...Essay about Death by Scrabble An essay about the short story by Charlie Fish Link: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DeatScra.shtml The story is made by Charlie Fish in 2006 and is called “Death by Scrabble”, it’s about a husband and wife who play Scrabble. The husband feels that all they ever do is play Scrabble. The husband tells the story, in a way so you can read what he is thinking in the text. The husband is 42 years old, and has a lot of problems with his wife. He feels bored all around the clock. He doesn’t’ really speak to other people than his wife, and that irritates him. Already in the start of the story, you can read that the husband hates his wife because he say, “It’s a hot day and I hat my wife”. I think he feels like that because all the ever do I sit around home, play Scrabble and drink tea. He feels bored and wants to do something else, just anything than sitting and playing Scrabble. He wants to come out and meet new people, and going on adventures, for example he says in the story “If she wasn’t around, I’d be doing something interesting right now. I’d be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. I’d be starring in the latest Hollywood blockbusters.” That really shows how he is felling about playing, with his boring wife. Not only does he hate his wife, but also he wants to kill her, because everything she does is annoying him. He says in the text after they have played Scrabble, for a little while “If only I had D, then I could play MURDER. That...
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...Almotari 1 Hussein Almotari Mr.Borrelli ENG2D1-07 March 4, 2013 The Sane Sanity is the basis of the mind. Without sanity, people become mindless. In Charlie Fish’s short story-Death by Scrabble, the protagonist displays very strong mental instability. He is playing Scrabble with his wife and he secretly wants to kill her the entire time. His sanity then becomes questionable as the story progresses. The theme of sanity is reinforced in “Death by Scrabble” by the literary devices foreshadowing and irony. The story begins and right away we know that the husband hates his wife. The very first words are, “It’s a hot day and I hate my wife.”(1) The first statement makes you realize that the story can only go downhill from here. You cannot tell what the outcome of the story will be from these words, but it foreshadows that there is going to be a consequence for his words. He begins to complain about his life, how he has not done the things he has wanted to do and he does not have the things that he has always wanted. He truly believes that all of it is his wife’s fault. He looks at her in disgust and everything she does aggravates him. He over- exaggerates the things that he could have been doing. He makes the life that he would have had sound amazing compared to the one that he has now. This is the first sign that he is unstable...
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...Charmaine Holliway Professor McRae English 1102 March 10, 2012 Escaping Gilead In Margaret Atwood’s, The Handmaid’s Tale, women are subjected to unimaginable oppression. Almost every aspect of their lives is controlled; they are not allowed to read, write, or even speak freely. Any type of expression would be dangerous to the order of the Gilead’s strict society, but the handmaids are conditioned to believe that they are safer and better off living there. However, not everyone is convinced that the Gileadean society is how it portrays itself to be. Through storytelling, past memories, and rebellion, the handmaid Offred is able to escape the reality of Gilead and cease to completely submit to its repressive culture. Rebellion is a way for Offred to access freedom. Handmaids speaking freely are not tolerated in Gilead, so to find a way to secretly speak is Offred’s way of escape: “We learned to whisper almost without sound. In the semidarkness we would stretch out our arms, when the Aunts weren’t looking, and touch each other’s hands across space. We learned to lip-read, our heads flat on the beds, turned sideways, watching each other’s mouths”(Atwood 4). Each unfiltered word is a source of freedom. To be able to converse freely keeps alive the nature of relationships between people like life before Gilead. Conversation brings release and the comfort of knowing that everything she does is not controlled. These small rebellions that Offred participates in are very significant...
