...May 6, 2013 COM 203 Professor Taylor Final Exam You’re absolutely right. Students who attend Canisius College turn out well, if not exceptional people. However, I do have to respectfully disagree with your statement regarding the students’ writing skills and media knowledge. Since different outlets of media have expanded since your years in college, students have been more up to date on current events than ever before. Media is all around you; it’s impossible to escape it. These students have television, radio, magazines, blogs, the internet, cell phones, newspapers, and even their peers as outlets of the media. The basic writing course that you mentioned not only discusses the varying orifices of the media but also tears apart and exposes all of the layers that make up distinctive news stories. The purpose of the media is to communicate and relay information to the general public. There are also three general purposes of communication that were identified by Harold Lasswell: surveillance of the environment, correlation of the parts of society in responding to that environment, and transmission of the cultural heritage from generation to generation. When you read a news article it seems like an easy task; gather information, write a rough draft, send it to the editor, make changes, then send it to print. What people don’t realize are the challenges of communication that writers, news reporters, and journalist need to avoid. All of these things we learned in that media class...
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...Conflict Research Perspectives Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland Rhett S. Close HUMN 305, Global Issues Professor Bakkum March 10, 2015 Conflict Research Perspectives Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland “The Troubles” as commonly known to the people of Ireland is the conflict that has been raging between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since the 1960’s. This conflict has been defined as a religious one between the Republic of Ireland (Catholic) and Northern Ireland (Protestant). The more recognized believe that it is in reference to the political issue of separating from Britain such as the Republic did or staying “loyal to the crown” as Northern Ireland has. The final point is the hostile actions that both sides have committed in defense of their positions (Hammer, 2009). Both sides make arguments to why the other has been the source of the problem. In the following paragraphs, we will look at each side’s arguments and present the facts as they are known. Republic of Ireland The Republic of Ireland has a vivid memory of the ethnic and religious persecution they endured by their British rulers. There has been a long history of violence and discrimination based on the religious choices and their ethnic background. This is a modern example of religious and ethnic bigotry in a first world country. Citizens were afraid to practice their religion or to be affiliated with their home land based on the violence that may occur. A primary...
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...himself as brave and probably a fighter. Also, he is not interested in his father's cowardly behaviour. For example, he does not fear for his own life, he sleeps with a gun under his pillow and he almost refuses to hold a proper conversation with his father. They used to have a good relationship, though, but after his mother's death he cannot really respect his father's new motherly role. Shot in the end; drug related crime or the Northern Ireland conflict/The Troubles. He seemed like a rebel, headstrong. Scared of something/someone. Hatred for society. Bitter. Ashamed of his father. Setting: Most likely set in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Probably before the Good Friday-agreement, 1998. In the 80's? During the Troubles? Part of the conflict? Typical working class home because of the linoleum. The father goes to work every morning. The doctor is different and represents the middle class. There is a huge gap between those classes. Theme/message: War is horrible. Appreciate your family. Family/conflict: common family troubles, lack of communisation. Gender roles and...
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...Perseverance is a theme seen throughout the movie “UP”. Perseverance is when troubles come your way you push past and keep moving through life. One example of this in UP is when Mr. Carl Fredrickson’s wife Ellie dies he keeps working towards his and Ellie’s dream of going to Paradise Falls. Another example of this is when Carl and Russell get to Paradise Falls and they have to walk Mr. Frederickson’s house around the cliffs of Paradise Falls to the falls. In the following paragraphs I will explain how Carl persevered and followed his dreams despite the troubles he faced along the way. When Mrs. Ellie Fredrickson dies Mr. Carl Fredrickson doesn’t give up his and Ellie’s dream of going to Paradise Falls. Carl knew that he would be sent to a retirement house soon and he was running out of time to go to Paradise Falls. On the day Carl is going to go to the Shady Oaks retirement house he comes up with an idea. Mr. Fredrickson ties thousands of balloons to his house and away he goes to Paradise Falls to follow his dreams. When Carl hears a knock on his door he opens it to find Russell, a young explorer scout looking to get his assisting the elderly badge, Carl know he has no other options but to let Russell come on the trip with him. Carl persevered through the loss of his wife and continued to follow his dreams. When Carl Fredrickson and Russell get to Paradise Falls they know that they have to walk the floating house around the cliffs to get it next to the falls. Carl knows...
