...know how whites developed a superiority complex. “FOBs vs. Twinkies” by Grace Hsiang and “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples are two articles highlighting racial discrimination. Hsiang’s article focuses on intraracial discrimination while Staples’ articles focuses on racial stereotyping outside of his race. In ‘“FOBs” vs. “Twinkies”’ the author is surprised to hear about intraracial discrimination because she expected to hear about whites vs. the minority. Students took turns telling their stories of personal experiences with racial conflict. “Black Men in Public Space” is a little different because the author uses personal experiences...
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...of this story by O'Henry is that giving is the greatest gift of all. Della gives up her most cherished possession, her beautiful hair, to get a gift for her husband, Jim. She buys him a fob for his favorite possession--a pocket watch. Jim sells his pocket watch to buy beautiful combs for Della to adorn her hair. Both gave up their most valued possession in order to give something to the one they loved. The story is classic O'Henry with well developed characters, a city setting for the impoverished pair of young marrieds, and an ironic twist to the end of the story. Two aspects of one theme that run together in this story are sacrifice and love. Jim and Della already possess the greatest gifts they can ever possess: they have each other's love, a love that is willing to sacrifice for that love. They are compared to the Magi, who knelt at the manger where the infant Jesus lay and brought gifts to honor him. But they knew, the Magi, that their gifts were small insignificant tokens compared to what this infant child would give to them. They honored him, just as Della and Jim honor each other by sacrificing their prize possessions to buy the other a worthy gift for Christmas. It is the sacrifice involved in this process that is at the heart of the theme--unselfish love, which is rare and should be cherished. In O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," the theme of the story is that of selfless giving from the heart, like that of the magi or wise men in the Christmas story. The irony...
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...forever changed my life. No amount of military training or mental fortitude can prepare a person for the realities of war and the choice I had to make. You hear about it on the news, read it in the papers, listen to veterans and their war stories, but you will never get the feelings so many veterans and I have experienced unless you have been to war and forced to make such drastic, split second judgement calls. My six month deployment started...
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...English 1102 “The Gift of the Magi” “The Gift of the Magi” is a very touching story written by O’Henry. This story is often told during the Christmas season and teaches the true meaning of gift giving. The main characters in the story are Jim and Della. They are a very poor married couple that lives in a ragged flat with only two prized possessions. Della's beautiful, brown, knee-length hair is one of the two great prized possessions of the poor couple. Her hair was gorgeous and she loved it. The other is Jim's gold watch that was passed down from his grandfather and father. Jim also loved his watch. The story opens with Della counting one dollar and eighty seven cents. It is one day before Christmas and she wants to buy her husband Jim a gift. She cries hysterically because there was not enough money to buy a gift. The story continues as Della walks to the mirror and gains her composure. She looks at her hair, pulls it back, and walks out of the door. Della walks to Madame Sofronie's hair goods shop, and she sells her hair for twenty dollars. She now has twenty-one dollars and eighty seven cents. After Della sells her hair, she goes to several different stores looking for Jim’s gift. She looks for several hours until she finds the perfect gift. The gift she finds seems to be made perfectly for Jim’s watch. Della finds a platinum fob chain. As soon as she saw the chain she knew it was perfect. The chain seemed to be like Jim with its quietness and value. The new chain...
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...The short story “The Gift of the Magi” was written by O. Henry in 1906. The story is about a husband and wife who did not have enough finances to buy each other gifts at Christmas time. So the couple sacrificed two precious items to show their love for one another. This theme and narrative essay will explain O. Henry use symbolism and characters to contribute to the themes of poverty, generosity, and selfless love. The main symbolism was use in the title of the short story. In the biblical story of the birth of Jesus three men came in on camels bringing precious gifts to the son of Mary and Joseph. “These three represent the Three Wise Men or Kings, also called the Magi (Jesus, 2007).” The wise men brought Jesus three gifts gold, frankincense and myrrh. They gave them freely and unselfish because they believed Jesus was “the promise one”. The symbolization in “The Gift of the Magi” was that Jim and Della gave three gifts to each other freely and unselfish. Jim’s watch, Della’s hair and selfless love for each other were the three distinct gifts given in this short story. Three themes was basically portrayed in “the Gift of the Magi. One theme was poverty. One dollar and eighty-seven cent was all Della had on Christmas Eve. Della begins to cry over the fact she did not have enough funds to buy Jim a Christmas gift. “In the vestibule below was a letter box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring (Clugston, 2010).”...
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...individual participants in their decision-making processes. The Report has four sections: ummary Findings of the Expert Review S ecommendations for the WFA Board to Consider R xecutive Summary of the Fact Base Supporting the Findings and Recommendations E Appendices • Recommended Next Steps for WFA • Overview of Approach, Analysis, and Sources • dditional Analyses and Exhibits—Available on the WFA Website www.wfa.org.au/review A Segment Definitions. To enable clear evaluation of the Australian wine industry quality segments for grapes and wine were developed and agreed with the WFA Board. There are five segments—A, B, C, D, E/F. The definitions are: Grape Price Domestic Retail Price Export FOB Price A > A$2,000/tonne, > A$30/bottle, > A$10/litre B A$1,501 – 1,999/tonne, A$15 - 30/bottle, A$7.50 – 9.99/litre C A$601 – 1,500/tonne, A$10 -...
