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The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara is a story of a naughty little girl and her gang of kids who were bundled up one summer day to go with Miss Moore to a toy store. Sylvia and her cousin Sugar are with Fat Butt, Rosie Giraffe, Mercedes, Q. T. , Junebug and Flyboy, not their real names but monikers given them by Sylvia. The names came from their most obvious trait, Fat Butt for his fondness for food, Mercedes for her ritzy tastes, Q. T. , is the youngest, and Rosie Giraffe is always ready to kick asses. One may guess Sugar is for her being the exact opposite of sourly Sylvia. Miss Moore wants to teach the kids about money, specifically, how much of it can buy what. Her objective really is to make them see how much they can not afford compared with what the rest of their fellow citizens can, half of which are whites. If there is one thing that can sure catch the interest of kids, it is a toy. So Miss Moore took them to an upscale toy store at Fifth Avenue, when all the toys the kids knew and had were from Pop’s. The tone of the story is sarcastic all throughout, from the first person point of view of Sylvia. Bambara’s style is effective in her portrayal of Sylvia, as a little Black, spoiled brat who has a vocabulary peppered with cuss words such as â€Å"sorry-ass, goddamn, boring-ass, dumb shit, smelly-ass, smart-ass, nappy-head bitch, scratching the shit out of me† and who believes that â€Å"white folks crazy. † She uses similes to introduce Miss Moore who is â€Å"black as hell† and whom â€Å"grownups †¦ talked behind her back like a dog. † With the story, Bambara takes the readers to pore into the psyche of a child born on the on the other side of the tracks. The reader would think that it is a gang member speaking instead of a precocious kid from the block when she says â€Å"she would much rather †¦ go to the Sunset and terrorize the West Indian kids and take their hair ribbons and their money too. † The story is told from the eyes of a child ultimately bored with how the adults attach so much importance to the mundane. Sylvia asks, â€Å"Watcha bring us here for, Miss Moore? † To which Miss Moore replies with, â€Å"You sound angry, Sylvia. Are you mad about something? † Bambara keeps the lightness in the treatment of the characters, who are all kids except for Miss Moore, by strong doses of humor. Big Butt wants to buy â€Å"that there. † Rosie Giraffe cuts him with â€Å"That there? You don’t even what it is, stupid. † When it is Rosie’s turn, she asks what a paperweight is. Flyboy answers with, â€Å"To weigh paper with, dumbbell. † There are moments when the kids sound pathetic. Miss Moore asks about their desks at home where they do their homework. Junebug says he does not have a desk, Big Butt says he does not do his homework and Flyboy says he does not have a home. The theme of the story is about issue of economic disparity, among all others, between the Whites and Blacks. It can be an emotional one when discussed seriously and earnestly. The Lesson successfully attempts to present the issue in a novel manner without taking the truth away and the need for it to be confronted. Bambara uses literary techniques to bring home the point to her readers and provide the insightful highlights of the story. For a $1,195. 00 toy sailboat, the kids’ reactions are as follow: (1) with Hyperbole, Sylvia thinks with â€Å"That much money it should last forever. † Q. T. figures that only the rich shop in the store that sells the sailboat. (2) with Litotes, Flyboy tells him â€Å"You are a bright boy †¦ What was your first clue? † Sylvia fancies a $35 clown that somersaults. (3) with Anaphora, Thirty-five dollars could buy new bunk beds for Junior and Gretchen’s boy. Thirty-five dollars and the whole household could visit Grand-daddy Nelson in the country. Thirty-five dollars would pay for the rent and the piano bill too. † These lines are significant because even the usually doubting Sylvia realizes what other important things $35 can buy, something to sleep on for two boys, the happiness of an old man, a roof on the family’s head with their entertainment thrown in. Miss Moore’s plan must be working alright. (4) with Hyphopora, â€Å"Imagine for a minute what kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a oy what it would cost to feed a family of six or seven. What do you think? † Sugar verbalizes her disgust for the insensitivity of some. The girl has her values right when she is equates the toy with food for seven people. Buying the toy is the height of insensitivity. Aside from the last two quotes above, there are others that add to its meaningful dissection of the social issue of disparity. â€Å"What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain’t on it? Who we are is who we are. † These are the words of Miss Moore, typifying those who quest ion the inequality of things and yet accept the fact as it is. They do not even challenge the situation and right the wrong of it. â€Å"But it don’t necessarily have to be that way †¦ poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the pie. † These words are also from Miss Moore, speaking for those who believe that something can and must be done. It is like saying that nothing will change for as long as people do not know how to fight for what is by right theirs. â€Å"I think †¦ this is not much of a democracy if you ask me. Equal chance to pursue happiness means an equal crack at the dough †¦Ã¢â‚¬  This is entirely wrong. Democracy is not handed down, it is something one fights for. Equal chance and equal crack is not for free, one must earn the chance and as well as the crack. Works Cited Bambara, T. C. (1972). The Lesson. Retrieved February 5, 2009 from http://cal. ucdavis. edu/gender/thelesson. hmtl A Reader’s Response – A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor’s â€Å"A Good Man is Hard to Find† is a third person narrative that begins on a humorous mode and ends on a tragic note. The grandmother is a persistent old woman who gets her way, in one or