...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 would be a sign” and “If they spell out KILL, or stab, or her name, or anything, I’ll do it right now. I’ll finish her off.” The anger inside him is so large, that he wants to kill his own...
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...reason did Gatto's students give when asked why they were bored ? Gatto's students reasons was that the work was stupid , that it ain't make no sense and that they already knew it. In fact they wanted to be doing something real not just be sitting around . Additionally the student said teachers didn't seem to know much about their subject and clearly weren't interesting in learning more about the students life's 2 . What was the reason did the teachers give when asked why they were bored ? The teachers reason for why the students were bored cause lounge can vouch for the low energy the whining the dispirited attitudes to be found there. 3 . What was Gatto's grandfather's perspective on boredom? Gatto's grandfather perspective about boredom was that he was never to use that term in his presence again . Including if he was bored it was his fault and non ones else's. 4 . What happened to Gatto when he tried to help his students break out it the teapot boredom? When Gatto tried to help break the trap of being bored he found it futile to challenge the official notion that boredom and childishness was also the natural state of affairs in the classroom. For instance I often had defy custom and bend the law to help the kind break out of the trap of bored. 5 . What does Gatto feel that schools should "encourage " to improve the quality of schooling ? Gatto feels that schools should encourage the best qualities of your-fulness...
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...The author explains that boredom highlights what a person is seeking. For example, in a monotone situation, the person is bored because there is a lack of variety. If the situation is familiar, the person wants novelty. When doing obligatory tasks, the person desires to do something of his own will and id therefore bored. (74) These examples demonstrate that boredom occurs when people are unsatisfied of their activities and lack something. People are then more aware of what matters to their happiness and will be influenced to seek for it. Values and wishes are clearer. With the examples, readers most probably recognize this bored feeling of doing unfulfilling tasks and have a better understanding of how boredom can help interpret their desires. To prove that boredom promotes pursuing goals, Elpidorou uses examples the metal state of a bored person. “We feel uneasy and restless. Our minds wander. We mentally catalogue alternative goals. […]In a state of boredom, [time] appears to drag. We want to escape from boredom’s unpleasant grip.”(75) According to Elpidorou, these different feelings people have when bored motivate them to strive for alternative goals. To escape the boredom caused by disinterest, people are influenced to pursue goals that will satisfy them. Everyone has experienced this feeling of indifference towards certain tasks and consequently relates...
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...booklets ‘Standing Female Nude’, in which I will use to discuss the way Duffy uses her characters to put across her own ideas. I will then be comparing these characters in these poems with another poet called Sheenagh Pugh, another female poet who shares the same views as Duffy. The first poem I will discuss is ‘Standing Female Nude’. This poem discusses the issues of women not voicing their intelligence to men, the main theme in this poem being that the artist Georges Braque, the artist who developed cubism with Picasso, thinks that he is above her. The model is not asked for her opinion on the art and is constantly told to be quiet, her identity not being revealed to us as if it is not important. Duffy wrote this poem to show how women feel being treated in such an awful way and also, she is a strong feminist and believed that the model deserved to have her voice heard. The poem I will be using as comparison is ‘Senesino/Farinelli’. This poem is about two famous opera singers named Senesino and Farinelli, both men being eunuchs. The poem starts with the model telling the reader that she is posing naked for the painting in which Georges is creating, ‘They call it Art’. The model mocks Georges and the art because we see that she doesn’t view his work with any interest. The ‘Art’ that she creates is very much different to Georges...
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...Cat In The Rain Being married and committed to each other, means listing and showing each other your love. Feeling lonely and bored, and feeling like the person you love the most doesn’t give you anything, but rejection, shouldn’t be a part of a marriage. This is what the wife in “Cat in the rain” seems to deal with. The wife in this story has a lot of needs; especially because of the lack of attention her husband, George gives her. She wants something more, something he doesn’t give her. She’s bored and lonely and wants something more: “Anyway, I want a cat,’ she said, ‘I want a cat. I want a cat now. If I can’t have long hair or any fun, I can have a cat.” – This line actually says a lot about her, because she sounds extremely immature and selfish, but what is really is, is a desperate beg for attention, and not any attention, but his. In some way she’s really egoistic, because at first you would think that she wants to safe the cat, because she feels bad for it, but later on we discover that she actually feels bad for herself, she doesn’t care about the cat and how it feels, she only cares about herself and how she feels. She desires some excitement, and the cat is just a tool to get that. It’s clear to see how the wife, goes from being a grown women, to being childish, because in the beginning of the story, the narrator refers to her as the American wife, but as the story progresses, he refers to her as a girl “As the American girl passed the office...” “Something felt...
