...McWilliams CLN4U Laura Secord An idol is a woman of memorable heroism or power, respected for her bravery and honorable qualities; Laura Secord clearly qualifies and exceeds this description. Her initiative, intelligence and physical strength have been inspiring people since her story became widely known and the affects her actions had on the war of 1812. Laura Ingersoll Secord deserves a place of honor in Canadian history because of her remarkable courage, fearlessness and gallant act which made an important impact on the outcome of the battle at Beaver Dams. Laura Ingersoll was born on September 13th 1775 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Laura never recognized the true meaning of a lighthearted childhood. At the age of eight her biological mother, Elizabeth Dewey, passed away leaving her to look after her three younger sisters. This was difficult seeing as her father, Thomas Ingersoll, was an American Officer and constantly beckoned for duty. Her father married twice and had numerous children for which Laura helped care for. In 1795 her father grew to dislike the American government and decided to move the entire family to Upper Canada. When Laura was eighteen the family moved to Bustling Port which was near the Niagara River. After Laura relocated she met a young man named James Secord who she eventually married in 1797 under the Church of England. They were a very wealthy family. By 1812, the Secord’s had five children and moved to Queenston. Laura did not pursue a...
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...Laura Secord is considered the hero of the war of 1812. At the time of war Laura was married to a man named James Secord and had 5 children with him. During the war, Laura Secord's husband was fighting in the Battle of Queenston Heights when he was injured. Laura rescued him from the battlefield and brought him home to nurse him back to health. The next summer, many Americans invaded Upper Canada, including Laura's hometown of Queenston. The Secord family was forced to take American soldiers into their home as hostess. Laura fed and took care of the soldiers all well still nursing James and looking after her 5 children. On the night of June 21, 1813 Laura overheard the soldiers talking about an upcoming attack they planned to make on the...
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...rewards. For example, if you were to escape but had to sacrifice your loved ones and run away from a wide array of problems. When Tom escaped, he left Amanda and Laura behind along with any issues he might've had while he was still...
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...His mother is dead and his father is no good. He’s the rotten model that parents hold aloft as a warning: This is how you’ll end up if you’re disobedient. Jasper Jones is the example of where poor aptitude and attitude will lead” The simple use of the Metaphor used to compare Jasper to things such as a ‘thief’ and a ‘Liar’ show the peoples perspective of Jasper when they truly don’t understand the situation he is in but also judge him from his background and his parents which shows the poor attitude of acceptance and diversity in Corrigan. “Bloody hell. Listen, Charlie, we can’t tell anyone. No way. Specially the police. Because they are going to say it was me. Straight up. Understand?” So here we see that Charlie has just seen the body of Laura and is working out solutions to solve this problem and suggests they should do the right thing and tell the police but unfortunately this isn’t the case, Jasper knows for a fact that people will say he was the one who did it without a doubt although the police are the ones who are supposed to be there for Justice and rights for people but for Jasper not one chance. The rhetorical question here suggests that there is no chance of them getting the police to help them and that this is serious and he needs to know if Charlie understands why he can’t just go to the...
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...“The Killing of Laura” In “The Killing of Laura” Carolyn Weaver asserts that in Laura’s romance relationship with John O’Neil, Johns will is what killed Laura and defeated her will of power. In this case of murder there were two factors that led to Laura’s death, cultural and personal. Traditional male socialization provoked the killing and Laura’s attitude and insecurity towards life made her an easy target. Social attitudes facilitate domestic violence. On the twenty-fourth day of October, 1977 Laura Ellen Weaver was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, John Oneil. Laura was dressed in her pajamas, in her parents’ kitchen, sitting at the table trying to sort out the details of her numerous attempts to end her relationshoip with John, her past lover and aggressor for the past year. Her previous attempts were unsuccessful. Laura had informed her friend the day before that she was bad at confrontation, and so this is why she was in such a predicament. Her contemplation was inteerupted by a tap to the window caused by John. She opened the door to talk to him; having broken up with the man, she still cared for him as a friend. Laura had no notion that hidden in John’s jacket pocket was a knife he had taken from his home. Laura’s father went downsatirs to turn off the kitchen light, unaware anyone in his home was awake. He stumbbled upon John and Laura’s conversation. He told John to go home and talk to Laura tomorrow, for it was far too late in the day. Her father returned upstairs...