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...information that could lead to further elimination of the insurgent threat in our AO. B.A. ENEMY. 2.2.1. DISPOSITION: Insurgents appear to have established a base of operation in the town of McKenna IOT disrupt the freedom of movement of Coalition Forces responsible for providing security, training, and operational support to the ANA in the AO. The insurgents are currently occupying two buildings on the eastern side of the town, grid GL06528372.They are using one building as a safe house and the other to produce IEDs. This group of insurgents is focused on emplacing IEDs on the MSRs and on any area that has a high concentration of Coalition Forces traffic. They are also using snipers to harass any patrols that are sent off the FOB into the battalion’s area of responsibility. B.B.B.A. COMPOSITION: The Cell of insurgent is estimated at 20 men of ages 20 to 35. They operate in 2-3 men teams. The group has been seen operating 2 x...
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...reading Chapter 14, you should be able to: LO1 Describe how to establish the “approximate price level” using demand-oriented, costoriented, profit-oriented, and competitionoriented approaches. Recognize the major factors considered in deriving a final list or quoted price from the approximate price level. 1-2 LO2 Arriving at the Final Price LEARNING OBJECTIVES (LO) After reading Chapter 14, you should be able to: LO3 Identify the adjustments made to the approximate price level on the basis of discounts, allowances, and geography. Discuss the laws and regulations affecting specific pricing practices. LO4 1-3 Arriving at the Final Price The TATA NANO The Car Priced at one Lakh 1-4 Opening Story – The NANO Car FIGURE 14-1 The six steps in setting price. The first three steps were covered in Chapter 13 and the last three steps in Chapter 14. LO1 1-5 Elements making up a Price – Recap of Chapter 13 FIGURE 14-2 Four approaches for selecting an approximate price level LO1 1-6 Establishing an ‘Appropriate Price Level’ Selecting an Appropriate Price Level Demand-Oriented Pricing Approaches Skimming Pricing Penetration Pricing Price Lining Prestige Pricing LO1 1-7 Establishing an ‘Appropriate Price Level’ FIGURE 14-3 Demand curves for two demand-oriented pricing approaches LO1 1-8 Establishing an ‘Appropriate Price Level’ Selecting an Appropriate Price Level ...
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...them and symbolism comes out in this story. The specific conflict in the story is a couple that is talking about getting an abortion. There are various references that currently they are not very happy and that getting the abortion will somehow make them happy. He is very clueless to her emotions regarding this life changing event and the feelings she is experiencing. He also says that he doesn’t want her to do it if she doesn’t want to. "You've got to realize," he said, "that I don't want you to do it if you don't want to. I'm perfectly willing to go through with it if it means anything to you." I think the conflict is very significant as Jig is looking for a connection regarding the baby and clearly there is little hope for one as the insensitive American is frustrating her. I find from the text there are very similar elements of symbolism, metaphor, allusion and allegory apply sort of mixed and sprinkled into most of the stories I have read. I really enjoyed the symbolism and how the Hills stood for life giving and yet highlights her aloneness and emotional disconnect to the American. Ernest Hemingway writing style leaves hints throughout the scene and yet never directly states the plot of the story. “The Gift of Magi” by William Sydney Porter invigorates the mind and redefines irony. I very much enjoyed this story as it is about two very selfless people sacrificing for the other to get a Christmas present. The core conflict in the story is that it's Christmas Eve and Della...
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...What's wrong with today's society? There are numerous answers to this question, but a big problem is a discrimination interracial and even intraracial. The media is a large distributor of stories about “Black Live Matter,” “Blue Lives Matter,” and “Gay Lives Matter.” The media’s stories tell of African Americans, police and members of the LGBT+ community all discriminated in different ways through riots, parades and unfortunately shootings. There are two authors share their stories of discrimination; “FOB’s vs. Twinkies: The New Discrimination is Interracial” and “Black Men and Public Spaces.” In the first article “FOB's vs. Twinkies”, written by Grace Hsiang, tells the stories Hsiang heard in her college psychology class. Most of the stories told by her classmates were their personal experiences. All of her classmate's stories surprised Hsiang because most of them were discriminated within their culture, or intraracial. In the second article “Black Men and Public Space,” written by Brent Staples, tells about his personal experience of discrimination in public places. The article was for Ms. Magazine. Staples was discriminated by other people...
