Comic conventions in ’Educating Rita’ The 1980’s play Educating Rita by Willy Russel shows many of the main features of comedy. It involves two different societies clashing‚ for example. Rita‚ a hairdresser who comes from a working class family and is married to Denny whose aim in life is to have a baby‚ wants to get educated. She meets Frank‚ her tutor in the open University who comes from an upper class family. In the beginning‚ Rita appears to be the typical working class women. She is
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In addition to meeting the definition of a Convention refugee‚ Toben also meets the four criteria for determining whether or not someone is a Convention refugee. First‚ Toben is alienage. An alienage is someone who has been denied protection by their home country and is now unwilling to return. Toben had left Nigeria in April 2015‚ to come to Canada. Moreover‚ it has been noted that Toben was in fear of being persecuted by the Nigerian government. He has already been detained since he has joined
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The Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy Dawn Wilson AJS/502- Survey of Justice and Security August 23‚ 2014 Kevin Moore Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy My topic will focus on Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS). I am familiar with community policing because of my experience with Portland Police Bureau and its usage there. When I finished probation‚ I was assigned to a community where I actually became involved with community activities. I would park my patrol
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November 20‚ 2013 The Seneca Falls Convention Throughout history women were not treated the same rights as men. Women were thought of as property‚ wives and mothers. People believed that women were inferior to men. Women could not own property and most of their education consisted of learning how to run a home. Men thought that they were more intelligent than women therefore‚ they didn’t think a woman could hold political office or vote. Men also thought women should not be involved in
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As many know‚ the Great Chicago Fire was a disaster of devastation‚ and most likely the worst disaster of the 19th century. The tragedy killed more than 300 people and left more than 100‚000 people without homes. Not only did the conflagration take a human toll‚ but the fire caused 200 million dollars in property damage and decimated more than three square miles of the city of Chicago. Despite speculation on the true cause of the fire‚ Emily Upton describes natural factors that allowed the fire
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Congress enacted the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979 in 1980 after the President signed it into law in February of the same year. Glenn Anderson‚ the 32nd representative of California congressional district‚ sponsored the bill leading to this act. The purpose of this bill was to provide aviation operators with advanced help in preparing programs to minimize noise in airports and other related areas to improve and ensure continued aviation security. The enactment of this bill followed
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The dream of flying can be sparked as a child‚ by watching your dad get his pilots license and take you up flying. That’s exactly what got Jason Farwell into aviation. Jason is a certified flight instructor for airplanes. We talked about ethical decisions and how they can affect other people view of the aviation community. Both of us agreed that everyday people have to make an ethical choice to continue to work towards the pilot rating and still have enough money to pay their bills. He said‚ “It’s
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the United Nations (“UN”) adopted the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Today‚ some 62 years since the Convention was entered into force‚ the issues regarding refugees remains. These issues are still regulated by the Convention. However‚ that these provisions remain relevant to the regulation of current refugee issues is a contentious issue. One of the reasons for this is that the definition of “refugee” as set out in Article 1 of the Convention drastically limits the scope of persons
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into American culture and language. Americans can be hurt by others by being “blacklisted‚” or “blackballed‚” or “blackmailed” (Williams‚ 1964). When the Chicago White Sox deliberately lost the 1919 World Series as part of a betting scheme‚ they became known as the Chicago Black Sox‚ and to this day the “dark” chapter in American sports history is known as the Black Sox Scandal. In a similar vein‚ Muhammad Ali has observed that
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I helped my students develop skills regarding critically evaluation different accounts of the historical debates of the constitutional convention by providing them with two sources on the matter‚ one primary source and one secondary source. The reason I did one primary and one secondary source is because now my students have knowledge on the subject from someone who experienced these events first hand and they can see how similar or different that is from an historian’s perspective. On the board
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