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...Far up in the mountains of Canada, there is an old abandoned log cabin. Once it was occupied by a young couple who wanted to distance themselves from the chaos of this modern world. Here they were miles away from the nearest town. Bob, the husband, made the occasional trip into town to buy supplies whereas Jan, his wife, spent her free time by the fire, sewing. Their life was simply idyllic. Then, one midwinter's day, Jan woke up from bed with a strange ache in her bones. Putting it down to overwork, Bob shooed her to bed and made sure she rested. Though Jan was impatient to get to her chores, Bob soothed her, "Relax, Sugar. You're overdoing things. All these chores will be here when you recover." However, Jan seemed to be getting worse instead of recovering. By evening, she was running a high fever and in greater pain. In spite of his best efforts, Bob could not manage to ease her suffering. And then suddenly, she started to lapse into unconsciousness. It was then obvious that she was seriously ill. What could Bob do? He had no experience in treating the sick and Jan was getting worse by the minute. He knew that there was an old doctor in town but he lived three miles away, downhill. Pot-bellied and obese, there was no way the doctor could make it up to their cabin. Something had to be done quickly! Bob racked his brains but to no avail. The only thing left to do was to go to the doctor. In Jan's condition, she could never walk that far in the waist-deep snow. Bob...
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...The topic that I chose to detect media bias was national politics, and The First Lady, Michelle Obama. The internet search engine I chose was Yahoo.com, the University Library search I performed contained an article from The Washington Post. The article on Yahoo.com seemed more interested in what Michelle Obama was wearing rather than the itinerary that was planned. Twice in the article it told of the clothing Mrs. Obama was sporting, and spoke of the outfit that Chinese First Lady, Peng Liyuan wore. Yahoo.com downplayed the visit by stating that Michelle Obama would use “soft diplomacy” to focus on building “goodwill” between China and the United States. The articles continue through explanation of the places that The First Lady, her children, and Mother will visit, but does not go into any detail on the good will that Michelle Obama expressed. The article reported by The Washington Post contained an informational description of the visit, which did not include a description of what the two women wore. This article focused more on the purpose of the visit, which was to concentrate on educating young people, obesity, youth empowerment, all of these issues remain a consistent theme for Mrs. Obama. The Washington Post also describes our First Lady with using “soft diplomacy,” but goes on to explain her reasons for doing so. In the article posted on Yahoo.com, the description of “soft diplomacy” made it sound as if Mrs. Obama was on vacation rather than her exact purpose...
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...CTAC02 4/13/07 17:20 Page 10 Laura Ashley Holdings plc: The Battle for Survival On February 1, 1999 Ng Kwan Cheong took over as chief executive of Laura Ashley Holdings. Cheong was the company’s seventh CEO since the death of Laura Ashley in 1985. Indeed, the longevity of Laura Ashley CEOs was shortening. John James was CEO from 1976 to 1990, Jim Maxmin from 1991 to 1993, A. Schouten from 1993 to 1995, Ann Iverson from 1995 to 1997, David Hoare from 1997 to 1998, while Cheong’s immediate predecessor, Victoria Egan, had held the job a mere 5 months. Top management turmoil coincided with a downward spiral for the company. In the financial year ended January 31, 1999, sales were down 17% on the previous year, and the bottom line showed a net loss of £33 million. Ng Kwan Cheong was one of the senior management team of MUI Asia Group – a diversified Malaysian corporation that acquired 40% of Laura Ashley’s equity in May 1998. He had been chief executive of MUI’s retailing arm, Metrojaya Berhad, as well as holding board positions with several other Malaysian companies. However, despite considerable senior management experience as well as familiarity with the UK (Cheong was a graduate of Middlesex University), little in his prior career could have prepared him for the situation at Laura Ashley. Despite a succession of restructurings and strategy redirections since 1990, the company continued to bleed cash – cash outflow from operations was £11.4 million during the...
