...When he turns her away, repulsed by her old and ugly appearance and sneering at the simple but lovely gift, she turns into an Enchantress and punishes him by transforming him into an ugly beast and turns his servants into furniture and other household items. She gives him a magic mirror that will enable him to view faraway events, and also gives him the rose. He must love and be loved in return before all the rose's petals have fallen off, or he will remain a beast forever. Years later, the film's beauty queen, young and enthusiastic lady, a hopeful dreamer, called Belle, is the smartest, best-read person in a small provincial French town. As such, she is hotly pursued by Gaston, the lantern-jawed man. Wandering through her village while reading a book, Belle becomes the focus of a spectacular opening number that captures the atmosphere of the whole film. Bit by bit, the population trickles out to greet Belle and gossip about her, while she herself bemoans the small-mindedness of the place. This beautiful girl is the daughter of Maurice, who is an old inventor, still trying to rise as a phoenix and turn his dreams into a beautiful reality, that offers a better future for his family. Maurice's latest invention is a wood-chopping machine. When he rides off to display the machine at the fair, he loses his way in the woods and stumbles upon the Beast's castle, where he meets the transformed servants Lumiere, a cheeky, yet charming candle, Cogsworth, who is a mature clock with...
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...Belle (Emma Watson), a bright, beautiful and independent young woman, is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) in its castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the beast's hideous exterior, allowing her to recognize the kind heart and soul of the true prince that hides on the inside. Belle, with her interest in learning and reading, and her lack of interest in being married makes an empowered Disney princess. She has a passion for books, wanting for other girls to have the same passion and skills. In the film, she attempts to teach a young girl in town to read and is reprimanded by the older male schoolmaster. To make it clear that Belle’s mind is her greatest asset, the film turns her...
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...selected colors as Belle finds her way to the Beast. The town’s people’s attire is dull: bleak browns, greens, and reds; this shows the conformity of the people and the simple mindedness of the town. Belle’s Papa’s green attire shows conformity as well. No matter how hard he tries to break out and be different, he is always sucked back and consumed by the poor provincial town. Then when Belle becomes happier in the castle, she is depicted in the same green because she is conforming to the castle life and ceasing to push back and long to be free. After connecting with Belle, the Beast changes into the same green. This wardrobe change represents the Beast’s desire to be what Belle wants and what he needs to be to break the spell. Gaston, the manly-man antagonist, is shown wearing a bright red shirt with a mustard collar. The mustard is a mock gold; this shows his need to be first, to be royal. He craves the attention he rakes in. The red signifies hostility. The combination of these colors displays his selfish appetite for power. In the Beast’s introduction and throughout the beginning of the movie, he wears a red cape. Like Gaston’s red attire, it shows hostility. After being turned into a Beast, he is overcome with feelings of rage and selfhatred. 2 Pink and gold are the colors representing the people in the castle, and when Belle arrives at the castle, the dresser tries to costume Belle in Pink. She protests because she doesn’t want to be a part of the life there. Belle is later seen...
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...Blanche’s conflict is mainly verbal (conflict is about power struggle, who has control over the other characters) Williams presents this through their verbal interactions, his use of language shows their animosity.The conflict is one in which Stanley is constantly squaring up to Blanche as if to see who has the upper hand. The conflict began with Stanley’s suspicions of Blanche when he heard of the demise of Belle Reve. Williams parallels his use of negative language with Blanche’s impressions of Stanley; with Blanche appearing to pull Mitch away from Stanley and by changing who appears have most control over Stella. Williams demonstrates the theme of conflict through verbal and physical interactions as well symbolism as shown below. The first sign of the conflict between Stanley and Blanche is at the very beginning in Act One Scene Two. Blanche has revealed to Stella that their childhood home ‘Belle Reve,’ has been lost, what she doesn’t explain is the nature of how it was lost. When Stella explains to Stanley he begins to grow suspicious of Blanche, thinking that she has sold ‘Belle Reve,’ swindling Stella of her share of the money and through her, swindled him. He begins to rummage through her stuff, looking through her clothing when Blanche appears. Blanche starts off with flirtatiously asking Stanley to do up the buttons on her dress and begins “fishing for a compliment” from Stanley. All this does is rile him up and make him more suspicious of how sincere a person she really...
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...character that displays the most tragic insanity is Blanche Dubois. Blanche is from Laurel, Mississippi were she loses her home Belle Reve, after the death of her relatives. She then travels to her sister’s home where her actions lead her to insanity. She goes to her sister home as a fallen woman of society. She has a difficult time distinguishing between what is real and what is fantasy. Blanche Dubois is a complex individual who provokes strong reactions from other characters. The main factors are her lying, drinking and infatuations with men. Unfortunately, these actions drive her to the final breaking point and lead her to an insane asylum. Upon her arrival to Elysian Fields, Blanche is unimpressed with the surroundings. Here she hopes to escape her poor life and bad reputation. As she enters the apartment, she meets Eunice who leads her to her sister’s apartment. Stella and her husband Stanley arrive home, and Stella greets her sister warmly. She leads her sister to believe she is one who has never lived indignantly. Blanche is not there long before she begins to lie to her sister to make herself seem better. She leads her to believe she is there on a leave of absence from her job as a school teacher. However, the reality is that she was fired for having relations with a seventeen year old boy. Blanche also reveals that her family home, Belle Reve, has been lost due to the financial burden of the due the death their relatives. Blanche is quick to blame Stella for leaving...
