MAGAZINE DESK It’s a Flat World‚ After All By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (NYT) 5165 words Published: April 3‚ 2005 In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail for India‚ going west. He had the Nina‚ the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He never did find India‚ but he called the people he met ’’Indians’’ and came home and reported to his king and queen: ’’The world is round.’’ I set off for India 512 years later. I knew just which direction I was going. I went east. I had Lufthansa business class‚ and I came
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Sonnets are usually about love. Their tone sound very nice‚ easy to read and they can be sung. Sonnets are taken as a challenge for many poets because freeverse is easy and linear. “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” is a Sonnet written by John Milton. “Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought” is a poem by X. J. Kennedy. Even though these Sonnets are similar in structure they have a very different in tone. These poems may not appear to be about love or to be romantic‚ but in a religious way love
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2nd lecture Sunday 29/10/1433 At the beginning‚ we have talked about our time table‚ then Doctor Eman started our lessons with our home work question and we heard several definitions from different groups. Then we started our new lesson Understanding Translation So‚ translation is the replacement of SL Message b an Equivalent TL Message.* _We had translate the previous defention: استبدال رسالة بلغة (ما)مترجمة
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Lewis Carroll “I can not go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”- Lewis Carroll. He was a very unpredictable writer in many senses‚ including the characters in his books and their actions. Most people would not know that Alice‚ from the two creatively written fantasy novels‚ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or Through the looking glass‚ was an actual girl. She was a close friend of Lewis Carroll‚ the man behind the two interesting literary works. Little did she know‚ that she
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Lewis Carroll: known to many as being a man of mystery‚ including those who knew him personally‚ and those who only knew him through his pseudonym. He uses nonsensical concepts and words in his stories in order to create a mood of whimsy and fantasy allowing the reader a certain degree of freedom in his or her interpretation of Carroll’s meaning; of all of Carroll’s works‚ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland stands uniquely in the category of nonsense literature. Many authors argue over the contrasts
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Archie Smith also well known as R Smith or sometimes Oranges is an odd person. He is your school genius‚ yet somehow he’s managed to get a girlfriend that is extremely dumb and popular. R was known as the “Boy Wonder‚” he was every guy’s inspiration. He makes friends with EVERYONE. I guess that’s why he is a “Wonder.” One morning R awoke with the idea that someone or something had questioned‚ “Is he the one?” Unsure if R had dreamt it or if it was actually said he got out of bed and moved on with
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Carroll Beckwith Beckwith c. 1880 Birth name James Carroll Beckwith Born September 23‚ 1852 Hannibal‚ Missouri Died October 24‚ 1917 New York‚ New York Nationality American Field Painting Training National Academy of Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago Movement Impressionism James Carroll Beckwith (September 23‚ 1852 – October 24‚ 1917) was an American landscape‚ portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth century as
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Freeman and Friedman offering opposing views to answer the question “What is business’s responsibility?” Freeman puts forth what he calls the “stakeholder theory” while Friedman advocates for the “stockholder theory.” Freeman’s stakeholder theory identifies different “stakes” that influence an organization. Each of these parts is integral to the well-functioning of the organization. Included in these categorizations are employees‚ shareholders‚ communities‚ and customers. Freeman advises organizations
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mind boggling poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll‚ Carroll blends words together which creates a more made-up‚ magical theme. Though this poem is confusing and hard to understand at first because of the made up words‚ I believe that as said in the anecdote of the Introduction to Poetry‚ from the Anthology‚ the poem would take on a whole new meaning if we had the poet explain how he came to write the poem itself. I would love to sit down with Lewis Carroll and ask him why he wrote this fascinating
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What problems of motivation did Archie Norman discover at ASDA? The staff had a lot of motivation problems‚ starting by the fact that it was a bureaucratic type of company. There was no opportunity for employees to express their ideas and no incentive to advance in their careers. Managers at the top level would decide what to do‚ not taking in account the input from costumers and employees‚ employees under their layer would accept to whatever they would say since they were scared to loose their
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