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    gender inequality within professional sports. Since the majority of professional sports is male dominated in terms of salary, fan support, and popularity, top professional male athletes essentially have a responsibility to support and endorse their fellow female athletes. Not to say women have not done a great job in establishing equal rights and freedom for themselves. Women have already made great strides as a community in establishing gender equality, but, at times it is not enough. Men need to step up and give women a bigger voice in the fight against inequality. Therefore, it is critical that men and women work together to achieve equality. In relation to professional sports, it is imperative that recognizable male athletes like Sidney Crosby (hockey), Aaron Rodgers (football), LeBron James (basketball) and many more male athletes endorse, support, and bring attention to the gender equality that surrounds professional sports. In addition, it is also important for female…

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    Gilletts Case Study

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    Gilletts put a lot into staff training this includes, challenge 25, sparkling service and an extensive training folder for new starters going through work safety, customer service, theft, security and produce procedures Staff must be trained in all aspects of the job to fullfill their role properly and to get it “right first time”. Phillip Crosby was credited with the “right first time” approach. Right first time should mean zero defects. His approach came up with 4 absolutes of quality…

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    Hardships In Music

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    beginning, middle and an end. Metallica 's song "One" is a great example of this musical structure. Based on the book "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo, the song 's context is referring to an incapacitated soldier who is searching for death after losing all hope in living. The details of helplessness explain in the lyrics such as, "Darkness/Imprisoning me/All that I see/Absolute horror/I cannot live/I cannot die/Trapped in myself" (Metallica). Indirectly, I can identify with the words and…

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    Film Friendly Persuasion

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    7. Andy Bell. Bell announced that he was openly gay in 1986 in an interview with Melody Maker. It was in December 2004 when he made another announcement stating that he had been HIV positive for 6 years and keeping it in control. 8. Chuck Panozzo. Chuck Panozzo broke fans’ hearts when he announced that he was guy and living with HIV and AIDS in 2001. Since then, he became an active person in the promotion of AIDS awareness. 9. Danny Pintauro. The last time we see Danny Pintauro is on a 2015…

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    were Duke Ellington, with the hit song "Take the 'A ' train," Glenn Miller, the singer of "In the Mood," and Benny Goodman, performing "Sing, Sing, Sing." These four singers were not the only popular ones, on the contrary they were only the most popular ones and they have been said to have been the ones that pretty much gave that music period a meaning, with them as the definition. There were many other famous singers of the era. Other famous singers of the era were Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby…

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    Juke Box Musical Analysis

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    recorded by the most popular artists of the time like Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole. And usually altered to fit the artist and for them to have their own interpretation of the song. These songs would become hits and be recorded for years to come. Cole Porter was by far one of the best at writing these standards, while he was writing music in his later life he had mastered the craft by writing simple songs with dummy lyrics “I Love You” which was popularized by Bing Crosby in 1944.…

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    Sense of entitlement can be considered an unrealistic or an unmerited expectation that could develop from favorable living conditions and desired treatment at the hands of others. In Shakespeare’s play King Lear, readers are hooked on a story bounded much by the relationship between a parent and a child. This relationship described throughout the play is unnatural due to the sense of entitlement each character demands upon the other. The lies told by various characters throughout the play,…

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    Oscar Wilde implements a heavy focusses significant attention on class in The Importance of Being Earnest. People with and without money behave very differently, though strive for the same response and impressions from their peers. The characters in this novel are exaggerated to the point of absurdity when it comes to their obsession with class. Victorian upper class demands its members to keep up an important image in society and value money and appearance above all else, including people.…

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    Every day, we hear the term ‘love’ in a plethora of situations. So, what is love? According to Shakespeare, in sonnet 116 - The first quatrain describes love as an unchangeable force in the lines “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove: / O no! it is an ever-fixed mark.” Shakespeare enforces the fact that true love always perseveres, no matter what it’s up against by using the metaphor, “That looks on tempests and is never shaken” in the…

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    Both King Lear and Of Love and Dust are stories about characters who seek power, but die because a stronger power is in their way. In both stories, two kinds of power are contrasted: physical power, or violence, and psychological power. Physical power is the kind of power people use when they’re threatening to use or are using brute force on someone else. Cornwall uses this when he blinds Gloucester in King Lear, as does Bonbon when he shoots the hawk as a threat to Marcus in Of Love and Dust.…

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