...The 400 years between when “The Misfortunes of Arthur” was written, and the movie Excalibur was directed; the character Mordred of the Arthurian Legends went through many different unique re-tellings. These re-telling were a result of business and a unique selling points that each writer or director used in order for their work to be a success. The selling points that the writer or director chooses are affected by their audience, in which the they try to bring something new and entice the people of their time period. This provides strong reasoning for how and why the development of Mordred in the Arthurian Legends took place. Many distinct themes in “The Misfortunes of Arthur” and Excalibur show the audience to be an influence to how the...
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...King Arthur was also known as a Roman Catholic. Along with both being of the same religion, Arthur and Anne both had mentors that they trusted dearly and that were well known. Arthur’s widely known tutor was Merlyn the wizard and Bertrand Delanoe was the friend and mentor to Anne Hidalgo. King Arthur’s achievements were many, including, winning almost every battle that he participated in. He won the battle against his mortal enemies Mordrid and Morgana Le Fey. As long as Arthur had the scabbard for Excalibur he could never be hurt. His biggest achievement was his transition from a nobody to the best king that France ever had. Anne Hidalgo has many achievements as well. Her biggest in her own opinion is being a mom to three children. Along with being a mom she wrote a book, “Mon combat por Paris” (My fight for Paris), being on the cabinet of Martine Aubrey, Nichole Perry, and Marylise...
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...When the Knights of Camelot camped away from the castle, friends tended to set up their bedrolls close to one another, and since Percival and Gwaine were best mates, they slept near each other. Well, Gwaine often snored like a boar dying from catarrh, which kept waking Percival, so restful sleep was often challenging. During one such mission in the heart of summer, Gwaine’s snoring was enough to rattle tress, and Percival tossed a pebble at him. “Oi!” Gwaine sat upright in his bedroll. “I was sleeping!” “You were snoring loud enough to wake the dead. Any other man would have smothered you.” His face a ghostly white in the pale moonlight, Gwaine scowled. “I’m thirsty, and it’s your fault I’m awake. Come with me to the creek.” “Yes, Master.” Side by side, Percival and Gwaine strolled to the creek, which was a good few dozen strides away from their camp, far enough away that the other knights could not hear them. Gwaine bent, cupped his hands, and took a few long, grateful swallows of water from the bubbling creek. “Much better. But do you know what would be even finer? A night of Leon’s chambermaid in my bed! Have you ever gazed at that round, ripe arse? I’d like to…” Gwaine engaged in a long soliloquy about all the acts in which he would engage with the beautiful young chambermaid. It was not that Percival minded the detailed description, it was that he had a difficult—if not impossible—time relating to Gwaine’s enthusiasm. And, out of nowhere, Percival decided it was...
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...Merlin I am Your Father As I was riding horseback chasing the young King Arthur because his training had began. Every time I got within roping distance I would give a big swing of my stick and ropes would fly out to grab Arthur. I know this training doesn’t seem ethical but its how all good kings should be trained. I know that Arthur will be the next king because I have the power to look far into the future and Arthur will be the greatest of all the kings to ever live. I was beginning to come up on Arthur’s back when he stops and shouts, “Holy Grail” as it hits him in the head a knocks him out. Minutes later he wakes up and I tell him what has happened. I told him, “Well obviously there was a grail that was Holy from the last supper and I reckon that I hit you up the head because you must be the chosen one least that’s what I have seen in my visions.” So as we were heading back to Camelot to show what Arthur has been given from the heavens above. When we were about 3 miles from the kingdom my evil father that died when I was younger rose from the dead. He was the man who taught me all my magical powers but wanted me to use them for bad but I chose differently. Arthur began to panic because he had no clue who this dark man is but I had to refrain him from panicking. My father began to mock me and Arthur. So I told Arthur to step back, my father and I are going to have an epic wizard battle. I let my father begin first; he turned his evil body into a small rat and came...
