Jhesson Ynoa Eng11 – 1857 May 10‚ 2010 In the essays that we have read this semester‚ the authors were effective in helping their readers to learn something from the authors various subject matters‚ which could be used in the readers’ own lives. I have chosen four essays that I have read this term from which I have learned from. The four essays I decided on are: “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell‚ “Sex‚ Lies‚ and Conversation” by Deborah Tannen‚ “What Really Scares Us” by David Ropeik
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Character Correspondence Characters of many different persona’s can have a numerous amount of the same feelings that motivate them. The main character in “The Cask of Amontillado‚” Montresor‚ by Edgar Allen Poe and the main character in “The Necklace‚” Mathilde‚ by Guy de Maupassant are good representatives for this. Montresor and Mathilde have some of the same catalysts that cause their actions‚ megalomania‚ resentment and revenge. Montresor’s lust for power is indicative of his megalomania
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Objective: The objective of this project is to give you the opportunity to get some practical insight into professional selling by interviewing a professional sales person and observing him/her perform the basic selling techniques in a real life situation. You will then apply the concepts that you learned in this course by documenting your findings and observations in a report based on the format provided. Value: 30% of final grade. Due Dates: Sec.1B Sec.2M Sec.1M Proposal
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What have you learned from your audience feedback? When creating a teaser trailer‚ it is important for us to get audience feedback. Firstly‚ we decided to use Survey Monkey which is an online survey tool. In this survey we asked people a set of 9 questions so we can get their thoughts on which sort of trailer appeals to them the most. This is so we can create a target audience for our teaser trailer in order to get the feedback from them. By looking at the audience feedback we took into consideration
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All Holocaust survivors suffered during and after the horrid event. Whether they lost their families‚ or their riches‚ every survivor has a story to tell along with something to learn from it. This specific survivor was a girl named Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann whose family was captured and deported when she was seventeen. Her family was sent to a concentration camp and her father was killed upon entry because he was a well known Jew. Her brother survived many camps and was finally killed just before
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The "Other" The two stories‚ "Araby" and "Going to The Moon"‚ seem to have a common theme‚ fascination and fear of things different. From the opposite sex to distant places‚ these fascinations exist within all people. "Araby" is the story of a young boy’s journey to a mystical bazaar known as Araby. "Going to The Moon" is the story of a young boy who feels "isolated and like an interloper in his world" and a dream of other worlds to be free of ridicule. The two characters mentioned above are prime
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Seligman’s Theory of Learned Helplessness Clarisa Kashima Laksmi B1101539 Department of Psychology PSY 111 Dr Goh Chee Leong Edward Ong Learned helplessness is the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past (Ciccarelli & White‚ 2009). To describe learned helplessness in person is that recognizing that repeated failures will arouse the idea of a difficult task and impossible to solve. They sometimes blame the outside factors
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in The Necklace In Mauassant’s essay‚ The Necklace Matilda Loisel borrowed a necklace from a rich friend‚ Mrs Forestier‚ so that she would not present a "shabby air in the midst of rich women." She loses the necklace but refuses to admit that. Her and her husband‚ not realizing that the necklace was fake‚ buy a similar necklace to return to Mrs Forestier. They end up having to work for ten years to pay off this debt. All of Mme. Loisel’s actions leading up to the loss of the necklace were
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TITLE: INSIGHT INTO THE ENTREPRENEURAL FAILURE CASE STUDY: DREAM DEFERRED: THE STORY OF A HIGH-TECH ENTREPRENEUR IN A LOW-TECH WORLD. Table of Content 1. Cover /Title Page …………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 1 2. Table of Content/ List of Exhibits ……………………………………………………………………. Page 1 3. Executive Summary …………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 1 4. Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 2 5. Main Report …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 2 6
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Stories From a Ming Collection is a book compiled by Fang Menglong and translated by Cyril Birch‚ of a collection of popular moral tales of oral tradition that were told by Chinese storytellers during the T’ang Dynasty in the Chinese marketplaces. The two tales that will be analyzed specifically come from The Lady who was a Beggar‚ both centering on important moral lessons involving the issues of love‚ lust‚ reputation and honor; issues that were very important of Chinese society during that time
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