...are on their quest of “fitting in”. This process of changing a person’s personality is very similar to what happened to many of the characters in the Book the Things They Carried. Context This book takes place during the Vietnam War and follows the lives of american men who are trying to survive the horrible conditions of Vietnam. Thesis In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien , the author uses the character development of Mary Anne and Rat Kiley as well as his own to show how being in environment like Vietnam can twist your sense of right and wrong and your mental stability because of the things you are exposed to. Body Paragraph One Topic Sentence In the Book...
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...Murphy and Krasenstein creditably utilise costuming to build the personality of characters and provide a richer understanding of Murphy’s reinterpretation. An effective change in the new costume is presented by Prince Ivan, danced by Kevin Jackson. Although central to Fokine’s representation of the character, Ivan’s armour has been completely replaced by ripped tribal-like cloths which distinguish him as raw, bare-chested character rather than a royal figure effectively endeavouring to reinforce his natural body features. This also permits opportunity for Murphy to accomplish challenging movements without restriction which results in stunning choreography for example the pas de deux with the Firebird. In addition, the colour palettes are exploited heavily by Krasenstein through the costumes, a prime example of this is the Tsarevna’s dress. The romantic tutu colour blocks three separate colours: azure blue on the top, white in the middle and celery green on the bottom. Firstly, the azure blue embodies...
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...masculinity that was popular in the 1980s. By examining the narratives, the characterization, and the cinematography of each critical dystopia, one can see a clear cultural shift in the definitions of masculinity and a growing critique of contemporary masculinity within these films of the early 1990s. Following the Vietnam War, the nation experienced a period of feminization. This can best be depicted in the creation of the “New Man” in men’s magazines; the “New Man” is sensitive, fashionable, and clearly feminized. He also is romantic and expresses emotions. The Reagan years of the 1980s brought a culture that was anxiously fearing its own emasculation. In an effort to combat the “New Man”, Hollywood producer’s created a new type of action character: the hardbody. As Susan Jeffords explains, “These hardbody heroes articulated well with the Reagan presidency,...
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...“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” Woodrow “I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.”- Will smith Throughout my time in the Communication department I have learned many things. However, I feel that one of the biggest impacts I have had within my ungraduated career is the certificate program Conflict Analysis and Resolution. I chose the first quote due to the skills we acquired throughout the program. When I first heard about the program I thought to myself its only 12 credits how hard can this be? Little did I know then, just how much these twelve credits would change my view of life? I feel like my purpose in life is to help others, and how you ask I do not know that quite yet but I am hoping to get that situated before I embark on my next journey in life. The second quote applies to my journey in many ways as well. But all in all I owe it to our great professor Dr. Shailor who as times slips in a little politics and catholic faith. I see how open he is and...
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...is not able to pull the trigger, which is expressed in this quote: “But you put it there, you taste it, it’s cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you’ve been planning, when you’ll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You’ll have to find another way.”(pg 17) Susanna then reavles her suicide attempt, which she swallowed fifty aspirins and then went outside and fainted , while Polly was able to go through with her suicide attempt and she used fire to do it. Susanna then talks about a time when Polly one day flipped out and started crying and screaming “My face, my face!” In which nurses had to come into Polly’s room and hush her, while the other girls in the ward wondered what had happened. Susanna introduces another character, Lisa; by describing at time when...
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...Econometrics of Random Walk Hypothesis ABSTRACT The random walk hypothesis is a key instrument used in the analysis of forecasting in the economic and financial market. It is used primarily in the forecasting of the prices of stocks. This is useful to determine and forecast the prices of stocks given previous stock prices. This paper discusses the basis of the hypothesis, the two types of random walk hypothesis, its framework, methodologies and the analysis of its repercussions. INTRODUCTION The random walk hypothesis states that stock price changes have the same distribution and are independent of one another, so the past movement or trend of a stock price or of the market as a whole cannot be used to predict its future price or any possible future trends. The concept originated in the late 1800s from Jules Regnault, a French broker, and Louis Bachelier, a French mathematician, whose Ph.D. dissertation titled "The Theory of Speculation". The same ideas were later developed and studied further by Paul Cootner, an MIT Sloan School of Management professor, in his 1964 book The Random Character of Stock Market Prices. The term was popularized by the 1973 book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton Malkiel, a professor of economics at Princeton University, and was used earlier in Eugene Fama's 1965 article "Random Walks In Stock Market Prices”. The theory that stock prices move randomly was earlier proposed by Maurice Kendall in his 1953 paper, “The Analytics of Economic Time...
