...1980´s Sports The events of the 1980ś are remembered as a decade of great achievements. There were several sports moments in those years that still resonate today. November 23, 1984, Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary beats Miami 47-45. They were up against the Hurricanes so it was a very close call. MLB commissioner, Bart Giamatti bans Pete Rose for life. After betting on baseball games as the manager of Cincinnati Reds, Pete Rose was banned for life in 1989. In the Summer Olympics 1988, Ben Johnson flunked his drug test and lost his gold Metal. The Olympics provide an arena where all countries come to compete with good sportsmanship regardless of what happens with political viewpoints along with other outside conflicts. In the 1980ś, the worldś best athletes gathered for the Winter Olympics. War between the United States and the Soviet Union went on for a long time. Later, the U.S. hockey team was made up of Young, along with older minor league players who had never had any practice with each other. Sometime later, the team defeated the U.S. team 10-3 in an exhibition game Weeks before the Olympics. They were considered by experts to be the most creative and greatest hockey team in the world, due to their sense of Teamwork and ability to work with each other....
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...Turkey in the 1980s and the Islamist Aftermath During the 1980s, the military attempted to re-bolster its authoritarian rule. The 1961 coup, one that attempted to clamp down on politicians collaborating with religious groups, had not produced the pristine secular regime the military desired, nor prevented the political gridlock between partisan political authorities. In order to defend itself from the Marxist threat, an ideology promoted during the Cold War by the Soviet Union, the military began to relegate more funds towards building up conservative Islam as a bulwark against leftist ideology. Due to the alienation of minorities in Turkey, the military became nervous of a communist takeover (Taspinar 137). During this decade, Kurdish unrest expressed itself as a rebellious Kurdish Separatist movement known as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which threatened threaten Turkish sovereignty. Ironically, Kemal’s ethnic nationalist agenda would serve as a role model for the PKK, which has sought to unify Kurds and establish a Kurdish state. In order to regain control in Turkey, the military relegated more funds towards building up conservative Islam as a bulwark against leftist...
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...Trade Union Decline: Australia Sarah Jury An essay discussing the factors contributing to the steady decline in trade unionism in Australia since the 1980’s and the relevance of unions to workers today. M G T S 2 6 0 7 : E m p l o y m e n t R e l a t i o n s W o r d C o u n t : 1 9 8 2 Sarah Jury Trade Union Decline in Australia 42395582 There has been a dramatic decline in trade union membership rates across Australia since the 1980s. In 1986, 46% (or 2.6 million) of employees were trade union members; this figure has steadily declined to 19% (or 1.7million) of employees in 2007 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2009). By May 2010 trade union membership had fallen to a record low of 18% (or 1.84 million) of employees and remained steady for the past 3 years (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). This essay aims to highlight the factors that have played a significant role in the steady decline of unionization in Australia. It focuses on the changing composition of the labour force, the change in governmental policies, the newly empowered role...
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...and Personal Response “Facing poverty with a rich girl’s habit” By Suki Kim Lashanti Brown Professor Maria Allegra, MS ENG. 115- English Composition July 10, 2012 Assignment 1.1: Summary and Personal Response- Draft Version 1. Identify the source (writer and title of essay) and state his or her most important point in your own words. The writer name is Suki Kim. Her title comes from her own life trials. This essay comes from her book that she wrote titled, “Interpreter.” She lets the reader knows that she was born with the silver spoon in her mouth. Her father had lost everything in bankruptcy and in her country that is a crime a person can be put into jail. So her family had come to Queens, New York. They didn’t have a penny to their names. She had to learn how to transfer from a little rich girl to a poor little girl. This essay also shows us how she dealt with the changes and how others saw her and what she calls the 1.5 generation. Ms. Kim also lets us the reader knows that it was hard to transfer to a new lifestyle especially in the 1980’s as a teenager. 2. Summarize the other main points and their supporting details in separate paragraphs. One of the other main points in this essay to me was her first English words in junior high were F.O.B., short for fresh off the boat. She didn’t understand why other kids called her that because she had flown Korean Air to Kennedy Airport. The second main point is one of the where she had to face fact that took more for...
