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My shameful secret had eaten away at me for years. But I always knew the truth had to come out eventually. Everyone knows secrets have a horrible way of coming back to haunt you. Usually, when you least expect it. Certainly, the sordid secret in my past was the last thing on my mind as I went about me daily life.
About fifteen years ago I was the mother of two darling daughters and in a loveless marriage. It was also during this time that I became romantically involved with my sister's son. We fell in love and our love-affair carried on undetected by our family members for about two year until I fell pregnant by him. Even though I was married, we both knew that my unborn baby was my nephew's.Giving birth to our baby, I felt sick with fear.
Would my baby look like my nephew, or worse – be deformed? Thankfully our baby was healthy but does look a lot like my nephew. My husband thought the child was his and it was torture keeping my terrible secret for I was still in love with my sister's son. For the past thirteen years I've been passing this child off as my husband's and my nephew has during this time always stayed in the background.
I really felt sorry for him, knowing that my baby was his and not being able to acknowledge this fact.Even though my nephew and I did not resume our romance after the birth, I was still in love with him and has always been. But the past has a way of catching up with you.
One one night, about a year ago, we somehow got together again and this led to us having sexual intercourse again.Maybe I should have run away, but I was so glad to be with him again that I just melted into his arms, and succumbed to him. The sex with him was as pleasurable as it was nearly fifteen years ago and we have been together since then.
We are still in love now, as we were fifteen years ago.But now, the unexpected has happened. I have again fallen pregnant to my nephew. I am three months pregnant, and this time however, he refuses to disappear into the background as he did all those years ago, and this is moment I've dreaded all my life.He now feels that he can take care of me and our daughter. He wants me to leave my husband and move in with him with my three daughters. He also wants us to tell our daughter who her real father is.
This is not something I can face doing myself. We both realise that our family would never agree to this, and if the truth be told, I am too ashamed, too terrified how they'd react.But I cannot go through another fifteen years of lying to my husband, children, sister and mother.
What I am concerned about is how my daughter would react if she knew the truth? Would she blame me, hate me for not telling her?And my other two daughters – would they hate me for having an affair with their cousin?


