...“Stranger Than True” by Barry Winston depicts the fact, not everything is what it seems. Barry Winston narrates what he had gone through. This reading provides us with the moral that even when everything seems to point to the unfavorable, it may in fact be the opposite. This type of read, is given out, either during exams, or during a student’s high school career. Usually, the students, are made to read short stories to provide them something to reflect on. For example, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, and the short story has an underlying tone, that seem extremely familiar. The key theme of the story is that making the right decision, may on occasion be one of the hardest ones to fabricate. As one may be reading this passage, and might read over what might be one of the predominantly tremendous quotes. “ Of course I believe him, but I’m worried about finding a judge who’ll believe him.” It is mind blowing, that even when all the evidence seems to point to him, Winston does not back down. As time went on, there was more than what meets the eye. The struggles were piling up even higher, when the D.A put witnesses on the stand. If I would ever be asked about an inspiring narrative, immediately Barry Winston’s story would pop into my head. This narrative provides the reader with a little insight, on how a lawyer can form a last minute decision, especially at such an intense moment. Winston, without a doubt, forces one to wonder, “How would one behave at that...
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...We are all strangers in some form or another. Whether it’s buying food from a store or at a party of some sort, we meet new people who we feel quickly connected to while conversing in topic after topic. This happens a lot and has its own excitement to it in some ways depending on the individual. However this doesn’t happen as often as we would think due to fear of not being accepted by others. In the essay titled “stranger,” Toni Morrison explains her experience with a stranger and what became of it. I agree when the author says that there are no strangers but our conscious that allows us to push others away. I disagree when she thought of the fisher-woman as deceitful after they had no chance of reuniting. In the essay titled “strangers” Toni Morrison concludes, “It took some time for me to understand my unreasonable claims on that fisherwoman...there are no strangers...only...
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...DONOR’S TAX CHAPTER 6 DONOR’S TAX Problem 6-1 1. False – during the lifetime of the donor. 2. True 3. True 4. False – there is no consideration in donation. 5. True 6. False – It is enough that the duly representative of the incapacitated donee to receive the donation. 7. True 8. False – Real property donation must be put in writing regardless of value. 9. True 10. False – The value of donated personal property must exceed P5,000. 11. True 12. True 13. False – not gifts. 14. False – constitutes dividend income. 15. True Problem 6-2 1. False – dowry is not allowed to nonresident alien donor. 2. False – the donee’s identity is not material to make the donation valid. The donor can make donation to an unborn child. 3. True 4. True 5. False – If resident alien donates, he shall be subject to donor’s tax in the Philippines for his properties within and outside the Philippines 6. True 7. True 8. True 9. False – only one-half of the share is donated. 10. False – only if the gift is on account of marriage. 11. False – only the first P100,000 is exempt. 12. False – may be subject to business tax such as VAT, custom duties, or excise tax. 13. False - When the donee is a stranger, the tax rate is 30%. 14. True 15. False - excise tax – the tax is imposed on the act to transfer property by way of gift inter vivos...
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...Figliomeni 1 Avery Figliomeni Mr. Young ENG 3U July 14, 2013 The Strangers that Came to Town Sometimes if you are not accepted by others, you may not feel like you have a lot of freedom. In the short story, “The Strangers that Came to Town”, Ambrose Flack is showing that true freedom is about being accepted. In the story the Duvitch family immigrated to escape starvation, separation and possible assassination. The Duvitches wanted to be free. Ambrose Flacks shows how people in the neighborhood and community didn’t accept the Duvitch family, however towards the end they started to realize that they were good people. In the beginning of Ambrose Flacks story, “The Strangers that came to Town” the Duvitches were not accepted by their neighbors. Ambrose Flack is showing that the Duvitches neighbors aren’t very accepting. People who live on Syringa St. with the Duvitches aren’t very accepting because the Duvitches are not well off, they look different and they are considered born savages. Firstly, people in the Duvitches neighborhood don’t accept them because they were a poor family. “But the Duvitches were marked people. They were the one struggling family in a prosperous community—and poverty, amid prosperity, is often embarrassing and irritating to the prosperous” (3). This proves that people were embarrassed by the Duvitches because they are not wealthy like most people on Syringa St. Secondly; the Duvitches were not accepted by their neighbors because...
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...not really interested in a long answer, he is just waiting to sell them tickets. This is interesting because we have been taught that in Germany “How are you?” is a question that is really asking for a genuine answer, good or bad, and in the US the expected answer is a short “good” or “good, how are you?” in most casual situations. In the US, “how are you” is a polite phrase to say to strangers that adds some warmth to a greeting without prying for detail that might make anyone uncomfortable. Americans are supposedly more open to conversation and making conversation with strangers than they may be in Germany. Therefore, it is interesting that the East Germans in the movie are comfortable to share so much information so readily with a stranger in New York. I now wonder if people in Germany only ask, “How are you?” to close friends and not really to casual acquaintances in order to avoid sharing or hearing too much information? Although this American cultural difference is proven to be true in many casual situations, I find this situation especially true in a city like New York and less true in smaller towns like Houghton. For example, I’m always surprised when I meet someone who is from Europe that has only visited the US once and did not enjoy the experience based on the ‘cold feeling’ they get from the people in New York. While it is never pleasant to feel this, New York is a large city and people live differently there because so many people are moving through the city...
