Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson;[1] June 1, 1926 August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe award winning[2] American actress, singer, model, Hollywood icon,[3] cultural icon, fashion icon,[4] pop icon and sex symbol. She is known for her comedic acting roles and screen presence. Monroe became one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. During the later stages of her career, she worked towards serious roles and her fame surpassed that of many entertainers of her time.[5] Her death at thirty six was classified as "probable suicide."[6] Many individuals including Jack
The Bands The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960 and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. From 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from folk rock to psychedelic pop, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as the "Beatlemania" fad, transformed as their songwriting grew in sophistication. The group came to be perceived as the embodiment of progressive ideals, seeing their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. With an early five-piece line-up of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and
The increasing sociological interest in children in particular that has provided a new perspective around the idea of children as competent social actors has provoked a great controversy and confusion as it challenges the image of the incompetent child which is overwhelmingly prevalent in the Western society. The purpose of this dissertation is to critically explore this hotly debated tension between these two conflicting salient features that have often prevented the recognition of children as active citizens, entitled to respect and participation. With a particular interest in Wales, the following research project analyses the development of children`s active participation both in the Welsh Government and the County and Council of Swansea as they both have regarded the UNCRC on the basis of all its activity. Finally, the Cadle Primary School in Swansea has been used as a case study to investigate the potential
remember. The annual dance and light show dedicated to the Lady alone involves over 100 performers - and you'll have several chances to catch it over the four days of the event. Musical shows, dances and contests of strength and skill will be held all over town. This festival is held in August and it is said that Haapsalu, Estonia's most famous ghost, appears during this festival Black nights film festival http://www.tourism.tallinn.ee/fpage/events/newwinprint/ Beerfestival ( Õllesummer) The beer festival "Õllesummer" is one of the largest festivals in the region--bringing together 80,000 people each year. Õllesummer is located in the Tallinn Song Festival grounds which is located 15 minutes walking time from the center of the city. The program includes Estonian bands and international acts as well featuring over a 100 concerts on more than 10 stages.
Ego-rational behavior, motivation, self-identification, conscious decisions Id-instincts, natural responses, the pleasure principle, aggressive instincts, the death wish Influence: In art and literature, Freud's theories influenced surrealism . Like psychoanalysis, surrealistic painting and writing explores the inner depths of the unconscious mind. Freudian ideas have provided subject matter for authors and artists. Critics often analyze art and literature in Freudian terms. 2. Literary Modernism and its sub-movements. The influence of Structuralism and psychoanalysis. Main characteristic features of Modernism. Denial of conventions, traditional structure, plot and presentation of character. The stream of consciousness. Allusiveness. Virginia Woolf's Modern Fiction as a theoretical platform for Modernism. Criticism of Realist literary method.
English literature is one of the oldest literatures in Europe; dates back to the 6th century AD. Oral literature, i.e. not written down, spread from person to person. In 449 AD Anglo-‐Saxon tribes invaded England – beginning of the Anglo-‐Saxon period in English literature. The first form of literature was folklore, carried by scops and gleemen, who sang in alliterative verse (a kind of simple poetry). Prose developed much later. The first form of recorded English literature was the epic Beowulf, which was produced sometime near the end of the 7th and beginning �
Awakening movement during the second half of the 19th century. Estonian folk arts date back to the remote past. In Estonia there are 27 higher educational establishments, among them seven universities with more than 25,000 students and post-graduates (1996); the oldest is Tartu University (founded in 1632), which enjoys a high international reputation. In Estonia there are unions of writers, artists, composers, actors, cinematographers etc; ten professional theatres, two film studios, and the state institution Estonian Concert Agency. The first Estonian book was published in 1525; in 1996 2,234 books and booklets were published in Estonian. The first film company began in 1920. A National Broadcasting Company was established in 1924, and Estonian Television in 1955. Unique in their dimensions and popularity, with up to 30,000 singers and audiences over 200,000, are the traditional Song Festivals, which began in Tartu in
