Phillip Noyce

Quiet American, based off the classic novel by Graham Greene and directed by Phillip Noyce. Based in Saigon, 1952, in the middle of the Vietnam war between the communist and the French. The film follows a long-time war journalist from London named Thomas Fowler and his complicated love life between a catholic woman who does not believe in divorce and the Vietnamese women named Phuong whom he has fallen in love with. Fowler meets an unlikely friend, Alden Pyle, an aid worker for the American Economic Mission who Fowler soon realizes has a second agenda in his work in Saigon. Pyle is a CIA operative who is helping the United States organize a third-party force who will go against both the Vietnamese and French forces. The first scene of The Quiet American speaks a lot to what will unfold later throughout the film. Fading back and forth between a young, beautiful Vietnamese woman, bombings and a flickering flame. Following in the theme of switching between beauty and pain a voice starts speaking and says “Whatever you are looking for you will find, you will understand love in a few minutes. Smell promises everything, in exchange for your soul. The heat is horrible, makes you forget everything. At night, the river is beautiful. It could help you forget there was war.” The feeling this…

Gilletts put a lot into staff training this includes, challenge 25, sparkling service and an extensive training folder for new starters going through work safety, customer service, theft, security and produce procedures Staff must be trained in all aspects of the job to fullfill their role properly and to get it “right first time”. Phillip Crosby was credited with the “right first time” approach. Right first time should mean zero defects. His approach came up with 4 absolutes of quality…

Highlighting an interesting topic in the economic sector, Mr. Rick Newman develops a valuable analysis based on the data extracted from the Housing Market Recovery Index (Housing MRI) research project. Using two different charts that belong to the same general data (the market’s leading housing recovery cities and the market lagging housing recovery cities), this economist creates a close relationship between Unemployment Rate and the Average home price change since the housing market bottomed…

Philip Musica who used the name F. Donald Coster bought the McKesson & Robbins in 1926 (Foster, p. 5). The owners of McKesson & Robbins sold the company which F. Donald Coster bought. Philip Musica had been involved in several fraud cases before he bought the pharmaceutical company Mckesson & Robbins. The Musica family had been involved in a scandal in which the family bribed custom officials. “The Musicas had been paying fine Italian cheeses recorded at a fraction of their actual weight…

Los Santos: a sprawling sun-soaked metropolis full of self-help gurus, starlets and fading celebrities, once the envy of the western world, now struggling to stay afloat in an era of economic uncertainty and cheap reality TV. On a normal day Michael would wake up or come home to the normal sounds of bickering and yelling but to him it was all the same, he had seen worse, been in worse situations. Despite the brokenness of his family which was lost in money, and things like yoga and drinking kale…

Janice Schakowsky was born Janice Danoff on May 26th, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. The second child of Jewish immigrants, Irwin and Tillie Danoff, Jan graduated from the University of Illinois in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science in elementary education. One day while food shopping in Evanston, Schakowsky noticed the absence of a “freshness date” on cottage cheese containers. She took steps to rectify the situation and with friends organized a nationwide campaign, this campaign led to food…

Spencer Lake Spencer lake is a Salt Lake located in the Goldfields-Esperance in Western Australia. Its latitude and longitude is 33.8424° S, 121.8278° E. The lake is located on middle island off the coast of Western Australia. It is surrounded by white sand and eucalyptus trees. The lake itself is quite small as it is only 600m by 250m.The Spencer Lake is also known as the pink lake as it has a very distinct bubble-gum colour. It is not the only pink lake in Australia as there are many more all…

Did you know the first sport played in the Americas was lacrosse? The game of lacrosse can be considered as the oldest sport in the Americas. The sport of lacrosse has been around since the Native Americans freely roamed the Americas. The sport was not always just for fun, it also had spiritual and traditional aspects to it. The Indians believed that lacrosse was the “Creator’s Game”. The game was often played to resolve conflicts, heal the sick, and develop stronger men for battle. The…

context there may be issues they don’t know they have,” says Susan Hess, a psychology professor at UNH, about those who romanticize the illness on social media. “Why are they lured in - it’s complicated, the act of doing that, how does that serve them? They could connect around a lot of other things, but why mental illness?” For those who do have diagnosable depression, the romanticization can be painful for them to witness. “It honestly makes me sad, because people don’t realize how terrible…

What side, emotions or actions? The book A Separate Peace by well known Yale graduate John Knowles is about two boys, Gene and Finny, and their life outside the war at a boarding school called Devon. The boys are best friends also loosely based of of John Knowles experience at a boarding school, and an accident happens in which Finny's fall from the tree and Gene's fall from innocence can be traced to unresolved tensions. Tensions created by the mixed feeling of envy and admiration in which Gene…