James L. Brooks Essays

  • My Role Model In The Simpsons: Matt Groening

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    Matt Groening is very smart, hard working and argumentatively one of the best comedic animation masterminds of all time. As you may know, he has created the longest running US animated T.V. series ‘The Simpsons’. They first aired on the ‘Tracy Ullman Show’on April 19, 1989. I think Groening has done a lot for the world of adult animation comedy or even animation all together. Spawning a lot of new shows like ‘Family Guy’ probably from ‘The Simpsons’ show although Groening is only one man, getting

  • Kraft Foods, High Performance Work Systems (HPWS)

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    In 1995, Kraft was created through the reorganization and merger of J. L. Kraft, Oscar Meyer, and C. W. Post into one operating company. For the reorganization the Operations Division chose to use the High Performance Work Systems (HPWS) change management tool because they believed it was the best way to include all of the necessary elements that would contribute to the vision of undisputed leadership. They also liked the HPWS tool because of its strict structure and because it was a good platform

  • Marine Corps Uniform In The 21st Century

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    The Marine Corps Commandant General James L. Jones wants to lead the Marines into the 21st century with a new camouflage utility uniform. You may ask, why do the Marines need to differentiate their uniform from other branches; or why do the Marines need a new utility uniform at all. The answer to these questions can be summed up in two words: Forward Movement. Some Marines are having difficulties with the changes that have occurred as well as the changes that are coming. On 1 May 2000 General Jones

  • Ignorance Is the Lock, Knowledge Is the Master Key

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    you be in control or be controlled. For this reason, freedom of press and speech are constantly being fought for in many civil wars. Without knowledge, a person is subjected to the control of a person with greater knowledge. Works Cited James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Overture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd ed. Revised. New York: Vintage, 1989. "Tiananmen Square." Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views of the World's Newest and Oldest Global Power

  • Point of View of David Brion Davis, C.L.R. James, and Orlando Patterson Regarding the Abolishment of Slavery

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    point in world history. Due to this it has become the discussion of much scholarly debate. There are three historians to highlight that provide key points to why slavery needed to be abolished and the significance of it. David Brion Davis, C.L.R. James, and Orlando Patterson all share similar and differing viewpoints for why slavery needed to be discontinued. This is important to discuss so we as humans who are building a society do not make the same mistakes again as we continue to learn from our

  • The Modernist Attributes of C.L.R. James’s Minty Alley

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    C.L.R. James was a key figure of the West Indian literary scene during the 1930s. Today he is primarily associated with his nonliterary writings in sociology and politics, and his fiction seems to have dropped from critical attention. Part of this shortsightedness stems from the fact that little of his fiction is readily available to a reading public in this country. Although a selection of his shorter work is now available in The C.L.R. James Reader (1992), the only extant edition of James' novel

  • The Impact of The Simpsons on American Children

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    across the country. It even developed a cult status. (Varhola, 1) Life in Hell drew the attention of James L. Brooks, producer of works such as Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Terms of Endearment. Brooks originally wanted Groening to make an animated pilot of Life in Hell. Groening chose not to do so in fear of loosing royalties from papers that printed the strip. Groening presented Brooks with an overweight, balding father, a mother with a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky

  • The Deeper Meaning of Frost’s Tuft of Flowers

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    Robert Lee Frost published his first book of poems entitled A Boy's Will in 1913. From this collection come one of several poems that critics and anthologists alike highly regard as both lyrical and autobiographical in nature. One such critic, James L. Potter, in his book entitled [The] Robert Frost Handbook, explains "[that] Frost wore a mask in public much of the time, concealing his personal problems and complexities from his reading and listening audiences" (Potter 48). Through "The Tuft of

  • Summary: The Miracle Of Team

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    Team Management and Group Leadership All-star teams fail because they rely solely on the individual’s talent and are not compromised with the team. The whole is more important than each individual piece. This philosophy is emphasized by coach Herb Brooks in the movie The Miracle to lead the US hockey team to win the 1980 winter Olympics’ gold medal in a time where there was a crisis of confidence and trust in America. In the late 1970’s, we felt as a nation that have lost, after the most recent war

  • Wystan Hugh Auden

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    that covered almost fifty years. Auden’s influences were plentiful: T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, and above all Thomas Hardy. Ironically, future generations of poets, including John Ashbery, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, and James Merrill, would look to Auden as a primary influence in their own poetry. The first phase, or "chapter" as Auden would call it, of his literary life covered 1927 to 1932. During this time he emerged from the land of English Romanticism,

