What do all of these things have in common? They are all services the Tory government in Ontario has been trying to privatize with some disastrous results and possibly more to come. The Ontario government‚ lead by Progressive Conservative leader Mike Harris‚ has been slowly trying to do away with services that are currently administered by the province. The ideology in question‚ privatization‚ has been a hallmark of the Common Sense revolution. But so far the Tories have been slow to make a success of
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Fast Food: The Hidden Cost Eric Schlosser begins his book Fast Food Nation by comparing the secrets Cheyenne Mountain hides as a metaphor for the hidden dangers of the fast food industry. From the outside‚ Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs‚ Colorado appears to be a beautiful mountain‚ just another peak in the wild wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. To an observer‚ there is nothing unusual about it. In reality it hides the North American Aerospace Command‚ the Air Force Space Command‚ and the
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Throughout the best selling non-fiction novel‚ Fast Food Nation‚ Eric Schlosser dissects McDonald’s and the food industry that supplies these corporations. He explains how the company came about and the influences it has on us socially and economically. His book was published in 2001‚ and gain critical acclaim for being “excellently researched… peppered with acerbic commentary and telling interviews… Highly recommended - Liberty Journal”. Schlosser himself visited a meat packing facility‚ interviewed
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morbidly ironic way it’s the only thing that is completely guaranteed‚ no additional fees‚ no extra shipping cost and of course it’s always on time. Humans however seem to have mixed views on it. In the poems Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas and After a Time by Catherine Davis death is examined and thoughts on the ways we should receive and handle it are the main themes of each of these poems. Thomas and Davis do this by using imagery‚ syntax‚ and an interesting underlying meaning
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Florida v. Harris: “Free air sniff” On June 24th‚ 2006‚ an officer from Liberty County‚ Florida‚ Sheriff’s office (Officer William Wheetley) made a traffic stop after noticing an expired license plate on a man named Clayton Harris’ truck. After making the stop‚ Officer Wheetley noticed that Harris appeared to be nervous. In addition‚ Officer Wheetley spotted an open beer can inside the vehicle. Officer Wheetley then requested to search Harris’ truck. Harris refused to cooperate leaving Officer
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Dylan Thomas was a 20th century poet and was considered one of the best of his time. He was born in 1914 in Swansea‚ Wales to parents David John and Florence Williams Thomas. Thomas’s father was an english teacher at the Swansea Grammar School and was a large influence on his son. Thomas soon began writing poems. His first poem was published at the age of 12‚ but was later discovered as plagiarized. Thomas wrote and published his first collection of original poems in 1936. In the year 1952
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illness‚ or a loved one has died‚ it is being all but ignored. The only group of people who often skirmish with the idea of death—talk about it‚ ponder about it‚ hypothesize about it—are writers. Poets specifically often explore human mortality‚ such as Dylan Thomas with his poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” Inspired in part by the terminal sickness of his own father‚ Thomas discusses several different views of life‚ death‚ and the tenuous relationship they share through the use of visual effects
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Death is a constant presence in life that can not be escaped and is experienced by everyone. Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night” and Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” and both deal with different perspectives of death. Thomas’s poem looks at death from an external perspective of watching a person die where Dickinson’s poem looks at death through the perspective of a person experiencing death. These perspectives on death show the acceptance of death and eternity
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his opening paragraphs. Summary Worksheet Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation [2001] Main claims: 1. As Eric Schlosser point out that Americans spend much money on fast food. 2. Eric Schlosser claims that the fast food industry has too much control over supply‚ production and demand worker safety and consumer’s health. 3. Eric Schlosser asserts that people should know what really goes into fast food‚ and what real coasts of it are. Examples: 1. Eric Schlosser states that Americans “spend more
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In his poem entitled “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”‚ Dylan Thomas uses the elements of TP-CASTT to illustrate how man should fight death to the very end. The title tells the reader to “not go gentle”‚ meaning to not meekly and peacefully make the transition from life to death; instead to rage against it‚ and struggle with what vitality they have left. The poem begins with the speaker stating his argument – to fight against death‚ even unto old age. Subsequently‚ he describes the valiant
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