Q: CHAPTER XXXVII

THE END OF A BOYHOOD

Convinced of his own worthlessness, Tommy was sufficiently humble now, but Aaron Latta, nevertheless, marched to the square on the following market day and came back with the boy's sentence, Elspeth being happily absent.

"I say nothing about the disgrace you have brought on this house," the warper began without emotion, "for it has been a shamed house since afore you were born, and it's a small offence to skail on a clarty floor. But now I've done more for you than I promised Jean Myles to do, and you had your pick atween college and the herding, and the herding you've chosen twice. I call you no names, you ken best what you're fitted for, but I've seen the farmer of the Dubb of Prosen the day, and he was short-handed through the loss of Tod Lindertis, so you're fee'd to him. Dinna think you get Tod's place, it'll be years afore you rise to that, but it's right and proper that as he steps up, you should step down."

"The Dubb of Prosen!" cried Tommy in dismay. "It's fifteen miles frae here."

"It's a' that."

"But--but--but Elspeth and me never thought of my being so far away that she couldna see me. We thought of a farmer near Thrums."

"The farther you're frae her the better," said Aaron, uneasily, yet honestly believing what he said.

"It'll kill her," Tommy cried fiercely. With only his own suffering to consider he would probably have nursed it into a play through which he stalked as the noble child of misfortune, but in his anxiety for Elspeth he could still forget himself. "Fine you ken she canna do without me," he screamed.

1. the warper
2. Aaron Latta,
3. Elspeth
4. no
5. yes
6. The Dubb of Prosen
7. help a farmer
8. no
9. Thurms
10. it's closer
11. yes
12. no

Numbered questions:
1. Who is playing a parent like role for Tommy?
2. What is the name of the warper?
3. Who does Tommy seem fond of?
4. Does it seem that Tommy has been behaving well in the time shortly before this all takes place?
5. Will Tommy be likely to move soon?
6. Where to?
7. What will he do when there?
8. Does he want to move there?
9. Where would he rather go?
10. Why does he prefer the one place over the other?
11. Did Tommy have a choice of continuing his education more?
12. Did he decide to continue his schooling?

Q: Should Children Be Allowed to Get Bored? Children need time to stand and stare. They should be allowed to get bored to that they can develop their ability to be creative. Children are expected by their parents to be reading a textbook all the time. However, research shows that it may _ the development of their imagination, while boredom can give them opportunities to develop creativity. Boredom is often linked with loneliness, but a writer named Meera Syal said boredom had helped here in developing her mind. She told researchers about her childhood. Having few things todo, Syal often talked with her neighbors. She also tried to do things like learning to bake cakes. "But importantly, I Thought and wrote a lot, because I was bored," Syal said. She kept a diary, filling here time with short stories and poems she made up. Grayson Perry, an artist, grew up in a family with little money. He enjoyed himself by making up stories, drawing pictures for his stories and reading many books in the library. Bored but free, he spent hours looking out of the window, watching the changing clouds and seasons. Perry filled up his free time with what he liked. He became creative, because he could think freely. Dr. Belton is an expert on the effects of emotions on learning. "Boredom could be an uncomfortable feeling," she said. "But some young people cannot deal with that boredom creatively. So sometimes they may break a classroom window, or drive a car out for a mad race." Usually, when children have nothing to do, they would turn on the TV, the computer, or the phone. Their time on these things has increased, yet they need to have time to think about their experiences through play or just watching the world around them. It is this kind of thinking that can inspire the imagination. On the other hand, the TV or phone may cut short the thinking process. That can be harmful to the development of creativity. "For developing the ability to be creative," Dr. Belton advised, "perhaps we need to stand and stare, and stay off-line from time to time."

1. Should Children Be Allowed to Get Bored
2. they can develop their ability to be creative
3. a writer named Meera Syal
4. Yes
5. Syal often talked with her neighbors
6. learning to bake cakes
7. unknown
8. Yes
9. Grayson Perry
10. Perry filled up his free time with what he liked
11. He became creative
12. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. What is the point of the article?
2. What are the positive aspects of boredom?
3. Who says this?
4. Does she have personal experience?
5. What did she do when she was bored?
6. What else?
7. What should one do when they are bored?
8. Does anyone else share her beliefs?
9. Who?
10. What does he say?
11. What did that do for him?
12. Is boredom good for everyone?

Q: The German equivalent was used with the founding of the North German Confederation whose constitution granted legislative power over the protection of intellectual property (Schutz des geistigen Eigentums) to the confederation. When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention (1883) and the Berne Convention (1886) merged in 1893, they located in Berne, and also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

The term can be found used in an October 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling in the patent case Davoll et al. v. Brown., in which Justice Charles L. Woodbury wrote that "only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests are as much a man's own...as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears." The statement that "discoveries are...property" goes back earlier. Section 1 of the French law of 1791 stated, "All new discoveries are the property of the author; to assure the inventor the property and temporary enjoyment of his discovery, there shall be delivered to him a patent for five, ten or fifteen years." In Europe, French author A. Nion mentioned propriete intellectuelle in his Droits civils des auteurs, artistes et inventeurs, published in 1846.

1. legislative
2. protection of intellectual property
3. yes
4. Two
5. the Paris Convention
6. 1883
7. 1886
8. Berne
9. yes
10. the term intellectual property
11. no
12. Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling
13. Davoll et al. v. Brown.
14. Justice Charles L. Woodbury
15. 1845

Numbered questions:
1. What power was granted?
2. Power over what?
3. Were there conventions?
4. How many?
5. Which occured first?
6. In what year?
7. when did the second occur?
8. Where did the second occur?
9. was anything adopted during these conventions?
10. which was what?
11. was this term only used during this time?
12. where else was it used?
13. on what case?
14. Who ruled over the case?
15. What year did the case occur?