...Addie is a Taurus because she is greedy, possessive, but also loving. Addie is greedy because she always thinks of the monetary value of anything she receives. She doesn’t think about any emotional or sentimental value, but instead jumps straight to monetary value. Secondly, Addie acts possessive because she dislikes the thought of others becoming close to the ones she loves and treasures most. Finally, Addie is also loving because she cares immensely for the ones closest to her and is willing to climb mountains, cross rivers, or to simply say, do anything for them. She doesn’t care what she has to do to help her loved ones. Overall, Addie is a clear example of the astrological sign, Taurus, because of her greedy, possessive, and loving personality. “I shifted my gaze. That’s still less than ten dollars,” (Myracle, 228) Indirect Characterization This shows that Addie is greedy because upon receiving the heart necklace from her boyfriend Jeb, she talks to her friends about how much he spent on it, which turns out to be less than ten dollars. Addie doesn’t take a moment to think about the thought and effort Jeb put in to get that specific necklace, and is not grateful for the gift she has received, demonstrating her greediness. “I didn’t want Jeb kissing strange girls in Virginia,” (Myracle, 250) Indirect Characterization This reveals that Addie is possessive because she obsesses over what, as stated earlier, her boyfriend, Jeb, is doing. Even after they break up, Addie is...
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...Keith Parkinson Keith Parkinson was born in West Covina, California, United States on October 22nd 1958 and died in San Diego, California, United States on the 24th of October 2005. At an early age, he took interest in science fiction, mainly in spaceships. Along with his artistic talent, he explored science fiction. At the age of 12, however, he started taking an interest into music more than art. He played semi-professionally from high school into college. Parkinson was mainly renowned for his fantasy art in book illustrates and artwork for games, e.g. Saga of Heroes. However, the fact that he quit music and began painting again remains unknown. His band could of disbanded or he could’ve just failed at a gig. He graduated from Kendall College of art and design in 1980. He started a job at a company called Advertising posters, where he made artworks for arcade and pinball games. One of the many examples was Tron. (Was made into a movie by Disney due to the game being highly popular). In November 1982, he began to work for TSR. (Tactical Studies Rules). He created artwork for book covers such as Gamma World. One of his most famous illustrations was ‘Gamma World’; however, he was mostly known for his Dragon lance art.  My first response to this Dragon lance art is that it shows a lot of hard work and precision has gone into making it. This painting makes me feel excited and gets me wondering what these dragons are really fighting for. Honour? Glory? This picture is nowhere...
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...Reebok taking up the minimal amount left. Where EBay sticks it’s foot into picture is when the consumers resale theses shoes online. Nike every year re-releases a different style of a vintage Jordan shoe and sales them at retail price of $250.00. People have been know to wait in line for a couple days, camping outside of the stores where these collectable shoes will be sold. Most of these shoes will go for double, maybe even triple the retail price on eBay. I’m sure you ask, “Why not just go the next day and get the shoe?” Nike only releases a certain amount of these shoes to certain places so in a sense theses shoes are rare and collectable do to the limited supply of them. For instance, Michael J Fox a well know actor from the 80’s teamed up with NIKE to help Fund his charity The Michael J. Fox Foundation...
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...Research Paper Adam G. Carlson Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. Tubergan English 6 2 November 2016 Do you know who Michael J. Fox is. What disease does he have. Is he dead or alive, he's alive but if you want to find out the rest keep reading. Michael J Fox used methods and turned his disease into a positive thing to cope with it. Michael J. Fox is a famous actor with Parkinson's disease. Did anyone know that Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox had the same disease, and were friends ? Michaels two most popular films were “ Back to the Future 1, 2, 3 ” and “ Teen Wolf ”. Michael J. Fox was at the top of his game until something terrible happened. Parkinson's can change lives, Michael J. Fox has this life changing...
