...The findings of the two ethnic identities tie loosely together by political statement as both rap groups produce music that is socio-political and expressing a certain viewpoint on politics depending on the ideals of both ethnic groups. Although, Assassin hold stronger views against the government, making statements that they are not slaves or puppets of the government. Whereas, Fabulous Trobadors focus more on their Occitan roots and patriotism of Occitan tradition. Despite having two different interpretations and ideas of French rap and what both parties could bring to the French music scene, both successfully created their own ideologies which developed different ethnic groups and socio-cultural circles. More so, the difference in the...
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...The Nature of Terrorists and Assassins Kevin Charles English Composition II Laura Carter November 13, 2013 Terrorists and assassins have been committing atrocities against innocent people throughout the world for hundreds of years. Their violent crimes have made headlines all across the world, and their attacks on society seem relentless. What is a terrorist and assassin, and why do they do what they do? A terrorist is a person, usually a member of a group that uses or advocates terrorism. An assassin is one who murders by surprise attacks, and is also someone who carries out a plot to kill a prominent person. They are both motivated by their beliefs, the will to terrorize the population of which they despise, and their political or personal agendas. The nature of a terrorist and assassin is sometimes considered to be acts of insane men trying to achieve a particular goal; their methods are known to have a drastic impact of society because of all the innocent people that are killed and hurt. Terrorist and assassins have had a major impact on society throughout history and definitely in the 20th century. They are said to be different in many ways but similar in some, and one thing they have in common is that their actions have the same effect on society. Terrorist’s and assassin’s actions are considered one of the most powerful influences in society because they are motivated by causing chaos and upheaval in society. Both parties believe in their cause and will stop at nothing...
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...playwrights and those of today use villains as a device to create diabolical plots and schemes for protagonists to overcome. But William Shakespeare didn’t just let the antagonist be easily beaten by the hero. One of his most notable villains is Richard in Richard III. Richard is a ruthless, ambitious character who would stop at nothing to gain the crown of England. Shakespeare’s definition of evil can be explored through this diabolical villain of the historical play Richard III by analyzing Richard’s actions and character traits. It is most notable within Richard III, that Shakespeare exaggerates Richards’s deformities;...
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...come forward. Most important of all, pieces of evidence such as photos and sound recordings were subjected to scientific analysis using the most up-to-date methods and equipment. The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) completed their investigation in 1979 and they finally came to a discrete verdict that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at Kennedy, one of which killed the president. A fourth shot was fired from the grassy knoll, which was contradictory to the statement printed by the Warren Commission 16 years earlier. They concluded that John Kennedy was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy. The investigation was ordered directly after the assassinations of two other major political figures; the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King and the President’s brother Robert Kennedy, in 1968. Naturally these incidents aroused immense suspicion and the American public started questioning why so many key US figures had been assassinated in the space of just four years, when previously this type of incident had been rare. The HCSA was interested in looking into the possibility that the assassinations were related. At the time there was also an increasing awareness of corruption and scandal within the government. The Watergate Scandal in 1974 involving President Nixon had clearly shown that American government was not entirely free of foul play. As a result...
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...Champions from which to choose. Players gain levels from killing the opposing team's Champions, controlled by other players or bots, and minions that regularly spawn and attack the other team's turrets, minions, and champions. In the classic game mode, the map is typically divided into "lanes", which are paths that spawned minions take, the "jungle", an area between lanes where neutral monsters spawn, and "bases", where players spawn and can purchase items. The primary map, Summoner's Rift, features three lanes, commonly referred to as top lane, where bruisers (partially damage, partially tanky) and tank type champions tend to go. Mid lane, where assassins and burst damage carries tend to go, and bot lane, where the ranged DPS (damage per second) carries and their supports tend to go. The jungle is sometimes considered a lane, where an assassin or tank champion tends to roam in order to collect buffs and assist in the other lanes freely. The player earns a small amount of gold every second passively, but can earn more by getting the last hit on minions, destroying enemy towers (referred to as turrets) that guard the lanes, neutral monsters located in the jungle, and killing enemy champions. With this gold, users can buy a variety of items to strengthen their champion for the duration of the game. On the classic Summoners Rift, Twisted Treeline, and Howling Abyss maps, the game is ended by destroying the enemy team's last structure on the map, called the "Nexus", from which minions spawn...
