...A 4. The housemaster nerves made him almost laugh at the whole accident, he had difficulties being serious. He told the story about the accident quick to keep himself serious. 1. “A Shocking Story” starts with Jerome being called in to the headmaster’s office. The headmaster, Mr. Woodsworth, tells Jerome that his father has died in an accident. Jerome has always thought that his father was some Secret Service Agent for Britain. He therefore assumes that his father was killed in a gunfight. Mr. Woodsworth then tells that his father was killed by a pig fallen on him. Jerome reacts in a special way; he doesn’t cry or show any grief. The accident is rather comical than sad to other people. When Jerome gets older he is ashamed of telling people how his father died. At some point people starts to call him pig. When Jerome gets engaged later in life he still is embarrassed about the accident. Jerome and his fiancée Sally avoid his aunt. But when his aunt finally tells Sally about the accident Sally doesn’t laugh, but she becomes saddened to what happened. This makes Jerome happy and he finally has a bright positive attitude. Jerome becomes a happier person at the end of the story. Sally changes him in a good way. 3. At the beginning of the story Jerome becomes a victim of his father’s death. He gets more and more embarrassed of the accident and people starts to call him pig. This makes Jerome’s life hard and embarrassed. But at the end his fiancé hears about the accident....
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...A shcoking accident Author Graham Greena was born in Hertfordshire Britain (October 2 1901 to successful parents He had a troubled childhood In 1927, he married Vivien Browning and had two children with her. He a journalist in his early career before being recruited by MI6 to work as a spy during WWII. After he retired from MI6, he worked as a writer but lost most of his money to a scam and died in 1991. What is the story about? Greene's story, "A Shocking Accident" is about the tragedy of Jerome's father killed by a falling pig. The pig in question apparently fell from a balcony on to the unsuspecting man, thus taking his life. Jerome spends most of his life angry because the first reaction to this story, which should be, in his opinion, one of remorse and sadness since it is the story of his father's death is laughter. Most people react to the story as if it were some humorous joke, yet it is a tragic event in Jerome's life. Sally is the first person who reacts with the proper sadness and mourning Jerome has always felt the story requires, and so he falls immediately in love with her. Plot and setting Exposition: Jerome was called into the housemaster’s room on Thursday morning to receive news about his dad Rising action: Mr. Wordsworth was so nervous about telling how his father died because it was hard news. He told him that his father had an accident, so Jerome received a call from his aunt. Jerome thought his father was wounded in hail machine gun wallets ...
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...Title: A shocking accident (summary) Author: Graham Greene Theme: …………………………………………………… Publisher: Mark Shacklenton (through Longman) Place of publication Edinburgh Gate, England Jerome is a nine-year-old child which is called to class to be told bad news about his father. Mr Wordsworth, the housemaster of his expensive private school, has received a phone call from Jerome’s aunt saying that Jerome’s father has got involved in a tragic accident. Jerome worships his father. He has recreated him from a restless widow author into a mysterious adventurer who travels in far places. Therefore, when Jerome receives the terrible news he immediately thinks that his father might have been wounded through the heart and that he, together with secret police officers, might have been in a sort of battle. Unfortunately, this is not the state of affairs. His father has died because a pig fell on him! Jerome says nothing but asks what has happened to the pig after all. While it has never occurred to him, at his preparatory school, that the circumstances of his father’s death are comic, everybody else seems to find it rather funny. Jerome’s aunt doesn’t have any sense of humor. She is an active woman and she admires Jerome’s father. From her point of view, her brother has been a very careful man, an adventurous person and a tenderly writer. He has always loved to be in remote places and this is something that she considers to be of great importance. It can be assumed, that for her it...
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...Cultural shock or shocking culture..! I would like to describe culture shock as a difficulty which distresses most of us to some degree. We might almost call culture shock an occupational disease of many people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. These signs are the thousand and one ways in which we orient ourselves to the situations of daily life: when to shake hands and what to say when we meet people, when and how to give tips, how to give orders to servants, how to make purchases, when to accept and when to refuse invitations, when to take statements seriously and when not. These cues, which may be words, gestures, facial expressions, customs, or norms are acquired by all of us in the course of growing up and are as much a part of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we accept. All of us depend for our peace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues, most of which are unconsciously learned. When an individual enters a strange culture, all or most of these familiar cues are removed. He or she is like a fish out of water. No matter how broad-minded or full of good will he may be, a series of props have been knocked from under him. This is followed by a feeling of frustration and anxiety. People react to the frustration in much the same way. First they reject the environment which causes the discomfort: "the...
