...Dinner Party I walked out into my dinning room where I had been mulling over the table all day. I wanted everything to be just so. I glanced at the place settings for the hundredth time, trying to decide if I should sit Alfred Zingale and Matthias Arndt next to each other. It wasn’t that I was worried about conflicting views, actually it was quiet the contrary, and I didn’t want them to be able to double team the other guests. Finally I decided that just because they have essentially the same opinions, I wouldn’t separate them. In my mind they come as a unit because they had co-authored a book. The place cards had been set and I made up my mind that I would do no more rearranging. I bent over the table in my grey sleeveless dress and lit the deep red candles that were extending upward out of the floral arrangement. The guests would be arriving soon and I began to think over the whole situation. Each person has written a book about the dot com industry, how they can be successful as well as how to invest wisely in one. I was hoping to learn a lot of information so I could make a good decision on whether my company would benefit from being online. These thoughts drifted through my head until the doorbell rang. I opened the door to a short plump woman with reddish brown hair in her late 40’s was standing on my stoop. She wore a pale green dress suit, but looked quite attractive. She extended her arm, shook my hand and introduced herself as Anita Rosen. As the only woman...
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...Josef Mengele University of Phoenix Abstract: An overview of Josef Mengele, a man who became known as the “Angel of Death” for what he did to prisoners in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Germany during WWII in his quest to create a superior race of people for his superior; Adolf Hitler. Included is also how Mengele mistreated the Hippocratic Oath for preventing harm to people and ways in which he did mistreat his power and how he escaped imprisonment before the war ended and where he continued performing experiments even after he eluded capture and found refuge in Brazil until his death in 1975. Josef Mengele Although he was not part of the Nuremberg Trials, this man was responsible for everything preceding the trials. He developed the experiments that would become known as the crimes against humanity in which the Nuremberg Trials were started. This man was nicknamed the “Angel of Death” because of the cruel and bizarre experiments he did on humans in concentration camps during the reign of Hitler in Germany. The real name for this “Angel of Death” was Josef Mengele. He was responsible for performing experiments on people in the Auschwitz concentration camp and other camps in which he had access. Mengele would then report his findings back to Hitler and continue his work without remorse. It was as though Mengele enjoyed destroying life and by the time the Nuremberg trials started, Mengele had fled the country and continued his brutal experiments. He...
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...Insight on Hip Hop and Classic Rock LaToya Annette Jones COM 170 September 7, 2013 Daniel Compton Insight on Hip Hop and Classic Rock “Where words fail, music speaks.”-Hans Christian Anderson This quote by Hans Christian Anderson speaks volume. It sums music up as a whole. These two music genres shed light in areas for the young and old. A lot can relate to the experiences artist speak about. When people can’t use their own words, music says it all. Two music genres that are viewed by a lot of individuals today are Hip Hop and Classic Rock. Researching articles on these two genres has given insight to what was unknown. Classic Rock developed in the late 1940’s. Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Elvis Pressley introduced this Genre. Classic Rock evolved in the United States and stemmed from a combination of various music genres. Those music genres that Rock stemmed from were blues, African-American genres, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music. Elvis Pressley who is an inspiring rock artist added his own twist to rock music by adding a fast paced upbeat sound and gave rock music life. Hip Hop was formed in the early 1970’s. Artists such as James Brown, Grand Master Flex, Afrika Bambaataa, Fab 5 Freddy, and DJ Hollywood were one of the first to introduce Hip Hop. The origin of this music genre stemmed from block parties of the Ghetto Brothers. It was stated that the Ghetto Brothers used to plug their instruments and amps up for these parties and enjoy themselves. An artist...
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...by fame. Crane makes use of Symbolism through his characters, such as Henry, and the environment in which these characters are placed in. Through the use of Symbolism, Crane is introducing and informing the readers about the concept of Naturalism in such a subtle yet effective manner. Crane’s novel is filled with symbolism, take the title for example. Back in that time period, Civil War solders used the term red badge to describe a blood stain or wound attained through battle (McDermott). It was a symbol of courage, which is part of the reason why Henry wanted a wound so badly; he wanted to be seen as valiant to other Union solders. Henry’s wish did eventually come true, but that is where the irony lies. As it turns out in later in chapter 12, Henry receives an accidental head wound from his own fellow Union Solder after fleeing from battle....