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...of them are children who should have a good feeding, good shelter and a good care. Poor nutrition causes five million child deaths each year. I was shocked when nearly 1 billion people don’t have enough food to survive. In my optimistic expectation. I thought with the improved medical services plus the development of technology, the number of world hunger should have decreased. And we may question ourselves: does the world produce enough food to feed 7 billion people? YES absolutely, the world produces enough food to feed everyone even increased 17% more calories per person today compare to the last 30 years (FAO 2002, p.9). So what are the underlying causes of world hunger? There are many underlying causes may lead to world hunger such as war and conflict in the past, current economic downturns combined with high foods prices, and rapid population growth. I am going to use the Sociological imagination template to reflect on this topic, we will look at all the causes from the past up to now in order to know more deeply about the topic. Historically, in the past 60 years, wars were the main causes of hunger around the world especially in those developing countries like Viet Nam. Let me tell you about my family, how they went through the wars and how they can survive during the famine. My father grew up along with his seven siblings, in a hard-scrabble, cashless family. My grandfather was in the army, so there was only grandma take care all the...
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...Major Abhishek Major Abhishek Group 9 Ayush Agarwal G002 Pratik Bhatia G008 Ashish Chandorkar G011 Shwetabh Chandra G012 Dhagash Desai G015 Joy Francis G017 Prateek Gupta G030 Group 9 Ayush Agarwal G002 Pratik Bhatia G008 Ashish Chandorkar G011 Shwetabh Chandra G012 Dhagash Desai G015 Joy Francis G017 Prateek Gupta G030 Intellectual Property Rights Intellectual Property Rights Contents Patents Act, 1970 5 Objective of the Patents Act, 1970 5 Types of patents granted in India 5 Inventions which are not patentable under this Act 5 Case Law – Novartis AC vs Union of India 5 Process of Obtaining a Patent 6 Form of Patent Application 6 Provisional and Complete Specification 7 Amendment of application and specification 7 Publication and Examination of Applications 7 Grant of Patent 7 Opposition to Grant of Patents 8 Provisions for Secrecy of Certain Inventions 8 Surrender and Revocation of Patents 8 Revocation of patent in public interest 9 Revocation of patent relating to atomic energy 9 Register of Patents 9 Rectification of Register by Appellate board 9 Register to be open for Inspection 9 Assignment of patents 9 Registration of assignments, transmissions, etc 9 Power of Controller of Patents 9 Power of controller in respect of evidence 9 Working of patents 10 Compulsory Licenses 10 Revocation of patents by the controller for Non-Working 10 Termination of Compulsory License 10 Use of inventions for Purposes...
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...Women in society used to have the power to read write vote work and do whatever else they wanted to. But gileadian women,especially Handmaids, have been stripped of all power they once had and are now forced to follow strict rules. The Handmaid constantly looks back at how life used to be and cannot mentally adapt to how life is now. She used to be able to work, drive, vote, talk to whom ever she wished, go to school and Do whatever else she wanted. She was by no means high up in society but she was her own person and was able to make her own decisions and control her own life. Today, it's as if she's just an insignificant member, who was only put on this earth to further Gileadian population and then will be No longer be of use once she can no longer conceive a child. The Handmaids have been stripped of everything they once had down to their names which give them a sense of identity. All store signs were changed to pictures Because women were no longer allowed to read or write. Women could no longer work in the professional world or hold real jobs. They had one of three jobs, to Conceive, take care of children or take care of the home. Handmaids did not even have the power to chose what they wore.Every freedom they once had was now gone. "It's strange to remember how we used to think, as if everything were available to us, as if there were no contingencies, no boundaries; as if we were free to shape and reshape forever the ever – expanding perimeters of our lives. I was like...
