...Gavin Hammond has taken the stereotypical idea that it is always raining in Britain, and turned it into a photographic art project. He captured London’s landmarks reflected in puddles and wet pavements. He got the good idea following some bad luck; “I stumbled upon my first puddles rather than pedalling past it in a hurry. It began to rain as I approached the London Eye and a large flock of tourists were blocking my way. I hate to be in a crowd so I stared at my feet as I waited for them to pass. And beneath me, a beautiful reflection of one of the gondolas emerged from a puddle, like a vision from another world, a view of a parallel universe” The photographer was feeling disheartened when he first came across the idea of shooting reflections using puddles. This feeling has been represented by his images using a black and white effect to create a depressing mood, and the fact they were taken on a rainy day which allows viewers to create a vision the gloomy surroundings. I like the way in which the photographer has rotated the images so that the reflected subject is the right way up, and therefore the main focus of the image. This is unnatural as usually a reflection is upside down, so it’s interesting to look at them from this perspective. Gavin Hammonds images are beautifully clear; despite the use of a puddle to create a reflection, the mirrored image is undisturbed as he has managed to take them when the puddle was still and therefore there are so ripples. In order...
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...The town of Hammond, Connecticut declared towering pines a wilderness preserve in 1968. At one time, towering pines was a beautiful two hundred acre wilderness preserve. It was home too many 250 year old White Pine trees, dating back too the 18th century. The trees stood up too 150 ft. tall with walking trails laid out for tourists and residential people. The trees also stood as a scientist resource for Botanists and science students. When Towering Pines Charter was written in 1968, it stated: WHEREAS the residents of Hammond, Connecticut, have enjoyed the beauty and quiet of the area commonly called “Towering Pines” since the town’s establishment in 1814: WHEREAS: Towering Pines” has serves these same residents of Hammond as an important educational resource; WHEREAS “Towering Pines” has been Recognized as ecologically significant by respected authorities: WHEREAS on this day we celebrate not only our freedom as Americans but also those recourses hat renew us and thereby support our freedom; We, the residents of Hammond, Connecticut, Hereby decree “Towering Pines” a wilderness preserve to be maintained by ourselves, and not to be changed or altered by human hands, excepting the work necessary to the maintenance of its health and continued value.( 1968 Charter) After reading all of this it failed to mention on thing. It did not mention what should happen if the forest is destroyed because of a natural disaster. Before I finished reading all the interviews and content on “Towering...
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...Kate Bordley Writing and Inquiry Cole 6 December 2012 While watching a movie, we often don’t tend to observe some of the deeper meanings that are hidden within the use of themes and symbols. A movie that I saw for the first time, V For Vendetta, blew my mind when I started analyzing it deeper. The movie is based around the idea of social change and revolution. The main character, V, can only be considered a ‘terrorist’ despite the well meaning he has behind his actions. This movie has fans in great numbers due to our ability to relate with V. His charisma shows through making him seemingly charming and dramatic. The movie is a symbol of rebellion, the possibility of a simple idea changing the world. As I watched the movie, a theme of terrorism seemed to arise. V is made to be likable yet he is doing anti government actions and behaving in a way that we would usually be more resilient against and brutal towards. The idea that V is fighting against an all-controlling government helps us accept that V is technically a good guy, fighting for freedom like the United States. Another common theme throughout the film is lies and deception. The government shields the truth from the public, even though they know it couldn’t possibly be true. For example, when they lie about the blowing up of the statue in the beginning. The government continues to lie about the state of danger the country is in by showing inaccurate news reports of officers shooting their own peers who happened...
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...dominated the worlds cotton supply, it is easy to see why the justification of slavery as positive good, making it in their minds to be one of their foundations of liberty. In the document, Hammond Manual (1857), it dives into the depths of the business that was slavery on a plantation. Hammond outlines precautions taken for certain people, such as, pregnant and nursing woman to make sure labor on the plantation was at maximum capacity. This shows the reliance the South had on slavery in order to produce cotton, without it they would not be able to keep up with the rest of the world. For a superior Southern lifestyle to continue, slavery would have to continue to thrive. The Southern lifestyle emphasized good manners and graciousness, they did not want to become fast paced like Northerners. They sought to stick to the old South ways, without slavery allowing free labor, Southerners would have to begin to adjust to this fast paced life in order not to fall behind their counterparts to the North. Free labor put the South on the map, allowing them to keep up while maintaining a slower paced lifestyle. An example of the way the South was able to defend slavery with this was through the Mudsill Theory. This is outlined in the document, James Henry Hammond, “The Mudsill Theory” (1858), where Hammond claimed there was a dominant class and a “mudsill” class everywhere. This said that slavery was not just in the South, but due to their being a separation of a rich and poor class, the...
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...Most people receive the question,”Who are you?” at some point in time. Out of all those people that were asked this question, almost all of them will answer with their name, but that is wrong, they are more than a name, a label, a signature on a paper. The real answer is revealed in a conversation between Every Hammond and V from V for Vendetta: “‘Who are you?’ asked Every Hammond.’Who? Who is but a form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask,’ V replied.” The face is a mask used to cover one’s soul and the eyes are the only true way to see someone’s true colors, and as seen in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph and Jack are hidden behind their mask. We can see through their masks by staring deeply into the...
