...admonishes him for wanting to go to the towns, which the villagers describe as "wicked places where wicked people live". The Elders seem to keep dark secrets of their own in black boxes, whose contents they keep hidden from their own offspring. After Lucius makes a short venture into the woods, the creatures leave warnings around the village in the form of splashes of red paint (referred to by the villagers only as "the bad color") on all the villagers' doors. Meanwhile, Ivy Elizabeth Walker (Bryce Dallas Howard), the blind daughter of the chief Elder, Edward Walker (William Hurt), informs Lucius that she has strong feelings for him, and he returns her affections. They arrange to be married, but things go horribly wrong when Noah Percy (Adrien Brody), a young man with an apparent developmental and learning disability, stabs Lucius with a knife because he is in love with Ivy himself. Noah is locked in a room until a decision is made about his fate. Edward goes against the wishes of the other Elders, agreeing to let Ivy pass through the forest and seek out medicine for Lucius. Before she leaves, Edward explains the secret of the creatures: they are a "farce", bogeymen costumes created by the...
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...sister Daisy, and cousin Gracie were stolen from their family and their dangerous expedition of returning home to their family. It features Mr. A.O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines, as the evil antagonist who believed that his mission was to protect the aborigines from themselves. This story told of some of the countless people that were part of “The Stolen Generation”, which are the children, which were labeled half-caste, that were taken from their Aborigine parent by the Australian government. This removal occurred between the early 1900’s up until the 1970’s. Not only did the Australian government The story begins in 1931 in west Australia. This is the time the Aborigines Act granted the government the authority to act as a legal guardian of every Aborigine in west Australia. This meant the government had control of who the Aborigines can meet or marry and where they work and lived. This gave Mr. Neville the power to remove half-caste children from their families. As a mother, I think that would be the cruelest thing you can do to a person; take their baby away from them. It would be easier to die rather than live life without my children. I was thinking while the women were struggling to keep their kids from being taken, that I would have been dead or in jail if some police officer did that to me. Mr. Neville saw Aborigines as inferior, primitive animals. He stole them, inspected them, groomed them and gave them away to become domesticated slaves to the white...
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...THE VILLAGE (2004) PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: Ethics, Consequentalism, Logic CHARACTERS: Ivey Walker (Bryce Dallas Howard, blind heroine), Lucius Hunt (Joaquin Phoenix, Ivey’s intended), Noah Percy (Adrien Brody, mentally impaired friend of Ivey and Lucius), Mr. Walker (William Hurt, father of Ivey and the village’s leading elder), Ms. Hunt (Sigourney Weaver, Lucius’s mother and another elder) OTHER FILMS BY DIRECTOR M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN: Signs (2002), Unbreakable (2000), Stuart Little (1999), The Sixth Sense (1999) SYNOPSIS: The film appears to be set in an early American society that is ruled by a group of elders that is comprised of both men and women. Scenes depicting youthful dalliance, communal intimacy, and a wedding of two of the young colonials give the village a utopian feel. However, the village is haunted by the death of its own members to disease and the fear of creatures that inhabit the woods outside the village. The colonials refer to these creatures as “those we do not speak of,” and the villagers have negotiated a deal with the creatures that neither will venture into the other’s territory. Lucius Hunt wishes to go to the neighboring towns to seek medicine that would improve the village’s well-being. He believes that his good intentions will spare him the wrath of the creatures, but the elders refuse to grant him permission. After Lucius becomes engaged to Ivey Walker, Noah Percy stabs him out of jealousy. As his condition worsens, Mr. Walker decides...
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...Steven Kanhai Spring 2012 Causes of World War II The 1920’s begun with a favorable outlook for peace but toward the end of the decade and throughout the 1930’s the clouds of war was forming. Dictators arose in countries that were dissatisfied with the result of World War I, Germany, Italy, and Japan took aggressive actions and neither the League of Nations nor the democratic countries were able or willing to stop them. British Prime Minister Chamberlain suggested that the best way to deal with Hitler was a policy of appeasement. Actions were taken that moved Europe toward war. The debate over the causes of World War II provides different perspective. To begin with, the one form of appeasement was done by Germany when they annexed Austria. In Winston Churchill’s speech (Document 6) he disagreed with Chamberlains policy of appeasement. He also warned England about following a policy of appeasement. This document also stated that England and France should have protected Czechoslovakia against the Nazi’s. Another form of appeasement can be seen in the Munich Agreement (Document 7). The Munich agreement was a desperate act of appeasement at the cost of Czechoslovakia. It was a hope to stop Hitler’s hunger for land. However the Munich Agreement was unnecessary because the Czech defenses were very strong and Hitler was too weak at the time to attack Czechoslovakia. After Hitler took the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia Hitler also wanted Hungary, Rhineland, and the Danzig...
