...One of the main characters in the film Slum Dog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle is Salim. He is a slum dog who originally comes from the slum in India. He is the brother of Jamal who is a contestant on a game show called: “Who wants to be a millionaire”. In the first round of the game show, Jamal wins 10 million rupees, and only lacks one question from winning 20 million rupees. Since he is a slumdog, and could not possibly know all these answers, they accuse him of cheating. The whole movie shows why he actually know all of the answers, not because he is particularly smart, but because of happenings in his life. I would say that Salim is a round character. When we first see him, he is a little boy in the slum who watches his mother getting brutally killed right in front of his eyes. Salim and his brother Jamal is now on their own. In the start both of the brothers is kind of similar and equal. But after they meet Lateeka and end up in the house with all the future beggars, we can see that the Salim is developing. He is a much more rough character than Jamal, and is quickly given a “leader” position in the house. He is loud and is not afraid of saying what he thinks. When he finds out that they is going to make Jamal blind, he shows a good side of himself and rescues them. When they find Latheeka again after many years separated from her, Salim changes and throws Jamal out of an empty apartment they find. Again we see that he is a “bad” boy. And whole through the film we...
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...Alexa Romancewicz Everyone experiences dilemmas in their lives. These situations help shape the people that we are today. These events can occur because of the culture that we are exposed to. This idea is prevalent in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Slumdog Millionaire tells the tale of 18 year old Jamal, a kid from the slums, “slum dog” of Bombay/Mumbai as he is about to answer the final question on India’s version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”. The movie opens on Jamal being interrogated by police who think the only way a kid from the slums could make it that far on the show is by cheating. Throughout the movie we see Jamal get asked each question and as a result of his experiences, how he arrived upon each answer. Through these memories, we see Jamal’s experiences with being orphaned, surviving the slums with his brother Salim and trying to find out what happened to their friend Latika. Slumdog Millionaire was took home numerous awards at the 2009 Oscars including Best Picture. There are many cross cultural psychology concepts that are prevalent in this movie. The idea of collectivism vs individualism is a constant theme throughout the movie. Individualistic cultures are those which have many practices and customs encouraging individuals to prioritize their own individualistic goals and emphasize the ways in which they are distinct from each other as well as being self-sufficient. Collectivist cultures are ones in which interdependent goals are more emphasized people...
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...multiple links of related stories at the bottom of the main news area. Live scores are displayed right above the main news area. Below the main news area lays the Goal.com Newsletter where user can get in-depth information about the current events. The right hand side of the site has links related to Team news, player/ manager / clubs official statements. Goal.com also provides videos (match highlights/team news/interviews) at the bottom right. Space for advertisements is well managed at the top and the bottom of the page. Ease of Access There is a clearly highlighted section at the bottom of the page for any user who wants to a find out more about any particular club or player. The site is user-friendly mainly because it has play betting platform on match days. Goal.com gives user the option to select the region specific edition of the website. If the user wants in-depth knowledge of any particular events, the links of all the related stories are given at the beginning of each article in the ‘Don’t Miss’ section. Beneath each article there is a separate space for...
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...actually not cut out for the management cadre in the corporate world. So you are likely to saddle yourself with a career that makes you unhappy. 2. An MBA course is an investment both in terms of time and money hence wasting it is an offence. Moving on, let’s look at a few caricatures wherein an MBA degree can be handy: 4 The Anointed Heir who wants to hold the keys to his/her kingdom. This guy is someone like an industrialist’s son, who will have to take over the running of an existing corporate empire. 4 The Shop Floor Enthusiast who wants to sit in the gilded corporate office This guy is typically someone who has devoted many years on the shop floor (it could also be in a lab..or in sales..or in data collection), mostly a technical person who executes rather than strategises. This guy now wants to be a part of the strategic team. 4 The Intrepid Entrepreneur who wants to create an empire. This guy is someone who is all set to start his or her own business and wants to know the tools of how to do so. 4 The P o w e r S e e k e r who wants to crack the management ceiling he/she has hit because of a lack of an MBA degree. This person is typically someone who is a part of management perceived perspective. but of sees many promotions pass by him/ her due to a lack managerial of the top Most This is an invariable question in any MBA entrance-interview. Getting this answer pat right is critically important because it shows how clear you are about your expectations from the course. It is...
