...In Dubious Battle. For class, we had to finish reading John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle, and we very briefly shared our thoughts on the novel’s ending. Immediately after, we began to watch an adaptation of Clifford Odets play titled Waiting for Lefty. The play, which premiered in the 1930s in New York City, is comprised of seven short vignettes (scenes). Overall, the play focuses on a union meeting, where cab drivers are trying to decide if they will strike while waiting for the arrival of the union leader, Lefty. There is an overarching theme of tension throughout the play, which manifests as the tension between the working class and capitalists, trying to decide whether or not to strike, and the overall tension as a result of the Red Scare. While watching the play, Dr. Casale asked us to jot down comparisons between Waiting for Lefty and In Dubious Battle to be used for a class discussion afterwards. A short summary of each of the seven vignettes is as follows: • Opening Scene: The play opens with an argument between different union members about whether or not to go on strike. Tension begins to grow, with accusations of communism being thrown around as some men call for a strike. As everyone is waiting for the elected head of the union, Lefty, to arrive, a man named Joe takes the stage speaking in favor of a strike and adamantly denies any ties to communism. • Joe & Edna: Joe and Edna are a married couple who have fallen on hard times. Edna is frustrated as Joe keeps insisting...
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...dogs, nothing exciting what so ever. Of course Lefty and I kept in contact, sweet good morning texts arrive on my phone every morning and as soon as he is off of work, he calls me and we sit on the phone for hours. The sound of his voice is like music to me, I could listen to him speak for hours and still not get enough. Friday has finally arrived as I am anxious all day knowing Lefty is coming over tonight. The days seem so long when he isn’t around. After my day is over, I rush home to get ready for the party before Lefty shows up. I get myself cleaned up and go to my room to finish getting ready. The theme of the party is red, which I love as my favorite color is red. I put on red, skinny jeans, a red cowl neck top, white a white tank top underneath and knee high black leather six-inch heel boots....
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...awoke the next morning to Lefty gazing at me, “what are you looking at?” I asked in a sleepy voice. “Only the most beautiful girl in the world,” he replied as he placed a soft peck on my lips. I begin to blush, feeling special with the praise he is giving me, I smile and say, “I guess it is time for me to do the walk of shame and go back home.” Lefty raises his hand, moving my hair behind my ear and say, “Let’s get in the truck and get some coffee first.” I gradually sat up and got out of bed. I picked up a tissue, went over to the mirror and started removing the smudged makeup from my face. The whole time I am doing this, Lefty is just gawking at me. He has an expression of admiration on his face, but a ferocious fire in...
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...100 stupid truths.. copy it into ur notebook..and erase my answers and fil urs...and no cheating...be truthful to urself...ur under oath..main geeta (krishnaji wala..no some girl)..ki kasam khata hoon/khatati hoon ki..jo bhi bolunga/bolungi sach bolunga/bolungi aue sach ki sivaay kuch nahi bolunga/bolungi...so now ur even under oath...so now dun lie...and tag ur friends and dun forget to tag me also...and please be truthful.. LAST: 1. Last beverage: 2. Last phone call: 3. Last text message: 4. Last song you listened: 5. Last time you cried: HAVE YOU EVER: 6. Dated someone twice: 7. Been cheated on: 8. Kissed someone & regretted it: 9. Lost someone special: 10. Been depressed: 11. Been drunk and threw up: LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS: 12. 13 14. THIS YEAR HAVE YOU: (2009) 15. Made new friends: u 16. Fallen out of love: 17. Laughed until you cried: 18. Met someone who changed you: 19. Found out who your true friends were: 20. Found out someone was talking about you: 21. Kissed anyone on your friend's list: 22. How many people on your friends list do you know in real life: 23. How many kids do you want to have: 24. Do you have any pets: 25. Do you want to change your name: 26. What did you do for your last birthday: 27. What time did you wake up today: 28. What were you doing at midnight last night: 29. Name something you CANNOT wait for: 30. Last time you saw your Mother: 31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your...