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...of Great Britain against the Nazis, without him the Nazis would have been much harder to defeat, not only would Great Britain most likely have been knocked out of the war, the Nazis would have then been able to focus all their attention on the Soviets, which could have then proven too much for the Red Army to Handle. When Great Britain declared war against Germany, Churchill was made First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the War Cabinet, the same position he had held during the First World War upon being informed of this, the Board of the Admiralty the British Fleet a signal saying “Winston is back”. Churchill Argued for a preemptive occupation of Norway early on in the war, this was however shot down by then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the rest of the War Cabinet, such action wasn’t taken until after successful German invasion of Norway, an event it seems Churchill saw coming. On May 10, 1940, only hours before the German Blitzkrieg invasion of France, it became painfully obvious that the country had little to no faith in Chamberlain’s abilities to govern Great Britain during the war and so Chamberlain resigned. The most commonly accepted version of the events that followed was that the position of Prime Minister was originally offered to Lord Halifax, but he turned down the post of prime minister because he didn’t thhink that he would be able to effectively govern as a member of the House of Lords and not...
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...------------------------------------------------- Courage ------------------------------------------------- Throughout his life Churchill exhibited great personal bravery - much of it bordering on a death wish. His was not however pure unthinking courage - his physical acts of bravery: whether to inspire his troops on the Western Front on 1916, seeking to further his reputation in the Malakand valley in 1897 or by Victoria Cross hunting at Diamond Hill in 1900 - where all designed to achieve something. ------------------------------------------------- Rarer than physical bravery is moral courage. Churchill's determination to do the right thing and his belief that he was doing the right thing was unbreakable. As a young man he always believed that he would die young (his father died age 43) and this may explain his near recklessness and physical bravery in early years. After passing the age his father reached, Churchill's in built self-belief that he was destined for great things continued to fuel his moral determination. This meant he was able to take the tough (if still painful) decisions necessary to win the war - for example his order to sink the French fleet at Oran after the French sued for peace with the Nazis and refused alternative options to scuttle or sail to neutral waters. War is painful and tough - the leader has to be able to cope with this reality. ------------------------------------------------- Examples ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...The Battle of Britain I. DEFINE THE SUBJECT The Battle of Britain began shortly after the fall of France was emanate and would eventually sign an armistice with Germany. This would allow Germany to focus squarely on Great Britain. In late May, 1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill disregarded calls for peace talks with Hitler and said that Britain “would fight on” (“Churchill decides toll,” 2012). The Battle of Britain was during the time period of June, 1940 to May, 1941 with the heaviest fighting occurring from June to October, 1940. The Battle of Britain was a fierce air battle between the Germans and the British over Great Britain’s airspace which was important as Germany wished to invade by land. As a precursor to the invasion of England, the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) would attack the British coastal defenses, radar stations and shipping ports. This caused almost all of Britain’s Expeditionary Force to become penned in a tiny pocket around the French Channel port of Dunkirk along with a large number of the French Army as well. This caused the British to attempt to rescue over 330,000 men from the Dunkirk coastal line in attempt to fight another day. Of that 330,000+ number approximately 224,000 of them were Britain’s Expeditionary Force which represented about 85 percent Britain’s Army (Macdonal, 1997). After the fall of France, Germany was very confident and planned very little for this battle. They believed they would first take over airspace and...
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...Versailles had placed restrictions on the strength of the German military, and demilitarized certain German areas like Rhineland to create a buffer zone between France and Germany. Hitler defied the treaty and started building up his military. He then moved his army into Rhineland. This also broke the treaty, but the treaty was not enforced.1 At this point some felt that Hitler was a reasonable leader with limited goals, and that Germany had been dealt with too harshly and deserved treaty revisions. So Hitler used this as an opportunity to build up his army and annex other countries. First was Austria, then Sudetenland, which was part of Czechoslovakia. This alerted the world that Hitler may not be trustworthy. In September 1938, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, and Mussolini met with Hitler in Munich. They agreed that Hitler could annex Sudetenland if he left the rest of Czechoslovakia free. Chamberlain returned to London claiming that peace had been reached. Little time passed before Germany, Poland and Hungary divided up...
