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    most notably between Dan Humphrey and Serena Van Der Woodsen. Dan Humphrey was the James Gatz of Gossip Girl, still struggling to become Jay Gatsby. He had a nice life with his father and sister in Brooklyn, but always dreamed about something greater. When Nick finally told the reader Gatsby’s true origin story, he said, “he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (p.104). Dan and Gatsby both had

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    The Mid 1960s

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    The mid-1970s was a time when some people still identified as hippies. In the small college town where I lived then I was reading a book in the “alternative” cafe, when a self-styled hippy sat down at my table. Sharing tables was quite common for that cafe, which espoused a more Marxist, communal way of doing things. The hippy-man appeared to be in his 30s, which seemed ancient to me at the time. I wasn’t in the mood to chat but when I put down my book to greet him he started talking, expounding

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    The media has constructed many interesting characters based on stereotypes. The stereotypes that come with gender are no exception to this categorization of “types”. I will be examining two completely opposing characters. Firstly, John Smith ABC from Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, The Man that was Used Up and secondly, Homer Simpson from the extremely popular television series, The Simpsons. Arguably, through these two characters, we can see how, t the end of the day, men are portrayed as no less

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    Machiavelli’s The Prince is a guide written for the ruling class on how to maintain power, however, royalty is no longer a characteristic that belongs only to a monarch. In The Prince, Machiavelli targets the prince and all other royalty, but today his work may be used as a social critique of upper class society. Thus, a popular television show depicting Manhattan’s elite governed by social media blasts, is no coincidence. It is evident that the creators of the popular television show Gossip Girl

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    Inferno, a chillingly grim picture of a potential future, is a wonderful piece of satire. The novel depicts a bleak world in the very near future of a human race on the brink of extinction. Through most of the novel, writer Dan Brown methodically tricks readers into believing the wrong things until the tense climax and the sudden realization of wrong hypotheses. Furthermore, the dismal predictions he projects of our fragile world seem hell-bent on becoming true. With scintillating wit, he takes on

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    Captain Phillips

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    Name Professor Course Date Film project contrast paper Introduction Captain Phillips movie, examines the 2009 hijacking of a U.S container ship, by the name Maerks Alabama. The movie stars Tom Hanks as Richard Phillip (IMDb). It is a hard pounding thriller that exhibits the creativity of its director Paul Green Grass. According to Ryan McNeil (2013) the movie reflects on the primary effects of globalization, by showing the relationship between the ship's commanding officer and the Somali captain

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    Before spreadsheet was invented, people used to do and solve calculations on a piece of paper or by calculators (they still use calculators even today). Spreadsheet was invented by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979. Visual calculator was in fact the first commercial spreadsheet program. After it was invented, it made peoples’ life much easier in terms of doing calculations automatically, speeding up the calculations, lots of calculations are done simultaneously and also saving up peoples’ time

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    Aflac Inc. – Reward and Performance Practices Abstract Through rewards and recognition programs, organizations seek to find ways to motivate their employees with hopes of receiving better job performance, better job satisfaction, and lower job turnover. Aflac has developed a corporate culture that has been devoted to keeping its employees well cared for on an ongoing basis. With more than 4500 employees in the US, Aflac have consistently been recognized as one of the best and most ethical companies

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    Dan did not realize that he had been living in the future and in the past, but when he did, he started succeeding in sports and started building more meaningful relationships. This was an impactful way of showing people how focusing on the present can positively impact one’s life. The story is packed with advice on how to live life and how to succeed in life. Dan was taught to focus on every moment. At one point in the story an old man Dan met told Dan, “You’re missing out

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    of the hardest working musicians out there, Auerbach is always in the studio, playing shows, or working with music in some kind of way. Between The Black Keys, The Arcs, and his solo projects, he keeps very busy. In "Waiting On A Song," Hardworking Dan describes how sometimes it can be difficult to write songs when you're trying real hard to do so. He reflects throughout the song on how the songwriting process has always come easier to him by just going through every day life and paying attention

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