The Line The "line" that the film’s title refers to is the poverty line‚ or the line between "the haves and have-nots‚" as one person in the film put it. The documentary highlights the stories of four people who have found themselves on both sides of the line: a former bank vice president who lost his job‚ a Louisiana fisherman whose livelihood is threatened by environmental degradation and hurricanes‚ a former homeless man‚ and a woman that grew up in a high crime neighborhood‚ lifted herself
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JIELIANG PHONE HOME CASE STUDY PROBLEM STATEMENT Jieliang (DL) is a line worker at Precision Electro-Tech’s Dongguan‚ China manufacturing plant. During a plant walk through‚ Marty Cole (OEM – Global Team) witnessed Jieliang being publicly disciplined in front of her fellow line workers for not following Total Quality Control (TQC) procedures and using her own method. ANALYSIS Precision Electro-Tech is a large contract manufacturer (CM) that produces products (i.e.‚ cell phones) for another
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Is the fact that fewer people have done it THIS way going to give us any "edge" over the competition? Or have we just leveled the playing field? And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Is it frightening to us that few people have taken EITHER path? What unknowns lurk beyond the next bend? Oh‚ I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way‚ I doubted if I should ever come back. Well‚ if this one doesn’t work out‚ I’ll try the other one;
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#2 (only the even questions‚ plus seven) 2. The author changes the point of view to P.S’s father on page 119. "Why isn’t he crying‚ he wondered‚ and then he told himself that he wouldn’t have cried either; that the boy had had plenty of time to cry; that he would never cry in front of his father again." This sentence is when the author changes the point of view from P.S to Stewart Wilkinson (aka. P.S’s dad or sir). 4. The honor code at V.P.S. is a reality in everyone there’s life. Every student is
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In the year 1959‚ Jazz innovator Miles Davis created a sound that would inspire generations of artists in Jazz‚ R&B‚ Rap‚ and Rock. Early that year‚ Davis had laid down the album Kind of Blue‚ a record that would be the foundation of modal jazz. As Davis’ best selling album‚ the record was a major hit with critics and listeners everywhere. Showcasing each songs complexity through soloing‚ Davis was able to entice educated listeners with the simplicity of the modes. The musicality behind Kind of
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Downton Abbey: Series 2 Episode 1 Downton Abbey is a British period drama set in the late 1910s and early 1920s. It tells the story of the aristocratic Crawley family and the people who serve them in their palatial country estate and how the events that occurred throughout history affect their lives. A trademark of the series has always been its’ relatively sympathetic view of aristocratic and wealthy families and the class system during 20th century. The first episode in the second season
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at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba‚ which is under the command of Col. Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson). Santiago compared unfavorably to his fellow Marines‚ had poor relations with them and failed to respect the chain of command. He went above his superiors to bargain for a transfer in exchange for blowing the whistle on Dawson for firing a possibly illegal shot towards the Cuban side of the island. When the transfer request is seen by the base ’s senior commanders‚ there is a heated argument
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“From the Great Above to the Great Below” is a story the majority of modern cultures are unfamiliar with. Being written in cuneiform‚ the text originates in ancient Mesopotamia‚ specifically Sumer. Thus‚ the text we have now is a translation‚ yet to the best of their ability the translators attempt to replicate the style and content of the original story. Because of this I find that the style the myth is written in creates some distance between the myth and a modern audience. For me‚ being able
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programs include “UK or Canadian programming‚ dubbed animation from Japan and Spanish-language imports” (Jackson 3/15/2015). Thus‚ two UK TV dramas of Downtown Abbey and Sherlock can be as case studies of global TV. Downtown Abbey tells a story about different entanglements caused by an inheritance issue of earl Grantham family in “Downtown Abbey” of England in the 20th century. Sherlock tells that the famous detective Sherlock Holms solves different difficult criminal cases in London in the 21st century
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The painting I decided to do critiques on is the Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by the best-known Gothic Romantic Caspar David Friedrich. This artwork was created in 1818 in Hamburg‚ Germany. This landscape is currently displayed at Hamburger Kunsthalle who is as well the owner. This artwork is done on a canvas and the medium is oil. In the painting‚ we can see there is a masculine figure (possibly be the painter) having his back to the painting‚ on top of a mountain or cliff‚ and looking downwards
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