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...An explanation of why Churchill found himself in the wilderness in the 1930s. The Conservative Party lost the General Election in the spring of 1929, as a result of this Winston Churchill stepped down as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had served in nearly every major British Cabinet post except two: Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister. Part of his unpopularity was due to political reasons; Churchill was never very popular with the Conservative Party’s rank and file or its leaders. There were also personal reasons which aided in his dislike by many. Many of his enemies considered him unsound and felt he lacked in his judgement. Churchill made the decision to wander into the political dessert; as a result the 1930s were referred to as his wilderness years. Churchill’s persistent attacks on the progression of the Indian constitution and his defence of Edward VIII earned him a public backlash. Mussolini was admired very much by Churchill and he had sympathized with Franco during the Spanish Civil War. He never offered up many ideas on the significant economic questions of the day such as unemployment, protection and recovery. Despite his growing unpopularity, Churchill took up the cause of resistance of Nazi Germany during the 1930s. There were many obstacles that were related to this and the British government was well aware of them; pacifist settlement after the First World War; belief in the League of Nations; sympathy for Germany’s desire to rewrite the treaty of Versailles;...
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...The Fall of Lloyd George * When Bonar Law resigned in 1921 Lloyd Georges relations with the conservatives started to break down * In 1922 Lloyd George was accused of selling peerages to finance his own party in the ‘honours scandal’ * In the ‘Chanak Affair’ Lloyd George was accused of ordering British troops into action without consulting government * The Conservatives believed that they could stand for election successfully without Lloyd George after their success at Newport * In the famous Carlton Club meeting of 1922 they decided to go into the election independently * Bonar Law and Baldwin made key speeches in the meeting * The conservatives won the following election which was in 1922. The Asquithian Liberals and Lloyd George won 116 seats between them. Labour managed to win 142 seats which was the first sign of the Liberal decline and Labour becoming the key party to battle the Conservatives for government The Conservatives and Labour Governments 1923-9 * As the British political described is often described as a two-horse-race with the fall of the Liberals fall came the rise of the Labour Party * Labour managed to get into power under Ramsay MacDonald in 1923-4 and 1929 but these were minority governments * After eight months Bonar law had to resign due to illness and was replaced by Baldwin who called an election on tariff reform and lost * The Labour party went some way to prove they could be adequate in office by introducing...
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...‘Appeasement Was Politically Popular But Thoroughly Misconceived.’ Discuss Appeasement is the policy of making concessions to dictatorial powers to avoid conflict, which is what the British government, in particular, Neville Chamberlain, hoped to do in the 1930s. He and his generation had witnessed after witnessing the horrors that war can bring. There are two parts to this question because it suggests that appeasement was both politically popular and misconceived, both of which can be disputed. However there is not too much conflict over its popularity at the time because most people believed that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh and that another war was inconceivable after WW1 with a general feeling of ‘peace at any price.’ Whether it was misconceived or not has been argued by traditionalist and revisionist historians ever since. It is plausible to argue that Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement was naïve because, by giving in to Hitler’s demands, Britain would seem weak and make Hitler just want to push for more. Indeed this is exactly what happened at the Munich conference. Chamberlain was acting on the assumption that Hitler would honour his commitments and act in good faith. In this way Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary, showed that they came from a very different political and social background to Hitler and so were poorly equipped to make clear judgements on Hitler’s likely behaviour. Halifax wanted to believe that Hitler was a thoroughly changed...
