...vocabGCSE 09 Spanish Vocabulary book Version- Draft 1 GCSE Spanish Edexcel GCSE in Spanish Edexcel GCSE 2009 Spanish Vocabulary Book Edexcel are pleased to oprovide this free vocabulary book freely to support learners following the the Edexcel GCSE 2009 Specification in Spanish. Please note: the most up to date version of this document is available on the Edexcel website and a definitive list of core vocabulary is available in the Edexcel Specification. Introduction This bilingual glossary has been produced to support you in your language learning and to help you prepare for the Edexcel GCSE. It features a revised minimum core vocabulary foundation level vocabulary (this has been expanded from the original one in the specification) as well as higher level vocabulary. English meanings, genders and irregular word endings are given and the vocabulary is listed both alphabetically and under the following Edexcel headings: High Frequency Language Verbs Adjectives Colours Adverbs Numbers Quantities Connecting Words Time Expressions Times Days of the Week Months of the Year Question Words Countries Continents Nationalities Areas/Mountains/Cities/Rivers Acronyms and Abbreviations Social Conventions Prepositions Listening and Reading Topics Out and About - Visitor Information, Basic Weather, Local Amenities, Accommodation, Public Transport, Directions Customer Services and Transactions - Cafes and Restaurants, Shops, Dealing with Problems Personal Information - General...
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...1. American Sport Movies There are few countries in the world in which sports permeate national life to the degree that it does in the United States. Sports are a big part of the fabric of American life. The centrality of sports in American life is amply reflected in the American cinema. For decades movie makers have successfully mined sports to produce some of the most inspiring, poignant, exciting and memorable American movies ever made. The genre of ‘Sport Movies’ established in the Fifties and the Sixties. At the very beginning it was hard to see it as an independent genre because there was a lot of mixture. There have been propaganda movies as well as comedies, dramas, gangster movies or even westerns combined with some sport scenes. So the movie industry defined three categories of sport movies. Category 1: movies in which the main part of the narration is about sport or an athlete Category 2: movies which tell the life story of an athlete Category 3: movies which use sport scenes to describe a special milieu In addition to that there are a lot of movies of another genre which use sport scenes to dramatise the story or to create a good suspense. The first sport movies were all about the so called American Myth of victory and glory. Fair competitions and the better athletes defeating the weaken. The fascination of sport inspiring the people was used to lure the public. Then in the eighties and nineties there have been made a lot of biographical movies...
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...The Future of Human Resource Discussion at Alumni Symposia- 2013 References ● Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (ISBN 1591841380) Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams Mckinsey Quarterly Sloan Review Mint Blogs ● ● ● ● ● GigaOm Wired Techcrunch Wall Street Journal Ross Dawson ● ● ● ● ● Many others So What is the the Future of Human Resource And this is just the good news ! Why ? Technology & Outsourcing will replace transactional work Individualism will trash most HR Policies – especially in Hi-tech and then other sectors Collaboration tools will make real engagement possible and not just a Gallup Score – which has presence & meaning more in corporate presentations and resumes than real life Fluidity & Change will replace most Stable HR Constructs and Premises- Organisation Structure/ Design , Compensation, Jobs, Value chains Why ? Technology & Outsourcing will replace transactional work 2006- Unilever outsourced- HR operations, payroll, resourcing and even some of the learning services to Accenture . As Unilever said “The outsourcing programme is part of the company’s One Unilever initiatives to increase leverage of its scale, improve its marketplace competitiveness, deliver functional excellence, and create a more competitive cost-structure allowing it to focus on its consumers and customers.” p.s.- got renewed in Dec 2012 Intelligent programmes – will scavenge every social media site...