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...is taking. The themes in this short story are freedom, drugs and responsibility. Her life is a mess and she can’t really see it herself. She lives her life as wants too. She goes to parties and gets drunk and takes some coke and K and hangs out with her friends, were they go somewhere and get really high, so they will forget everything. And everyone laughing, everyone pissing themselves like it was the funniest thing ever. (L. 24-25) .She has ended up with some bruises from the party last night rets her swollen cheek against her palm. (l. 3). She is not feeling well after the abstinence from the drugs she has token last night. Ellie’s language is very filthy because she swear a lot Fuuuuuuck… she shoots up from the under the duvet, scrabbles for her phone, finds it beside her pillow. 16:29. Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit. (l. 12-13). She is not responsible person because she has brought herself in that situation that she might be kicked out of the university because she haven’t hand in any of the assignments she had to. She also hates the school, she can’t see why she has to go there and she is only doing it because of her parents. The story is spread over an afternoon. She is very negative in the beginning of the story and she can’t bright side of life. She is blaming her parents for taking that course on the...
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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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...Reading Journal Chapters 23-25: What are your thoughts about the Commander at the end of Chapter 25? Do you like him? Has he become vulnerable? Do you feel sorry him? Or, do you despise him and his hypocrisy? What do you think this secret indulgence tells about the society that he is helping to build and protect? – At the end of chapter 25, I feel enormous contempt for the commander, for the things he does to Offred. He knows the dangers he puts her into, by inviting her to these visits that are meant to boost his social life. He didn’t even give Offred a choice of wanting to come or not. This helps to emphasize the desperateness of the situation Offred finds herself at. She can’t refuse, because it can be a threat to her on its own, considering commander’s power and the actions he can undertake against her. The commander doesn’t even have a clue of what the women have to go through. His social problem thus seems very unimportant, compared to the suffering Offred face on a daily bases. In chapter 25, the commander doesn’t even realize that the rooms of the handmaids are searched, or their enormous lack of freedom and the prohibition of any sort of luxuries. He laughs at the idea of them using butter to moisturize their hands. On the other side, I also have some positive thoughts about the commander. To some extent, he suffers as well due to the Republic of Gilead. His marriage is forced, meaning there isn’t a natural love link between him and Serena Joy. In this way,...
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...The mind of an autistic person is fascinating and frightening because usually their actions can’t accurately express what their brain is thinking. It is frustrating to try and determine what a child with autism is trying to say, and often results in them being misunderstood. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, tells the story from the perspective of Christopher Boone, a fifteen year old boy with autism. Chris is brilliant at math and science, but is unable to understand or express emotion. His difficult home life further contributes to his illness; he doesn’t have anyone at home who supports him and tries to help him. His teacher, Siobhan, is his only friend and the only person who tries to help him learn to how to live with autism and how to assimilate himself into everyday society. This novel is very eye opening because it truly takes the reader into the mind of a person with autism. Chris is a gifted math and science student; he can recite every prime number up to 2,057. Formulas and numbers come very easily to him, he doesn’t even have to think about what he’s doing, it comes as second nature. In the novel, Haddon provides diagrams of problems that Chris can solve. These problems are difficult for the reader to interpret, which makes it even more remarkable that Christopher can figure them out in such a concise manner. Chris has a photographic memory, and he explains in the novel that’s why he understands math, because it is simple and there...
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...Society Euthanasia and Society By Tammy Sanchez Instructor: Gwen Remington Com/220 Death is an evitable part of life. Death is also the only guarantee we come into this world with. Facing the end of life may not be so clear. There have been numerous debates about the morality or assisted suicide and euthanasia for at least generations. Is it right or wrong for a physician to assist in ending the life of a terminally ill patient? The argument here would be whether for or against euthanasia and whether it is ethical or unethical act. When dealing with physicians assisted suicide, or euthanasia and society, there are many issues to discuss. But first let us define the two key words “Suicide and “Murder.” Both of these terms will play a significant role in determining whether or not physician assisted suicide is right or wrong. The word “Suicide” means to deliberately kill oneself, which could stem from several factors such as a mental and bipolar disorder, depression, drug abuse, schizophrenia, financial, relationships and alcoholism. According to the Webster’s New World Dictionary third edition defines “Murder” as an “unlawful and malicious or premeditated killing of one human being by another; kill inhumanly or barbarously, as in warfare.” When she or she is convicted of committing murder is punished by serving a life sentence in imprisonment or death by a lethal ingestion. When a self inflicted injury is caused by oneself, which results in suicide...