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...live it.... [tags: Existentialism, ] 675 words (1.9 pages) $14.95 [preview] Understanding Existentialism - Do we matter. Do we seek personal happiness in life. These are questions from existentialism. The dictionary defines existentialism as an individual’s experience filled with isolation in a hostile universe where a human being attempts to find true self and the meaning of life through free will, choice, and personal responsibility. Hamlet is an existentialist character who believes that he is forced to avenge his father’s death and the hatred builds in his heart because of the many betrayals which direct him towards a senseless life and constant thoughts about suicide; this ultimately leads to his demise and he is left with naught.... [tags: Existentialism] 872 words (2.5 pages) $14.95 [preview] Life Value vs. Existentialism in Grendel - A main theme in John Gardner’s Grendel, is the constant competition of the ideas of meaning in life versus existentialism. Throughout the novel, Grendel makes a steady spiritual decay to the point of denying any value or significance in life itself. He believes the world is nothing more than “a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears”(16). This progression starts at a young age, and...
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... C) 16 D) 32 Ans. A 11. How many children did not try any of the rides. ? A) 5 B) 10 C) 15 D) 20 Ans. 15. 12. kids * 3 rides = Rs. 60 (55-20=)35 kids * 2 rides = Rs. 70 60 + 70 = Rs. 130 So, Rs. (145 – 130 = ) 15 are left for the other (85 – 55 = ) 30 kids . so only 15 of them can take a ride and rest 15 will be left out. 145 rides were taken. 20 of them took all three, i.e. Rs. 60 were spent, so 145-60= Rs. 85 are left for the others. Total kids were 85, so rest were 65. out of these 65, 12. How many children took exactly one ride? A) 5 B) 10 C) 15 D) 20 Ans. 15 13. Four cities are connected by a road network as shown in the figure. In how many ways can you start from any city and come back to it without travelling on the same road more than...
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...Stranger Than Fiction: Paper II “Anything worth writing comes inexplicably and without method”? How is this idea evident in the film, particularly as Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman’s characters portray the art of writing/narrative in the film? No one can force something good to happen, nor can they control their fate; it is something manifested from random courses of events. Fate is something inexplicable and is created without a method, therefore, Harold Crick is the perfect example of Eiffel’s quote. His entire life is a metaphor of things that happen that cannot be explained. This is ironic because Harold’s life is a book, written and narrated by Karen Eiffel. “Death and Taxes”, also Harold’s life, was expected to be Eiffel’s most amazing book yet. Harold’s fate and Eiffel’s novel is one and the same thing, therefore her quote relates to Harold’s life and the events that surround it. Taoism is an important ancient religion practiced in China, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam by about five million people. There’s a principle in Taoism that’s called “Wu Wei”, and translated means: “non-doing” or “non-action”. “Wu Wei 無爲 (Chinese, literally “non-doing”) is an important concept of Taoism and means natural action, or in other words, action that does not involve struggle or excessive effort. Wu wei is the cultivation of a mental state in which our actions are quite effortlessly in alignment with the flow of life. This going with the flow, although it...
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...Perrault, a 17th century author, wrote the first publication of this story to reflect that young children, particularly young girls, are wrong to listen to strangers, in this case wolves, and that in doing so, said strangers will undoubtedly get their delicious meal in the end. In Perrault’s version, the male and female are depicted in a very particular way, which is ultimately a reflection of the culture and society of the time. Given this society, and the status of women, it is clear that Perrault is criticizing the gender representation through. While Little Red Riding Hood is a classic tale, it holds a more valuable meaning than society realizes. The story of Little Red Riding Hood has a particular depiction of both men and women. In the story, men are depicted as a “metaphor, a stand-in for male seducers who lure young women into their beds.” (Tater 5). This depiction, while true, is not complete. The wolf is in fact luring Red into the bed with him, after she has taken her clothes off, and although it is not explicitly stated, the action of a girl removing her clothing and climbing into bed with a man implies a sense of sexuality. Additionally, though, the male is depicted as duplicitous and dominant. In several instances throughout the story, the wolf clearly tricks Red and her grandmother into believing something that is not true. The wolf, in need of getting to Grandmother’s house before Red, decides to have a sort of competition with her, thus tricking her into thinking he...
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...She chose to present herself as white for such an extended period of time, and lie about her whole background to the one she was supposed to love more than anything. She made the decision to leave home as soon as possible, as well as to marry a man with so much hate in his heart for the culture she longs for on such a deep level. She is never fully comfortable with herself and this is due to her never allowing herself to be true. The choice to marry John after her father’s death was made out of fear and in an attempt to get away from the struggles she had faced as a child. While marrying John did bring money and prosperity, it also brought self-hate and building a wall that can never come down. The wall contained her true identity, the identity of a small, frightened daughter of the janitor. As a coping mechanism for the trauma she faced, she threw herself into a privileged white lifestyle. The older Clare gets, crossing off milestones as she goes (marriage, a child, financial stability), she longs for the simplicity of her original...