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...Who would have thought that being annoying might at times be a benefit or give freedom and pleasure of winning over the attacker? That might sound strange, but being annoying may sometimes pay off. Everyone, at some point in life, had to resolve an issue with an opponent. Each of us had to deal with individuals that were rude or actively tried to do damage to us, not looking at the significant age or maturity factors. Looking back at two faced best friends, lying boyfriends or girlfriends or jealous co-workers reminds us how desperately we looked for solutions that would work in the interest of helping us win. Oscar Wild once said: “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them more”. Although forgiveness is a beautiful act of kindness, being annoying towards enemies is the perfect tool to achieve ones goal, which is winning. It creates distraction, provides with an invincible armor, and most importantly no one wants to be around an annoying person, which will keep the enemy distant. Primarily, annoying the opponents by forgiving them creates a distraction and will confuse them. Forgiveness is the last thing they would have expected from someone whom they are bullying. Enemies usually are prepared to fight, physically or verbally, and they are pumped up with anger and frustration. Forgiving defuses the situation, and in some way takes “fuel” out of the opponent. That also gives people a reason to start a dialog and resolve their conflict. Distraction takes the attention...
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...Chokra – an assignment Paper on the following quotation: They could not stand our sight, we disgusted them; sickened them. Because we were what they might have to do themselves, one day, to their own children. (Page 306 lines 21 – 23). This sentence describes the Indian poor people's more darker way of making money for survival. At birth, a few of the kids the family has are crippled on purpose to evoke the feeling of compassion for a poor crippled child and it's protecting sibling, in order to get money. The people who have earnings just above survival level, fear that they, one day, might have to force the same destiny on some of their children, but until then it must remain a hidden fear and not something that is supposed to be seen on display every day on the street. At some point one can easily agree with them, but on the other hand there's a lot of irony in play. People know that it easily could be them in that situation, but still cannot even look at them. The entire idea that something like that could happen is abholing but unfortunately also common in India. In fact there are worse things taking place as for example: child “production” & trafficing. A lot of movies about india also have this subject in common, The over population of children. You always see children running around in flocs and asking for money/food & sometimes even autographs(slumdog millionaire). The autograph's could easily be sold for money or collected on. It does happen from time to time though...
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...novel with the introduction of Robert Walton through four consecutive letters written over the course of 8 months to his ‘darling sister’; Mrs Margaret Saville. Robert Walton is shown as a free minded pioneer who wants to discover ‘land surpassing in wonders’. Letter I, in the very first letter Shelly impresses the readers with the courage and bravery of Walton who is discarding his sisters worries ‘no disaster has accompanied….evil forebodings’. Readers are immediately intrigued as to the complexity of this danger. Walton’s love of ‘undiscovered solitudes’ and his desire to find the ‘wondrous power’ of the north pole is ironic because the novel is a science fiction genre and the idea of discovering the north pole was the same until the 1800s. In addition, Walton’s desire for discovery can be portrayed as being naïve and desperate as he wants to feed his ‘ardent curiosity’ and ‘conquer all fears of danger and death’ In addition, Walton is highlighted to be a man with dreams who wants to leave an ‘inestimable benefit’ and wants to benefit all of mankind. This could be foreshadowing Victor Frankenstein’s desire to benefit mankind which creates trouble. Robert seems to be very motivated as his ‘dream of early years’ is about to come true. Hence, he is maybe someone who likes to follow their dreams despite all hurdles. ‘My education was neglected’, if in despite of having no education he is still was ‘very fond of reading’ and imagined himself ‘ in the temple where the names...
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...was at its finest, playing a huge role in piecing the plot together. For example, when Kint is being interrogated flashbacks take place as well as quick transitioning between scenes. These flashbacks, and quick switching of scenes led this film to rely on editing heavily. This film can relate to “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Snatch” quite well in several ways such as involving certain editing techniques and different twists and turns used in the films. All three films come very close to relying on editing an equal amount. “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Snatch” uses both flashbacks as well as quick scene transitioning relating to “The Usual Suspects”, since this film uses both as well. In “Slumdog Millionaire”, Jamal, the boy on the show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”, recalls flashbacks specifically to support his correct answers for the game show, this as well relates to “The Usual Suspects” using a similar editing process and scene selection with questions being asked and with flashbacks from the characters to support an answer. Sound Inherent in “The Usual Suspects” plays a big role in keeping the rhythm and mood correctively in the right place. Overall, “The Usual Suspects” was a great movie...
