...I’t was the night before halloween, three friends named Carlos, Kaden , and Parker. They were out at 2am driving around town at 2am. The three friends had heard about a haunted corn maze that 2 boys in their school had died in the corn maze. so they went to the store and Carlos and Parker bought flashlights, batteries, and water while kaden was outside getting gas, They were down the street from the corn maze so they decided to go inside the maze. Once when they got to the entrance they saw a little trail of blood. Kaden took out his phone and put on the flashlight. They instantly got chilled, Parker said “ I really don’t know about this guys” Kaden said “Stop being a baby and let’s go, it not even that bad come on!”. The friends were walking...
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...The Maze Runner, follow an extremely similar chain of events in comparison to other stories of the same genre. The Maze Runner takes the prototype storytelling strategy of dystopian societies, and creates a feel similar to the recognized short story called “The Lottery”. The story begins with a teenage boy arriving at an open field surrounded by walls far too high to reach. This boy instantly found himself at the center of many other boys of the same age who seem to be completely used to people showing up there. While this may seem like a simple story, the detail added to The Maze Running that gives the unique feel is that everybody in the field were also somehow forced into this...
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...Ronald A. Roberts 02/21/2013 Introduction: Who Moved My Cheese? Is a simple story of four characters that live in a maze and are constantly looking for cheese. Two of the four characters are Hem and Haw, who are little people about the size of mice, they are complex people just like humans. They rely on their emotions, and experience in life to make achievements, but also like humans they can become very comfortable and be oblivious to what is happening around them. The other two characters Sniff and Scurry are mice. They rely more on instinct and their senses to conduct everyday life. Although they are simple minded and not very smart, they do not get hung up emotionally when things work against them. They have the power of adaptation, which allows them to continually maintain a productive life no matter how things change around them. They expect change and are ready and prepared to embrace it, whenever it may occur. "THE CHEESE" represents different things to different people. It is a metaphor for what keeps you going, and what makes you happy. To some people "THE CHEESE" is money, to others it is their job, and to some it is just being able to wake up and be happy that you have a good life, and enjoy living it. Change and the Resistance to Change: As the story begins, one day, the mice (Sniff and Scurry) and the little people (Hem and Haw) find a huge mound of cheese in the maze. The little people feel that the mound of cheese is so large they will never have to...
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... Business 200 Who Ate My Cheese Project Summary December 8, 2013 WHO ATE MY CHEESE Page 1 The story involves four characters, two mice named Scurry and Sniff and two little people named Haw and Hem. In the story all is doing good, because they all have what they need, a big pile of “cheese” that is in a maze and the “cheese” has become the center of their lives. Haw and Hem become content with the cheese and do not notice that it is getting smaller, and one morning it is all gone. They go into a panic since they have built their lives around the cheese they feel betrayed, theft or fraud has happened to them. The mice, Scurry and Sniff upon realizing the same thing accept the fact the cheese is gone and go through the maze looking for more. When you read this book, you will see similar facts about your life. You see that the maze is like our lives and how or where we look for our “cheese”. Each and every day we wake up and navigate the “maze” of our day to day life, feeling lost at times, but we always seem to find our way through it. The decisions we make have a lot of impact on how we achieve our “cheese”. The cheese is what we feel that is needed to fulfill the voids of our lives, money, job, or relationships that will make us feel whole and happy...
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...Inter-Disciplinary Studies, a think tank; and Consultant to the Center for the Study of the Person, and to the School of Medicine, University of California. Spencer Johnson, M.D., is an international bestselling author whose books help millions of people discover simple truths they can use to have healthier lives with more success and less stress.” (Spenser Johnson, 2002: 2) “The story of Who Moved My Cheese was created by Dr. Spencer Johnson to help him deal with a difficult change in his life. It showed him how to take his changing situation seriously but not take himself so seriously.” (Spenser Johnson, 2002: 3) 1.2 About Who Moved My Cheese The story Who Moved My Cheese is a parable which tells people “an amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life.” (Spenser Johnson, 2002: Cover Page) The first part of the book is “The Story Behind The Story”, which is written by Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. In this part, he shows what each character stands for in our true life in his opinion and what glamour the little story can stimulate people. The second part, we can also include it into the story who...
