...follows the daily routine (Life?) of two delinquents, Telly and Casper, in the downtown area of New York. They trek through the day engrossed in their own world filled with self-destruction and momentary euphoria through various sexual activities, and recreational drug and alcohol. Amidst the two-delinquent’s fun filled day is Jennie’s (one of the many virgin girls that Telly had sex with) anguish after finding out she has contracted the HIV virus from Telly. Though the movie is painstakingly slow, Clark’s...
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...Reality TV shows on children “Boys and girls alone” is a reality show aired in England in 2009. The protagonists, twenty boys and girls aged 8-11, live alone in two villages (one for the boys and one for the girls) without parents, and have to cook, clean, manage money, etc.,by themselves. In the texts I have been given to read, I am presented to three points of view about the show, from: Andrew Mackenzie, Head of Factual Entertainment at Channel 4, and one of the responsible for the making of “Boys and Girls Alone”. Dr. Richard House, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy. Audrey Scott, the mother of one of the kids in the show. In the first one, A. Mackenzie defends the show from criticism and explains that the children were “carefully chosen and screened by experts” and that they lived in a “protected environment with around-the-clock security during production”. He also claims that parents were allowed to withdraw their child at any time.All in all, he can only see positivity about the show. In the second one, Dr. R. House criticizes the show, and calls it “prurient Lord of the Flies sensationalism”. He disapproves of the whole concept, and goes as far as saying the show is equal child cruelty. He also urges Channel 4 to reveal the identity of the “experts” who chose and screened the children before going to the show, so they can enter into a public dialog. He is very critical about the culture in general as well, which he means to be superficial celebrity-obsessed...
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...The Computer Mouse The computer mouse first came about in the early 1980's. The idea being that the movement from the users hand could be turned into signals that the computer could read moving the cursor around and also allowing the buttons to function when pressed. Today there are a few different types of computer mice on the market. These being the mice that use the traditional tracking ball, the optical mouse and the mouse that has no physical connection to the computer. The most common mouse found near a computer today is the traditional mouse that uses the tracking ball. This is the same method as was used when the mouse was first released in the 1980's. The track ball inside the mouse touches the desk when it is moved. When the ball moves the motion is detected by two perpendicular axis, one which detects x axis directional motion and the other y-axis direction motion. Tracking Ball Perpendicular axis motion detectors Hole in which track ball would sit The diagrams above show the tracking ball and the hole in which the tracking ball sits. You can see the x and y axis motion detectors of which the y-axis detector lies 90° from the x-axis detector. These motion detectors are also known as rollers. When the mouse is in use the tracking ball moves moving one or both of the rollers. Each roller is connected to a shaft, which spins a disc. The disc has holes in it and next to the disc is an infrared LED and an infrared...
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...The three public bodies responsible for television and radio throughout Britain are: • The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which broadcasts television and radio programmes; • The Independent Television Commission (ITC), which licences and regulates commercial television service including cable, satellite and independent teletext services; • The Radio Authority, which licences and regulates commercial radio services, including cable and satellite. Television (Telly) People in Britain watch on average 25 hours of TV every week. (Find out about our other leisure activities) Television viewing is Britain's most popular leisure pastime. About 96 per cent of the population of Britain have television in their homes. In 1999, 13% of households had satellite television and 9% cable television. It is estimated that about 10 per cent of household have two or more sets. The average viewing time per person is over 25 hours a week. There are five main channels in Britain: • two national commercial-free BBC networks, BBC1 and BBC2, • commercial ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 services. The BBC channels are commercial free while the other three have commercials. All the channels offer a mixture of drama, light entertainment, films, sport, educational, children’s and religious programmes, news and current affairs, and documentaries. The BBC has been providing regular television broadcasts since 1936. BBC television productions come from main studios at the Television...
