...Abstract I will talk about the movie Any Given Sunday in which Oliver Stone directed. I will talk about how Oliver Stone portrayed war on the screen onto the gridiron and into the world of professional football world. I will talk about how in the movie the owner Christina Pagniacci played by Cameron Diaz, does not see the players as people but as meat. How the business part makes her not feel for her employee's health or mental capacity and only looking at what they can do for me now. Any Given Sunday When I sat down and watched Any Given Sunday director Oliver Stone really brought out the realism in the football world. In the sport of football you have people eyes glued to the game either by television or in person. You have men and woman young or old watching this sport as a gladiator going at each other like there is no tomorrow. Oliver Stone also shows all the sides in how the game has changed from a true sport into a cut throat business. Where players and the doctors don’t care whether they may be permanently injured as long as they can make extra money in the process. Which the move shows the team doctor Harvey Mandrake played by James Woods clearing defensive end Luther 'Shark' Lavay played by Lawrence Taylor to play. Dr. Harvey knows that if he gets hit or is hit could kill him or be brain dead from all the concussions he has received in his career. He does not mind taking that risk because the only thing he needs is to get his tackles in order for him to...
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...Ways of Remembering Things You've Forgotten Personally, when I want to remember things I have forgotten, I put myself into a relaxed light trance, "space out" for a moment and think to myself "I am remembering" until what I want to know comes back to me easily. I wanted to jump into this article with an example of what I do when I lose or forget anything. It is so simple that I would be cheating you if I did not tell you about it in the first part of the article. The relaxed light trance can be done at any time really, once you know how to do it and it is second nature. The thing is, though, you must fully let it go and let yourself forget, to remember what you wanted to remember. At first, it seems like a hard process, but as you make it a habit, it is easy to get away from the problem, relax and find the solution. The most important way to remember something you have forgotten is that removing yourself temporarily and completely from your problem until the answer comes to you. Because, being nervous never does any good or benefit to you. In fact, all you are is nervous and excited, that is it. Problems are never solved in this state, if anything they become worse in every way. The kind of light trance I am talking about is not a "Svengali stereotype" thing, anyone can do this at any time, especially when in the heat of an activity such as running or strenuous work, because you can become so in concentration that answers you want just come to you powerfully especially...
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...Goods and Services In economics, need and want are either goods or services and which are sometimes called a commodity. People claims that goods are the things can touch such as pens, longyis, rice, book, as soon on and services are thing that people do for you, or you do for other people, which are the things you cannot touch such as education or healthcare. In economics, a good is a material that satisfies human wants and provides utility, for example, to a consumer making a purchase and a common distinction is made between 'goods' that are tangible property. Moreover, when people want to produce one goods, they need basically, 1. The name. 2. What it look like-pictures. 3. What it does. 4. The cost and why people should buy it. For example, if people produce shoes and the name of the shoes is Addias, which designs is very wonderful and people can use every season even though summer, it costs is 60$ and that brand is very grantee, therefore they should buy that kind of goods. Services are as important as goods and when one goods produce, goods is the first step and the second step is service, but service are things that people cannot touch. For example, when people go to the hospital or clinic, doctor or a medic examines does tests or indicate some medicine. In addition, when people buy a cup of tea in a teashop, they are not only buying tea, water and milk (goods). people are paying for the services of sitting in the teashop, of someone making the tea, bringing it to them...
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...Continuing Academic Success Essay John Smith GEN 201 Continuing Academic Success Essay Even though you're scared of academic failure, make sure you know yourself because knowing what your goals are and how to accomplish them and to know what resources are available will help you succeed. Going back to school can be terrifying, especially after being out school for so long. You, like myself, are probably telling yourself that you can’t do it. You haven’t been in school in so long; things have changed so much. We all hate the thought of failure; the truth is you won’t know until you try. There are things you can do to help yourself prepare for returning to school, and I’m going to go over some that I have learned along the way. The most important thing you need to know when returning to school is yourself. You can’t be successful if you don’t know your strengths and weaknesses. By taking a look at yourself, you can get a grasp on what areas of learning you might struggle with and what part of learning should come easy. There are many factors that can influence how we learn. These factors can include your behavioral characteristics, how much life experience you have, which of your senses are most predominant and whether or not you are self-directed in your learning (Reuter, 2000). For instance, I know that I need to be shown a few times, then I need just to dive in and try it myself. If I don’t get that hands on experience, all the telling me in the world doesn’t...
