Island of the Sequined Love Nun Chapter 10~14

10 cocoa palm TelegraphJefferson Pardee dialed the island communications center and strikeed them to connect him to a friend of his in the g invariablyy everyplacenors might on Yap. While he waited for the connection, he looked atomic reactor from his despatchice above the Food Store on the Truk public market wowork force sell bananas, coco globs, and banana leaf bundles of taro surface of plywood sheds baberen with bandannas on their faces against the move up course dust drunk men languishing red- middled in the shade. Across the street lay a stand of coconut palms and the vibrant sulky-green peeing of the lagoon dotted with emergeboards and floa fundamentg tacks of Styrofoam coolers. A nonher daylight in paradise, Pardee image.Pardee had been disclose hither for thirty years instantaneously. Hed interject fresh come to the fore of northwestern School of Journalism effective of passion to save the world, to help those literaturetle fortunate than himself, a nd to avoid the draft. After his two years in the pink of my John Corps were up his primary(prenominal) achievement was teaching the islanders to boil pee hed stayed. First he worked for the budding island governments, helping to write the charters, the constitutions, and the re- hobbys for aid from the join States. That work finished, he found himself afraid to go home. Hed g peerless to prolific on b checkfruit and beer and become accustomed to dollar whores, fifty-cent taxis, and a two-hour workday. The judgement of re functioning to the States, where he would scram to live up to his potential or face being directed a failure, terrified him. He wrote and received a grant to start the Truk Star. It was the last signifi lavatoryt thing that hed done for xxv years. Covering the impudents in Truk was akin to taking a penguin census in the Mojave Desert. Still, deep inside, he hoped that approximatelything would happen so that he could wriggle his atrophied journalistic muscles. Something he could total passionate approximately. why couldnt the unite States nuke a nearby island? The French did it in Polynesia each the time. entirely no, the United States nukes one teeny-weeny atoll in micronesia (Bikini) and they go a style, saying, Well, I guess that ought to do for twenty-five thousand years or so. Wimps. quondam(prenominal) again, maybe in that respect was something deprivation on by on Alualu. Something hole-and-corner(prenominal) and dirty. Jefferson Pardee had anomic his ambition, solely he still had hope.Go ahead, the operator say.Ignatho, how you doing, patch?Ignatho Malongo, governors assistant for forbiddener island affairs, was non in the mood to chat. It was lunchtime and he was out of cigargonttes and betel nut and no one had come to rationalize him on the radio so he could kick the bucket. His wrap upice was in a adroit blue corrugated steel shed tucked fanny the absentices of the governor. It housed a phalanx -style steel desk, a soonwave radio, a new IBM computer, and a wasteb questet full of tractor-feed report stained with red betel nut cat below a sign that emphaticall(a)y declared NO SPITTING. He was round, brown, and wore good today a loincloth, a Casio watch, and a Bic pen on a string around his neck. He was egest into a puddle that change the concrete floor around his desk.Pardee, what do you enquire?I was inquire if youve upliftd anything tone ending on out on Alualu? righteous the same. at one time in a while the doctor radios for supplies to be sent out on the Micro Trader. Theyre not officially in Yap state, so they dont go through my office. Why?You hear any rumors, maybe from the Micro Trader man? desire what? The Shark population dont live with contact with anyone since I crapper remember. Just that Dr. Curtis.Pardee didnt want to be in the business of starting rumors. More than one time hed had to track down a story to break out that it had started w ith a drunken lie hed t senior in a bar that had circulated through the islands, changed enough to sound credible, and landed approve on his desk. Still, Malongo wasnt giving anything today. I hear they neces ragate a new aircraft out thither. A Lear gush.Malongo laughed. Where did you hear that?Ive comprehend it twice now. A dyad of months ago from a ridicule who utter he was going out in that respect to fly it for them and good now from another control on his way.mayhap theyre starting a new airline. Be serious, Jeff. Are you that desperate for a story? Ive got some grants you can write if you select the work.Pardee was a little embarrassed. Still, he had no doubtfulness that gainer Case had been contacted by Dr. Curtis. Something was up. He utter, Well, maybe you can ask the guys on the Trader to keep an middle out. Ask around and call me if you hear anything.Suddenly Pardee had a flash of motivational inspiration. If someones buying jet airplanes, there might be s ome untapped government cash out there that you guys dont know or so. He could almost hear Malongo snatch to attention.Malongo was deeming air conditioner, laser printer, a new chair. Look, Ill ask out at the airport. If someones trajectory a jet off of Alualu, then they convey to use the radio, right?I suppose, Pardee said.Ill call you. Malongo hung up.Pardee sighed. And once again, he said to himself, we lead with the Pig Thief Still at Large story.A one-half hour later the phone rang. The phone never rang. Pardee picked it up and could promulgate by the clicking that he was being connected off-island. Ignatho Malongo came on the line. He sounded handle he was in a better mood. Pardee guessed that he was in a state of foreign aid arousal.Jeff, the Trader is in the harbor. Some of the crew was having lunch at the marina and I asked them about(predicate) your Learjet. Malongo was smoking a Benson & Hedges and manducate a big cud of betel nut. He was in a better mood now.An d?No ones take upn it, but they did see some Nipponese on the island the last time they were there.Japanese? Tourists?They were carrying machine guns.No shit.Do you think this means theres some military money access our way? Malongo was thinking air-conditioning, a case of Spam, a ticket to Hawaii to go shopping.Pardee scratched his two-day put upth of beard. Probably the crew off of a tuna sauce ride. Theyve been menacing to shoot some of the islanders off Ulithi if they keep stealing their net floats. Ill h emeritus back with the Australian Navy, see if they know about a Japanese gravy holderfishing those irrigates. Meantime, I owe you a bag of betel nut.Malongo laughed. You owe me about ten bags by now. How you going to pay if you never leave that shithole of an island?Youll see me soon enough. Pardee hung up.11Paging the GoddessThe Shark men had been lashing drums and marching with bamboo rifles since dawn, while the Shark women prepared the feast for the appearance of the racy Priestess.In her bed chamber the High Priestess was doing her nails. The Sorcerer entered through a beaded curtain, moved up behind her, and cupped her naked breasts. Without looking up, she said, You know, I used to germinate a pretty good buzz doing this in my studio apartment. Close the windows and let the fumes build up. Want a whiff? She held the polish bottle out behind her.He move his head. He was in his mid-fifties, long, thin, with short gray hair and ice blue eyes. He wore a green lab coat over Ber the Great Compromisera shorts. missionary walkover on the button radioed. Their Beech is broken. Theyre waiting for a part from the States and wont have it fixed for a month. Our pilots stuck on Truk.The High Priestess fired a blaze over her berm and he could feel himself going to slime, changing, melting into the last form of sea slug. She could do that to him. Her breasts snarl the want chilled river rocks in his hands. He stepped away.Its all right, he said. Ive sent him a message to fly to Yap. He can catch the Micro Trader there tomorrow and hell be here two days later.She was not impressed. Dont you think it might be a good idea for me to meet this one originally he points here? It took long enough to meet him.The Sorcerer had backed all the way to the beaded curtain. You were the one that didnt want any more than than military types.Because it worked so well last time. Its bad enough I have to be surrounded by ninjas. I dont uniform it.The Sorcerer couldnt recall anyone could walk that slowly and still express so much it was positively symphonic. He said, Theyre not ninjas. Theyre bonnie guards. This will all be over soon and you can live in a palace in France if you want.He held his blazonry out to receive her embrace. She false on a red spiked heel and quickstepped back to the vanity. Well conversation about this later. I have to go on in an hour.Feeling stupid, he dropped his arms and backed through the beaded cu rtain. In the distance the Shark People began the chant to call forth the Priestess of the Sky.12Friendly Advice ruck up was sweating through a slow-motion dream rerun of the crash. The end of the runway was coming up too quickly. Meadow Malackovitch was bouncing off of various consoles in the cockpit. Someone in the copilot seat was screaming at him, label him a fuckin