...movie, The Station Agent, I believe the main theme was isolation. Isolation was a factor that played for all three main characters; Fin, who isolated himself from society because of his appearance, Joe, who isolated himself from friends because of his father’s business and Olivia, who isolated herself after the death of her son and the separation from her husband. The only way isolation can be prevented for these three characters is for them to feel a sense of belonging. Finbar McBride, also known as Fin is a little person. He does not like socializing with others, instead he much rather enjoys being left alone. In the beginning of the movie, I begin to think that maybe Fin loves trains so much because it’s a way for him to hide behind them. At work, in the train toy shop, he stands behind shelves and desks, making him barely noticeable and even outside near the train tracks, he tends to explore underneath the train. This focuses the movie on him being behind the bigger picture most of the time. Fin enjoys being left alone and isolated because it seems to be the only time where he is not mocked or seen as an amusing feature at an expedition. When Fin’s friend passes away and gives him the railway house, Fin is more than happy with his inheritance because he believes that it’ll give him full privacy. After moving into the railway house, Fin finds out that privacy is the last thing he will be receiving in this small town. The barrier between...
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...Introduction - The fin whale population was wiped out due to commercial whaling in the 1800s and early 1900s. It was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Conservation Act, the predecessor to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), in 1970. Once the ESA was passed in 1973, the fin whale was listed as endangered throughout its range. It is also designated as depleted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Known for its ability to travel at speeds of almost 40 km/hour, the whale can be referred to as the “greyhound of the sea.” Whales are very important because they are at the top of the food chain and affect the overall health of the marine environment. The fin whale has been greatly affected by worldwide by commercial whaling. Background...
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...media about sharks because it is very biased information and not aimed at solving the problem or creating a long term solution, rather to evoke people’s fear of sharks and to make them more scared when swimming in our oceans. It is aimed at the general population of Australia and anyone who would go swimming or indulge in water- based activities in the ocean and along the coast. This is also targeting anyone who has ever eaten shark fin soup without a second thought of the suffering that was caused to make it. As an ocean lover and surfer, I strongly believe that shark finning and culling is an important issue relevant to society today. Most of the population has not been properly informed about the situation and I am here today to hopefully change your views on sharks. By the end I would like you all to see them in a different light and hopefully agree with me when I say that shark culling is unnecessary and inhumane and shark finning is barbaric and cruel. Shark finning, for those of you who are unaware, is the removal and retention of shark fins and then the discard of the carcass into the ocean. The shark is almost always alive when it is tossed back into the water. Unable to swim, the shark slowly sinks toward the bottom where it starves to death, is eaten alive by other fish, or drowns. Can you all just take a moment to imagine if humans weren’t the tops of the food chain, if we didn’t have total dominance over every other living thing on this Earth. Imagine if...
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...Posteriorly, it receives blood from pelvic fin, anteriorly, it collects blood from pectoral fins and forms a subclavian vein which enters the ductus cuvierius laterally. (iv) Cutaneous system – *The cutaneous system consists of a dorsal, a ventral and two lateral cutaneous veins. *The inferior lateral cutaneous vein joins with the lateral cutaneous vein near the anterior end of the pectoral fin. *Each lateral cutaneous vein lastly opens into the brachialvein. *These collect blood from their respective parts of skin and finally pour it into the sinus venosus through ductus...
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...Hammerheads, Tiger Sharks, Whale Sharks, Great White Sharks, Shortfin Mako Shark, and many tropical reef sharks. The decrease of shark populations has already had devastating effects on local coastal communities. Two of the world’s largest fish are on the endangered list. The Whale Shark is listed as vulnerable for extinction. They migrate seasonally and are targeted by commercial fisheries. Whale sharks feed on krill and plankton so they do not harm humans, the most harm one could face would be to get struck by its massive caudal, tail, fin. Whale Sharks are beneficial to many tropical reef areas. In addition, the Basking Shark is also listed as vulnerable. These are the second largest living fish left. They are found in all the worlds’ temperate oceans and are a harmless, slow moving, filter feeder just like the Whale Shark. Basking Sharks have a very unique mouth cavity and is a sight to see. They are commercially fished for food, fins, animal feed, and their liver oil. Even peaceful, non-threatening shark species are at risk of extinction because of human greed. Reasons for Declining Populations Sharks have been around since the time of dinosaurs...
