...reading presentation project in PHA 109 and I liked his book because it motivated people to not giving up on their dreams. The speaker of this event was Will Allen. He was happy to be in SDSU and had an opportunity to meet with wonderful students. He mentioned that this generation is the one who would change the food systems and created a better living system in America. Will gave speeches across the United States and throughout the world. He created Growing Power Inc. in 1995 and he is also the CEO of this company. Besides farming, Will also had passion for basketball. He became an outstanding basket player when he was in high school and he continued to play basketball until he was 28. In 2008, he received the “Genius Grant” from The John D and Katherine T. McArthur foundation for his work in urban farming. Upon his retirement from basketball, Will moved to his wife’s home town, Milwaukee. He wanted to create local food systems and provided good, fresh, healthy, and affordable food to the communities. Food that they consumed in Milwaukee mostly came from thousands of mile away. He purchased 40 acres of land and built greenhouses and hoop houses. In his greenhouses, Will created aquaponic systems; it is a combination growing system between aquaculture, such as fish and hydroponic (plants) in a symbiotic atmosphere. Will Allen uses organic compost from discarded vegetables and fruit. He refused to use chemical fertilizer. Many youth in the community worked in his greenhouses. He taught...
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...budgets compared to major studio films. Also, the marketing of these films is usually marked by limited release, though they can also have major promoting campaigns as well as wide release. They are usually screened at international, national, or local film festivals before being distributed (O’Meara, 2014). This paper presents a biographical essay of three independent film producers; Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, and Noah Baumbach Woody Allen Woody Allen is an American writer, playwright, comedian, actor, and director. He was born in 1935 in the Bronx (Girgus, 2002). However, he was raised in Brooklyn, a town in New York. Allen was the son of Nettie, a book keeper, and Martin Konigsberg, a waiter and a jewelry engraver. He had a sister named Letty and was born in 1943. Allen’s family was Ashkenazi Jewish. .Allen’s childhood was not for the most part happy. Besides having a shaky relationship with his uncompromising and temperamental mother, Allen’s parents did not cope (Girgus, 2002). He spoke Germany rather bit in his early childhood. While going to Hebrew school for a period of eight years, Allen attended public school 99 and proceeded to Midwood High School. During this time, he stayed in an apartment in 968 east 14th street....
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...February 18, 2015 Selected product to research: Home Furnishings Selected two (2) companies within the selected product category. Basset Furniture INC and Ethan Allen Introduction: Bassett Furniture is a furniture manufacturer headquartered in Bassett, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1902 by John David Bassett (July 14, 1866 – February 26, 1965) and C.C. Bassett. Bassett Furniture is one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in Virginia and has been producing hand crafted furniture for over 100 years. “Incorporated in Delaware in 1989, Ethan Allen Interiors Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ethan Allen Global, Inc., and Ethan Allen Global, Inc.’s subsidiaries (collectively, "We," "Us," "Our," "Ethan Allen" or the "Company"), is a leading manufacturer and retailer of quality home furnishings and accessories, offering a full complement of home decorating and design solutions through one of the country’s largest home furnishing retail networks. We refer to our Ethan Allen retail outlets as "design centers" instead of "stores" to better reflect these expanded capabilities” (COMMISSION, 2013). Ethan Allen is a furniture manufacturer headquartered in Danbury, Conn in the United States. It was founded in 1932 by Nathan S. Ancel, Ethan Allen Co-founder. Ethan Allen furniture is one of the of the nation's largest furniture companies, with more than 300 dealers and 21 manufacturing plants in the United States (Khurana, 2010). Compare and contrast...
