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Smedley Darlington Butler On July 30, 1881, a man was born that would bring into this country courage and leadership as it has never seen before. He was one of only two men to ever win the Congressional Medal of Honor twice, as well as being the most decorated soldier to ever wear an American uniform. He fought in every American conflict from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the guerrilla Wars in Central America that followed World War I as an officer in the Marine Corps. He also protected domestic disputes by organizing a force from the 4th Marine Regiment in October of 1926 to protect the mailing system, which would become known as the Western Mail Guards. After his tour with the Marines, he was very popular with rank-and-file soldiers and veterans. He strongly defended the Bonus Marchers in 1932, who were later attacked by US troops under General Douglas MacArthur in Washington DC. In an incident whose history is surpressed today, he was approached by representatives of the Morg...

Steven Seagal was born on April 10, 1951, in Lansing Michigan. His mother was a medical technician and his father was a high school math teacher. When Steven was 5 the family moved to Fullerton, CA. At age 7, Steven became interested in the martial arts and discovered a Japanese dojo in nearby Garden Grove, and began studying Aikido. In 1971, he left for Japan to study with the masters in Zen, Buddhism and Aikido. In 1975 he married and continued to live in Japan where he inherited a dojo from his Japanese father in law. Seagal lived in Asia for many years and had become close to several CIA agents. Seagal returned to the United States in 1987, where he set up a martial-arts school, the Ten Shin Dojo, in West Hollywood. His acting debut began with the cop flick Above The Law. This was followed by several more successful films, including Under Siege, Under Siege 2, Hard to Kill, Out for Justice, Marked for Death, On Deadly Ground, Executive Decision, The Patriot and went on with other h...

Ted Bundy is one of the worst serial killers in history. His Antisocial personality and psychoticcharacter made him feared across the country. After all was said and done Ted left behind a trailof bloody slayings that included the deaths of 36 young women and spanned through four states. The biggest question in many people s mind was how could someone as intelligent, highlyaccomplished, and praised as Bundy do such a thing?Theodore Robert Bundy was born November 24th, 1946 in Burlinton, Vermont. Hismother Eleanor Louise Cowell was 22 when she had him. Ted s mom never told him muchabout his father except that he was in the armed forces and they had only dated a few times. Tedwas left in foster care for two months while his mom and parents decided what to do with him. In 1946 an illegitimate child was extremely looked down upon by society. Once they decided tokeep Ted his grandparents told everyone he was their adopted son. Ted knew who his biologicalmom was, but outsiders were told that...

One of the most colorful Presidents of the United States was Teddy Roosevelt. Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City. His parents were Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and Martha Bulloch. "Teedie," as his close friends and family called him, was the second child of four. As he grew up he developed a love of natural history and reading, as well as hunting, boxing, and wrestling. He was educated in expensive private elementary and high schools. Roosevelt went to Harvard from 1876 to 1880, where his hard work led him to the Columbia University Law School. During his Harvard years, he met Alice Lee, whom he married after his graduation. They settled in New York, where he wrote a book entitled The Naval War of 1812. Eventually, he came to the world of politics, and in 1881, was elected as a Republican to the New York State Assembly. Here, he worked with members of both parties, but did not run again in 1884 because of family problems. On Februa...

IntroductionBruce Goffs working career spanned sixty-six years, from 1916, when he began working in an architects office, until his death in 1982. During that time he received more than 450 commissions for buildings and related designs, resulting in more than 500 proposals of which at least 147 were realized. Bruce Goff occupied a unique place in American architecture. His buildings looked like those of no other architect. His idiosyncratic designs juxtaposed shapes in unexpected but delightful combinations. His reliance on unusual materials resulted in strange, sometimes futuristic combinations of colors and textures. His interior designs were resolutely unconventional and were intended to provide both physical comfort and spiritual sustenance. His goal was to design for the continuous present without referring specifically to the past, present, or future. Working on this ideal plane, Goff continually found new and surprising ways to satisfy the functional demands of a project. The di...

Tobias Wolff, a boy of a troubled childhood, and a very tough father. Tobias Wolff had no intentions of being a writer from the start it just seemed to of popped into his life. The Amazing part about this writer is that he was not supported by anyone but himself. His father was against everything that he did, and his brother, Geoffrey, also a writer would always take his fathers side, leaving Tobias on a side of his own. I wasnt fair, I always took my fathers side. Said Geoffrey (Wolff, G Duke of 144) Geoffrey was known as the Good Brother as his father would say. This was wrong for a father to do, parents cant play favorites, because it leads to one child feeling left out, or rebelling against it like Tobias Wolff did. I feel that the reason for the father favoritism towards Geoffrey Wolff was because Tobias was the younger brother, and younger brothers may be known to be more rebellious. Although, there was nothing said about how Tobias acted in his childhood, he might have been a re...

Kleinmann EssayKleinmann utilizes the strategies of penetration pricing and everyday low pricing in such a simultaneous fashion they are more capable of accomplishing their defined objectives. In this sense, they utilize their bus far to accommodate their customers with utter convenience by making sure that the bus fare costs less than what it would take to fill up ones car. Essentially, they accomplish this tremendous feat by keeping their business up-to-date with the price of their resources, essentially allowing the most cost-beneficial option that also benefits their customers with the advantage of transportation convenience. In this sense, Kleinmann becomes well-suited to propel its business in an upward direction as a bus company that cares about its customers advantages more so than what they could benefit from not caring at all. It also helps that their pricing detriments others from seeking their competitors as they have carefully analyzed the cost of their pricing with the co...