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Tess of D"Uberville, is a famous work of Thomas Hardy. This work describes the tragedy of Tess. Tess" tragedy coagulates with much more different color of the society and person. It destroys this daughter who was born in nature, and owned man"s simple natural character. The novel"s subtitle calls Tess "a pure woman", after Tess loses chastity, she kills the man, but the female of this earth is innocent. She has persevering vitality, contending with not only destiny by possessing singly, but society, the families, individuals etc. She has another heavy factor to make this pure and great female head for destruction eventually. In her life, there are three main persons who directly affect her. The first one is Alec, who rapes her and becomes the direct murder. His appearance changed Tess" all. The second one is Angle, who is the accessory and also the best lover of Tess. The third one is Tess herself. Besides, the society and the family affect Tess" whole life largely. Thus, in this paper, the author makes some detailed discussion and analysis of these factors.
Key Words
Chastity; destiny; murder;
摘 要
贞洁;命运; 谋杀.
No profound experience, no good work, as the saying goes for hundreds of years. In the novel of Tess of D"Urberuilles, the author introduced a pure girl in his novel, who becomes a murder. And what reduce Tess to be a murder? Is it only because the rape of Alec? And what was the real love? Was the love between Tess and ? If the girl could be more confident, or more courageous, could the result be changed?
In the "first phase" of the novel, Alec D"Urberville takes the advantage of the innocence of Tess. Later, in the third part, she then fell deeply in love with Angle Clare, an affluent agriculturist. Tess soon alienates by revealing her earlier encounter with D"Urberville. Tess of D"Urbervilles demonstrates a great deal about the themes of the novel as well as the character of Tess. The book was supposes to reveal the versatility of Tess" character. However, it also revealed a good deal that helps us understand Hardy"s central theme of the book. It was because the versatility of Tess herself that makes her unique. However, she was a woman of purity and fortitude.
Most of scholars and readers attribute Tess" death to Alec only. But the author of this paper thinks that Angle, Tess, and the society are also the factors, besides Alec.
I. The Famous Work, Tess of D"Urberville, and Its Great Writer
A. The Setting of the Novel
The 19th century is a prosperous period in English literature. There is a most impotent writer, we can"t forget, and He is Thomas Hardy. He is just the author of my subject. Tess of D"Urbervilles is generally regarded as Hardy"s finest novel. This is a brilliant tale of love, betrayal, seduction, duty, sin and rule. At last, this is a tragedy.
In tragedy, the reader, often sympathizes and empathizes with the protagonist who attains "wisdom through suffering." Tess, who is a so virtuous girl, why did Hardy give Tess, a virtuous girl, a sorrowful destiny? Here, we should turn our eyes to the author―Thomas Hardy. His work reflected the deep changes of social economy, moral and custom, after the capitalism invaded into the England country. Not only, he wrote the people"s tragedy, especially women"s tragedy, and reveals the false of capitalism.
Tess of D"Urbervilles published in 1891, which is the most remarkable work of Hardy. It has displayed one by a short lifetime of heroine, Tess, and pressing tragedy experience, the world tragedy. Facing a bourgeoisie on this account, superstructures such as morality and religion has initiated open one challenge.
Tess of D"Urbervilles is an extraordinarily beautiful book, as well as an extraordinary moving one. It is a tragic tale of a beautiful and innocent peasant grill that is the victim, not only of her Victorian environment, but also of people, including he shiftless parents, her cruel seducer, Alec D"Ubervill and morally rigid husband, Clare, all of them that we can"t omit.
B. The Story of Tess of D"Urberville
This novel caused a heck of a fuss when Thomas Hardy first published it. Originally titled "A Pure Woman", the novel is considered as outrageous for a woman such as Tess to be seen as pure in Hardy's eyes.
Tess Durbeyfield is the peasant daughter of haggler John. John goes to get drunk in celebration and ends up so hammered that he's too ill to take some stuff which he has to sell in the horse and cart. He gets Tess and her little brother to do it instead. Tess falls asleep and the horse ends up in an accident and is killed. As a result, the overly sensitive Tess feels guilty, not realizing it is really John's fault.
Meanwhile her mother Joan has learned that a Lady D'Urberville lives in a neighboring village. She wants to send Tess to claim kin and learning that there is a master D'Urberville, has notions that Tess, being a beautiful girl, will marry him. Tess really doesn"t want to go but does out of guilt of the death of the horse. Alec, the young D'Urberville, a nasty sleazy git who needs to be castrated and lusts after Tess. She goes home after Alec tries to buy her off.
Tess's baby becomes ill, she christens the baby Sorrow in a touching ceremony with her siblings, but the child dies. Not long after, Tess gets work at Talbothays, a large dairy farm a good way away from her home town, and she heads off there. This marks a happy spell in Tess's life. She meets Angle Clare who had been at the spring dance. His father is a parson but Angle doesn't want to be involved in the church and is learning the ways of farming instead. He falls for Tess, who is distraught after deciding not to get married. Angle persists tess fall in love and agree to marry. Tess, feeling unburdened, confesses freaks out and leaves Tess, although by law they are still married, and travels to Brazil.
Tess in the meantime ends up working with some of her old dairymaid friends for a horrible farmer. She runs into Alec who accuses her of tempting him and guilt trips Tess into living with him, because her family is on the verge of homelessness and need the money. Having given up on and realizing his hypocrisy, she agrees. Angle comes home from Brazil having realized the error of his ways and tracks Tess. On finding her, he learns that she thinks it"s too late for them. He takes off and Tess gets into a fight with Alec, which ends in her stabbing him. She runs after, and they spend time together in an old mansion. After wandering the countryside for a while, Tess finds they are at Stonehenge, and feels at home, having been described as a heathen in her home village. She tells that should she be caught she wants him to marry her sister Liza-Lu. The police catch up to her, and shortly after Tess is hanged.
Tess of the D"Urbervilles is a beautifully constructed story, which makes use of the hand of fate. It is the sweet and natural character of Tess that gives the book its exceptionality. The beautifully innocent child never seems to grow into a woman; she retains a dear innocence and vulnerability, which she had from the outset. Her purity of morals and spirit make her the perfect victim for such a small-minded society, and I empathized with her in a way I have done with few characters in novels. It is difficult not to fall in love with her quiet courage, although it is easy to feel exasperated with her intense passivity. Her true, deep love for is another thing, which makes her endearing. As Tess notes when asks if he loves her more than Tess did, no-one could because she would lay down her life for.
The three-dimensional Angle is another attractive character. Initially you want to like him and by the later chapters you begin to empathies with him despite his rather rash and inconsiderate treatment of his wife. It is clear that he loves her, but it"s also fair to say that he doesn"t feel the intense love that Tess does, given that he was so willing to treat her cruelly and with such narrow-minded hypocrisy.
Ⅱ. The Factors of the Tess" Death
A. Direct Murder
When we read the book at the first time, it is easy to find the murder of Tess. Everything can be put on the Alec"s head. If he didn"t rape Tess, she can"t become so pity. It is not difficult to see that Alec is a playboy. At the first appearance in the scenes, his dissolute made Tess not pleased. But he is a duck in fact, he own good manner, which made Tess" parent misunderstand. In chapter 3, a young man appeared in the garden. He looked about twenty-four, tall and dark, with full red lips and a black moustache curled at the ends. "Well, my beauty, what can I do for you? "he said, looking interestedly at her. As a bourgeoisie gilded youth, Alec is the vicious incarnation of this novel. It is formed distinct contrast exactly with Tess, who symbolizes the kindhearted and purify. But Alec put it into her mouth. He put roses in to her hair and filled her basket with strawberries and flowers. He gave her food to eat, and watched her, while she quietly smoked a cigarette. She looked more adult and womanly than she really was. Alec could not take his eyes off her. She did not know as she smiled innocently at the flowers that behind the cigarette smoke were the cause of future sorrow in her life. At the last, he actually wrapped the coat of religion, and be further intensified commit primes. At the hardy"s time, there were so many people using religion to cheat other people, it is the hypocritical. Furthermore, it is highly entertaining even while it does not lay everything out in an easy-to-follow story, and even the climax moves so quickly that it is easy to leave the theater and not know exactly what happened. In chapter 19, she said, "it"s too late! Because you persuaded me, you with your fine words! As you did when you seduced me! You told me he would never come back! But he did! And you helped my family―that"s how you persuaded me so cleverly. But when I believed you and came to live with you, he came back! And now I have lost him a second time, and this time for ever! He will hate me now!" she turned her tear-stained face and Mrs. Brooks could see how she was suffering. And he is dying; he looks as if he"s dying! It will be my fault if he dies! You have destroyed my life and his! I can"t bear it, I can"t! The man spoke sharply, and after that there was silence. Just then she noticed a mark on ceiling. It seemed to be spreading. It was red, and when she stood on the table and touched it, it looked like blood. She ran up to listen at the bedroom door again. The dead silence was broken only by a regular drip, drip, drip. She ran wildly put into the street and begged a man she knew to come back with her. Together they hurried upstairs and pushed open the bedroom door. The breakfast lay untouched on the table, but the large knife was missing. They found it in Alec d"Urberville"s heart. He laid on the bed, pale, fixed, dead, still bleeding. Soon the news spread all over Sandbourne that Mrs. Brooks" guest had been killed by his young wife. Yet, it also suggests, in good surrealist fashion, that "knowing"is not everything, that "seeing"and "believing" are good options. From these examples, how can we find the benefit of the religion? It is seems that many people believe the Buddhism like me in China. It easy made us doubts the foreign religion. With this doubt, I went to library. There is a book named THE PROPHET, which is written by Caly, who is Lebanese. The title page is "the first philosophy in poem". There is a unit in this book, ON RELIGION. An old priest said, speak to us of religion. And he said: Have I spoken this day of aught else? Is not religion all deeds and all reflection? And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever spring in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom? Who can separate his faith from his action, or his belief from his occupations? Who can spread his hours before him, saying,"This for God and this for myself: This for my soul, and this other for my body?" All your hours are wings that beat thrush space from self to self. He wears his morality but as his best garment was better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his songbird in a cage. The freest song comes not through bars and wires. And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of the house of his soul whose windows are open from dawn to dawn. Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all. Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute. The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight. For in reverie you cannot rise above your achievements nor fail lower than your failures. And take with you all men: For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair. And if you would know God be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see him playing with your chidden. And look into space, you shall see him walking in the cloud, outstanding his arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see him smiling in flowers, the rising and waving his hands in trees. In this poem, I find this sentence,"he who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked."B. Accessory
After scanning the cause of Alec, people should put their eyes to other ones. It is Angle"s turn. Many people will think that Angle is also a casualty. He is another tragic personage image in this book. He is from a middle class family. He has his idea and ambition. Neither Angle Clare nor his family has originally chosen farming as a profession for him. When he was a boy, people admired his great qualities. Now he is a man, no particular purpose in life. He is unwilling to the field serves for the God against him self"s will. And he hopes to do something for the people. Angle explains that in fact he does not in fact wish to enter the Church like his brothers, because the Church"s views are too strict and do not allow free thinking. It makes him to be treachery of his family and religion. His open mind made him to be loved with a country girl, which is not fit for her family. is the angle in Tess" heart. His love to Tess owns the purity of first love, fervor and impressments. He is deeply dump aged by Tess" puerility. Angle thinks "What a fresh and pure daughter of nature that dairymaid is!" He seems to remember something about her, which brings him back into happy time in the past, before his decision made his life in dilemma. This memory makes him pay more attention to Tess than the other dairymaids. In his eyes, Tess is the embodiment of perfect. He is consciousness with respect attitude and solemn marriage to get contact with Tess. After refused by Tess, he insists to wait. His determination is decisive. Clare is not depressed by Tess" refusal. And he thinks that Tess would finally accept him. But in the night of the marriage, after known the past of Tess, Angle, the man always open mind, was failed into the deeply pain. He was in afflicted from spirit. He would believe what she said is bogus. Times and times he asks Tess to deny the truth. And he didn"t give her chance to explain that Tess was the casualty. When he sued these were never changed, he chooses escape, and he can"t understand her. After Tess told her story, everything is changed. Clare stirred the fire. It was unnecessary, but he felt he had to do something. He had not really taken in the whole story in its full horror; his face was like an old man"s. He made uncertain movements, because everything in his head was vague and uncertain. He could not make himself think clearly. "Tess! Can I believe this? Are you mad perhaps? My wife, my Tess―you aren"t mad, are you?" He was talking but could not think at the same time. His brain seemed to have stopped working. He turned away from her. Tess followed him and stood there staring at him with dry eyes. Then she went down on her knees beside him. In the chapter14, it is clear. He was relieved to see her sleeping deeply. And yet he felt he alone had the whole worry of what action to take, and the responsibility for her life as well as his. He turned away from her door, and then turned back again, pulled but his love foe her. But his eye was caught by a painting on the wall of one of Tess" ancestors, a proud fierce woman, who looked as if she hated and wanted to deceive all men. He thought she and Tess looked alike. That was enough to stop him, and he went downstairs to his lonely bed. He looked calm and cold, dull of self-control. His face showed he had fought against passion and won, but did not like being the winner. He still found it difficult to accept that Tess, the pure village maiden, was not what she seemed. How unexpected life could be! He put out the candle. The night came in, unconcerned and uninterested, the night which had swallowed up his happiness. It seems like a sentence of Excellence Is Never An Accident. The right to be heard is constitutionally guaranteed. The right to be listened to must be earned. But Tess didn"t realize what she said is unforgiving. In the chapter15, he was escaped. Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night"s experiences, and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking. They finished packing and left the farmhouse, where they had hoped to be so happy. After driving some distance stopped the carriage to get down and continue on foot. Tess was going further on in the carriage. He spoke seriously to her as they separated. He said, I am not angry with you, but I cannot bear to live with you at the moment. I will try to accept it. But until I come to you, you should not try to come to me. The punishment seemed a heavy one to Tess. Had she really deserved this? Some one said that Angle"s idea is the traditionally idea of bourgeois. But I think this saying is dogmatically. On this fair, he is also the casualty. His love to Tess is so purity, but this entire thing was tired by the cruel fact. The irony and hypocrisy of Angle"s reaction are indicated by the title of this section. It is a classic statement of society"s double standard, which judges men"s sexual behavior leniently and punishes women for the same behavior. Why is Angle unable to forgive her when she just bestowed the gift of forgiveness on him? Is her sexual experience the cause or his character and misconceptions? Does her confession necessitate their separation, or do they part because of particular traits each has? Could Tess have averted the parting by behaving differently and thereby changed her destiny? Or is her destiny unchangeable? Is she victim, self-victimizer, or both? Tess' confession destroys Angle's idea that Tess is a virginal, simple child of the soil. As a result, he cannot accept the fact. Preferring his fanciful love, he is "mothering his affection for her". At the same time that he is disappointed in his vision of her innocence and lowly status, Angle blames her for the family background which he previously thought it would make her acceptable to respectable middle class society. He is self-contradictory because his rejection of society"s values is superficial. At a deeper level, he still believes in society"s moral laws and social code. Nevertheless, he does love Tess. His grief in laying Tess in the stone coffin clearly expresses his love, this action also symbolizes his belief that it"s really his beloved, his ideal of his beloved, no longer exists. Earlier in the evening he is torn by the desire to follow her to their bedroom. Is it a chance or even a fate operating in this incident? Or is Hardy indulging his taste for melodrama and carrying coincidence too far? Rejecting Tess at this point Angle would face to assume a "terribly sterile expression". Thinking and clinging to society"s values which cut him off from nature and, of course, he has just come from the lush, fertile From Valley where the appetite for joy carried him along, yet he is "terribly sterile." Choosing intellect over nature or the emotional life destroys the life force; Angle "was becoming ill with thinking; eaten out with thinking, withered by thinking; scourged out of all his former pulsating, flexuous domesticity". The repetition emphasizes the importance of this idea and expresses the intensity of Hardy"s feelings about Angle"s intellectuality. Hardy offers a somewhat contradictory judgment of Angle"s reliance on the mind: Some might risk the odd paradox that with more animalism he would have been the nobler man. We do not say it. Yet Clare"s love was doubtless ethereal to a fault, imaginative to impracticability. Though Hardy is reluctant to say that being more open to the physical or sexual would make Angle a better man, he is critical of Angle"s over-reliance on abstractions and imagination.
The entire thing is curl, how a girl can carry on? As Angle watches Tess" coach slowly move up the hill, he hopes that she will look back at him. Too devastated to move, she does not look out. Is this one more lost opportunity for reconciliation? If so, is the force of circumstances against them? Someone will say it"s a mournful story of love. What made this love beginning? Beautiful smile! once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something. It is what the true love in the novel is. It is paying put bravely without any return. When the world is full of love, the world is perfect.
C. Tess Herself
Our dramatis persona, Tess, is a pure woman. But her final is so pity. It is her destiny. Why people so curl to say that? But easy exactly as pure lamb get the wrong path, one kind, her pure kindhearted be destroyed easy to be wrecked by society is devoured by ferocious wolf. Her disinterest and the spirit sacrificing oneself, give vicious influence chance. But, frankness that her oneself running after purifies also makes her and happiness fail to meet Angle by a narrow chance. When her jade was died, as a girl, how can she to support this big family? But when the village people arrived at church they noticed her and started whispering to each other.
From two aspects we can see analysis character of Tess. First, she has all the innocence and purity that the nature has endowed with. We can see this point from her kind, selfless to her parents and her friends, and her loyalty to love. The second, after her unfortunate encounter, she becomes a complicated woman, and she no longer endures all things silently. She struggles against Alec and unjust treatment, contempt"s and criticizes hypocritical religion. It seems that Tess is unyielding to evils. At last, the conclusion is that the real cause of Tess"s tragedy lies in the wicked nature and hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society.
Reading the novel, people are impressed by the title page that Tess is "a pure woman". It is the phrase that caused so much uproar when the first edition of the novel is firstly published. It has created problems for readers and critics ever since the novel was completed. The title offends many on moral grounds, for whom Tess is a ruined, immoral woman. Others are puzzled intellectually; what is Hardy"s basis for calling her pure? It calls not only the roll the novel subject, but also the tragedy having expounded her further. The subtitle defends in various ways. One of the most common defenses is the suggestion that Hardy is showing that the traditional Christian view equating virtue and purity with virginity is wrong. Another common explanation of the subtitle is that Hardy distinguishes between the act and the intention. This is a distinction Angle Clare finally makes in the novel. Or is it possible that Tess is pure in her character as Apostolic Charity that her soul remains unstained regardless of what happens to her body?
Her pure is kindhearted and moral character and is unfolding in her conduct dealing with affairs and uncompromising honesty to amatory. The contemporary reviewers are unwilling to admit who is not chaste, is pure. But in fact, the book is to tell reader how a pure and innocent girl is driver us the cruel society to the wall and finally becomes the sacrifice of the society. From the beginning to the end, what we can read is her purity and her straggle with the social driven force. In the end, when Tess is sentenced to be hanging, there"s one question in our minds. She knew what they were saying and realized she could come to church no more. So she spent almost all her time in her bedroom, which she shared with the children. Form here she watched the wind, the snow, the rain, beautiful sunsets and full moons, one after another. People began to think she had gone away. She only went out after dark, to walk in the woods and the fields. She was not afraid of the dark or the shadows; it was people she was anxious to avoid. After joking by the other girls, she actually jumped to Alec"s carriage. It is just her chartless make her fail to the evil hand. We can say that she is chartless, but the more is childish. If she owns more experiences, she can own more consciousness of safety, the result is changeable. Although the village people had almost forgotten her trouble; she decided she could never be really happy in Marlott. Trying to claim relationship with the rich d"Urbervilles seemed so foolish and shameful to her. She thought her family would never be respected there again. Even now she felt hope rise within her, hope of finding a place with no family connections and no memories. In escaping from Marlott she intended to destroy the past. Perhaps now she could make up foe her crime against society. She has been really not unfamiliar to him, she has been short of but more keeping watch but on now, this is that she is naive at the same time; also being unable to keep silent is that she is short of one aspect knowing that to affairs of human life in the character or consciousness in saying. When she told Angle the past, she also expresses her recurrence. The tradition chastity concept in her soul go ahead is having stayed deeply brand. She feels from committing a crime being thinking of one kind forever after losing chastity, the compunction feels, the inferiority complex, has come across this kind of problem once and, showing weak aspect. Once and once refusing Angle, it is just this psychology. During the period of he cannot forgive her, her inferiority complex displays mainly his slave who obvious, unceasingly, requests that making an explanation, expresses her willingness compose even. At the second half of this novel, she did Alec"s mistress. A new phase begins in Tess" life when she meets Alec again. His pursuit as much as Angle"s rejection determines the course her life now takes. She had hoped, as women do, that living together for a time would break down his coldness. Being near him every day was her only hope of winning him back. Is arbitrary coincidence at work in her stopping at just the time and just the place where Alec is speaking? Is it coincidence that she stands in the sun so that he notices her movement when she leaves? Is their meeting again inevitable because life follows a pattern or occurs in cycles? Or is it inevitable because her personal past with Alec cannot be escaped in society? The title of this section applies, ironically enough, to both Alec and Angle. She still asked, May I write to you? I agree to the conditions, because you know best. Only don"t make it too much for me bear! That was all she said. If she had sobbed or fainted or begged him, he would probably have given way. But she made it easy for him. Due to the influence of a stranger (the Reverend Clare), Alec undergoes a religious conversion and becomes a preacher. Due to the influence of a stranger, Angle undergoes an intellectual and emotional conversion, which allows him to see Tess" purity and innocence, and he returns to England and to Tess. Alec relapses to his former sensual, womanizing self when he sees Tess. It is just her chartless make her fail to the evil hand. We can say that she is chartless, but the more is childish. If she owns more experiences, she can own more consciousness of safety, the result is changeable.
D. Society
Studying a novel, we cannot ignore its social background. Why as Tess" girlish purity lost? Why does the wrong man take the wrong woman? Why do the bad so often ruin the good? Why is beauty damaged by ugliness? Thousands of years of philosophy cannot give us the answers to these questions. The society, the family are woven having moved towards this big tragedy nets. Her family is the stratum belonging to no well-liked rural area being placed in that time. The family has already arrived at a brink of collapse, her father also take his life as playing game, puts in but always on Tess' body with the difficult task. She loses her chaste, society is all chastity concept at every step incisive the life being affecting her, the ideological root-cause having become tragic ultimately. At the end, she drops every concept, and killed Alec. So there is another saying, it is just the family and the society made her like that.
When I analyzed these courses, I just found it is the destiny. If Tess lived in 21st century, can she get the different plight? I don"t think so. I don"t think she is so luckily. Day and days, we saw the law case on TV. There someone was raped; there someone was died of love… Why are there so many cases? The social is more developed. We need consciousness. The consciousness for woman! Actually, I am not feminism. But we really need adamancy for ourselves. Because of we want to control our destiny.
Tess of D"Uberville, this work is full of sympathy and helpless. People analyses the factors of Tess" death from different parts of her life. The author of this paper takes more attention to Tess" lover. In fact, everything would change, if there is no Alec, who raped her. Because it is a reality, it is really happened. What may only change is the attitude to this fair. A lot of reflection was left by Hardy thorough his creation of Tess" tragedy. It seemed that Tess could never escape the wrongs of the past, either socially or personally. Tess was kind-hearted pure and brave and had acute sense of responsibility and strong sense of moral duty. Form this paper we can see that Tess moved away from her village. It seems that she wants to change her lifestyle. But it is just because Angle"s departure, Tess comes to her awful dilemma once again. To another part of her life, the society and her family are also the main factor to her death. From the tragic story of Tess" short life, we can see in a deeper sense that it is the capitalist society of the time that has ruined her. Living in a society overwhelmed by capitalist Law, religion and state apparatus, Tess, a poor peasant, inevitably leads a tragic life and finally goes to her collapse. Thus facing so many cases, it seems that Tess" tragedy is unavoidable.
[2] Emest Miller Hemingway: True Nobility[M].Ameriean novelist,1945.
[3] Josef Kirschner: Die Egoisten Bible[M]. Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlugn Gmb,1999.
[4] John Ruskin. 两条路的选择[M]. 德州文源出版社,2006.
[5] Merryn Williams. 哈代导读[M]. 北京大学出版社,2005.
[7] Wllian Hazlitt: On the Fear of Death[M]. London,1812