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... The author expects to gain a definite understanding of how creative thinking benefits an organization and determine whether the author believes she is a creative thinker. George Bernard Shaw a Irish playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics once said “You see things and ask “Why?”; I dream things that never were and ask “Why not?” (Nobel Prize, 2013). Creative Intelligence is the part of our personal personality traits that is determined to obtain the desire goal. The benefit of understanding our creative intelligence is to understand that it is a tool that will guide us in making decisions that will not only benefit us but also the world in which we live. To be successful in the today’s economy individuals need to be more adaptable to change. And the more creative you are the better equip organizations and or individuals are to handle issues in the today’s economy (Rowe, 2004). Chik-chik-chik-chik-chika-chik-chik-chik-chik-ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip-chik-chika-chik-chik. The typewriter concept started back in 1714. Typewriters were what companies, and or individuals used to write letters, proposals etc. If you needed to copy a document, companies used carbon copy paper. By 1975 two gentlemen by the name of Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed a company called Microsoft. The vision of Microsoft was that every organization, and every individual to have this software on every desk top, and in every home globally. Although Microsoft started small Microsoft...
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...Health Statistics 2009 1/5 New Zealanders experience a mental disorder sometime during their life, of these only 39% have visited mental health services, the Ministry of Health also found that 4.5% of New Zealanders have attempted suicide with males being 3.6% more likely to commit suicide than females. This is also reflected in OECD (Organisation for economic co-operation and development) statistics, New Zealand currently has the highest rate of youth suicide, ages 15-24, in countries belonging to the OECD and 29th highest overall suicide rate. This is why I have decided to explore ‘the catalysts prevalent in established society which can be detrimental to our populations overall mental health.’ This theme is prevalent within the following combination of texts; Howl by Allen Ginsberg, Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen, Requiem for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky and Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese. These texts explore different aspects of the human psyche and of mental illness by examining these texts I hope to identify and expose which aspects of our society could be injurious to our mental health. Howl written in 1955 is Allen Ginsberg’s most famous piece of poetry to date which proved to be provocative and test the boundaries of the society which Ginsberg lived in. He pushed the boundaries of free speech writing on a range of topical issues concerning himself or that he believed were in need of denouncement....
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...expansion or market penetration. The business manager for a time may share duties with the owner, as the owner gains trust in the business manager. Ideally, the business manager and the owner work synergistically to ensure that the business of running a successful business is attended to. This can often be a process of the owner relinquishing the functions for which there is a comparative disadvantage for his or her continued involvement. In the context of the music industry, a business manager is a representative of musicians and/or recording artists, whose main job is to supervise their business affairs, and the proper handling of their financial matters. The role as it is understood today was largely originated (and the term coined) by Allen Klein, who represented numerous performers through the years, helping them to both invest their incomes wisely and to recover unpaid (or underpaid) royalties and fees. Business managers commonly have an overlapping presence in both the entertainment and sports industries, as illustrated by business manager Barry Klarberg, who represents entertainers...
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...Allie Baber 10/23/12 Beat Literature practice college paper Through out the beat literature you can find recurring themes like religion that make the different stories/poems very similar. The beat generation rejects the American culture that covers up the disasters that are happening. They turned to Buddhism for peace. A big group of people called “the beats” went off the mainstream path and started doing things that were not typical to do during that time period. Some things that were not mainstream was the beats started to practice Buddhism and the way they write their stories and poem for example the style and run on sentences. The members of the Beat Generation rejected mainstream Western traditions because they felt those traditions were covering up what was wrong in 1950s America. Through out the different beat literatures there are many references where the beats reject Western traditions and went off the mainstream path. In the Note on Religious Tendencies by Gary Snyder that the Beat Generation do “experimentation with narcotics […] and intelligent use of drugs.” (Religious Tendencies) This demonstrates the Beats would rather not follow the mainstream path and would rather do different things like try different kinds of drugs and experiment with them. The Beats wanted to push themselves away from being with the mainstream people. They want to do different things even if they were not acceptable. Trying the different drugs showed that the Beats were doing something...
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...Ginsberg: America The poem America by Allen Ginsberg is a harsh critique on the American culture. This poem made me feel like he is giving a lecture to the country of their actions, almost like they are a child being punished. A line that really jumped out at me was when he said, “Go f*** yourself with your atom bomb”. He is clearly talking about Russia and the communists. He is arguing that what we did to them was wrong and who are we to do these things to them. He then proceeds to attack the materialistic America. “America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing” Letting us know that he has given his all to this country but what has the country given back to him? He then attacks Time magazine by saying “ Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?” He says that this magazine is telling everyone they are important but him. Unless you have a nice job you are nothing to the American culture. Ginsberg throughout the poem attacks the American culture in many ways. He is clearly not happy with the way things are going in this country. This poem is definitely shocking for me; I can’t even imagine the reviews it may have gotten when it was first published. I think that Ginsberg wanted to get his point across to the American people but I do not know if this was the most efficient way. I am sure there are many deeper meanings but this poem was kind of hard for me to understand other than the fact that he is really ticked off at the American...
