...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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...the beach is an U.S Navy soldier who escaped. 11. Sadao and Hana consider at first to put him back into the sea. 13. Sadao and Hana decided to take the soldier to their house and heal him before they hand him to the police. Page 58 14. a. “He will die unless he is operated on, the question is whether he will not die anyway”. b. “What if he should not die?” 16. The servants did not agree with their master was doing. “My master ought not to command me to wash the enemy” 17. Yumi refused to help Hana wash the american soldier because she won’t help the enemy and she don't wants to interfere. Analysis and Interpretation 2. Both servants don’t want to help Sadao and Hana with the white man....
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...metal rod is forced through a series of varying cross section die(s) and hence the metal rod cross sectional area is varied so as to obtain the desired shape and size. In Kenwest cables company their are 3 wire drawing machines namely:- 1. M55 2. H20 3. M85 1.M55 This is the main copper drawing machine and the one which can handle the 1st drawing process which is hard drawing. The raw material used is usually copper rod of 7.9mm thickness as the hard drawing material. The M55 can also handle further copper drawing like the H20. Operation procedure The M55 has several units namely:- a) stand b) block c) drawing basin d) annealer e) spooler a) stand It is responsible in guiding the copper rod being fed to the block or drawing basin. If its hard drawing its fed to the block but when its further drawing its directly fed into the drawing basin. This is because at the block section the die obtained may have a larger diameter than the copper rod in the case of further drawing hence the block is not required. b) Block It is functional when hard drawing takes place. The 1st die is usually located in this section (the block section) hence drawing process begins at the block section. The copper rod being fed is usually about 7.9mm in diameter which is the diameter of the hard drawing copper. Animal fat is used in this section which acts as a lubricant to ease the process of the copper rod passing through the die. Jam oil cannot be used in this section because the block section...
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...which would have cost $11 per car, even though the analysis showed that the new system would result in 180 less deaths (1999, The Valuation of Life As It Applies To the Negligence-Efficiency Argument). The company defended itself by using the accepted risk/benefit analysis to indicate that costs of making the change were higher than the fatality costs. This analysis was based on Judge Learned Hand’s BPL formula, where if the expected harm exceeded the redesign costs, then Ford must make the change, whereas if the redesign costs were higher than fatality costs, then it didn’t have to. Ford legally chose not to make the fuel system changes which would have reduced the fatality rate. However, it was legal doesn’t mean that it was ethical to the society. It is hard to accept how companies can put price tag on a human life. To me, it is unethical to determine that people should die or be injured because it would cost too much money to prevent it. Some things just can’t be measured in price, and that includes human life. Christopher Leggett stated in his case analysis: “Ford adopted a policy of allowing a certain number of people to die or be seriously injured even though they would have avoided it. From a human rights perspective, Ford disregarded the injured people’s rights and therefore, in making the decision not to make adjustments to the fuel system, acted unethically.” However, there are arguments supports the risk/benefit analysis. People believe that efficiency does not equal...
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...competitive, respectful sport, something needs to be done. With the elder population being too well established in other sports the target demographic comes down to the youth of the country. Targeting young adults, teens as well as children seems to be the most viable option. The proposed way of doing this will be to bring hockey leagues to the hometowns of the kids, making it more appealing and accessible as well as establishing a fan base from early on in a person’s life. Other methods of increasing hockey exposure and revenues are looked at however setting up leagues is the proposed solution. To do so sponsorships will need to be set up, schools will need to be contacted and youth will need to be inspired by NHL role models. Situational Analysis Hockey the sport born in the cold and played on ice finds itself to be an overlooked and under appreciated industry. Ever since it’s birth in 1917 the NHL has seen constant controversy and many different struggles. Initially starting...
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...of exposure, attention, and comprehension. This question goes a step further than the previous one and requires students to follow the consumer from first exposure to the consumption decision. The Super Bowl is often the most watched television event of the year. As a result, it is an excellent opportunity for marketers to maximize accidental exposure to their products and services. Certainly, most truly devoted football fans (the group most likely to be intrigued by the activities offered on the Web site) were watching the Super Bowl that Sunday. To promote the Web site during the game was therefore an ideal opportunity to maximize accidental exposure. Because the Super Bowl is such a major event, most viewers (especially the die-hard fans) were watching with a relatively high level of focal attention. One of the primary reasons ABC’s promos were so successful in attracting traffic is that they were at least somewhat situationally self-relevant to everyone who saw them. If you didn’t care at all about football, you wouldn’t have been watching the game. The intrinsic self-relevance of the Web site was very strong for those serious fans who wanted to know even more about the game they were watching, or debate the play-calling and the relative merits of the teams with fans around the world. Those fans who visited the Web site felt a high level of involvement with the game, and thus the situational and intrinsic self-relevance of the promos was fairly high. That...
