...THE RUNNING MAN Joseph Davidson is a quiet, self-conscious fourteen- year-old boy and a talented artist. His world changes, however, when he is asked to draw a portrait of his mysterious neighbor Tom Leyton, a Vietnam veteran who for thirty years has lived alone with his sister Caroline, raising his silkworms and hiding from prying eyes. Because of this he is the subject of ugly gossip and rumor, much of it led by neighbor Mrs0 Mossop, who views Leyton’s brief teaching career with suspicion. When Joseph finally meets his reclusive neighbour he discovers a cold, brooding man lost deep within his own cocoon of silence. He soon realizes that in order to truly draw Tom Leyton, he must find the courage to unlock the man’s dark and perhaps dangerous secrets. But Joseph has his own secrets, including the pain of his damaged relationship with his absent father and his childhood fear of the Running Man – a local character whose wild appearance and strange manner of moving everywhere at a frantic pace terrified him when he was a small boy. These dreams suddenly return when Joseph is forced to face his fears and doubts regarding Tom Leyton. As Joseph moves deeper and deeper into his neighbors’ world he confronts not only Tom Leyton’s private hell, but also his own relationship with his father, and ultimately the disheveled, lurching figure of the Running Man. CHARACTER DESCRIPTION Tom Leyton- is a very silent type man who does not interact with any person, he experienced the deaths of...
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...The Running Man and The Handmaid’s Tale offer perspective on dystopian societies. The Running Man, by Stephen King, is set in 2025 where society crumbles economically and TV networks now run society. They show sadistic game shows that are popular with the masses. The most popular is The Running Man, a show where a contestant is hunted by Hunters and the entire population for the grand prize of a billion dollars. The Handmaid’s Tale explores a dystopian society through the eyes of a woman who has to adapt to her new way of life. Both these novels have universal praise. Their innovation, thematic concepts, and perspective will be analyzed thoroughly. Observing both their protagonists and societies they live in. Both authors explored the themes of their respective novels mostly differently. The Handmaid’s Tale sees resistance against their oppressive society more internally than externally. Offred constantly battles internal...
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...to open his own business a one-stop shop selling running gears and equipments, after being retrenched from his office day job. He decided to venture into this business in particular because of his passion for running and being healthy and fit. There are no shops selling running gears and equipments in his town yet. Any avid or non avid runners who wishes to buy any running gears and equipments has to place their orders on online shops to pre-order their gears and it takes about 2 to 4 months tops for their order to arrive. They not only have to pay the price of the item they have just purchased but also the postage costs are borne by the customers. Being an avid runner himself, Liberman then opened up a shop selling running gears and equipments of various brands, known as Running-Man Shop. The selling prices of these running gears and equipments are set to be the same as the online shops which his customers usually visit. Liberman gloats that opening Running-Man Shop is better than having his customers making online purchases as they do not have to pay for postage costs and Running-Man Shop can cater to the market niche that has been ignored. His shop has become very popular among runners, and his one-stop shop selling running gears and equipments has been very busy since in first opens. Running-Man Shop has become the first one-stop shop famous for its good quality and various branded running gears and equipments. Running-Man earned above average returns as it built up its competencies...
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...sniveling. A woman is the opposite: tough, constant, enduring, level and calm under the pain to which her biology exposes her. On the average she is more patient than a man. Armed with these advantages, women are in a position to do endurance feats previously considered by men to be impossible."(Noakes 598) Not many sports exist in the world today in which women can be competitive with men. Although this is not true with many other things in life, it has always seemed that males dominate the sports world, no matter how hard women have tried to break through this. Upon taking this class, I thought I had found such a sport. From quotes such as the one above by Dr. Ernst van Aaken and other findings in the class text books, I developed the thesis that Ultra Marathon Running might be just the sport for women to show their ability to best men in sports arenas that which they had previously been excluded from. As I look deeper into this statement, I realize that there are many different ideas and theories on this topic. Many women say, "Yes, of course women can compete with men", while men tend to laugh at the question and scoff at even the thought. So my question remains unanswered, can women of the ultra species compete with males? In 1971, American woman, Natalie Cullimore surprised the all male ultra world by running a 16:11 for the one hundred-mile race. Not only was she second in the race, but this was the fourth fastest time for a male or female at this distance. She caught...