the literature method no 1 in america · Naturalism appealed American authors because they found it very right to describe what was going on in the turn of century in America · They wanted something fresh, new · They were disgusted by romantics · Showed the harsh tone in moral life · Refleced the development of science · Period of intense urbanisation, the city is in the center of the novel, often · New characters were businessmen, salesman, immigants, poor farmers · These characters were in new settings, skyscrapers, departments store, apartment building, ghetto, stockyard (cattle, cows were slaughtered), commercial trust · Their world is not one of culture or high moral standards · For these new writers controlling new american social experience · Naturalists offered a view that questioned the belief that now was a conscious and
Writers Journey is a must for all writers interested in further developing their craft. This updated and revised Third Edition provides new insights and observations from Vogler's ongoing work on mythology's influence on stories, movies, and man himself. In revealing new material, he explores key principles like polarity and catharsis, plus: • A revised chapter which looks back at the Star Wars phenomenon and analyzes the six feature films as an epic on the theme of father-son relationships • New illustrations and diagrams that give additional depth to the mythic principles • A final chapter, "Trust the Path," an inspiring call to adventure for those who want to discover themselves through writing "This book is like having the smartest person in the story meeting come home with you and whisper what to do in your ear as you write a screenplay
Also remember that answer choices that contain the same prefix or suffix or are pronounced like the underlined word are seldom the correct answers. Examine the following question. Swallows are among the most agile passerine birds. (A) Idle (B) swift (C) fragile (D) frail Note that choices (A) and (C), idle and fragile, have sounds similar to agile. Such words are not usually the correct choice. Such words are often used to distract you. Unless you are sure of the answer do not choose these words. Let's see how to use our strategy with a sample item. Look at the sentence and look immediately to the underlined word. Do not read any other words in the sentence. Read the four choices and make your selection. The spider wasp has a slender body with smokey or yellowish wings. (A) tiny (B) long (C) thin (D) dark
Some of the things you will learn in THE CODEBREAKERS • How secret Japanese messages were decoded in Washington hours before Pearl Harbor. • How German codebreakers helped usher in the Russian Revolution. • How John F. Kennedy escaped capture in the Pacific because the Japanese failed to solve a simple cipher. • How codebreaking determined a presidential election, convicted an underworld syndicate head, won the battle of Midway, led to cruel Allied defeats in North Africa, and broke up a vast Nazi spy ring. • How one American became the world's most famous codebreaker, and another became the world's greatest.
the short story suited Irving, who tended to write in "spurts and dashes": "He did not deliberately choose the shortened form: he fell into it automatically because of his temperament, his natural indolence that forbade longcontinued efforts, his powerful yet volatile emotions, and his early literary training in the school of Addison and Goldsmith and Dr. Johnson" (6). Another striking characteristic of Irving's writing is the preponderance of visual imagery. A painter himself, Irving often drew verbal pictures in his essays and stories, and the title of his most famous work makes a double reference to visual art: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. James Fenimore Cooper as the creator of the American historical novel. The depiction of the struggle of Native Americans against white colonisers in his Leather Stocking Tales (lecture). The creation of the American national epic in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha.
producer. 8 mimicking and was just going to pounce on it, 4 Unlike Kate, I don't like reality when a shepherd, who looked was shows. 2 1 E 2 B 3 D 4 H 5 G looking for a sheep to slaughter for 5 I love animated films such as 6 C 7 A his own dinner, quickly was grabbing Ratatouille. 3 1 The boys were being evacuated grabbed the wolf, thinking it was a 6 I don't watch a lot of television, from a war zone. sheep, and killed it. like Steve. 2 He is the holder of the conch, which 5 Students' own answers
More praise for Influence: Science and Practice! "We've known for years that people buy based on emotions and justify their buying decision based on logic. Dr. Cialdini was able, in a lucid and cogent manner, to tell us why this happens." --MARK BLACKBURN, Sr. Vice President, Director of Insurance Operations, State Auto Insurance Companies "Dr. Cialdini's ability to relate his material directly to the specifics of what we do with our customers and how we do it, enabled us to make significant changes. His work has enabled us to gain significant competitive differentiation and advantage" -LAURENCE HOF, Vice President, Relationship Consulting, Advanta Corporation
23 Source: Doing Business database. The increase of Ukraine's rank measured by Doing Business methodology is to great extent related to gradual improvement of regulatory environment. Please review Appendix 2 for Summary of Doing Business indicators for Ukraine. The summary compares Ukraine with the closest peers and Best Performers globally. In real life, however, decisions to enter a new market or to start a business in a new country are often made by businessmen taking into account other measures and factors, such as size and proximity of the new market, expected demand, ease and cost of logistics, price arbitration, closeness of culture and traditions etc. Quite often those reasons could also be emotional like "jumping on bandwagon", for example, fellow businessmen are running successful operations in the given market, a market growth or its size providing excessive optimism, real estate bubble etc.