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...Three years after Gulliver's Travels was published, Jonathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal," a work grounded in thoughtful satire. Swift describes the destitution that characterized the life of Ireland's poor in the 18th century then renders a brazenly inhumane solution to their problems. He shocks the sensibilities of the readers then leads them to consider the inhumanity of the destitution in the first place. Although he was born in Ireland, Swift considered himself an Englishman first, and the English were his intended audience. Swift used the good reputation afforded him by previous works to expose an otherwise indifferent English public to the circumstances of Irish misery. Unfortunately, many of the English were so predisposed to hatred of the Irish that they would disregard the point of Swift's essay and might go so far as to endorse Swift's proposal. For the people of Ireland, "A Modest Proposal" built upon Swift's earlier Drapier's Letters and made Swift a national hero (Bookshelf). "A Modest Proposal" begins with a description of the state of 18th century Irish life. Ireland was a place where children too often became beggars or thieves to sustain themselves or their families, women had abortions because they could not afford to raise children, few jobs were available to the workforce, and landlords abused poor tenants. As miserable as the picture Swift painted of Irish life was, the brushstrokes of history were even harsher. Actions of the English in...
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...1534668 Of Mice and Men: An Analysis of Shocking Events The Great Depression was an economic crisis and a period of low business activity in the U.S. beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s. John Steinbeck, the author Of Mice and Men, lived through the time of The Great Depression and he suffered through the bitterness and plight of the Depression. He wrote Of Mice and Men in order to inform people how life was during The Great Depression, including how people were affected by the Depression. Steinbeck was well aware of his power to shock the reader, and he depicted certain horrors in specific detail in order to reveal a world of suffering....
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...In Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s book, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever, is mainly about president Lincoln time as president of the united states. Little do people know is that Lincoln is hated by many. President Lincoln’s assassination was slowly being planned out by a murder named John Wilkes Booth. Booth plans came to sudden change causing him to have an immediate adjust to changes. Inclusion, this book gives a complete over look of Lincoln’s few weeks alive. The Book Killing Lincoln, has four different parts: “Total war”, “The Ideas of Death”, “The Long Good Friday”, and “The Chase”. The “Total War”, On April 1, 1885 City point Virginia only a fourteen day till president Lincoln’s assassination....
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...You did it! We've already given you parts one, two and three of 30 shocking facts about NASA, and we're here with the final installment! Check out the final seven interesting and straight up shocking facts about NASA below. Number Seven: Moon Flag Mystery. Though most children will be able to tell you that Betsy Ross sewed the American flag, it is still unknown who designed and made the Apollo 11 Moon flag. There are two hypotheses currently in circulation: that the flag is one of three that NASA secretaries purchased on a lunch break, or it was ordered from a government catalog for the whopping price of $5.50. Number Six: Mars Lawsuit. NASA was sued by three men from Yemen for trespassing on Mars. The men claimed that Mars belonged to...
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...The Mallard’s house is the area where the entire action of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” takes place and it is extremely significant in the changing reactions of the main character, Mrs. Mallard. The house has two floors, which are significantly different, both in the reactions and in the emotions brought out in each one. Mrs. Mallard’s emotions and reactions to her husband’s death change dramatically, in Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour;” downstairs she is overcome by grief and ultimately dies from her husband’s shocking return, while upstairs she is overjoyed by her new found freedom. Initially, the story starts downstairs, where Mrs. Mallard first hears of her husband’s death and is grief struck by the shocking news. Downstairs Mrs. Mallard is the respectable wife grieving the loss of her husband. At first Mrs. Mallard is shocked by the news of her husband’s death. She appears to be grieving the loss of her husband, but the news of his death did not sit with her as it should have, which is shown in her reaction, “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with paralyzed inability to accept its significance” (1). She knows the death of her husband is critical, but reacts seemingly different than others would as she starts to think of her life without him in a more positive light. She seems confounded over her own feelings, she has felt repressed by her marriage, but perhaps has not recognized it until now. After she learns of her husband’s death, Mrs...
