..."Hotel California" The Eagles On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw shimmering light My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night There she stood in the doorway; I heard the mission bell And I was thinking to myself, 'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell' Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say... "Hotel California" The Eagles On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw shimmering light My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night There she stood in the doorway; I heard the mission bell And I was thinking to myself, 'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell' Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say... (Chorus) Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Hotel California Any time of year (Any time of year) You can find it here Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget So I called up the Captain, 'Please bring me my wine' ...
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...“Of Mice and Men” “Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is the shocking story of two friends, George and Lennie, who have nothing but each other and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own and no longer have to wander round the country in search of work. The direction in which the story is heading becomes clear as it draws to a close. When George kills Lennie because he believes he must take responsibility for him. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied, he pulled the trigger.” George realizes that he must be the one that kills Lennie and not the other ranch men. In the same way that Candy should have taken the responsibility for his dog, George believes that he must take responsibility for Lennie. He must have realized that even if they were to run away again, Lennie would get into trouble and they would have to run away again. It really must have killed George inside when he saw Lennie lying dead at his feet. He and Lennie were portrayed as having been together a long time. Now George is on his own and no different from any of the other ranch men , he no longer dreamed of having a house of his own, that dream died when Curley’s wife was found lying in the hay. George tells Lennie how different they are compared to the other ranchers. “Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They...
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...Toy Story - analysis of the Jot case study Adrian Sims of BPP Professional Education provides some initial analysis of the pre-seen material for the TOPCIMA Part B – Case Study exams on February 28th and May 24th 2012. I’m writing this article in late December 2011 to help candidates prepare for the March and May 2012 T4 (TOPCIMA) exams based on the pre-seen material for Jot- toy case. Some previous T4 cases have lacked fun, but toys are fun. I’m sorry, but I decided to combine this article with quotes from the three Toy Story movies (Disney/Pixar). The Toy Story quotes are in italics, a bit contrived, and probably of no use for the exam. They made me smile and gave me (and you) an excuse to watch the Toy Story movies again. But my newspaper today rather kills the joyful mood. It has the headline ‘Sales boom may not save High Street big names: analysts predict failures within days’. It reports that the December sales boom has been insufficient and has left many stores with unsold stocks and unable to pay their outgoings. This has afflicted markets as diverse as camping equipment and lingerie. This brings us to the heart of the Jot pre-seen material. Jot makes toys and is part of an industry for which November and December sales are critical. It depends on retailers to sell its products, but retail in Europe is facing terrible times as a consequence of the recession caused by the sharp reductions in government spending and collapse of bank lending. It has a perilous cash flow...
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...Like It’s Our Last Day Patty Jo Djennelbaroud English 121 Instructor Asatryan March 25, 2013 Like It’s Our Last Day All too often we live our lives like we will be here forever. We take advantage of the time we are given to spend with our loved ones, and neglect opportunities to show how much we treasure them. Even when someone is old or sick, it’s too easy for us to fool ourselves into thinking that they ‘know’ just how important they are to us and how they impact our lives. I was lucky enough to be taught the value of living each day like it was my last day, and to never take our loved ones for granted, thanks to my niece Hillarie. When I was 14, my sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Hillarie Dawn. She had milky-smooth copper skin, was completely bald, and the longest baby I had ever seen. Even her toes and fingers seem to stretch for miles, and she could keep herself entertained for ages just by watching her tiny fragile fingers furling out and in, again and again, like the tail of a peacock opening and closing. She wasn’t the first baby in this generation of my family; she was number five thus far. You could say we were quite well versed in newborn-ology, but she surprised us all with her quiet and easy nature. She rarely cried or fussed, was always happy, and even let us catch sleep for hours at a time. Before the age of 2 she was diagnosed with a heart disorder, a rare form of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with RCM. It held a bleak outcome for her future;...
