Andrew Irvine

When it comes to commanding a room and capturing the attention of an audience, one of the main actions necessary is communicating in a fashion that relates to everyone that is present. In the empowerment novel entitled How to wow: Proven strategies for presenting your ideas, persuading your audience, and perfecting your image, by Frances Cole Jones, a rule by Albert Mehrabian is discussed. This rule is called the 7-38-55 Rule of Personal Communication. The rule is broken down as such; 7 percent of

Irvine Welsh’s latest novel The Blade Artist (released this year) was a novel that caught my eye while I was looking along the shelves of my local library. The Blade Artist is a crime and thriller novel that keeps you guessing until the end. Frank Begbie’s first son, Sean Begbie is found dead in his hometown Leith and he makes it his mission to find the killer. He also encounters some old friends and enemies from before he basically changed his whole identity which is now an artist from Los Angeles

The movie Trainspotting, released in the July of 1996, depicts a group of heroin addicts and their peers eking out an existence in 1980’s Edinburgh, Scotland. Based on a 1993 book of the same name by Irvine Welsh, the movie was a commercial success as well as critical one. It is ranked as the 10th best British movie of All Time by the British Film Institute in 1999 (Best 100 British Films). When the book was published Welsh was condemned for glamorizing heroin abuse, to which he responded that he

Gateway Inc. Gateway, Inc., founded in 1985, started with two people working out of an Iowa farmhouse. With a "keep it personal, make it simple" philosophy Gateway, Inc. has grown rapidly since it went public 8 years after the company started. Today, Gateway is a 7.5 billion Fortune 250 company that has 19,000 people on its payroll and prides itself on building lifelong relationships with its customers.4 The company operates sales and technical support centers on four continents and has manufacturing

Trainspotting is the title on a fantastically well-made movie that’s mainly about choosing a life other than the one we are accustomed to in our daily lives. There are many reasons on how it is similar to today’s society. For example, Trainspotting deals with being stuck between different choices. The movie shows the importance of having right friends. Lastly, I liked the way mental illnesses are presented in Trainspotting. . One of the main themes of Trainspotting is making decisions. In teen and

The use of counter culture and ideology can provide unique perspectives on the issues faced by everyone, even those who do not acknowledge it. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh portrays a drug addict who rejects any conventions of normalcy in the pursuit of an alternate reality. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis does the same through the depiction of a rich and greedy Wall Street tycoon. This essay will closely analyze the themes of illusion and reality in Trainspotting and American Psycho. The relationship

PER REPORTER: Holly said Andrew was brought into the clinic today after being picked by his grandmother from Canopy Children’s Solution due to the child visiting with them this weekend to attend his mother’s wedding. She said the child’s mother and grandmother brought him into the clinic due to them being concerned about the multiple bruises located on the child’s body. She said the bruises are located on the right and left side of his torso, on his lower abdomen, there are a cluster of bruises on

it’s just too bad, the lives of everyone else’s will continue. That is what happens for the protagonist Andrew. ”Occasionally he’d peek out at the world, and for his peek hole he’d use the shrieking idiot the nursing staff called Andy.” (p. 1, l.3-4) For 5 years, Andrew has been trapped in the body of a shrieking idiot called Andy. Finally, a miracle happens and he breaks free. He gets to be Andrew again, but there’s a problem. His wife has changed, she is no longer the woman he married, his oldest

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller; Captains of industry, or robber barons?            True, Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller may have been the most influential businessmen of the 19th century, but was the way they conducted business proper? To fully answer this question, we must look at the following: First understand how Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller changed the market of their industries. Second, look at the similarities and differences in how both men achieved domination

Perhaps the three most influential men in the pre-Civil War era were Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. These men all died nearly a decade before the civil war began, but they didn’t know how much they would effect it. States’ rights was a very controversial issue, and one which had strong opposition and radical proposals coming from both sides. John C. Calhoun was in favor of giving states the power to nullify laws that they saw unconstitutional, and he presented this theory in his