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...Textual Analysis Coursework Essay For this essay I shall be comparing Skyfall (2012) to Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011) both in the spy genre of films. I will be focusing on the way both films portray the differences in roles between male and female characters. I chose Skyfall from the 007 series; due to the fact M (Judi Dench) plays a more significant role within the film. It also takes a different approach on the character of Eve Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), as she is shown doing fieldwork alongside Bond (Daniel Craig) at the start of the film. Of course like any other Bond film, Skyfall also includes women who 007 will form a ‘relationship’ with (normally ending in their demise). I will be discussing if women in Skyfall are shown in a stereotypical and perhaps borderline sexiest way. My other choice of film, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol also stars female characters, although they have a more predominant role throughout the film then Skyfall. One of Ethan Hunt’s (Tom Cruise) team members is Jane (Paula Patton) and she is one of the main leading characters. Till around halfway in the film, a primary antagonist is Sabine Moreau (Lea Seydoux). It could still be said that these two characters, despite having a big role within the film, have been somewhat subjected to being portrayed in an idealistic way of women throughout the film. Skyfall is the 23rd instalment in the 007 franchises and was released on October 23th 2012. A new director on the Bond scene directed...
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...wellknown because of her all time shocking mysteries and with the time grew to become the satisfactory-promoting writer of the thriller novels for the coming centuries. By the time she begun engaged on these mystery oriented subject matters, mystery novels have been a good-headquartered genre with precise ideas. And Then There Were None, written in 1939, sooner or later breaks extra stereotypes of the mystery style. Nobody was in a position to solve the case and the murderer escaped from the authorized authorities and the way plot was developed made the killer’s identity nearly unimaginable to wager for the readers. And Then There Were None ranks as one among Christie’s most widespread and seriously acclaimed novels. It was once made into a stage play, and a number of movie versions have been additionally produced. The most celebrated of which is the 1945 variant starring both Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston. Postscript The entire mystery baffles the police until a manuscript in a bottle is found. The late choose Wargrave himself simply wrote the manuscript explaining that how he planned the murders given that as he desired to punish all of the culprits who were escaped or had been supposed harmless underneath the law. He also frankly admits to his possess man or woman lust for blood and pleasure in seeing the guilty punished. When he was told by the doctor that he was soon going to die, he decided to die in a blaze as an alternative of letting his life trickle away so with ease. He...
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...evoking the folklore style, McCarthy emulates the morality-plays of the Medieval Era, an unusual choice considering the setting of the story and the relatively recent date of publication (Cooper). Explicitness is omitted, and much of the simple run-on sentences tell the action instead of some overanalyzed detail. Instead, McCarthy relies on an implicit system, where much of the details lie in what the action and simple descriptions imply. In fact, the most detail No Country for Old Men provides is during the protagonist Bell’s monologues, common for McCarthy’s works (Cavendish 967). Unlike the novels of old, a decent SAT score is not required to be able to read McCarthy’s novel, and yet it takes a similarly developed mind to take notice of the numerous implications inside the novel. The folklore influences on McCarthy materialize into 3 distinct character types. Unlike Jane Eyre, which use comprehensive characters that do not necessarily fit into a single genre, No Country for Old Men employ a spectrum of good and evil, with the sheriff Bell filling the high point of morality as Virtue, the arguably unlucky Moss that fulfils the transitional Everyman role, and the personified devil Chigurh as the Vice (Cooper). What is rather fascinating about them is that all three men are rather similar to each other, Both Bell and Moss have seen combat as American soldiers for different wars, and Chigurh is well trained as an assassin; all three are trained killers. And yet their morality and...
