Rangers F.C.

A Few Minutes later the chopper appears over the horizon. I pop a green smoke and wait for them to land. The chopper lands on a grassy field in front of me. I race toward my ride home while keeping my guard up. My motto is: The war zone is the most dangerous when you’re leaving because you stand a chance of getting shot in the back by a soldier you missed or a lurking sniper. I board the Helicopter and I fly off into the horizon. I sit back on the chopper and light one of my smokes, the…

periods of time. The earliest years of the Rangers come from the pre-American Revolution era led by Robert Roger. The post-American Revolution era was led by Francis Marion during the American Revolution and John S. Mosby during the American Civil War. While these men did not have the formalized training that is available today, it can easily be said that they would still have met the standards that were established. The second key era for the Rangers bringing them to a more “modern” since…

Plan Choice of Businesses The reason why I chose the BBC and WHUFC to evaluate is because they are both very different organisation, making it easy to identify similarities and differences. WHUFC is PLC (Private Limited Company) which is owned by David Gold and David Sullivan. However, the BBC is publically owned and gets their income primarily from TV Licence- a legal permission to install or use television receiving equipment. The BBC is located in many places but their main HQ is in London.…

While in the process of writing, authors often mirror themes in each of their publications. Sherman Alexie, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and co-producer of Smoke Signals, demonstrates this technique through the aforementioned works by introducing topics such as family relationships, identity crises, the power of friendships, alcoholism, and the inevitability of death in both storylines. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian reveals the story of a young…

Smoke Signals: The Importance of Story Telling Most of us are familiar with storytelling, being told stories throughout our lives. Story telling plays a huge role in Native American culture. Stories are told within households and communities to richen the relations and bonds between people. In Sherman Alexie’s film Smoke Signals, stories are used to show relationships between Suzy Song, Victor Builds-The-Fire, and Thomas Joseph which is illustrated in the stories shared between them. In the…

Often at times, movies intend to mirror themes presented in a novel of similar context. Sherman Alexie, award-winning author and filmmaker, implements this technique and displays commonalities between his auto-fictional novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and his co-production of Smoke Signals. Both selections incorporate the stereotypical Indian lifestyle and culture such as chronic alcoholism and devastating poverty. However, there are also slight differences between the…