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...Effective Time Management Gen/200 04/18/2010 Effective Time Management Pursuing my degree is one of the best decisions of my life, but there have been some issues in accomplishing it. The biggest issue, because I chose to go to school later in life, is effective time management. With family, a full-time job, and school responsibilities, there isn’t much time available for anything else including sleep. In order to accomplish my goal, I need to learn how to effectively manage my time. The problem with learning how to manage my time is how I can learn the techniques and where do I find quality information on the subject of time management. There was an unlimited amount of information on the web and also great information in the University of Phoenix Library. I used Google Scholar to find some really good information as well as time management assessments to better help with a solution. I have to find information that is effective and has been tested or proven to work. There are many proven ways to manage time, but you have to select the one that best works for your situation and your lifestyle. I believe that the best information comes from the people who are professionals on the subject or have been in your position and overcome it. I know that in order to manage my time effectively, I need to overcome procrastination. I know that it is a problem and it needs to be addressed. According to Rick Johnson, CEO of Strategist LLC, procrastination is the breeding ground for...
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...Code of Conduct (For Parents of youth athletes) Individually, or with a partner, you will be creating a code of conduct contract for parents of children participating in youth sports. I will provide you with various examples of codes of conduct. Review them and use them as a guideline for yours. Do NOT copy the statements from the ones you receive. In reviewing these, look carefully at the different areas that are covered. Be sure to include those in your code of conduct. If you were, or are involved in sports, think back to some of the experiences you had in dealing with parents. Use those to help you create your statements. If you have a child participating in sports, or may have one in the future, think about how you would want other parents to act during the sporting event. Create your code of conduct to reflect that behavior. If you want to make a code of conduct specific to one certain sport, that is fine. Otherwise, you can make it general to cover any youth sports. You need to hand in one code of conduct per group. Be sure to include all names on the paper. Please type up the code of conduct. Make it so that it could be handed to a parent today to sign, in the form of a contract. (Signature line, date, etc.) On a separate sheet of paper, type answers to the following questions: 1. Is a code of conduct necessary for sports, especially youth sports? If so, why? 2. What does it say about youth sports that code of conducts exist...
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...Katrina disaster. These points are all accurate, and indeed important. However, the only thing Jay says regarding the music industry is that its reputation is boosted when its celebrities do charitable things. He neglects to include how the music scene and the musicians themselves are affected, and how the way we view music has been affected. In the first body paragraph, I feel that he spends far too much time describing Sam Fuller. While certainly relevant to American Idol, Fuller’s influence is more relevant to the entertainment industry and comes more from his wealth than his musical background. Facts such as which celebrities he manages are mostly irrelevant. Instead, he should have spent more time on describing how Simon (as well as Randy and Paula, the other two judges) have influenced musicians and the way we view music. The other body paragraph is very vague. It is somewhat clear what point he is trying to make about Idol serving as a public forum, but not specifically how that has influenced anything. Once again, there is no mention of how the music scene was affected, only how public society was affected. His point about the Katrina relief efforts were...
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...The song "American Woman" was written and recorded by the Canadian rock group The Guess Who, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The song was written in January, 1970, at a time when many countries, led by the United States, were fighting a war in Vietnam. The communists of North Vietnam had invaded South Vietnam and neighboring countries, promoting communism. Many Americans were opposed to the war. The story behind how American Woman was written is unusual. The band was performing at a club called the Broom & Stone which was actually a curling rink. According to Burton Cummings, the lead singer and song writer, the show was stopped because Randy Bachman broke a string on his guitar. As he was retuning his instrument, he played the notes which eventually became the opening riff to the song. The other members began playing and Cummings started ad-libbing words to go with the music. He said in an interview in 2013, “I run inside and run up onto the stage and just grab a microphone and started singing whatever came into my head; it was all stream of consciousness at the moment stuff … all that stuff about war machines and ghetto scenes, colored lights can hypnotize …it was all just spur-of-the-moment.” examiner.com/article The audience went wild. Burton noticed that a member of the audience was recording the show and told the band manager to get the tape. Later, they listened to the tape and wrote down the music and lyrics, which was then recorded with only a...
