...1.The duty, this element requires plaintiff to act like an ordinary careful person. 2.Breach of Duty, which comes after establishing standard of care; hotel was negligence, the hotel should have protected its gusts, and it should have monitored the elevators from any strangers. 3.Causation, this element comes after the establishment of the breach of duty. This element often used to determine the causes of an accident. The “but for” test which determines the defendant action or absence of action, that could have prevented the injury. 4.Proximate Cause, which is the negligence that cause the injury. It must be the main cause of injury, and not another negligence. 5.Damages, which means that Mr. Margreiter must establish the damages that resulted from the hotel negligence. 1. The duty, this element requires the Mr. Margreiter to act like an ordinary careful person. Also the hotel has a duty to protect the gusts from any attack from a third person. However, the hotel was negligence, because it fails to protect Mr. Margreiter from the attack which happens inside the hotel. 2. Breach of Duty, which comes after establishing standard of care, and determining the duty, the hotel was negligence, the hotel should have protected its gusts, and it should have monitored the elevators from any strangers. Moreover, the hotel does not have cameras, and there were only one guard to monitor the whole hotel which is very huge. The back door has no guard. All of these are a breach...
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...Mullin Mrs. Nugent English II September 18, 2012 Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket Jack Finney starts off the story with Tom Benecke sitting at a desk in the living room of his eleventh floor apartment, typing a memo for work. His wife Clare is preparing to go to the movies alone. With difficulty, Tom opens a stubborn window, and a gust of wind blows his paper out of the window onto a ledge. We see how Finney casually introduces that his apartment is on the eleventh floor of the building, in the great city of New York. Before you even begin reading the story, you get an eerie feeling just from the title of the short story. Then when you begin to read the story, and he introduces the setting and the 11th floor apartment so nonchalantly, you begin to get a feeling of suspense. Finney continues on with Tom seeing Clare off, and him explaining he must work rather than go with her, in the hopes of bettering himself at work. While the door to the apartment is open for Clare to leave, a current of air from the hallway enters the apartment. It blows a sheet of paper out the window, landing it on a ledge below, out of his reach. The paper contains all the data Tom needs for his memo proposing a new grocery-store display method. ]He reasons it would be simple to retrieve the sheet of paper from the ledge, compared to all the work he has put into it. At this point in the story, things begin to pick up, building the sense of suspense. Now that we know he is going to go out onto the ledge...
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...Ha guys wait up! I rushed telling to my friends Molly, Kelsey, and Ellie. Why are you late for the sleepover? Ellie sayed to me in a mad way. My teacher gave me datenchin again for talking in class. I was going to have it for two hours but I have my ways. I answered to Ellie. Aaaa! Molly screamed. What is it! I asked her in a panic. there is a bee! she answered me in a scream. It is gust a hony bee and I am so happy to see one because I am making a blog about them with class. I told my friends. O.M.G. Kelsey said ina suprised voice. Oh no. Why did you say that out loud Lily. I told myself. Any other secerets? Molly asked. Well I gess it is time for me to also tell you I never get in datenchin. I gust tell you that because what I rely do a...
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...The ghost buck One Saturday morning I realized that DEER SEASON is getting close so I went to the store to get corn a little bit after I got the deer feeder out and set it up. While I set it up, the feed was behind me and I heard it crinkle. I turned around, hesitantly. I saw a buck figure but it blew away in the gust of the wind and that was the end of the day but I thought about it all night. but then it was deer season. He was ready to go deer hunting. He waited out all day, but there was nothing. I forgot to put the deer feed out.I laughed at myself all day.then something was circling me and I got in my truck and drove to my friends house because I didn't feel safe but that's when I realized I had the eye of the buck a story that i read...
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...g h h hTo be perfect short story neatness, brevity and a significant incident or an aspect of character or an experience of some psychological moment is essential. Within its short frame work, it must have a beginning, middle and an end. There must be completeness in its structure. All the elements plot, character, dialogue, descriptions and background must be organically connected with other. Generally a good story has a surprising end which bears a sense of endlessness. All these characteristics of a good short story are fulfilled in the short story of O Henry’s The Last Leaf. It has an ironical twist at the end that is surprising and at the same time striking to the readers. Old Behrman’s bold self sacrifice for the young Johnsy comes unexpectedly to the readers, but none the less convincing and admirable.The story if farther a parable of christian story of Resurrection and sacrifice. The story begins in a leisurely manner with the sketchy background. The old Greenwich village in which painters come to set up their art studio has curious maze streets criss-crossing one another. A traveler loses the directions of the streets. This description of the streets has relevance to the story in which a strong and strange psychological morbidity is focused. The main theme is then introduced it has two characters – Sue and Johnsy. They met together suddenly at a hotel and found themselves sharing taste chicory salad, bishop sleeves and in painting. They become intimate friends and...
