...with friends at the Point Loma Little League fields. Those two adjacent baseball fields were about a mile from my house, and twice a week my team, the San Diego Credit Union Padres, would gather there to practice. "You should just be called the Padres, not all that bullshit about credit unions," my dad said, as he drove me to the field on the opening day of the season when I was eleven years old. "But the credit union pays for us to have a team," I said. "Yeah, well, I pay for you to do everything, and you don't see me making you wear a shirt with my giant goddamned face on it." "That would be a weird shirt," I said. "Please. You wear all kinds of dopey shirts, and — what the fuck am I talking about right here? The shirt's not real, I'm just making a point. You got your gear?" he asked, pulling up to the field. Saturdays were filled with a full lineup of games, all of which the league's players were required to attend, so my parents could drop me off bright and early and then do whatever they wanted all day until my game. The prospect of a morning to himself was very exciting for my dad. "There's a lot of good teams this year, I think," I said, continuing our conversation as we arrived at the fields. He reached over me and popped open my door. "Fascinating. Now out of the car. Vamoose. Out! Out! Have fun and don't screw with anyone bigger than you. I'll be in the stands when your game starts," he said. I put my hand up for a high five, and he used that...
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...Research Paper: Slaughter-House Five In the semi autobiographical novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses the character Billy Pilgrim to depict the effects of war, death, and post traumatic stress disorder. Kurt Vonnegut felt the need to create the character of Billy Pilgrim to express his own feelings of trauma because of the difficulty to address them on a personal level. Like Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim was captured by the Germans, and witnessed the fire bombing in Dresden on February 13, 1945, which is known to be the most detrimental airstrike in military history, killing an estimated 135,000 people. “He was down in the meat locker on the night that Dresden was destroyed. There were sounds like giant footsteps above. Those were sticks of high explosive bombs. The giants walked and walked...A guard would go to the head of the stairs every so often to see what is was like outside, then he would come back down and whisper to the other guards. There was fire-storm out there. Dresden was one big flame. The one flame are everything organic, everything that would burn.” (Vonnegut 177) This quote from the book illustrates how the image of Dresden is instilled in Vonnegut's brain, from when he witnessed it, and how he can't let go of his lingering memories of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim is greatly disturbed by the obliteration he witnessed in Germany. These events signify Vonnegut’s painful past and he comes to terms with his pain through the writing of Slaughter-House Five....
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...of behavior. It is interesting that approval and dependent can go hand in hand. I would agree that I seek approval when it comes to things at the superficial level, but I didn’t think so much in my everyday life. My job position is a very independent one. I do second guess myself a lot at times. My old manager used to reprimand me for not being my own thinker. She would point out that I would never be promoted if I wasn’t more independent. I would be unsure of a task or an answer and she would always spin it back to me to challenge myself. I suppose I do not like to be challenged when things get uncomfortable, such as not understanding the information. I am afraid of failure. I always blamed her management style for the reason why I struggled with my job at times. I wanted her approval because I wanted her to see how successful I could be at my job. I lost sight of everything and struggled at both my job and her approval. It created low self- esteem and my determination to be liked by her. Her management style did not mesh well with my personality. She was critical and a micro manager and it was not a healthy work environment. I have a new manager and I am so much different, I work more independently and I am more successful. I have more confidence from the encouragement of my new manager. She believes in me and now I...
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...father about “Why is it that a father is never able to tell his son how much he loves him? He’s never able to embrace him and say “I love you my son”? But that doesn’t mean the father loves the son any less ” continued with Nandini Raichand (Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan), the mother saying “And mum, she keeps repeating it, whether her son listens to it or not. No one can fathom the amount of love a mother has for her son… not even the mother, because there is no measure for a mother’s love. It’s an emotion that can only be felt by a mother’s emotions. My son… My life…” This emotional yet honest dialogue makes the audience’s eyes teary right from the start as memories of their own parents flash through their own minds. KKKG is a movie based on family, traditions, love and believe. It is one that every Indian, be it a resident in India or a non-residential Indian (NRI), touching the hearts of everyone. As India becomes more developed and global, Indian traditional and religious concepts of life are confronted with perceptions of a Western and modern way of life. Considering the fact that the family is the fundamental reference point in traditional societies, we may assume that family conflicts reflect the changes in the social life-world caused by the competition between traditional and western. Issues such as marriage, the role of women in social and economical aspects, gender equality and relation between young-old have undergone change not only in movies but in real life as well....
