...throughout this semester. Issues have ranged from social injustices, colonialism, and women’s rights. Some included personal tragedies concerning women of Aboriginal descent living in British Columbia. It has been quite emotional at times to actually read about the struggles that have taken place right here in British Columbia regarding immigrants and Aboriginal people. We even got to meet the author of Mercenary English, Mercedes Eng, in person to make the words of her story really come to life. However, not all of the books we have studied convey negative outlooks of certain problems being faced. There have been positive social changes, personal victories and many moments that make the reader believe things can be made right if an effort is put into it. This research essay will focus on the positive view portrayed in three books studied this semester which include: Mercenary English, Active Geographies-Women and Struggles on the Left Coast and the Unnatural and Accidental Women. The positive themes discussed will display triumphs on a personal level, meaningful change on a social stage and a look at how social activism deeply connects people together. Firstly, Mercenary English has a very unique way of showing social injustice, believed to be carried out in the eyes of its author Mercedes Eng. She writes about personal problems she faced, the negative issues surrounding aboriginal people in Canada and historical injustice against minorities. Her writing is powerful, emotional...
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...TRACO CABLE COMPANY LIMITED 4th Floor, KSHB Office Complex, Panampilly Nagar, COCHIN – 682 036, KERALA. Phone: 0484-2314847, 2311851. Fax: 0484-2312744 Email: mail@tracocable.com and aiyyah@yahoo.co.uk Web site : www.tracocable.com TENDER NOTICE No.82 / APW / 18.04.2011. Sir, Sub:- Tender for the supply of wooden packing materials at our Irimpanam / Thiruvalla unit. Ref :- Tender No. 82 / APW / dtd 18.04.2011. Sealed tenders are invited in the prescribed form for regular supply of seasoned /soft wooden packing materials & iron materials to our factory at Irimpanam, Thripunithura and Chumathra, Thiruvalla on contract basis for the period from 15.05.2011 to 31.05.2012. Tender documents, drawings and annexure can be down loaded from our website. Due date and time for : 3.00 pm on 5.05.2011. submission of tenders. Date and Time for opening : 3.30 pm on 5.05.2011. of tenders. E M D : Rs. 25,000.00 Thanking you, Yours faithfully, For TRACO CABLE COMPANY Ltd. Sr. Manager (Materials) From, ...
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...Tom Hooper’s film “The King’s Speech” demonstrates the vital importance of the human voice in establishing and maintaining power. If you can’t get the words out then you will never assert authority. This moving film is about King George VI and his attempts to deal with a stammer. This charmingly modest film explores an entirely different kind of courage than the quality that's always seen on action movies or war. It's not about climbing mountains or destroying the enemy’s territory; it's about breaking emotional barriers and b. The most evoking scene in "The King's Speech" comes when Bertie, the painfully shy, tongue-tied second son of George V, arrives unannounced at his poor speech therapist's home and begins to unburden himself for the first time. The scene that follows is a depiction of the kind of breakthrough childhood moments I've been privileged to witness as a student. Bertie comes across a half-finished model airplane one of Lionel's sons was working on when he arrived. Commenting ruefully that as a royal child he was never allowed to make models, Lionel encourages him to paint glue on the struts. Brush and model in hand, the future king -- finally freed to be the child he wasn't allowed to be -- begins for the first time to tell his therapist where he's hurting. We begin to get a portrait of the haunting memories of Bertie's childhood: The nanny who preferred the older brother, tutors who forced the left-handed child to use his right hand, painful metal braces to straighten...