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...experience. In these upcoming paragraphs I will be explaining the history and its ups and downs to the sport. In the year of 1902, “a French soldier Georges Herbert was stationed in Saint Pierre, Martinique when all of a sudden volcano explodes.”(American Parkour)From all the chaos that was going on Georges Herbert had an eye-opener, which led to his motto that still holds the truth for the performance of Parkour, "etre fort pour etre utile" which means: "be strong to be useful." Being struck with enlightenment of the native tribes and the way they moved he created the saying that is still used today called “methode naturelle" which involved learning all indispensable athletics. Decades later, another soldier Raymond Belle, positioned in Vietnam has a son named David Belle and teaches him about "methode naturelle". This new movement of life made a great impact in his life to such a degree that he continues to practice this new style of movement and ends up bringing it to the Parisian suburb of Lisses. Today, these practices have accelerated in life itself. Here are 3 subjects that I’ve come to realization about the mental negativity that keep a mental block from performing these crucial movements.” (American...
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...Before when people hear the word "Love" the first thing that pops to their mind is love for family, friends, opposite gender, or sometimes for animals. But lots of people now a day’s love “things” like gadgets, clothes, books, cars, etc. Well my point is, today people almost love everything around them. Now let’s focus on “Books”, what are the advantages when you love books. First is Knowledge, when you read books everything that you read fills your head with new kinds of information, and you never know when it might come in handy. The more knowledge you have, the better-equipped you are to face any challenge you’ll ever encounter. Second is it Reduce Stress, When I’m reading a book, my mind shifts gears. Where I might have a stressful day, a book can easily distract me. Fiction and Sci-fi is fantastic for this. Reading an awesome book is perfect right before bed time. Though sometimes it’s hard to put the book down if it’s really good. Still, you’ll be relaxed. Lastly it widens our Imagination, when we read fiction or sci-fi books we usually use our imagination to enjoy the story. As a fan of fiction and sci-fi books it really is useful, cause when I’m reading it I feel like I’m with the protagonist having the best adventure we can possibly have. That is some of the reason why we should read, and why we should love to read. Reading helps us with our study and other stuffs. So to those who hates to read, they should start to read even it’s a comic, mangga, or magazine...
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...Compliance Program / Annual Procedure Review Rule 206(4)-7 of the Investment Advisers Act creates a fiduciary responsibility for investment advisers to review annually their policies and procedures to determine their adequacy and the effectiveness of their implementation. As part of this review, all policies, procedures and responsibilities of an adviser must be reviewed, and the findings documented. The review should consider all factors that might suggest a need to revise the policies and procedures including any compliance matters that occurred during the year, any changes in the adviser’s or its affiliates business activities, or changes to applicable regulations. Reviews should be conducted by independent individuals (e.g., the department manager) not immediately responsible for implementation of a particular procedure. An overall review and approval of the adviser’s policies and procedures should be completed by the Chief Compliance Officer and should be submitted to the adviser’s Management Committee or Executive Officers for Final Action. |Procedure | |Summary & |Recommended |Reviewer & | |Completion Date & | |Reviewed |Findings |Conclusions |Change/Update |Date of Review |Review by CCO |Final Actions ...
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...herself for the death of her husband and therefore constantly bathes to cleanse herself of her past. Blanche also doesn't accept the fact that she is getting older. She stays away from lights because "electric light bulbs go on and you see too plainly" and she does not want people, in this case Mitch, to see what she actually looks like. Stanley looks at the world as it is and not what he wants it to be. He doesn't buy into all of the things that Blanche says. When Blanche said that she lost Belle Reve, Stanley didn't trust her because she didn't have any proof. We see he didn't trust her when he said "In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic code according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa." He also doesn't trust her because Blanche has very stylish items and thinks she can afford it because of profit she got from Belle Reve. Blanche and Stanley differ in is their social statuses. Blanche was raised in Laurel on a plantation called Belle Reve. Her family had a...
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...Riverside Casino and Golf Resort / Stacy Benson Topic Title Performance Reviews NO. This title won’t work. What about performance reviews? If you were doing a simple research paper you could write about performance reviews based on research alone. In this Sr Paper you must determine the state of the art based on your Literature Review. Then you will give the background of the problem and discuss it. This must all lead to two Courses of Action (COAs; solutions) that are tied to your title and problem. You need a “product” such as a process, a plan, a strategy, a program – something that can be recommended and implemented. Problem Statement (if not finalized post a draft – focus on the "pain.") The problem is that after initial training employees are not being reviewed for current performance. Suggest that after this initial statement you add something more about the problem. Brief Topic Overview The casino is experiencing a high turnover rate of employees because after their initial training they are put on the floor without any further review. In the handbook employees are supposed to have a review after 90 days but they are not being implemented. This leaves the casino with under qualified employees that eventually terminate their employment due to not feeling able to meet the high demands. The solution to this problem, if it is the problem, is simple. Just IMPLEMENT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS. You can see...