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...Steward Vanessa Steward English III Honors Period 2 Couillard Developing Derfel Derfel Cadarn is the protagonist as well as the narrator of the Warlord Chronicles written by Bernard Cornwell. Igraine, the Queen of Powys, asks an old Derfel to write the story about his past, the story of Arthur. Derfel begins the novel, first Winter King when he was just an orphan child taken by Merlin, a Druid, and in the second novel, Enemy of God, and the last novel Excalibur ends with Derfel well into his adulthood. Derfel develops from a timid child, to a developing man, and then a heroic one. Beginning with Winter King, Derfel Cadarn is only just a child. As odd as it may seem, Derfel’s lovers throughout the two novels are a tremendous developing factor. Derfel portrays himself as a foolish boy, for an example, “I can blush now when I think of a young boy’s desperate lunges at a woman’s affection,” on page 51, he had confessed his “love” to Nimue at this moment and reflects back on it in embarrassment. Although Derfel had not gotten together with Nimue then, he did acquire a youthful relationship with a young woman named Lunete. His relationship with Lunete did not last very long at all but during this time Derfel had just went with whatever Lunete had wanted. He says, “Lunete, like my new beard, was a sign of manhood and I wore both clumsily,” on page 114, basically saying Lunete was his first step into manhood but he was still not quite there. As the story progresses, Derfel...
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...The Legend of King Arthur is timeless. It is the story of a great king who accomplished much and continues to be an inspiration. There have been many works of literature written about him, as well as movies and plays. The origins of the legend are not completely known, but some of the earlier recorded works include Pearl-Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. By analyzing ancient British paganism and Christianity, one can see how they each influenced the creation of the legend of King Arthur to make it the well known story many know and love today. It begins with pagans, the ancient Britons- the Aryans. Pagans are considered the people who had their own local religions as opposed to Christianity. Paganism includes Celtic lore as well as Greek and Roman antiquity. It plays a large role in many British literature works, especially the legends of King Arthur. Looking at the pagan religions, one can see the correlations between those customs and how they influenced British Literature. “We can still discern in the religions of the Aryan-speaking nations similar ideas and expressions pointing to an original source of mythological conceptions.”(Squire) The pagans had many myths and legends from which many characters of the King Arthur legend can be related. In fact, the Celts have stories relating to Arthur before Christianity, including tales such as The Lady of the Fountain, Geraint, and Peredur.(Scudder) To begin, one must start at...
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...The Sword in the Stone of the Arthurian Legend King Arthur and the knights of the round table belong to a long line of books and stories of the Arthurian legend. Merlin, Lancelot, The lady of the lake, King Arthur, and Excaliber are all very important in the Arthurian legend. In this essay we will talk about King Arthur, the knights of the round table, and Merlin in the famous story, The sword in the stone. The Sword in the stone is a book about an adopted child named wart. He is of royal blood and does not know this. One day when Wart is in the forest, he finds a magician named Merlin. Merlin comes home with Wart and agrees with Sir Ector, Wart’s guardian, to become Wart’s tutor. Merlin goes about educating Wart by Transforming him into different animals. Through each transformation Wart experiences different forms of power, each being a part of how he should rule as king. The first transformation takes Wart and Merlin into the castle’s moat as a fish. They then meet the largest fish in the moat, which is an alligator who is the ruler. The alligator takes what he wants because of his size. In a speech about power, he tells Wart that “Might is right,” and might of the body is greater than might of the mind. Because of the way the alligator rules, his subjects obey him out of fear for their lives. Wart experiences this firsthand when the gator tells him to leave. He has grown bored of Wart, and if Wart does not leave he will eat him. The king uses his siz...