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...runs on ever-faster cyclings of the new” (165). It is no longer an issue of how well an advertisement can influence its consumers. Where the greater challenge lies is, if that corporation can continually give its audience what it desires. It is a whole new world, and corporations must constantly modify their approaches on their products to be successful. Not only must they modify their products, but they must also create ads that will make their product memorable to the consumer or they will inevitably fail and become a part of marketing history. Camel cigarettes are a long-standing brand that has been around for almost a century. Throughout the 20th Century, Camel periodically adjusted their advertising methodology. Especially in the 1980s, Camel advertisements were predominantly filled with white males who were middle-aged with blonde hair and a mustache and who were the focal points of the ads. The mustache particularly personified masculinity, ruggedness, and what a ‘man’ should have. Their slogan during that time was, “It’s a Whole New World”. Surprisingly, in this ‘world’, there seemed to be very few women in...
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...English 1 B – assignment due 11 or 12 September in tutorials. Essay question Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” is a political poem that needs to be understood contextually for its full meaning to be revealed. Write a 5 paragraph essay (introduction, 3 paragraphs in the body of the essay and a conclusion) in which you discuss the following: 1. The relevance of the history of slavery to understanding this poem. Your answer should include a discussion of the images and repetition that Marley uses to make this point. 2. The poem says: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.” Discuss how these lines encapsulate the main message of this poem. Your paragraph should connect to Marley’s broader context. 3. Bob Marley was a deeply religious man. He uses many references to divine intervention in this poem. Discuss the effect that these lines have in creating the overall message of the poem. Your answer should include a discussion of the figurative language he uses to make his point. Your answer must include quotations from the poem that you reference by counting the lines (i.e. number the lines for referencing purposes) and by using the following in your bibliography: Marley, Bob. 1980. “Redemption Song.” Uprising. London: EMI Records. When quoting from the poem within your paragraph, make sure that your sentences are grammatically consistent with any quote that you embed. Also make sure that you reference your quotations...
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...Post-National Enquiries Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings Edited by Jopi Nyman Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings, Edited by Jopi Nyman This book first published 2009 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2009 by Jopi Nyman and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0593-9, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0593-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments ..................................................................................... vii Chapter One................................................................................................. 1 Introduction Jopi Nyman Part I: Crossing Racial Boundaries Chapter Two ................................................................................................ 8 Between Camps: Paul Gilroy and the Dilemma of “Race” Tuire Valkeakari Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 30 Breaking the Apartheid: Blocking Actors of Color in Globalized Multicultural...
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...02-11-2009 Philosophy of Science Essay 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduction Over the past decades many philosophers and other scientists have created several theories about the economy. Many of them tried to convince others with their subjective view on this area of interest. Among them there were several great scientists who created a widely discussion among their fellow scientists because they really added something to the endless discussion: “what is this thing called science” Karl Popper was one of them; he was known for ruthlessly attacking the logical positivism supporters. He even took responsibility for the collapse of the Vienna Circle. In short he stated that observations only became valuable if there were previously marked observations. Those previously discovered observations were created and viewed through people’s eyes and therefore science was “peoples work” and people are fallible creatures thus subjective.[1] Over the years many of them supported Popper while many others heavily discussed his opinion. In this essay we will discuss another view of Popper and we try to reflect it on today’s International Business. We will discuss...
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...ßCultural-Competence Assignment Introduction The purpose of this essay is to firstly understand the arguments between McSweeney and Hofstede about national cultures. The argument starts on the Hoftstede’s published book Culture’s Consequences. Hoftstede’s cultural dimensions theory has got popular and in the same time criticised by other scholars, while McSweeney is one of the scholars who have been critising the cultural dimensions on people from different nations. This essay will firstly summarise the ideas and arguments of both of McSweeney and Hofstede in order to develop the understanding about the reasons why they are conflicting with each other on the cultural dimension theories. Following the summary of the two scholars ideas and argument, this essay will discuss the agreement and disagreement of both scholars. Reflection on this course on national culture will be specified as well in order to show whether my personal understanding about culture has been changed or improved. Summary of the ideas and argument of both McSweeney and Hofstede * McSweeney’s argument McSweeney expresses his doubts about Hoftstede’s model of national cultural differences and their consequences. The criticism that McSweeney has on the theory of Hoftstede’s cultural dimensions based on the description of national cultural differences in the Culture’s Consequences published in 1980 (McSweeney, 2002). First of all, the methodology applied in the research of Hoftstede’s model is critised...