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...Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham synopsis: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham "It's All About Loving Your Parents." Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is a lavish movie that deals with the issues of class distinction and the roles of women and men in marriage. It opens with a grown Rohan (Hrithik Roshan) finishing his boarding school education and returning to visit his grandmothers before he goes home for Diwali. His grandmothers, haunted by the memory of Rohan's estranged brother, Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), sit Rohan down, and in their grief, tell him the story of his family. Yashvardhan Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) is a famous, wealthy Indian businessman. He and his wife Nandini (Jaya Badhuri) adopted a baby, Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), and raised him as their own. Nine years later they had a natural son, Rohan (Hrithik Roshan), and considered their family complete. Rahul was raised as the beloved eldest son, and promised his father he would always uphold the respect and traditions of the Raichand family, and always do his parents proud. However, love intervenes... On his way to deliver medication for Daijaan, the nanny who raised both him and his brother, Rahul sees a beautiful girl, Anjali Sharma (Kajol) celebrating India's cricket win in the street. Enchanted by her exuberance, he watches her dance and then follows her into her family's sweet shop. There, she mistakes him for the prospective groom of her best friend. Thinking him to be Ashfaque the poet, who is set to marry her friend, Anjali recites...
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...ChangeThis Save to disk [ help ] Hide/Show menus Beyond Snobbery: Grammar Need Not Be Cruel to Be Cool By June Casagrande No 28.04 U x + Not using Adobe Acrobat? Please go to http://changethis.com/content/reader next ChangeThis It’s another radio station in another city in the overwhelming and terrifying process known as a book tour. I’m a first-time author on a very controversial subject—grammar snobbery—just beginning to realize I’m in way over my head. The radio show host wants to know my thoughts on all those people out there who don’t even try to use or to learn proper grammar. Everything about my host tells me that he is, by nature, a democratic and diplomatic kind of guy. But between the lines I think I catch the scent of something else—the passion of the people who see my grammar column in their local newspapers and send me e-mails saying, “As a fellow grammar and usage Nazi …” or, “Keep fighting against abuse of the language!” In my columns, I don’t fight abuse at all. I don’t bemoan others’ crimes against English or wail about how it’s going into the crapper. I’m not a grammar or usage Nazi. I’m not a snob, a snoot or even a stickler. I’m not “fellow” anything to them at all. Just because I write a column offering help to people who want to use better English doesn’t mean that I would impose good grammar on others. Short of coughing and fanning the air in the presence of a cigarette smoker, grammar provides the easiest way for an American...
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...gun to my head and advised me "look, you're going to focus on ONE thing at a time and master it before you move onto the next". Focus isn't just a word, it's the ability to keep your eye on what you want to accomplish so any obstacles you see will be ignored. Ok, "master" is probably too strong of a word. For example, when I first started using PPC advertising (Pay-Per-Click) many years ago I was losing money for over 2 straight months because I didn't know how to test my campaigns. So I invested in a solid PPC course by Perry Marshall and studied it. I started small and then reinvested my profits. 3. The first thing anyone should do is get clarity on what they really want. Making 10k per month is not a real goal. It's good to have, but if you don't become CRYSTAL clear on the WHY behind that goal, you're going to let obstacles kick your butt. Wanting money never got me anywhere. Now spending time with my loved ones and telling my boss to go pound sand.......PRICELESS!!!! 4. Trust no one, at first. Yes, there are some FANTASTIC people out there that are willing to help you, but there are also a lot of charlatans. I paid a lot of money to consultant a few years ago to help me increase my conversions, after the hour long phone call I realized he didn't know what he was talking about. But boy could he talk a good...
