A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on the high sea.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marqu.docxdaniahendric
Pelayo and Elisenda find an elderly man with enormous wings lying in the mud in their courtyard. Though initially frightened, they come to see him as a familiar presence. A neighbor identifies him as an angel, but the local priest is skeptical. Word spreads and people flock to see the "angel", charging admission. Though passive, the winged man endures the crowds. Over time, his wings regrow larger feathers and he attempts flight, escaping over the sea horizon.
A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsGABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ[1928–.docxdaniahendric
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on ...
A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsGABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ[1928–.docxbartholomeocoombs
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on.
An Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.pdfJackie Gold
1. Pelayo and Elisenda find an old man with enormous wings lying in the mud in their courtyard. They call a neighbor woman who determines he is an angel.
2. Word spreads and people flock to their house to see the angel. Pelayo and Elisenda start charging admission and make a profit. The angel does not eat or interact much.
3. A traveling show featuring a woman transformed into a spider due to disobeying her parents attracts more attention than the angel. This ends the crowds coming to see the angel. Pelayo and Elisenda use the money to improve their home.
Timing:
45 minutes
Materials:
Assessment instructions and Reading Sample
Literature:
Students may use the short story for reference and citations
Assesment Instructions
Gabriel García Márquez presents two vivid portrayals of a Spider-Girl and an Angel in his short story entitled “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the different portrayals and how the author uses them to explore dualities in human life.
Create a five paragraph essay.
Underline your thesis statement, which (for the purposes of this assessment) should occur in the first paragraph.
Underline the topic sentences in each of the three body paragraphs.
In the fifth and concluding paragraph, revisit the thesis of your essay and recapture the main points of the argument without simply restating the thesis and the topic sentences.
Reading Sample
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands on the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming f.
Department of EnglishAssessment for 200-Level Literature Courses.docxtheodorelove43763
Department of English
Assessment for 200-Level Literature Courses
ENG 230, ENG 231, ENG 235, and ENG 244
Timing: 45 minutes
Materials: Assessment instructions and Reading Sample
Literature: Students may use the short story for reference and citations
Assesment Instructions
Gabriel García Márquez presents two vivid portrayals of a Spider-Girl and an Angel in his short story entitled “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the different portrayals and how the author uses them to explore dualities in human life.
Create a five paragraph essay.
Underline your thesis statement, which (for the purposes of this assessment) should occur in the first paragraph.
Underline the topic sentences in each of the three body paragraphs.
In the fifth and concluding paragraph, revisit the thesis of your essay and recapture the main points of the argument without simply restating the thesis and the topic sentences.
Submit your typed writing sample via Blackboard by Wednesday (10.07.2015)
Reading Sample
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands on the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who .
As you explored three major categories this week with modernism,.docxrandymartin91030
As you explored three major categories this week with modernism, post-modernism, and post-colonial literature, what were your favorite author and short story of the readings? Why?
For your initial post
, choose one of the readings to discuss. Please refer to the specific elements of the category that you found in the text as well as direct quotes and lines from the reading. You may choose more than one story if you like, but the minimum is to discuss at least one of the short story readings in detail.
Name the work and author
Give at least three examples from the reading
Explain how what characteristics were evident in the story that made it modernist, post-modernist, or postcolonial according to your course content lessons folder. Please note: You may include magical realism under the post-colonial category.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old t.
CRYPTOZOOLOGY (A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS)Ma Lovely
Cryptozoology is the pseudoscience of searching for animals whose existence has not been proven. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" uses magical realism to tell the story of an old man with wings found in a small town's backyard. The townspeople initially believe he is an angel but the local priest determines he is just a man. They put him on display and charge admission, growing wealthy until new attractions arrive. The old man eventually regains his strength and flies away.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marqu.docxdaniahendric
Pelayo and Elisenda find an elderly man with enormous wings lying in the mud in their courtyard. Though initially frightened, they come to see him as a familiar presence. A neighbor identifies him as an angel, but the local priest is skeptical. Word spreads and people flock to see the "angel", charging admission. Though passive, the winged man endures the crowds. Over time, his wings regrow larger feathers and he attempts flight, escaping over the sea horizon.
A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsGABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ[1928–.docxdaniahendric
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on ...
A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsGABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ[1928–.docxbartholomeocoombs
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on.
An Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.pdfJackie Gold
1. Pelayo and Elisenda find an old man with enormous wings lying in the mud in their courtyard. They call a neighbor woman who determines he is an angel.
2. Word spreads and people flock to their house to see the angel. Pelayo and Elisenda start charging admission and make a profit. The angel does not eat or interact much.
3. A traveling show featuring a woman transformed into a spider due to disobeying her parents attracts more attention than the angel. This ends the crowds coming to see the angel. Pelayo and Elisenda use the money to improve their home.
Timing:
45 minutes
Materials:
Assessment instructions and Reading Sample
Literature:
Students may use the short story for reference and citations
Assesment Instructions
Gabriel García Márquez presents two vivid portrayals of a Spider-Girl and an Angel in his short story entitled “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the different portrayals and how the author uses them to explore dualities in human life.