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text: To fully appreciate the humor here, being a reader of the Packers blog on the JS Online web site helps but I found this little tune kind of funny. The lyrics are filled with references to excuses for the poor Packer play this year taken from press conferences after most of the losses. Listen after the song ends for "Osseo", a Wisconsinized version of the Beach Boys' tune "Kokomo".


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Difference Between Psychiatrist or Medical Doctors
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For just two, 500 many years, the exercise of medical doctors may be designed in order to quell the actual negative feelings that so frequently lead in order to depression within human existence. Following the actual teachings from the psychiatrist involves understanding how to calm your brain and find a peace that won't allow depressive disorders to can be found.
The guy who came into existence known since the psychiatrist was created into royalty within the year 563 W. C. across the border in between India as well as Nepal. In the most common of their 81 many years, psychiatrist, taught a kind of spirituality centered on meditation as well as enlightenment made to alter psychological states as well as foster joy. As those who have had depressive disorders knows, the actual disorder feasts upon chaotic ideas of previous disappointments as well as thrives upon worry more than future issues. Buddhism, continually refined during the period of two . 5 millennia, seeks in order to defeat this kind of pointless be concerned by training your brain to can be found only within the only accurate reality: the current. "Do not really dwell previously, do not really dream for the future, concentrate your brain on the current moment, inch said the actual psychiatrist.
The main tool with this pursuit ***ociated with living in our is the actual practice ***ociated with meditation, a rest technique accomplished largely by concentrating on one's inhaling and exhaling, which consequently leads your brain to a location of simpleness and peaceful. The technique becomes learning a chance to instantaneously discharge any damaging thought which creeps to the mind. As soon as this ability is accomplished during deep breathing, the thoughts is trained to consider the same method of everyday existence, a expertise perfectly made to ***ist the actual depressed person in liberating and staying away from mental discomfort. "Western psychology virtually holds to the fact that things such as attention as well as emotion tend to be fixed as well as immutable, " aut****d Hara Estroff Marano inside a 2003 post for Mindset Today. "Buddhism views the aspects of the thoughts more because skills that may be trained. This particular view offers increasing ***istance from contemporary neuroscience.
When Minneapolis-St. John psychiatrist Doctor. Henry Emmons treats someone suffering through depression, he frequently guides them via a blend ***ociated with Buddhism, nutritional changes as well as modern psychiatry. "Depression is really a holistic sickness that affects every part of who we're as people, " creates Emmons within his guide "The Biochemistry of Pleasure: A 3-Step Plan for Conquering Depression via Western Technology and Far eastern Wisdom. " "It only is sensible to tackle it through every obtainable angle. inch To Emmons, which model consists of body, mind, spirit as well as brain biochemistry.
Universities as well as hospitals around the world are rapidly adopting mindfulness dependent cognitive treatment (MBCT) like a medical chance of treating depression. While the majority of don't consist of ways on specifically included in the therapy, MBCT illustrates meditation since the primary tool within the struggle from the soul-sucking pain of depressive disorders. Professor Willem Kuyken from the University ***ociated with Exeter's Feeling Disorders Centre in the uk believes deep breathing and MBCT displays extreme advantage in weaning people from anti-depressants. "MBCT requires a different approach--it shows people skills for a lifetime. " Maybe even, the exact same sort ***ociated with life-long abilities that Buddhism has distributed around the world for any good most of recorded humanity.


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The financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 is shaking the world's economic system. It started in the financial sector, but is now having an important impact on the real economy. This paper discusses the role of competition policy in times of systemic financial crises, focusing mainly on the financial sector but also looks at the applicability of competition policy to the real sector.
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The principal purpose of this paper is to analyse the trade-off between the uncertainty in contributions on the one hand and benefits on the other that is embedded in different pension arrangements.
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Le droit et la politique de la concurrence en République tchèque se sont alignés sur les pratiques européennes. Depuis l'examen par l'OCDE de sa politique de la concurrence en 2001, la République tchèque est devenue membre de l'Union européenne et sa loi sur la concurrence a été révisée...
Countries participating in a "Freedom of Investment" initiative, which together represent four fifths of the world economy, have pledged to resist discriminatory policies and new forms of protectionism towards investment.
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As a global economic crisis risks becoming a crisis of globalisation, this policy brief looks at the recent performance of trade and FDI, protectionist risks, appropriate policies and the role of the OECD.
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At the 10th roundtable on Freedom of Investment on 26 March, OECD and non-OECD governments reviewed recent policy measures and found no trend to date towards protectionism. They issued a report on building trust and confidence in international investment, that calls for renewed vigilance in resisting protectionist pressures and continued peer monitoring at the OECD. This report is intended for OECD and non-OECD Ministers at the
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Organised in Paris on 26 March 2009, discussions at this roundtable focused on a review of recent investment policy developments in participating countries, investment policies and past economic crises, recipient country investment policies relating to national security, and finalising the report for the 2009 OECD ministerial meeting.
Fiona Stewart discusses the impact of the crisis on pensions funds and what needs to be done.
This Annual Report provides an account of the actions adhering governments took over the 12 months to June 2008 to enhance the contribution of the Guidelines to the improved functioning of the global economy. It also highlights key findings of the High-Level OECD-ILO Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility.


