...Ms. Daisy Is A Good Driver Tony Calloway Saint Joseph College of Maine Ms. Daisy Is A Good Driver As the baby boomers head toward senescence, they will account for a growing percentage of the population, and thus an increasing proportion of people on the road (Katherine Mikel 2008). Driving helps older people stay independent and mobile. And family members of these elderly parents and relatives usually feel too pushy and domineering to insist that their loved one is no longer able to remain independent. However, some older drivers do recognize their personal and civic duty to be responsible and take precautions when getting behind the wheel, such as only driving during daylight hours, taking well-known roads, and traveling a safe distance behind other drivers. In 2012, there were almost 36 million licensed drivers ages 65 and older in the United States. Per mile traveled, fatal crash rates increase noticeably starting at age’s 70‒74 and are highest among drivers age 85 and older. These octogenarians have a higher collision rate per mile traveled of any age groups except for teens, and their rate of fatal collisions per mile traveled is the highest of all drivers. The risk of injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash increases with age. An average of 586 older adults is injured every day in crashes. In 2012, more than 5,560 older adults were killed, and more than 214,000 injured in motor vehicle crashes. That amounts to 15 older adults killed and 586...
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...The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In the novel the characters are quite careless, Tom and Daisy Buchanan in particular. One of the main characters, Nick, even says “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.” pg 191. These characters are a married couple but both cheat on each other. They emotionally and physically abuse people which eventually leads as far as murder. Tom Buchanan cheats on his wife, Daisy with a woman named Myrtle, who is also married. In addition to this, he doesn't really try and hide that fact. This is shown when Nick is having dinner with Miss Baker and the Buchanan's, and Tom leaves the table to answer a call. Miss Baker tells Nick, "Tom's...
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...indigohelp.com COM 360 Week 1 Individual Assignment Intercultural Competence Worksheet COM 360 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Formal Outline and References COM 360 Week 3 Cultural Differences Driving Miss Daisy COM 360 Week 4 Verbal and Nonverbal Coding Worksheet COM 360 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Communication Training Guide Paper COM 360 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Communication Training Guide and Presentation ………………………………………………… COM 360 Week 1 Individual Assignment Intercultural Competence Worksheet For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 1. What does “intercultural” communication mean to you? 2. Define “intracultural” communication. How is this definition both similar and different to “intercultural” communication? 1. Briefly describe the person and the place. 2. How were you changed by the encounter? 3. What do you wish you had known to deal better with this intercultural encounter? ………………………………………………… COM 360 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Formal Outline and References For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com COM 360 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Formal Outline and References ………………………………………………… COM 360 Week 3 Cultural Differences Driving Miss Daisy For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Driving Miss Daisy Write a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper about the cultural differences portrayed in the film. Provide specific examples of how both Hall’s perspective of culture as a screen and Hofstede’s five dimensions...
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...COM 360 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Formal Outline and References COM 360 Week 3 Cultural Differences Driving Miss Daisy COM 360 Week 4 Verbal and Nonverbal Coding Worksheet COM 360 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Communication Training Guide Paper COM 360 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Communication Training Guide and Presentation ---------------------------------------------------------------- COM 360 Week 1 Individual Assignment Intercultural Competence Worksheet (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 1. What does “intercultural” communication mean to you? 2. Define “intracultural” communication. How is this definition both similar and different to “intercultural” communication? 1. Briefly describe the person and the place. 2. How were you changed by the encounter? 3. What do you wish you had known to deal better with this intercultural encounter? ---------------------------------------------------------------- COM 360 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Formal Outline and References (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com COM 360 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Formal Outline and References ---------------------------------------------------------------- COM 360 Week 3 Cultural Differences Driving Miss Daisy (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Driving Miss Daisy Write a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper about the cultural differences portrayed in the film. Provide specific...
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...Title The characters in the Great Gatsby are blind from the realities of the world by their wealth and this causes them to act in such a careless manner. Carelessness would best be described in novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. Main characters such as Jay Gatz, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway and Myrtle Wilson all represent a key role of carelessness in The Great Gatsby. Soon this will lead to adultery, lies, betrayal and death. First, the theme carelessness applies to Tom Buchanan unfaithful marriage with Daisy Buchanan. Tom is introduced as a yale football star and a filthy rich ,“old money”. Tom and Daisy are not your typically star cross lovers.Mainly because he is thoughtless and insensitive. Tom has affairs...
