How have our ideas of heroes changed over the years? In the beginning of cinema heroes and heroines tended to stay within the mythic structure of heroes using binary pairs of opposite terms to simplify the complexity of events and reducing the players down to good guys and bad guys or more cinematic‚ white hats and black hats. That changed radically in the late 1960’s and early ’70’s when a series of films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid‚ Bonnie and Clyde‚ The Godfather‚ Midnight Cowboy
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A board member for American Express has brought up the fact that some companies are starting to refuse hiring smokers and that the same should be discussed at the next month’s meeting. He brought this to attention due to the fact that medical costs are rising 10 to 15 percent a year. Employing a smoker‚ on average‚ cost about $4000 more a year because of higher Health-Care cost and lost productivity. Smokers will have 50 percent more absenteeism and because of smoke break will work 1‚817 hour less
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Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders In the TED presentation “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders” presenter Sheryl Sandberg describes why women do not reach the top in any profession around the world. She begins the presentation by admitting that the women now are lucky because they did not live in the world our mothers and grandmothers experienced in the past. Shortly after‚ Sheryl reports some numbers and data to describe the problem clearly. For example‚ in the U.S. just nine women are head of
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Really Exist? Science has defined the nature of the world through an assortment of things that are observed in the physical world and those that are unobservable‚ improvable theories that explain the world. Electrons are unobservable. We cannot experience their existence with our own human senses. Do electrons really exist‚ or are they just useful fictions? Antirealists would explain that they do not exist because you cannot observe them. Realists would argue that electrons exist because
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’Atlantis’‚ was a fictional place thought up by Plato. Plato first introduced Atlantis around 330 B.C. in his works ’Timaeus’ and ’Critias’. Some people belive the people of Atlantis had far more advanced technology than we have today‚ like flying cars for example. If Atlantis exists and was found‚ the residents would probably try to enslave or kill us‚ so it’s clear Plato made up this place for his stories. Also‚ there’s no record of it‚ surely if it existed there would be record of it somewhere.
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The Idea Of America President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said‚ “We are all bound together by hope of a common future rather than by reverence for a common past that helped us to build upon this continent a unity.” We are unified by our futures and not our pasts. To be an American means to have a ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ and to be equal to anyone no matter the race‚ religion or where you’re from. However‚ another way to be American is to believe in the idea‚ some people believe America is based off
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Idea Generation of a new product The whole idea of developing a new product was inspired by some of the group members who were very enthusiastic about innovation. The focus driven members of the group were highly obliged when the group settled at the mere idea of developing a lifestyle product which would help many people to grow healthy and strong in these adulterated and metaphoric conditions. Keeping in mind the fast and ever moving lives of most of the corporates and also the other SME employees
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Конспект мероприятия по английскому языку в 9 “б” классе. Тема : “Friendship. Does it exist nowadays?” Цели и задачи: • активизировать изученную лексику по теме “Friendship”. • развивать у учащихся умение творчески использовать усвоенный материал в новых ситуациях; • развивать умения и навыки монологической и диалогической речи • развивать коммуникативные навыки учащихся; • развивать умение работать в группах; Формы работы: фронтальные‚ групповые. Оснащение:
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“Rebels Must Die” In Macbeth‚ by Shakespeare this is a major theme that progresses throughout the whole play. When we hear the word “rebel” we often associate it with people who are considered “outsiders” or “different” when in fact a rebel is just anyone who stands up for what they believe in‚ or what they do. In the play it is clear from the beginning that the character Macbeth has deep desires for power and advancement‚ to become king. However‚ in order to achieve these goals he must find a
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The Power of Words In 2004‚ human rights were violated in the form of physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse‚ including torture‚ rape and homicide of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. These acts were committed by military police of the United States Army. Did this happen because the soldiers considered the Iraqis as inhuman‚ and was it caused by having a certain language to refer to the enemies? In war‚ soldiers find it easier to cope after killing if they know that they have killed the opposing side
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