...natural disasters, and many other hardships. In the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, ten year old Ha has endured things no child should ever have to deal with. Ha’s experiences are similar to some other refugees’ experiences while fleeing their homes. In the article, ¨Refugee Children in Canada” by Ana Fantino and Alice Colak, they describe some of the things children from Canada have gone through. Even though Ha and her family are refugees from Saigon, Vietnam, the refugee children from Canada also experienced most of the things that Ha went through. In addition, refugees have many struggles and hardships in their transition to a different country, but...
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...around the world, refugees’ lives have been crushed and heartbroken due to many catastrophic, events. These people when they flee leave behind almost all their possessions in search of a new,fresh life in another country. These asylum seekers flee due to war, persecution, and natural disasters. Abandoning their items and loved ones can be heartbreaking and can turn refugees’ lives “inside out”. Fourchantly, they can turn “back again” by resettling adequately with the support from the people around them; which is the same situation for Hà in Inside Out & Back Again. Back in Hà’s home country of South Vietnam, she used to be the normal, cheerful girl growing up in a time of war. She used to often delicious foods either through special occasions or by her being very cunning and selfish; also, everyday Hà observed her beloved papaya tree that she did not even intend to plant. However, with her mother making the bold, life...
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...day, Bruno peeked through his new bedroom’s window and saw what he think was a farm. He then asked his mother if he could play with the children at the farm. At first, his mother agreed to it but when he mentioned that something was strange about the people in the farm, his mother asked him what was it. Bruno answered that the people in the farm are all wearing pajamas. He also mentioned that their servant, named Pavel, is also wearing the odd clothing. That’s when it hit Bruno’s mother about what her son has seen which he shouldn’t have. It was not a farm. It was a Jewish concentration camp. After learning about it, Bruno’s mother decided to close his window and restrict him from going to the back garden. Bruno, being a boy with a wandering and curious mind, decided to sneak out to the back garden. Finally,...
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...Yosselin Gonzalez Professor Gautam 25 April 2016 Unfair Punishments In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson speaks about a game that is played every year that ends in death. Over the years this small town got accustomed to playing the lottery. It is a game of fun to the women, the men, and the children even if it ends in death. “The Lottery takes the classic theme of man’s inhumanity to man and gives it an additional twist: the randomness inherent in brutality. It anticipates the way we would come to understand the twentieth century’s unique lessons about the capacity of ordinary citizens to do evil” (Franklin). “The Lottery is definitely compared to the twentieth century due to the fact that they have a tradition to play a tragic game every year. Also their is no upper hand to stop this game everyone plays it and feels no remorse. “Trifles” is a play about a woman who gets accused of murdering her husband. “Though the play is celebrated as an early feminist drama, it stands on its own as an engrossing story. In the tale, two women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, gradually uncover the motive for a murder, while their male counterparts are blinded by ignorance and insensitivity” (Jaworowski). The Attorney, Sheriff, a neighbor, and two of the men’s wives accompanied them to searched Mrs. Wrights house to see if they can find clues on why she would have murdered John Wright. The men enter the house with eyes of legal investigators while the two women enter the house with trying to understand...
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...I sighed when I first saw the Samsung Galaxy S7 – it looks just like its predecessor, and yet again I was going to have to dig deep inside to find out whether the new features mean the new phone is worth the extra money it will cost if you choose it over 2015's Galaxy S6. I don't know why phone manufacturers back themselves into a corner like this – giving the public a reason to criticise their new device when it actually does pack some decent upgrades. If you look beyond the design similarities, Samsung has fixed nearly everything that was disappointing about the S6. The dropped waterproofing is back once again, with an IP68 rating. The battery has been boosted from 2550mAh to 3000mAh with little change in the dimensions. The microSD expandable memory is back. And you know what? The Galaxy S7 feels like a completely different phone in the hand thanks to the subtle curve on the back, taken from the Note 5. Imagine the sides from the S6 Edge's screen used on the rear, and you'll have an idea of what I mean. However, there's nothing that will stop people seeing the Galaxy S7 as a phone that's nothing more than the Galaxy S6S, a handset with the same feature set that comes with a microSD slot – and to a degree, they'd be right. It's now waterproof – well, I say now, but in reality this was already added into the Galaxy S5 before being stripped off to allow for the redesigned Galaxy S6. It's impressive to see a phone that's this well-crafted being able to be dunked...
