Name: Saranjam Khan Date: 10/31/2012 Contemporary World History 01 (9:30-10:20am) Summary from the New York Times Footnote citation of Article or Editorial: Declan Walsh‚ “Taliban Gun Down A Girl Who Spoke Up for Rights‚” New York Times‚ October 10‚ 2012. What is the article or editorial about (100-150 words)? A 14 year old girl‚ Malala Yousafzai was shot in head and neck by Taliban while she was in her school bus with fellow students. Malala Yousafzai‚ who raised her voice
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How technology affects society in Fahrenheit 451 and the real world Every day‚ everywhere people are using technology to check email‚ calculate tax‚ and talk with each other. Technology has greatly affected the social structure today and in Fahrenheit 451. Technology has effected how the TV controls our lives‚ how we communicate with one another‚ and how strong the social structure is In both the real world and Fahrenheit 451. Similarly to the real world‚ in Fahrenheit 451 the TV is a habitual
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inspiring view of the one of the most powerful buildings in the city‚ The Empire State building. Finally‚ the beautiful city of New York lay at my fingertips. I had waited my whole childhood for the chance to visit‚ to explore. I grew up seeing New York on the television. I grew up inspired by a city I hadn’t been to but yet‚ I felt so attached. I saw the city in a different light. How an artist sees a painting‚ or how an environmentalist perceives the wilderness. Art represents something greater than
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Analysis Newspapers and print media have experienced increasing difficulty due to the shift in the way people consume information. According the Pew Research Center‚ 55% of New York Times readers read the Times on a phone or a computer. That trend holds true across the industry with 2012 numbers showing that over half of Americans consume news online‚ while only 29% claimed to have read a newspaper in the last day (See Exhibit 1). Declining print readership means fewer advertisers and declining
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This is a summary of an article I found in "New York Times" three years ago. Maybe it will be helpfull for students who have to take English classes. I had to do it for university to improve my buisness English skills. Summary of New York Times-article In the following text I will summarize the article “Crisis in Europe and U.S. Hurts Asian Economies”‚ published in New York Times on January 23‚ 2009. The text is about the weak Asian economies and how they are affected by the crisis which
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“On the Amtrak from Boston to New York” was a remarkable play written by Sherman Alexie. He portrays the resentful man on the train as the one who doesn’t love his country‚ however‚ he seems to believe that there is more to American history than others see. What about the history of the land before Columbus discovered the New World? The speakers attitude toward the history of his land and toward the Indians was apathetic‚ bitter‚ and very opinionated. Sherman’s apathetic attitude became very
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Remember when we heard of the promises of this New World in Boston? Remember when you laughed right at seeing the poster? Do you remember when you called it “simply a big bunch of hogwash “? You may want to change your mind‚ as this is a truly wonderful place. The whole city is vibrant and alive! The waterfront bustles with commotion‚ sailors running to and fro‚ kids getting into all kinds of mischief‚ and new arrivals coming in by the minute. Bells chime‚ sailors cheer‚ and it is so energetic‚
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Like many large cities‚ New York is divided and subdivided by its residents into various districts and quarters. The city’s five boroughs are actually different counties -- each one with independent local governments and cultures. Each borough has individual neighborhoods -- some of only a few blocks in size -- that have personalities lauded in music and movies. Where you live‚ work and play in New York says something to New Yorkers about who you are. The five boroughs are: Brooklyn Queens The Bronx
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1. Is the New York Times paywall working? According to Chairman Sulzberger the goal of the paywall was to “build the Times’s digital subscription base and develop a new robust consumer revenue stream‚ while maintaining its significant digital advertising business.” Secondary to the constraint of maintaining the ad business was the requirement to maintain social buzz and branding. To begin‚ the NYT wanted to increase future revenues for the paper and offset the inevitable decline of its print
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I. Introduction Brave New World‚ written by Aldous Huxley in 1931‚ shows a fictional dystopian society located in London that greatly relies on technology and rejects today’s values such as love‚ family and emotion in order to achieve maximum societal stability and gain a false sense of happiness. The novel grasps concepts of futurology‚ which bolster the idea of the book satirizing modern society and showing what it could become. In the not so distant future‚ the novel predicts that humans will
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