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    Study Questions 1. Comment on Khattam-Shud’s remark that inside a story lies a world that can’t be controlled. Why is that important? His belief as the leader of the land is that the world is made for one to control‚ he believes in controlling the way people speak. Without a use for language‚ the people become silent and then they are controlled. The people lose their freedom of speech. 2. Is this a story for children? Why or why not? I don’t think children will fully understand the meaning

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    The Ghost Story Because of all the recorded evidence of paranormal activity‚ this leads to the evidence being real. Yet‚ because of skeptics and nonbelievers debunking the evidence‚ some people are led to believe paranormal activity is fake. Many people have obtained facts that suggest ghosts are real. Whether someone believes in ghosts or not‚ there will always be logical theories and unanswered questions to ghostly encounters. Ghost stories have been told through real-life experience (hauntings)

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    In Control: A Short Story

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    In Control In my sophomore year of high school‚ I remember a particular speech I had to deliver in my English class. It was just like any other‚ honestly. But this one‚ this specific one‚ gave me the greatest trouble. My irrational fear of public speaking consumed me and turned me against myself. I remember the mindset that I had for most of my sophomore year: me vs. them. That was how high school was. It was every man for himself. But never would I have ever thought that I was my own biggest obstacle

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    access to all of the Stones’ possessions‚ the Millers develop an abnormal obsession with the alternate lifestyle. They constantly find themselves eager to feed the cat and satisfy their curiosities as to the contents of the Stones’ apartment. The story closes as the Millers are locked out of the apartment that they adore so much. The Millers find themselves longing to be with the possessions that are so close yet so far from their grasp. The reader feels the emotions of this grief stricken couple

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    THE NICE PEOPLE (1890) Henry Cuyler Bunner THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897) Frank Richard Stockton COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901) Bret Harte THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902) O. Henry BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905) George Randolph Chester A CALL (1906) Grace MacGowan Cooke HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911) William James Lampton GIDEON (1914) Wells Hastings ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Nice People‚ by Henry Cuyler Bunner‚ is republished

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    Past Year Questions OPM 530 COMPILATION OF PAST YEAR QUESTIONS OPM 530 – INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT JAN 2012 – OCTOBER 2006 CHAPTER 1- Introduction to Operations Management and Productivity JUN2012 a) Define productivity and elaborate on any four (4) importance of productivity to an organization. (10 marks) b) Discuss any five (5) challenged faced by today’s operations managers (10 marks) APR 2011 a) Define operations management with the aid of appropriate diagram. b) Discuss any

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    Sir Francis Bacon A LIST OF FAMOUS SHORT STORIES Famous short story writers are Edgar Allan Poe‚ Guy de Maupassant‚ Anton Chekov and O Henry. Some of these authors have gained much fame and recognition in the literary world entirely through their brilliant narrative of short stories while some of them like Charles Dickens‚ P.G. Woodehouse and Rudyard Kipling are highly accomplished in the fields of writing short stories and novels. Short stories are actually more difficult to write as it

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    Mansfield’s Short Stories

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    Mansfield’s short stories‚ ”Bliss” and ”Taking the Veil”. Emotions are mapped through linguistic markers such as adjectives and adverbs that imply a character’s emotional response to story events. The study focuses on narratorial discourse and distinguishes between verbalized speech and thought (free indirect discourse) and non-verbalised thought-processes (psycho-narration). The analysis is carried out by studying the deictic centre or the perspective in the short stories. The study shows that passages

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    when Dame Chaboix suddenly found the moment opportune- perhaps in order to add to the conversation‚ or‚ most probably because she seemed very fond of the “petite Juliette”-‚ to ask her how she was doing with her studies. The young girl was not shy‚ and‚ notwithstanding the fact that studies are not the most favorite subject for a child her age‚ I expected her to answer straightforwardly. Which‚ she did. However‚ she looked so eager to reply‚ that I could not fathom her enthusiasm about such a dull

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    Assignment: Sexuality in Carmilla Le Fanu’s story of Carmilla has been adapted as a web series‚ in which the setting is modern day society at a college campus. Laura remains the narrator of the thirty-six-episode season‚ where she records all events from her dorm room as part of her journalism class. The web series stays loyal to having Carmilla remain the female vampire in the story‚ while also implying other female romantic relationships. In the short story Le Fanu’s choice of a female vampire alters

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