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...Harsh conditions, death, poverty, the overall unsentimental nature of life, and definition of an identity are all are subjects explored by writers Lucille Clifton and John Crowe Ransom in their writings. Although the two poets came from very different lives, the unique search for identity and meaning in life unites the two writer's poems in their expression of life. John Crowe Ransom a very distinguished gentleman born as the third child to a Methodist minister was raised in a very literate family. At age fifteen Ransom enrolled in Tennessee's esteemed Vanderbilt University where he later became a founding member of the group of writers known as the fugitives. Favoring poetic modernism in the early 1900's, The fugitives focus was on philosophy, american pragmatisim and the loss of a "southern identity and culture" due to the industrialization of the time period. After graduating from Vanderbilt in 1909 Ransom went on to become an English teacher, Rhodes Scholar and later the headof the english department at Vnderbilt. Allthe while Ransom gained notoriety with scholars for his candid and unique way of examining emotional situations with little eotional pull or bias. With rootsin psychology, Ransom's poetry examines the ironic and unsentimental nature of life. Much like Ransom, poet Lucille Clifton often explored the rigityof the world, however Clifton's insight and ability to write about such rigity come from her impoverished and unprivilaged upbringing. Born in 1936 to father...
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...English assignment – Living Apart Together Explain what ”Living Apart Together” is, and give an outline of the different views presented in texts 2 and 3 “Living Apart Together” is also known as the acronym L.A.T. Living apart is popular for younger couples because they are not sure about what they want to do, but it has been more popular for older people to live the L.A.T. way. The living apart together familiy is when a couple doesn’t live in the same house but still are a couple. The couple from the second text is a good example on a living apart together family. Woody Allen and Mia Farrow have only devoted a part of their lives to each other. They want to be a couple but still have the freedom, so they can do what they want and have some spare time for themselves. I think it’s a bit strange that couples can be together for such a long time but they never decide to move together. But still I could imagine that it would be great to come home to a place you know its only yours and there is no other who can decide how you going to decorate your place. Its like Ms. Davis said in the text two “I like my quit times”, she likes to come home to her own place and don’t have to think about anything. They have talked about moving together but they don’t have the same views, of how they think that their future house should be like. That is a exciting fact, that even doe they fit together personally. They cant live under the same roof because they have a different style and see the...
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...Literary Appreciation Submitted By: Franchesca Shaira J. Apalisok 3rd year Knowledge Submitted to: Ms. Dulce Caisip Table of Contents I. Caedmon by: Venerable Bede I.I Story Map II. Lord Randal III. Bony Barbara Allan Caedmon [pic] Image copy of Cædmon's Hymn in the "Moore" manuscript (737), Cambridge, Kk.5.16, f. 128v, written in Northumbrian. This is the earliest known version of this work. Cædmon ( /ˈkædmən/ or /ˈkædmɒn/) is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy ((657–80) of St. Hilda (614–680), he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century monk Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational religious poet. Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in medieval sources, and one of only three for whom both roughly contemporary biographical information and examples of literary output have survived. His story is related in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ("Ecclesiastical History of the English People") by Bede who wrote, "there was in the Monastery of this Abbess a certain brother particularly remarkable for the Grace of God, who was wont to make religious verses...
