...Are you ready, Boots Are you ready, Boots is a short story written by Maggie Alderson in 2005. Are you ready, Boots is about an English girl named Lulu and her black leather boots. I will go through the following themes: Summary of the content, Characterization of Lulu, A comment on the role of men and a Conclusion. It begins with Lulu, her very good friend Spencer and another friend are in New York in four days. In a shoe department sale she finds these stunning boots, so fantastic that she they were made for her, and she buys them. But when they’re back in England, Lulu doesn’t want to wear them because they were so expensive. But six month later when she’s about to go out with Spencer, he asks her kindly, and encourages her to wear them. When she does that night, she meets a very attractive and kind man called Charlie. Later that night she walks directly to him (with her leather boots on), starts to talk with him and starts to flatter him. He become Lulu’s boyfriend, and he seems to be the one and only. It’s only Spencer who doesn’t think it’s okay, maybe because he is envious. After some time, Charlie proposes and she says yes. The same night she decides to wear the same dress, including the boots, like when they met each other first time. But when Charlie sees the boots, he asks her to take them off. Lulu makes a decision and leaves. Charlie is a different kind of man. He is not funny and the same kind of nice like Spencer. But he meets Lulu at a time, where Lulu...
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...A summary of are you ready, Boots? Miss Lulu lives in London. The beginning of the story she is on a four days trip in New York, she buys some fancy shoes, which costs her a lot of money. After she returns from her short trip to New York, she is invited by her friend to a restaurant which was about to be launched. Lulu dresses up for the event wearing her boots that she bought in New York. In the restaurant she meets, a man named Charlie and from there they expands their acquaintance. Couple of dinner dates after Lulu meets his parents and they seems to like her, and Charlie was in love with her. Meanwhile Lulu begins to doubt a little. Charlie take Lulu on a weekend trip and asks her to marry him and she says yes. One day Lulu puts her fancy shoes on and Charlie talks badly about them then she says ‘’ Are you ready boots?’’ start walking.’’ Characterization Lulu is young woman, above the thirty, because it says in the text, she left school for ten years ago. She is in touch with her feminine side, she likes to shop outfits, she dresses up in a way she attracts the opposite sex, or at least she thinks it does. She has an active life style; she likes going out drinking, travel and flirting. She seems like she is exploring life on her own way, she lives her life through her own choices, even if her close ones gives her different advices. Based on the choices she make you can say she is very spontaneous, she buys expansive shoes and regrets letter, and she married...
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...Are You Ready, Boots? Introduction: Love is blind, that is what “Are You Ready, Boots?” written by Maggie Alderson tells us. It means that we only see the good things and not all the bad things in the man/woman we are in love with. We see the things we want to see and not the things we would rather live without. He/she just seems perfect to you. The short story is about a woman who one day finds these perfect boots that make her look amazing. She said that these are the boots she is going to be wearing when she meets her husband. And one day she meets Mr. Perfect and she is wearing the boots from that day. His name is Charlie and he is just perfect. Her friend Spencer doesn’t mean that Charlie is perfect for her. One day Charlie purpose to her and then she realized that he isn’t that perfect as she thought he was, because he said some things about her boots in a way that made her sad. And she found out that Spencer was right. The body of the essay: He was seriously handsome with a great tan and floppy blonde hair, and wearing a beautiful suit. He was standing alone in the corner of the restaurant and as I passed I could feel him checking me out when I came out of the ladies, he was still there, still incredibly handsome, still – incredibly – alone, and still looking at me. And I could tell by that look that he definitely wasn’t gay. He wasn’t admiring me dress or my French manicure – he was admiring me. I felt a bit giddy. We can already at their first sight...
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...Are You Ready, Boots? A short story by Maggie Andersen 1. The short story “Are You Ready, Boots?” is written by Maggie Andersen. The story is about a girl named Lulu. One day when she is out shopping, she buys some designer boots on sale. Later she feels ashamed that she has spent money she did not had. Therefore, she almost never wears them. However, one day when she goes out with a friend named Spencer, she wears the boots. They go to a restaurant where they meet with Spencer’s friends. Later at the evening, she meets a man named Charlie. After some time, Lulu starts dating Charlie, and one day he asks her to marry him. Spencer warns her about that Charlie is so “pretty” that he is boring. Lulu soon starts to see what Spencer refers to. One night when they are supposed to go out, he criticizes her boots sharply and says that he has always hated them. That makes her say to the boots: “Are you ready boots?” and then she walks out on him. 2. The main character in the story: ”Are You Ready, Boots?” is named Lulu. She lives in London (ll. 52-54). Lulu acts as if she lives in a dream world (ll. 8 and ll. 37-38). She is very irresponsible. Both the trip to New York and the boots are bought for money she did not had (ll. 47-48). In relation to boys or more specific Charlie, the superficial side of her appears. All she notes about Charlie is how handsome he is (ll. 65), he has a great tan, blond hair, a beautiful suit (ll. 66- 67). Later when Lulu starts dating Charlie...
