Abstract
This paper describes the elements of film noir as they are expressed in the opening scene of Billy Wilder's classic tale of adultery, corruption and murder, "Double Indemnity." The analysis discusses various elements of film noir, including camera angle, non-linear plot, lighting, setting, and characterization.

From the Paper
"Few films fit the number of characteristics of film noir as does Billy Wilder's study of the femme fatale in the Hollywood classic, "Double Indemnity". More of a tone or mood of filmmaking at the time, "Double Indemnity"'s opening scene reflects many of the characteristics that would become associated with the eventual genre known as film noir. These include a non-linear plot told in flashback with multiple twists and turns, dark and dimly lit interiors, night scenes of the dark brooding city and..."

Tags:insurance, femme fatale, protagonist, cynicism, double entendre, evil, human nature, film noir

Abstract
This paper describes double lung transplants and then outlines briefly the manners in which the transplant is to be survived considering the factors working against the individual.

Tags:double, lung, transplants

Abstract
This paper explains Black & Decker's process-centric supply chain problems and looks at the company's supply chain processes with the distribution network. The paper first discusses how Black & Decker are committed to the further streamlining of processes with supply chain and order management systems. The paper then lists Black & Decker's measures of performance that reflect the company's commitment to continuous improvement. A table and management hierarchical model are included with the paper.

Outline:
Introduction
Black & Decker's Process-Centric Supply Chain Problems
Integrating Supply Chain Processes with the Distribution Network
Black & Decker Focuses on Further Streamlining of Processes with Supply Chain and Order Management Systems
Analyzing Black & Decker Supply Chain Performance

From the Paper
"Relying on a distribution network that was generating the majority of their revenue and becoming more powerful due to their ability to exert pricing constraints on suppliers, Black & Decker soon found it being squeezed on pricing on the distribution side of their business and increasingly constrained by the cost efficiencies of its supply chains on the other. Wal-Mart's ability to exert influence on Black & Decker was growing, and the need for having more efficient management of its own supply chain was going to make the difference between the tools supplier being able to retain Wal-Mart as a top channel partner. K-Mart, going through extensive restructuring of its store operations, also had significant requirements for better visibility into the Black & Decker supply chain."

Tags:performance, metrics, distribution, logistics

Abstract
This paper presents the background to the well-known and successful tool company, Black & Decker, including an examination of the ADP (Appraisal Development Plan) initiative. The paper discusses the dilemma faced by Eastern hemisphere president of the company, regarding the institution of a new performance appraisal system. The paper explores the three choices available to him: To accept the modified ADP system developed by Anita Lim, manager of Human Resources; to implement the ADP system adopted in the U.S.; or to continue allowing the different sites to use variations of the MBO (Management by Objective) plan.

From the Paper
"ADP is an acronym for Appraisal Development Plan, also called the 360 degree feedback approach to performance appraisal. It relies on feedback from peers, subordinates and supervisor as well as a self-appraisal. Interviews with a number of Asian workers indicated that the ADP would not be accepted in the Eastern Hemisphere as it had been in the U.S. Anita Lim, therefore, presented Bill Lancaster with a modified version which lacked the components that made it a 360 feedback."

Tags:drill, tools, bill, lancaster

Abstract
This paper is a case analysis on Black and Decker's Marketing Action Plan for their Tools Division. The paper discusses marketing, communications, brand equity value, brand recognition and image.

From the Paper
"This marketing Action Plan for the Black Decker Tools Divisions assumes that the company will accept strategy. Option. Drop the Black Decker Names from the Professional-Tradesman Segment."

Tags:Marketing action plan, Marketing/Communications plan

Abstract
This paper discusses the Fifth Amendment, double jeopardy clause and the double jeopardy rule in England. The papre relates that, recently, England scrapped the 800-year old law to allow retrial of those defendants that had been acquitted of serious felony offenses. This paper visits the case of Mr. William Dunlop for the crime of murder and discusses the outcome of the case in detail. Several cases are also explored pertaining to the double jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. These cases help explain how the double jeopardy clause is affected by caselaw from the United States Supreme Court and how that influences the double jeopardy clause. The presentation before the courts of both sides of the issue presenting a pro/con or for/against are also discussed in detail.


Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Body of Paper
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The prosecution can appeal prior to trial commencing (see Serfass v. United States, 420 U.S. 377 [1975]) where the judge has ordered the dismissal of the indictment against the defendant. The prosecution may appeal a ruling after jeopardy has attached itself to the proceedings but prior to the termination of the proceedings, so long as the trial did not produce a basis of innocence for the accused (see United States v. Scott, supra, 687). The prosecution may not appeal an acquittal. Even if the judge or jury order the acquittal, double jeopardy attaches itself after the acquittal has been established."

Tags:autrefois dunlop, supreme court, foundations mistrials

Abstract
The legal concept of "Double Jeopardy" is a rather simple one to define and to understand; but .application of the Double Jeopardy standard is anything but easy or simple. The paper describes Double Jeopardy as a limitation in court proceedings that the same person cannot be tried for the same crime twice, regardless of the verdict or outcome of the first trial. But, as with all legal procedures and rules of order, there are exceptions to the rule. The paper shows that in cases where new evidence is found that can demonstrate a person's innocence, a trial is considered warranted because the outcome could not adversely affect the person already convicted. If, however, the new evidence could prove an already determined innocent person guilty, then Double Jeopardy rules start being applicable. The paper concludes that Double Jeopardy actively prevents multiple prosecutions and overlapping punishments for the same crime.