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...father was a millionaire from having a shipping company, a mining business and hotels. Then one day they lost all of their money and had to flee to America. Bankruptcy in Korea had jail time behind it, something that her father didn’t want to go through or put his family through. So they left Korea in the ‘80’s and moved to Woodside, Queens in New York. To what Suki says was an “ugly house” that a Korean family owned that ran a dry cleaners. Their sons, Billy and Andy became her playmates. Suki was picked on from the other Korean children both at home and in school. She felt out of place. Therefore the other students didn’t want anything to do with her kind. They were Koreans, but not Korean American. They would call her FOB, “fresh out the boat,” or “yellow.” Funny because they didn’t arrive in a boat, they flew here in an airplane. Even the rich Koreans that left there and came here moved to Manhattan or Westchester. The children were ashamed of her and her kind. In order for her to learn English, she would watch reruns of “Three’s Company.” “Immigration is meant to be the great equalizer, yet it is not easy to eradicate the class divisions of the old country.” (para. 7 pg. 63) Suki says that, “more brutal than learning English was facing poverty with a rich girl’s habits and memory.”...
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...Indian dialect INTRODUCTION English has been with India since the early 1600's, when the East India Company started trading and English missionaries first began their efforts. A large number of Christian schools imparting an English education were set up by the early 1800's. The process of producing English-knowing bilinguals in India began with the Minute of 1835, which officially endorsed T.B. Macaulay's goal of forming "a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern - a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect" (quoted in Kachru 1983, p. 22). English became the official and academic language of India by the early twentieth century. The rising of the nationalist movement in the 1920's brought some anti-English sentiment with it - even though the movement itself used English as its medium. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN ENGLISH Indian English is a distinct variety of the English language. Many Indians claim that it is very similar to British English, but this opinion is based on a surface level examination of lexical similarities. Of course, one must keep in mind that not every linguistic item is used by every Indian English speaker and that a great deal of regional and educational differentiation exists. Even so, items can be identified which are indicative of Indian English speech and which are widely used. These operate on various phonological, morphological,...
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...Tactics of Commercial Activities PREPARED BY Saiful Islam Biplob | CAN-150221 | Date of Submission: Dec 07, 2015 Executive summery Exporting is a challenging job in the garments sector. Now it’s an adopting concept in garments industry. In this regard commercials play an important role in the RMG manufacturing company. The Commercial Officer is an executive-level position whose occupant is responsible for the commercial strategy and development of an organization. It typically involves activities relating to marketing, sales, product development and customer service to drive business growth and market share. As a corporate officer position, the commercials generally reports directly to the chief executive officer (CEO) and is primarily concerned with ensuring the integrated commercial success of an organization. The role typically must combine technical knowledge of the relevant field with strong marketing and business development skills. This means that they are closely linked to the organization's strategic management function, in drafting, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that will enable an organization to achieve its long-term objectives. Merchandiser has to understand the buyer’s requirements after receiving specification in the sample order. In many cases, there are modifications pertaining to the specifications in the order to dispatch on time and the right quality. He has to talk with the in-house veterans...
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...LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY THE GIFT OF THE MAGI The Gift of the Magi is one of the most popular short stories by O. Henry, a pen name for William Sydney Porter - a renowned American author. Originally published in 1906, in O. Henry’s second collection of short stories, The Gift of the Magi which displays all of the major O. Henry traits in abundance has given him credit for his genuine talent. It has been retold in various forms since then, especially at Christmas time. The story is about a young poor couple, Jim and Della Dillingham Young, who each sells their most precious possession in order to buy a Christmas gift for their partner, but in doing so, they end up making each others gift worthless. The profound philosophy about love, generosity and gift-giving is successfully delivered to readers by O. Henry in part through a compelling plot and a unique point of view. A simply inspiring storyline with a clever twist ending, for which O. Henry is well-known, helps bring the short story a huge success. Despite some different attitudes on fundamental plot elements which should be included in a great story, Freytag’s idea of five key parts – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and denouement, is predominant. These factors are also apparently demonstrated in The Gift of the Magi. In the phase of exposition, James Dillingham Young, also called Jim, and his wife, Della, are introduced as a poor young couple living in New York. Even so, there are...
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...both negligence and liability on both parties of each case and the decision can be yours to make. Keep in mind that negligence is the failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances ("Negligence", 2011). Strict liability is a standard for liability which may exist in either a criminal or civil context. A rule specifying strict liability makes a person legally responsible for the damage and loss caused by his or her acts and omissions ("Strict Liability", 2011). The first case deals with vehicles and keyless entry and remote start. The video tells the story about owners of keyless start vehicles that were driven and then parked inside of their garage where they were left running and ended up either injuring the owners or in some cases killing them, five (5) in just a few years. Keyless entry and remote start vehicles use a key fob that allows the owner to start and drive the vehicles without ever putting an actual key into an ignition and also allows them to stop driving without having to turn the car off manually. What is happening are the drivers are parking and getting out without pressing the engine stop button. This is filling to home up with toxic gas and injuring the owners. Negligence and liability come into play on both sides of the picture of this case. First the owners should know and understand that they need to press the engine stop button before exiting the vehicle. This should be no different from having a...
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