The film Shattered Glass by Billy Ray depicts a true story about how a young journalist wrote and published fake stories to The New Republic‚ the magazine that he worked for‚ until he got caught. The movie reflects on the do’s and dont’s that a journalist should always follow in order to maintain his/her reputation as an honest and accurate journalist as that is not only the right thing to do but it is one’s duty as a journalist. Stephen Glass‚ the name of the character of the protaganist is
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A popular adage states: ‘hard work pays.’ Well‚ I am not writing this to dispute the wisdom of this saying. All I am saying is: smart work pays better than hard work. This is why managers in a construction firm for example gets paid astronomically higher wages than the labourers. No one will dispute the fact that labourers do heavy‚ tiring physical work in the sun and the rain. Yet they get paid low wages‚ while the management get transported from their air-conditioned homes to their air-conditioned
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Miscommunications with a Brazilian Auto Parts Manufacturer By Wei Yudan Case Questions 1. What are three of the cultural “missteps” that Wally Astor and his father-in-law‚ Henry Williams‚ made in this scenario? Why do you think this happened? 1) Williams forgot to notify his Brazilian counterpart that he would not be coming on this visit.——in the rush to review the legal documents for the deposition & taken a longtime to get the appointment with Mr. Silva (Maybe Americans regard a business trip
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GLASS INDUSTRY IN TURKEY When glass industry in Turkey is analyzed‚ it is observed that there are middle and small sized firms‚ work places at workshop levels in very limited numbers and a dominant producer‚ Türkiye Şişe ve Cam Fabrikaları Topluluğu. More than 90% of the annual production of market is met by ŞİŞECAM. Although there are no law and arbitration barriers to enter to the glass market‚ firms hesitate to enter since glass industry requires continuous production with high capacity and
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Erick Stripling English 102 Professor Koritsoglou 3 May 2011 Comparison and Contrast of Fences & The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie and Fences have been deemed one of the most influential texts that have come to be favored by many. The plays demonstrate the struggles of family life and the outcome of these circumstances. Each character within the two productions find their place within in their worlds. However‚ the plays differ from one another when reality comes into question. In
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Shattered Glass by Billy Ray Have you ever wondered how it would feel to lose your career? Shattered Glass is a true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles. He was a staff writer at The New Republic for three years who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in Washington‚ D.C. Looking for a short cut to fame‚ Glass combined sources‚ quotes‚ and even entire stories. He did everything in his power to make sure that everyone
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Is glass a solid or a liquid "The idea that glass is a fluid is a very widespread myth." (Yvonne Stokes:1999‚Discover Magazine) This myth has survived for centuries because glass is such a confusing matter which cannot be compared to the three ordinary kinds of matter described in our particle theory of matter. Gasses contain free flowing molecules which are much further apart then liquids and gasses which removes the possibility of glass being a gas. A liquid however contains tighter bound molecules
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corporation in the world. Google glass looks like a normal wearable eyeglass with a Smart Phone in it .It brings the internet world and real world together by using natural voice commands of human beings. This‚ yet to be released product is being developed in the Project Glass research and development project by Google. Project Glass is a reality project that packs a rich visual interface inside a sleek wrap-around heads-up display unit. So‚ what it does? A Google glass includes all features of a smart
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In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams‚ this is demonstrated twice-- first with the father‚ then with Tom himself. Tom takes after his father‚ who “was a telephone man who fell in love with long distances; he gave up his job... and skipped the light fantastic
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unravels a theme of fragility in his classic play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ by emblemizing Tom breaking various glass figures to emotionally breaking Laura and also symbolizing Laura’s disorder to the unicorn figure’s unusual horn. Although the theme brims he play‚ fragility most blatantly illustrates through Laura’s quote‚ “Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are” (86). The quote illustrates the representation of how easily glass can break to how brittle Laura is. Laura’s delicacy can
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