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  • Land Rover North American, Inc

    Land Rover North American, Inc

    2.0 Introduction 2.1 The Reality of the Report: Purpose & Aims Whether it is crude, boring, eccentric, exciting, entertaining or otherwise, there can be no doubt that Reality TV is big business. As the saying goes, there is no business like show business, and media conglomerates and television networks alike have done big business through reality TV. This truly unique genre of programming has taken the world by storm since its inception, traced back as

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Max
  • Waking up American

    Waking up American

    Waking up American Everything had changed. He still haunts me, dressed in half ripped clothes, sitting on a cardboard, holding on tight to his empty begging cup and weeping for his mother, but she was no where to be found. His pitiful cries moved me to want to scoop him up, comfort him and give him a home, but I didn’t. No one paid attention to him. I stood there attempting to figure out if

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Midsummer Nights Dream

    Midsummer Nights Dream

    Everyone thinks they will fall in love or be in love with someone else at one point in there life. Love is a very strong word. In A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare it was used to its full potential. It could be true love or just an attraction that you think is love but it really isn’t. First there was the love between Theseus and Hippolyta, which lasted throughout the whole play.

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Max
  • Midsummer Night’s Dream + Related Texts

    Midsummer Night’s Dream + Related Texts

    Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595), Rebecca Young’s Western Suburbs Hero (2001) and the feature article written by Tony Vermeer Couple’s campaign against heartbreak (Sunday Telegraph, Feb, 2008) highlights that all individuals experience displacement, it is a paradigm present in every aspect of society. Displacement occurs as a result of the rejection of traditional societal values and social establishmentarianism. The dialogue provides insight into the assumptions underlying the concept of displacement. Act One; Scene One of

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Andrew
  • American Beauty 1999 Directed by Sam Mendes

    American Beauty 1999 Directed by Sam Mendes

     In American Beauty, 1999, directed by Sam Mendes, we are confronted with the permeating images that have consumed mainstream American life. Mendes exploits these images as constructions that we created around ourselves as a means of hiding our true selves. Mendes is able to implicate us in the construction and make us active viewers by exploiting our voyeuristic nature. In American Beauty Mendes uses the voyeuristic tendencies of the spectator to acknowledge the permeating

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Harlem Renaissance: An American Experience

    The Harlem Renaissance: An American Experience

    The Harlem Renaissance: An American Experience Painter Aaron Douglas, the "father" of African Art, stated in 1925, "Let's bare our arms and plunge them deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of our people and drag forth material crude, rough, neglected. Then let's sing it, dance it, write it, paint it" ("Harlem Renaissance" 1, par. 4). These words of triumph and strife epitomize the

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The American President

    The American President

    "The American President," directed by Rob Reiner is portraying everyday problems the president has to face along with hidden political issues that concern his presidency. The movie begins with Andrew Shepherd, a role played by Micheal Douglas who's a widow president with a young daughter and is currently running for his second term. He is counting on his crime bill to cinch the result of the upcoming political struggle. In the movie there is an

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • What Life on the Mississippi Taught Me About American History

    What Life on the Mississippi Taught Me About American History

    What Life on the Mississippi taught me about American History. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain gave me an idea of what life was like in America in the nineteenth century. It was written by an eyewitness who led an interesting life that began on the Mississippi River. He went on to become a world-know American author, humorist and lecturer. The main theme of this work is the steamboat and its effect on the

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Overmedication of American Children

    The Overmedication of American Children

    We in America tend to take medications for almost any problem we have, from headaches to gastrointestinal pain, to more serious chronic disorders such as depression and attention deficit disorder. While many of the uses of such medications may be necessary and legitimate, many are not, and due to this fact, many people become dependent on medications, mentally, and or physically. This problem is not simply the fault of the individual; in fact, the blame

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Vika
  • American Fast Food in Korea

    American Fast Food in Korea

    1. Base on market information for Asia Pacific, we can made conclusion that business future in Asian region has to have bright future. With 33% of the world's GDP and 50% of its population, Asia has emerged as a rapidly growing force in the global economy. Due to the cultural diversity, regulatory controls, growing base of consumer power and its own set of business "rules," the multinational corporations (MNCs) find it challenging to enter the

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Creation of the American Republic

    The Creation of the American Republic

    The Creation of the American Republic James Madison prided himself on his knowledge from books and theories. Madison was born into a class of Virginia planters. His father was the wealthiest landowner in Virginia and it was known that Madison would lead a financially secure life. This factor helped him in his pursuit of education. He gained opportunities to go to elite schools because of his status. Madison was ambitious and he graduated from the

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Marriage in American Cukture

    Marriage in American Cukture

    The model marriage in present American culture is one which is based upon love and happiness. This principle is emphasized through the “happily ever after” themes in most fairy tales. Contrastingly, during the Renaissance, this ideal was rarely considered in negotiations of marriage. Matrimony was considered more in terms of business negotiations, often arranged between business associates and those of similar social stature. Marriage was primarily a social, political and economical merging of two families

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Top
  • Diet in American People

    Diet in American People

    Unfortunately, Americans today are obsessed with losing weight. Everybody wants to be thin! Everywhere I go, there’s someone counting calories, cutting "carbs", and running themselves to death on a treadmill. Dieting can be beneficial, when done properly and with discussion with a doctor. Sadly, some people fall into these bad habits when the desperation to lose weight has become tremendous. Everyone wants to lose way quickly and more importantly very easily. Therefore, any fad diet

