Carpenters

In William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying, Cash Bundren, the oldest son of the Bundrens, is depicted as a very transparent character, both shallow and straight forward . He is a logical thinker that seldom speaks. A skilled carpenter, Cash is the only person in the family that has an actual job and income. When Addie Bundren was on her death bed, Cash was given the task to construct a coffin for his dying mother. Stubbornly, Cash chose to complete his work outside of Addie’s window. His absurd…

Figure (1) Fairclough’s three diamenttional analytical frame work (Adopted from Norman Fairclough’s (1995) “Discourse and Social Change” book) 1) Text: The first level of discourse analysis is based on written or spoken text (Fairclough 1995). In this level the researcher identify actually about what the text represent. In this stage the analysis is descriptive, in many ways, the text is described as a form of linguistic analysis, in which usually searching for vocabularies (metaphore, lexical…

If the tree is dying fast and has already been infested with carpenter bees it is more than likely going to die. This is the eastern carpenter bees (Xylocopa virgincia) and they are found around wood in use for decks, housing, or any rough lumber structures usually. They can also use a dead or dying tree for their habitat. A separate disease or insect killed or seriously degraded the tree prior to the bees infested. These bees range across the Eastern United States and Canada. They are important…

The Miller’s and the Reeve’s tales are two of 25 short stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer, a 13th century writer. The combined 25 stories make up the book titled The Canterbury Tales, which takes place in medieval England during the late 1300s to the early 1400s. The Canterbury Tales is about twenty-nine people that gather at the Tabard Inn in southwark for a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas á Becket in Canterbury England. The host of the Inn, the narrator, proposes a story-telling…

Teenagers and Sleep: Why They Cannot Get Enough Sleep deprivation is a common, dangerously unnoticed problem in many Americans today, especially those involved in work and education (Shaw). However, the problem is severely more apparent in the adolescent population, which can be attributed to the increased need for sleep in adolescents. Compared to children, adults, and seniors, teenagers require an abnormally large amount of uninterrupted sleep, a sharp inconsistency in the otherwise…

moderates held the warrant that civil rights leaders were “outside agitators” (Carpenter et al., 1963, p. 174) in racial issues, but King disagreed and said, “Anyone who lives in the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds” (1963, p. 176). In the clergymen’s letter the point made was that “the law enforcement [should] remain calm and continue to protect our city from violence” (Carpenter et. al, 1963, p.174). Although the clergymen thought the police were…

white carpenters knocked off, and said they would not work with free colored workmen. Their reason for this, as alleged, was, that if free colored carpenters were encouraged, they would soon take the trade into their own hands, and poor white men would be thrown out of employment. They therefore felt called upon at once to put a stop to it. And, taking advantage of Mr. Gardner’s necessities, they broke off, swearing they would work no longer, unless he would discharge his black carpenters.…

it also creates high transaction costs. For example, if a carpenter needed bread, he would need to find a baker who needed carpentry done. This ‘double coincidence of want’ is unlikely to occur in a small area in the first place. Second, one carpentry job might take several hours, which would be valued at more bread than the carpenter and his family could enjoy. The difficulty of bartering makes the trade less desirable, and the carpenter might end up…

Slab An oilfield hand is a job that may seem like no other, but a carpenter’s apprentice is quite similar despite the job difference. An oilfield hand’s job requires him to do whatever it takes to get his pay from the oil in the ground, while a carpenter in training needs to help get a house built at all costs. The two jobs seem different, but at the same time they also require some similar qualities. Some similarities might make them hard to tell apart from each other. Even though being an…

The War on Drugs 1874 English Researcher C.R. Wright first created heroin by boiling morphine and acetic anhydride. It caused anxiety, vomiting and sleepiness after taken. He soon after stopped his research. 21 years later in 1895 German scientist Heinrich Dreser picked up where Wright left off and started distributing it in available over-the-counter form. As its popularity grew so did its unrestricted distribution. It was available over the counter and sent as free samples in the mail. By…