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...COM-120 February 16, 2014 Intercultural Communication Paper I chose to write about the movie Avatar. Avatar is a science fiction movie set in the 22nd century. The film's title refers to a genetically engineered Na'vi body with the mind of a remotely located human, and is used to interact with the natives of Pandora. The story centers around a paraplegic marine named Jake Sully. Jake’s twin brother was a scientist on the planet Pandora, and part of an avatar program. When his brother died, Jake was offered his job, as he had the same DNA match up as his brother’s avatar body. Shortly after arriving, he is asked by the greedy corporate figureheads, Parker Selfridge and Colonel Quaritch, to infiltrate the native humanoid "Na'vi" people of Pandora and negotiate the surrender of their sacred tree home because there was a huge unobtainium mine worth a lot of money under the tree. If Jake agrees and is successful, he will get a spinal surgery that will fix his legs. When Jake took his brother’s job, he did not know anything about Pandora and its people. The Na’vi were a ten-foot-tall, blue-skinned native tribe, considered to be a very eco-friendly, living off the land, and only taking what they needed to survive. In addition, The Na’vi were a peaceful civilization. They did not fight amongst themselves, but worked together to grow as a whole. As Jake learned the language and culture of the Na’vi aliens, he grows to love them, and in turn, falls in love with the beautiful...
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...English Project By Simba Gurure Narrative The Amazing Goats In the land of Bahh, there was a smart goat, named Tom. Tom was different from the other goats in Bahh. Most of the other goats didn’t like to discover, invent, or build, while he did. One day there was a science-show in Bahh. Tom was so excited, that he called his brother, Mot, to compete with him. Tom was thinking, so he could find an idea for the show. Finally, Tom came up with the idea to build a teleporter. It took him 5 days to build it. Tom tested it out with a toy car. He first pressed a button that said go. Then out of nowhere, the teleporter began to rattle and shake and the car disappeared. To did not know where the car went, so there was only one way to find out. Tom called Mot to go in the teleporter with him to discover where it takes them. Mot came to go in the teleporter. When they pressed the go button, they screamed and found themselves in a very dark place. There where no people or animals it was just silent. Tom and Mot were scared, but they still had the courage to explore. They walked for about seven miles and they found a city called The Negative Zone. In the Negative Zone there were robots. Tom and Mot were so scared that they ran. When they ran the robots chased them and caught them. They put them and caught them. They put them in jail for no reason. Tom and Mot had to figure out a plan to get out of jail. They thought the robots liked the music so much they let Tom and Mot go....
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...Write an essay (500-700 words) in which you analyse and interpret Polly Clark’s short story “Reconciliation”. Your essay must include the following points: - - - A characterization of the narrator. The narrators relationship with her husband Comment on the point of view. Remember that when you analyse you need quotes from the text to show where you find your arguments. And these must be written in the essay like this: “jogiue oghoeih ngfoeiht” (line and page). Side 8 af 11 sider B Folly Clark Reconciliation g It’s my first day. I cycled here in my trainers and I have forgotten my shoes. It’s a buildin so I’ll like a pile of cardboard boxes. My trainers definitely will look weird with my skirt, if they don’t mind if I walk in bare feet. tell them that my feet hurt and it will be better I hurt my feet... mountaineering, I’ll say. It’s cold and raining. A thirty-foot Christmas tree draped in lights rears in front of the main entrance, but it doesn’t cheer the place up. Mountaineering? asks the fat girl in personnel doubtfully. Yes, I say, in Scotland. I don’t elaborate. [. .1 I’m posted on the third floor: credit control. It’s a bunker in hazardous beige. The soles like cars in a jam, each io of my feet toil across the industrial carpet. The desks are lined up ter keys with a driver who never looks up. There’s no sound except the clicking of compu tinsel has been wrapped around the and my feet, flailing across the carpet. Here and there, edges of desks and...
