...I am going to consider the five different characters in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and their contributions to the death of Eva Smith before concluding who I feel is to blame the most. Arthur Birling is first to be questioned by the Inspector, at first he does not recognise the girl’s name but after seeing her picture he realises that she was a young girl that once worked as a labourer in his company. He claims that he fired this girl for asking for higher wages. He displays a lack of empathy and understanding for the life of the lower class by adding to the end of his anecdote: ‘I refused- of course.’ This quote shows how he clearly thinks the notion of asking for a raise in pay is so preposterous that it is not worth talking about and this is confirmed by his shock when the inspector enquires why he refused this pay rise. There is an obvious ignorance about Arthur Birling, he seems to think he has great knowledge, as shown in the way he talks with his family in his speech at the beginning, which is laced with self-importance. Yet he displays very little insight in to how difficult it was for a girl living on such little income. He expresses how he does not need the help of the girl and he says ‘they could go work somewhere else, it’s a free country’ but his son, Eric shows a more realistic view that it isn’t a free country ‘if you can’t go and work somewhere else’ which Birling immediately dismisses. Birling’s decision to fire Eva Smith showcases how he was very quick not to consider...
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...Scenario: As production manager for Thompson Manufacturing, Sheila Stephens has the final authority to approve the hiring of any new supervisors who work for her. The human resource manager performs the initial screening of all prospective supervisors and then sends the most likely candidates to Sheila for interviews. One day recently, Sheila received a call from Pete Peterson, the human resource manager: “Sheila, I've just spoken to a young man who may be just who you’re looking for to fill the final line supervisor position. He has some good work experience and appears to have his head screwed on straight. He’s here right now and available if you could possibly see him.” Sheila hesitated a moment before answering. “Gee, Pete” she said, “I’m certainly busy today, but I’ll try to squeeze him in. Send him on down.” A moment later Allen Guthrie, the applicant, arrived at Sheila’s office and introduced herself. “Come on in, Allen,” said Sheila. “I’ll be right with you after I make a few phone calls.” Fifteen minutes later Sheila finished the calls and began talking with Allen. Sheila was quite impressed. After a few minutes Sheila’s door opened and a supervisor yelled, “We have a small problem on line one and need your help.” Sheila stood up and said, “Excuse me a minute, Allen.” Ten minutes later Sheila returned, and the conversation continued for ten more minutes before a series of phone calls again interrupted the pair. The same pattern of interruptions continued for the next...
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...Corporation at a pie factory in Stilwell Oklahoma. Our plant produced 25.7 million pounds of finished product last year, running at 95% production efficiency. I had the pleasure of talking to Sheila Chucolate, the plant manager, on two occasions about her position in the plant, overall taking over two hours. I interview her touching on six major management issues; her personality and core values, her philosophy about work and management, leadership and mentoring, the organizational goals and objectives, social responsibility and company culture; discrimination, sexual harassment and diversity, and finally just touching on IT, internet, and globalization. Personality and Managers Core Values Shela considered herself to have an extroversive personality telling me “You have to be positive even in the toughest circumstances.” She exerted both agreeable and conscientious tendencies, a real people person, but she was also re-thinking her work, and double checking others. Sheila said it was always easy to relate to others, she was raised very generous and caring, making her sensitive to others which she said had both helped her and hurt her at times. I asked if her experiences as a manager changed her, she laughed and said that she us to be a timid person now can be assertive if need to be. Sheila also demonstrated an external locus of control by confessing that her Dad in raising and still encouraging her had got her where she is today. Philosophy about Work and Management ...
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...The beginning of the extract, the characters are left "staring, subdued and wondering" which shows a sense of mystery and confusion within the family. They have been left in complete shock because of the event that has just occured. In the stage directions it says that, "Sheila is still quietly crying." This builds up the drama more and proves to us that the situation has really affected her. We can see this throughout the extract. She dislikes her father's comments. The stage directions show us this and Priestley has written her comments towards her parents to be angry and frustrated. Sheila is trying to make her parents see that what they did to the girl was wrong. She says, "I behaved badly too. I know I did. But now you're beginning all over again to pretend that nothing much has happened." It is evident here that she has been greatly affected by the girl's death and is irratated by what her father has said to her. Priestley has written in the stage directions that Sheila is "flaring up". Her anger is quickly building up and she is frustrated because of her parents' ignorance. At the beginning of the extract Priestley says that Eric is "brooding desperately", showing that he is distressed and finding the situation difficult and maybe thinking deeply about what has just happened. In the stage directions Eric "laughs rather hysterically, pointing at him". By insulting Birling, Eric is sure to provoke him and make him angrier. Throughout...