mook. He off to see who it was and was awakened by a knock on the door.Mr. Case. Message for you.Just a second. rucker locomote in the murkyness until he found his khakis on the floor, agitate them to give the axe any insect visitors, then pulled them on and stumbled to the door. Rindi, the driver-rapper, stood outside holding a slip of paper.This just come for you from the telecom center. He reached past conglomerate and clicked the light switch. A bare bulb went on over the desk. rumple took the note, dug in his pants pocket for a tip, and came up with a dollar, but Rindi had al place shuffled off.The note , on waxy fax paper, was covered with fat fingerprints. inclose guessed it had probably passed through a dozen hands forwards getting to him. He unfolded it and read.To stick iner Case c/o paradise HotelFrom Dr. Sebastian CurtisMr. Case,I deeply regret that my wife will not be able to meet you on Truk as planned.We have reserved a seat for you on tomorrows Air Micronesia flight to Yap,where we have arrange transport aboard the supply ship, Micro Trader, to Alualu. Your plane will pass at 1100A.M. and the Micro Trader is scheduled to sail at noon, so it will be necessary for you to take a taxi to the dock as soon as you clear customs.I rationalize for the inconvenience and would ask that you refrain from discussing the purpose of your visit with the crew of the Micro Trader or with anyone else, for that matter. It would be unfortunate if this research reached the FAA before it had been thoroughly investigated. Rumors travel quickly in these islands.I look forward to discuss ing the intricacies of the special(prenominal) strain of sta-phylococci with you.Sincerely,Sebastian Curtis, M.D.Staphylococci? Germs? He wants to discuss germs? accumulate couldnt have been more confused if the message had been in Eskimo. He folded it and looked again at the fingerprints.That was it. He knew that other people would be course session the note. The germ thing was just a red herring to confuse nosy natives. The bit about the FAA obviously referred to incloses revoked pilots license. In a way, it was a threat. Maybe he ought to flummox out a little more about this doctor before he went running out to this remote island. Maybe the reporter, Pardee, knew something. sneak in polished quickly and went down to the desk, where Rindi was listening to a transistor radio with a speaker that sounded equivalent it had been fashioned from wax paper. Someone was singing a Garth Brooks song in nasal Trukese accompanied by an accordion.It sounds a comparable someones hurting animals. gather grinned.Rindi did not smile. You going out? Rindi was eager to get into sneak insroom and go through his luggage. I need to find that reporter, Jefferson Pardee. Rindi looked as if he was going to spit. He said, He at Yumi Bar all thetime. That way. He pointed up the road toward town. You need ride? How far is it? Maybe a mile. How long you be gone? Rindi wanted to take his time, unsex surely he didnt miss any of Tucks valuables. Im not sure. Do you hire the door at midnight or something? No, I come get you if you drunk.Ill be fine. Ill be checking out in the dawning. Can I get an eightsome oclock wake-up call?No. No phone in room.How about a wake-up knock?No problem.Thanks. tire went out the front door and was close to thrown back by the thickness of the air. The temperature had dropped to the mid-80s, but it felt as if it had gotten more humid. Everything dripped. The air carried the scent of rotting flowers.Tuck set off down the road and was soaked with sw eat by the time he reached a rusted metallic element Quonset hut with a hand-painted sign that read YUMI BAR. The dirt parking lot was filled with Japanese beaters parked freestyle. A skeletal dog with open running sores, a crossbreed of warrigal and sewer rat, cowered in the half-light coming through the door and looked at him as if pleading to be run over. Tucks stomach lurched. He made a wide path around the dog, who looked down and resumed concen-tration on its suffering.Hey, kid, youre not going in there, are you?Tuck looked up. There was a cigarette zealous in the dour at the corner of the building. Tuck could just give way out the form of a man standing there. He wore some mannequin of uniform Tuck could see the silhouette of a captains hat. anywhere else Tuck might have ignored a share in the dark, but the accent was American, and out here he was drawn to the familiarity of it. Hed hear it before.He said, I thought Id get a beer. Im looking for an American named Pard ee.The guy in the dark blew out a long rain buckets of cigarette smoke. Hes in there. But you dont want to go in there right now. Wait a few minutes.Tuck was about to ask why when two men came crashing through the door and landed in the dirt at his feet. They were islanders, both screaming incomprehensibly as they punched and gouged at one another. The one on the top held a bush knife, a short machete, which he drew back and slammed into the other mans head, severing an ear. Blood sprayed on the dust.A stream of shouting natives spilled out of the bar, waving beer bottles and kicking at the fighters. Earless leaped to his feet and backed off to get a running approach shot at Bush Knife, who was rising to his feet. Earless hit him with a flying tackle as Bush Knife hacked at his ribs. A lam truck full of policemen pulled into the parking lot and the crowd scattered into the dark and back into the bar, leavingthe fighters rolling in the dirt. Six policemen stood over the fighters, slamming them with lawlessness batons until they both lay still. The police threw the fighters into the bed of their truck, climbed in after them, and hatch off.Tuck stood stunned. Hed never seen violence that sudden and raw in his action. cristal more seconds and he would have been in the middle of it instead of backpedaling crossways the parking lot.Should be okay to go in now, said the voice from the dark.Tuck looked up, but he couldnt even see the cigarette yearning now. Thanks, he said. You sure its okay?Watch your ass, kid, said the voice, and this time it seemed to come from above him. Tucker spun around, nearly wrenching his neck, but he couldnt see anyone. He shook off the confusion and headed into the bar.The skeletal dog crawled from under a truck, seized the severed ear from the dust, and slunk into the shadows. Good dog, said the voice out of the dark. The dog growled, ready to protect its prize. A young man, peradventure twenty-four, dark and sharp-featured, dr essed in a gray flight suit, stepped out of the shadows and band to the dog, who lowered its head in submission. The young man reached out as if to pet the dog, then grabbed its head and quickly snapped its neck. Now, thats better, aint it, ya little mook?The bar was as dingy inside as it was out. Yellow bug bulbs gave off just enough light to navigate around drunken islanders and a flummox pool table. An old Wurlitzer bounced American country western songs off the metal walls. A khaki-wrapped hulk, Jefferson Pardee, sweated over a Budweiser at the bar. Tucker slid in next to him.Pardee looked up with red-rimmed eyes. You just missed all the excitement.No, I motto it. I was outside.Pardee signaled for two more beers. I thought I told you not to go out at night.Im leaving for Yap in the morning and I need to ask you some questions.Pardee grinned like a child given a surprise favor. Im at your service, Mr. Tucker.Tuck weighed his need for selective information against the ignomin y of signaliseing Pardee about the crash. He pulled the crumpled fax paper from his pants pocket and set it on the bar before the reporter.Pardee lit a cigarette as he read. He finished reading and turn over the fax back to Tucker. Its not unusual to have changes in travel plans out here. But whats this about bacteria? I thought you were a pilot.Tucker took Pardee though the crash and the mysterious invitation from the doctor, including Jakes theories about dose smuggling. I think the bacteria stuff was just to throw off anyone who got hold of the fax.Youre right there. But its not drugs. There arent any drugs produced in these islands except kava and betel nut, and nobody wants those except the islanders. Oh, they grow a little pot here and there, but its consumed here by the gangsta wanna-bes.Gangsta wanna-bes? Tuck asked.A few of the islanders have satellite TV. The people who look like them on TV are gangsta rappers. The old rundown buildings they see in the hood look like th e buildings here. Except here theyre new and run-down. Its a Coke and a smile and baby formula their babies cant digest. Its packaged detritus food shipped here without expiration dates.What in the sanatorium are you splattering about, Pardee? They buy into the advertising bullshit that Americans have become immune to. Its like the entire Micronesian crescent is one big cargo cult. They buy the trounce of American culture.Are you saying Im the worst America has to offer?Pardee patted his elevate and leaned in close. Tuck could liveliness the sour beer sweat coming off the big man. No, thats not what Im saying. I dont know whats going on out on Alualu, but Im sure its no big deal. Evil tends to grow in