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...Gatsby, the author uses symbolism to show how gold is symbolic of richness and wealth, and in turn, corruption and death, with clothing/setting choice, Myrtle’s house, and Mr. Gatsby’s car. According to John Green, when Gatsby talks about his first meeting with Daisy, it is apparent that Gatsby is more in love with her mansion than Daisy herself. Green also points out the not-so-obvious fact that when Daisy and Gatsby finally meet again, everything is yellow. Gatsby’s suit, Daisy’s buttons, Gatsby’s Windows, and even the flowers outside Gatsby’s mansion. In this situation, the color gold is shown with a positive connotation. Gatsby is happy to have Daisy again, and he finally has plenty of money. However, there are negative connotations involved with this color as well. At the beginning of the novel, the readers are quickly informed that Tom Buchannon is having an affair. And who would want to cheat on Daisy, the “Golden Girl?” (Fitzgerald 120). Later on in the novel we meet Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s mistress. This woman is an obvious sign of corruption. We learn that she and Tom have an apartment together in New York, and that they have been seeing each other for a long time. Fitzgerald reveals a simple and easy-to-miss fact, that the Wilson home was a “small block of yellow brick” (Fitzgerald 28). This associates the color with Myrtle herself, which is not a good thing. Myrtle is a changing character. She adapts to her surroundings. Not only is she cheating with Tom, but she openly...
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...When going to a department store to pick out a perfume fragrance I go back in forth between Miss Dior and Daisy by Marc Jacobs. Sometimes I end up purchasing both because I can’t make up my mind but why do these two type of fragrances stick out to me? Why not Axe or Polo by Ralph Lauren? As a female I’m naturally drawn to Miss Dior and Daisy due to the scent, the appearance, and also the advertisement that goes into these products over the more masculine scents. When it comes to advertising fragrances there are very different approaches when trying to reach out to either the male or female population. Male fragrance commercials usually involve females swooning over a man, or driving a race car or motorcycle with a woman riding shot gun or on the back of a bike. These scenarios make the men in these commercials seem desirable to women and masculine which is appealing to the crowd it is marketing to. When marketing to the female population, commercials are often softer and daintier or they show women empowerment. Some fragrance commercials involve meadows and flowers with light pastel colors while other involve a strong, beautiful woman strutting into a room with all eyes landing on her. This is appealing to females because these advertisements reach out to both the more reserved and dainty woman, and also the strong, powerful woman as well. The appearance of fragrance bottles also has an effect on what scent we choose as well. The shape, color, and print design of the bottle...
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...led it major wins and major lossses. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a tragic tale full of obsessions, longing for social mobility, and the American Dream. Jay Gatsby has many unhealthy obsessions throughout the novel. But the most infamous obsession is his love for Daisy. Gatsby believes in a sick way that he is hers and she is his. It was love at first sight for him. Gatsby believes that they are practically married. In The Great...
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...The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter. Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’ —THOMAS PARKE D’INVILLIERS The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 I n my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’ He didn’t say any more but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon—for the intimate...
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...The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter. Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’ —THOMAS PARKE D’INVILLIERS The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 I n my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’ He didn’t say any more but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least...
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...(drama: about deaf culture and American Sign Language—typology/sociolinguistics) • Rango (comedy: about creating identity through speech patterns—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis/phonetics) • Snowcake (comedy/drama: about what can go hilariously/profoundly wrong when pragmatic implicatures are not used/understood—pragmatics/morphology) • Kenneth Branaugh’s Much Ado About Nothing (comedy: a sample of Shakespearean English—pay attention to the ways in which language has changed in the past 400 years—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics /phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics) • Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet (tragedy: as above—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics/phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics) • Driving Miss Daisy (comedy/drama: class differences in language use and pragmatic implicature—sociolinguistics/pragmatics) • Bridge on the River Kwai (drama: learning to communicate across a language/culture/power barrier—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis) • The Great Debaters (drama: using language to inform/persuade/manipulate—semantics/pragmatics/discourse analysis/rhetoric) • My Fair Lady (musical: about standard accents and class structure—sociolinguistics/phonetics) 2. Attend class the day the TA is teaching (TA—take attendance!). 3. Working in your small groups (we’ll figure out groups in...