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...Comparative essay- Animal Farm Animal farm- Paragraph 1- manipulation by the pigs State they are educated elite, use intellectual superiority to manipulate the other animals. Quote shows them as apathetic and meddlers. State how Orwell is criticising Stalin and his Government. Paragraph 2- Propaganda by the pigs State Napoleon uses propaganda through squealer to push his ideas and implement his plans. Quote shows that Napoleon uses propaganda to get what he wants. State that Orwell is criticising Stalin’s manipulation of the Russian society a big ally of the propaganda is the animal’s ignorance and false memory Paragraph 3- Power of Napoleon State that Napoleon, whom represents Stalin, only gained and keeps his power through cruelty, treachery and making the other animals scared of him. Show that after the rebellion, Napoleon has taken the place of Mr Jones (seen through quote) State that the quote shows that Napoleon has dominance over the farm like Mr Jones. State that Orwell is criticising that after a rebellion, inevitably someone will rise to power over all and everything will be the same, maybe worse. Quotes- For manipulation- ‘Does it not say something about never sleeping in a bed? ... It says, ‘no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.’ (cynicism) For propaganda- When squealer assures the animals about trading with humans- ...
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...Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film, Taxi Driver, seen through the maladjusted protagonist, Travis Brickle, is both of seeing and of being. Taxi Driver affirms Laura Mulvey’s idea of the “male gaze,” a combination of the interaction of looks, fetishism, voyeurism, and pleasure in (Hollywood) cinema. Mulvey outlines three different looks within film: of the director and camera, of the spectator, and of the male protagonist. Film, as Mulvey argued, perpetuates the “male gaze.” In the film, emblematic of the “male gaze,” Travis is presented as the dominant male while most female characters are treated and seen as objects of sex and desire—cheapened, eroticized, submissive—though he one female, Betsy, is treated and seen with reverent affection. In addition,...
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...brought to light in the case of the Winslow family, The family consists of a group involved in incredibly questionable home behavior. The demise of several family members occurred on the fateful day on May 5, 2005. The Winslow children's distant cousin, Steve Urkel, walked into the Winslow's house unannounced as usual. In the foyer, he bent backwards with his stomach facing upwards and his hands and feet touching the ground, and crawled like a spider upstairs to Laura's room. He knocked on the door with his head and Laura Winslow came out naked expecting Richie (her direct cousin) to be there. She screamed when she saw Steve poised like a spider. Steve responded by quickly standing upright like a toothpick, unzipped, and pulled out his fun sized Almond Joy candy bar. Immediately, he tried to feed it to one of Laura's mouths. To Steve's displeasure, Richie came around the hallway corner driving by in his tricycle and took a bite out of Steve's candy bar before Laura even had a chance to. Out of embarrassment and sheer desperation, Steve tried to gain a bloody entrance to Richie's back door. Moments later, a jealous Waldo (a friend of Laura's brother, who had been spying on her long before Steve arrived) jumped out of the wall, palmed Steve's head, and smashed it into the wall. After that, he grabbed Richie by the legs and used him like a bat to severely beat Steve to death with. It did not take long for him to notice the enormously large puddle of blood next to Steve's carcass,...