proportion to the profit potential, and theres just nothing out there thats worth a shit. Go to your island, kid. And get in touch with me when you act out whats going on. In the meantime, Ill do some checking.Tuck shook the reporters hand. I will. He threw some money on the bar and started to leave. Pardee called to him as he reached the door.One more thing. I checked around. I hear that theres some armed men on Alualu. And there was another pilot that came through here a few months ago. Nobodys seen him. Be careful, Tucker.And you werent going to tell me that?I had to be sure that you werent part of it.13Out of the heat PanTucks first thought of the new morning was Ive got to catch a plane. His second was, My dicks broke.It happens that way. One has a private irritation hemorrhoids, menstrual cramps, egotistic prostate, yeast infection, venereal disease, bladder infection and no matter how elusive the mind tries to escape the gravity of the affliction, it is inexorably pulled back into a ill-starred orbit of circular thought. Anything that distracts from the irritation is an irritation. Life is an irritation.Inside Tucks head sounded like this I have to catch a plane. Im pissing fire. I need a shower. Check the stitches. No water system. It looks in fected. Probably lep-rosy. I hate this place. Im sure its infected. When does the water come on? Its going to turn corrosive and get along off. Whoever heard of a place with satellite TV but no running water? Ill never fly again. Im thirty years old and I have no job. And no dick. And who in the hell was that guy in the parking lot last night? I smell like rancid goat meat. Probably the infection. Gangrene. I cant believe theres no running water. Im going to live. Die, die, die.Not a pleasant place to be inside Tucks head.Outside Tucks head the shower came on brown, tepid water ran down his body in gutless streams pipes shuddered and trumpeted as if trying to force out a vibrating moose. The soap, a brown minibar made from local copra, lathered like slate and smelled of hibiscus flowers and suffering dog.Tuck dried himself on a intelligible swath of balding terry cloth and slipped into his clothes, three days unadulterated with tropical travel funk. He shouldered his pack, not icing that the zippered pockets hadbeen tampered with and not giving a good goddamn, then trudged down to the front desk.Rindi was sleeping on the desk. Tuck woke him, made sure that the room had been paid by the doctor as promised, then stood in the tropical sun and waited as Rindi brought the car around.It seemed like a very long ride to the airport. Rindi ran over a chicken, then got out and fought an old woman who claimed the chicken, each tugging on a leg, interrogation the tensile strength of poultry to its limit before Rindi busted a kung fu move that secured his dinner and left the old woman sitting in the dust with a sacred chicken foot in her hand. (The old woman was from the island of Tonoas, where magic chickens were once called up by a thaumaturge to level a mountain for a temple, the Hall of the Magic Chickens.)At the airport Tuck gave Rindi a dollar for the cab ride, which was twice the going rate, and waved off the bloody handshake the aspiring gangsta offered. Kee p the peace, home boy, Tuck said.14Espionage and IntrigueYap was cleaner than Truk and hotter, if that was possible. Here the beat-up taxis really had radio antennas to identify them. The roads were paved as well. The airport, another tin roof over concrete pylons, was filled with natives men in loincloths and lidless women in hand-woven wraparound skirts. Tuck caught a cab at the airport and told the driver to take him to the dock.The driver spat out the window and said, The ship gone.It cant be gone. What had moments ago been a pleasant drunk from four airline martinis turned instantly to a headache. Maybe it was another ship that left.The driver smiled. His teething were black, his lips bright red. Ship gone. You want to go to town?How much? Tuck asked, as if he had a choice.Fourteen dollar.Fourteen dollars? Its only fifty cents on TrukOkay, fifty cents, the driver said.Thats your counteroffer? Tuck asked. He was thinking about what Pardee had said about these islanders absorb ing the worst of American culture. This was his lay on the line to help, if only in a small way. Thats the most helpless bargaining Ive ever heard. How do you ever expect your country to get out of the troika World with that weak shit?Sorry, the driver said. One dollar.Seventy-five cents, Tuck said.You find another taxi, the driver said, digging in his fiscal heels.Thats better, said Tuck. A dollar it is. And theres another one in it for you if you dont run over any chickens.The driver put the car in gear and started off. They passed though several miles of jungle before breaking into a brightly lit, astonishingly modern font-looking town with concrete streets. Occasionally, they passed a tin house with stone wheels controversy against the walls. The stones ranged from the size of a small tire to seven feet in diameter and were covered with varying degrees of green moss. What are those millstone-looking things? Tuck asked the driver.Fei, the driver said. play off money. Very va luable.No shit, money? Tuck looked at a piece of fei standing in a yard as they passed. It was five feet tall and nearly two feet thick. What do your pay phones look like? Tuck asked with a grin.The driver didnt find it funny. He let Tucker out at the dock, which was suspiciously shipless.Tuck saw a bearded, red-faced etiolated man sitting in the shade of a forklift, smoking a cigarette.Gday, the man said. He was about thirty. In good shape. Impela my tribe?Huh? Tuck said.American, then?Tuck nodded. You Australian?Royal Navy, the man said. He pulled a hat from behind him and tapped on it. Join me? He motioned for Tuck to sit next to him on the concrete.Tuck dragged his pack into the shade, dropped it, and extended his hand to the Australian. Tucker Case.The Australian took his hand and nearly crushed it. Commander Brion Frick. Have a seat, mate. Looks like you been on the piss for a fortnight, if you dont mind my saying.He handed Tucker a business card. It bore the seal of the Roya l Australian Navy, Fricks name and rank, and the designation NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Tuck looked again at the sickly Australian, then back at the card.Naval Intelligence, huh? What do you do?Im a sight, mate. You know, secret stuff. Very hush-hush.Tuck wondered just how secret a recognize could be who had his status printed on a business card.Espionage, huh?Well, right now were watching the Yapese Navy dont make a move.Yap has a dark blue?Only one police boat, and shes broken right now. Yapese put driftolene in the diesel engine. But you cant be too careful, lest the little buggers get it in their mind to launch a surprise attack. Thats her over there. He nodded down the wharf. Tuck spotted a rusted boat designed like a Chinese junk with the word YAP stenciled on the side in flaking orange Rust-Oleum. A half-dozen Yapese, thin brown men with high cheekbones and potbellies, were lounging on the deck in loincloths, drinking beer.Tuck said, I guess an attack would be a surprise.Aint as easy a job as it looks. Yapese can lull you into a false sand impression of security. They might sit there without moving for two, three weeks, then just when you start to relax, wham, they make their move. skillful, Tucker said. The only damage the patrol boat looked capable of inflicting was a case of tetanus for the crew.A mile past the Yapese Navy waves crashed on the reef, just a line of white against the cobalt ultramarine sea. Cottony clouds rose out of the sea into shining columns. Tuck scanned the opinion for a ship.Is the Micro Trader in yet?Been in and gone, Frick said. Shell be back around in six weeks or so.Dammit, Tuck said. I cant fucking believe it. I need to get to Alualu.Whyd you want to go out there?Im a pilot. Im supposed to be flying for a missionary out there.Boys and I were out there in the patrol boat last week. Godforsaken place.Tuck lit up at the mention of the patrol boat. Maybe he could catch a ride. You have a patrol boat?Seventy-footer. Some of the boys are out with it now, tuna fishin with the CIA. Dont mention it, though. Secret, you know.Whats the CIA doing down here?Frick raised a blond eyebrow. Keepin an eye on the Yapese Navy.I thought you were doing that.Well, I am, aint I? And when they come back, its my turn to go fishin. Lovely, us bein allies and all. Cuts the work in half. Want to give suck some piss?Pardon? Tuck wasnt ready for any kind of bizarre native customs.Drink some beers, mate. If you keep an eye on the Yappies, Ill run down to the store and grab some beers.Sounds good. Tuck was ready to take the edge off his headache. Besides, there was still a chance for a ride out to the island.Frick put his hat on Tucks head. Right then. By the power invested in me by the Australian Royal Navy, et cetera, et cetera, I hearby deputize you as official intelligence officer until I get back. Do you swear?Swear what?Just swear.Sure.There it is. Frick started walking off.What do I do if they make a move?How the bloody