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...sculpture, I found that the information it offered would be useful for my research, particularly because of the background it provided on how the Romans adopted Greek styles. Translated from French, I did an online search on the author, Germain Bazin, and discovered him to be a renowned art historian, a former chief curator at the Lourve, and an author of numerous art history books that have been translated into various languages. Given the aforementioned credentials, I deemed The History of World Sculpture to be an excellent resource in examining the historical context for the artwork I was examining. I narrowed my examination of the publication’s contents down to the section on Rome, which the author introduced by discussing the dual character of Roman artwork. Bazin expounds on how Roman artwork first appears as a result of the superposed cultures of Greek and Italic, leading to some critics’ denial that Roman artists possessed any originality. Bazin does not entirely agree with this claim of lack of Roman originality. Instead, he states that a critic cannot deny the existence of Roman art, and identifies three concurrent Roman sculptural styles. These sculptural styles include the faithful following of Graeco-Roman formalism, the awkward imitation of Graeco-Roman style, and a style that aimed to contrast Graeco-Roman formalism. Roman artwork existed, but Bazin states that the development of Roman artwork was hampered by a society that preferred to be known as a society of soldiers...
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...you are born with and traits that are learned. If two people go through the exact same thing that does not mean that, they will react or feel the same way. Everyone in this world is unique in his or her own way. Personality is what we have in order to live life on life’s terms. . Every person on this earth thinks of things differently. Personality is an individual’s thoughts, feelings, behaviors and how the individual sees and acts with each altogether. To understand different parts of personality you must recognize the two major parts and they are one. Understanding individual personality differences in characteristics, also understanding how an individual person becomes a whole. I want to go over the differences in personality and character. Both of these two words are related to a person’s behaviors. The things going on in one’s environment mold a person’s...
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...English learner ENGLISH LEARNER SHADOWING PROJECT Part I Description Shadowing Project Rationale Throughout the shadowing projects, so much valuable information about English Language Learners and how they learn was gained. Although the student I chose is very bright, he does have disabilities that permits his growth academically therefore qualifying him for Special Education services. This student moved to the United States at the age of 12. He spoke no English at all and had accomplished to learn English on his own determination by speaking with his adoptive parents, playing video games, and watching television. After enrolling in school he was classified and enrolled as an English Language Learner. This student has excelled at tremendous speeds. Now that he is a junior in high school, he is at a high L3 and by test scores would be considered an advanced L4 or early L5. Due to his disability and being in Special Ed classes, he will never be able to advance past a L3 status in high school. As my student was observed one could not help to observe other English language Learners in the class. You will quickly realized that no matter what part of the world people come from weather it is from Mexico, Japan, Iraq Africa or Russia, all English Language Learners begin the learning process at the same starting point, the basics. This shadowing project took place in a Junior Resource English class at Frontier High School. The student that was observed was...
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...IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper Human Resource Management Subject Code-B102 Section A: Objective Type & Short Questions (30 marks) MM.100 Part Two: Answer 1. Career planning involves efforts on the part of the organizations to provide avenues for growth to its employees. Certainly this growth should be accompanied by development. The other side of the coin is the role of employees in career planning. It involves effort on the part of employees to clearly think through and decided areas in which they would like to make a career for themselves. When employees have assessed their career needs and have become aware of organizational career opportunities, the problem is one of alignment. The crucial role has to be played by HRD in ensuring this alignment to build up morale in the organization. A systematic choice of development techniques like training, special assignment, counseling and rotational assignments should be made to ensure this alignment. Employees are often uncertain as to the type of work that would suit them best. There are a number of evaluation instruments available to determine basic aptitudes. Human Resource Development Managers should be able to guide employees by administering these instruments on them. Employees should also find out whether they are loners or socially active. These exercises with some assistance from HRD Managers should help in career need assessment. Realizing that employees have...
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...Cobo took 60% of the votes. Black Bottom appeared, where there was a terrible segregation of white middle class and poor blacks. Pg 163 Martelle 2.) By the 1980s (if not earlier), one could argue that Detroit as a city had collapsed economically and socially and those problems remained until its current bankruptcy. What are the 3 biggest events/people/ideas/problems that contributed to Detroit’s collapse? Suburbanization, or creation of suburbia; people moving out of the city and into surrounding areas. 3.) Contrast the European, or Old World, relationship a person had with the “city” with the American one, specifically with respect to the choices regarding its functionality —that is, of “beauty” or “profit.” Next, what does your analysis suggest about what Americans prioritize, as evidenced in our typologies. City Profitable - Functionality = Rybczynski. City turned from a place to live into a machine, hence functionality. Not meant for living, more for products to be made and mostly for the designer people. City beautiful – attractive to citizens, lots of history, cosmic gridline, place to sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee. 4.) Describe Cadillac’s “way of seeing” the new world. In other words, “who is he” and “where is he going” as a precursor to how the design/layout...
