...Matt Williams Splitting Hairs in Disney’s film Tangled Cinderella tells us that a dream is a wish that your heart makes, and following suit dreams play a large part in the newest Disney princess film, Tangled. In the end of the film Rapunzel holds Flynn and they admit their deep secret that they had become each other’s dream, and an “awww” moment ensues. The question to ask is “Where do these dreams come from?” and “What do these dreams mean?” Taking this second question, the implications of Rapunzel and Flynn’s dream impact more than just the world of the film. The Disney Princess films have been studied within an inch of their lives by a great number of scholars in a great number of fields. One common study takes the ideas of gender development and combines them with the Disney Princess films. However, the implications of gender do not stop here as gender identity can still be impacted as the viewers age. Interpretation of the princess films has been a huge aspect of their scholarly application as the behavior of the princesses, and princes, can be interpreted and compared with gender stereotypes and norms to assess the impact their portrayals can have on the viewing audience. The film Tangled is often seen as Disney’s take on a modern princess, and Rapunzel and Flynn have a great deal to contribute to both gender development study and media interpretation of gender. Gender development is a field of study which has been impacted in a number of ways by modern theorists...
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...1.What lies are present in the “tangled webs” considered here? How were they used? How were they justified by those who executed them? Who was harm by them? Which lies were most harmful? According to tangled webs, lies are present as James E. Gansman, a senior partner and an attorney in the New York office of Ernst & Young, engaged in deception. He gave information to favor Murdoch’s trading and revealed an upcoming takeover to help one of Murdoch ’s children with a stock market simulation exercise. He actually knew Murdoch’s trading on confidential information he gave her but he lied that he didn’t know and rejected this accusation. Murdoch also engaged in multiple deceptions. She was using Ashley Madison website to get information that benefit her trading. She concealed her relationship with Gansman and tipped her supervisor and her father. She also lied to FBI and tried to erase her hard drive to destroy the evident. Doing these actions of Gansman might be explained as he wanted to impress Murdoch. Also, trading activity of Murdoch might probably benefit Gansman ’s operating in New York office of Ernst & Young. However, Murdoch only used Gansman’s actions for financial gain as she and her husband were in debt and struggling to make payment on a $1.45 millions home mortgage. In my opinion, both Gansman and Murdoch lost the most. Gansman received a prison sentence for one year and one day while, Murdoch received around 14 charges. 2. Were the punishments for James Gansman...
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...Queen Gertrude Confronts Her Sins - “Oh, what a tangled web we weave. When first we practise to deceive!” Gertrude’s ambiguous personality has been dissected in a numerous ways by generations of readers, but those who read Shakespeare’s Hamlet unanimously agree upon her morally frail and fickle nature. In the play’s opening scenes, Queen Gertrude is presented as a victim of her own moral missteps and lapse of judgment. Upon hearing of the death of her late husband, she appears indifferent and callous. She betrays both the late King Hamlet and her son through the incestuous act of marrying King Hamlet’s brother, Claudius. However, as the play progresses, a Gertrude’s pivotal encounter with Hamlet disintegrates the persona she has hidden behind for so long. By the conclusion of the play, Gertrude realizes the ramifications of the tangled web of lies she has wrought, shedding her mask of deception and betrayal to reveal her genuinely benevolent and kind nature. Further scrutiny of the three focal scenes involving Gertrude delve into the acknowledgement of her vices, and the actions she takes in order to abolish them. When Act 1, Scene 2 begins, the audience is aware of King Hamlet’s death and the stage is set for the introduction of the play’s primary characters, the freshly-minted King Claudius, the sartorial Queen Gertrude and her grieving son, Hamlet. In an ensuing discussion between the three, the queen sheds few tears over King Hamlet’s death, brushing...
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...“Shark-finning is increasingly illegal on a global basis; since 2004, at least sixty nations have banned the practice” (Tatum 6). Many specials have been aired (on Animal Planet) about the shark fin trade. One could see fins drying on rooftops for miles. Tatum also states “The extraordinary value of the fins, up to $2,000 per pound, incentivizes this wasteful practice” (Tatum 2). The price paid for these fins also encourages the practice to continue, despite it being illegal. Shark fin soup is an Eastern Asia delicacy. Being able to afford shark fin soup for special occasions is a marker of social status. Author Claudia Li, in her journal “Shark Truth: Stopping the Soup”, states “Shark fin soup is the “food of the wealthy,” elders used to say” (Li 1). Not only is the practice of...
