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    Pierre Elliot Trudeau: A Successful Prime Minister A great Prime Minister should always do what is right for Canada‚ no matter what obstacles he or she faces. Looking at the fifteen years he was in power‚ Pierre Elliot Trudeau did exactly that. For instance‚ he implemented the Official Languages Act and made bilingualism law. In another case‚ he put an end to the October Crisis by putting into effect the War Measures Act. Finally‚ Trudeau amended the Constitution which gave

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    If You Can Dodge Maturity You Can Dodge Success In today’s society‚ ones potential for a successful future is based on how they carry themselves on an ordinary basis. Whether it be through the way they dress‚ or the general way in which they choose to live their life‚ it is the overall level of maturity or lack thereof that plays the greatest role in how they are viewed‚ and consequently how seriously they are taken. In the film Dodgeball‚ protagonist Peter La Fleur is struggling to make rent

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    affairs issue in the United States that is important to me is equal representation of races and gender within the sector of the media. Despite the United States being a nation that is becoming increasingly diverse‚ what is shown on screen and behind the scenes does not reflect our nation’s changing demographic. This is an important issue to me as a woman of color whose goal is to become a documentary filmmaker. Equal representation in the media is necessary because the media helps to form our perception

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    Embrace by Billy Collins

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    “Embrace” By Billy Collins The most effective way for a poem to speak to the reader is by using a way of indirectly representing an image or an event. When the poet uses a filter‚ or a metaphor‚ he makes a figurative instead of a literal reference. Taking a look at Billy Collins’ poem‚ “Embrace” it is easy to think that the whole message from beginning to end is that this person was feeling lonely enough to hold himself. He is a little over the edge‚ and since there is no one around to embrace

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    General Billy Mitchell

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    General Billy Mitchell Mary Olesky Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University‚ History of Aviation Brigadier General Billy Mitchell‚ though at the end of his official military career he was reduced in rank to Colonel‚ was one of the greatest leaders in American military air power. Despite his court-martial and the various punishments that came with it‚ he was still seen over ten years later to be the visionary and great leader that he had been for his entire career and the years after until his death

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    both work to preserve the class or group in power. Power relations are integral components of gender stereotypes and gender stereotypes can be used to keep women in subordinate roles. It is well known that women are perceived as more caring and sensitive and that men are viewed as more aggressive and dominant. Masculinity is associated with high status and femininity with low status. Feminists view gender as a contrast of the intellectual-rational and the physical-emotional. Because the intellectual-rational

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    Adidas roped in the image of Missy Elliot to its brand in 2002 to cater to the new market segment of 12-24 that needed a cool theme to go with the product rather than the utility of the product. Adidas being in the apparel business made more sense if they combined their product with style and fashion and Missy Elliot was the Hip-Hop goddess of the time which had a strong influence on urban style and fashion. Adidas was successful in connecting footwear to style‚ style to music‚ music to a diva and

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    that truly stuck out to me was when one of the females felt like she was being picked on by Jane Elliot. She was a white female with short hair‚ the only one to walk out of the room. Jane Elliot states‚ “When your hand is up you are thinking about what you are trying to say rather than listening.” She wasn’t listening to Jane Elliot‚ she felt attacked and talked back and then walked out of the room. Elliot made a point when the student walked out of the room‚ that‚ “Martin Luther King was shot‚ but

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    Billy Frank Monologue

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    I have somewhat of a friend named Billy. He is the sort of person that puts salt and pepper in our classmates’ juices and taught me to eat row potatoes if I want to pretend to be sick‚ so I can get out of classes. Yet‚ his soul possesses a tricky nobleness – one that is not easily discernible. One day we were walking around the town when‚ stopping in front of a puppet workshop‚ Billie knocked on the door and shout: ‘’Barmy Barney‚ open the door you puppet carny”. ‘Who’s that Barney?’ I asked. ‘Didn’t

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    startling realization that we all at one point come to. I was going to die someday. It could be tomorrow‚ or thirty years from now‚ but my life‚ like everything else‚ was inevitably going to end. How did I reach this jarring conclusion? His name was Billy‚ and his life was short. I didn’t know his last name. I doubt he even had one. Of the forty two days on his journey aboard the Greyhound‚ I had only spoken to him twice. He was younger than I was‚ no more than fifteen‚ without a stubble on his chin

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