team of trash compacting robots. In the movie Wall-E‚ directed by Andrew Stanton‚ society took a reactive approach to dealing with their trash by attempting to consolidate it into hidden and smaller areas. However‚ that effort alone was not enough to stop the inevitable pollution. By not taking action to reduce the amount of waste they produced‚ the humans suffered the ultimate consequence of losing their own homes. Although the scenario depicted in Wall-E is extreme and unlikely to occur within my
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about this week’s reading‚ “Looking Beyond the Wall”. The author‚ Robert‚ describes a class field trip where his students explore both sides of the border that divides Mexico and the United States. After his class met abused migrants‚ witnessed illegal immigrants sentenced to jail‚ and heard the heartbreaking stories of people just trying to make a better life for themselves and their family‚ something in them changed. Students who once supported the wall and wanted to be border patrol agents‚ were
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Literature & Composition 3rd Period September 7‚ 2015 “The Yellow Wallpaper” A.) “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is a short story about a woman who is living in a mansion with her husband and she is so obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her room that it makes her become insane. B.) Level One: Both the husband and the brother of the narrator have the same job. What is their job? Level Two: Why does the author make the wallpaper in the story yellow? If the wallpaper were a different color‚ do you think the
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Over the course of H.D.’s “The Walls Do Not Fall” the implications of pronoun use are exemplified in the way that they emerge in clusters that can be systemically tracked. The use of the third person pronoun in contrast to the first person pronoun and then the insertion of the second person is significant in the sense that it forms a powerful and sentient individual as it transitions from the generalized to the precise. Through the variation of pronoun use within the text‚ H.D. removes the individual
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The harrowing accounts of people that suffered through the yellow fever epidemic of 1885 presented the devastation caused by communicable diseases to an uninformed society. It is disheartening to read about the chain of events that lead to the death of thousands of people who were victims of both the disease and their time period. They were fighting a disease with an unknown etiology‚ unknown mode of transmission‚ and no clear treatment. They fought a losing battle with winter as their only saving
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Edwidge Danticat‚ in “A Wall of Fire Rising”‚ writes a story of a family living in poverty in Haiti. The family has three members‚ the father Guy‚ his wife Lili‚ and their son‚ Little Guy. The story begins with Guy coming home with news to his family. Little Guy is excited to tell his father about the lines he has in the school play as the Boukman and recites them to his parents. After dinner‚ the family goes to the sugar mill in their town. At the sugar mill‚ there is a hot air balloon‚ which is
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1. Replace the rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study 2. Scientifically select‚ train‚ and develop each worker rather than passively leaving them to train themselves 3. Cooperate with the workers to ensure that the scientifically developed methods are being followed 4. Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers‚ so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the task. 1. Replace the rule-of-thumb
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The Yellow Wallpaper” is‚ on its surface‚ about a woman driven insane by post-partum depression and a dangerous treatment. However‚ an examination of the protagonist’s characterization reveals that the story is fundamentally about identity. The protagonist’s projection of an imaginary woman — which at first is merely her shadow — against the bars of the wallpaper’s pattern fragments her identity‚ internalizing the conflict she experiences and eventually leading to the complete breakdown of the boundaries
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Reaction Paper—The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow wallpaper is written in the form of a first person narrative in which the narrator‚ a woman who is suffering from a “temporary nervous depression–a slight hysterical tendency”(Gilman‚ 1892/2014‚ p. 746)‚ is restricted to write and confined to a bedroom by her physician husband John‚ so she can recover from her illness. She however disagrees with her husband’s views and believes that writing would make her feel better. The story is presented as a collection
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