FRUITFUL QUESTIONS AMY BURNS JOURNAL #3 DR. BARRY POLLICK WRITING 101S, KADENA AFB 500 Hedgehog or Fox? Intellectual or the Artistic? Which is better? Fruitful Questions by James Sollisch emphasizes the importance of looking at things and problems more than one way in order to come up with a solution. This essay reminds me of a fable by Isiah Berlin told to me by an old professor of mine. In this fable the fox is a cunning creature, able to devise a myriad of complex strategies for
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I. BACKGROUND OF THE COMPANY Avon was founded in year 1886 by a New York book salesman named David H. McConnel and it was originally known as California Perfume Company. McConnell immediately began to build a door-to-door sales force for his new company and hired Mrs. P.F.E albee as its first sales agent. Its first office located in New York. By 1906, CPC had 10,000 representatives and selling 117 articles in 600 styles and package sizes. Montreal, Canada. In 1937, David Jr. became the president
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Edward Jenner was born in 1749 and died in 1823. Edward Jenner’s great gift to the world was his vaccination for smallpox. This disease was greatly feared at the time as it killed one in three of those who caught it and badly disfigured those who were lucky enough to survive catching it. Edward Jenner was a country doctor who had studied nature and his natural surroundings since childhood. He had always been fascinated by the rural old wives tale that milkmaids could not get smallpox. He believed
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English Essay In a technologically interconnected world, not being socially influenced by a person half way across the continent is hard, let alone the person in your neighbourhood. . Set in a dark fantasy world , the film Edward Scissorhands , by Tim Burton, and the identity defining book The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan, explore the challenges faced with being different. Although there are some slight differences, they are overcome by the striking amount of similarities. Characters in both texts
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that have an effect on the surrounding environment. Skinner set out to identify the processes which made certain operant behaviours more or less likely to occur. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning was based on the work of Thorndike (1905). Edward Thorndike studied learning in animals using a puzzle box to propose the theory known as the 'Law of Effect'. BF Skinner: Operant Conditioning Skinner is regarded as the father of Operant Conditioning, but his work was based on Thorndike’s law of
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of the elements that contribute to Tim Burton’s creative style is irony. Irony is the opposite of what is expected. For example in the film Edward Scissorhands, at the beginning of the film there was a scene where Edward is all dressed up with dark colors, clothes made out of metal and his face filled with scars made by his hands that are scissors . Edward lives inside of a very dark lonely house on top of a hill. That makes the audience think that he is a monster but really he was a nice person
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Films such as Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Big Fish have a whimsical style like Walt Disney, and dark mood like Edgar Allan Poe’s pieces of literature. This is because Tim Burton, the director of these film, was inspired by these people and he creates their type of style using cinematic techniques. Some examples of film techniques that all these films share are flashback, low-key lighting, and non-diegetic sound. Flashback is when a scene goes in to the past to show
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Tim Burton is an expert film producer that gives his audience a unique gothic cinematic experience. He has a distinctive way to demonstrate dark and menacing throughout his movies, such as "Beetlejuice", "Edward scissorhands", and "corpse bride". He uses various techniques to keep his audience engaged and give them a satisfying fantasy. Tim Burton is an incredible film director that has a unique romantic dark fantasy theme, gothic style, and characters. Tim Burton was born on August 25
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Vaccines have double the human life expectancy for over 150 years and have eradicated diseases like smallpox and soon polio could be the next disease to be eradicated from the world. The concept of vaccines has existed around the world for hundreds of years. One of the first methods of vaccinations was known as, variolation (Nazarko, 2013). Variolation was popular in China as well as other countries in the Middle East during the 10th century. Asians and Middle Eastern people collected samples of
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mutilated people with snouts for noses, hooves instead of hands and their long and flaccid ears. In short, these people were turning into cows. Also illustrated in the center of Gilray’s cartoon was a doctor holding a syringe and gazing into the distance: Edward Jenner. People felt that vaccines were so absurd and dangerous that they were capable of transmute a human being. Jenner’s cowpox vaccine eventually permitted the elimination of smallpox off the face of the earth. In modern day, this ignorant
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