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...Youth Culture Lesson Finding Teachable Moments in Culture From YouthWorker Journal and YouthWorker.com What Tangled Webs What Invading Spiders Can Teach Us About Fear By Paul Asay What Happened It’s two months before Halloween, but no matter: Rowlett, Texas, is looking pretty creepy these days. The Dallas suburb has the long-jawed orb weaver to thank for it. Drive down CA Roan Drive in Rowlett, and you’ll find the trees there are covered in gigantic webs—some 40 feet tall—and filled with thousands of spiders that got together and built a gigantic, creepy communal home. It’s not the first time Rowlett has been home to these massive webs. In 2007, nearby Lake Tawakoni State Park welcomed another infestation of long-jawed orb weavers, which built webs that, according to Park Superintendent Donna Garde, looked like “something out of a low-budget horror movie.” Only, she added, much, much bigger. As spooky as the webs look, and as fearsome as the spiders appear to be, scientists suggest they’re veritable pacifists in the arachnid world. The inch-long spiders are not venomous, and they’ve never been known to bite humans or bother most of the other critters living in the webs. Experts say these huge webs should be treated as natural marvels, not sites for some sort of spider-based apocalypse scenario. After all, spiders are typically loners, and it’s exceedingly rare to see them work together to build such a colossal structure. Talk About It We hear this sort...
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...Good morning/ afternoon, I am Christine Aquino, the character I have portrayed in my physical representation is Abigail Williams in the classic play ‘The Crucible’. Arthur Miller depicts Abigail Williams as a villain. Abigail is seventeen years old, the niece of Reverend Parris, she has been working as a household help for Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail was fired for having an affair with Elizabeth’s husband, John Proctor. Abigail’s was a manipulative young girl. I have represented Abigail as a spider, as she manipulates events like a spider manipulates and captures it victims through its web. On the first act, it can be seen that Abigail has a surprising power over the girls, she controlled the girls with her threating dialogue, “And you know...
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...Case Analysis Summary of the case Tangled Webs, begins with the description of the company of Ashley Madison, who strives to provide” a social networking site that connects people seeking extra marital affairs.” This site however led to the chance encounter between James E. Gansman, as successful M&A attorney, and Donna Murdoch, a successful investment broker. This relationship soon went past initial flirting, to where both parties became complicit in sharing of nonpublic information (insider trading). Soon after, Donna Murdoch, began to tip off more investors, such as Richard Branson, who she also meet on Ashley Madison and became her “go to” source of income to play these trades. All of these transactions began to catch the attention of SEC, who were tipped off based on the volume of option contracts, which in some cases Mrs. Murdoch was the sole buyer of. This attention by the SEC soon led to a full blown investigation, which exposed the relationship between Murdoch and Gansman. This relationship when exposed led to charges and convictions for both Gansman and Murdoch; however it put more of a spotlight on Ashley Madison, and made some question the ethics of a company like Ashley Madison. However, when the founder and his wife discuss how they feel about it ethically, they see it as a legitimate business within the confines of the law. Although this remains an unresolved debate that rages on today on whether a business basing itself on “unethical behavior “is in fact...
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...Risk Versus Reward: The Continuing Vaccination Question As young Americans living in the twenty first century, vaccines have always had a place in our lives. It is taught to us at a young age that vaccines are not only beneficial but necessary to the pursuit of healthy and long lives. For decades, we have been giving vaccines to ourselves and our children without question because the doctors say we should and they have the education, not us. The number of vaccines that children are mandated to receive continues to rise at an alarming rate. Currently, children receive approximately fourteen different vaccinations before the age of two Many of these vaccinations require multiple inoculations, which often have a child receiving four more shots in a single visit (Akinsanya-Beysolow). Every year, more vaccines are added to the list. With the speed of vaccine approval, it is time to step back and reevaluate who is making these recommendations and for what reasons. The cost to vaccinate a child from birth to eighteen has risen from one hundred dollars in1986 to $2,192 (Rosenthal). Vaccine manufacturing is a huge business with a vested interest in mandating vaccines. The decision to vaccinate should be left to the patient and parents, not the government or vaccine manufacturers. Data shows that even before vaccines most of the diseases we vaccinate for were on the decline (Obomsawin). Childhood illness rates have been on a steady increase over the last few decades. As the childhood...
