...Review of SEAN MILLS’ "The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal" "The following people are to be released from their captors. In Northern Ireland, the seven members of the New Provo Front. In Canada, the five imprisoned leaders of Liberte de Quebec. In Sri Lanka, the nine members of the Asian Dawn movement…” (Die Hard) There is no doubt that Sean Mills would have felt a flash of amusement at this mention of the (incorrectly identified) FLQ, uttered by super-villain Hans Gruber in his list of demands, in 1988's Die Hard, lumped together with other such revolutionary entities. Indeed, in The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal, Sean Mills attempts to argue that revolutionary trends and theories in various regions of the world made their way across the globe, bypassing borders and mutually influencing the areas that they managed to reach. More specifically, his intention is to analyze this notion with respects to the situation in Montreal during the 1960's and early 1970's. He does so after outlining three purposes which his work aims to address. Firstly, Mills states his desire to bring about an alternative way of observing Montreal's "political upheavals" during the aforementioned time period, whereby events on an international scale are taken into account. Secondly, he wishes to make clear the ways in which the ideas of various groups and movements were inter-linked and influenced...
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...Types of Fans A fan is a person who is fond of a certain thing, person, food, sports or any such things. N my opinion a fan is divided in three categories: - part time fans, die hard fans and optimistic fan. Let me explain this concept using a soccer match. A part time fan is one who does not have any particular team as his favorite, but he just enjoys watching the game as he is more overwhelmed by the sport than the players. Part time fans could also be people who follow a sport they like based on their availability. In the sense they follow a team or a sport based on their availability and convenience and don’t necessarily go to the stadium to watch their team play. Also, they might watch soccer if there’s nothing else that is interesting being played on television. Die-hard fans are like patriots and they patronize associating with a team. They believe their loyalties lie in speaking only good about a team and they would go against any person who badmouths a team they support. These die hard fans wear the sports jerseys of their favorite teams, make time to watch their favorite match at any cost, even if it means watching the match at late night and odd hours. A die-hard fan feels like the world is over when he sees his team loosing or not performing well. A die-hard fan is aggressive about the reputation of his team and can go to great lengths to support and defend the team he likes gravely. An optimistic fan is one who always speaks well about his team, even the team...
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...Moorpark High School 4500 Tierra Rejada Road Moorpark, CA 93021 February 11, 2014 The Mythbusters Beyond Productions 1268 Missouri Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Dear Mythbusters Team: We are a group of students from a Pre-AP English 1 class at Moorpark High. In our class, we are currently studying ancient Greek myths and the valued characteristics that the heroes of those stories possess. We are writing to you in regards to a stunt that was pulled off by the main character of Die Hard whose personal characteristics resemble those found in the myths we are studying. We would like to hear your thoughts on whether the stunt in question could be pulled off in real-life. In a scene from Die Hard, the main character, played by Bruce Willis, survives an explosion on the rooftop of a skyscraper by tying a fire hose to his waist, which breaks his fall, and allows him to smash a window of a lower story and take cover within the that story of the building. Willis falls 2-3 floors before the hose brings him to a complete stop. Now, as much as we love to witness the unlikely on a movie screen, we find it highly improbable that this could happen for a multitude of reasons. An average fire hose is about two and a half inches in diameter, anywhere from fifty to a hundred feet long, and the maximum amount of pressure that can be withstood is about 1,204 psi. A normal sized man is about 154 pounds, and Bruce Willis, who is five feet and eleven inches, is closer to 195 pounds. If...
