...Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol Mission Impossible 4 is an american action thriller and as you can guess it is the forth film in the Mission Impossible series. Its star is Tom Cruise as an IMF-agent named Ethan Hunt. The film is set in many countries of the world for example Russia, Hungary and the United States of America. it takes place in the 21th Century. The terrorist nicknamed 'Cobalt' plans to start a nuclear war, because of that he signs a contract killer on to steal the Russian launch code in Budapest while he erases his records in the Kremlin. Ethan Hunt is assigned to retrieve Cobalt's identity in the Kremlin, but the terrorists arrive first and bomb it. The IMF is blamed for the bombing and the president of the USA shuts down the organization by invoking the so called 'Ghost Protocol'. Ethan Hunt and his team tries to clear the name of the IMF and attempt to avoid Cobalt from bombing the USA. In the end they are successful. The main character is Ethan Hunt and he is a really intelligent and relaxed middle-aged agent. The soundtrack is amazing and it fits perfectly to the plot, just as like the really great special effects. I really enjoyed the whole series of the M:I's but this part is my preferred one. My favourite scenes were the bombing of the Kremlin and the gunfights. I've watched the film together with my friends at home because of that I can really recommend to watch it with your friends. There wasn't much speaking in the whole film so you...
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...‘CLEAN AUDIT REPORTS’: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? The beginning of the 21st century was marked by major corporate collapses that jeopardised the reputation of the big Accounting and Auditing firms, questioning the very foundations of financial reporting and corporate governance. In a very short period of time, millions of dollars were wiped off the financial statements of major corporations, and the world saw giants collapse as large amounts of money were proven to exist only in paper. Even though fraud was found to be the constant variable in each case, the causes of the main collapses were determined to be related to corporate governance in general, and corrective measures were taken to improve that. However not many people questioned the fact that most of the money that existed only in paper was in those financial statements as a result of accounting practices that were legitimate and professionally accepted, meaning that auditors were not able to see the realities of these companies as they happened to be hidden under financial statements that strictly complied with accounting standards. The aim of this essay is to discuss why auditors are not able to read a company’s true financial position and performance from the financial statements since all they are able to do is state whether or not those statements comply with the Accounting Standards. The purpose of financial reporting and accounting information will be discussed, as well as the reason why the profession believes standards...
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...Mission Impossible: Universal Civil Rights Imagine a world where everyone is accepted for who they are and they don’t have to worry about being judged by the world around them. In Kenji Yoshino’s “Preface” and “The New Civil Rights” he talks about creating a new civil rights which would do just that except just for North America. He promotes not covering, putting on a façade, to start this process. One place where we could begin being ourselves is online, by collaborating everyone’s intrinsic ideas, according to Marshall Poe’s “The Hive”. But not everyone one has a computer. That’s when Thomas Friedman’s “The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention” comes out to publicize supply chains which are different countries collaborating to make something together, like Dell computers, all over the world, which could altogether stop wars between united countries. This could potentially create a Universal civil rights. If other countries can forget our differences to work on a project together then maybe we could also work together to agree on a Universal civil rights. There’s just a few elements that are stopping this from happening that include disagreements in religion, culture, and computer access could thwart this mission before it even gets started. Religions all around the world have varying definitions on what is okay and what is not okay. Most religious people think that gay people should not get married. In the Bible it talks about Sodom and Gomorrah which are two cities that were...
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...During the past few weeks, I have watched episodes and lessons of the shows; “Bar Rescue” and “Restaurant Impossible.” These shows air on Spike TV and also on Food Network. Throughout each program, the expert visits a failing business and tries within his power to turn the business around. In doing this, the expert has to reach through strides of work and stressful situations as do the owners of the business. Also in viewing the shows, I have noticed each owner being frustrated as their business is failing and frustrated that the expert knows how to fix and deal with the problems. They undergo many difficult tasks and changes. Both “Bar Rescue” and “Restaurant Impossible” are similar in certain ways. The basic premise of each show is to have the expert go into a failing business who is reaching bankruptcy and save the day. The expert and host of “Bar Rescue” is Jon Taffer. Jon Taffer is a professional bar consultant and a Nightclub Hall of Fame inductee. Overall, he knows the “in’s” and “out’s” of the Bar scene and how to manage his field of business. Being the expert that he is, Taffer is certainly qualified for hosting this show. The other show that is very similar to this one is “Restaurant Impossible.” It has the same basic premise and is designed to not only help bars, but to help struggling business get back on their feet. The host of Restaurant Impossible is Chef Robert Irvine. Robert Irvine is a British-American celebrity chef who has appeared on numerous...