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...Real-Time Hand Tracking for HumanComputer Interaction Ayush Tripathi, Kanishk Puri, Nilesh Srivastava, Prateek Dham (Students) Mrs S.S Dhotre(Professor) Computer Science Department Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra(India) Abstract- The proposed work is part of a project that aims for the control of a mouse based on hand gesture recognition. This goal implies the restriction of real-time response and unconstrained environments. This is basically a vision based skincolour segmentation method for moving hand in real time application [3]. This algorithm is based on three main steps: hand segmentation, hand tracking and gesture recognition from hand features. For the hand segmentation step we use the colour cue due to the characteristic colour values of human [1]. The hands are recognized by the computer using the skin colour as one of the basic features for the hand recognition. The important feature is the accurate segmentation of hands [3]. I. Introduction Nowadays, the majority of the human-computer interaction (HCI) is based on mechanical devices such as keyboards, mouse, joysticks or gamepads. In recent years there has been a growing interest in a class of methods based on computational vision due to its ability to recognise human gestures in a natural way .These methods use as input the images acquired from a camera or from a stereo pair of cameras. The main goal of these algorithms is to measure the hand configuration...
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...Corporate Strategy Analysis Discussion Shelby Little MGT/230 May 4, 2015 Ronald Sprague Corporate Strategy Analysis Discussion This week the team discussed corporate strategies for the four corporations. We learned what makes these CEO’s the miracle workers they are. I have listed some of the things we discussed and some we did not. Coca Cola This week we discussed how Coca Cola’s CEO was very smart to keep the company a beverage only company. Unlike Pepsico, who has branched out into snacks and fast food, Coca Cola has chosen to merge with other beverage companies. Mr. Isdell chose to find a core group of individuals who wanted to be part of the rebranding of Coca Cola. He made these leaders owners in the corporation. He chose to develop coalitions from the inside out and follow through with them. His stance on productivity was very straightforward and he stood by it. He had an executive talent pool and used these persons as models for the future leaders in the corporation. All of these ideas moved Coca Cola in the forward direction again and has helped make it the company it is today. Xerox Anne Mulcahy became CEO as a suggestion by a former CEO. She had been with the company for many years and held several positions. She made several changes and made cuts without ever affecting the research and development department. Xerox was on the brink of disaster when Anne took over as CEO and she managed to pull them back from the brink and turn a profit. She came...
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...Theme Analysis Prompt Are you pleased or satisfied of where you are from? Or would you change it? In the story, “Dark They Were and Golden Eyed” by Ray Bradbury, a character named Harry Bittering adapted to the lifestyle of becoming a Martian, or in other words, he changed his culture. In the article, ‘I Am From” by Alicia Bareno, Alicia is possibly an immigrant who refuses to forget her culture. In each of these texts, the characters or authors themself either lose a culture or holds onto one. Changing or keeping a culture changes who you are, inside and out. Changing a culture affects you because it determines what you look like and what you act like. ”Mr. Bittering gazed at the Earth settlement far way in the low valley. ‘Such odd, such ridiculous houses the Earth people built.” This quote from the text indicates that Mr. Bittering (and his family) are no longer accepting their culture they had when they were on Earth, that he is not even referring to himself. Because Mr. Bittering and his family drew away from their original culture, it has changed what they act and look like. “The town’s empty, but we found native life in the hills, sir. Dark people. Yellow eyes. Very friendly. We talked a bit, not much. They learn English fast. I’m sure our relations will be most friendly with them, sir.” Because the Bittering family was willing to lose their culture they became Martians. The story acts as a metaphor, because people are willing to give up a culture, they will become...
