...TSA: How Far is too Far? ENG 122 English Composition II Dr. Rigney January 2, 2013 TSA: How Far is too Far? September 11, 2001(9/11) was the day the country was reminded that terrorists attacks on the United States is real and is a serious threat. On that fateful day in 2001, we lost thousands (to date there is still no official number) of our fellow Americans because nineteen terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The members of this group were able to pass through airport security with box cutters and “explosives” (this has never been proven to date), to board the passenger jets that would be used in the attack that day. Once the terrorists had taken over the jets in mid-flight, they re-routed the jets to their intended targets. Two of the jets crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. One of the jets was able to hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the last jet never made it to its intended target because of the brave passengers on board that day. The passengers were able to take back control of the jet from the hi-jackers and the jet was crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania (9/11: timeline of events, 2013). Immediately following these attacks, a nationwide shut down of all aircraft was issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) (Hoffman, 2011, Roberts, 2011, and Hoyer, 2011). This nationwide shut down began to slowly lift on September 12, 2001; this was when the planes...
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...Books by Saul Alinsky John L. Lewis, An Unauthorized Biography Reveille for Radicals The Professional Radical (with Marian Sanders) Rules for Radicals RULES FOR RADICALS A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals SAUL D. ALINSKY RANDOM HOUSE New York Acknowledgments This chapter "Of Means and Ends" was presented in the Auburn Lecture Series at Union Theological Seminary. Some of the other sections of this book were delivered in part in lectures before the Leaders of America series at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California; Yale Political Union, New Haven, Connecticut, April, 1970; The Willis D. Wood Fellowship Lecture, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, May, 1969; American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 1968; U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.; March, 1968; A.F. of L.-C.I.O. Labor Press Association, Miami, Florida, December, 1967; American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1967; Centennial Address, Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968; Harvard Medical Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 Copyright © 1971 by Saul D. Alinsky All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. ISBN: 0-394-44341-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-117651 ...
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...another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty. Sec. 5. This equality of men by nature, the judicious Hooker looks upon as so evident in itself, and beyond all question, that he makes it the foundation of that obligation to mutual love amongst men, on which he builds the duties they owe one another, and from whence he derives the great maxims of justice and charity. His words are, "The like natural inducement hath brought men to know that it is no less their duty, to love others than themselves; for seeing those things which are equal, must needs all have one measure; if I cannot but wish to receive good, even as much at every man's hands, as any man can wish unto his own soul, how should I look to have any part of my desire herein satisfied, unless myself be careful to satisfy the like desire, which is undoubtedly in other men, being of one and the same nature? To have any thing offered them repugnant to this desire, must needs in all respects...
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...lives Unspoken But this is real And all I can do Is feel The pain inside When I look at you I cry For this shouldn't be the way Life is for us For you But I guess that's how It played out Like a tune That won't fade out Of existence, like my mind It goes back from Time to time And all that was done And left unsaid Can't be dealt with In my head I can't help, but wonder Where we would've been If this fucking mistake Would've never been Cause we should be stars right now We would go far right now And all the words that were said Wouldn't be left in my head We could be stars right now I really don't know how But all the words left unsaid Wouldn't be in my head I sat and watched you drool Today Wondering how It can be this way For all that was promised Was lost And all that's left Is nothing But a shell Of what was there So I stopped To wonder If anyone would care If it was me there And all you could do is stare At the site before you I guess we'll never know Where we would've been But I gotta go on To send The right message To them all I just hate What happened that fall... Cause we should be stars right now We would go far right now And all the words in my head Wouldn't go unsaid Cause we would be stars right now I really don't know how But all the words left unsaid Wouldn't be in my...
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...heavy traffic and other driver’s frustration appeared; when they were swerving their cars left and right trying to make their way out of traffic. I had my radio on and the news was about a car accident on San Mateo Bridge, which already started my day off wrong from that moment. As I was counting down the miles toward my destination, driving my car on the carpool lane going 65 miles per hour which was the legal speed limit for the freeway. Cruising on the far left lane, driving a 2005 black Jeep Cherokee that had four large tires which made me higher and oversee the whole view of the freeway. The incident started when I took a quick glance over my right shoulder and saw a blue, shiny-rimmed Toyota Runner, suv spinning out of control. The car instantly took my attention; the car was at the very far right lane so at the moment I did not doubt that the driver was going to make his way towards me immediately. Because it was raining hard and the road was wet which made him to slide all the way to the far left lane. At first he hit the concrete freeway dividers suddenly, I instantly slammed my breaks until I saw smoke coming out from the tires and then blew up. He spun 180 degrees and stopped facing the incoming traffic. I look at my right side and many cars were coming and my left side was the divider of the freeway. I was trying to avoid crashing into him, but I had no other alternatives but to crash with almost half of my speed. After ten minutes all I heard were sirens...
