...England during the 17th century due to reasons of religious oppression. Most of us remember the problems between England and the 13 Colonies during the American Revolution. They left England because of high taxes or economic hardships. During the 18th and 19th centuries more than 60 million people had immigrated to the U. S. shores. Many of those people where drive by not only political or economic hardships. While people were drawn by the demand for workers, cheap land, and abundant natural resources that was available in what was called the New World. A world of opportunity to better themselves in ways that had become closed to them in their original area like; Germany or France; Europe was considered the Old Country. I think Julie would explain to Jean-Paul the benefit of living in a free society, even though it is still considered capitalistic. A person has a better chance of making a better future. The only drawback would be the economy is still struggling in both U.S. and Belgium. So we need to work together as nations rather than being uncooperative when it comes to trade or global...
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...Sweet natured and independent at heart, it seems nothing can break the cool, calm and collected essence of our feline friends. When it comes to cats and bath-time, though, nothing brings out the claws quicker. Avoid the risk of getting scratched by an unhappy or scared kitty by taking care of sharp claws. Clipping your cat's nails can be easily done at home with the proper tools. If you’re unsure about at home trimming, don’t hesitate to contact your veterinarian or a professional groomer. To be extra safe, make sure to wear long sleeve clothing as an added scratch preventative. Schedule a play session before bath time. Feather teasers, toy mice or lasers, just grab a variety of your cat’s favorite toys and play away. By exhausting as much energy as possible, your cat will be less likely to lash out or make a fuss. If the sound of running water frightens your cat, make sure you fill the tub and rinse buckets or cups with water prior to placing your cat in the tub. Only fill the tub with enough water to bathe your cat, ensuring that your cat is not submerged in water. Place a rubber mat or towel at the bottom of the tub. This will help ensure stability for your four-legged friend, helping your cat feel more at ease. Always remember to bring plenty of treats with you to reward your cat for staying still. When pouring clean water over your cat, do it quickly while taking care to not get any in his/her ears or eyes. Move your hand over his/her coat, from the head toward...
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...Wife not guilty of first-degree murder Julie Harper, a mother of three who shot and killed her husband was found not guilty of first degree murder. The jury deadlocked on the lesser charges of second-degree murder or manslaughter, so the judge declared a mistrial. Not clear yet what the prosecutor is planning to do in this case in the future. On Augustus 7, 2012 Julie Harper shot and killed her husband while her three kids were downstairs. Her husband, Jason Harper (39) was a math teacher and coach for the volleyball team at the Carlsbad High School. According to her, she informed her husband that she had filed for divorce and hired an attorney, and then they had a loud argument and struggled. During that time her husband, Jason tried to sexually assault her, and she claims the shooting was self defense. After the shooting her actions are really questionable. First she took the kids out for breakfast then tried to find play dates for them, and finally hid the gun instead of calling the police. Sixteen hours later she turned herself in to the police station. Less than a day after alleged shooting police found her husband’s body in the couple’s Carlsbad home. Before Julie Harper shot her husband, she never reported sexual, verbal or mental abuse. There is no physical evidence for her claim, nor did the family hear any violence in the couple’s relationship. However according to Homer Harper, Jason’s father “You could tell the marriage was coming apart”. Mrs. Harper never spoke...
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...posted as a pdf-file on the Blackboard Learning System at www.mytutor.tut.ac.za (Assignment Dropbox) 1 ------------------------------------------------- Projects should comply with the regulations as set out by the University, according to the prescribed Harvard method of citation. 2 ------------------------------------------------- No project handed in late will be accepted. 3 ------------------------------------------------- All projects must be typed. 4 ------------------------------------------------- Projects to be assessed according to the criteria stipulated below. PROJECT 4: FILM REVIEW ESSAY: To Wong Foo – Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar. This film will be watched during class time, accompanied by the lecturer. After watching the short film “To Wong Foo – Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar” , write a review, focusing on the following: The Film Production and characterization * A short outline of the story; * A concise overview of the specific production, with special attention to the director, art director and make-up and hair stylists. * The actors and the characters* they portray in the production, comparing the look of the actor and the character created for the film. * The styling and make-up (body and face), the hairstyling (hair, wigs, beards and moustaches). Male and Female. * The specifics regarding Trans-Gender appearance. Make use of graphic material in order to substantiate. * The integrated ‘entertainment...