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How does "Desert Places" by Robert Frost relate to belonging and what techniqes are used?
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Robert Frost's poem, "Desert Places," is constructed with four stanzas of four lines, each line written in iambic pentameter (rhymed lines of ten syllables with the even-numbered syllable bearing the accents). The main theme for the poem seems to be that of loneliness and not sense of belonging; however, if one were to identify a sense of belonging in the poem it would probably have to be from what isn't said directly. For example, he declares that he isn't afraid of any void, like that in space where no human exists. The implied notion behind this is that we don't belong in space, but in fact, here on earth.
Another thought that brings out a sense of belonging is in the line that reads, "The loneliness includes me unawares," suggesting too that he "belongs" or feels comfortable in a state of solitude, so much in fact that he didn't even know he was lonely until the actually thought about it.


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Companies waste an estimated $6.6 billion on unused software in the U.S. every year. With more options than ever, finding the right software for your dealership can be a challenge. How can you cut through the clutter and make sure your software dollars are well-spent? Download your free step-by-step guide to successfully navigating the software jungle. DOWNLOAD GUIDE
Besides being asked, "What's the best lead provider?" or "What's new out there?" the most
frequent question I get is about CRMs. "Which one is better and why?"
It makes me sleepy thinking about it… Each one claims to be the best, they are the fastest
growing or the one that integrates better to the DMS than you have than that one. Even their
desking tool is the best. Just ask them! Their database mining tool will do the same as Auto
Alert, just try it. Their used car evaluation tool will rival V-Auto's tool and to top it off, they
all have hundreds of dealers using this tool and singing their praises. If you want to see a
dealer using the tool, they'll take you right to one to see it working, just not in your area.
You'll need to fly in to see it! But don't worry about those pesky contracts, as they'll let you
off this drug any time you want for any reason. Simply say you're done and go right back to
your previous tool. Your data's been saved, worked in both places waiting for you to take
up where you left off. And you know the tool will let you sell more cars. Just install it, drink
from our fire hose and off to the races you will go, selling more units right away because
you now have a great CRM and you're capturing all this cool data. Just… Just… Just!
OK, time to wake up out of that deep coma!
When you change your CRM from the one you're currently not using correctly to the
new one, you'll get over the money losing drama it caused, wake up and realize it was all a
fairy tale. The reality of it all is that your data will not be transferred from the tool you're
on to the one you're going to in a smooth and flawless way at all! Rather in such a fashion
that you will absolutely lose deals, because of how awfully it transferred and the format it's
been done in. Your staff will collapse in frustration over this event that you ground down to
get a deal on, from a vendor that can't possibly spend the time they need to actually train
you on it correctly for what you paid. They'll turn the fire hose on your staff to douse them
in information and be out the door on their way to the next launch. All with a promise that
they'll be back to see you every 90 days. But, thank God for support tickets that are
available, that will fix it!
Is all of this sounding vaguely familiar? Well, guess what! You're not alone. Of the
approximately 16 CRM tools on the market, all are marketed or pitched in almost the same
way. They all know what you want and many dealers drink the Kool-Aid of integration
without realizing the cost or reality of what it will actually take to get it done.
On the flip side of this coin, many of the tools can get close to this nirvana if they are used
correctly. However, most are not used correctly. Most CRM companies have less than 5% of
their clients using 25% of the tool to its proper capabilities. "Why?" you might ask. It's all in
the launch and training.
When I learned to drive a stick shift, my father didn't teach me in traffic. We went
someplace where I wouldn't run in to anything and practiced until I got it. I mastered the
clutch release, then focused on the gear selection and then on to driving while doing all of
this. Sound familiar? Guess what? I didn't get it first go round and drive home. In a similar
fashion to learning to drive a vehicle we must learn to drive our CRMs properly. I often use
this example; if I had a daughter that was repeatedly banging up the cheap Honda, I would
not buy her a new BMW to solve the issue.
Many dealers run to a new solution confident that the new and improved tool will solve a
use issue that should instead be remedied with training and accountability in their current
tool. There it is, that dirty hard word… accountability!
That's it for this time. Next I'll cover solutions, what to look for and how to prepare your


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You know, those curly garlic stalks that just showed up at Willie Greens last week — garlic scapes. I wasn't sure what to do with these green shoots topped with unopened flowers, but I knew I wanted to try them. I thought they might be "green garlic" but after a little research, found they are the young stalks or scapes of hardneck garlic, a variety that does well in the Pacific Northwest.
For those of you who have never grown hardneck garlic, it is a three season process. You plant the "seed" clove in the fall, pick the scapes in spring and harvest the bulb in the summer when the foliage dies down. There is a small window in June when the scapes are young and tender. If they are picked then, they not only make an excellent springtime treat but also help the bulb grow larger.
For my first-ever garlic scape recipe, I chose to make a pesto. I tasted-and-adjusted my way through this and you may want to do the same. Scapes have the familiar garlic bite but aren't nearly as strong as eating pesto made with this amount of straight garlic would be. Part way through, I added some parsley to tone it down a bit. If you are a huge garlic fan, this may not be necessary.
Scapes can also be cooked for a milder flavor, added to a soup, stir-fry or chopped in scrambled eggs.
Ingredients for Garlic Scape Pesto
1/2 cup garlic scapes cut in 1/4″ pieces — remove the flower top and any part of the stem that feels too woody.
1/2 cup parsley
1/3 cup walnuts
3/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
salt & freshly ground pepper to taste
Put the scapes, parsley and walnuts into a food processor. Process until it is finely chopped. Drizzle the olive oil in a steady stream until fully incorporated.. Remove the mixture from the food processor and put in a bowl. Stir in parmesan cheese, salt & pepper.
There you have it. Spoon on your favorite pasta, bread, crackers or pizza. You can garnish with a chive blossom if you'd like. If you eat the chive blossom, better to break into individual florets. The whole thing can pack quite a punch.


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My youth.
GONE are the days of running around barefoot in the street, ~ was no one watching me here? Like WHY would I run around barefoot in the street? speaking in ig-pay atin-lay with my sister so as to throw off our parents and chowing down on anything I wanted to because there was no fear of gaining any weight.
I was, after all, burning off far more calories than I could ever consume.
People often comment to me that I can wear anything that I want and that all clothes look good on me because I'm naturally thin. Well ~ I'm here to tell you, this is simply NOT TRUE. Ever since I was a young adult, I have struggled with my weight and I've been just about every size in the book.
That's right ~ I've been everything from a size 00 to a size 18 and I know what EVERY single size feels like. I can completely relate to anyone who struggles with their weight. … Raise your hand if you'd like me to sometime share my VERY long, and somewhat sad, story that involves the DEFINING moment where I made the decision to address my weight issues because, YES, I believe that everyone who struggles with their weight has had their own *defining moment* that causes them to take action … and that any kind of action simply doesn't happen until you have this moment … (exhausted from typing this) and the only thing that has worked for me to feel good in my own skin, and to keep my weight in check, is to exercise. I … MUST … exercise. (daily)
I admit that it was far easier to exercise in my 30's and my 40's, but now that I'm 50 … Oly-Hay Ow-Cay! I'm Ifty-Fay. Wasn't I just 35? … it is SO much harder.
Now, I may not jump as high …
… or lunge and stretch as deep as I once did …
… but I'm still out there every day M O V I N G.
And, I'm eating right.
Fave breakfast smoothie:
½ cup frozen blueberries
1 medium over-ripe banana, sliced and frozen
2 tbsp old-fashioned oats
1 tbsp almond butter
1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. #Easy
So if I'm going to be doing all that …
I might as well dress cute.


