Please read "the Guinea Pig Story" and tell me what you think?
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Poor guinea pigs.\nWhat they need is a nice big field full of clover and dandelions and no nasty owner to control and confuse them....
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GREAT STORY !! You know the best part?......................\n\nMore than half of these re7ards believe you !!! LOL, jokes on them !!! That was good though, very funny !!
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Now, I am suprised that this was posted,...I thought everyone knew this story...let me give it a shot.\n\nBetter yet let me look this up for ya:There are a few things that are good here:  I hope this helps...\n\nThroughout the novel Celie is growing and learning about herself. She learns with the help of others not only about herself but about things that go on around her. The fact that Celie is writing to God shows us that she has a way of coping with her horrendous life. In a way God is the only thing she could turn to since her step-father scared her by saying "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy." (p1) This is the first sign of growth we are presented with in the novel. Next Celie is confronted with Sofia who she wishes she were like in some ways. She learns alot from Sofia and Harpo's relationship; like the fact that a wife doesn't have to take abuse from her husband. She also learns about Sofia's outlook on life which is important to her growth. "You ought to bash Mr.------ head open, she say. Think bout heaven later." ( p. 44) \nIn this quote we see that Sofia is telling Celie that she should start caring about the life she is living and get rid of Mr.------. This is one of the first steps in which Celie starts to care about her life and makes gradual attempts to better it. \n\nShug Avery enters the novel next and is idealized by Celie. Celie does everything she can to be like Shug which in the long run helps her be more of her own person. Once Celie becomes Shug´s friend and stops trying to be like her, she instead begins to learn from her and becomes her own person. Through Shug she learned a lot more sexually about herself . All the sexual experiences she had had prior to the one with Shug were bad, and usually against her will. But after her experience with Shug she realizes that sexual contact can be enjoyed, she becomes confortable with her body, and learns that touching herself is not a bad thing. In a way they were both growing in their relationship at the same time because neither of them had had sexual experience with a woman before. " I don't know know nothing bout it, I say to Shug. I dont know much she say." ( p.118). \n\nAs Shug and Celie´s relationship progressed, I think she began to experience a real relationship with someone she cared about. For the first time in her life she truly loved someone besides her sister. Celie gained more self confidence from being with Shug, and with this she finally learned how to stand up to Mr.-------. We are shown this for one of the first times in the discussion at dinner. At that dinner we really get to see how much Celie has grown and how independent she is becoming. She tells Mr.------- , "You a lowdown dog is what you is what's wrong, I say. Its time to leave you and enter into the Creation. And your dead body is just the welcome mat I need." (p.207) This quote has a lot of significance because it's one of the first times Celie stands up for herself. It shows that she's not going to take his treatment anymore and is moving on, she is finally ready to enter into communion with the rest of the world and start her own life. The break up of Shug and Celie serves as a good wake up call to her that she has to learn to live without depending on Shug so much. As the novel continues it begins to talk less and less of Celie's outer ugliness and more of her innner beauty. This is very important because it symbolizes her growth as a human being and shows us how her self respect has increased. \n\nAs Celie begains to gain more and more control of her life she starts a buisness making pants, which is significant for two reasons. First, because they are pants which shows us that she is finally feeling equal or better than the "male" and no longer feels beneath him, and second, because she finally has control of something of her own, with people who work for her. \n\n
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The first answer is correct, the story is good.  It's a great example of how women were (and are still in some cases) treated and how detrimental it can be.  Definitely worth reading!!
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I think it sounds pretty good:). I would just brush up your grammar on some of it, rearrange some of your sentence structure, otherwise it is really well done! I read Lord Of The Flies my freshman year of high school, and it was one of the only ones I could read without hating it. The only question I have is-are you sure Golding is giving the early forms of living a bad rep? or is he maybe looking into what he sees may be the future of civilization if we cannot live by our morals and our rules???? Think about it in that sense and you may get a different view on it:). Good luck!:)
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It happened on a rainy sunday night... the rooster had just left for a long trip to find some job to feed the chicks once they hatched from the eggs. The chicken had just laid a dozen of them. Finding no means of transport... the rooster took a long walk... just when it was about to reach the station... he heard lots of shooting going on there... curious... it went to see what was going on... on reaching there... he saw the gangs having a war... it was just standing there and watching what he couldnt believe... when the sirens were heard and the gangs fled... leaving behind their guns... the rooster came close to the guns and picked them up to see what it was... not able to figure out how it worked... suddenly the lights flashed on him and he heard "Freeze! drop your weapon and put your hands up in the air"... the next thing poor guy knows he was under arrest and in prison... he was allowed just one call... so he called the chicken to come and bail him out.... the chicken... quickly called her sister to come and watch the eggs... she reached the prison on bus... the bus stand was on the other side of the road...\n\n... so my dear friends... the chicken crossed the road to get to the other side to go to the prison to bail her hubby out.\n\nThe long part is always left out by the storytellers to make things short and simple... sometimes... its the long parts in life that are more interesting and hold the reasons or answers to our queries.. \n\nLets all remember to keep it looong and difficult... instead of just short and simple.
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First of all, it's an allegory to the fall of Russia, not an alliteration. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. As for what Orwell is saying, the story is about communism. In communism, the individual makes sacrifices for the society; rather than working for his own good, he works for the good of everyone, and takes no more than his fair share. The hard-working horse (I forgot his name) does everything he can for the society, and gives all he can. Going the other way, society has an obligation to keep each individual at an equal standard of living - nobody is lower than anybody else.
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I agree.\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4606106
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dude that is the best story in the history of stories...how was the blow?
