...prevented a greater future tragedy by its rescue of the German nation, and in a greater sense the global stabilization which it provided. You see, this is how all this shit went down. Me and my boy Olivander was straight ridin' down the main road through downtown Who-The-Fuck-Knows-Where, when all of a sudden these fuckin hoodlums run up on us and tryta gank our asses. My boy Olivander thinks just like me. He knows I wusn't gonna take this shit, and I knew he wasn't gonna take this shit. So we both go back to back fuckin matrix style, whip out our gats, and cap these muthafuckin scum bags right there. Right there is the fuckin alley. Then we searched these bitches and found a shitload of coupon to T.G.F. Fridays. So we fuckin snatched them coupons, bitch that owned em was fuckin dead anyway, and we hopped in my whip and took off at a rapid pace, right after we found the closest fridays on Olivander's TomTom. Ya dig? So we fuckin blazed across town like a mutha fuckin bullet and made it to the Fridays fifty miles away in fifteen minutes. An absofuckinlutely outrageous pace. We hopped up in that bitch and ordered us some muthafuckin pot pie. Shit was fuckin fresh. So we're sittin there in the booth, enjoyin our pot pie in silence. And we here these two guys in the booth next to us, whisperin about some fuckin totalitarianism shit, so we get a real keen ear and dropped some fuckin eaves if you know what I mean, and took a listen to what they was fuckin blabbin about. I didn't know there real...
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...A gap of the sky In this postmodern society, young people are feeling pressured and obligated to follow a certain life pattern. To go to school, with straight A’s, getting a good job, getting married and have kids. The expectation is higher than ever. In this short story; The gap of the sky written by the author Anna in 2008. The novel is about the main character Ellen who is scared to failure the expectations of her mom and dad have giving her, and it has driven her into alcohol and drugs abuse. You can defiantly tell that the story begins in media res. It starts with the sentence “Its dark, but the wrong dark,” (p.1, l.1) The start of the novel is making the reader more confused, but at the same time it is making the novel more interested and activating. Later on in the story we get to meet the main character; Nineteen years-old Ellie hangover in her bed, from yesterdays night of drinking. The main character Ellie had just moved to London by herself. Ellie is an university student that doesn’t seem to take the school seriously, mainly because the school is not interesting for her. “she thinks of the past year, of university, and it feels like sludge in her brain” (l.48-49, s. 2) Her parents actually made Ellie to take an education. “To mom? To dad? Not them especially not them. It was their fault she was doing this bloody course in the first place”. Ellie wakes up late Monday afternoon and realizing that she has to write an Essay for the next day. She has...
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...English essay – “A Gap of Sky” Amalie Thomsen Introduction: The title of the short story is “A Gap of Sky” and is written by Anna Hope in 2008. Anna Hope is an English actress and writer. She is from Manchester and was educated at Wadham College, Oxford. The short story is fiction, but could still take place in real life. The main theme is identity formation. Analysis: The story is written with a 3rd persons view: “Ellie reaches a hand out […] She takes the glass, stumbles forward…” The narrator therefor has an omniscient point of view, and knows everything about the main character, Ellie. Characters: In the story we have the main character, Ellie, her friend Toby (who we do not meet, but hear about) and the mother (we do not meet her either). Ellie: The main character, Ellie, is 19 years old: She is only nineteen […], and lives in London: […] this part of London. She is a very unhealthy and sloppy teenager. She has smoked a lot of pot, which her health condition clearly shows: The air is cold, makes her gasp, cold and hurting on her ragged lungs. She a type of person who postpones many of her things: She’s got to get this essay in. […] They won’t close till sixish. It will all be fine. Ellie is a complex character because a part of her develops and she becomes more grown up. At first she has a very difficult relationship with her mother, but after seeing a little stone, she suddenly realizes that she has not been fair to her. The setting (FOCUS) The setting...