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...Good Morning chairperson, opposition and audience. The topic for today's debate is that Australian’s have an unhealthy obsession with sport. We, the Affirmative team, believe that this statement is true. To begin, I would like to show you the definition of key words in the topic. Obsession: a domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire And unhealthy: morally bad, harmful, or contaminating We define the topic as the following : Sports role in Australian Culture is dominating to the extent that it can be morally bad and contaminating. Hi, Im Sam and today as 1st speaker; I will be sharing with you two points. * An unhealthy amount of money is spent by our Australian government on sport * Our obsession with sport is headed by the media Our second speaker _________ will be talking to you about * _____________________________________________________________________________________________ * _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Our Third Speaker, Toby will be summing up our team's case and refuting the arguments put forward by the negative team. My first point today is that an unhealthy amount of money is spent by our Australian Government on sport. Australian novelist Vereno Armanno (The Volcano) recently castigated our sport-obsessed society, taking the debate to an ethical plane. "Australia spends billions of dollars on sport," Armanno complained...
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...Jose L Cerda II Market Plan, Primary-Staffing Independent Study 11/09/2012 Executive Summary Challenge Primary-Staffing is aiming in expanding awareness and diversity within their professional community. We want to offer our services across the board to everyone, as a staff we feel we segregate potential customers and slowed down growth Situation Analysis Company Analysis Primary-Staffing Inc has a current awareness ratio of 41% in the surrounding, current satisfaction ratio 68% with a positive outlook of customer service, and disapproval ratio of 15% all within a 15mile radius. The company’s diversity ratios are 68% Hispanic, 21% African-American, 8% Caucasian, 1.8% Asian, and 1.2% Middle-Eastern. Goals First foremost Primary-Stuffing’s overall goal has been to assure everyone that utilizes our services lands a permanent position. Our second goal is to provide our clients with the best possible candidates in order to increase productivity, efficiency, while minimizing overhead. Focus Primary-Staffing has decided in expanding their pool of candidates, creating more diversity. This will be accomplished by utilizing radio stations, business ad’s, social media networks, and attending a variety of job fairs. Culture Primary-Staffing is highly Hispanic cultured mostly due to the surrounding area; the company’s main office is located on 47th and archer. Strengths Primary-Staffing has over 150 clients in the Chicago land area, send’s 3,700 employees to...
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...Name: Mark Anthony Lavilla Year & Section: BSHRM IV-B FRENCH LANGUAGE French word | Translation | bateau | boat, ship | million | million | sac | bag, sack | impossible | impossible | seconde | second, moment | bête | stupid, silly | découvrir | to discover, find | erreur | error, mistake | soleil | sun, sunlight | voyage | trip, journey | sauter | to jump | rêver | to dream | détester | to hate, detest | clair | clear, apparent | faux | wrong, false, fallacious | paraître | to come out, be published | balle | ball (sports equipment) | empêcher | to prevent | maintenir | to keep, maintain | cheveu | a hair | papier | paper | présent | a present; present, current | sujet | subject, topic, theme | supposer | to suppose, assume | tranquille | quiet, calm | neuf | nine; new, unused | épouser | to marry, to espouse | blanc | white; blank | table | table; french.languagedaily.com | toute | everything, all (see #22, 256) | dix | ten, tenth | clé | key; solutioin | agent | officer, oficial, agent | approcher | to approach | sens | direction, way; meaning; sense; senses | craindre | to fear, to be afraid of | six | six | message | message | crier | to shout | salle | room, hall, audience | inviter | to invite | effet | effect, impression | réfléchir | to reflect, think | espèce | species, kind | arranger | to arrange, to organize | naître | to be born | allô | Hello! (telephone)...
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...‘A fair days pay for a fair days work?’ Do you think that Jobsbridge is a useful way to address unemployment or is it displacing potential jobs? Introduction Jobsbridge certainly gets the long -term unemployed “supposedly” into employment. An argument open for debate. People will argue that it is a waste of time and that people are doing the jobs that no one else would like to do for €50 extra, when the job may have major hours and be hard labour. People will argue that the employees are being exploited. A small percentage will say that Jobsbridge is valuable for the long -term unemployed in gaining employment or pursuing an area of interest. Jobsbridge was set up by Fine Gael/Labour party in 2011 its director being Brendan Howlin and its ringmaster being Joan Burton. JobBridge is working for both employers and jobseekers alike. The true value of Jobbridge is its simplicity of cash grants paid monthly. It can help businesses to grow and helps jobseekers back into work (Burton J. (2013)). Burton considers the scheme to be a success. According to the article in the Irish examiner the Cork County Council has hired 121 interns via Jobbridge. It clearly states that it has given people on placements opportunities to work within the county council in marketing and PR, as tourism guides, arts events co-ordinators and in the engineering, genealogy, ecology and energy departments. It has even given work to graduates. There is benefits to JobsBridge but do the negatives...
