I need some assistance with these assignment. ethnicity in film Thank you in advance for the help! This film was significant on a number of levels. It was a major Hollywood release budgeted that brought in a box office of 23 million dollars and yet it managed to honestly depict the events of a highly politically charged event. It also examined the complexity seeking self identity in a group long persecuted in examining a character played by Val Kilmer who was at odds with his native heritage preferring to deny its existence and through the events of the story showed the self discovery of racial pride and identity of this character. This paper will explore the issues and themes raised by the film as they relate to the depiction of native culture. It will examine how the film showed the fight for ethnic identity in the face of outside pressures that are often hostile. This illustration of the complex nature of racial identity and political context are further heightened by the political context of the story. It will also highlight how the quest to depict native American ethnicity on film is still occasionally marred by stereotypes.

The quest for identity for the protagonist is the main theme of the story. Val Kilmer’s character Ray Levoi is of part Sioux descent and at the onset of the film he strongly denies his heritage. He does not talk about his heritage to his superior played by venerable actor and playwright Sam Shepard. He is shown to have become mainstream with his fashionable haircut and designer sunglasses and formal clothing. His initial contact with the people of the reservation his shown to be officious and unfamiliar. Grahame Greene’s character,Walter Crow Horse who plays the town sheriff. does not like the intial presentation but something in him senses the inner conflict in the character. There is a marked tension in the character who is referred to as the Washington Redskin”” in hushed tones to refer to both his heritage and to his remarkable success in the bureau up to that point. With his succesful mainstream background Ray Levoi’s character sees the events of the crime that he is sent to investigate through the official outlook of his boss. Slowly through the Graham Greene’s character he awakens to his own heritage.

After the intial presentation of the character there are series of events and individuals that slowly change his perspective on the purity of his own reasons for being there. The intitail reason for trip to the Reserve by the FBI is to capture Jimmy Looks Twice a chararcter who is believed to have murdered some FBI agents and is on the lam in the reservation. Apart from the steady tutelage of the town sherrif it is the idealisitc young teacher, Maggie Eagle Bear who appears to do the most to sway the protagonist’s thinking. She is sincere and intelligent and she speaks to him of the real injustices that are going on in the reserve. The look at the poverty on the reserve is not spared in Apted’s honest cinematography. She speaks to him at an educated level which he has come to respect from his own successes but unlike him she has not turned her back on her heritage. More than this, Ray’s character sees her clear kindness and lack of rancor and it moves him.

I will pay for the following article Speech. The work is to be 2 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. Speech Let’s look at how experience economy helps in industrial growth. The first way that experience economy helps in industrial growth is by facilitating trade. International trade is a way to achieve a higher standard of living and improve the per capita income and GDP growth for all trading nations.

Due to a steady increase in population and also over consumption the demand for food products may increase sharply and might slowly replenish. Rather than more industrialization and production, consumer modernisation in the experience economy is a solution. In the digital market, consumption is dematerialized.

Branding is a key element in the experience economy. Branding provides long term value to companies. Larger companies with established brands could use outsourced products rather than manufacturing them and could sell the products with the help of advertising and branding efforts. Companies that create more brands offer more values to the customers.

Next, let us turn our attention to branding. Branding is a process of value creation among the various stakeholders groups. It helps an organisation to keep its employees motivated and associated, it helps vendors and partners to create a positive image and establish relationship and most importantly it helps to create a positive image among the target consumer groups in order to motivate them for their purchasing and repeat purchasing decisions. It has affected the economies in various ways. The small companies and manufacturers are largely impacted by the branding efforts of large companies. The purchase decisions of consumers are largely impacted by branding. Companies take their branding decisions very seriously as any wrong decision may kill the brand. Many a time when any crisis comes many prestigious companies have adopted different strategies to maintain their brand name. For instance, Johnson and Johnson responded to depreciation in its product-tampering crisis by recalling and replacing its products, which turns around the situation. Branding and the activities of a company are closely related. For example, it affects human resources in that organizations with better brands are able to attract more employees because employees feel privileged to work in prestigious organizations.

