...Theresa Gbekia World history Reimers Williams 10 January 2014 ALIVE Although a plan of 45 people crashed in the Andes, sixteen of them made it alive. Those sixteen faced extremely harsh weathers, loneliness and hunger. On the Andes tops there was no Singh of a living thing, so how did the sixteen men stay alive? The men used the torn up plan as shelter. They accompany each other to wear of loneliness. And yes for food they eat those who did not stay alive! I believe that the overall question of this book is; what will one do to stay Alive when driven from civilization? The sixteen men did an outrageous thing eating their friends. They came to many explanations to make the act righteous. That action of man tells a great fear for live! The men feared for their life and did what they had to do to stay alive. A technological cause that helped answered the question was science .To science; the eating of human flesh simply provides protein just like any other animal meat. The human body does not hold any kind of poison, therefor is edible. A political cause in this book was that the leader/the men that took charge reasoned that God had the bodies there for them to stay alive. The leaders, who were the strongest and healthiest felt responsible to care for the weaker friends and made sure that they were fed. At the end of recuse, none of the sixteen survivors were held in poison for the cannibal act they committed. In fact, some of the victim’s families had no angry words. They...
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...Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release BCOM/275 Kein Pettus Dr. Gail Zwart Communication is the basis of life, some belief communication created the world and everything in it. Words are powerful and if not used wisely, can be very damaging. However if used with care and in an uplifting manner; words can turn a challenging or seemingly bleak situation around. The story of the workers trapped in the copper mine in Chile was an example of a seemingly bleak situation, as the miners fought to stay alive while being rescued. An interesting yet sympathetic dynamic about this story is the feeling of being trapped did not only affect those physically trapped in the mine. These people are fathers, sons, brothers, friends and co-workers who one would be safe to assume that the people connected to the workers also felt trapped as they could do nothing but hope for the best and stay positive. Delivering such devastating news to the families and coworkers is not an easy task. One could be safe to imagine that it is one of the hardest messages that need to be relayed. In addition to the given considerations such as tone and content; guarding the hearts of the audience involved is the most important consideration to have when baring this news to bring. Deciding what should be made known to the audience is important as well, information that can bring their spirits down should only be conveyed if absolutely necessary. Word choice is crucial to the outcome and...
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...Sand... I could almost tell you exactly how many grains lay in this desert. The days are long and hot, and the nights are longer and cold. It’s not a mistake that I am here, I chose to live this way. My name is Gabriel, I am twenty-eight years old. The Wahiba Sands became my home five weeks ago.... I used to be wealthy, with a family, I even owned the largest law firm in the united states. I used to be happy, and filled to the breaking points with love, and life. Until my company that I spent every penny, and every ounce of me on, fell under. My deep black hair began to turn a grey color. We started losing cases, and with a rising rate of failure came the rising debt. The company was going to crash, and I knew. A few months later, the bank came around to take the firm out of my hands. I made a horrible decision, I went to the bank that all of the pension money was stored. I emptied all of the accounts, and carried the money out of the bank in bags. As I was leaving I called my wife, and told her and my son Adrian to pack their things and get ready to leave the country, and that I would explain when I got home. I pull into the driveway, and see my wife standing outside the house. Frantically I told her what just happened. “Gabriel what on earth are you trying to do?!” she exclaimed. “Please just get in the car, I don’t have time. I need to leave, if you wait any longer I’ll have to leave without you and Adrian.” I proposed. She stood, unmoved, and with an unchanged mind...
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...Comparison of Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" and Jack London's "To Build a Fire" Two prominent American literature works, Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” and Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” portray the man vs. nature theme. These two pieces are alike and different in many ways. I can agree and disagree on the survival methods used by both authors, although Crane’s methods seemed a bit more questionable. While nature seemed to toy with the crew of the boat in “The Open Boat”, the old man in “To Build a Fire” seems to toy with nature by ignoring its signs to stop and to relinquish his failing journey. In the following paragraphs I’d like to get into the trenches of these two adventure stories. These two authors share similar traits when it comes to connections and reasons for writing these stories. Stephen Crane wrote “The Open Boat” based on a real life experience he went through. It was on December 31, 1896 when Crane left the Florida panhandle en-route for Cuba. His mission was to cover the war as a correspondent. On January 2, his ship sank and he and the other three crew members were forced to make the rest of the 30 hour trip in a small dinghy back to the United States (SN). This real life experience compares to Jack London’s real life journey through the Yukon Territory in 1897, around the same time as Crane’s sea adventure. London scavenged the area with others around that time in search for gold (Rees). While the gold rush was ultimately not as successful as he had...
