...Ask anyone living in Jackson Heights that knew Marlene and Jerry Barnes what kind of family they were. Without a doubt, their answer would be Marlene and Jerry came from the most trustworthy, and honest people they had ever known. They were the most respected and respected citizens in town. With life so harmonious, what brought forth changes to prompt them building an imaginary family closet and start filling it with skeletons? When trouble entered the family, no one acknowledged it, but they soon learned skeletons came with a price tag. By the time skeletons, the filled closet the deprivation left behind destroyed the Barnes’s family. BOOK 1 Opening the door, Marlene exited the Malibu and went to the driver’s side, after...
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...The story begins with old Dr. Heidegger inviting four elderly friends over to his rather eerie study: Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and the Widow Wycherly. The four old folks have all fallen a long way from their prime; each squandered his own type of fortune (youth, money, power, beauty) and is now in a miserable state. The narrator also informs us that, when they were young, the three men used to fight over the attention of the Widow Wycherly.Heidegger's creepy study contains, among other things, a bust of Hippocrates with whom Dr. Heidegger consults from time to time, a magic black book, a skeleton in a closet, and a mirror that supposedly contains the visages of Heidegger's dead patients. The Doctor presents his guests with four empty champagne glasses and an ornate vase full of clear, bubbling liquid. He takes an old, withered rose, drops it into the vase, and shows his guests that it has in fact been rejuvenated to a fresh-blooming flower. Dr. Heidegger then claims that the liquid in the vase is water from the mythical Fountain of Youth. He would like their help in an experiment: they drink the water, he sits back and watches. The guests are clearly skeptical, but they agree. Before they drink, Dr. Heidegger warns them not to make the same mistakes they did the first time they were young. The guests drink, and they believe they have grown young again. (Whether or not they actually are physically transformed is ambiguous.) Of course, they...
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...documentary “The Corporation” and it completely opened my mind to disturbing facts about how corporations operate. “The Corporation” revealed the corporations’ skeletons inside their closets. First skeleton, of which I truly focused my attention on, also what I consider the main agenda of the documentation, is the corporations’ greed. A Corporation is a legal person… or so I thought. The documentary revealed that a corporation is more of a legal beast whose main objective is to eat, eat, and eat the consumers’ money. The beast’s appetite is never satisfied. It only cares about generating profit for the shareholders and never thinks about its stakeholders. They exploit children, the legal system, and their employees for money. The unethical uses of: child advertisements to, later on, produce a generation of super consumers; the legal system to further benefit their cause; and the labor force by paying low wages to employees. In other areas of the corporate world also shows signs of selfishness and desire for money. As Carlton Brown, a commodities trader represented in the documentary, stated, “In devastation there is opportunity.” When I heard this statement, that Brown said how most stock brokers felt when the 9/11 occurred, I realized how money can damage a person’s moral conception about tragedies and catastrophes. The second skeleton I’d like to reflect is the corporation’s, as a legal person, incapacity to experience guilt and moral responsibilities. In my opinion, and I believe everyone...
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...From Yale, he went to the Medical School of the University of Michigan, where his interest shifted from psychiatry to neurosurgery. His excellent hand-eye coordination and three-dimensional reasoning skills made him a superior surgeon. After medical school he became a neurosurgery resident at the world-famous Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. At age 32, he became the hospital's Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery. In 1987, Carson made medical history with an operation to separate a pair of Siamese twins. The Binder twins were born joined at the back of the head. Operations to separate twins joined in this way had always failed, resulting in the death of one or both of the infants. Carson agreed to undertake the operation. A 70-member surgical team, led by Dr. Carson, worked for 22 hours. At the end, the twins were successfully separated and can now survive independently. Carson's other surgical innovations have included the first intra-uterine procedure to relieve pressure on the brain of a hydrocephalic fetal twin, and a hemispherectomy, in which an infant suffering from uncontrollable seizures has half of its brain removed. This stops the seizures, and the remaining half of the brain actually compensates for the missing hemisphere. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Carson is in constant demand as a public speaker, and devotes much of his time to meeting with groups of young people. In 2008, the White House announced that Benjamin Carson would receive the Presidential...
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...The setting in Dark Romantic pieces often set up a very defined mood that most share. There will often be a dark, or eerie mood that is brought on by creepy figures or items. In “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, the area the story takes place in is Dr. Heidegger’s study. The story summarizes what the story basically looks like, “dim, old-fashioned chamber, festooned with cobwebs, and besprinkled with antique dust” (Hawthorne 228). Later with more detail, Hawthorne’s narrator includes the bust of hippocrates, an oaken closet which a skeleton was slightly poking out of,along with a dusty looking glass with which “the doctor’s deceased patients dwelt within its verge” (Hawthorne 229). When the setting was first stated in “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”,...