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... Module:MRKT 5940 Date: 19 October 2015 Introduction This paper determines the role and power of the shockvertising in PSA’s, “issue” and charity campaigns in order to verify or , on the contrary, disprove the statement of Oliviero Toscani -”There are no shocking pictures, only shocking reality”. So called “Shockvertising” technique is commonly applied in social marketing and is used in campaigns against drinking, smoking, racism, social inequality and other similar issues. The main aim of such hard hitting imagery is to stimulate fear in people and alter harmful and unhealthy behavior as well as to motivate them to a certain action. There are contradictory outlooks on shock technique, as some consider it to be a creative tactic, meanwhile other people see it as attention grabbing and gimmicky (Van Munching, 1998). Even though the implementation of shocking advertisements in non for profit sector is an increasing tendency, the results of research regarding the effectiveness of this tactic are quite uneven. The effectiveness of such promotion method depends on numerous factors which will be analysed further in this paper.The main aim of this report is to analyse the effectiveness of Public Service and “issue” and charity campaigns in UK, as well as “shockvertising” implementation in...
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...least ten times more than what they were expecting. Similarly, hospitals generally have a similar plan when sending bills to insurance companies only at a much higher cost. Most people are rather tentative to talk about money and will seldom discuss the cost of a drug or a test with their doctor. This is unfortunate because many people stop taking medications simply because they cannot afford them. The purpose of this paper is to examine three of the most shocking findings found in Dr. David Belk’s study, Hospital Financial Analysis, as well as how overbilling by insurance companies for fees of service impact consumers. In addition, I will compare how the same two procedures can be charged differently based on having medical insurance or no medical insurance (paying out of pocket). I will describe what regressive mode of financing is and how this might contribute to the cycle of healthcare disparities and discuss my thoughts on hospital’s presenting professional nursing services as a room charge on the hospital’s bill. Shocking Findings “Healthcare in the US is broken” (Belk, n.d....
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...kuroi.zetsubo Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is the shocking story of two friends, George and Lennie, who have nothing but each other and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own and no longer have to wander round the country in search of work. The direction in which the story is heading becomes clear as it draws to a close. When George kills Lennie because he believes he must take responsibility for him. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied, he pulled the trigger.” George realizes that he must be the one that kills Lennie and not the other ranch men. In the same way that Candy should have taken the responsibility for his dog, George believes that he must take responsibility for Lennie. He must have realized that even if they were to run away again, Lennie would get into trouble and they would have to run away again. It really must have killed George inside when he saw Lennie lying dead at his feet. He and Lennie were portrayed as having been together a long time. Now George is on his own and no different from any of the other ranch men , he no longer dreamed of having a house of his own, that dream died when Curley’s wife was found lying in the hay. George tells Lennie how different they are compared to the other ranchers. “Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world....
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...to her. This is why i believe he painted her after her death Xx "...and you said you thought "...and you said you thought that coming so close to death was really like coming so close to life, because life is nothing." - A recount of a dialogue with Andy after the assassination atempt from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. In the early sixties Warhol became deeply interested in death. Searching for new material Warhol serched the media and became fascinated by pictures of electric chairs, car crashes, and race riots. As a result he created the Death in America series, and the viewers were shocked. Warhol blatantly depicted death over and over again shown off centered, layered, or ripped down the middle, and thought the photos were shocking they were also strangely compelling. On first viewing one searches the black image of the car crashes to find the bodies but once the mangled limbs come into view, it is impossible not to see them again whenever the image reappears. Like the crowd around a jumper, the viewers of Warhol's series were strangely captivated in a mixture of horror and curiosity. In...
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...A set of parentheses are typically used in writing in order to set off incidental information. An example can be exhibited in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood when describing Perry where Capote writes, “(Actually, he was very intelligent. An I.Q. test taken in prison gave him a rating of 130; the average subject, in prison or out, scores between 90 and 110.)”. Although parentheses are typically seen as containing less important information, the words that these symbols envelope still have enough significant value to be notified to the reader, even if it is portrayed like a side note. The placement of this parenthetical sentence is important to take note of, as Capote placed it after painting the stereotypical picture of a foolish, mentally unintelligent,...
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...To allude to his thoughts, Farquhar hears a “sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality”(Bierce 483). Bierce describes the pain as, “The intervals of silence grew progressively longer; the delays became maddening.” and, “They hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. What he heard was the ticking of his watch”(Bierce 483). In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Ambrose Bierce creates suspense by using a variety of techniques to appeal to the readers. Ultimately, the story's’ shocking ending can cause a tremendous amount of suspense to the readers. Bierce uses suspense and the story’s shocking ending to appeal to the reader's emotions. The shocking ending clarifies to the readers that the illusions Bierce creates is all in Farquhar’s...
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