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Theory Paper

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    PART ONE Many people assume that since Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been around for a long time it was developed on its own as a new theory. Yet that is not correct as the foundation of CBT has been formulated from other psychoanalytical approaches and their concepts. The term “Behavioral” in its name comes from the theoretical concept of Behaviorism which was developed by John B. Watson and I.P. Pavlov's research. It is also founded upon the theory called Cognitive Therapy was first developed

  • Emotion Theories

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    feels disgust it is the response of something bad or dirty. People who are social express their emotions more often but those who like solitude mostly hide their emotions. So emotions are also linked to tendency of one’s behavior (Schacter, Daniel L. 2011). Theories of Emotion: Origin: The different theories on emotions arose in the 3rd century B.C. at the time of Ancient Greece and Ancient China. While the western philosophical studies labeled emotions in many different ways. According to Aristotle

  • Obedience and Submissiveness in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

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    Pallister 13). Brooks feels that age has diminished Lucky's dance to a few ineffectual, spasmodic memories of a past ritual (Brooks 294). Lucky calls his dance the net (Beckett, Act I 27). It is ironical that Lucky does not escape the net that restricts him from being independent. The last physical characteristic of slavery that Lucky exemplifi... ... middle of paper ... ... C. "The Mythic Pattern in Waiting for Godot." Modern Drama 9 (1966/67) 292-299. Carey, Gary, and James Roberts, eds

  • Racism During The Reconstruction Era

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    close to their hearts. Horace James was one of them; but as Patricia C. Clarke reveals in her book on the Roanoke Island Colony, of which James was the superintendent, he, “[l]ike many of his fellow evangelicals, [. . .] did not believe in social equality between the races”. Instead, he believed in a God-given social order, guided by “eternal laws”, in which African Americans would likely become “a nation of servants” upon finding their place in society . Furthermore, James and other Evangelicals assumed

  • Tracking C3 vs. C4 Grains in Beer

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    ... Downard, William L. Dictionary of the History of the American Brewing and Distilling Industries. Westport, Connecticut and London, England: Greenwood Press,1980. Persons, Warren M. Beer and Brewing in America: An Economic Study. New York, NY: The United Brewers Industrial Foundation, 1941. Cooper B.A., M.A., B.L.S., Isabella M. References: Ancient and Modern to the Literature on Beer and Ale. New York, NY: The United Brewers Industrial Foundation, 1937. Brooks, Renee J., Nina Buchman

  • Athletes and Sports

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    baseball in the major leagues or becoming a great fisherman that is on television. Not all kids have the same mind-set. People of all ages, all around the world, enjoy either watching or playing sports. In “Organized Sports Can Benefit Children,” David Brooks argues that sports are healthy for children, helping them build character and showing them leadership skills. David points out that sports can teach a kid responsibility in a variety of ways. For example, it’s easy to slack off in a classroom full

  • Reparations to Descendants of Slaves Should Have Ceased Long Ago

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    with political and social corrective ness, thus everyone is catered too and no money changes hands. The idea and arguments of paying reparations to the descendants of slaves has been in the American media and courthouses since the English barrister James Grahame published a groundbreaking book in 1850 setting the first claim for reparations in the United States. It is no surprise that these allegations arose so soon after the abolishing of slavery at the culmination of the Civil War. Free blacks and

  • Fifty Shades Of Grey

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    E L James Fifty Shades of Grey is a proud attempt to allow for readers to escape daily life. The book illustrates the dimensions of a relationship between the mysterious and eligible billionaire Christian Grey and virginal college student Anastasia Steele in the 21st century with elements of the lifestyle practices of Bondage, Dominance, Submission and Masochism (BDSM). E.L. James’ erotica novel is written from the perspective of college student Anastasia Steele. Within the first book, the author

  • Dispensationalism: Unfulfilled Prophecies Of The Bible

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    I. It is quite easy to see how recently in Western Christianity there has been a certain increase in the belief of Dispensationalism. With books, movies, TV shows and a general interest in all things apocalyptic, this type of theology is seeing a growing popularity that is almost unheard of. However upon examination it turns out that this theology is not theologically sound. II. In order to understand if Dispensationalism is biblical, it is vital to understand its history and beliefs. A. A British

  • Why Books Get Banned

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    Pace University, n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2014. Sanford, Otis L. "OPINION: 'Huck Finn' controversy much ado about nothing." Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) 09 Jan. 2011: Newspaper Source Plus. Web. 24 Feb. 2014. West, John G. “Evangelical Reform in Early Nineteenth Century America.” Building a Healthy Culture: Strategies for an American Renaissance. Ed. Don Eberly. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001. 181-199. Print. Miller, James E., Jr. “Sex and Sexuality.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of