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...Question 1 Companies create ad campaign is to create the awareness of their brand. To communicate to their target audience what is their product, price, place and promotion. Marketers use and coordinate many different forms of communication with consumers. To create a brand they need tools or instruments or in marketing collective terms we called it Marketing Communication (MC) functions. MC functions consist of advertising, public relations, sales promotion, direct marketing, personal selling, packaging, events and sponsorships, and customer service. However these functions needs integrated marketing communication (IMC) media to execute the message across to its target audience. Usually the forms of media the marketers use are through TV, radio, newspaper, magazines, outdoors boards, Internet mail and telephone. These functions and media assist to build the brand by connecting the company with its target audience. IMC is a notion that manages the process for planning, executing and keeping track the brand messages that create brand-customer relationships. Integrating which means combining of separate parts into a unified whole, the marketing communication may result in advantages. It helps to companies to stand out from competitors by being more customers focused. It also enhances accountability as relationships with the customer can be seen through the results in sales and profits. It also enhances the brand trust of the company, as they are more focusing on the relationship...
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...Introduction The mass media have largely helped female political participation and electoral success. Media notice of the ‘gender gap’ helped women in the political arena, decades ago, and instilled awareness of the women’s vote and needed female representation (Kahn & Goldenberg, 1991, p. 104). Women are still presented in ways that differ from males in political coverage or other media, apt to be discussed for personal attributes, appearance or private lives, described as perky individuals, and often as soldiers or otherwise masculine persons, and as special achievers. It seems that Canadian female politicians cannot be simple representatives. Lively, Perky, Individuals Cody Groat (2013) discussed Sheila Copps, a longstanding Hamilton East MP and deputy prime minister to Jean Chretien that through twenty years in office continued to be presented in the media as cute and singular. Donatella Campus (2013) explained that women politicians find a ‘double bind’ in the need to be presentable, as means feminine in expected ways and competent (p.39). Canadian politics at all levels require media success according to established patterns. Much is applauded of how women balance family obligations and careers or for that matter, how they spend their free time. Male politicians when interviewed are not apt to be asked about family strain, stress or how they cope with criticism. One finds an ingrained idea of women as exceptions that is archaic...
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...can happen to you later in life, for example skin cancer or hair loss, diabetics or an STD; but there is a good amount of diseases that are related to genetics or hereditary and some of which are even chromosome linked. One disease that is chromosome linked is Turner Syndrome named after Dr. Henry Turner who discovered the disorder in 1938. It occurs in female births only in about 1 in 20,000 births worldwide (National Human Genome Research Institute, 2011) and in the United States 60,000 female births are affected with 800 new cases diagnosed each year ( University of Utah, 2012). Turner Syndrome is caused by a missing X chromosome error during the formation of the egg to embryo. It is not yet known from which one of the parent’s chromosome causes this to happen. Turner Syndrome may be found during a mother’s pregnancy when performing an ultrasound test by observing for signs of poor development such as swollen hands and feet or for an irregular heart beat. (Collin, 2006) Other prenatal testing of cells from the fetus, blood hormone levels of luteinizing all of which can also help determine the suspicion (Zieve, 2008). It can also be detected at birth because of the heart problems and physical features observed. Turner Syndrome mostly affects the visual physical features of the female with few internal health problems. The most common physical malformation is height; females born with this Syndrome are shorter with an average height of 4ft 8in (University of Utah, 2012).This...
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...Toby Turner first joined YouTube on May 14, 2006, when he created a channel under the name of "Tobuscus".[1] The first video that remains on the channel is a sketch based on the 2006 film Click entitled "What I'd do with the Remote from Click".[7] One of Turner's most popular early videos is "Don't Tase Me, Bro!", a remixed recording of the University of Florida Taser incident in which his classmate Andrew Meyer was stunned with a taser gun by a police officer.[8] Interviewed about the video by MTV, Turner explained that, after watching the clip, "as soon as [he] heard [Andrew] yelling, [he] knew it would fit in a hip-hop song", and that he "wanted to give [Andrew] the profits" from sales of related merchandise.[8] The "Tobuscus" channel has since continued to focus on comedic skits and animated sketches. Turner's "Literal Trailers" series is one of his most popular, earning him mainstream recognition from CBS News, who described his rendition of the Dead Island trailer as "amazing" and "hilarious",[9] and Wired, who praised the Iron Man 3 video.[10]...