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...Bienvenido Santos: The Day The Dancers Came AS soon as Fil woke up, he noticed a whiteness outside, quite unusual for the November mornings they had been having. That fall, Chicago was sandman's town, sleepy valley, drowsy gray, slumberous mistiness from sunup till noon when the clouds drifted away in cauliflower clusters and suddenly it was evening. The lights shone on the avenues like soiled lamps centuries old and the skyscrapers became monsters with a thousand sore eyes. Now there was a brightness in the air land Fil knew what it was and he shouted, "Snow! It's snowing!" Tony, who slept in the adjoining room, was awakened. "What's that?" he asked. "It's snowing," Fil said, smiling to himself as if he had ordered this and was satisfied with the prompt delivery. "Oh, they'll love this, they'll love this." "Who'll love that?" Tony asked, his voice raised in annoyance. "The dancers, of course," Fil answered. "They're arriving today. Maybe they've already arrived. They'll walk in the snow and love it. Their first snow, I'm sure." "How do you know it wasn't snowing in New York while they were there?" Tony asked. "Snow in New York in early November?" Fil said. "Are you crazy?" "Who's crazy?" Tony replied. "Ever since you heard of those dancers from the Philippines, you've been acting nuts. Loco. As if they're coming here just for you. Tony chuckled. Hearing him, Fil blushed, realizing that he had, indeed, been acting too eager, but Tony had said it. It felt that way--as...
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...Following is the Leadership Scenario case study: Alex and Stephanie have a few things in common. Both are students at their state’s university, and both work full-time at a local supermarket to make ends meet and help pay for college. Though the pay isn’t great, it’s a steady job that allows them some flexibility, which helps when scheduling classes. Both students joined the supermarket two years ago, and, given their similar situations, became friends quickly. Although Stephanie seems to enjoy her job, arriving and leaving work each day with a smile on her face, Alex often grumbles and complains about his work. Much of the time, Alex complains about his boss, Dan, who oversees the produce department. Stephanie works for Jonathan, a 10-year veteran who everyone generally admires for his friendly demeanor and relaxed management style. Most employees want to work for Jonathan, as he often assigns his employees different duties each week so workers don’t get bored. Stephanie, for instance, can be working at the checkout counter one week, stocking shelves the next, and in the store’s culinary center the following week. The culinary center is a new service that the store is test-marketing. Employees show customers how to create exciting recipes from start to finish. It is Stephanie’s favorite place in the store to work. She is also responsible for taking customers around the store to locate ingredients for a culinary center recipe, many of the ingredients being some of...
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...What does being in love actually mean? Lovig someone and being in love with someone often gets confused. In reality loving someone is a feeling everyone will feel. Whether it be with a person, place , or thing. Opinions on being in love have a variety of meanings. My opinion of being in love is caring about someone so much that your happiness doesnt matter, just theirs. The only thing that matters is that , that person is genuiely happy. Its a feeling that runs deep it conquers everyting, Nothing else matters. Just that person and yourself. The phrase often used to describe the stage where your starting to fall in love someone. Trust me, when your in this stage, you will know. You constantly think about that person and can't seems to get them off of your mind. Your heart skips a beat whenever you see them and everything little thing that person does, maybe just a "hi" can brighten up your day in any way possible. You will day dream about him or her, the last person you think before you go to sleep and your first thought when you wake up in the morning. And when someone hurts that person , you just want to kill and crush that person up. But when you know that you want to spend the rest of your life with this person, have a family with that person, that's when you know your actually "in love". Even when you guys get into fights, you still love them no matter what. And even if something went wrong, and you guys claims to let each others go, the truth is you can't let them go...