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...main character is trying on some very kinky boots from Manolo Blahnik which she is really excited about. She ends up buying them, even though she is not wearing them until later in the winter when she goes out with Spencer and some of his friends. They go to a bar and here she meets a guy called Charlie. He is Mr. Right; handsome, British, rich and very charming. They start going out and Lulu is very fond of him. Lulu accept Charlie’s offer to be his girlfriend and go meet his parents, though her friend Spencer finds him boring and not fun enough for his best friend. She doesn’t listen to Spencer until she finds more and more things that she dislikes about Charlie. One evening Lulu were going out for dinner with Charlie and she wears the boots she wore the day her and Charlie met for the first time, and Charlie tells her how awful the boots are. She was kind of surprised when she found out how he really was. Then Lulu made up her mind: Charlie was not the right guy for her, so she ends up leaving him. Lulu is the main character and a typical modern woman. She is fashion-minded and looking for her Prince charming. She thinks she wants a man who is rich and well-educated, but she finds herself wrong when she leaves Charlie. When I read the last line in the story ‘’Are you ready boots’’, that made me believe that she has left him. The story doesn’t exactly say she leaves Charlie. She has a sense of humor when she says to her boot “Start walking.” She likes to go out and have...
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...1: Characterisation of Lulu. Lulu seems to be self-assured and confident. This comes out it line 3 "Nancy Sinatra eat your heart out" and in line 8 "...all I could do after admiring myself". If she wasn't confident, she would not be admiring her own reflection in the mirror. She is also fashion-conscious, this is shown in the beginning of the story (line 5), when she buys an expensive pair of boots "they weren't just boots - they were actual Manolos". Only people interested in fashion would care if the boots were a brand a not. It also shows in line 11 that she is funny and has a sense of humour. "Grrrr... Copping a vamp pose..." In line 21, she reveals that there are two sides to her. The sensible side and the more pleasure-seeking or maybe irresponsible. "while the sensible side of my brain tried to reason with the champagne-fuddled one" At first she might seems to focus on the exterior, this comes out in line 83-84 "A good looking boyfriend..- Had a Porsche" , however she later reveals a more sensible side in line 133, where she looks beyond "the dashing, handsome exterior" and comes to the realisation that he is a "bigoted bore inside" (l. 134) 2: Comment on the role of the two male characters. In many ways, Spencer and Charlie represent the two sides there are to Lulu's personality. Spencer being the reasonable side by making her see Charlie...
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...keep the day flowing smoothly. One day, we were all going to be getting ready to go outside and play, since it was sunny and warm. My co-teacher, who works with the preschoolers, begins to get her children ready to go outside first, since most of them are able to get dressed by themselves. One of the children begins to grab everyone’s boots and coats and throw them into the center of the rug. My co-teacher sees this, gets down at the child’s level, looks him in the eyes, and says, “Why don’t you grab your boots and coat instead? Your friends are able to find theirs when they have finished using the bathroom.” This child then said, “But I can’t find them!” So my co-teacher then said, “Well, have you checked in your bag? I think I see a sleeve sticking out.” The boy looked up at her, smiled, and went and found his boots and coat and proceeded to put them on. My co-teacher then proceeded to tell the children to sit down on the rug and wait for their names to be called to line up at the door to go outside. When one of the children tried to go before their name was called, my co-teacher explained to him, “I’m sorry, but I did not call your name yet. You need to wait until you hear your name before you may line up.” One thing I really notice, if the use of clear positive directions, especially when it comes to transitions – this one in particular, where you have many children trying to get themselves ready to go outside and work off some energy, and some children can become...
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...When you get the message "The operating system cannot be found" it is generally caused by an outdated BIOS card. The best thing to do is contact your computer manufacturer for help. If you don't want to buy a new BIOS card or computer then follow the steps below. The following steps I will tell you is not guaranteed that it will 100% work for all operating systems nor will it guarantee it will work at all. These steps might damage your computer. By reinstalling your operating system you will be wiping out all of your saved memory so do not follow these steps if you are not willing to take the risk otherwise contact your manufacturer for help! Lastly, read all of the step and follow them carefully before you actually do them! Step 1: Have your copy of windows ready to go and any hardware, software, etc... because all of your saved data will be gone. This is important if you don't want to spend hours finding the CDs you want to install. Step 2: Turn on your computer and immediately press F12. Step 3: Once you are in the boot menu go down to Boot Sequence. Step 4: In Boot Sequence disable Hard-disk drive C. By doing this your computer will boot from the copy of windows so have your copy of windows ready. Step 5: Exit Boot Sequence and go down to OS install mode and enable it. Step 6: After you enable OS install mode open your CD-ROM drive and put your copy of windows in. Step 7: Once your copy of windows is in exit the boot menu and save what you have...