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...represent extremely problematic areas for the criminal law, as the recent guidelines issue around assisted suicide testifies. The effect of these guidelines is to make no official change in the law, yet to make it clear as a matter of practice that where the law on its face has been broken, there will be no prosecution where the defendant was motivated by good moral reasons. On a legal realist vision of law, the law has changed, but on a positivistic reading it has not. What we have in fact is a rather complex and potentially troublesome juxtaposition of legal rule and administrative discretion. This balances strong social, political and moral claims in a society where there is no consensus as to the rights and wrongs of helping someone to die. In this context, the legal realist can say ‘I told you so’, and the legal positivist can cluck disapprovingly, but both miss the point, which is that the law’s messy mixing of messages in a pragmatic compromise reflects the moral impasse in a way that gives something to everyone. Thus the pro-life lobby can say that the law has not changed and no symbolic succour has been given to the pro-euthanasia view, while the latter can claim to have made headway in chipping away at the monolithic view that assisting death is impermissible. The right to lifers will be legal positivists on the matter whereas the pro-choice constituency will be legal...
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...Analysis of An Article: A critique of “The Language of Euthanasia” This essay is a critique of the article “The Language of Euthanasia” written by Sheila Grant. After careful evaluation of this article, it is impossible to accept Sheila Grant's’ view on Euthanasia as it commits the fallacies of red herring, hasty conclusion and slippery slope making her persuasive view problematic. The fallacy of the red herring is committed when a person making an argument presents an argument (that can be valid or invalid) but does not address the issue or the question directly. In the article, Grant says “What makes this discussion of this subject so difficult is that there is a great public confusion about the terminology”. I feel that the reference and in-depth debate of the many meanings of the word Euthanasia avoids the subject rather than addressing its ethical value. This fallacy is also committed when the author beings discussing the different types...
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...Analysis of short story elements. I. Romeo and Juliet II. Act 5, scene 3 III. William Shakespear IV. Romeo, Juliet V. Friar Laurence, Balthasar, Pasar, Page VI. Man vs. Man VII. From his hiding place, Paris recognizes Romeo as the man who murdered Tybalt, and thus as the man who indirectly murdered Juliet, since it is her grief for her cousin that is supposed to have killed her. As Romeo has been exiled from the city on penalty of death, Paris thinks that Romeo must hate the Capulets so much that he has returned to the tomb to do some dishonor to the corpse of either Tybalt or Juliet. In a rage, Paris accosts Romeo. Romeo pleads with him to leave, but Paris refuses. They draw their swords and fight. Paris’s page runs off to get the civil watch. Romeo kills Paris. As he dies, Paris asks to be laid near Juliet in the tomb, and Romeo consents. IX. Just then, Friar Lawrence enters the churchyard. He encounters Balthasar, who tells him that Romeo is in the tomb. Balthasar says that he fell asleep and dreamed that Romeo fought with and killed someone. Troubled, the friar enters the tomb, where he finds Paris’s body and then Romeo’s. As the friar takes in the bloody scene, Juliet wakes. X. Juliet asks the friar where her husband is. Hearing a noise that he believes is the coming of the watch, the friar quickly replies that both Romeo and Paris are dead, and that she must leave with him. Juliet refuses to leave, and the friar, fearful that the watch is...
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...Geanean Mckenzie Professor Weiss Modes Of Analysis Character Of Analysis Essay 2/16/14 In Tim O’Brien “The Things They Carried” The first story in the collection introduces the cast of characters that reappear throughout the book. The cast is made up of the soldiers of the Alpha Company, led by First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. The platoon is deployed to fight in the Vietnam War. The narrator, O’Brien, is one of the soldiers, and he distinguishes one soldier from another in this first story by the items that they carry. Authors as far back as Homer described soldiers going into battle by naming the things that they carried: goatskins filled with water, spears, and locks of hair from their beloved ones. O’Brien updates this literary strategy. His characters carry the modern implements of war. But the feeling evoked is similar: static lists make the characters seem already dead, prematurely mourned. The lists are like wills. The first story is told in third person, with some insight into the mind of Jimmy Cross. This movement between perspectives is called free indirect discourse, and serves to distance the reader from the soldiers. The reader sees them as if they were in a movie, moving slowly across an unfamiliar landscape, carrying their various burdens. The ancient movement of men going to war is juxtaposed with the rough, modern language of the soldiers themselves. They use slang, swear at each other, and try to diffuse the feeling of danger and helplessness by describing death...
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