...Essay One (Fiction) “Boys” by Rick Moody, “Girl” by Jamaica Kinkaid, “Lust” by Susan Minot Even though these stories are different, they are all extremely relatable. They all resonated with me in that each one had different excerpts that I could see myself in. In Ricky Moody’s “Boys” I could see myself in them as they grew up and experienced different circumstances in their lives. I could hear my mother giving me advice while reading Jamaica Kinkaid’s “Girl”. While I have not experienced a lot of what is described in Susan Minot’s “Lust,” I related to trying to figure out what love is. All of these stories have formal aspects in common when it comes to style: repetition. They all contain the use of anaphoras (repeating the same thing at the beginning of each sentence). They all also follow a certain pattern throughout the story. An example of this is how Rick Moody, in “Boys” repeated the word ‘boys’ in order to emphasize the central idea and meaning of the story. Like Moody stated in an interview with Electric Lit, “the goal in “Boys” is to tell the story of the boys, not just to compile variations on the sentence ‘Boys enter the house.’ That assignment would be too easy” (Grief). All three stories use of run-on sentences to create a specific and distinct tone to the story. In “Boys”, Moody wrote as if he was writing everything that came to mind, like he was just writing his thoughts. The style of this story is very descriptive and does not leave many...
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...Biography of Anne Moody Anne Moody was born in Mississippi on September 15, 1940, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. She was the oldest of nine children born to Fred and Elnire Moody. She attended Natchez Junior College and completed her education at Tougaloo College. Moody married Austin Stratus and had one child named Sascha. In 1969, Anne’s marriage ended in divorce. Moody died on February 5, 2015 at the age of 74. Anne Moody was an African-American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi. As a child she faces many problems, join the Civil Rights Movement, and fight racism against blacks. Anne's popular autobiography book called “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” tells the story of her struggles and triumphs in this rural Mississippi town. When growing up Anne encountered many problems. Her uncle George Lee used to beat her when he would babysit her and her little sister Adline. Their house caught on fire once because her uncle was trying to burn her. In addition, Anne's father leaves his family and his responsibilities for a life of uncontrolled sex, gambling, and alcohol. At a young age she began working for white families in the area, cleaning their houses and helping their children with homework for only a few dollars a week. Her mother boyfriend Raymond and Anne never got along and they encountered major problems. Anne child hood was extremely difficult, but through all those conflict she was still successful in life...
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...1. Complex question but simple understanding. My daughter has a way of coming up with awkward question and at times you are baffled with their unexpected questions. One such thing happens to me sometimes back. The T.V was on but I wasn’t really watching, my mind was plastered on the meeting that I was going to be held tomorrow, but my daughter’s curiosity had the better of me. It was 19:30 and during the news report it was inevitable that the PM had to be mentioned. My daughter precipitously looked at me with a puzzle face and asked “Dad, what is a Prime Minister.” It took me sometimes before I could response; my daughter was only nine years old. I tried to explain that a Prime Minister is a leader of a group of individuals who takes decision for all people in a country and ensure people live in peace, harmony and gets all the need we require. My daughter looked at me and said “So you are the Prime Minister” Great thinking. Yes as a matter of fact I am the Prime Minister of my house; I ensure peace, harmony and get all the needs for my family. From there on it was much easier to carry on the explanation. I am the Prime Minster of my house and there is another Prime Minster of the country in which there are many, many houses. Simple understanding for a complex question. Progressively when we grow up we are surrounded with sophisticated and contemporary thinking. With the passage of time unknowingly we lose our creativity and simplicity. In our complicated...