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...The Escalation of Deception in Organizations I am happy and sad to read this article, written by Peter Fleming and Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos (2008), ‘The Escalation of Deception in Organizations’. Just knowing how easily deception starts, how it escalates and how it can end if left unchecked is shocking! Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto Vl, is right on target when he wrote, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!” Individuals weave complex webs with threads of deception, corporation, escalation, lying and unethical behavior that can manifest from the inside or outside of any organizations. This behavior can and will encompass unsuspecting employees and investors who may inadvertently become involved without their knowledge. This article explains, to its readers, why it is imperative to understand where this organizational killer starts, be aware of how it escalates and how moderators can prevent the deception from escalating into an organizational level phenomenon. The happy news is that escalation of deceit to the organizational level (the end) can be prevented altogether. If escalation has already started and caught in an early stage, this phenomenon can be halted and reversed using these two moderators; Commitment and implementation of a corporate code of ethics explained by Sommers, (2001), Adam and Rachman-Moore (2004), O’Dwyer and Madden (2006) and Effective Control Systems, Rosanas and Velila (2005). A morally matured person acts and...
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...Caniel Snowball 6/17/15 The Shipping News is a story about letting go of the past, the pursuit of happiness and a bunch of knots. Annie Proulx’s clever use of symbolism and interesting array of characters cohesively make an impactful tale and string the storyline together. A theme of having a troubled past becomes clear as it tactfully explained throughout the story to project potential for the growth. Quoyle is the story’s main protagonist who has a mid-life crisis at 36 when his cheating wife dies in a car accident and his parents commit suicide. Proulx describes Quoyle’s past as one with many shortcomings paired with his awkward looking chin and size that encapsulate him in a shell of low self-confidence. His newly found Aunt Agnis appears in his life after his parent’s deaths to bring him to Newfoundland for a new start on life. Quoyle find love and courage in Newfoundland and comes to point where his wife’s death doesn’t haunt him. The aunt, a widowed hard alcohol drinking closet lesbian, throughout the book attempts to stay busy with work and making plans. Upon introduction, Agnis appears to be a flat character but progresses into a more complex character when Quoyle’s father’s incestuous indiscretions with his sister are revealed. The reader can retrieve a sense of how she fits the operating method of someone after a sexual assault. Agnis’s refusal to show weakness or vulnerability and constant need to show she is in control adds depth to her character. When Cousin...
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...Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans. Rep. Amsterdam: Greenpeace International, n.d. Greenpeace International. Web. 26 Oct. 2015. . Barnes, D. K. A., and P. Milner. "Drifting Plastics and Its Consequences for Sessile Organism Dispersal in the Atlantic Ocean." Marine Biology146.4 (2004): 823. Proquest. Web. 27 Oct. 2015. Cohen, Julie. "An Ocean of Plastic." The UCSB Current. The Regents of the University of California, 12 Feb. 2015. Web. 26 Oct. 2015. . Eriksen, Marcus, Laurent C. M. Lebreton, Henry S. Carson, Martin Thiel, Charles J. Moore, Jose C. Borerro, Francois Galgani, Peter G. Ryan, and Julia Reisser. "Plastic Pollution In The World's Oceans: More Than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing Over 250,000 Tons Afloat At Sea." Plos ONE 9.12 (2014): 1-15. Academic Search Premier. Web. 26 Oct. 2015. Grant, Richard. "The World's Oceans Are Filling with Plastic." Garbage and Recycling. Ed. Candice Mancini. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. 21-34. Global Viewpoints. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 26 Oct. 2015. "Promising Solution to Plastic Pollution." Harvard Gazette. Wyss Institute Communications, 5 May 2014. Web. 27 Oct. 2015....