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...Jamal, Salim and Latika are found by Maman - a gangster who tricks and then trains street children into becoming beggars. Maman’s plan is to find the best singing children and then blind them in order to make them more disturbing as singing beggars. One night Jamal and Salim have to attend when this blinding happens to a little boy. At first the boy is being stunned and then placed on a table. While he lies on the table he gets his eyes blinded by burning water. To experience such traumatic things, will inflict psychological effects for life. Maybe you can end up finding it very hard to trust anyone because you have been betrayed so much in your childhood, and maybe that can lead to not seeing anyone in fear of what they will do to you. When you’ve been raised in such a traumatic environment like Jamal and Salim its causes will follow you the whole life, and maybe one day you’ll be unconcerned and careless about everything and anyone around you. And at worst you can end up by doing the same thing to children as you were exposed to when you were a child. In the movie, we also see some of the consequences of being persecuted and maimed as child. Jamal and Salim choose two very different paths in their life. These paths lead to two dissimilar lives. When you think about their whole childhood it’s obvious that the experience at Maman’s place has been a detachment of the boys: Jamal ends up winning the show “Who wants to be a millionaire” in the pursuit of love, while Salim...
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...46-year-old Emmy-winning TV makeup artist. She created her first foundation and concealer products seven years ago while working for Barbara Walters, Meredith Vieira, and the rest of the hosts on “The View.” 2. Contributions and Uniqueness With sales growth slower than desired, Eve Pearl, the founder, is considering pitching her high-end cosmetic products — priced well above department store levels — to a broad audience by appearing on ShopNBC, a 24-hour TV shopping channel in the mode of QVC. While working on “The View,” Ms. Pearl started selling her brush-on products from her New York apartment. By 2008, she had become Ms. Vieira’s personal makeup specialist. She followed the broadcaster backstage on the sets of “Today” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” appeared on “Today” herself, and basked in the glow of a ribbon-cutting. She was flanked by morning show stars — Ms. Vieira, Ann Curry, Hoda Kotb and Natalie Morales — at the grand opening of her stylish 700-square-foot Upper East Side boutique. A YouTube posting of that celebrity-filled debut attracted tens of thousands of viewers and encouraged Ms. Pearl to start posting promotional videos demonstrating her techniques and products. That proved to be a good thing, with Internet orders soon outstripping her boutique business and her wholesale deliveries to makeup professionals. By 2011, Ms. Pearl had more than 100 products — some with prices as high as $98 — and more than $1 million in revenue. Her online sales were...
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...This is because at that time, Australia's policies about refugees have differed. If they happen to stay on this island for a significantly long amount of time, the hopes of them becoming a soccer player will begin to cease. This defeats part of their reason to make this dangerous trek. Meanwhile, John Howard's political party was making sure that they stayed in power and asylum seekers were a popular topic. He felt that Australia's borders needed better protection from the influx of illegal immigrants. His deep-rooted beliefs were shown in his 2001 Federal Election speech where he stated: "We will decide who comes into this country and the circumstances in which they come." ' If John Howard does not change his mind, Jamal and Bibi's future would not look...
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...becomes aware of her problem and at last, she knows that she has done a good thing and the right thing to do as well. Ellie is a wild teenager who wants to live life a little extreme. By the word extreme is meant that she party much, does not care much for school and she uses coke. Ellie develops throughout the story from being a nineteen-year-old drug abuser, who wanders around in her own small world in which it is all about drugs and she does not see the world or the people around her. In the store, she focuses her thoughts on the stone and her mother. She realizes that she has taken love and life for granted and how ungrateful and foolish that is. It is the point of no return, Ellie wakes up and start thinking about life and it values. She opens her eyes to the world she is living in. She becomes aware of the people, their love and the bonds of love between everyone. The feeling of being alive gives Ellie an ecstasy, which clearly is better than the intoxication of drugs. Her name means shining light or beautiful woman and it seems suitable because of her improvement. Ellie walks around London city as she goes for printer ink and the other errands. She does not tell us much about where she is going. Ellie just keep on walking as she appears on the streets more or less suddenly and this may interpret the confusion in her mind. She wants to go to the river, but does not get there at first, but then, after having her wakeup call, she ends by the river. It means that even though...