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...Technology having bad impact on children’s social life: Report Posted by Moign Khawaja in Featured Article on February 1, 2012 2:30 am A human being is a social being and no-one can thrive alone in this world. Children have been introduced to many technological devices that is potentially pushing them into solitude. This is an alarming trend that has developed with the advent of 21st century. Technology has taken over human lives. The younger generation nowadays would rather sit at home and chat with their friends over the Internet rather than going out and making new friends or playing with their existing friends. According to a survey carried out by Stanford University, young girls who multitask with various digital applications like Facebook, YouTube, and text messaging are facing the risk of becoming social hermits.�Around 3,461 American girls between the age of 8�12 were surveyed for the study. “No one had ever looked at this, which really shocked us,” Clifford Nass, a Stanford University professor who worked on the study said. “Kids have to learn about emotion, and the way they do that, really, is by paying attention to other people. They have to really look them in the eye.” Multitasking with different types of technological devices, smart phones, touch pads, mp3 players etc is the hip thing nowadays. The era of PlayStation might have made the world a ‘safer’ place for children since they don�t go out to play and get hurt but has definitely complicated it...
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...Task A 1. Ban smoking is something we all are familiar of. Mostly we have seen it in trains, busses etc. where there is a sign/sticker of a cigarette that has a line across it, meaning, “ smoking is not allowed”. The text “Benefits of smoke ban will be felt at once”, by The Observer of British newspaper Robin Mckie, involves different scientific studies of ban smoking and the effects of it. An international journal of science can conclude that there are improvements in the population of England after the ban smoking has taken place. One of the effects of ban smoking is that, it has become illegal to smoke in all enclosed public places, workplaces and owners/ managers of pubs, clubs and cafés fines up to 2500 pound if they allow customers to smoke their premises. The Europeans Commission has found that UK has the highest percentage of Europeans trying to quit smoking and 46 per cent are trying to stop and even more say they want to give it up. A UK epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto thinks that there are good news and bad news of smoking. The bad news is that non- smokers who breathe in second- hand smoke face a increased risk of getting lung cancer or heart disease. He also says that no matter how much ban smoking is taking place, that there will still be smokers and a lot of early deaths in the coming years. The good news of smoking which Sir Richard Peto points out that the situation of smoking is better than it use to be. Text two “Is this the end of English literature...
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...Ash Who am I? A question many has asked themselves upon realizing that their life is a routine day in and day out. There is a growing tendency in the western civilization for marriages to dissolve. Self-fulfillment is in the high seat. We are no longer bound by the traditional view upon marriage and the traditional family life. Another problem probably adding to the aforementioned is the increased focus on identity and following it the growing number of identity crises. In the text ASH by Roddy Doyle from May 24 2010 we stumble upon two troubled brothers Kevin and Mick. Mick tries to establish a life for himself after a ruined marriage, and Kevin finds himself in a situation where his marriage is about to be poured out the drain like sour milk. The story unfolds chronically with a third person character-focaliser narrator with Kevin’s point of view. The text is dominated by short sentences and direct speech. The effect of this being that there is created a feeling of action and constant movement in the story. One could even argue that this text has a home-out-home composition based on the protagonist Kevin’s different emotional states throughout the story. At the start of the story Kevin’s problem is made, and the middle and most of the text is treating how he deals with this problem, and finally in the end the problem resolves and he is at his normal emotional state. The protagonist Kevin is a middle-aged man. He is not a man of action on the contrary he makes no choices...
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...‘Reading is a dying hobby in this multimedia age.’ Is this true? Reading as a pastime has been likened to an endangered animal facing extinction from the threat of the poachers — in this case, the multimedia age. It has been said that reading as a hobby is gradually losing its appeal as opposed to Internet gaming, blogging (writing an online diary), listening to podcasts and ipods and watching popular drama series on television. Evidently, many more forms of recreation and leisure are rising up from the multimedia sector and threaten to replace reading as a hobby in this age. Today, one of the strongest competitors of reading is the Internet. With its plethora of easily accessible information, the Internet easily outshines reading as a more exciting and fun way of relaxation. Online gaming, especially, has taken root in [the lives of] most teens today as the top hobby of all. Fewer teenagers are spending more time on reading than on online gaming. In fact, online gaming is fast becoming an addiction among school children. It has been reported that there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of cases of online-gaming addiction among teens in Singapore. Furthermore, book loan statistics from the libraries of Singapore show a decrease in the number of books borrowed per person over the past few years. This has prompted the National Library Board to launch a series of reading programmes and measures to “up” the statistics as well as interest among Singaporeans, for example...
