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Clown
Number of words: 1016 - Number of pages: 4.... century, the gradually replaced the Harlequin character. English entertainer Joseph Grimaldi played an instrumental role in this shift. Still today you can find s which will do the whitefaced act but you would have to look along way to find anything also the whitefaced does not use the grease paint the use a type of make-up which is thick and very rich in color and you can find it all over the place.
CharacterI In the early 20th century a third category of characterization developed from the so-called carpet , who performed short, solo routines between circus a .....
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Child Abduction
Number of words: 602 - Number of pages: 3.... will decide the rest of their lives for them. That is a phone call many of the parents get. Most abducted children do not return home, having begun a new life, if it was a parent or relative abductor, or being abused and killed by an unfamiliar abductor. Here are a few facts about :
-1 child goes missing every 40 seconds -354,000 abductions occur within the family each year -over ½ of the abductors are men -49% of abductors have criminal records -4,600 stranger abductions occur each year -sexual assault is most common as a motive -75% of all abductions involve a weapon of some sort . .....
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Sioux And Dakota
Number of words: 616 - Number of pages: 3.... to do so would be dishonorable. This style of battle highlighted the fact that the Sioux people were not savage killers, but simply fighters for peace. The reason that this tactic did not work on the whites was because the white man’s ethic of fighting was no where near the ethics of the Sioux. White man believed that they had a given right to annihilate anyone they wanted. This is why the tactics of the Sioux people were not successful when it came to fighting off the whites of the time.
Sitting Bull, was in essence and renaissance man of personality. He was equally friendly, fie .....
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Bridging The Gap Between Cross
Number of words: 635 - Number of pages: 3.... allow for and assume differences, until similarity is proved
„h emphasize description, rather than definition or judgment
„h practice empathy
„h treat your interpretation as a unproved theory until further understanding proves certainty
Often, cultural differences are easily identified and therefore, easy to adapt to; but, others are significantly more difficult. An example of a cultural difference with easy adaptability could be the matter of ¡§personal space.¡¨ Someone whose cultural background has defined their need for limited areas of personal space when working and commu .....
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A Consumers Buyer Behaviour Is
Number of words: 746 - Number of pages: 3.... and the resulting purchase decision is strongly influenced by cultural, social, personal and psychological characteristics. An understanding of the influence of these factors is essential for marketers in order to develop suitable marketing mixes to appeal to the target customer.
CULTURAL factors include a consumer’s culture, subculture and social class. These factors are often inherent in our values and decision processes.
SOCIAL factors include groups (reference groups, aspiration groups and member groups), family, roles and status. This explains the outside influences of others .....
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Heroes
Number of words: 2336 - Number of pages: 9.... at with sticks, and he was spat upon. At the end of the procession, Colonel Risner arrived at what was to be his home for the next five, grueling years. He had all of the comforts home: a bed to sleep in, meals, and medical care. Well, not exactly the way we think of home, however.
His bed consisted of a concrete slab with a one-half inch bamboo mat for a mattress. The stocks on one end of the mat are used regularly. Every night, to be exact! His meals consisted mainly a soup made from a boiled pumpkin type vegetable called manyok, with only the liquid portion given to him, most time .....
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Plato's Symposium: The First Three
Number of words: 630 - Number of pages: 3.... to his nervous state. He used multiple examples to help justify his point, yet never gave very helpful ones to prove his point. Because of this, he didn’t have very much to say correctly about society in general, considering the fact that the few generalities he made were incorrect.
However, the issues discussed by Pausanias and Eryximachus were quite interesting. Pausanias used similar methods to Phaedras, except he dissected Phaedras’s argument using logic and giving an example for each circumstance presented. These examples were those of applying the argument into society, a very .....
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The Changing Face Of Basketball
Number of words: 1473 - Number of pages: 6.... 24
second clock that a team had to shoot within that time period (Minsky 12).
Basketball has developed in that players have become more flashy, facilities
have become bigger and more complex, and leagues have grown. The 50's marked a
period of fundamentals. Teams practiced shooting, dribbling, and passing. they
also emphasized execution; something lacking in today's game. Execution is the
running of plays to perfection. Basketball in the 50's was dominated by 6'10”
George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers (Minsky 14).Mikan was a disciplined team
leader who had a masterful soft shot. Big Georg .....
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Fordism And Scientific Managem
Number of words: 2232 - Number of pages: 9.... emphasised many of Taylor’s popular beliefs about management being divorced from human affairs and emotions, using ‘humans as instruments or machines to be manipulated by their leaders’ (Hersey p.84). Fordism fused and emphasised the scientific methods to get things done by Ford’s successful mass-production processes. Contrasts also exist between the two theories. Fordism dehumanisied the worker whereas scientific management convinced the workers that their goals could be readily achieved along with their employers goals, therefore they should all work together in this direction. .....
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Ad Ananlysis
Number of words: 852 - Number of pages: 4.... is quickly caught by this ad. Five women with great figures, wearing tight dresses that show off their sexy legs and bare shoulders are leaning against each other. After seeing only a glimpse of this picture, the reader quickly turns back the page to look at the women more carefully. The women do the job of capturing the reader's attention. This plays a key role in how effective this ad is. What purpose does an ad serve if it does not capture the reader's attention? The women in this advertisement catch a man's eye, and their curiosity leads them to look at the actual message of .....
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