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...Choose two works that you saw as addressing the same theme, but through different forms. First, discuss the form. What form was each in? Did that form give you any particular difficulties when you read through that work? Next, explain how the form of the work influenced the way the theme came across in each. What sort of an effect did the way the work was shaped have on the theme itself? After reading so many stories in this class there were two pieces of literature that themes were quite similar but written in different forms. These two stories are King Arthur Witten by Sir Thomas Malory and Othello by William Shakespeare. I personally had some difficult reading these two stories however; I was able to understand them after going back and reviewing key points that explained the main idea. The story of King Arthur is based on romance and chivalry and it was difficult to read because it was written in old English as supposed to early Anglo-Saxon literature. This storie had a lot to do with the story of Othello because the plots are similar in some way. In King’s Arthur, The King discovers that his best Knight Lancelot is in love with his Queen Guenevere. That fact was clearly seen in the story when the Queen favors Lancelot above the other Kinights. “Queen Guenever had him in great favour above all other knights, and in return he was loyal to her above all other ladies and damsels all his life, and for love of her he did many deeds of arms, and saved her from the fire through...
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...It was after four in the morning and Gwaine hadn’t texted Percival back. Gwaine must have fallen asleep, and Percival didn’t blame him, as he was so exhausted his eyes burned and his brain ached. He thought back to his high school years where he’d avoided dating, because while he realized he was gay back then, he wasn’t ready to face that fact. Plus, it wasn’t so difficult to pretend to be straight back in those days – he immersed himself in playing football, wrestling, and track-and-field. He was busy with sports and school, so it wasn’t that strange to be dateless. But when he broke a vertebra in his neck during his senior year after he’d been facemasked and tackled during a football game, his days of contact sports were over. And the pain had been horrendous and unyielding. That’s what had drawn Percival to study physical therapy, his own experience healing from his neck injury. He loved those hours of hard work at the PT center and made great friends there. But after his life as a jock ended and he faced college with no romantic experience, he had to make a decision – live as a straight guy or as a gay man. Too terrified to come out to his family as gay, he dated girls and had sex with two of them. Much to his relief, he’d been dumped both times after he slept with them, probably because the girls realized he wasn’t into it. He wished he’d had the guts to tell them the truth; they were beautiful girls and it wasn’t their fault. But all that heartache seemed to evaporate...
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...achieving near term objectives. Because it helps define appropriate short-term actions, it is more likely that the same line manager, making the staffing decision will still be in place to collect the benefits of that decision later on. First of all, it is important to address staffing from a proactive, planning perspective and not just an implantation phase. Even though this approach may have been used before, it is no longer realistic for organizations to assume that the staff needed to implement its plans is readily available and quickly recruited, trained, and qualified to work. Some staffing limitations may impact the company’s ability to implement its plans. For instance, my organization requires that only registered nurses with advance life support certification are to be scheduled to work on sub-acute unit. If this requirement is impossible to fulfill and company is unable recruit a sufficient number of nurses with critical care skills then implantation plan may not be successful. These limitations should...
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...How to Create an Effective Change Management Plan Prosci's Change Management Toolkit is one of the most comprehensive guides for managers, project teams and consultants involved in change management. The toolkit includes detailed planning templates, readiness assessments and guidelines for building executive sponsorship and managing resistance. Templates include communication plans, training plans, sponsor roadmaps, coaching plans and resistance management plans. Based on research with more than 700 companies, The Change Management Toolkit is a leader’s guide that contains templates and guidelines to help you effectively employ change management and write a complete and professional change management plan. Assessment tools and implementation guidelines will help you implement an effective change management strategy.The Change Management Toolkit enables you to: * Manage the people side of change, not just the business side. * Develop a change management strategy for your project. * Create a communication plan. * Actively manage resistance to change. | Toolkit elements: * Change management overview - what is change management, why is it important, what can I do to manage change effectively * Assessments - tools for evaluating your change and your organization's readiness for change * Templates - critical document templates for planning and executing change management - provided on CD-ROM * Theories and perspectives - a practical discussion of change principles...
