...Don John is the evil bastard brother in the play. He is only recently reconciled with Don Pedro and he plays the role of a schemer, a discontent and a Machiavelli. In reality, Don John is merely the excluded character, a man who cannot fit into the society he is unwillingly a part of. When Conrad tries to tell him he should act happy around Don Pedro, he states, "I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace" (1.3.21-22). Don John thus ignores the family network, fails to observe the proper code of conduct, misses the dinner party thrown by Leonato, and rebels against the compulsory set of social rules. Though Don John ostensibly influences all of the action of the play, he has very few speaking lines for a main character. Don John operates as a plot-device more than a fully fleshed out character. He does give us a little speech about how he’s a bad guy – and likes being a bad guy – but there’s not much that we say about him because we never really know his motivations, or even his reaction to all of the chaos he’s caused. In the end, he has run off before he can even be punished or have a warm, fuzzy change of heart scene. He’s definitely not Shakespeare’s most compelling and complex villain. Ultimately, though, it isn’t a failing of Shakespeare’s that this villain is so thin. It’s actually a reminder to the reader that the play isn’t supposed to be a tragedy, and isn’t even supposed to really analyze evil at all. The more important take-home points of the play...
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...I. Introduction History of the Company iPeople, Inc.(the Company), formerly known as Petrofields Exploration and Development Co., Inc. (Petrofields), was organized and incorporated on July 27, 1989 by Benguet Corporation to engage in petroleum and mineral exploration, development, and production. Petrofields operated as such until 1997 when the shareholders changed its name and primary purpose to that of a development and investment management company while retaining oil exploration as one of its secondary purposes. With the change of its primary purpose, iPeople’s main interests are centered on education and information technology led by Malayan Colleges, Inc. - Operating under the name Mapua Institute of Technology (MCI), Pan Pacific Computer Center, Inc. (PPCCI), and People eServe Corporation. The operations of Mapua are divided among the following companies: Malayan Colleges, Inc. (MCI) with campuses in Intramuros and Makati; Mapua Information Technology Center (MITc); Mapua Techserv, Inc. (Mapua Techserv); San Lorenzo Ruiz Institute of Health Sciences, Inc.; Malayan High School of Sciences (formerly Pandacan Properties, Inc.); and Malayan College Laguna, Inc (MCLI) led by a Mapua School of Engineering in Laguna. iPeople is a member of the Yuchengco Group of Companies ("YGC"). It is a subsidiary of House of Investments, one of the flagship companies of the YGC, with interests in construction, memorial parks, agriculture, among others. The YGC has strong presence in several...
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...Victor Hugo Sequeira Limieri Guimaraes Dr. Powel-Williams SOCI 1101 14 September 2011 Bastards of the Party (2005) There are several ways to define what Sociological imagination is; the term was coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959, to describe the insight offered by the discipline of sociology. I am going to explain two different definitions of sociological imagination; first, the sociological imagination can be defined as the capacity to see how sociological situations play out due to how people differ and social circumstances differ. It is a way of thinking about things in society that have led to some sort of outcome, and understanding what causes led to that outcome. Things that shape these outcomes include (but are not limited to): social norms, what people want to achieve (their motives for doing something), and the social context in which they live (ex. - country, time period, people with whom they associate). Basically, as an aspect of sociological imagination, what people do is shaped by all these things that result in some sort of outcome. Second, sociological imagination can be also the ability to see things socially and how they interact and influence each other. To have a sociological imagination, a person must be able to pull away from the situation and think from an alternative point of view. It requires “thinking ourselves away from our daily routines and looking at them anew". The actions of people are much more important than...
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...Essay - “Kill the White Bastard” Characterization: Mike Chambers: Mike is at the hospital, because he got beat up by some black guys. Mike has a soft spot for girl, and he is always making like Sir Galahad. Sometimes he beat out a lot of guys who is better looking than him, because he is jealous about them. He describe himself as a sucker when he takes himself “loaning” money to girls, just because they come with an emotional story, and he always believe in the best about a girl until he is proved wrong. Mike and his gang often hang around at a local drugstore where the owner is so scared of them that he cannot ask them to leave, even though they have not done anything, but having a bad attitude. Mike lives in a neighborhood where white people and black people are separated and “against” each other. But Mike is not taking it too seriously. He can easily see a black guy and a white girl together without bothering, while most white guys in his neighborhood can’t stand to see it. Mike has a bigger brother with a big reputation, who is in jail. His brother is known as a very tough guy around their neighborhood, so Mike also has a big reputation, but he is not a tough guy like his brother, at all. Mike drive around in an old Ford which really is his brothers, but he is allowed to use it every time his brother is in jail, which is quite often. Mike goes to school but the only thing that keeps him from dropping out is his mother, who is going to “kill” him if he does. He is...
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...come in many forms, but one of the most popular forms is that of the bastard. The character of the bastard is always evil, but Shakespeare also gives us some clue as to why they have grown to be so evil. The character of Don John the bastard in Much Ado About Nothing, and the character of Edmund in King Lear have many of the same qualities. They are both bastards with legitimate brother, and their brothers are in line to inherit their father’s title as well as real assets. They are both scheming villains and their villainy leads them into trouble. They both say they are bastards and act evil because they are expected...