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...EPISODE 1: (Chapters 1-6) – “Snapped: Life Changes in a Blink of an Eye” REPRESENTATIVE QUOTE: “Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around.” (Chapter 3 – Pg. 14) CHARACTERS: • Huckleberry (Huck) Finn – protagonist, narrator, all around main character. • The Widow Douglas – takes (Huck) under her wing in hopes to better him. • Miss Watson – The Widow Douglas’ sister • Tom Sawyer – Huck’s fellow companion, first introduced in Mark Twain’s previous novel. • Jim – Miss Watson’s slave. • Pap – Huck’s alcoholic, racist, father. • Judge Thatcher – Works along side The Widow Douglas to protect Huck’s well – being. SETTING: The series of events in this episode unfold in the imaginary Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. The scenes unravel in the town where Huck resides with the Widow Douglas and the other housemates, and in the surrounding areas. PLOT OVERVIEW: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a follow-up to the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry (Huck) Finn is a thirteen-year-old adolescent living a life of not knowing what is next. Huck was “adopted” by The Widow Douglas. The Widow Douglas strives to impart manners on Huck and to better him as a young boy. However, Huck was raised in a matter that completely contradicts his new procedures...
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...personalities: one is passive and one is very nervous, and sometimes has a problem with uncontrollable urination when very excited. On one occasion when I was at my boyfriend’s house, I was sitting with the passive dog in my lap, watching television when I saw the other dog approaching. Thinking nothing of it, I remained seated, stroking the fur of the dog on my lap. The other dog, watching this, suddenly ran towards me and jumped in my lap. Immediately after this I felt a warm sensation spreading on my lap and realized the dog had urinated on me. The feeling of discomfort immediately took hold and I jumped up, desperately wanting to shed the clothes I was in and take a bath. The dog ran around me in circles and I was scared it would urinate again on my feet so I ran from her as fast as I could into...
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...find him strange, and one of them decides to talk to him to investigate deeper. They find out that he has been in prison for four years, and is now heading back home to see if his wife has found someone else, or want him back. While in prison, the elder man had written to her, telling her that he was going to stay for a long time, and if she couldn’t stand that, she was free to forget him and find someone else. As he found out that he was going to be released, he wrote to her again, telling her that if she had found someone else, that was fine, but if she wanted him back, she could hang a handkerchief on a tree in the city entrance. As they approach the city, they see that there is hanging many handkerchiefs on the tree, and the young people start cheering loudly. * Try not to use too many details from the text – keep it simple. * Complete the story * Remember the most important part of the story – the punch-line * “It results in…” * “It all ends in…” * “All in all it ends with…” Character descriptions: Vingo is described as a worn out person, with threadbare clothes. It is told that he is an ex-marine, who has spent the past four years in jail. He is described as a shy person, with dust in his face, which makes him look older than he probably is. This makes the girls wonder who he might be, as well as his story. The girl, who sits down besides Vingo to find out more about him, seems like a quite curious person. She is extroverted, and sits down for...
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...Introduction: Back ground of cross cultural management: To understand what cross-cultural management is, it's good to examine the terms separately: cross-culture and management. Cross-culture might simply be understood literally, from one culture to another. Cross-culture could be a development born by market globalization; company goes out of their country to another to try and do business, brings their culture with the businesses to another culture, which means cross-culture. Every country has its own culture, it's perhaps almost like another one, and however they are not a similar. Culture is totally different by its contents and forms, 100 percent of which is what you'll be able to see, like language, behavior, and food and dressing, 90% make the most that is what you cannot see, like beliefs, values, and ways of thinking [Pu jing (2010)]. Cross-culture shows within the variations of the 10 visible and 90%invisible culture content. International organizations are a decent example of cross-culture; they are doing business internationally, anytime they enter into a new country, cross-culture happens with it. The first to introduce the term “intercultural communication” was Edward T. Hall who characterized it as "correspondence between two people of distinctive societies". The expression "Intercultural business correspondence" in the of world business is another presented term which may be characterized as the correspondence that happens inside of associations whereby there...
