...Zachary Ryan Bussman. A great son, a great brother, but way past all of that, a great person. Zach was always striving to be the best he could be. Skating, playing the guitar, sports, doing front flips off of his garage onto pillows and blankets…no matter what it was you would always get Zach’s best effort. One specific moment that has and will always stick in my head was in 2005 when myself, Zach, Nick Bart and a bunch of other close friends were on a house league baseball team together. A championship house league team I should say. Zach was our all-star catcher. Now if you know Zach you know about his temper. When Zach was mad, everyone paid the price. One game Zach was so upset and down on himself because of an error he had made. Little did he know he was going to be the star of that game. I was on the mound pitching and Zach was behind the plate catching. A foul ball was popped up, and I see Zach take off and I thought to myself there’s no chance he’s catching that….next thing you know I see Zach dive head first, completely horizontal with the ground, and make the catch. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kid with a bigger smile on his face. Ever. That season our squad went on to win a very exciting house league tournament championship. I could sit here for days talking about my fallen brother who helped make me who I am today. And saying that, I want to thank him for the friendship he gave me. I will never know why he had to go so young, but I know that God has himself one heck...
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...“Men are the savage and brutal forces of society.” Compare and contrast how masculinity is explored in two texts you have studied in light of this comment. In A Streetcar Named Desire, the men are seen as cruel and bitter due to their harsh use of force to achieve what they want. Whereas in All New People, the men are perceived as the victims of society rather than its actual driving force. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley fulfils the duty of carrying the traditional patriarchal role of the breadwinner in the society of the 1950’s era. He is represented as masculine through the use of his dominance in the household, control over Stella and being the prime influence in his social group of friends, as they see him as someone they want to be. However, this is contrasted in the modern day text of All New People, as Charlie conforms to the image of the ‘new man’ by emphasising the different types of masculine forms in society and how they are widely accepted. He expresses this through the use of showing emotion and being more considerate of other people’s feelings, while being aware of his own. Tennessee Williams makes it prominent that in 1950’s post war America, men and women each had specific gender roles that they had to attain and carry out. Stanley’s physical sovereignty is embedded throughout the play due to way he behaves and his innermost desire to control everyone around him. “Well, you can hear me and I said to hush up!” “[yelling]: Sit down!” Stanley demonstrates...
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...Everyone has seen movies of different types before there are dramas, romances, mysteries, and comedies to name a few. Comedies in particular are fun to watch because everyone enjoys a good laugh from time to time, and one of my favorite comedies is a movie by the title of Out Cold. I never knew how much Out Cold, which has a pre Hangover Zach Galifianakis in its cast, took from Casablanca until this week. Especially, the part that uses a jukebox and 311 song to reenact the famous scene in which Sam plays the song at Ilsa request and Rick comes out upset to hear the song only to find her standing there. Casablanca is considered a classic American movie made in 1942. It stars the actor Humphrey Bogart who despite being an actor some four decades before I was born I have still heard as of a exceptional actor. I find that older movie are usually hit or miss with me, but I did enjoy this movie because one it is set at the beginning of World War 2 which is a interesting time. Also, while the movie isn't action packed with special effect it is very character driven and that keeps a person invested in the movie. Lastly, the movie has a run time of one hundred and two minutes but it doesn't feel like it drags on and that might be the result of good editing not letting scenes become to long while giving all the necessary interactions. I would say the focus of Casablanca would be the complexity of human relationships. It also looks at ideas of morality with the love triangle of...
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...Zach Wahls is a 19 year old engineering student who was raised by two women. His goal was to persuade the government officials to not pass a law to disallowed gay marriage in Iowa. Zach had a very daunting task of arguing for something that people fear and hate for no reason. Persuading people who are generally closed minded to the idea of gay marriage or gays in general is difficult. I do believe his speech was persuasive, and does follow the A.I.D.A format very well. He opened by appealing to your typical American’s sense of pride in where they come from; identifying himself as a sixth generation Iowan. He also reveals himself to be an engineering student, which I believe was the show that he was not your average Joe. Intelligence and success always seem to get the attention of high officials and businessmen. After getting the attention of everyone, and introducing himself he drops the bomb; He stated that he was raised by two women....
