that journeys confront our way of thinking and shift our perspectives. Good morning teachers and students‚ my name is Chelsea Amado‚ and today I would like to take you all on our own journey through two specific texts‚ King Lear and A Thousand Acres. I aim to show you how Shakespeare and Jane Smiley have used the context of their time and language techniques to communicate their ideas. Specifically‚ it is my endeavour to show you how these two timeless authors shift their audiences way of thinking
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Title: A Thousand Acres Author: Jane Smiley Date of Publication: 1991 Point of view: The novel is told in first-person from Ginny’s perspective. The readers follow Ginny’s trails of thought as she wanders into her own troubled past. She wants to figure out why she has become a placid‚ non-confrontational woman‚ so her thoughts revolve around her struggles to contain her own opinions. Genre: Tragedy Writing Style: Narrative. Modern rendition of King Lear. More plot based than style based. Setting/Atmosphere:
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Acre wood retirement community case study Kimberly Woods HSM/230 Axia College at the University of Phoenix Acre wood retirement community case study the resident physical therapist Sara Armstrong manages the retirement communities activity programs‚ recently a pool was added to its rehabilitation center by they were some original design requests that were not met it has been brought to Sarah’s attention that the safety tread marks on the stairs and the improved wheelchair access to
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Mrs. Acres Homemade Pies Shelly Acres‚ whose grandmother gave her a family recipe for making pies‚ loved to cook so she decided to start a business she called Mrs. Acres Home-made Pies. The company produced specialty pies and sells them in local supermarkets and select family restaurants. In each of the first six months‚ Shelly and three part-time employees sold 2‚000 pies for $4.50 each‚ netting $1.50 profit per pie. The pies were quite successful and Shelly could not keep up with demand. The
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TV in the 50s and 60s Throughout the 1950s television fought to become the top form of mass communication‚ and became a cultural force in good and bad ways by the 60s. Before the end of the 1960s over three national networks began were broadcasting programs that were alternately earth shaking‚ sublime and ridiculous. During 1940s‚ the three major networks consisted of: NBC‚ CBS and ABC were "networks" by name only. All programming show originated‚ live‚ in New York. The only possible way to dispense
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Acre Woods 1. What are some potential legal and ethical issues present in this case study? 2. How would you characterize the director’s behavior? 3. Is the director an ethical role model? Why or why not? 4. Were the director’s messages congruent with the organization’s stated mission? Explain your answer. 5. What impact did the director’s actions and attitudes have on the Acre Woods culture? 1. Ethically and legally the establishment should have ensured the pool included
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Shelly Acres was a young woman who developed the skill of making homemade pies at an early age in her life. (Bethel University‚ 2012) After graduating from college Acres decide she would like to go into business making and selling homemade pies. (Bethel University‚ 2012) However Acres had very little experience with business and knew she would face many dilemmas such as planning‚ organizing‚ and controlling the business. (Bethel University‚ 2012) Acres was very conservative about making business
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To a minor degree can Canada boast about its tolerance for ethnic diversity. In Chapter 12 of "A Few Acres of Snow‚" Britain preferred to populate its new colonies‚ including Canada‚ with citizens from the British Isles. This policy held distinct advantage because it made British North America more British than French. The Whites during the period were known as the superior race. When politics‚ religion‚ a population explosion‚ and famine conspired in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century‚ many Irish
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In the book A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley‚ there are two very important social scenes which define the book and the characters within it. These scenes demonstrate greed and appearance versus reality. The first of these scenes appears at the beginning of the book. Aging farmer and father‚ Larry‚ decides to split his land between his three daughters‚ Ginny‚ Rose‚ and Caroline. He announces this decision as a welcome home party for a neighbor’s son. This scene characterizes all of the main characters
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Character Development In the A Thousand Acres‚ book one is filled with many characters developing. Ginny’s narration gives us a clear view of each character through her perspective. She shows how situations can change a person. She’s the perfect daughter and housewife. She’s humble and obedient. She lets the need of others take priority of her own. While she takes care of Rose’s‚ her dad Larry’s‚ and her own households‚ she doesn’t see this as a problem. She sees it as a need for the survival of
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