Geoffrey Robertson

The year was 1997. Rip Van Winkle is lying in bed and dreading going to work. Rip was pay phone technician with Bellsouth. He was rather lazy so this job suited him perfectly. All he had to do was drive around and repair pay phones and collect the money. Rip had been married for fifteen years. During these fifteen years, he had been bossed around daily by his wife. Today wasn’t any different. His wife, Dame Van Winkle, stormed into the bedroom and demanded that he get up. Rip replied to her in…

Washington Irving was one of the best fiction writers of the early nineteenth century. He was the first American fiction writer to obtain an international reputation. He was also named for George Washington, the first president. Irving wrote “The Devil and Tom Walker” in the early nineteenth century, and the story took place in 1727. The story’s point of view was in the third person. The story’s setting took place at Charles Bay, near Boston Massachusetts. In “The Devil and Tom Walker” it is…

Many medical advancements were made during the first and second World Wars, including trauma, patient care, prevention of infection, and post-war care. It is said that World War I was a good war for medicine because numerous medical and clinical advancements were made during the 4 year span. A majority of these discoveries can be credited to the damages left by new artillery and guns that were capable of obliterating flesh and bone (Clarke). These new guns could fire accurately up to 10 miles…

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy, and in 1929 in France and Australia (Geoffrey Robertson, 2010). The book is notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words. An edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in Britain in 1932 by Martin Secker; reviewing it in The Observer, Gerald…

Geoffrey Cudmore of The Canadian Journal of Higher Education, states that the three most important reasons for recruiting international students are “the opportunity to generate revenue, the opportunity to bring foreign perspectives to the local student body…

Paolina’s, when she smiled, her long hair, her wide eyes. At the bottom of the page there were a couple of dot points – the things Paolina had suggested – Ashleigh’s love of writing, her sense of humour, her determination to be a lawyer like Geoffrey Robertson, whom she’d hero worshipped since she’d seen him on a Hypothetical on television when she was at high school. How they were so proud of her, and that she was an attentive granddaughter... He couldn’t bear to look up. He knew the chapel…

his handbook. The media makes many statements to the public that makes them see how officers are really treating other people. The article “Racism And Police Brutality In America." Journal Of African American Studies” by Chaney, Cassandra, and Ray Robertson, they explain how the media influences police brutality. This article believes that the sense of the media portrays black males “as studs, super detective or imitation. So this justifies why police treat black males the way that they do.” It…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…