... in a logical manner Offer other suggestions or alternitives Close a positive neutral note A buffer is a neutral note that enables you to explain the situation logically before you present the bad news message What would you do first to resolve the problem What would you do next to determine the best corse of action. De emphasize the bad news information Mechanical techniques use ... of space Isolation ensure the bad news statements are in a multiple line Sentance structure use compound complex sentences Language Passive voice Position middle paragraph needs less emphises Close a bad new...

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... for her sister's wedding reception to Pedro. Tita's mother, Mama Elena tortures Tita in doing this. Tita makes the wedding cake, but during the process she cries tears into the cake. Her tears are tears of sadness. These tears drop into the cake and everyone at the wedding becomes sick. This is because all of the people at the reception party begin to ... expresses her love and sorrow that she feels for Pedro. Through the cooking, family and friends experience love, sadness, happiness, and grief. In both of these pieces symbolism give a powerful message. It shows how a family can experi...

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... been praying for their son which shows that they are really concerned about him and want everything to turn out okay. Howard and Ann both also both forget about the cake. When something like this happens in anyone's life they forget about everything else and the only thing that they can think about is the tragic event that has happened. This ... is exactly what happened to Howard and Ann. They forget about the cake and the baker is very upset and that's why he keeps calling their house. But Howard and Ann have no idea who he is or what he wants because they ... this happens to many cou...

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... her middle age returning to her hometown. She is immediately met by quiet judgment from the locals. They believe at 40 years old she was much too old for Tea Cake, who was around 25. They pass judgment over her appearance, "What she doin coming back here in dem blue overalls? Can't she find no dress to put on ... nothing about it other than sit and listen. Once Joe dies, Janie feels some control back in her life. Her marriage to Tea Cake was her choice, she was not forced into it. Tea Cake brings an interesting twist into the story, because he has no control whatsoever, not over himself,...

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... . You can see by Lester's face that even when the man starts to cry, Lester already was showing signs of discomfort. Then to put the icing on the expectancy violation cake, he shoves his lips up to Lester's to try for the kiss. Lester's barrier being broken, tells the man that he had the wrong idea. This is one of the ... was to get away from his father. He loved his estranged mother very much but to get away from his father was more important to him than anything. Another underlying message that was routine through this movie was the red roses. I don" think that the roses actually had m...

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... the smae poem "I am Waiting". Ferlinghetti writes "I am waiting for the American Boy to take off Beauty's clothes and get on top of her and I am waiting for Alice in Wonderland to retransmit to me her total dream of innocence" This portrays him as a rebel artist/poet because first sex was not take about especially in reference to The American Boy ... and Beauty. Second is Alice in Wonderland is all about drugs and is in no way about innocence. And as I have perviously said drugs were looked down upon and everyone once supposed to be innocence. For the ... ...

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... It is important for people to realize that anything can happen to anybody. A Small, Good Thing is a story about senseless tragedy, and it does a good job on conveying the message that tragedy can happen to us all at anytime, unexpectedly. The plot in A Small, Good Thing unfolds into a tragic story about a family losing a young child. The author ... the realization comes about what is to be read. We also see the beginning of the important role the Baker will play, first with Ann ordering Scotty's cake and then with the Baker calling about her picking it up. It should be noted that even wit...

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... . You can see by Lester's face that even when the man starts to cry, Lester already was showing signs of discomfort. Then to put the icing on the expectancy violation cake, he shoves his lips up to Lester's to try for the kiss. Lester's barrier being broken, tells the man that he had the wrong idea. This is one of the ... was to get away from his father. He loved his estranged mother very much but to get away from his father was more important to him than anything. Another underlying message that was routine through this movie was the red roses. I don" think that the roses actually had m...

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... she no longer needs to please another person. She is still looking for her perfect pear-blossom world, however. She finds it in one of the most unlikely places. Tea Cake is younger than she, poorer than she, and can offer her nothing but love. Fortunately, all Janie needs is love. He doesn't want to use her as a mule, or as ... they are both willing to sacrifice everything for each other. Janie is "thankful fuh anything [they came] through together" [158], and Tea Cake calls Janie "mah wife and mah woman and everything else in de world Ah needs" [119]. When she's with Tea Cake, Janie al...

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... put on an act and sent her face to Joe's funeral. After Joe's death Janie continued to run the store they had established. While working she met Vergible Woods ( Tea Cake ) who showed her how to play checkers. " How about playin" you some checkers? You look hard tuh beat."( Hurston 95 ) This illustrates how he treated her as equal. Compared to ... the other two husbands in Janie's life, Tea Cake was very progressive and open minded. Tea cake taught her so much that she started to feel more independent After Tea Cake's death, Janie grieved on the inside so much that she did not care what...

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... but through a women, Janie. Three things that Janie did that related to the phrase are not settling for a man that would boss her around, yelling at Tea Cake when he stole the money, and finally sticking up for her-self to find true love. All of today's society correlates to the above saying. Some for instances ... liking so she found the evil in Logan and triumphed over it and divorced him even though the divorce didn't count. When Janie found out that Tea Cake had stolen two hundred dollars from her she yelled at him. In that day it was not tolerated for a women to yell at a man or ......