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...Savannah Cook Western Lit 13 October 2016 Hospitality Xenia is defined as the Greek relationship between two people from different regions. Hospitality in Homer’s time was essential because in this day and time, methods of travel were less convenient. The communication and technology during this time period was far less advanced than the modern times to come. With the less progressive communication avenues along with longer travel times, more nights were spent away from home in other locations. The most common forms of transportation of this day were boat or on foot which obviously took longer than today’s modern transportation. In addition to this, travelers were not able to afford to stay in hotels or inns every night therefore it was...
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...receiving it. Advantages of Using This Method – One advantage to this method is that it’s simple to understand. The biggest advantage is that we’re using the Word of God and by doing so we’re getting supernatural power by the Holy Spirit to start working on the person or persons we’re talking to. We’re not the ones that “close” people into salvation, it’s the Holy Spirit that does the work after we’ve planted and watered the seeds. Disadvantages of Using This Method – When using this message it could be really easy for the people hearing this to not fully understand the meat and potatoes behind salvation. Too many times than I care to count I see believers caring more about the numbers of people led to salvation than the actual quality of it. If not done correctly people tend to think that just simply saying the words is enough when it’s not. In order for true salvation to take place one must confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and “truly” believe it in their hearts or else they’re buying a “knock off” version of salvation and being misled which could be eternally damaging. I don’t know about you but that is one thing I would not care to answer for in the day of judgement. Friendship Evangelism Summary of Method – This is the method of building relationships for a chance to share the gospel with others. This method also gives us a chance to live out our Christian lives in front of them so that we can be a light to them and hopefully make them want to live a more godly...
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...As Albert Camus said in one of his writings, “The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth of life.” The famous masterpiece of Albert Camus, The Stranger, gives us the true taste of existential philosophy and teaches us about the universality and inevitability of absurd in humans’ lives. However, one can meet very similar concepts and ideas illustrated in another piece of art, which is the movie “I Heart Huckabees” by David O. Russell. This philosophical comedy does, indeed, share many similarities with The Stranger. The four main principles of existentialism similar in the book and the movie are observation, meaning of life, coincidence, and absurd. The best place to start is one of the most important aspects of existentialism and absurd as well as of The Stranger, observation. In The Stranger, we read about the constant observation that is done by the main...
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...Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards – And I can tell you right now that it was terrible, not because it was bad, but because it was so good: I couldn't put it down until I finished the final pages at 4 in the morning. Argh! Not a good thing, when your alarm goes off at 6.30 AM to get ready for more reading at school What fascinates me about this book is what it has to say about "secrets.” And how confessing the deepest and most sinful secrets can give more freedom than money or success can ever bring. The basic premise is this- a doctor is forced to deliver his wife's child in the middle of a raging snowstorm. The only complication is that she's actually carrying twins - the first, a healthy beautiful baby boy; the second, a Downs Syndrome baby girl. The year is 1964, when such children are regularly institutionalized - after all, babies like this rarely survive long anyway, and even if they do, their quality of life is marginal at best. As a doctor, David Henry knows his daughters prognosis full well, and rather than force his young wife Norah to deal with such a tragedy, he makes a snap decision to try and protect her from a lifetime of unspeakable grief. His solution: hand the "defective" daughter to his nurse to deliver to an institution, while he informs his wife of the tragedy - she delivered twins, but her daughter did not survive childbirth. She is dead, gone. With that simple little secret, the future is inescapably changed, his doom is sealed - unbeknownst to anyone...
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...Clytemnestra to Clytemnestra by arguing that a father’s death is different from a mother’s. Apollo boldly claims that the mother is not the true parent of the child: “That word mother— we give it to the one who bears the child. However, she’s no parent, just a nurse to that new life embedded in her. The parent is the one who plants the seed, the father. Like a stranger for a stranger she preserves the growing life, unless god injures it.” (Eumenides 654-661) Apollo's arguments in defense of Orestes are single-mindedly patriarchal, all based on the essential notion that a woman's life is worth less than that of a man. He argues that life comes from the father alone, and as such the father is the true parent. The father deserves the loyalty of his children while the mother is just a stranger used as tool to nurture the children that the father gives. Therefore, he states that Orestes should be acquitted because he was carrying out the out the duty of avenging his true parent. His killing of Clytemnestra is not one of a son killing a mother, but a mere stranger who killed his father. Athena, the chief judge at the trial, supports male dominance. Her justification for ruling in Orestes favor seems to have some semblance of gender bias: “No mother gave me birth—that’s why in everything but marriage I support the man with all my heart, a true child of my father Zeus. Thus, that woman’s death. I won’t consider more significant. She killed her husband, guardian of their home”. (Eumenides...
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