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...“Consequently, Mulvey argued that the patriarchal hegemony dominating Hollywood makes impossible for a female gaze free of male constructs, and a feminist voice can only be found in counter-culture cinema” (Cooper). The situation of power, expert and sexualized control over 'women’ still rules standard Hollywood movies, she contended that similarly as ladies have opposed the "prince charming" children's stories of our way of life, they have effectively "reformulated and opposed the prototype 'masculine gaze' in silver screen. Ways that this article is different from the one by Laura Mulvey is, “that Thelma & Louise represents "an explicit subversion of traditional representations of a narrow feminine role" (p. 125), a representation previously limited primarily to avant-garde feminist films and independent feminist filmmakers” (Mellencamp, 1995; Ussher, Cooper). This article helped me to better understand other articles we have read in class, and movies we have watched by showing me that the female gaze does exist and that not all movies are made just for male’s pleasure, but female pleasure as well. When watching the movies, this article has made it easier for me to be able to focus on my experience as a female viewer. How this article relates to my experiences is, I have seen movies that show the ‘female gaze’ Baywatch...
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...In her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey argues that Classical Hollywood cinema encourages spectators to look at women and identify with men. Female stars receive the look, while male stars control the narrative and dominate space. She writes, “In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness,” (205). What kind of looks, gazes, or points of identification structure (or destabilize) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)? Your response should engage Mulvey’s claims. The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film directed by Carl Th. Dreyer made in France in 1928. In Laura Mulvey's essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” she argues that the female stars receive the look, while male stars take control of film space. She also points out that the women’s role in the Classical Hollywood cinema is to satisfy the viewer and to be a passive character, i.e. being pleasant to look at. This essay will argue Mulvey's analysis such as: active/man and passive/female, a woman/actress being looked at as an attractive object and the female role in the cinema industry depicted by The Passion...
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..."Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" - Laura Mulvey In her "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey utilizes psychoanalysis theory as a "political weapon" to demonstrate how the patriarchic subconscious of society shapes our film watching experience and cinema itself. According to Mulvey the cinematic text is organized along lines that are corresponding to the cultural subconscious with is essentially patriarchic. Mulvey argues that the popularity of Hollywood films is determined and reinforced by preexisting social patterns which have shaped the fascinated subject. Mulvey's analysis in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" combines semiotic methodology of cinematic means of expression with psychoanalytic analysis of desire structures and the formation of subjectivity. The semiotic end of Mulvey's analysis enables the deciphering of how films produce the meanings they produce, while the psychoanalytic side of the article provides the link between the cinematic text and the viewer and explains his fascination through the way cinematic representations interact with his (culturally determined) subconscious. Mulvey's main argument in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is that Hollywood narrative films use women in order to provide a pleasurable visual experience for men. The narrative film structures its gaze as masculine. The woman is always the object of the reifying gaze, not the bearer of it (this has something reminiscent of John Berger's "Ways of Seeing") ...
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...GAMBARAN UMUM PENYAKIT DISPEPSIA Gambaran Umum Dipepsia Menurut Mansjoer, dkk (2000), Dispepsia merupakan kumpulan keluhan/gejala klinis yang terdiri dari rasa tidak enak atau sakit di perut bagian atas yang meneta atau mengalami kekambuhan. Pengetian dispepsia terbagi menjadi dua, yaitu dispepsia organik dan dispepsia nonorganik atau fungsional atau nonulkus (DNU). Dispepsia organik, bila telah diketahui adanya kelainan organic sebagi penyebabnya, sedangkan dispepsia nonorganik atau fungsional atau DNU bila tidak jelas penyebabnya. Perbedaan antara dispepsia organik dan dispepsia nonorganik atau fungsional atau nonulkus (DNU) dapat dilihat pada Tabel 1. Tabel 1. Diagnosis banding nyeri/ketidaknyaman abdomen atas |Dispepsia Organik |Dispepsia Fungsional | |♣ Ulkus peptic kronik (ulkus ventrikuli, ulkus duodeni) |♣ Disfungsi sensorik-motorik gastroduodenum | |♣ Gastro-oesophagael reflux disease |♣ Gastroparesis idiopatik/hipomotilitas antrum | |♣ Obat: OAINS, Aspirin |♣ Disritma gaster | |♣ Kolelitiasis simtomatik |♣ Hipersensitivitas gaster/duodenum | |♣ Pankreatitis kronik |♣ Faktor psikososial | |♣ Gangguan metabolic (uraemia...
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