...Types of Fans A fan is a person who is fond of a certain thing, person, food, sports or any such things. N my opinion a fan is divided in three categories: - part time fans, die hard fans and optimistic fan. Let me explain this concept using a soccer match. A part time fan is one who does not have any particular team as his favorite, but he just enjoys watching the game as he is more overwhelmed by the sport than the players. Part time fans could also be people who follow a sport they like based on their availability. In the sense they follow a team or a sport based on their availability and convenience and don’t necessarily go to the stadium to watch their team play. Also, they might watch soccer if there’s nothing else that is interesting being played on television. Die-hard fans are like patriots and they patronize associating with a team. They believe their loyalties lie in speaking only good about a team and they would go against any person who badmouths a team they support. These die hard fans wear the sports jerseys of their favorite teams, make time to watch their favorite match at any cost, even if it means watching the match at late night and odd hours. A die-hard fan feels like the world is over when he sees his team loosing or not performing well. A die-hard fan is aggressive about the reputation of his team and can go to great lengths to support and defend the team he likes gravely. An optimistic fan is one who always speaks well about his team, even the team...
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...Review of SEAN MILLS’ "The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal" "The following people are to be released from their captors. In Northern Ireland, the seven members of the New Provo Front. In Canada, the five imprisoned leaders of Liberte de Quebec. In Sri Lanka, the nine members of the Asian Dawn movement…” (Die Hard) There is no doubt that Sean Mills would have felt a flash of amusement at this mention of the (incorrectly identified) FLQ, uttered by super-villain Hans Gruber in his list of demands, in 1988's Die Hard, lumped together with other such revolutionary entities. Indeed, in The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal, Sean Mills attempts to argue that revolutionary trends and theories in various regions of the world made their way across the globe, bypassing borders and mutually influencing the areas that they managed to reach. More specifically, his intention is to analyze this notion with respects to the situation in Montreal during the 1960's and early 1970's. He does so after outlining three purposes which his work aims to address. Firstly, Mills states his desire to bring about an alternative way of observing Montreal's "political upheavals" during the aforementioned time period, whereby events on an international scale are taken into account. Secondly, he wishes to make clear the ways in which the ideas of various groups and movements were inter-linked and influenced...
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...Die hard is considered to be one of the greatest action movies made in the 1980’s-1990’s era. It was this movie that shot Bruce Williams to fame. Directed by John Mctiernan in 1988, Die hard was a movie with great acting, great action sequences, excellent on screen chemistry between actors and many more such qualities. However, one important thing that not many notice is the outstanding photography of the film. It is the astonishing photography of the movie that made movie goers sit on the edge of their seat in anticipation and excitements of what’s going to be John Mclane’s (Bruce Willis) next move to battle the terrorists. In this paper, I am going to discuss about the photography of the movie Die Hard and to do so I will highlight a few important aspects of photography such as shots, angles, lights amongst others. Shot “Shots are defined by the amount of subject matter that’s included within the frame of the screen” [ (Giannetti, 2011) ]. In general, there are 6 types of shots and these are extreme long shot, long shot, full shot, medium shot, close up and the extreme close up. These shots are all subject to human analysis that means what one director might consider a medium shot; it might be considered a close up by another director [ (Giannetti, 2011) ]. The movie Die hard is an amalgam of all these shots intertwined to give the audiences a complete and exciting cinematic experience. Mctiernan has used all kinds of shots to make sure that his movie looks realistic and...
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...Die Hard 4.0 Early bit of videogame (Gears of War, as reference later?). House blows up (still under credits). FBI Cyber Security Division, one of bodies hacked into during credits. John McLane, interrupts guy making out with his daughter, Lucy. She told the guy he was dead. [i.e. family dynamics, dysfunctional] She’s not talking to him. ‘You are such an asshole’. She isn’t using his surname. McLane asked to pick up one of hackers being sought for possible FBI breach. Matthew Farrell, who we saw earlier being contacted by one of those involved in the hacking (fits geeky stereotype in collectable figures, etc). Killers after him, just as McLane arrives. First real action sequence, although not large scale, mainly shooting. Explosion in computer – booby-trapped. Escape building. Into car, grabbed through window – action continues, stunts, etc, guys on car. But doesn’t turn into car chase to follow (as might expect). Followed by quiet reaction – of bad guys, of the two in the car. ‘Have you done stuff like that before’, asks M (intertextual ref, but also motivated). Seven dead hackers so far, none of whom were on the FBI list of suspects. (Hackers used without knowing what they were involved in.) 4th of July weekend (fitting DH holiday template). Music taste difference between M and J (old rock preference of J, Credence; marker of generational difference). M: news is completely manipulated, to keep you living in fear, so will go out and spend on things you...
