a close shave

A Close Shave When one usually steps into a car takes safety for granted. Most people don't even think twice about jumping into a car to go from one place to another. Being in a car, whether driving or riding is a daily routine for almost everyone. A beautiful sunny September day was a day I will never forget, a day that changed my life. It was a day like most other long and stressful work days. I was ready to get home, make some dinner and get ready for a ladies night, but that never happened. I picked up my cell phone to call my mum as I did on most days after work. We chatted for a few minutes and then ended our conversation. I turned on the engine and turned right out of the parking lot, than drove off to the next stop sign. While looking both ways I noticed a white van which was still in the far distance so I took the left turn. As I turned I was faced with a truck, which turned out to be a commercial truck. All I remember hearing was the crashing of mashing metal. Needless to say my beloved car that I had worked so hard for appeared to be destroyed in just a few seconds. All of my airbags were squeezed, my front windshield was smashed in and the driver's window was broken. Watching all this I was totally lost from control. I looked around for a minute, heard voices talking to me, then I felt an insupportable pain in my right hand. As I looked down at my

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Volpone's satiric view

Patricia J. Rivera EN 205-001 March 4, 2011 Weekly Essay #6 Ben Jonson's Volpone is a satiric story about the vivacity of some persons to attain easy money. One believes that Jonson named his characters after an animal due to their rapacity or the animal instincts each of the characters had. Besides greed, animalization, parasitism, it is easy to see that some of the characters on this comedy tend to have as one of their peculiar characteristics sadism, masochism or sadomasochism. Even though Jonson does not mention it explicitly, the theme is more than tacit. At some point of the story one might think that by pretending to be sick to get money Volpone himself is being a sadist, because he inflicts pain and desperation in others, and gets favors from them, which apparently brings him pleasure in form of gold and gems. However the characters that jump of the page are Celia and Corvino. After Act 2, in scene 5, Corvino threatens Celia to lock her up, because earlier she threw her handkerchief to the mountebank who was Volpone under a disguise. Corvino states: "I think you'd rather mount? Would you not mount?/Why, if you'll mount, you may; yes truly, you may" (2.5.18-19), Corvino is suggesting that Celia should get on the mountebank stage or take the top in the sexual position, and by calling her "Lady Vanity"(2.5.21) Corvino was actually calling her a harlot, which proves

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Explore the symbolism present in Kate Chopin(TM)s The Awakening and in Charlotte Gilman Perkins(TM) The Yellow Wallpaper'

Explore the symbolism present in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and in Charlotte Gilman Perkins' The Yellow Wallpaper In its broad sense, symbolism is the use of one object to represent another or suggest another. It is the use of objects, characters, figures, or colours to represent abstract ideas or concepts. In fact, in America in the middle of the nineteenth century, symbolism was the dominant literary mode. In this sense, the details of the world and actions of people were used to suggest philosophical ideas and themes. Thus, we get an image of this very kind of symbolism in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and in Charlotte Gilman Perkins' The Yellow Wallpaper. Indeed, these two American pieces of literature, both written in the late nineteenth century, offer such symbols that it shall be interesting to explore them and find out what they really symbolise in a purely American context. Marriage, as a symbol, present in both texts concerned, is something worth considering. The first question that comes to our mind after getting an overview of the marriage of the two protagonists of both texts is what does marriage actually symbolise for them. In general, marriage is synonym to marital bliss, to unity and is something that most women wish for. However, in The Awakening and in The Yellow Wallpaper, marriage has a rather negative meaning. In both texts, marriage is in fact

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Urbana at Feliza: Review. Urbanisasyon ang panawagan sa panahong pinalalago ang kalakalan upang lalong mapatampok ang halaga ng salapi at sistemang kapital.