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...I wonder what the big deal is when it comes to stereotypes. So, what is a stereotype? It is simply a general statement about a particular people. We have black stereotypes, white stereotypes, Asian, Mexican, Christian, Muslim, and so on. Now, of course a stereotype does not pertain to all of that group. For example, all Muslims are not terrorists, but in a general sense, we in America relate Muslims with terrorism because most of what we see them and hear of them doing is related to terrorism. This is, of course, a dangerous stereotype because it could cause some to want to do harm to innocent Muslims. I don’t understand why people are so uptight about most stereotypes, though. Most stereotypes are funny, and true. I mean, so what if Asians can’t drive. It’s not their fault. Perhaps it’s a genetic trait engrained into their DNA that disables their hand eye cordination. If that’s the case, I don’t know how they could be so good at kung fu. I guess it’s just one of those questions that may never be answered, but it’s Ok. Why get mad because others can do things that you can’t? Men can’t have babies, but you don’t see me getting all upset when someone brings that to my attention. And so what if white people can’t dance. I don’t see us getting together and starting another civil rights movement if the local news channel does a story on the statistics of the lack of rhythm among the white community. Some stereotypes actually transcend the racial bouderies. Some still take them...
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...The King's Speech Firth is royalty, even if ‘King’s Speech’ is a little stiff Is civility enough to sustain a film? The audiences who will embrace “The King’s Speech’’ — and they are many and literate — will point to it as an example of the kind of movie that should be made more often. By February they may well have the Academy Awards to prove their point. It’s probably useless to argue in the face of such unerring good taste. Yet for some of us, Tom Hooper’s period drama about the stammer of King George VI is exactly the kind of movie we’ve had enough of — complacent middlebrow tosh engineered for maximum awards bling and catering to a nostalgia for the royalty we’ve never actually had to live with. The movie isn’t badly done, just overdone — a cozy art-house crowd-pleaser coasting on the expectations of its genre. At its heart is another very, very good performance by Colin Firth, one that may win him the Oscar he should have been awarded for last year’s “A Single Man.’’ As Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor — Bertie to his family, the Duke of York and eventually George VI to his subjects — Firth is a tormented paradox, a man born to public life who can barely speak in public without strangling on his own words. “The King’s Speech’’ opens with the Duke’s 1925 address at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium, a radio talk that proved agonizing for everyone involved. By the time his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) brings him to the tatty London offices of speech therapist...
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...could not compete and store owners were forced to close up shop for good. But there still record stores out there and when you find one it is like a diamond in the coal. I arrived \ on a less then pleasant day the weather was cold and rainy so before I left the safety of my car I turned my collar up to face the cold and made a bee line to the store so fast it would but Usain Bolt to shame. When I walked in the store I was greeted by the smell of coffee and sound of The Rolling Stones song Monkey Man playing over the store speakers with the owner of the store john singing along to the song and throwing his arms up like a monkey. As soon as you walk into the store your face to face with a giant rack of used DVDs ranging from Driving Miss Daisy to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre I was immediately welcomed by john who sitting down in front of this cash register with a sign on it that read “No Personal Check$” behind him was a giant poster of Frank Zappa which seemed like one of his most prized positions john had on a tie dyed rolling stones shirt john had looked tried and he seemed to be discomfort later I found out he looked that way due to having MS. Before john and I stared talking I asked if we could take a walk around the store john told me that he is not able to “move very well...
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...|The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald |ФРЭНСИС СКОТТ ФИЦЖЕРАЛЬД | | | | | |ВЕЛИКИЙ ГЭТСБИ | |Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high,| | |bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing | | |lover, I must have you!" | | |THOMAS PARKE D'INVILLIERS. | | |Chapter 1 | ГЛАВА I | | In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice| | |that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. |В юношеские годы, когда человек особенно восприимчив, я как-то получил| |"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told...
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