...Turning Points Turning points leave the reader with suspense, wanting to read more, whether it impacts a country or the character that one loves. Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, Guts by Gary Paulsen, and Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, all of these excerpts tell their own unique stories. Melba Beals, Gary Paulsen and Karana all faced life-changing experiences, they also affected others. Melba Beals impacted many lives while taking on a life changing and threatening experiences. She was only in high school when segregation surrounded her. She was an inspiration for all and improved education for African Americans. Even though there was a danger it was okay because “Sarge said they were doing crowd control-keeping the...
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...which the family takes to travel to Canada with all their animals unfortunately sinks. Pi is able to escape onto a life raft as for the rest of his family ends up not surviving the wreck. The big turning point in the story where Pi now has to find out a way to survive. A tiger named “Richard Parker”, a zebra, a hyena and an Orangutan named “Orange Juice” are all stuck on a lifeboat with Pi. Pi begins to start using the wisdom his dad had taught him through the years. Finally, all this wisdom he knew about animals and everything he had learned is getting used. Though the ship sank and he lost all his family, he still kept hope and faith in his religion. It is a beginning of a new quest within the original quest of getting his family and animals in Canada. Despite the original quest the new quest is more substantial and it is to survive being stranded at sea with dangerous zoo animals. His love and care for animals comes to a sudden halt; He has to fight and survive like an animal. There is one moment in the story where all his developed instincts were challenged. He was met with a school of flying fish that would jump out of the water and into the lifeboat. He had wrapped one fish in a blanket and intended to kill it with a hatchet. He could not bring himself to kill this fish with a hatchet, but ultimately cannot go through with it. Pi ends...
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...using two contrasting characteristics of Stanley, builds tension during the ultimate confrontation between Stanley and Blanche, concluding with rape. From the outset of this extract Stanley adopts a façade of friendliness towards Blanche, uncharacteristic of him throughout the play, creating a disquieting atmosphere onstage. However through the use of stage directions Williams produces an ominous undercurrent, indicating Stanley’s caustic and aggressive nature, this remains until he reaches a turning point in the scene where his true cruelty is revealed-, displaying his true self to Blanche and the audience. The first contrasting aspect of Stanley’s character is his front of affability. Stanley begins the scene acting ‘[amiably]’, sharing a jovial anecdotal story about, ‘a cousin who could open a beer bottle with his teeth’, and making jocular, exclamatory statements such as ‘Ha-Ha! Rain from heaven!’ ,a childish and indulgent action. Stanley engages Blanche, ‘Shall we bury the hatchet and make it a loving cup?’ Williams clearly employs irony here, as in previous scenes Stanley has criticised Blanche’s drinking, often through sarcasm, ‘some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often.’ However here he ‘[extends the bottle towards Blanche]’, clearly acting contrastingly to his normal self, this creates tension and a sense of foreboding within the scene due to the audiences’ understanding of Stanley as aggressive, along with our knowledge of his feelings towards Blanche...
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...exaggeration. Truthfully, I could never make up my mind about him. Sometimes he looked like something out of a book of ancient history...looked as if he was left over from that magnificent era before the machine age came and marred the earth’s natural beauty. His great variety of talent often startled the teachers. This caused his classmates to look upon him with a mixed feeling of awe and envy. Before Thanksgiving, he always drew turkeys and pumpkins on the blackboard. On George Washington’s birthday, he drew large American flags surrounded by little hatchets. It was these small masterpieces that made him the most talked-about colored boy in Columbus, Georgia. The Negro principal of the Muskogee County School that he would some day be a great painter, like Henry O. Tanner. For the teacher’s birthday, which fell on a day about a week before commencement, Aaron Crawford painted the picture that caused an uproar, and a turning point, at the Muskogee County School. The moment he entered the room that morning, all eyes fell on him. Besides his torn book holder, he was carrying a large-framed concern wrapped in old...
