The text presented for analysis is an extract from the story “One Stair Up” by Campbell Nairne‚ dealing with the everyday life of average working-class family. The extract gives the readers a dynamic episode of their day-to-day experiences‚ providing them with an opportunity to observe the relationships both between the members of the family and between them and the society. Throughout the whole story we perceive the characters mostly by means of their internal monologues – implicit characterization
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Falling in Love “Hey‚ hellooo‚ man what is wrong with you? You have been acting strange lately and I think it has something to do with you falling in love.” Nicole said. “Yea‚ falling in love has some weird effects on me.” Kendall responded. The two girls continue to chatter about the effects of falling in love. Falling in love can have a variety of devastating and enjoyable effects such as always have a companion‚ getting
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Falling Down Urban areas of the world have always been a crucial element in spatial organization and the evolution of societies. Towns and cities are centers of cultural innovation social transformation and political change. They can also be engines of economic development. The gross domestic product of large cities like Los Angeles is roughly equivalent to that of entire countries like Australia and Sweden. Towns and cities are essential elements in human economic and social organization
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Tatiana Andonegui English 10 January 21‚ 2013 Falling in Love: Choice or Chance? Love‚ like cascading water‚ can often bathe humans with intensely drenching contentment. And yet‚ if unfortunate‚ love may turn into furious tongues of fire that sear one’s heart‚ leaving them with haunting scars. Despite being such a natural phenomenon‚ love continues to be obscurely indefinable- there is no such thing as one specific denotation for the word. In fact‚ love can be defined by each individual
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The Accident It was 8:45 pm‚ a typical Friday night and the phone kept ringing. My daughter Khadra answered at the same time that I was entering the living room‚ I asked her who it was‚ and she said‚ “It is Long Beach Memorial Hospital; they want to speak to Mr. or Mrs Azza”‚ I grabbed the phone‚ “Hello‚ yes this is Mrs. Azza‚” the lady on the phone responded‚” We need you to come to the hospital as soon as possible; your son was hit by a car”. I couldn’t speak‚ but I forced myself to ask the
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An Accident A few years ago I received my dream car‚ a dark blue 1967 Ford Mustang with a 302 V-8 engine. Every time I turned the key I was able to hear that engine purr just like a kitten resting on your lap and could feel the glass packs‚ upgraded mufflers that cause the engine’s sound to amplify‚ rumble the seats and just add to that lovely sound that could be heard up to a mile away‚ which I’m sure the neighbors didn’t like. The best feeling I could have was when I was on the back roads far
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ‘Falling Angels’ by Jiří Kylián Falling Angels is a part of the Black and White ballets which were created in 1989 with 8 white female dancers dressed in black leotards. It was performed to drumming/percussion music based on ceremonial ritual music from Ghana. The piece is performed by eight women dancing to rhythmic drumming. Jiří Kylián’s Falling Angels expresses emotions through movement which connects to the audience
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received news that the World Trade Center was hit. The images from this horrific day flooded the media’s television screens and newspaper articles. Perhaps the most gruesome images shown were those of people jumping out of the building as they were collapsing. Tom Junod‚ a writer for the Esquire magazine‚ illustrates his perspective of this shocking incident through pictures‚ media coverage‚ and depicting people’s reactions in his article The Falling Man. Tom Junod’s article should be read by anyone who
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battle‚ you will always have effects haunting you at night. Those horrible memories that you saw and lived through on the battlefield will continuously come back. You live every day with the thought of being a murderer. Throughout the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson‚ war has a vast impact on Kabuo Miyamoto‚ a Japanese man living on San Piedro Island. Kabuo Miyamoto is first introduced to the reader as being a murderer‚ the murderer of Carl Heine‚ a local
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Text ONE STAIR UP By C. Nairne Nairne Campbell is a Scottish novelist‚ the author of two books "One Stair Up" (1932) and "Stony Ground" (1934)‚ who wrote about Scottish working class families in a realistic manner. The extract from the book “One Stair Up” by C. Nairne depicts the man and woman who visited a cinema and had different views on the film that they had seen due to their diverse perception. There is also a description of the cinema-world as a pastime of the people from working
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