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    Assignment One – Professionalism Submission Date: Monday‚ September 15th 2014 PETROLEUM LAND MANAGEMENT - 2015 SUMMER STUDENTS Requisition Number: 2378 Date Posted: 9/3/2014 Location: Calgary‚ AB PETROLEUM LAND MANAGEMENT - SUMMER STUDENTS Apache Canada Ltd. seeks Petroleum Land Management students for 2015 summer positions in our Calgary office.  The successful candidates will be working in a team environment and responsibilities may include: Provide

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    Kaitlin Mitchell Paper synopsis 3-24-12 Bradbury Thompson Bradbury Thompson was born in 1911 in Topeka‚ Kansas. He was a lively child who was obsessed with brooks and type from an early age. In high school Thompson was heavily involved in his work as a draftsmen at a civil engineering firm. He was also quite the over achiever in high school. He was the president of his senior class; captain of the track team; and editor of two Kaw yearbooks. He loved working with what he had a challenging himself

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    When Pranks on Played Pranks can be funny‚ but they can also be hurtful. In the short stories‚ “The Mouse Plot‚” by Ronald Dahl‚ and “All Summer in a Day‚” by Ray Bradbury‚ both involved children whose shenanigans cause painful consequences. “The Great Mouse Plot‚” part of Ronald Dahl’s autobiography‚ a group of schoolmates plays a trick on Mrs. Pratchett the mean‚ and filthy candy shop owner. They decided to put a dead mouse into one of her jars of candy‚ causing Mrs. Pratchett to drop the

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    The Veldt is a story written by Ray Bradbury. It’s a story about a family in their Happy-Life Home in the future. More importantly‚ it reveals the impact of future technology on the children of that time. To examine this we analyze the children’s attitude toward their parents‚ their emotions to the nursery‚ and the impact it has on the children’s daily lives. First‚ to examine this impact we analyze the children’s attitude toward their parents. “I don’t think you’d better consider it any

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    18 May 2012 The Literature and Life of August Wilson August Wilson was born as Fredrick August Wilson on April 27‚ 1945 in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. His father Fredrick August Kittel was a German immigrant baker who later abandoned his family. His mother Daisy Wilson was from North Carolina. August Wilson was one of six children by his mother who also was the youngest by 13 years. He grew up in a two-bedroom apartment with his mother and siblings. August Wilson was the only black child in his

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    weaponry. The Mandarin of one of the towns‚ commands‚ “[Y]ou raisers of walls must go bearing trowels and rocks and change the shape of our city” (Bradbury 367)! The Mandarin‚ like the USA or USSR‚ competes with the city of Kwan-Si by ordering the workers to build a wall that resembles “a club which may beat the pig [wall] and drive it off” (Bradbury 367). The stonemasons and architects in the story symbolize the chemical plants that were used to manufacture nuclear weapons in the Cold War‚ and the

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    August Wilson: Poet‚ Playwright‚ and So Much More August Wilson is a man who‚ outside of the theatrical world‚ is not very well known. Yet there are those‚ like Paul Carter Harrison‚ who would rank him in "the same ’artistic continuum’ as Langston Hughes‚ Toni Morrison‚ and Thelonius Monk."1 When I began research on August Wilson I asked myself‚ so what? So what if he’s won awards and recognition? What has he done to merit them? What makes this man important enough to do a research paper

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    As humanity entered the twentieth century a breakdown in social convention and the resultant blossoming of social ideas lead to the conception of a new literary sub-genre‚ soft science fiction. Inspired by works including “The Iron Heel” by Jack London1‚ it used the deficiencies and corruptions in both capitalist and communist culture to predict a dystopian future. These counter or anti-utopian societies often focus on the dehumanisation of the proletariat‚ and how the ruling class use fear and war

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    them happiness‚ lead to their dissatisfaction about their lives. It is an implication of the post WW2 mindset that having more and more can bring them happiness that did not happen in reality all the time. By explicating about the Lydia’s feelings‚ Bradbury pointing to the changing role of women and the undesirable consequences of advocating all the household and motherhood responsibilities that used to constitute social identity of women to the technology. He also portrayed how technology can affect

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    Racing in the Rain Narrative Assignment               From the day I got Enzo‚ to now‚ there have been something that has just made him stick out from other dogs. Enzo is a great caretaker and understands me more than anyone. Although a dogs memory does not last long‚ I know he will carry those memories onto his next life.  There has been too much Enzo has gone through with my family for him to forget the past. I come home from work and scream‚ “Yo‚ Zo!” She doesn’t respond‚ but Enzo comes flying out

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