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...and Hammond, From Jurassic Park had a limited time before the park was opened to the public; however, all Malcolm, Hammond and Sal had an incomplete success and all involved death. It is important for the reader to know specific traits about a certain character so they can better understand the story. In this case, we have Sal who is stubborn, supportive and a “country girl by heart”. There are many instances in this story where Sal is stubborn. For example: Even though she knew her mother was dead, she didn’t want to believe it so she fled to Idaho to see her. To the reader, this might mean that she is more...
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...Product and Price The business that Hammonds Liquor is entering is the sale of alcohol. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the product and the pricing guidelines for which Hammonds Liquor will follow. The product itself will be various types of alcohol such as rum, vodka, tequila, and bourbon. There will be various sizes from a pint, a fifth, and a gallon offered of each type of alcohol. Hammonds Liquor will be selling vodka as one of the main products. The reason being that vodka is one of the highest selling alcohols due to the variety of different flavors that it comes in. The variety that is offered appeals to more people which in turns leads them to purchase new flavors to try. Hammonds Liquor will make sure to carry a variety of different flavors of vodka. The next brand of alcohol that Hammonds Liquor will carry is rum. The top two sellers in rum are Bacardi and Captain Morgan which Hammonds Liquor will carry. These two also are starting to offer different flavored types. Again the offering of different flavors seems to attract more of a variety of customers which in turns will hopefully drive up sales. Whiskey is the go to alcohol for the older folks in my neighborhood. The local favorites are Jack Daniel’s and Crown Royal. Based on conversation with a local competitor that is in the next town over, they sell more of the before mentioned whiskey than any other type of alcohol. This is one type of alcohol that Hammonds Liquor will focus in attempt to gain...
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...As stated earlier, the Hammond Organ was the first electronic instrument, though successful, was only targeted to the wealthy at the time. At the price point given, the general public was not able to own the first electronic instrument, this is where Constant Martin and the clavioline steps into play. In 1947, the clavioline was made, it was an electronic keyboard that contained separate amplifier and speaker units. The clavioline used a vacuum tube oscillator to produce a buzzy waveform, almost a square wave, which could then be altered using high-pass and low-pass filtering, as well as the vibrato. The amplifier also deliberately provided a large amount of distortion in its sound. With these innovations and the lower price point, the clavioline sold extremely well to the general masses. After the initial sales, several other companies such as Gibson and Selmar began producing various models of the clavioline which brought up the sales numbers and the number of people with an electronic instrument increased as well. All in all, the clavioline, like the Hammond Organ grandfathered in the use of electronic instruments,but on a much grander scale by having a mass production of...
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...Introduction The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry, written by Sue Annis Hammond, is an explanation of the principle of Appreciative Inquiry, which was introduced by David Cooperrider in the mid 1980’s. Appreciative Inquiry is an innovative way at dealing with organizational change, a contrast to traditional theories of change management, which follow a problem-solving model. One of the main responsibilities of today’s leader is to facilitate change, which is necessary for organizations to survive and thrive. Appreciative Inquiry is a unique tool to ensure that all members of an organization are aware of their roles in the process, intimately involved, and excited by the potential outcome. Summary In contrast with traditional change management theories which tend to focus on the negatives of a particular procedure or organization, Appreciative Inquiry focuses on the positive and what is working for the organization. By focusing on the positives, those who follow the Appreciative Inquiry model have “the confirmed knowledge, confidence, and inspiration that they did well, and will continue to do well with a heightened awareness of what works” (Hammond, 1998, p. 12). Appreciative Inquiry uses assumptions, or “the set of beliefs shared by a group, that causes the group to think and act in certain ways” (Hammond, 1998, p.13). According to THE THIN BOOK OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY BOOK REVIEW 3 Hammond, the longer a group shares a belief, the harder it is for them to identify...
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...delivering products to their distributors (Hammond, 1). Instead of distributing Barilla’s products based on the orders the distributors placed with the company, Barilla’s own logistics organization would determine the product quantities to distribute that would most effectively meet end-consumers needs. This in turn, would more evenly distribute the workload on Barilla’s manufacturing and logistics systems (Hammond, 1). Vitali hoped his innovative idea would solve the tremendous fluctuation that occurred from week to week in the number of Barilla dry products being ordered by the distributors. The extreme demand variability seriously strained Barilla’s manufacturing and logistics operations. Barilla’s highly automated manufacturing system was not designed to accommodate large fluctuations in demand nor, was it designed to accommodate sudden changes in demand or product. The manufacturing sequences of pasta production made it very difficult to produce particular types of pasta that had been sold out due to unexpectedly high demand. The temperature and humidity in the kiln had to be precisely specified for each size and shape of pasta and had to be tightly controlled to ensure that quality was maintained (Hammond, 3). This procedure limited the ability to rapidly shift production between different pastas. Different sizes of pasta were also made in different plants based on the variety of equipment required for pasta production (Hammond, 3). This limited Barilla’s production...