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...dotloop signature verification: www.dotloop.com/my/verification/DL-101569375-12-2Q1T ADDENDUM NO. 2 TO REAL ESTATE PURCHASE CONTRACT THIS IS AN [ ] ADDENDUM [ ] COUNTEROFFER to that REAL ESTATE PURCHASE CONTRACT (the "REPC") with an Offer Reference Date of 05/01/2015 including all prior addenda and counteroffers, between Julia Guerrero and Greg Poulson as Buyer, and as Seller, regarding the Property located at 1778 W Kenadi View Way (# 8), Riverton, UT 84065 . The following terms are hereby incorporated as part of the REPC: 1. Seller's Response time for offer through addendum 2 shall be changed to 5:00 pm 5/9/15. 2. Purchase price shall be 361,500. 3. Deadlines shall be as follows: a) Seller Disclosures: 5/14/15 b) Due Diligence: 5/21/15 c) Financing & Appraisal: 5/28/15 d) Settlement: 6/11/15 4. Buyer agrees to pay a total earnest money deposit of $2,000 which shall become non-refundable on 5/18/15. 5. Seller agrees to items 1 and 2 on addendum 2. BUYER AND SELLER AGREE THAT THE CONTRACT DEADLINES REFERENCED IN SECTION 24 OF THE REPC (CHECK APPLICABLE BOX): [ ] REMAIN UNCHANGED [ ] ARE CHANGED AS FOLLOWS: See above. To the extent the terms of this ADDENDUM modify or conflict with any provisions of the REPC, including all prior addenda and counteroffers, these terms shall control. All other terms of the REPC, including all prior addenda and counteroffers, not modified by this ADDENDUM shall remain the same. [ ] Seller [ ] Buyer shall have until...
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...The King's Speech Firth is royalty, even if ‘King’s Speech’ is a little stiff Is civility enough to sustain a film? The audiences who will embrace “The King’s Speech’’ — and they are many and literate — will point to it as an example of the kind of movie that should be made more often. By February they may well have the Academy Awards to prove their point. It’s probably useless to argue in the face of such unerring good taste. Yet for some of us, Tom Hooper’s period drama about the stammer of King George VI is exactly the kind of movie we’ve had enough of — complacent middlebrow tosh engineered for maximum awards bling and catering to a nostalgia for the royalty we’ve never actually had to live with. The movie isn’t badly done, just overdone — a cozy art-house crowd-pleaser coasting on the expectations of its genre. At its heart is another very, very good performance by Colin Firth, one that may win him the Oscar he should have been awarded for last year’s “A Single Man.’’ As Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor — Bertie to his family, the Duke of York and eventually George VI to his subjects — Firth is a tormented paradox, a man born to public life who can barely speak in public without strangling on his own words. “The King’s Speech’’ opens with the Duke’s 1925 address at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium, a radio talk that proved agonizing for everyone involved. By the time his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) brings him to the tatty London offices of speech therapist...
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...BRITFILMS STUDY GUIDE: THE KING’S SPEECH Great Britain, Australia 2010, 118 min German certification: minimum age 12, recommended for 14 years and over director Tom Hooper script David Seidler (based on the book The King's Speech – How One Man Saved the British Monarchy, by Mark Logue) cinematography Danny Cohen editing Tariq Anwar music Alexandre Desplat featuring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle and others What THE KING'S SPEECH is about One day the speech therapist Lionel Logue receives an unexpected visitor in his simple consulting rooms in Harley Street: his new patient is no ordinary citizen, but Prince Albert of York, the second son of King George V. Logue’s task is to help him overcome his stutter. But it is only after initial hesitations – and a few outbursts of fury – that the prince agrees to try out the unusual methods of the Australian-born therapist. As soon as Logue, however, begins to seek the cause of the speech problems in private relationships, Albert breaks off the treatment. After the death of George V, however, when Albert’s older brother is unable to assume the office of king because of his relationship with an American divorcée, Albert unexpectedly become the heir to the throne. Now he needs Logue again after all, if he is to live up to what the British citizens expect of their king, and fulfil his duties – including the radio addresses...