Personal vehicles (like cars and light trucks) consume 63 percent of the total energy used for transportation, while commercial vehicles (like large trucks and construction vehicles), mass transit (like airplanes, trains, and buses), and pipelines account for the rest. Picture 2.13. Energy use by type of vehicle RENEWABLE ENERGY Renewable energy sources can be replenished in a short period of time. The five renewable sources used most often are: · biomass - including wood and wood waste, municipal solid waste, landfill and biogas, ethanol, and biodiesel; · water (hydropower); · geothermal; · wind; · solar. 3.1 What Role Does Renewable Energy Play in the United States? The use of renewable energy is not new. More than 150 years ago, wood, which is one form of biomass, supplied up to 90 percent of our energy needs. As the use of coal,
businesses boarded up. The owner probably started the business on the whim that Blacks would rush in to patronize his business. Invariably, he neither researched the business nor determined which products 9 the community around him would demand. Most of our people go into business to be their own boss, rather than going into business to serve the customers. Africans have a very bad attitude to business. The compliant you hear so very often about Black businesses is the attitude of the owner to the public at large. You go into the establishment. The individual behind the counter totally ignores you. He has the boss mentality of doing business . You must wait until he is ready to serve you. This attitude creates problems in several ways. The attitude has several negative repercussions. Customers are angered, and word gets around about the uppity attitude of the owner of the business
PRAISE FOR The 4-Hour Workweek "This is a whole new ball game. Highly recommended." --Dr. Stewart D. Friedman, adviser to Jack Welch and former director of the Work/Life Integration Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge." --Jack Can eld, cocreator of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, 100+ million copies sold "Stunning and amazing. From mini-retirements to outsourcing your life, it's all here. Whether you're a wage slave or a Fortune 500 CEO, this book will change your life
He divided his new kingdom into four parts and married the kings widow Emma in order to help legitimize his reign. By carefully selecting his advisors he became very well placed to command loyalty from both the Danish and the English. *The Vikings of Normandy Viking raids on England started in the late 8th century. Over- wintering in camps and the control of extensive areas of land became characteristic of Viking activity in England. English resistance was uncoordinated and often ineffective. 'England' was a region of several independent kingdoms - often at war with each other. Eventually, King Alfred was able to confront the Vikings at Edington. Alfred had to concede the northern and eastern counties to the Vikings, York became the capital of the Viking Kingdom of York. These areas were gradually reconquered and brought back under English control by Alfred's successors. *Feudalism and the manor system Manorialism, otherwise known as the Manorial
or you can have negative beliefs about yourself and your potential that act as roadblocks to the realization of everything that is truly possible for you. The most harmful beliefs you can have are your self-limiting be- liefs. These are beliefs about yourself and your potential that hold you back. Most of them are not true. Most of them are the result of information you have accepted without question, often from early childhood. Even if it is completely untrue, if you believe yourself to be limited in areas such as achieving wonderful health and happi- ness and earning a lot of money, that will become your truth. As the author Richard Bach in his book Illusions wrote, “Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours.” ccc_tracy_fm_i-xviii.qxd 7/7/03 3:23 PM Page xvii
cooperation with Russia and Eastern Partnership Countries. 3 1. LEGALIZATION OF A COMPANY WITH A FOREIGN OWNER IN RUSSIA Today the investment attractiveness of Russia is very high. In addition to the dynamic pace of development of the economy, Russia offers to foreign investors increasing every year the market of goods and services to consumer and business. Most often, this together with the high rate of return on invested capital is a crucial factor in the decision to enter the Russian market. One possible way to full implementation of business activities on the territory of the Russian Federation - is the creation of a legal entity. An enterprise with foreign capital - is created on the territory of the Russian business- organization whose founders are foreign citizens or organizations. Russian legislation
