...Big Red One Movie Analysis [Pick the date] Student Name Student ID Answer # 1: Soldiers by definition must be killers during war however not peacetime, and certainly not murderers. These circumstances are characterized, as Sarge discloses to Griff, by their pioneers and government officials who orchestrate a cease-fire, after which killing is not allowed any longer and a fighter has indeed dedicated murder. The distinction between the two activities is appeared to be more significant to Sarge, an old warrior from WW1 than it is to the far more youthful squad of Zab and Griff. Answer # 2: The movie portrays death in a way that may be new and unfamiliar for the individuals who remain unaware of war aside from what they realized in war movies. I trust that fear doesn't postpone demise and death, thus it is pointless. A person is hit in this way, he's hit, and there is no turning back. Answer # 3: This scene indicated that the unit is having food and a boy at the camp wants to exchange cigarettes for booze. Pvt. Zab (Robert Carradine) makes an arrangement with him and takes a drink out of the jug before spitting it right retreat. There is likewise a young lady, viewing the Sergeant eat and trading looks with him. Presently the kid offers them sensual pictures and Pvt. Vinci says that they could get an entire group of concubines for a pack of smokes. The Sergeant gets up, leaving whatever remains of his supper for the girl, and clears out. Pvt. Griff (Mark Hamill) watches...
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...“The Big Red One” The Big Red One is a movie about the Second World War, filmed in 1980 by Samuel Fuller. In the scene after the first attack Sergeant told his soldier “we kill, don’t murder”, after the young man explained he could not kill French troopers. Sergeant compared the war with animal killing. I think it was a cruel, but almost the only appropriate attitude during the wartime. Soldier’s main goals are to win and stay alive, and excessive altruism will militate against them. This type of behavior also helps to return to the civil life; and the indifference to allies’ death works in the same way. The narrator mentioned that they stopped to try to know or remember new soldiers’ names, and one of the replacements stepped on the mine right...
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...Just another one-hit-wonder or a true star? One Direction. Nickelodeon wannabe or really committed? Big Time Rush. These are both questions when thinking about these two bands, but both bands have strengths and personalities which allowed them to strive. I really can't say if the pop music in this generation has gotten better or worse, because there are so many posers out there you can't tell who's autotuned and who isn't. At first glance, the bands seem identical, because they both have a fan base populated by girls and they're both boy bands. People also think that these bands' will fade out in a couple of years just like Hannah Montana and But truthfully, their music videos and acting, hit singles, and what they could do to have fans staying happy are completely different. Both One Direction and Big Time Rush are great bands, but both have to work to make it to the top. Originally, the members of One Direction each wanted to be solo artists. Yet if it hadn't been for that twist of fate and the discovery from "X Factor", One Direction wouldn't have been where they are today! Other than music videos, the boy band has no acting experience, yet they have 80 MILLION views on YouTube! The closest this boy band has gotten to acting is when Nickelodeon made their online diaries into a weekly television show as of March 2012. Only one of their singles, "That's What Makes You Beautiful" was on the Billboard Top 100, but that doesn't mean they aren't famous! They have performed on...
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...Hey friends, We know there is a lot of excitement in the community surrounding the Lollipop updates for the One, and for good reason. We are just as excited as you are. We never intended to keep you waiting. Unfortunately, we ran into some unexpected roadblocks. First, there was an unforeseen OS signing issue, which has recently been resolved. Our camera module had stability issues on Lollipop, and we had to rebuild it for compatibility. Several other crucial drivers, including our Wi-Fi drivers, also needed to be updated to work flawlessly with the upgrade. Admittedly, it took a little more time than we had planned, but we only release updates that we are proud of; that means refusing to take shortcuts or deliver sub-par experiences. With all of that in mind, here are the official release dates for Android Lollipop on the OnePlus One: CM 12S: The official OTA update for the OnePlus One will be released on or before March 30, 2015 OxygenOS: The official release of our own Lollipop-based ROM will be available for download on or before March 27, 2015 To show you how serious we are about this commitment to our community, we are prepared to put our money where our mouth is. If we miss either one of these deadlines, we will give away five (5) 64GB OnePlus One devices to our fans. Reply to this thread to be eligible. It’s our little way of saying thank you for being patient and for joining us on our journey to create amazing, user-driven experiences. Never...
