...Django Unchained Django Unchained takes place in 1858 where former dentist, Dr. King Schultz now a bounty hunter, buys Django’s freedom because he is a slave and he can help Dr. Schultz identify some men that he is searching for to fulfill a bounty. He trains Django to be his deputy and later purposes a deal that if he helps him with his bounties through the winter then Dr. Schultz will give a portion of his earnings and take him to find his wife and buy her freedom which Django accepts. This film has many strengths and the history is accurate for the time period. The way slaves are treated and the way people associate with each other is very accurately depicted throughout the film. From the beginning to the end of the film you see slaves. In the opening scene slaves are in shackles being pulled behind horses that their owners are riding on. The film is accurate on the fact that slaves were sometimes transported from place to place this way. As well as their owners yelling at them for no reason and continuing to down them and call them niggers just because they are black. They never did anything to them, they were just slaves because they were a different skin color. This continues all the way to the end of the film when slaves are again being transported, but in a truck. The way white people are portrayed throughout the film is also accurate for the time period. They think they are better than everyone else and that they have power over blacks. It is true that white people...
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...but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow? And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the over prudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city? And what is fear of need but need itself? Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable? There are those who give little of the much which they have and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty. There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. Though the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth. It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving And is there aught you would withhold? All you...
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...Diem-Chi Tran Dr. Ingrao HUMA 1301.002 November 22, 2013 Row C-2 The Frankenstein Complex: Killer Robots or Metal Friends? In it’s fifty years of age, the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics continue to capture the imagination of the general public, but with this growing interest, it also engendered a great deal of fear and skepticism. Hollywood and the media exacerbate the problem while some well-known authors and scientist lend credence to it. This fear isn’t anything new and didn’t just appear with the creation of these mechanized humanoids. Even reaching as far back as the folktales of golems to the monstrous birth of Frankenstein’s creature, humankind has feared the rise of an army of evil manmade creations that banned together to overthrow humanity. Asimov called this fear the Frankenstein Complex. With so many amazing possibilities that came with the new technological era, Asimov believed that the creation of robots and androids would benefit humanity so he formed the Three Laws of Robotics to try and calm the fears that boiled amongst the general public. He states that first and foremost, “a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm” (Asimov 37). The second law states, “a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders conflict with the First Law” (Asimov 37). And the third law is that “a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with...
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...this assignment I chose to do bounty hunters. There are a lot of people that are in this profession that like to be called fugitive recovery agents rather than bounty hunters. This is because when people hear bounty hunter, it tends to automatically make most think about negative things, or the first thing that comes to mind is something from the old days when people use to post dead or alive posters with an award on it. Some of the more accepted titles other than bounty hunter are bail bond recovery agent as mentioned before, bail officer, fugitive recovery officer, bail agent, bail enforcement agent, and fugitive recovery agent. Private investigators and bounty hunters have some of the same job duties in common which include, conducting interviews, performing surveillance, getting in contact with the subject, skip tracing which is when they track somebody to a current resident or location, and if a subject is located, some form of paperwork might be served. The private investigator could serve the individual legal papers and the bounty hunter could serve a warrant. The bounty hunter works with the bail bondsman in order to re-arrest the individual and place them in jail. This is usually because the bail bondsman’s client has not followed his or her bail contract. Usually the offense is when the individual fails to appear in court after promising to go. The first bounty hunter is Pat Garrett, and he is the one responsible for hunting down Billy the Kid. His motivation...