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...Assignment 12 ”The Dress” by Julia Darling is a short story about jealousy and the troubles of single mothers with careers. It tells about the relationship between the two sisters, Rachel and Flora. It is a tense relationship, which finally breaks on their mother's fortieth birthday when Flora has stolen and ruined Rachel's dress. Rachel, unable to handle her sister anymore, goes to live with their father instead. Some time after the mother kicks Flora out of the house. The mother in the story is a forty-year-old bereavement counsellor. She lives alone with her two daughters. We know that she is divorced, because the girls' father does not live with them but is not dead either. When Rachel and Flora start fighting, the mother is unable to solve their conflict, despite the fact that her job consists of helping people. ""Flora!" whispered the mother, who wanted life to be calm, a flat sea with no sudden breezes. She liked emotions to be explored in safe rooms, with a clock." (Page 3, line 103-104) The mother spends all day taking care of people whose lives are falling apart and wants to go home to a calm and relaxing life. She wants to stop focusing on others' problems and instead have people focus on her and make her feel loved. She does not want to have to deal with more troubles, not even from her daughters, whom she feels should at least pretend to get along on her birthday. When attempting to solve their problems, she would refer to deal with it the same way she deals...
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...Contents Seamus Heaney’s Life: Biographical Life………………………………………………………………….......Page 1 Timeline of Events……………………………………………………………………Page 2 Political History (Northern Ireland – 1960/1970)…………………………………..Page 3 Seamus Heaney’s Work: Evaluation of Poetry influences…………………………………………………….Page 4 Seamus Heaney’s Poetry……………………………………………………………Page 5 Digging…………………………………………………………………………………Page 6 Analysis and Explanation of Digging…………………………………………….....Page 7 References…………………………………………………………………………....Page 8 Biological Life Childhood: Seamus Heaney was the eldest child from among the nine siblings in his family; he was born on 13th April 1939 in Mossbawn (Northern Ireland), which was their own family farmhouse. But later in 1953 (14 years later), Heaney’s family had decided to move location to Bellaghy which is just only a few miles from their farmhouse. His background consists of two different traditions which come from both his parent’s families, an Ireland from the Cattle-Herding Gaelic (Father’s family – Patrick Heaney) and the Ulster from the Industrial Revolution (Mother’s family – Margaret Kathleen Heaney). He studied at Anahorish Primary School in the local area; and as he grew older, he started to attend St. Columb’s College where he was awarded a scholarship at the age of 12. Career: Heaney who was only 18 years of age at the time when he had decided to travel to Belfast where he was given the opportunity to study English Language and Literature...
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...Scholarship Essay Q&A 1) List 3-5 extra-curricular activities and tell why they are important to you. Having the experience of playing varsity sports has brought a new light on how I perceived teamwork. What does it mean to be a part of a team? Teamwork is such a vital part of our everyday lives. Without teamwork, on is not prepared to handle situations where cooperation is needed to complete a task. Teamwork and cooperation are two significant qualities that many need to have in their lives to face the daily troubles of the “real world.” Varsity tennis and basketball are two experiences that have taught me to work with others in such a way that is useful and time-efficient. Throughout high school, I have been given several opportunities to go and reach out to those in my surrounding community. Mira Mesa High School has a program called the Outreach Dinner that occurs every year right around Thanksgiving assisting and providing the homeless and less fortunate people of San Diego County with free meals, dessert, and drinks. For two consecutive years, I have participated in this event and held significant positions each time. During my first year joining the Outreach Dinner, I was the head of the waiters/waitresses and their assistants who helped set up, serve the food and drinks to homeless, and clean up the tables and disposable plates. In addition to that, we were encouraged to speak with the guests and provide hospitality. In the second year, I volunteered...