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...The classic novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck was made into a movie in 1992. The novel, which takes place in the 1930’s, follows the lives of two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, as they try to attain their dream of owning their own farm and “live off the fatta the lan’”. George is a smart man who always seems to have things figured out. Lennie is massive, a contradiction of his last name, but has the mind of a young child. George looks after him, but it is not easy since Lennie always seems to get himself in some kind of trouble. As they struggle towards their dreams, George and Lennie face obstacles that test their friendship. In the end, with Lennie dead, George finds out that dreams aren’t worth striving for, and eventually, loneliness overcomes everything. The book Of Mice and Men differed from the movie adaptation, with the portrayal of Curley’s wife, and Lennie’s death scene. Along with those differences there are aspects in the movie that show a strong resemblance to those in the book, like how the characters were written, and how they were acted. The movie of Of Mice and Men had many differences while still giving the same messages that the book intended on having. A major difference between the book Of Mice and Men and the movie was Lennie’s death scene. In the book there was a scene in which Lennie was alone, where George told him to go in case he ever got in trouble. At that moment Lennie was hallucinating about his Aunt Clara and rabbits. This...
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...In the novella of Mice and Men and the TV show Fargo, the idea of masculinity and its surrounding ideas are played with allot. From the idea of a male partnership to animal symbolism, these texts show similar events happening to similar collections of people, however, these two texts are different in the audience that they are appealing towards. In Steinbeck’s novella, it is very much a piece of its time, being centered around the great depression and a man's struggle to find work in these hard times, very much reflecting on Steinbeck’s own life. Whereas Fargo focuses more on the ideals of the American dream, following a lowly ‘failure’ of a man as his life gets ripped from him. The idea of the traditional Lone Wanderer is portrayed in both these texts, however, both express an adaption of this classic theme. Steinbeck’s literary techniques display Lennie’s hulking body in his bear symbolism and Georges small figure, however, George is required to help Lennie through life to give an example when Lennie is hiding the mouse from him and he sais ‘I ain’t got nothing George’ and ‘I didn’ kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead’ This illustrates his child like behavior and his requirement on George to simply survive. A similar idea is reflected in Fargo with Mr. Wrench and Mr. Numbers with one being deaf and the other a George-like figure, however, the imagery when they both talk demonstrates a more evolved relationship that George and Lennie’s. Both texts show evolved versions...
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...Lennie and crooks is the most sympathetic characters in mice and men because he is slow, and not smart with the outside world, also only has one person to understand his disability. And crooks is separated from everyone because he's black, and lives in a barn all by himself. So these are some details that i can provide you about Lennie and Crooks and how they both should have the most sympathetic in the book of mice and men. Lennie is a sympathetic character because he is treated badly because of his mental disability. At the beginning of the novel, George and Lennie are trying to get a new job. George asks Lennie to not saying anything since every time he does, they get in trouble. Lennie, who is so mentally slow, repeats the instructions over and over. He says, “I … ain’t gonna say nothin’”until George gives him instruction (6). That’s how Lennie gets talks to all the time by George because how Lennie only understands things like that when George talks to him at a yelling or a slow voice. When Lennie gets nervous or scared he talking in a way that makes sense that only George can understand it like when Lennie says “Le’s go, George. Le’s get outta here. It’s mean here”(33). So Geouge has to talks to him like in a mean tone as in “Shut up now. The guys’ll be comin’ in” (33). It’s all because Lennie is Not smart. Lennie is uncontrolling strength when he holds pets he kills all his special pets because he don’t know how strong he really is. “Im sorry Geouge i didn’t know when...
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...Having dreams and passions for the future is what everyone considers. Unfortunately, dreaming for the future can have a variety of obstacles. John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men effectively teaches the reader about isolation and broken dreams. Steinbeck uses Lennie, George, Crooks and Curley’s wife to prove the deep feeling of isolation composed from loss of verisimilitude and broken dreams. Isolation not only happens because of human environment, but because of skin color. Isolation for a long time makes a character in the novel, Crooks, unmotivated to be social. The author effectively sets an example of isolation when Lennie decided to talk to Crooks, “ Lennie smiled helplessly in an attempt to make friend. Crooks said sharply,...