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...pounds, but also produced tobacco, rice, and sugar. The ones who had the task of the hard labor producing these crops were the slaves, but were also forced to do a vast variety of other tasks including cleaning, sailing boats, building houses, managing the labor of their fellow slaves, and even have sexual intercourse with their masters. The about to be mentioned documents express the tension that was granted for slavery between whites and blacks. James Henry Hammond ,was the governor of the state of South Carolina. as well as a slave owner. He wrote the “Letter to an English Abolitionist” in order to argue that slavery was good, and man should not fight it, in other words, he believes slaves should remain slaves, and masters should remain masters. Hammond said that there was nothing that could be done against slavery, and that it was similar to a disease, poverty, or deformity. He also states that slavery has been part of human nature and is actually acceptable, the southerners did what they believed was God’s Will. Hammond believed that Thomas Jefferson's statement “all men are created equal” was not right at all, because there have never existed a society without a variety of classes. White masters often had sexual relationships with their women slaves. One of the most notorious was Thomas Jefferson who engaged in sexual intercourse with Sally Hemings multiple times. Sally Hemings went to France with Jefferson (where Jefferson got her pregnant), she was a free woman who did...
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...Yang Yixuan BIS 339B Raissa Desmet 10/14/2014 This story happened in a tropical night. It talked about a white woman who killed Jeff Hammond and claimed that she was defending herself. There are two main female actresses in that movie. The first woman is called Leslie. She represents all the features that European women have such as beautiful, frail and transparent. The other woman is called Mrs. Hammond. Her husband was killed by Leslie. She is an Asian woman who wears a traditional headdress during the whole movie. My first impression of her is inscrutable because she always hides in the darkness and acted like a concealing woman which makes people hard to read. However, Leslie displays all her emotions on her face whenever she was happy or sad. I think the reason of this comparison is to make audiences understand the differences between European women and Asian women. First scene: The first scene I choose to analysis is the beginning part of this movie. It’s a really quiet tropical night. A round moon was hanging in the sky. All native Asian workers are asleep in their outdoor barracks which looks like really sample. They don’t have a good house as Leslie does. This represent that this tropical country haven’t reach the same level as European countries. Suddenly, these workers are awaked up by a gunshot. Leslie shouted Hammond four times until she run out all of the bullets. At first, my guess of this part is she must hate this guy so much. Otherwise, she couldn’t shoot...
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...Assessment of Non-acute Health and Social Services in Ponchatoula, Louisiana Laura K. Ogden Southeastern Louisiana University College of Nursing and Health Sciences School of Nursing NLAB 334 October 29, 2014 Assessment of Non-acute Health and Social Services in Ponchatoula, Louisiana The community assessed was Ponchatoula, Louisiana. The focus of the assessment was non-acute health and social services. The community-as-partner model was used as a guide in understanding how the different parts of Ponchatoula’s community make up its core, and to apply the steps of the nursing process (Anderson and McFarlane, 2011). The assessment was based on observations of the community, interview data from a nursing home director, and selected published data related to the healthcare and social services assessed. Assessment data was analyzed, and conclusions and inferences drawn from the analysis will be presented in the paper. Windshield Survey On October 28th at approximately 4:00 pm an observation of Ponchatoula was conducted while driving through the city’s limits. This survey was done to acquire an overall health assessment of Ponchatoula’s environment including buildings and people out and about. The city itself appeared dated as evidenced by the architecture, especially on E. Pine St. However, for being the age they are, the buildings appeared well kept with clean paint jobs. Sidewalks lined each side of E....
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...book report, as I was always fascinated by dinosaurs, as anyone would be. From watching almost the complete franchise of Jurassic Park to Jurassic World, and anticipating the new and upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which will release in the summer of 2018, I have never read any of the novels, but this one will be my first. Setting: Jurassic Park takes place in Costa Rica and Isla Nublar of 1990. Isla Nublar is a tropical island near Costa Rica, and where Jurassic Park and the dinosaurs are located. Characters: The major characters in Jurassic Park consist of, but are not limited to John Hammond, Dr. Alan Grant, Dr. Ian Malcolm, Dr. Ellie Sattler, and Tim and...
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...beliefs which causes the structure to be the way it is. From the article, the event where Google turned Palestine into a state by changing its name on its Palestinian homepage from “Palestinian territories” to “Palestine”, suggesting that they recognized the upgraded UN status. This action has caused a spark in the diplomatic row as it carries great symbolism (Hammond 2013). One of the pattern in the past is where the European Union (EU) ban the export of spyware technology by European companies to governments and countries such as Iran, this action by EU is getting others to be involved and not to complicit in human rights abuses(Hammond 2013). One of the systemic structures that can be seen in the article is globalization, and the cause of this event is mainly due to greater interconnectivity, sharing of social, economic and political issues in today’s world (Hammond 2013). All these have led to organizations develop a mental model, as they do not have departments looking at foreign policies, they assume that it is not in their circle of business to look into other issues except their shareholders and customers (Hammond 2013). • Besides that, the 11 Thinking Principles by (Senge et al. 1995) is also related to the article. According to (Senge et al. 1995),...
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