Napoleon Bonaparte was a significant man who was regarded as a person who was responsible for many historic events that would reshape France and Europe during the late 18th and early 19th century. He has been portrayed as a merciless leader, fearing little that stood in his way. Napoleon led his army in this fashion for nearly 20 years, literally changing the face of Europe and of his people. Around 1814, however, Napoleon's reign was to cease Napoleon's empire began to collapse leading to his eventual exile from France. This essay will evaluate Napoleon's supremacy and significant fall as the great leader of France, focusing on Napoleon as a person and great military leader, and the changes he brought to France.Napoleon Bonaparte was born into a minor noble family on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio on the Mediterranean Island of Corsica. He was the son of a lawyer, and was sent to French military school at the age of nine. As he grew, he developed an appreciation towards Englan...

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not differ nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again(TOJLCMS, 5). For Jerry Lewis, this was a common outlook he had. Jerry has devoted his life to entertaining others and putting a smile on their faces. Although he did suffer numerous struggles, Jerry Lewis has still successfully made it to the top (Lewis, 3).Joseph Levitch was born March 16, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. He was born to Danny and Rae Levitch (Levy, 1). Jerrys folks were part time entertainers and because of this, he was left home a lot (Lewis, 15). The only person in his life he felt belongingness with was with his grandmother. His grandmother was a person whom he felt secure and through her he received the love he longed for (Lewis, 15). Jerry Lewis has always depicted his childhood as a desperate, neurotic struggle with abandonment, friendlessness, deprivatio...

The Life of Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero was not just an ordinary man, he one of the best philosophers in history. But he was much more than just a philosopher Cicero was an orator, lawyer, and a politician. "His life coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, and he was an important actor in many of the significant political events of his time," (Clayton). Cicero was born on January 3, 106 B.C at Arpinum, a city sixty miles southeast of Rome (Gill). He placed politics above everything else. At that time people in upper-class families that had been in politics for many generations held most of the political offices. However Cicero's ancestry didn't consist of politics and didn't have that much wealth either. "But Cicero had a great deal of political ambitions," (Clayton). Since he didn't have the advantages of proper ancestry, Cicero only had two career options open to him, the military or law (Clayton). Grewal 2 The first one was mi...

Werner Heisenberg and the Heisenberg Uncertainty PrincipleWerner Heisenberg, born in the dawn of the twentieth century became oneof its greatest physicists he is also among its most controversial.While still in his early twenties, he was among the handful of bright,young men who created quantum mechanics, the basic physics of the atom,and he became a leader of nuclear physics and elementary particleresearch. He is best known for his uncertainty principle, a componentof the so-called Copenhagen interpretation of the meaning, and uses ofquantum mechanics.Through his successful life, he lived through two lost World Wars,Soviet Revolution, military occupation, two republics, political unrest,and Hitler s Third Reich. He was not a Nazi, and like most scientistsof his day he tried not to become involved in politics. He played aprominent role in German nuclear testing during the World War II era.At age twenty-five he received a full professorship and won the NobelPrize in Physics in 1932 at t...

William Randolph HearstGeorge Hearst, Williams father was born in 1820 on a frontier plantation in Franklin, Missouri. Georges father died when he was 26. George was a very hard worker and loved his family very much. He worked odd jobs and in mines to pay off his fathers debt and to take care of his mother, sister and little brother. Mining fascinated young George and even though he could barely read he dwelled into geology books to learn more. In 1848 word started to spread like wildfire about Sutters mill and the very precious metal that was found nearby. In 1849 George, now in his early thirties, and fifteen other anxious miners packed up their things and made the long trek towards California via the California-Oregon trail. This trek was more than 2,000 miles and took them more than 6 months in a wagon train. George became very ill not long after departing Missouri with cholera. A lesser, undetermined man would have died. George was bound and determined to start his new life with a...

For my report, I read Stephen King's Apt Pupil. The unique thing about this book is that the author tries to portray evil exists more then ever. This book is also based around psychological mind games which makes it even more interesting. The theme of this book is evil, as it is portrayed in many aspects. The main points conveyed in this book are Todd's evil, the psychological games, and trust. Todd seems like an innocent young boy but as the book evolves it is clear that Todd himself is evil. Todd Bowden finds out his neighbor Kurt Dussander is a former Nazi and confronts him. In the confrontation Todd says he will not turn Kurt into the authorities if Kurt tells him some of his stories from WW2 and the concentration camps. At this point it is hard to tell if Todd is indeed crazy or if he is just fascinated and is trying to take advantage of an opportunity. But when Todd kills the man in Kurt's basement that is when it becomes clear that Todd is truly evil. Todd withholds...

