...The Good and the Bad Skins This is England is the story about the 12 year old boy Shaun (played by Thomas Turgoose). Shaun is desperately trying to fit in after the death of his father during the Falkland’s war. Shaun lives in the England together with his mother, at school he is bullied, but Shaun is soon to run in to the group of local skinheads. This group invites him in, in spite of the large age difference. Together the group hangs out and causes a number of harmless assaults. Until one day Combo a former member of the group returns from prison with new nationalistic ideologies and with these he splits op the group. One of the great things about this film is that not only does is tell us about the young confused Shaun growing up. It also illustrates the environment of England during the 80’ties with a more detailed view of the group of skinheads and the feeling of nationalism that were spreading. It describes the multiple consequences England was dealing with at the time. But at the same time manage to display both the positive and negative side of being a part of a group of skinheads. Also the film succeeds to portrait two highly different groups of skinheads, where one of the groups cares more about friendship and fun than the other. This is England is a very violent movie that contains lot of drama and aggressive scenes. But at the same time the film manage to become incredible hilarious which for instance is because of the language that is used, which contains...
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...shaven hairstyles starts for young Shaun. All is good and well until one of Woody’s friends, Combo, turns up, fresh out of 3 years’ imprisonment. Combo soon creates tension in their little group and Shaun finds himself at some of his first major life decisions. Overall, I found the movie really interesting. It had fascinating, complex characters, and you had to read between the lines to fully understand some of them. The plot itself was compelling although a bit fast paced, but that is to be expected when you have to tell a story like that in under two hours. It was interesting to get a glimpse into the skinhead culture of England during the 80's, and get to see how Margaret Thatcher's politicsadivided the nation. The film crew behind ‘This is England’ captured the mood/atmosphere/feeling of the 80’s excellently with their rough editing, grainy camera style, and bleak settings. With the added soundtrack of Ska music, it was an exceptionally authentic portrayal of the 80’s. Thomas Turgoose plays Shaun, the protagonist of the movie, and he manages to capture the cheeky nature of him really well, while still maintaining the sadness behind Shaun’s character. He effortlessly manages to convey an array of mixed emotions that is...
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...This is Water David Foster Wa!ace There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and “Morning, boys, how's the water?” And the two young fish swim on bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and “What the hell is water?” meet says, for a goes, If at this moment, you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise old fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The immediate point of the fish story is that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude — but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. 1 A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. Here's one example of the utter wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic selfcenteredness, because it's so socially repulsive, but it's pretty much the same for all of us, deep down. It is our default-setting, hard-wired...
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...Themes in This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen The Holocaust was a depressing time in history that caused many people grief, anguish, and fear. Many people from the Holocaust have written about their experiences and trials they faced not only in concentration camps, but in their lives living under Hitler’s rule. Prisoners in the concentration camps would often have journals hidden so others could read about their lives. Surviving several concentration camps while in his twenties the author of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tadeusz Borowski, faced difficult times. Often taking extreme measures to ensure his survival, he was able to live at the expense of others’ lives. While living among the other prisoners of the concentration camp, Birkenau, Borowski does some seemingly unthinkable things. He was one of the more privileged prisoners because of the job he kept. When new transports would come in, he would take their belongings which included food, clothing, and supplies. The people would be sent immediately to the gas chambers, and the supplies taken had to be given back to the guards for upkeep of the camps, but the men who unloaded the prisoners got to keep the food. “Canada” as it was called among the prisoners, symbolized wealth and survival because this was where all the clothing and valuables were taken to distribute to Germany (Borowski 1454). The men working to unload the cattle cars were also like Canada...
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...The novel This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff depicts the hardships faced by a boy in the 1950s. The main character, Toby Wolff or Jack, travels around the country with his mother, Rosemary, in an attempt to escape her abusive boyfriend. Jack is constantly adapting to his continuously changing surroundings and faces new problems everywhere he goes. Throughout the novel, the author uses secrecy among the characters to portray both plot and character development. Secrecy plays a major role in showing the character development of the main character Jack. When Jack decides to apply to private schools, he realizes he needs outstanding letters of recommendation to make sure he gets in. Jack decides to write the letters himself and he describes himself...
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...This Land is Your Land, Incomplete The poem “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie is originally a seven stanza poem that is often cut short in the recorded versions known to many. The poem’s main element is imagery of America’s landmarks to evict an emotion out of the reader. The first four stanzas have a much more celebratory tone compared to the final three. In the recorded versions, the last three stanzas are cut out, so as to not dampen the joyful tone of the song. The change in tone of the poem is easily broken into two parts. The first part makes the reader feel proud of America by describing some of its national symbols and declaring in the last lines of each stanza. “This land was made for you and me.” (4,8,12,16.) These first four stanzas have a common theme of Guthrie taking in America’s beauty while feeling blessed to be in its land. Guthrie describes the sights as “sparkling sands” (10.) and “golden valley” (7.) to make the reader feel pleased and almost proud of our land. The first four stanzas have been sung and used to celebrate America in most patriotic settings. The last part of the poem has been left out of the mainstream recorded versions and few realize that there are three more stanzas in the original. The last three stanzas take a different tone by describing the land of America in a darker way than the first four. This tone changes the main line “This land was made for you and me” from a joyful voice to a sadder, matter of fact, realization...