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...Successful leadership – how would you know? Boardrooms and business school classrooms are equally preoccupied with leadership, and success is often assumed to be about profit or Total Shareholder Return. It’s neither. For leaders wanting to measure their own success, for those who appoint leaders to know what they are aiming at and for outsiders assessing the quality of leadership, Andrew Likierman shows how to do it. Thinking W as Julius Caesar a successful leader? What about Ghenghis Khan? Simon Bolivar? Or Napoleon? Because we tend to think of these as military leaders, the answers look pretty straightforward. Each achieved major military successes. But then Napoleon was ultimately defeated – does that make him a failure? After all, he won a lot of battles before Waterloo, and his sweeping political and legal reforms have been the basis of French administrative life for nearly 200 years. Now let’s move to the politicians. How do you feel about describing Bill Clinton as a successful leader? George W. Bush? Tony Blair? Vladimir Putin? This is altogether more difficult ground. Some of you will have already decided; those of you who have not made up your minds could argue that it is too early to say. The historic verdict on Bush and Blair will probably depend on what happens to Iraq over the next 20 years. Those better informed about Russia than I am can make up their own minds about Putin. Moving next to business territory, with a few exceptions – say Bill Gates, Herb...
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...Writing English for Speakers of Other Languages You have chosen to pursue a college education, which is admirable. College classes are rarely easy, and since your native language is not English, you have extra work to do— but you are more to be admired for the extra effort. Interestingly enough, although you have an additional hurdle of writing in English, your study of the language as an English as a Second Language (ESL) learner puts you ahead of most native speakers: (1) you do not automatically learn the bad habits and slang that native speakers assume are correct, (2) you acquire an understanding of the elements of grammar that native speakers rarely bother to learn, and (3) your perspective of communication and your thought processes are different from those of native English speakers, so your writing easily can be more interesting and fresh than that of native speakers, who too often rely on clichés and old, tired phrases. Officially denied (but known by experienced students) is that good, clear writing can cover a multitude of content weaknesses—in other words, even the most austere and reserved of teachers cannot avoid being affected ever-so-slightly toward the positive if the essay he or she is reading is well written and errorless—even if the premise of the essay is that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1992 in the Pinta, the Niña, and the Andrea Doria. The Key to Good Writing in English is Simplicity but The Great Golden Doorway to Good Writing is Rewriting...
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...GEORGE WASHINGTON “THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY” BORN: February 22, 1732 in Westmorland, Virginia, British America DIED: December 17, 1799 in Mount Vernon, Virginia, United States SPOUSE: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington RELIGION: Anglican/Episcopal GEOGRE WASHINGTON “THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY” Introduction: George Washington was born on February 22 “February 11, Old Style,” 1732 in Westmoreland county, Virginia and died on December 14, 1799, in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Washington was an American General and Commander in Chief of the Colonial Armies in the American Revolution War “1775–1783” and subsequently became the first president of the United States within the years “1789–1797.” Augustine Washington, Washington’s father, attended school in England, tasted seafaring life, and then settled down to manage his growing Virginia estates. George’s mother was Mary Ball Washington, whom Augustine, a widower, had married early the previous year. Washington’s paternal lineage had some distinction; an early forebear was described as a “gentleman,” Henry VIII later gave the family lands, and its members held various offices. But family fortunes fell with the Puritan revolution in England, and John Washington, grandfather of Augustine, migrated in 1657 to Virginia. The ancestral home at Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, is maintained as a Washington memorial. Little definite information exists on any of the line until Augustine. He was an energetic, ambitious man who acquired much...
