...Research Paper 1: Sean “Puffy” Combs Who is Sean “Puffy’ Combs? How did he get to where he’s at today in his career? Sean Combs was born on November 4, 1969 in the Harlem District of New York City. His father was murdered on the streets of upper Manhattan when he was three years old. His widowed mother worked three jobs at once and was able to get enough money together to purchase a home in Suburban Mount Vernon, New York. Even though they moved his mother maintained her ties to Harlem, It was there in Harlem young Combs gained a remarkable cultural education, taking in the creations of the legendary hip hop founders Grandmaster Flash, Run D.M.C, KRS-One and many more. Combs got his nick name from a childhood...
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...Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney represents New York’s 18th district in the U.S. House of Representatives after first being elected in November 2012. Maloney currently serves on the House Agriculture Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee which is important to creating jobs and boosting the economy in the Hudson Valley. His priorities in the 113th Congress include strengthening the health and financial security of America's retirees, creating economic opportunity for New York families, and balancing the budget the right way. Maloney has a distinguished background in business and public service. Maloney served as a senior advisor in President Bill Clinton’s White House as part of a team that balanced the budget and paid down the debt, all while creating over eight hundred thousand jobs here in New York. When Maloney left the White House, he built his own business from scratch. His high-tech startup created hundreds of New York jobs. Maloney then served as a senior staff member to two Democratic governors of New York, focusing on education and infrastructure projects. He oversaw 13 state agencies and departments, including those responsible for all homeland security, state police and emergency management operations. Sean Maloney sits on the House Committee on Agriculture where he is a member of the subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit, General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. He also sits on House Committee on Transportation and...
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...Sean Lennon, son of the late John Lennon, recently wrote an article for The New York Times concerning a town meeting that took place in the local high school of Delaware County, New York state. The meeting was held to discuss infrastructure that a gas company wants to put in place ready for hydraulic fracturing. The gas company held the meeting to discuss the benefits to the local residents by bringing clean energy, in the form of natural gas, to millions. In the article Sean shows subjectivity by exhibiting that he has strong feelings of sentiment about the land right from the start by the title he chose for his article, “Destroying Precious Land for Gas.” He says the land is “precious.” Precious means something that is of great value, and something that should not be treated carelessly. In describing the land in this way Sean is saying that the land holds great value for him. He continues by saying, “Where the Catskill Mountains curl up into little kitten hills” (Lennon, 2012). The description of the mountains as “kittens” brings to mind warm, fluffy, purring little kittens. This emphasizes further that Sean’s feelings for the land are warm and loving. He also connects memories of his late father to his family farm, “… skipping stones with my father and drinking unpasteurized milk” (Lennon, 2012). Research shows that John Lennon died when Sean was five years old; therefore, he would not have many memories to hold on to, so one can assume that those he has would be special...
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...Into the Wild - Sean Penn “Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.” At an early age children learn to feel either valued and important, or inferior and insignificant. For those whose early years were filled with physical or emotional abuse, neglect or abandonment, love will not feel natural or deserved. For these children, as normal as they may seem on the outside, part of them lives in the dark, afraid to emerge. But is it possible to close the gaps of the past? The movie 'Into the Wild' by Sean Penn is a passionate and faithful suggestion of Jon Krakauer's book about Chris McCandeless. It's the disturbing and complex story of a young idealist and seeker who was a rebellious child who renamed himself Alexander Supertramp. He gave away his $24,000 savings to Oxfam after college, went off in his old car and left his family behind, and disappeared for two years wandering the country. He where found by hunters, dead of poisoning and starvation in an abandoned bus in the wilds of Alaska. In addition to the fascinating cinematography in the movie, which is really catchy, I find the story extremely inspiring; people in the late modern society must be so tired of seeing the same things every single day. Wake up in the same bed - in the same house. Everything is the same and everybody is unhappy. We are all searching for the exact same thing. But what is it? It is the ultimate freedom, which...