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...Dog the Bounty Hunter Dog the Bounty Hunter not only captures criminals and puts them in jail; he tries to help them make their life better. Dog the Bounty Hunter is a reality television show on A&E that follows Duane “Dog” Chapman and his family on bounty hunts. When people miss court or try to bond jump; the judge puts out a bond revocation and then they must capture the criminal or they lose their money they put up to get the person out of jail. He encourages them to try to turn their lives around. This is part of society that most shows don’t show. He started his career 27 years ago after he spent 18 months in a Texas prison. Now he is living on the right side of the law because he doesn’t ever want to go back to prison. Dog has helped catch the most dangerous people, and even a high-profile rapist. “He credits most of his success from getting the most out of his informants.” He says “70% of all his captures happen because some ol’ American has turned them in by giving him information. He has the bondsman business with his wife “Beth” and their kids also work for him. They are located in Hawaii and even do bounty hunting in Denver Colorado. He helps fellow bondsman named Bobby Brown when he goes there to visit. They originally started in Denver but have since moved to Hawaii. They still do bounties in Denver but that is not their main focus. Every criminal that he captures, he uses his own past experiences to show the fugitives that they can change...
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...Leadership Comparison and Contrast Mutiny on the Bounty Brenau University Dana Nelms September 2, 2015 Abstract Noted as the most notable munity in the history of navigation, Mutiny on the Bounty descripts the voyages of Captain Bligh and subsequent mutiny of this crew. In 1787, William Bligh was appointed the captain of the Bounty. The mission of the trip was to travel to Tahiti to obtain breadfruit trees for transplanting in the West Indies for the purpose of producing food for the slaves owned by the English nobility. There where multiple reasons for the mutiny, however the main cause was the leadership style of Captain Bligh. He was viewed as a tyrant on the ship, acting more of a dictator than a leader. The second-in-command, Fletcher Christian had a participative or facilitator type leadership style that caused conflict. The different styles often caused strife among the two men, ultimately leading to the munity. (The Bounty 1984) This paper discusses the comparison and contract of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian leadership styles. The Leaders The two main characters of the voyage are Captain Bligh and his second –in-command, Fletcher Christian. The trip to the Tahiti was one of difficulty in regards to overcrowding, lack of food or water; also what the crew considers the tranny of Captain Bligh. The stay on the island was beneficial to the crew as they enjoyed the tropics and became friendly with the natives, especially with the women. Upon the...
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...ACT ONE: 1 EXT. SKY – DAY 1 It is a deep clear blue sky with the just the slightest wisp of a cloud in the distance. We hear the voice of a YOUNG MAN as he intones the words . . . YOUNG MAN (V.0.) In the beginning, there was the brilliant star of heaven in the bright desert sky . . . There is an incredibly loud Thoomp! like someone pulling their thumb out of a bottle. A flaming ball appears in the sky leaving a white vapor trail behind it as it plummets to Earth. The burning eyes of our narrator, the Young Man, look up into the sky and watch the descent of the flaming ball. 2 EXT.DESERT - DAY 2 Our view moves down from the sky to the blistering hot sands of the desert shimmering in the midday sun. The flaming bail disappears in the distance in a silent puff of dust. The wind blows away the dust and whistles across the barren expanse of desert. The Young Man’s eyes peer way into the distance at the rippling horizon. There is a black spot. It’s a person . . . The Young Man’s eyes widen. From the wasteland a figure appears. It is a man standing very straight with his chin thrust forward . . . He is DR. IVAN HOOD, D.O., a tall, well-built, 32-year-old man with sandy windblown hair. He wears the dirty white jumpsuit of an astronaut. On his breast...
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...Kennedy . . . Q2: Do you agree? Leaders are born, not made! This is the Nurture Vs Nature debate. There have been shifts in the balance of the debate towards Nurture (but is there now a swing back to Nature?) Q3: Can people learn to be good leaders? And, if so, what do they have to learn? Q4: Should we be trying to identify traits or should we be looking for effective ‘leadership behaviour’? - Leadership Style These two crucial dimensions: Task-orientation (concern for production), and People-orientation (concern for human relations) repeatedly emerge in any metric seeking to measure leadership style. Q5: What is the best leadership style? Captain Bligh: a leader in three different situations: 1) Captain of The Bounty 2) In charge of the open boat (life boat) en route to Batavia 3) As Governor of NSW during Rum Rebellion Q6: In which situations was Bligh successful? Q7: Is a person capable of more than one style of leadership? And, if so, what style should they use in what situation? Q8: When we say a leader is a successful leader on what evidence do we base that...