Next, let’s look at research. To be successful in any marketing business, research has to be done before writing a business or marketing plan. There are two kinds of research – quantitative research and qualitative research. Qualitative research involves understanding and explaining social phenomenon. Quantitative research includes survey methods.

Feasibility study enables the developer to assess the product being developed. The three kinds of feasibility studies are economic feasibility, operational feasibility, and technical feasibility. Economic feasibility refers to the assessment of benefits or outcomes. It compares the cost of developing the product to the benefits from the product. Operational feasibility refers to the assessment of the feasibility of the product to be operational. Technical feasibility involves assessing the technical support required.

The marketing plan is also very important because it underpins financial support, management of the available resources like operation and finances, credit from suppliers, and promotion and marketing.

Point-form to support the speech

AGENDA

How experience economy helps in industrial growth

Branding

Research

Feasibility study

Marketing plan

How experience economy helps in industrial growth (for para 1 to 4)

Trade standard of living, per capita income, and GDP growth

Modernization increase in population outstrips increase in food products

Add value through branding

Branding (for para 5)

Branding is a process of value creation among the various stakeholders groups.

It has affected the economies in various ways.

Companies take their branding decisions very seriously as any wrong decision may kill the brand.

Branding and the activities of a company are closely related.

Need an research paper on the problem of snails in a suburban garden. Needs to be 2 pages. Please no plagiarism. Running Head THE PROBLEM OF SNAILS The Problem of Snails in a Suburban Garden The Problem of Snails in a Suburban Garden

When I started my organic garden in the suburb, it was a barren wilderness. Water

being scarce, the ground had been baked hard by the relentless sun. The first thing I did was to

plant some shade trees. Then I dug a shallow pit for compost. I put all the kitchen and garden waste in the pit and covered it with soil, turning it occasionally.

In three years, the garden had become green and luscious. Birds like the robin, the hummingbird

the barbet , and the crow pheasant were constant visitors to the garden besides the honey bees,

and chipmunks. The permanent residents – the frogs, sunbirds and lizards lived in

harmony with each other until the aliens came.

Nobody recognized the future threat to our ecology when we first saw those pretty, cream

striped chocolate shells moving slowly in the cool parts of the garden. These Giant African

Snails or GAS had been introduced into our environment through someone’s carelessness.

At first they did what snails are supposed to do- eat rotting leaves. Quite soon they found that

the fresh green leaves of the lily and the cabbage taste better than rotting leaves. Even when we

saw our lily leaves full of holes , we did not recognize the looming catastrophe. Soon the lilies

and most of the vegetable plants had vanished from the neighborhood gardens. When the snails

started attacking the fruit trees , we woke up to the reality. Then the matter became worse- the

snails started breeding in thousands. Our local birds did not seem to fancy the snails- perhaps

because they were too fastidious..

Having no natural predator, and being able to eat anything, the population of the GAS

increased tremendously in our suburb. Whenever I went for an evening walk, I could

commonly see snails crossing the roads, scaling the walls or climbing trees. The roads were full

of squashed snails which had come under automobile wheels. And how they ate! After they ate

through the dahlias and daisies , they started on the tomatoes and the lettuce. In no time at all the

neighborhood gardens were in shambles. Our garden paths were criss crossed with shiny snail

slime. Experts in camouflage, they disappeared in the morning.

Achatina Fulika, the Giant African Snail (GAS) is a land snail which is much bigger than the

native snail. It has a conical chocolate shell with cream stripes. It can be as big as a man’s fist

and is a voracious eater. It hides in cool,dark places and crevices during the day and is very

active during the night. Being a hermaphrodite, it reproduces rapidly. The eggs are translucent

cream balls , laid under compost heaps or fallen leaves. The Department of Primary Industries

and Fisheries of Queensland, Australia describes them as” difficult to eradicate”, Snail collection

and baiting is recommended as the most effective control measure.