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...Padre English 110.02 Dr. H 10/24/2012 Don Quixote By Padre Don Quixote, formerly known at Senor quijana from La Mancha is quite possibly the most scrawniest, dimwitted insane “knight” of all times. Don Quixote starts out just fantasizing and reenacting what he has read in the books about noble knights and valiant warriors. Soon this mere fantasizing turns into an actual reality where Don Quixote actually believes that he is to be a brave and romantic knight. Suddenly Don Quixote is changing his name and his horses name so that he might appear more like a knight to those who he might meet on his many conquests. Courageously, Don Quixote sets out to be a knight and to win the love and favor of his lady. Within just a short time of his journey he stops at an inn where he is “knighted” and bravely stands watch over his armor which is most precious to him. When knighted, Don Quixote surely but steadily journeys a bit more and encounters “villains” and “evil people” who in reality are simple human beings who have done nothing wrong. So distorted is his mind that upon seeing windmills he attacks them claiming that all along they are giants who he must defeat. During one of his many antics, Don Quixote attacks the wrong people and they beat, bruise and bury him in his own knightly...
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...November 18, 2012 World Literature I Odysseus and the idealist Don Quixote What is a hero? To be a hero means winning honor through competitive combat in ancient Greece and the middle ages. In those historic eras warriors, knights, and kings were honored the most. A hero was someone with a smooth fighting technique and would face death at any moment. Heroes were the people who would lead their armies, fellow knights, and comrades into battle and earned tributes for their courage and great deeds performed during their combat. In other light, the cowards of ancient Greece and the middle ages were considered a burden and were affronted. Throughout many books authors have explained different aspects of what it means to be a hero. Homer, author of the Odyssey, and Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, convey this characteristic frequently. In the Odyssey, Odysseus was a skillful fighter, but it was yet the proof Homer’s readers needed of his heroism. Odysseus also transpired characteristics of restraint and mercy. On the other hand, Cervantes’ character was not born a hero. He was fooled by chivalric ideas of heroism and sets out to reform the world along with his witty companion. Odysseus and Don Quixote are from two totally different eras, but both of them tried to conquer the world with their heroic acts. Not only their heroic acts made them well known, it’s also their imagination that makes them stand out. In comparison, imagination is what makes Quixote the hero, and imagination...
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...diversity, but a lot of those movies aren’t movies I’m interested in, this made my decision a lot harder. While looking through my movie collection I came across a few movies that fit the assignment description, Guess Whose Coming to Dinner, Glory Road, Guess Who, Remember the Titans, The Great Debaters, etc. After finding all these movies I decided I wanted to do something that deals with something I can closely relate to, after some great thought I went with the Disney movie, Glory Road. Glory Road is a movie that is based on a true story that happened at the University of Texas El Paso in 1966. It addresses the events that the players and coaches faced during this time period due to racism. Once a girl’s high school basketball coach, Don Haskins was recruited by UTEP to be the head coach of the men’s basketball program. At the time of taking the job, Coach Haskins had no idea what he got himself in to. He walked himself into a program with a non-existent recruiting budget. With no money to recruit Coach Haskins was not able to attract the more popular and well-known white player to UTEP. Not willing to give up on his winning tendencies he decides to change it up by recruiting African American players from New York. In America during the 1960s race was an overriding issue in sports. Black players were openly admitted to be superior to whites in basketball, and black players clearly changed the character of the game during the decade, bringing speed, jumping ability, and showmanship...
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...In this essay I want to examine how postmodernism is used throughout Don Delillo's White Noise and Caryl Churchill's Top Girls. Although each of the texts are very dissimilar they both concentrate on restrictions in society, yet open up a whole new perspective to what these oppressive values really do represent. Postmodern novels are known to be published after the Second World War. It was after the 19th century that modernism was introduced, where the constraints from society's values were rebelled against. However, in the last few decades, there is an evident change that had occurred. Modernism focuses upon values that are oppressing in society, such as class, politics, race and gender. Yet, postmodernism doesn't focus on these aspects in a way that is challenging them; it focuses more on a utopian idea of the world. It is where these constraints are not just acknowledged, but disregarded as they shouldn't seem to matter simply because boundaries in society shouldn't be an issue. Don Delillo's White Noise, was first published in 1984 and it looks into how the world is changing through the medium of popular culture, the media and most importantly, technology. The reader is exposed to this through the eyes of the protagonist, Jack Gladney who is a professor of Hitler studies in a university. A major theme that occurs throughout the novel is the subject of death. We see that Jack has a great fear of death. However, in one of Jacks lectures he unexpectedly confronts this fear by...
