Post Copyright 1994 Friday‚ August 19‚ 1994 The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE - A woman‚ who was scalded when her McDonald ’s coffee spilled won a jury award of $2.9 million - or about two days ’ coffee sales for the fast-food chain. Lawyers for Stella Liebeck‚ 81‚ who suffered thirddegree burns in the 1992 incident‚ contended that McDonald ’s coffee was too hot. A state district court jury imposed $2.7 million in punitive damages and $160‚000 in compensatory damages Wednesday. Ken Wagner‚ one of
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Joseph Stella was born in Muro Lucano‚ Italy. He studied medicine at first following his older brother Doctor Antonio Stella. He would grow dislike medicine and would become a painter and collagist. He arrived in New York in 1896‚ 43 years before the Old Brooklyn Bridge painting was completed. He was enrolled briefly in the Art Students League and then in the New York School of Art in 1898.In the following years he would go back and forth between the United States and Europe. He did not make contact
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relationship of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. There is obvious dissent in the contentious actions between the two in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and it later grows as their personal views clash. The acrimony between the two was not always there but it later grew because of Stella Kowalski and the contrasting characters of both Stanley Kowalski and DuBois. The relationship between DuBois and Stanley Kowalski was already missing even despite the time that Stella Kowalski‚ DuBois’s
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When reading A Doll’s House‚ one would think it’s just a normal play centered around an average family during Christmas time. They may appear perfect like a doll house‚ but behind the curtain they have their share of problems. This play mostly follows Nora‚ who is seen as a typical housewife and mother. Throughout the story‚ her character evolves the most in this play and one would believe she changes her life for the better; even going so far as to show feminist qualities of self-sufficiency and liberation
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The Global Branding of Interbrew and Stella Artois One of the largest brewers in the world‚ Interbrew grew rapidly in the 1990s from its home market in Belgium to a global presence in markets around the world. As this essay will demonstrate‚ Interbrew ’s global strategy of consolidation and market penetration has been balanced between a respect for local autonomy and beer culture with efforts to adapt the flagship brand of Stella Artois to these cultures. The global beer industry is highly
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These two authors had very different points of view regarding journalism. Nora Ephron believes that a photograph speaks for itself‚ while Errol Morris thinks that the caption of the photograph is what gives it meaning. Since it’s clear that the two authors have refuting statements‚ it’s likely that Ephron would disagree with the statement made by Morris. With Ephron stating that “photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism”‚ she makes it clear that she is in favor of the photo
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1. This gentleman (shown in Pic 1) was famous as an astronomer‚ astrologer‚ and alchemist during his lifetime. In his 1573 book De nova stella‚ his precise measurements indicated that the ‘new stars’‚ (now known as supernovae) lacked the parallax expected in sub-lunar phenomena. After his death‚ his body has been exhumed twice (in 1901 and in 2010)‚ in order to examine the circumstances of his death. This was also done to verify what material his artificial nose was made of. The result was that his
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“Boston Photographs” Précis Nora Ephron‚ in her Esquire Magazine article “Boston Photographs” (1975)‚ argues that newspapers and news sources should publish life events‚ including death saying that it is “irresponsible -- and more than that‚ inaccurate -- for newspapers to fail to show it (death)‚ or to show it only when an astonishing set of photos come in over the Associated Press wire” (para. 9). Ephron supports her argument by incorporating anecdotes and anaphoras. Ephron’s purpose is to persuade
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transplantation. There was evidence that many of these organs come from the bodies of prisoners who were executed. Moreover‚ it was the only ethical issues‚ but so has the commercialization‚ which suggested a very unethical in most countries. According to Nora Machado‚ the commercialization of organ donation has a contradictory
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The “Boston Photographs” by Nora Ephron is a series of photographs that were captured in Boston when an apartment fire took the life of a young mother. A photographer named Stanley Forman captured theses frames of a rescue ladder falling from the fire escape‚ and the mother grasping for the fireman while the baby started falling from the edge. The essay “From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars” by Bruce Franklin is describing the technological advancements that evolved throughout
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