Hugh Evans

Ted Talks Write-Up # 2 I. Name and background of presenter (Approximately ½ of a single-spaced page). Hugh Evans was the presenter. Evans is the Founder and CEO of the Global Poverty Project. When he was very young Evans spent time in the Philippines living among people that lived in filth and severe poverty. He said that when he was younger, he asked a lot of questions, most of them were “Why” questions. As he sat amongst the filth and poverty with the friends he met while on his travels, he asked the same question, “why”. Why did he have so much and they have so little? Why didn’t the governments of these countries do something about the dire circumstances of their people? He initially started the Oaktree Foundation, a youth-run aid organization,…

Plays present a unique approach to story telling over typical novels. The little things, like the use of stage directions can dramatically alter the interoperation when reading a play. This gives the author a lot of power to tell a great story and have control over its interpretation. One of my favorite examples of a well written play is “The Farnsworth Invention” by Aaron Sorkin. This play is a fiction interpretation of the battle of inventing television. You have boy genius Philo Farnsworth…

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935). Born of peasant ancestry, Gibbon was an active socialist and writer at work during the Scottish Renaissance of the early to mid twentieth century alongside such contemporaries as Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973) and Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978). The author 's careful employment of stream-of-consciousness technique, the Scots idiom and social realism have marked this particular text out as one of the most innovative and defining…

Good morning/afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the Australian Film festival selection panel for 2016, I present to you an amazing and accurate representation of Australian culture and community, the film directed by Baz Luhrmann, Australia. The film Australia was set in 1939, Lady Sarah Ashley played by Nicole Kidman travels from Britain to Australia to meet her husband Maitland Ashley played by Anton Monsted in northern Australia as the business is failing at Faraway Downs Farm. Maitland…

This assignment will discuss how victims are placed at the centre of attention in police procedurals, and the theories used to assist these shows in helping them to put emphasis on the victims being the most important after a crime has taken place. A police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly illustrate the activities of a police force as they investigate crime. Over the years these procedurals have become more prominent and the most watched shows on TV,…

Audrey Evans. Realizing the hardships families face when enduring long stays in hospitals, Dr. Evans dreamed of a house that would host families that were being treated at her hospital. This concept provoked the Eagles to come up with more proceeds to make this dream a reality. Murray approached Elkman Advertising company to help campaign Dr. Evans’ idea, which eventually lead to the partnership with McDonald's.The idea was that all McDonalds in the Philadelphia region would donate a quarter…

conversation with Laura. When the call ends, the audience will see Jeevan knocking on the door to his brother’s apartment. This will be done at an eye level shot. This shot will exactly match what happens in the last three paragraphs on page 26. For the role of Jeevan, I would cast Michael Weatherly from NCIS. Whenever I picture Jeevan, I picture a tall young looking man with brown hair. Michael Weatherly fits this description. In NCIS, Weatherly’s character struggles to find a girlfriend and…

SignPost: Next, I’ll be talking about the Laissez-faire Leadership 5. Laissez-faire Leadership: A style in which the designated leader gives up his or her formal role, transforming the group into a loose collection of individuals. An example of Laissez-faire Leadership, is when the designated leader, Seth, gives up his role as a friend, and leaves Evan at a party to risk stealing alcohol from the house owner, causing a chain reaction that shows the two members in the group splitting up, and…

Contrast between Fantastic Four of 2005 and the Fantastic Four of 2015 “In American films, the first science fiction craze came in the 50 's, fueled by cold war paranoia, and produced a wave of movies about space exploration, alien invaders and giant, radiation-infected insects.”(Moss) Science fictions is a type of American genre that discuss human relationship with science and technology. It is created to introduce science and technology to the audience as a form of entertainment. Fantastic…

fact alone is enough to deem Mr. Trump as unfit to be president. Yes, Donald Trump has a resume filled with experience in numerous other industries, but in a day in age where most places of employment require prior experience in the field, shouldn’t we expect the same from our Commander in chief? Along with experience, coming into a job knowledgeable about what you’ll be dealing with is a quality that will benefit both the employee and their work. Numerous interviews and debates prior to the…