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...Moorpark High School 4500 Tierra Rejada Road Moorpark, CA 93021 February 11, 2014 The Mythbusters Beyond Productions 1268 Missouri Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Dear Mythbusters Team: We are a group of students from a Pre-AP English 1 class at Moorpark High. In our class, we are currently studying ancient Greek myths and the valued characteristics that the heroes of those stories possess. We are writing to you in regards to a stunt that was pulled off by the main character of Die Hard whose personal characteristics resemble those found in the myths we are studying. We would like to hear your thoughts on whether the stunt in question could be pulled off in real-life. In a scene from Die Hard, the main character, played by Bruce Willis, survives an explosion on the rooftop of a skyscraper by tying a fire hose to his waist, which breaks his fall, and allows him to smash a window of a lower story and take cover within the that story of the building. Willis falls 2-3 floors before the hose brings him to a complete stop. Now, as much as we love to witness the unlikely on a movie screen, we find it highly improbable that this could happen for a multitude of reasons. An average fire hose is about two and a half inches in diameter, anywhere from fifty to a hundred feet long, and the maximum amount of pressure that can be withstood is about 1,204 psi. A normal sized man is about 154 pounds, and Bruce Willis, who is five feet and eleven inches, is closer to 195 pounds. If...
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...Moorpark High School 4500 Tierra Rejada Road Moorpark, CA 93021 February 11, 2014 The Mythbusters Beyond Productions 1268 Missouri Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Dear Mythbusters Team: We are a group of students from a Pre-AP English 1 class at Moorpark High. In our class, we are currently studying ancient Greek myths and the valued characteristics that the heroes of those stories possess. We are writing to you in regards to a stunt that was pulled off by the main character of Die Hard whose personal characteristics resemble those found in the myths we are studying. We would like to hear your thoughts on whether the stunt in question could be pulled off in real-life. In a scene from Die Hard, the main character, played by Bruce Willis, survives an explosion on the rooftop of a skyscraper by tying a fire hose to his waist, which breaks his fall, and allows him to smash a window of a lower story and take cover within the that story of the building. Willis falls 2-3 floors before the hose brings him to a complete stop. Now, as much as we love to witness the unlikely on a movie screen, we find it highly improbable that this could happen for a multitude of reasons. An average fire hose is about two and a half inches in diameter, anywhere from fifty to a hundred feet long, and the maximum amount of pressure that can be withstood is about 1,204 psi. A normal sized man is about 154 pounds, and Bruce Willis, who is five feet and eleven inches, is closer to 195 pounds. If...
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...Humility Entrepreneurship Teamwork 3 Idiots- Life’s Learning Idiots Life s by Ramki Deliver The Promise Learning Social Responsibility Respect for Individual Humility Entrepreneurship Teamwork 1. Never t t be successful , pursue excellence 1 N try to b f l ll Success is the bye product & the result Excellence always creates Success & it is a process of continual improvement Never run after success Let it happen automatically in life Deliver The Promise Learning Social Responsibility Respect for Individual Humility Entrepreneurship Teamwork 2. Freedom t Lif Lif is b 2 F d to Life- Life i beautiful tif l Don’t die before the actual death Live every moment to the fullest as if today is the last day Life is gifted to humankind to live Live & Live happily towards happiness Deliver The Promise Learning Social Responsibility Respect for Individual Humility Entrepreneurship Teamwork 3. Passion l d t E 3 P i leads to Excellence ll When your hobby becomes your profession , the passion becomes your profession You will be able to lead up to excellence in life Satisfaction, Joy, Pleasure & love will be the outcome of the passion Following your passion for years , you will surely become somebody one day Deliver The Promise Learning Social Responsibility Respect for Individual Humility Entrepreneurship Teamwork 4. Learning i very simple- N 4 L i is i l Never stop t Be...