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...that make them tragedies or make the characters in them tragic heroes. In one of the “earliest surviving works of dramatic theory” of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, he laid out his rules for what is the foundation of a tragedy and a tragic hero. In the play by Sophocles, Oedipus stands out as a classic representation of what a tragedy hero is. Oedipus the book has key aspects that Aristotle said to make a tragedy and a tragic hero. One of the requirements for being a tragic hero according to Aristotle is "a [great] man who is neither a paragon of virtue and justice nor undergoes the change to misfortune through any real badness or wickedness but because of some mistake." There must be some mistake made by the character flaw that causes the great man’s fortunes to turn for the worst. Aristotle felt that there were certain plot devices that needed to take place in order for it to qualify as a tragedy and for the character to really be a tragic hero. Without a tragic hero there cannot be a tragedy happening, plot is a very important point. The plot of a true tragedy should be complex and consist of reversal and recognition. Both of these plot elements are contained within the play Oedipus the King. The play starts out highlighting Oedipus’ character by showing him talking to the grieving citizens in front of his palace. They are praying to the gods to stop the plague that is destroying Thebes. He mourns with his people over the hardships that have befallen the land...
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...Political Process 1 1,2 Alawode, Sunday Olayinka (Ph.D), 2Sunday, Uduakobong AdebolaAdegunwaSchool of Communication, Lagos State University, 21 Olufemi Street, Off Nathan St, Surulere - Lagos Abstract: The Nigerian home video films have been used to address a myriad of existing and emergent problems because of its distinctiveness and popularity;as a popular art in Nigeria, this study was undertaken to investigate the consideration of the grassroots in the Nigerian political process from the eye of the home videos. The theoretical framework employed was agenda setting with content analysis as the method of research. The results reveal that the grassroots are not given credence as a key factor in the films except as means to justify the ends of the political class and players in the political process. The roles of the grassroots in the political arena are mostly depicted significantly as thugs, assassins, villains, prostitutes and others who are involved in different kinds of undesirable practices and vicious acts. Such portrayals could be contributory to politics often being described as ‘a dirty game’ with the grassroots increasingly having apathy to political processes and creating the divide of ‘them’ and ‘us’; where ‘them’is the political class and ‘us’ being the grassroots. Key Words: Grassroots, Home Video, Political Process I. Introduction The home video is a narrowcast medium through which a desired audience can be reached by means of television and drama (acting); it...
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...In Shakespear´s "Hamlet", the character of Prince Hamlet pretends to be insane. For a person in his situation, having almost everyone thinking that you are crazy can be an advantage. The king, his father, had died, and just a few weeks after his tragic loss, a ghost appears to Hamlet. This ghost has the appearance of his father. The spirit tells Hamlet that he did not die peacefully, but instead his brother, Claudius, murdered him by pouring venom into his ear. Claudius usurped the throne and also married his brother´s wife, Gertrude. Hamlet swears to his father´s spirit that he is going to avenge his death, and he would commit this by acting insanity. There are actions in the play that would be almost impossible to achieve if Hamlet did not act like a mentally unstable person. The clues that we can find in this tragedy helps proving that Hamlet´s sanity is the motive behind his simulated madness. The first reason Hamlet has to make everyone think he had gone mad is to accomplish the freedom he gains because of this. Societies have taboos and social norms that people must follow to be accepted. However, there are some exceptions, like the mentally unstable or the insane, so Hamlet realizes that being crazy would...