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...The Effect of Campaign Finnacne on Democracy Daniel Sykes Student ID 250719824 Every election cycle, huge sums of money are spent in the promotion for campaigns to elect or re-elect candidates for public office. These contributions play a vital role in the success of election campaigns. Sources of campaign donations range from big businesses and trade unions to PACs (political action committees) such as the NRA. These groups donate to candidates in the assumption and hopes that the candidate will pursue a discourse and perhaps implement legislation that benefits the donating group. When we refer to “campaign finance”, we are of course referring to funds that are used to promote and advertise, hire advisers, pay for travel expenses, administration fees and other costs associated with running a campaign. The Presidential Election of 2008 generated one billion US dollars in campaign contributions and finance1, with this figure on the rise, many have spoken out against the propensity of election victories to be seemingly “bought” by the party who generated the most funds2. In this essay I will be discussing whether or not big money in campaign finance is a threat to democracy. It is important to consider the history of campaign finance reform and how it evolved over time, for this gives us a better perspective when reviewing our modern situation to see if democracy has lost its way. Before the 19th century, the majority...
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...Wii: Creating a Blue Ocean. The Nintendo Way ÁREA MARKETING ESTRATÉGICO Wii: Creating a Blue Ocean The Nintendo Way Patricio O’Gorman1 RESUMEN Durante la última década, Nintendo ha tenido serias dificultades para mantenerse a flote en el mercado ultra-competitivo de los video-juegos. Su suerte se revirtió solamente cuando modificaron radicalmente su estrategia (creando un Blue Ocean), cambiando así las reglas del juego. Con el lanzamiento de la Nintendo Wii a fines del 2006, recuperaron su posición de liderazgo y se convirtieron en el principal rival a vencer por rivales de la talla de Sony (Playstation 3) y Microsoft (Xbox360). ABSTRACT For several years now, the video game industry has been locked into what can best be described as a Red Ocean, where the focus is on beating the competition, winning market share, capturing consumers and outselling the competition. Blue Ocean Strategy2 (BOS), on the contrary, focuses on creating new demand in places where there is none, thus making the pie bigger instead of fighting over whom gets the largest slice of the pie. Since the launch of the Wii (pronounced “we”) video-game system, Nintendo has taken great steps toward making the competition irrelevant. This short article is meant to analyze the company’s strategy and understand it from the point of view of BOS. JEL Classification: L1 Keywords: Video game, strategy, Blue Ocean, competition, innovation. 1. CPA (Universidad Católica Argentina), MBA (Universidad Torcuato...
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...Eleanor Francis Francis 1 MEDC 5310 Carol Richardson October 17, 2013 An Analysis of the Ideology and Messages About Culture in Prime Time Television Seven days a week, 24 hours a day there is something to watch on television. There are reality shows, newscasts, news programs, dramas, sitcoms, the list is endless. The Big Bang Theory, The Millers, Law & Order: SVU, and Blue Bloods are all part of the prime time lineup of shows throughout any given week. The Big Bang Theory, airs on CBS and was created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. It is the story of two brilliant physicists that work at CalTech in Pasadena, CA. Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are co-workers, best friends and roommates. Sheldon is “regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional” in his thinking which is a consistent hardship on the relationship between these two friends (“Plot Summary”). They are friends with colleagues Howard Wolowitz, a mechanical engineer, and Rajesh Koothrappali, an Indian immigrant who works as an astrophysicist. The foursome are “self-professed nerds, [with] little or no luck with popular women” (“Plot Summary”). A neighbor, Penny, is of average mind but compared to this brilliant squad she’s made to seem of less than average intelligence. Leonard’s goal is to get Penny to be his girlfriend. Immediately following Big Bang is The Millers created by Greg Garcia and starring Will Arnett. Arnett plays the part of Nathan, a single reporter who has...
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...This essay is based on the 2007 book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960 - ). It is hardly an obscure tome, having been on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks. Before I get to the essence of this essay I believe explaining what the term “Black Swan” means and saying a few words about the author would be in order. It was once thought in the Old World that only white swans existed. Then from Australia came the realization that there were black swans. And no, they were not white swans made black by bootblack or any other artificial coloring medium. After millennia of observations in the West of millions of white swans, the sighting of one black swan was enough to invalidate this long and firmly held belief. In a broader sense then A Black Swan is a sudden, monumental, and completely unexpected event. WWI, WWII, and 9/11 were Black Swans. If one were to win a multi-million dollars lottery that would be a personal Black Swan (Black Swans are not all negative, although given the troubles experienced by some of these huge lottery winners, this might also be negative). But a Black Swan is more than this – it goes to the heart of and challenges the putative acceptance of Gaussian probabilities. Least you think Gaussian or bell shaped probability functions are theoretical only and not important in real life, then consider that not only mathematics, but engineering, medicine, social sciences, economomics, the insurance...
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