...being a protector does not mean that one must be a superhero. George Milton, in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, is not a superhero but is characterized as a protector. The novella is about two migrant workers, George Milton and Lennie Smalls, who travel together during the Depression in order to find work. Unfortunately, they get into all sorts of mishaps because of Lennie. The two men have a dream to one day own a farm, but Lennie’s mental disability proves to be a far greater obstacle than anticipated. George Milton is a common man but shows the qualities of a superhero through his caring, resourceful, and selfless personality. Without these traits, George would not travel with Lennie, for he would have no reason to. Perhaps then, the ending of the novella would not end as tragically as it did. Firstly, Steinbeck depicts George as a caring person through his actions and attitude towards situations. At the start of the book, Lennie is seen drinking water from a river. When George sees this he says, “Lennie, for God’ sakes don’t drink so much […] you gonna be sick like you was last night. […] You never oughta drink water when it ain’t running, Lennie” (3.) George is looking out for Lennie, and is concerned that he will get sick from drinking the water, thus showing how compassionate George is since he cares for Lennie’s wellbeing. Furthermore, after George yells at Lennie and Lennie offers to leave him, George says “I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ somebody’d...
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...While in high school I worked in both retail and restaurant settings (probably the extend of options for high school students). I was trying to get a job after my freshman year of college and decided to apply to an independently owned Pharmacy just about one minute from my house. I began volunteering at this Pharmacy and realized that I was passionately curious about medicine. So often after work I would just come home and quiz my mom on different drugs trying to learn and remember what they do because I honestly wanted to gain knowledge. I myself am a very precise and accurate person who likes routine and the pharmacy is the career that is able to satisfy that part of my...
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...Ford Pinto: A Study of Ethics In the 1960s Ford Motor Company, under pressure from stakeholders and the pressures involved in competing with the foreign vehicle market set out to manufacture a vehicle that was smaller, lighter and less expensive than the competition’s product. This vehicle was designed and moved into production within 2 years, much quicker than the 3 ½ year company norm and is still the shortest vehicle production planning schedule in history. The result: The Ford Pinto. While the Pinto was in the design phase it was decided that the fuel tank would be placed under the rear fender instead of over the rear axel to allow for more trunk room in the car. This design however, was quite flawed. The Pinto being smaller than the other American made cars was not built using the same frame design; a design that was manufactured to prevent the fuel tank from exploding upon a rear impact collision. Upon testing a serious defect was found with the placement of the fuel tank. It was determined that if the Pinto was involved in a rear end collision the fuel tank may rupture and burst into flames causing serious injury or death to the passengers. Team A will be examining the ethical dilemmas involved in the case and the solutions that we would recommend today and the solutions that would have been ethically appropriate in 1971. Lee Iacocca was the president of Ford Motor Company in 1971 and was the directive authority behind the creation of the Ford Pinto. He wanted a...
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...Pura Jalalon BSBA 1 The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 Characters: N!xau ... Xixo Lena Farugia ... Dr. Ann Taylor Hans Strydom ... Dr. Stephen Marshall Eiros ... Xiri Nadies ... Xisa Erick Bowen ... Mateo Treasure Tshabalala ... Timi Pierre Van Pletzen ... George Lourens Swanepoel ... Brenner Richard Loring ... Jack Lesley Fox ... Ann's Secretary Simon Sabela ... General Ken Marshall ... Convener Peter Tunstall ... Chief Game Warden Andrew Dibb ... Computer Operator Shimane Mpepela ... Man on Bike Paddy O'Byrne ... Narrator (voice) Summary: The film is split into four stories: * Xixo trying to find his lost children * Two elephant poachers traveling in a truck on which Xixo's children are stuck * A man and a woman are stuck in the desert * Two soldiers fighting each other The story starts with two elephant poachers crossing the area in which Xixo's tribe lives. Curious about their vehicle, Xixo's son Xiri and daughter Xisa climb into the water tank trailer and are subsequently taken for an involuntary ride as the poachers continue. Xixo follows the truck on foot, determined to retrieve his children. A young lawyer named Ann Taylor arrives at a bush clinic to participate in a lecture. Since she has some spare time, she accepts the invitation by a young man to take a joy ride in his two-seat, twin engined ultralight aircraft. They go to see scientist Dr. Stephen Marshall, who exchanges places with the other...
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...proofread before submitting. This assignment must be posted to Blackboard no later than 11:59pm on October 20. Please note that two (2) points will be deducted for each calendar day late and no assignment will be accepted more than two (2) calendar days (48 hours) after the due date. Go to the course menu and click on where it says Assignment #1 and download the attached file. After you complete the assignment, go back to the course menu and click on Assignment #1, and then click on where it says Assignment #1 to upload it. From there go to Assignment Submission and attach your file by clicking Browse My Computer. Alternatively, you can copy and paste your work by clicking Write Submission. When you are finished, click Submit. If you save it as a draft, make sure you submit it when you are finished. Instructions for downloading and submitting the assignment are also posted on the course menu. After uploading your work to the Assignment area on the course menu, double check to make sure it appears there. Please refer to these links for tutorials: http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/CIS/functions/bb/userguides/student/SubmittingAssignmentsSP13.pdf http://ondemand.blackboard.com/r91/movies/bb91_student_submit_assignment.htm ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Ideas and concepts from the field of child development are pervasive and influence everything from policies, education, and media...
