While You Were Sleeping While You Were Sleeping‚ composed by Randy Edelman and directed by Jon Turteltaub‚ includes good examples of a leitmotif. A leitmotif is a reoccurring piece of music associated with a specific character‚ event‚ theme‚ or mood. The two leitmotifs used in this movie are “Lucy’s Theme”‚ which is a slow‚ romantic‚ or even sad piece of music. The “Family Theme”‚ has a faster beat that goes back and forth and is quirky. The main characters in While You Were Sleeping are Lucy
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The song “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim Mcgraw is about a conversation between a man and his best friend who was dying. This song was written to explain how everyday should be lived to its fullest because any day could be your last. A man who just learned that he would soon die and was asked by his friend what he thought about it. His reply was that he did things that he wanted to through life like bull riding‚ skydiving and climbing the rocky mountains. These were all things that he had put
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Why were the Bolsheviks convinced that imposing a state monopoly over the media in the short-term would inevitably lead to media freedom for everyone in the long-term? Introduction The Bolsheviks‚ originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote‚ hence their name. They ultimately became the Communist
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE JUST ONE INHC TALL Being just an inch tall …. Sounds really strange‚ but if I were really such‚ I would really be very unique and special. All the equipments I would use had to be very diminutive. It might sound strange but I would have lots of leverage. I can go anywhere I wish to without a travelling mode. Just a small crumb of bread would be enough for my lunch and I can also explore many new things and get new experiences. If I wanted to go surfing‚ I
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Introduction The board is made up of individual men and women (the "directors") who are elected by the shareholders for multiple-year terms. Many companies operate on a rotating system so that only a fraction of the directors are up for election each year; this makes it much more difficult for a complete board change to take place due to a hostile takeover. In most cases‚ directors either‚ 1.) Have a vested interest in the company‚ 2.) Work in the upper management of the company‚ or 3.) Are independent
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The film “While You Were Sleeping” takes place in the 1990s in Chicago. This film was directed by Jon Turteltaub and had two screenwriters‚ Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric Lebow. The story starts with Lucy Eleanor Moderatz at her booth at the train station or her job. She would see Peter Callaghan every day and she soon fell in love with him. One day she saw Peter get pushed onto the train tracks‚ jumps onto the tracks‚ and saves Peter from being crushed by a train. Peter went into a coma because
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When You Were Young by The Killers The music video of When You Were Young by The Killers shows the story of a young woman’s tragic marriage through flashbacks while in the present she is about to jump off a mountain and kill herself. It is set in the present (video made in 2006) in a small town somewhere in Mexico. This is shown by the ethnicity of the actors and the costume which is relevant to place‚ being Mexico and the props like beer and phones which is present to the time period. The video
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plentiful water and grass for cattle‚ the Mormons were confronted with a ragged sagebrush wasteland. Undeterred‚ the Mormons went on to construct the first community irrigation projects in America. Within a few years‚ 186 permanent communities sprang up‚ complete with over 1000 miles of canals to bring water to the formerly barren terrain. 8.) The Seneca Chief Sagoyewatha spoke against white attempts to convert Native Americans to Christianity. Why do you think someone might not want to change their
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There were many factors that the colonists made when picking a side‚ some of the colonist were force to choose sides‚ changed their minds or switched sides and pick a side that benefits them and their self-interest. The American allied with France since France lost like four wars to British‚ so they contributed and joined an alliance. I believe it was a personal motive which is why they alliance and negotiated deals. The patriots wanted to elect their own government and the loyalists are those who
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The Role of Board According to Jensen (1993)‚ the board has the final responsibility for the function of the board. The job of the board is to hire‚ fire and compensate the CEO and to provide high level council. More precisely‚ the board has two major jobs: to monitoring the decision making of management as a representative of shareholders and to initiate and implement of decisions. The board of directors is a major mechanisms used to solve agency problem‚ which arises when the management and ownership
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