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...M Tu W Th F S Su Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Week One 1/23/2012 1/24/2012 1/25/2012 1/26/2012 1/27/2012 1/28/2012 1/29/2012 Post Bio Confessions of a College Student Participate with at least 2 substantial messages per day on 4 days of the week and respond to 3 of the 5 discussion questions. Week Two 1/30/2012 1/31/2012 2/1/2012 2/2/2012 2/3/2012 2/4/2012 2/5/2012 Goal Action Plan Participate with at least two substantial messages per day on 4 days of the week and responding to 3 of the 5 discussion questions. Week Three 2/6/2012 2/7/2012 2/8/2012 2/9/2012 2/10/2012 2/11/2012 2/12/2012 Circle of Support Participate with at least two substantial messages per day on 4 days of the week and responding to 3 of the 5 discussion questions. Week Four 2/13/2012 2/14/2012 2/15/2012 2/16/2012 2/17/2012 2/18/2012 2/19/2012 Midterm Exam Participate with at least two substantial messages per day on 4 days of the week and responding to 3 of the 5 discussion questions. Week Five 2/20/2012 2/21/2012 2/22/2012 2/23/2012 2/24/2012 2/25/2012 2/26/2012 Your Daily Routines: Then and Now Participate with at least two substantial messages per day on 4 days of the week and responding to 3 of the 5 discussion questions. Week Six 2/27/2012 2/28/2012 2/29/2012 3/1/2012 3/2/2012 3/3/2012 3/4/2012 Learning Inventory Participate with at least two substantial messages per day on 4...
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...Slumdog Millionaire is one of the most inspirational movies in recent years. The movie takes place in Mumbai, India. Where eighteen year old Jamal Salik is a contestant on the India version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jamal is one question away from winning the million dollars. But the host can’t believe that a boy from the slums of India can know all of the answers the questions. So he has Jamal arrested and interrogated after being convinced that he’s cheating. The rest of the movie employs flashbacks to narrate the story of Jamil and his brother Salim, and Latika a girl from there slum. Even though Jamals life wasn’t easy his life experiences gave him the knowledge to answer the difficult questions on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? In the movie Jamal and Salim take totally different paths in life. These paths lead to two opposing outcomes. Jamal ends up winning the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? While Salim dies at the hands of his gangster boss’ employees. Nevertheless, to say that Salim is a bad person who made all the wrong choices, whereas Jamal is the typical good-doer hero of the movie. To understand how they ended up in these different situations, we must first understand the experience that shaped their lives. Salim and Jamal are both orphans who lost their mother on an anti-muslim attack in the slum where they lived. They didn’t have the opportunity to attend school very long. In fact, Jamal only learned to name of two of the Three...
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... | Terrier | | has a double coat. The outer coat is wiry and the undercoat is soft | Watchdog, hunting, traveling, farm dogs | Hyperlipidemia, pancreatitis, diabetes, bladder stones | A family who has a lot of yard and wants a dog who will be on the “look out” will be perfect for this breed A family who has a lot of yard and wants a dog who will be on the “look out” will be perfect for this breed Breed/Size | Group | Head and body photo | Coat | Purpose | Breed concerns | Alaskan MalamuteWeight: Male: 85lbsFemale: 75lbsHeight: Male:25Female: 23 | Working | | dense coat that sheds very heavily | Hauling heavy freight | Hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, chondrodysplasia | A family that loves big dogs, does not have any allergies, and goes outdoors a lot will be a perfect family for this breed A family that loves big dogs, does not have any allergies, and goes outdoors a lot will be a perfect family for this breed Breed/Size | Group | Head and body photo | Coat | Purpose | Breed concerns | Great DaneWeight:Male: 120-200lbsFemale:100-130lbsHeight:Male: 30-34inFemale:28-32 | Working | | shorthaired coat is easy to groom, average shedder | Hunting, gaurding | Hip dysplasia, gastric dilatation volvulus | A family who loves hunting, wants to feel safe, and wants a tough dog A family who loves hunting, wants to feel safe, and wants a tough dog Breed/Size | Group | Head and body photo | Coat | Purpose | Breed concerns | Siberian HuskyWeight:Male:46-50Female:35-50Height:Male:21-25inFemale:20-23...
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