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...reward system properties; basic needs satisfied, competitive benefits, equitable distribution, and employees treated as individuals. To ensure basic needs are being met the company must offer competitive pay scales, as money is the biggest motivator to every employee. Basic needs are described as the ability to support themselves and their families. This includes housing, food, transportation, utilities, etc. Also, an employee must feel their worth to the company and should be compensated accordingly. Employees want to know the company values their work. This gives each employee the motivation to give 100%. To ensure competitive benefits are offered, a company must know the financial responsibilities of offering these benefits. After knowing the numbers, the company's management must then determine what they can afford to offer in a benefits package. These benefits will vary depending on each employee's position but should be competitive on that pay scale to other companies. Benefits should be offered to every employee. If the company cannot afford to do this, they must shop around for cheaper companies to offer these benefits. Some form of benefits package shall be implemented on each pay scale. Each employee must be treated as an individual. To make sure this happens, I would implement a confidential survey to each employee. This will not only give the company a general consensus of wants and needs, but also individual data as well. Learning what is important to...
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...Hulya Er Summary/Response Essay Failure is not Daunting Undoubtedly, nearly all of us want to become successful, advance up our career ladders and attain better social ranking, so our vocabulary repertoire does not comprise the concept of failure. At schools, teachers lay great stress on the significance of academic achievement. In the field of popular psychology, many books like 99 Steps or Tips for Accomplishment are written about how people achieve success. Even though numerous people pay attention to the value of success especially in this Era of Knowledge, saying “failure is a good thing” astonishes me. In Jon Carroll’s article, “Failure is a Good Thing”, he asserts that failure is a beginning, not the end of the world. Failure is how we learn, that is, failure is a natural part of our learning process and a proof that we are trying. Carroll also contends that success is boring since it becomes tedious after a while because of not feeding the soul and keeping us from risking and trying new things. Most of us fear failure, but failure and believing in the possibility of it offer some oppurtunities: It encourages creativity, provides us with new beginnings, and reminds us of being human. First of all, fault is an important teacher that promotes innovation as Jon Carroll connotated. Some of our most memorable lessons come from the stories of our biggest mistakes. The history books are full of those who failed repeatedly before reaching the zenith of success in their fields:...
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...anybody is welcome. But I tried to choose a time that was good for all of you members in Europe. So today I’m going to do a couple things. First I’m going to talk for about 20 minutes about this topic of using emotion to learn English faster and to speak English better and how can you use your emotions, how can you change your emotions quickly and easily? So I will talk for about 20 minutes. During that time I will not be answering questions so you can type your comments in the chat. It’s okay. I’ll look at them sometimes. But I won’t be reading questions and I won’t be answering questions, in the beginning. After I finish talking about the topic then you can enter your questions in that chat box right at the bottom there. So if you notice, you know, there’s got the window here. We’ve got our window with, you know, it’s Effortless English Club and then slash webinars. That’s where probably most of you are. And I’m typing it in right now, webinars and we hit enter and then you see, you know, they’ve got this big window for the web stream and then underneath we’ve got our chat box and you can see we’ve got moderators, that’s me, viewers and then we’ve got a bunch of guests. So we’ve got a bunch of people. Then under that there’s a little box and you can type your comments or your questions in the box and then you hit send and it’ll ask you to register. The first time you do this you’ll need to register and then after that you can, you know, continue adding stuff. So that’s how it works...
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...end of June. There is intense heat during these months. The sun shines perpendicularly causing numerous difficulties for the people. They want to stay indoors, especially during mid-day. They get tired very soon and feel lethargic. Summer mornings are little bit pleasant and so are the summer evenings. Hence people look busy during these times. They try to finish all their work as quickly as possible because they know that a long hot day is waiting for them. At noon the heat is at its peak. The towns and cities look deserted. There are few people on the road. Sometimes it is too hot to continue the work. Everything is paralysed. People go inside their houses in the darkest room. They drink cold water again and again just to quench their thirst but they never feel satisfied. During summer we eat little food. We do not feel healthy and sometimes develop many complications regarding health. Any irregularity in food-habit leads to sickness. Hot wind called loo' blow throughout the day and many die of heat stroke. The rich people do not have much problem because they have electric fans, coolers and air conditioners. But the poor people have to face hardships. They go on with their work in the open under hot sun. The season is lazy one. People do not feel active and only want to sit under fan in the cold dark room. It is therefore all schools and colleges are closed during summer for a month or two. Small rivers, ponds and tanks go dry. The water level goes down which...
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...chose to use brainstorming. I wrote a list of what I felt the benefits of volunteering were as well as different things about volunteering and then used them to create my essay. Draft Are you bored with your life? Do you feel that you want to do something new or more for your community? Volunteering can be a great way for you to meet new people, get involved with your community and feel good. When you volunteer, whether it’s helping others or volunteering on a project or program, what you are doing will benefit an individual person or many people. Volunteering can be a short or long term situation, but whichever you choose, you should make sure that you are able to commit to the time involved. I volunteer at my church. The program that I volunteer in is called Friendship Ministry. With volunteering for the Friendship Ministry, I share God’s love with people who have impairments and help them become an active member of God’s family. Each mentor is assigned a “friend” that they will develop a relationship with. We sit with our friends and have lunch with them and play activities and sing with them while teaching them that we were all made special and are God’s family. We do this the third Sunday of each month. Each mentor interacts with their friends differently, but makes them feel special. I developed a special relationship with my friend Susan. She lives in a group home run by the state. She is 43 years old and such a wonderful person. We decided that since our birthdays...
