... & the season hockey was played was in the fall. 3. ****Who found the equipment? List the equipment they had. In what condition was the equipment? The couch found the equipment. They had long wooden sticks, think it was table legs for the hockey sticks. Wooden balls. Something on their arms. The equipment was old and kind of lousy but it still worked. Still in enough good condition to work. 4. The sign, glossed as HAVE, means what? – It was the equipment available. 5. Why did Cinnie join the new team? They need volunteers and Cinnie loves sports. She wanted something to do and had never played field hockey before. She wanted something different. 6. How many girls signed up for the new team? – 12 girls 7. How did Cinnie describe the coach’s language or communication skills? Weak signer, signed lousy and it was awkward. Pretty poorly, she tried to sign to teach the players and to communicate the rules and the players didn’t always get it. She would try to sign and explain the meaning and Cinnie and the other girls would try to understand and go along. Kept moving forward even though the teacher’s signing was lousy. 8. What was the one important rule the coach emphasized? – Never put the hockey stick above your waist. 9. What did Cinnie think of the rule? – Cinnie thought it was an okay rule. If you lifted the stick above your waist you would lose some of the control and it would be dangerous. Cinnie thought the rule makes sense. 10...
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...Change Change is a constant state that all of us are a part of. From the day we were born and until the day we are going to die we all change and it happens every day. Sometimes as in “Aline’s Journey” other people takes choices for you that makes big changes in your life. Aline’s father make a change in the middle of the night for him and the rest of the family and I think the author wants to tell us about changes in life in this short story. The story about Aline and her family starts in their poor and lousy house in Haiti, but then the father takes the sudden decision and they are sailing in a small sailboat to Bahamas where they are transferred over to a bigger motorboat which are sailing the rest of the way to Miami. Wherever the family are we are hearing the story about them from Alines perspective that tells us that Aline is the 1st narrator. It is told from Aline because she is the main character. Aline is a little girl maybe at the age of 10 or something, she live a poor and non-material life in Haiti with her closest family and friends and I do not think that Aline have the age to understand the things and the situation around her completely. Aline do not really see the problem of living in Haiti and therefore she does not really understand the fast decision. “For the trip, I pick out my favourite light blue dress” (p. 13, ll. 1) as we see in the text there is one special things that Aline really cares about and it is her blue dress, which is...
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...When he met new people or, observed people around him he judged them in his head. Not only that but when Holden described to the reader, who someone in the novel was he judged them very harshly. Although Holden did this he never told people how he actually felt directly to their faces he kept it to himself. He described people as phony, fake, and stupid all the time. When Holden described Ackley in the beginning of the novel he said, "he has lousy teeth... a lot of pimples... and not only that but a terrible personality. He's annoying." (23). Another time Holden was judgmental was when he was in the hotel that he described as lousy with perverts. Holden danced with some girls from the hotel bar that he called witches implying they were not the best looking. Holden did not like them at all he said " I asked them if they liked it but, do you think you could get an intelligent answer out of these three dopes? I thought the two ugly ones, Marty and Laverne, were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them." (73). Holden always had negative thoughts about people he was surrounded by witch proved he is judgmental in The Catcher In The...
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...“Bullet in the brain” is a short story by Tobias Wolff. The protagonist of the story is called Anders, a book critic. The man, in the story, started out as an impatient, disrespectful, arrogant critic who, throughout the story, makes sarcastic comments to the robbers of the bank where he was which, consequently, gets him killed. The main character is presented in most of the story as being a selfish and cruel person. His general critical nature of the world introduces him as an eccentric character who the reader has a difficult time to understand. The notable unperturbed attitude he had in relation to the bank robbery was a curious aspect of the story because it introduces his ungovernable attitude towards the bank robbers. His reciprocal...
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...Summary Flight is a short story written by Alice Hoffman. This story mainly focuses on three main characters that live in the suburb of Franconia. The narrator who has an older brother called Jason and Jason’s best friend, Eugene. Eugene is considered to be the narrator’s partner in crime. Eugene and the narrator started a business together where they sold term papers so they could earn enough money to escape Franconia. While Jason is unknowing of their sneaky business, he is busy conducting a special diet experiment in his bedroom involving his twenty hamsters. The principal at the school suspends Eugene and the nameless narrator after finding out that they sold term papers to other students. After the suspension, Eugene buys a plane ticket to San Francisco leaving his pet (owl) behind, as a responsibility to Jason’s sister. Jason’s sister takes it home where it later kills all Jason’s hamsters, forcing Jason to buy new pets but this time Jason decides to buy chicks. Characterization. The narrator in this story is nameless and genderless, by the emotions she/he expresses throughout the story; one might think that the narrator could be a girl. In line 2 she/he says that ‘’ it wasn’t so much that Eugene and I liked each other, or that there was any possibility of romance between us”, this indicates that the narrator could be female or a homosexual man, considering the fact that she/he points out that there was no possibility of romance between their relationship. The narrator...