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...of 75, he argues that you have lived a full life by that age, experienced that which is necessary to have lived a full life, but also that you are no longer of any crucial use to society. He claims that “living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.”. I am going to argue against his opinion that after the age of 75, you’re basically useless. The theory that after you surpass the age of 75, you’re basically useless…is a flawed logic, there are so many aspects that pertain to how ‘useless’ you are, for example, arthritis, inflames the joins of the body, it can be any joint, but I will use the knee as my primary example, so if somebody has Osteoarthritis, it could enfeeble somebody to not be able to walk very easily, but just because they can’t walk, doesn’t mean they can’t write, sit and do work, for gods sake with today’s modern technology…that being prosthetic legs and some body parts plus medicine, people could still do things with something such as Osteoarthritis. A person’s ability to be creative, is personal choice, you can choose not to be the creative type, you can choose to...
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...towards the family or the company that it effects. It may be difficult to explain everything because when you do have to explain these things you will not have all the answers. When reading “Miners Trapped At Giant Freeport Mine in Papua” and “Over 30 Workers Trapped After Chilean Copper Mine” it was rather difficult for me to think of how I would personally address the family or the company about these situations. First off I think that I would speak with the families individually because I understand that each case would be different. Such as going to there homes, sitting them down and telling them that we are doing our best to get to the trapped miners and safely bring them home. The biggest thing that I feel we would offer to the families is support and up to day information on the process of rescuing these people. “ I am deeply saddened to have to come and speak with you today. At 1:00 p.m. this afternoon the eastern tunnel collapsed and your husband was one of the men trapped by the collapsed tunnel. We are doing everything we can to safely rescue him and the other men trapped. We completely understand your concern and are here to support you during this difficult time. If there is anything that we can do to help you please do not hesitate to ask. We will keep you posted on any new developments and will be here for you for any questions you may have. Please remember we are doing everything we can to bring your husband and these men home.” I understand...
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...and all the thing related of this page. We can also see in the timeline if any customer or anyone post about business. About: In this page there are a about option. In this option customer can know many thing about the business. In the about option there are * Category of the product or type of business * Name of the business. * Facebook web address are also available there * The joining date in the facebook * The date when the product will release * Little description about the page * A long description about the page * Founded date and founder name * Award achieved this business * Products description * Web site and official page of this business Photo: In this option we can all the pictures uploaded and tagged in this page. Like: There are like option in the page. Through this option we can know how much people are like or interested about our product or business. More: In more option there are video and manage tabs option. Messenger: There is a messenger option in the page. Through this option buyers and sellers can communicate each other. They can communicate easily without using other email option. Notification: Through this notification option we can easily know, if anyone comment about the product or like the product. Publishing tool: In this tool all the posts are archived here. We can easily find the previous post from this tool. In the business page we can post any massages or any picture by individual...
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...me over to the witness box, this is the exact statement I gave. Statement I gave while I was inside the witness box: “I took delivery of my new Mazda sports car, from the garage Brookside Mazda and I was driving alongside Hillside Road. I live at 32 Able Close and I got stuck in the usual traffic jam. I am very familiar with the road as I drive it every day If I get stuck in traffic when I get close to my turning I have a habit of pulling out to the other side of the road and driving up to the right side of the road up to the right hand turn of Able Close. When I do this I am very careful to look for oncoming traffic. I usually do it at the point there is a central refuge so that I would get some warning of any pedestrians crossing between the stopped cars on my left. This dodges saves me several minutes and...