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...A language sample analysis (LSA) is a tool that generates the coding and transcriptions of a language sample to document the language used every day in various speaking situations (Miller, Andriacchi, & Nockerts, 2016). Language samples are typically 50-100 words in length and are voice-recorded and then transcribed by the clinician. Language samples are done using spontaneous speech, such as typical conversation, or narrative contexts, such as story or event recalls (Miller, Andriacchi, & Nockerts, 2016). The speech-language pathologist (SLP) will take the recording and write out, in the exact words of the child and clinician, every utterance (Bowen, 2011). The SLP will then "code" the sample. Coding the sample consist of marking inflection...
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...BLANCHARD Ph.D. The Story Behind The Story by Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. I am thrilled to be telling you “the story behind the story” of Who Moved My Cheese? because it means the book has now been written, and is available for all of us to read, enjoy and share with others. This is something I've wanted to see happen ever since I first heard Spencer Johnson tell his great “Cheese” story, years ago, before we wrote our book The One Minute Manager together. I remember thinking then how good the story was and how helpful it would be to me from that moment on. Who Moved My Cheese? is a story about change that takes place in a Maze where four amusing characters look for “Cheese”-cheese being a metaphor for what we want to have in life, whether it is a job, a relationship, money, a big house, freedom, health, recognition, spiritual peace, or even an activity like jogging or golf. Each of us has our own idea of what Cheese is, and we pursue it because we believe it makes us happy. If we get it, we often become attached to it. And if we lose it, or it's taken away, it can be traumatic. The “Maze” in the story represents where you spend time looking for what you want. It can be the organization you work in, the community you live in, or the relationships you have in your life. I tell the Cheese story that you are about to read in my talks around the world, and often hear later from people about what a difference it has made to them. Believe it or not, this little story has been credited with...
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...Haunted Adventures with Princess Red “Can I take a selfie with you”? The wolf howled and nodded. And throughout the entire night before entering the haunted house, Princess Red took selfies with almost every creature there was. But as she was taking her last selfie, they realized it was there turn to go inside. “LET THE FUN BEGIN,” said the man who was leading the groups through the houses. Walking through every single house, Princess Red and her group of friends were spooked by everything and everyone they passed, including the lady in white. But what they didn’t notice that was scarier was the wolf following there every move. After going through all six of the houses, the last stop was the maze. Everyone knows that when it comes to the maze you and your group of friends are on your own. So they each got a map and tried to find their own way out, while still not noticing that the wolf was behind them. Scared as they already were, the wolf tried to snatch Red, but failed when her friend tugged on her arm to tell her, “RED, Hurry up! Let’s get outta here!” “Okay, I’m coming,” Red replied. A couple minutes went by and the group still couldn’t find a way out. But the wolf used that to his advantage. He put up a barrier so that the group couldn’t leave and so he could catch Princess Red one last time. Falling into the wolf’s trap, they were stuck in somewhat of a closed area with only one way out. As they turned around, the wolf was standing at the entrance. Princess Red and...
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...Prof.Geritano ENG 102G6 February 23, 2015 Assignment #2 Tim O’ Brien as a narrator of this story his opening sentences “Even now I’ll admit, the story makes me squirm. For more than twenty years I’ve had to live with it, feeling the shame, trying to push it away, and so by this act of remembrance, by putting the facts down on paper. All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thoughts of personal loss or discredit”. After these few sentences you already begin to see the tone in which he is writing in he writes in third person and switches back to first person he is trying to give us a personal view and draws us in to read what he has to say to us. The author wants us to have some sympathy for him for him and basically have an understanding on what he is about to tell us. This already has us in the mood of trying to figure out what he is going through. In paragraph two Tim uses rhetorical questions he beings to ask us was it a civil war? A war of national liberation or simple aggression? When the author begins to ask us these question he is trying to basically make us as the reader be placed in this young gentleman shoes to figure out how at this moment figuring out what is going through his mind and what matters to him, he has us having this input already about the way he feels about war so when he springs upon us that he is drafted into the war we begin to feel sorry for...