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...Annoying co-workers, troubled relations with the hot HR girl, slackers and a missed promotion are only peanuts when you throw in the presence of vampires. Bloodsucking Bastards (known as Bloodsucking Bosses at Wal-Mart) shows you how crappy cubicle life can be and then throws in blood hungry vampires to spice things up. If you're in the mood for fangs and paperwork, Bloodsucking Bastards is going to be your ticket to success... PRODUCT INFORMATION PLOT SUMMARY MOVIE Evan (Fran Kranz) has a crappy job and after saying the wrong thing possible to his hot girlfriend (The Collection's Emma Fitzpatrick), who also happens to be the HR lady at work, his life starts to take a downward spiral. However, if he can get the new Sales Manager position, things might start looking up. Unbeknownst to him, his boss has another idea in mind and brings in Game of Thrones actor Pedro Pascal, who plays Max, the suave sales managers with a dark secret (I think you can guess what it is) to revigorate the sales force and put a little bite back in the workplace. Evan soon finds out that all isn't right and vampires may be taking over the office, so he teams up with Cabin Fever actor Joey Kern to take them head on in a bloody battle to the death....
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...Originating in the Bronx in the 1970s, the genre that would later become a global phenomenon grew substantially in the ’80s and, by the time the ’90s rolled around, had fully matured both artistically and commercially. When you think about hip hop in that decade, two names hover above the rest: 2Pac (“California Love”) and The Notorious B.I.G. (“Hypnotize”). If you’ll recall, though, the ’90s was also a period in which hip hop expanded from being purely a coastal phenomenon. Southern anthems like “Back That Thang Up” by Juvenile and Fiend, Silkk, Mia-X and Mystikal-featured Master P song, “Make Em Say Uhh!,” dominated the charts. Meanwhile, the East and West Coasts held it down with their own distinctive hits, respectively, including Jay-Z’s “Can I Get A…” and Warren G ft. Nate Dogg’s “Regulate.” If any of the aforementioned songs come on right now, in any region, hip hop fans will react. And that acknowledgment likely manifests with head bobbing, rapping along, or dancing. 38. “Summertime” – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Album: Homebase Year: 1991 Before Will hit it big with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, this friends-since-childhood duo recorded a summer anthem that eventually won a Grammy for Best Rap Single in 1991 “I Wish” – Skee-lo Album: I Wish Year: 1991 . “Still Not A Player” – Big Punisher ft. Joe Album: Capital Punishment Year: 1998 Latin’s Going Platinum! Another MC gone too soon, Pun made this still-incredible Uptown record one that we’ll dance...
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...CST 2405 Subject: Home work #1. Chapter (Self-test Objective) Question # 1: What kinds of issues does system administration cover? Answer: As we discussed in class, a Network System Administrator has to be knowledgeable, has to have customer service skills to be stay calm & collected when a complaint occurs, and must be able to rectify the problem. As the course text book “Principles of Network and System Administration”, by author Mark Burgess mentions in chapter #1 section 1.6 The challenges of system administration : “System administration is not just about installing operating systems. It is about planning and designing an efficient community of computers so that real users will be able to get their jobs done. That means: • Designing a network which is logical and efficient. • Deploying large numbers of machines which can be easily upgraded later. • Deciding what services are needed. • Planning and implementing adequate security. • Providing a comfortable environment for users. • Developing ways of fixing errors and problems which occur. • Keeping track of and understanding how to use the enormous amount of knowledge which increases every year.” The author also mentions that some of the Network System Administrators are responsible for both the hardware of the network and the computers which it connects, i.e. the cables as well as the computers and some are only responsible for the computers. Most importantly a System Administrator must have...
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...Lauren Lamotte | 7714 Lancer Ct | Niceville, FL 32578 | (850) 408-6789 | lauren.lamotte@us.af.mil November 14, 2015 Linda Vinetti Hiring Manager Capriccio Software, Inc. 3556 Gen DeGualle Blvd New Orleans, LA 70128 Dear Ms. Vinetti: I read of your company’s need for a Linux Systems Administrator in the New Orleans area on Indeed.com. I will be returning to New Orleans after my military enlistment is complete, and I believe that I would be an excellent fit for the company. I have worked as an IT professional in the United States Air Force for over six years, with my last three years working as a Linux Systems Administrator, and I am confident in my ability to become a valuable member of your team. I have an Associates degree in IT, and I am working towards by Bachelors degree in Information Systems Management. I am also professionally certified from Microsoft, Cisco, and CompTIA. As a Linux System Administrator, I have extensive experience in the following areas: * System Administration and Repair * Systems Installation, Configuration & Upgrading * Programming and Scripting * System Security, Backup and Recovery As a supervisor in the United States Air Force, I have experience working in teams, and I thrive under pressure. Additionally, I have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, which has...