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...EMBA Winter 2016 SMO 860: Management of Technology and Innovation April ,07,2016 Case Analysis: Genzyme’s CSR Dilemma: How to Play Its HAND Marcio Augusto da Matta augustod@ualberta.ca Dr. Anthony R. Briggs ------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction Genzyme is a biotechnology company with a leading role in the world’s treatment for Orphan and neglected diseases. At the moment its Senior VP, Mr. Geragthy faces a time for decisions. The analysis momentum is over and he must propose the best direction for the company. I will go deeply inside the company and analyse the inside and outside scenario to be able to run the VRIO model and give my preference to Mr. Geragthy. 2. Genzyme’s history All started with the supply of enzymes, fine chemicals and reagents to research and pharmaceutical companies. Its founder, Mr. Henry Blair since the beginning had a vision to become a world leader and always focused by identifying patient’s needs, targeting a focused technology capability, and developing a set of values that clearly defined its role as a corporation society. Since the beginning the strategy was on orphaned diseases and it reflected in its portfolio of drugs and achieving the leadership with revenues of almost $4 billion in 2007. In 1983 Mr. Blair felt the need for help and brought on board Mr. Henri Termeer who had a very important role on the company’s development and together they have taken the company public...
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...communities they represent. In this analysis, I will explore the ethical and moral values of the main characters in the movie in performing their various official capacities. I will also elaborate on health insurance coverage by defining and reviewing the difference and similarities of PPO and HMO. Below is an ethical analysis of the characters in the movie “John Q.”: First of all let me explain what the movie is about before touching on the moral and ethical dilemmas of the characters. The director of this movie Nick Cassavetes reveals a social issue in the health care industry. He explains the ordeals of John Archibald, whose son has a serious cardiac condition that requires urgent surgery. John did not have an appropriate health insurance policy to cover the cost of the operation; the hospital chooses not to take the Good Samaritan route, and refuse to proceed with the operation. Therefore, John Q is confronted with a moral dilemma to accept fate and prepare for his son’s funeral as the Hope Memorial Hospital administrator, Rebecca Payne have suggested, or raise funds for the cardiac operation, which is a daunting task considering the time and emergency nature of the situation his son is in. John decided to take the hospital staff and other patients at the emergency room hostage. In the Geuras, Dean, and Charles Garoralo text for this course have discussed the four sub groups of absolutism which will be discussed in this analysis. It talks about philosophers like...
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...characters and true vault hunter mode. True vault hunter mode being that you can replay the game but at a harder difficulty, you can play the game twelve different times and have a different experience for each play through. Like the first Borderlands game, Borderlands 2 has a decent amount of downloadable content, or DLC’s. There are a handful of downloadable areas and characters that you can purchase separately, some of the DLC’s include two extra playable characters. One is called a mechromancer, who is a little female engineer who’s special ability is to summon a robot she built herself called a “deathtrap” to help her eliminate enemies that cross her path. The second DLC character is the psycho. Which offers the chance to play as the bad guy who turned good to hunt for the vault. The DLC’s are also additional separate campaigns to play that come with a higher maximum level cap compared to the original game. There is no specific order for the DLC’s to be played in because none of the extra campaigns play off of each other. Borderlands 2 even lets you play online co-op with your friends in the regular story mode or in the playable DLC areas. When you play with a friend in co-op the game adjusts itself to accommodate the extra player and makes the bad guys stronger, give you more experience per mission and kill while dropping better loot as you play the game. When game will automatically make the villains weaker when the friend playing in your game leaves your game. Another thing...
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...director of the FBI stated that there was an increased threat from persons who are affiliated or sympathetic with the Al Qaeda and they act without having any conspiracies surrounding them or external support. Scholars in the field of terrorism have in the past concentrated on the how terrorist groups work so as to explain how individuals work. The general view of terrorism is that it is a group activity which is mainly influenced by leaders training, recruitment, obedience and conformity, solidarity and moral disengagement. Due to the imbalance that exists between the focus by scholars on terrorism that is group based on one hand and apparent threat posed by lone wolf terrorist on the other hand, necessitates the empirical and conceptual analysis of lone wolf terrorism so as to establish a good understanding of this phenomenon. The extent to which existing explanations of triggers and motivations of terrorism are associated to deeds of lone terrorist is still not clear. This paper therefore seeks to explain the history of lone wolf terrorism, the triggers and motivations of lone wolf terrorisms, the existing counterterrorism measures that can be used in combating lone wolf terrorism, the new...
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