Billy Joel is a very well known musician who is respected and acknowledged all around the world. I think he was an appropriate speaker for a college graduation. He used one question at the beginning of the speech that caught the audience’s curiosity‚ "Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes?" He then branched out from there to discuss more important issues. This question helped him create an invitational environment. I think asking a question also helped him show a sense of organization
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The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about the Capitol which hold an annual game known as The Hunger Games. The games are a test of strength and skill in which the games the participants have to kill each other until there is one survivor. In the novel Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark‚ childhood friends from district 12‚ have been chosen to take part in this year’s game. The novel is written in the voice of the 16-year-old protagonist Katniss Everdeen who lives in the nation of Panem
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Billy Bishop Goes to War is one of the most famous and widely produced plays in Canadian theatre‚ it is a dramatization of the life of Canadian World War I fighter pilot Billy Bishop. The concepts of survival and underdog heroes‚ as well as the attitudes towards war‚ are explored in this play. The concepts mentioned above fall into the themes of Personality and Values as well as voices through time‚ while also strongly relating to the Canadian identity A prominent theme in Canadian literature and
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Billy Beane had made his decision to base his drafting of position of players hitting on certain statistics. The two that he had decided were important were the on base percentage and slugging percentage. Together those form on base slugging. Billy Beane didn’t place any type of emphasis on power. Whereas before power was a main focus point. Although Mr. Beane thought that power could be developed. A player had the ability to develop and gain power‚ but the ability to master patience at the plate
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Allentown by Billy Joel was a song that described the troubles of the late 20th Century blue collar worker. As workers moved away from cities and jobs moved overseas in the 1980s and 90s‚ the typical blue collar worker was hurt as their unions and workplaces were closed to make way for the new serviced based economy. Specifically‚ Billy Joel is describing Allentown‚ Pennsylvania. Of which was affected by the economic turn of the 80s because most of its residents worked in Bethlehem‚ PA at a steel
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When Billy McFarland founded Magnises‚ he envisioned millennial members in major cities using their distinctive black Magnises card to buy discounted tickets for social events sponsored by brands that were eager to reach his 21 to 30 year-old members. For an annual fee that excluded people who were unemployed‚ but was easily within reach for those just starting their career‚ McFarland imagined that young professionals would be eager to network with people in other industries and make contacts that
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Doctors Tell the Truth by Joseph Collins I began to agree with Collins argument. Collin’s argues that doctors must frequently withhold the truth from their patients‚ which is equivalent to lying to them and should cultivate lying as a fine art. At the same time‚ no doctor has the right to tell a patient point blank that they have a major disease like epilepsy‚ dementia praecox etc. only after observation for a long period. In this piece Collins has 4 premises. Collins premises are the four types of
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found pure ease in interpreting Patricia Hill Collins’ essay‚ "Toward a New Vision." Hill’s message became quite obvious early on‚ starting with the quote‚ "While many of have little difficulty assessing our own victimization within some major system of oppression‚ whether it be by race‚ social class‚ religion‚ sexual orientation‚ ethnicity‚ age or gender‚ we typically fail to see how our thoughts and actions uphold someone else’s subordination" (Collins). There is clear flaw in subordinating an individual;
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Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals‚ as well as those African-American women outside. She provides the work of Black feminist thinkers‚ Angela Davis who was an American political activist‚ Alice Walker who wrote the book “The Colour Purple‚” and Audre Lorde an American writer and civil rights activist. Although the book focused on the black feminist thought of intellectuals and activists‚ the author believed‚ that those experiences and perspectives of
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” Abraham Lincoln. Captain Vere should not have sentenced Billy Budd to death for three reasons: it was involuntary manslaughter‚ Captain Vere was under too much pressure to make that kind of decision‚ and Claggart consistently harassed Billy. As defined from the Merriam-Webster dictionary online‚ involuntary manslaughter is‚ “the unlawful killing of a human being without express or implied malice.” According to this definition‚ what Billy did was not murder‚ a capital crime‚ and therefore they should
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