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...Influenced by Politics from the 1940s, Robert Penn Warren novel gets inspiration from Huey Long’s life a Louisiana Governor, Senator, a politician who is recreated in Warren novel as Willie Talos. Warren also creates Jack Burden to narrate the story of Long, who is being characterised as Willie Talos. The story of Jack Burden in Robert Penn Warren’s book All The King's Men, tells the story of how he gets involved in Willie Talos political life as his employe, and as his loyal friend. Jack Burden, who narrates his life and Willie Talos story, self-declaring that “the story of Willie Talos and the story of Jack Burden are in a sense the same story”(224) really narrating how Warren thought that Huey Long's life was by creating a story to Long's life. Starting Jack Burden was born in 1897 from an affair that his mother had with Morty Irwin, referred in the story as “The Judge”, to clarify Jack’s mom does not marries Morty Irwin even though she loves him because he is the fiance of Ellis Burden the person who Jack considers his true father. Later on in his childhood Ellis Burden leaves because he realizes that his best friend Morty Irwin has been having affairs with his wife so he leaves Jack’s mom for another woman. Because of this event in his life makes Jack hates...
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...All the Kings Men All the Kings Men follows the final years of the life of a man named Willie Stark through the eyes of Jack, a friend. The story of Willie is based upon true events of Huey P. Long’s rising and abrupt end as governor of Louisiana in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. The main concept behind All the Kings Men is to show how even good-hearted men like Willie Stark can be corrupted when granted power. The concept was successfully passed to the audience through the use of stage and sound. The three-sided thrust stage setup helped the audience become a part of the play and feel Willie’s power as he ascended and descended from the throne of governor of Louisiana. Being a part of the play is important in the sense that the audience no longer feels like they are watching a play, but instead they are seeing events unfold in front of them as if in real life. This allows the audience to form their own opinions and judgments of the characters without any outside bias. The feeling of Willie’s increasing power is prevalent through the use of the stage. In the beginning, he is standing on the floor tier with Jack having a light-hearted discussion as a common citizen. The floor stage is commonly used throughout the play to relay a sense of powerlessness and vulnerability. Willie starts moving up the tiers of the stage only after he starts to drink for the first time of his life. After Willie becomes governor, he is most commonly seen on the highest tier giving speeches...
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...History of the Building: Founded by King Henry VI and built between 1448 and 1515, King’s College Chapel is considered as one of England’s greatest Medieval buildings.[i] Its reputation comes from the purity of its architecture: despite a long construction history, the chapel’s builders remained true to its initial plane creating a unified interior and robust exterior. King Henry VI was only 19 when he laid the first stone of the 'College roial of Oure Lady and Seynt Nicholas' in Cambridge on Passion Sunday, 1441. At the time this marsh town was still a port so, to make way for his college, Henry exercised a form of compulsory purchase in the centre of medieval Cambridge, levelling houses, shops, and lanes, and even a church between the river and the high street. It took three years to purchase and clear the land.[ii] In 1455 the Wars of the Roses began when Richard Duke of York challenged Henry's kingship. The subsequent story of the building of the Chapel and the Wars of the Roses are closely intermingled. For the first 11 years of the war, the construction continued under Henry's patronage, even though the annual grant of £1000 from the king's family estates, the Duchy of Lancaster, became irregular. Then, in 1461, Henry was taken prisoner and he was killed in 1471. The new king, Edward IV, passed on to the College a little of the money that Henry had intended for his Chapel, but very little building was done in the 22 years between Henry's imprisonment and the death of...
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...Willie Stark Willie Stark is a human being, endowed with the ability to feel and act in equal measure. In the beginning of the chapter, when he is the County treasurer for Mason City, he is shown as a frustrated young man who is unable to convince Pillsbury against building the School house through J. H. Moore whose rates are high but quality is low. He voices his protest against Pillsbury and expresses concern over his undertaking. He feels dejected when his suggestion goes unheard. However, when the building collapses under its weight, people remember Willie Stark and his warning. During the elections, when Willie becomes aware of the dirty plan of Harrison, he feels insulted. He frets and fumes about the injustice done to him but when he recovers from his depression; he exposes the hypocrisy of Harrison and declares his withdrawal from the contest. Therefore Willie acts in spite of being emotionally disturbed. After he becomes the Governor, he faces numerous problems, which affect him emotionally but he always takes hold of the situation and plans the course of action accordingly. Stark is an emotional fool but he is also a man of action. Willie is a man with a vision and a mission. Earlier, he had envisaged building a sturdy Schoolhouse, which would give confidence to its students to learn well and put in their best efforts. When he becomes the governor, he plans to use the State funds for developmental activities like making good roads and building hospitals...