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...An Analysis of the Sections in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” English Composition 1102 Thursday Night An Analysis of the Sections in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” Outline I. Outline II. Introduction A. Opening Statement B. Author Information III. Body A. Section One B. Section Two C. Section Three D. Section Four E. Section Five IV. Conclusion V. Works Cited OPENING STATEMENT William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is the story of an eccentric spinster, Emily Grierson. Emily lived a luxurious life in a poor southern state, obeying her overbearing father until her ultimate death. “A Rose for Emily” begins with the death of Miss Emily Grierson and proceeds to tell the story of her life in the years leading up to her death and the horrible secret she has kept hidden. The story is told from the point of view of a nameless narrator and a longtime citizen of Jefferson, Mississippi. He notes that while the men attend the funeral out of obligation, the women go primarily because no one has been in, nor seen the inside of Emily’s house for years. It should also be noted that Jefferson is a critical setting in much of Faulkner’s fiction. The story is told in five sections, and opens in section one with an unnamed narrator describing the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson. The narrator not only speaks for himself but also represents the community at large. The story continues on through section five where the narrator describes what...
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...A Labovian Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s The Faithful Bull Ernest Hemingway and his love of bullfighting require no formal introduction, however his short story, The Faithful Bull, is less well known. It is essentially a fable having been written for the child of a friend and published in 1951. Twenty-one years later, the famous linguist, William Labov laid out a framework outlining the progression of oral narratives in a six-part structure. The advantage of this Labovian method of analysis is that it can also be applied to literary narratives in general, not just to oral versions of personal experience. Using Hemingway’s 700-word fable, written in his inexorable, economic style and applying Labov’s six-part model (abstract, orientation, complicating action, evaluation, result, coda), I intend to confirm the suitability of this form of analysis for the short story. The abstract of the narrative announces the initiation of a narrative and can, in effect, report the entire sequence of events, outlining the story. An abstract is not however an essential part of a narrative and can be omitted. A true explanatory abstract has no place in The Faithful Bull, it being a short story, but it does have a title. This three-word title does actually tell us very briefly what the story is about; a specific bull who is faithful and in this way, the title fulfils the norms of an abstract, albeit in a very transient way. It stimulates the addressees’ curiosity and focuses their...
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...“The Broken Heart” Analysis In John Donne’s poem, “The Broken Heart”, Donne shows the predacious nature of love and the true faintness of the heart through the use of metaphors. This poem sets a mood of despair and sorrow; moods that reveal the regret of love. It opens the reader’s eyes to realize just how vulnerable the heart can be when dealing with love. Donne associates love with the negative; he portrays it as some evil entity that overtakes people without warning and, if not careful, destroys them from the inside, out. In the first stanza of Donne’s poem, he describes how long the oh-so-terrible phenomenon of love lasts. He compares it to the plague and claims it has stuck with him for an entire year. He states that anyone who claims to have only been in love an hour, or a short duration at all, “is stark mad.” Donne makes a clear point that love simply cannot decay so soon. He compares the duration of love to a flask of powder burning in one day. I assume that it would take quite some time to use an entire flask of powder given the context of the text [small amounts of gun powder was used in the 1700’s and 1800’s for guns each time they were to be fired, and unless one of the soldiers chambered every round as fast as a sub-machine gun, it is very unlikely that they would have gone through an entire flask in one day]. Stanza two reveals Donne’s ideas about the characteristics of love and the heart. He says that once the heart has fallen into the hands of love, it...
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