Title of Book The Promise Author of Book Chaim Potok1.In 10-12 sentences, write a brief outline of the plot of the novel. Besure to make clear the major conflict of the story.1.In the beginning of the novel, the main character, Reuben, is spendingsome time with his father at their cottage. His friend, Rachel is alsovacationing nearby. Reuben finds out that Rachel's 14 year old cousin,Michael, is mentally ill, and Reuben seems to be the only person Michaelwill talk to. Near the end of the summer, Reuben's best friend Danny comesto visit Reuben and the Gordons (Rachel's family) invite Danny over todiscuss Michael because Danny is a genius, and he is studying psychology.At the summer's end, Michael is put into the treatment centre at whichDanny is working. Reuben becomes friends with Michael's father, AbrahamGordon, a very respected scholar. Unfortunately, his ideas are not approvedby Reuben's professor, Rav Kalman. Rav Kalman tells Reuben that if hecontinues to se...

Say Goodnight, Gracie is a book written by Julie Reece Deaver. She grew up in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. This happens to be her first novel. This is a fiction book that fits into the genre of realistic fiction. The story takes place in Chicago Illinois in the late 1980s . Jimmy Woolf and Morgan Hackett, who are both seventeen have known each other their whole lives. Their mothers were high school friends. They were reunited in the maternity wing at Geneva Hospital, the week they were born. Since then, Jimmy and Morgan have been best friends. Jimmy loved to dance and Morgan likes to act. So in and out of downtown Chicago they go for classes and auditions. Morgan and Jimmy usually ditch school to make auditions and Jimmy had a big one coming up for Oklahoma. So he and Morgan went. The choreographer asked them to dance in pairs of six and he would give the good ones a call to come for the finals. Jimmy got a phone call and was asked back on Saturday. He got a call that said it was changed to F...

There are numerous books on the science fictionmarket, that deal with the myriad of possibilitiesinvolving the technology of the future. John Brunner sbook, Shockwave Rider, is one of the most popular, aswell as one of the most famous, books dealing with thisissue. Brunner presents many different realities to thereader, and they are all potentially very realistic interms of the current state of technology. For the mostpart, Brunner seems to illustrate that technology, as itrelates to the world wide datanet, is a good thing. Thisis not to say that he does not illustrate it as a verynegative reality in the world he presents to the reader,but he does indicate that the world wide datanet andtechnology has great potential to make the world a betterplace for all concerned.In Brunner s book we have a reality that isincredibly tense, and almost plausible today. The spacethat the author deals with is filled with endless bits ofinformation (information overload to be more precise),corporate domi...

Through this semesters class of Organizational Behavior, much has been taught to make my understanding of business more fluent. There are many aspects to a business that keep it in good working order. Vital roles of a successful business include communication, group work, good decision making, proper behavior as a leader and a follower, good resolution skills, overcoming barriers and so on. We all are working towards a common goal in each of our job titles. Properly communicating necessary information is important in the success of a business, as well as knowing how to determine a good decision or bad decision. All of the following responses a have come from this semesters wealth of knowledge in text and in lecture. Overcoming barriers to communication is not always an easy task. There may be just a small bump in the road or it may be something more. A small conflict with a coworker whos from another country and has a large accent, or a large problem with a manager of the opposite sex ...

The Godfather The Godfather A Utopia"Don't judge a book by its cover." There are many interesting books with attractive covers, but the quote still rings true for books such as The Godfather by Mario Puzo. One the covers for The Godfather has a black background with large white bold-type. A few of the smaller words are typed in a red font. The only illustration is of a hand controlling the a few letters in the word "Godfather" as the Godfather controls his people through violence. Although the book is riddled with violence and the cover is extremely dull, the novel is so appealing because it uncovers the corrupt government, shows loyalty to family, and represents the American dream.While many people are living in poverty, others are living in mansions on many occasions, this is due to people who are corrupt. Many people enjoy knowing the truth even though sometimes, the government denies it. In the novel, Puzo confronts how officials are e...

Nectar in a Sieve Written in the early 1950s by Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve reflects a time of intense turbulence in rapidly developing India. Indian independence from Britain after World War II was flourishing, and India suffered some of the worst, cultural, economic, climatic and social shocks an infant nation has ever witnessed. This fictional tale follows the plight of Indian villagers who battle nature, struggle through poverty, endure personal hardships, and encounter the harsh realities of India's industrialization and hence, modernization. The protagonist, Rukmani, and her loving husband heroically cling to their "traditional" way of life - living according to nature, adhering to family, saving face, keeping upright moral conduct. Fate and their trust in nature fuel their higher spirit. Other villager's spirits are not as strong and some fall prey to the physical temptation of survival. What happens in Rukmani's life and village is a microcosm o...

BOOK REPORTTITLE The Prince and the PauperAUTHOR Mark TwainCLASSIFICATION AdventureActionClassicSETTING This story takes place in England during the time of King Henry XIII. It is set mainly in Offal Court and Westminster Palace.CHARACTER STUDYIn this story there are two look alikes.Tom Comty was born to a poor family in Offal Court. He looked identical to the Prince of Wales, Edward Tudor.Edward Tudor was born to royalty. He was the heir to the throne. There was only one problem he had a look alike, Tom Comty.PLOTIn the adventure beyond our wildest dreams, there are two boys, Tom Comty and Edward Tudor. One was born to poverty and the other was born to royalty and was the heir to the throne.One day Tom Comty was wandering through Offal Court looking for some bread for his family. He came across Westminster Palace, the home of King Henry XIII and Edward Tudor. Tom went to the gate to ask for food but the guards just pushed him away. Prince Edward saw this and welcomed Tom into the pal...

