where Islam dictates unambiguously the apparel which is appropriate for...
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...Prof. davis / BRIEF CHAPTER SUMMARY – chapter 7 Information-processing theorists view the mind as a complex, symbol-manipulating system through which information flows, often using the metaphor of a computer. One general model of information processing, the store model, assumes that information is stored in three parts of the mental system for processing: the sensory register; working, or short-term, memory; and long-term memory. The first two are limited in capacity, but long-term memory, our permanent knowledge base, is unlimited. In another approach, researchers have used computers to devise connectionist, or artificial neural network, models, which simulate the workings of neurons and their connections. Connectionists view the human cognitive system as a general processing device that gradually attains domain-specific competencies as relevant learning opportunities arise. Developmental models of information processing include Case’s neo-Piagetian perspective, which starts with Piaget’s stages but attributes change within and between stages to increases in the efficiency with which children use their limited working-memory capacity. It offers an integrated picture of how children’s processing efficiency, practice with strategies, and constructive efforts to reorganize their thinking interact to produce development. Siegler’s model of strategy choice, another developmental model, views children’s cognition from an evolutionary perspective, suggesting that children generate...
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...Group 2 (III-2 BECED) TEACHNOLOGY IN ECE MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Software for Teachers (Example) Assess2Achieve- is a comprehensive software package that includes planning, assessment, evaluations and report writing for teachers Benefits: • Assess2Achieve enables you to store all the assessment information for each child in one place. You are able to search for an individual child records or a group of children records as an efficient means for using assessment successfully. It enables the teacher to record individual pupil assessments rapidly, therefore saving the teacher time. • Assess2Achieve solves this problem because it is a software system that enables you to store all the evaluation information in one place. Then you are able to search for a particular subject or topic as an efficient means to using evaluations successfully. • With Assess2Achieve teachers can now pass on their back-ups to the class. future teacher to enable him/her to access more detailed information about his/her class. Data stores from different teachers can be amalgamated to give an overview of a whole school so that reports can be created with information supplied by different teachers. • The format is friendly to non-computer professionals. Assess2Achieve has a paper like look to the application, even though it is a data store. Teachers can use the software flexibly to suit the needs of the curriculum, their pupils, the differentiation...
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...don’ even like to think about it.” --Lebert Joseph, Praisesong for the Widow Paule Marshall’s autobiographical article “From the Poets in the Kitchen,” published a month before her novel Praisesong for the Widow, describes stories from her childhood that reflect the immigrant experience, addressing the constant presence of the Caribbean and its influence on Marshall’s life while growing up in the United States. Marshall’s mother and her female friends, immigrants from Barbados, would gather in the Marshall kitchen after their days of working in low-paid jobs to chat, gossip, and “tackle the great issues of the time” including the economy, politics, war, and their nostalgia for home. They discussed their adopted home, America—acknowledging both the racism they endured, and also the wealth of possibilities that the country offered. These women and their stories were, for Marshall, the origins of her fiction. She asserts that a writer’s ability to render everyday speech is derived from close listening, and the talk that “filled the kitchen” additionally functioned as a kind of therapeutic catharsis, a release of creative energy. The special kind of language used between certain groups of people gives writers their own narrative and unique language: “The principle means by which a character in a novel or story reveals himself and gives voice sometimes to profound feelings and complex ideas about himself and the world.” Although Marshall ultimately transitions from the...
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...Beatrice Culleton as the author and an Aboriginal writer, she uses a less traditional form of the first person narrative to create a sense of distance in In Search of April Raintree, in a sophisticated style with the view of women’s studies and native studies. In this book, Beatrice Culleton reveals the difficulties and challenges faced by the Metis people in Canada in the middle of 20th century. “Live powerfully or succumb to victimhood”. For this edited volume, could divided into three sections, the author described a processing of life story of two Métis sisters were growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their different childhood, maturity and destiny. This volume critically examines the institutional racism related to how racism is internalized and how it circulates. At the beginning of the story, the first part comes from chapter one to chapter seven. Culleton’s semiautobiographical account gives an obvious issue of the common phenomenon. As the narrator, April described the early childhood memories about her life and family; moreover, she mentioned the prejudice and discrimination which shows the diverse experiences and environment in their foster families for her and her little sister. April’s experiences with the DeRosier family provided the racism do exist in a great extent, and even worse, they were defenseless and have few human rights. There are two quite upset stories about April in bullied. One is April’s social worker who supposes to protect her from discrimination...
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...achieve a pan-Indian sweep. women agaisnst opression- From women being passive narrators of stories, women now tell stories that emerge from their lived life experiences and memories. As Vaidehi herself puts it, there was a clear demarcation between the outside world; with its loud, authoritative voices (the Chavadi and beyond), and the inside world; entrenched in its poignant, disquieting silences (the kitchen, the backyard and a little more). Most of Vaidehi's narratives are invariably set against the backdrop of these two distinct worlds — the outer realm with its imposing voice and the inner realm shut into a silence. The tension in negotiating these two worlds, often perceived as infringement, seen as protest by the patriarchal order, make for the plot of most Vaidehi's stories. Vaidehi's women are almost always a product of their situation, hence their negotiations are unstated. Akku from her collection Antarangada Putagalu is one of Vaidehi's most haunting story. It is the story of Akku, a zany middle-aged woman, who takes on the world in her state of madness. Akku's good-for-nothing husband suddenly disappears, and Akku goes around imagining she's pregnant. Vaidehi's akku, the "dark double" gives a hearing to her simmering anxiety and rage....
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