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...Peer Evaluation for MKT 420 Your Name: KYRIA AHO Fill in the blanks for each team member (but not yourself) as if you were writing an evaluation or recommendation for that person. ONLY ONE TEAM MEMBER MAY BE RECOMMENDED FOR PROMOTION. Consider if you were assigned to another team, which team member you would want to be your boss. Consider who you’d like to work with again. Consider who you’d go to extremes to avoid working with if you had a say. Here is the format for peer evaluations. Include the team member’s full name (1), and be specific about (2) what the team member did or did not do. At the end, if you were employed with this person, (3) would you recommend (a) Promoting, (b) Retaining (Keep in position), (c) Retaining with counseling to improve performance or (d) firing/replacing. Please keep in mind that in most business situations, only one person in a group would likely be promoted. Thus a recommendation to promote would be reserved for the truly exceptional team member Team Member 1: LEXA CREAMER As a team member with Lexa Creamer on the team marketing plan project, I feel qualified to speak about his/her job performance. Lexa’s contribution to the project was timely and significant. She accepts correction easily and is always willing to assist in any way that she can. I believe Lexa’s strengths are enthusiasm and timely submission of her work. I believe her weakness is the lack of flexibility. Lexa had to miss some of the meetings due to time conflicts...
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...Why did we choose that particular topic or article to be reviewed? As for this assignment, our group has all agreed to choose the article titled ‘Stress Management’ as the article that we need to review. Why we chose this article is absolutely because it is easy to be reviewed. This article has much points and ideas in it. Besides, we chose this article because it is exactly and definitely related to our life as university students. So, we can easily put some ideas as our experiences to review this article. This article teaches us much about stress; what stress actually is and what do make us stressed. This article also gives us knowledge about some stress-management techniques as to overcome this particular problem. As students, we cannot run away from this problem, and we need to face it throughout our whole life as a human. Not only students, all human beings will face any kind of stress either teachers, farmers and also ministers. This article also tells us that stress is not always bad, but sometimes stress can be beneficial to us when it makes our work better and done energetically. We deeply think about how we will think to review this article so we will not face too much obstacle in order to finish this group assignment. Making notes on the article read The five articles that we choose is only about two pages each and these articles have many points and ideas to be taken and used. We need to take notes on these articles to determine which article is the best to be...
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...com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www...
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...technology discussion forum . It provides its readers with detailed specs for thousands of computer hardware products, reviews, expert analysis and comparisons. Take the Asus X99 Rampage V Extreme motherboard for example, it belongs to a well know product line known as the Republic of Gamers (ROG). Overclock3D takes this motherboard and breaks it down piece by piece, they go into details of each aspect of this motherboard, from new features that was not available in previous Rampage motherboard models, to over clocking options, and even enhance their review with videos, screen shots, and bench testing results to verify motherboards' specs and capabilities. For the computer enthusiast, this website with an easy to navigate layout, and attractive format, brings all the new hardware to one place, and provides a tremendous amount of information regarding computer hardware. Additionally, the site has several tools that gives its readers the opportunity to discuss, ask questions, and expand on hardware uses through comments, forum, frequently asked questions and other threads in the Community section. Overclock3D was initially dependant on users input through the forum platform. Their enthusiasm however turned into a full scale professional publication, the website became a registered company in the UK and expanded its operations into other websites as well. Reviews done to hardware such as the Rampage V are now handled by professionals like Tom Logan their Director and Chief Editor...
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...Butterfly leaked just 24 hours before its official release date, March 15, and that most major music websites published their reviews of the album within three days of the leak. On such an immediate deadline for filing a feature-length album review, it’s nearly impossible for a young critic to stunt. At Jezebel, Clover Hope just wrote the truth. With bits of personal and political context interspersed, Hope framed her review as a first-take impression of the “overwhelming blackness” of an album about funk and self-destruction. “This initial feeling is suffocating,” Hope wrote. “It’s the essence of Dis Tew Much.” I think most fans and critics would agree that Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly is, indeed, overwhelming. I reviewed To Pimp a Butterfly in about 72 hours. In that narrow band of time, I "got" the album's messages and themes but couldn’t grasp the motivations for the album’s sound. Why, in. You’ll recall that To Pimp a Butterfly leaked just 24 hours before its official release date, March 15, and that most major music websites published their reviews of the album within three days of the leak. On such an immediate deadline for filing a feature-length album review, it’s nearly impossible for a young critic to stunt. At Jezebel, Clover Hope just wrote the truth. With bits of personal and political context interspersed, Hope framed her review as a first-take impression of the “overwhelming blackness” of an album about funk and self-destruction. “This initial feeling...
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