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...{Both are in a hotel room that Lori has reserved just for a weekend of partying with Zach an old boyfriend that she will never forgive} Zach: Girl you are just too sexy to me. Lori: Well thank you Zach {while trying on lipstick} Zach: Why do you even wear make-up because you are so beautiful without all that caked upon your face Lori: I just have to have my make-up on its makes me feel much more glamorous. Zach: So how are you enjoying the fast-paced Vegas life? Lori: I just love it, way more exciting than Louisiana. I miss nothing about that place. Zach: I know what you mean; I’ve wanted to move here ever since the first time I visited. You and I always have so much fun together and I really miss you, miss being with you. Lori: Let’s not go there what you I can never forget. Zach: That’s been so long ago and besides I have apologized so many times for my mistake. Why don’t you forgive and forget? Lori: Because what you did was too horrible to forgive and definitely too hard to forget about. The shit you did was gross, sneaky, and embarrassing. Zach: {Shaking his head in regret} that night I was way too wasted and I can hardly remember what really happened. Lori: {stands up with hands in a fist} well let me remind you then. You left with my first cousin after a block party that I didn’t even attend and you had sex with her and now as a the result of that you two have twins!!! Zach: Those twins may not even be mine; I mean hell I never even met them. She wants nothing...
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...In Chapter 7, Lily meets Zach, and Sue Monk Kidd develops themes regarding racism/racial tension through the interactions between Lily and Zach. This causes Lily to re-think her own perceptions of race and racism and how she feels about certain issues. To begin with, when Lily first sees Zach she is shocked on how good looking he was because she always thought that African American people couldn't be attractive. On page 116 it says "But his face I couldn't help staring at. If he was shocked over me being white, I was shocked about him being handsome." This suggests that Lily is in a society where she has learned that if you were African American, you couldn't be attractive and she had actually believed that until she met Zach. Lily never thought that she was a racist, but when she thinks deeply about it, she realizes that ideas of racism have been planted...
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...In memory of Zach." Zach's dad spoke. I think for a moment. "I would enjoy that." I'm not sure if they noticed my voice crack and my eyes water. They did frown at me, but they were frowning the whole time. I decide I Should grab my overnight bag and put it in Cynthia's car, Zachs mother. I couldn't stand to see them lower him. I find their car and open the back door. Right before i shut the door, a picture catches my eye. It was a picture of Zach and his family at city hall. He looked so happy in that picture. That was the weekend he asked to visit. Somewhere in my stomach I felt knots, knots of guilt. The week he asked to visit i turned him down because of family problems. I should have told him it was okay if he visited. I would have met him in person, hugged him one last time, and just got to know him more than i did. I snap back to reality when cynthia taps my shoulder. “You okay, dear?” “Oh, yes i am.” “Zach always liked history.” She smiled. I raised my eyebrow. I loved history, but i always thought Zach hated it. That would have been something me and Zach related...
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...While in Tiburon Lily and a teenage boy named Zach helped to assist August,the beekeeper, with her honey business. On the day Lily got the courage to tell August why she actually came to Tiburon, Zach asked Lily to go into town. In town an incident with some colored boys and a few white men. The interaction ended in all the colored boys going to jail because no one would confess who hit a white man with a coke bottle.Everyone in the house knew that Zach had been in jail except for August’s sister, May.May was a bit unstable before hearing Zach was incarcerated but after receiving the news she just couldn’t handle it. The night May found out about Zach she went down to the river in the woods and put a huge rock on her chest and left a note for May and her other sister June explaining why she killed herself. May killing herself was the result of...
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...NAME | MATRIC NO | LECTURE GROUP | 1. | | | 2. | | | 3. | | | 4. | | | 5. | | | QUESTION 1 (17 MARKS) 1.1 Roma Co. has sold goods by $ 3,000; the cost of goods was $ 1,400; they spend an administrative expenses of $100; their lease expenses is $30; their depreciation is $28; their interest expenses is $ 90; Taxes is $90; their preferred stock is $10; suppose their number of shares of common outstanding is 200 and total dividend pay is $57.5. (all the figures are in million). a) Prepare income statement for year ended 31 December, take into consideration the Above information. (4 Marks) b) What is their dividend per share (DPS)? (2 Marks) c) What is their earning per share (EPS)? (2 Marks) 1.2 Bruce Group. left with an inventories amounted to $ 655 at the end of December 31st 2014, their account payable was $63; and notes payable $113; Accruals $ 140; they have invested in long term bond totalled to $ 750; their preferred stock was $ 40 but common stock was $ 130; their machinery amount to $1000; 400,000 are number of preferred shares where 50,000,000 are the number of common shares. a) Prepare Balance Sheet as Year ended 31 December 2014, provided that account receivable is $ 373; cash and multiple security is $9, if you knew that amount is in Million dollar. (5 Marks) b) If machinery increases by...