Create a five paragraph essay.
Underline your thesis statement, which (for the purposes of this assessment) should occur in the first paragraph.
Underline the topic sentences in each of the three body paragraphs.
In the fifth and concluding paragraph, revisit the thesis of your essay and recapture the main points of the argument without simply restating the thesis and the topic sentences.
Reading Sample
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands on the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming f.
Department of EnglishAssessment for 200-Level Literature Courses.docxtheodorelove43763
Department of English
Assessment for 200-Level Literature Courses
ENG 230, ENG 231, ENG 235, and ENG 244
Timing: 45 minutes
Materials: Assessment instructions and Reading Sample
Literature: Students may use the short story for reference and citations
Assesment Instructions
Gabriel García Márquez presents two vivid portrayals of a Spider-Girl and an Angel in his short story entitled “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the different portrayals and how the author uses them to explore dualities in human life.
Create a five paragraph essay.
Underline your thesis statement, which (for the purposes of this assessment) should occur in the first paragraph.
Underline the topic sentences in each of the three body paragraphs.
In the fifth and concluding paragraph, revisit the thesis of your essay and recapture the main points of the argument without simply restating the thesis and the topic sentences.
Submit your typed writing sample via Blackboard by Wednesday (10.07.2015)
Reading Sample
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands on the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who .
As you explored three major categories this week with modernism,.docxrandymartin91030
As you explored three major categories this week with modernism, post-modernism, and post-colonial literature, what were your favorite author and short story of the readings? Why?
For your initial post
, choose one of the readings to discuss. Please refer to the specific elements of the category that you found in the text as well as direct quotes and lines from the reading. You may choose more than one story if you like, but the minimum is to discuss at least one of the short story readings in detail.
Name the work and author
Give at least three examples from the reading
Explain how what characteristics were evident in the story that made it modernist, post-modernist, or postcolonial according to your course content lessons folder. Please note: You may include magical realism under the post-colonial category.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old t.
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Also note that because this is a literature review you must cite credible sources; avoid using news articles.
The examples below should serve as a guide
Example 1: The example below shows how inflation affects investment in a study of the effect of inflation on investment.
The destabilizing effect of inflation on investment has been a major source of debate in economic and business literature. Generally, inflation is often considered a sign of macroeconomic instability and the inability of government to control macroeconomic policy, both of which contribute to an adverse investment climate (Fischer, 2013; Greene & Villanueva, 1991). However, the empirical evidence is still far from convincing. While some authors claim positive effects of inflation on investment, others hold that inflation poses a “stealth” threat to investments. For example, Greene and Villanueva (1991) argue that high rate of inflation adversely affects private investment activity by increasing the riskiness of long-term investment projects. Also, Fischer (2013) observed that inflation uncertainty is associated with substantial reduction in total investment. On the contrary, McClain and Nicholes (1993) found that investment and inflation are positively related to each other.
Example 2: The example below shows how natural resource endowments affects income inequality in a study of the determinants of income inequality.
The nexus between natural resource endowments and income inequality has also been widely debated and has inspired a long history of research in both economics and political science (see, for example, Fum and Hodler, 2010; Goderis and Malone, 2011; Leamer, Maul, Rodriguez, and Schott, 1999; Carmignani, 2013; Parcero and Papyrakis, 2016; Bourguignon and Morrisson, 1998). For example, Anderson et al., (2004) argue that natural resources endowment provide a plausible explanation as to why the observed levels of inequality are significantly higher in both sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
According to the Council on Social Work Education, Competency 5.docxronak56
According to the Council on Social Work Education, Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice:
Social workers understand that human rights and social justice, as well as social welfare and services, are mediated by policy and its implementation at the federal, state, and local levels. Social workers understand the history and current structures of social policies and services, the role of policy in service delivery, and the role of practice in policy development. Social workers understand their role in policy development and implementation within their practice settings at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and they actively engage in policy practice to effect change within those settings. Social workers recognize and understand the historical, social, cultural, economic, organizational, environmental, and global influences that affect social policy. They are also knowledgeable about policy formulation, analysis, implementation, and evaluation. Social workers:
Identify social policy at the local, state, and federal level that impacts well-being, service delivery, and access to social services;
Assess how social welfare and economic policies impact the delivery of and access to social services;
Apply critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
This assignment is intended to help students demonstrate the behavioral components of this competency in their field education.
To prepare: Working with your field instructor, identify, evaluate, and discuss policies established by the local, state, and federal government (within the last five years) that affect the day to day operations of the field placement agency (
Georgia Department of Family and Children Services
).
The Assignment (1-2 pages):
Describe the policies and their impact on the field agency.
Propose specific recommendations regarding how you, as a social work intern, and the agency can advocate for policies pertaining to advancing social justice for the agency and the clients it serves.
