Technology Districts level‚ scope‚ and scale of innovation activities in different technology districts are conditioned by the level and form of regional and national economic development (Castells and Hall 1994). Moreover‚ not all efforts to build technology districts are successful‚ and some established districts have experienced difficulties‚ stagnation‚ and decline. Some studies (e.g.‚ Saxenian 1994) attribute this to the rigidities in path-dependent local corporate structure and business
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Charles W. Chesnutt is an African-American writer who interests toward color line issue in America after American Civil War. Chesnutt writes many stories‚ novels and essays. He has a good setting surround literature. Also‚ he is a lawyer‚ educator‚ and activist. This research presents five short stories of the second collection drawing upon his mixed race heritage. Each story in this research talks upon color line starting with The Wife of his Youth‚ Her Virginia Mammy‚ The Sheriff’s Children‚ The
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College of William and Mary ① College of William and Mary (W&M) is the second oldest university in the United States and is such a prestigious school that it was included in the Original Ivy League. Williamsburg where W&M is located has a Historical District‚ an area which the street of colonial times and American Revolutionary War is restored. At Williamsburg‚ the students are able to experience the history of America’s Independence which cannot be perceived in the other states. Surrounded by traditional
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Poets like W. S Merwin convey this concept of simultaneity in his three poems‚ “For the Anniversary of My Death‚ Losing a Language‚ and Drunk in the Furnace.” Merwin mixes-up chronological time in his poems to combine the past with the present. Using time as a major tone in these three poems‚ it allows the reader to unfold how Merwin delivers this duality of what was to what is the case. “For the Anniversary of My Death‚” Merwin writes about his appreciation and love for the life he had‚ as he
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In literature‚ as in life‚ things are not always what they appear to be. Most short stories from this unit support this statement. The Monkey’s Paw‚ by W. W. Jacobs‚ is a short story about Mr. and Mrs. White‚ who adored their only son Herbert‚ and lived a happy life. There expectations of wishes on the monkey’s paw were different than the reality. All the Whites didn’t believe in the monkey’s paw‚ but were intrigued. Herbert thinks it would be a good idea to see if it would work so he suggested￡200
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Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer-songwriter who first rose to fame in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic/acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company‚ and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups‚ The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. Her first ever large scale public performance was at the Monterey Pop Festival; this led her to becoming very popular and one of the major attractions at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour
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Is W. Somerset Maugham a Racist? Webster’s Ninth Collegiate Dictionary defines racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race(1). Racism can also be defined as prejudice or animosity against other races (2). In W. Somerset Maugham’s short story‚ Mr. Know-All‚ the narrator displays racism on at least three different occasions throughout the story. The first occasion is when the
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J. M. W. Turner is one of Britain ’s most popular artists who showed exceptional artistic talent from his early age and entered the Royal Academy at fourteen. His landscape paintings made him popular regardless of a darker side to his paintings that were made big issues by critiques. He became a well-celebrated artist despite of the difficulties he came across in life. Even being born in family of a Garden barber‚ he became very famous for his works such seascape and landscape. His success seems
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thousand windows and a thousand doors: Not one of them was ours‚ my dear‚ not one of them was ours. Stood on a great plain in the falling snow; 35 Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro: Looking for you and me‚ my dear‚ looking for you and me. W. H.
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George Herbert Walker Bush was elected as the 41st president of the United States in 1989 and served one term which was completed in 1993. (stafoff 209) However he had served as vice president of the United States twice in a row under Ronald Reagan. (George Bush.) His vice presidency started in 1981 and ended in 1989. (George Bush.) He ran and was elected as president directly after his terms as vice president. (George Bush.) Many people think bush wasn’t the greatest president we have had to date
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