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Clerks Founder Of Slacker Comedy
1,405 wordsClerks, Kevin Smiths 1994 debut as a writer and director of full-length films, made the slacker comedy genre famous. Slacker comedy is a genre essentially characterized by low budget filming, lower class characters and urban settings. Following the fairly successful formula of the 1991 release of Slacker, Clerks shows a day in the life of a couple of main characters with little action, but lots of dialogue. The cheap, black and white camera, used because of lack of money, not aesthetic quality, ...
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Wage Differences As Robert Hall
1,504 wordsThe Robert Hall Clothes, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware are paying men and women different wages for essentially the same job. This is morally wrong because it is gender discrimination. A. The management of Robert Hall learned in 1973 that it was entirely legal for them to pay male salespersons more than female salespersons. Management feels that it is okay to pay women clerks less, because the commodities that they sell cannot bring in the same profit margins as the commodities the men sell. The ...
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The Clerk Tale Biblical Paradox
1,311 wordsTo formulate any type of argument using the Bible as a reference is challenging, since the Bible is diversely perceived from person to person. These varied perceptions can be results of different translations of the Bible, the cultural background of the reader, or quite simply, a vagueness with which the Bible can lend itself to multiple interpretations. Nevertheless, there are certain topics which are void of much gray area, which are explicitly and consistently outlined by the authors of the v...
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Convenience Store Isn T
698 wordsClerks is Cloning Clerks Clerks is a raunchy, obscene, cheap, and extremely funny movie. It was written and directed by film school dropout, Kevin Smith in 1994. Clerks is an independent film that was funded for under 30, 000 dollars. Smith raised the money by selling his comic book collection. (Ellis) The film ended up grossing $ 3. 1 million on its initial domestic release by Miramax. (Humpry) Films produced for this amount of money would be considered amateur. However, it won top prize in the...
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Relationship Philosophy
1,538 wordsWage Differences at Robert Hall I. Problem The Robert Hall Clothes, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware are paying men and women different wages for essentially the same job. This is morally wrong because it is gender discrimination. II. Analysis A. The management of Robert Hall learned in 1973 that it was entirely legal for them to pay male salespersons more than female salespersons. Management feels that it is okay to pay women clerks less, because the commodities that they sell cannot bring in the s...
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Supreme Court Ruling United States Supreme Court
2,737 wordsThe Supreme Court is the highest governing body that is known to us as the people of the United States of America. In the 1998 - 99 term, the Supreme Court is slated to hear cases on subjects as diverse as business monopolies, labor unions, health insurers, initiative petitions and due process. The justices will also revisit the issue of sexual harassment. The following will just be an overview of how the Supreme Court operates. I will try to point out many things throughout the course of this p...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Irving Howe
770 wordsEllsworth Barnard This harmony and proportion are found most often, in Robinsons view, in lives that are otherwise undistinguished. The admonition in The Clerks reveals a permanent attitude, although in later life he would probably not have stated it so directly: And you that ache so much to be sublime, And you that feed yourselves with your descent, What comes of all your visions and your fears? Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time. from Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Study. Copyrig...
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Supreme Court Ruling Majority Opinion
2,934 wordsThe justices determine which cases to take. They never explain the reason for their choices. Whether or not a case is accepted " strikes me as a rather subjective decision, made up in part of intuition and in part of legal judgment, " Rehnquist wrote in " The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is, " his 1987 book about the court. Important factors, he said, are whether the legal question has been decided differently by two lower courts and needs resolution by the high court, w...
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