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I want to know because every time I get out a relationship and it ends bad I have this one guy friend who wants to hook up after.
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I want to know because every time I get out a relationship and it ends bad I have this one guy friend who wants to hook up after.
I don't care, if you're broken I'll help heal you if you know your flaws then ill love them unconditionally
thats so cute, this guy is great
Have an opinion?
that is a irreconcilable question, do you know your flaws or do you create flaws. Dating use to be a process in which young people would "date" multiple individuals. Not to find or be with their immediate boyfriend or girlfriend, but to get to know a person, spend a little time, and if you clicked then maybe consider the bf/gf option. Options are everywhere, and thats the point of dating is to shotgun a bunch of different interesting guys and see what really clicks. so date your friend, see how it goes, I got in so much trouble thinking that girls knew what dating was in middle school, first week i was dating multiple girls, who found out and flipped out. Consider dating, bring it back cause it worked pretty good, chances of you winning the lotto on your first try are what? right?
picking a girl that is broken is really not recommended...
did it once, and it never ends well. Its like when you see a store on fire, a passerby will think its a good idea to go in and loot it of its possessions..
if most of your relationship ends bad, maybe its you...
who knows her flaws all they way!
i really love honest and sincere people who acknowledge their own flaws and know when they are right and wrong. these are the people who deserve to be in everyone's life because they are nice and brave enough to admit their own flaws.
Some people have types. For me, I seem to always end up going for the girls who have a lot of internal issues.. just seems to be the case every time.
Be the first girl to share an opinion
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"Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it."
– Big Sean
1. It's cheap
A few weeks ago I was talking with some Californians who commented on how inexpensive everything in my state is. Aside from the necessity of having to drive everywhere, the Midwest is super cheap. I have a friend whose family owns a small mansion that cost slightly less than half a million to build, something that would be near impossible to do on either coast.
2. It's beautiful.
While summertime doesn't last very long, it is spectacular. If you're into hiking, windsurfing, boating, or mountain biking; you'll love the scenery.
3. Tons of partying.
University of Iowa is the number two party school in the country, La Crosse had (until recently) the most bars per capita in the entire world, and the State Street Halloween Party in Madison Wisconsin gets over 100,000 attendees a year. Thanks to the low cost of everything bars and clubs are cheap enough for everyone to get into. If you like to rage, you could do a lot worse than the Midwest.
4. The women are suspiciously hot.
Outside Florida, New York, and California there aren't a lot of hot coastal girls. I've never heard a dude say "the women of Rhode Island are amazing."
In fact, I usually hear guys complain about the appearance and attitude possessed by girls in places like D.C. and Portland. While Midwest women lack the plastic surgery and cosmetic work of Miami girls, they're still quite attractive. As an added bonus, none of them have the over inflated ego that accompanies girls from places like Los Angeles.
As long as you put in some effort and plan ahead, the Midwest can actually be a ton of fun. Whenever people complain about the area, it's usually because they haven't put in an effort to find the region's more enjoyable features.


text: J. Maureen Henderson is the CEO (Chief Eye-Rolling Officer) and pseudo svengali behind Generation Meh. She was described as bubbly in the comments section of her kindergarten report card and has been attempting to live up to this descriptor ever since. Her loves include dachshunds, the Eurovision Song Contest and sweet tea. She writes for Forbes and runs her own copywriting and market research firm.


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1 photo of Double Walnut Scones Recipe
Ellen Bales
I love scones! Love having these with a cup of hot tea in the afternoon, especially on a cold day. Comfort food at its best!
Recipe & photo: bhg.com
Recipe & photo: bhg.com
- 1 1/4 c
- walnuts
- 2 1/4 c
- all purpose flour
- 2 tsp
- baking powder
- 1/2 tsp
- baking soda
- 1/4 tsp
- salt
- 1/2 c
- cold butter (1 stick)
- 1 c
- gruyere cheese, shredded (4 oz.)
- 1/2 tsp
- dried thyme, crushed -- or -- 1-1/2 tsp. snipped fresh thyme
- 1
- egg, lightly beaten
- 1 c
- buttermilk
- 1 Tbsp
- honey
- 1 Tbsp
- dijon mustard
- shedded gruyere cheese, chopped walnuts, and snipped fresh thyme (optional)
How to Make DOUBLE WALNUT SCONES
- 1Place 1-1/4 cups walnuts on a baking sheet. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 7 to 9 minutes or until toasted. Coarsely chop 1 cup of the walnuts. Finely grind remaining walnuts; set aside. Increase oven temp to 375.
- 2In a large bowl combine flour, finely ground walnuts, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. With a pastry blender, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in the Gruyere, 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts, and thyme.
- 3Make a well in the center of this mixture. In a bowl combine egg, buttermilk, honey, and mustard; add all at once to the flour mixture. Stir with a fork just until moistened.
- 4Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead by folding and gently pressing it for 10 to 12 strokes or until nearly smooth. Divide in half. Pat or lightly roll each half to a 3/4-inch-thick circle, about 6 inches in diameter. Cut each circle into 8 triangles.
- 5Place triangles 2 inches apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.
- 6Transfer scones to a cooling rack. If desired, top with more cheese, walnuts, and thyme. Serve warm.
About DOUBLE WALNUT SCONES
Course/Dish: Savory Breads
Main Ingredient: Bread
Regional Style: English
Dietary Needs: Vegetarian
Other Tags: Quick & Easy, For Kids, Healthy


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By: Patricia Ann Talley, Advisory Council of City Leaders for International Cities of Peace.
Life has its special moments – times you will never forget. And, for educators like me, spending quality time with young people is especially rewarding. Recently, I was invited to Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero (UAGro), Zihuatanejo's tourism university, to join in a festival celebrating all of the holidays during September and October. Since you couldn't be there, we're sharing these moments with you!
First, the occasion – not that we really need one! In Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, we have festivals every Sunday in our downtown square. But, during this season, there is Independence Day (September 16), the International Day of Peace on September 21, International Tourism Day on September 27, and Día de la Razas (Day of the Races) on October 12. So, it's a PARTY!
The students gathered for a morning of fun with the professors.
They prepared tacos, fruit sticks, beverages, etc. What a Global Feast for Peace!
There was Line Dancing!
Got to have a singer! All the girls swooned…
Then, the students challenged the teachers to dance. Ha! We told them, "We taught YOU!"
Hope you enjoyed our festival!
For more information about Ixtapa Zihuatanejo and the surrounding areas, see:
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Visual Design Basics
Okay, so I'm currently of the opinion that tools are not the be all and end all of design. I used to be in love with Adobe Creative Suite (egPhotoshop & Illustrator), but I've been doing a lot of design lately on my phone with free apps... no kidding. The following techniques can work in just about any program. I wouldn't recommend it, but you could even use Word.


