Robbie Williams Biography.

Robbie Williams Biography Remember the photographs (insane) The ones where we all laugh (so lame) We were having the time of our lives Well thank you it was a real blast Robert Peter Williams was born on February 13th 1974 and spent his childhood years living in Stoke-on-Trent with his mum and older sister Sally. He was always the class joker at St Margaret Ward High School in Stoke and had a particular gift for singing and acting. His great love then (and still is now) is Port Vale FC. His mum used to own a pub just down the road from their training ground and Rob loves to tell the story of the time he threw two thousand pounds out of the window on a match day!!! I'm sure his mum loved him for that, especially when her bras and knickers followed! Along with his mum Jan, he joined a local theatre group, and was often seen starring in various musicals and plays, his biggest part was playing 'Dodger' in Oliver. Rob joined Take That when he was only 16 (that's him on the left hand side of the picture!). He had only one job previous to that, as a double glazing salesman, but apparently he wasn't very good - he would tell customers not to buy them because they were so bad! Rob's mum was the person responsible for him joining the band, she saw the advert for auditions and suggested that he apply. He did so, and as soon as the other members saw him, they knew he was the

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The potential of e-commerce

E-commerce Britain is turning into a dot.com nation. By 2001 over 10 million homes had access to the Internet compared with 6 million the year before. Also, many people access the Internet through cyber cafés and schools, colleges and universities. In recent years, more and more people (specifically the young) have turned to e commerce. Retailers simply cannot afford to ignore these developments. However, not all retailers are equally well placed to take advantage of this changing environment for trade. Recent events have demonstrated that selling via the Internet is not a guaranteed success for all companies. Some Internet ventures have collapsed even though billions of pounds were spent on trying to build the brands. These examples include: * Boo.com, an on-line fashion and sports clothes retailer, which failed despite having £12million ploughed into creating awareness of it. * Webvan, which soaked up £700 million in an attempt to create a large-scale retailing chain in the USA. Webvan had to file for bankruptcy. Other companies are 'hanging in there', but have yet to make a profit. They struggle largely because they required an existing brand presence and needed to create one. Doing so is a long and expensive drag. The potential of e commerce E-commerce is seen as a major area of development over the next few years and virtually every well-known retailer is

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Which sources of knowledge - books, web sites, the media, personal experience, authorities or some other - do you consider most trustworthy, and why?

TOK essay, November 2002 and May 2003 0. Which sources of knowledge - books, web sites, the media, personal experience, authorities or some other - do you consider most trustworthy, and why? The human desire for knowledge has existed since the beginning of civilization and will presumably be a part of us forever. This is due to the fact that knowledge was and still is, considered to be directly related to intelligence. Therefore mankind's progress and development can be considered to be directly related to knowledge. However, through the establishment of new sources of knowledge, knowledge has become subject to corruption and bias, which especially in the 20th and 21st century questions/ed their credibility. In this essay I will attempt to discuss each of the given sources of knowledge in the above title in terms of their credibility. Books are probably one of the oldest sources of knowledge; almost every early form of civilization possessed some form of written language, which was passed on through generations. However this does not mean that books are a perfectly trustworthy source. Today many factors must be taken into account when questioning the credibility of a book. Time and the government body present while the book was published certainly play a crucial role. A corrupt government, such as Hitler's dictatorship during the Second World War, only authorized the

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Which sources of knowledge- books, web sites, the media, personal experience, authorities or some other- do you consider most trustworthy, and why?

Which sources of knowledge- books, web sites, the media, personal experience, authorities or some other- do you consider most trustworthy, and why? In this essay I will be looking at the statement above in relation to the problems of knowledge, using where appropriate my experiences as a knower1. To ascertain which source of knowledge one can claim to be the most trustworthy one would have to define them all first. The proposed sources are: books, websites, media, personal experience and authorities. After I have defined each source of knowledge, I will be looking at the reliability of each source, helping justifying my findings with the help of the problems of knowledge we have identified in class. Truth plays a large role in considering which source of knowledge is the most trustworthy. With truth there are many problems involved, for something to be true it has to be believe to be true and there have to bee good grounds for it to be believed to be true. This links to perception, truth I think largely depends on the way one perceives it to be reliable. . When talking about books one can already distinguish between the fiction and non fiction books. Fiction is usually defined as fantasy and non real yet sometimes the author of the book makes it seem like non-fiction. This makes it sometimes hard for the reader to say if it is fiction or not. Due to the fact that fiction is

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

"What's Eating Gilbert Grape" shows that relationships are both stifling and essential to personal happiness. What's Eating Gilbert Grape portrays many different types of relationships. Gilbert's relationships with his family can at times be both stifling and essential. "Endora is where we are...it's like dancing to no music." With Arnie needing Gilberts care all of the time this relationship creates tension in his life. The new girl in town, Becky, creates a relationship quintessential for Gilberts' life. She helps to open Gilbert up to his life and that he can in fact go anywhere. The Grape family consists of Gilbert, Ellen, Amy, Mama, Larry, and of course, Arnie. The Grape family lives in an isolated town of Endora in a house that seems to be in a mess since their father, Albert Grape, died. Gilbert's difficulty seems to have started when his father commit suicide seventeen years ago in their basement, which drove his mother to obesity and a life confined to their home. Gilberts' mother accepts that she has become a "burden" on him and sees how he feels ashamed and humiliated by her. Gilbert even regards his mother as "a beached whale," and at one point lifts a young boy to the window to see her almost like she is an animal at the zoo. Gilbert's mother is not his only complication; his pointless affair with a frustrated housewife, Betty Carver, whose rash sexual demands