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...mezzo forte before it dramatically shifts to a fortissimo cha cha. I loved Mrs. Wormwood's amazing vibrato on all of the high notes as well as her big personality. Her sassy flair really enhanced to the song. A solo by Ms. Honey titled “This Little Girl” followed Mrs. Wormwood's number. “This Little Girl" was a sweet, opera styled solo in which the woman playing Ms. Honey used incredible diction while maintaining a smooth, legato sound. The next song was performed by the children in the ensemble. "Bruce" was in a minor key and talked about Bruce eating Ms. Trunchbull's cake. I loved the staccato feel to the song because it added intensity to the scene and was a perfect way to end Act One. Act two started with a hilarious number called "Telly" in which Mr. Wormwood sings to the audience about the importance of watching television instead of reading books. Following this song came a beautiful ensemble number entitled "When I Grow Up". The entire chorus used incredible harmonies and diction. This song was one of my favorite because of the beautiful dynamics and tone, leaving me speechless. The next song was a haunting number called "I am Hear", a song that tells the story of Ms. Honey's life. To continue with the creepy atmosphere of the show, "Smell of Rebellion" was a military styled song in which the children backed up Ms. Trunchbull as she forces them into harsh punishment during their physical education class. Following this piece, Matilda performed chilling solo titled “Quiet”...
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...1. Aparna Tilak Aparna Tilak is an actress and model born in India. She graduated from the St. Xaviers College and after finishing school, she began pursuing her career as a model. Her first major breaks in the modeling industry included working for worldwide companies such as Pepsi, Head `n Shoulders, Coca Cola and many more. Her first role in the movie industry was in „Family No. 1”, a very popular soap opera centered on families created by Sony Entertainment media. She played Rashmi, a character obsessed with keeping her beauty. Her role in this TV series brought her many other contracts in the television industry, since her talent began to be recognized by the audience and by the critics. After the success with “Family No. 1”, Aparna Tilak became well known in the film industry and soon she received a role in Zee Television. The way she played “Koi Apna Sa” in this TV series turned her into one of the most sought-after actresses in the industry. She had another huge success with “Footpath” and she is currently starring in “Jeet”. Although she was offered many roles in Bollywood soap operas, she declined them, as she searches for important roles that will make her stand out in the crowd of female actresses. Aparna Tilak is married to a man 12 years older than her and has a teenage son from this marriage. 2. Aparna Dixit Aparna Dixit is an Indian born actress that started out as a model and only recently became one of the most popular actresses in the Indian...
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...Paws before Hands Flipping through the telly channels, I came across a video of a small, big-eyed puppy, not longer than twelve inches, nor taller than half a foot, scurrying fast away to meet its’ owner with its mouth poised ready to administer those slobbery wet affectionate kisses. As the owner, slowly begins to ruffle the velvet soft fur, a wide smile spreads across the owners’ already wet slippery face. However, as soon as the owner rises their hand to smite that small big-eyed puppy: the once velvety fur begins to find its’ way on to the floor, the once affectionate kisses, no longer met the owner’s face. What heartless person would live to see an animal suffer? How cold are the hearts of those who will not see the smiles, feel the warmth that these animals bring into our world? I strongly believe that animals should be free, and should not suffer, because we decide that they are not worthy of our time. Growing up in East Africa, Uganda, loving an animal was something I was told not to do. We were to treat them as animals, things that had no feelings: They were animals, just emotionless things. Times, I had watched people chase and a time beat their pets, if they dared enter the house or eat off their plates. I was completely naïve about the whole situation, of how horribly most animals were treated. I had not really cared much about the way animals were treated until the day I hit my dog with a stick [aged 8]. That look in his eyes, said everything, I had lost his trust...
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