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...improves life in some way 4. reliant being dependent on someone 5. constitution a set of basic laws and principles that a democratic country is governed by 6. ethical relating to principles of what is right and wrong 7. resources a country’s land, minerals, or natural energy that can be used to increase its wealth Traditional American Values and Beliefs • 25 8. status social or professional rank or position in relation to others 9. wetfare money paid by the government to people who are very poor, sick, not working, etc. 10. foundation a basic idea or principle B. Work with a partner. Complete each question with a word from the preceding list. Then answer the questions. of a country forbid titles of nobility? 1. Why would the (titles such as “princess” or “sir”) 2. If there are no titles of nobility, how does a society recognize people with high social 3. Which do you think is more important to Americans, the well-being of the group or the success in their new 4. What do immigrants have to do to country? found on the North 5. What are some of the natural American continent? does a person get from being self- 6. What 7. When would it not be to compete with someone? 8. What...
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...veteran who lost his legs as a prisoner of war and has developed agoraphobia. One day, she decides to write a letter to someone living in New York City: by pure chance she chooses Max Jerry Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman) from a telephone directory. Max turns out to be a morbidly obese 44-year-old whose various mental problems (including anxiety attacks and overeating) have left him unable to form close bonds with other people. Max decides to write back to Mary, and the two become friends. Over time, Mary's increasingly sensitive questions about the adult world give Max progressively worse anxiety attacks, and he is ultimately institutionalized. During his time there, Max is diagnosed with depression and Asperger syndrome. Now aware of why he has difficulty relating to other people, Max finds a new lease on life and resumes his correspondence with Mary. The two remain friends for the next two decades, keeping one another updated on various events in their lives. Mary (Toni Colette), inspired by her friendship with Max, becomes a psychologist and marries her childhood crush, an effeminate young Greek Australian man named Damien Popodopoulos (Eric Bana) who enjoys sewing but fears Mary's sexual advances. Max wins the New York lottery, using his winnings to buy a (literal) life-time supply of chocolate and then giving the rest away to his elderly neighbor, who wastes...
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...wasn't very good. We talked to our friends, and they all hated their cellphones too. Everybody seemed to hate their phones. And we saw that these things really could become much more powerful and interesting to license. It's a huge market. I mean a billion phones get shipped every year, and that's almost an order of magnitude greater than the number of music players. It's four times the number of PCs that ship every year. "It was a great challenge. Let's make a great phone that we fall in love with. And we've got the technology. We've got the miniaturization from the iPod. We've got the sophisticated operating system from Mac. Nobody had ever thought about putting operating systems as sophisticated as OS X inside a phone, so that was a real question. We had a big debate inside the company whether we could do that or not. And that was one where I had to adjudicate it and just say, 'We're going to do it. Let's try.' The smartest software guys were saying they can do it, so let's give them a shot. And they did." On Apple's connection with the consumer "We did iTunes because we all love music. We made what we thought was the best jukebox in iTunes. Then we all wanted to carry our whole music libraries around with us. The team worked really hard. And the reason that they worked so hard is because we all wanted one. You know? I mean, the first few hundred customers were us. "It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing...
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...Slide 1 (title) - Huh? That’s what some of you might be saying to yourselves right now. What’s that word? How do you say it? What is Judaism? Well let us talk about Judaism. Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. Just like some of you may have a certain religion such as Christian, Catholic, Baptist, etc. there are others, including children like you, that practice Judaism and are thus Jews or Jewish. Judaism is the first recorded, meaning first written down, faith or religion that believes in only one God. This makes it the oldest religious tradition still in practice today! Slide 1 (bottom section) - Jews believe in a single God who knows everything, is very, very powerful, and is in all places at all times – no one or nothing can hide from Him. Jewish people also believe that God is always kind and that He created the universe and continues to manage it. This God is fair and forgiving and has no human form or representation. Slide 2 - According to traditional Jewish belief, a Covenant, an agreement between God and the Jewish people was made when God gave his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of the Torah. The Torah has 613 commandments from God which are known as “sacred obligations”. In other words these are all the things the Jewish people have to do to make God happy. These are kind of like instructions given by God to the Jewish people that teach them how to act, think, and understand life and death, as well as God’s...