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...The American drama film entitled Finding Forrester is directed by an award winning director Gus Van Sant and is written by Mike Rich. It was released in theaters on December 2000 and it garnered mostly positive feedbacks. The two stars of the film was Sean Connery, who played as William Forrester, and Rob Brown, who played as Jamal Wallace. Sean Connery was also the film’s producer. The film was about William Forrester, a reclusive writer, who wrote “The Great Twentieth Century Novel”. This earned him a Pulitzer prize but after gaining fame he shut his world to the public and settle in an apartment in South Bronx, New York. He was befriended by Jamal Wallace, a talented basketball player and an intelligent sixteen year old teenager. Jamal hides his intelligence in writing from his friends because he fears that they might make fun of him and put him out of place. One night, Jamal sneak into the apartment of William. Out of fear he accidentally left his bag in the apartment. Jamal talked to the delivery man of the apartment and showed his knowledge discussing the history of BMW. The delivery man left and his bag was dropped down from the apartment. He finds that the man read his journals and made notes in them. He asked the man to help him in his works, but he was told to write 5000 words on why he should stay out of his home, which Jamal completes and submit to the man. That’s when he started going to the man’s apartment. A...
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...which I had to observe several family members in crisis. I selected Sean as the family member from the crisis case and I will provide crisis intervention utilizing the models of crisis intervention discussed in the textbooks by Floyd and Wright. Nature of the Crisis The nature of the crisis stems from Sean’s childhood. Sean had a very difficult childhood. Crises are turning points where counselees can possibly move toward growth, enrichment and improvement; or it can move towards dissatisfaction, pain, and in some cases, dissolution. (Wright, 2011, 128) There are three hazardous events in particular that has played a major role in Sean current crisis situation: The divorce of his parents, Sean’s father’s added pressure for him to succeed, and Sean’s father being a homosexual. Wright says that “A hazardous event is an occurrence that starts a chain reaction of events that culminates in a crisis.” (Wright, 2011, 129) I agree with those words wholeheartedly. Sean was a fun loving kid who had everything going for him. His family described him as “a good guy with a big heart.” However that soon began to change changed. At the age of 13 Sean began experimenting with alcohol as a way to escape from the reality of his life. He felt that the buzz was his “miracle juice.” Drinking made Sean feel good. However, the sad and harsh reality of the situation is that it is the exact opposite of feeling good. Sean sees alcohol as a way to deal with the constant feeling of never...
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...mother. In sum, the one decision by characters in this film made a large difference to the future of Michael Oher and family in schooling and careers. Michael Oher and Leigh-Ann Touhy’s relationship was important in the development of the film because, when Michael first started high school at Wingate Christian school a family friend of his ‘Big Tony’ let’s him stay at his place. Big Tony wants Michael to go to the school because he’s an excellent football player. When Leigh-Ann first saw ‘Big Mike’ (as he was first known) she was picking up her son SJ from the school. A high angle showed that Michael was insignificant at the time and people from all walks of life were ignoring him. A few days later, Leigh-Ann and Sean Touhy go to SJ’s performance at the school for a play about Indians. She is driving home when she then see’s Michael and asks “Do you have somewhere to stay?” “I’m going to the gym,” replies Michael “Come, I’ll put you up for the night” she replies” this quote shows that Leigh-Ann is a loving and caring person towards even people like him who are practically homeless, also against her demographic as people down in the South of the USA are republicans. This action by Leigh-Ann brings the whole plot together and by and by Leigh-Ann and Mike’s relationships strengthens Michael Oher and...
