...ladies - Rachel Cusk, 2003 Sweet ladies is a British short story written by Rachel Cusk in 2003. The story is written in third person narrative and the main person is Sylvia Furnish. The short story takes place in the southern England in Doniford, which is an old and quiet village near the sea. Maybe Sylvia has lived in Doniford for most of her life, if not all of it. It is in this village Sylvia has changed from a young and happy mother, like the young girls she know despises to a bitter middle-aged woman. Adolescents live in the village, normal people, poor people like Troy and his mother and fashionable people like Terry. The story could be set in the 1900's because of the atmosphere and the different class of society, but it could also take place today. The themes in this story are loneliness, sorrow and jealousy One of the characters in this short story is Sylvia Furnish. Sylvia is a middle aged woman and she lives in a modern flat with a balcony with flowers in pots. She keeps her own shop, which sells sweets and tobacco. From her flat, she can see young girls with strollers almost every day, and she thinks they have a perfect life compared to herself. The young girls play on Silvia's mind a lot and maybe they symbolize Sylvia’s old and young personality, back then when she was happy, unprejudiced and without inhibitions. She is afraid of them and the reason for that could be that she is now a bitter middle-aged woman and she doesn’t want to get reminded about her good...
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...AComposition[edit] "Story of My Life" is a mid-tempo, guitar-driven folk-pop song with influences of arena rock, alternative rock and neo folk. It runs for a total of four minutes and six seconds. Idolator compared the song to the works of Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and Mumford & Sons.[1][4] Critical reception[edit] The song received positive reviews from critics. Sam Lanksy of Idolator called the song "surprisingly great" and noted it was a "mature midpoint" between the group's signature "rollicking pop-rock confection[s]" and "dreary ballads". Lanksy additionally called the song "merciful" and complimented it for using alternative-folk influences without "smell[ing] like spilled beer".[4] Amy Sciarretto of PopCrush gave the song 4 out of 5 stars, calling it a "contemplative, acoustic guitar-driven song" and complimenting it for being "more memorable" than any of the group's previous works. Sciarretto noted that the song would resonate with listeners of many different ages and showed that One Direction "isn't just a boy band"; although noted the song was not as "crazy catchy" as their previous songs.[1] Lauren Wheeler of TheCelebrityCafe.com gave the song 5 out of 5 stars noting that the lyrics were "reflective" and "much deeper than some of their bigger hits." Wheeler added that the song showed that One Direction "not only have range, but also have matured through their music."[5] Chart performance[edit] On 31 October 2013, the song debuted at number one on the Irish...
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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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...cruel country to different stories but also so familiar. Mrs. Diaz was an uneducated woman who was beaten by her mother, worked in the hot dirty fields in the Dominican Republic. Found herself dreaming of an education and becoming a nurse. Mrs. Cofer an immigrant mother who moved to the united states because she married a Navy man. Mrs. Cofer dreamed of moving back to Puerto Rico and really refused to put her beloved country behind her. Both stories are told by the mothers off spring who became authors. Both stories their kids describe a moment when they were staring at their mothers admiring their beauty while talking of how they have aged. Mrs. Diaz was the kind of girl who grew up in a third world country was the type of girl who never made it off the campo(Diaz-128). She was often beaten by her mother the straight haired terror(Diaz-128). From helping out with the injured farmers she began to dreaming of getting of the campo by getting an education and becoming a nurse. Mrs. Cofer described her time in America as exilio (exile). The story portrays her mother as kind of being unhappy in America due to the fact of her missing Purto Rico the only reason she was here was because her husband was in the navy. Diaz also describes his mother at a iron-willed and rarely speak figure that haunts(Diaz-128). He imagined her feeding the squirrels and yelling at them when she thought they were acting out. As for Cofer she describes a picture of his mother who is in her forties and...
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...contrast to develop characters in the story The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov and The Persian Carpet by Hanan Shaykh which involves intellectual processes. A representation to express and shape up contents in stories explaining the effects of the characters has on the readers. Firstly, in the story The Lottery Ticket; a family which consists of Ivan and Masha Dmitrich living their lives as middle aged couple. Author describes the characters as unfortunate, showing their desire into winning lottery. Also, the couples have no luck or faith in winning a lottery only to be announcing as a winner when they finally look at the numbers. Euphoric Ivan and Mesha are "torment and tantalize...with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so chilling!" It makes a strong bond in their relationship yet unjust trust since the two have other intentions in using the money for something else. Winning lottery is something they could not believe, dreams that are impossible is possible until they realizes the winning ticket does not have the right numbers. Ivan and Mesha have been assuming that they are the winners of the lottery all along, leaving their materialistic possessions from there. However, in the story The Persian Carpet is another scenario. A mother who has two daughters she adores and a wife of two spouses whose name is Mahmoud and the "first spouse" whose marriage did not work for them two. The first husband was very uncompromising towards the mother who follows her threats "to pour kerosene...