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...Like a Californian Stephen King once said, “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” In the case of The Postman Always Rings Twice, King is correct. The Postman Always Rings Twice, written by James M. Cain in 1934, once a racy and scandalous misadventure into a world of crime and deceit in the American West, paved the way for hundreds of other novelists, both international and American, to script their own versions of the ultimate combination of sex, lies, and death. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice proves to have its differences in comparison to Tay Garnett’s 1946 silver screen rendition of the novel featuring Lana Turner and John Garfield. While Cain’s novel is brisk, stiff and a bit harsh, Garnett’s Postman is brought to life with Turner and Garfield’s playful and witty banter, which makes the tale seem less gruesome than it actually is. In both art forms, the narrative revolves around Frank Chambers, a middle-aged drifter, who goes to work for a roadside restaurant proprietor, Nick, and his sultry wife, Cora: she will eventually seduce Frank into helping her kill her husband. A first murder attempt fails, but later the lovers drive their unknowing victim down from a cliff. A clever attorney tries hit best to push Frank into betraying Cora, but an even shrewder lawyer is on Frank and Cora's side. Nevertheless, a climate of mistrust surrounds Frank and Cora, and eventually they both pay for the crimes they have...
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...People all over the world have taken a stand in history, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela. Nat Turner was born in Virginia in 1800. He was a brave man that took a stand. He took a stand against slavery by leading people out of slavery. Slavery was a terrible thing, Nat Turner stood up and helped fight it. Nat Turner was brave to lead these people. Not only escaping and helping was his strong point, but he was smart. But he later did get executed for what he did even though they feared. But though during his execution, he wasn’t a bad man he actually had a small family that he loved dearly, that contained, a wife and a child, he also had many siblings. These are just some of the reasons Nat Turner has taken a stand in history. Nat Turner was a great leader that did rebel against slavery. He showed that slavery wasn’t right to him by helping people escape. Nearly one hundred seventy years ago, he helped one hundred slaves break free from cruel masters. “He pleaded not guilty, saying to his counsel that he didn’t feel guilty” from the book The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation . Nat Turner believed that what he did was right and he thought that he wasn’t guilty for doing his actions because he helped people escape from cruel masters and he thought they didn’t deserve to be slaves. Slavery...
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...that focuses on a man named Nat Turner, a gifted black slave who convinced servants into a revolt against their masters. Oates describes these events through Nat Turner’s perspective while also recording his life and struggles. The book is an attempt to make Turner’s and his followers’ actions justifiable and explain that it led to what was probably the bloodiest slave revolt in American History [The Fires of Jubilee page ix]. According to Oates, Turner’s rebellion was the first step of many in the movement to free the United States. Oates book depicts the unjust treatment Serfs had to undergo, their struggle for freedom as well as the events occurring about fifty years prior to the civil war....
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...The dichotomy of the philosophy of the United States Constitution and the Institution of slavery existing together in the same society led to many explosive events, one of them was Nat Turner’s fierce rebellion. The Fires of Jubilee was researched and written by Stephen B. Oates his expertise being biographies of 19th century historical figures. The book is written as a dramatic narrative, but the research into the ambiguous character of Nat Turner and the events surrounding his life is thorough and extensive. A more perfect and horrendous thought experiment about political ethics, divinity, and morality and could not have been imagined than the real life events that preceded, culminated in, and followed the slave rebellion of Southampton...
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...In the August of 1831, Nathaniel “Nat” Turner led one of the only effective and sustained slave rebellions in U.S. history which left dozens, including young children, dead. Turner moved through the county, accompanied by his group of rebels. They went through houses, recruiting followers and killing whites. Nat Turner had gathered approximately 75 men, including five free black men, by the time the white population of Southampton had become aware of the insurrection. Despite the fact his insurgency was crushed, it created a wave of fear through the South and triggered a new surge of tyrannical legislation which forbade the movement, education, and assembly of slaves. It stiffened pro-slavery, anti-abolitionist convictions which continued in the district until the American Civil War in 1861. Historian Eric...
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...Turner chptr 2 Turner's rituals are the role played by liminality, structure, and communitas. Ritual serves, for Turner, the function of balancing structure and communitas. The individuals participating in the rituals are, temporarily, outside of the normal social structure, and thus, are in a liminal state. The initiate is first stripped of the social status that he or she possessed before the ritual, inducted into the liminal period of transition, and finally given his or her new status and reassimilated into society. He focuses entirely on the middle stage of rites of passage—the transitional or liminal stage. He notes, “The subject of passage ritual is, in the liminal period, structurally, if not physically, ‘invisible’”. That is, the status of liminal individuals is socially and structurally ambiguous. He develops this idea further in a concise definition of liminality that will inform his future writings: “Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise”. Turner also points out, that liminal individuals are polluting, and thus dangerous, to those who have not gone through the liminal period. In addition, liminal individuals have nothing: “no status, insignia, secular clothing, rank, kinship position, nothing to demarcate them structurally from their fellows”. The group of liminal...
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...another fierce rebellion that took place in the south, known as the Nat Turner's rebellion. To most African American people, especially in the south, Nat Turner is their hero, a fierce warrior who fought for their freedom and liberty. Several events took place before and after Nat Turner's rebellion, which changed the course of history. The two major events that have to be carefully noted are Nat Turner's inspiration for the rebellion, and the relationship between the North and South of America after the rebellion....
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