· Remind students to prepare for the get hold of the details, then use Unfortunately, guns are used for listening by reading the statements them to buy other stuff. protection by certain people. They carefully and underlining any key S1But how often does that happen? are a part of street culture, like words. Play the recording twice. Just think about the convenience of fashion and music. It's very difficult shopping online. Another advantage Writing to change because it's engulfed
form the collective name of a state of affairs.) But in fact (8) is ungrammatical. For it to take on normal subjectpredicate meaning, a verb would have to be inserted: (9) Ralph {has/exemplifies} fatness which would launch Bradley's regress again. Objection 3 As we shall see and discuss in the next two chapters, there are specific lin- guistic phenomena that seem to show that there is more to meaning than reference. In particular, coreferring terms are often not synonymous; that is, two terms can share their referent but differ in meaning--"Joseph Ratzinger" and "the Pope," for example. It looks as though we should conclude that there must be at least one way of being a meaningful expression other than by naming something, pos- sibly even for some expressions that do name things. There are a number of theories of meaning that surpass the Referential Theory, even though each theory faces difficulties of its own
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It is done by analysing the literature, previous research in this field, and the results of empirical research conducted among the main contracting companies in Estonia. Basically, the aim is to understand the reasons for the failures at the root level. 2.1 Problems Many studies of the problems and causes for the problems mostly point out the same issues associated with construction industry. The nature of the construction industry is very often characterized as the following (Koskela2 1992): Low productivity Poor safety Inferior working conditions Insufficient quality The construction industry is seen as an unproductive production system if compared with other industries, e.g., car manufacturing (Koskela and Vrijhoef 2001; Winch 1998). High levels of waste and unpredictability in terms of delivery, time, budget, profitability and standards of quality combine to 2
their rights and obligations and the distribution of shares. This agreement is reflected in the stat- ute of the company. Management The managerial structure of a company, its composition and the regulation of its activity rest solely on the decision of the partners. A partners' meeting is the highest body of the limited liability company. The partners' meeting has the exclusive right to make strategic decisions with respect to company's activity. A director (or directors) appointed by the partners' meeting carries out the overall management of the day-to-day activity of the Company. The rights and obligations of the director are specified by respective agreement and the Law on Entrepreneurs. Besides that, the partners' meeting is entitled to create a supervisory board and determine its functions. Joint Stock Company Liability Similar to an LLC, a joint stock company is liable vis a vis its creditors only to the extent of the property owned
Color-- -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8- -9- Text Size-- 10-- 11-- 12-- 13-- 14-- 15-- 16-- 17-- 18-- 19-- 20-- 21-- 22-- 23-- 24 TWILIGHT By Stephenie Meyer Contents PREFACE 1. FIRST SIGHT 2. OPEN BOOK 3. PHENOMENON 4. INVITATIONS 5. BLOOD TYPE 6. SCARY STORIES 7. NIGHTMARE 8. PORT ANGELES 9. THEORY 10. INTERROGATIONS 11. COMPLICATIONS 12. BALANCING 13. CONFESSIONS 14. MIND OVER MATTER 15. THE CULLENS 16. CARLISLE 17. THE GAME 18. THE HUNT 19. GOODBYES 20. IMPATIENCE 21. PHONE CALL 22. HIDE-AND-SEEK 23. THE ANGEL 24. AN IMPASSE EPILOGUE: AN OCCASION twilight STEPHENIE MEYER LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY New York Boston Text copyright © 2005 by Stephenie Meyer All rights reserved. Little, Brown and Company Time Warner Book Group 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
article in Civil Engineering entitled “The Promise of Virtual Design”, four characteristics that illustrate the construction industry. First, there is a high degree of complexity resulting from different companies collaborating on a single project. These diverse and dispersed companies are required to exchange critical information during the design and construction phases. Second, owners and other non engineering stakeholders interpret 2D drawings differently and often have an incomplete understanding of the planned construction. Third, there is a high degree of uncertainty and risk caused by site conditions. Finally, one of the biggest issues facing the construction industry, is the inability to discern constructability problems during the preconstruction phase of a project (Mitchell, 2009). To understand the effects that three-dimensional building information models are having