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • Unattainable Dream

    Unattainable Dream

    An Unattainable Daydream In a world full of cheaters, liars, and con artists, the last person anyone should lie to is themselves. However, that is exactly what took place in Raymond Carver’s, “Neighbors.” In this story, Bill and Arlene Miller were left with the opportunity to take care of Jim and Harriet Stone’s apartment while they were away visiting family for ten days. The Millers had grown weary of their lives and often felt jealous

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Kevin
  • It’s Just a Dream

    It’s Just a Dream

    It’s Just a Dream When one hears the word “America,” one may associate that with freedom and democracy. For many others, the idea of opportunity and refuge comes to mind. These ideas enabled people to develop the American dream. For many years, the American dream was a contagious fantasy that plagued the world with the belief that prosperity and happiness will arise by coming to America. It offers false hopes to its followers because it

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: David
  • Examine the Ways in Which Hollywood Cinema Has Conventionally Represented African Americans.

    Examine the Ways in Which Hollywood Cinema Has Conventionally Represented African Americans.

    I will be examining some of the ways in which Hollywood cinema conventionally represents African Americans with relevance to the film Trading Places. Trading Places (1983) is a good example of how Hollywood cinema represents African-Americans because it does so in different ways. It is a typical black and white �buddy’ film in which it has paired together an African American star with a white star in order to attract both audiences, however, not bypassing

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Yan
  • American Revolution’s Effects on American Society

    American Revolution’s Effects on American Society

    One of the most significant events in United States history was the American Revolution. However, the significance of the event did not lay in the number of casualties or in Revolutionary wartime strategies. The importance of the Revolution lay in its effects of American Society. This landmark in American history has caused important changes to the government, affected vast and deep social changes, and altered the economic state of the newborn nation in the years

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Max
  • Theory Assignment on American History X

    Theory Assignment on American History X

    Theory Assignment on American History X This movie tells the story of a young man, from Southern California, that is the product of several unfortunate incidents, and his misguided search trying to answer the question why his life is the way it is. I. Daniel appeared to be dealing with the adolescent stage. Daniel seems to have developed his sense of self worth by mimicking his older brother. Daniels significant relationships, since his brothers incarceration

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Bred
  • Dreams and What They Mean

    Dreams and What They Mean

    Dreams and What They Mean Psychologists seem to fall into two groups regarding dreams. The first group believes that dreams have no real purpose; while the second group believes they do have a purpose, although this group cannot reach a consensus on what the purpose might be. Sigmund Freud is probably the most famous of the dream theorists. He believed that dreams helped to preserve sleep by keeping individuals from waking as a result of

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: regina
  • Stereotypes of Latin Americans

    Stereotypes of Latin Americans

    A Report on Stereotypes of Latin Americans among Graduate Students of International Management Carmen Vega Carney and Matilde Franciulli This study presents the results of a study conducted among graduate students in international management in a US business school. The study aimed at identifying the students’ prevalent stereotypes of Latin Americans as well as to ascertain whether these differ from conventional stereotypes present in the general population. The conventional stereotypes were identified from those reported

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Top
  • Frank Stella - an American Artist

    Frank Stella - an American Artist

    Frank Stella An American Artist Frank Stella is an American painter who remains poplar after almost four decades of work. He was born in 1936 and studied at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts under Patrick Morgan and at Princeton University under William Seitz and Stephen Greene. After 1958 he lived in New York. He came to the fore in the 1960s as one of the most inventive of the new school of Post-Painterly Abstraction,

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Jack
  • Helena Monolouge - a Midsummer-Night’s Dream

    Helena Monolouge - a Midsummer-Night’s Dream

    Created excrpt from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' in the character of Helena. (right after Demetrius and Lysander have told her they were in love with her) Oh, how did these things come to pass? I have grown used to Demetrius treating me with ill manner, but not Lysander. Why, he himself told me that he and Hermia were to escape through this very forest so that they could proclaim their love and, without the peril

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: David
  • Civility in American Today

    Civility in American Today

    Each day he rode the city bus, usually seated near the front. Dressed in a stylish black coat and black hat, the elderly gentleman never failed to turn to thank the bus driver as he made his way to the door to get off. And just before he went down the steps, he would turn to the passengers, tipping his hat with a brief nod and smile, then make his departure. This scene really impressed

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    The American Revolution was a conflict between 13 British colonies in North America and their parent country, Great Britain. It was made up of two related events: the American War of Independence and the design of the American government. In 17, the commander of British forces, General Thomas Gage, sent out troops to Concord and Lexington. The mission was to capture leaders of the rebel cause, John Hancock and Sam Adams. The rebel Paul Revere,

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • Native Americans of North Carolina

    Native Americans of North Carolina

    American Indians had been living in North Carolina for at least 9,500 years before European explorers first encountered them in the 1520’s. For the past several decades an increasing number of Americans have been identifying as American Indians. For centuries before European contact, these native people lived in harmony with the natural environment, taking no more from the land than they needed to survive. Of all the states in the Union, North Carolina has witnessed

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Top