Title: A Thousand Acres Author: Jane Smiley Date of Publication: 1991 Point of view: The novel is told in first-person from Ginny’s perspective. The readers follow Ginny’s trails of thought as she wanders into her own troubled past. She wants to figure out why she has become a placid‚ non-confrontational woman‚ so her thoughts revolve around her struggles to contain her own opinions. Genre: Tragedy Writing Style: Narrative. Modern rendition of King Lear. More plot based than style based. Setting/Atmosphere:
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million. Almost have of the population lives off of subsistence agriculture‚ however‚ Diamond mining is considered for half of Sierra Leone’s exports. Diamonds were first discovered in Sierra Leone in 1930‚ and a war broke out between 1991 and 2002 over diamonds that led to the name blood diamonds. Blood diamonds are defined by diamond mining in a war zone‚ that people trade the diamonds for guns so then the diamonds go on to be sold to companies. It was not till January 1999‚ when people all round
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Maddy Bowen (played by Jennifer Connelly) in the film: Blood Diamond (2006) by director Edward Zwick. Maddy Bowen‚ an American journalist went to Africa to make a change but it was Africa who changed her. Danny Archer‚ (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. While in jail for smuggling conflict diamonds‚ Archer overheard a wounded commander telling the prisoners of a large rare pink coloured diamond that Solomon Vandy (played by Djimon Hounsou) found. Bowen
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Diamond Foods 1. How did weaknesses in Diamond Foods’ internal controls contribute to the accounting scandal? The audit committee of Diamond’s board was conducting an investigation of Diamond’s accounting for certain crop payments to walnut growers. This is where the scandal sort of took off. Filings done to approve the accounting practices were signed off by the companies CEO and CFO. Then there was an independent audit committee who was assigned to probe the company’s practices. The committee
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INTRODUCTION Electronics without silicon is unbelievable‚ but it will come true with the evolution of Diamond or Carbon chip. Now a day we are using silicon for the manufacturing of Electronic Chip’s. It has many disadvantages when it is used in power electronic applications‚ such as bulk in size‚ slow operating speed etc. Carbon‚ Silicon and Germanium are belonging to the same group in the periodic table. They have four valance electrons in their outer shell. Pure Silicon and Germanium are semiconductors
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truly deserves this title is Blood Diamond. In Blood Diamond the director Edward Zwick was very smart when strategizing how each and every scene would play out in the film. He made thorough decisions on which moves each character should make and how the interactions among them would be in each scene. All of this planning was done for the sake of clearly understanding the story. The transitions in the film also easily made you feel as if you are part of the diamond trade itself. Piece by piece Zwick
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Jared Diamond Jared Diamond was a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles. He was a biologist by training‚ and a specialist in human physiology. But his real passion has always been the study of birds. He began watching the birds when he was about seven years old in the United States. He arrived in New Guinea at the age of 26 and he felt that it was love at first sight. Diamond started to make regular trips to New Guinea and ever since‚ he decides to be the leading expert on the bird life of the island
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thousand acres comparison The one social issue that hasn’t evolved since the 17th century is the ever present schisms between families. People have always cheated‚ parents have always chosen favorites‚ and the struggles for wealth and power have always torn families apart. Most notably‚ these conflicts have been portrayed in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Romeo and Juliet‚ but the theater of family argument has also shone through in modern works such as Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres. Both King
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Acre wood retirement community case study Kimberly Woods HSM/230 Axia College at the University of Phoenix Acre wood retirement community case study the resident physical therapist Sara Armstrong manages the retirement communities activity programs‚ recently a pool was added to its rehabilitation center by they were some original design requests that were not met it has been brought to Sarah’s attention that the safety tread marks on the stairs and the improved wheelchair access to
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Mrs. Acres Homemade Pies Shelly Acres‚ whose grandmother gave her a family recipe for making pies‚ loved to cook so she decided to start a business she called Mrs. Acres Home-made Pies. The company produced specialty pies and sells them in local supermarkets and select family restaurants. In each of the first six months‚ Shelly and three part-time employees sold 2‚000 pies for $4.50 each‚ netting $1.50 profit per pie. The pies were quite successful and Shelly could not keep up with demand. The
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