In "<em>The Stranger</em>", by Albert Camus, Meursault describes shooting the Arab after he's already dead as follows:
"I knew I’d shattered the balance of the day, thespacious calm of this beach on which I had been happy. But I fired four shots more into the inert body, on which they left no visible trace. And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing."
He describes it as <em>knocking loudly on the door of his downfall</em>.
Answer:
1. The kind of competition Sandy joined was a writing competition.
2. From the text, we can infer that the writer was proud of Sandy because Sandy was a female who was the most successful at the competition.
Explanation:
From the passage, we discover that from Mrs. Karina congratulatory message to Sandy, Sandy was actually part of a writing competition which involved synopsis writing.
Also, Mrs. Karina congratulated Sandy and was proud of her because she tends to be the only female that was successful in the writing competition to emerge as the second position winner.
When your co-workers come from different locations or some are foreigners, it would help better communicate with them when you know certain words or icons in their own language that are used in the workplace. Although people will get accustomed to the terms used in the workplace, it would be more effective if they encounter familiar words.