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...Moorpark High School 4500 Tierra Rejada Road Moorpark, CA 93021 February 11, 2014 The Mythbusters Beyond Productions 1268 Missouri Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Dear Mythbusters Team: We are a group of students from a Pre-AP English 1 class at Moorpark High. In our class, we are currently studying ancient Greek myths and the valued characteristics that the heroes of those stories possess. We are writing to you in regards to a stunt that was pulled off by the main character of Die Hard whose personal characteristics resemble those found in the myths we are studying. We would like to hear your thoughts on whether the stunt in question could be pulled off in real-life. In a scene from Die Hard, the main character, played by Bruce Willis, survives an explosion on the rooftop of a skyscraper by tying a fire hose to his waist, which breaks his fall, and allows him to smash a window of a lower story and take cover within the that story of the building. Willis falls 2-3 floors before the hose brings him to a complete stop. Now, as much as we love to witness the unlikely on a movie screen, we find it highly improbable that this could happen for a multitude of reasons. An average fire hose is about two and a half inches in diameter, anywhere from fifty to a hundred feet long, and the maximum amount of pressure that can be withstood is about 1,204 psi. A normal sized man is about 154 pounds, and Bruce Willis, who is five feet and eleven inches, is closer to 195 pounds. If...
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...DIE HARD 4 REACTION There were really a certain person ought to have their will and wants to do things that make the entire state break down. This certain people do jobs through a high technology in order to do evil deeds not imagining the result of it as they want it to be -- to be a miserable nation. One of these situations is come from the movie die hard 4. The story plays by means of a high technology computer based. They are using computers for communications, such for networks, radios and exploding viruses to end lives. With that movie there are opportunities, weaknesses and strength embodies. From the aphorism that says “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” Has a correlation from the movie die hard 4. The opportunities that embodied in the movie is that when John McClane has the allies who is a hacker Matt Farrell realizes to be biased with John after all Gabriel the evil mastermind threaten him to kill. Moreover that is an opportunity for John since Matt knows the code to abort the shutdown sequence and to evade the evil plan of Gabriel. It seems most challenging because of the enraged of John to the criminal mastermind especially that Lucy is in the hand of Gabriel. “An attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructures begins to shut down the entire nation” and when Farrell enter the code despite of Lucy’s pleas to resist, Farrell gives the code just for Lucy not to shoot by a gun of Gabriel’s...
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...INTRODUCTION We have been task to watch movie Die Hard 4 as our individual assignment and have been told to do a summary report based on the movie that have been watch and based on the movie we need to collect the content of the movie summary based on the rubric given. We watch it in the class for about 1 and a half hour. Below is the summary that I have summarized. McClane is attempting to stop cyber terrorists who hack into government and commercial computers across the United States with the goal to start a "fire-sale" of financial assets. The F.B.I. responds to a brief computer outage at their Cyber-Security Division by tracing down top computer hackers, finding several of them have been killed. Taking others into protective custody, the F.B.I. asks New York City Police Department detective John McClane to collect Matthew "Matt" Farrell. McClane arrives in time to prevent Farrell from being killed by assassins working for a cyber-terrorist named Mai Linh who was working for her boss and love interest, Thomas Gabriel. En route to Washington, D.C. Farrell reveals that he received a large sum of money from Mai to write an algorithm that can crack a security system. As they arrive in D.C., Gabriel orders his own crew of hackers to take control of the transportation grids and stock market, while nationally broadcasting a message threatening the United States. Farrell recognizes this as the start of a "fire sale", an attack designed to target the nation's reliance on computer...
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...A prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system found below the bladder and in front of the rectum. Prostate cancer is cancer that forms in tissue in that gland, it usually occurs in older men. Cancer comes in forms of tumors, which is an abnormal growth of cells. Malignant tumors are the cancerous tumors of the two different types of tumors. Can cause pain and interfere with normal function, but they can also cause other systems in the body to act abnormally. Malignant tumors can invade nearby groups of cells or tissues, crowding out and destroying normal cells. Sometimes cancer cells can break away from the tumor and travel to other parts of the body. Body fluids that carry cancer cells from the tumor to other parts of the body are called lymph’s. Lymph is a fluid that drains waste from cells and filters unwanted substances such as cancer cells. Isolated or disseminated tumor cells are single or small groups of tumor cells that have been separated from the tumor and can be found in the blood, lymph, or bone marrow. Men have slightly less than 1 in 2 chances that they will develop some type of cancer during their lifetime. Approximately 77% of all cancers are diagnosed in persons aged 55 and older. The most frequently diagnosed cancer in men in the US is prostate cancer. ( (Disease)) Symptoms of prostate cancer are as follows, Weak or interrupted flow of urine, Frequent urination (especially at night).Trouble urinating, Pain or burning during urination, Blood in the...
