Dancer in the Dark is a movie about Selma a Czech immigrant and a single mother working in a factory in rural America. Her salvation is her deep passion for music‚ specifically‚ the singing and dancing numbers found in classic Hollywood musicals. Selma has a sad secret that she is losing her eyesight‚ and her son Gene stands to suffer the same fate if she can’t put away enough money to secure him an operation. When a desperate neighbor falsely accuses Selma of stealing his savings‚ the drama of her
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Using MIS 4e Chapter 1 The Importance of MIS This Could Happen to You: “You’re Fired” Jennifer lacks skills FlexTime needs Abstract reasoning skills Systems thinking skills Scenario Video Collaboration skills Experimentation skills Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 1-2 Chapter Preview “But today‚ they’re not enough.” Do you find that statement sobering? If timely‚ hard work isn’t enough‚ what is? We’ll begin this book by discussing the
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Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: Main Characters: James‚ Leonard‚ Lilly‚ Miles‚ Hank Setting: A Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation facility Main theme: How a person deals with drug and alcohol addiction while in an institution Summary Chapter 1-5: The book opens with the narrator‚ James‚ waking up on an airplane. He is bleeding‚ missing four teeth‚ and has a broken nose. He doesn’t know how he got these injuries or where he is going. They tell him that a concerned friend of his contacted
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Chapter 16 starts with the narrator and Chris begins their trek into the mountains. The difficult route reminds the narrator of the philosophical terrain Phaedrus trekked in search of Quality. On this mental journey‚ Phaedrus becomes frustrated at his inability to define Quality so he turns to a non-metaphysical explanation that revolves around his teachings. Ultimately‚ Phaedrus realizes that the institutional setting of the university promotes grade-motivated “mules” that were taught to simply
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CANADA T of C Elliott Chau Canadian Economics A) Sir John A. Macdonald (1867-1891) Goals: Attract immigrants Build a transcontinental railway Created jobs/encouraged foreign (British investment) Strategy: The national Policy Advertise in Europe -> Free land Provide support/$ to Railroad builders Set up high tariffs for imports which would encourage manufacturing in Canada Accomplishments Very little immigration Why? – competition from American-West Canadian Pacific Railway completed in 1885 A
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Chapter Review Human migration began in eastern Africa‚ where remains of the earliest types of human remains were found to originate. Gradual migration was caused by the need to find scarce food and slowly caused the spread of the human population across to the Americas and Australia. Agricultural societies first emerged in the middle east. Since population was increasing‚ it encouraged people to find a more reliable food source and since the ice age had come to an end‚ it brought the retreat
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By: Audrey Hofstadter Summary: "The Founding Fathers: The Age of Realism" Summary of Section: I The reasoning behind the Constitution of the United States is presented as "based upon the philosophy of Hobbes and the religion of Calvin. It assumes the natural state of mankind in a state of war‚ and that the carnal mind is at enmity with God." Throughout‚ the struggle between democracy and tyranny is discussed as the Founding Fathers who envisioned the Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787 believed
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Nervous Conditions Summary and Analysis by Tsitsi Dangarembga Chapters 1 and 2 Summary The narrator‚ Tambudzai‚ Tambu for short‚ begins this story at the end: "I was not sorry when my brother died." That happened in the year 1968‚ and the first chapter sets the context for that event. Nhamo‚ Tambu’s brother‚ is introduced as proud; he is too proud to walk home from school‚ although Tambu sees the walk as holding endless possibilities for inspiration. Thus‚ their contrasting outlooks on life
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Every Sunday‚ Mr. Utterson‚ a prominent London lawyer‚ and his distant kinsman‚ Mr. Richard Enfield‚ take a stroll through the city of London. Even though to a stranger’s eyes‚ these two gentlemen seem to be complete opposites‚ both look forward to‚ and enjoy‚ their weekly stroll with one another. One Sunday‚ they pass a certain house with a door unlike those in the rest of the neighborhood. The door reminds Mr. Enfield of a previous incident in which he witnessed an extremely unpleasant man
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McConnell−Brue−Flynn: Microeconomics: Principles‚ Problems‚ and Policies‚ 18th Edition I. Introduction to Economics and the Economy 1. Limits‚ Alternatives‚ and Choices © The McGraw−Hill Companies‚ 2009 IN THIS CHAPTER YOU WILL LEARN: 1 The definition of economics and the features of the economic perspective. 2 The role of economic theory in economics. 3 The distinction between microeconomics and macroeconomics. 4 The categories of scarce resources and the nature of the economizing problem
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