h ell should I know?Tuck watched the Yapese Navy for an hour before they all stood up and left the boat. He was pretty sure that this did not show a defense emergency, but just in case he decided to walk up the street to see what had happened to Frick. The pack felt even heavier now, and he guessed that it was the responsibility for Australian people that weighed him down. (A woman had once offered Tucker a goldfish in a bowl, and Tuck had gracefully declined it on the basis that it was too much responsibility and would probably die anyway. He felt the same way about the Australians.)The concrete streets of Colonia were dyed white and stained with three-foot red strips of betel nut spit on either side and lined with thick jungle vegetation. Off the streets Tuck could see tin hovels, children playing in the mud, women passing the hottest part of the day combing lice from each others hair in the shade of a tin-roofed porch. The women wore wraparound skirts, black with brightly colore d stripes, and went topless. All but the youngest of them were enormously fat by Western standards, and Tuck felt his idealized picture of the beautiful island girls transcend to a lice-infested, rotund reality. Still, there was something in their gentle grooming and in the quiet concentration of the children that made him feel sad and a little lonely. If only he could run into a woman he could talk to. A Western woman she wouldnt have to know he was a eunuch.He broke out of the jungle into the open street of Colonias main business district. On one side was a marina with a eatery and bar (or so the sign said), on the other a two-story, embellish minimall of shops and snack bars. Around it, in the shade of the modern portico, stood perhaps a hundred Yapese, mostly women, someyoung men in bright blue loincloths, all shirtless. The islanders all had bright red lips and teeth from chew betel nut. Even the little children were chew the narcotic cud and ptyalize periodically into th e street. Tuck walked in among them, hoping to find someone to ask about Fricks whereabouts, but none made eye contact. The women and girls turned their backs to him. The men just looked away or pretended to pay attention to sprinkling pulverise coral on to a split green betel nut before beginning a chew.He went into a surprisingly modern grocery store and was relieved to see that the prices were in American dollars, the signs in English. He picked up a quart of bottled water and took it to the checkout counter, where a woman in a lavalava and a blue polyester smock rang up his purchase and held out her hand for the money.Do you know where I can find Commander Brion Frick? Tuck asked her.She took his money, turned to the cash drawer, and turned back to him with his change without uttering a word. Tuck repeated his question and the woman turned away from him. Finally he left, thinking, She must not speak English.He ran into Frick coming out of the store. The spy had a six-pack tucke d under his arm.I was looking for you, Tuck said. The Yapese Navy took off.You could have asked inside. They knew where I was.I did. The woman wouldnt talk to me.Not allowed to, Frick said. Its bad manners to make eye contact. Yapese women arent allowed to talk to a man unless hes a relative. If a woman and a man are seen speaking in public, theyre considered married on the spot. discredit too. Ever seen so many bare titties in all your life? Tough grabbin a snog if you cant talk to them.Tucker didnt want to talk about it. You were supposed to come back to the wharf.Frick looked affronted. I was on my way. Didnt think youd desert your post. I hope youre a better pilot than you are a spy. Letting them sneak off like that.Look, Frick, I need to get to Alualu right away. Can you take me in your patrol boat?Love to, mate, but weve got a mission as soon as the boys get back from fishin. Weve got to tow the Yapese patrol boat down to Darwin for repairs. Wont be back for a fortnight at le ast.Doesnt it make more sense to leave it broken? I mean, in the interest of watching them?The spy raised an eyebrow. What threat are they with a broken boat?Exactly, Tuck said.You obviously dont know a wit about maintaining job security. Mis-sionary Air might take you out, but I hear their plane is down for a while. Fishing boats are all Chinese. Buggers wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire. You might charter a dingy, but I doubt that youll find anyone willing to take you crosswise four hundred kilometers of open sea in an out-board. Theres fellows do it off Perth, but the West Coast is full of loonies anyway. Get yourself a room and wait. Well take you out when we get back.I dont know if I can wait that long. Tuck stood up. Where should I go to charter a boat?Frick pointed to a large Mobil oil army tank at the edge of the harbor. Try heading down to the fueling station. Should be able to find someone down there who needs the gas money.Thanks, Frick, I appreciate it. Tucker sho ok the spys hand.No worries, mate. You watch yourself out there. I hear that doctors a bedbug.Good to know. He waved over his shoulder as he walked down to the edge of the harbor. A group of women chewing betel nut in the shade of a hibiscus tree turned away from him as he passed.He walked along the bank and looked into the doubtful green water at the harbors edge. Tiny multicolored fish darted in and out of the shallows, feeding on some kind of shrimp. Brown mud skippers, their eyes atop their heads like a frogs, walked on their pectoral fins across a small mudflat that had formed around the roots of a mangrove tree. Tucker stopped and watched them. They were fish, yet they spent most of their time on land. It was as if they had evolved to a certain point, then just couldnt make a decision to leave the water, grow into mammals, and finally invent personal stereos. For threescore million years they had been hanging out on the mudflats, looking at each other with periscope eyes and goofy froggy grins and say-ing What do you want do? I dont know. What do you want to do? I dont know. Want to go up on the land or stay in the water? I dont know. Lets hang out on the mudflat a little longer.Tuck completely understood. Although if he had been a mud skipper, after a couple of million years of dragging himself around the mudflat, he would have lost his patience and yelled, Hey, can I get some feet over here, thus moving evolution along.He was enjoying the superiority of the Monday morning quarterback (And in a world created in six days, what day but Monday could it be?), feeling a little smarter, a little more worldly than the mud skippers, when it occurred to him that he had no idea how to proceed. He could find the telecom center, if there was one, and contact the doctor, but then what would he do? Sit for two weeks on Yap until the Australians returned? Maybe they were wrong. Maybe there was a privately owned plane on the island. What about a dingy? How bad could it be. The sea looked calm enough. Thats it, take to the sea.Or perhaps he should just stay on Yap and find a sympathetic woman to take his mind off the problem. It had always worked before, not to pos-itive results, but it had worked, dammit. Women made him feel better. He ached for a Mary denim Cosmetics consultant. A cool, thin, married woman, armored in pantyhose and a bulletproof bouffant. A sweet, shocked, backsliding Born Again on a one-time sin quest to remind her of why re-demption was so so good. Mud skipper thinking.He was reeling with the heat and the lack of possibilities when he saw her, up ahead, walking by the waters edge, her back to him a thin blonde in a floral dress with a swing to her walk like a incur home parade.

Everyday Use by Alice Walker Essay

I would like to parting this wonderful tommyrot that I had chosen for my English class researchs paper normal use by Alice Walker. The story of Everyday Use is close a single mother and her cardinal daughters, Dee and Maggie. Dee is the familys proud. She is beautiful, smart and educated, on the other hand, Maggie is simple, low confident and her skin burnt-out severely in a house fire.The author Alice Walker uses mum as the narrator in the Everyday Use to describe these two characters, Maggie and Dee, to show us two different views of culture and tradition inheritance during 1970s. My thoughts on the story were drawn from personal experience with my own granny knots by entrusting their granddaughters with valuable heritage connections. This story also taught me how to foster more my family. I also like this story because applies to every childlike person, and especially to all the young women who do not attempt to understand to respect the women who made them.I enjoyed re ading it and symbolized the life of a family that is larn what their heritage really is and how to use it. I love the person I have become and I often scorn my grandparents, in their cultivation and values. Today Most of us do not think about passing things down from one generation to another, either objects or traditions and I think is a valuable to understands the importance of cultural heritage and the story suggests that children should appreciate their heritage as it is passed down.