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...British English American English accommodation accommodations action replay instant replay aerofoil airfoil aeroplane airplane agony aunt advice columnist Allen key Allen wrench aluminium aluminum aniseed anise anticlockwise counterclockwise articulated lorry tractor-trailer asymmetric bars uneven bars aubergine eggplant baking tray cookie sheet bank holiday legal holiday beetroot beet(s) bill check biscuit cookie; cracker black economy underground economy blanket bath sponge bath blind (window) shade block of flats apartment building boiler suit coveralls bonnet (of a car) hood boob tube tube top boot (of a car) trunk bottom drawer hope chest bowls lawn bowling braces suspenders brawn (the food) headcheese breakdown van tow truck breeze block cinder block bridging loan bridge loan bumbag fanny pack candyfloss cotton candy car park parking lot casualty emergency room catapult slingshot central reservation median strip chemist drugstore chips French fries cinema movie theater; the movies ...
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... Abraham Lincoln: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." This quotation—from a man who was tested as perhaps no other American chief executive has—makes it clear that character in leadership matters. Holding a position of leadership by definition implies holding power, and only people of good character can handle power properly. One could go so far as to say that character in leadership is where character matters the most. Today, however, moral character in leadership is not considered a first priority. The current political campaign reveals what the candidates' public relations experts deem to be important: centrist policies, good looks, felicity in public speaking, a lack of skeletons in...
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...Mount Pleasant is a short story about a girl named Elizabeth and her little sister Lena, whose parents are completely different. It was written by Marie-Louise Buxton and published in 2005. The story addresses themes such as dysfunction in the family and the effects of very physical disciplining on children. The story is a present tense first person narrative, and the language and lack of rational sorting of information very much resembles the style of a child at about age 6 or 7. As you have probably experienced, children have a tendency to begin the telling of a story at random. In “Mount Pleasant” we also see this phenomenon since its plot starts in medias res, “Mammy’ll take to me with a wooden spoon if she catches me up in the attic. But “Be off and play,” Daddy said, “out from under us feet.” We see no clear beginning; no introduction to the setting of the story or to the circumstances of its plot. Only the fact that “Mammy” will hit her kid with a wooden spoon if the kid plays in the attic. Once could say though, that the story in fact does not start in medias res: Despite the story starting out of nothing, we mustn’t overlook the introduction to two of the story’s main characters and the introduction to their most important features regarding our narrators telling of the story: How they act towards their kids. The mother or “Mammy” has a very offensive approach to Elizabeth and Lena. Throughout the entire story she never does anything good for her children. Her way...
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...During those months I was miserable; not being able to write or use my right hand properly drove me crazy. To think that if the arm was no longer there would make me very depressed, but to have it not there by chose, I truly have a hard time imagining that scenario. Something I thought I knew, but discovered was wrong in this article would have to be how many instances something has gone wrong at a hospital and they tried to hide it. I might just be blind to the situation, but I thought that hospital would be honest. The people went into those professions because they like to care and serve others. There are also so many rules to follow and up hold that I thought it would help remove the stains, but I guess every business has skeletons in the closet that they don’t want people to see....
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...and machine known to man. This time, however, it’s a caterpillar on a moving train. This time around in Skyfall, we experience a different tone. It’s deeper because we experience an opportunity to see deeply into the characters. Instead of just knowing that James Bond is an international man of mystery, we see shades of him we’ve never seen before. A glimpse to what makes up his chemistry rather than his signature dry martini, Aston Martin and his classic sexual mistress he seems to encounter so frequently. At the same time, we see the major development and texture we can practically feel with M, played by Judi Dench and Silva, played by Javier Bardem. M is practically the second-leading character, as we see some skeletons ruffled up out of the closet while she stares termination and retirement in the face answering to her boss, Mallory, who’s played brilliantly quiet by Ralph Fiennes. Pieces of the Dark Knight echoed through the movie in my mind. The color set the tone. Vivid and bright at times in Shanghai, while contrastingly gray and dull in Scotland. The main point I make when referring to the Dark Knight is the magnificence to which the villain is played. Bardem as Silva is a maddening, yet brilliantly scary computer whiz who is motivated by his past, which happens to be related to M. The comparison comes when Silva is caught and locked up, yet escapes as it was part of his plan, similar to how the Joker was caught and freed as part of his plan in the Dark...
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...The Bork Bill The Bork bill is named after Robert Bork, an American scholar that was an advocated forThe Judical pholisphoy of originalism. Originalism is a principle of interpretation that tries to Discover the original meaning or intent of the constitution. This falls under the umbrella of two Theories. Those two theories are the Intent theory which is the interpretation of a written Constitution that Is consistent with what was meant by those who drafted and ratified it. The Other is the original Means theory that view the interputation of a written constitution or law Should be based on what Reasonable people living at that time of its adoption would have declared. Robert Bork served as a law professor at Yale Law School. He served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit. He was nominated by Ronald Regan to the Supreme Court on July 1, 1987 to take the spot of Associate Justice William Rehnquist. Senator Ted Kennedy declared: “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley Abortions, blacks would sit at segregated Rogue police could break down citizens Door in midnight raids, school children could not be taught about evolution, writers And artists could be censored at the whim of the government, and the doors of Federal Courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens.” Bork nomination was declined on October 23, 1987. Bork was unhappy with the treatment...