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...finished dying their slow deaths, and the countries close to their corpses began to devour as much as they can. How the new nation states that are formed settle, or instead, how the nations were educated in their national infancy fashioned the political subtext for the next century, which Adams found himself intimately involved in for the rest of his life. Henry Adams eventually would find himself in a place of influence and respect in his family and among persons of import. However, this, similar to many other events, took place gradually and in various steps. Adams started off as any other typical 19th century boy, though born into money and political significance. His education occurred in three stages, from his childhood, to teenage years, then university student education. Correspondingly, the first six chapters delineate this trajectory of his academic journey. Adams begins in Quincy and Boston as the first step, then moves to Washington and Harvard College as the second step, and ends abroad in, beginning in Berlin and finishing in Rome. If one is to discover meaning in the book The Education of Henry Adams, then one should attempt to track the lessons and teachings provided to Adams, and how effectively Adams absorbed that information. Though the completion of this exercise would require much more time and many more pages allotted for here, beginning allows a curious reader to decrypt much of Adams’ purpose, and will present the reader to learn the lessons as well, or better...
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...Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 PLOT SYNOPSIS 4 SETTING 5 MAJOR CHARACTERS 7 Titus Hoyt 7 Laura (The Maternity Instinct) 9 Man-Man 10 MAJOR THEMES 13 Domestic Violence 13 Ambition 14 Gender Roles 17 Personal Views 19 Conclusion 23 INTRODUCTION The noble laureate V.S. Naipaul started his career as a freelance writer with his first written work of fiction; Miguel Street in the year 1959. Miguel Street is a semi-autobiographical novel set in war-time Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote this novel while he was employed in the BBC. Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award. As Trinidad is V.S. Naipaul’s childhood home, he minutely observed its tradition and culture. The readers are introduced to a galaxy of characters with different professions and features. They love to live in illusions and meet failures at every stage of their life. The whole novel is narrated by an unnamed fatherless boy who himself is a part of a group of kids on Miguel Street. He uses a humorous and satirist tone to describe the people who make up Miguel Street. The whole novel is divided into seventeen episodes and each episode describes the life and its situations targeting one character at a time. This approach of picking up one character at a time made this work easy to understand. The novel contains a number of characters with great ambitions that never went anywhere and are only left to be recorded...
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...It is impossible for man to actually film a T Rex hunting or a Triceratops family grazing along a stream in real life. Through the years, directors have relied on scientific knowledge to create their vision of how dinosaurs looked, moved, and interacted with each other and their environment. Hal Roach directed the 1940 sci fi movie, One Million B.C. for United Artists. His solution was to creatively film "dinosaurs" using enlarged iguanas and an alligator with glued on fins, sails, spikes, and horns. A pig running around in a rubber suit starred as a Triceratops and fought an Allosaurus (man walking upright in a rubber suit). At the time audiences liked the dino-action, but it was not a box office smash (Gross, Early Dinosaur Cinema). One Million B.C. did receive two Academy Awards nominations in 1941 for Best Special Effects and Best Musical Score (Oscars, 2016). By today's movie standards, the 1940 special effects seem corny, cheap, and would be considered...
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...head on the ground. The first blow to the concrete clearly knocked him out and he did not stop slamming his head on the ground. At that time John ran over to them and drew his firearm in fear that anymore blows to the head would kill or cause him serious injury. So I ask you one more time, what would you do? In this paper you are going to learn about how owning and respecting a firearm can be helpful when it comes to protecting your family. As well as some helpful tips to stay safe when you are around a firearm and where you should keep them so everyone is safe in the house hold. Whether you agree with the information that you are about to read it still has some great facts and helpful tips that can keep you save whenever you are around a firearm even if you don’t own one. Gun safety is important because firearms are very dangerous if not treated with the proper respect and care. All it takes is one accident with a fire arm to take someone’s life including your own. The best way to stay safe around a firearm is to make sure that you have a parent that is educated on the proper safety of the firearm as well as knowing how to use and work the firearm. Respecting the firearm starts with making sure that the firearm is pointed in a safe direction and away from anyone around you. It also means keeping your finger off of the trigger until you are ready to fire the weapon. Keeping the firearm unloaded until ready to use the firearm...
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...did not allow them to reach their destination, but on the seventh attempt, a US probe reached its destination. Probe Mariner 4 was a flyby mission, meaning as it passed by it took photos of the planet, that sent twenty-one photos back to mission control (“Historical Log”). With every failed mission, the scientists building these probes learned their mistakes and worked to fix them. With every success, they learned something they did right and worked to improve on that system. For example, after the Mars Observer disappeared and deemed a failure- which cost one billion dollars- the agency’s administrators and policy makers sat down and worked through what would be the new strategy for the agency: faster, better, cheaper. A demonstration of how this new strategy came about through the Mars Pathfinder which proved to be a success and validated the agency’s new method. Although probes aren’t as observant as humans, we have still learned a large quantity about Mars from them. We have learned that Mars is about .11 the size of Earth as well as having a slight pear-shaped appearance (“Mars”). We have learned that in spite of the fact that the Earth has a size edge over Mars, Mars has canyons that causes the...