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...her daughter play with the CB, Terri was actually pretty good at making this sounds better and was making new friends. They met a boy 'Lightning Bolt' and Terri started flirting with him, but was interupted by her dad's complaint. The next day she accidentaly overheard Terri talking bad about her with Lightning Bolt when he asked about her. She heard Terri saying that she has a flat chest, skinny, and what really iinsulted her was Terri joked about her nose and said it was 'Indian'. After that incident, the squeezing began and she never spoke to Terri again. Four years have passed and the squeezing has made an impact to her appearance during senior picture day. Personal response I feel that this story taught me a lot about the troubles of growing up as a teenager. Other people's opinion matter the most and can turn our confidence level from 100 to 0 in a second. Suddenly, everything can be wrong with your body just because some other person thinks its wrong. The writer also tells the two characters' true colors in this story. One shy, sensitive, insecure girl and this one confident, charismatic girl. She's basically everything the shy girl...
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...off. It`s not about money, wealth and material things that we could get in this world, it is the sense of fulfillment when you know you`ve done your best and you`ve felt the feeling that you deserve. Before we go any further, we need to understand that we are where we are today because of the decisions we’ve made—decisions about what to focus on, decisions about where to place our priorities, decisions about what things mean and decisions about what to do. Recently, we had our Open Book competition for our English subject. Since I was the president of the class, it was really hard for me to control and convince all of my classmates to help and strive hard to win the competition. There are times when I felt like giving up because of the troubles that we encountered but I had to be strong enough for my class because if I`m going to be weak, then the whole class will not participate anymore. I always thought that being determined and strong for them is the best thing that I could give back for the trust that they have given me as their Governor. And so, I did my part. I explained to them how I feel and how we should work on together to achieve success. After 2 weeks of preparing for the said event, here comes the most awaited moment for all of us, the actual presentation. Few minutes before, we all prayed together and ask the guidance of our Heavenly Father. Then lights camera, action! I`m glad all of us did an awesome job. It was like the moment was really meant for our class....
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...- History/Origin Northern Ireland came into existence with the British Government of Ireland Act (1920) which divided Ireland into two areas: the Irish Free State, made up of the 26 southern counties, and Northern Ireland - comprising of the counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone and Fermanagh. Roman Catholics, who made up around one-third of the population of Northern Ireland, were largely opposed to the partition. Irish Republican Army (IRA), nationalist organization devoted to the integration of Ireland as a complete and independent unit. Organized by Michael Collins from remnants of rebel units dispersed after the Easter Rebellion in 1916 (see Ireland), it was composed of the more militant members of the Irish Volunteers, and it became the military wing of the Sinn Féin party. With the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, the IRA became the stronghold of intransigent opposition to Ireland's dominion status and to the separation of Northern Ireland. During the troubled early years of the Free State, the IRA was responsible for numerous bombings, raids, and street battles on both sides of the Irish border. Popular and effective at first, its fortunes turned after Eamon De Valera, a former IRA supporter, took over the Free State government in 1932. Weakened by internal dissensions, by a loss of popular support because of its violence and pro-German agitation during World War II, by the attainment of republican objectives in 1949, and by government...
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...Case # 4 Philip Anderson Analyze the challenges Philip Anderson faces from the point of view of costs of control/ ethical Concerns? Philip Anderson faced troubles as some demands of his job started to dominate his ability and troubled him. He had to compromise on things that he did not want to happen. He had to push some of the products that were in their annual sale budget which were not suitable for the clients. He spent a lot of time and effort to built long term relationship with the clients and now it was too costly for him to lose these relationships and also it was unethical for him and his staff. He was also In trouble of losing his clients because of pursuing some new budget goals. Moreover he was facing problems to discuss it with his boss because he knows if will create trouble for him. Also there were scandals in the company of with he was feeling threat for him because there was a trend of criminal prosecution for low level management. Because he was not fit for such kind of job which was unethical, his annual bonus became low as compared to other managers at the company. This was a tough time for him as he was the one to take care of the whole family. Now it was really difficult to carry on for him when Stuart & Co was bought by one of the largest firm of the country because he was an independent minded manager and it was difficult for him to work in the new hierarchy where he should be aggressive to pursue the objectives set by the corporate. He...