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...Douglas Owens Julie Ostrowski ENG 112 16 April 2015 First Confession I was once a Catholic, then I was for it, but now I am against it. Frank O’Connor’s short story, “The First Confession’, was an interesting read. The story is brief, told by a seven year old boy named Jackie, about to make his first confession, in order to make the sacrament of Holy Communion. The story is set in Ireland, around the first quarter of the 20th Century. Priests, at this time, “became their communities moral policemen, and they played a major role throughout society.” For most people, family is a sense of great joy. Jackie is a dynamic character, and is the protagonist of the story. We learn that he hates his grandmother and sister, and is afraid of his first confession. Jackie is out of sorts because his grandmother has moved from the country to live with his family. He is quite disgusted with her love of porter beer, bare footed, and eating potatoes with her hands at dinner. Jackie considers his grandmother a lousy cook, who does not wash her hand before she prepares supper. Nora is Jackie’s older sister, and cajoles her grandmother into giving her a penny every Friday from her pension; something Jackie could not do. Nora- the antagonist. The family relationships in this story are interesting. The relationships in Jackie’s family, at first seem unusual, as every family has its special dynamics. Jackie sees his grandmother as a woman that has invaded his home, and strained the...
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...An African-American Dream You may know the term, The American Dream. However, your definition of that term is most likely different from mine. For some the dream is to achieve a higher living standard and for others the dream is to be famous. The American Dream also varies depending on which country you are from. Furthermore, the dream can reach unrealistic heights and end in disappointment. In the following paper, I am going to see how the American dream, immigration and race are interpreted in the story “The Thing around your Neck”. I will also look at symbolic meanings and the 2nd person narrator. In the short story “The Thing around your Neck”, the young woman Akunna from Nigeria wins the American visa lottery. She travels to the United States to live with her aunt and uncle, but when the uncle tries to abuse her, she leaves their house. She finds an apartment and a job as a waitress. A young man in the restaurant quickly finds her interesting, and Akunna says yes to go on a date with him, after he has persistently tried to ask her out. They are in a relationship until she gets a letter, informing her that her father is dead. She travels back to Nigeria without her boyfriend even though he offers to travel back with her. America is the land of opportunities, but are these opportunities for everybody? At first Akunna’s family have many expectations to America and thinks that people living in the country gets a big car, house and a gun. Therefore, the country is from...
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...to the emotional burdens the characters are faced with throughout their durations in the war as well as at home. Each story reflects a characters emotional and physical well being. Memories cascade their ways onto the shoulders of the character’s who seem to find emotional support by ignoring or just plain mocking the unpleasant. Subsequently, a few of the stories they tell seem to be in disarray but give the illusion of actuality. The responsibilities to their communities as well as their memories weigh the characters down causing catastrophic damage not only to their personal lives, but their physical well beings as a whole. Norman Bowker silently suffers throughout his duration in the war. Watching silently as his fellow comrade’s fall both emotionally and physically, Bowker never seems to show his emotions to the reader. In essence he has bottled up perceptions about his experience in the war and the death of his comrade Kiowa. In “Notes”, the letter received by O’Brien gives way to a different Bowker, full of emotional agony from deep within. Bowker’s death was one of the most catastrophic events throughout the book. The emotions seemed to pour out as he writes in his letter to O’Brien the effects of the community and the sudden thrust back into the civilian world, in his letter he writes,“[t]he thing is, there is nowhere to go. Not just in this lousy little town. In general. My life, I mean.” (O’Brien 156). Losing Kiowa was a big part of Bowker’s self destruction as...
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...Down to a Sunless Sea analysis The story written in March 22nd 2013 by Neil Gaiman is somehow about the river called The Thames, which flows through southern England, more specifically through the capital, London, which is where the short story takes place. The perspective of this story is narrated by the writer, so the reader does not get to know everything but are limited. This story deals most with a woman without any given name that has lost her son and husband to the big sea. We find her to walk at the Rotherhithe docks, which she has done for decades, but nobody cares about her, yet she still starts to talk every time someone passes by, but she does not talk to the person, she talks to the rain which flows into the Thames River. “And then she sees you. She sees you and she begins to talk, not to you, oh no, but to the grey water….”(P.2, 13-14) This gives the reader an idea of her being a little crazy, because she talks to the rain and the river, which in any way cannot respond. She had a son who wanted to be a sailor, just like his dad. The woman does not like it, because she had already lost the father because of the sea. He went and never came back, so the mom does not want the son to go, but he does, and he does not come back either. She seems to be a loving mother, but has gone crazy because of her loses, yet her stories are very interesting for the protagonist, and he/she keeps listening to the story even though it is raining. ".. and you do not know what...
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...For those of you that don't know me my name is Brittany. I work at The Willows at Citation where I took care of Julia. For the short 3 months and 11 days that I knew Julia. I've learned something that no book could possibly ever teach me. On our Journey together I was constantly being moved and touched in ways that I often cannot describe. To live with Alzheimer's and still laugh, love and find joy is nothing short of amazing. I never got that chance to meet Julia when she was full of life and energy. Instead God blessed me with Julia on May 6th of this year. God had also blessed me with the ability to really connect with Julia. I spent many nights by her bedside, I've spent many hours listening, I've shared many tears with her daughter's and I've experienced many lifelong connections. Julia taught me the importance of living in the moment and finding joy in the small things. No two minutes were alike. Things were constantly changing and it put us on the wildest roller coaster ride imaginable. I must say it took a while and I'm sure I'm speaking for a few others when I say this but I came to realize that in order to survive, you must live in the moment and appreciate each and every good thing that happens, no matter how small. Sometimes you really have to dig deep to find the good in a lousy situation. The interesting thing is that bar is constantly moving. That thing that may have seemed completely insignificant a few months ago, can suddenly become the joy that gets...