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...List and briefly discuss the stages of a multimedia project. Be sure to define the milestones that mark the completion of the phase. Firstly, you must develop a sense of its scope and content, having a rough idea in your head on how to design your project. Then I have to develop an organized outline and a plan that is rational in terms of the skills, time, budget, tools, and resources that I have in hand. Scheduling, once I have worked out with my plan that include the phases, tasks and work items that I feel will be required. I have to layout these elements along a timeline. This will usually include milestones at which certain deliverables are to be done. To create a schedule I must estimate the total time required for each task. After scheduling, estimating the cost of the project will be relevant to estimate the entire cost after the project has been completed. It is relatively simple matter to estimate cost and effort, For example, the manufacturing industry. Having a progressive accounts and billing will be saved to review the financial part of the project, for example preparing a cost sheet. Finally, write and structure the elements of the multimedia project. Potential clients do not have a clue about how to make multimedia, but they do have a vision on their project. As a project designer, I will know what, my clients want and how to satisfy them. I occasionally may encounter a more formal request of proposal. This are typically detailed documents from large corporation...
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...Time Management is very important especially in a busy person,making deadlines/quotas because you make plan so that everything will settled down according before or after the scheduled time. Time management Developing time management skills is a journey that may begin with this Guide, but needs practice and other guidance along the way. One goal is to help yourself become aware of how you use your time as one resource in organizing, prioritizing, and succeeding in your studies in the context of competing activities of friends, work, family, etc. First: try our exercise in time management: How do you spend your time each day? Strategies on using time: These applications of time management have proven to be effective as good study habits. As we go through each strategy, jot down an idea of what each will look like for you: * Blocks of study time and breaks As your school term begins and your course schedule is set, develop and plan for, blocks of study time in a typical week. Blocks ideally are around 50 minutes, but perhaps you become restless after only 30 minutes? Some difficult material may require more frequent breaks. Shorten your study blocks if necessary-but don't forget to return to the task at hand! What you do during your break should give you an opportunity to have a snack, relax, or otherwise refresh or re-energize yourself. For example, place blocks of time when you are most productive: are you a morning person or a night owl? ...
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...longer is it acceptable simply to make good products that satisfy customers while complying with laws and regulations. Businesses are now called upon to consider – and, indeed, intentionally to manage – the wider social and environmental consequences of their actions, beyond the requirements of the legal and regulatory settings in which they operate” (Charles River Center, 2008). Thus it is important for Charles River Printing (CRP) to include this concept into its sustainability vision and mission in order to make it as part of their daily operations and grow as a responsible company. To build the strategic planning practices (SPP) for CRP it is important to develop action plans, the timeline for its planning; the level of stakeholder engagement; the governance structure; risk assessment and mitigation plans; and most importantly measure its progress (Pojasek, 2013. p.1). While doing this it is important to integrate the policies and strategies with respect to the economic sustainability, social responsibility and environmental stewardship of the company. Moreover, the goals have to be aligned with the mission, vision and core value of the company and vice versa. The first step is to develop the SPP would be to understand that of its parent company RR Donnelley. The plant manager should try to align the SPP of CRP with the parent company to have a common methodology and then improvise the strategies, while keeping in mind the long term goals of the company. CRP can follow international...
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...developing a comprehensive set of plans to integrate and coordinate organizational work. The term planning as used in this chapter refers to formal planning. Types of Planning: * Informal – not written down, little or no sharing of goals with others in the organization * Formal – specific goals covering a period of time are defined II. Why do Managers Plan? Purposes of Planning * Planning gives direction * Reduces the impact of change * Minimizes waste and redundancy * Sets the standard used in controlling Planning and Performance * Generally speaking, however, formal planning is associated with positive financial results. * The quality of the planning process and appropriate implementation probably contribute more to high performance than does the extent of planning. * When formal planning has been shown not to lead to higher performance, the environment is usually the reason. * Organizations need at least four years of systematic formal planning before performance is impacted. III. How do Managers Plan? Elements of Planning A. Goals * Goals are desired outcomes for individuals, groups, or entire organizations. Goals are objectives–the two terms are used interchangeably. They provide the direction for all management decisions and form the criterion against which actual work accomplishments can be measured. B. Plans * Plans are documents that outline how...
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