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    sell off division. Management instead may wish to avoid any acquasition at all. A third party, termed a white squire, might be invited to make a significant investment in the firm, under the condition that it vote with management and not purchase additional shares. White squires are generally offered shares at favourable prices. Billionaire investor Warran Buffett has acted as a white squire to many firms, including Champion International and…

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    higher standard in the social class, sometimes the kids would be able to become a knight in training, there were a few stages to this such as, being a Page, then a Squire, and then a Knight. In these two article “Medieval Knight” and “Facts on Medieval Knights”, it discuss how it takes about seven years for a page to become a squire, then seven more years…

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    and the appearance of the crossbow is accurate. Secondly, I will be talking about the inaccuracy of the knighting ceremonies during the movie. In the movie the knights would slap the squires in the face after saying a certain statement. According to David Bachrach “A squire knelt before a knight, who struck the squire on the back of the neck with the palm of his hand. Later, a tap with a sword replaced the blow with the hand. This tap was called the accolade, from the French word col, meaning…

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    Good afternoon everyone, today I thought we could start with a quick survey. Could I get you to raise your hand is you have a grandparent over the age of 70, who still has a drivers license please? If we look around, this number may not seem like many but this is only a small representation on the larger population. The fact of the matter is that many elderly people still drive on our roads. For this reason, we should be making ’S’ plates compulsory for drivers over the age of 70. This would…

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    A squire talking to Joan degrades her by showing her place in the class system. The squire says, “She’s not a farm wench, she’s a bourgeois… I know her class exactly… A farmer. Not a gentlemen farmer”(Shaw 11). This shows how important the class system was in the Middle Ages, because it was used…

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    patient-centered services compared to our counterparts. On the other hand, the United States is lacking behind when it comes to safety and coordinated care despite the fact that improvement has been shown in this categories in recent years (Davis, Stremikis, Squires, & Schoen,…

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    Knights had training at a young age that taught them special training skills and methods. Another piece of evidence that supports the claim is in the document c2 also from Warrior Challenge it says “By the age of fourteen a page could become a squire. Squires would continue with weapons training but were already considered to be fighting men.” They were trained to become higher levels in training then…

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    understand, a lack of maturity is presented in Stephen. Frayn further reveals a lack of maturity as Stephen calls himself a “local squire“ and “sword bearer“, since both are fictional characters as well as inferior, imagination is revealed, since children are generally more likely to have a fertile imagination a child-like character is revealed. The fact that the “squire“ is local interprets a theme of war, because Keith’s mother is supposedly German and Stephen and Keith are British and thus…

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    they still belonged to the same group of people. Only the son of a noble could become a knight, and sons of nobles were usually forced into becoming knights. Becoming a knight required a long training program and becoming a squire, the assistant of a trained knight. A squire learnt skills from the knight and was trained by the skills the…

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    These men and women are always dressed in the best, and look clean and have their clothes looking expensive. The squire wears a short gown with long, wide sleeves (in order to be noticed). The nun and prioress wear fitted clothes. The monk is dressed lavishly with his gold pin and fancy belt. The friar looks like a pope with his nice clothes, and the sergeant of the…

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