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    Journal Entry #1 The United States is considered “the land of opportunity” for everyone. America welcomes the people that other countries don’t want‚ or at least we used to. The Statue of Liberty even says “Give me your tired‚ your poor‚ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free‚ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these‚ the homeless‚ tempest-tossed to me‚ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”-The New Colossus. America once expected immigrants to come in and rise up the ranks

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    They should never keep viewers in the dark on matters that could directly affect them. Contrastingly‚ in Good Night‚ and Good Luck‚ the newcasters at CBS preferred to shadow their audience from the truth by only airing shows for entertainment purposes or touching on lighter subjects in their broadcasts. This was done during the time of McCarthyism since no one had ever been brave

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    leaders in the electronic equipment industry. Since it was founded in 1946‚ Sony has produces some of the most innovative‚ quality products as apart of mainstream culture. The SWOT analysis provides a snapshot of the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ and Threats for not only Playstation‚ but also examines certain aspects of the video game industry along with the entertainment industry as a whole. Strengths: Best raw computing power of the three main competitors in the industry.

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    I reviewed the Webinar titled “Gamification: is it Edu-tainment or a Genuine Opportunity to Engage Learners?” By Brian Knudson of Noggin labs. Gamification of Learning high lights – What The webinar started by a brilliant experiment with those who signed up for the webinar and shared the results of the game. The webinar covered two broad categories of gaming types: simulations and social games. In this paper I was drawn to the first category‚ simulations because of its broad existence and usability

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    When ERP first meets Japanese company -reflection on Naniwa Hitech case study Abstract: In the early 1990s‚ Japanese manufacturing companies’ proudest plant-level optimization became no longer competitive in the context of new global environment. A lot of competitors had caught up matching equal production efficiency and the key to maintaining continuous leading position lies in standardization of business process and integration of information management system. However‚ Enterprise Resource

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    The Hero’s Journey in The Joy Luck Club In Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club‚ Tan explores the difficulty of immigration and adjustment to a different culture by following the women of four families. Throughout the novel‚ Tan slowly reveals the struggles of each individual woman’s life‚ both in the past and in the present. Tan’s story may not immediately translate into Joseph Campbell’s widely recognized Hero’s Journey‚ but certain characters resemble Campbell’s path of character development. Lindo

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    The Joy luck Club The Joy luck Club is an amazing Asian American movie. This movie is about four Chinese women‚ who created a club during a war to have fun.. The story line up based on their past life‚ struggles and how they got abused by men. It’s also shows us the conflict between immigrant mother and their American raised children. The title of the movie didn’t give us that much information but we can get a basic idea that this film is about a club. The transition of the movie was incredible

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    In Amy Tan’s novel‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ each female character experiences different degrees of tragedy‚ but Suyuan Woo’s life appears to the most tragic. Despite suffering many misfortunes in her life‚ Suyuan is a willful woman who does not focus on the hardships in life but instead attempts to create happiness. With this personality‚ she creates the Joy Luck Club in China to find happiness while the Japanese invaded China. Later‚ Suyuan leaves China and comes to America in hopes of starting fresh

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    Alyssa Reitano Poetry Final Draft: Paper 2 Oct 31 2010 More Than Meets the Eye Through the use of poetic techniques like alliteration‚ caesura‚ and sentence structure the meaning of these poems can be determined. Both author’s create a bond between words and brings about the feeling of the poems. After reading both “Bleeding” by May Swenson and “Beware : do not read this poem” by Ishmael Reed‚ they both contain elements of aural and visual effects to call attention to the relationship within

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    Andrew Luck is an American quarterback for the National Football League. Currently he is the QB for the Indianapolis Colts. He attended college at Stanford University where he played football. He was selected first overall in the 2012 NFL draft. He was born in Washington DC but spent a lot of time in London where he picked up his love for soccer. andrew luck hobbies religion political views Andrew Luck Religion Andrew is very private about his beliefs but he seems to not be religious. He hasn’t

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