...Paper “Six Feet Under” The HBO drama Six Feet Under follows the lives of the fisher family. They run their family owned funeral home. Six Feet Under is a family oriented drama. The fisher family has just lost their father in a car accident. The pilot introduces the members of the family and shows the viewer how they grieve individually and as a family. Six feet under is a tragedy drama, because it deals with death, coping with it, and what comes after. Tragedy dramas force viewers to sympathize the family and relate to what they are feeling and dealing with. The Character architecture of Six Feet Under’s pilot episode is that of an ensemble cast. An ensemble includes a group of main characters as opposed to just one main character. Ensembles can follow one character more than the others, or change focus frequently like this episode of Six Feet Under did. Each character is different, they have different personalities, struggles, and aspirations. The episode changes focus from each of the two sons, to the mother, and to the daughter, who are all struggling to cope with their recent loss. Each member is struggling internally with decisions they have made and outside factors that are only made worse by the loss of their father. The pilot of Six Feet Under is a premise pilot. Premise pilots are first episodes in which a life changing event takes place which sets the tone for each of the characters’ lives and how the viewer will see them progress. The major event in Six Feet Under...
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...nighttime, so they are shrouded in darkness, just as the Lester’s light goes out. It’s also interesting to note how short a life flowers have, how they grow quickly and look beautiful for a short period of time, and then die just as quickly, wilting away. There’s also the fact that inside the house where they have flowers in vases in the house, they have red roses in them. Moving into the creative process of the writing of all of this, I move onto Alan Ball, who does not have a vast variety of well known works to choose from to frame my argument, he does have enough to draw substantial evidence from of a central theme or constant throughout his written work. His three most well known works are of course, American Beauty, the show Six Feet Under which ran from 2001-2005 and True Blood which ran from 2008-2014. Whether intentional or not, it seems that ball always has something to say through his writing about dead, about life, and how people keep on living, how they keep going in times of death. One can argue that American Beauty is about a man that has lost his passion for all things in life and then him getting that passion back to really start living again, and that certainly is part of it. But a big part of the film is taking a look at death, as well as the life/death dichotomy. In the DVD commentary to American Beauty, Alan Ball says that he has dealt with death before when he was nineteen years old and his sister died in a car crash. It gives you a sense that her...
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...interaction with surrounding environments. We recognize different low-level activities by measuring the user’s continuous weight distribution over the feet with twelve Force Sensing Resistor (FSR) sensors embedded in the insoles of shoes. Using the sensor data as inputs, a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier identifies up to eighteen mobile activities and a four-directional foot control gesture at approximately 98% accuracy. By understanding user’s present activities and foot gestures, this system offers a nonintrusive and always-available input method. We present the design and implementation of our system and several proof-of-concept applications. Overview: A person’s weight is not allocated symmetrically over the plantar. As the sole is not flat but arched, the weight mainly centers on the hallex, the first metatarse and the calcaneus. When sitting, the weight of a person’s upper body rest mostly on the chair and the weight on the feet is relatively small. When standing, the whole body’s weight is put evenly on both feet. Leaning left or right changes the weight distribution over the feet. When walking, the weight distribution changes with the pace; the weight on the front and rear part of the foot alternately increases and decreases because not all parts of the sole contact the ground at once. The changes in weight distribution on the feet reflect one’s activity, and different activities have different changes of weight distribution signatures. [pic] We observed people’s common...
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...* The aircrafts used in the movie are Propellers, Prop Planes and Jet Prop planes. Japanese planes such as: A. Mitsubishi A6M Zero-Sen * The Mitsubishi A6M Zero-Sen, or simply the Mitsubishi, were a single-seat fighters used in the first attack wave on Pearl Harbor's ships. The plane was also used as a bomber, with a 132-pound bomb under each wing. At the time of its creation, the Mitsubishi was considered the best of all Japanese aircraft. The maximum speed for this aircraft was 310 miles per hour and it was able to climb to 10,000 feet in less than 10 minutes. Mitsubishis had a wingspan of 39 feet and length of 29 feet. The Allied forces referred to this plane as "Zero" during the war. The plane was first conceived in 1937, and it was a primary aircraft for the Japanese until the end of World War II. B. Aichi D3A * The Aichi D3A airplanes were dive bombers and the principal planes of the Pearl Harbor attack. The Aichi aircraft manufacturing company first conceived this airplane model in 1936, and the Allies referred to the model as "Val." The plane carried one 550-pound bomb under the fuselage or two 130-pound bombs under each wing. The plane carried both a pilot and a gunner. The plane had a range of 874 miles and could fly at 281 miles per hour. The Aichi D3A airplanes were responsible for destroying more Allied ships than any other aircraft during the war in the Pacific. C. Nakajima B5N * The Nakajima B5N was a three-seater airplane, with the front...