From the Paper
"The key issue in our modern application of Double Jeopardy is whether or not it was intended to just limit the actions of the executive and judicial branches, or whether it was meant to include actions of the legislative branch. The Court's seeming unwillingness to decide if the Clause protects against legislative incursions upon Double Jeopardy values accounts for most of the confusion in Double Jeopardy jurisprudence. By this, it is meant that the Double Jeopardy Clause either does or does not limit Legislative ability to create new and additional punishments for the same crime. For example, does Double Jeopardy prevent Congress from making a law that allows for a person to be given additional punishments for every person secondarily affected by a murder (while current practice is to punish the crime itself, this hypothetical law would allow for the same crime's punishment to be based upon the number of people in the family and community directly affected by the crime and to add additional years of punishment)."

Tags:jurisprudence, Supreme, Court, O., J., Simpson, Ex, Parte, Lange

Abstract
This paper examines W.E.B Dubois literary piece "Double Consciousness" about the conflict focusing around the life of colored people and their struggle to live life bound by the intense realms of racial injustice in a prejudicial American society. It looks at how Dubois shows how blacks had to live their life on a day to day basis, thinking of themselves with a ?double consciousness.? In one consciousness, colored people looked at themselves with an allegiance and pride of their African culture and its traditions and in the other were coerced to look at themselves in the way that the dominant culture perceived them to be. It shows how Dubois uses such techniques like mighty phrases of repetition, symbolic structures and unique narrative tone in order to convey his concept of ?double consciousness? into the mind of the reader.

From the Paper
"Furthermore, Dubois utilizes more elements of structural devices that enrich his essay. In the third paragraph of Dubois? literary piece, his tone is quite unique in relaying a message to the reader. In this last paragraph, Dubois places no periods until nearly the end of the paragraph. Indeed, the author does this for it provides the structure of the essay with a unique rhythm that overwhelms the reader with a series of ideas and vital conceptions. The narrative technique here raises the tone of the literary piece while formulating tension and surprise, which coerces the reader to keep reading to see how this immense tension will resolve."

Tags:blacks, culture, prejudice, racism, society

Abstract
The paper explores how the events shaping London shape the transit system insofar as periods of decay, decline and government frugality inescapably determine the shape the transit network finds itself in at any given moment in time. The paper looks at how the lingering effects of the Second World War appear to have determined the shape London public transportation would find itself in from 1945 to the end of the 1960s. In particular, the paper looks at how a labor shortage and economic hardship sparked by the war changed the racial and ethnic composition of the service-people manning the frontlines of the transit system; shortly thereafter, the paper also looks at how one of the upheavals which took place at war's end also led to the introduction of the "Route-master" double-decker bus - an innovation that, in contrast to the alarm sparked by the influx of Pakistani and Jamaican transit workers in the 1950s and 1960s, actually became a welcome staple of the post-war transportation system. Finally, the paper looks at how the economic privations and drained public purse that accompanied the end of the war meant a minimalist approach to expanding and maintaining the transportation network that left a number of problems behind for the present generation to address.

From the Paper
"The London transportation network (or system) can be viewed in many ways, and one of the more didactic ways is to view it as serving as microcosm of the city of London itself. Specifically, the events shaping London will also shape the transit system insofar as periods of decay, decline and government frugality inescapably determine the shape the transit network will find itself in at any given moment in time. With that in mind, the following paper will look at how the lingering effects of the Second World..."

Tags:war, great, britain

Abstract
The following paper examines Panama's impacting prospects for improving her economy. It looks at the way in which she can achieve or maintain democratic reform initiatives in the new century. This paper also includes historical facts and the unfolding of events as well as regional and global environmental factors which help provide a qualitative analysis to support the central thesis that forward movement can be sustained.

From the Paper
"Panama was part of the Spanish empire for 300 years (1538-1821), and its history and current economic and political conditions are rooted in that experience. Panamanian identity has also always been based on a sense of "geographic destiny" and Panamanian fortunes fluctuated with the changing geopolitical importance of the isthmus. The colonial experience also marked Panamanian nationalism causing its politics to be characterized by strongly anti-imperialist themes and sentiment and its society to become racially complex and highly stratified. These factors became the source of internal conflicts that ran counter to the unifying force of Panamanian nationalism. Upon its independence from Spain, Panama briefly joined with Columbia; however, when Columbia refused to allow plans for the United States to build a canal across the isthmus, Panama, with U.S. support, declared itself sovereign in 1903. Immediately, it signed a treaty with the U.S., allowing for the construction of the Panama Canal, which was completed in 1914. The U.S. saw the canal zone as theirs, while the Panamanians claimed actual ownership, causing tensions for decades."

Tags:Alaskan, oil, pipeline, creation, double-decker, railroad, cars, reduced, costs, shipping, goods, coast, supertankers, increasing, ships, pass, through, canal