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...A prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system found below the bladder and in front of the rectum. Prostate cancer is cancer that forms in tissue in that gland, it usually occurs in older men. Cancer comes in forms of tumors, which is an abnormal growth of cells. Malignant tumors are the cancerous tumors of the two different types of tumors. Can cause pain and interfere with normal function, but they can also cause other systems in the body to act abnormally. Malignant tumors can invade nearby groups of cells or tissues, crowding out and destroying normal cells. Sometimes cancer cells can break away from the tumor and travel to other parts of the body. Body fluids that carry cancer cells from the tumor to other parts of the body are called lymph’s. Lymph is a fluid that drains waste from cells and filters unwanted substances such as cancer cells. Isolated or disseminated tumor cells are single or small groups of tumor cells that have been separated from the tumor and can be found in the blood, lymph, or bone marrow. Men have slightly less than 1 in 2 chances that they will develop some type of cancer during their lifetime. Approximately 77% of all cancers are diagnosed in persons aged 55 and older. The most frequently diagnosed cancer in men in the US is prostate cancer. ( (Disease)) Symptoms of prostate cancer are as follows, Weak or interrupted flow of urine, Frequent urination (especially at night).Trouble urinating, Pain or burning during urination, Blood in the...
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...with out the information of periods or events. By this we believe the earth was formed about 4 billions years ago. This dates have been proven by analyzing samples of rocks , solar systems, and minerals. Scientist have collaborated and scientifically giving proves of objects, like how old it the oldest rock on earth or the oldest mineral and where did it come from. Material (Oldest earth rock), Age (4.0 billion years), and Methods (radiometric) our how the geologic scale combinations of specific source that tell the what scientist have documented and dated there sources. These are examples of why some assume the age of the earth is a billion years old. One big scientists believer was James Hutton studied rocks and fossils and believed the they made millions of years ago. But with every study he had to make people understand the laws of nature and the different events that life has formed within the earth. There are many reason we can say the world was made thousands years ago. Most of the Creationists believe the earth was created about Thousand years ago. There is no hard prove or witness to...
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...her mouth. She started to make a wretched, disgusting, and gagging sound as if she was throwing up but nothing was coming out of her mouth. I was scared. I tried asking her if she was okay, but she could not answer as she continued to dry heave. After what seemed like a lifetime, but was just only a few minutes, she spit out some white, mucous-like stuff that clung to her pale lips as she tried to wipe it off. With the blue veins standing out in her pasty white face, and her eyes the size of black saucers, I thought that she was going to die. That was the day my sister fell off the pedestal I had put her on- the day I found out she was pregnant. Susan was supposed to be the smart one in the family. How could this happen? How could she do this? She was my older sister, and she was supposed to set the example for me and my younger sisters. Susan was a senior in high school, on the honor roll, had a grade point average of 4.0, and was already trying to get a college scholarship. She was the first one in the family to possibly go to college and do something with...
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...My teacher told me about an essay due Monday on Friday, today is Sunday and I'm just getting started. It's time to satisfy my curiosity and try writing while my thoughts are set free. After a few rips of the bong, I'm already writing jotting things here and there completely unorganized. But it doesn't get to me, I keep writing idea's thoughts and memories down until I have a few pages of inclusions for the Essay. Next step is to pull things together and polish it. I start it off with the first time I had ever smoked and ended up in some pretty crazy places. Right when I finish the paper it clicks In my head. Everything I have ever though about writing and essays and school changed because of pot. I have a 4.0 and a new passion for the styles of writing. I am realizing that I can get used to this. Putting everything on paper and pulling it together to be meaningful is a new pastime. I can further relate to Toni Morrison in The Dancing Mind when he says, "[reading is] to experience one's own mind dancing with...