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...young girl who ventures out into the real world only to realize that she has lost her way. She feels distant and broken inside and realizes that there is only one way to fix this emptiness. She then goes to visit her very first home where all her fondest memories were made only to find that it is now someone else’s home. She implores the current resident of the home to let her in and assure her that she comes with the purest of intentions. As she walks around the house she realizes where she came from, as well as the values and dreams she was raised with. The very first literary device used is one of personification, used in the verse “From the house that built me.” This line, if interpreted literally, states that the house physically built the speaker. However, if this same line is interpreted figuratively, is reads that the house is such a big part of her memory and childhood that it is the foundation of who she is today. Throughout the song, the artist speaks of a house that she is visiting. This house is a symbol used to represent her roots and all the thing life used to consist of that are now gone. This could be representative of family that passed, morals that were compromised, or perhaps a negative change in one’s own personality. There are very few rhymes throughout the lyrics of this song, therefore when one does exist, it emphasizes the meaning of that very verse in the song. Which in this case would be ““Plans were drawn and concrete poured’ and nail by nail and board...
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...the social classes the way Aladdin did. First of all, there is no surprise that Aladdin is treated very different from the beginning of the movie, to when he becomes a prince. One of the very first examples you can see this being displayed is during the song “One Jump Ahead”. In this scene Aladdin is chased around the city’s streets of Agrabah by guards because he can’t afford to pay for the food he stole. Based on the ragged clothes he wore, with patches in his pants, the town labels him as riffraff, a street rat, and a scoundrel, just like the lyrics in the song. However, when he is a prince, Aladdin gets a grand parade entering the city on the way to the palace. He was treated different by the Norman,2 people because of the way he was dressed and how he was presented. He no longer had on old ragged cloths, and now wore an expensive wardrobe fit for a prince. The crowed did not mock him nor call him names because he looked like he came from wealth and was high up in the social status. In the song “Prince Ali”, the harem girls sing “There's no question this Ali's alluring. Never ordinary, never boring. Everything about the man just plain impresses... He's a winner. He’s a whiz— a wonder! He's about to pull my heart asunder. And I absolutely love the way he dresses!”. However, in “One Jump...
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...herself from the rest of her village after her father’s death, the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper having to spend all her time in the a room she hates because of her disease, or the narrator of Acquainted with the Night strolling through the nightly city all by herself in solitude. All of these stories contain the very popular theme of loneliness and isolation,which are shown using various literary devices of each author’s choosing. Throughout the whole story of A Rose for Emily, the setting seemed to be very eerie and unnatural; the author gave the readers a feeling that made them almost sense the loneliness emanating from the protagonist, Miss Emily:“That was two years after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart-the one we believed would marry her-had deserted her. After her father’s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all” (53 Faulkner). This made it known right...
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...Death of a Salesman Reaction Paper Travis Givens ENG 125 09 March 2014 Edward Wilson Death of a Salesman Reaction Paper Death of a Salesman is the literary composition play I chose to analyze. Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize winning play of 1949 is widely regarded as one of the cornerstone pieces of American literature. Death of a Salesman is centered on the life of Willy Lowman. It challenges the literary fact of achieving the American Dream. Willy is a 63 year old man and has been a traveling salesman all his life. Despite his hard work Willy, his wife Linda, and their two sons Biff and Happy have always lived on the brink of poverty. Willy has always been low end of the totem pole at his company, but Willy constantly tells himself and his family that he will soon get the "big break” he deserves. He has raised his two sons, Biff and Happy, to also believe that somehow life has cheated them and insists that one day they will get their due. Linda, Willy's loyal wife, lives under the thin veneer of denial that her husband has so long tried to keep from collapsing. In the end despite his protests otherwise, Willy knows he is a failure. He begins to slowly kill himself by inhaling gas fumes from a hose in the garage, an act that relieves his mental anguish and gives him a brief high. The gas also muddles Willy's mind, conflating past, present, and future. This shifting through time and space helps the reader/audience see how much pressure there has been on this simple...