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...Review Once a Teen Wolf, Always a Teen Wolf He shoots, he scores! He celebrates by… accidentally turning into a full-fledged werewolf creature of the night? In 2011, MTV got the rights to recreate the famous Michael J Fox flick, Teen Wolf. But instead of giving us a friendly little hour and a half film about a boy who figures out he’s born into a family of werewolves, we get a television series about a young asthmatic boy who in midst of beginning his Sophomore year in high school, ends up taking- or receiving- too big a bite for his slightly crooked but charming jaw to chew. Scott McCall, a character so closely named and only slightly modeled after the classic Michael J Fox character is the main protagonist of this story. He, his family, friends, and enemies all live in the midst of a supernatural world in the small town of Beacon Hills, California. With a set of writers like Jeff Davis, the mind behind Criminal Minds, Jeff Vlaming, one of the many people who works on NCIS and Fringe, and Monica Macer who worked on Lost, Prison Break, and 24- there’s no way this show could be anything but intelligent, smart, and completely fun, right? Well, minus a few incredibly cheesy moments that seem to make the viewer cringe away, that statement is completely true. Teen Wolf, a show trying desperately to keep its fame while flailing around madly amidst episodes of 16 and Pregnant and The Jersey Shore, is an MTV hit that has a lot more heart than expected. As the Pilot begins...
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...Entrepreneurial Leadership By Dorothy James Professor: L. H. Stebbins BUS 508 Contemporary Business April 21, 2012 Jeff Bezos is one of the founding fathers of e-commerce, and part of a select group of profit oriented entrepreneurs in that field who managed to survive the dot-com bubble without losing control of their companies. Today, his business, Amazon.com, is an Internet goliath that sells everything from books to laptops to gift baskets. Most recently, the company has acquired Zappos, the online shoe retailer, and unveiled the Kindle, the first e-reader to become a breakout hit. This risky move into consumer electronics shows that Jeff Bezos, having pioneered online retail, is not yet ready to give up the pursuit of innovation. At D.E. Shaw Bezos got a taste of leadership and management for he reached the position of Senior Vice President in a little over a year. Though the greatest benefit from working at D.E. Shaw was that Bezos gained an education in the internet and this expertise allowed him to see the potential for an online retailer. Gordon L. Lippitt (1987) defined the entrepreneurial leader as able to take risks, innovate, focus on the task, assume personal responsibility, and possess an economic orientation. Bezos business principles continue to expand his business using his six core values: customer obsession, ownership, bias for action, frugality, high hiring bar and innovation. He said that their, “vision is the world’s most...
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...he episode opens with Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), the deputy director of the Department of Parks and Recreation with six years of experience in the town of Pawnee, Indiana, discussing with a documentary crew her strong belief in the power of government to help other people. Later, Leslie hosts a community outreach public forum at an elementary school along with her jaded colleague Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari). Leslie is enthusiastic despite the low turnout and angry complaints, which she describes as "people caring loudly at me". Local nurse Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) complains about a giant pit near her house, which was dug out by a condominium developer that went bankrupt in the middle of the construction project. Ann says that her boyfriend Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) broke both his legs after falling into the pit, and she demands something be done about it. Leslie is inspired by the challenge and makes a "pinky promise" that she will fill in the pit and build a park on the land.[1][2] Leslie seeks advice from city planner Mark Brendanawicz (Paul Schneider), who feels the project would prove practically impossible due to the logistics and bureaucratic red tape, but Leslie is undeterred.[3][4] Leslie later fondly tells the documentary crew that she and Mark made love five years ago, but Mark only vaguely recalls the encounter.[5][6] Leslie, Tom and uninterested intern April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza) visit Ann and meet Andy, a lazy and demanding musician whom she is forced to wait...
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...DigitalCommons@Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Quarterly by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Colby. For more information, please contact swcole@colby.edu,kjgillum@colby.edu. Hull: Natural Supernaturalism in "Riders to the Sea" Natural Supernaturalism in "Riders to the Sea" by KEITH N. HULL "Riders to the Sea" most allow the validity of of her dead sea's I Maurya's visionwide-ranging, son and thecritics supernatural identity. Nicholas Grene, a illuminating commentator, states at one N DISCUSSING point in his essay on "Riders" that "Synge wins from his audience the willing suspension of disbelief by the strength and actuality of his dramatic image. . . . We not only believe that Maurya saw Michael on the grey pony, we believe Michael was there."! Robin Skelton, general editor of Synge's Collected Works, states directly that the play's "emphasis upon the dominance of the sea makes the sea itself into a power, a god."2 On the other hand some critics take a rationalistic view of "Riders," emphasizing its naturalism. Weldon Thornton says, "Synge . . . did not attempt to define a genre for the play, since his concern was with reality and the service of the truth."3 Malcolm Pittock, harshly rationalistic, criticizes Synge, saying "he cheats us, for the sake of effect, into actively assenting to some of the [beliefs of the islanders] least acceptable elements. . . . When as a boy I first saw the play, the powerful justification given by the action for Maurya's...