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...with her cat. She enjoys peace and quiet and the only noise she makes, is when she sings in the choir. On the surface she seems happy and very comfortable with her life. She loves to read books by great philosophers and poets, and she quotes them at any given chance. She is quite conservative. She has no understanding for heavy and noisy music, and she prefers to stick to herself and stay out of the spotlight. She does not have any close friends, let alone a boyfriend. She is closed and reserved. The only social contact she has is with her co-workers and she does not get along with them very well. At Edith’s two weeks stay at Kenny Loathsome’s place in Nice, she starts to change. Suddenly she starts wearing contacts instead of glasses. She starts to get a tan and thinks about her looks in a different way. She tries to impress Kenny Loathsome, but he does not deign to look at her. She becomes kind of fascinated by him. He is the opposite of her and that is why she finds him interesting. Opposites attract. Even though she finds him interesting, she is on one hand horrified. He uses drugs, he is wild and uncontrollable and she does not know what his next move is going to be. On the other hand he is exiting because of all these things. Kenny Loathsome is the total opposite of Edith. He...
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...discovered the Grand Canyon and was amazed at the sight. It can be imagined: One crosses miles of desert, breaks through the mesquite, and there it is at one's feet. Later the government set the place aside as a national park, hoping to pass along to millions the experience of Cardenas. Does not one see the same sight from the Bright Angel Lodge that Cardenas saw? The assumption is that the Grand Canyon is a remarkably interesting and beautiful place and that if it had a certain value P for Cardenas, the same value P may be transmitted to any number of sightseers-just as Banting's discovery of insulin can be transmitted to any number of diabetics. A counterinfluence is at work, how- ever, and it would be nearer the truth to say that if the place is see? by a million sightseers, a single sightseer does not receive value p but a millionth part of value P . It is assumed that since the Grand Canyon has the fixed interest value P, tours can be organized for any number of people. A man in Boston decides to spend his vacation at the Grand Canyon. He-- visits his travel bureau, looks at the folder, signs up for a two-week tour. He and his family take the tour, see the Grand Canyon, and return to Boston. May we say that this man has seen the Grand Canyon? Possibly he has. But it is more likely that what he has done is the one sure way not to see the canyon. Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon , under these circumstances and see it for what it is-as one picks up a...
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...Grand Canyon and was amazed at the sight. It can be imagined: One crosses miles of desert, breaks through the mesquite, and there it is at one's feet. Later the government set the place aside as a national park, hoping to pass along to millions the experience of Cardenas. Does not one see the same sight from the Bright Angel Lodge that Cardenas saw? The assumption is that the Grand Canyon is a remarkably interesting and beautiful place and that if it had a certain value P for Cardenas, the same value P may be transmitted to any number of sightseers-just as Banting's discovery of insulin can be transmitted to any number of diabetics. A counterinfluence is at work, how- ever, and it would be nearer the truth to say that if the place is see? by a million sightseers, a single sightseer does not receive value p but a millionth part of value P . It is assumed that since the Grand Canyon has the fixed interest value P, tours can be organized for any number of people. A man in Boston decides to spend his vacation at the Grand Canyon. He-- visits his travel bureau, looks at the folder, signs up for a two-week tour. He and his family take the tour, see the Grand Canyon, and return to Boston. May we say that this man has seen the Grand Canyon? Possibly he has. But it is more likely that what he has done is the one sure way not to see the canyon. Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon , under these circumstances and see it for what it is-as one picks...
