...Characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is. Example: “The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.” Explanation: The author is directly telling the audience the personality of these two children. The boy is “patient” and the girl is “quiet.” Indirect Characterization shows things that reveal the personality of a character. There are five different methods of indirect characterization: Speech Thoughts Effect on others toward the character. What does the character say? How does the character speak? What is revealed through the character’s private thoughts and feelings? What is revealed through the character’s effect on other people? How do other characters feel or behave in reaction to the character? What does the character do? How does the character behave? What does the character look like? How does the character dress? Actions Looks TIP #1: TIP #2: Use the mnemonic device of STEAL to remember the five types of indirect characterization Use indirect characterization to analyze visual media: Film: Look at how the character dresses and moves. Note the facial expressions when the director moves in for a close-up shot. Drama: Pay attention to the way that the characters reveal their thoughts during a soliloquy. Examples of Indirect Characterization from The Cat in the Hat Type of Indirect Characterization Examples Many of the words spoken by the cat at the beginning of the story have an...
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...Lines 1-5: The Boy 1. What does the title of the poem make you think is going to happen? 2. Which word is repeated four times? Why do you think the poet does this? 3. Do you agree with the poet when he says, ‘only nine, not old enough’? Give reasons for your answer. 4. How do you feel towards the boy at this point in the poem? Section B Lines 6- 17: The Cat 1. Why do you think that the poet thinks a dog might have been different? Do you find this surprising? 2. What does the cat look like? 3. Find a word that expresses how the boy feels about the cat. Then try to find what makes him feel this way. 4. How do you think the poet wants the reader to feel about the parents Give reasons for your answer? 5. Do you notice anything about the descriptions of the cat in lines 13 and 15 what does this suggest to you? Section C Lines 18-32: The Murder 1. Write a short paragraph explaining how the boy murders the cat 2. Find two quotations from the section to show that the boy enjoys hurting the cat. Section D Lines 33-47: The Aftermath 1. How does the boy’s attitude change at this point? 2. What do you think he is afraid of in lines 33 to 26? 3. What do you this he is praying for? 4. The poet calls the cat the ‘thing’. Why? Find another similar expression. 5. By the end of the poem what does the boy fear will happen? ...
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...The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe Title – Author – Genre Is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in August 1843 Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January, 1809 – October, 1849). American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. His life was filled with tragedy, this had a fortunate side effect on his writing and added a degree of sadness and a depth of despair that can be hard to read, let alone replicate. Poe’s best know fiction works are Gothics, a genre his mostly wrote to appease the public taste. He often chose dark themes for his works, included questions about death, decomposing of bodies, premature burial, mourning, and necromancy. All of these elements are in the black cat. Summary An unnamed narrator opens the story by stating that he is sane, despite the wild an unnatural story of horror he is about to tell. The narrator confesses a great love for animals. He states that pets respect the fidelity of friendship better then humans. The narrator marries young with a wife that takes in his love and joy for domestic pets. One of the pets they have together is a black cat named Pluto, which the narrator shares a special relationship with. As the narrator develops an alcohol problem, he gets mood swings and outburst of rage which leads to violence and the narrator torturing and hanging Pluto. After Pluto’s death the narrator’s house is caught on fire. When the narrator sees the ruins of his house after the fire, he sees a picture of Pluto...
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...is usually insurance linked and meant to raise money in case of a catastrophe such as a hurricane or earthquake. One of the advantages of catastrophe bonds is that they are not linked to the stock market or the poor economic conditions occurring today. The emergence of catastrophe bonds occurred because of the large losses insurance companies suffered following Hurricane Andrew. A catastrophe bond deal occurs as; “an insurer will issue a bond whose returns are tired to the likelihood of one or more natural disasters over a certain period of time. If the event does not happen, investors earn a yield on the bond. But the principle can be wiped out if a devastating storm does strike,” (Ahmed). The catastrophe bond can be beneficial to the insurance company when a natural disaster occurs because they now have more money on hand due to the investors. It can also be very beneficial for investors when a natural disaster does not occur and they earn a relatively high yield compared to other securities. The main issue with the catastrophe bond as both an insurance company and an investor is that the likelihood of a natural disaster is entirely random and cannot be predicted through any mathematical formula. The Japanese earthquake was the first large natural disaster to occur during the emergence of catastrophe bonds, excluding Hurricane Katrina. This earthquake will be revolutionary in the catastrophe bond market because of the large implications at hand. Investors will be reluctant...