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...Ironbark Hill by Jennie Linnane is a novel about a girl named Natalie Chapman who has to protect her mother and mentally challenged brother from her abusive and alcoholic stepfather. She has several dreams in life, but she knows that she will do anything, including abandoning her dreams, to keep them safe. It is not easy to keep them safe, but she will do so. At the same time, she wants to avenge the death of her part-aboriginal father, which is why she needs to find out the truth about how he died. When she turns seventeen, she falls for her boss who is a married man, and her life gets even more complicated. This novel truly delves into the psychological portions of domestic abuse. Natalie hates her stepfather, but she doesn't know how to...
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...the rest of his life, in the story "Reunion" by Adam Haslett. James decided to leave his job and begins to write letters to his deceased father. In the letters he expresses the feelings he has for one of his colleagues Patrick, the memories he had with his father and the final moment he will reunite next to his father's grave.Throughout the story, we learn that James chooses to isolate himself from the rest of the world. He denies himself from having any kind of contact with the only person he cares about Patrick. On the other hand we are left with grief, the death of one’s parents is one of the most drastic and overwhelming experience any human being can live through in life. In his early teenage years, a boy loses his mother after she...
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...loving adoptive mother of Désirée, a child that was found abandoned one night, in the shadows of a big stone pillar, in the Valmonde’s plantation state in South Texas. The whole story takes place before the abolition of slavery in the United States. Madame Valmonde is a middle-aged married, rich, white woman who lives alone with her husband due to the fact that she cannot bear children of her own. Her role in the story represents tolerance, understanding of society at that specific time and unconditional love for a child that was not her own, probably due to the fact that she was sterile. Madame Valmonde was born in a time where roots and skin color played two main roles in the lives of everybody. Upper class white people had vast plantations of cotton where dozens or hundreds of slaves worked the field and they were seen as property and not human beings. It was a society with deep racial prejudices and high moral standards that did not consider colored people or people without acceptable backgrounds (born within marriage between two white persons) as part of the...
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...Sometimes I still lie awake at night thinking about the day one of my kindergarten students told me his mother helped his uncle bury the under-aged girl he’d murdered. It’s crazy how you can hear this story on the news and think nothing of it after a few minutes, but when a five-year-old is crying to you because his mother is now in jail, things will never be the same for you. At the age of 17, I graduated high school and by 20 years old, I graduated UTRGV with a Bachelor’s of Science in Communication Disorders. Since then, I’ve worked in a daycare called Skyline Academy and as a paraprofessional in Garza-Pena Elementary in San Juan, Texas. Garza-Pena Elementary has been proven to be 92.7% economically disadvantaged and 87.6% of the 662 students...
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...about the incident. The head decides to write a letter to Clara's parents. After the episode Clara react like nothing ever had happened. But a few days later her parents receive the letter from Clara's school. But the mother do not become angry or sad, she begins to laugh, and then describe Clara's youth. She explains, to her boyfriend Stan that Clara used to be a prude, and that she is modest. In the end of the story, when the mother and Stan is driving towards their work, sits Clara at the table, where she begins to cry. I would like to take a look at atmosphere in this specific family. Clara's parents are divorced and she lives with her mother and this Stan. You could use many different words for the atmosphere, some of them would be Superficial and tense. The mother and Stan do not act like grown ups, or like normal parents would do, when their child strips in front of the entire school, they just make fun of her! And they do not even ask her if something is wrong. And Stan is not a father figure for Clara, He walks around in the house all most naked, and he gets to close, you could say he does not respect her privacy. The relationship between the mother and Clara is more like a friendship than a normal mother and daughter relationship. And the mothers way of learning Clara about sex is terrible, she just give Clara a magazine named: " Orgasm fact or fantasy?" and then Clara have to figure the whole thing about sex, on her own! She does not care about Clara's feelings...
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...Breast Cancer in Middle Aged Adults: The Facts Shawneen Romito HCA/240 1/11/13 Debra Salyers Breast Cancer in Middle Aged Adults: The Facts Being diagnosed with breast cancer can be an extremely terrifying time in a person’s life, which is why it is important to understand the disease, evaluate risk factors, understand the causes, ways to prevent and detect, and where to turn to for help if diagnosed. Causes and Risk Factors: • Gender- Even though men can develop breast cancer, women are 100 times more likely to develop the disease, mainly because the female hormones estrogen and proestrogen promote cancer cell growth. • Age- The chance of developing breast cancer increases with age. 1 out of 8 invasive breast cancer cases are found in women under the age of 45, whereas 2 of 3 invasive breast cancer cases are in women aged 55 or older. [pic] • Heredity- 5% to 10% of all reported breast cancer cases are thought to be from gene defects, or mutations, inherited from a parent. • Family History- The risk of developing breast cancer is high when close blood relatives have had been diagnosed with the disease, for example, mother or sister. If a patient has 1 first degree relative, it doubles a person’s risk of developing the disease, whereas if a person has 2 first degree relatives, the risk increases three fold. 85% of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have some form of family history. ...