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...Reread Act 1 Scene 3. How does Shakespeare make this such a dramatic and significant moment in the play? Support your answer by close reference to Shakespeare’s writing At the start of Act 1 Scene 3, we understand that Don John is a very sad, discontent and evil man. From previous scenes, we have already learnt that Don John is not a man of many words. In this scene, Shakespeare further develops Don John as a character allowing us to learn more about him and we learn that Don John will wreak havoc on Don Pedro and Claudio making this a dramatic scene. Also, important themes are introduces in this scene making it significant. In the scene, the melancholy of Don John is noted by Conrad who says, "why are you thus out of measure sad?". Sadness, a recurring theme in the book is represented by Don John. This makes this scene significant as a important theme sadness is introduced. Further into the scene, we learn that there is no real motive for the evil Don John commits and is due to his bad nature something he willingly admits, “though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain” Yet, Don John being Don Pedro’s bastard brother serves as a reason for his evil nature as he has a much lower social status then his brother and has no chance of rising in society due to his “bastard” status. Although Don John has just became reconciled with Don Pedro it is obvious that he does not acknowledge it at all. Even after Conrad’s...
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...the Republic of Ireland – and can, on a daily basis at least, not have to carry their side arms and say goodbye to the gun.” – Basically he is saying that he want the residents to feel safe enough, to say goodbye to the gun. In the first paragraph he is talking about that only a few people have actually heard gun shots since World War II, and that there has not been a gun culture in United Kingdom, so it’s legal to have a gun by your side. It’s not like in f.eks. Denmark, were we know it’s illegal to have a gun. They don’t know how to live without any gun, to protect them. We are also told that he has seen enough guns for a lifetime, he would die happy if we didn't have to see another one ever again. The first gunfire is known as 'The troubles'. He is also telling us that gunfire sounds, sounds nothing like what you hear in movies, and he is also referring that nothing in real life can be compared to movies because he has experienced it and you are more affected by it if it happens in real life. “But real gunfire sounds...
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...LEAVING BELFAST Leaving Belfast is a poem by Andrew Motion (1952 - …) an English poet, novelist and biographer. The story seems to be situated in Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, which had been the scene of various episodes of sectarian conflict between its Roman Catholic and Protestant populations at that time. These opposing groups in this conflict are now often termed republican and loyalist respectively, although they are also referred to as 'nationalist' and 'unionist'. The most recent example of this conflict was known as the Troubles, a civil conflict that raged from around 1969 to the late 1990s, with rival paramilitary groups formed on both sides. Bombing, assassination and street violence formed a backdrop to life throughout the Troubles. Much of the population escaped from Belfast during this time because the situation became insufferable, one of them was Andrew Motion, who, for this time and in the shape of a poem, tries to show us the feelings that came to him when he leaved his city. We can assume this fact of Andrew Motion going or escaping from a place called Belfast looking at the title of the poem, which is called “Leaving Belfast”. The word leaving is a gerund which means to go out of or away from and implies some kind of movement. Belfast as I have said is the capital city of Northern Ireland in which Andrew Motion lived. Starting to analyze the poem I have to say that the poem is composed by 7 stanzas, each of them formed by 4 lines. ...
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...1 1. Introduction 1.1. Bloody Sunday Sunday the 27th of January 1972 became known as the Bloody Sunday. This Sunday represents a very important point in the history of the partition of Ireland and the relationship between England and Northern Ireland. 14 people had been shot and another 13 wounded by British soldiers during a protest in the northern Irish city Derry for civil rights and against the British occupation policy on this very Sunday. The Events that took place on Bloody Sunday had been the initial phase for the conflict in Northern Ireland to escalate. As a result, the conflict got worse. Shortly after the declaration of the happenings in Derry, an enraged crowd of northern Irish citizens occupied the British Embassy in Dublin and burned it down. To simplify the enormous amount of the subject matter “Ireland”, in the following lesson, there is going to be a didactical cutback. To begin with, the students are supposed to get to know some basic facts about the divided Ireland. In this one lesson, it is not about representing the topic in all of its details. To a greater degree, it is about approaching the topic particularly with regard to war and peace. The children shall know, what happened on Bloody Sunday and they should be able to classify the events into the historical-cultural background.1 1.2. The Song “Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2” One of the most famous Bands in the World, U2, was founded in 1983. The Single “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” is the reason for the...
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