Jim Jeffords

Beyond All Recognition was based around a group of friends whom had served in the army together. There were many turning points in the show, between Andy’s uncomfortable interaction with his ex-girlfriend Steph, the broken relationship between Denise and her husband Peter and Denise’s relationship with her brother. The actual show Beyond All Recognition was a TV show based on a conspiracy about soldiers having their memories wiped clean after a war. I had no idea what to expect when I walked…

Report – Performance Meeting Notes, Trevor Kitt Claas Harvest Centre (CHC) - Warragul Meeting Notes: Trevor Kitt Informal Meeting – 15 September, 2015 8:15 AM Meeting was called to discuss Trevor’s management of the spare parts department and the effective delivery of spare parts to the workshop and customers. During our meeting, Trevor reacted negatively towards my requests for him to improve his management of the Spare Parts department. We also discussed the need for continuous improvement in…

Captain William A. Mercer took over the school and loosened the rings a bit; he strongly pushed for sports teams for the school. One Jim Thorpe-whose former named before it was changed at Carlisle was Bright Path- emerged from the school as a football star and eventually played for the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Braves and won six of ten events at the 1912 Olympics. The experiences…

Life’s What You Make It Life is filled with countless opportunities that will more or less make or break the pathway to humanity. Sometimes an individual may question his or her values and beliefs because society does not idolize them, but that does not mean they are not true. In order to live a good life one must have their own free will to make decisions and put meaning in their own life. Also, when thinking about what it means to live a good life, maintaining social order becomes…

Looking For Alaska by John Green (Book) and Skins S2E7 - Effy (TV Series) the idea that drugs and alcohol can influence your decisions and have negative outcomes is clearly shown but each their own way. In the movie Basketball Diaries the main character Jim Carol revolves his life around basketball and he dreams of being a famous sports star one day or at least that was the plan, but with his best friend, Bobby, in the hospital dying of leukaemia, and a growing addiction for what just started…

students possessed brutish dispositions. Assaulting the students’ speech abilities was not the only instance in which McKnight ridiculed the students. Later, McKnight discusses activities that took place at a graduation ceremony in which students seemingly embarrassed themselves in a variety of public spectacles such as climbing a greased pole and attempting to catch a greased pig; all of this happening while townspeople looked on and watched in amusement. The interaction between the students…

Imagine being 4 years old, watching your favorite character perform on your favorite show. Confident that you were knowledgeable of everything he was going to do next. Then you get a surprise, Big Bird is going to China. Your level of excitement is uncontainable. You have only seen him on Sesame Street, with Oscar the Grouch, Grover, Burt and Ernie. He was leaving his nest; he was not just traveling to another place, but to an entirely different country. I had to question, “How was he going to…

The case study that we were required to read was very interesting as it dates back to the early 1900’s. This means we were able to see the culture of the company and how it progressed over a century of time! I’d like, for a second, to take the abstract thought of how this company held on to its beliefs and values even through all the changes and advancements we’ve have in our culture with people’s rights and the change of the cultural norm. Analyzing the case study you are quickly led to…

Globalization. The only word that can describe what society are affected the most. Globalization lies in every corner in our lives. Make this world seems tiny as if we know everything in limitless area. Yet it tighten the countries of the world as if it becoming one single country. A Country of Globalization. Whether consciously aware or not, this globalization is affected by the rapid stream of Technology of Information and Communication. Every day in our world, the technology development…

A quick glance into Joan Didion’s life would put readers under the assumption that she identifies as a standard second-wave feminist. A prominent female writer in the 1960s, Didion had initially left me drawing connections to the likes of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. Even her stern gaze present on book covers and articles seems to give off a sense of feminine mystique. But after careful venture into her work, it is my understanding that while feminism plays a role in what Didion tackles as…