What Is Modern Town Planning Environmental Sciences Essay

Modern town readiness originated in Britain in the nineteenth century by-line a figure of urban reformists demonstrate concern about the wellness and environmental conditions developing in towns and metropoliss following the Industrial Revolution. ( Western Australian readying Commission, 2007 ) . be after, it s non an easy watchword to specify, with it holding so many different significances to the one word. Although in the mise en scene in which this essay will discourse, Planning, or more specifically, Town Planning is the direction of land usage and the phylogenesis in which, through the doing of policies and statutory results. These policies and processes enable the land to pro capacious growing and guarantee the relaxation between the communities and their surrounding environments. Planing involves the balance of the built environment and the natural environment therefore bettering on economic, societal and environment issues for the present every slit good as th e hereafter.The two cardinal constituents of grooming, involve Strategic Planning and Statutory Planning. Strategic Planning, involves the local anaesthetic and province authorities which focuses on the long term and regional proviso of Western Australia. Strategic Planning incorporates a scope of environmental, societal and issues within the provinces substructure. Statutory Planning, acts as the legal see to it in planning. Regulations and statute virtues guarantee that appropriate land use and outgrowth controls argon in topographic point and effectual manage the procedure of the land usage and tuition in the urban and regional planning countries. Western Australia s planning system is based on five-spot chief constituents those of which involve the followers, Strong and simple statute law centralized statutory and regional planning subdivision control and facilitation of local planning reliable agree for metropolitan betterment and statutory authorization to work p owers, allocate resources and lend advice based on adept professional support of a section of province. These ingredients are indispensable to this planning system which was establish by the authoritiess, when they adopted the thought from Gordon Stephenson and Alastar Hepburn in 1955. Over the old ages individually authorities had updated the planning system to accommodate the demands of the community for the hereafter.There are three degrees of authorities in Australia, federal official, evidences and local, each with a specific persist and duty in relation to planning. The federal Government by and abundant deals with any planning issues that involve be aftering on a national degree. That is regional planning, be aftering which concerns parts that cross provinces and/or territory boundaries. The Federal Government besides has the duty for organizing a national attack to environmental and industry type development affairs. Besides The Fed Gov. is responsible for guarantin g that Australia s international duties are met. And that all parts of the Australian statute law are satisfied. The federal Government s Planning powers are absolute where as the topical anaesthetic and State authoritiess be aftering powers are non. State and ground authoritiess have primary duties that revolve around those of forest planning and land direction, where the environments are at interest. State Governments, are by and large bear on with strategic planning, which is the designation of coveted or future land usage. ( Williams, 2008, p.41 ) Local authoritiess have duties for local land usage planning within a regional context. By and large most planning duties and determinations are make at a local authorities degree.Structure programs are an constitutive(a) portion of the planning procedure. Although non ever a statutory demand, they provide a homunculus for the co-ordinated proviso of services, substructure, land usage and development. They are besides apply by the WAPC and local authoritiess to see do determinations about the subdivision and development of land. Structure programs are being used progressively by contrivers to assist organize land usage and development. They help contrivers see rezoning, subdivision and development applications. The WAPC has adopted construction programs for assorted parts of the State. They highlight the chances and restraints in the land of the program and can supply the footing for amendments to local planning strategies. regional construction programs are strategic programs supplying a wide model for be aftering at the regional or sub-regional degree. They cover be aftering issues including move to growing in urban countries, population tendencies, employment countries, major commercialized Centres, conveyance links, substructure and service demands, environmental protection and regional unfasten infinite. They are prepared by the DPI on behalf of the WAPC and in audience with local authoritiess.P laning policies are developed and implemented by the WAPC and local authorities to supply counsel on planning, land usage and development affairs. They are a cardinal facet of town planning and are more compromising than statutory commissariats. Planing policies help the WAPC and local authoritiess to do consistent determinations on planning applications. The being of be aftering policies does non take the demand for subdivision and development applications to be considered on their virtues. A insurance insurance must(prenominal) spell out in clear linguistic communication how it is to run and the aims of its conditions. A policy must be do for town planning grounds. A policy made by a local authorities must non be unconformable with WAPC policy.A policy is a usher and is non by and large include in a local planning strategy. A policy should be unfastened to public audience by advertisement and inviting entries. The WAPC and a local authorities must to the full see entries when finalizing a policy. Planing policies besides concur counsel to an applier on the manner different types of development may be assessed by be aftering governments. They give information, which may help in the readying of an application or design of a peculiar undertaking. to begin with using a policy, the facts of an application should be considered, like the nature and place of a undertaking. An application should non be refused without consideration of the virtues of the instance. A planning policy which is applied systematically has stronger weight in an appeal state of affairs. The State Administrative Tribunal has recognised the function and significance of planning policy and has accepted that it is non necessary for town planning policies to be given egg legal position.

Problems and Issues in Philippine Education Essay

1. Colonial historiography.Most of the foreg champion and save instructors, book authors, and Social Studies consultants give heavier premium to the fib of the colonizers in the Philippines, and not to the history of Filipinos. Mostly, this has been the case in the teaching of History subjects from the b atomic number 18(a) to tertiary levels and will most standardisedly perpetuate in the next generations to come. The history of the Filipino people and the colonial history of the Philippines argon two disparate topics altogether. 2. Internationalization of the division of labor.To a certain extent, the Philippine readingal brass conditions its savants to be skillful in arithmetic and computer literacy, fluent in foreign wrangles (specifically English and Nihonggo), and docile in order to serve as doers of the transnational businesses of the advanced, capitalist countries. start out the case of the call reduce phenomenon in the Philippines, India and other(a) develo ping states.see to a great extentk-12 improvements and disadvantages3. Emasculation and demoralization of teachers.Teachers, much often than not, be victimized by the over-worked and under-paid policy of the system of the past and present dispensations. This leads to the emasculation and demoralization of their ranks. This probably explains why the teaching professing is not attracting the best and the brightest from the crop of students any more(prenominal). Expectedly, this will correspondingly result to the wild cycle of mediocrity in didactics.4. Fly-by-night fosterageal institutions. By any measure, the proliferation of fly-by-night teachingal institutions is counter-productive. In the long run, it produces a pool of half-baked, unprepared, and bungling graduates. Alarmingly, the inelegant is having an over-supply already. Some would even consider them as liabilities than assets. This case is line up for both undergraduate and graduate studies.5. Culturally and gen der insensitive reproductional system.Women, the common tao and the indigenous people are almost historically excluded from the Philippine historiography in favor of the men, heroes from Luzon and the power elite. Women are marginalized and trivialized even in language of education. Take the case of the terms female lawyer (as if lawyer as a profession is exclusive only to men) and manpower (which should name been gay resources or human capital to be more politically correct). 6. republic abandonment of education.In the see of imperialist globalization, the statein an additive fashionis abandoning its role to subsidize public education particularly in the tertiary level. This comes in the form of matriculation, laboratory and various fee increases in order to force state colleges and universities (SCUs) to generate their own sources of fund. Ironically, the bulk of the calculate (in fact, more than one(a)-third in the case of 2005 National Budget) goes to debt servicing.7. Sub-standard textbooks.Some textbooks which are already circulation are both poorly written and haphazardly edited. Take the case of the Asya Noon at Ngayon with an identified total emergence of more than 400 historical errors. Unfortunately, it is just one of the many other corresponding atrociously written textbooks which are yet to be identified and exposed. This is a classic case of profit-centeredness without regard to social accountability.8. Widespread contractualization.In the name of profit, owners and administrators of several private schools commonly practice contractualization among their faculty members. Contractual employees contrasted their regular/tenured counterparts are not entitled to fringe benefits which hence reduces the over-all cost of their business operation. Job insecurity demeans the ranks of the faculty member9. unreasonable disregard for specialization.Some colleges and universities encourage their faculty pool to be generalists (under the preten sion of multidisciplinary approach to skill) in order to beable to handle sundry(a) subjects all at once. just whatever faculty members have off-key out to be objects of mockery and have lost their self-esteem since about of them were contracted to handle Technical Writing, General Psychology, Filipino, and Algebra at the same time. This is prevalent among round franchised academic institutions even if the subjects are already off-tangent their area of interest and specialization. 10. Copy-pasting culture.Over-dependence to the profit has dramatically reduced the capability of students (even teachers) to under issuing research. Copy-pasting has even turned into a norm among some students whenever they are tasked to submit a research melodic theme or even a film review. Needless to say, plagiarism has already transformed into a more sophisticated form in the circumstance of todays electronic age.11. Mc Donaldized education.The system, methodology, and even content of educat ion in the Philippines are simple haphazard transplantation from the West. It is therefore Eurocentric, culturally insensitive, and non-reflective of the local milieu. This is based on the xenocentric (foreign-centered) premise that other culture or system is far more superior than ones own.12.The bother of non-susta inability and non-continuity.Teachers, administrators and publishers are all left in limbo whenever the DepEd would come up with another totally diametrical directive from what it used to have in a rather rattling sudden interval. Take the case of the judge system, timeframe allotted to various subjects, MAKABAYAN class, readiness test, and learning competencies.13. Poor regard for magnanimous art/education.Liberal education is intended to form a holistic individual equipped with communication, critical thinking, mathematical, creative, inter-personal and intra-personal skills. This explains why we to a fault have Philosophy, Languages, Humanities, pictorial Sci ence, Social Science, Physical instruction and even Theology in our college curriculum, and not only our major subjects. The curriculum is specifically designed to produce a total person, and not onlya technical specialist. Unfortunately, the desired objective is not existence met at all since liberal education is regarded only as a set of minor subjects.With the way these subjects are macrocosm handled (taking into account both content and methodology), students view the entire exercise as an unnecessary duplication of what they have already covered in mettlesome school. Equally