Blurred Lines: the most controversial song of the decade Another student union has banned Robin Thicke’s party track. How did it become such a lightning rod for moral outrage and censorship? This week‚ University College London student union (UCLU) took the unusual step of banning a single song‚ Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It joins around 20 other UK student unions to do so. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade:
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Nazca Lines and its Mistery. Nazca Lines‚ one of the greatest mysteries of Latin America‚ are a series of geometrical shapes‚ and animal figures‚ none of which is repeated and some as long as two hundred meters in length‚ occupying about some 500 square kilometres of bleak‚ stony is situated in desert of Peruvian desert along the coastal plain‚ approximately four hundred kilometres south of the capital city Lima. The knowledge of these lines came into being accidentally from an aero plane
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Walk the Line Release Date: 11/18/05 Running Length: 134 mins Rating: PG-13 (Profanity‚ drugs) Cast: Joaquin Phoenix‚ Reese Witherspoon‚ Ginnifer Goodwin‚ Robert Patrick‚ Dallas Roberts‚ Dan John Miller‚ Larry Bagby‚ Shelby Lynne Director: James Mangold Producers: James Keach‚ Cathy Konrad Screenplay: Gill Dennis & James Mangold Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael Music: Johnny Cash‚ T Bone Burnett Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatre: Empire Theatres Date: 12/12/05 Time: 7:15 P.M.
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Novel : The Shadow Lines AUTHOR : Amitav Ghosh Awards : winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1989). Bibliography : The Shadow Lines(novel)‚ Wikipedia(Internet). Main Characters : Mayadebi‚ Tridib‚ Ila‚ May‚ Narrator‚ Nick‚ grandmother. POLITICAL SCENERIO : The novel is set against the backdrop of historical events: 1.Swadeshi movement 2.Second World War 3.Partition of Country 4.Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta CHARACTERS ANALYSIS : The characters in this novel – except
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SATURATION LINE OF WATER/STEAM INTRODUCTION When water is heated to steam‚ they are in thermal contact‚ are said to be saturated. The water is called saturated because it cannot absorb more energy without changing into steam‚ and the steam is called saturated vapor because it cannot absorb any more energy unless temperature increase and it becomes superheated. AIM: The aim of this laboratory is to find a mathematical model for the saturation curve for water/steam. APPARATUS The apparatus
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What is Line Balancing? Line Balancing is leveling of the workload across all operations in a line to remove bottlenecks and excess capacity‚ defined by Six Sigma Material. When you consider mass production‚ garments are produced in lines or set of machines instead of single machine. A line may be assembly line‚ modular line or section‚ a line set with online finishing and packing. A line includes multiple work stations with varied work contents. Production per hour is varied depending on work
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Greyhound Lines is the intercity bus transportation company which operating on low profits and unable to meet the customer demand (Greyhound‚ 2011). Based on the case study‚ in order to reduce operating costs and improve customer service‚ reduction in employees‚ routes and services has been done. However‚ this action leads to discourtesy of customers. Besides this‚ the introduction of Trips which is mainly to resolve problems in the highly complex software actually creates lots of problems. The problems
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After reading many novels throughout my life I would place‚ The Shadow Lines‚ by Amitav Ghosh‚ in my top 10 list. The novel is based on the narrator who was English educated but Indian born. The narrator illustrates and shares his views of foreign countries which he has never been to with other characters in the novel. Even though the narrator is English educated his values‚ ethics‚ and culture is more Indian than an American. Many of us now notice that when a person migrates from one country
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The Divided Line Plato wrote about many things in The Republic including how we humans use knowledge and opinion by the analogy of the divided line. In the divided line there is no such thing as total ignorance. Everyone has knowledge‚ but some have more than others. The divided line is divided up into two worlds‚ the world of intellect and the world of the visible. The world of intellect is also known as the world of ideas and the invisible world. Here universal ideas are reflected. The world of
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Finish Line In 1976 two friends named David Klapper and Alan Cohen paired together to run a franchise that would come to be known as the Athlete’s Foot. Athlete’s Foot was a large athletic footwear business. By 1981 Klapper and Cohen’s vision grew larger than what the Athlete’s Foot franchise was able to contain. In this year Klapper and Cohen decided to open their own franchise as a spin off of the Athlete’s Foot; they named it Finish Line. Cohen and Klapper were phenomenal businessmen
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