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...with. Reading the article on the minimizer made me think of the thing that people say “There is no I in team”. This is the opposite approach of how most people typically refer to this phrase however, it still applies here. Mark (the minimizer) is actually part of a team, a team that includes three other people but yet he seems to think that he should only focus on his particular job duties and not have to play a part in the team project that he has been put on. The first thing I have to do is ask myself rather or not volunteered himself to be part of this project or if he was asked/chosen involuntarily to be part of this project. If he was asked/chosen to be on this project I would say that Mark should have been honest in the beginning and told whoever asked him that he was not interested in doing anything other than his specified job description. If Mark volunteered then I would have to ask myself why would a person like this who clearly knows that he does not have any interest in doing anything other than his particular responsibilities volunteer himself for something like that. HE clearly has no interest in furthering himself beyond the position that he is currently in and he is clearly content with performing only his specified job responsibilities. Project Review Meeting First things first, because this is my project that I am leading and as the project manager I am still responsible for making sure things are moving forward as planned and as smoothly as possible. Monday...
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...English 101L: Composition February 2, 2008 Summary DAVE BARRY Guys vs. Men Dave Barry’s insight in Guys vs. Men begins to explore the world of the male figure. Barry touches base on a few things that he believes separates guys and men apart. Barry first mentions that “Guys Like Neat Stuff” and begins to explain that guys enjoy things that are unnecessary to have and perhaps a bit over the top but they are things that make them happy and keep them entertained. Barry then moves into talking about how “Guys Like A Really Pointless Challenge”. Barry mentions that guys often engage in activities that are beyond what should be the standard rational of middle aged men. His thoughts on how “Guys Do Not Have A Well-Defined Moral Code” briefly delves into how guys know that they are expected to perform and act a certain way, yet they often completely disregard these ideas held by others on how they should act, not on purpose but just because they are in fact guys. The last thing Barry brings up is that “Guys Are Not Great At Communicating Their Intimate Feelings, Assuming They Have Any”. Barry presents the idea that guys tend to keep personal issues, just that, personal. Guys generally keep answers to questions they don’t want to answer brief at best, and the only time they share how they feel is most often when in the company of another guy friend. Dave Barry’s Guys vs. Men is a funny, interesting and seemingly true effort at explaining who guys really are, and why they are that...
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...Ch1. Q1.For the three specific environment influences which affect me will be the demographic and social, technological, and economic. Demographic affect my job is because I am working for a hearing aid company, and most of our customers are older people. As a result, the social and demographic environment will affect my job. Hearing aid is kind of technological product we import our product from Germany, and they will set up the hearing system inside our product, so my job is rely on technology. Also we need to use the email to communicate with our supplier. Since I can write English, I can use the internet to contact our supplier in Germany. The last main environment is environment is economic. Our company is in Taiwan, and we import hearing aid sell to our customers, so our product is middle price. Not low price. If the Economic environment is bad, then we also can’t accomplish the sales. Q3. The benefit of using a stakeholder approach is able to think of other stakeholders' interest can better inform the moral dimension of your own decisions. The stakeholder approach also provides a means for mapping complicated relationship between the focal and other stakeholders, a means of identifying the strategies of each stakeholder, and a means for assessing the moral responsibility of all the constituencies. As a result, I know the stakeholder approach I can choose more options to solve the problem. For example, my manager will tell me the profit price of the hearing aid, and...
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...this point, it makes friendship between Toto and Alfredo. Alfredo teaches everything in his life to Toto. Alfredo loves Toto as his son; later Alfredo becomes father who Toto has never had before. Toto once thinks his life represent like a movie. Alfredo tries to advice Toto that projectionist is not a best thing for Toto. Everything has to changes. Nothing can be staying last forever and noting happy ending like a movie that Toto thought. Town will never change and people never die, Toto just like a blind man that cannot see from realistic world. The real world is more complexity and nothing can be that Toto want. It is not always what he thinks it is. This is the thing that Alfredo tries to tell Toto many times. Through, Toto is facing many things in his life as like film and many things does not happy as like film for example, one hardship experience that he meets; it is his first love. He is not successful with his love as film .It shows about all of happiness and pains. This is the first time that Toto realize that life which it is not happy ending likes movie. When Toto becoming an adult and Alfredo wants him to start his journey for his life. Finally, Toto gets the things that Alfredo tries to say to him at first. He wants Toto to obtainable his own adventure and facing with more real life by going out finding the...
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