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...Dubliners Joyce, James Published: 1914 1 About Joyce: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939), the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Although his adult life was largely spent outside the country, Joyce's fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and provide the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers. Source: Wikipedia 2 Chapter 1 The Sisters There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind, for I knew that two candles...
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...To my mother and grandmother, whose engineering endeavors paved the way for my own. Copyright © 2011 by Gayle Laakmann. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials. The advice and strategies...
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...The Way It All Ends There I was, in my apartment, panicking, scrambling to get my things together. A backpack full of twinkies and hot pockets. Of course being a 19 year old residing in the suburbs of Detroit, I had a whole room full of guns….with no ammunition. PERFECT! I normally pack a .44 colt with me, but that’s for standard use, not against a horde of zombies. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, ZOMBIES. I’ve had confrontations with them for 2 years. However these zombies are unlike any I’ve ever seen. These zombies could run….fast. it was almost like they had been given an extra dose of human flesh for their daily meal today. I wasn’t thinking I would ever have to use the other guns I had in my trap door basement. “My god! Where is my ammo?” I said in a very, unusual tone. “I don’t know, so don’t ask me!” I had almost forgotten my girlfriend was in the other room. By that time, she had made her way to my part of the house and was just staring at me. “Jesus Jessica, don’t creep up on me like that. You know I scare easily!” I said in a hyperventilating tone. “Well how was I supposed to know that you forgot about me?” she asked in an angry and upset tone. You see, I was never the one to act quite right in front of girls, let alone in a world full of flesh eating freaks. After that statement was said, we both fell silent for a while. “Im sorry Jess, I didn’t mean to sound mad at you, it just gets frustrating living in this world now.” “Its fine John” she said in...
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...Dear Kamille Apolinar, Hello sa aking napakapaka gandang mommy! Natutuwa ako na ikaw yung naging katabi ko. Hindi ko maalala yung unang beses tayo nagusap. I introduced myself ata to you basta ayun, super blessed ako na ikaw yung pinili talaga ni Lord para maging seatmate ko. Alam mo bang sobrang hiyang hiya ako sayo nung una kasi grabe, you’re so smart and parang easy easy lang sayo yung stress ng school. You’re really confident and well-built na yung flexible mo na personality. Parang hindi ka na nga nag-adjust eh kasi pagkaapak mo palang sa room natin, at home ka na. Tsaka feeling ko hindi tayo magiging close kasi ang hyper mo and shy ako so parang malabo ata yun pero omg naging mommy pa kita! How’s that possible!? You know that you inspired me a lot. Na push rin naman ako magaral kasi nakakahiya sa katabi ko na matalino. Sobrang sweet mo and talking with you is like talking to someone I’ve known for ages! Parang dati pa tayong magkakilala na ngayon lang nag-usap ulit! Sobrang bilis mo makagaanan ng loob and sobrang thankful ako dahil nakilala kita. You don’t know how grateful I am. 5 months may be early to say this pero isa ka talaga sa pinaka-nilolook up ko and I really admire your confidence. I wish you could donate some of yours to me! I love you mommy! There are countless memories of us that are yet to happen. I am definitely glad that we are still classmates for this sem and I hope and I pray that we will be classmates until we graduate (cross fingers)! Ikaw ang isa...
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...“THE STORY OF A DREAM” In New Jersey, lived a 10-years-old girl, named Carla, with her parents and her grandparents. Her grandpa is always telling invented stories by himself using things from the past and from the present. One day Carla was very sick and her grandpa to cheer her begins to tell her one of his stories because she liked them a lot. In a kingdom far away, on the outskirts of a town called Stone, because it was where you could find the most beautiful stones in the whole country, was celebrating the birth of the new heir to the throne, he was confirmed Marc, and also the birth of heir to the throne of the kingdom ally, called Lucero. The king and queen invited all the kings of other kingdoms. But at the same time had given birth the wife of a farmer in Stone town, and had a beautiful girl called Aurora, but were worried because now he was the only one able to work because his wife had to care of the child and they were a very poor family. Twenty years later, was the birthday of Aurora, Marc and Lucero. Aurora's parents promised her that by the time she was twenty, they would have the money she need so she could go to study in one of the best schools in the kingdom. And at the same time the father of Marc was planning Marc’s marriage with Lucero. But Marc didn’t want to marry Lucero because he didn’t love her at all. A few days later, Aurora's parents gave her the money that she hoped, that both of her parents had to work very hard to have it all. The following...