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...a primary form of self expression. GoldenPalace.com paid this woman for the real estate space on her forehead. This is a permanent tattoo, no joke, she sold it in 2005 for $10K. Just goes to show you, if you need money or need the advertising there is always someone out there. ________________________________________ But is it impossible to save a brand if the personality is sinking? In some cases a tarnished and even violent past hasn’t impacted the brand at all – it may even add to the mystique. A slew of hip hop artists from 50 Cent to Eve have or are turning their urban images into lifestyle brands. P. Diddy (a.k.a., Sean Combs), saw his five-year-old Sean John fashion label bring in $400 million in retail sales in 2003. A women's collection and fragrance are also planned. At Federated, one of the biggest department store chains in the US, Sean John occupies 153,000 square feet of floor space -- making it the store's third-largest player in menswear, behind Polo and Tommy Hilfiger. Not bad considering Combs was arrested in 1999 for assaulting a record executive, and tried in 2001 on gun possession and bribery charges related to a 1999 shooting at a Manhattan nightclub (where he'd been with...
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...Bad Boy C.E.O. Sean “Puffy” Combs Arrested in Connection With Murder of Tupac Shakur! On Thursday, September 17th, 2014 the arrest of Sean “Puffy” Combs may have been undertaken by authorities for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur on the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip. Associates in Combs’ organization have indicated off-the-record that, yes, Sean Combs was in fact under arrest. This disclosure comes just days after the 18th anniversary of the so far unsolved murder of the mega-superstar, Tupac Shakur. In a press release with the date of September 16th, 2014, a spokesperson for the Las Vegas District Attorney’s office said that there has come sufficient evidence to make an arrest and to obtain conviction for the murder of Shakur in 1996. This most probably indicates that an arrest warrant has been issued. The same statement makes mention that former Death Row bodygaurd, Frank Alexander, has led detectives onto several witnesses that do show a ‘high profile person’ is connected to the conspiracy to murder Tupac Shakur. It said that an arrest would be soon to follow. It has been reported widely by many of those supposedly in the know that, Orlando Anderson, a member of L. A. based South SIde Crips is the shooter in the Tupac case. Anderson, it is known, was beaten by Shakur and his Death Row associtates before the murderous shooting of Shakur on the Vegas Strip. It has been said numerous times in the 18 years since the Shakur murder that Sean Combs and associates...
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...continually offers her what little he has for the land to no avail and carries on tending to this land that isn’t his. Here the story could end - Bull would persist on and be happy, though his gruff exterior wouldn’t let on - and no play or movie would be required. But when a smooth American played by Tom Berenger comes on the scene with money to spend and intentions do so McCabe’s simple plans go enormously awry. The field goes on the market for public auction as the widow changes her tune from ‘I won’t sell’, to ‘I’ll sell to whomever, whenever as long as the price is right’. The combination of the auction and the American trigger turmoil and all the formerly contented townsfolk can’t keep to themselves. Meanwhile Bull and his son Tadgh (Sean Bean) decide to settle the score and keep their land. Bean, like Berenger, is given a character with little to sink his acting chops into. Thus begins a plethora of complaints that weigh on the scale opposite Harris’ epic performance. Thin characters are accepted, and almost expected, in so many movies that when a film comes along with the intention of portraying a man’s religious dedication to his...
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...FINDING FORRESTER TEACHERS’ NOTES Finding Forrester is a film about the inspirational relationship between a street-wise black teenager and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. This study guide is for pupils of GCSE and A level English and Media Studies. The areas of study include starting points for creative writing, writing a critique, what makes great writing, representation and mise en scène. SYNOPSIS He was a vibrant personality who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel four decades ago. And that is the last word heard of William Forrester (Sean Connery). That is until Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), a brash sixteen-year-old with writing aspirations of his own, cracks the veneer of Forrester’s sheltered existence and re-ignites the dreams of this literary legend in the winter of his life. Known as the neighbourhood recluse, silver-haired Forrester is a man whose mystery and eccentricity border on the mythical. When he discovers that Jamal - a talented African-American scholar-athlete who is recruited by an elite Manhattan school for his brilliance on and off the basketball court - has sneaked into his apartment and left his backpack full of writings behind, they both get something unexpected in return. Forced to look past skin colour and suppositions, Jamal encounters not only his first fan, but a mentor who will challenge and change him forever, and Forrester has his first reason in years to emerge from his self-imposed solitude. Visit www.columbiatrlstar.co.uk/forrester...
