team of trash compacting robots. In the movie Wall-E‚ directed by Andrew Stanton‚ society took a reactive approach to dealing with their trash by attempting to consolidate it into hidden and smaller areas. However‚ that effort alone was not enough to stop the inevitable pollution. By not taking action to reduce the amount of waste they produced‚ the humans suffered the ultimate consequence of losing their own homes. Although the scenario depicted in Wall-E is extreme and unlikely to occur within my
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stripes torn through the sandy dust. The truck rolled down Main Street Attica with a speed born of the confidence that traffic was a thing of the past. At the edge of town‚ past an abandoned public swimming pool‚ where the houses started to thin out‚ were the towering walls of Attica Correctional Facility. It looked like a medieval fortress‚ with its watchtowers poking above massive‚ impenetrable expanses of featureless concrete. The walls disappeared into the far darkness‚ seemingly never-ending.
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about this week’s reading‚ “Looking Beyond the Wall”. The author‚ Robert‚ describes a class field trip where his students explore both sides of the border that divides Mexico and the United States. After his class met abused migrants‚ witnessed illegal immigrants sentenced to jail‚ and heard the heartbreaking stories of people just trying to make a better life for themselves and their family‚ something in them changed. Students who once supported the wall and wanted to be border patrol agents‚ were
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Chapter 4 Solutions 2. You have just won $10 million in the state lottery which promises to pay you $1 million (tax free) every year for the next ten years. Have you really won $10 million? No‚ because the present discounted value of these payments is necessarily less than $10 million as long as the interest rate is greater than zero. 3. If the interest rate is 10%‚ what is the present value of a security that pays you $1‚100 next year‚ $1‚210 the year after‚ and $1‚331 the year after
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Scottish Independence Pre-reading What do you know about Scotland? Use 5 minutes on writing down what you know about Scotland Comprehension 1. What are the arguments for Scottish independence? What are the arguments against? - they want to make their own decisions. The for is Scotland will become lot more independent. 2. Do you think it is solely an economic question? Why/why not? It is not only because of the economic‚ but it has something to do with it. There are a lot of cultural
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Over the course of H.D.’s “The Walls Do Not Fall” the implications of pronoun use are exemplified in the way that they emerge in clusters that can be systemically tracked. The use of the third person pronoun in contrast to the first person pronoun and then the insertion of the second person is significant in the sense that it forms a powerful and sentient individual as it transitions from the generalized to the precise. Through the variation of pronoun use within the text‚ H.D. removes the individual
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Reaction on Gung Ho movie When a Japanese automaker takes over a failed American auto plant‚ differences between American and Japanese work ethics threaten to close the plant. The local auto plant in Hadleyville‚ Pennsylvania‚ which supplied most of the town’s jobs‚ has been closed for nine months. Former foreman Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) goes to Tokyo to try to convince the Assan Motors Corporation to reopen the plant. The Japanese company agrees‚ and upon their arrival in the U.S.‚
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Cultural Scene Ethnography My observation takes place in an Emergency Room in a local hospital. The waiting room is a thirty-by-forty room with white walls and a dusty rose counter‚ the television sets blared from each end of the room. A drunken man wearing a woolen cap kept breaking into song and new people walked in every few minutes. Behind the counter there are three secretary calling people names. In the waiting area the people whisper and fidget constantly. Female patients often cross
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Gung Ho" and the Integrated Cultural Framework The purpose of this exercise is to apply the dimensions of the Integrated Cultural Framework to the movie "Gung Ho". Each company is discussed separately using examples from the movie and then summary values provided. United States ICF Dimension Low Moderate High Ability to Influence High Comfort with Ambiguity High Assertiveness Doing/Masculine Individual/Collectivism Individual Time Orientation Present Space Orientation Public
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