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...Diagnostic Test Due: 1/31/12 Cody Evangelous “Black cat, white cat; [Who cares] as long as it catches mice” In life, situations can be looked at and perceived differently, which then leads an individual or a group to decide on the best possible outcome to resolve that situation. The solution is the most important part of the problem and as long as the necessary outcome happens that is all that matters. This is true in the quote above; cats do their job by catching mice, it doesn’t matter what type or what color the cat is. I agree to this to some extent. In certain scenarios it’s not black and white and coming up with one simple solution. Some problems have depth behind them where it’s not just a “cat catching a mice”. More specificity is needed when it comes to in-depth problems. In most case scenarios the quote “Black cat, white cat;[who cares] as long as it catches mice “ applies, but not every scenario. The quote is most evident in when anyone is given a certain task, that person then takes on the responsibility of having to accomplish that task. For example, when a carpenter gets a customer that wants new cabinets in their kitchen. The carpenter then has to complete the requests of the customer, doesn’t matter how he gets the job done, but as long as the cabinets are completed. He could get his five workers to complete the job, or he could do it himself with his two top carpenters. The task is given first and it does not matter how or who gets the task done but as long...
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...Cat in the rain The short story, “Cat in the Rain”, by Ernest Hemingway, describes the relationship between two married American tourists in Italy, where one is striving to get a cat. The American wife wants to bring the cat into they’re room, but the husband is indifferent to her wish. Under these actions, there are a lot of important points. This cat is symbolic and reveals the psychological state and emotional desires of the American wife. The cat is caught by the rain. It needs help and care, but it is ignored by others. Just like the American wife. When you have wanted something for a long time and you haven’t got it, sometimes you just do what you feel is best for you. The American wife does her best to save the cat, which is held back because of the rain. Her husband gives a courtesy and says “I’ll do it” (p. 1 line 14) but he makes no further attempt to help, which gives us a view of him being careless for this cat. The wife never catches the cat. The rain that held the cat back, stopped, and it ran away. The cat is a clear symbol of a baby and the American wife who is held back because of the rain, which symbolizes the husband. The wife is so determined to get a baby, but is unable to, because of her husband’s missing wish for a baby. When the woman comes back to the hotel, she starts mentioning all the wishes she wants in her future. “Don’t you think it would be a good idea if I let my hair grow out?” (p.2 line. 15) she asks her husband, where he answers “I like...
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...Imagine cats all over the world dying. And for what? Something as simple as eating dog food. Now, what if there was a solution? What if there was one, special, creative, invention, that could fix that problem. One simple invention, for hundreds of cats lives. Well, I am here today, to show a solution to this problem. Are you ready to find out about an invention, that will save hundreds of cats lives? Then keep on reading. It may come as a surprise to you, but dog food is actually very poisonous to cats. According to http://www.onegreenplanet.org a cat's nutritional diet is much different than dogs. They have some dietary restrictions, for example cats require higher levels of protein than dogs. Cats must have the amino...
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...Interpretation of “Cat in the Rain” Hemingway’s meaning to the “Cat in the Rain” is more than just the literal cat in the rain. Yes, the story talks and discusses a cat that is stuck in the rain; but, this is not the true meaning of Hemingway’s story. The character the “American Wife” shows similar elements of confinement and restraint as to the cat in the story. The constant obsession for the cat in the story from the wife shows that she thinks of herself as the cat and wants to be freed from this rain. Two Americans are stuck in a hotel where their room is facing the sea, a public garden and a war monument. A rainy day it seems to be there somewhere in Italy and the American wife is looking out the window and she spots a cat under the table that is trying to keep dry from the rain. The American wife begins to express a desire for many things in the story. She tells her husband if she cannot have fun on this trip that she should get anything she wants. She starts to request material goods and the story shows that she requests these things due to the lack of intangible goods such as love and affection. The American wife suddenly becomes obsessed with the idea of saving this random street cat. You can metaphorically say the cat is her and she is trying to save the cat from the rain and in the Americans wife case the rain is the lack of love and affection. But, George (her husband) ignores her desires and treats her as if she was a little girl of no importance what so ever. One...