A Civil Action Term Paper In Johnathan Harr's book, A Civil Action, several children becamediagnosed with Leukemia in the very small town of Woburn, Massachusetts.When the parents of such children became aware of the amount of otherchildren affected by this disease so close by, they decided something mustbe done here. A lawsuit was filed and there was much action along the way.This book was a great read and there were many familiar things in this bookthat could be related to our Judicial Process class. The Woburn case was filed in 1980. This, after 12 children came downwith leukemia within this small community. Everyone pointed to the newwells put in place just miles away, possibly being contaminated. The peopleof Woburn all agreed that the water had a foul odor, was tinted, and tastedawful. The parents of these children were outraged and searched for answersin any and every way possible, when finally five of the families gottogether and agreed to allow Joe Mulligan of Re...

Bull Run, an electrifying novel about various people (white and black) who chose to be apart of the Civil War. It is about a battle of the civil war called Bull Run and twelve different characters including a fife player, an African American soldier, a horse lover, and nine totally different others. Paul Fleischman did an exceptionally superior job making each characters individual personality different.The battle of Bull Run took place in Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay. Thousands of soldiers fought for their country and died. Twelve are described in this book, but even though it seems like there is no way to describe a battle of the civil war with just twelve, Paul Fleischman makes the reader feel as if they are actually there experiencing the unforgiving circumstances. This book is a suspenseful fiction that describes the way twelve human beings either fight in the battle or live their life finding out about it.There really is no main character in this book it is just made up of tw...

Flowers For Algernon The book, "Flowers for Algernon", was an exciting science fiction novel writtenby Daniel. Keyes .Flowers For Algernon was originally Published by Harcourt Brace(1966) and by Bantam Books (1967) it was reissued in the Harcourt Brace ModernClassics series (1995). The main characters of the story are, Charlie, who is a mentallyretarded individual involved in an experiment which increased his I.Q., Alice, a teacherat the special education faculty at Beekman College who taught Charlie how to read andwrite, Fay, one of Charlie's acquaintances which he meets as the book progresses, andlast but not least Algernon. This novel was exciting and manages to keep your attention throughout the book.This book made me feel emotions such as sorrow, anger, and guilt. One of the elementsof the story which contributes greatly to the mood the reader experiences would be theplot. In the story, Charlie, is subject to an experiment which increases his intelligence inhopes of...

"Woman Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros is a story of a wife who lives in a cycle of abuse from her husband. Cleofilas, a woman with unrealistic views of love, and Juan Pedro, her husband, move from Mexico to Seguin, Tejas, near a little arroyo called La Gritona. Cleofilas bears Juan Pedro a son, Juan Pedrito. Then one day Juan Pedro beat Cleofilas, but afterwards she was so stunned that she forgave him that "time and each." Cleofilas starts to suspect that Juan Pedro is committing adultery and that he's plotting to kill her. Therefore, before going to see the doctor about her unborn child she decided that she would ask for help. Graciela, a nurse or doctor, calls her friend to see if she could give Cleofilas a ride to the bus station in San Antonio. Felice, Graciela's friend, picks up Cleofilas and her child to take them away from their miserable life. The central idea of "Woman Hollering Creek" is that a person can escape the cycle of family v...

Clive Cussler s SerpentCharacters Kurt Austin- The leader of a courageous NUMA exploration team and the main character of the book Joe Zavala- Kurt s best friend and side-kick, he is always there to back up Kurt Nina Kirov- A beautiful marine archaeologist rescued by Kurt Austin from the terrorists Don Halcon- The evil Texas industrialist who is trying to create a Spanish uprise in the western US. Serpent stars the heroes, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, who are members of the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) exploration team. The story starts off on the deck of the Andrea Doria, an Italian luxury liner and the queen of the Italian fleet. Inside the ships cargo hold is a stone that holds the secret to murders of archaeologists forty-some years in the future. All is quiet on the decks of the Doria until it is rammed by another boat, the Stockholm. After it is rammed, a young waiter onboard the ship Doria, named Angelo Donatelli, is asked by a friend to find a car jack to help pr...

"The film is many things repulsive, nave, biased, simplistic, historically inaccurate and astonishing in its view of history and racist glorification of the KKK. Yet it tremendously significant and powerful work of art with extraordinary effect and brilliantly-filmed sequences" (Dirks). The movie was based on one man's simple but yet repulsive story. The flaw in past American actions that can well be seen is in a group of white men named the Klu Klux Klan, who were re-influenced into their hateful rage by one man's Romantic novel, called The Clansman.The book, The Clansman-An Historical Romance of the Klu Klux Klan, was written by Thomas Dixon Jr. Growing up during the reconstruction era, he was imbued with the folk image of the Klan as the savior of the south (Kinney). When he grew up he wrote 22 novels and plays about social defects, but before that he was a southern minister. He befriended 3 presidents, including Woodrow Wilson (Cook) who he attended John Hopkins U...