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...the government on health decision. The Institution of medicine was established in 1970 .Certain barriers may prevent nurses from being able to respond effectively to rapidly changing health care system. The barriers include age limits, poor competency level, communication skills or family and social factors. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on “attention and resources on health care challenges both broad and specific in order to make a difference on widest scale” (www.rwjf.org). A consensus report was developed on future of nursing to assess and guide the transformation of the nursing profession. According to Mar Crane , “ America’s health system is tangled , highly fragmented web that often waste resources by providing unnecessary services and duplicating efforts , leaving unaccountable gaps in care”(Crane, 2001, p. 1). The report recognizes that the nurses have central role in health care system transformation. There are barriers and resistance on transforming health care profession. The institute of medicine (IOM) report offers recommendations and key messages to make sure that each one treated respectively with high quality, cost effective, affordable and goal oriented care, which leads to improved health outcome. The committee recommends each health professional to attain the knowledge to their level best and to continue their education and training through proper channel, each professional to work together to modify the health care system in the United States...
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...Having a micro preemie can alter more than one life. There are several micro preemies born each year and the cost for that can be extremely high. There are multiple different types of technology used to keep a micro-preemie alive and technology is also used to help treat some of the birth defects a micro-preemie may have but the cost for using this technology could also be astronomical. The hospital stays that the micro preemie will have to endure can be very long and the emotional stress can be high. The ethics for treating a patient that young that has no say so whether they want to be alive or not is wrong. Micro preemies have been an issue for several years. “A micro preemie is a baby born weighing less than 1 pound, 12 ounces (800 grams) or before 26 weeks gestation. Because they are born months before their due dates, micro preemies face long NICU stays (Morrissette).” There is no specification to who will give birth to a micro preemie, it does not matter what type of ethnicity, age or what region of the world a person lives in, a female can still give birth to a micro preemie. “Nearly 13% of all babies in the U.S. are preemies, a 20% increase since 1990. A 2006 report by the National Academy of Sciences found that the 550,000 preemies born each year in the U.S. (Million-Dollar Babies).” Just because a female takes every medical precaution during pregnancy does not mean you will last until full term, a person is still at risk for giving birth to a micro preemie...
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...Themes During the Romantic Age The Romantic Age consists of many different authors that come from many different backgrounds. The authors that make up this era never group themselves together. The focuses of various ideas throughout their works are why Victorian critics first identified this group of authors as “the Romantics” (Greenbalt 1418). Hays says the writers of this time period “were joined by shared ideals” and they “were, in many respects divided, but were also united by their oppositional politics, by the depth of their convictions, and by their youth” (xix). Another reason many critics group these particular authors together is the reoccurring themes they use throughout their stories and poems. Three main themes these romantic authors use are nature, imagination, and individualism. The Romantic Age writers focus on the theme of nature throughout many works. Keats directly compares writing and nature together by saying, “if poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all” (qtd. in Coombs 41). Romantic writers “were interested primarily in universals, in looking at nature as the mirror of universal truth seen not in its particulars, that is, in celandines, daisies, birds, one man’s life, or remote regions of the past, but rather in the ordered harmony of sun, moons, stars, and seasons, and in the lives of men in general” (Coleridge in his Time 31). Coombs also states nature “offers a completely new set of spiritual values” (40)...
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...conjunction with other business functions. At one point, this approach was encouraged as it was believed to allow departments, and the people running them, the ability to avoid company politics, to ensure their priorities were met, and to encourage each department and individual the opportunity to be creative and innovative, which is a fundamental component of Cisco’s company style. Brad Boston, CIO of Cisco, believed that it was possible to retain that company attitude of innovation in a more centralized manner to decrease redundancy and formally integrate systems. While there was a great deal of pushback from employees, and the full centralization will take a great bit of time, Boston was making the best choices for the company. 1. How did Cisco find itself in such trouble with regard to its internal IT in 2001? Why didn’t the single ERP system help more? Why didn’t this ensure more consistency? As briefly mentioned above, Cisco found itself in such trouble as a result of allowing every department and employee operate freely and with little regard for what others were doing. As stated on page 4 of the case study, “Boston also discovered that IT decisions were made in functional silos, with no centralized group checking for conflicts and redundancies.” If employees had checked to see if specific applications had been created to measure various areas, they would have seen multiple applications already in existence. Instead, each time a particular function or application...
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