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...Dear Newsmaker Letter Rory Pritchard Professor Brad Long October 3rd 2014 Actual article: Children working on tobacco farms in the United States are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and other dangers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While US law prohibits the sale of tobacco products to children, children can legally work on tobacco farms in the US. The world’s largest tobacco companies buy tobacco grown on US farms, but none have child labor policies that sufficiently protect children from hazardous work. The 138-page report, “Tobacco’s Hidden Children: Hazardous Child Labor in US Tobacco Farming,” documents conditions for children working on tobacco farms in four states where 90 percent of US tobacco is grown: North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Children reported vomiting, nausea, headaches, and dizziness while working on tobacco farms, all symptoms consistent with acute nicotine poisoning. Many also said they worked long hours without overtime pay, often in extreme heat without shade or sufficient breaks, and wore no, or inadequate, protective gear. “As the school year ends, children are heading into the tobacco fields, where they can’t avoid being exposed to dangerous nicotine, without smoking a single cigarette” said Margaret Wurth, children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch and co-author of the report. “It’s no surprise the children exposed to poisons in the tobacco fields are getting sick.” The report is based...
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...Timothy Graham African American History African American relations with the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints. In 1842, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was asked by the editor of the Chicago Democrat, Joseph Wentworth, to summarize the basic principles of the newly founded religion. Included in the response, Smith presented thirteen declarations which have collectively become to be knows as the “Articles of Faith”. The thirteenth of these articles states the following: “We believe in being hones, true, chaste, benevolent, and in doing good to all men. Indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.[i] It regard to the treatment of Americans of African descent, it is no secret that the nation, at large, treated individuals with great contempt. The question is whether or not this new faith group was any different. How did treatment of African Americans among the Saints differ from that of the general population of the United States during the period from 1830, the church’s founding, to the end of the century? What was the LDS church’s position on slavery and did practice follow policy among members of a church founded on the principles of “faith, hope, and charity”?[ii] And...
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...The California Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the gold fields and rich farmlands of the Golden State during the 1840s and 1850s, the greatest mass migration in American history. The general route began at various jumping off points along the Missouri River and stretched to various points in California Oregon, and the Sierra Nevada. The specific route that emigrants and forty-niners used depended on their starting point in Missouri, their final destination in California, the condition of their wagons and livestock, and yearly changes in water and forage along the different routes. The trail passes through the states of Missouri, Kansas Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and California. Before the trail was blazed, the Great Basin region had only been partially explored during the days of Spanish and Mexican rule. However, that changed in 1832 when Benjamin Bonneville, a United States Army officer, requested a leave of absence to pursue an expedition to the west. The expedition was financed by John Jacob Astor, a rival of the Hudson Bay company. While Bonneville was exploring the Snake River in Wyoming, he sent a party of men under Joseph Walker to explore the Great Salt Lake and find an overland route to California. Early settlers began to use the trail in the 1840's, the first of which was John Bidwell, who led the 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson Party. In 1842, a member of the Bidwell-Bartleson Party returned to Missouri on the Humboldt...
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...PRODUCED BY LESEGO KEIKABILE Summery The history of the cyber net has long been a success in different perspectives though for that success, there were attempts from various sources to nail it down. It has gone through various phases of development. The once was considered an ambiguous communication tool became one of the most essential mediums to conduct business. Now, the world knows it very well, the internet, as finally became part of our modern lifestyle and empowering us as never before, from web-search to connecting us. The cyber industry is conquered by different industries or individuals, under numerous domain names. Search engines, social medias, blogs, e-commerce sites and news sites are one of the networks we can find on the cyber industry. Google search engine and Facebook social-network are the global core leaders of the cyber industry. Facebook with more than 642.5 million users , and Google with more than 620million visitors daily. Like any other business as big as they are, they are facing external as well as internal issues, from managing their stakeholders to the geographical segmentation matters. The globalisatin business strategy sometime has a great impact to the coperate business, which sometimes the busnesses have no control over. Only the internal factors and issues are easy for a company to deal with. Case Study 1 Introduction: Google was found in 1998 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey...