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OK, I'll give this a stab. Once upon a time, I taught upper elementary school in a inner city that is now far, far away. A report on NPR's marketplace inspired me to put together a unit on toys. \n\nI began by reading the short story "The Lesson" by Tony Cade Bambara aloud to the students. In the story, a "nappy-headed woman" with too much education and no makeup takes a group of kids from Harlem to the toy store FAO Schwartz in Manhattan. By doing this, she shows them that there's a world outside their Harlem neighborhood, and in this world, they don't have much power or money. The narrator--one of the Harlem kids--is angry, really angry at the woman who taught her this lesson.\n\n"You know," said one of my former students about a year later, "We hated you just like those kids in the story hated that woman."\n\n"I know," I said. By then I had learned that if you tell kids they are any kind of disadvantaged, even if you do so by telling them you grew up disadvantaged, too, they will hate you for it. \n\nBut I wasn't done with the unit. I had discussion questions for them to write about, and one of them was "Who are the people who buy the toys at FAO Schwartz?" The kids' answers were mostly some variation of "rich people".\n\nNext up, I had them go home and look at the "Made in" tags on three of their own toys, or those of a sibling, neighbor, or cousin if they were "too old" for toys. Actually, this was also a way out for kids who couldn't afford to own three toys.\n\nThe next day we compiled the results of our survey. I did that because I had two different figures for the percentage of toys made in China, and I wanted them to participate in gathering our own data: primary research. Some of the kids had obviously not done their research, but I included their made up answers (like "Made in Africa") anyway. Our results showed a percentage in between the two percentages I had from my research. In all three cases, we had figures that showed more than half the toys sampled were made in China.\n\nNext, I prepared them for an article I'd adapted from the newspaper by bringing in maps and coffee table books about China. I showed them, for example, terraces on the sides of mountains and a photograph of people in western Sichuan province with 100 pound tubs of manure on their backs, preparing to hike five miles into the mountains to lay manure on their fields.\n\nAt this point, I always asked the small group I was showing this particular photograph a question. Given a choice, would they rather come to school, read some stories, do some science, work some math problems, have recess, lunch, and maybe computer class, or would they rather hike five miles into the mountains with a hundred-pound tub of manure on their backs?\n\nWell, most of them would rather come to school. But there was always one or two who would say, "Give me the tub of manure."  These are your "kinesthetic learners", the kids who learn best by moving. In one case the kid was also a student with a high naturalistic intelligence (who happened to be born into a family with no interest in nature) and a truancy problem. I often think of that kid, and how happy he would be if he lived where I live now. \n\nAs a general rule, kinesthetic learners are more likely to be put in special ed, to drop out of school, and to end up in jail. They are the group of students that we as educators fail the most. And by fail, I mean we don't do right by them.\n\nAnyway, in the next part of the lesson, my students were to read an article I'd adapted from The Washington Post. The article told the story of a teenager who had travelled from western Sichuan province to the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen, outside Hong Kong. \n\nIt explained how she'd gotten a job in a toy factory as a sort of human conveyor belt, moving partially manuf
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Summarizing each paragraph as a simple sentence:\n\nPeople in America are fatter today than they have ever been.\n\nPundits keep trying to tie this phenomenom to a ressurgence in historical interest in the reign of King Henry VIII, who was VERY fat, but just wanted to live life to the fullest.\n\nThe author doesn't believe in the Plantagenet/obesity connection.\n\nNeither should you.
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It's a great book and you should read it.\n\nhttp://www.annefrank.com/1_life.htm\nHere's a summary of it and I'm not going to answer all those questions.\n\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/frank/fullsumm.html\n\nhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/annefran.htm
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I read these stories all the time .. they're great .. but most of them sound so unrealistic.\n\nI would like more detail about the sex then the actual story about how they met, what they were wearing, blah blah blah ...\n\nKeep up the good work and yes women are very passionate and beautiful creatures .... !
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No, I actually liked it, too. The lottery at that time had an absolutely different meaning from today, and it was kind of misleading, consequently giving more impact for present readers. I like her style. If I was one of the villagers, I'd get out of there immediately. Stoning someone to death as a means of sacrifice for the community is just brutal and violent. Arrgh, it gave me the creeps when I read it.
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I need know a little more about the story to answer this question.
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Excellent, 9.9 out of ten. \nTry this one:   The teacher was giving a lesson to a class of 8-year-olds in a Dublin Primary School.  She said to them:  ‘Today I am going to tell you a story with a moral and when I am finished I will ask you all to tell a similar one.   A farmer collected 100 eggs from his hen houses and prepared to have them hatched.   After the first day, he arranged to sell them all when the chickens were three weeks old and took payment from the customer.   However, when the eggs hatched, he found that almost forty were infertile and did not produce a chicken.   He therefore could not deliver the 100 chickens he had sold and lost a lot of money.   The moral of this story is: never count your chickens before they are hatched’.   \n\nThe children sat not saying a word then the teacher spoke.   ‘Right then boys and girls, who will tell me a story with a moral’.   \n\nLittle Paddy stood up and began:  ‘During the war my granddad got blown up and was in a big hole in the ground and all he had was his gun, bullets, his bayonet and two bottles of whiskey.  It got cold so he opened up one bottle and drank a whole lot of the whiskey.  When he done that, he opened the other and drank that one as well.   After a while a whole lot of Germans came over the hill.   Granddad took his gun and shot loads of them.  He then got up and charged with his bayonet and stabbed a load more, killing the whole lot.   That’s the end of my story’.   The teacher waited, but Paddy sat down.   ‘But Paddy’ she asked ‘ what is the moral of your story’.  Paddy stood up again and said ‘That’s easy Miss, my dad says never f*ck around with granddad when he’s pissed’.
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One only needs to read "Animal Farm" (by George Orwell). On the surface it appears to be just another fairy tale with animals, but it's actually an allegory about the Communist Revolution. The various characters in the book represent real historical figures or organisational entities.