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...His name is Zachary Green. He served in Vietnam for two tours. He is now 50. While serving in Vietnam, Zach lost an arm, a leg, and was subjected to agent orange. He also suffers from ptsd and depression. Due to being subjected to agent orange, Zach also has various other medical issues. All his medical issues go completely untreated, and he live on the streets of New York City. Zach has no money, no place to call home, and no way to get food. Zach faces a daily struggle to survive, and has no ability to receive any help. The prejudice against the homeless prevents him from being able to obtain a job, or to have anyone take him in.as Gordon Alport says in “the nature of prejudice”, “prejudice is being down on someone you’re not up on.” In...
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...The Secret Life of Bees is about a white girl named Lily living in a world that is strongly racist. She accidentally killed her mother when she was young, and it haunts her. Lily lives with her unloving father T-Ray, and their maid/slave pretty much, Rosaleen. The book and movie are both broadly about Lily’s journey running away from home and learning to forgive herself for her past and find out that she is lovable. The book and movie had a few major differences. The first difference in the plot was when instead of Zach being put in jail, like the book, he was kidnapped. This shed Zach in a different light, it makes him seem somewhat weak as opposed to what happened in the book. I guess it had the same effect of Zach being gone for a period...
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...accidentally picks up and kills her mother. The Secret Life of Bees is a book that shows many types of interracial interactions such as; mentor-mentee, intimate relationship, caregiver, friendship, resentment, and hatred. The mentor-mentee relationship in this book is expressed by Clayton Forrest and Zach Taylor. Zach’s aspiration to be a lawyer, a title not commonly held by a black american, is questioned by all, except Clayton Forrest. Clayton Forrest instead of knocking his dreams, mentors him and teaches Zach about lawyer duties, even giving him stuff to read and keeping him updated in some legal matters. Seeing...
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...be changed. 4. Where on the disk should you put your /boot partition or the root (/) partition if you do not use a /boot partition? Default layout 8. When does a Fedora/RHEL system start X by default? To start X by default you need to set run level 5 to be the default and it will start when the system boots. Chapter 11 ex 1. How does single-user mode differ from multiuser mode In single user mode, only the console user may be logged in, though the user can edit files and execute multiple programs simultaneousl 3. What do the letters of the su command stand for? (Hint: It is not Superuser.) What can you do with su besides give yourself root privileges? How would you log in as Zach if you did not know his password but knew the root password? How would you establish the same environment that Zach has when he first logs in? Substitute User, give yourself privileges of any user you know the password for, follow su...
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...for a crime if all five elements of criminal law are proven beyond a reasonable doubt. These elements are mens rea, actus reus, concurrence, proximate cause, and corpus delicti. After two hours of deliberation jurors found Zach Williams guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of his ex girlfriend, Lindsay Hollister. Friday morning, Lindsay was found in her apartment; victim of six stab wounds. The Forensics team and other officers who arrived on scene collected evidence including a mirror with blood splatter and the knife suspected to be the murder weapon found under a chair. Phone records prove that late Thursday night Zach texted Lindsay’s best friend, Emily, saying that Lindsay would pay for breaking up with him. The murder weapon was proved to be the knife found under the chair by matching the shape and pattern to the wounds in Lindsay’s body. DNA Forensic Analyst, Dr. Mark S. Levin, tested the blood found at the scene. Lindsay’s DNA was a match to the blood splatter on the mirror and the knife contained two different DNAs. One was confirmed to be Lindsay’s and the other was a match to the DNA of Zach Williams. Upon Zach’s arrest it was discovered that he had a deep cut in his hand made by the same knife used to kill Lindsay. Zach Williams was convicted using the five elements of criminal law....
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...The Secret Life of Bees, a beautiful coming of age novel written by Sue Monk Kidd, teaches its readers powerful lessons that touch the heart. Lily’s decision to run away enlightens her perspectives on life and helps her discover herself and her values. The journey that she makes results in a better understanding of the true meaning of family, the faults of her society, and what being happy really consists of. The first Lesson Lily learns is about family. Lily’s family life when she was living at home lacked the love and affection she needed. After running away, she makes several important discoveries about what family really is, and where it is found. The first, and most prominent, example of this in the novel is Lily’s mother. After accidentally killing her mother when she was young, Lily has to live with the unfortunate realities of only having one parent. It is clear that Lily feels the absence of her mother. “The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness” (7). This passage is directly talking about bees, but indirectly referring to Lily and her mother. After she leaves her home in Sylvan, South Carolina and ends up in a house surrounded by black women, Lily realizes that a “mother” is not necessarily what it is defined to be. At the end of the novel, Lily finds that, in fact, she has adopted multiple...
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