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...Homework Question 1 Explain how targeting particular groups of customers can help a business achieve success: illustrate your answer with an example. For example, Giorgio Armani S.P.A. is an international Italian fashion house founded by Giorgio Armani. The brand markets these products under several sub-labels. 1. Giorgio Armani (GA) is a high-end label specializing in men's and women's ready-to-wear, accessories, glasses, cosmetics, and perfumes. It is available only in Giorgio Armani boutiques, specialty clothiers and select high-end department stores. 2. Emporio Armani (EA) line has a high quality in cheap fashion clothes and focus on trends and modern traits. The label features high end ready-to-wear and accessories. Emporio Armani boutiques in high end department store. 3. Armani Collezioni is a sub-label. The line is more expensive than Emporio Armani, Armani Jeans and Armani Exchange, but less expensive than the high-end, ready-to-wear line Giorgio Armani and the haute couture line. It provides made-to-measure tailored suits and shirts where every element can be chosen. 4. Armani Jeans (AJ) is a bridge-line collection of denim-related clothing. 5. A|X Armani Exchange retails fashion and lifestyle products and is known for its occasionally provocative ad campaigns. 6. Armani Junior is the high quality cloth for children. The age range from baby to sixteen-year old teenagers. 7. Armani/Casa is a high-end home collection by Giorgio Armani...
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...How to Dual-boot Linux and Windows (on a PC with Windows 7 already installed) The purpose of this Instructable is to set up your computer to dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. Dual-booting is a technique which allows a single physical computer to run two or more operating systems (OSes). This is useful for experimenting with new OSes without putting all your eggs in one basket. Step 1: Getting Prepared Prerequisites: 1. A PC running Windows 7, with at least 30 GB of free hard-drive space. 2. A CD/DVD burner and blank CD/ DVD or a USB drive with a capacity of 1GB or more 3. An external Harddrive big enough to backup your Windows installation 4. Administrative access to the PC 5. Internet Connectivity Most PCs sold in the last three years should meet the criteria for number 1. To confirm what version of Windows you are running, go to My Computer and click on “System properties.” The listed version should be Windows 7. From that same screen, you should see how much free space you have left, which is underneath the blue bar for each disk. In the example image, there is "8.49 GB free of 55.7GB". NOTE: The 8.49GB shown in the example is not enough space for most people. While you can install Ubuntu to a partition this size, you will typically want more space store documents and applications. 20GB is probably the minimum size you would want. Step 2: Select a Linux Distro Linux comes in many flavors. Some distributions are aimed at full configurability...
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...Are You Ready, Boots? 1. The story starts in medias res. A woman named Lulu and her good friends Spencer and Betty are out shopping shoes after having had a lunch accompanied by two bottles of Chrystal. Lulu is trying on some very high, very kinky boots and is really excited about them. She ends up buying them, though kind of regretting it several months later and not wearing them until later in the winter when she, one evening, goes out with Spencer and some of his pals. They go to a bar and here she meets a guy called Charlie. He is the perfect man; handsome, British, rich and very charming. They start going out and Lulu is very fond of him. Though her friend Spencer finds him boring and not fun enough for his best friend, Lulu still accept Charlie’s offer to be his girlfriend and go meet his parents. One evening Lulu wears the boots she wore the day they met and Charlie tells her how hideous and slutty he finds them. Then Lulu’s mind is made up: Charlie is a boring, pompous ass and so wrong for her, so she ends up leaving him. 2. Lulu is the main character. She is a typical modern woman. Full of ambitions, fashion-minded and longing for her “soul mate”. She thinks she wants a rich, well educated and seemingly perfect man, but finds herself wrong when she dumps Charlie. Although the story doesn’t exactly say she leaves Charlie, that is what I get from the last line in the story: “Are you ready boots?” I said to them. “Start walking.” She has a sense of humour (told...
