...The new girl Summary The new girl is based on real story which is told by Marc Mitchell from the collection of biographical texts: True Tales of American life by Paul Auster from 2001. The story takes place in the neighborhood Prospect Street where a lot of white families live. The story is about an eight-year old boy. He and his friend Allison, who is ten, are riding their bikes on a warm summer day. He is not really sure if he actually likes her, but there is not anyone else he can play with. One day he sees a younger girl standing in the neighborhood across her bike, she is watching them playing with the bikes. The little black girl has recently moved in with her family, and Allisons mother has told Allison, that the new family was going to ruin their house. The boy in the story smiles at the girl and she smiles back. Allison tells the girl to get out of the neighborhood while the little girl says ‘hi’ to her. The boy looks at Allison and tries to imitate the older girl’s expression, but he does not look into the little girl’s eyes. The little girl wants to play with them, but Alison just spits after her. She says scornfully that she does not play with niggers. The younger girl walks hurt into the house and they can after a few minutes see a person from the inside looking out at them. The boy is expecting that the girl’s mother will appear from the house and demand them to make it up to her daughter. It never occurs. The boy does see the girl from time to time, and he...
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...’The New Girl’ analysis The story takes place in a white lower-middle-class neighborhood. The neighborhood is called Prospect Street. Only 2 kids live in the block, Allison and the narrator, so they have to be friends whether they like it or not. Allison is 10 years old while the narrator is only 8, so Allison is a kind of role model to him. A day like any other, where they almost crash, the narrator hears a laugh and turns his head to find a small girl. They smile at each other, though the peace soon being disturbed by Allison. She calls the girl nigger and scares her away. The girl tries explaining that she thought they could play but Allison calls her nigger again. The girl walks back to her house. As Allison and the narrator slowly leaves they talk about who she was. She moved in a week ago and Allison’s mom claims it’ll ruin their house if they stay. As they drove away from the house the little girls mother looks out the window with eyes filled with rage. The story takes place in USA, Prospect Street. It’s the narrators, and writers, childhood setting. The narrator says, ‘It was a hot, bright day’. He tells us how the sun is shining and warming up the place, which makes it seem like summer. Therefor we can say that the setting is a summer day in USA, Prospect Street probably around the 1940’s. There are 3 important characters in the story the narrator, Allison and the little girl. The narrator is an 8.year-old boy. He’s innocent, in the way that he doesn’t judge...
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...The new girl The new girl is a short story written by the author … The story starts out in prospect street a lower middle class white neighborhood where we hear of the two kids, the narrator at the age of eight and Allison at the age of ten. One day while riding their bikes on a warm sunny day they spot the new girl, the new girl just moved in with her family, the new family is of African American heritage. The narrator is the first one to see the new girl and greets her with kindness by smiling, the new girl positively responds by smiling back at him to. Allison refuses greet the new girl and says “get out of here nigger” Allison has this attitude towards the new girl because her mother has convinced her that black people are stupid and should not be allowed in the house because “niggers” will destroy it At first the narrator seems to like the girl and wants to get to know her because him Allison are the only two kids in the neighborhood, but when Allison starts to show this hatred towards the new girl he joins her and starts saying that niggers are stupid. Firstly, the boy seems to like the girl, but after Allison shows of her hatred against her, he says that niggers are stupid. The black girl wants to play with them, but after Allison says she don’t play with niggers the little girl immediately rushes inside. However, she still watches them behind her curtains from inside the house. Even though it never was confirmed, the boy expected the girl’s mother to be mad at them...
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...The New Girl Af Marc Mitchell Johannes 1u. To believe in yourself, and believe in your own will, may not always be as easy as it sounds. The effects that a person you look up to, can have on your own acts, are not to be underestimated. In “The New Girl”, our narrator experiences that these effects can result in a forever lasting knot. You can always regret what you have said, but can you live with it? “The New Girl” is a short, simple story, which brings up some themes we all know about, and feelings we may have experienced on our own. Friendship is a big theme in the story. The narrator clearly looks up to Allison (l. 8-9), but it seems like their relationship has certain problems. Apparently the narrator does not believe, that they really liked each other (l. 11-12). They just played together, back then. Allison is a little older than the narrator (l. 6-7), which makes him a mix between a good friend, and a younger brother to Allison. It seems like they don’t really care about each other, as actual good friends do, but just spent time together, because they have nothing else to do. This is not a great starting-point for a friendship, and the narrator confirms that it did not last long, as he points out that he “(…) never spoke to Allison after my family left Prospect Street (…)”(l. 84-85). Marc Mitchell’s style of writing is very simple, which makes it easy for the reader to capture the meaning and message of the story, rather than wondering about what each line...