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...to spend their lives. It is also during the youth a person can truly be free to do, feel and think about whatever they wish, without having to deal with the obligations and responsibilities that follows being an adult just yet. The short story was written with a third person narrator, but the reader follows Ellie throughout the story, and we hear about her thoughts and actions. Being able to know how she thinks, gives the reader an insight in how she sees and experiences the world that surrounds her. Also the story is given an extra edge because the tone of the short story is influenced by Ellie’s vocabulary, which isn’t exactly a nice one: “Fuuuuuuck (…) Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit” (l. 12-13). This also gives a presentation of who Ellie is as a person, and what the area, she lives in, is like. The main character in the short story is Ellie. She is nineteen years old, and lives in something like a student hall in London. She is studying, but not because she really wants to. She stays up late to party and skips school in the mornings. Her last change for staying on the “bloody course” (l. 66), as she calls it, is to turn in the essay due to the following morning. At first she seems determined to turn in this essay, but later on she really couldn’t care less, but in the end it has finally come clear to her that turning in the essay would be the right thing to do. Ellie takes drugs to escape the world where she will soon have to take responsibility of her actions...
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...decisions, and feel pressured. Therefor they want to escape from reality by ingesting drugs or drinking alcohol which could be their way of protesting against responsibilities and a search for freedom, or maybe it is just because they are in that age where they are open to all kinds of experimentations. This is what the main character Ellie is facing, in the short story “A Gap of Sky” written by Anna Hope in 2008; Ellie is wandering around in the streets of London and in her own mind as well. Her walk around London’s streets becomes a walk through her own mind. Crisis, confusion, changes, responsibilities and fear, are the main components of a short story by Anna Hope. A story which is intriguing, and will take you one step closer, to understand what a ‘typical’ teenager can go through. In this essay I will analyze and interpret Anna Hope’s short story A Gap of Sky. I will characterize the main character Ellie, and analyze her behavior as a teenager. I will also focus on the narrative technique in the short story and the importance of the city sitting. Though an analysis I will conclude upon my discoveries and determine the theme of the story. The main character of the short story, nineteen year old Ellie, is a university student and lives in London. She has...
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... especially the black youth, was able to thrive due to its uncanny ability to adapt and respond to the problems that that era presents. From the socially and politically conscious hip hop (SPC hip hop) during the civil rights movements to the mainstream music we hear on the radio today, the difference in message projected by today’s modern, hyper-masculine hip hop onto society compared with that of SPC hip hop has become a controversial subject criticized by American media such as Byron Hurt’s movie “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” and Tricia Rose’s article “There Are Bitches and Hoes.” With regards to the negatives that hip-hop music could have on society, the songs “Let Nas Down” by J. Cole, “Come Get Me” by Jay-Z and “Bitches Ain’t Shit” by YG each respectively complicate, exemplify and extend Hurt’s claims that hip hop artists solely produce generic, hyper masculine mainstream music for the production of records; glorify violence and negatively portray women as sexual objects in order to prove their man hood. When the song “Let Nas Down” by J. Cole is analyzed through a historical context and compared to Hurt’s claim that hip hop artists solely produce mainstream music for their own benefit to the claim that is projected in the J. Cole’s lyrics, a complication between the two claims is illuminated. In the song “Let Nas Down”, Cole—who is a lesser known but reputable rap artist trying to produce SPC hip hop , expresses his shame on the negative response of his idol, Nas— ...
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...personality and that's why the youth is such a vital part of life. But being young is not always as easy as it sounds. Even though freedom is within reach, responsibility and expectations are breathing young people in the neck reminding you of the pressure that comes with it. Instead of choosing the right path that brings them the best, more and more young people feel a massive pressure when undergoing the transition from child to adult. This pressure often result in frequent use of drugs and alcohol to escape from the harsh reality.This is the case in the short story “A Gap of Sky” by Anna Hope from 2008 that deals with the issues of drugs, freedom and pressure. The story is set in todays London and starts in medias res when the story's main character, Ellie, wakes up. Ellie seems tired, worn out from last night and you understand that she has a hard time getting out of bed. The first sentence describe the darkness around her: “It is dark, but the wrong dark. Something is wrong with the dark” (p. 1, l. 1) Her room is probably dark because the curtains block the sunlight. The wrong dark may symbolize Ellie's state of mind. Her unconsciousness tells her that something is wrong in her life, but she has yet to discover what it is. Ellie is a 19-year old girl who attends University College London (UCL). We quickly get the impression that Ellie is a rather obscene girl because she wakes up a monday morning after a party sunday night. She barely remembers anything that had happened...