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...the Night Imagine for a minute, you’re walking through the forest at night on the eastern fronts of Australia. As you’re walking you catch a glimpse of something that seems to be flying overhead. Naturally, your first thought would be, it must be a bird or maybe even a bat. Just as you think this you catch another glimpse, but this time you can see that it doesn’t appear to be flapping any wings, and looks almost square in shape. What is this thing? Where did it come from? Is it going to hurt me? These creatures of the night resemble flying squirrels and are better known as Sugar Gliders. These creatures of the night are also becoming more noticeable in homes across the United States as cute pets. Most people have never heard of a Sugar Glider before and didn’t even know you can keep them as pets. So, what is a Sugar Glider? And how do you take care of one? The scientific name of a Sugar Glider is Petaurus breviceps; which, if broken down into it Latin roots, means Short-headed Rope-Dancer. They get their name Sugar Glider from two different aspects of their life. They love to eat sweet foods, such as: fruits, nectars, and saps, which hint at the first part of their name Sugar. The second part is probably even easier to see and understand, Glider because they’re very agile and acrobatic in the air. The can spread they’re arms and legs to produce a very thin skin membrane called Patagia. Their patagium, when fully spread, allows them to glide upwards of 50 meters which is the...
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...Avoiding the Uninsured 1. Running head: AVOIDING THE UNINSURED Avoiding the Uninsured How City Hospitals are Giving Up on the Poor Gerard Molnar Keller Graduate School of Management Health Service Systems HS541 Dr. Nancy Borkowski February 21, 2010 Avoiding the Uninsured 2. How City Hospitals are Giving Up on the Poor On a sunny, unseasonably warm autumn day in September of 2008, twelve individuals, seven women, five men picked up a dozen shovels in a field in New Lenox, IL and drove them into the ground. Thus the $400 million 289-bed state-of-the-art Silver Cross replacement hospital at Route 6 and Clinton Road was born. Silver Cross Hospital has, in fact been around since 1892 in nearby Joliet just five miles north up Interstate 55. At the ceremony, Dr. Daniel Gutierrez, Chairman of the Silver Cross Board of Directors used the original shovel that broke ground for the current hospital back in 1892 and in doing so he mixed Joliet soil with that of New Lenox soil forever linking the hospital’s past with that of its future (Village of New Lenox, 2008). So why would you, after serving a community for 118 years, suddenly pack up and move only five miles down the road? All the officials at the groundbreaking ceremony that day said all the right things. Silver Cross President and CEO Paul Pawlak said, Not many hospitals have the opportunity to build a brand new facility, but Silver Cross is not like other hospitals. The culture of Silver Cross is the spirit of “can...
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...Let's Go Fishing Iris Ritenour Com/155 November 30, 2013 Erin Fuller Let's Go Fishing It is always an exciting time when going deep sea fishing. Some people regard fishing as an old man’s sport. People have been captivated by the sea since the beginning of time, and of catching fish since around the same time. The sport has grown hugely in many ways, yet has stayed the same in many aspects. Imagine looking at the ocean as a slick plate of glass when it is calm, or it can be a very dangerous place if a storm decides to get it riled up. Fly fishing, on the other hand can be a relaxing adventure. Although it takes skill to cast a fly rod, a sharp eye to find the fish, a special hand to convince the fish to take the feathery lure, and quite possibly some fast reflexes to hook the fish, if you get that window of opportunity. If you do not get it right, you can watch your fish majestically swim away as he spits out the feathery hook, and you reel the line in as gracefully as you cast it out. Although deep sea fishing and fly fishing are similar as sports, they differ concerning equipment, locations, and types of fish. For those of you interested in fishing, but are not so lucky at it, there are some guidelines you may want to try. The first important thing you should know is that the equipment you use is very important. “You would not want to “bring a knife to a gunfight,” because it wouldn’t be prudent.” ("Fishing." 123HelpMe.com. 13 Nov 2013 <http://www...