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...In my film analysis essay, I want to discuss about the aboriginal “blackfellas” in Australia, and further the masculinity in the company of the “father and son” relationship which are presented in this film. Mad Bastards, a Paramount Pictures film which was filmed in 2010, written and directed by Brendan Fletcher, and starred by Dean Daley-Jones, Lucas Yeeda, and Greg Tait. In addition, Mad Bastards had been nominated for 12 awards, and had won two. Besides, Mad Bastards was an official selection of 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival is an American film festival held annually in Utah, and is the largest independent film festival in the US for American and international independent filmmakers. The festival covers competitive...
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...sets out to change the image that society holds of him due to his status as a bastard. In order to do this he needs to bring down those who debased him and reformat a whole society with its “plague of custom.” (I II 3). He attempts the impossible task of proving that his “dimensions areas well compact, [his] mind as generous, and [his] shape as true as honest madam’s issue.” (I II 79) With nature as his sole philosophy, Edmund is placed outside the harmonious social order and represents what is natural as compared to what is unnatural, the social customs. In addition to having to prove his equality as compared to his brother, he needs to change the view that an entire society holds against a certain subset of the population; he has to prove the natural against the unnatural. From the start of the play we are able to see how humiliating and dehumanizing it can be to a bastard. Gloucester, talking about Edmund, states that he has “so often blushed to acknowledge him that now [he] is brazen to ‘t.” (I I 1011) While standing directly in front of him, Edmund’s own father shames his bastard son and only reluctantly acknowledges his existence, a task that he has had to grow accustomed to. Gloucester proceeds to state that “there was good sport at [Edmund’s] making”(I I 24), an insult to Edmund’s conception. This whole conversation shows a complete lack of respect by Gloucester for his bastard son. While he probably understand the futileness of his task to reinvent society’s...
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...WRITE A CHARACTER SKETCH OF MIKE IN THE STORY “KILL THE WHITE BASTARD” You must write a text of about 600-800 words about the text “Kill the White Bastard. Your text must include a paragraph on the plot of the story and a characterization of the immediate narrator of the main story (Mike). An ending paragraph must comment generally on the theme of the text. The following points must be included in your characterization: * who is he? * what are his family relations? * which environment does he live in? * what kind of a person is he? (what does he tell us about himself?) * how does he relate to other people? (brother, Connie, family, friends) * what does he feel about school etc.? Use the tool box handed out in connection with the text. My text about “Kill the White Bastard” In the story “Kill the White Bastard” let Connie her black friends kick and beat Mike up; just to show Mikes friends who are in control. Connie does not want to tell her friends the trough, cause she do not want to been seen with a white guy of volition. Cause if you are black, and live in a black neighborhood or a ghetto, you cannot hang around with white people. Mike does not have any hate to black people. Even after he got kick and beaten so much, which he ended up in hospital. He thinks, that it is all right what some black people does him, he is of cause hurt but he does not hate general black people or Connie. He just has a little hate to Connie’s friends, who beat...
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...Often times in literature, a character is separated from the rest of society whether it be because of race, religion, gender, or social status. Authors do this in order to point out the flaws of the culture or society that the character lives in. This is what occurs in the novel The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The main character, sometimes referred to as the Captain, is that character in the book. Being half French and half Vietnamese has constantly made the Captain an outsider no matter where he went. As a result of this alienation, it is shown that both Vietnamese and Western cultures can never be one hundred percent accepting towards bastards, or people of mixed descent. All throughout the novel, the captain has always alluded to...
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...lightning bolts overshadows his moral failings as a husband. I want to know am I not good enough for you Zeus, king of Olympus? Looking other places to satisfy your needs, but then you come back to me? If I wasn’t queen of Olympus I wouldn’t be with your sorry self. What are my flaws? What is wrong with me that you won’t be faithful? I give you all my love and affection, but you keep looking elsewhere. Why do I deserve this? What did I do to you? I loved you and took care of your children, Hebe, Eileithyia, and Ares. You egotistical bastard! You ran around sleeping with other women. Zeus you dumb bastard, you slept with Metis who was prophesized to give birth to a child even more powerful than you! After you slept with her, you ate her, but you still gave birth to the baby , adding a child that is not mine to the list of things you have messed up on. Don’t expect me to take care of her like she is my own baby because I won’t, you stupid bastard. How dare you cheat on me! How could you be such a bad husband? You disrespect me so much that you even go out of your way to sleep with people other than me? I was wondering why our love life is abysmal, now I know why! You get with women who don’t even want you while I am waiting for you. I am absolutely disgusted with you. You abuse your power and get away with it because of...
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...The motivations of every character differed greatly; Goneril and Regan appeared to have little motivation to behave the way they did, whereas Edmund had more reason. There was never any background information on Goneril and Regan and how they were raised, which makes their actions seemed without motive. However, from the actions of others, it is easy to infer how their home environment was like while they grew up. After giving up the crown, Lear, unable to fully give up the authority, brings one hundred knights with him to Goneril’s home; the knights hindered the maid’s work, caused disturbance and commotion, and behaved like they were in a hostel. This shows that Lear was both commanding and did not like to relinquish his power over the politics,...
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