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...INTRODUCTION We have been task to watch movie Die Hard 4 as our individual assignment and have been told to do a summary report based on the movie that have been watch and based on the movie we need to collect the content of the movie summary based on the rubric given. We watch it in the class for about 1 and a half hour. Below is the summary that I have summarized. McClane is attempting to stop cyber terrorists who hack into government and commercial computers across the United States with the goal to start a "fire-sale" of financial assets. The F.B.I. responds to a brief computer outage at their Cyber-Security Division by tracing down top computer hackers, finding several of them have been killed. Taking others into protective custody, the F.B.I. asks New York City Police Department detective John McClane to collect Matthew "Matt" Farrell. McClane arrives in time to prevent Farrell from being killed by assassins working for a cyber-terrorist named Mai Linh who was working for her boss and love interest, Thomas Gabriel. En route to Washington, D.C. Farrell reveals that he received a large sum of money from Mai to write an algorithm that can crack a security system. As they arrive in D.C., Gabriel orders his own crew of hackers to take control of the transportation grids and stock market, while nationally broadcasting a message threatening the United States. Farrell recognizes this as the start of a "fire sale", an attack designed to target the nation's reliance on computer...
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...Everyone talked loudly in Chinatown The text has a first person narrator it is restricted to Lin (the protagonist). Todd is characterized explicitly example (65, 23) “His eyes are blue, almost like glass”. The restriction to the protagonist is fatal for how we understand and read this text. If it was restricted to another person like the parents or the grandmother, or if it were an omniscient narrator, then the story would have been totally different. So this way we often have compassion for the restricted character. Lin is of course characterized implicitly, because it would be strange if the narrator describes herself. So we can see how she is, through what she thinks, does and says. There is a scene where Todd and Lin kiss in a cinema (65, 31- 42). In this passage, we go inside Lin’s head. That makes the scene more realistic, emotional and important than the other scenes in the text. There is another place in the text where it says something about the narrative technique of this text. It is the scene where Lin feeds her grandmother (64, 10-15). It says that she feels guilty of not spending enough time with her. The reader can hopefully identify himself with that feeling of guilt towards your grandmother and that makes the text more interesting. The narrator’s technique is also thought of, when the text practically starts by describing Todd (65, 10-26) that means that Todd is a very important person for the text, and for Lin. Lin is the protagonist in this text. She is from...
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...“Course” SHEET METAL DIE DESIGN Submitted by: Zia Mustafa 1 Contents INTRODUCTION TO DIE DESIGN .............................................................................. 6 1.1 DIE OR PRESS TOOL: ............................................................................................. 6 1.2 DIE BLOCK: ............................................................................................................ 7 1.3 PUNCH: .................................................................................................................... 7 1.4 TYPE OF DIES: ........................................................................................................ 8 1.4.1 BLANKING DIE ................................................................................................ 8 1.4.2 BENDING DIE .................................................................................................. 8 1.4.3 FORMING DIE .................................................................................................. 9 1.4.4 DRAW DIE ........................................................................................................ 9 1.4.5 PIERCING DIE .................................................................................................. 9 1.4.6 TRIMMING DIE .............................................................................................. 10 1.4.7 COMPOUND DIE ..............................................................................
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...Assisted Suicide Shanette Anfield PHI200: Mind and Machine Troy Epps July 31, 2012 Assisted Suicide Assisted suicide is an ethical issue that not only has an effect on the individual, but it also reflects on the society where the individual lives. Euthanasia is an act of someone else ending someone’s life. Assisted suicide is the act of the individual having help in ending their own life. “Physician-assisted suicide (PAS), is slightly different than euthanasia; in using PAS, the patient is provided the means for terminating his or her life, but the patient, not the doctor, ends the life in question” (Mosser, 2010, Chp. 2.3, para. 31). However, not all assisted suicides may involve a doctor. In the United States, Oregon was the first state to pass an assisted-suicide law. Washington is a state that has as recently as 2008 adopted an act that allows residents that have less than six months to live to request a legal dose of medication. Eleven states, including Alabama, Idaho and North Carolina ‘have no enactments which criminalize aiding, abetting, assisting, or counseling suicide” (“Assisted Suicide,” 2010, para. 1-7). Several other states such as Alaska, California and Florida “criminalize aiding, abetting, and/or assisting suicide” (“Assisted Suicide,” 2010, para. 8). I am a Georgian and our law states that any involvement in an assisted suicide is a felony. The main conflict of assisted suicide...