The Greek Way, by Edith Hamilton, is a fairly good piece of literature that portrays the Greeks way of life. It starts off well organized and deeply researched and then starts to become a bit confusing. The author Edith Hamiltons novel at the beginning gives a meticulous image as to what the Greeks actually lived by. Overall, the book is good and deserves almost no harsh criticism.The first chapter starts off discussing the settling of the Greeks on the far western borders. This was a far more modernized civilization than those that came before it. None of the great civilizations that preceded them or surrounded them served them as a model. By including this information Hamilton has given his readers an exact idea of the way of the Greeks. He actually showed the readers the mind power of the Greeks and their intellect. They had a passion for using their minds. It seems that Edith Hamilton really researched this topic. It seems that much of the information is based on genuine fact. At t...

Consumer Target Strategy of Grocery Stores This past week I visited three stores in the greater portland area that specifically target consumers who need groceries. These three stores were Market Basket in Biddeford, Sams Club in Scarborough and Shaws in Scarborough. The first store I visited was Market Basket in Biddeford. Market Basket is a grocery chain that sells name brand products as well as its own Market Basket brand items such as bagels and bread. The company is centered in the New England region and has roughly 75 supermarkets. This centralized approach leads to lower overhead and ultimately allows Market Basket to offer lower prices than other supermarket chains. In turn they are targeting every day consumers who are looking for good prices. The Biddeford location also houses a cafe area where consumers can also buy drinks, sandwiches and other items to be enjoyed at the store. This approach of creating a quick but also healthy cafe as opposed to just the typical ready to ...

The Headless Cupid, written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, is a scary, mystery adventure book. The story starts when the four Stanley kids David, Janie, Esther and Blair, meet their new stepsister, Amanda who says she knows witchcraft. I chose this book because I like mysteries and the picture on the cover caught my attention. The basic theme of this book is how Amanda, who doesnt like living out in the country with her new stepfather and stepsiblings, tries to scare them enough so they want to move back to the city. Not only does Amanda not like their new country house, she also doesnt like her new step-dad and his four kids. By using make-believe witchcraft, Amanda tries to make the family believe their new house is haunted. The fact that their new house has a history of being haunted also helps Amanda as she tries to scare the family. When Amanda finds out that the house may really be haunted, the idea of moving back to the city isnt as important anymore. She realizes that all her effort...

The Indian in the CupboardFor this month s book report I read a book called The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks. This book was about a boy named Omri and his small Indian toy. For Omri s birthday he received a small Indian toy from a friend and a small cupboard from his brother. Omri put his Indian in the cupboard and to his surprise when he opened the cupboard the Indian toy had come to life.Omri has to keep his Indian a secret for fear of an adult finding out. When Omri told his friend Patrick about the toy, Patrick wanted his own. Omri thought it was a bad idea but brought the toy to life anyway. When Omri brought Patrick s cowboy toy to life, Patrick was very excited, but Omri was afraid he didn t know that they were real people. Omri decided he would keep them both at his house. Patrick did not like this idea but agreed only if Omri would bring the cowboy and Indian to school the next day. Then all the trouble started. Patrick and Omri were called into the headmaster s ...

Gears of War Aspho Fields Book SummaryGears of War Aspho Fields is set sometime during the future on a planet called Sera. Planet Sera is similar to Earth, it had the same season-cycle and it was about the same size as Earth. The main character of the story is Marcus Fenix, leader of the Delta Squad. Marcus Fenix is a brave, strong courageous man he has been a soldier serving under the COG forces for almost 10 years. The minor characters in the story are the rest of the Delta Force (Cole , Baird, Dom and Anya), Adam Fenix (Marcuss father), and the Locust Queen Myrrah. The genre of the book can be best described as a Science-Fiction, Action-Adventure Novel. The mood in the story has to be described as Sad and Dramatic. The main conflict of the book is mainly between Marcus Fenix and the Locust Queen Myrrah. 10 years before the events of the book, a strange species called the locusts invaded Planet Sera leaded by their Queen Myrrah. For the past 10 years, an army called the COG has been...

Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Essay written by Travis BrownThis book is about a young boy living in the great bottoms of the Ozarks with his mother, father, three sisters and his two dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann. Dan is a large dog with plain brute force, Ann is the one with intelligence, and Billy is the one with the heart to train them. Together they made an unbeatable hunting team.Billy saved up for the two dogs through hard work, sweat and a little help from his grandpa. After a gruelling two years of saving he finally gets the fifty dollars needed for the two pups. He then sneaks out of his house for one night and walks all the way to the nearest town of Tahlequah where he picks up his dogs as well as getting into a rumble with some local boys and talking with the sheriff.He works and trains with the pups until finally they are ready to hunt. He hunts all year getting many coon skins and giving all the money he makes with the hides back to his parents. When winter appro...

Societies view crimes as negative committing made by people. Although, there are some actions that one may do that many will not like, but the worse action to do is stealing someone else's free will. Rape, is the stealing of a person's free will sexually. Societies look at rape as many crimes put together. Therefore, being one of the worse of crimes, people can't treat rape victims thereby, leading to the person's complete isolation. Hence, being raped can affect a person's life negatively or positively. In the book "Lucky" by Alice Sebold, society is shown to treat her as an outcast. Meaning, that the way people around her treat her, I felt was very disgusting and inconsiderate. Her friends', teachers', the people she knew, all isolated themselves from her. The reason is, that people viewed rape as a negative and real low crime to commit. As a result, being raped changes the view that everybody thinks of you as, like it did to Alice. In addition, ...