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...A Day in the Life of Karl “PopEye” Lux; One Hundred years after. Karl W. Lux Kaplan University Under the instruction of Professor, Ken Caron My, oh my, what a wonderful day! First let me explain, it is Friday the thirteenth, and it is a full moon as well. It doesn’t get much rarer than that to start, so on this special day I commemorated it with a Full moon Friday the thirteenth tattoo; yes I am tatted, and pierced. I also lived in the Southern California area, and so, far as the weather, it was a perfect eighty two degrees with forty four percent humidity, and a slight breeze; sans clouds. A bit about myself, I am fifty one as of just two weeks prior to this writing, and in my second term of college. I have been forced into a career change due to a back injury. So, at this time I am going for a BS in Legal Studies, and working just part time to help pay the bills. Because of being back in school, most of my days were spent doing class work and doing cleaning and chores around the house; to keep me up and moving too. An average day for me, would always start off by feeding my dogs, and then feeding my face too. After that I will check my class white board that I have up, to see what I have on schedule for the day. I have recently realized a talent and passion for writing; so every day I would do a bit of writing just to stay sharp. So daily I could be found sitting in my writing studio hammering down on the keyboard of my computer. Through...
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...Focused Brands are More Powerful Branding Principle #4: Differentiation is Key Branding Principle #5: The First Brand Advantage Branding Principle #6: Avoid Sub-brands at All Cost Branding Principle #7: Perception vs. Quality Branding Principle #8: Be Consistent and Patient Branding Principle #9: Write Out Your Brand Definition Discovering More Than Just Your Brand About the Author Table of Contents 2 Branding at a Glance By Greg Stine President of Polaris, Inc. The success of a product, service, individual, business, organization, or even a city is based on being perceived as unique. Look at any market leader and you’ll find they each own a place in the consumer’s mind. They have positively differentiated themselves from the rest of the competition. Branding is creating that individual niche in the consumer’s psyche and owning it. More than just marketing, branding is the entire effect that creates a memorable identity. A successful branding program is also based on differentiating yourself as unique. Effective branding creates a perception that there is no other product, service, organization or community quite like yours. Whether the distinction is a result of function, form, ease of use, price or prestige, the consumer believes you offer something exceptional. For example, factors affecting the brand of an organization can be both tangible and intangible, including office décor, personnel attire, organization philosophy, product/service quality...
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...Propaganda, Media, and the Making of a President August 27, 2010 COM/220 Propaganda, Media, and the Making of a President August 27, 2010 COM/220 Propaganda, Media, and the Making of a President Dr. Joseph Goebbels Dr. Joseph Goebbels The use of propaganda is as popular today for swaying public opinion as it was from 1933 to 1945 in war ravaged Germany. If Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels were alive today, he would be proud to see his propaganda machine being utilized by the U.S. Government to manipulate the masses and used by political parties to elect presidents. From mass print to the “tenth great power” the internet, the persons in control manipulate the masses and systematically destroy our freedoms to truthful information. World War II Propaganda Poster World War II Propaganda Poster In 1938 Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, filled the airwaves with propaganda that led to absolute control of the mass media to the Nazi Party and its Propaganda machine. It was about control, if you control what the masses hear and see, then you control the masses. Goebbels referred to the radio as the “Eighth Great Power”. Through mass exploitation of the media, and control of incoming and outgoing information, propaganda stands as the most effective form of control over swaying public opinion. “Propaganda has been practiced since earliest times, but modern mass media has made it much easier to appeal to wide domestic and foreign audiences” (Hutchinson...
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...into this PDF has been no easy task; it is possible that the process has introduced errors or caused omissions. As a result, we make no guarantee about the accuracy or completeness of this version of the Vocabulary Builder. If you find an error or omission in this PDF, please check the original book and contact us so that we can fix the error or omission. Please check your local copyright laws before accessing this PDF. If you are serious about building your vocabulary, we highly recommend you try the popular vocabularybuilding program called Ultimate Vocabulary Want the ultimate vocabulary builder? Click www.write-better-english com/ultimate-vocabulary.aspx THE CENTURY VOCABULARY BUILDER BY GARLAND GREEVER AND JOSEPH M. BACHELOR NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. Want the ultimate vocabulary builder? Click www.write-better-english com/ultimate-vocabulary.aspx PREFACE You should know at the outset what this book does not attempt to do. It does not, save to the extent that its own special purpose requires, concern itself with the many and intricate problems of grammar, rhetoric, spelling, punctuation, and the like; or clarify the thousands of individual difficulties regarding correct usage. All these matters are important. Concise treatment of them may be found in THE CENTURY HANDBOOK OF WRITING and THE CENTURY DESK BOOK OF GOOD ENGLISH, both of which manuals are issued by the present publishers. But this volume confines itself to the one task of placing at your...
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