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...Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict, by Irene Vilar. This is a memoir in which Vilar discusses her past and how she was an “abortion addict”. When published, it was met with abundant criticism. She spoke about her numerous abortions 15 in total. Vilar, while a teenager in college, became trapped in an abusive relationship with a professor. This foul and dangerous relationship resulted in a loss of self-esteem and sacrifice which ultimately resulted in her suffering physical and emotional abuse. Irene Vilar, is a successful women; she is an editor, author, and literally agent in which she represents writers and their works. As previously mentioned, Vilar is successful but after reading her memoir, and seeing the oppression and suffering, you realize she is a victim. She underwent enormous turmoil and tough times. Her journey to success has not been easy. She has overcome many emotional obstacles to achieve greatness. Thus, this is a story of “hope”. It makes one’s own situation seem a lot more bearable and optimistic. Although there is ultimately hope, I believe this story is about the harm Vilar has experienced throughout her life. The harm she experiences is so abundant and persistent throughout her entire life. There is concentrated emphasis on these moments and events. I will discuss the harm the author went through by focusing on important events and situations that shaped the harm consistently endured by Vilar. I will begin by looking at her...
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...impressive optical illusions. Especially in “Impossible constructions” collection, he did excellent works in playing various visual tricks on those artworks that profoundly confuse the observers at the first sign. The piece of art “ Relativy” depicts an unrealistic interior space with the stairs that never go the same way, the floors, doors and balconies are put on every sides of the rooms in this view. There are also a number of people climbing up and down the stairs and assign “up” or “down” direction in a complicated and strange way, thus completely confuse our visual analysis. However, if the people in motion is supposed to be invisible in the picture, the structure, especially the stairs system seems to be visually possible and at least overall perspective cannot look occur, even though the positions of other furniture pieces may not make logical sense. Therefore, it is effortless for grouping structural elements which are of the same shade and well-connected and well-defined in mass and form. Otherwise, when the number of people moving is involved in the perspective, it can be seen that their shade visually matching with the construction as well as the visual tricks occur to make the picture look ambiguous itself. This is because that three out of four main stairs seem to allow people to climb on both top and bottom, reach and stand on every interior sides of the building, and most of their positions may also be impossible because they defy the force of gravity....
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...Legalizing Lobbying in Bulgaria – a Mission Impossible or a Much Needed “Must’ Author: Gergana V. Murtova Term Paper for Business and Society Class People are easily fooled by talk about donations, private or corporate, that might be the case but not the whole truth, indeed. You see, everywhere from America to Japan, each party has, so to say, a ring of firms…If you think that I am less influential than one banker, your idea of what a politician can achieve is very far from reality. In the last 15 years, perhaps half of all above-the-average businessmen are [what they are]…either with my blessing or at least a smile from me. * Ahmed Dogan (Bulgarian Politician, former leader of the ethnic Turks’party Movement for Rights and Freedoms), 2005 Corrupted politicians, lobbying from wealthy businessmen, forceful advocacy from particular societal groups, influence peddling from local and national government representatives – all these are scenarios that Bulgarian citizen hear and read about in Bulgarian media day after day. That is why when in 2005 Dogan said those words, Bulgarian society wasn’t shock by their content; it was no news to us. Actually, the only shock from these words was from the cynicism and the sense of impunity with which a party leader would talk before television cameras. Overall, Bulgarian society is rather used to the concept of corruption. Bulgaria has been ranked for years among the top in the world in terms of corruption (Mulcahy, 2012)...
