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    Summary of Wall Street In 1985, Bud Fox is a young stockbroker in New York City at Jackson Steinem &Co. He wants to become bigger and better and work with his hero Gordon Gekko, a legendary Wall Street player. He became so obsessed with working with Mr.Gekko, that he called his office 59 days in a row in hopes to get through to him. Since that didn’t seem to work, he decided that he would approach it a different way, and go and pay him a personal visit with a birthday gift, Gekko’s favorite Cuban

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    The producers of the film, Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz created the 1975 film and deleted some scenes from the novel. Failing to put scenes in the film that are important to the novel's portrayal can be a bad decisions for most producers. Readers and viewers may be disappointed because they were looking forward to the scene or it changed the plot entirely. In most cases scenes have to be deleted in order to keep the film a certain length. This is evident for movies like The Hobbit and The Hunger

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    The development and implementation of 3D in popular cinema shares many similarities with the introduction of color into films. If we examine the histories of both technologies, Moana’s color analogue is Douglas Sirk’s melodrama All That Heaven Allows. In terms of timeline, both come at a point when the art form is still in between the astonishment and absorption phases of using the technology. Though All That Heaven Allows was made around fifteen years after the first technicolor films, the movie

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    Introduction General Douglas Macarthur was one of the most well known military figures in the history of the United States. He gave his farewell speech to congress on 19th April 1951 and went into retirement after 52 years of service in the United States army. He was given the chance to address his final message to the US government. This analysis carefully examines his ethics, goals, strategies, strengths and weaknesses. The speech is very famous and highly popular among the American audience.

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    Yes, you are right. It really kicked in as of this year. This is the first year that I've kind of gone to another level. I'm the guy in town who did a lot of indie stuff. I'm very well-known in the independent film circuit 'cause I have this different way of being who I am. I started out on something huge. I did a couple of small things, and then I landed a role in I Spy with Eddie Murphy. My part was a supporting lead part in the movie. I worked with him for four months. To get that size of part

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    Occupation of Japan The intent of the United States’ occupation of Japan was to neutralize the threat of another war, to nourish the Japanese economy back to health, and to provide a stable democratic government for the defeated nation. With General Douglas MacArthur acting as the supreme commander in charge of the occupation, Japan changed drastically. Special attention was paid to the areas of military, economy, and government. The effects of the United States’ occupation of Japan were profound almost

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    The Pactice of Management

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    The practice of management is very ancient, however the formal study of management is comparatively new. Management as a proper discipline developed after the tip of the nineteenth century. Nevertheless it should be admitted that management has been in existence since humankind became systematized into formal groups. It is very difficult to come up with a definition of management which could totally satisfy all professionals or skilled people or all management theorists. For a broad operating definition

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    I/O PSYCHOLOGY IN THE MOVIE OFFICE SPACE Introduction Most movies are a reflection of society and the type of interpersonal interactions that shape human lives, although they are typically revamped to fit a certain genre. In the movie Office Space, the satirical twist is on the human experience of the work environment. It is a comical depiction of how coworkers interact with each other and how they endure stressful job-related situations that we can all relate to. There are psychological concepts

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    Connie Willis Book Report

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    as Eileen), Michael (used name “Mike” when doing assignments in the past)  and Colin in the 2060s who travel back in time to observe historic events. However, they met troubles during the assignments and accidently changed history. They found themselves trapped in 1940s and could not go back to 2060. In this journal, settings, characters, predictions and

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    Abraham Lincoln is best known for his great speeches and his role in the civil war, but what most people do not know is how he and his wife met and what effect her family had on his presidency. In Stephen Berry’s book House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided By War, Berry tells about the life of Abraham and his wife Mary Todd. In this book, he includes the influence that the Todd family had played on his personal life as well as his presidency. This book begins with Mary Todd’s grandfather

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