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...Techniques “The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, but he no longer appeared to suffer any pain,” (The Black Cat). Gothic literature uses many different techniques to give a reader a spooky or dark feel from a story. Edgar Allen Poe used ghost twin, dark and spooky setting, and unreliable narrator in his gothic literature stories. Poe used the gothic technique of ghost twin in his literature. In his story “The Black Cat”, he used this technique. “I approached it, and touched it with my hand. It was a black cat--a very large one--fully as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him in every respect but one.” Edgar Allen Poe is talking about a cat the narrator found in the den of his house. He had recently hung his own cat, Pluto, who was all black....
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...Day after day, and year after year, Rebecca dreams of what she would rather be doing with her life. Going out on the town, having her own job, and traveling far, far away from this hometown of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is all she ever wanted. Instead, Rebecca married Tom, hoping to raise her social status and acceptance in this town. But today will be different. Today, once Tom comes home from work, Rebecca has promised herself to finally speak up in their marriage. As the door swings open with a gust of wind, Tom tramples through the doorway and tosses his carrying bag on the table. Rebecca stands up in a hurry and rushes to Tom’s side. “Tom?” she asks. “Can we go to New York? Or how about Pennsylvania? Anywhere but here, I just want to feel productive and useful.” “Rebecca, what has gotten into you? Tom laughs. “You are useful. Your job is right here in this kitchen.” Just as Rebecca had imagined, Tom had once again crushed her dreams in one swift breath. In A Jury of Her Peers and A Story of an Hour, both female characters resemble a closely related life to Rebecca’s. Both Minnie Wright and Louise Mallard are married to men who don’t quite see their wives as individuals. After getting married, a sense of identity is lost as the woman takes on the last name of her husband. Unfortunately, to most men in the early 20th century, marriage to their wives means that they are his property. In believing that, the women don’t have much say in any decisions and their sense of freedom is...
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...To be perfect short story neatness, brevity and a significant incident or an aspect of character or an experience of some psychological moment is essential. Within its short frame work, it must have a beginning, middle and an end. There must be completeness in its structure. All the elements plot, character, dialogue, descriptions and background must be organically connected with other. Generally a good story has a surprising end which bears a sense of endlessness. All these characteristics of a good short story are fulfilled in the short story of O Henry’s The Last Leaf. It has an ironical twist at the end that is surprising and at the same time striking to the readers. Old Behrman’s bold self sacrifice for the young Johnsy comes unexpectedly to the readers, but none the less convincing and admirable.The story if farther a parable of christian story of Resurrection and sacrifice. The story begins in a leisurely manner with the sketchy background. The old Greenwich village in which painters come to set up their art studio has curious maze streets criss-crossing one another. A traveler loses the directions of the streets. This description of the streets has relevance to the story in which a strong and strange psychological morbidity is focused. The main theme is then introduced it has two characters – Sue and Johnsy. They met together suddenly at a hotel and found themselves sharing taste chicory salad, bishop sleeves and in painting. They become intimate friends and in a cheap...
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...When I was alone at home one day, I was more excited than being afraid. My parents had gone for an invitation and had left me behind as I was not keen in going with them. I was feeling free like a bird and very independent for the first time in my life. I had some snacks that my mother had prepared along with a glass of hot chocolate, which is my favorite. I then sank into the couch and began reading one of my favorite stories of the Hardy Boys. I read the story book for about an hour and then decided to take a break. It was around 6:30 p.m. by then. My favorite television program would begin at 7:00 p.m.; although my mother instructed me on the 'dos and don'ts of watching television. Any way for about another two hours I would be the master of my life! I peeped out of the window. There was the full moon shining brightly on the streets. Some children were playing badminton on a cool wintry night. A cool and fresh gust of wind was blowing through the window. I went to the kitchen and then to the refrigerator to find something to munch on. Finding something to eat, I returned to the hall room where I became a couch potato and watched my favorite Television program. It was around 7:30 p.m. and I was sitting comfortably on the couch, when the lights went off. It was a power cut. Suddenly I found myself in darkness. What bad luck, I thought to myself. I went to find the emergency light to get rid of the darkness around me. I was feeling a bit afraid in the dark, but was finding...
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...power. Yet, this power could lead to the destruction of man-kind itself. In the story There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury illustrates how man will not be able to contend with itself and nature, leaving nothing behind but nature alone. Throughout the story There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury weaves the theme of man verses nature into the lines to show the fall of man when nature reclaims the world. Man-kind has taken much from nature to build technology and a world of their own to live in. In the story, everything in the house is automatic, the cleaning, the cooking, running a bath and even closing the blinds is done by artificial...