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...Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat. Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and...
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...Mo) | James Earl | Donald Madlock (as James Earl III) | Trever O'Brien | Kenny Bates | Brandon Smith | Bug Wendal (as Brandon Mychal Smith) | Jurnee Smollett | Danyelle Rollins | Michael J. Pagan | Roger Weathers | Jamal Mixon | Jamal Evans | Danny Martinez | Miguel Perez | Artie Baxter | John Stevens | Joe Seo | Choi (as Joseph Seo) | Joseph Raymond Lucero | Chavez (as Joseph Lucero) | Robert Zepeda | Peavy | Omari Hardwick | Free | Omari Hughes | Little Dove | Adam Clark | Marvin | Dan Martin | Terrell Rollins | Michael Jace | Mr. Jones | Brett Cullen | Frank Torrance | Garrett M. Brown | Coach Finley | Mary Mara | Kenny Bates' Mom | Nafeesa Monroe | Young Mother | Marcia Jeffries | Roger's Mother | Emil Pinnock | Anthony | Kelli Dawn Hancock | Market Womaz | Anna Maria Horsford | Sharon Weathers | Stevie Wash Jr. | Dewayne (as Stevie Walsh Jr.) | Scott Thomas Cameron | Hall Guard | Bruce Katzman | Principal | Asenati Satele | Junior's Girlfriend | Shane Woolaston | Junior's Son | Sonya Eddy | Bug's Mother | Melissa-Anne Davenport | Cheerleader | Ambrit Millhouse | Cherise | Danny Mora | Mr. Medina | Walter A. Saunders III | Van Staff (as Walter Saunders III) | Robert C. Cawley | Van Staff (as Robert Cawley Jr.) | Michael C. Mahon | Field Coach | Brian Oblak | Gym Coach | Jamie McShane | Referee | Allan Graf | Referee | Daniel Murphy | Referee | Barry Tollia | BHS Player | Jay Bingham | Finley's...
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...The Documentary Hypothesis was created by Julius Wellhausen in 1878, and it was used to explain the different groups of people, and ways the Torah was written and edited. There are four different groups within this theory that consist of the J, E, D, and P’s (Coogan, 43). At first it started out with the problem of timing for the different names of God that the J’s and E’s focused on. The J’s were the Yahwist; claiming to the idea that the name Yahweh starts from the begging, in Genesis. The E’s were the Elohist; with the idea that the name Elohim is what starts at the begging of the Torah, and it is not until God reveals His name, Yahweh, to Moses in Exodus that Yahweh becomes the main name for God. After the J’s and E’s there are the D’s and P’s to be considered. The D’s shortened for Deuteronomic focused more on the book of Deuteronomy and its contents. The P’s were the Priestly group focusing more on the ideas and concepts of law, rituals, and other such matters. The four divisions are divided into J, E, D, and P; some having a few similarities, but it is the differences that make them unique. The Yahwist, or the J’s, being one of the oldest groups, have a unique idea of God, giving him anthropomorphic qualities, and focusing on the images and ideas the Torah gives of God having these human like mannerisms; as in the Garden of Eden when he forms the humans, walks with them, and talks to them there is a personal closeness. The J’s also focus more on the area of Judah in there...