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...Music plays a vital role in the development of adolescents. Today, the genre of music that has dominated is “Dancehall Music”. Dancehall music is a genre of Jamaican popular music that is a sparser version of reggae. It is heard everywhere in public transport, homes, and on the road side. It also prompts the emotions, moods and behaviour of many of our youths. While the impact of dancehall music has its advantages on youth’s culture, it also has its disadvantages which carry a greater percentage on the youths of the 21st century. Imagine living in world where nothing seems right or the look on your parents face when they can’t provide food for the family to eat or money to send you and your siblings to school but somehow you manage to overcome these struggles and are kept motivated by the rhythm and beat of Dancehall music in your atmosphere. This scenario explains the positive influence dancehall music may have on our youths. According to Stanley-Niaah 2004,”dancehall music tells the story of a people’s survival and need for celebration of that survival against forces of imperialism and systems of exclusion through dance, music and attitude”. This genre of music helps our youths to find an identity in society as well as to encourage them to elevate themselves. Some lyrics of our dancehall artists uplift the youths in society and they often push them to be strong and never give up regardless of the situation. Some lyrics also stress the importance of education and encourage our...
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...Savageless Many would argue that hunting sends us back to our primitive days when we lived only on the land and everything was used for money. It is actually quite the opposite of what most believe. Hunting is a way of life for some people and the only way we know how to get by. Hunting is by no means savage and is vital to everyday life. Without the hunters in the country we would be over run by animal populations and would have many predatory animals living in suburb communities putting our wellbeing at stake. Many people do not realize how much hunting indirectly influences their way of life. The meat in the grocery store was made in a more savage way than hunting. Slaughter houses are highly inhumane towards aimals. Hunting at least gives the animal free will to do whatever it wants in the wild. At a slaughter house animals have no hope to live any amount of time, but in the wild the animals are able to experience their natural habitat and be happy roaming the woods as they please. Many of the people who are against hunting are not even vegetarians and eat meat from the store and they are completely ignorant to the fact that what they are eating is killed in a horrible savage way. I am in no way saying that eating meat from the store is a bad thing to do, but only that venison is a more humane way of eating. Not only is it more humane its healthier than proccessed meat and has a less chance of carrying harmful bacteria gained from meat proccessors. Not only does the meat...
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...White argues that humanity is in what he calls a “progress trap” which he explains “I came up with the term progress trap to define human behaviors that sort of seem to be good things, seem to be, to provide benefits in the short-term, but which ultimately lead to disaster, because they’re unsustainable.” Humanity as a whole has reached what is considered a “progress trap” many times already and is in the process of falling into deeper “progress traps” than ever with technology and our economics. In the past, as an example given by Ronald White, Hunting turned into a dead end when our ancestors were hunting to make their living. They went from killing one mammoth at a time and struggling to do so, to killing a whole heard of mammoths by running them over a cliff. This pushed them into a “progress trap”. These new hunting techniques had been great progress made, but made them into a dead end of hunting in general. After these new hunting techniques, there was no room for any new improvements. Similarly, a “progress trap” of today would be technology and lack of communication because of the extensive progress we have made. On a simple hand held devise you can search the web, contact people, check...