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Donna B Mak, AFPHM & University of Notre Dame Greg Stewart, AFPHM. The John Snow Scholarship: a Trojan horse approach to attracting medical students to public health. Aims. Describe the John Snow Scholarship (JSS) & its rationale Present findings from its first 5 years of implementation.
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Donna B Mak, AFPHM & University of Notre Dame
Greg Stewart, AFPHM
No. of public health physicians
To increase the proportion of medical students who:
Educational principles
AFPHM John Snow Scholarship
Win one of 9 scholarships to present your work at
Population Health Congress, Tasmania, September 2015 .
Scholarship includes full conference registration ($600) and
travel assistance (up to $600)
Visit http://www.racp.edu.au/page/johnsnow
for more information
Closing date for applications – 3rdOctober 2014
Medical students of Australian & NZ medical schools eligible to apply
MBBS curriculum
FAFPHM competencies
Reflection (<1000 words) re MBBS work wrt 1-2 AFPHM learning objectives
Presentation plan (<500 words)
Dean's letter of support
Double-blind summative assessment of written applications by AFPHM fellow & registrar to select state JSS recipient; assessment rubric published.
State JSS recipient practice presentation to AFPHM fellows & registrars
Formative assessment by AFPHM fellow & registrar (state-based); assessment rubric provided to JSS recipients.
JSS recipientspresent their work at RACP Congress (registration & <=$600 travel support)
Abstracts published in Internal Medicine Journal & on JSS webpage
Invited to AFPHM President's dinner
Summative assessment of oral presentation by AFPHM fellow & registrar, & health consumer to select national winner; assessment rubric provided to JSS recipients.
NZ students eligible to apply from 2012
Being a John Snow Scholarship … allowed for a rare chance to speak at an intercontinental conference, to network with a number of elite specialists and trainees in a number of fields, and to soak up the rays of both cutting-edge Public Health and the wider scope of medicine. It's something that was 'beyond awesome' for a 4th year student.
To anyone even mildly considering this rare opportunity, I thoroughly recommend just going for it. The scholarship is designed so that you are able to use prior work you've already completed, and to add a few thoughtful reflections to it.
Thomas Ding, NZ
I always had an interest in public health … the idea of working on the 'big picture' of health had long appealed to me. However, until I applied for the RACP John Snow Scholarship, I didn't have a good understanding of what public health was all about.
The Population Health Congress was the first conference I attended and presented at, a rare opportunity during medical school. I was impressed by the variety of projects that all of the finalists had worked on. The questions asked by the audience challenged me on the spot and made me think about how I might work further on my health promotion project in the future.
Georgina Taylor, Tas
I received so much positive feedback that has encouraged me to consider further options for study and research in public health.
The scholarship gave me an opportunity to see a whole new world. It was too easy to be caught up in the details of clinical medicine as I went through my rotations in teaching hospitals. I had very little understanding of the overall picture of the challenges facing current and future doctors. The process of preparing for the scholarship, as well as the great presentations I saw, gave me a rare opportunity to think and analyse from a public health perspective. This experience was extraordinarily valuable, since it would be crucial to understand aspects of public health no matter what field of medicine I pursue.
It was a great experience and I strongly encourage everyone to apply. You don't need to have a piece of work fit for the MJA. I used an assignment I did in 2nd year of medical school.
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Govt rejects night P-plate curfew
The State Government has rejected a proposal from the RACV to impose a night-time curfew on first-year probationary drivers, who are caught breaking the road rules.
The RACV's Brian Negus says research shows young drivers are much more at risk of crashing than any other age group, and at night, the risk increases.
"If they commit a serious offence, high blood alcohol, which they shouldn't have any of, or in fact high speed, then the Government should consider a night time curfew, cause this is the risky period for them," he said.
However he says the RACV is not advocating a blanket ban.
"What we are saying is if there are serious offences in the first year then certainly a night time ban should be considered."
A spokesman for the Roads Minister, Tim Pallas, says P-platers who commit serious offences on the road are banned from driving, making the RACV's curfew proposal irrelevant.
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Janis Gold
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Janis Gold is a fictional character on the TV series 24, portrayed by Janeane Garofalo. Gold is an FBI analyst, and was first introduced in season 7.
Concept and creation[edit]
Garofalo initially turned down the role because of the way the show depicted torture.[1] She later changed her mind, saying in an interview: "being unemployed and being flattered that someone wanted to work with me outweighed my stance [on torture]."[2] As portrayed, Janis does show her anger and disapproval in incidents where human rights are presumably violated in the fight against terror threats, only to have her beliefs contradicted by the end of the season, as torture saves the day yet again in the final episode.[3][4]
Gold's offers a counterpoint to Chloe O'Brian. Gold, an FBI analyst, is suspicious of her new office mate O'Brian who is the resident tech-savvy computer analyst. The rivalry between Chloe and Janis is designed to lighten the often-grim, high-pressure thriller with a touch of humor. Garofolo decided that Janis would come from a place "where anxiety and irony collide" and said that she is "very self-aware. Whereas Mary Lynn (Chloe) doesn't quite understand what impact she's having on people."[2] Since the two characters of Gold and O'Brian met in the February 16th episode, they have shared a rivalry over who is the better computer hacker. During their introduction, Chloe tells agent Moss, "Whoever set your network up that way didn't know what they were doing." To which Moss replied, "I set our network up that way."[2]
While discussing the addition of a foil for the Chloe character, Howard Gordon, an executive producer of "24", said: "Chloe was the slightly out-of-sync person who was strangely competent but lacked certain social cues. She had a really unique charm that could be set against the deadpan urgency of the show."[2] The rivalry is purely an on-screen, in character development, however, as Garofalo and Mary Lynn Rajskub, who plays O'Brian, are actually friends off camera.[5]
- ^ "24: It's A Chloe-Janis Rivalry--Or Not, As It Seems". Buddy TV. February 2, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ^ a b c d Itzkoff, Dave (February 15, 2009). "Deep Inside the Grim '24,' Two Comics' Inside Joke". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ^ "Renee Prepares to Torture". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- ^ "Day 8: 12:00 A.M. - 1:00 A.M. Episode Recap". Archived from the original on 2011-09-14.
- ^ Levin, Gary (February 2, 2009). "Rajskub, Garofalo are two peas in the '24' pod". USA Today. Retrieved 2009-03-30.