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...World Mythology March 5th, 2012 Arabian Nights Essay Fantasy our Daily Determination The art of storytelling is the oldest and most captivating art form man has ever produced. Each and every one of us has been lead on a path by a story so unique that each path can only be traveled once with no chance of return or pause along the way. The reason these stories create a one-time offer is due to the mysterious element of fantasy that no man can ever lack or cease to exist. Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Though formal in definition the fantasy defined above is only the tip of the iceberg because fantasy can be created in one’s mind at a moments notice. Kieran Egan an education professor at Simon Fraser University states that, “fantasy is the most valuable attribute of the human mind; it enriches children’s spiritual development, and is the most important tool for orienting ourselves to reality”(3). This quote pinpoints why fantasy stories have been with us since the start of man and why books like “The Arabian Nights” are so popular thousands of years after there first dictations. Each story read from “Arabian Nights” has different fantasy elements in it, these elements captivate us and bring us inside the stories and are exactly what we connect to, not as a form of “escapism” but to help fuel our own determination to fulfilling our own fantasies. Many of these stories...
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... Literary elements refers to aspects or characteristics of a whole text. They are not “used,” per se, by authors; we derive what they are from reading the text. Most literary elements can be derived from any and all texts; for example, every story has a theme, every story has a setting, every story has a conflict, every story is written from a particular point-of-view, etc. In order to be discussed legitimately, literary elements must be specifically identified for that text. Literary techniques refers to any specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text. Unlike literary elements, literary techniques are not necessarily present in every text. Literary terms refers to the words themselves with which we identify and describe literary elements and techniques. They are not found in literature and they are not “used” by authors. Allegory: Where every aspect of a story is representative, usually symbolic, of something else, usually a larger abstract concept or important historical/geopolitical event. Lord of the Flies provides a compelling allegory of human nature, illustrating the three sides of the psyche through its sharply-defined main characters. Antagonist: Counterpart to the main character...
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...Case Study 3 NIBCO’s Big Bang: An SAP Implementation 1. Why did NIBCO decide to purchase an ERP system? Because the firm’s recent major investment in information technology has been used for five years, it is too old. And the legacy systems and reporting tools could not talk to each other well. In order to deal with the “information poor” and meet the goal of becoming more global, NIBCO consulted Boston Consulting Group (BGG) for future information system plan. After recognizing and analyzing NIBCO’s current situation, BGG recommended the ERP system which can help NIBCO better move forward. 2. Why did it choose a Big Bang approach, rather than the 3-to-5 year plan suggested by the consulting firm? Firstly, the business initiatives were demanding a quicker implementation, 3-to-5 year is quite a long time. Secondly, some team members worried that the company would just get to the point where it would say “enough is enough” without executing the whole plan, they will just focus on this part but ignore the plan from the whole company view. And thirdly, some companies who had used the “go-slow” approach were not as successful as they expected, it is a little risky to spend 3-to-5 years to implement this probably not successful plan. On the other hand, the benefits of the Big Bang would be multimillion dollar operational improvements and reductions in inventory costs. And the consulting costs under Big Bang would be lower than the 3-to-5 year plan. 3. Describe...