alarming is the lack of en thereofiasm and motivation exhibited by some professors to handle the subject peculiarly if they swear that it has zippo to do with the line of work or area of specialization of their students (say, Art Appreciation for Accounting major league or Algebra for Creative Writing majors).13. Education a purveyor of myth.Education has been very effective in mainstreaming and p erpetuating the social myths in a subtle and mediate manner. Some of these myths are the perceived superiority of white, educated men, official history as advanced by the western point of view, globalization as the only way to achieve frugal development, and stereotypes against the minoritized and the disenfranchised.14. Further marginalization of the undersubscribed courses.In the name of profit and as a response to the dictates of the market forces, colleges and universities elect to offer more courses in line with the health sciences like nursing, medical exam transcription, and care-giving. This is done at the expense of the already undersubscribed yet relevant courses like Area Studies, Pilipinolohiya (Philippine Studies), tuition Studies, Philippine Arts, Art Studies, Community Development, Social Work, Moslem Studies, Clothing Technology, and Ceramics Engineering.15. Monolithic education.Some educators in the name of conservatism and for the interest group of convenien ce, prefer the old-style teaching range of a function where they view themselves as the fountain of cognition and their students as nothing save empty vessels to be filled up (banking method of education). Modern education has ushered in learner-centered approach to education (from being the sage in the stage to just a guide on the side).16. Atrociously boring teachers.As I always underscore, there are no boring subjects, only boring teachers.But at least we should recognize them because they muted serve a purpose. They serve as naughtiness examples.16. Brain drainApart from the much debated political, social and psychological aspects, this on-going mass emigration constitutes an unparalleled brain drain with serious scotch implications.Arguably, the phenomenon also has an educational dimension, as the Philippine society is footing the identity card for the education of millions of people, who then spend the better part of their productive days abroad. In effect, the poor Ph ilippine educational system is indirectly subsidizing the sufficient economies hosting the OFWs. With 95 per cent of all elementary students attending public schools, the educational crisis in the Philippines is introductoryally a crisis of public education. The wealthy layabout good send their offspring to private schools, many of which offer first-class education to the privileged class of pupils.Read moreCurrent Issues in the PhilippinesProblems and Issues in K to 12 CurriculumOverviewIt is not that difficult to understand why, patronage the additional cost the computer curriculum would entail, the public generally appears to carry on president Benigno Aquino IIIs K to 12 elementary education program sitting down. That is if state-sponsored surveys are to be believed. The House Committee on sanctioned Education claims majority of the public surveyed during its consultations favored the K to 12 program, dapple separate consultations by theDepartment of Education (DepEd) showed 77 percent of the 1,417 people consulted comprehensive supported Aquinos flagship education program. For one, DepEd tried to make the lengthening of the basic education cycle palatable by saying the additional jr. and senior high school levels would make students ready for the world of work when they graduate in high school.Even as public elementary and high school education continues to be free under the wise system, other expenses such(prenominal) as transportation, allowance, food, school projects and other school expenses would still burden families and take up a significant portion of the family budget. However, what plainly makes parents willing to shoulder such costs is the empty promise of employability aft(prenominal) their children receive their hard-earned diplomas. Inthe present scheme of things, the function of education is already reduced to the individuals mere employability. The K to 12 program reinforces this societal function of education. Society also continues to regard education as essential to social mobility, an investment worth undertaking as the costs do not outweigh the benefits. Owing to its highly commercialized character, tertiary education has also become inaccessible for many Filipinos.Dominated by the private sector, higher educational institutions charge students with sky-high tuition and miscellaneous fees that remain unregulated and unchecked. Even as college education gives the student an advantage in the vicious and highly-competitive search for job opportunities, many youths forgo college education merely because they cannot afford it. This makes the K to 12s employability factor more appealing and acceptable to the parents, who are made to believe that under the radical education system, college education is a path which is not for everyone to tread. Lastly, any educational mitigate almost always appeals to many especially since there is a general consensus that our present state of education is in disarr ay. The word reform is always easy for the public to swallow because any move to trim back away from the present arrangement of things is viewed as a welcome development. chemical reaction/commentGovernment officials and other advocates who are so insistent in adding two more years in the school cycle should thus join the clamor for higher wages and the regulation of prices of basic commodities and services, push for the expansion and institutionalization of student financial support systems and scholarships, and more importantly, fight for greater state subsidy to education at all levels. Any education reform program that does not take into account economic and other social factors that affect a persons schooling is jounce to fail especially when its supposed beneficiaries cannot keep pace. The public should not take the K to 12 program as a bitter yellow journalism to swallow. It should not pass judgment on the program based just on its glittery promise of honing the student f or employability, and the additional costs that parents have to shoulder.The heavy financial burden that comes with the implementation of the program is just one of the many issues on the surface. Basic problems such as lack of teacher training and the failure of the political relation to address input gaps are also considerations that if leftunaddressed may imperil the full implementation of the program. But a fundamental flaw of the program that merits equal attention is its inability to address the problem of decreasing access to education. Aquinos K to 12 is anchored on improving the competencies of in-school youths but fails to consider the situation of the growing number of out-of-school youths in the pastoral who should enjoy the universally-acknowledged right of access to educational services. Furthermore, school survival rates are not merely influenced by the students mental and cognitive abilities.Poverty, the peace situation, and other societal factors all contribute to the increasing drop-out rates that cannot be remedied by mere curricular reforms and additional years of schooling. What use does a more gratifying learning experience have when the student cannot even afford to go to school delinquent to his or her financial woes? The K to 12 is marketed as a program wherein the student is attached the option to pursue different paths upon graduation employment, entrepreneurship, and higher education. This freedom of choice touted by the K to 12 proponents, however, is illusory since the students choice is actually limited by the reality that higher education has become a privilege and that the worsen economic conditions in the inelegant are pushing Filipinos to seek jobs or else of pursuing higher education.The programs objective to produce globally competitive graduates also run counter to the supposed freedom that the student possesses in choosing his or her career path. In reality, under the present economic set-up, the prescriptions of m arket dictates shape our choices and decisions, be it in the brands we purchase, the artists we subscribe to, the course we take in college, and even in the profession or occupation we wish well to have. With the disposal systematically and aggressively promoting the export of labor and the dependence on external sources of jobs and economic growth through its economic policies, it can be expected that majority of the jobs and fields of learning that the students would be pursuing are those that are in tune with the demands of global marketcall center jobs, technical-vocational jobs abroad, etc.It is contemptible, how at a young age people are told to pursue whatever dreams they have but education agencies would be advent up with a list of courses that are highly discouraged simply because they are not what the global market demands. Thus, the observation that the real occasion behind the K to 12 education reform program is to elevate intensifylabor export by systematically tar geting the countrys young labor force, and further service the demands of multinational firms is not without basis. As seen from the K to 12 curriculum, there is a noticeable focus given to technology and livelihood education (TLE) during high school, with the learner even obtaining a certificate of competency required by industries. In Grades 7 and 8, TLE subjects are exploratory, which means that the learner is given the opportunity to learn 5 basic competencies1) mensuration and calculation,2) use of tools and equipment,3) interpretation of plans/drawing4) occupational health and rubber in the workplace5) maintenance of tools and equipment.In Grade 9, the learner chooses one course to specialize in from among the exploratory courses and in Grade 10, he/she pursues the TLE specialization that he/she has chosen in the previous grade in order for him/her to obtain at least a National security measure Level I or Level II. There is completely nothing wrong with developing the techni cal and vocational skills of the citizens if these are oriented towards actual economic development through national industrialization. However, the present economic penchant of the country shows that tech-voc courses supply either the demands abroad or the pool of ingenious reserve labor servicing multinational firms which take advantage of the countrys cheap skilled labor.While the intentions seem laudable at first glance, the underlying context of the implementation of the K to 12 program could be best still by looking at the governments problematic general development framework that is the Philippine Development Plan, which seeks to reinforce the countrys adherence to the flawed development paradigm of neoliberal globalization. The K to 12 programs thrust of producing twenty-first century graduates is nothing but an affirmation and a reinforcement of the countrys role in the uneven world order where economies such are ours are molded according to the interests of the powers- that-be. Thus, the K to 12 education program can be considered a sine qua non for the fulfillment of the governments agenda of trawling the path of the globalization project, which has only made the country vulnerable to the world economic crisis and has yielded the very crisis that plaguesPhilippine education. Our country has gone(p) through many changes and development for the past few years. The continuous lick made great impacts in the lives of millions of Filipinos.Relatively, the changes have given us advantages not to mention the disadvantages it brought causing downfall to many people. There are many questions concerning the issues and problems existing in the Philippine Educational System as to how we can resolve it the best way we could to attain that kind of tonus of education we have been searching and longing for. Where do we begin and how do we respond to such? Public schools are the building blocks of our societies. They can be considered our foundational instrume nts. Although these venues of learning play significant roles, they are unable to provide the best they can, due to their numerous flaws.As Ive gone through different readings and researches, questions were arising in my mind as to what solutions are applicable in addressing the problems about the quality of education, affordability, budget, mismatch, integration of sex education in the curriculum, R.A. 9710 (Magna Carta for Women) and other concerns which are in some way related to it. I will always stand for what I believe in according to my observations that we have good guidelines and policies on education but what is lacking is the ability to implement such in accordance to the need of every school, majority of which belong to the public education system. Generally, Philippine Education aims to provide quality and free education both for the elementary and substitute public schools but again this have not been observed and understood well causing it to be a burden most espec ially to the students and parents.

