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    The movie The Equalizer is an action packed thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua, which follows Robert McCall, a former CIA assassin, who is trying to live a quiet life. His life heads in a new direction when he discovers that his friends’ livelihoods are in danger. McCall’s natural instincts take over as he liberates the people of his community. His duty to protect the innocent and seek justice defines Robert McCall as a hero archetype. Robert is a courageous hero, who puts his own life at risk

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    Death being the great equalizer has been a popular phrase for a very long time. In Ecclesiastes, It is explained what death being the great equalizer means. Ecclesiastes 9 1-2 (NLT) reads “This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God’s hands, no one knows whether God will show them favor. The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether righteous or wicked, good or bad, ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive

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    In the film “The Equalizer”, a thriller/action directed by Antoine Fuqua, there are several key scenes that build the storyline for the movie, however there was one scene that engaged my attention and I found had great relevance as I studied this film. It is the first fight scene where Robert McCall fights a Russian group holed up in a hotel room. Significant aspects that I noticed Fuqua use in this scene were the characters actions, camera techniques and lighting. I feel as though these 3 techniques

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    Multi-Tiered System of Supports: The New Equalizer in Education Abstract The report Multi-Tiered System of Supports: The New Equalizer in Education has been designed to show an inequality in the school system as well as give a viable solution to the outlined problem. The first proponent of the paper is to unveil the inequality of education between urban and suburban schools; including differences in income that effects the student’s education as well as varying levels of support and guidance students

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    Children's Literature Becoming an Equalizer

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    “While we are undeniably a multicultural society, we are not yet a truly pluralistic society where persons of every ethnic background and race share equal access to opportunities for empowering their lives and have the right to pursue their own good.” (Bundy, 1992) The upperclass were wise to the importance of reading; which, is the basis for leaving England settling in America. Children’s literature started with teaching to read for the expressed purpose of understanding the word of a higher power

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    The Great Equalizer I was born too late in time. Some forty years too late, that is. Now, many may chastise me, and say that the twenty first century has everything to offer that the the mid-twentieth does. "We still have milkshakes. We still dance... And besides, segregation was in full swing!" But, I do not want to live in the 60's because of the society. While the racism seemed to deter me at first, my love for jazz trumps every obstacle. Why? Jazz is the great equalizer. Everybody is treated

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    a little easier. I'm a threat. I alter outcomes.” I‘m sorry I couldn’t resist. I am a big entertainment enthusiast, in particular the assemblies of Denzel Washington, and the above was a classic quote delivered by his adversary in the movie “The Equalizer”. Mr. Washington is an amazing artist, and a master of his craft. He lives his life to make a difference in others, and I try to emulate that. I have been very fortunate to be a part of a family setting that is unified, caring, loving and functions

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    Horace Mann, a seventeenth-century politician who advocated for widespread public education, once said that education “…is the great equalizer of the conditions of men…” (as cited in Khurana, 2016; Ritchie, 2000). Society is still attempting to improve education, especially between women and men. Andersen (2015) notes how women 's education had been frequently restricted throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For example, Harvard and Princeton did not admit female students until the late

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    Integrative Paper The American public has termed education as the “Great Equalizer” after the idea that every United States child should receive an equal education. Looking at how our education system is run, however, we find that the US far from the being “Great Equalizer”. The ineffectiveness of using market choice in education has furthered educational inequality and strengthened the domains of power in the United States. By looking at the business model and market choice we can identify how

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    modes to generate LP11 modes (LP11a+LP11b) and even all three modes (LP01+LP11a+LP11b)over few-mode fiber (FMF)The transmission system with mode multiplexing are a very crucial problem. The mode selective devices proposed in divided into two major categories: free-space based (FSB) and fiber based(FB).Free space components are bulky in size ex liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) spatial light modulator (SLM). But fiber based mode selective device have compact and easiness of integration. .Firstly proposed

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