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...First off the only person on the ranch that Curlys wife can ever talk to to is Curly or else he gets mad. He’s always trying to start fights with whoever encounters her, even if she’s the first one to talk to them. All the men on the ranch know not to talk to her certainly because she’s the wife of the bosses son. There is a quote in the book that proves her statement, “I get lonely” she said. “you can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but curley. Else he gets mad. how’d you like not to talk to nobody?”. That shows that she is not trying to mess around with the men and she only wants someone to talk to her. Second of all there are no other women on the farm for her to talk to. How does curly expect her not to talk to the women when there isn’t any other women for her to talk to. In the book of mice and men it quotes, “when his aunt Clara died, Lennie just come along with me out workin”(40) that implies that Curlys wife was the only other women mentioned in the book and besides aunt Clara that passed away. Therefore Curly was not letting her socialize which had let her to rebel and to try to socialize. She doesn’t like to be on the farm, her dream was to become something bigger but no one would know because they refuse to listen. No one would listen to her and it was a considered a crime to speak to her. In the book of mice and men there was a quote in the book of her speaking to Lennie and telling him what she wanted to do with him. The quote read,”I tell you I ain’t...
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...Even though Lennie does not have the mental capacity to understand it, he poses a danger to those around him. Lennie is unable to decipher right from wrong, hence why he doesn’t understand his own strength hurts others whether it may be an accident or not. One example being the puppy which Lennie cared for. To Lennie, the puppy was “soft and nice”, until the puppy showed aggression to Lennie and he hit it too hard causing it to die. Lennie often retaliates to “aggressive” behavior throughout the novel, such as the mice he tends to as a child. When they show aggression to Lennie, he “pinched their heads”. Lennie’s actions may be accidental, such as the murder of Curley’s wife. However, when he kills her, he notices he’s “done a real bad thing”. Lennie’s choice to hide her body is essential because if anybody found out that he killed Curley’s wife, the consequence would result in his own death. George prevents more trouble for other men on the farm by killing Lennie because he would have been killed anyways. After the fatal death of Curley’s wife, Lennie’s death and there were only 2 ways: the men’s way or George’s way. George and Lennie’s relationship shows a strong correlation to Candy and his dog’s relationship. Candy raises the dog so he has an emotional connection to it whilst George has been with Lennie through numerous jobs. Emotional connections on the farm such as Candy and his dog. The men ignored Curley choice of wanting the dog to live, and they shot the dog in the...
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... Throughout the book Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses characters to foreshadowing his characters. Steinbeck uses theme to show the reality in his character. Like a character Lenny. Steinbeck shows us how people will work hard for their dreams, but no matter what something/ someone will try/will to take that dream from you. In Of Mice and Men, were Lenny would talk to George about how he will tend the rabbits and on a farm. Steinbeck says in his book, “Lennie kills the puppy and is afraid that George wasn’t going to let him tend the rabbits”(Steinbeck 44). What Steinbeck is saying in this quote is you have a person like Lennie who has’s a dream of living on a farm with a lot of rabbits and soft thing. But everything goes downhill when he kills a puppy that was given to him from a friend. But ends up killing the puppy on acciedet when it bet is hand. So Steinbeck showing us how his character Lenny is afraid that his friend George will find out that he killed the puppy and take away his American dreams of tending the rabbits would go down hill. Another foreshadowing, that Steinbeck shows of the American Dream isn’t possible is the uses of Curley’s Wife and Lennie in the barn. When Lennie was laying with the dead puppy in his lap, and Curley’s wife came in the barn and set by Lennie and started talking about soft thing. Steinbeck is leading us to the problem(foreshadowing) that is about to happen. A quote from Steinbeck shows us another American Dreams isn’t possible, “Now...
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