the other. She has a bagful of antics to get her family, particularly her son to see things the way she sees them and get them to agree to her plans for everybody. She meets opposition from the two most impossible to convince people in the family, her two grandchildren. She threatens them every now and then with a â€Å"Just remember that the next time you want me to curl your hair. † She almost always gets what she wants, but not always including this particular trip to Florida. She wants to go to Tennessee instead to see old friends. Her spin about an escapee from the penitentiary roaming the highways of Florida is not working on her son Bailey. Nonetheless, on D-day she is the first to board the car. While on the way, she remembers a particular old house she remembers from childhood that she says would be nice to see again. Bailey is hearing none of it. She consciously lie about some secret room where the family silver is, â€Å"not telling the truth but wishing she were† to get much needed support from the oppositionists, her grand kids. This time she wins and they were heading to this place through a 36-mile dirt road. It suddenly dawns on her that they are a state away from the house, which is in Tennessee and not in Georgia. The much feared escapee from the Penitentiary comes along with his two other companions. This is the turning point of the story. O’Connor makes the characters so real in the way she portrays the grandmother and June Star. Grandmother dances to the music of Tennessee Waltz while Bailey stares fiercely at her. The irreverent June Star thinks her grandmother does not want to be left out in trips because she does not want to miss anything, that she does not want to live in a â€Å"broken-down place† like that of Red Sam and after the accident, she says that â€Å"nobody’s killed† with a tinge of disappointment when she sees her grandmother coming out alive from the car. O’Connor is effective in giving life to their characters that one will want to squeeze the neck of June Star or give Grandmother a big hug. O’Connor uses Similes â€Å"face was as yellow as the T-shirt,† Alliterations â€Å"big black battered,† â€Å"dark and deep,† â€Å"Don’t see no sun †¦ don’t see no cloud,† Anaphora â€Å"Tennessee has the mountains and Georgia has the hills,† and Allusion â€Å"Gone With the Wind. † The story tells us about the ironies and contrasts in life. There is the grandmother who sees the beauty in anything and everything like the mountains of Tennessee and the hills of Georgia, and the cute little Negro boy by the door of a shack, dances to the beat of an old favorite, takes time to see friends, calls a day beautiful in spite of the danger she is in and sees a good man in the Misfit out to kill all of them. The other character in the story is the Misfit who is hardened to the core. He thinks the world is out to get him and treat him nasty all the time. He does not know of a single goodness left in people. There are meaningful quotes in the story that touches the reader about unfamiliar scenes of real life. Flannery O’Connor’s â€Å"A Good Man is Hard to Find† has several: â€Å"I was not a bad boy that I remember of †¦ but sometimes along the line I done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiary. I was buried alive. † Society has not been fair and kind to the kid who became the Misfit. He was not given a fair shake in life that being bad became his way of life, in and out of the penitentiary. I call myself The Misfit †¦ because I can’t make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment. † The Misfit was too young to make out what it was he had done that he was punished for so long and so harsh. Whatever it was he must have committed, he was sure that he did not deserve the hard life he had been through. â€Å"It was the same case with Him [Jesus] as with m e except He hadn’t committed any crime and they could prove I had committed one because they have the papers on me. † The Misfit compared his conviction with that of Jesus Christ, who he said was innocent. He, too, was innocent as far as his conscience goes, but while they had no basis to establish the guilt of Jesus, they had papers to convict him to life in the penitentiary. â€Å"She would have been a good woman †¦ if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. † For the Misfit, only death would save people from being bad. It could be the reason why he kept killing people, to save them from being bad. He thinks that the longer people live, they keep going bad.

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Project in co-ordination with the Commissioning in-charge of Main contractor/consultant. The major activities of this group will include: Check plant units for mechanical completion at size. Prepare pre-commissioning programme to assign priorities during final stage of counteraction work. Planning and scheduling of plant start up activities. Co-ordinate and supervise the start up of the plant. Main contractor/consultant shall conduct process guarantee test turns. 5. Project scheduled, control and reporting Contractors system of project planning scheduling and monitoring is designed to provide comprehensive planning services to the project management team. This system is instrumental in devising realistic schedules establishing checkpoints, keeping overall watch on the progress, deviation from schedules, pinpointing the problem and recommending areas of corrective actions. The details are given below: 6. Planning Scheduling 6.1 Proposed Schedule and overall project schedule The proposed project schedule is submitted along with this proposal. This indicates the project starts date, end date and major milestones of the project the proposed schedule is prepared in the form of bar chart schedule. On award of the control, the proposed schedule is converted into an overall project schedule in the form of squared PERT network on time scale. This network includes overall engineering, procurement and construction duration as well as critical and near critical items for each system. This overall schedule forms the basis for execution of the contract and is used for corporate project review. 