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    Assignment One – Professionalism Submission Date: Monday‚ September 15th 2014 PETROLEUM LAND MANAGEMENT - 2015 SUMMER STUDENTS Requisition Number: 2378 Date Posted: 9/3/2014 Location: Calgary‚ AB PETROLEUM LAND MANAGEMENT - SUMMER STUDENTS Apache Canada Ltd. seeks Petroleum Land Management students for 2015 summer positions in our Calgary office.  The successful candidates will be working in a team environment and responsibilities may include: Provide

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    Fences Piano Lesson

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    and Similar Struggles "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson" are two extraordinary works created by August Wilson. Throughout these two plays there is a constant struggle while at the same time these stories revolve around a similar theme or symbol. In "Fences"‚ the idea of building the "fence" is very similar to the "piano" in "The Piano Lesson". August Wilson did not name his play‚ Fences‚ simply because the dramatic action depends strongly on the building of a fence in the Maxson’s backyard.

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    What does August Wilson use the symbols a chain link‚ bucket of nails and two pennies to represent throughout his play Gem of the Ocean? In August Wilson’s play Gem of the Ocean he uses a lot of items and as well as characters to symbolize many things. In the play Gem of the ocean August Wilson uses the chain link to symbolize good luck‚ a bucket of nails to symbolize freedom and two pennies to symbolize hope and/or passage. Throughout the course of August Wilson’s life‚ he wrote a total sixteen

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    King. August Wilson’s play‚ “Fences”‚ explores an African American family dealing with poverty‚ segregation‚ racism etc. in the late 1950s. The play narrows in on Troy Maxson‚ an African American man who had trouble facing the harsh reality of not fulfilling his dream of playing baseball. Throughout the play‚ Wilson created a remarkable imagery of his main characters building a fence surrounding their house. The fence represented a unique expression for each main character of “Fences”. A fence represented

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    Racism is when people think that humans can be divided into different racial groups‚ each with different characteristics. It is a problem that we can see everywhere all around the world in school‚ in our community‚ at work and even more. Racism has influenced wars‚ slavery‚ the formation of nation and more .This problem is in our live since a long time it’s here and it’s always gonna be there. Racism is when people are stereotyped or given prejudice based on the color of your skin. But why? the

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    "When the sins of our fathers visit us‚ we do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness as God in his Largeness and Laws." This quote‚ by August Wilson‚ explains how one can either repeat‚ or expel the sins of the people that came before us. In the play "Fences"‚ also written by August Wilson‚ one can observe how two of the main characters deal with the sins of their fathers. These two characters are Troy and his son Cory. Troy plays host to the sins of his fathers‚ while Cory banishes

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    Espinoza 1 Connie Marie Espinoza English 1302 Ms. Pedraza December 4‚ 2012 “The American Dream Faces a Nightmare” Before the Border Fence was built on August 29‚ 2008‚ America was facing and still is facing one of the gravest threats ever. The lack of security and law enforcement agents‚ has caused so much havac and danger to the citizens of America and Mexican residents. We the citizens of the United States of America

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    Fences 1

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    of the Play Fences Fences is a play set in 1950’s America‚ which examines the conflicts between generations‚ and racial tensions between African Americans and white Americans. The play focuses on the Maxson family’s struggle to cope with Troy’s egotism and double-standards. On the one hand‚ he demands people to be realistic‚ practical‚ and responsible. On the other hand‚ he is having affair with Alberta and is living in a private fantasy world. The title of August Wilson’s play Fences is a plural

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    August Rush is the story of an orphan boy in the custody of New York State who hears music always. He is convinced that the music would call out to his parents if they could just hear what is inside of him. He hears music constantly‚ so his parents must be musicians. He could call out to them with his music and they would know that it was him. He runs away from the Boy’s Home that he is in to go to the city to find his parents. That is what the music told him to do. While he is there‚ he meets

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    Shakespeare task Theme of racism Racism is a prominent theme in Shakespeare’s Othello. A lot of things can suggest that ‘Othello’ is a racist play but other themes can actually dominate this opinion. At the time where the play was written (1604)‚ the romantic union between black and white usually gets destroyed and hated upon because most people thought this type of relationship was wrong. Moreover‚ the queen of England at the time was extremely racist so there must have been a strong

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