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According to the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), part of.docxronak56
According to the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), part of being a well-prepared special educator includes “developing relationships with families based on mutual respect and actively involving families and individuals with exceptionalities in educational decision making” (Council for Exceptional Children, 2015, Special Education Professional Ethical Principles, E). This includes advocating for parental involvement by providing information on educational rights and safeguards in a way that creates accessibility and transparent IEP meeting procedures (Council for Exceptional Children, 2015).
Hammond, Ingalls and Trussell (2008) investigated the experiences of those family members who attended an initial IEP meeting and then subsequent meetings over the next four years. Their findings indicated that the overwhelming majority of the 212 family participants agreed that the child needed special education services but had negative emotional responses to the initial team meeting. Some of the most beneficial information collected included acknowledging the emotions tied to having a child initial diagnosed with a disability; stronger communication skills by education professionals during the team meeting; and additional measures to better prepare parents for the team meetings (Hammond, Ingalls, & Trussell, 2008). Similarly, the article,
Building Parent Trust in the Special Education Setting (Links to an external site.)
(Wellner, 2012) was written to emphasize the importance of trust building strategies to avoid costly due process hearings and to maximize relationships with all involved in making decisions on behalf of the student with special needs.
Initial Post:
After reading the article, After reading the article,
The 5-Point Plan
, reviewing the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) , reviewing the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC)
Special Education and Professional Ethical Principles and Practice Standards (Links to an external site.)
, and reading
Building Parent Trust in the Special Education Setting (Links to an external site.)
you will create an initial response depending on the first letter of your last name.
If your last name begins with the letters A – M:
You will respond as one of the parent participants in this the Hammond, Ingalls and Trussell study. Begin by explaining how you felt attending your child’s first IEP meeting, using the article and the Instructor Guidance as a foundation for your narrative. Then, describe how future IEP meeting experiences changed (improved or declined) and why. Finally, using the
CEC Professional Practice Standards for Parents and Families (Links to an external site.)
and
Building Parent Trust in the Special Education Setting (Links to an external site.)
, provide at least three suggestions to the special education team leader for how to improve this experience for parents of newly diagnosed children with disabilities.
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According to the article, Answer these two questions. Why did Ma.docxronak56
According to the article, Answer these two questions.
Why did Marx believe that capitalism would fall on its own? Why did his predictions not come true? (hint: how has the economy changed since Marx’s time?
Describe Robert Owen’s “New Lanark” community? What were his innovations? Did he suspend either private property or market economics? Are there people today who follow a similar business model?
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According to Neuman’s theory, a human being is a total person as a c.docxronak56
According to Neuman’s theory, a human being is a total person as a client system and the person is a layered, multidimensional being. Each layer consists of a five-person variable or subsystem: (1) physiological, (2) psychological, (3) sociocultural, (4) developmental, and (5) spiritual.
Considering the 'spiritual' variable- Do you feel this variable exists at all? Does it have as wide-ranging results as Neuman claims? Is it appropriate for an APRN to participate in or work with the patient’s spiritual dimension?
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According to Rolando et al. (2012), alcohol socialization is the pr.docxronak56
According to Rolando et al. (2012), “alcohol socialization is the process by which a person approaches and familiarizes with alcohol learns about the values connected to its use and about how, when and where s/he can or cannot drink.”
Based on the focus group findings, describe what the first drink means in both Italy and Finland, and what types of attitudes are connected with different types of socialization processes.
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According to your readings, cloud computing represents one of th.docxronak56
According to your readings, cloud computing represents one of the most significant paradigms shifts in information technology (IT) history, due to an extension of sharing an application-hosting provider that has been around for many years, and was common in highly regulated vertical industries like banks and health care institutions. The author’s knowledge from their research continue to assert that, the impetus behind cloud computing lies on the idea that it provides economies of scale by spreading costs across many client organizations and pooling computing resources while matching client computing needs to consumption in a flexible, real-time version.
Identify the issues and risks that pose concern to organizations storing data in the cloud - briefly support your discussion.
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According to this idea that gender is socially constructed, answer.docxronak56
According to this idea that gender is socially constructed, answer the following questions:
1. What does it mean to be a man in the U.S.? What does it mean to be a woman?
2. From what institutions do we learn these gender roles?
3. How do these clips demonstrate the ways in which gender is socially constructed in the U.S.? Do the concepts discussed in the clips resonate with you? Why or why not?
In Persepolis, the main character Marji struggles to define her identity as an Iranian woman in a changing society.
· What roles are depicted for women in Iranian society in the film? How do they change over time?
· How does Persepolis demonstrate the ways in which gender and identity are influenced in many ways, by different processes across cultures? How are gender roles in Iran similar, or different to gender in the U.S.?
· What are some of the stereotypes that exist about Muslim women and how does Abu-Lughod in “Do Muslim Women Need Saving” and Persepolis complicate these stereotypes?
Answer the following questions 2 full pages
Running head: MAJOR HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS IN THE U.S. 1
Major Health Care Problems in the U.S.