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...commands of the ASF. Army posts located within these geographic areas were categorized as Class I installations and were placed under the commanding generals of service commands. Service command units, the local operating arms of each service command, carried out many of the command’s functions. For instance, at Camp Cooke, Service Command Unit 1908 of the Ninth Service Command operated the main Army post and its prisoner of war camp. The commanding officer of the POW camp reported directly to the post commander, who, in turn, answered to...
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...IN THE SPACE PROVIDED BELOW THE SIGN 1. DO NOT ENTER 2. RAILROAD WARNING 3. SIGNAL AHEAD 4. PEDESTRIAN CROSSING 5. SLOW MOVING VEHICLE 6. NO PASSING ZONE 7. YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY 8. STOP 9. CROSSROAD 10. REDUCTION IN LANES 11. MERGE 12. SCHOOL ZONE AND CROSSING 13. SIDE ROAD 14. NO ‘U’ TURN 15. ROAD CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE 16. NO RIGHT TURN 1. When you come to a stop sign, you must stop your vehicle: __ As close to the stop sign as possible. __ At a place near the intersection providing you come to a complete stop. __ At a marked stop line, before entering the crosswalk, or before entering the intersection if there is no crosswalk. 2. When headlights are required, they should be dimmed at least 500 feet before meeting and 300 feet before overtaking another vehicle. __ True __ False 1 3. When driving along the highway and the front right wheel of your vehicle runs off the pavement, you should: __ Quickly swing back onto the pavement at your normal speed. __ Grasp the steering wheel tightly and take your foot off the accelerator. __ Apply the brakes immediately and swing back onto the pavement quickly. 4. Most rear end collisions are caused by: __ Dangerous road conditions. __ The vehicle in front stopping too fast. __ The vehicle in back following too closely. 5. Which of the following is the single greatest factor in fatal motor vehicle accidents? __ Alcohol. __ Mechanical problems. __ Bad weather conditions. __ Bad road...
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...a. The parties are in court because of an incident that took place on May 222nd 1976, the plaintiff Howard Bettel who was 15 at the time and, six of his friends went inside of the defendant Ki Yam convince store that was located in a plaza at Metropolitan in Toronto. The group of boys were seen entering the establishment at 8pm and was seen playing on the pin ball machine, the defendant explains how the boys were mishandling the merchandise and was asked to leave the store. The plaintiff explains that he and his friends left the store voluntary. The plaintiff and his friends began to throw wooden matches onto the sidewalk which caused them to ignite, the front door of the defendant store was open the door which was on a curved hinge that attached...
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...Gabriel’s Conspiracy, 1800. Born prophetically in 1776 on the Prosser plantation, just six miles north of Richmond, Va., and home (to use the term loosely) to 53 slaves, a slave named Gabriel would hatch a plot, with freedom as its goal, that was emblematic of the era in which he lived. A skilled blacksmith who stood more than six feet tall and dressed in fine clothes when he was away from the forge, Gabriel cut an imposing figure. But what distinguished him more than his physical bearing was his ability to read and write: Only 5 percent of Southern slaves were literate. Other slaves looked up to men like Gabriel, and Gabriel himself found inspiration in the French and Saint-Dominque revolutions of 1789. He imbibed the political fervor of...
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...that every line of communication is open, communicated correctly, planning and all the follow-through from every level of management to every employee around the world that Pride International now known by Ensco employ and rely on a team effort to get their jobs done with success. INTRODUCTION Pride International also known as Ensco is the world largest drilling deep ocean oil rigging in the world. We will take a look at what they do, how the work and the meaning behind their beliefs to benefit the employees and the environment in which they work and try to maintain a healthy balance. PRIDE INTERNATIONAL OTHERWISE KNOWN AS ENSCO Pride International started doing business in 1966 in Alice, Texas and at that time only had six workover rigs operating. Later on in 1988 Debalk a subside of Pride International merged its offshore and went globally and stocking in the NASDAQ and with seventeen servicing well and acquired twelve more rigs and out branching to other parts of Texas and California and even started horizontally re-drill wells. In 1991 Pride International spread out again acquiring a total four hundred nine servicing wells, acquired twelve more rigs throughout Texas and bought out nine oil companies acquiring eighty-three more rigs from those companies that they had purchased. In 1991 Pride International turned into an incorporated business mainly because Kuwait Petroleum needed their emergency services to help fix the oilfield to flow once again due to the...
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...Canada, lies the little Oak Island where believed the treasure of Captain William Kidd was buried. The hunt for treasure on Oak Island has been going on for over two hundred years. In 1795, evidence of digging was first found by 3 young men. First they hit a platform of old Oak logs. At 93 feet they hit something hard-possibly a treasure chest. The next morning the shaft was found flooded with sixty feet of water. The miners dug 110 feet down. It was only 2 feet from the pit when tones of water burst through. In 1849 they recovered several links of gold chain. While the drilling was going on, someone noticed that the water in the pit was salty and rose and fell with the tide. So the men went in search of hidden inlet of the sea and they found tones of coconut fiber and eel grass on a stone floor which acts as a sponge to soak up and filter. The conduit fell 70 feet down filled...