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...Crusade”, and Walt Whitman in his poem “Song Of Myself” portray society as a murderer and their characters as the victims. Through interpretations and descriptions, their journeys and victimizations are brought to life through the literature. The ways in which society affects each person are shown in “In The Machine” as Lucas falls to industrialization, in “Song of Myself” as the reader discovers society’s true effects, in “Children’s Crusade” as Cat breaks away from society and finds her true happiness, and in “Song of Myself” as stereotypes are formed by society. Throughout the story, In The Machine, by Michael Cunningham, the main character, Lucas falls victim to society and its expectations. Lucas is just an average boy trying to get by during the course of the industrial revolution. Throughout the course of this period, people in society began to realize how technology was going to take over their lives. Lucas, became very involved in machines, he began working with machines, and eventually obsessed with machines. What the story does not describe is how society was very accepting of machines and new technology, and how society was not accepting of those who did not accept machinery and technology. Also, society compares you to that of your elders. Because Lucas’ brother, Simon, was such a high quality worker, Lucas was expected to be the...
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...9 9 Chapter9 Answers to Evennumbered Exercises 9 1. 2. What are two ways you can execute a shell script when you do not have execute access permission to the file containing the script? Can you execute a shell script if you do not have read access permission? You can give the name of the file containing the script as an argument to the shell (for example, sh scriptfile, where scriptfile is the name of the file containing the script). Under bash you can give the following command: $ . scriptfile Because the shell must read the commands from the file containing a shell script before it can execute the commands, you must have read permission for the file in order to execute the shell script. 3. 4. Assume that you have made the following assignment: $ person=jenny Give the output of each of the following commands: a. echo $person jenny b. echo '$person' $person c. echo "$person" jenny 5. 1 2 Chapter 9 6. Assume that the /home/jenny/grants/biblios and /home/jenny/biblios directories exist. For both (a) and (b), give Jenny’s working directory after she executes the sequence of commands given. Explain. a. $ pwd /home/jenny/grants $ CDPATH=$(pwd) $ cd $ cd biblios After executing the preceding commands, Jenny’s working directory is /home/jenny/grants/biblios. When CDPATH is set, cd searches only the directories specified by CDPATH; cd does not search the working directory unless the working directory is specified in CDPATH (by using a period). b. $ pwd /home/jenny/grants $...
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...JACKSON THE CRAZY CAT Jackson is a crazy cat. He is not my cat, I don’t own cats. Actually, nobody owns a cat. He “resides” with my daughter-in-law’s family who we will be staying with for a year. When my wife and I were brats in the military and moving around, we both got tired of leaving pets behind so just stopped having them very early on. The last dog that chased us down the street as we left in the station wagon on our way to Japan was my last straw. Later in life, we both had as many as two dogs at a time to catch up. We never had cats though so we figured it would not be hard on us to live with a cat when we went back to California to help family. After all, they have no personalities and just lay around all day with a blank look on their faces. Their cat, his name is Jackson, knows the family routine pretty well. In the morning mom is getting the red headed boy off to school. He also gets fed at that time and the boy too. He will lay on the kitchen floor against an out of the way wall and watch all the running back and forth. When they leave, he comes upstairs and waits on a perch he found next to the stairs. He gets a view of both floors there and the front door is in plain sight. When my wife goes down to get her cup of coffee, he is ready with a paw as she goes down. She is not a real cat fancier, does not hold him or anything and the crazy cat seems to adore her. Every morning he reaches out from his perch next to the stairs and touches her shoulder as...
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...Contradiction: You can write grammatically correct articles and you cannot write grammatically correct articles. Part 2: Form: If it is a cat, then it has four legs. It has four legs. ---------------------------------------------- Thus, it is a cat. A. What is the conclusion? The conclusion is it is a cat. B. What is the premise? There are two premises. If it is a cat, then it has four legs and it has four legs. C. Translating the argument. C → F F ------------ C D. Inductive or deductive argument? The argument uses premise and conclusions to provide an explanation. The use of two premises is another clue to determine whether the argument is inductive or deductive. Also, the premises in the above arguments are intended to prove the conclusion. This argument is a deductive argument. More specifically, the argument is fashioned in the form of modus ponens. The basic form of this is: If p, then q. p. --------------- Thus, q. E. Can the conclusion be a false statement? Most definitely the conclusion can be a false statement. Just because the reader is assuming the premises to be true (If it is a cat, then it has four legs and it has four legs) does not automatically justify that the conclusion will be true. Here it is not. In the example of the cartoon, the picture clearly indicates that the animal is a dog, not a cat. There are many...