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...Modern Cosmology Cosmology, or modern astronomy, has deep roots in the Big Bang theory, which seeks to explain the beginning of the universe, the structure of the objects within it, and the laws that govern it. The Big Bang and string theory are two highly respected theories in science for the universe. In the history of astronomy, very little discoveries have been more important than the introduction of the new heliocentric cosmology. It was common belief up until the 1500s that the Earth was the center of the universe-- with everything else orbiting around it. With the 1500s, however; a new idea came to light. Nicholas Copernicus suggested in his book “On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres,” that the Sun was the center of the solar system. Later, into the early 1600s, Johannes Kepler was an advocate Copernicus’ heliocentric universe. Kepler is responsible for discovering that planets revolve around the Sun in elliptical orbits—which is the first of his three laws of planetary motion. His second law, according to "Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion" (n.d.), is “the line joining the planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times as the planet travels around the ellipse,” (para. 14). "Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion" (n.d.), also states that the third of Kepler’s laws is “the ratio of the squares of the revolutionary periods for two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their semi-major axes,” (para. 15). Kepler also proposed that...
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...Everything started with the big bang, one brief moment in time 14 billion years ago that contain the answers to our greatest questions about our past, our present, and our future. There are billions and billions galaxies in the world, we can’t even imagine what those numbers mean but 14 billion years ago, none of it existed until the big bang the origin of space and time. This is our world cities forest oceans people everything is made of matter created of the big bang. Every star, every planet, every drop of water. The big bang is the defining event of our universe and everything in it. The secrets of our past, our present and our future are in one moment in time. So was there before the bang, what banged and did it banged. We built machines the size of cities to simulate conditions when the universe was created and space telescope to peer deep into our past. “We are getting close to answering the old-age questions. Why are we here? Where did we come from? Does the universe in fact have a beginning or an end...? If we know the answer we know the mind of god” (A Brief History of Time 3). Since 1920 everything we know about universe has been turned upside down. Before that we thought our universe was static and eternal. Until 1919 scientist believed that the Milky Way (earth’s Galactic Home) contained the whole universe. . In that Era there was a lucky astronomer who had the privilege to work at the world’s largest and most advance telescope in” Mount Wilson Observatory...
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...Big Bang Theory - The Premise The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain what happened at the very beginning of our universe. Discoveries in astronomy and physics have shown beyond a reasonable doubt that our universe did in fact have a beginning. Prior to that moment there was nothing; during and after that moment there was something: our universe. The big bang theory is an effort to explain what happened during and after that moment. According to the standard theory, our universe sprang into existence as "singularity" around 13.7 billion years ago. What is a "singularity" and where does it come from? Well, to be honest, we don't know for sure. Singularities are zones which defy our current understanding of physics. They are thought to exist at the core of "black holes." Black holes are areas of intense gravitational pressure. The pressure is thought to be so intense that finite matter is actually squished into infinite density (a mathematical concept which truly boggles the mind). These zones of infinite density are called "singularities." Our universe is thought to have begun as an infinitesimally small, infinitely hot, infinitely dense, something - a singularity. Where did it come from? We don't know. Why did it appear? We don't know. After its initial appearance, it apparently inflated (the "Big Bang"), expanded and cooled, going from very, very small and very, very hot, to the size and temperature of our current universe. It continues to expand and cool to this...
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...Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy just as big businesses are a vital part to the American economy. Both provide jobs for Americans while at the same time provide services and goods. According to the Small Business Association, over half of all employees in the United States work for a small firm. Big business employs around 35% of new hires. There is an on going battle of small business versus big business in ones opinion or even in politics and between experts in the news. However what is undeniable is that they both contribute to the economy locally as well as internationally. There are also several benefits to working for either a small business or big business such as getting work experience from a small business or retirement plans of the big businesses. A business is considered a small business when that business has under 500 employees (499 employees and under). Some examples of a small business one might be familiar with are Laserscope, Neoware Systems, and Penn Virginia. Laserscope, which makes medical laser supplies, employs 229 workers as of 2005. Neoware Systems that makes computer appliances employ’s 114 workers. Penn Virginia which is in the coal fusion business has 32 employees. A business is considered a big business when that business has over 500 employees. Familiar big business includes J.P. Morgan Chase, Apple Inc, General Motors. J.P. Morgan Chase provides various financial services employs around 222, 316 workers...
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