Set in an island during the festive season of Christmas‚ Bernard MacLaverty’s compelling short story ‘Remote’ portrays the effects of mental‚ emotional and social isolation a helpless elderly woman faces and struggles with through exceptional characterisation. Through the use of a variety of techniques‚ MacLaverty creates a realistic and convincing character through his presentation of the central theme of isolation. A notable characteristic of the woman‚ as created by the author‚ is slightly mad
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D. card and once my back up unit arrived I had all of the occupants to exited from the vehicle. A warrant check was requested through communications and the return reveal that A-1 had three open warrants through Fairfax County Virginia Police for fraud. F-2 didn’t have any open warrants and F-1 didn’t have a valid license through Maryland. Inside the vehicle there were several other bags of groceries that weren’t from Wegman’s. There were several bags from Home Goods and a big bag of clothes from
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In Huxley’s‚ Brave New World‚ Bernard Marx‚ one of the story’s main protagonist’s‚ fails to play the role of a dystopian hero. An Alpha male‚ who is supposedly meant to be a big‚ strong‚ leader figure‚ is unsuccessful in fitting into society because of his substandard physical appearance. Due to his dissatisfaction and lack of confidence with himself‚ Bernard’s main goal is to fit into the dystopia and raise his social status. However‚ because Bernard is so focused on himself‚ he is unable to criticize
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science and uniformity. In this dystopian world there is a character named Bernard Marx. Huxley used Bernard Marx to show the power struggle humans face. He did this by showing Marx in the beginning as a person with little power and an outcast to the others. But through the book gains power but his grows a large ego because of it. This shows that the World State isn’t perfect but is in fact a dystopia. The character Bernard Marx in the beginning was an outcast among his fellow Alphas because of his
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to find ways to set fraud in motion – and a new breed of offenders is finding cunning ways to do so. After more than 60 years‚ the classic fraud triangle of three elements or events that motivate an employee to cross the line has morphed ™ into Crowe’s Fraud Pentagon. Company boards and senior management must take an offensive stance against the five conditions that precipitate fraud with a clear plan that limits the opportunity for fraud and minimizes the impact when fraud does occur.” Jonathan
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The focus of this paper was originally threefold. I wanted to synthesize my thoughts on California’s inhuman style of agriculture‚ corporate (agribusiness) welfare‚ and America’s pandering do-nothing congress OF the special interests‚ BY the special interests‚ and FOR the special interests. I intended to intersperse discussions of these topics with many historical agriculture/legislation facts and events. Unfortunately my research time was greatly curtailed by my need to find employment ASAP this
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The definition of anti-Semitism in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “hatred of Jewish people” . In the article “Anti-Semites”‚ Bernard Lewis discusses anti-Semitism and how Jewish hatred was originally defined by religious terms‚ but eventually evolved a racial issue. Anti-Semitism became a force during the medieval period in Europe and has continued for centuries. When someone thinks about Jewish hatred‚ I believe that the Holocaust would be the first thing on their mind. The Holocaust was the
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The main historical fraud in the movie is the title of the record label. The real record label is Chess Records‚ not Cadillac Records. The name Cadillac Records comes from the owner of the record label‚ Leonard Chess buying all of his musicians Cadillacs once the label becomes
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Financial Fraud- Qwest Communications Introduction In the late 90’s‚ early 2000’s‚ Qwest Communications International Inc. (Qwest) was a rapidly growing telecommunications company that provided global internet and telephone services. At their pinnacle‚ Qwest was one of their industry’s top leaders‚ reporting revenues of $16.7 billion in 2001 (Anonymous‚ 2013). Through continued expansion and acquisitions of other large telecommunications companies‚ it seemed things were only headed in a positive
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Weisberger. Bernard A. America Afire: Jefferson‚ Adams and the Revolutionary Election of 1800. New York: Morrow‚ William and Company‚ 2000. Allen Bernard Weisberger was born in August 15‚ 1922 in Hudson‚ New York‚ United States. In September 9‚ 1951 Weisberger married an attorney June Miller‚ they had a total of three kids Jonathan‚ Lise‚ and Beth but in January 1970 their love fell apart when both agreed to file a divorce. Allen Weisberger attended Swarthmore College located
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