and won two Oscars for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Alan Arkin) and Best Writing‚ Original Screenplay. Abigail Breslin was nominated for her portrayal of Olive. Little Miss Sunshine was also nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Year. The film was nominated and awarded over 40 various awards. The Hoovers are a unique group‚ but they put the fun into dysfunctional. Grandpa Hoover‚ portrayed by Alan Arkin‚ is a heroin addicted‚ porn enjoying‚ nursing home evictee with a
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner‚ by Alan Sillitoe deals with an athlete facing conformity. Smith‚ Sillitoe’s character is a young "rebel‚" who is in a borstal for stealing money from a neighborhood bakery. Smith is a long-distance runner‚ who runs every morning while in the borstal. The borstal governor keeps on top of Smith to keep running and win the "Borstal Blue Ribbon Prize Cup for Long Distance Cross-Country Running (All England)." Throughout
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real or not his story was made into films‚ one of which is ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’‚ it was released in July 1991. Many people went to see it on the first weekends‚ in total the cinemas took in $25million. The main actors are Kevin Costner‚ Alan Rickman‚ Morgan Freeman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. The opening credits introduce the film with the Bayeux tapestry which shows a journey with the crusades. The different sections of the tapestry show the historical place and date. After that
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A. Describe strategic leadership in detail‚ the traits of strategic leadership‚ how they differ from strategic management‚ and discuss the importance of strategic leadership for the competitive success of a firm. Strategic leadership is difficult to describe as a concept; however it is easy to distinguish when it is in action. Leaders pay close attention to small details to ensure that the big picture may one day become realized. Strategic leadership is being able to develop competencies
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fewer taxpayers per road-mile. As you may know‚ the biggest oil fields are in countries that are not entirely stable. We‚ the United States‚ has spent untold billions in keeping governments in power that are friendly to our oil interests (Even Alan Greenspan admits the Iraq war was for oil). And don’t even start about Alaska and deep-ocean. That oil would take at least 10 years to start flowing‚ and would still account for a tiny fraction of total consumption (I think ANWR can provide a little
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If one could sum up Watchmen by Alan Moore in a few words‚ it basically tells the story of the death of Edward Blake‚ Rorschach’s investigation of his death‚ and the events surrounding his death. Overall‚ Watchmen has an underlying representation of American society through the various masked vigilante characters and their respective attitudes towards government and each other. The quote‚ “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain‚" by Batman (played by Christian
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How does Bennett make effective use of dramatic methods‚ in pages 34-41‚ to raise pertinent issues in the History Boys? Alan Bennett uses a number of methods throughout the play in order to raise pertinent issues and fully convey his concerns‚ and I believe many of these are present within this extract; varying from his common language and structure techniques to the ever running themes of conflicting pedagogical philosophies‚ sinister pederast undertones and the drive for acceptance at Oxbridge
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Turing‚ the question whether machines can think is itself “too meaningless” to deserve any debate (442). In other words‚ the Turing Test is a method for determining whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human. The test is named after Alan Turing‚ an English mathematician who pioneered artificial intelligence during the 1940s and 1950s‚ and who is credited with devising the original version of the test. According to this kind of test‚ a computer is deemed to have artificial intelligence
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inclined to call intelligent. The birth of the field can be traced back to the early 1950. Arguably‚ the first significant events in the history of AI were the publication of a paper named Computing Machinery and intelligence by the British mathematician Alan Turing. In this paper turning argued that if a machine could pass a certain test which has become known as the Turing test then we have grounds to save it the computer with intelligent. This test involve a human being known as the judge asking questions
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RE 383-920: Macroeconomics 1 Winter 2014 Instructor: Dr. Faisal Rabby 383-920-RE MACROECONOMICS End of term project: Movies and Case Analyses (15%) Note: Both of the following movies are available on Netflix.com. Netflix has a one-month free trial membership. You have the choice to close your account before the trial period ends. 1. Watch the movie “Too big to fail” and answer the questions attached here. 2. Watch the movie “Inside Job” and answer the questions attached
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