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...An exploration of postmodernism through textual analysis of Arrested Development. This essay will consider the postmodernism within the television programme Arrested Development through postmodern theories, postmodernist techiniques and textual analysis. Through historical context, genre conventions, intertextuality and continuity; the essay will investigate the use of pastiche in modern satire. As popular situation comedies fulfil the generic conventions of using multiple cameras, linear narratives, stand alone catchphrases and aspirational ideologies, the essay will deliberate whether post modernism is legitimate in television comedy. "As Hollywood agents worry about the demise of the town's lowing cash cow, the multi-camera, staged sitcom, here to save the day is Arrested Development, a farce of such blazing wit and originality, that it must surely usher in a new era in comedy." —Alison Powell, The Guardian (UK), March 12, 2005 Television situation comedy has always appealed to mass market audiences. From ‘The Brady Bunch’(1969 – 1974), which centred on a blended family, perhaps the best-known domestic comedy in US television history to ‘Cheers’(1982 – 1993), the show set in a bar in Boston. Sitcoms usually consist of recurring characters in a common environment such as a home or workplace. Sitcoms provide the audience with iconic moments in television history. The longitivity of this genre of programming allows the audiences to build up relationships with the characters...
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...make up the modern American diet and the affects these products are having on our health and well-being. Also, in many cases we are well aware of the health risks of diets rich in certain foods. Fast foods, heavily processed food-like products and convenience foods have been proven to cause obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancers. Even food products that claim to be “fat free” or “diet” contain artificial ingredients that can cause health problems such as migraine headaches. Our food may very well be killing us and yet we, as a nation, are not changing our eating habits. The intention was to find out why we choose to continue on the unhealthy paths that we are on. Information found in many articles and documentaries, including doctors’ and scientists’ statements, as well as nutritional information found on nearly every food label in the grocery store, explained what was in the foods we are eating, what it does to our bodies and what were our reasons for not making healthier choices. Factors such as food addiction, convenience, commercialism, false claims and income are some examples of why we may continue to eat poorly. This paper will examine all of these topics and some others. Maybe the information that will be revealed here will be just what you need to modify your own diets and begin a road to a healthier body! Table of Contents Abstract Table of Contents Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Literature Review - “You are...
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...I have chosen to evaluate a review of the new sitcom ‘Modern Family’. It is established that genres act as shortcuts and are ideological in nature. They serve to organise particular programs by providing artists with an understanding of its rules and conventions, audiences with an interpretative context, and institutions with a means to facilitate the sale of a particular media text to an audience. However, particular genres continually develop in an attempt to invent fresh concepts. Michael Idato’s review of ‘Modern Family’ highlights to a degree the traditional conventions of a sitcom, and examines how this program alters such a traditional framework in order to establish itself as unique. He also highlights the specific techniques used by the program to both capture and maintain an audience which involves a consideration of both program content and celebrity. Michael Idato highlights that ‘Modern Family’ consists of all the elements typical of a sitcom whose comic premise and structure revolves around a dysfunctional family. He recognises that its program content is derived ‘straight from the comedy playbook’ (Idato, 2010) as it explores the challenges of parenting, marriage and teenage romance which are so frequently touched upon. The diversity of the characters portrayed in ‘Modern Family’ inevitably allows for its interpretation as a traditional ‘character com’ (Aaronson, 2000, p.13). Its form therefore allows for the creation of opposing comic perspectives within particular...
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...Running Head: EXPLAINING WHITE COLLAR CRIME White Collar Crime Explanation Kaplan University Deborah Llamas CJ501P-01N Professor Tom DiPaola August 14, 2013 Bernard Madoff, appeared to be a cordial man with an alluring personality, however, despite his friendly demeanor Madoff had another side to him that was not as friendly and compassionate, he was considered to be withdrawn, cold, and unfriendly (Cresswell, & Thomas, 2009). Accordance to the video Maddoff was very rarely seen intermingling with the victims of whom he swindled millions of dollars, by means of hiring, Michael Bienes, and Frank Avellino, whom were responsible for bringing in clients with the promise of returns of potentially, 15% to 20% (Bienes, 2009). I. Maddoff’s Behavior Explained. Accordance to the video it is obvious that Bernie Maddoff considered a psychopath defined in the following manner; psychopaths do not learn from experience, have no inclination of responsibility, do not obtain the means of controlling their dispositions, emotionally immature, and unable to develop meaningful relationships. Similarly, Madoff clearly obtained anti-social personality social disorder, he had the ability to manipulate people without having any feelings of guilt or remorse for his actions, he never considered the fact that the people he cheated out of their hard earned money. He never considered that his victims had their rights, appeared to be amiable yet was aggressive...
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