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...Acclaim for Yann Martel's Life of Pi "Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel, it's a finely twisted length of yarn— yarn implying a far-fetched story you can't quite swallow whole, but can't dismiss outright. Life of Pi is in this tradition—a story of uncertain veracity, made credible by the art of the yarn-spinner. Like its noteworthy ancestors, among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick and Pincher Martin, it's a tale of disaster at sea coupled with miraculous survival—a boys' adventure for grownups." —Margaret Atwood, The Sunday Times (London) "A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient, this novel is an impressive achievement. . . . Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master." —Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "[Life of Pi] has a buoyant, exotic, insistence reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe's most Gothic fiction. . . . Oddities abound and the storytelling is first-rate. Yann Martel has written a novel full of grisly reality, outlandish plot, inventive setting and thought-provoking questions about the value and purpose of fiction." —The Edmonton journal "Martel's ceaselessly clever writing . . . [and] artful, occasionally hilarious, internal dialogue . . . make a fine argument for the divinity of good art." —The Gazette "Astounding and beautiful. . . . The book is a pleasure not only for the subtleties of its philosophy...
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...Yann Martel: Life of Pi life of pi A NOVEL author's note This book was born as I was hungry. Let me explain. In the spring of 1996, my second book, a novel, came out in Canada. It didn't fare well. Reviewers were puzzled, or damned it with faint praise. Then readers ignored it. Despite my best efforts at playing the clown or the trapeze artist, the media circus made no difference. The book did not move. Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team. It vanished quickly and quietly. The fiasco did not affect me too much. I had already moved on to another story, a novel set in Portugal in 1939. Only I was feeling restless. And I had a little money. So I flew to Bombay. This is not so illogical if you realize three things: that a stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature; that a little money can go a long way there; and that a novel set in Portugal in 1939 may have very little to do with Portugal in 1939. I had been to India before, in the north, for five months. On that first trip I had come to the subcontinent completely unprepared. Actually, I had a preparation of one word. When I told a friend who knew the country well of my travel plans, he said casually, "They speak a funny English in India. They like words like bamboozle." I remembered his words as my plane started its descent towards Delhi, so the word bamboozle ...
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...| |A Jury of Her Peers | | |by Susan Glaspell | | |When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back for her big woolen scarf. As she | | |hurriedly wound that round her head her eye made a scandalized sweep of her kitchen. It was no ordinary thing that | | |called her away--it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in Dickson County. But what | | |her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted | | |and half unsifted. | | |She hated to see things half done; but she had been at that when the team from town stopped to get Mr. Hale, and then | | |the sheriff came running in to say his wife wished Mrs. Hale would come too--adding, with a grin, that he guessed she | | |was getting scary and wanted another woman along. So she had dropped everything right where it was. | | |"Martha!" now came her husband's impatient voice. "Don't keep folks waiting out here in the cold." | | |She again opened the storm-door, and this time joined the three men and the one woman waiting for her in the big...
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...MOHAMED NEDALI Time to Accept the Unacceptable A CHAPTER FROM THE NOVEL MORCEAUX DE CHOIX: LES AMOURS D’UN APPRENTI BOUCHER, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY Narrating Marrakech y name is Thami. My nimble fingers and long years of experience as a butcher have earned me the prestigious title of M’allem, or master. By taking up this trade, looked down on this land of the Lord God, I unwittingly broke away from my learned ancestors – a long line of illustrious, learned scholars that counted two imams, a judge and an adel1 among its members. One of my ancestors, whose wisdom the Almighty saw fit to bestow upon me, had once been a prominent Qur’anic commentator, whose writings are still routinely quoted in many religious schools across the country. My father, a respected adel in the Marrakech medina, as well as a widely-read man, took a long time to come to grips with reality before finally acquiescing to my inexplicable desire to deviate from this ancestral path. In his darkest hour of despair, he once told me that I was the shameful offshoot of a scholarly line, “his” line, which had been admired and venerated by generations of Marrakchis. At times, he also called me a l’arech l’medloul, the disgraceful and ignoble scion, or a temra l’fasda – a bad apple, worm-ridden and good for nothing, unsuitable even for pack animals. But in the souk where I work, I’m usually referred to as Lewd Monkey, an annoying nickname that the local street urchins saddled me...
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