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...Assisting Suicide PHI 200 Mind and Machine Instructor: Jon Stern August 22, 2011 Being in a situation to end someone’s life due to pain and suffering would make you feel responsible for their death. In Susan Wolf’s situation her father’s health was decling affecting his physical and mental state. She described her father as “a smart, savvy lawyer, the family patriarch. She could see his spark for life start to fade at the end when he could not even read, do the New York Times crossword puzzles he used to knock off in an hour, or even watch television (Wolf, 2008).” At this point she knew her father’s condition was not getting any better, that’s when he said he wanted to stop. There are doctors that are comfortable with assisting suicide like Jack Kevorkian, which were known as “Death Doctors”. “Dr. Kevorkian has been known as “Dr. Death” since at least 1956, when he conducted a study photographing patients’ eyes as they died. Results established that blood vessels in the cornea cornea contract and become invisible as the heart stops beating. In a 1958 paper, he suggested that death row inmates be euthanized, and their bodily organs harvested. In 1960, he proposed using condemned prisoners for medical experiments. In 1989, a quadaplegic, too handicapped to kill himself, publicly asked for assistance, and Dr. Kevorkian began tinkering on a suicide machine. But a different patient – Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old with Alzheimer’s – was the first to test...
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...At some point in everybody’s life death will inevitably be knocking at the door, and often times many people end up struggling with the best way to cope with it. Dying usually happens because your murdered, you commit suicide, or naturally. We all should know that murder is a person taking another person’s life, suicide is the taking of your own life, and naturally is death by natural causes. Composing a paper as to why a 110 year old person dies would be really challenging for me, mainly because at 110 you are considered to be really old. However, recently there has been another form of death that has a lot of controversy surrounding it. Doctor assisted death also known as Euthanasia. Euthanasia currently does not fall into any of the three before mentioned categories; we put it somewhere in the middle between murder and suicide. Like many other words in our English language euthanasia is Greek rooted eu, it means good and then thanasia means death, combined they mean “good death”. Take a moment and consider you have an illness and the doctors have just informed you it is terminal and you have only four weeks to live. They then tell you that during those four weeks you are going to be in continual excruciating pain and unbearable agony, and that no matter what pain medication they gave you there was nothing that would give you even a moment of relief. What would you do? If you decided to take action would it be in the form of an injection, a handful of pills...
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...Laboratory 1 Name: Santoss Student ID: XXXXX High Pressure die Casting: Aluminium High Pressure Die Casting Aluminium: High Pressure Die Casting (HPDC) is an industrial metal casting process categorized by forcing molten metals under high pressure in a mould cavity. Mould cavity is made of two hardened tool steel dies which have been properly machined into desired shape and work similarly to an injection during the process. HPDC is most widely used casting process for aluminium casting alloys. There are two types of HPDC: Hot-chamber and Cold-chamber die casting. Variations on these two types include: 1. Hot-chamber die casting: is the more popular of the two die casting processes. In this process, the cylinder chamber of the injection device is completely dipped in the molten metal immersion. A gooseneck metal feed system draws the molten metal into the die cavity. Fig. 02 Hot Chamber High pressure die casting. http://www.engineerstudent.co.uk Direct immersion in the molten bath allows for quick and appropriate mould injection, it also results in increased corrosion proneness. Due to this point, the hot-chamber die casting process is best appropriate for applications that utilize metals with low melting points and high fluidity. Good metals for the hot-chamber die casting process include lead, magnesium, zinc and copper. 2. The cold-chamber die casting process is very similar to hot-chamber die casting. With a design that emphases on minimizing machine...
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...In arguing for the right of the terminally ill to choose how they die, Dr. Kevorkian challenged social taboos about disease and dying while defying prosecutors and the courts. Dr. Kevorkian stated that his ultimate aim was to make euthanasia a positive experience and he was trying to force the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities included assisting their patients with death. His critics were as impassioned as his supporters, but all generally agreed that his stubborn and often intemperate advocacy of assisted suicide helped spur the growth of hospice care in the United States and made many doctors more sympathetic to those in severe pain and more willing to prescribe medication to relieve it. I personally feel that euthanasia should be legalised, even though there...
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