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... bad you the teachers, if the trip was worthless. I think the lady at the CDC just needs to make her presentation more exciting, or give us cake. All I could think about after she said they gave out cake at welcome week was how I wanted cake! I LIKE CAKE! Anyways, I hope this is a little bit helpful on how I, and possibly others felt about last weeks class. ...

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I could not believe it. A whole year had passed. It was time again for my birthday. It would be like any other. I would blow out the candles on my cake, open my presents, and play games with all my friends. But this year was going to be different, I hoped! It was not until I walked around the corner and saw it. ... playing tag. I heard my mother scream from our picnic area, "Girls, it is time to cut the cake and open the presents." After the stampede had passed, we settled down and got ready for cake and ice cream. I was not really interested in my cake. I just wanted to open my presents. M...

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... her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world." (88) After Joe's death Janie continued to run the store. While working, she met Tea Cake, who showed her how to play checkers. "Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play." (96) This illustrates how he treated her as equal. Compared ... to the other two husbands in Janie's life, Tea Cake was very progressive and open minded. Tea Cake taught her so much that she started to feel more independent. After Tea Cake's death, Janie grieved on the inside so much that she di...

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... was one way until she had been through some struggles. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie went from Logan, her first husband, to Jody, her second husband, to Tea Cake, her third husband, before she found who she really was. Logan's control over Janie made her feel like she had to do whatever he said. She could not do anything ... when she was with Jody. However, when she was Now with Tea Cake, Janie was treated as an equal. She was able to be herself and do what she wanted to do and not what others told her to do. Hurston uses symbolism ... . So her soul crawled out from its hiding ...

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... due to increased demand for such products as food, clothing, and ammunition. The government, along with the mass media, wanted to show women that they should go to work. The message they wanted to express was that by going into the workforce, you would be helping your country, and earning a living at the same time (Rosie). The campaign generated posters, pamphlets ... performing industrial tasks and using machines was as easy as daily housework: Instead of cutting the lines of a dress, this woman cuts the pattern of aircraft parts. Instead of baking a cake this woman is cooking gears to...

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... due to increased demand for such products as food, clothing, and ammunition. The government, along with the mass media, wanted to show women that they should go to work. The message they wanted to express was that by going into the workforce, you would be helping your country, and earning a living at the same time (Rosie). The campaign generated posters, pamphlets ... performing industrial tasks and using machines was as easy as daily housework: Instead of cutting the lines of a dress, this woman cuts the pattern of aircraft parts. Instead of baking a cake this woman is cooking gears to...

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... is the symbolism "upside down?" in order to see things clearly you have to turn things the right way up. I find it interesting that Golding is trying to get this message across with Ralph as Ralph is possibly the most upside down person in the whole novel. Another one is Simon. Many people believe that Simon is the Christ figure of ... fair things are, they will always be overpowered by brute force. The conch, a flawed symbol of authority and therefore a contributor to the bad on the island. The icing on the cake to prove that this is a bad island is the fact that it has a beast. What p...

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... , who tried to deny ownership in "a little voice like she was four." The teacher put the sweater on her desk. Rachel wanted to cry, but tried to think about a birthday cake for her that evening to celebrate her eleventh birthday. She pushed the sweater slowly to the edge of her desk until it almost fell on the floor. Noticing this, Mrs ... , rather than just a few components. The author expresses much parallelism when characterizing Rachel. She repeats that on her birthday nigh her family will sing to her and they will eat cake. However, she also indicates that when they sing it will be t...

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... turned it over in your hands, you could see a small drawn bunny, and a sentence, "Eat me," that always made me laugh because it reminded me of Alice in Wonderland. At these moments, I felt happiness. And then I sat there for another day, and then another, and then the last one came. The last day arrived not because I was tired of ... ...

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... example, the thief in Pecker and the thief in Empire Records. Josh Lucas is great as well. He plays a sleazy, greedy employee who loves money. He's in the new film Wonderland and had a part in American Psycho. They both played their characters as good as possible. Finally, David Caruso played Phil who is kind of sketchy throughout the whole movie. This ... ...

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As a child I lived in "wonderland" with parents that gave everything that I needed and sometimes things that I did not. The only thing that I missed was the affection. As the son of a diplomat, I left friendship and the ... ...

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... they can give us a false sense of reality - I think that is trully very exciting The other story of the Matrix is the choice, the choice between the matrix and the Wonderland. And it is really hard. As Morpheus said, "matrix is a prison for your mind-. The idea of "real world- is that by entering into it offers not a denial of what ... ...

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... pictures of celebration contrasting pictures of despair in Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". Words like "joyous" and "shimmering" described the opening scene of this story. A beautiful wonderland is painted in the reader's mind as LeGuin writes of a sort of annual festival happening in the seemingly perfect town of Omelas. The city is described with plenty of room ... ...

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... choice "take the blue pill and you will wake up in the morning, with no memory of any of this, but take the red pill and you have a ticket to wonderland."(The Matrix) The man takes the red pill, and leaves the cave. When he first enters the real world and attempts to use his eyes, light temporarily blinds him; his ... ...

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