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...Land of the lost by Steward O’ Nan B Steward O’ Nan has written the short story “Land of the lost” with a third-person limited narrator. The story is written in a third-person limited narrator because it can make the reader feel closer to the main character because only one persons’ thought and feelings are shared, thus allowing the chance to build a bund between the reader and the character. An example from the text where it can been seen that it is a third-person limited narrator stands on page 8 l. 11-12; “She didn’t tell anyone what she was doing- she wasn’t stupid. The first time was the hardest because she felt foolish.” In those lines, we are able to know how the main character is feeling and what she is thinking. Through the whole story we follow her closely. It has that effect on the reader that a jump into the character’s head shows her thought process but leave some distance between what is happening on the outside and what the main character is thinking. That distance is very important for the reader. The story is about a single character that is middle-aged and divorced. She works as a cashier and lives alone with her dog, named Ollie. The main character is a middle-aged woman living alone with her dog Ollie, because her grown boys have just moved out. She is a cashier at a BI-LO in Perry. At work, she isn’t alone, she has co-workers to talk with but at home, she has nobody beside her dog. One day she gets interested in a local case where a girl has been murdered...
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...know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish, you had back. You start talking to them in the belief, they can hear you, and sometimes you have those moments, where you can feel and see them. Exactly this situation, the main character has to deal with in Bernie McGill’s short story “No Angel” published in 2011. The main character of the story is Annie; she is a middle-aged woman, who is the only living member left of the family. The story is based around Annie talking to her father’s ghost; therefor it makes us believe that the supernatural does exist. Formerly she had a brother named Robbie, who was three years younger than her, also both of her parents were alive. Unidentified persons tragically beat Robbie to death, right after he had failed his driving test. The family lamented over his death, especially the mother, who mourned for six months where she barely spoke, until she one day suddenly dropped dead in the kitchen with no specific cause. Annie’s father thought it was because of her deep grieving, and the grief over her beloved son faced her again and again. “…her heart never mended. ” After the death of the mother and Robbie, Annie lived with her father for nearly twenty-two years, “until his lungs gave way, and the breath left him too. ” Now Annie was the only survivor of the family, and it definitely took hard on her. In the 22 years...
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...example of this sort of bad decision-making appears in Anna Davis’ short story ‘Hiding in Cheesy’s Bedroom’, where 16-year-old Jane struggles with growing up in a very rebellious way. If we start whit Cheesy we know that he got hair sticking up in tuft. He got one of that smooth plastic chest like an action man, not a single hair on it. Cheesy smokes cigarettes. He lives very messy. His floor is covered whit clothes and there is full ashtrays and CD´s everywhere. We later find out that Cheesy has a son, and an ex-girlfriend or wife we still not sure about what Megan is for Cheesy, who actually named Tommy. Tommy is also a drummer and we later find out, that Tommy is the one who is in relationship whit Jane´s best friend Louise. In Anna Davis’ short story, we meet a 16-year-old girl called Jane. We know she is 16 years old because she mentions that she has to revise her GCSE, which you normally will take at the age of 16. Jane lives alone with her mother. The reader are not been given any information about what have happened with Jane’s father, except the fact that he is no longer with Jane and her mother. Jane is always living on the edge of things. She will push the limits and try new things, things that normal girls at her aged will not doubt to do, or even think about doing. Jane´s mother tries to set some rules up for Jane to follow, but she is incapable of enforcing the rules. When Jane´s mother says that Jane has to be home by midnight Jane will stay out until the milkman...
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...Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. and you’ve got a truly spoiled generation. Article 2: Could ‘Wolverine’ Be At The Center Of A Sharing Plan Between Marvel And Fox? (http://uproxx.com/gammasquad/2014/10/could-spider-man-be-at-the-center-of-a-sharing-plan-between-marvel-and-sony/) * The latest rumor, much like the whole “Avengers 3 will be split into two movies” rumor, this one involves Days of Future Past star Wolverine. It has been hinted at before, but now seems to be heating up. Fox is now willing to open up and share X-Men icon Wolverine with Marvel so that he can be included in a bigger cinematic plan. * In a recent interview, producer Simon Kinberg has been quoted as saying “While I can’t get the confirmations I need to verify the story, I’m hearing some very cool...
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