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...Entrepreneurship Instructor: Geoff Malleck Submitted By: Salvatore Curcio ID#20300001 Jenna Ortwein ID#20383970 Matthew Montgomery ID#20338248 Fatima Munir ID# 20239890 Kyle Georges ID# 20298815 “People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.” - Henry Ford “All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.” - Henry Ford What made Henry Ford… ------------------------------------------------- Questions & Answers Question: From a very young age, what characteristics and events were significant in foreshadowing Henry Ford was a truly innovative engineer with a love for machinery? Answer: When Ford received his first watch at the age of 13, unlike most adolescents, he took the watch apart to analyze the mechanical components of it. Ford was seen to all people as inherently curious, which was a key characteristic for engineering the fuel powered vehicle. Another significant event that peaked Ford’s interest was the first time he saw the self propelling tractor...
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...Case Study 1 Trader Joe’s Keeping a Cool Edge The average Trader Joe’s stocks only a small percentage of the products of local supermarkets in a space little larger than a corner store. How did this neighborhood market grow to earnings of $9 billion, garner superior ratings, and become a model of management? Take a walk down the aisles of Trader Joe’s and learn how sharp attention to the fundamentals of retail management made this chain more than the average Joe. Ruaridh Stewart/Zuma Press From Corner Store to Foodie Mecca In more than 365 stores across the United States, hundreds of thousands of customers are treasure hunting.1 Driven by gourmet tastes but hungering for deals, they are led by cheerful guides in Hawaiian shirts who point them to culinary discoveries such as ahi jerky, ginger granola, and baked jalapeño cheese crunchies. It’s just an average day at Trader Joe’s, the gourmet, specialty, and natural-foods store that offers staples such as milk and eggs along with curious, one-of-a-kind foods at below average prices in thirty-odd states.2 With their plethora of kosher, vegan, and gluten-free fare, Trader Joe’s has products to suit every dietary need.3 Foodies, hipsters, and recessionistas alike are attracted to the chain’s charming blend of low prices, tasty treats, and laid-back but enthusiastic customer service. Shopping at Trader Joe’s is less a chore than it is immersion into another culture. In keeping with its whimsical faux-nautical theme, crew...
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...Standardized Tests Sections I and II Sammy North DeVry University Standardized Tests Sections I and II Brittany, an honors student in Atlanta, Georgia, had worked hard her entire academic career to celebrate what would be her proudest moment in high school: commencement. She wanted to walk across the stage to the flash of cameras and the smiles of her family just like her classmates, and then journey off to a college in South Carolina where she had already been accepted. So she gathered her proud family members from Chicago and Washington, D.C., to come to share in her joy. Brittany watched as her classmates put on their caps and gowns and walked across the stage to receive their diplomas. But she did not, and instead waited all during the day to get a last-minute waiver signed. She continued to wait through the night, but it never came. She began to realize that if she graduated, it would not be quick or easy. Her problem was that she had not passed one of four subject areas in the state’s graduation test, which students must pass to earn a regular diploma. She is not alone. Thousands of students, such as Brittany, every year do not make it across the stage at graduation due to failing these state tests. And many of them, such as Brittany, were honors students who had fulfilled all the other requirements of graduation except this one (Torres, 2010). Stories such as this one are far too common and should not happen. We have the power to change the status quo, so that...
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...more than that, presenting the truth behind the twenties and creating an atmosphere which has earned a permanent place in American literature. Fitzgerald's novel works on many different levels, giving us unforgettable characters and events on one, as well as referring to the problems of American wealth and spirituality on another. However, what is the main point of the book? And most importantly, what on earth is that mysterious green light? Those questions, as well as many others will be answered in this analysis, which will discuss the underlying meaning and symbolism behind The Great Gatsby. "I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness." (16) So ends the first chapter of The Great Gatsby and brings to our attention the first symbol in this book - that mysterious green light. In our first acquaintance with the light, we see Gatsby reaching out for it, almost, in a way, worshipping it. We find out later that this green light is at the end of Daisy's dock, and is a symbol for Gatsby's dream and the hope for the future. Green is the color of promise, hope, and...
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...Project Gutenberg Etext of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *These Etexts Prepared By Hundreds of Volunteers and Donations* Information on contacting Project Gutenberg to get Etexts, and further information is included below. We need your donations. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome August, 1995 [Etext #308] Project Gutenberg Etext of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome *******This file should be named 3boat10.txt or 3boat10.zip******* Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, 3boat11.txt. VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, 3boat10a.txt. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome - Scanned and First Proof David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk. Second proof: Margaret Price We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance of the official release dates, for time for better editing. Please note: neither this list nor its contents are final till midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement. The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month. A preliminary version may often be posted for suggestion, comment and...
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