Jane Doe
ID: 1212121
MAJOR HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS IN THE U.S. 2
Major Health Care Problems in the US
Problem statement: High and continuously rising cost of health care has been and still is one of
the biggest challenges affecting the Health Care system in United States.
Methods of Examining the Problem
Both qualitative and quantitative research methods should be used to fully understand the
issue of high cost of care in the US. Quantitative methods like surveys and experimentations will
aid in estimating the prevalence, magnitude and frequency of the problem in different regions.
On the other hand, qualitative methods like case studies and observation will help describe the
extent and complexity of the issue. The two approaches need to work in complementation to
obtain a clear understanding of this menace.
Surveys, as a quantitative research method, is one of the most effective in the social
research and present a more viable method of examining the cost of health in the country. They
involve asking of questions in the form of questionnaires and interviews. Questionnaires are
written questions to which the response can be open ended or multiple-choice format. This
would be used to gain information about cost within determinants that are of
disagree/neutral/agree nature. An example is if patients are contented with the cost of services
they get or they deem the cost of cover worthy. Interviews, the researcher discussing issues with
the respondents, are to be used to gain more details on already known aspects of the system. This
may include gathering information to inform policies, administration and use of technology to
minimize the cost of care.
Since health cost in the US is not a new challenge and there have been studies about it,
qualitative methods like .
According to Thiel (2015, p. 40), CSR literature lacks consensus fo.docxronak56
According to Thiel (2015, p. 40), “CSR literature lacks consensus for a standard definition. Typically, many people who are familiar with the concept will initially define CSR within the three domains of the social, economic and natural environments.”
Come up with your own definition of what you believe is a good definition of CSR that you would like your company to follow.
Afterward, explain each part of your definition and why you believe it is best.
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According to recent surveys, China, India, and the Philippines are t.docxronak56
According to recent surveys, China, India, and the Philippines are the three most popular countries for IT outsourcing. Write a short paper (2-4 paragraphs) explaining what the appeal would be for US companies to outsource IT functions to these countries. You may discuss cost, labor pool, language, or possibly government support as your reasons. There are many other reasons you may choose to highlight in your paper.
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According to Rolando et al. (2012), alcohol socialization is th.docxronak56
According to Rolando et al. (2012), “alcohol socialization is the process by which a person approaches and familiarizes with alcohol learns about the values connected to its use and about how, when and where s/he can or cannot drink.”
Based on the focus group findings, describe what the first drink means in both Italy and Finland, and what types of attitudes are connected with different types of socialization processes. Respond to two posts identifying how positive values can be connected to first memories of drinking.
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According to the author, Social Security is an essential program, .docxronak56
According to the author, Social Security is an essential program, but its future is looking unpromising unless we start by eliminating the payroll tax cap.
In the author’s proposal to keep the funding open, the author proposes the acceptance of Bernie Sanders’ “Keeping Our Social Security Promises Act,” which the author suggests would removes the payroll tax cap. To elaborate further, the author stated that the reason for the cap on the social security is because of the uneven amount of participation during elections which makes the rich influential in governance. The author stated that, research have found that the rich who made over $125,000 contributed 35% in campaigns. According to the author, this act causes a major problem regarding the shaping of the social security because people with lower income would not be able to contribute that amount of money towards campaigns. The author also states that it causes greater income equality, since those who contribute are rich and as a matter of fact get more benefits from political power in the form of payroll tax cap. This in the authors words, compromises the state of social welfare in the United States because those active in politics don’t have the same views as the poor who are focused on housing, poverty, and health. Congressional Research Service was used to predicts that, if tax cap is not removed, there will be a permanent increase of tax rate from 12.4% to 15.1% which would hurt people making less than the current tax cap currently at $132,900 or, cutting benefits by 20% in 2035 and continuously rising every year.
In as much as the author makes a good point on the percentage of rich people that donated to campaign, the author failed to state how much the rich get in payroll tax cap since that is a major part of the authors argument. The authors failed to indicate how an increase in tax rate would affect people making less than the current tax cap which is $132,900. To sum it up, the author failed to expand and give more numeric evidence to support the argument.
In addition, to provide a guideline in eliminating payroll tax cap, the author suggested a bill introduced by Bernie Sanders called, Keeping Our Social Security Promises Act. The bill according to the author seeks to remove the cap placed on payroll taxes. The author further stated the bill will help Solvency to expand for 75 years without increasing taxes for those who earn less than $250,000, the only people who will see a change are those earn more than $250,000. According to the Congressional Research Service as stated by the author, removing the cap would eliminate 84% of the projected shortfall. The author stated that, the top 200 CEOs would have to contributed $341,291,106 towards Social Security when the tax cap is removed. In addition, the author stated that, removing the cap would eliminate 84% of the projected shortfall. The author proposes an increase in the taxable payroll from 12.40% to 12.83% to keep it solvent.