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...analyse these alternatives para 1 structure- growth to usage to cost briefly. lower quality sulfur fuel, effect on engine. particulates(sulfurs), additives, environment, health. FIgure1 Expanding economies and international trade are driving our transportation energy demand, with transportation energies set to increase by more than 40% from 2010 to 2040. Of these, diesel comprises 70% of that growth (figure 1). This shift away from gasoline to diesel is driven by better light vehicle fuel economy and the growth in commercial transportation that comes from developing nations (Exxonmobil 2013). Although diesel is becoming the more prominent transportation energy, it is by far the cleanest. (left over shit from crude oil) The Diesel exhaust is a complex mixture of gases and fine particles, These emissions are composed of two phases the gas and the particles. Particulate matter is the term for solid or liquid particles. Some particles are large or dark enough to be seen as soot or smoke, but most are fine particulate...
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...play Macbeth there is a lot of ambition from the main character Macbeth and his wife lady Macbeth. Macbeth first started his ambition when the three witches came out and told him his prophecy of him becoming king. Macbeth then does everything in his power to do so. The first thing he does is tell his wife about what the three witches told him. After she has been informed Macbeth tells his wife that he will make her his queen. After they both build there ambition they find out that king Duncan is going to come to their house and stay the night. Macbeth and lady Macbeth then both come up with the plan that they will have to kill king Duncan in order to fulfill the prophecy of Macbeth becoming king. There plan conceived of lady Macbeth getting the two guards drunk to where they won’t wake up while the murder goes on. Then Macbeth will proceed with the plan of walking into the room stabbing Duncan with the guards knifes and leaving all the blame on the two chamberlains. When Duncan finally shows up at Macbeths house they quickly begone the plan of murdering king Duncan. While Duncan goes to the room and rest’s lady Macbeth is sharing drinks with the guards after they are finished drinking they go and lay in the room where the king is at once there are asleep Macbeth and his wife stand outside the room but while they stand there Macbeth notices that shit gets real and starts to panic and tries to back out but lady Macbeth slaps the shit out of him and tells him not to be wuss tha he...
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...commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously. According to the amazon link provided Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios. Amazon supports a high number of languages. One major like I found on this site is you pay for only what you use, and they have a range of instance types from some as simple as storage, to cluster computing for higher performance, they also have network security tools so the user can control who can access their computers or who can’t access certain information. Amazon says their EC2 has 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region. The main upsides that catch my interest are price, security, and reliability, I believe this will be the main hook to catch customers interest when it comes to Amazons EC2 September 13, 2013 Amazons EC2 had a network issues that cause amazon to have a cloud outage and “The company also experienced increased error rates and latencies for the APIs for Elastic Block Storage and increased error rates for EBS-backed instance launches. Impacted instances were unreachable via public IP addresses, but were able to communicate with other instances in the same availability zone using private IP addresses.” Since this issue was in the past year you cant say that Amazons EC2 servers technicians haven’t gotten down to...
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...This book will contain spoilers, and quotes from the book. When a book opened up with a relatable litany such as these: You’re bound to think, “Oh, hell yes. This shit might be good.” It better be good. However, What We Left Behind drastically failed in every standard that I was highly holding itself into. There are a lot of offensive and alarming situations that make my skin crawl. There is a prominent character in the story, named Caroll. He is gay, and he keeps using transphobic and lespobic slurs. He never got called out for that. Being part of the LGBTQ+ community doesn’t give you the right to undermine your peers, especially since you have an inkling about each other’s struggles. He could also be seen handful of times saying really awful...