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...------------------------------------------------- Debbie and Julie in the big city Noisy, messy, dirty, erratic, too crowded, scary and polluted are just a few things people that don’t live in big cities may describe big cities as. What would ever make a girl who has lived safely in a London suburb with her parents all of her childhood, want to come back to a city like London when she has experienced giving birth to a child in a derelict shed with sleet outside, only accompanied by a poor dog, lived with prostitutes and drug dealers? Can the big city offer a richer life with excitement instead of safeness in spite of the many negative sides? Debbie and Julie is a fictional text written by Doris Lessing. It is written with a 3rd person narrator whose omniscience is limited to Julie. The short story follows the teenage girl Julie who has run away from home and gone to London in order to hide her pregnancy from her parents. Here she gives birth alone before returning to her parents. Julie is the protagonist of the story. She is a lean teenager and due to her pregnancy has left her home in a suburb leaving behind her parents and her school. Julie definitely wasn’t completely happy with her life in the suburb with her parents. She has even felt irritation towards her parents. We get to see this when the narrator tells us, “... noting that already the raucous angry irritation her parents always made her feel was back, and strong.” On page 101 in line 8. She doesn’t live an exciting...
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...Away From Her The only thing we can say about Sarah Polley’s screenwriting and directorial debut is: wow! Basing her script on the short story “The Bear Came over the Mountain” by Alice Munro, Polley had created a masterpiece. Julie Christie plays Fiona, a woman suffering from the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s Disease. She and her husband, Grant (Gordon Pinsent), have not been apart from each other for nearly four and a half decades, so understandably he takes it quite hard when she decides it would be best for her to enter into a nursing hope for people suffering from Alzheimer’s. Over the course of time, Grant becomes somewhat alarmed, and even a little jealous, over the strength of friendship that she develops with a fellow patient named Aubrey. As can be expected, Grant has to struggle to come to terms with this new relationship and with Fiona’s fading memory. Although Julie Christie has been widely recognized for her performance (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, winner of the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and National Board of Review, Screen Actors Guild for the same, as well as numerous film critics societies), and not to take anything away from that, the story is driven by Gordon Pinsent’s performance (he won the award for Outstanding Male Performance from the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists…they’re version of the SAG Awards). Also of note is Olympia Dukakis playing Marian, Aubrey’s wife, as she also...
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...particularly in the auto or aerospace industries, are willing to take good use of C.P.I. (Continuous Performance Improvement) (Julie Weed, July 10, 2010) to gain a great benefit, such as Toyota. In this ‘Hospital Case’, we want to figure out whether C.P.I. is fit for hospital’s operation. We also would like to know who can finally make the decision, who can seriously affect this decision and who will be influenced by this decision. In order to know these, firstly, in the political perspective, we will map and distinguish the different stakeholders and their stated and root interests. Secondly, based on these interests, how much power do these stakeholders have to affect this decision and where are these powers from. Thirdly, find the supporters and blockers and analyse how to let the different stakeholders ‘Buy-in’ and finally build coalitions. In this case, initially, the supply system at Seattle Children’s Hospital was so unreliable, ineffective and inefficiency. Ms. Mattesws, a nurse in the intensive care unit, was not the only one figure out that it is not convenient for her to get the medical tools timely because of the disorder and shortage of the tools’ stock-age (Julie Weed, July 10, 2010). But recently, ‘it took Ms.Matthews just a few seconds to find the specialized tubing she needed to deliver medicine to an infant recovering from heart surgery’ (Julie Weed, July 10, 2010). This is the positive result of a new supply system, which is the only one special part of Continuous...