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...Essay – One Friday Morning ”One Friday Morning” is written by Langston Hughes in 1950’s. When I was reading the story I couldn’t stop thinking about racism and difference between black people and white people and how the black people have to fight for them self all the time, back then but also now a days. The main character is Nancy Lee. She goes to school a white school, called George Washington High and she seems proud of being a Negro American. She also seems to be a calm and friendly girl, a girl that knows what she wants, and is following her dreams. I can see that because the last line in the text is “that is the land we must make” when I read that, I could see she is a real fighter and a girl who wants to change the country. The theme of the text is racism and difference between black people and white people, because the committee found out that Nancy Lee was black and then they changed their plans about her getting the “art scholarship of the year”. Analysis - composition: The text starts with in medias res, because we don’t get an introduction or a presentation. It is a chronological order, and the end is open. Because Nancy Lee could have done something and I think that it is obvious that she would, with the last words she is thinking. Story-teller: it is a 3.Person story-teller. I think the story-teller knows about Nancy Lee’s feelings, or maybe it is a person who knows her very well. And it is always this person’s point of view we see in the story...
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...Analysis and interpretation of “The new Girl” Allison is a girl at the age of ten, who lives on Prospect Street with her parents and likes to play with Barbies and listen to Hall and Oates. Prospect Street is a street placed in a lower middle-class white neighborhood, where most of the houses are about seventy years old. In the start of the story the environment is described: It’s a hot day, the sun is shinning and everything is burning. The burning part is a symbol of this intense conflict, which is about to appear later in the text between the new girl, the narrator and Allison. Allison’s mother does not like the new neighbors, it seems. She is prejudiced against them, because of the color of their skin. She thinks that they are going to ruin their house, meaning that the new neighbors will make the prices of the neighborhood fall, because no white person wants to share the same street with a ‘nigger.’ Allison has of course inherited the same hatred towards African Americans. You see that clearly in the text; “I said get out of here, nigger, or I’ll beat you up.” As for the narrator: he doesn’t feel that same spitefulness that Allison and her mother have for African Americans, at all. I am by the way assuming that the narrator is a boy, from the three facts that the narrator doesn’t share Allison’s interest in Barbies, they have been pretending to be married and then there is the fact that they are already friends, yet the narrator is wondering if she likes him. The...
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...FORMELSAMLING FOLKESKOLENS AFSLUTTENDE PRØVER I MATEMATIK FORMELSAMLING FOLKESKOLENS AFSLUTTENDE PRØVER I MATEMATIK Redaktion og tilrettelæggelse af indhold for Skolestyrelsen: Lektor Hans Jørgen Beck, adjunkt Thomas Kaas og fagkonsulent Klaus Fink Grafisk tilrettelæggelse: Schwander Kommunikation – www.schwander.dk Foto: Colourbox 1. udgave, februar 2010 ISBN (WWW) 978-87-92140-60-9 Internetadresse: www.skolestyrelsen.dk Publikationen findes kun i elektronisk format Udgivet af Styrelsen for Evaluering og Kvalitetsudvikling af Folkeskolen (Skolestyrelsen) Eventuelle henvendelser af indholdsmæssig karakter rettes til Skolestyrelsen, Kontor for Afgangsprøver, Test og Evalueringer Indhold Tal og algebra Geometri i et koordinatsystem 6 6 6 8 8 10 10 12 14 46 48 50 Tal Primtal Sammensatte tal Intervaller Brøker Kvadratrødder Potenser Parentesregler Procent Økonomi 18 18 20 Rente Sammensat rente Valuta Geometri 22 22 24 26 26 26 28 30 32 32 32 32 34 Trekanter Linjer ved trekanten Areal af en trekant Ensvinklede trekanter Ligebenet trekant Ligesidet trekant Retvinklet trekant Trigonometri Firkanter Rektangel Parallelogram Trapez Cirkler Rumfang og overflade 36 36 36 38 38 38 Kasse Prisme Cylinder Kegle Pyramide Kugle Geometri – flytninger 40 40 42 Spejling Parallelforskydning Drejning Koordinatsystemet Ligning for ret linje Grafisk ligningsløsning Funktioner ...
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...Tiffany O’Dillon Professor Rhym English 1101.13 19 February 2014 New Girl New Girl is based on a school teacher, Jessica Day (played by Zooey DesChanel), who after going through a rough breakup with her cheating ex-boyfriend Spencer, moves in with 3 single men whom she has never met before. One independent woman living with 3 unfamiliar men who isn’t thought less of for being a female, is a big step for American culture, considering back in our past, she would not have even been able to get an education to pursue her teaching career. Through 3 ongoing seasons, her best friend CeCe and her roomies, Nick, Schmidt and Winston, struggle to help her overcome it and teach her some things about life and along the way builds a family with them. Each episode Jess is experiencing her new single life with some tough reality tossed her way and pulls through with the help of her new companions. Nick, being the grumpier, emotional roommate, is a “cooler” for Jessica, as she is to him. He is a law school dropout that’s now a local bartender. Nick and Jess have an obvious connection that will evidently lead them together. Winston is a former (but still overly competitive) basketball player who doesn’t know what he should do with his life, but whatever it is he’s confidant to be the best. The last but maybe the best of Jess’ roommates, Schmidt, is egotistical, well groomed and well dressed, a high standard perfectionist, and germaphobe. Back in his college days he was fat, until he...
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...1. The new P.E. teacher is also responsible for what? - The new P.E. teacher was also responsible for the girl’s sports program. 2. What was the sport? What season is the sport played? – Field Hockey, just for girls was not Coed. & 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...