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...It abhors beautification. Set to patiently study the story of destitute. It uncovers the Humiliated Reality. It is the historian of the present time. It is real, alive and bloodthirsty. It deals with the lower classes. It is documented. It is close to spoken language. It deals with presenting accurate and detailed account of the story. It prioritizes the analysis of personal spirit to society. It puts forward the anti-morals. Writers such as Freud see the love, regret and fear emerging from human’s unsatisfied physical and sexual...
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...62 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW Many have argued that the Internet renders strategy obsolete. In reality, the opposite is true. Because the Internet tends to weaken industry profitability without providing proprietary operational advantages, it is more important than everfor companies to distinguish themselves through strategy. The winners will be those that view the Internet as a complement to, not a cannibal of, traditional ways of competing. Strategy and the by Mich36l E. Porter Internet I "^ INTERNET is an extremely important new J technology, and it is no surprise that it has received so much attention from entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and business observers. Caught up in the general fervor, many have assumed that the Internet changes everything, rendering all the old rules about companies and competition obsolete. That may be a natural reaction, but it is a dangerous one. It has led many companies, dot-coms and incumbents alike, to make bad decisions - decisions that have eroded the attractiveness of their industries and undermined their own competitive advantages. Some companies, for example, have used Internet technology to shift the basis of competition away from quality, features, and service and toward price, making it harder for anyone in their industries to turn a profit. Others have forfeited important proprietary advantages by rushing into misguided partnerships MARCH 2001 63 strategy and t h e Internet and outsourcing relationships...
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...Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Copyright© 1999 by Louise Rennison All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America. For information address HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. _______________________www.harperchildrens.com_____________________ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rennison, Louise. Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging: confessions of Georgia Nicolson / Louise Rennison. p. cm. Summary: Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size other nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. ISBN-13: 978-0-0602-8814-3. — ISBN-10: 0060288140 [1. Diaries—Fiction. 2. England—Fiction. 3. Humorous stories.] I. Title. PZ7.R29114An 2000 99-40591 [Fic]—dc21 CIP ___________________________________________________________ AC Typography by Alison Donalty 10 * First American edition, 2000 Originally published by Piccadilly Press Ltd., 5 Castle Road, London NWI 8PR To Mutti and Vati and my little sister, also to Angus. His huge furry outside may have gone to cat heaven, but the scar on my ankle lingers on. Also to Brenda...
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...RULE 101. SCOPE; DEFINITIONS (a) Scope. These rules apply to proceedings in United States courts. The specific courts and proceedings to which the rules apply, along with exceptions, are set out in Rule 1101. (b) Definitions. In these rules: (1) “civil case” means a civil action or proceeding; (2) “criminal case” includes a criminal proceeding; (3) “public office” includes a public agency; (4) “record” includes a memorandum, report, or data compilation; (5) a “rule prescribed by the Supreme Court” means a rule adopted by the Supreme Court under statutory authority; and (6) a reference to any kind of written material or any other medium includes electronically stored information. RULE 102. PURPOSE These rules should be construed so as to administer every proceeding fairly, eliminate unjustifiable expense and delay, and promote the development of evidence law, to the end of ascertaining the truth and securing a just determination. RULE 103. RULINGS ON EVIDENCE (a) Preserving a Claim of Error. A party may claim error in a ruling to admit or exclude evidence only if the error affects a substantial right of the party and: (1) if the ruling admits evidence, a party, on the record: (A) timely objects or moves to strike; and (B) states the specific ground, unless it was apparent from the context; or (2) if the ruling excludes evidence, a party informs the court of its substance by an offer of proof, unless the substance was apparent from the context. (b) Not Needing...
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