As the male grew, his stripes faded out and became spots while the black markings also changed from black to a burnt red-brown colour and his white ticking became smaller. The change from stripe to spots was probably an optical effect caused by the change from black to red- brown. His dorsal line became a burnt golden brown, and the background colour was similar to a washed out sorrel colour (sorrel is a colour found in Abyssinians). There are a few oddities in his ancestry. His mother, Pearl, was a black Manx and his sire was a normal black/brown tabby from the same black Manx mother. The inbreeding was accidental, and may have brought out a recessive gene. Pearl was born to a black/red tortie (carrying dilute and colourpoint) and a red van-pattern sire; this pairing should not produce solid black females so, barring an anomaly in her sire's germ line, Pearl may be a tortie where the red has not been expressed in the coat. Pearl has also produced a kitten that changed from
place and condemns them to imprisonment within their own personality? The possibility of such a transformation has been the central message of the great wisdom teachings of humankind. The messengers – Buddha, Jesus, and others, not all of them known – were humanity’s early flowers. They were precursors, rare and precious beings. A widespread flowering was not yet possible at that time, and their message became largely misunderstood and often greatly distorted. It certainly did not transform human behavior, except in a small minority of people. Is humanity more ready now than at the time of those early teachers? Why should this be so? What can you do, if anything, to bring about or accelerate this inner shift? What is it that characterizes the old egoic state of consciousness, and by what signs is the new emerging consciousness recognized? These and other essential questions will be addressed in this book
He'd come a long way and been through so much. It wasn't until after dinner that I noticed the two large gift boxes propped against the side of the sectional sofa. "What are those?" "Those," Cary said, joining me in the living room, "are the ultimate." I knew immediately they were from Stanton and my mom. Money was something my mother needed to be happy and I was glad Stanton, husband #3, was not only able to fill that need for her but all her many others as well. I often wished that could be the end of it, but my mom had a difficult time accepting that I didn't view money the same way she did. "What now?" He threw his arm around my shoulders, easy enough for him to do because he was taller by five inches. "Don't be ungrateful. He loves your mom. He loves spoiling your mom, and your mom loves spoiling you. As much as you don't like it, he doesn't do it for you. He does it for her." Sighing, I conceded his point. "What are they?"
magnetic drum, the earliest magnetic storage devices. Drums registered information as magnetic pulses in tracks around a metal cylinder. Read/write heads both recorded and recovered the data. Drums eventually stored as many as 4,000 words and retrieved any one of them in as little as five-thousandths of a second. 1951 The UNIVAC I delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau was the first commercial computer to attract widespread public attention. Although manufactured by Remington Rand, the machine often was mistakenly referred to as the "IBM UNIVAC." Remington Rand eventually sold 46 machines at more than $1 million each. SPEED: 1,905 operations per second INPUT/OUTPUT: magnetic tape, unityper, printer MEMORY SIZE: 1,000 12-digit words in delay lines MEMORY TYPE: delay lines, magnetic tape TECHNOLOGY: serial vacuum tubes, delay lines, magnetic tape FLOOR SPACE: 943 cubic feet COST: F.O.B. factory $750,000 plus Early AI programs: checkers, chess (in Britain)
In certain situations it can be acceptable. Countermeasures you violate certain obligations in response of the violations of your partner. It's not a universal measure. You can use it if it's not directly prohibited by international law. In some areas nowadays it's prohibited, e.g. law of war. Earlier it was prohibited to use countermeasures in times of war, now it's clearly prohibited (collective punishments, any reprisals regarding civilian populations). Often used in cases of trade wars, if no limitations. Forms of international responsibility Political responsibility Most known form is satisfaction the guilty side express its formal official excuses, the issue the statement that they are sorry, person responsible will be punished, or that they promise they won't do this again. Breaking off diplomatic relations if a country is very unhappy with the behaviour of another country.
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