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...Love Doll: A fable Love Doll is a fable written by Joe R. Lansdale in 1991. It is a short story about a man, who buys a plastic love doll, because, as he says in the first line of the story, wants to fuck something that he doesn’t have to talk to. He names her Madge. The story follows him and Madge, and how their relationship develops. What at first started as a toy for him, soon becomes a girlfriend who perfectly soothes his needs; she cooks for him, she fuck him and she keeps the house clean. It is common for the fable genre, to give a non-human creature, qualities that are human, such as verbal communication. However, the perfect girlfriend is an illusion, as we follow the personal development of Madge. After a while, Madge stops acting like the perfect girlfriend; she won’t fuck him as often anymore and she doesn’t clean the house or make dinner as well as she used to. She keeps on talking about starting school so she can earn some extra money, even though his salary is enough to feed them both. Madge starts school even though he’s not happy about it, and she goes to these business parties and begin talking about, how a women needs to make her own way through life. She’s gotten herself a strong and confident personality, and she begins to spend more time with a guy from one of the many business parties, he wears a three piece blue suit, and it makes the main character doubt his own worth and manliness. At one point when the man is so hollowed by his current situation...
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...Ive known about the Donner Party story since I was a little kid. My history teachers would tell us about how a big group of people traveled west for the gold rush in California because there was money to be made. Teachers told us how they got stuck in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, somewhere near Lake Tahoe California. They were trapped due to a big snowstorm, ran out of food so had to eat each other in order to survive. Such a horrific story when you hear it when your 8 but as I got older I began to wonder more about their journey so when I got the chance to read a book about it I took it. In this book the author Ethan Rarick discusses their journey, how the Donners, Reeds, and other parties ended up in this situation, what they did to survive, and how lucky they were for some of them to survive.. The book begins with a brief history of the families and why many of them were eager to head west. Like most, they were in search of a better life that would bring them better times. Starting off from Independence Missouri, Rarick details not only how boring this journey must have been, but how unbearably slow. He estimates that the families with all their buggies and oxen probably moved at...
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...that the world around me might be at least as interesting as what was going on in my own head. I did poorly at school, although occasionally teachers would think I had a lot of promise. In those days we had an exam called the eleven plus, which you did just before you went to High School. If you were a clever kid with a good brain, you passed and went to Grammar School to learn brainy things, and if you were a dumb kid, you failed and went to Secondary Modern School and learnt how to do things with your hands. I was a kid with hands. I went to Secondary Modern School. I wasn't very happy at my new school. I remember having a lousy teacher there, who bawled me out for doing a story in a way she hadn't ordered - I'd done it as a diary. She was furious! - called me out in front of the whole class and made a fool of me. So, she got no good stories out of me. My parents moved again, to Reading in Berkshire. This new school was going comprehensive - children of all abilities were to go there. I got on much better there, due to one or two very good teachers who helped me along, but I was still a poor worker, and came away with two very bad A levels, in Biology and English. Mine was only the second year to do A levels - I'm sure, if they hadn;t been just gagging to let anyone do them, no one would have let me near the exams at all.. Life got rapidly better for me after I left school, but...
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...hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They're nice and all--I'm not saying that--but they're also touchy as hell. Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy. I mean that's all I told D.B. about, and he's my brother and all. He's in Hollywood. That isn't too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every week end. He's going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe. He just got a Jaguar. One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. It cost him damn near four thousand bucks. He's got a lot of dough, now. He didn't use to. He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home. He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him. The best one in it was "The Secret...
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...to make seemingly impossible decisions and choices. At times the power of these existential blows can be so strong that it forces us to our knees, disabling us of doing what is most fundamental in life: living. This condition is considered a depression: a complete lack of joy, motivation, energy and vigor. This is the main theme in Colm Tóibín’s short story “A Journey” from 2006. The protagonist, Mary, has suffered more than most from the blows of life. She has a paralyzed husband, a clinically depressed son and both of her parents have passed away at a relatively young age. The actual story takes place at night in Mary’s car. She has just picked up David, her depressed son, from the hospital and they are on their way home. During the ride Mary reminisces about her past life; the things that she has been through and what she could have done differently. The story is written minimalistically without a narrator to explain why certain things occur. Instead Tóibín uses a 3rd person limited narrator that tells the story from Mary’s point of view. The reader observes Mary’s thoughts and “sees” the world from her eyes thus making the story very subjective. Mary is particularly concerned with her son’s disease and she wonders if she and her husband could have done anything differently to avoid the situation. She regrets the fact that she sold her father’s old shop because had she kept it, she would have been able to offer her son a job to get over his depression and there’s no way he...
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