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...There comes a point in life where a person is saddened, feels useless, and has the world's weight on their shoulders. It's up to that person to either turn it all around or live miserable without taking initiative. Correspondingly, the novel Tyrell, has the same situations that some teens may have in their life. Tyrell, the main character, goes through hard patches and literally has no role models. He lives in an unfortunate environment, his mother and little brother move around from motel to motel, whatever seems fit from the EAU. His mother doesn't fill any of the empty holes in his heart nor does his father, they both are what drives Tyrell into doing what he does. His little brother though, Tyrell cherishes him and wants what's best for...
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...Spirituality for the Skeptic, the main idea and purpose of the text is: “the elucidation of a “naturalized” spirituality as distinct from normative understandings of “religion,” reconciled with the rationality driving various philosophical schools.” The chapter I chose to reflect upon and it’s relation to the main idea of the book is the chapter “Facing Up to Tragedy.” I chose this chapter because Solomon really shows how people deal with tragedy in a more spiritual individual level rather than the traditional religious level which ties into his overall theme of the book. Solomon describes tragedy as being meaningful because we as humans know that life is not fair and we accept and “adopt the tragic sense of life is nothing less than accepting reality.” (page 5 of 16 in the Chapter. I’m using a PDF ebook) I feel as though it is meaningful because it actually shapes our outlooks on life. A person that experiences more tragedy in their lifetime than someone who has not probably has a more realistic perspective on life and arguably a more pessimistic outlook in some cases. Solomon’s idea that we adopt the tragic sense of life and accepting it as a reality really relates to his overall theme of the book because in the process of life it seems to be a natural spiritual step that most people seem to reach at some point in our lives especially after witnesses multiple tragedies first hand. Solomon references how people deal with tragedy by saying “shit happens.” (Solomon, page 16...
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...The leaves are turning brown again. Cool and brisk, the wind blows up the torn sweater the old man wears. Visibly shaking and uncertain of his surroundings, he’s a husk of his former self. His eyes dilate, his face is melting. Literally melting. He collapses into a small dirty heap, his eyes shut and a final breath escapes his lips. A young boy walks by and asks for money, he too broke and dirty. Another shows up and prods his silent corpse. This is where our story begins. Set in Detroit, MI during the great recession, it’s a story based on the collapse of the withering economic catastrophe known as the Automotive Industry. I would like to ask for a possibility to build a film around the concept of the desolation felt in that town and of this place. But with only $500 in hand and an old VHS video recorder, there’s only so much I can create with these limited resources. It’ll be set in front of a Party Plus Market Off of Wyoming St, an area of town notorious for its high and violent crime rate. Its daring for sure, but I wish to capture the true feeling of a desperate environment in one of the most violent and crime riddled cities in America. If there’s a chance to negotiate an advance of at least $1000 to put towards filming expenses, it’d be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. EXT. LIQUOR STORE: It’s dark outside. Street lights dimly glow on the entrance of a local liquor store. An old man in tattered clothes and a Walmart welcome vest is seen...
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...Both the satiric piece “Bitches Ain’t Shit But Hoes and Tricks” and study: “Gangsta Misogyny: A Content Analysis of the Portrayals of Violence Against Women in Rap Music 1987-1993” serve a purpose to change the way women are portrayed in popular culture. These pieces effectively point out the fact that women are looked upon in a very negative light, though one is conducted as a study and the other is satire. The satirical piece also pokes fun at other aspects in popular culture. Beginning with the title, “Study Confirms That Bitches, As Suspected, Ain’t Shit But Hoes and Tricks” the piece pokes fun at common culture as well as academia because of the outlandish study. However, looking deeper into the article it is apparent that the piece exploits the way that society displays women as its main topic. The piece points out that this negative view isn’t a new idea as “Shakespeare used the sentence “Wenches art naut beside harlots and strumpets” in his private works, but it had never been presented publicly.” This gives a timeframe to the crisis. This piece really brings up the issue, however it lacks the resolve and seriousness needed to make a change. The study: “Gangsta Misogyny: A Content Analysis of the Portrayals of Violence Against Women in Rap Music 1987-1993” gives a better analysis of the same problem brought up in the satirical piece. This work is presented in a much different way and offers much more evidence and explanation supporting its claims. This piece states that...
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