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...practice I would get to bat left-handed. It started to frustrate me because I couldn’t get the hang of it. I felt like I was back in tee ball and hitting the pole that the ball sits on over and over again. I thought to myself just cry and give up you're not any good. That’s when I could feel my lip start quivering I knew that I didn’t want to cry, but I almost couldn’t hold it back. I didn’t even know what I wanted to cry about more, letting Coach down, that I’m not good enough, or even just the embarrassment. Two weeks after practicing left handed things started getting easier with the hand work. Coach came over to me, “Your feet work has stayed the same and now that you are getting the hang of swinging. We are going to start teaching you lefty footwork. It’s not too much harder.” He showed me a demonstration, then he had Pauline show me because she is also left handed. I was really confused there was so much to learn and such short of time. Something about turning my foot stepping forward, but don’t step too far up or too far back. I was lost, but I didn’t want to tell Coach. I would feel like I let him down. So I asked Pauline and she helped me a little bit more and I got into it a little more. Then we heard Coach yell, “Junior High softball girls take the field.” I usually play infield shortstop, now they got me playing outfield. I have never caught a pop fly in my life. Hearing them say that made me freeze. My heart felt like it stopped because I was so nervous. I have an arm...
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...America’s first protest music star. Hill was born in 1879 in Sweden under the name Joel Hagglund. The Wooblies were in their fifth year of existence. They followed a type of socialism that was known to be very loud and stubborn. The group used strikes and sabotage for the goal of creating “One Big Union”. The Wooblies wrote many songs parodying salvation army hymns. These songs were compiled in “The Little Red Song Book.” Hill first made a name for himself with the song “Casey Jones and the Union Scab”. His two most popular songs were “There is power in a Union” and the anti-salvation army hymn “The Preacher and The Slave”. As Hill gained fame from his anthems, religious groups and anti-union activists saw his music as sacrilege and were waiting for a chance to take him down. That chance came on January 10, 1914 when two masked men shot and killed a Salt Lake City grocer, John G. Morison, along with his seventeen-year-old son. The same night Joe Hill was treated for a gunshot wound and the doctors alerted the police. Hill’s critics accused him of the shooting, despite a lack of evidence. He was sentenced to death and was killed for the alleged crime. After his death, leaders of the labor movement were outraged and treated Hill as a symbol to rally behind. The reaction to Hill’s death surprised some members of the establishment. They discovered the impact that protest singers can have as public symbols and influencers of political opinion. One of the most important things a...
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...Assignment 3: “World War II Through The 1970’s” Joseph L. Carter History 105 June 11, 2012 Professor Everett Hardy Strayer University Delaware County Campus Analyze the facts that war and propaganda had on American society World War 2 and the 1970’s. Looking at the history of the United States, never had the country seen such dramatic changes in the social, economic, and political structure that happened at the end of World War II. Multiple events throughout this period guided the direction of the United States government and the attitudes of Americans. This paper will provide a look into the evolution of the United States by analyzing the most significant events in the five decades after World War II. The 1950s brought about a new look into the foreign affairs for the United States government and the American people. After the victory of World War II, two allies of the war, the United States and the Soviet Union became bitter enemies that tried to secure a position of world leader. The Soviet Union had its Communist Manifesto that according to the Decades Project (1999) website stated, “a mission statement that provides that communism requires a world revolution and the destruction of capitalism in order to succeed”. This was a direct threat to the American Way of life, and started the beginning of the Cold War. With different ideals and hunger for power, both sides began to build up military strength, especially...