Charlie Chaplins The Gold Rush The Gold Rush is a classic Chaplin film. The film takes place during the gold rush, the recurring hero type the Tramp tries his hand at mining. There are the ups and downs as well as a female love interest, all those components expected of Chaplin film. The only difference between this film and the other adventures of the tramp was the ending. As in other films instead of the Tramp walking into the sunset to his next adventure no richer and without love the Gold Rush end in just the opposite way. In fact the tramp is a millionaire and gets the girl. The ending alone is unusual and one of the aspects that makes this film my favorite. The most important thing that I noticed was the dream sequence. It was very expressionistic in its approach to revealing the character inner workings. The usually timid, shy composed Tramp is a completely different person inside. He dreams of being the focus of everyones attention, something that in real life he would not ...

Smoking Banana Peels Back in the 1960s a lot of young poeple took drugs and these peoplewould try anyhing to get a "high." One Craze was called " Smoking Banana Peels "and that is what this is about .It all started around 1967 when somebody wrote a letter to a hippiepaper in Berkeley , California to the ' Berkeley Barb ' and explained how tosmoke a banana peel to get high. First you have to peel the banana peel and thenscrape the white material that is next to the peel out . You then must put thiswhite material in the oven at 200 Degrees C. until it is dry then roll it into acigarette. A bunch of other hippie papers copied the instructions and it becamea craze and even TIME and NEWSWEEK wrote about it.Someone I know says he smoked banana peels once but he was "tripping" onmushrooms at the time so he didn't know if it made him high or not. A friend ofmine tried smoking banana peels recently and he sasys it only gave him a littlebit of a headac...

Throughout history, writers have written about many different subjects based on their personal experiences. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair. He is one of the most famous political satirists of the twentieth century. He was born in Bengal, India in 1903 to an English Civil Servant and died in 1950. He attended Eton from 1917 to 1921, and served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927 before moving to Europe.Two of his most famous books, Animal Farm, written in 1946, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, written in 1949, were written about the political and social environment surrounding his life. "The driving force behind his two satires is an intense revulsion against totalitarianism, combined with an even stronger revulsion against its defenders among left-wing intellectuals."1 In most of George Orwell's books and essays, there is a strong autobiographical element due to the fact that he spent many years living with Communists in northern Great Brit...

Matt GroeningMatt Groening is an Animator, Cartoonist, Producer, Screenwriter, and a Writer. But, he is most known as a cartoonist for his TV show The Simpsons. This means he that makes animated cartoons. His subversive comic sensibility have probably influenced as many kids as Joe Camel.-James L. BrooksBorn on February 15th, 1954, Matt Groening grew up in Portland Oregon. Groening began his drawing career at an early age. In fact, it was the first day of school. Matt admits, however, that his drawing during class often resulted in a visit to the principal's office. Yet despite the disapproval of his teachers, Groening refused to give up what he loved the most. In 1977, Matt graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. According to an article in the book "Simpsons Mania," Evergreen was not exactly your average college. It didn't give grades and had no required classes. While at Evergreen, Matt spent most of his time working on the school'...

Competitive AnalysisNameSchoolClassInstructorDate Competitive Analysis When opening a business one important factor to consider thecompetition. There are two different types of competitors a company needsto be aware of direct and indirect. A competitive analysis should be madeof a company's competitors to aid with decision making. Restaurants are atype of business that has many competitors, and in the case of a fastcasual restaurant that offers healthy food there are a wide range ofcompeting restaurants, including both fast food and fast casualrestaurants. The restaurant in question is one that will providerelatively fast service and healthier options than its current competitors. This restaurant will aim to provide only the best quality and freshestingredients. On the menu, customers will be offered items such as grilledsandwiches, vegetables, soups, salads and other side items all made withnatural and organic ingredients. Of all the potential ...

Almost as fast as a Speeding Bullet This report is on Wilma Glodean Rudolph. Wilma was born June 23,1940 in Clarksville, Tennessee. Williams education is her mother tutored she until she started school when she was seven. She eventually graduated from the school, went to Tennessee State University and graduated with flying colors. When Wilma was born she weighed only 4.5 pounds, and was the twentieth of twenty-two children! Since than she was nursed by her mother until she was seven. She was sick all the time. She had measles, mumps, scarlet fever, chicken pox, and double pneumonia. She had to be taken to the doctor because her left leg was getting very weak, she soon found out she had polio in her left leg. They thought she would never walk again. But she and her mother would never give up hope that easily. The only place Wilma could go to get treated was at Meharry Hospital, the black medical college of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. It was fifty miles away bu...

Domino's Pizza was founded in 1960 and operates a network of company-owned and franchise-owned stores in the U.S.A. and internationally. Domino's is recognized world wide as the leader in pizza delivery, Reinforced by their well-known slogan, "Get the door. It's Domino's." In order to effectively do an environmental analysis, one must look at the company's external environment. The external environment has 3 components the remote environment, the industry environment, and the operating environment. Each of those three components have their own subcategories. In this paper I will describe some of the external factors that will affect Domino's external environment over the next ten years. In the remote environment I will discuss the economic, social, and technological issues that will affect Domino's over the next decade. For the industry environment I will discuss the substitute availability and competitive rivalry facing Domino's. Finally, for ...