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...this career would take away a lot of my time. Cardiologist Dr. Ruth Collins - Nakai puts in 60 to 70 hours a week with patients. That’s on top of another 30 or so devoted to administrative, managerial, and educational matters. Any physician works long, irregular hours. Doctors who are on call may make emergency room visits. They also must travel between their office and the hospital to care for patients. As you may know, all of this hard work pays off. The average annual earnings of a cardiologist is $161,490. This is a lot more than the average american. Also, the growth rate of this job is 21.8%. Therefore, once I get out of my residency, it will not be hard for me to find a job. High School Plan: In the high school phase of my life, I will have no social life. I will be taking the hardest classes possible to prepare me for becoming a cardiologist. I will focus mostly on the advanced science classes. Some of the classes I plan on taking are the following: biology, chemistry, biochemistry, calculus, and trigonometry. The ideal G.P.A I want is a 4.0. I want to get in a prestigious college, so I need a very good G.P.A. It will be a tough challenge for me to keep my grades up but, I feel that I have the perseverance and commitment to do so. On top of the AP and honor classes, I will be playing sports. Hopefully, I’ll be playing football in the Fall, basketball in the Winter, and track in the Spring. Furthermore, I’m going to try to run for a spot in the student government. Colleges...
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...Millennium Development Goal INTRODUCTION The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all 193 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. The aim of the MDGs is to encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the world's poorest countries. They derive from earlier international development targets, and were officially established following the Millennium Summit in 2000, where all world leaders present adopted the United. The Millennium Summit was presented with the report of the Secretary-General entitled ‘We the Peoples: the Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century’. Additional input was prepared by the Millennium Forum, which brought together representatives of over 1,000 non-governmental and civil society organizations from more than 100 countries. The Forum met in May 2000 to conclude a two-year consultation process covering issues such as poverty eradication, environmental protection, human rights and protection of the vulnerable. A major conference was held at UN headquarters in New York on 20–22 September 2010 to review progress to date, with five years left to the 2015 deadline. The conference concluded with the adoption of a global action plan to achieve the eight anti-poverty goals by their 2015 target date. There were also major new commitments on women's and children's health, and major new initiatives in the worldwide...
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...Christina White because was died more than 20 years ago. But the implication was happened to the relative and family of the death women, Christina White. For the example of implication is in insurance. The insurance under White’s name will never get to her relatives and family but the insurance will be getting to the Cynthia Lyerla that use White’s identity. The Lyerla not only use the White’s name but also she use White’s date and place of birth, social security number and also her parents’ names. The purpose of the social security number such as the employment in income tax return, bank accounts and driver’s license. All of that will be get to the Lyerla. The White’s relatives were gratified because the identity stealer was caught. 4.0 OFFENCE There are four offences that were convicted. The offence that Cynthia Lyerla do are stole the others identity, which is she take the death women, Christina White that was died in 1965. That is about more than 20 years ago. Second offences are she makes the fake or false statements in a passport application. Lyerla use White’s personal information to apply the passport. Next offences are she use a mariner license illegally and possession. The excuse that she give about using mariner license illegally because she want to build new life after the murder case of her husband in the California. And the last offences that are the forth offences that she do are false personation of a transportation worker. 5.0 PUNISHMENT Cynthia Lyerla was...
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...A study of a group of 368 teens and one guardian for each was asked reasons that they didn’t wouldn’t want to strive treatment for depression. Consequently, the number one reason remained as judgement. (Peacock). The fact that those with depression risk their lives because of how others will view them is an immense problem. Millions of people experience depression and if actions do not persist to improve life for them, they will hold back from getting better, making a higher number of people die each year. Doctor Menninger concluded that, “They [depressed teenagers] find it hard to accept suggestions from others that they need to seek help. They [depressed teenagers] deny that some of the pressures and struggles causing them trouble are within themselves and that they compromise their ability to adapt. Some people are vulnerable, but we [everybody] all have a breaking point, we all have limitations. When you sense that your emotions are controlling you rather than you controlling your emotions, you should seek help (Menninger).” If 50% of people stand willing to believe that depression isn’t real even though millions commit suicide every year, a difference has to be made. Seeming so, treatment can seem to be particularly scary to some. It is difficult to be vulnerable...
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