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...The Adidas Predator AdiPower Predator (Left) Predator Lethal Zones (Right) AdiPower Predator The adidas Predator was created in 1994 by an Australian footballer called Craig Johnston who played for Liverpool Football Club. He made a prototype of the boot spending his own money and time working so hard on this boot, which changed the industry completely. He created this boot because back in Australia when he was coaching the younger generation of footballers. He told them what they needed to do to strike the ball better. But the kids could not do anything because the boots were made of leather and it was too slippery. That was then he had one of the greatest ideas of his life. He went home he tore off the rubber on his tennis racket and glued it on to his football boots, he went outside and tested the boot and it seemed the rubber worked a lot better than the leather. Adidas found out about his Idea and called it the Adidas Predator. The first and Original Predator was made in 1994 with the use of rubber in front of the boot. The rubber is for the shooting based on curve and accuracy, this design was never seen before and so this boot caught the attention of football fanatics and it resulted in a very innovative and creative boot the color of the first Predator was the color of black. A year later in 1995 the Adidas Rapier was released with a different color of red/black/white. The structure of the rubber fins were re-created to have better ball control and also had...
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...SYNOPSIS The Story of Tom Brennan by J.C. Burke starts with a fatal car accident – a young driver who’s had too much to drink goes too fast and in an instant two of his friends are dead and his cousin is left with permanent spinal injuries. But the book isn’t about the car crash; it isn’t even about the driver. This is a book about seventeen-year-old Tom Brennan, and how his life changes when his older brother, Daniel, kills two people and paralyses another. While their cousin Fin lies in hospital, unable to move, Daniel goes to jail and the Brennans are forced to move towns – they’ve become the victims of a small town’s prejudice against the family of the boy they saw as ‘an accident waiting to happen’. The residents of Mumbilli are so hostile following the tragedy that they are open in their desire that Daniel receive a severe sentence. ‘They’re saying that Daniel’s going down and that he deserves everything he gets’ (p. 108). The family must move from Mumbilli because they are no longer welcome in the town – Daniel’s actions have affected all their lives. Because they fear the reaction of the township, they leave quietly at 4.30 am. J.C. Burke uses their escape as a prologue, which lures the reader immediately into the story as a sense of mystery develops. Starting again in a new town and at a new school, how can Tom even begin to rebuild his life when his mother won’t get out of bed, his father is struggling to hold the family together, his sister is threatening to spill...
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...GRE vocabulary Flash review 7031_ GREVOC_ Flash Review[FIN].indd 1 5/10/11 2:55 PM Other Titles of Interest From LE ARNINGEXP RESS EMT Flash Review 7031_ GREVOC_ Flash Review[FIN].indd 2 5/10/11 2:55 PM GRE Vocabulary Flash review ® New York 7031_ GREVOC_ Flash Review[FIN].indd 3 5/10/11 2:55 PM Copyright © 2011 LearningExpress, LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data GRE Vocabulary flash review. — 1st ed. p. ; cm. ISBN- 978-1-57685-781-6 1. Vocabulary—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Graduate Record Examination. I. LearningExpress (Organization) PE1449.G656 2011 428.1—dc22 2010053646 G RE V OCABULA RY Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition For more information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 2 Rector Street 26th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com 7031_ GREVOC_ Flash Review[FIN].indd 4 5/10/11 2:55 PM Contents INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . vii About This Book. . . . xiii A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 45 57 87 E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 G . . . . ...
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...clothing and gear that we wear. All divers wear something called a wetsuit. A wetsuit is a tight fitting piece of clothing usually made of neoprene or other types of spandex which we wear while diving to keep us warm. The deeper we dive the colder the water gets that’s why a wetsuit is needed to help combat hypothermia. Another piece of material culture that we use is our fins and mask. Our fins are things we put on our feet to help us move quickly and efficiently beneath the surface. Just like the fins of fish and other aquatic mammals, our fins are flat and sometimes are split down the middle to increase speed. In addition to our fins we also need to wear a mask that covers our eyes so that we can see. Without this there is no point to scuba diving at all because we won’t be able to see any of the interesting things beneath the surface. But the two key parts of our material culture is our BCD (Buoyancy control device) and our air tank. The BCD is where we attach our rebreathers, breathing tubes with mouth pieces, weights to keep us below the surface, and gauges to help us measure how much air we have left and how deep we...
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...are they really meaningless to us? Animals are creatures just like us. They show affection, they have fears, and they breath. Isn’t that what we do? Like humans animals have rights to live peacefully, and not become rugs or coats. When coming into a neighbors house when I was younger, I was appalled when I saw the tiger rug, the moose head on the wall, and the grizzly bear that stood right behind the TV with glassy eyes, and an opened mouth. Those animals had lives, they had children, but somehow people just came out and murdered them, like they had no feelings, and they felt to pain. Yet, looking into that bear’s eyes that day I saw the pain, with its mouth opened wide bearing its gleaming teeth, trying to defend itself. What I realized about the neighbor boy was, he didn’t care about animals. He acted like they were his and his dad’s to kill. He didn’t think that they could really have a heart, or a mind. That is what most humans succeed to miss, that animals aren’t so different after all. Ever since the dawn of humans animals have been harmed and treated unfairly. Most countries have laws that prevent animal fighting and abuse. In India Buddhist and Hindus are vegetarians for ethical reasons. Since the mid nineteen-hundred’s people have become more aware of animal rights and many books concerning the ethical treatment of animals has been published. Now there is “No fur Fridays” or “World farm animal day” but that does not solve the continuous abuse and...
