Wall Street is a movie about the stock market. This film showed what happened to a man life when he becomes greed
Celia Perez Wall Street Wall Street is a movie about the stock market. This film showed what happened to a man life when he becomes greedy for money and power. The main character is a stock broker named Bud. He admires a man named Gekko. He looks up to him as if he were a god. Bud wanted to work for Gekko, because Gekko had a lot of money and power. Gekko owned many corporations, buildings, and stocks. Gekko could buy anything he wanted; but he just wants to be number one to know everything about how to make money. He was very successful and everyone wanted to be him. He had so much respect and money. His named should have been money instead of Gekko. Bud ends up working for him and becomes very good friends with Gekko. Gekko started to show him how life was with money. Bud loves his boss and the new side to life. Bud wanted to be just like Gekko, a smart businessman. Gekko would buy small companies and sell them in small pieces and make double or triple of what he bought the business for. Gekko know what he needed to do, so he always is on top. Gekko would make Bud spy around businesses or after people to see what they were up to. He didn't like any surprises he wanted to always be aware of any new stocks or anything that had to do with money so he could become richer. When do you feel you have enough money in the bank you would never have to work again?
The Craig and Bentley Case.
THE CRAIG AND BENTLEY CASE Your honour, members of the jury, my learnered friends, A vulnerable and mentally disabled boy, with no gun, and under the strict watch of P.C Fairfax - accused for the murder of Police Constable Sidney Miles?... It is just inexplicable! What ever happened to scientific evidence? It is obvious that Christopher Craig, a gun collecting lunatic is the maddened killer. Might I bring to your attention that, Craig had a motive, a very profound statement - to avenge his brother's 12 year sentence......It is irrefutable also that the gangster films, which Craig watched four times a week could have motivated him. I concede that Craig was never good at target shooting, nevertheless the fact that he did carry a gun and plenty ammunition, on the night of the shooting cannot be dismissed. Therefore I question the crown and state that, this 'shoot out' was not a collaborated act. According to Craig, their common intent that night was burglary. I say it was Craig's intent and certainly not my clients'. It is evident that Bentley knew nothing forehand of that evening's happenings. "Just for the ride, sir. An ordinary ride" These were the words of Bentley's innocent answer when asked, why he had taken the 109 bus. My client clearly states that they walked down to Reeves' Corner and crossed over and then they came back up. They looked into the window of
The importance of hair straighteners
A Journey The Importance of Hair Straighteners Whilst gazing outside through the office window, I wished I could be somewhere else. As if by magic an e-mail appeared in my inbox inviting me to join my friends on a mystery adventure. I jumped at the chance. It was an opportunity to get away from the office for one whole day and night and from the monotonous tasks that were set before me. My bags were packed and goodbyes to family and friends complete. However, to my great dismay, my rucksack weighed more than my own body weight. Clearly the hair straighteners did not classify as an "essential item". It took a long while to rearrange my backpack leaving me flustered wondering how I would ever cope without what I consider "essentials"! Before setting off my colleagues, Ray and Susan helped to plan our plan our journey; where to go, where to stay and who would take what. We decided to travel from where we lived in Parson Road and make our way to Somerset. It would be a total of ten kilometres there and another ten back. The main aim of the trip was to have fun, and in doing so to de-stress and rid us of the boredom of office life. Bright and early at 6 a.m. we set off from the end of our road to depart on our mission. What an adventure we were to undertake. Our first challenge was to direct ourselves out of the village and to travel south to Somerset. With
Healing is a decision. Forgiveness is part of the healing. .
Yashren Reddi Grade 10a Forgiveness In the current hostile environment we all find ourselves, you could be thinking that the subject is not appropriate. I hope that by the end of this speech I would have been able to make a different in the way you think about forgiveness. Every turn you take today you encounter people that have scars in their lives, the scars can be anything from minor irritation to something as big an impact as apartheid had on many of our lives. One thing is clear that if we together as a nation continue to stew in the negatives of our encounters we are doomed. We have a role model, Mr Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned for 27 years, he walks the talk to forgive. He has become legendary in his approach to life, there is absolutely no way this man would be the father figure to the world if he was bitter about the tragedies of his life. Immense personal beauty and opportunity live beneath old emotional scars. To move beyond the focus on the scars and into a healing process, each person must decide to relinquish any anger, bitterness, blame, resentment or hostility toward others or Self and commit to freeing themselves from the emotional and spiritual bondage that holding on to old pain entails. There is no room for bitterness and joy; blame/resentment and love; or hostility and gentleness to co-exist. The decision to be free to
The Big Freeze Vs the Great Leader