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...Install * A clean install is intended for users who want to freshly install Windows on their computer (by deleting all of the data on the hard disk and then installing Windows) or computers that do not have an operating system yet. 1. Enter your computer's BIOS. Turn off the computer that you want to install Windows on then turn it back on. When the BIOS screen appears or you are prompted to do so, press ⌦ Del, ⎋ Esc, F2, F10, or F9 (depending on your computer’s motherboard) to enter the system BIOS. The key to enter the BIOS is usually shown on the screen. 2. Find your BIOS's boot options menu. The boot options menu of your BIOS may vary in location or name from the illustration, but you may eventually find it if you search around. * If you can't find the boot options menu, search the name of your BIOS (most likely located in the BIOS menu) online for help. 3. Select the CD-ROM drive as the first boot device of your computer. * Although this method may vary among computers, the boot options menu is typically a menu of moveable device names where you should set your CD-ROM drive as the first boot device. It can also be a list of devices that you can set the order of their boot on. Consult a manual or the internet for help if you're stuck. 4. Save the changes of the settings. Press the button indicated on the screen or select the save option from the BIOS menu to save your configuration. 5. Shut off your computer. Either turn off the computer by choosing the shut-down...
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...Jessica Ganzermiller ENG101 Kambui 3/21/11 A Home away from Home I was ready or as ready as I could have been to take on the twenty six thousand detainees of Camp Bucca Iraq, the largest detention facility in the world. As I stepped off the plane; suddenly hit by the nearly unbearable One hundred forty seven degree heat. My boots were tightly laced ID tag on my left and Boot knife on the right. Eighty pounds of protective gear; Bullet proof vest with survival tools and pouches of ammo strapped to the front, helmet with my name and blood type so if my head were to blown off the would know it was mine, my ruck sac strapped to my back full of the bare essentials; weapons cleaning kit, 2 uniforms, hygiene items, extra boots, a sheet, a towel and a wash cloth; ready for a mission I had been trained for, but little did I know all the training in the world could not have prepared me for what I was up against. In fear I could not help but to wonder if this flight had been my last. This was going to be a fifteen month trip that would change my life forever. This was not just a mission assignment for the military; it was my personal road to self- discovery. We arrived in Kuwait; this place was not like any place I had been before. The fine sand whimsically disappeared as the drifting air carried it away. One place that had once been a place of calm reflection; was now a place where war death and hatred lurked in the air. “Formation” yells my Platoon Sargent in his newly pressed uniform...
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...How to Remote Install CentOS 6 via VNC For many reasons sometimes it is necessary to reinstall a linux on a server that is hosted in a remote location such as a Data center. You might want to install a new version of the Distribution, change the distribution, or you might need to re-partition you hard drive to be able to use LVM for example. You have three options here: 1 - Go physically to the Datacenter 2 - Pay a datacenter guy to reinstall that for you… :( 3 - Install it Remotely using VNC I chose the 3rd one since it seems to be the most convenient one. :-) What do we need? Network configuration of out server: IP Address, Gateway and DNS If you have all those 3 informations you are good to go! 1 - Download bootstrap files (Kernel and ramdisk image). # cd /boot # mkdir centos6 # cd centos6 # wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/isolinux/vmlinuz # wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/isolinux/initrd.img Add an entry to the Grub Loader # vi /boot/grub/menu.lst ## Add the following lines to the end of the file and count how many lines starts with tittle: title CentOS 6 VNC Installation root (hd0,0) kernel /centos6/vmlinuz vnc vncpassword=houseoflinux headless ip=10.0.0.10 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.0.0.1 dns=10.0.0.5 ksdevice=eth0 method=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/ lang=en_US keymap=us initrd /centos6/initrd.img In my case with I had total 3 entries because I am updating...
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...the four phases of the Windows boot process in your own words. 2. Over the years, Microsoft has consistently updated the Windows operating system with new versions. Compare and contrast the features of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. 3. The Windows operating system has specific requirements that must be met in order to install it on a PC or mobile device. Which three most important hardware devices must be considered before you install Windows 8, 7, Vista, or XP on a computer? Explain why these three devices are important in general. 4. Mobile computing is the way of the future and so are mobile operating systems. Describe the features and benefits of the two major mobile operating systems, Android and Apple iOS. 1. The first phase would be to power up the computer by pressing the power button, doing so the power button creates an electrical impulse that instructs the motherboard to power on the power supply to begin the computers boot up sequence. The second phase after your initial startup power sequence is the BIOS activates and runs the power-on self-test (POST) that checks the hardware of the computer such as the CPU, RAM, video interface, hard drives, USB interfaces, and other integrated ports and interfaces, making sure everything is working properly, after that the BIOS displays an option for you to press if you choose to enter into the BIOS settings. The third phase of the computer boot up process is now the BIOS is ready to run the computers operating...
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