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...Ernest Hemingway’s “A Cat in the Rain”: Symbolism. AUTORA: Vanesa Duque León “A Cat in the Rain” is a non-fiction story that belongs to Ernest Hemingway’s collection. In a 1958 interview, Hemingway expressed his literary concern in a way that shows how his art both depends on and radically departs from conventional “realism”: “From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all the things that you know and all those that you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than any thing true and alive. (The Harper American Literature, 1156) In “A Cat in the Rain,” Hemingway demonstrates his ability to portray real women with problems and to respond to their unhappiness with real sympathy. “A Cat in the Rain” is, on the surface, a simple tale of an American couple in Italy. Ernest Hemingway’s “A Cat in the Rain” However, the reader soon realizes that this uncomplicated story illuminates much deeper meanings. This seemingly mundane plot becomes symbolic and purposeful under the reader’s gaze. There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel. They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on their way to and from their room. Their room was on the second floor facing the sea. It also faced the public garden and war monument. There were big palms and green benches in the public garden. In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel...
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...Cats are better pets than dogs. Did you know that cats have 30 teeth and dogs have 42! No wonder cats are cheaper, easier to train, self-sufficient and well-balanced. Cats make better pets then dogs because, they are cheaper, self-sufficient and easier to train then dogs. Lower Cost The annual cost of dogs and cats are different. According Financially Fit blog, Annual bill for feeding and vet bills varies for small dogs $1,314 first year, $580 per year after. Medium Dogs $1,580 First year and $695 per year after. Large dogs are $1,843 first year and 875 per year after. Where cats are $1,035 first year and $670 per year after. No matter the breed away it always stays the same for cats. This estimate does not include if and or when you travel. Dogs you have to either bring along or pay extra money to have with you, get a dog sitter, and board them somewhere or a dog walker while at work or away. Where cats just need to have enough food and water for the time that you are gone, or have a relative or friend come and check on them. These estimates include food, annual vet bills, they don’t include extras like toys,. According to the ASPCA, training and grooming for a small dog breaks down like this:• Long hair grooming – $264 • Training class – $110 • TOTAL - $374. Ever see a dog's playthings? Shredded rawhide bones, torn tennis balls. They're in tatters (unless, of course, they've been swallowed). Cat toys tend to be hugged, carried and carefully hidden in beds or baskets. Cats...
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...Kevin Nguyen David Beitl Luis Benitez NT1210 1/25/2015 5.1.1 802.1 standard is basically that it handles the architecture, security, management and internetworking of LAN, MAN, WAN standardized by IEEE 802. 5.1.2 What 802.3 standard originally defined PoE functionality? The IEEE 802.3af standard When was the standard enhanced, and what was the new standard name given for the enhancement? It was changed in 2009 and it was called IEEE 802.3at 5.1.3 Ethernet Standards Standard | Speed | Segment Length | Cable | 10Base5 | 10Mbps | 500m | Rg-8 or RG-11 Coaxial | 10Base2 | 10Mbps | 185m | RG-58 A/U or RG-58 C/U Coaxial | 10Base-T | 10Mbps | 100m | Cat 3 or better UTP | 100Base-T | 100Mbps | 100m | Cat 5 UTP or STP | 100Base-TX | 100Mbps | 100m | Cat 5 UTP or STP | 100Base-FX | 100Mbps | 2km | 2-pair 850 nm Multimode optic fibers | 1000Base-T | 1Gbps | 100m | 4-pair, Cat 5 or Cat 5e | 1000Base-SX | 1Gbps | 550m (multimode) | 2-pair fiber optic | 5.1.4 What does the numeric prefix before BASE the Ethernet standards? It denotes its maximum data transmission rate What does the inclusion of the postfix of –T imply? A reference to the twisted pair cable needed for this standard. Lab 5.1 Review 1. What would the maximum speed of traffic be from a node in network A to a node in network B? 10 Mbps 2. How is it possible for a network to uphold a maximum speed when it allows different categories of UTP wire to be used? The maximum...
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