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...Characters: Alysandra Ang –Scriptwriter; Supporting Characters Rhea Imperial – Director; Supporting Characters Main Characters Stevenson Family: Andrei Salde – Father (Ramon Stevenson) Audrey Guevarra – Mother (Carmela Swift) Yurianne Solitana - Daughter (Younger Version) (Alice Stevenson) Venice Jarlego – Daughter (Older Version) (Alice Stevenson) Bestfriend: Camille Elises – Younger Version (Mia Ackerman) Chesca Agpalza – Older Version (Mia Ackerman) Supporting Characters: Alexis Buenaventura – Bar/ Flair tender, Bully (Stewie Simpson) Omar Juliano – Drummer of “West Kawayan Sea”, Bully (Cleveland Keinor) Jade Guevara – Bestfriend of older Alice (Roxie Reiss) Scene 1 Ramon: Carmela, have you seen my bag? Carmela: I think you left it in your room. Ramon: Oh, I’ll go get it then. Carmela: Ramon Ramon: What is it? Carmela: I’ve got something to tell you. Ramon: Go on. Carmela: These past few weeks, I have been vomiting and I don’t know why. Ramon: Then you should go to a doctor. Carmela: I did. Ramon: And? What did the doctor said? Carmela: She said that I’m…that I’m p-pregnant. Ramon: WHAT DID YOU SAID?! Carmela: I’m pregnant for two weeks, I know that we just got married and that were not ready to have a family, but I think it’s time to have children. Ramon: FINE! Carmela: Really? Ramon: Yeah, but I will not take my responsibility for that child. Carmela: What? Ramon: I can’t. I’m leaving you! Carmela: Wait! You can’t just – *Door slams*...
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...Dead Phoenix Jackson’s grandson is dead due to her dementia, fear of the word “death”, and illusions. Mrs. Jackson shows many characteristics to all of theses things. She still continues to make the journey to town the clerk at the doctor's office does not even know her business assistant to the doctor does. This symbolizes that she has made the trip many years even though her precious grandson is dead. First, Phoenix Jackson's dementia plays a large role in her idea that her grandson is alive but in reality he is dead. Phoenix arrives at the doctor's office as if she is in shock. She cannot remember her reasoning for coming and is asked several times but cannot remember. This shows that she still imagines her grandson to be alive...
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...to stay alive throughout the movie. She displays true heroism by standing up to the weak and innocent and risking her life for her friends, family, and district. She shows many different signs of courageousness, determination, and integrity, as the movie continues. Katniss is a worthy example of a hero for having all these qualities and more through her departure, initiation, and return, thus representing the archetypal hero’s journey in The Hunger Games. The journey begins with the “ordinary world,” or what happens before the hero is called on an adventure. In the movie, Katniss Everdeen’s ordinary world consists of being an average sixteen year old girl who lives with her mother and younger sister, Primrose. Since her father’s death, Katniss feels the urgency to sneak out of district boundaries and hunt to feed and keep her family alive. Her heroic “call to adventure” demonstrates the hero’s journey, that may have cost her life. In the movie, Katniss’s call is when her sister, Primrose, is chosen to be in the annual Hunger Games. The shocked Katniss speaks out of the crowd and volunteers herself as tribute, thus exemplifying her call to adventure. The next stage in the hero’s journey is when the hero meets with a mentor to gain insight and advice to overcome the future battle. Katniss and her partner, Peeta Mellark, are sent to prepare for the Capital when they meet their mentor, Haymitch. At first, Haymitch’s advice to both tributes is to make sure to stay alive and to find...
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