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..."Feed the Machine" Interpretation The "machine" in this song is sin and temptation. A verse-by-verse interpretation is provided. "Lie!” Sin is a lie, despite how good it looks or feels it is wrong. “Turn around, they might be watching, And you never disappoint them. Hide your innocence before they see right through. You mustn't disappoint them.” This verse describes the shame of sin. We hide it to save our reputation; sin is our skeleton in the closet. “You need the danger just to feel your heart beat. You need to die just to find your identity. You need a knife just to know that you can bleed. You need the pain now just to feel anything.” Sin is a rush. It's addicting. It's tempting. Part of the reason is that we both love and fear the guilt of sin. We love our "guilty pleasures" but we fear being discovered because we know that we are guilty. The more we sin the guiltier we become and the guilt destroys us. But sin is a drug, and like a drug, although it hurts us, we always go back for more. “We fall in line, we live the lie (Give up give up and feed the machine) It grows inside, nowhere to hide (Give up give up and feed the machine, Give up give up and feed the machine)” We pretend to live as if we are without sin, but in truth, we struggle with sin as it constantly tempts us and the temptation grows ever stronger until it is satisfied. As we fall deeper into sin, we become guiltier and more afraid of our guilt. Sin wants us to...
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...to realize how far we have come in some areas in this country, and still, so far we have left to go. I learn of history, and of their misfortunes, and hope in some part of my being that my generation’s hatchets receive a burial before they enumerate to archaic proportions. I hope so, because, if nothing else, of the faint sense of childhood optimism remaining inside of me. As kids, we all look at the world through a utopic lens: there is no war, no death, no disease, no hatred, and no deception. Growing older, the levels of realism within ourselves heighten to the point where we can have sayings like, “No good deed goes unpunished.” It frustrates me to no end to see both the political right and left refuse to recognize the skeletons in their respective closets, and instead, act as though they hold some sort of moral high ground the opposite side hopes to...
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...Andrea Cohen October 4th, 2012 Professor Marcel Nazi era- Companies that Help in the Holocaust Throughout history, there have been important events that have distinct a particular ethical issue within various companies. One of these horrific events was the Holocaust, which is defined by Michell R Marrus as “the systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis”, which “sits uneasily in the history of our time” (Marrus, 1987). To many people the Holocaust is still a source of remorse. Consequently they feel embarrassed, since many were apathetic towards the people suffering, but many also believe that historical investigations can bring about additional insight regarding companies and their commitments. The Holocaust is a part of the history that produces an uncomfortable sensation because of the horrible that happened in this era. As Nora Levin stated, it is not only the magnitude of the destruction- the murder of six million Jews- but because the events surrounding are in a very real sense incomprehensible. No one can understand how mass murder in such a scale could have happened or could have been allowed to happen. The purpose of this paper is not to talk about the Holocaust, however, to create a profound analysis of the German automobile companies that helped the Nazis to perform and gain profits from this holocaust of innocent people. Examples of these companies are the Ford Company, BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke), Daimler Benz, and Volkswagen. From 1930-1945...
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...The handle of the sturdy wooden door, gleaming in the dim light coming from the windows, shifts its neck downward in an eerie, indicative manner. As the door silently cracks, a glimpse of a slender, scaled monster appears, hissing as it butts its head against the door. With one massive push, the door bursts open and the Velociraptor enters the kitchen where Lex and Tim Murphy are hiding. The kids sit in silence as another Velociraptor enters the room; the raptors roar at each other as if they were communicating. Lex and Tim scamper behind an adjacent counter as the Velociraptors begin to sweep the room, their enlarged claws clicking on the tiles of the floor. Visibly frightened, Lex and Tim tremble as one of the beasts peers its head over the island they cowered behind. Luckily for them, it senses nothing and clicks onward. Then, as if by accident, the raptors massive, muscular tail sweeps across the countertop and sends pots and pans crashing on top of the kids. Lex shrieks as they both dart behind yet another row of counters, but it seems that the raptors take no notice over the crashes and clangs of the pans. It seems they have evaded their predators until Tim flattens himself to the side of cupboard accidentally knocking over a ladle, which seems to stop time on its way to the hard, thunderous ground. Immediately as the utensil makes its deafening ring, both dinosaurs are on the attack: one leaps upon a table as the other makes its way around to the sound of...
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