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Communication Channels
Perhaps most importantly, states should take advantage of the ability to reach all teachers on email. This form of electronic communication can be highly effective and is perhaps the only way to reach every educator directly.
Teachers Want to Know Details
Many of the teachers interviewed said they do not feel like they get enough face-time with policymakers and state and district leaders. Kim Vann, a special education teacher from Tennessee, suggested that superintendents spend more time in the classroom and that policymakers be given an opportunity to observe the new evaluations in person to better understand its implementation and impact.
When face-to-face isn't possible, states should use a multi-pronged approach to take advantage of a range of other communications vehicles. Florida, for example, set up a teachers' task force, a "what's working" series of workshops, a video series publicizing the work of the committees and invitations to apply to serve. The state also held state-wide conference calls and invited teachers to listen in as silent participants.
Communication Channels
- Informational materials - These can include Frequently Asked Questions, a "Myths and Facts" document, one-pagers with details about the new system and a timeline that highlights key points in the process. All of these materials should be made available on a dedicated, public-facing website and sent to districts in an easy-to-understand format for distribution to teachers and parents.
- Online content - States should consider either adding a page to their existing website or developing a new, public-facing site to post both high-level and detailed information about the new evaluation system. Some good examples of this already exist, including engageny.org.
- Traditional media - Pinkston advises states to keep state and local media updated and informed throughout the development and implementation of the new system. The more they understand how the evaluation system works and what it will mean, the better informed their reporting and writing will be.
- Social media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google +, and other social media tools are increasingly becoming a go-to method to communicate with people directly. States can use these tools to blast out quick updates on a regular basis and generate online discussion and feedback.
- Surveys - Online surveys can be developed easily and at low cost using tools like Survey Monkey, and can be a powerful way to gauge understanding, support and concerns about an issue. These can be distributed widely among any or all audiences and provide feedback that can inform the work of the statewide advisory group. Officials in Delaware also conduct an annual survey of the state's educators to gauge the overall success of the evaluation system itself to better understand how it's working "on the ground."
- Video-conferences - If in-person meetings aren't possible, video conferencing programs like Skype, JoinMe and GoToMeeting should be considered as viable alternatives. Some allow for more participants than others. These tools are inexpensive, easy to use and can enable state officials to participate in staff and school-based meetings they cannot personally attend. Tennessee's Tim Gaddis, who formerly led the teacher evaluation work, jokes now that he has become the "Skype King" in his state, noting that he was able to cover the whole state by holding multiple meetings via Skype.
- Video messages - Taped video messages allow state officials to speak directly to educators, but do not allow for the back-in-forth interaction made possible by Skype. These previously-taped messages can be sent to all principals and played at staff meetings to allow every teacher to hear directly from the education commissioner. Knox County Superintendent Jim McIntyre created six-minute videos and asked his principals to play them during faculty meetings; similarly, a video from Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman is posted on the state Department of Education's webpage.
- Webinars - Online webinars are another way to reach a wide range of people across the state without the need for travel. These need to be relatively brief, scheduled at times that are convenient for teachers, and allow for questions and answers. They also can be video and audiotaped and posted online to enable viewing after the initial delivery. When done right, webinars can be extremely effective in conveying formation and conducting trainings.
Perhaps most importantly, states should take advantage of the ability to reach all teachers on email. This form of electronic communication can be highly effective and is perhaps the only way to reach every educator directly. Officials in Delaware developed an email listserv that included virtually every educator; to overcome spam filters, they also send a weekly memo to all human resources directors for distribution to every teacher. New York also has had success with email: When www.engageny.org was first launched, the New York Commissioner alerted the teachers by email. Within two hours the site crashed because it received too many simultaneous hits. Other states have partnered with teachers' unions, which often keep e-mail addresses of members on file, to help get the message out.
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Blue skies, wide open lawns, a beautiful inviting ocean, the region's longest infinity pool at a length of 103 metres, relaxing spa treatments, impeccable service and one of the top restaurants in the city. What is there not to like about The Chedi, Muscat? Absolutely nothing! I have never needed a reason to come to this haven of tranquility and yet I've found another to entice me here.
So we've already been there a couple of times, and have been thoroughly impressed both by the à la carte meals and our treatments at the spa (I reckon, the best spa experience I've ever had!). Having been to other hotels for their Friday Brunch, we decided it was time to give it a go at The Chedi.
I love the Chedi because of its simplicity and elegance. The drive up to the hotel grounds is a long quiet road. Low buildings with a clean, white facade signal the end of your approach. Upon entering The Chedi, one is greeted by the friendly staff, the intoxicating smell of incense from a burner, and stylish hanging lights in the tented lobby. While the rest of the hotel remains rather modern, the lobby's moroccan-inspired tented ceiling and arches emphasise the beauty of our Middle Eastern surroundings.
To the right of this impressive lobby lies The Restaurant, one of the six dining options at the hotel. As you are ushered to your table, one immediately notices the modern decor. It is well laid out, and furnished in dark woods and clean lines. There are various sections within the restaurants, each with its own open concept kitchen so you can see the chefs at work and observe their food preparations. Light flows in from the large windows at one end of the restaurant that faces the green lawn and beach, and chandeliers continue to illuminate the room. The use of glass and wood in the kitchens and wine displays creates a sense of openness, and keeps up with the modern furnishing. In addition to this, soft lighting in the food displays and under the counters heightens the sophistication of the restaurant as well as your dining experience.
I'm not usually inclined towards buffets. In most of my experiences with buffets, the selection may be vast but the quality seems to suffer. And I never manage to eat much, which makes buffets seem like such a waste on me. But if every buffet was like the one we had at the Chedi, I'd be an immediate convert. The Restaurant has got to be one of the best restos in Muscat. On the previous occasions that we've been there and ordered from the à la carte menu, the food, presentation and service were all exemplary. This time was no exception.
Already drawn to the food that was beautifully presented in an array of colours , I was so surprised that the quality of the food did not differ from their usual standard. The food was displayed with such attention to detail! In various glass, earthenware and porcelain dishes, the food was arranged in differing heights in diverse colours and textures. The results were amazing and so aesthetically-appealing! There was a large selection of international cuisine, and as per normal, I had my fair share of oysters, sashimi and desserts. I also noted a counter with food that seemed to cater to the taste buds of kids. And this certainly wasn't the usual pedestrian fare for the young ones; the dishes were presented appealingly in mini-portions and they tasted good too. TT particularly enjoyed the chicken lollipops and devoured three of them along with creamy mashed potatoes and pasta. The burgers and lasagna looked like sure hits for the kids too. I spotted a prawn hors d'oeuvre dressed up as a little chick which definitely got my vote for being the cutest thing there!
This might have been the first time that I enjoyed a buffet so much. I didn't try everything but the selection that I had was amazing, especially the raw seafood and desserts. I also decided to treat myself to some prosecco and the attentive wait-staff were extremely prompt in keeping my glass filled. It was such a delightful and relaxing afternoon, and The Restaurant is currently at the top of my Friday Brunch venues.
Has anyone been to the other Chedi properties around the world? If they are anything like the one in Muscat, they've got to be equally impressive! Well, if you're ever in Muscat, do yourself a favour – have a meal AND a spa treatment at The Chedi. You will leave feeling pampered, and will continue to pine for that serenity long after you get home!
I hope you've enjoyed the glimpse into Muscat
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The Slackistan director Hammad Khan says his film depicts a group of middle-class kids a year after graduating from college who realise their dreams and aspirations are unlikely to be fulfilled.
Exploring contemporary Pakistani youth
Slackistan might be one of the wackiest titles of the year, but it perfectly describes Hammad Khan's debut film about slackers in Islamabad. Paying homage to Richard Linklater's seminal Slacker, Khan depicts a group of middle-class kids a year after graduating from college who realise their dreams and aspirations are unlikely to be fulfilled.
The easy analysis would be that this is just because Islamabad affords little in the way of opportunity, but Khan's clever movie posits that the problem might just be the attitude of the protagonists. Their feelings of alienation and dissatisfaction, he suggests, are shared by twentysomethings throughout the world. The movie feels like it's part of the American independent scene rather than anything cinematically that has come out of Pakistan.
It could be argued that the quirky ticks of the characters can upon occasion be seen in the writer-director Khan. The 34-year-old was born in Pakistan before moving to England, aged three, after his father had to flee the country after opposing the military dictatorship.
"I grew up in exile and couldn't go back for 11 years," says Khan, who is based in London. "I grew up with Pakistan being a fantasy-land that I wanted to go back to; then I went back and fell in love with it."
The principal protagonist Hasan, who delivers a lethargic, funny voiceover, dreams about becoming a movie director. Khan admits that this, like many other aspects of the story, comes straight from his own biography. "I was living there when I was 21 and really wanted to do something worthwhile while I was there - and that is really the case for many people. They want to do something; they all have dreams and aspirations. In my day, the difference was that the internet wasn't so advanced and we were a little bit behind the times, so the scene where he tries to rent Mean Streets from a DVD store was based on my own frustration from back in the day."
What Khan was also keen to do was give a picture of what it feels like to live in the capital city. There is a brief description of the various sectors, with an emphasis on the more middle-class areas, and the characters can be seen at a number of scenic locations in the capital.
They talk about city life, from the Taliban to bad spelling on advertising. Much of the political comment happens in the background, from news stories on the television to graffiti on the walls and Hasan wearing a T-shirt that has "democrazy" written across it.
Given the times, it's impossible not to talk about terrorism and it was a subject that the director couldn't avoid when filming: "I think it was so prevalent in the media everyday in Pakistan and as a threat. We reached a point last year where I did think that we could go out to shoot the film, a bomb would go off and that would be it. These are serious concerns, and I wanted to include it to show the contrast of this background and the group of characters going out to a party and how people just get on with their lives."
Khan designed the "democrazy" T-shirt himself and says: "I am criticising and making comment on the current political set-up there and the failure and aimlessness of the democratic set-up. Democracy cannot function in a society where feudalism is so entrenched, so when there are no rights and feudalism, and democracy becomes a bit of a joke, you might as well put it on a T shirt and call it 'democrazy'. I think that is something everyone is talking about back home."
The film also depicts females in a way that runs contrary to the popular western images of women covered from head to toe. Khan admits that this aspect of the movie was not by design: "The way the girls were depicted came out of an organic awareness of the people and the culture. I wasn't particularly trying to get the girls to have a 'look'. They look the way they look, they're wearing their own clothes and stuff and since making it I've realised that the images of seeing girls not in burqas and guys with long beards is quite surprising to a lot of people here [in the UK]. That continues to fascinate me."
What Slackistan does is explode the myth of there being one homogeneous Muslim world. Khan comments: "There is one image of the Muslim world in the West, and I think to undo that would take a whole generation. It's funny the world looks very different, depending on where you are."
Another interesting aspect of the picture is that the British director found his actors on Facebook. "I basically stalked Facebook youth from Pakistan and connected with them when I saw their profiles and pages and then started to put the word out about the film," says Khan. "There is no infrastructure for auditions in Islamabad, so I had to find friends of friends and networks and without that I wouldn't have been able to put this thing together, so thank you, Mark Zuckerberg."
As with the clandestine nature of the auditions, Khan shot the movie under the radar of the Pakistani authorities, believing he would not get clearance to shoot because of the threat of terrorism and also because the cost of doing so would have blown the already modest budget.
The director knows all about government supervision of movies as his regular job is as a ratings advisor for the British Board of Film Classification, which has been very supportive of his filmmaking aspirations. Khan is already planning his next movie, which will once again shoot in Pakistan, "I think Slackistan will be an antidepressant because morale is really low in Pakistan, but after antidepressants the next thing you need is therapy, and so the next film is going to get down and dirty with some of the problems that are happening in Pakistan - how messed up things are. It will be darker and more serious."


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