In his story Little Red Riding Hood‚ Charles Perrault introduces the concept of being wary of strangers to his young audience. The story begins with a little girl getting instructions from her mother to take some bread and butter to her ailing grandmother. Shortly after her journey to her grandmother’s cottage‚ the little girl comes in contact with a wolf. She engages in conversation with the wolf‚ informing him of her destination and the whereabouts of her grandmother. The wolf‚ being a cunning
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MEAT (Curzon) [This one-act was selected as a runner-up in a contest at Actors Theater of Santa Cruz and performed there in 2002. Also given a staged at First Stage‚ Los Angeles‚ 2002.] CHARACTERS: (2) BATPERSON‚ in Batman costume ROBBIE‚ in Robin costume VOICE‚ offstage‚ possibly pre-recorded‚ male or female SETTING: Two airplane seats side by side. Two chairs will suffice. (Batperson is sitting in his seat reading a flight magazine. After a little while‚ Robbie enters‚ checking the
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Setareh Salehi Cop in the Hood Peter Moskos‘‚ Cop in The Hood‚ is the story of a sociologist going native by going through the Baltimore police academy‚ becoming a cop and working for over a year. The book follows Moskos chronological journey‚ from the academy to the street and the last part of the book is dedicated to a pretty thorough analysis of the War on Drugs. The first interesting observation from Moskos’s work is his analysis of the police academy as relatively useless for the job:
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On August 11‚ 2014‚ American actor and comedian‚ Robin Williams took his own life‚ he was 63 years old. The world was devastated‚ saddened and confused by this tragedy. The question on everybody’s mind was‚ why would this extremely gifted comedian and actor who won an Oscar and an extraordinary comedian take his own life when he had so much to live for? What we learned in the weeks following his death was shocking. Robin Williams had been suffering from severe depression for decades. Severe depression
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In her painting‚ Plate with Wreath‚ Robin Jebavy uses everyday objects and combines them with unordinary colors as an attempt to make people change how they think about their everyday life. Jebavy herself states that her artwork is “a reference to our fragile and often precarious human condition.” The manner in which she uses color allows for the objects‚ such as plates and glasses‚ to be unrecognizable at first glance. She does this to blur the sense of reality and illusion that all people have
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Robin Reid‚ the director of the Center for Collaborative Conservation of Colorado State University’s Warner College of Natural Resources‚ will be speaking at the Lory Student Center Theatre from 6:30 to 8:00p.m. Tuesday‚ Sept. 27. Reid will be a featured speaker for the President’s Community Lecture Series. Reid’s presentation‚ titled “Walking with Herders (and Others): Bringing Different People Together to Work with Nature‚” will focus on creating resolutions for conservation issues by assembling
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Boyz n the Hood The movie “Boyz n the Hood” is comprised of many types of issues that relate to social environments and different living situations based on location. The film was able to demonstrate gang violence and how a person struggles to survive in the hood. The film also showed how having a role model in life can be beneficial to succeeding in life. In addition to that‚ this film also demonstrates how neglected the hood is from the media and how looked down upon these people are by police
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Negotiating with International Parties Chapter 19 Nov 17 Presentations Week 14 Presentations Nov 24 Week 15 Presentations Dec 1 Last Class Dec 3 Case Presentations: The specific requirements for case presentations will be discussed during the first class. Students who either miss this class or are not clear on the case presentation requirements must contact the instructor. Disabilities: Students with physical or learning disabilities who have special needs with regard to course
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The setting of Boyz N Tha Hood‚ is also a dominant factor as to why the characters develop into who they are. The film is set in the low-income areas of Los Angeles‚ California in the early nineties. At this point in time‚ the City of Angels was notorious for street crime and violence‚ as well as its harsh‚ discriminatory police officers roaming the streets. Because the characters Tre‚ Darrin‚ and Ricky develop in this sort of environment‚ vice is a reality that they have been constantly exposed
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depression and loneliness. I remember seeing an interview around the time of Robin Williams’s death that said Robin was always putting on a show and performing for everyone‚ even if only a few people were around. But when it came to one on one conversation‚ he was always a little off and uncomfortable. For someone who lived to entertain others I’m sure there was both worse than being alone. Depression and Anxiety was something Robin struggled with for a very long time. It surely added to his suicide‚ but
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