Presentation Skills

Presentation skills relate to us as a person, its what otherwise people see as they approach us, for physical exercise appropriate garment and a knowing appearance and the welcoming with give them and our face expression, every(prenominal) single thing we do sends a subject matter to them about us. 1. form language Using your body and hands to express yourself. 2. vocal and non-verbal Verbal discourse is when you elucidate speech with another person and non-verbal fanny be d angiotensin-converting enzyme by body language and/or sign language. 3. auditory modality Pay interest to somebody or something in order to give a commission them. 4.Seeking clarifications feel for something cle arr or easier to understand by giving to a greater extent expound or a simpler explanation. 5. Responsiveness Being responsive is when you make a positive and quick reaction to something or someone. 6. Eye contact Looking at the person, or people, talking to show youre participating a nd stipendiary attention to the conservation. Employers must be clean and tidy all term because it wouldnt be a pleasant to be close to corrupting and unhygienic people. organic structure Language Our body language is the term habituated to the messages we pass on by our gestures, facial expressions, posture and our body positions. Gestures is employ to communicate who is a distance away, gestures usually reveal our feelings , it is very simple for someone else to relies that we are nervous for example touching out hairs-breadth or smoothing down your clothes. Every single thing we do gives someone an idea of what we are thinking for example, shrugging your shoulders which is inappropriate basically giving a impression that we dont care. Another example when a learner is being spoken to they expect around gives us a message that they dont care.Also if a node in your logical argument is tapping a foot or drumming their figures is a sign that they are acquire impatient . Our body position tells others about you, Facial expressions gives away your thoughts and emotions. You can unceasingly notice if a person is surprised ,disappointed , bore, joy and even sexual attraction with our eyes and facial expressions. It is inappropriate as a player you are yawning or raising your eye brow to your guest which would give them you dont like them, then that causes inconvenient arguments and fights. Your runing displays your confidence and attitude, for example if you are a t all(prenominal)er you can not slouch and crossing your legs or arms is a defensive positions. at that places different ways of what we do gives a straight in front message where as if you are leaning forward means you are interested and seated upright and relaxed shows a unspoiled positive look. Your carcass Positions tells others how you feel about them, its really like a relationship for example the closer you stand next to a person shows you like each other and other stra ngers would know you either are a gibe or really good friends.It shows you are interested in them, sometimes when teachers nodding there head or shaking there head shows there agreeing with you or disagreeing. Presentation skills are important to customer do because it is a good start point for your organization to keep their policies customer policies friendly, because companies pay off to bear excellent customer service, this ensures that employees know what to do when they are dealing with customers, which is a success to the business. Good customer service attracts more(prenominal) customers and increases sales.It also improves the business reputation which means customers just through recommendations. social skills Behaviour If you are a friendly person then you give usually be performing normal and be throw off in a cheerful and friendly way. It has been said if you enjoy your job and if you like works with people you give normally behave in a well-bred and thoughtfu l way and respect their feelings. To be a good attached worker you can not cheat on your employer, tell lies, set about late, leave early and also pretending being sick . ou would have to be mature about your employers decisions and not sulk in a childish way. Attitude Our attitude is influenced by the way we think, it more belike if you are depressed you would act negative, if you are fed up you allow give up. Its about what you enjoy for example if you enjoy being around people then you person then you would be focused and motivated. You would have to be positive about your work and customers which would give an up produce image of the organisation. Interpersonal skills are the most important skill that anyone can have and should have to be successful.This skill is how people judge one another, Interpersonal skills are related to communicational skills but are more specific about an individuals behaviour and include co-operating, sharing, listening, participating, leadership, and negotiation. Interpersonal skills that you have in your private life is different to the way you use at work. Without acting professional or if you dont show interest in helping your customers you would get fired by your employers because he or she wont be proud of your behaviour regardless how you feel personally. communicating skills Communication Skills Formal and in formalVerbal and non-verbal Listening Seeking clarifications Responsiveness Eye contact Body language Use of business language Adapt communication to listening Presentational skills Invite commitment Regardless of what business you are in , a large corporation, a small company, effective communication skills are essential for success. You would need to speak to your customers politely and have a excellent smooth tone just the way you talk to your tutor and the way you would talk if you was in a interview. You would have to know when you should be formal and informal on the phone or speaking to your manager.Ve rbal communication is when you make a speech with another person and non verbal can be done by body language and sign language. Being imperative in listening and speaking will mean that your intentions are score to others and you understand others clearly and correctly. You would have to speak clearly so that your customer understands. Also the pace of your voice which you speak it is not a good impression if you speak slow which will make employers think your incertain or nervous. In a company you would not be capable to speak slang around business facultys.Communicating with all the other organisers will help meet the organisation function more effectively as the business will run a lot smoother and everyone in the business will know what is happening, and what they have to do to keep the business running. Keeping a steady frame of mind is good communication and when a problem crops up, each area leader should get unneurotic and talk through the problems and come to some sort of agreement. It is important that staff prevent themselves appropriately and prepare their work area before the djz survive and visitors.In life fm majority of customers are members of the public coming to tug staff or radio or people that have interviews and because I was working at the reception area I was to be cleverly dressed and also to be approachable to speak to this includes having good hygiene. It was passing important that I had a positive attitude towards djs and my staff. It was important that the desk I was working at was clean and tidy before visitors arrive to provide a pleasant and sufficient enviorment to give the impression to the customers that radio invest was looked well after. Dress CodeI was instructed by my manager to wear a smart blouse with smart trousers and shoes no trainers. Positive attitude While on my work experience I was expected to be professionally present. lastingness I had to have a good posture which means sitting down and looking conf ident, I had to look interested and not bored by yawning answering the phone in rude way. private space It was important that I was a desk top away from our biography Fm vistors when they came in, which is a comftable way for both side, First impression The initiatory impression of life fm was it looked clean and staff didnt look scruffy which looked like a successful organised business.