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The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is considered to be an extraordinary movie which has received many award nominations and positive reviews from critics. Released in 1994 this film, directed by Frank Darabot, follows the life of Andy Defresne as he is wrongly accused for the murder of his wife and sent to Shawshank Prison for two lifetimes. The film examines the themes of Redemption and Brutality. Through using characters and imagery, Frank Darabot effectively leads the audience into the confronting nature that the prison system’s brutal nature overpowers the prisoners deeming them powerless and that the human spirit can overcome anything even in Shawshank prison when on the road to redemption. Frank Darabot clearly uses the characters of Captain Hadley and the guards to demonstrate the horrific brutality of the prison system and the troubles faced by the prisoners. Frank Darabot portrays Captain Hadley as a ruthless, aggressive, ‘Alpha male’ type person. This is shown when the Fat Guy has a mental breakdown in his cell while being taunted at by the other inmates. Captain Hadley has no patience with his whining and drags him out of his cell to beat him without remorse or sorrow. This clear act of horrendous violence together with the powerlessness of the prisoner gives the audience a feeling of horror and disgust that the ones who are meant to be the

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"The Simpsons"

"The Simpsons" BySneha Patel 10'O A sitcom is a situational comedy television series. Sitcoms usually use comic devices to make them funny like puns, violence and exaggeration. They use satire, farce, parody, jokes, gags and slapstick to entertain the audience. Sitcoms usually last 30 minutes if shown on commercial TV and they involve chracters having problems which they try to sort out. "Leaver it to Beaver" was about a typical, white middle-class 1950's family that had problems and worked together to work them out. They had the same sort of characters as "The Simpsons" but they didn't have the same controversial issues. When "All in the Family" aired in the 1970's it was a different story. A black family was introduced and it dealt with controversial subjects in realistic ways. It was the first show to do so. This made it popular. Nowadays "The Simpsons" has taken its place. It ridicules important people and deals with subjects that were earlier described as forbidden. "The Simpsons" takes advantage of being an animated sitcom and makes some drastic changes in life, for example the family is yellow skinned, has 4 fingers and seems to not age at all. In certain scenes they may be badly injured, but in the next they are fine. This all makes "The Simpsons" enjoyable to watch. The opening sequence tells us that the following programme is going to be a comedy. The soundtrack

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The Simpsons.

The Simpsons One of the most popular sitcoms to date has got to be The Simpsons. It was first aired in 1991 with all of its characters being yellow (besides Asians and some celebrities). The original intent of this was to trick viewers into believing that the tint of their TV was off so they would attempt to adjust it to no avail. People soon realised this and saw the funny side of it, which helped the Simpsons' infamous career as a sitcom. A sitcom is a situation comedy. It centres on a family and usually has the same setting each week. Sitcoms have been around since the 1950s and have always been popular. They are normally 20-30 minutes and are showed when everyone has come home from work or school (6 o'clock onwards), so people can watch it as a family. Each episode starts off with an orientation to the situation, which leads to a complication that threatens the status quo. The complication is soon resolved and the characters re-evaluate their relationship before moving onto the reorientation where order is restored. The opening sequence for The Simpsons has only ever been changed once, besides the schoolboard and the Simpsons arriving at home each episode. These two scenes change every episode and encourage viewers to be there when The Simpsons starts. It also shows the nuclear power plant, which is often ridiculed for its radiation pollution, and Bart and Lisa's

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What can you learn from Source A about the impact of the Beatles in the 1960's?

) What can you learn from Source A about the impact of the Beatles in the 1960's? Source A shows how much the Beatles were loved and idolised. They are very famous people and were, to most, the best music act around in the Sixties. The Beatles brought about change in both music and television in England during the period, which became known as the "swinging Sixties". Source A discusses the first appearance of the Beatles on "Juke Box Jury". This was a major change for the British people, as previously all television programmes were aimed at middle aged people and young children. The Beatles were a music group aimed at a teenage audience and in Source A Joanna Lumley talks about her memories of their music, their first appearance on television and the impact they had on her life. She talks about her life at the time when the Beatles were extremely popular. She says, "It was heaven to be alive" which demonstrates the importance of the Beatles in her life and how much she liked them. The Beatles were seen to be "cool, hip, smart, charming and funny". Even London, one of the trendiest and busiest places in England, was described by Joanna Lumley to have "stopped" when the Beatles were on television. "A silence and emptiness descended on London" when the "Fab Four" appeared on "Juke Box Jury". This shows just how much of an impact the Beatles had on London and the rest

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What factors enabled the Daily Mail to be so immediately successful when it was launched in 1896?

What factors enabled the Daily Mail to be so immediately successful when it was launched in 1896? The first issue of the Daily Mail appeared on 4th May 1896. It was an immediate success and circulation quickly achieved 500,000. It is the only paper to remain in the same family ownership for the entire twentieth century. A man called Alfred Harmsworth, who later became known as Lord Northcliffe, created it. He was born in Chapelizod near Dublin in 1865 and was already taking an interest in journalism when he began editing his school magazine. In 1888 he and his brother Harold published their own magazine, which within 4 years had become a great success and was selling over a million copies a week. This success helped him finance the children's paper, Comic Cuts and a woman's magazine, Forget-Me-Nots. In 1894 he took on the Evening News which at this point was nearly bankrupt and dramatically changed it making yet another success. Now Harmsworth wanted to start a new newspaper that would be based on and American style. This was the Daily Mail By the time the first copy was released there had already been over 65 dummy runs which had amounted to a total cost of £40, 000. At this point the newspaper only costed a halfpenny and contained eight pages. Slogans used to sell the newspaper included 'A Penny Newspaper for One Halfpenny' and 'The Busy Man's Daily Newspaper'.

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