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...UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COURSE: WATER RESOURCES SIMULATION (ECI 146) CRN 29727; 4 units INSTRUCTOR: Fabián A. Bombardelli (fabombardelli@ucdavis.edu, fabianbombardelli2@gmail.com, bmbrdll@yahoo.com) OFFICE: 3105, Ghausi Hall Class: Tuesdays and Thursdays-12:10 PM to 1:30 PM (Olson 118) Computer lab: Fridays-1:10 PM to 2:00 PM (Academic Surge 1044) READER: Mr. Kaveh Zamani (kzamani@ucdavis.edu) TEACHING ASSISTANT: Ms. Kate Hewett (kmhewett@ucdavis.edu) COMPUTER PROBLEM 1: Solution of the Colebrook-White equation via three different methods. Assigned on: Friday, January 13, 2012 Due on: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Introduction The Moody diagram is the most reliable source of information for computation of flow resistance in pipes and, to some extent, in open channels. Based on extensive sets of measurements and regressions, it gives the Darcy-Weisbach resistance coefficient, f , as a function of the Reynolds number, and the ratio between the equivalent roughness and the pipe diameter. The diagram presents several regions for turbulent flow, as follows: a) a zone of “fully-rough” flow towards the right side of the diagram, where the relative roughness determines the characteristics of the flow and in which the Reynolds number does not play any role in determining the flow behavior; b) a zone of smooth behavior, in which the roughness value is immaterial in defining the flow characteristics, and c) an intermediate zone...
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...Why Originally by Avril Lavigne Why Originally by Avril Lavigne Why, Do you have to do this to me? Why, couldn’t you just stay with me? How come, you have to leave Like you just don’t care at all Do you expect that I’d leave Like I just don’t care at all? I can feel, I can feel you near me Even when you’re far away I can feel I can feel you baby, why CHORUS You’re not supposed to go away I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you More and more each day It’s not supposed to be this way I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you Tell me, would we still see each other? Tell me, will you remember me forever? Tell me, bye Hey, listen to why I’m leaving Jona Sanchez, Cheska Cadacio, Erika Gallardo, Danielle Castillo, Allyza Acuna, Lawrence Dela Cruz, John Medina Jona Sanchez, Cheska Cadacio, Erika Gallardo, Danielle Castillo, Allyza Acuna, Lawrence Dela Cruz, John Medina I want to live a newer life than I’ve been living Try, to understand why I needed to go Do you expect me to believe I can feel, I can feel you near me Even when you’re far away I can feel I can feel you baby, why REPEAT CHORUS So go and leave us whenever you need to leave us Go on and sing about whatever you need to sing about And come back to us when you know just how you feel, you feel I can feel, I can feel you near me Even when you’re far away I can feel I can feel you baby, why You’re not supposed to go away I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you More and more each...
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...Biography of Anne Moody Anne Moody was born in Mississippi on September 15, 1940, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. She was the oldest of nine children born to Fred and Elnire Moody. She attended Natchez Junior College and completed her education at Tougaloo College. Moody married Austin Stratus and had one child named Sascha. In 1969, Anne’s marriage ended in divorce. Moody died on February 5, 2015 at the age of 74. Anne Moody was an African-American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi. As a child she faces many problems, join the Civil Rights Movement, and fight racism against blacks. Anne's popular autobiography book called “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” tells the story of her struggles and triumphs in this rural Mississippi town. When growing up Anne encountered many problems. Her uncle George Lee used to beat her when he would babysit her and her little sister Adline. Their house caught on fire once because her uncle was trying to burn her. In addition, Anne's father leaves his family and his responsibilities for a life of uncontrolled sex, gambling, and alcohol. At a young age she began working for white families in the area, cleaning their houses and helping their children with homework for only a few dollars a week. Her mother boyfriend Raymond and Anne never got along and they encountered major problems. Anne child hood was extremely difficult, but through all those conflict she was still successful in life (Coming...
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...I am reluctant to write about you raping me. It is the type of thing that puts people so very on edge, edge of their seats, clinging to the edge, need a drink to take the edge off kind of edge. Before you raped me, I was vibrant in the worst kind of way. I moved like I was a dancer and danced like I was terrible in bed. But I was not a walking contradiction because to say that would be cliche and I was no cliche. It's true that most of the time I was being watched, like I was this little vibrant spec in the middle of a sea of black umbrellas and suits. A vibrant spec that was undeniably watched. If you were watching something special, something that rose to the top in a bubble, then you might have been watching me. I wonder now if you chose me for this reason. Those days, I had a smell so very few ever forgot although they never even really knew it. I would try and leave my scent wherever I went, my bakery-sweet sweat to linger in white cotton curtains that blew in gusts, or silk tablecloths spoiled with red wine, or sheets - dirty with sex juice. It was a scent that reminded people of the worst kind of girl, one who lies and cheats and has found the perfect rhythm and swing of her gait because she's figured out the power of her own hips. My scent would collect people like a flies to sticky paper. I would leave them in my wake. That is how it was with me, then. In time they would all get over it, like a death or a birth or all those things that happen in between...