ANG URBANA AT FELIZA ni modesto de castro AT ANG TRAFFIC ROAD SIGNS AND REGULATIONS SA METRO MANILA MGA BATAS - ETIKA SA PANAHON NG URBANISASYON ni GLECY C. ATIENZA Urbanisasyon ang panawagan sa panahong pinalalago ang kalakalan upang lalong mapatampok ang halaga ng salapi at sistemang kapital. Sa panahon ng pag-unlad ng urbanisasyon, ang mga sentro ng kalakalan ay nakapagtatatag ng sistema ng palitan ng produkto.Upang mapabilis ang daloy ng mga produkto mula sa isang lugar tungo sa susunod, lumilikha ng mga daanang makatutugon sa mga pangangailangang ito. Umiikot ang kapital, nagpapalipat-lipat ang mga produkto mula sa isang lugar tungo sa mamimili kasabay ng pagdami ng salapi at ng kita. Upang mapadaloy ang ganitong palitan, mahalagang magkaroon ng batas etikang makapagpapatatag sa ganitong uri ng kalakaran.Itong mga batas na ito ang siyang magtitiyak na ang daloy ng produkto at ang pagkamal ng salapi ay patuloy na nagaganap sa lahat ng larangan--mula sa mga produktong ikinakalakal hanggang sa serbisyo ng lakas-paggawa na inilalaan ng mga taong kasangkot sa kabuuang daloy ng sistemang ito. Mahalagang magkaroon ng batas ng mga dapat at hindi dapat. Mahalagang magkaroon ng mga tanda ang mga batas ito na tuwina'y isasagawa ng mga mamamayan , saan man sila naroon, sa anumang panahon, sa lahat ng uri ng anyo at manipestasyon nito, bilang pagsubay sa mga batas na

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According to the radical nineteenth-century Russian critic Dmitry Pisarev, in creating the character of Eugene Onegin, Pushkin used the whole arsenal of his talent to turn a petty, cowardly, spineless, idle dandy into a tragic figure, exhausted fro

According to the radical nineteenth-century Russian critic Dmitry Pisarev, in creating the character of Eugene Onegin, Pushkin 'used the whole arsenal of his talent to turn a petty, cowardly, spineless, idle dandy into a tragic figure, exhausted from battling the inordinate demands of people and the age'. Do you agree with this characterisation of Eugene Onegin? Why or why not? After much consideration I have decided that I do not agree with Pisarevs' characterisation of Onegin. Pisarev describes Onegin as a pitiful and cowardly figure where as I believe that Pushkin used his description of Onegin as merely a representation of an average, idealized young man of that era, describing how most young men at that time were bored and had no purpose. Onegin did not really know what to do with his life and time apart from lead the life of a typical, wealthy young man, attending balls, operas and walks on the Nevsky Prospect. In his youth, Onegin is admired for his social graces, despite having no real depth to his education. "All of us had a bit of schooling in something and somehow." Though Onegins education was not of the highest standard, he still comes across to the reader as having a high sense of culture and in his own respect differs from most of the noble society. Onegin had perfected a high proficiency of the French language. His skill of being able to speak of

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Changing the Environment

Is changing the environment due to our actions a good thing or a bad thing? In this paper I will evenly describe both sides. We all know that human beings add carbon dioxide into the atmosphere mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, and oil. Deforestation, cutting trees, is another major way we increase the atmospheric carbon dioxide. Felled timber releases carbon dioxide as it burns or decays. Also the cars and the trucks we drive emit carbon dioxide. Our power plants, which generate electricity even emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. All of these causes harm the atmosphere and lead us into global warming, and yet they are very vital to our lives. I think we should limit the main things that lead us into global warming; we should not just cut it away, because it can also harm our environment. For example, cars cause global warming, but we can't just seize that away, we can limit ourselves from the usage of automobiles. Basically, my argument is a little bit on each site. Now, I will illustrate the harmful things when changing the environment. Today, the changing of the climate is already hurting the planet with many diseases. And since global warming is coming in affect, the diseases will spread up to the north and higher elevations. The World Health Organization project tens of millions more cases of malaria and other infectious diseases. "The spread of