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...train x mt long in passing a signal poster a pole or a standing man = time taken by the train to cover x mt (2) Time taken by a train x mt long in passing a stationary object of length y mt = time taken by the train to cover x+y mt (3) Suppose two trains or two bodies are moving in the same direction at u kmph and v kmph such that u > v then their relative speed is u-v kmph (4)If two trains of length x km and y km are moving in opposite directions at u kmph and vmph,then time taken by the train to cross each other = (x+y)/(u+v) hr (5) Suppose two trains or two bodies are moving in opposite direction at u kmph and v kmph then, their relative speed = (u+v) kmph (6)If two train start at the same time from 2 points A & B towards each other and after crossing they take a & b hours in reaching B & A respectively then A's speed : B's speed = (b^1/2 : a^1/2 ) EXERCISE 1. A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 9 seconds. What is the length of the train? A. 120 meters B.180 meters C.324 meters D. 150 meters 2. A train 125 m long passes a man, running at 5 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10seconds. The speed of the train is: A. 45 km/hr B. 50 km/hr C. 54 km/hr D. 55 km/hr 3. The length of the bridge, which a train 130 meters long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is: A. 200 m B. 225 m C. 245 m D. 250 m 4. Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively...
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...A close-up tracking shot of her feet running through the woods at a fast pace. The tracking shot helps the viewers feel more involved within the character. There is no speech in the film until roughly three minutes in. The silence, adds uneasiness to the scene. 6. A close-up of Clarice’s profiles view, showing her determination on finishing her obstacle course and also how hard she is trying. 7. A medium shot panning along as Clarice approaches a rope obstacle that she climbs. When she reaches the top of the obstacle there is a low camera angle. After she overcomes the obstacle you here a voice call her name “Starling!” and then almost out of nowhere a man runs up behind her. Clarice turns around and runs towards him. The man say’s "Crawford needs to see you in is office." she say’s "thank you sir" and the man just remains in the frame in a medium shot. The man wears an FBI hat that shows the audience that she works for the FBI. 8. A high to low shot of a tree with the words, “Hurt, Agony, Pain and Love it” indicates these people are aware of the danger they put themselves in. Then shows long shot of Clarice running past the tree. As she runs toward and into the concrete FBI Academy building it becomes a long shot, where other trainees which are all males working...
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...the man walks slowly to the house from the origin. On the Position-Time graph, the line is a positive consistent rise. This is because his position is going in a positive direction as well as the time is going in a consistent positive direction. On the Velocity-Time graph, the line is straight across at 2 m/s because the velocity does not change because of the consistent speed of the man walking to the house. Since the velocity is constant the acceleration is zero. On the Acceleration-Time graph, the line is flat and straight across at the 0 m/s line because the man does not accelerate. He just walks at a consistent pace to the house. This is called constant speed because there is no variation in his speed. * On the second example, the man is sleeping then wakes up and runs toward the house constantly speeding up as he goes. On the Position-Time graph, there is a positive upward curved line. This is because both are moving in a positive direction but because he is running, the position is rising faster than the time. This upward curve indicates an increase in velocity. On the Velocity-time graph, the line is a straight consistent rise. This is caused because the man is running so the velocity is rising throughout the graph, as is the position. A positive slope indicates a changing velocity which is a positive acceleration. On the Acceleration-Time graph, the line constantly rising because the man is running, constantly speeding up. * On the third example, the man steps...
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...PROCEDURE: Begin by making charts like the one below for each of the following a-d a. The man walks slowly to the house from the origin. Position –Time Graph The moving man starts at a position of -8 meters and is accelerating at 1 m/s 2. He starts with a velocity of 0 m/s. After 1 second, he will be going 1 m/s (remember acceleration is 1 m/s per s so velocity will change by +1 m/s with each second that elapses). So after 2 seconds, he will be going 2 m/s, etc. If you carry this motion out with moving man, you see it will take him 4 seconds to get to the origin (a position of 0 meters), or equivalently to move +8 meters from where he started. At 4 seconds, he will have a velocity of 4 m/s On the Position-Time graph, the line is a positive consistent rise. This is because his position is going in a positive direction as well as the time is going in a consistent positive direction. Explanation for graph’s appearance –after actually performing the activity. Velocity-Time Graph On the Velocity-Time graph, the line is straight across at 2 m/s because the velocity does not change because of the consistent speed of the man walking to the house. Since the velocity is constant the acceleration is zero. Explanation for graph’s appearance - after actually performing the activity. Acceleration –Time Graph On the Acceleration-Time graph, the line is flat and straight across at the 0 m/s line because the man does not accelerate. He just walks at a consistent pace to the house. This is called...
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...of a young boy, who witnesses his first lynching of a black man. Running toward the crowd the young boy is looking for a party, but quickly realizes that it isn’t a party at all. The crowd surrounding the black is angrily awaiting to burn the black man for his wrong doings. During the lynching a plane lands near the Square and a woman is electrocuted to death. This however, has no effect on the crowd and their objective. The crowd quickly turns their attention back to the burning man and continues their lynching. The boy is sickened by the by the burning man but finds it hard to look away. He analyzes the entire situation from beginning to end without fully understanding his own feelings toward execution of the black man. “A Party Down at the Square is told in first person, by a young boy who struggles with himself as he tries to accept the events of the night as normal. Although, he “wanted to run somewhere...