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...Who would have ever thought that going on a marvelous trip to Spain for the holidays would end in such grief? After a short two day vacation that is exactly what happened to Mrs. Debbie Jones, her two year old daughter Megan end up getting sick after playing in the pool along the beach, and end up passing away from Septicemia just after being transported to the University Hospital in Santa Cruz (NARAIN, J. (n.d.). After making an alarming phone call to Mr. Jones to catch the next flight out, they decided to donate Megan’s liver and kidneys, which went to two young toddlers across the country of Spain. After becoming a little skeptical about the treatment of their daughter, while in the overseas hospital they decided to order another autopsy....
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...and Scurry display team work in their quest to find cheese. They work together. Sniff, “sniffed ahead” and Scurry, “scurried ahead” looking for cheese. Their effective team work allowed them to stay on the cheese. In order to work effectively together the two of them had to communicate well with each other. Hem and Haw did not work together. 2. Listening * Sniff and Scurry demonstrated how important it is to listen to each other. By listening to each other they were able to navigate the maze and find cheese. Hem demonstrated how not to listen. Hem would not listen to Haw when Haw was trying to get him to move forward. 3. Motivate * Haw used motivational quotes to communicate with not only others but himself. His quotes kept him focused on changing with change. His quotes were also left for Hem, in case he decided to join the journey. 4. Imagination and Creativity * Spencer Johnson, the author used his imagination in creating these characters, the maze, and the cheese. His ability to use his imagination and creativity was an effective communication tool. If the book had been about four ordinary people, the book would not have the same effect. 5. Accept Change * A person should realize if they are not changing and looking to get better they will get comfortable and be left behind the times. Don’t be afraid to change. Change is a good thing. Make the most of it. A person should move from their comfort zones. 6. Have a faith ...
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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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...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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...People can overcome almost any obsticle in their path no matter the baggage they carry. The strength of a person’s will can be stronger than the obsticles they face. In times where they are most relied on they can become fearless and will do almost anything they have to to acheive their desired end. This theme is shown to be evident in Eudora Welty’s short story A Worn Path. The plot of this short story is that Phoenix Jackson is traveling through the woods to go into town so she can get medicine for her sick grandson who swallowed lye two or three years ago. Throughout her jorney, Phoenix encounters animals, thick brushes that could potentially damage her skirt, a corn maze with no path and a scarecrow, and a swamp with hybernating allegators. Phoenix also comes across a white hunter whom she talks to for a while along her way. All of these things and people that she comes across are distractions and reasons that could be used for her to just give up and go back home....
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...and the misjudging that often comes when giving too much importance to first-hand impressions. It is mostly used in a good way, when trying to convince people to give someone an extra chance and prove how there can be more to a person than what the eye reveals. Other times, however surprising, the case can be the opposite; someone giving off a positive first impression can turn out to be very unworthy of the good thoughts generated by it. ”Sorry for the Loss” is a short story written by Bridget Keehan. It was published in Eagle in the Maze – An Anthology of Stories from the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition 2008. In this short story, we are first introduced to a woman named Evie, who is the Catholic chaplain in a prison. She has to tell one of the prisoners, a young man named Victor Zamora, that his grandmother has passed away. Throughout the story it is Evie that we follow, and a third-person narrator describes events from her point of view. The story is told in the present tense, apart from one short description of Evie’s search for Victor, which is told in the past tense as it is an event that has already occurred (l. 8-10). Despite mainly seeing things through Evie’s eyes, the narrator seems to be omniscient, as he is also able to tell what the prison guard is thinking. This becomes obvious on lines 64-67: “The officer looks round with a perplexed, how the hell should I know expression, but realises how nervous she is and that her question is really about whether...
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