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...November 22, 2011 Deer hunting is a very demanding hobby. The one thing that everyone must keep in mind when hunting is your safety and the safety of others. The reason for this is that you are using a weapon that can cause serious harm to you or someone, but this is not what this essay is about. I want everyone to actually learn what it takes to be a hunter. Being a hunter takes skill and understanding how deer sense things. The first thing that comes to everyone’s mind when thinking about hunting is killing Bambie. This is not the way I think, because of how I was raised. I took up hunting at an early age. I would always go with my father. So, here is what I have learned about hunting deer. You, as a hunter have got to know where the deer are. This is the easy part. Just find some good land with a water source, and good food that they eat i.e. acorns, wild persimmons trees, apples trees, corn, clover, and winter rye. Scout the land after locating these, to see if you can find there bedding areas. Finding the bedding area is the hard part. Deer in general will bed down in areas where they feel protected. Like in open areas surrounded by thick brush, or in low lying areas. After finding these good spots look for trails leading to their food, and water sources. These trails are what will make you or break you when it comes time to kill that big buck. The trail usually will lead to natural pinch points in the land. This is where you want to be hunting at due to the high traffic...
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...deer. Hunting is not allowed and these animals manipulated very fast. The problem is how to control the deer population. Singer would want the best for the most amount of people; in this case “the people” are deer. Tom Regan may say that the animals have the same rights as humans. Either way the situation needs to be handled with respect to Singer’s and Regan’s views. Regan calls animals “subjects-of-a-life”. He also uses the same terminology for humans. Regan believes animals should have the same moral rights as humans. He believes an infant or a mentally retarded man should be treated the same as a normal person. However the death of an animal may not be as important to the death of a human being because fewer opportunities are lost. He looks at what a person could accomplish in his lifetime and compares it to what an animal could accomplish and the human overrules. These views can be challenged in the Quabbin reserve. We simply cannot kill the deer because they have rights. However the death of a deer is not equivalent to the death of a human. But I cannot justify killing hundreds of deer with Regan’s view. The deer are not harming us so it would be immoral to kill them. On the other side Peter Singer’s views differ a little bit. Going of the basic utilitarian idea "the greatest good of the greatest number" he wants animals to be included in this. Anyone who didn’t support this idea would be classified as a “Speciest” according to him. Singer would allow the hunting of deer...
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... From the beautiful tall oaks, to the large pine trees and their needles covering the spongy forest floor. There are beautiful green ferns, leafy vegetation, thickets and rock cliffs. There are so many wonderful things to see and hear in this forest, which provide a natural home and shelter for many animals to live. My experiences and memories of the forest and hunting have lead me to have mixed feelings about hunting which will be examined in the following paragraphs. Omnivore’s Dilema has brought back memories from home, and yes that is the back woods where I grew up. In many ways, it is quite easy for me to relate to the chapters written about hunting by Mr. Pollan. Hunting is something my father and my brothers enjoyed doing together. It wasn’t as much as a sport to them it was a necessity. Actually it was our meat source for our daily meals. There were lots of different game to hunt; deer, rabbit, squirrels and turkey to name a few. Fishing in the streams was usually plentiful netting us big fish and turtles. Ortega Y. Gasset, the Spanish philosopher, who writes in his Meditations on Hunting, “One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have PERSONAL: THE FOREST...
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...Yogi bear is a playful and fun bear that lives in the wild. This bear is known for stealing picnic baskets on a daily with his good companion BOBO. The best thing about yogi bear is that he is very considerate and when he gets caught he likes to say I like picnic baskets And also yogi bear like to have fun with the children at the parks. He enjoys doing whatever he wants . I wish that I could be like yogi bear one day. Get free food and become one with nature. Yogi bear is a playful and fun bear that lives in the wild. This bear is known for stealing picnic baskets on a daily with his good companion BOBO. The best thing about yogi bear is that he is very considerate and when he gets caught he likes to say I like picnic baskets And also yogi bear like to have fun with the children at the parks. He enjoys doing whatever he wants . I wish that I could be like yogi bear one day. Get free food and become one with nature. Yogi bear is a playful and fun bear that lives in the wild. This bear is known for stealing picnic baskets on a daily with his good companion BOBO. The best thing about yogi bear is that he is very considerate and when he gets caught he likes to say I like picnic baskets And also yogi bear like to have fun with the children at the parks. He enjoys doing whatever he wants . I wish that I could be like yogi bear one day. Get free food and become one with...
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