The Shipping News by Annie Proulx-Navigating the Global Hsc English Extension 1

This book report discusses the plot, significant characters, setting (e.g., time of the story took place, historical background), problems and resolutions, themes or messages of the story. A reflection of the author’s writing style will be presented followed by a conclusion.

After being transported through the Pool of Tears into the new world, Alyss is forced to change, and she becomes an anxious, unhygienic, and troubled young adult. After emerging through a puddle in the middle of a parade for the Queen of England, our hero encounters Quiggly Gaffer and his fellow orphan companions. The narrator entails about Alyss’

The author moves to her actual realization that she has been misunderstood her entire lifetime along with the Western world by extending her vocabulary and appealing to emotional diction. These are seen clearly through “’aina” meaning culture and “the great bloodiness of memory: genealogy” (Trask 118). These few examples show how her language is connecting with the audience on an emotional level by using native terms and powerful language such as “bloodiness.” She appeals to the ideals of pathos by employing meaningful words when describing the traits of her people. She

She insists that for her, there is nothing as great as death with glory. This refusal to follow the law of the land is what brings about her death. It is to this passage (Lns 450-460) that those critics especially point who see in Antigone the self-appointed upholder of divine as against human law. Antigone plays her part as peitho, yet remains true to her basic characterization (Adam 8). In this way Antigone is the classic tragic hero as seen in literature, a clear main character.

As we move forward the narrator reveals how Gebel(the ruler of Gola) was disgusted as soon as she finds that the visitors from Detaxal are “simple minded males”(101)

The first person narrative in the ancient kingdom of Glome, a land ruled by a tyrannical king and religious goddess Ungit. Narrated by Princess (later Queen) Orual. The first section of this novel presents itself as an open complaint against the gods, particularly the god of the Grey Mountain, who brought Orual such pain and distress over the years, yet offer no answers or explanations to justify the suffering.

During the period of colonization, John Winthrop lead the Puritans, a new religious group, across the Atlantic to settle in Massachusetts Bay Colony. By the 1630s the colony had established a theocracy that supported its conservative culture. Sarah Vowell discusses the functionality of the Puritan community in her editorial, The Wordy Shipmates. She uses several excerpts from the play The Examination of Mrs.Anne Hutchinson at the court of  Newton, November 1637 written by Anne Hutchinson, to form her opinion. Anne Hutchinson was a leader in her community who occasionally gave sermons that challenged the authority of the church. She was called to court by John Winthrop and his council who aimed to charge her for sedition and heresy. Vowell argues that Winthrop’s claims were ungrounded and did not have any reasonable explanations, whereas Anne Hutchinson rebutted with facts. Sarah Vowell’s analysis of the Puritans in The Wordy Shipmates is legitimate, her reactions to the case are logical, and like Anne Hutchinson she is easily able to justify her position with direct quotes to answer assumptions of her audience.

The setting of the book is very important in Garnet’s character development and personal growth. The relationship between Garnet and his family is detached because he was raised by foster homes instead of his family, that makes him a lot differences between him and Natives. When he returns to the reserve, he has lots of things need to learn, especially the traditional Native spiritual ways. At the

2. Suppose a customer buys an iPhone from Apple for $500 on January 1, 2010. The cost of the iPhone to Apple is $350. Assume that the customer is entitled to upgrades over the next two years. Use the following financial statement effects template (FSET) to illustrate the financial statement impacts for Apple of the customer's iPhone purchase on the date of the initial purchase and at the end of each of the two years following the initial purchase under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

With every journey comes a destination which is dependent on the degree of the individual and their will to potentially better themselves. A journey offers travelers the opportunity to extend themselves physically, intellectually and emotionally as they respond to challenges. Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron is a contemporary fractured fairytale in the form of a play that explores the grim, Australian legend of the missing child. This text portrays real issues in an absurd representation which forces the reader on an imaginative journey as well as the characters in an inner journey to establish an identity. Beach Burial by Kenneth Slessor is a distressing elegy about loss of life through war. Slessor’s sophisticated language, allows the responder to empathise and mourn the wastefulness of life in war while also to appreciate the commonality of human existence. This text highlights the concept of journeying of the soul from both the reader and the responder. Through the use of a variety of visual and written techniques, these texts portray the concept of an existential journey, the indefinite search for true self and true personal meaning in life. Deep loss of an individual or one others’ individuality triggers an existential crisis and without journeying imaginatively, the chance to create one’s purpose becomes absent.

The affiliation with her brother is punctuated by an incident of rape, on her brothers doing. The incident took place at a pond, which Agnis happens to come across. When she does so she is flooded with childhood memories, and whilst they still make her feel disheartened she is able to acknowledge that it happened, and that she cannot change that fact. She recognises that it has made her stronger. “She had worked her way off the rocks and shoals. Had managed. Still managed.” (Pg 226) When she first comes across the pond and recalls the rape, she stands and looks at the pond, and thought it to be, “small, uninteresting. No reason to go down to it” (Pg 225.) The pond was no longer of any significance to her and her new life.

Rigoberta starts questioning her perspective on ladinos, wondering if they are really all bad. She befriends Indians who have worked with poor ladinos who suffer from the same problems as her community does. The poor, from ladino to Indian, are exploited just the same yet they are so conditioned to dislike one another it’s hard for them to unite and really consider their circumstances the same. This troubles Rigoberta greatly for she knows that the heart of her distress aches from abuse from the rich landowners and if the poor ladinos are abused the same, they ache as well. Rigoberta dares to live in a state of confusion when wondering why there is such an enormous barrier between ladino and Indian. This confused state of mind is progressive for her time because her culture has long equated change and confusion with chaos and

Although some readers might think Margaret Laurence's short story “The Loons” is about the naivety of a young girl named Vanessa who spent her days fantasizing about native american culture, it is in fact about the adversity an individual faces when presented with a lack of belonging. Laurence employs this idea through the loss and mourning of her two main characters. Through Vanessa McLeod and Piquette Tonnerres she shows how one individual’s perpetual need of belonging influences the others ulterior reality. She does this to showcase the disastrous effects of a dominant society on the prior inhabitants of the land and how it relates to a feeling loss and mourning.

We think that daily spot hire rate will likely decrease next year. There are two reasons. First, there are 63 new vessels scheduled for delivery in 2001 to increase the supply of vessel and only few old vessels need to be retired, while the demand will not increase because imports of iron ore and coal would remain stagnant over next two years. Second, exhibit 5 shows that avg. spot rate of 2000 was higher than the rate of previous years and avg. 3-yr charter rate. In addition, the market will seemingly go up after two years. Therefore, ship owners should hope to sign short-term contract through using lower daily spot hire rate rather than locking low daily high rate for a long period.

1) Do you expect daily spot hire rates to increase or decrease next year? (5 points)