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...argues passionately that injustice anywhere automatically creates the timely situation for organized retaliation in seeking freedom for the oppressed. King was arrested and placed in Birmingham Jail after a peaceful protest in downtown Birmingham. King was “the foremost civil rights leader in America in the 1950s and 1960s” (Kirszner and Mandell 799). “An ordained minister who held a doctorate in theology, King was the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference” (799). “King and his followers met opposition not only from white moderates but also from some African-American clergymen who thought King was a troublemaker.” King’s opposition labeled his demonstrations and acts against segregation as “untimely”, “unwise”, and...
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...imprisoned, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter addressed to eight clergymen who were allegedly concerned about what King was doing for civil rights. Dr. King’s response in the letter uses a great sum of rhetorical devices. Throughout his letter Dr. King used Ethos Pathos and Logos effectively. In order to support his avocation of non-violent protest and his reason for being in Birmingham. At the very beginning of his second paragraph in his letter, Dr. King quickly establishes his credibility, by explaining to the clergy men of his affiliation with the SCLC. King states: “I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and organization operating in every southern state” (164). Kings ability to use Ethos here is adequate, because he uses his position and affiliation with the SCLC; in order...
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...to society with the directive of bringing forth equality. He conjures multiple attitudes such as, doubt and sarcasm to the eight members of the clergy. King persuades his audience to back his argument using the rhetorical devices Ethos, Pathos and Logos. King’s first rhetorical device is ethos. He uses this authoritative approach to establish himself as a credible consultant. King first refers to his audience as “Fellow Clergymen”(King 203), in doing so relating himself as a speaker of their own making. Subsequently, he announces himself as the President of the “Southern Christian Leadership Conference”(King 204), to incite his authority furthermore. Finally, King says, “I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth” (King 203). He does this to establish his demeanor as one of respect. His respect establishes his ethos as a reverent spokesman; also his kindness begins to flood the letter with an emotional appeal as well. King continues by emphasizing his sentimental appeal. His usage of Pathos is intended to build an impassioned connection between the clergy and the problem at hand. His initial use of pathos was intended to establish his emotional connection with the injustice in Birmingham. Secondly, he depicts the vast amount of time the community has waited for their rights to be enacted. This is meant to pull at the strings of the clergy’s hearts by emphasizing their 340 year campaign for equality. King uses this emphasis on...
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...King's speech can be broken down into two main parts. The first portrays there is no American dream for the Negro, rather, only a picture of racial injustice. He demands action be taken immediately. “Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.” Here we see Dr. King stressing the change of racial injustice to opportunity for everyone by using examples of anaphora and...
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...Injustice, Disillusionment, & Pressure On the surface, “Salvation” by Langston Hughes and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. seem to have very little in common. They were written by different people about different topics and use different techniques. However, they share a lesser related theme: Pressure. Pressure from others is a powerful thing. This secondary theme supports each main theme; “Salvation” demonstrates what pressure from adults can do to disillusion an individual adolescent while “Letter From Birmingham Jail” demonstrates what societal pressure does to permit injustice. In this paper I intend to not only illustrate the impact pressure can have, but also examine the literary devices used by each author to illuminate their main theme, discuss how I personally related to the themes of each story, define Non-Fiction, and explore the use of imagination in Non-Fiction works. Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful motivational speaker. His passion shined through in not only how he spoke, but the words themselves. This is because he used imaginative metaphors and rhetorical questions to pull his audience in. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” rhetorical questions are used sporadically throughout to engage the reader and continuously present the main theme: injustice. Sometimes King uses it to show that he and his followers have considered the other side of the issue, “One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others"” (King...
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