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saul bellow - herzog

Saul Bellow -Herzog .Biography of Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Saul (Solomon) Bellow was born on June 10, 1915, to Russian immigrant parents. He was raised in an impoverished suburb of Montreal, Quebec, where his father, Abraham, was a bootlegger and a businessman. Abraham pushed his children to take full advantage of every opportunity they were afforded, and Liza, his wife, hoped to see her sons grow up to become Talmudic scholars. As a child, Bellow spoke French, English, Yiddish, and Hebrew, and was encouraged to pursue diverse academic interests. Bellow's parents thus instilled in him both an intense desire to succeed and a sincere thirst for knowledge. Bellow's family moved to Chicago in 1924, and as Bellow grew older he became increasingly interested in writing. In 1933, he enrolled in the University of Chicago, where he studied literature. After two years, Bellow transferred to Northwestern University, where he graduated with honors in anthropology and sociology. Bellow then pursued a master's degree in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. After finishing his studies, he returned to Chicago and married a sociologist named Anita Goshkin. In Chicago, Bellow became involved with the Works Progress Administration Writers' Project (WPA), an organization with ties to the Communist Party that was dedicated to providing support to young intellectuals and writers.

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Can translation be considered as a social and discursive process in which equivalence is negotiated between the two cultures?

Can translation be considered as a social and discursive process in which equivalence is negotiated between the two cultures? For many years, translations were regarded merely as a reproduction, almost a copy of a source text - rendered in a somewhat mechanical fashion by a translator, following a set of rigid rules and devices. In fact further to this idea of translation theory being misjudged, it can be argued that translation has in the past been thought of as a product rather than a process (Olher, 2004). Readers in general look at a translation either as an end product, or a text to be aligned with a concurrent and almost parallel source text. As such, the thought processes and decision making which are associated with a translation can be taken for granted or even lost. Hatim and Mason (1997) refer to translation as: An act of communication which attempts to relay, across cultural and linguistic boundaries, another act of communication (which may have been intended for different purposes and different readers/hearers). With this quote in mind, I will seek to show how translation can be described as both a social and discursive process. By identifying the connected parties involved in any translational action, as well as the cultural conflicts that may arise through said actions, I hope to make it clear how equivalence can be negotiated between two parties of

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What are the principles of X-bar theory? What is its justification in syntactic theory?

What are the principles of X-bar theory? What is its justification in syntactic theory? Noam Chomsky has been a pivotal twentieth- and twenty-first-century theorist in the field of linguistics, proffering several hypotheses and philosophies to shape current trends in research, including generative grammar and the eponymous Chomsky hierarchy. His ideas have also been significant in the areas of government and binding theory, transformational grammar and context-free grammar. It perhaps comes as no surprise, then, that Chomsky was also the initial proposer of X-bar theory, a focal point of linguistic theory, even though much of the further development was undertaken by Ray Jackendoff. This essay will explore the principles and importance of X-bar theory, and how it fits overall into other elements of syntactic theory. As a revolutionary way of describing syntax, X-bar theory builds on basic phrase structure theories that have come before it and changed how linguists view syntactic models today. I will therefore describe some basic phrase structure rules before tracing their evolution through to X-bar theory, before culminating in an explanation of X-bar theory's overall significance and its general position in syntactic studies. Phrase structures are used in linguistics to act as an almost mathematical formula that has the power to summarise phrase structures in any

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The Protestant work ethic in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

The Protestant work ethic in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe has become the classic adventure story for children. But closer reading of the original text reveals a novel of enormous significance. It is much more than an adventure tale. Robinson Crusoe represents the heroism of the character through protestant work ethic ( puritan work ethic ) and salvation from hardship through God and religion. The main focus of Robinson Crusoe's existence is work. Throughout the whole adventure he is divided between adventuring and creating , between the impulse to make profits and the impulse to make a life. As I said Defoe makes clear that a man's power over himself and nature depends upon ceaseless labor. But in order to fulfil his task he needs conditions to do so. That's why one of Crusoe's first goals is to become the master of the island. In the beginning of the novel he achieves some success in mastering his situation, overcoming handicaps and controlling the environment. He is shipwrecked on a deserted island and he makes it his own home. Without having any tools he constructs a shovel, a table, and a chair. All these things made with hard working prevent him from being a savage. One of his major concerns after being shipwrecked is his food. He is worried about not having anything to eat "anything to eat or drink to comfort me." He soon supplies

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