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...To what extent was British public opinion the reason that Britain adopted the policy of appeasement? After a defeat in WW1 Germany was left seriously impacted (want this to be changed?ritain adopted the policy of appeasement? reason thAT torians have argued that milirary am by-election showed the true anti-war). This gave Chancellor Adolf Hitler the perfect opportunity to expand Germany’s territories and get rid of the restrictions placed on Germany after the war. Therefore, Britain’s policy of appeasement aimed to please Germany in order to prevent further conflict, and after the horrific events of WW1 most of the British public supported this. With the horrors still fresh in the public’s mind it can be argued that British public opinion was the main reason as to why Britain adopted the policy of appeasement. However, there are other significant factors that contributed to the adoption of appeasement including economic difficulties, military weaknesses, threat of communism, lack of reliable allies, attitudes towards the Treaty of Versailles and concern for her empire. One reason for the introduction of appeasement is public opinion. After the Rhineland crisis in a debate in the House of Commons in March 1936, Sir Winston Churchill warned that the atmosphere in Europe had changed recently to the extent that war was being regarded as a serious responsibility. He also described the German occupation of the Rhineland as a menace to Holland, Belgium and France. With the horrors...
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...How Failure Breeds Success Even heard of Choglit? How about OK Soda or Surge? Long after ‘New Coke’ became nearly synonymous with innovation failure, these products joined Coca-Cola Co.’s graveyard of beverage busts. Given that history, failure hardly seems like a subject CEO E, Neville Isdell would want to trot out in front of investors. But Isdell did just that, deliberately airing the topic at Coke’s annual meeting in April. “You will see some failures,” he told the crowd. “As we take more risks, this is something we must accept as part of the regeneration process.” Warning Coke investors that the company might experience some flops is a little like warning Atlantans they might experience afternoon thunderstorms in July. But Isdell thinks it’s vital. He wants Coke to take bigger risks, and to do the, he knows he needs to convince employees and shareholders that he will tolerate the failures that will inevitably result. That’s the only way to change Coke’s traditionally risk averse culture. And given the importance of this goal, there’s no podium too big for sending the signal. While few CEOs are as candid about the potential for failure as Isdell, many are wrestling with the same problem, trying to get their organizations to cozy up to the risk-taking that innovation requires. A warning: it’s not going to be an easy shift. After years of cost-cutting initiatives and growing job insecurity, most employees don’t exactly feel like putting themselves on the line. Add to...
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...Case Study Coca-Cola Company: Then and Now Vladyslav Mozharov vladyslavmozharov@cityu.edu MBA 545: People and Systems in Organizations John Elmer Case Study – Coca-Cola Company: Then and Now May 1, 2014 The traditional change model consists of three steps: unfreezing, i.e. recognizing the need for change because of some event or threat, the actual change actions and refreezing, i.e. incorporating new ways of operating and thinking into everyday operations of the organization. Apply this model to the situation at the coca-cola company at the point when the lawsuit was served in 1999. As it is stated in the case of Coca-Cola, it was a marketing machine ran by bureaucrats and tried to create an image of their brand more than to give to customers what they want. At that stage, Ivestor, who was a CEO of the company, was focusing more on the numbers and revenues than on what is really going inside of the company. He was described as insecure and arrogant and refused to listen to his own people, working for him. Instead of solving the real problems in the company, he was focusing on keeping profits on the same level. Case gives an example of passivity of his actions by increasing the price of Coke syrup sales to bottlers to keep it. Of course, it was a mandatory action due to the largest product recall in their history, but it only accumulated a racial tension in the company, as he was indifferent to people and focused on financial results. His lack of actions for solving...
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...How far do you agree that it was Edward IV’s financial management which was the key to his successful consolidation of power in the years 1471-1483? It is clear that Edward IV’s financial management was a prominent factor in allowing him to obtain power during his reign. However, there are also other factors that acted as root causes in gaining him power. Examples include: restoration of good government and his search for dynastic security. On the one hand, it is evident that Edward IV consolidated his power during his reign successfully due to finance. Edward was responsible for increasing his income from royal estates by bringing in innovations when it came to land management. Examples included, appointing surveyors, auditors and receivers to replace the land management roles that belonged to the exchequer. He enabled the country to come out of a £300,000 inherited debt and reduce the amount of resentment civilians had towards the strength of the monarchy. This strengthened Edward’s position as he did not request funds from Parliament or imposing heavy taxes on places such as Wales and the North East where people resented him mostly. On the other hand, it can be argued that finance wasn’t the primary factor in consolidating his success. In fact, when Edward IV died, he left only £1200 in the treasury. In addition to this, he gave away lots of money for the expensive war in Scotland as well as giving excessive amounts of land away. The lands he inherited as Duke of York and...
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