Frito-LaysTostitosIn 1932, Elmer Doolin, who was in the icecream business, bought a recipe for corn chips from a Mexican man who was eager to leave the states and return home. From him Doolin acquired 19 accounts and old manufacturing equipment in hopes to start an entirely new industry in America. The first manufacturing plant for Fritos Corn Chips started out in Doolins mothers kitchen. With a lot of hard work, Elmers sales increased and new equipment and packaging were soon needed. After WW II he would grant H.W. Lay and Company, a source of potato chips and snack foods, an exclusive franchise to manufacture and distribute Fritos Corn Chips. The two companies would work close together and in 1961 they would merge. Four years later, Pepsi-Cola Company would also combine with Frito-Lay, but with separate operating divisions, to form a new company called PepsiCo.Consumers in 1995 spent an estimated 13.2 billion on Frito-Lay snacks, up 1.8 billion in 1994. (PepsiCo. 1995 Annual Report)....

As far as great persuasive speakers of American history goes, Patrick Henry was one of the best ever. His speech to the Virginia Convention, otherwise known as his "Liberty or Death" speech, was probably his most famous. But what makes a great persuasive speaker you ask? Well, there are several types of statements you may incorporate into your speech. They are rhetorical questions, restatement of ideas and the repetition of phraseswords. While making his "Liberty or Death" speech, Patrick Henry made several statements that were in the form of rhetorical questions. Meaning, that he asked a question that had no need to be answered by anyone, or the answer was so obvious that it didn't need explaining. During this speech, he says, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" (Henry 104) Well, obviously, everyone knows they would rather not be in slavery. Thus the question was rhetorical. It also would answer...

The plot of Shane is a simple one. The refined stranger who has happened upon the Starrett homestead, we discover, is a virtuous gunfighter who is attempting to begin a new life. When Joe Starrett, Bob's father, invites him to stay on as a hired hand, he agrees, having learned from Joe that the previous hand had been run off by Fletcher, the powerful and unscrupulous rancher vying for land with the homesteaders in the area. The trust Joe places in Shane helps to forge an uncommon bond of friendship between the two men, which inevitably embroils Shane in the escalating conflict. Several subplots lend added depth to the story. The most important involves the growing attraction Marian Starrett and Shane feel for each other, notwithstanding her deep love for Joe and Shane's loyalty toward him. In the end, however, it is Bob's unwavering love and admiration for Shane (and Shane's tender feeling for him) that is the heart of the story, as is evident in such lines as these,...

List of Contents Introduction 1.0Brief Description of Profile For Healthy Hermits, Ailing Outgoers, Healthy Indulgers, Frail Recluses 1.1 Healthy Hermits 1.2 Ailing Outgoers 1.3 Healthy Indulgers 1.4 Frail Recluses 2.0Take A Role For Marketing Manager For A Travel Company 2.1 Identify Target Market 2.2 Marketing Mix 2.3 Position of Service Offering Bibliography Introduction 1.0Brief Description of Profile For Healthy Hermits, Ailing Outgoers, Healthy Indulgers, Frail Recluses Healthy Hermits, Ailing Outgoers, Healthy Indulgers and Frail Recluses are firstly defined by George P. Moschis in his book (George P. Moschis, 1996) as four segment of grey market. And the definition and profile for each of the segments are given below 1.1.Health Hermits Leisure The desire for self-indulgence among this group is almost similar to that of frail reduces. The percentage who indicated concern with finding ways to enjoy them was almost nil (3.53). Similarly, only a very small percentage of hea...

How to Swim the BreaststrokeThe breaststroke is the oldest known swimming stroke and is one of four strokes used in competitive swimming. This stroke is also very popular in leisure swimming because the head can be held up, making vision and breathing easy and because the swimmer can rest between strokes if needed. Swimmers can also use the breaststroke in survival swimming and in lifesaving situations. Since the breaststroke has many uses and is easy to learn, it is one of the best strokes to teach a beginning swimmer. When teaching the breaststroke to a beginner, it is very important to explain every aspect of the stroke from head to toe. The head should be positioned so the hairline is at the surface of the water, keeping the body horizontal. The arm motions of the breaststroke are performed simultaneously, moving in opposite directions. The leg motions are performed in the same fashion. Lifting the hips as the hands are extended in front, then lifting the upper body as the hands fi...