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...The movie Glory Road is based on the true story of the 1965 Texas Western Minors men’s basketball team. Don Haskins, who is the main character in the movie, coached the team, and led them to the national championship game where they beat the number one ranked team, Kentucky, who was an all white team. This game was and still is considered one of the greatest upsets in sports history, and one of the most important games as well, as Don Haskins started five black players, and only played the seven black players. The reason this game, as well as the entire season, was so significant was because during this time, racism was still a huge problem in the United States, but especially in the south where Texas Western was located. Don Haskins recruited seven black players to the team, which was by far the most in the NCAA at the time, as only a few teams had just one black player on the team. The team experienced a lot of racism throughout their season, from other players on the floor making racial remarks, referees being bias towards white teams, people in restaurants staring and causing fights, and even their hotel rooms getting trashed when they were on the road. The more success the team had, the more prominent the racism was. Disney used this event to create a sports movie, with a much more important theme and message behind the story. Sport in this film is used to represent unity, and coming together. In the movie, basketball is a chance for the black players to prove all of the...
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...Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” Opera is a form of musical art in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and music in a theatrical setting involving stories of extreme human situations or stories regarding mythology. One of the most interesting challenges in an operatic composition, is the challenge behind composing music for all the individual characters in the opera and the job the composer has of distinguishing between the different characters through their music. A perfect example of an opera that was executed in a great way amidst these challenges is Mozart's “Don Giovanni.” “Don Giovanni” is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. “Don Giovanni” is in opera divided into two acts about a young, arrogant womanizer named Don Giovanni. Don Giovanni is the main character of the opera who takes advantage of any opportunity he can in order to seduce a girl, any girl for that matter. When the opera begins, a masked, Don Giovanni is at the Commendatore’s house with his eye’s set a young girl named Donna Anna who is daughter of the Commendatore name Don Pedro and is betrothed to Don Ottavio. As Donna Anna is attempting to figure out who the masked figure is, she cries for help and her father comes to her aid and challenges Don Giovanni...
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...This essay presents a brief overview of the development of the nineteenth century English novel. Transition and Transformation: One could be forgiven for believing that the words ‘fiction’ and ‘novel’ mean one and the same thing. The main reason for this confusion is that both of them have a common denominator; they both tell a story. In the novel, we have the theatre of life and for over two centuries it has been the most effective agent of the moral imagination. Though it has never really achieved perfection in form and its shortcomings are numerable, nevertheless one experiences from it not only the extent of human variety, but also the value of this variety. Fiction existed right from the first time man told a story and thus it is in this respect only, that it is similar to the forerunner of the novel as we know it today, which is any work of fiction in England written before 1670. Novelists express their conscious conclusions about life as they experience it and these manifest themselves not only in the characters they create and their interaction with each other, but also in the way they make them react or respond to the various situations in which they find themselves and in what they say within these situations. They are relatively free to choose their material, but their conclusions about life and the nature of their novels are dependent on their innate personality, as this affects not only the way in which they present their characters, but also our own understanding...
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...The Adventures of Don Quijote of La Mancha was written by Miguel De Cervantes, while he was in jail in 1605 and 1615. Here is his story. Alfonso Quijiano, or Don Quijote was an older man from Spain, he was a mad man, who read a plethora of books and then decided to go on crazy adventures to assist the helpless. He was eager to become a knight just so he could win his love, Delcinea, who was really Aldonza Lorenza. On Don Quijote’s adventures, he brought a squire along to assist him, his name was Sancho. He only followed Don Quijote because he promised him an island, all to himself. Sancho rode his fearless donkey, Dapple; Don Quijote rode his faithful steed, Rocinante. Together they endured many adventures. Along his chivalric travels, the...