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...* What tools were used? * What were the expectations? * What were the outcomes of the events; e.g., media coverage, public acceptance, goals achieved? * What vulnerabilities were recognized and mitigated after the event? Or, were they? What was the target/s? In 1993, a massive truck bomb ripped a hole almost 30 meters (100 feet) across the B-2 level of the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center's North Tower. The blast wave was so powerful that it penetrated five stories of the reinforced concrete building. In addition to causing structural damage, the explosion destroyed or heavily damaged hundreds of vehicles in the garage. That such a powerful explosion killed only six people is nothing short of a miracle, for the attackers had a goal of much more. On the morning of February 26th, 1993 World Trade Center was the target of a terrorist bombing when a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb was intended to knock the North Tower into the South Tower, bringing both towers down and killing thousands of people. It failed to do so, but did kill six people and injured 1,042. (history.com) The attack was planned by a group of conspirators including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj. They received financing from Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef's uncle. In March 1994, four men were convicted of carrying out the bombing: Abouhalima...
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...Volleyball History Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court under organized rules. * Founded by William G. Morgan * February 9th 1895 Holyoke, Massachusetts * Originally called mintonette * The game was designed to be a combination of basketball, baseball, tennis, handball. * First volleyball net was a tennis net, 6ft 6inches high. FIVB International Federation of Volleyball * This is the governing body for indoor, beach and grass volleyball located in Switzerland. * In 1964 volleyball officially became part of the summer Olympic Games. Volleyball Associations and Federations USVBA United States Volleyball Association AVP American Volleyball Professionals NPVA New Providence Volleyball Association BVF Bahamas Volleyball Federation CVC Caribbean Volleyball Championships NORCECA North Central American and Caribbean Confederation Aspects of the Game Volleyball is started with a serve. There are three types of serves: * Under hand * Over hand * Jump One chance to serve, five seconds to serve. Each team is allowed three touches before the ball is passed over the net. The touches are normally called bump, set, spike. There are three types of passes: * Under hand pass / bump * Over hand pass / set / flick * Spike / attack / kill Point System High School: first two sets...
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...TRANSLATING WORD PROBLEMS KEYWORDS |Addition |increased by | | |more than | | |combined, together | | |total of | | |sum | | |added to | |Subtraction |decreased by | | |minus, less | | |difference between/of | | |less than, fewer than | |Multiplication |of times, multiplied by ...
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...built. Did the slaves build the pyramids? Here, we are going to find out. “ The pyramids are remarkable not only for the great technical skill they demonstrate, but also for the concentration of resources they represent” (Craig 11). The pyramids were not all built and designed by the same people. The pyramids were built under the name of pharaoh, meaning the term “great house.” Djoser, a third dynasty king, was the first to build a monumental six-step pyramid of hard stone. Khufu was the son of Djoser was the leader in building the largest pyramid ever constructed, plateau of Giza. It is 481 feet high, 765 feet long on each side, and with the base covering 13.1 acrs. The pyramid is made of 2.3 million stone blocks averaging 2.5 tons each. Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure built the exact same three pyramids at Giza. Beyond that there are over 120 pyramids throughout Egypt. The workers who built the pyramids were Egyptians, not slaves, as many people do believe. Farmers lived in villages made for workers of the pyramids. They built the Pyramids while the nile was flooding. There are three burial chambers in or under the Great Pyramid. The first chamber was built under the Great Pyramid and it was no finish. This was then followed by the Queen's and Kings chambers. These pyramids were built to serve as tombs for kings and queens. After a ruler had passed away, his or her body was treated and preserved as a mummy. This was so the king and the queen had a place to pass in the after life...
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...Blue Whale Whales are separated into two groups, the baleen and the toothed whales. The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived on earth, including the dinosaurs. Baleen is made of keratin, the same material as our fingernails. They live in pods, they have two blowholes. The blue whale has about 2-14 inch thick layer of blubber. They are one of seventy-six species and are marine mammals. Blue whales grow up to about eighty feet long on an average, weighing about one hundred-twenty tons. The females are generally larger than the males; this is the case for all whales. The largest whale that was found was a female. She was ninety-four feet long weighing more than one hundred-seventy four ton. The head of the blue whale forms up to a quarter of the total body length. Compared to other whales, the head is very broad. The blue whale’s heart is the size of a small car and can pump almost ten tons of blood throughout the body. They have very small dorsal fins that are located near the fluke, or tail. Blue whales have long, thin flippers eight feet long and flukes that are twenty five feet wide. The blue whales skin is usually blue-gray with white-gray spots. The underbelly has brown, yellowish-gray specks. During the winter in the cold water diatoms stick to the underbelly, giving it a yellow to silver to sulfur colored sheen, the blue whale is nick-named Sulfur Bottom. Other names include Sibbalds Rorqual and Great Northern Rorqual. Blue whales like all baleen whales, are...
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