TITLE OF MOVIE Scarface Studio Universal Studios Producer Martin Bregman Director Brian De Palma Stars Al Picino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia Year of the Movie's Release 1983 A basic summary of the Plot Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana, one of the most ruthless gangsters ever portrayed on film. Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban gangster who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire. It follows his rise to criminal wealth and thousands of immigrants arriving in Florida in the 1980s. Pacino, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him rise to the top of a criminal world but his paranoia and over protective desire to protect his kid sister, played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, prove to be his reasons for falling to the bottom, leading to his eventual murder. The films brutal violence and lack of positive characters still make it controversial and disliked by certain c...

a.A Womans Dilemma Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution was written by Rosemarie Zagarri. She is an Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Zagarri has also written another book titled The Politics of Size Representation in the United States, 1776-1850. Along with this, she was the editor of David Humphreys Life of General Washington, . b.A Womans Dilemma Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution is about a women, Mercy Otis Warren, that is well educated, into politics, and loves to write literature. The problem is that this is not acceptable behavior for women in this time. Mercys family was very rich, educated, and important in politics. Her brother James, her dad, and her uncle educated as well as stood by her vast interest for politics even though she was a woman. Mercy thought that in many ways, women should have part in politics as well as men. When she had an opinion that she wanted to share, Mercy w...

Shakespeares Sister This is a short story written by Virginia Woolf in 1929. She was born in London, where she grew up in an environment of wealth and culture, meeting many of the most distinguished intellectuals of all time. Virginia was home-schooled for all of her education growing up, and later became the center of the intellectual and artistic Bloomsbury Group. The setting of Shakespeares Sister is during the time when William Shakespeare was growing up and writing plays. It has taken place in the Shakespeares house and later in London. In this story, Shakespeares Sister, Virginia Woolf imagines up a sister of Shakespeare named Judith. In the story, Judith, Shakespeares sister, was the apple of her fathers eye. She wasnt able to go to school like her brother but instead was home-schooled. She was made to do house choirs mostly and was taught very little education. She would mainly try to learn from her brothers books in secret and burn or throw away anything she wrote so her pare...

BackgroundZach Burnett is a 25 year-old professional with an expected remaining work life of 40 years. He is not married and has no dependents. While he hopes to eventually marry and have a family, his primary investing objective is to provide for his own retirement. Return objectiveZach expects to provide for his discretionary and non-discretionary income needs through employment income for the next 40 years. As such, his return objectives are in the context of asset appreciation. Any interest yield will be plowed back into his equity positions. Taking a rational, long-run perspective, Zach is seeking a return target that is relative to the performance of the SP 500 Index. At a minimum, he hopes to achieve an annualized return no less than that of the index. Given active management of his asset allocation and strategy, he hopes to achieve a return of 141 of the index return. Risk ToleranceIn the early stages of the portfolio (years 1 through 10), Zach is willing to take on a level of ...

Creating a Statement of VisionToday's companies are faced with an exponential amount of change. Mission statements, goal setting, and planning methods of the past are no longer producing acceptable results. Successful companies are now achieving breakthrough objectives through utilizing a technique of discovering their core ideology, stimulating progress through an envisioned future, and seeking support by the alignment of intellectual capital. Mission statements are becoming more than a series of manipulative words arranged to have a soothing tone. They have become statements of vision, and the companies who adopt this technique are becoming visionary companies.Visionary companies depend on a core ideology, which consists of values and purpose. Values are internal beliefs that establish guidelines and provide endurance. They are everlasting, and never compromised despite external forces, such as management fads or economic conditions. They should create energy and motivation in em...

When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident(Lee 3). In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the author Harper Lee writes in the perspective of Scout the narrator. Although the book begins with Scout remembering the events as a older person she still narrates the story as if she is a nave child in a first person point of view. Because Scout is nave and innocent there is a simpler understanding of the events that take place in the book.For one thing, with Scout as the narrator we only see her point of view of thoughts and people which are a lot different than others. For example, They were sullen-looking, sleepy-eyed men who seemed unused to late hours. I sought once more for a familiar fare, and at the center of the semi-circle I found one. Hey, Mr. Cunningham. The man did not hear me, it seemed.(Lee 204), Scouts perception on the situation is consenting because of the recognition of a neighbor however, if you look...

Edwin Arlington Robinsons Miniver Cheevy is about a man that believes he is living in the wrong era. He is sure that if he was living in the time of the Medicis, he could be one. It is made evident that Miniver compulsively dreams of Thebes and Camelot, And Pirams neighbors. The language the speaker uses, repetition of images, and the attitude of the poem paint a picture of the depressed world Miniver lives in. The speaker begins the poem by saying that Miniver is a child of scorn, Grew lean while he assailed the seasons, this is setting a negative tone that stays true throughout the rest of the poem. In these particular lines, the speaker is telling the reader how Miniver is wasting away as time passes. In the next lines, Miniver begins weeping at the thought of being born, and then the speaker goes on to give reasons for his depression. The repetition of images throughout the poem is made very evident. The stanzas are remembering images of Camelot When swords were bright and steed...

Author Theodore Taylor is an American writer who also makes documentary films. His inspiration to write "The Cay" came from his research into German submarines that fought in the Second World War. He is now married with three children and lives in California. Setting This novel is set in the 1940's on a small island, called a "cay", in the Caribbean Sea. German U-boats are constantly submerged in the vicinity of the island and Williamsted, Phillip's home, which is a Dutch colonised island. Theme One of the main themes in this novel is racism. Phillip sees Negroes in the same way as his mother despises them. Phillip likes the black peoples' accents and the way they throw fruit at them from their boats . His friends like them too, but for some reason his mother thinks they are dirty and unpleasant. Throughout the novel Phillip begins to recognise that Negroes are ordinary people who should have the same rights as whites and he decides to ignore his mother...