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...Use some of these points to help you. 1. Did you like or dislike the film? Why? (either answer is valid – but it is always interesting to explore the reasons). I did like the film because of the beautiful barren imagery, ingenious use of symbolism and Del Toro’s unique way of bringing out societal issues in a highly suggestive manner. I also enjoyed the role of the ghost to push the story line forwards with each apparition. 2. What, do you believe is the main theme of the film? The Spanish Civil War, more specifically how Franco’s army and the right-winged parties consolidated while the left-winged opposition fragmented and was, eventually, forced out. Also there is a general message about war and how such terrifying events can rob children of their childhoods. 3. Were you frightened during the story? Of what? Which characters were more frightening – Santi? Jacinto? Did this response change as the film progressed? If so, how? At first the movie seems like any other typical ghost/horror story, where one grows weary of the ghost’s presence primarily due to fear of the unknown. However, as the storyline develops, one becomes uncomfortably accustomed to the ghost’s appearance. Furthermore, after learning the circumstances behind Santi’s death and Jacinto’s involvement in the murder, one becomes morally sympathetic of Santi’s cause. Consequently Jacinto becomes more frightening as a character given he proves himself unremorsefully capable of murder. By the...
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...Love and Spring, he takes each character from the Primavera and gives them a background and a story, based on sources from different text fragments. According to Zollner, the figure on the very left is Mercury, the messenger of the gods who divides clouds and drives away wind with his wand, which is discussed in Virgi’s Aenid He characterizes the little flying boy as Amor (Eros in Greek mythology), the son of Mars and Venus. Venus, the goddess of love and beauty is the woman at the very center of the painting. She is accompanied by the Three Graces. He explains how these characters are often found together in other literary works, like in one of Horace’s popular verses. Moving to the right side of the painting, the woman decorated with flowers is characterized as Flora, with her pre-transformation form of Chloris clinging to her side. He assumes this, from the work of Ovid’s Fasti. Finally, the green figure at the far right is Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, which, according to Zollner, can be identified by the puffed out...
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...left side of the young women there is a little village with a few cozy looking houses. The artist probably just modeled some houses that he saw in the country side. On the right side there is five men throwing hay onto a house drawn wagon. This also makes the painting realistic because what would a young woman be doing out in the field far away from the village by herself. It makes sense that there are others helping her with her work. The task seems almost never ending with the long rows and mountainous piles of hay. The subject matter of the painting is still life. He is trying to portray what it would look like in fall harvesting hay in the 19th century. This painting looks as if the artist just took a picture of a person in their daily life. She has her lunch basket along with which shows me that she will be out there all day. The scale of the painting is medium and this makes the young woman in the painting seem life like. The young woman in the center of the painting turning hay looks tired. I say this because of her gaze and facial expressions. She just looks wore out from the seemly endless task because you can see she is very far from her town. The space of the painting is infinite the huge fields seem to go on for a mile or so...
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...major attention and focus due to the fact they prey upon the emotions and fears of ordinary people. Groups and individuals expressing extreme beliefs sometimes seek a response that may be violent, and that scares us most of the time. That’s why being bystanders produces no action or outcome, which is considered radical, unlike the activist who displays their agenda openly. The media allows these far reaching actions and ideas to consume our narrow view of our world. By taking little or no action against the militants who seek to control the destiny of the majority we become the militant through our inaction. The political process produces differing opinions, which many are considered deep-rooted in their parties. The extreme right verse the extreme left presents ideas that result in no positive action but only festers an environment of disagreement and lack of action. An example of this is the inability to come to an agreement on our economic crises resulting in a major blow to struggling 401K retirement plans. This lack of action is leaving many no option but to work far past the current retirement age. The acceptance of...
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...often judges other peoples identity, based on their material goods, like houses and cars. They even allow their own capital affect on their own identity. To enter the Good Fortune Shopping mall, you need to have a good identity. The search for an identity is central in Baglady. In her short story, “Baglady” from 1999, A. S. Byatt writes about Daphne whose husband, Rollo, is to go on a business-trip to the Far East. Through 3'rd person narrator, she highlights identity as the theme, showing that how much, people think about their image and identity. Daphne Gulver-Robinson is married to her husband, Rollo, whom she accompanies on a business trip in the Far East. The trip they are going on to, is no a couple trip. Rollo has invited Daphne on the trip, only because he wants to portray him as a normal family, like the others on the trip. He was afraid that his colleges would think that he was odd, if she didn’t come. Because it mean so much for him, that Daphne need to go with him, it gets you thinking that there is something wrong, because it seems like it only matters how everyone thinks he's a family guy, instead of actually being a normal family guy. Daphne thinks that she is a social misfit, because of her appearance, quote from the text “She has tried to make her attractive for this jaunt and has lost ten pounds and had her hands manicured; but now she sees the other ladies, she knows it is not enough". The image and the materialistic things, as appearance and the weight...