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...Often we hear the phrase, "promote from within" as one of the best ways to expand the talent pool. Yet sometimes firms do not post internal openings for which anyone may apply. Instead, they select someone to promote. Why might a firm do this and what drawbacks could result? On the other hand, some firms prefer to look outside the company to increase the talent pool, including posting information on social networking sites. What are the benefits of using social media for recruitment? A firm might want to “promote from within” because the company wants to attract their employees. Every ones want to work for a company where they will have the opportunities of promotion. This will encourage people to work harder because they want to go up on that ladder of employment. Also, “promote from with in” helps company save time and money on hiring any position. Company will not have to pay the advertising fee, won’t have to read a bunch of applications, and won’t have to interview lots of people. Another plus thing is when you promote someone from with in, that person already knows well about the company and how things work, so they don’t have to spend a lot of times to learn about the company culture and stuffs, which may lowers their performance for the first couple weeks like employees that are hired from outside of the company might. So “promote from with in is a great way to strengthen your company with out having to spend too much to find the perfect candidates. However, there...
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...* Introduction This report is intended to highlight the alarming effect of photo editors. It will focus on how these editors can be used for destructive purposes, how their usage has altered people’s mind and created problem in businesses and personal life of individuals. Report will also include suggestions to the problem under discussion. * Photo Editors Photo Editors are those software that are used to manipulate, enhance, and transform images on a computer. With the advancement in technology, now a huge number of photo editors are available online i.e. there is no need to download photo editing software. There are hundreds of such software available and they all provide almost same functionality. Some basic features of such software are crop, resize, merge, and liquefy, adding texture, changing color and so on. * Adverse Use of Photo Editors * Photo editing can be used to destroy company’s reputation. Edited pictures, with fake results/effects of the product can be used to displease their consumers. * Edited pictures such as attaching someone’s face to someone else’s body can be used to give threats. The victim can be forced that way to provide money to the editor or obey his orders. * Companies can use it for fraud. They might show fake pictures to the customers and convince them to use their products. * Sometimes people use editors to display fake story. That story might get viral over the internet and bring fame/satisfaction to the person...
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...Now you need to schedule the project you chose in Unit I. Reread the scenarios from Units I and II. Based on the previous project information you created, the project priorities you set, and your budget, you will now need to break down your project into activities. Using an Internet search engine, locate a project scheduling template or use the Microsoft Project trial software included with your textbook. Build a WBS and project schedule using the templates or Microsoft Project. You will need to identify all dependencies and estimate your costs. Assign contingency reserves, and determine how much reserve your team would estimate for the whole project. Justify and explain your choices and estimates. You may want to review the WBS section located on pages 108-116 in Chapter 4 of your textbook. Save your assignment as a PDF file. You may need to research the publishing process to give you adequate information to make your decisions. In addition you will need to know the following information: You will use the project scenario you worked on in Unit I. In addition to the Unit I information, your boss has given you a budget of $7 million to complete the projects you have on the table. You will be working with the marketing department, the IT department, and the school-level division department throughout the next three years in order to complete these projects. Also remember that you do not have all the resources you need for the multi-media project. The textbook revisions and...
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...create the ups and downfalls for many brands on the market. In order to have future opportunities a brand would need to be successful in all area that it takes to be a major product. I think in positioning products, I would recommend that the product stand up for its words. The price of the product is what it is selling for, but if I pay so much for the item I would like to have it around for a while. If I am able to have it around for a while then it’s worth the money. Clothes are like car, wanting something reliable to get to A to B, like warm than cold. So positioning the product as a product that stands its claim from advertisement to the closet or where ever they are placed is a claim that I would use to sell the product. If I can do this then a lot would not care about pricing, and place to get the items or products. Positioning...
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...How can a rubbish bin be a delight? A rubbish bin is the sort of product most people value for its functional features. However, a Danish producer of high-quality designer rubbish bins, the Vipp rubbish bin, has managed to change the rules. People gladly pay $250-500 for a Vipp bin, and at this price they must be getting more than just a well-functioning rubbish bin. How else could you pursue consumers to pay so much for a functional product that costs significantly less than the sales price to produce? Vipp is more than functionality, it is a story, it is quality, it is design, and sometimes even perceived as art. In other words, Vipp has managed to turn something as boring and functional as a rubbish bin into a delight. The story behind Vino is an important part of the product and helps differentiate it from other products of similar functionality. The first Vipp bin was made by Holger Nielsen in 1939 in a small town in western Denmark. The rubbish bin was designed for his wife's new hair-dressing salon. From here the bin found its way into the offices of the local physician and the local dentist and slowly but steadily into other clinics, salons, and hospitals. When Holger Nielsen's daughter Jette Egelund, took over in 1994 she saw new potential for the bin and took it from being a functional, quality rubbish bin to being a designer product. She started selling the rubbish bin on the private consumer market and also took it outside of Denmark, first to Germany and then to...