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...Morrison 04/17/2014 The essay that I am summarizing is "Facing Poverty with a Rich Girls Habits" written by Suki Kim. Suki tells us how her life changed dramatically overnight. She lived in Korea until her seventh grade year when her father who was a wealthy business man lost everything they had in the 1980's. Her family moved to Queens New York where she was having a difficult time adjusting to her new life in America. When she was 13 she realized how much things to change she no longer had a chauffeur to drive her around so she had to ride public transportation to and from school. She no longer had a governess to help her with her homework, nor a maid to clean up after her. Things are a lot different in school here in America she no longer has to bow to her teachers and the dress code is a lot different. She could not speak any english so in school she took a class called English as a second language. She met other Korean student's, but it did not take her long to realize they had very little i common. She also tell us she would watch the television show Three's Company to help her learn english as well. It was not until years later that she learned that their was a difference in the American-Korean students and the Korean students. In the essay, she explains how quick a person's life can change without warning. I beleave that Suki's attitude in this essay is that of a person having a difficult time adjusting to a whole new life. This essay reaches out to anyone who...
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...Essay films are arguably the most innovative and popular forms of filmmaking since the 1990s”, Timothy Corrigan claims in his diligent new study, The Essay Film. Corrigan may have an agenda to press, and a thesis to justify, but the recent critical and commercial success of the genre is hard to ignore. A cinematic wave that arguably has its contemporary roots in the late 1980s, when American filmmakers such as Michael Moore and Errol Morris rose to public prominence, reached an apotheosis with Moore’s hugely popular, though hugely flawed, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) and Davis Guggenheim’s information-heavy An Inconvenient Truth (2006), which conjured a compelling piece of screen drama from Al Gore’s Powerpoint presentation. Nowadays, the Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars is one of the most highly coveted. For Corrigan, the essayistic film “describes the many-layered activities of a personal point of view as a public experience”. While this is a perfectly good starting point, the author is so convinced of the elasticity of his subject that he has trouble constraining it under the broader umbrellas of documentary, non-fiction or even fiction. At times it appears that, for Corrigan, all filmmaking is essayistic. Nevertheless, he traces a convincing history of the genre(s) from D. W. Griffith’s prototypical A Corner of Wheat (1909), which contrasts the lives of the agricultural poor with those of their capitalist exploiters, via Dmitri Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein to...
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...(1960), played the mamillale role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre. bestessaycheap.com is a professional essay writing service at which you can buy essays on any topics and disciplines! All custom essays are written by professional writers! Her much furrow personal life included eight marriages and several heavy(a) illnesses. From the mid-1980s, Taylor championed HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS interrogative in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a attitude Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on their list of the Greatest American Screen Legends. Taylor died of congestive tit failur e at the age of 79.If you want to get a full! essay, order it on our...
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...Millaniyage Dulan Chaturanga Perera 617809 Managing Employee Relations Assignment Research Essay Is the work of Unions still relevant? A trade union, as defined in the History of Trade Unionism is ‘ a continuous association of wageearners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their working lives’.(Webb and Webb, 1911) Unions exist on the basis that they protect the wages and conditions for employees, making sure that they're protected from unemployment by obtaining a substantial degree of job security as well as supporting employees in disputes and claims against their employers.(Murphy, 2014) The relevance of unions may vary from place to place. Using reasoning and statistical day, we will aim to achieve some sort of clarity towards the complexity and variety of opinions that people have on the need for trade unions. Importance of Trade Unions Unions not only negotiate wages, they also have an impact on fringe benefits, labour productivity,work allocation, job security and employee participation practices.(OECD, 1991) There is also a spillover effect, through extension of agreements and employer responses to union environment where some of these benefits alter the employment terms of non union members.(OECD, 1991) A substantial amount of protective legislation supporting unemployment compensation, sickness insurance, employment protection along with occupational health and safety, is the outcome of work by trade unions. ...
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...Boeing Company Abstract The essay is a discussion about the success factor in business activities. A case study of Boeing and airbus companies has been used to analyze the application of strategic management topics. The introduction to the essay explains the development of the two companies and the various products manufactured by the companies. Success factors that can be seen from the case studies have been discussed to integrate the two aspects. A conclusion to the essay indicates the summary of the essay. Introduction Boeing Boeing Company was founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois (Kennedy et al 2000). The company has made many strategies for expansion to cater for its international market and compete with the increasing number of competitors in the market for aeroplanes, jets and military space machines. In 1997 Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas to expand its manufacturing and marketing strategies. The company has competed globally and has emerged the largest aircraft in the world in terms of revenues, orders and delivered products. It is has achieved the position as the third largest aerospace in defense contracts. Boeing has dominated the market for aircraft and has the highest value of exports in the economy of the United States (Herzog, 1994). The company started by manufacturing seaplanes. William E. Boeing is an entrepreneur who initially worked in the timber industry. She accumulated wealth...
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