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...while he was walking the long road home some older boys started to follow him. He got scared and he didnt know what to do. Qucikly he looked all around him and he spotted the one place he knew that he would be save. In a instant he took of running for the landfill up ahead. Once he made it into the landfill he was looking around for somewhere to hide that he knew he would be safe. In a quick motion he was got. Running as fast as he can toward the back for corner of the dump. He had just made it to the back when he saw a man. The man was not a normal man, no he was the keeper of the landfill and he looked at the boy and asked him what he was doing there. The boy looked up at the man and told him, " I am running from some mean boys that want to beat me up!" The man looked at him in concern and told him he could make himself and home and stay until the boys were gone. By this time it was already goign on 7 o'clock at night and the little boy was sure his mom would be worried about him. Then he realized that his mom had yoga class and wouldnt be home till 10. So the boy made himself a comfy little spot to sit and grabbed a paper and started to read it. The boy sat there for about two more hours before he thought the coast was clear. He told the man that he was going to go home because he figured the bullies should be gone by now since he did wait in the landfill for hours. He started walking to the front and when he got there he looked around the corners to make sure the other kids...
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...John Searle is an American philosopher born in 1932 and attended Oxford University. The Chinese room argument is Searle’s way of refuting the Strong A.I. thought that running an adequately complex program is sufficient for thinking by showing how running a computer program is not sufficient for the computer to be thinking. The argument goes that a person who has never seen the Chinese language in any form is sitting in a room sealed from the outside world. In the room, there is a basket full of Chinese symbols and a book that shows what symbols to put together when responding to a group of symbols on a piece of paper that has been slipped into the room by a Chinese speaker. The man in the room following the instructions can trick the Chinese...
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...children have a different point of view when making decisions. In football, adults think giving it your all to escape getting hurt is ironic but the narrator thinks kids can relate to it. The irony shows a contrast between kids perspectives and an adult’s perspective. Another key symbol is age. A man who was well dressed, in his car experienced snowballs being thrown at his car. His first instinct was to run after the kids, and that’s what he did. Society thinks, just because you’re not as young as some people, doesn’t mean you aren’t capable of doing what they can. Children and adults have different ways of thinking, such as kids thinking more creatively and carelessly. Kids do not think about the consequences for their actions until it is to late. “The point was that he had chased us passionately without giving up, and so he had caught us.” The chase gave the kids such a thrill running away, that it didn’t faze them that the man was yelling at them. Even though the kids were listening to him, they could not stop thinking about how much fun it was to run way from the man. It was more fun having an adult run after them opposed to another kid because its uncommon to see an adult running 10 blocks after a few kids who threw...
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...Taylor and I had started walking towards the river when we saw a man. He was at the edge of the shore line just laying...
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...life being this way for the rest of your life. One day you gather enough courage to run away from your family. As you are walking down the street on your way to a train stop when, suddenly, a man starts talking to you. This man is being nice towards you; he is listening to what you have to say and compliments you. His behavior towards you is what you been looking for and you start to trust this man. You exchange numbers to keep in touch. As the relationship progresses, you feel as you can really lean on him. He is giving you the love and support you have been yearning for a long time. He buys you things. You begin to submerge deeper in the relationship, and things are starting to look bright....
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...jukebox becomes jealous. The dream ends when she wakes up to people coming to help. The whole poem is very vague and lacks in details, meaning this poem can be interpreted in many different ways. By examining “You Were You” closely, one could understand that the man and woman were once together; the break up leading to a downhill disaster of a woman who once held meaning, but now resorts to drugs to escape the reality of her old lover moving on. In this dream the woman imagines herself as a jukebox. This metaphor gives the reader a broader view of the situation at hand. The speaker is immobile and unable to interfere with her previous lover. His new woman forcing her to suffer through watching the man move on. By putting herself in the place of a jukebox, she tries to bring back the past by playing songs that her and her past lover once enjoyed. While she observes the man, she announces that she “played Sam Cooke for [him] but [he] didn’t look over once.” This statement implies that she is doing all that she can to be noticed and remembered by the man. This also proves that the woman knew the man well enough to know his tastes in music because she obviously thought playing this song would get him to look at her, but the man did not look over and this hurt her. The woman notices that he was “wearing [his] best smile and the shirt that makes [his] eyes green”. This is a clue that these...
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