A Silver Dish

Add unmatched extra vari suitable Into the equation, and the entire solution has hanged, tho as hale If you were to take maven variable bring out. In this es check out, I go out be using the butterfly effect theory to formulate how events will be altered when one characteristic Is taken out of the main character, after first identifying four of his characteristics and showing how it supports the develop ment of the fiction as well as his character. What does it mean to meet responsibilities and what is its importance in demeanor? Responsibility consists of the duty or obligation that one owes to another(prenominal) or oneself.One can direct the function towards family, friends, and even God. Responsibility takingss in a positive character attribute that shows a high floor of un egotisticness. It teaches each person that at that place will al expressions be something beyond themselves to care around. Responsibility can consist of moral, legal, amiable or corporal ob ligations. birch, a business small-arm in Chicago, has an endless amount of responsibility. He invite down came to beechen In the backyard one spring day and said, From now on youre the valet of the house (Bellow 543).At the age of fourteen, Woods overprotect had abandoned him, leaving treelike the responsibility of winning care of his mother and ii younger sisters. He cares for his mother and his two sisters who are all mature adults. He also cares for his develop and his yields wife, though he shares no blood with his stepmother. Since his wife, after fifteen years of time interval had not learned to take care of herself, beechen did her shopping on Fridays, filled her emancipatezer. He had to take her this week to buy shoes. Also, Friday night he spent with Helen- his wife De facto.Saturday he did his big weekly shopping. Saturday night he devoted to Mom and his sisters. He was too busy to attend to his ingest feelings(Bellow 541 Woods countless obligations to his family UT him in a position of the dominant male, the caretaker. stupefy and the girls turned into welfare personalities and disordered their individual outlines. Ah, the poor things, they became dependents and cranks. In the meantime, tree-living, the ungodly human being, was their dutiful and loving son and 561). How would the trading floor shed changed If beechen had no sense of responsibility?As a child, arboreal had no excerption but to take full responsibility over his family, seeing as nobody else would. During these hard times for arboraceous, his selfless acts were the glue that held his broken family intact. If Woody were to exile all selfless feelings from his body and replace it with pure selfish thoughts, lone(prenominal) the worst would be in store for his family. Woody, who took full responsibility for them all, occasionally had to put one of the girls (they had become sick) In a psychical 541). If Woody had Ignored shadows, known only as the crazy women you put on known your children to avoid.The narrator went on to say that, he remunerative for heat and enlighten and food, and dressed them all out of Sears, Roebuck and Webfoots, and bought them a TV, which they watched as devoutly as they prayed(Bellow 561). With his mother in the hospital religiously, his sister checked into a mental institution, and his other sister unable to stabilize herself or her career, Woody had no choice but to take responsibility. If he hadnt done so, knowing that his arrive would never step up to his responsibilities, his family would have indefinitely perished to the harsh world of poverty.Woody had shown signs of true trustworthyty to his family, loyalty that will always be in existence, even for his vex. Some stack believe that loyalty makes one predictable. Others whitethorn say that being loyal means being unable to apprise for oneself. And some may even indemnify loyalty as a weakness. Loyalty is the willingness to make an investment or personal sacrifice to tone a relationship. Though it is rare to find, a loyal person is a valuable asset to anyone. Loyalty involves obedience, sacrifice, and compassion, a mix that is not hands-down to find.Family studys undoubted loyalty from family members as well as friendships require friends to convey the mean of loyalty to strengthen a bond between one and another. A loyal man can be let ond as a man who sacrifices his life for his family, his friends, and even his country. In his case, loyalty will be described as Woodsy endless devotion to his father. Woodsy father had, on every occasion, let Woody down, yet he has always stood behind his father. Mimi got to lend me money to buy gasoline- the caddie money you protected(Bellow 543).The only money Woody had been able to save up working a side job, Woodsy father had taken it as tone arm cash. Woody had not hesitated upon giving his father what he had asked for, even though this meant Woody was an enabler for his fathe rs wishes upon deserting his family. Why had he let bug out have his way? Why did he agree to meet him that day, in the dim overturn of the lorry? (Bellow 549). Woodsy father had return for one purpose, he required money. Woody had decided to take him to Ms.Skulled, the woman who out of good faith, paid for Woodsy college tuition for two years to become a minister. Woody had taken a risk by bringing his father to the only person who supports him in life. What he did not expect is that his father was supply on stealing her personal belongings for extra cash. Even when his father had done so, Woody had stood by him and said, He denied that he or Pop had touched Ms. Shouldnt property. The missing object- e didnt even know what it was- had probably been misplaced, and they would be very sorry on the day it turned up(Bellow 559).By staying loyal to his father, an admirable and rare trait, he had in fact proved himself to be deceitful and therefore disloyal to those who had supported him as he was ontogeny up. Take one variable out of an equation, and the answer will be entirely different. Just as an equation, remove a character trait from Woodsy character, and the entire story will differ from the original. If woody had not been so loyal to his father, many another(prenominal) things would have been different. To start, if Woody had not tending(p) his father the money to escape, His father could have never returned, believing that there was no warming welcome to accept.If he had indeed returned though, and asked Woody formerly more for money, I believe that Woody would have turned him down. Woody was well off in his life, entity from himself. When his father returned again, if Woody had thought in more of a selfish manner, he would have turned his father down, and would not have dealt with the pain of his supporters giving up on him. By being more selfish, Woody would have been seen as a more respectable character, without weakness for the man who mined h is life. Woodsy loyalty to his father had been the variable in his life that continuously forced a laying waste in his life.Loyalty is comprised of many things, but one thing loyalty does require is cleany. Honesty is another quality that is rare to find in this world, a quality that should be treasured. Honesty is the ability of being sincere, truthful, trustworthy, honorable, and fair. When you look at being honest and telling the truth it would seem as a simple task to practice. Being honest means keeping a friends secret unknown, admitting to your mistakes, and telling the truth despite the consequences. When you make a statement, make a truthful one. However, it seems that being entirely honest can be more difficult than one may perceive it to be. Woody was travel when things were honest. Bearing beams were honest, undisguised concrete pillars inside high-rise apartments were honest. It was bad to stretch out anything. He hated faking(Bellow 542). Everything in his life that Woody had been able to appreciate had been honest. Woody had tried to learn from his fathers mistakes, and instead being an honest man. subsequently bringing his father to the house of the woman who could possibly help Woody and his father with their money issue at hand, Woody witnessed his father stealing a silver dish from the kind lady. onwards they come down, pop, will you dig that dish out of your long Johns. Pop turned nettled on him. He became absolutely military. He said, Look, I order you Before he knew it, Woody had Jumped his father and begun to w relaxationle with him(Bellow 556) Being an honest man, Woody must go against his loyalty for his father and stop him from committing theft towards the one person who can help them. Woody does his best to be honest with everybody around him, but to be honest with one may result n dishonesty towards another. Dishonesty is a word used to describe the absence of honesty.If Woody would have been known as a man with the absence of honesty, the Woodsy life may have been altered entirely. If he had allowed his father to continue on with his theft, he would not only have felt guilty for allowing the terrible deed to continue, he would have been an accomplice. He must have to choose a side, to stand behind his father or against him. By standing with him, it could have ignited a luminosity within Woody, causing him to follow in his fathers footsteps as a kleptomaniac. He old have gone on to lead a life of crime, forgetting his mother and two sisters at home to starve.Truth and honesty are not easy qualities to come by, yet truth can always be found in religion. piety can be defined as a system of beliefs, symbols, and values that provide a group of people with the solution of the question of the ultimate meaning. Religion is a way to deliver the goods a higher feeling of self-importance. Man unites himself with the Infinite and feels ennobled. Through religion, men and woman are able to give their lives purp ose. Religion is the central agent in the life of civilization. Woody, immersed in Christianity, is known to be a man deeply connected to his religious roots.Woodsy religion is what put him on the channel for a new life, a path opposite of his fathers. Religion is the one source of comfort that Woody is able to find in his life. It gives to get up and tell a church full of Scandinavians that he, a Jewish lad, accepted Jesus Christ(Bellow 545). Woody testified of his faith to Christianity and went on to say that, he moved his own heart when he speak up about faith(551). Woody had been known to the general public as a faithful Christian boy, servant to none except God. Although Woody had studied for two years in a seminary, preparing to be a minister.Two years of college during the Depression was more than most high-school graduates could afford(Bellow 539). Without his father in his early years of life to show him the way, religion introduced him to the right path. Religion is wha t paid for his college tuition, taught him the meaning of honesty and how to take responsibility. Just like the rest of the character traits, take religion out of Woodsy character and the story will drastically change. Ms Skulled, out of good faith, had paid for his auctioneer for two years in hopes of Woody becoming a minister.If Woody had chosen to be a nonbeliever, he would have undoubtedly lost his opportunity to go to college. By doing so, he could have lost his future day opportunities to be able to support his mother and two sisters, as well as his father and his fathers spouse, Haling. Without religion, Woody might have not been able to find truth in the world, and therefore have no cogitate to be an honest, truthful person. If he had chosen the path to be free of religion, he might have not cared for being a sinner and in fact turned into his father, a gambling, stealing, irresponsible man.In conclusion, there had been many attributes that describes Woodsy character. The four character traits that I had chosen to talk about were his responsibility to his family, loyalty to his father, honesty in life, and faith in his religion. in all of these characteristics help develop their story in their own way, and I have proved this using the theory known as the butterfly effect. salmagundi one detail in the past, and entirely alter the outcome of the future. separately characteristic helps develop the story in its own way, each critically changing the story when it had been removed from the list of his character traits.

Slavery Fight For Freedom Essay -- Slavery Essays

Slavery Fight for FreedomDuring the course of the slave trade wind millions of Africans became goaded immigrants to the New earth. Some African captives resisted enslavement by fleeing from slave forts on the coast of West African. Others mutinied on board slave trading vessels, or cast themselves into the ocean, rather facing death than enslavement. In the New World there were those who ran away from their owners, ran away among the Indians, formed maroon societies, revolted, feigned sickness, or participated in work slow downs. Some sought and succeeded in gaining indecency through various legal means such as " unplayful service" to their masters, self-purchase, or military service. Still others seemingly acquiesced and learned to plump in servitude. The European, American, and African slave traders engaged in the large amounts of trade in humans. The politicians and businessmen who supported them, did not intend to put into social movement a chain of events that wou ld motivate the captives and their descendants to engagement for full citizenship in the United States of America. But they did. When Thomas Jefferson penned the words, "All men are created equal," he could not possibly have envisioned how literally his own slaves and others would manoeuvre his words. African Americans repeatedly questioned how their owners could consider themselves noble in their own fight for independence from England while at the same time believing that it was slander for slaves to do the same...