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    Tip Your Waitresses: The Growth of Femininity in Reservoir Dogs Karl Marx once wrote “social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included)”. Marx’s words would appear to be ringing more true as the years go by. The female gender has been receiving a great deal of attention lately and not in just a sexualized way. Positive progress of the female gender has been making strides within the media by the use of femininity; film has especially been used

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    For example the most action we see in Reservoir dogs is the final Mexican standoff in which most everyone is killed. Otherwise the main focus is on the characters and how they came to being a part of the job. Tarantino does this because when he develops the characters they can lead you through

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    establishing a loss function to evaluate damages caused by typhoon, the authors introduced the reservoir release ration(ω) as the ratio of reservoir release to the volume of predicted precipitation, and used such term to derive the optimal release amount as Z* = ω*X according to the derived formulas of optimal release ratio.(Cheng, Hsu and Wei, 73) By applying the methodology into the study of Tahan River Reservoir System, authors proved such methodology is promising. In the medical decision making area

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    certain parts for particular actors and while some signed on, others fell through. John Travolta’s character Vincent Vega was initially supposed to be called Vic Vega and played by Michael Madsen. Madsen played Vic Vega in Tarantino’s earlier movie Reservoir Dogs and was on Tarantino’s mind as he wrote. When Madsen passed up the role, Daniel Day-Lewis was brought into discussion. Ultimately however, it went to Travolta. The Jules Winnfield character was specifically written for Samuel L. Jackson. His

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    The Battle of Chosin Reservoir (November 27 1950 – 13 December 1950) happened in the last days of November 1950. About 12,000 men of the first division, along with a few thousand army soldiers found them selves trapped high on the mountains of north korea leaders have been cut off guard by the influence of People's Republic of China after five month of the Korean war. This two week battle was among the momentous battles in the American history. It helped the course of the American foreign policy

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    Director Quentin Tarantino is an infamous director known for such beloved films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs and many more. What sets Tarantino apart from other directors is his unique style. He frequently includes meaningless and innocent dialogue in his films, at least one dance scene, there is loads of blood and gore, and finally, the POV trunk/hood shot from a car. His unique style has allowed many people to fall in love with his films and patiently await the next one. The first

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    linear storylines (Gomery and Pafort-Overduin). There is a science to Quentin’s madness of multi-level stories and page-popping character arc development. Accordingly, all these fine details are what makes a stylistic impression. Discriminatively, Reservoir Dogs a crime noir thriller, in his own words, “It’s a heist film, about a bunch of guys who get together to pull a robbery, and everything that can go wrong, goes wrong” (Tarantino 4). Stereotypical of a robbery gone awry; the cops chase and someone

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    wanted, and although I do not remember saying this, I chose my room because it was the only bedroom with a view of the Oradell Reservoir from the window. My dad got a ‘fishing key’ from the town, which allowed us to go down the street and through the fishing gate by the end of our road and enter the reservoir property to hike and fish. I spent most of my childhood at the reservoir; little did I know, what a big impact that very site

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    What ever happened to originality anyway? Remember when every movie was unlike the last, when every book you read was a completely different experience, when every song didn’t song didn’t sound like an electronic mess? Nowadays, originality is nothing short of a rarity, people tend not to be as original simply because it’s a risk, specifically in the media. Media being television, movies, music, video games and books. The reason originality is a risk is because of sales and popularity, things that

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    How could I turn my somewhat “dirty” reservoir water into clearer drinkable water? In other words does hand filtering this water create a cleaner result? Hypothesis 1: If I were to collect water samples from my reservoir and place it through two different filtering techniques (boiling/using a filter sheet and one just using a filter sheet), then the water will become clearer using the boiling technique because it’s going through a filter sheet then its bacteria is being boiled away. Does placing

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