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...When I was stationed in South Dakota I owned a 1994 Audi A4. I enjoyed the vehicle so much that ever since then I have wanted to own a new Audi A4. The current price of a 2013 Audi A4 is $33,395. In twelve years I assume that in order to keep consumers returning to their product they will continue to keep the price about the same. My goal is to save up enough money in 12 years to pay with cash. Let assume that I have found an investment that that promises an average return of 10% per year. The desired item is a new Audi A4 The cost in 12 years will be about $33,395 The average interest rate of the investment is 10%. The Present Value Formula is P = A(1+r)-n where P is the present value that will amount to A dollars in n years at interest rate r compounded annually. The numbers are plugged into the formula P = A(1+r)-n and the quantity raised to a power and has a negative exponent of –n. It will look like: P = 33395(1 + .10)-12 Next I will add inside the parentheses. P = 33395(1.10)-12 Now by using the rules of exponents the negative exponent will change position and convert to a positive by finding the reciprocal and I will calculate 1.1012. P = 33395(1.10)12 P = 33395/(1.10)12 P = 33395/3.138428… Finally I will show the value of P using the formula. P = 10640.67 Looking at the results of the formula, if I invest let’s say $11000.00 today I will have the $33395 and some change in 12 years to purchase my...
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...CONTENTS |Topic |Page | |Newton's 1st Law: the Law of Inertia |2 | |Newton's 2nd Law: the Law of Proportionality |3 | |Newton's 3rd Law: the Law of Interaction |4-5 | |STUDENT WORKSHEET: Conversion…Force |6 | |STUDENT WORKSHEET: Conversion…Weight |7 | |STUDENT WORKSHEET: Conversion…Length |8 | |STUDENT WORKSHEET: Acceleration |9 | |STUDENT WORKSHEET: Force and Acceleration |10 | |STUDENT WORKSHEET: Force and Acceleration Exercises |11 | |STUDENT WORKSHEET: Fighting Gravity! |12 | National Science Standards: Science as Inquiry Physical Science Position...
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...1. (20 pt) Go to http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/ph/sampledist.html. Use a skewed distribution. Take 1000 samples of sizes 2, 10 and 100. Construct a mean for each sample and look at the distribution of the sample means (third row). Record the mean and SD in the population for the original random variable. Make a table and record the mean of the means, and the standard deviation of the mean for each sample size (2, 10 and 100). For a bell-shaped distribution we showed that the mean of the sample means is very similar to the mean in the population for all population sizes. This is the property of unbiasedness. From your results, does the mean appear to be unbiased when the original distribution of the data is skewed? For a bell-shaped distribution we showed that the standard deviation of the mean, or the standard error of the mean, decreases with sample size. Is this true for skewed distributions? Calculate the standard error of the mean that is expected for each sample size and record in the table. How did the observed result compared to your calculation? * * Mean of the Population: 15.5297 * Median of the Population: 12.2861 * Standard Deviation of the Population: 12.5078 * * Sample Size | * Mean of the means | * Standard Deviation | * Standard Error of the Mean | * 2 | * 15.7741 | * 8.8115 | * 6.23067 | * 10 | * 15.4568 | * 3.847 | * 1.21653 | * 100 | * 15.5223 | * 1.2636 | * 0.12636 | * ...
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...Same sex marriage issue paves way for anti-discrimination bill By Artemio Dumlao (The Philippine Star) Updated July 05, 2011 12:00 AM BAGUIO CITY ,Philippines – Christian groups led by the Catholic Charismatic Christian Movement believes that the same sex marriage controversy is a “grand design” by some sectors to push House Bill 1483 (Anti-Discrimination bill) filed by Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Teodoro Casiño. According to the group, the same sex unions officiated by the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) here on June 29 have been pitting family members against each other, the opposing Catholic Church and other Christian groups versus the proponents and even government officials caught in the controversy. Alexander Bangsoy, a member of the charismatic movement in the city and nearby Benguet, said the diverse reactions to the same sex marriages were part of a plot to stir debate and evoke discriminatory attitude against the third sex to gather sympathy for HB 1483. “It set the stage for them to say they are being discriminated, though (they) are not,” Bangsoy said. The group vowed to oppose HB 1483 by urging Baguio Rep. Bernardo Vergara, Benguet Rep. Ronald Cosalan, and all other congressmen to drop the measure. They have also taken their cause to social networking sites like Facebook (No To Same Sex Marriage in the Philippines group) and have initiated a signature campaign to counter the growing popularity of the “unions.” “We should oppose HB 1483...
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