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...Mary Mitchell Slessor was born in 1848 in Scotland, she was the second of seven children. She credited much of her good character to her upbringing from her deeply religious mother. Her father ran a shoe making business that did not go well, he became an alcoholic, which resulted hardship and poverty for the family. Mary started working to help provide for her family at a very young age, her wages became the primary source of the family income, she worked up to ten hours a day to make ends meet for her family. She became a Christian at a young age. She enjoyed going to church; it was a getaway from her unhappy life at home. Her older brother who was planning to go as a missionary died, at 25 years old, she decided to go in his place. She embarked on her missionary journey to calabar in 1975 where her battle for women’s rights began, she fell sick from malaria several times and eventually passed away in 1915, nearly forty years after coming to Africa, at the age of 66. Mary Slessor has become an inspiration to all who hear her story. She was not only a pioneer missionary, but also an activist for women in general. Slessor campaigned against injustices against women. Witchcraft and superstition were prevalent in Nigeria when she arrived there because traditional society had been torn apart by the slave trade. Human sacrifice routinely followed the death of a village dignitary for instance tribal customs like killing one wife of a chief in order for her soul to accompany her husband...
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...our knowledge of the 19th century is patchy because little research has been done on this period. RESEARCH TOPIC: MONIQUE CLASSEN CLSMON002 The ‘Christianization’ process of the London Missionary Society in 19th century South Africa: A case study of Bethelsdorp and Thornberg Contents PLAGIARISM DECLARATION 2 ABSTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY 7 Driving Ideologies Behind An Archetype of Civility and Modernity 9 THE ‘CHRISTIANIZATION’ STATIONS 11 The Institute of Bethelsdorp for the Khoekhoe 11 Thornberg Mission Station for the Heathen San 17 THE GROUNDWORK 21 CONCLUSION 26 BIBLIOGRAPHY 28 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Village of Bethelsdorp (from John Philip: Researchers in South Africa, London 1828) 2. Church and Mission House at Bethelsdorp (from a watercolor by John Campbell, 1819.) By courtesy of Africana Museum, Johannesburg 3. Map: Nineteenth-Century Mission Stations to Bushmen (from Tricksters and Trancers, 1999) 4. Erasmus Smith (from Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, 1997) PLAGIARISM DECLARATION ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- PLAGIARISM DECLARATION -------------------------------------------------...
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...Dear Mom and Dad, I’d like to say something cute and catchy here…but instead, I’ll just get to the point of why I’m sending you this message. Danielle and I will be going on our 1st mission trip that will travel to Ecuador on November 2nd, 2013 to invest into the lives of children and families living in abject poverty. God has touched our hearts and opened our eyes to the harsh realities and living conditions that no child should ever have to endure. Yet, they do. The children that we will be caring for ‘endure’ in the most heinous and dire circumstances. On this trip, we will be partnering with two organizations that are on the front lines caring for children and families in need. The first half of our trip will be spent at Nuevos Amigos. Our church, RiverTree Christian Church, has recently assumed the operational responsibilities of Nuevos Amigos, a school located just outside of the capital city of Quito, Ecuador. It's mission is to operate a school that seeks to walk hand in hand with families to ensure that children receive spiritual guidance, quality education, and loving care that complement a healthy home environment. The other half of our time will be spent serving one of the churches and child development projects that our church helped start through Stadia Church Planting and Compassion International. This church is located on Pampanal Island, located off the northern most coastline of Ecuador. There are roughly 250 chlidren on the...