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...The Japanese market has consumers to which are mostly traditional in not purchasing the latest and greatest so they can keep up with the Johnsons or Lees I guess for Japanese version. The Japanese market is that of what people need to survive instead of the American market to which is to buy all the nice things you can afford so you can enjoy the finer things in life. Japanese people also do not earn as much money as American people do for the same classes. Middle class in America earns somewhere in the midst of $75,000 to $150,000 a year per household to which is considered doing pretty well. The typical middle class of a Japanese household can accumulate $5,000 to $15,000 and be considered middle class by Japanese standards. Then there is the whole ethnocentrism issue of past wars and conflicts creating consumer whom may be interested in products for other countries but because of the past conflict do not buy. A good example from the book would be this “Other evidence suggests that some older American consumers, in remembrance of World War II, still refuse to purchase German- and/or Japanese-made products, whereas some German and Japanese consumers may feel similarly about American-made products.”(Consumer Behavior 2010) When the American Army changed its uniform headwear to the beret the government purchased Chinese berets for the soldiers to wear and the soldiers were opposed to wearing berets from a country to which we were in past conflicts with and had different...
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...FIN 515 Managerial Finance Entire Course https://homeworklance.com/downloads/fin-515-managerial-finance-entire-course/ FIN 515 Week First Course Project FIN 515 Week Second Course Project FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set Answer the following questions and solve the following problems in the space provided. When you are done, save the file in the format flastname_Week_1_Problem_Set.docx, where flastname is your first initial and you last name, and submit it to the appropriate dropbox. Chapter 1 (page 19) 1. What is the most important difference between a corporation and all other organizational forms? 2. What does the phrase limited liability mean in a corporate context? 3. Which organizational forms give their owners limited liability? 4. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of organizing a firm as a corporation? 5. Explain the difference between an S corporation and a C corporation. Chapter 2 The following is provided for use in answering the next set of questions. You may also find table 2.5 on page 53 of your text and all questions on pages 56–57. 29. In fiscal year 2011, Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) had revenue of $11.70 billion, gross profit of $6.75 billion, and net income of $1.25 billion. Peet’s Coffee and Tea (PEET) had revenue of $372 million, gross profit of $72.7 million, and net income of $17.8 million. a. Compare the gross margins for Starbucks and Peet’s. b. Compare the net profit margins for Starbucks and Peet’s. c. Which firm was more...
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...FIN 515 Managerial Finance Entire Course https://homeworklance.com/downloads/fin-515-managerial-finance-entire-course/ FIN 515 Week First Course Project FIN 515 Week Second Course Project FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set Answer the following questions and solve the following problems in the space provided. When you are done, save the file in the format flastname_Week_1_Problem_Set.docx, where flastname is your first initial and you last name, and submit it to the appropriate dropbox. Chapter 1 (page 19) 1. What is the most important difference between a corporation and all other organizational forms? 2. What does the phrase limited liability mean in a corporate context? 3. Which organizational forms give their owners limited liability? 4. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of organizing a firm as a corporation? 5. Explain the difference between an S corporation and a C corporation. Chapter 2 The following is provided for use in answering the next set of questions. You may also find table 2.5 on page 53 of your text and all questions on pages 56–57. 29. In fiscal year 2011, Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) had revenue of $11.70 billion, gross profit of $6.75 billion, and net income of $1.25 billion. Peet’s Coffee and Tea (PEET) had revenue of $372 million, gross profit of $72.7 million, and net income of $17.8 million. a. Compare the gross margins for Starbucks and Peet’s. b. Compare the net profit margins for Starbucks and Peet’s. c. Which firm was more...
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...the land of the ocean. This, right now, is an experience that I will never forget, but similarly, will never experience something like this ever again. In other words, I am snorkeling, not in California or Florida, but in Hawaii. Roughly 0.3 miles off the coast of the island Kauai, I float atop the water in awe of the world I live in; it is amazing in every way. This is something I have never experienced before, as I live far away, in Colorado, USA; mountains to ocean. After taking a sizeable breath, I then peered underwater. There were fish and coral beneath me, of all different colors: blue, red, orange, yellow, purple,...
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