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...The company was founded in 1971 by Joe Montgomery, Jim Catrambone and Ron Davis to manufacture backpacks and bags for camping and later bicycle trailers for bicycle touring. The company grew quickly during its early years. One of the most successful products was the Bugger, the cycling industry's first bicycle trailer, although Cannondale's marketing department seemed unaware of the connotations of the name in British English (some were, nevertheless, exported to the UK). Today, Cannondale produces many different types of high-end bicycles, few of which are handmade in USA, specializing in aluminum (rather than steel or titanium) and carbon fiber frames, a technology in which they were pioneers. The name of the company was taken from the Cannondale Metro North train station in Wilton, Connecticut. That reputation proved invaluable when Cannondale introduced its first bicycle, a Touring model, in 1983. We raised the cycling world's eyebrows by building our bicycles around handcrafted, oversized aluminum frames that were both lighter and more flex-resistant than the steel models that dominated the industry at the time. We quickly followed up this success with a road racing model and a mountain bike model in 1984. Our creative reputation encouraged both bike dealers and customers to join the revolution, and widespread industry skepticism quickly gave way to a host of imitators. The range of products: ...
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...Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis For Billy Fitzgerald I can still hear him shouting at me Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking-had he the gold? or the gold him? —John Ruskin, Unto This Last Preface I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? For more than a decade the people who run professional baseball have argued that the game was ceasing to be an athletic competition and becoming a financial one. The gap between rich and poor in baseball was far greater than in any other professional sport, and widening rapidly. At the opening of the 2002 season, the richest team, the New York Yankees, had a payroll of $126 million while the two poorest teams, the Oakland A's and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, had payrolls of less than a third of that, about $40 million. A decade before, the highest payroll...
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...PHILIPPINE THEATER Theater in the Philippines is as varied as the cultural traditions and the historical influences that shaped it through the centuries. The dramatic forms that flourished and continue to flourish among the different peoples of the archipelago include: the indigenous theater, mainly Malay in character, which is seen in rituals, mimetic dances, and mimetic customs; the plays with Spanish influence, among which are the komedya, the sinakulo, the playlets, the sarswela, and the drama; and the theater with Anglo-American influence, which encompasses bodabil and the plays in English, and the modern or original plays by Fihpinos, which employ representational and presentational styles drawn from contemporary modern theater, or revitalize traditional forms from within or outside the country. The Indigenous Theater The rituals, dances, and customs which are still performed with urgency and vitality by the different cultural communities that comprise about five percent of the country’s population are held or performed, together or separately, on the occasions of a person’s birth, baptism, circumcision, initial menstruation, courtship, wedding, sickness, and death; or for the celebration of tribal activities, like hunting, fishing, rice planting and harvesting, and going to war. In most rituals, a native priest/priestess, variously called mandadawak, catalonan, bayok, or babalyan, goes into a trance as the spirit he/she is calling upon possesses him/her. While entranced...
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...The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex by Marte Rognstad A Thesis Presented to The Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages University of Oslo In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the MA Degree Spring Term 2012 Marte Rognstad The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex Marte Rognstad http://www.duo.uio.no Trykk: Reprosentralen, Universitetet i Oslo Abstract This thesis presents an exploration of the representation of gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex mainly in light of the theories of Judith Butler. The focus will be on how the two novels challenge the traditional concept of gender and gender categories, and in what ways the novels can give us new perspectives on the concept of gender. The theoretical focus will be on Judith Butler, more precisely her idea of gender as performance, and her deconstructionist approach to identity categories. I will present Butler’s proposal for a “new feminist genealogy,” and through my investigation of the representation of gender in Orlando and Middlesex I will show how both novels take on a “Butlerian” understanding of the concept of gender. By looking at various issues related to gender explored in the two novels, and pointing to similarities and differences between the two works, I hope to show how the protagonists, Orlando and Cal/lie, break down and transcend the fraught...