According to Morrish, the blame for the ever-growing problem of disc.docxronak56
According to Morrish, the blame for the ever-growing problem of discipline in schools rests at least in part on popular discipline theories, which he believes have gone to excess in allowing students to make choices concerning how they will conduct themselves in school. What are your thoughts about Morrish’s ideas?
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According to DuBrin (2015), Cultural intelligence is an outsiders .docxronak56
According to DuBrin (2015), "Cultural intelligence is an outsider's ability to interpret someone's unfamiliar and ambiguous behavior the same way that person's compatriots would" (p. 177). In this case, how would you incorporate cultural intelligence within a team setting? Please explain.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words
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According to Edgar Schein, organizational culture are the shared.docxronak56
According to Edgar Schein, organizational culture are the shared beliefs and values among a group of people which influences how they perceive, think, and react in the organization. There are four types of organizational culture:
Clan-Internal focus that values flexibility
Adhocracy-A risk taking culture with an external focus on flexibility
Market-A competitive culture with an external focus on profits over employee satisfaction
Hierarchy-A structured culture valuing stability and effectiveness internally
How would you describe the organizational culture of a pr
evious or current place of employment? And why?
Do you think this type of culture is best suited to help the company achieve its strategic goals? Explain.
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According to DuBrin (2015), the following strategies or tactics are .docxronak56
According to DuBrin (2015), the following strategies or tactics are identified for enhancing your career:
develop career goals,
capitalize on your strengths and build your personal brand,
be passionate about and proud of your work,
develop a code of professional ethics and prosocial motivation,
develop a proactive personality,
keep growing through continuous learning and self-development,
document your accomplishments,
project a professional image, and
perceive yourself as a provider of services. (p. 430)
Identify and explain three career-enhancing techniques or tactics in advancing your career.
Your essay should be at least two pages and should include an introduction, a body of supported material (paragraphs), and a conclusion. Be sure to include two references (on a reference page), and follow all other APA formatting requirements. The reference page does not count toward the total page requirement.
Be sure to apply the proper APA format for the content and references provided.
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According to DuBrin (2015), the following strategies or tactics .docxronak56
According to DuBrin (2015), the following strategies or tactics are identified for enhancing your career:
develop career goals,
capitalize on your strengths and build your personal brand,
be passionate about and proud of your work,
develop a code of professional ethics and prosocial motivation,
develop a proactive personality,
keep growing through continuous learning and self-development,
document your accomplishments,
project a professional image, and
perceive yourself as a provider of services. (p. 430)
Identify and explain three career-enhancing techniques or tactics in advancing your career.
Your essay should be at least two pages and should include an introduction, a body of supported material (paragraphs), and a conclusion. Be sure to include two references (on a reference page), and follow all other APA formatting requirements.
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Access the Mental Measurements Yearbook, located in the Univer.docxronak56
Access
the Mental Measurements Yearbook, located in the University Library.
Select
two assessments of intelligence and two achievement tests.
Prepare
a 13 slide presentation about your selected instruments. In your analysis, address the following:
Critique the major definitions of intelligence. Determine which theory of intelligence best fits your selected instruments. Explain how the definition and the measures are related.
Evaluate the measures of intelligence you selected for reliability, validity, normative procedures, and bias.
Your selected intelligence and achievement assessments. How are the goals of the tests similar and different? How are the tests used? What are the purposes of giving these differing tests?
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Level 3 NCEA - NZ: A Nation In the Making 1872 - 1900 SML.pptHenry Hollis
The History of NZ 1870-1900.
Making of a Nation.
From the NZ Wars to Liberals,
Richard Seddon, George Grey,
Social Laboratory, New Zealand,
Confiscations, Kotahitanga, Kingitanga, Parliament, Suffrage, Repudiation, Economic Change, Agriculture, Gold Mining, Timber, Flax, Sheep, Dairying,
Elevate Your Nonprofit's Online Presence_ A Guide to Effective SEO Strategies...TechSoup
Whether you're new to SEO or looking to refine your existing strategies, this webinar will provide you with actionable insights and practical tips to elevate your nonprofit's online presence.
This presentation was provided by Racquel Jemison, Ph.D., Christina MacLaughlin, Ph.D., and Paulomi Majumder. Ph.D., all of the American Chemical Society, for the second session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session Two: 'Expanding Pathways to Publishing Careers,' was held June 13, 2024.
Jemison, MacLaughlin, and Majumder "Broadening Pathways for Editors and Authors"
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsby Gabriel Garcia Marquez.docx
1. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the
house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw
them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature
all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world
had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray
thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights
glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and
rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo
was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it
was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and
groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to
see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in
the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get
up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his
wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took
her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen
body with a mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There
were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few
teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-
grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had.