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...The book Coming Of Age In Mississippi is a realistic first hand insight to what it was like to be a young black girl, who was entering womanhood in southern Mississippi during segregation. This genre of book is Sociology, Biography, and Children's Literature. It tells the tail of a smart,confused, and strong willed girl becoming a brave, hardworking, and courageous woman who fights for what she believes in. She must go thru poverty,loss, fear, anger, love and the worse thing of all betrayal. And the name of the girl and woman that went thru all this and came out strong in Anne Moody. Anne fights for what she believes in and what she thinks is right. Here is a summary of what happened . Anne Moody's parents are plantation workers. They all live in a small shack on the plantation with Adline Anne's little sister. Her mother has a son and names him after Diddly, Anne’s father in hope to keep him from leaving them. Shortly their after Anne’s father leaves her mother for a young lighter skinned black woman. They leave the plantation to live with Toosweets sister for a little while. They move into a small house. Soon it is realized...
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...Lauri Peltonen Student number: 2190329 Goldman Sachs as creepy as we think? This report is concerning talk show, which I watched on CNN. There were four people talking about Goldman Sachs, which is one of the most powerful investment banks in the world. The whole discussion was based on one of former employees’ letter of resignation. Last week Greg Smith, former executive director and head of the firm’s US equity derivatives business, left after almost 12 years at the firm and he wrote an explosive letter where he explained his decision. The letter has ever since been on headlines and now the panelists of the show talked is Goldman Sachs really as toxic as Smith told. The discussion was led by the host and the other participants talked when there was their turn. As one might guess, considering the topic the atmosphere was quite negative. For example one of the panelists, Rolling Stones magazine’s journalist, who some years ago wrote an article concerning the way of act’s in Goldman Sachs, was quite sure that there occur a lot of problems in Goldman at the moment. Smith told in his letter that in Goldman Sachs nothing else matters than money. According to Smith’s letter Goldman’s treasurers are cheating and betraying their clients daily. It is awful to think that some individual company can control world this much. The company owns derivatives as much as the amount of whole worlds GDP is; I think that it is an incomprehensible amount of money. For example meanwhile other...
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...1/22 Film Reviews In today’s class we watched two silent films; Safety Last and Modern Times. At first I was skeptical about watching two silent films and being engaged the entire time. However, both films kept my attention and were highly entertaining. Safety Last was directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor. Hal Roach was its’ producer. The immediate cast consisted of a few performers; Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, and Westcott Clarke. Throughout this film I maintained both a sense of anxiety as well as humor. There were many parts that I couldn’t help laughing at (when he was attacked by birds and when he was trying to come in late to work). However, there were also many parts that caused me to feel anxious and left my palms sweaty. Throughout the entire film I was anxious about the main character lying about his job to his fiancée and I was also very nervous when he climbed the building and kept getting faced with obstacles along the way. The film left me with a feeling of relief that he had successfully climbed to the top of the building. However, I was also left a little frustrated that his fiancée was still clueless about his job position and money situation. The city had a definite impact on the style of this film. To me, the style seemed to be the style in the city. There was hustle and bustle, people were dressed very well, and the emphasis on ambition all reflects the style of a city. The style was consistent throughout the film. The theme...
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...From the e-Activity, examine ethical behavior within firms in relation to financial management. Provide two (2) examples of companies that have been guilty of ethics-based malfeasance related to financial management and determine why their comeuppance was deserved. The two companies that I focus on in this section are Goldman Sachs company and WorldCom in the telecom world. Goldman Sachs was charged by the securities exchange commission, with fraud because the company developed and marketed an artificial collateralized debt system. Paulson & Co had the same invested and at stake with in the equity of ABACUS as believed by ACA. In circumstance, they did not have a concern in the success. By October. 24, 2007, the investors were defrauded by omitted facts or misstatements which led to downgrading of 83% of the RMBS in the ABACUS portfolio and 17 percent were on negative watch. (SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud concerning structuring and marketing of CDO Tied to Subprime Mortgages in 2010. Goldman established to pay $550 million in a settlement (Duggan, T. 2013). The vice president of Goldman was found liable for fraud too. The WorldCom scandal is another well-known unethical scandal. WorldCom submitted the largest bankruptcy filing in United States’ history after admitting improperly accounting for more than $3.8 billion dollars in expenses. The company used acquisitions to spurt large growth. Two of WorldCom’s acquisitions included MCI Communications and MFS Communications...