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...After careful consideration, I elected to write my final paper on the works of author, Walt Whitman. The reason I selected this author is because I have travelled to the Atlantic coast and driven over the Walt Whitman Bridge numerous times, never knowing who he was, or what he did. When I saw his name in the textbook, I was intrigued. I decided I wanted to educate myself and analyze his work. The first poem I studied by him was “Beat! Beat! Drums!”. In this poem he speaks of bugles and drums, and the sounds that originate from them. In the first paragraph, he states “Through the windows-through doors-burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation, Into the school where the scholar is studying;” I interpreted this to mean the sound of the bugles and drums carry through windows and doors and interrupt those that are around them. They hear the sounds being made, and cannot shut them out. He continues by saying “Make no parley-stop for no expostulation” (Whitman, para 3). To me, this means that that he wants the sounds to keep coming, regardless of any complaints from elsewhere. I am thinking that this has something to do with the military, and the bugles and drums that are being played are a way to express to everyone that it is happening and unavoidable regardless of pleas from mothers and children. The second poem I read by Walt Whitman was “I Hear America Singing” (Whitman, 644). This poem talks of different labored...
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...6/12/13 Handara Daniswara COM111 Eulogy For Chivalry Most studies found that the number one fear for Americans is the fear of public speaking, followed by death. That means as of right now I am better off if were inside that casket than standing here delivering this eulogy to you. We are here to commemorate the dead of Chivalry. I still remember the first time I saw him, in a Disney cartoon where he fought through a dragon just to save a girl, that cartoon was the Sleeping Beauty. Since then I saw more of him, opening doors for people, giving up seats for people, volunteer to carrying things for people, pulls out chair for people, paying the bill in his first date, the second date, and reluctantly in the third date but he still pays the bill. He is basically courageous and courteous. We are all mournful by his death, except women who killed Chivalry. If he were still alive today, the world would be a better place. Women, elderly, and kids do not have to stand in public transport; Chivalry would give up his seat. Women would have free dinner; Chivalry would pay the bill. And there would not be any need for automatic doors; Chivalry would open it up for you. Chivalry however did not die in vain. He has set us an example throughout his life, a code of conduct, that we men should follow suit. And if we do, we might bring Chivalry back from the...
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...“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman immediately reminded me of texts and poems written by modernist authors, poems designed to reject traditional methods of writing and creating a new, cutting-edge style of writing based on emotions and simplicity. While this poem in particular isn’t exactly simple, it is powerful because it creates sharp images and evokes certain emotions for the reader about numerous topics, including religion, nature, and aging; a lot of the images are based on Whitman’s experiences and memories. Whitman’s style of writing includes heavy usage of anaphora (repetition of words at the beginning of lines or clauses), which also contributes to the creation of sharp images to be able to manifest his emotions in the poem; for example, That I could forget the mockers and insults! That I could forget the trickling tears, and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers! That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning. (Line 961) Whitman’s poem is also reminiscent of imagist poetry. Imagism was a precursor to modernism and endorses the creation of sharp images in poetry, almost creating a still-life full of detail using words. One verse that struck me as such was I visit the orchards of spheres, and look at the product: And look at quintillions ripen’d, and look at quintillions green. (Line 797) This particular sentence elicited a clear and beautiful picture in my mind of a small path lined with orchards and countless amounts...
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...CDs rates and Banks Eboni Franklin September 4, 2009 Professor Chowdhury Business 100 CDs are time deposits – you agree to place your funds on deposit with the bank for a stated period of time. During the term of the CD your funds earn interest at a stated interest rate or based upon an agreed method of calculating the rate, such as the percentage increase in the stock market. Over the years, one major event that happened to the Stanford Financial Group was the allegation of CD mismanagement. Allen Stanford, Stanford Financials CEO, was accused of influencing proposed revisions in an Antiguan bank to benefit his own firm (Newsweek, 2009 Article 2). The comment s were made by some of the employees nut there was no comment to be made from either side. Over the past 12 months the stock market and hedge funds have lost huge amounts of value. Rate of interest charged for the use of money, usually expressed at an annual rate. The rate is derived by dividing the amount of interest by the amount of principal borrowed. In some banks the minimum to open at CD is 50,000 dollars. The current rate is roughly 4.5% for a one year CD. The U.S. banks are about 2% on a one year CD. Even offshore bank accounts get checked out. They are checked out by another small bank in Antigua. These are how banks and CD’s work. In some banks the minimum to open at CD is 50,000 dollars. The current rate is roughly 4.5% for a one year CD. The U.S. banks are about 2% on a one...
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