CHAPTER 12

I saw her hold Earl Percy at the point With lustier maintenance than I did look for Of such an ungrown warrior.

--King Henry IV

As soon as Violet could leave her little boy without anxiety, the two sisters deposited Charles Layton at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, with hopes that a few years' training there would enable him to become Miss Martindale's little page, the grand object of his desires.

Their next and merriest excursion was to Percy's lodgings, where he had various Greek curiosities which he wished to show them; and Theodora consented to come with her brother and sister in a simple straightforward way that Violet admired.

His rooms were over a toy-shop in Piccadilly, in such a roar of sounds that the ladies exclaimed, and Arthur asked him how much he paid for noise.

'It is worth having,' said Percy; 'it is cheerful.'

'Do you think so?' exclaimed Violet. 'I think carriages, especially late at night, make a most dismal dreary sound.'

'They remind me of an essay of Miss Talbot's where she speaks of her companions hastening home from the feast of empty shells,' said Theodora.

'Ay! those are your West-end carriages,' said Percy; 'I will allow them a dreary dissatisfied sound. Now mine are honest, business-like market-waggons, or hearty tradesfolk coming home in cabs from treating their children to the play. There is sense in those! I go to sleep thinking what drops of various natures make up the roar of that great human cataract, and wake up dreaming of the Rhine falls. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what were the rooms over?
2. Where?
3. where did they leave Charles?
4. what did Percy want them to see?
5. who agreed to travel with their siblings?
6. where the rooms in a noisy area?
7. Does Percy like it that way?
8. how did he describe it?
9. did the rest like the noise?
10. who felt the sounds were scary?
11. what was Theodora reminded of?
12. Was Violet scared of the sounds the whole day?
13. How long would charles be at the asylum?
14. what would the schooling help him become?
15. What does Percy say about his sounds?
16. what does he wake up dreaming of?
17. what are the folk coming from?
18. and what do they come in?
19. what kind of carriage does Percy say make the scary sound?
Answer: 1. a toy-shop
2. Piccadilly
3. Deaf and Dumb Asylum
4. Greek curiosities
5. Violet
6. Yes.
7. Yes.
8. cheerful
9. No.
10. Violet
11. an essay of Miss Talbot's
12. Yes.
13. few years
14. Miss Martindale's little page
15. It is worth having
16. Rhine falls
17. treating their children to the play
18. cabs
19. West-end

When Gretchen Baxter gets home from work as a New York City book editor, she checks her Blackberry at the door. "I think we are attached to these devices in a way that is not always positive," says Baxter, who'd rather focus at home on her husband and 12-year-old daughter. "It's there and it beckons . That's human nature (but)...we kind of get crazy sometimes and we don't know where it should stop."

Americans are connected at unprecedented levels--93% now use cell phones or wireless devices; one third of those are "smart phones" that allow users to browse the web and check e-mails, among other things. The benefits are obvious: checking messages on the road, staying in touch with friends and family, efficiently using time once spent waiting around. The _ : often, we're effectively disconnecting from those in the same room.

That's why, despite all the technology that makes communicating easier than ever, 2010 was the year we stopped talking to one another. From texting at dinner to posting on Facebook from work or checking e-mails while on a date, the connectivity revolution is creating a lot of divided attention, not to mention social anxiety. Many analysts say it's time to step back and reassess .

"What we're going to see in the future is new opportunities for people to be plugged in and connected like never before," says Scott Campbell. "It can be a good thing, but I also see new ways the traditional social construction is getting somewhat torn apart."

Our days are filled with beeps and pings--many of which pull us away from tasks at hand or face-to-face conversations. We may feel that the distractions are too much, but we can't seem to stop posting, texting or surfing. "We're going through a period of adjustment and rebalancing, " says Sherry Turkle and she wants to remind people that technology can be turned off. "Our human purposes are to really have connections with people," she says. "We have to reclaim it. It's not going to take place by itself." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What percentage of Americans use wireless devices?
2. What are 1/3 of those?
3. What did we stop doing in 2010?
4. What social media site is mentioned?
5. What kind of anxiety is it causing?
6. What are we going to see more of in the future?
7. according to whom?
8. What does Sherry Turkle want to remind people to do?
9. What does she think human's purpose is?
10. Does she think it will happen all by itself?
11. What does Gretchen Baxter do when she gets home?
12. Where does she live?
13. Is she married?
14. Does she have children?
15. How old is her child?
Answer: 1. 93%
2. smart phones
3. we stopped talking to one another
4. Facebook
5. social anxiety
6. new opportunities for people to be plugged in and connected
7. Scott Campbell
8. she wants to remind people that technology can be turned off
9. to really have connections with people
10. no
11. she checks her Blackberry at the door
12. New York City
13. Yes
14. Yes
15. 12

"Reading makes a full man" (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things. Jane Austen(.) was one of the most well-known women writers of the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice<<>> written in 1779 was the most popular. Victor Hugo(.), born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the19th century. The talent in writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, theHunchback of Notre-Dame<>, was written in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe. Ernest Hemingway(.), an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who won a Nobel Prize?
2. When?
3. Why?
4. How many other authors were mentioned?
5. Who were they?
6. Where was Jane Austen from?
7. What did she write?
8. When?
9. Where was Hugo born?
10. Where?
11. What was he famous for?
12. What is that?
13. When did he pen it?
14. Was it successful?
15. Where was Hemingway from?
Answer:
1. Ernest Hemingway
2. 1954
3. mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
4. Three
5. ane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway
6. England
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. 1779
9. 1802
10. France
11. Hunchback of Notre-Dame
12. novel
13. 1831
14. Yes
15. American