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...According to the Girls’ Attitudes Survey in 2016, 40% of girls ages 7-10 feel self-conscious about their body image. This number only grows, shown by the study that close to 80% of girls who are ages 17-20 experience similar discomfort. The survey also touches on equality between boys and girls and how girls feel about being with a group of boys. In fact, 45% of girls change their behavior in this situation to avoid harassment. If one applies this scenario to a co-ed gym glass, a change in behavior may include a lack of participation for fear that the boys will poke fun at the girls for not being as “sporty.” But something can be done about this problem. As shown by Wissahickon School District, which will be used as a model throughout this...
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...Breaking down the media’s distorted views on beauty: Beauty. At the mention of this word, most girls are inclined to take a quick look into a compact mirror or run a few fingers through their hair, sizing themselves up with the nearest advertisement featuring a flawless bottle blonde. Some may go a bit further, running an endless list of insecurities through their minds and letting out an exasperated sigh. Every girl has done it at least once in her lifetime but it isn’t her fault. Women have been taught to compare themselves to others for most of their lives. There are signs everywhere, at every corner, flashing the words “you aren’t good enough” to every teenage girl. For years, the world of media has been working hard to construct the ideal image of what a “perfect woman” is supposed to look like. You and I know it well. Magazines, movies, and commercials, among other outlets, have spoon-fed girls with the idea that they can only be beautiful if they have long legs, great hair, and curves in all the right places. According to modern day society, girls should walk and talk pretty, have perfect skin, and cake on makeup; they should watch their weight and keep up with the newest trends in fashion. In Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ when referring to next door neighbour Bernard, Biff states, “He’s liked but he’s not well liked”. Most people are liked by their friends and acquaintances. Willy’s recipe for success is based entirely around a cult of personality. Only great...
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...1. Apply ICA to show syntactic ambiguity in the following sentences: a) Her new husband is a Greek wine merchant. b) The dog bit the woman in the bathroom. c) A British Tornado pilot survived a crash. d) Their professional development strategy failed. e) Henry photographed the woman with a cell phone. Her new husband| is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new husband | is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek| wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek| wine | merchant. Her new husband| is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new husband | is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek wine |merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek| wine | merchant. The dog | bit the woman in the bathroom The dog | bit | the woman in the bathroom The dog | bit | the woman | in the bathroom The dog | bit | the | woman | in the bathroom The dog | bit | the | woman | in |the bathroom The dog | bit | the | woman | in |the | bathroom The dog | bit the woman in the bathroom The | dog| bit the woman in the bathroom. The | dog | bit the woman |in the bathroom The | dog | bit the woman | in | the bathroom The | dog | bit | the woman | in | the | bathroom. The | dog | bit | the | woman...
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...October 2014 “Little Girls or Little Women?” Young girls are becoming increasingly involved in this worlds highly sexual environment. More and more are being captured at young ages by marketing and advertising, glamorizing fashion and new fads. Once discovering her three year old daughter, Coaimhe, becoming more concerned about beautifying herself and living like a young female adult, Author of “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect”, Stephanie Hanes, Publicises how girls at young ages are becoming too involved in today’s highly sexualized environment and by investing in makeup, clothing, accessories and new hair do’s to make them look “sexy”, when in reality it’s far too inappropriate for their age group. Girls are being blinded by society’s standards for how the female body should look. They want that “sexy babe” look just like all the beautiful models they see in media and on advertisements. But many are falling into eating disorders and becoming very sick trying to do so. They become so caught up in becoming skinny that they’ll start to harm their bodies to reach their impossible goal. In an article titled...
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...dismissed from a person’s memory. Nearly all human beings want to recall happy memories, rather than bad ones. False memories may happen accidentally or through unintentional and or intentional coaching, this is called influence, and this influence can come from opinions from authority figures, trusted family members, and even cultural beliefs. In a situation like this it is known as the interference theory, which suggests that forgetting is caused by other memories interfering with the retention of the target memory (Anderson, 2010). For example a husband and wife have three kid’s two girls and one boy, and they end up going through a divorce. The husband gets the little boy, and the wife gets the two girls, the wife gets a boyfriend and they move to another state, at this time the girls are ages two and three years old. The wife knows that her boyfriend is molesting her girls, and she does nothing about it for the fear that he will leave her. The three year old is really pretty with blonde...
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...DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ON GIRL CHILD AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN FUTURE. Kongala. Rama.Rao. Research Scholar. Department of Sociology & Social Work, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur-522510. Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is precondition for meeting the challenges of reducing the poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance Koffi Annan Introduction Indian culture is centuries old. In Vedic Age Indian Women enjoyed a high status in the home as well as outside. After the Vedic Period women status decreased step by step, due to social economical, ad political changes of the later centuries. Women lost their position in education, and other fields. Consequently evil customs such as purdha, Sati, child Marriage, polygamy, ad enforced widowhood crept in and the women’s status in the home and outside. Different social reformers has played key role for women upliftment. Sex Ratio Sex ratio, defined as the number of females per thousand males is an important social indicator to measure the extent of prevailing equality between males and females in a society at a given point of time. The sex ratio in the country had always remained unfavourable of females....
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