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...MISSION EXPANSION THROUGH THE CENTURIES Joanne Holman Mission Expansion Through The Centuries June 18th, 2015 Thesis Statement: This research proposal will capture the journey and contribution of mission through centuries in expansion of Christianity. Christianity is a religion which has been diffused majorly through the missionaries. The Christian mission went many interior places to converts people into Christianities. Actually, this trend is even mentioned in the Bible where people were seen to be enamored by the personality of Jesus Christ. According to Daughrity, since time immemorial, missions have been playing important role to emerge Christianity as the religion followed by the largest population in the world. This research proposal will try to capture the scenario and history of expansion of missions through the centuries. From a large part of eastern Mediterranean known as Levant originated Christianity and after a journey of extensively long passage of Jerusalem, Assyria and Egypt (to name a few), it had been adapted as the official religion in Armenia, Georgia, Aksumite Empire and Roman Empire successively. Missions bore the extensive responsibility of spreading Christianity in the colonies of European countries such as England, France, and Spain etc. but, the largest empire of the world, England was itself a pagan nation and converted into Christianity by the eighth century as the result of the mission in 597 AD led by Pope Gregory I. Missions were very...
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...I Worldview is a person’s thoughts, beliefs and opinion on everything in the world around him. It can be your feelings about religion, work, life, violence, abortion, school or even an idea. Your worldview can be stimulated by watching television, a debate you participate in, talking with family or friends, your interacting with co-workers or even a person you pass on the street. Anything one encounters can contribute to your worldview. It is one’s unique opinion about life. II The Question of Origin. The Bible tells us that God created the world and the universe and everything in it (Gen. 1:1). This clearly is the beginning of man’s existence, our origin (Matt.5:45, 19:4). Before God’s creation there was no earth, no universe, just simply nothingness. I have often pondered this very question of my own beginning. Going back and back into my family tree and we all begin with our Heavenly Father. The Question of Identity. We were all made in the image of God (Gen.1:26), for he is our Creator. Genesis 1:28 teaches us that the Lord put us here on earth to rule over other living things, the plants and animals. We are superior over other things here on earth. Life’s experiences contribute to one’s identity. The things we learned as a child to adulthood, our education, what we learned from our parents and other authority figures, helped to form our identities. I would say that the most important contributing factor would be one’s religious beliefs. The Question of...
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...Those that did not adjust well reported to only have support from one of those groups (Selby, 2009). Cultural identity also plays a huge role to help missionaries experience a smooth transition. Missionaries that reported to have a strong connection with their native country before they left, and maintained it throughout their mission while still experiencing the culture, had a much smoother transition (Walling et al.,2006; Berry & Sabatier, 2011; Selby, 2009). It has also been reported that individuals that had been abroad before or had served a previous mission also had fewer negative experiences when they were returning home (Sussman,...
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...One the most well-known missionaries of the 20th century was Amy Charmichael. One of her good friends gave this testimony, “Miss Charmichael was a blessing to all who came into intimate and understanding contact with her radiant life. She was the most Christ-like character I ever met, and her life was the most fragrant, the most joyfully sacrificial that I have ever known.” (GFA Missions “Amy Carmichael). Her selfless work as a missionary reached thousands and inspired others to pursue a career in missionary work. Amy Charmichael was born in Millisle, Ireland in 1867 to David Carmichael and his wife Catherine. Her parents were devout Presbyterians and she had seven younger sibilings. During her teen years, she was educated at a Methodist...
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...REFLECTIVE ESSAY #1 1. I would be described as a very relaxed leader; someone who likes to have fun and enjoys leisure time. Some will describe me as a team player and compassionate whereas some will say I can be the life of the party. However, when mission is a priority, I expect for my subordinates to perform the task and produce results in a timely manner. 2. At times I can be difficult but only when challenged. For example, I tend to think more of the morale benefits as opposed to what benefits the mission. Though I can be outspoken and loyal, I can also be the worst follower. Learning the traits of an effective follower will help me portray great leadership skills thus perform my job well along with my subordinates and taking pride in our expertise. 3. I use a combination of country club to authoritarian leadership style. At times I will tell my troops to complete a task, no questions asked. Other times I will be in a lassie faire attitude and tell them to do whatever they want. Because of the inconsistencies of my leadership style, my troops are left confused and not knowing what to do. Therefore, I feel my leadership style is ineffective. It is my goal as an NCO to role model a great leader and NCOA has been a beneficial part of my improvement. 4. According to the classroom exercise, I am definitely an orange type of temperament. I don’t always set the right example because of my outspoken attitude towards leadership. My theory is to work hard and...
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