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...In “Quinceañera”, Julia Alvarez uses her own childhood experiences to explain what a quinceañera is. First, Alvarez introduces the formal definition of “quinceañera”. According to Alvarez, a quinceañera is an elaborate and ritualized party in which families and friends gathering together to celebrate a young girl who has just turned fifteen years old, and is ready to turn into an adult. During the quinceañera, many of the lower-class families choose to celebrate with a cake while rich families will have their girls dressed up in an elegant and formal dress. Over the years, quinceañera have become more highly ritualized, they have added more symbolism to the event such as a tiara, fourteen girls and guys that the girl chooses to be in the party,...
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...INTRODUCTION This paper discusses the HealthSouth Case including the activities and subsequent prosecution of its CEO, Richard Scrushy. “During the trial of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, federal prosecutors argued that Scrushy must have known something was amiss with HealthSouth’s financial statements since there was a discrepancy between the company’s financial and nonfinancial performance.” Over a ten-year period from 1987 to 1997, HealthSouth enjoyed above–average growth at a rate of 31 percent per year. (Jennings, 2012, 2009, p. 183) This phenomenal growth was due, in part, to a series of mergers and acquisitions let by the efforts of the company’s CEO, Richard Scrushy who ran the company with an iron fist and has at least one recorded conversation directing a CFO to fix the numbers over time. The fraud lasted for seven years and totaled approximately $2.7 billion. Mr. Scrushy denied knowing anything about the fraud, claimed it was all done by the people around him and was ultimately found not guilty of the fraud at HealthSouth but was convicted on bribery and corruption charges. Mr. Scrushy was ordered to pay $2.9 billion in restitution in a civil suit. “From at least 1996 until 2002, HealthSouth senior management perpetrated a financial statement fraud primarily through the use of nonstandard journal entries.” (Carmichael, 2010, p. 64) “Scrushy, once a high school dropout, worked as a gas station attendant and a bricklayer before retuning (sic)...
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...Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. After a first failed adventure, he sets out on a second one with a somewhat befuddled laborer named Sancho Panza, whom he has persuaded to accompany him as his faithful squire. In return for Sancho’s services, Don Quixote promises to make Sancho the wealthy governor of an isle. On his horse, Rocinante, a barn nag well past his prime, Don Quixote rides the roads of Spain in search of glory and grand adventure. He gives up food, shelter, and comfort, all in the name of a peasant woman, Dulcinea del Toboso, whom he envisions as a princess. On his second expedition, Don Quixote becomes more of a bandit than a savior, stealing from and hurting baffled and justifiably angry citizens while acting out against what he perceives as threats to his knighthood or to the world. Don Quixote abandons a boy, leaving him in the hands of an evil farmer simply because the farmer swears an oath that he will not harm the boy. He steals a barber’s basin that he believes to be the mythic Mambrino’s helmet, and he becomes convinced of the healing powers of the Balsam of Fierbras, an elixir that makes him so ill that, by comparison, he later feels healed. Sancho stands by Don Quixote, often bearing the brunt of the punishments that arise from Don Quixote’s behavior....
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...After a near-death experience one might think “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” What they should be thinking about is what got them into a near-death situation in the first place. Several years ago I had been working in Europe for more than 200 days straight. I was sick of the cold, dreary weather I was forced to endure day in and day out in the north of England. So when my friends suggested that I join them on vacation to go scuba diving in the Cayman Islands, I jumped at the chance to go. What I didn’t know at the time was that I would learn a valuable lesson - to trust my instincts and not to give into peer pressure. The first day on the island we went to one of the many dive shops that dotted the harbor along the port town of Stingray City. Although we were able to book three days of diving, we had to wait until the next day to make our first dive. We were all anxious to do something after the long plane ride. My friend Rex suggested that we go snorkeling in the coral reefs off of Seven Mile Beach. Personally, I thought that it was a bad idea. I was not a really strong swimmer, and we would be alone without a boat to pick us up if we got tired. But Rex and his brother Doug would not let go of the idea and pressured me into going, and against my better judgment I agreed to go. The turquoise blue water of the Caribbean Ocean was warm and calm. I was surprised by the gentle slope of the seabed and how far we were able to walk out before we...
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