His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever
entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely
that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and
in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him,
and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong
sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the
2. inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded
that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked
by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who
knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she
needed was one look to show them their mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for
the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him
down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood
angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment
of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times
were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did
not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over
him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s
club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud
and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In
the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and
Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the
child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then
they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft
with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to
his fate on the high seas. But when they went out into the
courtyard with the first light of dawn, they found the whole
neighborhood in front of the chicken coop having fun with the
angel, without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat
through the openings in the wire as if he weren’t a supernatural
creature but a circus animal.
Father Gonzaga arrived before seven o’clock, alarmed at the
strange news. By that time onlookers less frivolous than those at
dawn had already arrived and they were making all kinds of
conjectures concerning the captive’s future. The simplest among
them thought that he should be named mayor of the world.
Others of sterner mind felt that he should be promoted to the
3. rank of five-star general in order to win all wars. Some
visionaries hoped that he could be put to stud in order to
implant the earth a race of winged wise men who could take
charge of the universe. But Father Gonzaga, before becoming a
priest, had been a robust woodcutter. Standing by the wire, he
reviewed his catechism in an instant and asked them to open the
door so that he could take a close look at that pitiful man who
looked more like a huge decrepit hen among the fascinated
chickens. He was lying in the corner drying his open wings in
the sunlight among the fruit peels and breakfast leftovers that
the early risers had thrown him. Alien to the impertinences of
the world, he only lifted his antiquarian eyes and murmured
something in his dialect when Father Gonzaga went into the
chicken coop and said good morning to him in Latin. The parish
priest had his first suspicion of an imposter when he saw that he
did not understand the language of God or know how to greet
His ministers. Then he noticed that seen close up he was much
too human: he had an unbearable smell of the outdoors, the back
side of his wings was strewn with parasites and his main
feathers had been mistreated by terrestrial winds, and nothing
about him measured up to the proud dignity of angels. Then he
came out of the chicken coop and in a brief sermon warned the
curious against the risks of being ingenuous. He reminded them
that the devil had the bad habit of making use of carnival tricks
in order to confuse the unwary. He argued that if wings were
not the essential element in determining the different between a
hawk and an airplane, they were even less so in the recognition
of angels. Nevertheless, he promised to write a letter to his
bishop so that the latter would write his primate so that the
latter would write to the Supreme Pontiff in order to get the
final verdict from the highest courts.
His prudence fell on sterile hearts. The news of the captive
angel spread with such rapidity that after a few hours the
courtyard had the bustle of a marketplace and they had to call in
troops with fixed bayonets to disperse the mob that was about to
4. knock the house down. Elisenda, her spine all twisted from
sweeping up so much marketplace trash, then got the idea of
fencing in the yard and charging five cents admission to see the
angel.
The curious came from far away. A traveling carnival arrived
with a flying acrobat who buzzed over the crowd several times,
but no one paid any attention to him because his wings were not
those of an angel but, rather, those of a sidereal bat. The most
unfortunate invalids on earth came in search of health: a poor
woman who since childhood has been counting her heartbeats
and had run out of numbers; a Portuguese man who couldn’t
sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him; a sleepwalker
who got up at night to undo the things he had done while awake;
and many others with less serious ailments. In the midst of that
shipwreck disorder that made the earth tremble, Pelayo and
Elisenda were happy with fatigue, for in less than a week they
had crammed their rooms with money and the line of pilgrims
waiting their turn to enter still reached beyond the horizon.
The angel was the only one who took no part in his own act. He
spent his time trying to get comfortable in his borrowed nest,
befuddled by the hellish heat of the oil lamps and sacramental
candles that had been placed along the wire. At first they tried
to make him eat some mothballs, which, according to the
wisdom of the wise neighbor woman, were the food prescribed
for angels. But he turned them down, just as he turned down the
papal lunches that the pentinents brought him, and they never
found out whether it was because he was an angel or because he
was an old man that in the end ate nothing but eggplant mush.
His only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience. Especially
during the first days, when the hens pecked at him, searching
for the stellar parasites that proliferated in his wings, and the
cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with,
and even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get
him to rise so they could see him standing. The only time they
5. succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with
an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so
many hours that they thought he was dead. He awoke with a
start, ranting in his hermetic language and with tears in his
eyes, and he flapped his wings a couple of times, which brought
on a whirlwind of chicken dung and lunar dust and a gale of
panic that did not seem to be of this world. Although many
thought that his reaction had not been one of rage but of pain,
from then on they were careful not to annoy him, because the
majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero
taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose.
Father Gonzaga held back the crowd’s frivolity with formulas of
maidservant inspiration while awaiting the arrival of a final
judgment on the nature of the captive. But the mail from Rome
showed no sense of urgency. They spent their time finding out
if the prisoner had a navel, if his dialect had any connection
with Aramaic, how many times he could fit on the head of a pin,
or whether he wasn’t just a Norwegian with wings. Those
meager letters might have come and gone until the end of time
if a providential event had not put and end to the priest’s
tribulations.