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...At 8:24 A.M., a 565-foot heavy crawler crane, owned by Bay Crane, was hanging 15 stories high, when it unexpectedly fell down the street at 40 Worth Street and West Broadway in New York City. A life was tragically lost as the crane tumbled down, and crushed the victim, David Wich, 38, who sitting in his car. According to New York City’s Office of Emergency Management, “three individuals were injured in the crash, two seriously with lacerations to the head,” by a falling debris. In an immediate response, the New York City Fire Department sent out more than 140 firefighters after the incident occurred. National Weather Service reported that “New York was under a winter weather advisory Friday morning, with the forecast calling for snow and sustained winds between 16 mph and 18 mph, and gusts as strong as 29 mph.”...
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...Pleasant” is a short story written by Mary-Louis Buxton, published in 2005. The theme in this short story is the children thoughts in their everyday life. The short story is about a girl named Elizabeth and her everyday life. She starts by being up in a attic where she finds a photo which she takes downstairs when she's called by her mother. Elizabeth's mother doesn't like the photo which is an old photo of an unknown boy. She talks a little about the roads around Mount Pleasant which they now know pretty good. She talks about how known herself and her sister are in the area. Later she talks about being home with her father and sister, drink hot cocoa and eat syrup sandwiches. That night in her bed she feels that someone sat in her bed which made her very scared but in the end nobody was there. The story is set in a house called Mount Pleasant and the area around the house where the main character lives. The narrator is the main character who isn't described in the story but we're told that she's about 6 or 7 years old which is shown in this quote: “He's maybe nine or ten, not that much older than I am.” The narrator describes the hole story through her thoughts and what she sees which is very childish e.g. when she speaks of her mother and father she calls them Mammy and Daddy. The narrator's named Elizabeth which we are told at the first page when her mother calls her. She's a first person narrator because of the use of 'I' through the hole story even though she never...
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...Old Man with Enormous Wings The story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", is a symbolic story about an old man who people believe is an angel. They believe that the old man is sent to take the son of Pelayo and Elisenda because he has been sick. The story tells of the angel’s hard times throughout his stay with Pelayo and his family, but the people lose interest in the so called angel after word spreads of the "spider-woman". There is a sigh of relief when the angel disappears over the horizon. During the beginning of the story, Pelayo and his wife are having a hard time. Their house was over-flowing with rotten crabs, and their son was extremely ill. They thought the illness was from the stench of the crabs. One day when Pelayo went to the beach to throw some crabs back, he discovered something in the mud. The movement was an old man who had wings. Pelayo was told that it was an angel sent to take their son away, and they were advised to kill the old man. They did not kill the man; however, they found out that hundreds of pilgrims were willing to pay to see the angel. Elisenda and Pelayo put the man in the chicken coop and decided to charge five cents for people to see the angel. The curious came from far away. Less than a week there rooms were filled with money. After that, the people had begun to hear about a woman who had been changed into a spider because she disobeyed her parents. The spider-woman told her story to people and they listened with amazement...
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...would agree to get a divorce but once Gatsby began to say that she never loved him, but she realized that this was not true and that at one point, she did indeed love her husband. She loved them both and was not granted her divorce. She left with Gatsby but returned to her home with her husband. The things that roses symbolize like love and happiness that now are meaningless to Gatsby and bring him only pain as displayed in the quote “grotesque thing a rose is.” Flowers been a common motif throughout The Great Gatsby. Constantly comparing peoples looks to a rose, or love to a rose, he fills Nick’s home with flowers because Daisy’s name is a flower and flowers represent her. Nick also sees her this way because Gatsby does. “A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden,” The imagery in this quote allows for a physical representation of the emotions of the scene. Cold and still and emotionally withdrawn. It was an out of body moment for Gatsby being felt by his surroundings...
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...Gatsby himself. As Nick describes the parties that his neighbor throws, the house becomes a luminous entity in itself. Nick narrates, “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the stars.” (43). Nick's indifferent attitude with a tinge of curiosity reflects his upbringing and temperament that separates him from the aristocrats that frequent Gatsby’s parties. Fitzgerald’s use of the word “blue” to describe the gardens, conjures up images of a crepuscular evanescence, and twilight. It is fitting with the mood of the story: subdued, without the intensity that characterizes later chapters. The changes in weather also illuminate the contrariety between Gatsby and Daisy, two very different people who illustrate the disparity between classes. When Gatsby and Daisy first meet, it is raining outside. Nick narrates, “While the rain continued, it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little, now and then, with gusts of emotion. But in the new silence I felt that silence had fallen within the house too.” (94). The dour, melancholy atmosphere that the rain creates symbolizes the tension that accompanies Daisy’s and Gatsby’s meeting. As Gatsby reverts back to the shy, awkward boy, and not the Oxford educated socialite he masquerades to be, his plainer background becomes evident. He does not possess the social poise, or...
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