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    GE3401 – TB2 Exploring English Cinema Scene Analysis “Scattering Donny’s Ashes” Scene in The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998) Student Name: Fan Ho Nga, Gloria Student ID: 52948216 “Scattering Donny’s Ashes” Scene in The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998) The Big Lebowski (1998) by the Coen Brothers is no doubt a comedy film about friendships between three bowling buddies with differing personalities who met and stuck together as friends by choice in Los Angeles

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    I can remember the day clearly as if it were yesterday. The sand covering my feet was shining brightly with resilient sunlight. The tides crashed gently against the sand as if caressing it. The wind carried on casually; at times I felt no breeze at all, as if the wind itself stopped for a second to enjoy the relaxing scene. This day marked the beginning of our annual family beach journeys. I was 9 years old and was overly obsessed with an old raggedy purse made out of old pillow cases and bed

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    individual. This essay will explore the theoretical ideas and practice skills of person centred counselling. Key figure (Founder) and Major Focus Carl Rogers (1902-1987), an American psychologist was the key figure in developing person-centred counselling. Rogers was born into a strict religious family and he was the fourth born of six children. Although Rogers (1961) recalls his childhood at times to be particularly lonely he claims his family

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    by going to these events and analyzing others, instead of actually participating he finds things to distract himself. When he commences to progressively act, he finds that he does not analyze people so critically; or over think little things. Even Roger Ebert notices this when “Charlie,” participates on the stage, for a viewing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and goes along to write “... it provides him with a turning point...” (Ebert). This turning point being to engage things instead of just watching

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    Roger Fisher and William Ury’s book, Getting to Yes, proposes a variety of negotiation strategies and tools. The authors break their method down into four procedures and demonstrate them in common negotiation scenarios. They encourage readers to break away from the two extremes of soft and hard bargaining to seek a third approach. They call the third approach “principled negotiation” or “negotiation on the merits”. I submit that the procedures proposed in Getting to Yes alternatively break down

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    Can We Tackle the Concussion Battle? Can We Tackle the Concussion Battle Within Football? Introduction The National Football League (NFL) or as some people may say, “Not for long” is responsible for some of the greatest athletes. Excellence appears to be their one goal, which is to win Super Bowl championships. Some players perform at a high level for a while, whereas others don’t have a chance at experiencing actual playing time on the field at all. NFL players are less and less likely

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    Roger waters, band member of Pink Floyd, wrote almost the entire album of “The wall”, one of Pink Floyd’s most popular albums, a top three sellers, with over 23 million records sold. He was the singer, songwriter and bassist for Pink Floyd. David Gilmour wrote the music while he was working on a solo album in 1978. He brought it to “The Wall” album sessions and Waters wrote lyrics for it. Gilmour believed that the song, “ comfortably numb” could be divided into 2 sections: Dark and light.

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    Pink Floyd, an English psychedelic-rock band founded in 1965, was originally made up of construction students Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright. They originally started performing in London’s underground scene in the late 60s, and under Syd Barrett’s creative leadership they released two charting singles and a successful debut album. In December 1967, the group added David Gilmour as the band’s fifth member following the mental breakdown of Syd Barrett during their support

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    Tamaris Purvines Assignment Three LDR 404 07/29/2012 Assignment Three Part One There are several different processes, ideas, and efforts that go into the overall practices of effective negotiation and conflict resolution. Yet no productive negotiation could be possible without the valuable use of skills. Two types of skills can help a successful negotiator. The first type is hard skills, which are guidelines, strategic measures, or anything that can be copied down onto paper and taught

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    include: what qualities make certain innovations spread rapidly than others, the value of peer-peer conversations and peer networks during social changes, and assessing and understanding the needs of different individuals in a specific population (Rogers, 2003, p 35-36). One of the most pressing obstacles for Human Resources departments and organizational management is the ongoing development of employee’s talent that is capable of meeting the business objectives

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