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...P LA T O and a P LAT Y P U S WA L K I N TO A B A R . . . Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes < T H O M A S C AT H C A RT & D A N I E L K L E I N * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * P l at o a n d a P l at y p u s Wa l k i n t o a B a r . . . PLATO and a PLAT Y PUS WA L K I N T O A B A R . . . < Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Th o m as Cat h c a rt & Dan i e l K l e i n A B R A M S I M AG E , N E W YO R K e d i to r : Ann Treistman d e s i g n e r : Brady McNamara pro d u c t i on m anag e r : Jacquie Poirier Cataloging-in-publication data has been applied for and may be obtained from the Library of Congress. ISBN 13: 978-0-8109-1493-3 ISBN 10: 0-8109-1493-x Text copyright © 2007 Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Illlustration credits: ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/Bruce Eric Kaplan/ cartoonbank.com: pg 18; ©Andy McKay/www.CartoonStock.com: pg 32; ©Mike Baldwin/www.CartoonStock.com: pgs 89, 103; ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/ Matthew Diffee/cartoonbank.com: pg 122; ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/ Leo Cullum/cartoonbank.com: pg 136; ©Merrily Harpur/Punch ltd: 159; ©Andy McKay/www.CartoonStock.com: pg 174. Published in...
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...Idioms and Expressions by David Holmes A method for learning and remembering idioms and expressions I wrote this model as a teaching device during the time I was working in Bangkok, Thailand, as a legal editor and language consultant, with one of the Big Four Legal and Tax companies, KPMG (during my afternoon job) after teaching at the university. When I had no legal documents to edit and no individual advising to do (which was quite frequently) I would sit at my desk, (like some old character out of a Charles Dickens’ novel) and prepare language materials to be used for helping professionals who had learned English as a second language—for even up to fifteen years in school—but who were still unable to follow a movie in English, understand the World News on TV, or converse in a colloquial style, because they’d never had a chance to hear and learn common, everyday expressions such as, “It’s a done deal!” or “Drop whatever you’re doing.” Because misunderstandings of such idioms and expressions frequently caused miscommunication between our management teams and foreign clients, I was asked to try to assist. I am happy to be able to share the materials that follow, such as they are, in the hope that they may be of some use and benefit to others. The simple teaching device I used was three-fold: 1. Make a note of an idiom/expression 2. Define and explain it in understandable words (including synonyms.) 3. Give at least three sample sentences to illustrate how the expression is used...
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...McGraw-Hill Create™ Review Copy for Instructor Espinoza. Not for distribution. Course BBE 4505 Omar Espinoza University Of Minnesota NATURAL RESOURCES McGraw-Hill Create™ Review Copy for Instructor Espinoza. Not for distribution. http://create.mcgraw-hill.com Copyright 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. This McGraw-Hill Create text may include materials submitted to McGraw-Hill for publication by the instructor of this course. The instructor is solely responsible for the editorial content of such materials. Instructors retain copyright of these additional materials. ISBN-10: 1121789048 ISBN-13: 9781121789043 McGraw-Hill Create™ Review Copy for Instructor Espinoza. Not for distribution. Contents 1. Preface 1 2. Methods, Standards, and Work Design: Introduction 7 Problem-Solving Tools 27 3. Tex 29 4. Operation Analysis 79 5. Manual Work Design 133 6. Workplace, Equipment, and Tool Design 185 7. Work Environment Design 239 8. Design of Cognitive Work 281 9. Workplace and Systems Safety 327 10. Proposed Method Implementation 379 11. Time Study 413 12. Performance Rating and Allowances 447 13. Standard Data and Formulas 485 14. Predetermined Time Systems 507...
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...Athletic HISTORY The first modern-style indoor athletics meetings were recorded shortly after in the 1860s, including a meet at Ashburnham Hall in London which featured four running events and a triple jump competition. The Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) was established in England in 1880 as the first national body for the sport of athletics and began holding its own annual athletics competition – the AAA Championships. The United States also began holding an annual national competition – the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships – first held in 1876 by the New York Athletic Club.[14] Athletics became codified and standardized via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union (founded in the US in 1888) and the Union des sociétésfrançaises de sports athlétiques (founded in France in 1889). An athletics competition was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and it has been as one of the foremost competitions at the quadrennial multi-sport event ever since. Originally for men only, the 1928 Olympics saw the introduction of women's events in the athletics programme. Athletics is part of the Paralympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1960. Athletics has a very high profile during major championships, especially the Olympics, but otherwise is less popular. An international governing body, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), was founded in 1912; it adopted its current...
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