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...things, to keep Macbeth on his side, as he would be a powerful enemy. Macbeth is a leader of the army and probably commands the loyalty of the army, which would be a powerful tool if he were ever disagreeing with the king. The king is trying to avoid a situation like that by hinting that he is going to do more things for him, so that Macbeth will wait and see what he does before taking matters into his own hands. Duncan also think that Macbeth loves him and would only do something like that as a last resort, showing his naivety again of Macbeth’s character, and specially him underestimation of lady Macbeth. In a soliloquy, Macbeth begins to think about the practicalities, showing his real intent to go through with it. “If it were done, when it’s done, then here well if it were done quickly.” Here Macbeth admits that he does want to kill Duncan, but also realises that he must take his chances while he can to avoid getting caught, or him missing his opportunity and never getting the chance to become king. He says this, so that the audience know what he is going to do it that night, so it builds the suspense. He still uses the word “if” indicating that Lady Macbeth has persuaded him to do it. Lady Macbeth was confident that she could persuade him earlier in scene 6, and now the audience would see that it has worked, and it would reinforce their view of how devious, and manipulative she is. Additionally, Curley’s wife is seen only as a possession of Curley, rather like a trophy wife...
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...begin developing their language skills and start symbolically representing objects using words and images. They are able to separate objects and group them by shape or color. Also in this stage of development children are known to have difficultly taking on the viewpoints of others, to them everyone thinks just like they do, this is called egocentric thinking. Another common attribute of the preoperational stage is that a child may show animistic thought and will give inanimate objects living attributes, for example if a teddy bear’s seam ripped the child might think it felt pain and cry or rush for you to make it better. Another important thought attribute children in this stage of development begin to display is the beginnings of logical thought and problem solving. Children can solve simple problems but not know how they did it and with some problems children may still intuitively answer. For example if you showed a child in this stage 2 yellow and 4 blue flowers, and asked if there were more blue or yellow flowers, they may respond by saying more blue. Yet if you asked them if there were more blue flowers than flowers they would respond by saying more blue again. The child would see the color blue but not count all of the flowers as a whole because they are different. If children in this age group played a board game like Candyland, they should be able to name the colors of their playing piece and recognize the shapes on the cards they draw. If they are in the early preoperational...
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...I told him I did not have any. It seemed to me that he did not believe me because he possibly heard the change in my pocket and how I sounded when I told him I did not have any. He looked at me with just a very scary look. I started walking home in the dark, seeing his ugly and scary face. I was scared again and I felt bad for not giving him any spare change. I would often hear the saying “If you give within the heart, You will receive good in your life”. Since I gave the homeless man nothing, I expected to receive something bad. I got a phone call from my mom, asking me where I was, I told her I will be home in 10...
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...Just like there is two sides to every story, there is two sides to every person. Sometimes those sides work in unison sometimes however they oppose each other. It sometimes is hard to be torn from what one is driven to do and what one wants to do. Are those wants truly what a person is or can they work in unison to make a person’s life better or more fulfilling? Dr. Paul Farmer in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder seemed to find his niche in life. Although others with his talent would have directed their focus on more prestigious assignments in the U.S., Farmer put his talents to others he could help. Following that need or yearning to change lives. There are times, I feel that the duality in me is constantly...
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... The poet explores the psychology of an anti-social character. He attempts to explain himself but reveals how far removed he is from the “normal” reader. We can sympathise with his viewpoint, but he remains an unpleasant character. The poem contrasts those who make things and those who only destroy them. The thief wants to do things to escape boredom but hasn’t the willpower and self-discipline to do them (like learning the guitar). Key images – the snowman – children built it, but the thief cannot make it look the same, so he destroys it; the bust of Shakespeare – contrast the creative and social with the destructive and anti-social. Ambiguity – last line of the poem Persona created and we hear the voice of a fictional character What sort of person is it? Does this poem read like a confessional? They are trying to explain their actions. What drives/motivates the speaker? What does the speaker think of himself/herself? What gender do you think the persona is? Explain your idea. “The slice of ice/within my own brain” suggests that the brain is cold. What other evidence is there in the poem which reveals how the speaker feels/thinks? He speaks of the snowman almost with affection, but he cares more for this than the children who have made it. The thief is morally confused – he sees “not taking what you want” as “giving in” as if you might as well be dead as accept conventional morality. He alienates us because he says that he enjoyed taking the snowman...
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