At the emergency meeting of the Residents’ Association , we decided to tackle the snail

menace on a war footing. The civic body sprayed chemical pesticides on all the infested places,

overcoming the protests of the local organic gardeners, but to no avail. We set fire to our

compost heaps hoping that breeding pests would be destroyed, but the critters hid elsewhere.

Who said snails are slow

Although a small percentage of the pests was killed, the rest continued to haunt our gardens. I

hunted them by night. My method was simple- whenever I saw a snail I would drop a big stone

on it and listen for the satisfying crunch. The elimination level was around 1%,and this method

had its obvious drawbacks in our snake friendly environment. Some of my friends tried the

herbal route to elimination of the pests and failed .Spraying eucalyptus extracts , and ringing

the plants with copper wire did not help either. Pouring salt over them killed the plants too.

It was the boys of our suburb who came up with a ‘Final Solution’ They suggested to us

that they would find the snails and destroy them for a consideration. Every afternoon

the boys would hunt in the nooks and crannies of our gardens and catch the creatures and dunk

them in buckets of detergent solution. Finally, the infestation seemed to be under control.

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But our relief was short lived.. There was another outbreak of GAS next month.

Collection and dunking of snails became our common evening entertainment. My

friend Ram Hegde in India advised me to try a bio-pesticide made by mixing yoghurt and neem

powder. This seemed to work although slowly. Soon, the snails started disappearing. Shiny snail

trails became a thing of the past.

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I realized that the birds had started eating the snails. The crow pheasant especially seemed to

enjoy a meal of escargots. Empty snail shells began to appear everywhere. Soon the Giant

African Snails disappeared from our neighborhood, leaving the environment permanently

altered. They have not appeared since.

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Works cited

“Exotic plant pests-Giant African snail”.Queensland Governament .Department of Primary

Industries and Fisheries.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Bringing Home Global Rules. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length. As fundamental human rights and freedoms are inherent in all humankind and find expression in constitutions and legal systems throughout the world and in the international human rights instruments (Kirby, 2005), invoking international human rights law in domestic courts, therefore, merits special consideration. As Kirby write, “In most countries whose legal systems are based upon the common law, international conventions are not directly enforceable in national courts unless their provisions have been incorporated by legislation into domestic law. However, there is a growing tendency for national courts to have regard to these international norms for the purpose of deciding cases where the domestic law – whether constitutional, statute or common law – is uncertain or incomplete. While it is desirable for the norms contained in the international human rights instruments to be still more widely recognized and applied by national courts, this process must take fully into account local laws, traditions, circumstances, and needs.” There are many impediments for direct application of international human rights law, factors like state sovereignty, the dualist view on the relationship between international law and municipal law and implementing legislation. However, there has been an interesting development where jurist and human right activists are identifying themselves with a unified international community (Barak-Erez, 2004). This trans-judicial communication is seen not only in the application of international norms but also in the recourse to comparative law, particularly in the area of constitutional law.&nbsp.When a treaty is ratified, although it becomes binding on Australia in international law, it does not become part of the law of Australia unless it has been given the force of law by statute (Gibbs). Except in the case of a treaty of peace, which obviously can affect the rights of enemy aliens, a treaty not incorporated by statute does not affect the rights or liabilities of Australian citizens. Although the principle has been consistently stated by courts of the highest authority, it is subject to some important qualifications. One of them was introduced by the decision of the High Court in Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v. Teoh. Ah, Hin Teoh was a Malaysian citizen living in Australia under a temporary entry permit. He was convicted of drug offenses and sentenced to six years imprisonment. His permanent entry permit was refused and it was ordered that he be deported. However, the fact that his children lived in Australia gave the case an interesting twist. The Court (McHugh J dissenting), considering the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, declared it the best interests of the children would be a primary consideration. Teoh’s Case has been an example for many Federal Court deportation cases. Incidentally, it is the sole example of the pervasive effects of international law on national law. The Australian Constitution neither mentions international law nor the role such norms should play in the interpretive process (Williams and Hovell, 2005). While earlier drafts of the Constitution incorporated greater reference to the relationship between international treaties and the domestic legal system, these were removed from the version that was enacted.&nbsp.