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...attachment to other people or things and we can gain other certain feelings such as security, happiness, pride, sense of value and acceptance by others as social human beings. It gives us an awareness of identity and builds our self-confidence and self-esteem as we feel part of something bigger. There are also implications for not belonging, our inability to connect can lead to isolation, alienation, vulnerability and dislocated from society. These universal experiences are explored through the poetry of Peter Skrzynecki’s “Immigrant Chronicle”, in particular, Migrant Hostel where barriers limited the migrant’s experience of belonging and Feliks Skrzynecki which portrays the father and son’s contrasting experiences to belonging in a new land. Sean Penn’s 2007 film Into the Wild also examines a person’s quest for a sense of...
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...other country, is also affected by this premise. It would be difficult to assume that big firms such as Guinness or Dunnes Stores might fall. However, some wrong decisions, strategic failures or the adverse economic climate can lead to disaster. It is not easy to apply the five stages framework that explains the different phases that a company goes through before falling created by Collins, -Hubris Born of Success, Undisciplined Pursuit of More, Denial of Risk and Peril, Grasping for Salvation and Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death- (Collins, 2009), without knowing in depth the circumstances that any Irish company went through prior to falling. A clear example of the fall of an Irish mighty can be found not in a firm, but in a person: Sean Quinn. In 2007, at the top of his success, Quinn was the richest man in Ireland with an estimate fortune of €3.74 billion. In December 2011 he declared himself bankrupt before a Belfast courtroom. At this point he leads a new list: The biggest bankrupt in Irish and UK history (Fitzpatrick, 2011). 1. Hubris Born of Success Quinn Financial Services, which includes Quinn Direct insurance business, made €123 million profit in the first half of 2006. The following year, the Quinn Group buys BUPA for €150 millions. This movement could consolidate the group’s position on the insurance field while already playing a leading role in the hospitality and building sectors. Here starts Quinn’s arrogance (Fitzpatrick, 2011). 2. Undisciplined...
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...Sean Quinn famously built an international empire out of a hole on his father's small farm and a borrowed £100. Along the way, the notoriously media-shy tycoon carved out a reputation as a plain-living but fearless outsider who took on big monopolies and won. It was this anti-establishment attitude, seared into him as a boy growing up on the Irish border, that led him to invest heavily in the maverick Anglo Irish Bank, while he was still Ireland's richest man. The move proved to be a monumental mistake for the usually shrewd 63-year-old entrepreneur, that has already wiped out at least €1bn of his personal wealth, left him saddled with €2.8bn more in debts and, now, sees the Financial Regulator take control of his flagship company. Mr Quinn left school at the age of 14 to work on the family farm in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh. With a borrowed £100 he dug a hole on the 23-acre small-holding, started extracting gravel, washing it and selling it to local builders. Steeped in the traditions of the GAA, the young Mr Quinn used his contacts in Ireland's largest sporting organisation to develop his business across the border into the Republic. Soon dubbed the 'Mighty Quinn', he took on the huge Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH), who had the market sewn up. His attentions later switched to insurance, glass, plastics and radiators. It was this simple formula of taking on fearsome monopolies by undercutting prices - the Ryanair model more than a decade before the airline...
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...“ We can’t change the world, unless we change ourselves” is what Biggie Smalls said himself. Christopher George Lactore Wallace, better known by his stage names The Notorious B.I.G or Biggie Smalls , was an American rapper. He was born May 21st , 1972 in Brooklyn , New York. And died March 9th , 1997 in Los Angeles. He grew up in Brooklyn. In his middle school years Wallace excelled in his english classes, he also won awards for that. He got his nickname “big” because he was overweight by the age 10. At the age 12 he selling drugs. His mother Voletta Wallace had no idea what he was doing, because she was always away at work. At 17 he developed a bad attitude and dropped out of highschool and got involved with crimes. He went to jail for nine...
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