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...Set in the near future, Gilead is a failed attempt at creating a utopia. After the present day United States of America fell, Gilead arose from the ashes. Centered around the idea of repopulating the human population that was decimated by pollution and nuclear waste, the society seemed like a beacon of hope in a desolate world. People accepted the new society without much resistance only to later realize that they had been duped. The founders of Gilead took conservative ideas and implemented them to the extreme. Women’s rights are taken away. Reading is forbidden. Handmaids are introduced to bear children. The government takes over and a dystopia is born. They control almost every aspect of the people’s lives, down to the food that they consume. Though the totalitarian government of Gilead tries to break spirit of the women to control them and keep the people ignorant, it does not succeed in preventing the people from rebelling in their own small ways. The women are the key to the survival of Gilead. In order to ensure their survival, the founders of Gilead drew up a philosophy that they drilled into the women’s heads. They first broke down the women’s spirit by essentially re-educating them about what would now be accepted in society and would not be tolerated. "Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary" (Atwood 33). The Aunts drill this propaganda into the Handmaids’ heads to...
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...technological fields. Throughout the mid Victorian era, (1850-1870), Britain was in its golden years. While growth in textiles, trade and machinery put twice as much money in British Merchants pockets a new order began to form. The first World’s Fair in 1851 marked the first stepping stone for modern technologies and the middle class. Families began to fall into a cultural norm, the idea that an individual, through hard work, could achieve economic success was in the front of men and women's minds. Gender roles established by a hard scrabble life in the past made a separation between men and women where men were superior to most women, women could work in...
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...Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey 1. What is your initial response to the novel? Do you find it interesting or tedious? Does it remind you of any other stories? Explain why you think it is. My initial response to the novel was an expectation that it would involve darker themes such as racism since one’s review on the book stated it as “An Australian’s To Kill a Mockingbird” alongside with a picture of a boy for the book cover which made him mysterious in a way for potential readers to be curious about. As for the first few minutes reading the novel, it started off rather tedious as nothing much was established in the story but after the first sign of conflict which ultimately is the driving plot of the novel did the novel became an interesting read. It starts off without a proper introduction rather just simply a phrase “Jasper Jones is here” creating this sense of mystery and curiosity for the readers which was quite effective in doing so. This novel shares certain elements to common crime and mystery novels. Elements such as the unknown killer, a progressive plot that cause readers to create theories on who is the true killer, and most likely a plot twist near the end where every major and minor event in the novel starts to make sense to the readers. The use of a limited first person point of view is also common in mystery novels since this certain point of view limits readers at the same pace with the protagonist as he/she attempts to solve the murder. 2. Explain what ideologies...
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...recorded by Thomas Edison on his phonograph? - Mary had a little lamb 12. Who trained the 2013 Aintree Grand National winner Auroras Encore? - Sue Smith 13. What life-saving device did Sir Humphry Davy invent? - Miner's safety lamp, the Davy Lamp 14. Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right arm during which battle? - Santa Cruz de Tenerife 15. Who would use a trudgeon? - A swimmer 16. Which soup is a delicacy in Chinese cuisine made from the salivary excretions of the swiftlet? - Bird’s Nest Soup 17. Which geographical area is part of both Chile and Argentina? - Tierra del Fuego 18. Name the two main ingredients of pasta. - flour and water 19. Who wrote the poem beginning with the words "Because I could not stop for death..." - Emily Dickinson 20. Who said, "The medium is the message"? - Marshall McLuhan 21. Patrick Viera received 8 red cards in his English Premier League career. This puts him in joint-first in the list of red cards with which Irish player? - Richard Dunne 22. Which American comedian and social activist unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States in 1968 as a write-in candidate of the Freedom and Peace Party? - Dick Gregory 23. In what...
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