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    Assignment One – Professionalism Submission Date: Monday‚ September 15th 2014 PETROLEUM LAND MANAGEMENT - 2015 SUMMER STUDENTS Requisition Number: 2378 Date Posted: 9/3/2014 Location: Calgary‚ AB PETROLEUM LAND MANAGEMENT - SUMMER STUDENTS Apache Canada Ltd. seeks Petroleum Land Management students for 2015 summer positions in our Calgary office.  The successful candidates will be working in a team environment and responsibilities may include: Provide

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    What does August Wilson use the symbols a chain link‚ bucket of nails and two pennies to represent throughout his play Gem of the Ocean? In August Wilson’s play Gem of the Ocean he uses a lot of items and as well as characters to symbolize many things. In the play Gem of the ocean August Wilson uses the chain link to symbolize good luck‚ a bucket of nails to symbolize freedom and two pennies to symbolize hope and/or passage. Throughout the course of August Wilson’s life‚ he wrote a total sixteen

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    "Fences" Essay

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    "When the sins of our fathers visit us‚ we do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness as God in his Largeness and Laws." This quote‚ by August Wilson‚ explains how one can either repeat‚ or expel the sins of the people that came before us. In the play "Fences"‚ also written by August Wilson‚ one can observe how two of the main characters deal with the sins of their fathers. These two characters are Troy and his son Cory. Troy plays host to the sins of his fathers‚ while Cory banishes

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    Racism In The Play Fences

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    Fences” is a 1983 play written by August Wilson in the drama and fiction genre. Fences is about a 53 year old man named Troy who struggles throughout the story with his family and himself. The play takes place in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania where Troy Maxson has gone through life in a country where being black leads to crushing a man’s’ body mentally‚ emotionally and physically. Racism is an important element in the play that affects Troy’s family and himself in their everyday life. As a result‚

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    Fences Research Paper

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    Fences Lives are lead with anxiety over certain issues and with apprehension towards certain events. This play‚ Fences written by the playwright August Wilson deals with the progression of a family through the struggles of oppression and the inability to obtain the American Dream. The characters in the play develop throughout the story and can be viewed or interpreted in many different ways‚ but one man remains constant during the play and that is Troy. Due to certain events

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    Border Fence

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    Espinoza 1 Connie Marie Espinoza English 1302 Ms. Pedraza December 4‚ 2012 “The American Dream Faces a Nightmare” Before the Border Fence was built on August 29‚ 2008‚ America was facing and still is facing one of the gravest threats ever. The lack of security and law enforcement agents‚ has caused so much havac and danger to the citizens of America and Mexican residents. We the citizens of the United States of America

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    Fences Play Analysis

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    Kyung Tae Kim Dr. Lear Studies in Literature 23rd November 2015 Fences The play Fences centers on Troy Maxson‚ the father of the family‚ and his relationship with his family members‚ his mistress and his friend Bono. The play is not only about the personal conflicts between the family‚ but also social conflict between the society and the individual‚ especially for African Americans. The struggle takes place between Troy and his son‚ Cory who was a high school football star. Troy is against his son’s

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    Fences Baseball

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    BaseballKristy McInnis Mr. Krantz English 3 5\16\2013 The Symbolism of Baseball Fences by August Wilson is a play full of baseball imagery‚ which is key to understanding the writing. Being a play the reader must interpret the scenes from emotions‚ setting‚ tone‚ and interpretation. This gives them insight to how August Wilson wants to portray the book. Being a white man writing from the perspective of a poor black man he sends the reader back into a time where blacks were inferior. They were

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    they discriminate others based on their their sex‚ religion‚ skin color‚ or just by the way they look. These racist acts tie in deeply with a play named Fences. The play Fences by August Wilson‚ takes place during the late 1950’s through to 1965‚ a period of time when the fight against segregation was expanding. The main character‚ Troy Maxson‚ had been dealing with racial discrimination his whole life‚ due to this his futuristic dreams were forced to be set aside and not able to be reached. Throughout

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    Analysis of “FencesAugust Wilson’s famous play “Fences” is a drama set in the 1950’s. Being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the best play of the year‚ this play has had many positive responses to blacks and whites in this society. It is about protagonist Troy Maxson as well as his african american family that is filled with drama and excitement. In Wilson’s Fences by Joseph Wessling he expresses‚ “Fences is about the always imperfect quest for true manhood. Troy’s father was less of a “true”

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