6.2 Master Network For project control, master network is prepared for the project, master network is updated internally every month, this is revised if (i) The overall project schedule is revised, (ii) There is a major change in the scope of work, (iii) unforeseen events beyond contractors control. The master network forms the basis for detailed scheduling and project control. 6.3 Function Schedules At the level of the executing departments, functional schedules are prepared for all functions, viz. process, residual engineering, ordering and delivery. Standard Networks for various functions are used for sequencing various activities in the schedules. These schedules are also used for scheduling projects physical progress and its measurement. 6.4 Key Construction Network This network is delivered from master network. This is made, work area wise, on time scale The number of networks to be prepared depends upon the workload into which the plant is divided. These networks are prepared at a time when engineering and procurement activities have sufficiently advanced and construction activities are about to begin or major milestones such as deliveries of equipments at site, start and completion of civil works, mechanical erection etc., are about to be achieved. 6.5 Reports Basically, three types of reports are produced. First type of report contains activities to be performed in next two months and is known as Activity List. Second type of reports gives the status of drawings, materials, etc. and is named Status Report, which highlights the deviations and exceptions and immediate actions. The Third Type of Reports is the one, which summarize progress report at various time intervals. 6.6 Monthly Progress Report Monthly progress report is basically meant for Client. This report gives a comprehensive coverage of engineering, procurement and construction activities carried out during the month under review. The monthly report apprises the Client of the progress of the project and holds up if an in achieving the progress. The report contains the following information: Overall progress statistics Status of milestones List of problems/hold ups Functional progress curves Quantitative status report for equipment Detailed status of construction D. Work Breakdown Structure E. Bar Chart (Project Schedule) Please Refer Annexure I Project Organization Chart G. Man Power Deployment Schedule H. Construction Equipment Deployment Schedule List of Proposed Vendors and Suppliers Sr No Description Supplier Origin 1 Carbon Steel Plates Corus European(West / East) For tanks Arcelor Mills European(West / East) Posco Korea Dongkuk steel Korea Duffer co Belgium Dillinger Hutte Germany Nippon steel Japan Stemcor South Africa Sumittomo Japan 2 Carbon Steel Pipes Dalmine Spa Italy Manses man Brazil / Germany Nippon steel Japan NKK steel Japan Kawasaki Japan NSC Japan Hyundai pipes Korea Korea pipes Korea 3 Carbon Steel Pipe Benkan corp Korea Fittings Awaji sangayo Corp Japan BKL UK BKL Thailand OMR Italy Techno forge Italy Tect tubi Italy Vanleeuwen Holland 4 Flanges Bebitiz Germany FAD flange Italy Geldbech Germany Korea flange Korea 5 Floating Roof seal Ultra float USA Korea Flot Korea HMT USA CTS Nether land 6 Paint International Paint Jotun Hempel Sigma Responsibility Matrix SR.NO DESCRIPTION Division of Responsibility (subcontractor) (Main Contractor) A ADMINISTRATION 1 Visa/work Permit à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 Accommodation à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Food à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Transportation à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 5 Site first Aid Facilities à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ B TAXES DUTIES / INSURANCES 1 WCP Insurance à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 Automobile Insurance à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Captial machinery insurance à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Contractor All Risk Erection Policy à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ C FACILITIES 1 Laydown yard / Fabrication Yard à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 Stores à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Site office facilities à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Worker rest room toilets à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 5 Parking Spaces for Vehicles à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 6 Drinking water Portable water à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 7 Electricity for site office and rest room à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 8 Electricity for Fabrication à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 9 Blasting and Painting Facilities à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 10 Carbagge Disposal à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 11 Hazardous Mateial Disposal à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 12 Removal of Construction Debris à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 13 Electricity for Site Construction à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 14 Safety Interface with Client à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 15 Personal Protection Equipments à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ D DESIGN ENGINEERING 1 Design à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 Engineering à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Detailed drawings à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Support details à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 5 Structural Drawings à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 6 Asbuilt Drawings à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ E PROCUREMENT SUPPLY 1 Direct Material (Plates for shell bottom and roof, Structural for stairway, roof handrail and roof structures) à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 