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...Research Paper: The Sound of Music The Sound of Music is an American Musical Film. Being released in 1965 The Sound of Music was directed and produced by Robert Wise, although he was not the first choice, he did indeed proved to be the best. It won five Oscars and it was nominated for another Five (The Sound of Music). Richard Rodgers wrote the music with the lyrics done by Oscar Hammerstein II. Based on the true story of the Von Trapp family, who escaped Nazi-ruled Austria in 1938, this film dominated the 1965 Academy Awards, winning Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Score Adaptation and Editing (The Sound of Music (1965)). The Sound of Music is based on a true story. At the end of the 1920s Maria moved into the house of Captain von Trapp to work as governess to his 6 children. After a year, they got married and added another 2 children to their family circle. Von Trapp was a highly decorated World War I veteran and a widower with 7 children, living in Salzburg. Because of an unfortunate financial crisis, Maria started to arrange concerts with the children singing, making a family hobby to a profession. In 1938 when Austria was affiliated by Hitler Germany, Captain von Trapp refused to join Hitler's army. The family had to flee. According to Actlingua, they packed with only their Rucksacks they left all their fortune and belongings behind them and crossed the Alps heading for Italy (The Sound of Music - The Trapp Family). In 1938, they arrived in New York with no money...
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...In Julie of the Wolves, by Jean C. George, an Alaskan girl named Julie runs away from her Eskimo village and travels through the Alaskan Tundra to get to San Francisco, to get away from her awful husband. On the way she meets a pack of wolves the more, she spends time with them the more she feels like she is a wolf. Julie is being torn apart about the world she is in. She is in one world, the Eskimo world, where she feels one with nature and displays it as wonderful, pretty and tranquil. In her other world, the English world, is a world that she displays as being full of trash and waste. Kapugen, her father, thought to be killed in a kayaking accident, fished for seals off the coast of the Eskimo hunting camp before debris of a wooden kayak washed up on the shore of the village. If Julie spends enough time with the Wolves, she will get her link with the natural world back. When Julie spends time with the wolves she does many marvelous things, such as showing that she's dominant over some of the wolves by tackling them down and staring at them as...
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...Nancy Moreno Professor McCracken Spanish 120B December 3, 2009 Through the eyes of tradition People express themselves in many different ways throughout their lives. Painters are known for using there past experiences to illustrate their lives and feelings. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter with a passion to paint. Her paintings portrayed very strong messages throughout her life including the tragic events that helped her shape who she was. In Julie Taymor’s film “Frida”: her private and professional life was depicted through different events. In this film as well as in people’s daily lives ethnicity is a factor, which, influences the actions and practices that construct your character. As Taymor opens the film with a scene of Frida laying on her bed to get to her exhibition, she shows how she never gave up on her commitment to what she started. As a result to a horrific accident that enables Frida from time to time in her life she starts painting portraits of her family and herself. Taymor shows the role of supra-ethnicity through the character of Kahlo using her lifestyle, clothing, and traditions. Taymor draws the viewers into this post-revolutionary era in Mexico by constructing Frida’s style of living in a different time. Through her life Frida dresses and acts out the role that the indigenous women in Mexico live by, but includes her own style to it. By using the traditional clothing of an indigenous woman she shows the beauty and empowerment that the...
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...Vengeance does not Provide Everlasting Satisfaction William Shakespeare’s literature has history of staged and film reproductions. Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s famous revenge tragedy play, stands as no exception to the previous statement. David Foley McCandless uses Julie Taymor’s play and film versions of Titus Andronicus to show the opposing impacts of violence each has on the audience (489). Taymor’s visions correlate to modern society’s tendencies of vengeance, and how the characters in the play were shaped by revengeful occurrences over the course of the play. McCandless signifies the chaos and vengeance displayed by Titus throughout the play result from the failure of traditional power in Rome (490). During the first acts of the play, Titus returns a military hero and shows his beliefs in traditional Roman culture. In both of Taymor’s renderings of the play Titus shifts from armored warrior to weeping grandpa in distressed appearance (490). Titus’s shift from valiant to helpless is provides the audiences of both the film and staged production to sense the effects of a corrupted Roman empire. McCandless connects Titus’s demise from military hero demeaned by Roman society, to the Vietnam vet’s dislocation in society after the war (490). The mood of the audience is sorrowful, as Titus appears to be directly following the path of Rome, in what traditionally is such a powerful and fair empire, in falling apart as a result from a corrupted emperor and revenge minded wife...