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...Spencer Davison European Politics The Demand and Supply Side Causes of the Austrian Radical Right The 2008 Austrian Parliamentary elections followed an increasingly familiar pattern. Two far right political parties received a combined 29.1% of the votes which translated to 52 seats of the 183 seat legislature, only 30,000 votes away from the leading party. For the past twenty years the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) has become one of Austria’s most influential, and controversial, political parties. Its strong anti-immigration stance, xenophobic rhetoric, and suspected anti-Semitism have garnered international attention since its creation. Even though this right-wing populism phenomenon of Austria has become one of many cases in Europe, the sheer scale of FPO involvement in the country makes it a unique study. Ruud Koopmans explored the emergence of the extreme right in an attempt to define the causes of it. He compared two contrasting theories in his analysis. Grievance, demand side, theories suggest that growing rightist populism is a direct result of an increasing discontent and xenophobia within a country due to immigration and the consequences of it. Opportunity, supply side, theories focus on the institutional attributes of a particular polity, and how these arrangements make it possible for the right-wing movement to not only start, but flourish as well. He concluded that opportunity theories best explain the rightist movement. However, others believe...
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...Thomas Manning Nancy Blair Art Appreciation November 19, 2010 A Mirror Image With the use of black cutouts Kara Walker is able to depict images that create challenging questions about power, race and sex. In her work You Do her simple powerful style asks some of these questions. It is through this style that Kara Walker shows that art can be powerful with the use of only a few elements in design. In a representational work of art, Kara Walker shows how the use of multiple line styles can unite a piece of art. Much of the work in this piece is connected by curvilinear lines leaving only one object separated from the rest. This object, in the lower left corner depicts a man carrying a cane. This cane, one of the only straight lines in the work other than the pins in the doll, is a straight line and can be considered pointing to the figures in the middle of the work. This straight line shows an implied line as this seems to be pointing up and directing attention. It is through this implied line that the connection from this alone object is connected to the rest of the art work. Through the use of romantic line quality this work contains heavy lines with sharp edges. This is due to the creation process. The cutout silhouettes are drawn by the artist first then they are cutout using an X-acto knife (Riley). It is through this method that the work has clear sharp edges creating the lines. These two dimensional shapes can only be imagined as life like. They carry...
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...democratic environment in the company. 2. What is mission and vision state of the company ? 3. Which points do you take care about your customer relationships ? In our customer relationships loyality is very important. Because our customers are important for us, we take care their needs. Sustainability and quality are the points we take care in our customer relationships. 4. How do you contact with your customers ? We are a compnay that is about technology so we use web pages to contact our customers. 5. Which lines do you represent and which geographical areas do you serve ? Today, with 2 deep-sea and 1 short-sea container lines represented, door-to-door service is provided by linking Istanbul and Izmir Ports, with Far East, South and South East Asia, Black Sea and East Med Ports. 6. Who are your competitors ? We have strong competitors and there is a strong competition. Our main competitors are MSC, ARKAS, Yang Ming and Evergreen. 7. The crisis in 2008, how it affect your compnay ? The affects of the crisis still affect compnies. The frieght rates decreased and most of ship can't find cargo. 8. How do you choose your employees ? We are add young and well educated graduates to family and giving on job training. 9. Which problems dou you have in your operations ? The main problem is damaged containers. We also come up against these problems: late coming ships, stowage of containers, slow loading and get out of the...
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...Makeda Price & Jamie Zanzano Professor LaSala Store Walkthrough (Draft #1) Before you enter the store pictures and mannequins are on display in the storefront showcasing the different types of clothing that will be available in our store. Our front display attracts attention, and creates interest which invites people into the store to purchase goods Entrance: creates expectation and offers promises that the store and clothing are quality, store front should entice a single message – positive store image The quality of a store front is a major determinant for a customer, particularly a new customer, and should not be underestimated. The exterior presentation offers a lavish image to the customer and the clothing and accessories inside the store. We want our entrance to grab the attention of the customer so that they don’t even realize that they are walking into the store they are just drawn to the uniqueness. Thick double- door entrance with two large brush nickel door handles on both side show the customer that our store is quality and worth coming into. After you get through the double doors and you are through the entrance cash registers are on the left side of the room in a L shape with more accessories inside the casing. The Cash registers will be Apple iPads with a credit card swipe underneath as well as a cash draw to complete transactions. On the right side we have a stair case that leads down stairs. The front part of the downstairs is going to be the...
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...Response to “Edaward Said on Orientalism” The documentary on Orientalism, talks about how most westerners has developed a preconceived notion of what kind of people live, what they believe and how they act in the eastern part of the world. The documentary focuses on the work of writer Edward Said and his ideas on Orientalism. According to Said the west and Europe look through a lens that distorts the actually reality of the eastern people. He labels this lens through which the westerners view as Orientalism. This documentary on orientalism also suggests that the knowledge acquired by the west is not objective, but it actually serves a certain interest. Edward Said in the documentary argues that the Europeans divided the world into two parts; the east and the west or the occident and the orient or the civilized and the uncivilized. This was totally an artificial boundary; and it was laid on the basis of the concept of them and us or theirs and ours. The Europeans used orientalism to define themselves. Some particular attributes were associated with the orientals, and whatever the orientals weren’t the occidents were. The Europeans defined themselves as the superior race compared to the orientals; and they justified their colonization by this concept. They said that it was their duty towards the world to civilize the uncivilized world. Said lays out an argumentation that consists of attempting to show that people of the West hold an inherent and profoundly diminutive...
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