Consumables à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Gaskets / Bolt / Nuts for hydro testing à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Permanent Gasket/Bolt/Nuts à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 5 All Galvanized items for platform/stairway etc à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 6 All tank mounting appurtenances and Instruments à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 7 Material unloading at site à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ F Plant Machinery At Site 1 Crane à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 Hydra Crane à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Fork Lift à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Rolling Machine à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 5 Welding Machine à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 6 Generators à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 7 Hydraulic Jacks System (Jacks, power packs, hoses, accessories etc.) à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 8 Tools such Grinding, cutting ,beveling Etc à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ G PRE FABRICATION 1 Plate cutting Edge preparation (Shell, Roof, Bottom Annular) à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 Sand Blasting and Painting of internal and external surfaces of tank as per client approved Painting procedure. à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Shell plate rolling à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Nozzles Manway Neck Rolling à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 5 Sump Plate Rolling, Welding External painting à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 6 Roof Structure and Floating Deck prefabrication à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ H CONSTRUCTION 1 Civil work à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 Instrumentation à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Tank Insulation à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Scaffolding for Erection and painting, if any à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 5 Tank Erection -Bottom ,Annular, Shell, Roof, Roof Structure, Floating Deck , shell Roof Nozzles Man way, Sump à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 6 Painting Jobs as per client approved procedure à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 7 Meeting Clients construction Schedule à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ I TESTING 1 Liquid Penetrent Testing à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 Magnetic Partical Testing à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Radiographic Testing à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Ultrosonic Testing if any à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 5 Post Weld Heat Treatment if any à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 6 Facilities for Hydro-testing à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 7 Water for Hydro Test à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 8 Drain point for hydro-tested water near to tank bottom (Max 250 M) à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 9 Dewatering Drying à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 10 Tank Calibration à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ J HANDING OVER 1 Punch list à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 RT film Submission à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 AS Built Drawing à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Final Dossier submission à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 5 Pre commissioning assistance à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 6 Commissioning assistance à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ K GENERAL 1 Third Party Inspection Costs à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 2 All the approvals from Local authorities à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 3 Necessary gate passes / permits to carry-out our works à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ 4 Coordination with Client à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã… ¡ Project Estimation Summary Sr.No. DESCRIPTION QTY. Unit Rate Amount I PRELIMINARIES Mobilization of Manpower/Equipment 1 70,000 70,000 Establishment of site facilities 1 200,000 200,000 Insurance 1 200,000 200,000 Demobilization of Manpower/Equipment 1 70,000 70,000 Design/Engineering 1 80,000 80,000 Documentation 1 30,000 30,000 Sub Total AED 650,000 II PROCUREMENT Steel Plates( A 537 Cl.1 ) 3,363 2,931 9,856,953 Steel Plates( A 36 ) 2,258 2,488 5,617,904 Structural 96 2,800 268,800 Pipes Fittings/Flanges 1 510,000 510,000 Fasteners 8 7,000 56,000 Aluminium Dome 1 7,000,000 7,000,000 Hatch / Accessories 1 Jet Mixer + Misc 8 Galvanizing 8 5,000 40,000 Stairway Steps 8 16,500 132,000 Sub Total AED 23,481,657 III CONSTRUCTION Sub-Contract 5,450 1,000 5,450,000 Consumables 1 100,000 100,000 Safety Equipments 1 398,200 398,200 Salary for Staff 1 500,000 500,000 Wages for Fabrication Crew 1 Wages for Erection Crew 1 Equipments ( Hire) 1 1,661,000 1,661,000 Equipments ( Purchase ) 1 600,000 600,000 Mobilization of Pre fabricated material to site 1 320,000 320,000 Scaffolding Erection Tools tackles 1 42,000 42,000 Fuel 1 617,400 617,400 Freight, Visa ,Food Accommodation for Crew 2,663,200 2,663,200 Testing Requirement 1 Site Communication/Stationary/Utilities 1 Office Communication/Stationary 1 Heating Nitrogen Coil 1 3,849,468 3,849,468 Sub Total AED 10,751,268 IV SUB-CONTRACT Civil Foundation Misc. Works 1 8,389,450 8,389,450 Civil Design 1 Soil Improvement 1 Reduce backfilling (1 M) 1 Surface Preparation Painting 1 2,476,700 2,476,700 Belzona application 1 NDT works 1 1,150,000 1,150,000 Third Party Inspection 1 150,000 150,000 Calibration 1 64,000 64,000 Hydro Test 1 200,000 200,000 Sub Total AED 12,430,150 V OTHERS BG Charges 100,000 Finance Charges 150,000 Commission to Agents