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...A qualitative study was done on 22 victims who went through the process of the retributive justice system. They were asked open-ended questions about their encounters with the justice system and whether if they felt satisfied with closure or not. The majority of the informant’s experiences were negative and they were not satisfied with the system, some also questioned the morals of the justice system. In the case of Julie Cloutier, a student who was drug raped stated in the study that the authorities disrespectfully questioned her and didn’t believe her statements. She reported; “The DA didn’t know if she was going to win, so she didn’t want to try. She was the rudest person—I couldn’t believe she was a woman—ruthless, no heart, no sensitivity....
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...Case Study for Julie Alexandra Neal SPE 300 August 25, 2014 Rebecca Hadley-Schlosser Case Study for Julie The intervention program called Fast ForWord is a program that is computer-based and has a purpose to help strengthen cognitive skills that are required in order to be successful in reading and learning. This program is for students to use individually or as a small group and is a type of curriculum. The program is supposed to be used for approximately 30-100 minutes per day for five days a week (which averages to about four to 16 weeks). Based on the research, the effects of this curriculum were small on the domains of reading fluency and alphabetics and there was a medium to large effect on the domains of reading comprehension and the general literacy achievements. The Wilson Reading System is an intervention type of curriculum that is meant for a small group and is designed to help promote accuracy in reading (also known as decoding) and spelling for students who have certain word-level deficits. This program is also meant to help with reading fluency as well as other things. According to the evidence, from this program, there was a small for fluency, alphabetics, and comprehension in the context of these domains. The curriculum program called Failure Free Reading helps improve vocabulary, efficiency, word recognition, and reading comprehension. It is extremely helpful for improving fluency in sight words. This program can be for small group, individual...
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...When people talk about books and their movie/versions usually people say that the book is better because it pays more attention to the details. One movie and book that portrays this is The Hunger Games because in the movie they left out most of the main details that help explain the plot of the story. Another example that also portrays this is “Harrison Bergeron “and the short film “2081” because they both have similarities such as the characters and they both have differences such as in the short film “2081 they never talked about beauty handicaps. When Comparing the passage “Harrison Bergeron and the short film “2081” They have different details. In the passage Harrison scares the audience with his strength by spinning the people of the orchestra and flying as stated in the passage “snatched two musicians from there, chairs waved them like batons”. This made Harrison seem like a monster. However, in the film he just threatened the audience with a bomb which was a backup broadcaster the reason they might have done that is to make Harrison die with pride by showing the whole world the guy who spoke up about the handicaps and also showing the world even his dad himself and by showing how cruel the handicapper general is. When comparing and contrasting “Harrison Bergeron “and “2081” have similarities such as the ballerina dancing with Harrison at the end. As stated in the passage “Harrison placed his big hands on the girl’s tiny waist letting her sense the weightlessness”...
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...The story Harrison Bergeron was written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The story was published in 1981 in the Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine. The story took place in the year 2081 where everyone is equal. To make everyone equal everyone that was above average had to wear handicaps. The protagonist or the main character of the story is Harrison Bergeron as you would expect from the title. In the story the main conflict is Harrison against the government or the Handicapper General (HG). Harrison goes to jail for the count of suspicion to overthrow the government. Which that lead to him escaping jail and interrupting the ballerina performance, which his parents Hazel and George were watching. George wore an earpiece that gave a ringing sound so...
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