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...Bloomberg News Coca-Cola Is Said to Weigh Investment in Spotify Service By Andy Fixmer and Duane D. Stanford on October 11, 2012 * Tweet * Facebook * LinkedIn * Google Plus * 0 Comments * Email * Print More from Businessweek * * Odd Jobs: The Picasso of Parking Lots * * Post-Debt Crisis, No Consequences * * The Other Affirmative Action Battle: Thomas v. Wells * * The World's First 3D-Printed Guitar * * Algae Are a Growing Part of San Diego's Appeal Companies Mentioned * KO Coca-Cola Co/The * $38.23 USD * 0.12 * 0.31% * GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The * $120.2 USD * -1.79 * -1.49% Market data is delayed at least 15 minutes. Company Lookup ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Go Bottom of Form Coca-Cola Co. (KO) is in discussions to invest about $10 million in Spotify Ltd., the subscription music-streaming service, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. An agreement isn’t assured, said one of the people, who sought anonymity because the talks are private. An agreement may be reached in the next few weeks, Sky News reported yesterday, citing people close to the beverage company. Coca-Cola, owner of the world’s most-valuable brand, has increased its ties to entertainment so it can market products to young consumers in a subtle way. The Atlanta-based company reached a deal in April to add Spotify to its...
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...Group Interim Report Group Name Date submitted Client’s name Executive summary of the changes you are proposing with a rationale for the changes. Portfolio 1 Portfolio 2 SOURCE ----------------------- 27/10/2013 Group 20: Girls’ Power David King Markowitz portfolio theory (MPT) is a theory on how risk-averse investors can construct portfolios to optimize or maximize expected return based on a given level of market risk, emphasizing that risk is an inherent part of higher reward. According to Markowitz portfolio theory, investors attempt to maximize portfolio expected return by analyzing risk, return, correlation and diversification...
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...only missed 1 day because of illness during that time. Bar Staff at Ramside Hall Hotel. March 2010 to July 2010 Duties included serving drinks from behind the bar or at tables, maintaining cleanliness of bar area and tables, and operation of electronic till. Bar Staff at Hallgarth Manor. July 2010 to October 2011 Duties include serving drinks from behind the bar or at tables, maintaining cleanliness of bar area and tables and at times single-handedly operating the bar. Duties also include operation of electronic till, serving bar meals, preparing tables, closing the bar, (including balancing of the till.) Customer Assistant at Lloyds TSB. June 2011 to present, references can be provided. Duties include the operation and balancing of a computerised till, servicing customers, dealing with confidential information, since I've worked there I've been sent out to several different branches to cover duties of staff during holidays. Bar Staff at The Wheatsheaf. October 2011 to April 2012, references can be provided. Duties include the operation of a till, taking food and...
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...Fixed assets business use to operate include a premises in which they operate from, this can be someone's front room, or large tower buildings. Buildings play an important role when it comes to the image of a business and can influence different customers. Many financial businesses (banks) such as Lloyds TSB and HSBC have many large buildings located in central London, this gets the attention of all the public driving by as it's a busy area. Depending on the organisation business may rely on motor vehicles as a recourse. Organisations such as food delivery use vehicles very often and if one of their vehicles break down they will lose customers as they will not be able to deliver their food . Business use security as a physical recourse as it will protect the assets in store. Most business have different types of security such as CCTV and alarms to ensure that no-one attempts to steal their items as it will cost the business more money to replace. Most businesses involve technology in their ways of operating, marketing, advertising etc. Therefore ICT equipment such as computers is a physical asset used in business today to communicate with a wider range of people and to use the internet to advertise as it's a cheaper and relatively more effective way to advertise a smaller business. Machinery are mostly used in organisations which operate from a factories, whether they are making clothing or electronic devices, machinery will be useful as it will allow them to produce the...
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