It so happened that during those days, among so many other
carnival attractions, there arrived in the town the traveling show
of the woman who had been changed into a spider for having
disobeyed her parents. The admission to see her was not only
less than the admission to see the angel, but people were
permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd
state and to examine her up and down so that no one would ever
doubt the truth of her horror. She was a frightful tarantula the
size of a ram and with the head of a sad maiden. What was most
heartrending, however, was not her outlandish shape but the
sincere affliction with which she recounted the details of her
misfortune. While still practically a child she had sneaked out
of her parents’ house to go to a dance, and while she was
6. coming back through the woods after having danced all night
without permission, a fearful thunderclap rent the sky in two
and through the crack came the lightning bolt of brimstone that
changed her into a spider. Her only nourishment came from the
meatballs that charitable souls chose to toss into her mouth. A
spectacle like that, full of so much human truth and with such a
fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a
haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals. Besides,
the few miracles attributed to the angel showed a certain mental
disorder, like the blind man who didn’t recover his sight but
grew three new teeth, or the paralytic who didn’t get to walk but
almost won the lottery, and the leper whose sores sprouted
sunflowers. Those consolation miracles, which were more like
mocking fun, had already ruined the angel’s reputation when the
woman who had been changed into a spider finally crushed him
completely. That was how Father Gonzaga was cured forever of
his insomnia and Pelayo’s courtyard went back to being as
empty as during the time it had rained for three days and crabs
walked through the bedrooms.
The owners of the house had no reason to lament. With the
money they saved they built a two-story mansion with balconies
and gardens and high netting so that crabs wouldn’t get in
during the winter, and with iron bars on the windows so that
angels wouldn’t get in. Pelayo also set up a rabbit warren close
to town and gave up his job as a bailiff for good, and Elisenda
bought some satin pumps with high heels and many dresses of
iridescent silk, the kind worn on Sunday by the most desirable
women in those times. The chicken coop was the only thing that
didn’t receive any attention. If they washed it down with creolin
and burned tears of myrrh inside it every so often, it was not in
homage to the angel but to drive away the dungheap stench that
still hung everywhere like a ghost and was turning the new
house into an old one. At first, when the child learned to walk,
they were careful that he not get too close to the chicken coop.
But then they began to lose their fears and got used to the smell,
7. and before they child got his second teeth he’d gone inside the
chicken coop to play, where the wires were falling apart. The
angel was no less standoffish with him than with the other
mortals, but he tolerated the most ingenious infamies with the
patience of a dog who had no illusions. They both came down
with the chicken pox at the same time. The doctor who took
care of the child couldn’t resist the temptation to listen to the
angel’s heart, and he found so much whistling in the heart and
so many sounds in his kidneys that it seemed impossible for him
to be alive. What surprised him most, however, was the logic of
his wings. They seemed so natural on that completely human
organism that he couldn’t understand why other men didn’t have
them too.
When the child began school it had been some time since the
sun and rain had caused the collapse of the chicken coop. The
angel went dragging himself about here and there like a stray
dying man. They would drive him out of the bedroom with a
broom and a moment later find him in the kitchen. He seemed to
be in so many places at the same time that they grew to think
that he’d be duplicated, that he was reproducing himself all
through the house, and the exasperated and unhinged Elisenda
shouted that it was awful living in that hell full of angels. He
could scarcely eat and his antiquarian eyes had also become so
foggy that he went about bumping into posts. All he had left
were the bare cannulae of his last feathers. Pelayo threw a
blanket over him and extended him the charity of letting him
sleep in the shed, and only then did they notice that he had a
temperature at night, and was delirious with the tongue twisters
of an old Norwegian. That was one of the few times they
became alarmed, for they thought he was going to die and not
even the wise neighbor woman had been able to tell them what
to do with dead angels.
