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    News Report: Students Clean Up Waterfront April 23‚ 2012 Yesterday‚ students at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute won the contest. They were participating in a clean-up contest held by Live Green Toronto™ on Earth Day. The school that collected the most garbage would receive a $5000 grant for their school and runner up grants. The students‚ who were eager to win‚ went to Downtown Waterfront to clean up garbage along the Lakeshore. There were over 70 other schools across the TDSB were involved

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    Elia Kazan’s ‘On the Waterfront’ journeys the moral redemption of Terry Malloy and his struggle to break free of the heavily ingrained ‘D and D’ (deaf and dumb) culture. The transformation of the attitudes of mainstream society are made possible through many characters on the docks‚ it is however Terry that ultimately unites the waterfront and brings justice to a once corrupt society. Through Terry’s three-fold journey of moral awakening‚ enlightenment and catharsis we are able to witness the breakage

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    Elia Kazan’s portrayal of good and evil in ’On the Waterfront’ is more than it meets the eye. Good and Evil appear in seperate characters and also at different times on the same characters. More importantly‚ Elia Kazan gets an important message across; No character is truly evil. Good is symbolised in numerous ways throughought the film. The church is one such example of this. It represents the highest order of purity and goodness‚ yet it is always on the background of the film. During

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    Both Rose and Kazan delineate their protagonists to create their own moral tendencies against all opposing majority even though they are frowned upon for doing so. Within On The Waterfront‚ Terry Malloy creates a misplaced and nervous figure‚ although he contrasts this when becoming much more confident to oppose the antagonist‚ Johnny Friendly. A conversation between Terry and Eddie shows that Terry is in fact “with [himself]” and not on any opposing side. This concludes that Terry does not follow

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    make the SWOT analysis of Tornator’s waterfront plot business possible to conduct. The SWOT analysis shows strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats of the business and it is important to determine the current success and position of Tornator’s waterfront plot business. With the SWOT analysis a clear picture of Tornator’s situation in waterfront plot business can be seen and analyzed in order to make improvement suggestions to the Tornator’s waterfront plot marketing. The interview will act

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    &Alfred Waterfront Company The Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront has become one of the top tourist destinations in South Africa. Attracting approximately 20 million visitors annually‚ it is located around Cape Town’s original harbour‚ the Victoria and Alfred basins. The V&A Waterfront is a working harbour which provides for leisure‚ residential‚ commercial and retail purposes. In addition‚ the V&A Waterfront Company is involved in the development of other local and international waterfront projects

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    Terry says to Charley: “ I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody‚ instead of a bum. Which is what I am.” Does the film support Terry’s judgment of himself? Elia Kazan’s film‚ “On the Waterfront”‚ tells the story of a washed up ex-boxer named Terry Malloy and his fight against the organised crime syndicate controlling the shipping docks of Hoboken‚ New Jersey in 1954‚ but more importantly‚ according to Kazan himself: “This motion picture is about one thing only: a young man who has let

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    Addam Farmer MUS 468I Written Project Professor Perry La Marca 3/19/2012 “On the Waterfront” and the Music of Leonard Bernstein (1954) “On the Waterfront” is a masterpiece film about a union man (Terry Malloy) whom makes an attempt to stand up to the corrupt mob bosses leading the Longshoremen’s Union. Just as important as the plot of the film is the music; the original score by Leonard Bernstein greatly influenced how other composers would approach film scoring. Bernstein combined the “American”

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    Tale of Two Cities and On the Waterfront Synthesis A Tale of Two Cities and the movie On the Waterfront embodies a distinct message when looked at carefully‚ from certain individuals who act on their conflicts to bring about a more extensive change to their company. Dickens and Kazan illustrate a clear significance in their works emphasizing the difference an individual can make when situated in a conflict but sacrifice what they have to others benefits. We see this in A Tale of Two Cities with

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    Business Assessment HSC Course Employment Relations – Patrick Stevedores waterfront dispute (1998) In this report‚ an analysis of employment relations is looked at in regard to the Patrick Stevedores Dispute of 1998. This dispute was a massive class battle that took place between Patrick Stevedores and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA). It was one of Australia’s biggest‚ ever industrial conflicts of the 1990’s challenging the industrial unions of the time by the standing Australian Government

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