The Big Freeze Vs the Great Leader Reviewed by Michael Zhang During the "Heroic age of exploration", the period which Sir Ernest Shackleton 1914-1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctica Expedition took place, Antarctica expeditions often became ordeals of suffering. At the time, polar explorers were somewhat venerated for their sacrifices and are recognised as heroes, despite often tragic ones. At this same time, Shackleton distinguished himself as a hero, not only among the great body of common people, but also among the twenty-seven men- officers, scientists, photographers and seamen who were his crew members on the expedition. Shackleton earned the esteem of these people, not to mention the respect of millions today, by being a leader whose optimism, stamina and patience inspired the crew and puts his men's well-being, both mental and physical, above all else. Shackleton's extraordinary leadership skills contributed to the twenty-seven men braving for almost two years stranded in Antarctic, when the expedition ship, the Endurance, was trapped and then crushed into pieces in the solid pack-ice of the Weddell Sea. It is said that Shackleton advertised for the men to join the expedition with the following notice: "Men wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small Wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant Danger. Safe return doubtful." Shackleton recruitment
A day in the life
A day in the life Although physically aroused, my mind remains numb and without thought. It may be seven forty five, and the bus leaves in ten minutes, I do not feel rushed in my naked state as I moan to the bathroom, scratching that which is irritating. My attempt to smarten myself my self up fails, and I settle for stroking my hair on end, no doubt it will be interpreted as fashion, not laziness. The pain in my stomach for the attention of something fried and greasy, is growing by the minute. I mustn't give in. Bond wouldn't give in. Oh no, he would remain strong in the face of adversity, stiff upper lip and all that, then he'd make love with the gorgeous, virginal, man-hating lesbian, whom he entrances with but a flick of an eyebrow and a sharp quip. But I am not Bond, contrary to what my dreams may indicate, a place I shall return to on the bus. To block out this pain, I bring into action my C.D player, and the musical genius of John, Paul, George and Ringo to lighten my usual, stoned morning being. I poorly imitate 'here comes the sun' through the medium of humming as I approach father's room for dinner money, yet don't go in. With my nostrils as sharp as they are this morning, I fear I would lose consciousness. I fly out of the door, the crisp bite of the air bringing my senses to optimum levels. I begin to 'peg it' Ewan McGregor style as seen in 'Trainspotting', my
Citizenship Coursework
Citizenship Coursework The second assignment is to produce a piece of coursework based on active citizenship. As a group we had agreed to complete a litter piece of our school, although there has been a huge reduction in litter around school there are still some parts where there is litter lying around. Our aim was to show other students in school the importance of having a litter free area. This includes keeping areas tidy and preventing the spread of vermin like rats and reducing the cost of maintenance areas that take up council's time and money. The second reason is to show that by being involved in projects in my school or community it is a way to make a difference and change things on our own and not rely on others to change our environment. At first Mr Walker had said we were going to do a litter pick for our active citizens. But then some of us suggested what would be an even better and worth wile thing to do would be to collect food for our annual Christmas hampers for our elderly citizens. We know that many of them are on their own, and often never see anyone. Whilst carrying out this task we had to organize how we were going to carry out the hamper collection, as a class we came up with some ideas: - * Tell people in assembly about the hamper project. * Ask friends and people at home to take part and help * Write a letter to the head teacher to help us
Jennifer Toth's, The Mole People.
Stephanie Vanstone Amanda Grzyb MIT272A: Representing Homelessness 5 December 2003 In Jennifer Toth's, The Mole People, the author ironically intends to dismiss the urban myth of animal-like underground dwellers by presenting her readership with the personal accounts of those who inhabit the tunnels beneath New York City. It is unfortunate that Toth's lofty attempt to metaphorically resurrect the underground homeless bares more likeness to the 1956 movie monster series of the same name than to the perception of its ultimate purpose. Toth's interpretation of life in the tunnels beneath New York City becomes the sensationalized voyage of a dichotomous nether world. By merely depicting the underground homeless as a dystopic or utopic subculture Toth proliferates the misrepresentations of homelessness, all the while inadvertently dehumanizing the "mole people" to be as visceral as their label suggests. In the 1956 Universal Studios' release of The Mole People, intrepid archaeologists John Agar and Hugh Beaumont explore treacherous caverns only to discover an underground dwelling race of albinos who keep as their slaves the hunchbacked, clawed and bug-eyed Mole People. The film's trailer contemplates whether or not these heroes "can save themselves with only a flashlight for a weapon". ("Rotten Tomatoes" 1) The very nature of this seedy horror film is seemingly analogous to
Theory Of Knowledge.
Name: Sun Xing Teacher: Mr. Gardner Due Date: 23rd Oct 2003 Theory Of Knowledge Big Essay "A historian must combine the vigour of the scientist with the imagination of the artist." This sentence itself is quite a controversy and a paradox. It makes people wonder; if this is plain old history we are talking about. To enhance with our understanding, we can perhaps divide the sentence into two parts. It is easy to link history with science as they both are subject to changes when new facts are discovered; although historical accounts do not change as rapidly as scientific inventions. A historian, like a scientist, on discovery of new evidence, must fit into the big picture of previously gathered information like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle. He also has to check and countercheck many times in order to increase the accuracy and to ensure authenticity of the historical account. Thus we can conclude that vigour is a "must" quality in a historian because making changes in historical documents is usually a lengthy and tedious process. So far, so good. The real difficulty lies in what follows after. How do we equate a historian with an artist? As we all know, an artist makes a living based on his creativity and imagination as he aims to create ideal yet unreal worlds to allow people to find a temporary escape from the harsh reality. However, the mission of a historian is the direct