And yet he not only survived his worst winter, but seemed
improved with the first sunny days. He remained motionless for
9. 13-2
Other Terms for Support Media
Alternative media
Below-the-line media
Nonmeasured media
Nontraditional media
13-3
Outdoor Advertising
of:
-of-home media
13-4
10. Alternative Out-of-Home Media
l advertising
pulling banners, skywriting, and blimps
advertisements and are mobile
e area and the mobile board
company’s fees
13-5
In-Store Media
-store ads
-store TV
11. 13-6
Transit Advertising
eople who are exposed to commercial
transportation facilities
2
13-7
Types of Transit Advertising
ds
public transport vehicles
taxis, trains, and subway and trolley cars
12. 13-8
Advantages of Outdoor Advertising
Wide coverage of local markets
Frequency and Geographic flexibility
Creativity
Ability to create awareness
Efficiency and effectiveness
Production capabilities
Timeliness
13-9
Disadvantages of Outdoor Advertising
Waste coverage
Limited message capabilities
Wearout
Cost
Measurement problems
Image problems
13. 13-10
Advantages and Disadvantages of
Transit Advertising
Advantages
• Exposure
• Frequency
• Cost
Disadvantages
• Reach
• Mood of the audience
13-11
Sources of Audience Measurement in
Out-of-Home Media
Competitive Media Reports
Simmons Market Research Bureau
Point of Purchase Advertising Institute
Outdoor Advertising Association of America
Traffic Audit Bureau
Scarborough
14. American Public Transportation Association
13-12
Promotional Products Marketing
following promotional products
3
13-13
Specialty Advertising
for:
16. 13-15
Measurement in Promotional Products
Marketing
ongoing audience measurement system
brand image
adding promotional products to integrated media
mix
13-16
Yellow Pages Advertising
directories
medium
17. or demand for products or services but provide the
location
13-17
Advantages and Disadvantages of
Movie Theater Advertising
Advantages
Disadvantages
18. 13-18
Branded Entertainment
nds marketing and entertainment through
television, film, music talent, and technology
another program
throughout the program content and/or script
4
13-19
Methods of Branded Entertainment
-visual content
to entertain users while advertising products
promote products
19. -supported video on demand (VOD)
13-20
Advantages and Disadvantages of
Branded Entertainment
Advantages
Disadvantages
22. Direct
Marketing
14-2
Factors that Led to the Growth of Direct
Marketing
Development and expansion of the Postal Service
Consumer credit cards
Changing structure of American society and the market
Technological advances
Changing values and lifestyles
More sophisticated marketing techniques
The industry’s improved image
14-3
Role of Direct Marketing in the IMC
Program
23. ide:
14-4
Direct-Marketing Objectives
To seek a behavioral response
To build an image
To maintain customer satisfaction
To inform and/or educate customers in an
attempt to lead to future actions
14-5
Direct-Marketing Approaches
-step approach: Medium is used directly to
obtain an order
-step approach: Uses more than one medium
- Screens potential buyers
- Generates the response
24. 14-6
Direct-Marketing Media
Direct Mail Catalogs E-mail
Broadcast
Media
TV Spots Infomercials
Home
Shopping
Print Media Telemarketing
2
14-7
Direct Mail
substantially on this medium
generated
25. - The Internet
14-8
Catalogs and E-mail
-
to-business customers
-mail: Electronic version of regular mail
direct mail
f junk mail
14-9
Broadcast media and TV spots
- Television and radio
-response advertising: Sales response for the
offered product is solicited, through the one- or two-
step approach
ports other forms of
26. advertising
-form programs, include direct-response
commercials seen on TV
14-10
Infomercial and Home Shopping
-
minute or 1-hour time slot
as a regular TV show
-free telephone
numbers and widespread use of credit cards
14-11
Print Media and Telemarketing
ect marketing
27. and for annoyance
14-12
Direct Selling
consumers’ homes
-to-person selling - Salesperson
visits the buyer’s location to sell frequently
purchased products
-to-person selling - Salesperson
visits the buyer’s location to sell infrequently
purchased products
- Salesperson offers products to groups
of people through parties and demonstrations
3
14-13
Sales Strategy (Methods Used to Generate Sales,
Reported as a 2012 of Sales Dollars)
28. 14-14
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Direct
Marketing
effectiveness of an ad based on the number of calls
generated
the dollar value associated with a long-term
relationship with a customer
14-15
Advantages and Disadvantages of
Direct Marketing
Advantages
• Selective reach
• Segmentation capabilities
• Frequency
29. • Testing
• Timing
• Personalization
• Costs
• Measures of effectiveness
Disadvantages
• Image factors
• Accuracy
• Content support
• Rising costs
• Do Not Contact lists
WEB EXERCISE 8
Support Media & Direct Marketing
Focus: Chapters 13 & 14
In this exercise you will learn more about a form of marketing
communications that has recently
30. become highly popular among advertisers; I’m referring to
Guerrilla Marketing. The following two
links will take you to a website that has an overview and some
examples of guerrilla marketing.
Please read both pages carefully.
1) http://weburbanist.com/2008/07/01/what-is-guerrilla-
marketing/
2) http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/19/different-types-of-
guerrilla-marketing/
When you are done reading and looking at the examples, answer
the following questions in the
submission area within this folder. Make sure you integrate
information from the website and the
chapter readings into your answers. Be thorough but concise.
1. What is Guerrilla Marketing and what type of media does it
use?
2. Why has Guerrilla Marketing been so successful that even big
companies are incorporating it in
their advertising efforts?
3. What kind of criticism has the use of Guerrilla Marketing
31. received?
4. The second article presents many forms of guerrilla
marketing, which one seems to be the most
effective and less risky? Which one seems to be the most
deceitful and potentially harmful to a
company’s image? Briefly explain why.
5. As a marketer, would you use Guerrilla Marketing for
communications objectives or sales
objectives? Briefly explain why.
I need 3 pages to make planning guide for Job offer negotiation.
I have attached the job offer scenario as pdf file and three
samples for how to do the planning guide.
In the samples you will see how points are organized. The
sample is talking about different scenario but you have to apply
the same concept and order of points. So the first page should
have list of facts that you observed in the Job Offer file. Then
you follow the same order in the samples.