Sparks

This week has been a crazy one! But the broadness of the Telus Spark project is starting to narrow and things are falling into place. We started working on unit one in math which I did find confusing, but I am slowly starting to get my head wrapped around it. For social, I started learning about individual and collective identities as well. Things are starting to pick up in our classed now and even though somethings are harder than the others it was not a bad week. For our prototype projects…

Call me a book nerd or a geek, but this assignment actually made me think quite a bit. I have read quite a few books, but one that I constantly remember making an impact on me when I read it, and even after I put it down, is “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks. You’re probably thinking that this author just fills his books with sappy, unrealistic love stories and tragedies, and in all honesty I believed that too in the beginning. However, within the first chapter, I noticed a story that represented…

Muriel Spark (Feb. 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) “an arcane puzzle in the mapping of contemporary literature” (Sawada 11), occupies an important place among the post-war British novelists. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Quite early in her life she decided to adopt writing as a profession and began writing seriously after the war. Spark started her writing career with poetry and literary criticism, under her married name. Spark…

The mobile market is a highly competitive one, where Spark dukes it out with 2degrees and Vodafone. It suffers from high churn, where a proportion of customers regularly switch to follow the best offers in market. For example at the time of launching this campaign, 40% of Spark’s mobile customers churned annually. In large part this was because telcos generally find it difficult to truly differentiate at a product level. Lower the price of a plan or increase the data allowance to a plan, and…

SUMMARY The book Spark written by Dr. John J. Ratey begins with the story of Naperville Central High School and two P.E teachers who reinvented physical education. They came up with a way to make P.E. more fun and fair to everyone by monitoring children’s heart rates and crafting more fun and advance ways to exercise. This Naperville High School found that children who were participating in P.E. before class, actually performed better in school. Ratey then begins to talk about all of the other…

In the story, "The Twins" written by Muriel Spark, the narrator is the main character, but her name is not revealed. Jennie was the narrator's friend throughout high school, but since the time she has become a mother to twins, Marjie and Jeff. The narrator visits Jeannie and the twins at different stages of their lives. In the beginning of the story the children were "healthy, lively, and smart" according to the narrator, but towards the end of the story she realizes how the kids are deceiving…

Sparks, Nicholas. The Best of Me. Oriental 1984 pgs.292 As Nicholas Sparks wrote the book "The Best of Me" he wrote in the time period of 1984. Where rock and roll was at its highest peak, and where they had identified the Aids Virus. As the reader reads they will notice he made the setting in an old type of town where children could roam around town and it could be safe, but the drug rate there was high. The book was in the setting of North Carolina in a small town named Oriental. The…

Creative Spark Talk Analysis Do Schools Kill Creativity? This is a very interesting question. It was presented and I think, very brilliantly answered by Sir Kenneth Robinson in February 2006 at an official TED Talks Conference. Sir Robinson is a speaker, author, and international advisor on education in the arts to government, education, non-profits, and art-bodies. In his rather inspirational yet stirring speech Robinson addresses the issue of the dampening of creativity in schools. Kenneth…

Nicholas Sparks is considered to be one of the greatest American authors of today. He provides love, romance, passion, drama, tragedy, comedy, triumph, and mystery in all of his novels. His stories are heartwarming and inspiring. Nicholas Sparks does not have a particular writing style, his style is liberal and flexible, and can be described as romantic, imaginative and engaging, and varies depending on the theme of the novel. The theme of the novel is the main thing that determines and…

Nicholas sparks is the author of the The Notebook which is the book this movie is based on which is obviously also called the Notebook. This movie was directed by Nick Cassavetes who has directed thirty-six movies in total according to google. Rachel McAdams is the main character in the movie and Ryan Gosling is the main character in the book even though this movie is about them as a couple the book focuses more on him but still talks about her often and vice versa. Ryan Gosling doesn't…