...The British Isles, located in the northern hemisphere, is home to a temperate climate in which a large variety of plants including deciduous tees grow. Species within heathland, forest and lake biomes make up the ecosystem of the country. In the British Isles, physical and human factors are changing vegetation in these ecosystems. Physical factors can be things such as succession, changes in climate, natural disasters and diseases. Human factors include cultivation, development, exploitation, tourism and deforestation. In the past, Britain was largely covered in deciduous forest. About 5000 years ago, humans started to cut many of the trees down so they could build their homes and use the wood as fuel for cooking and the cleared areas for growing crops. The cleared land in the early Middle Ages would have been used for agriculture such as sheep grazing, which would have damaged the soil and allowed heather to grow and dominate any surviving plants. Many moorland areas, such as the Pennines, were originally thickly forested. Mesolothic hunting caps that existed many years ago could have resided on the moors, but there is little evidence for this. If these camps existed, they may have wished to use the nearby vegetation resources for firewood, which is also what the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings who came to the area did. These activities are significant because about 75% of Britain’s land is used for agricultural purposes. This is a type of human activity that has influenced...
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...Case Study: The Environmental Impact of the J and J Chemical Fire Background: The J&J chemical company is a manufacturing facility that provides and delivers portable sanitation products and services to more than 80 countries. Its headquarters and main manufacturing plant is located on Olympic Drive in Athens Georgia. This 30,000 square foot manufacturing plant produces portion control deodorizers, green products, non-formaldehyde, formaldehyde liquids, fragrance enhancers, cleaners, degreasers, hand sanitizers, and soap. The rear portion of this plant’s parcel borders the edge of Trail Creek, a major tributary for the Oconee River. The Oconee River is a two hundred and twenty mile long river that runs from North Georgia down to Wheeler County, where it joins the Ocmulgee River. These two rivers form the Altamaha River and ultimately empty into the Atlantic Ocean near Brunswick and The Golden Isles. Problem: On July 28th, 2010 a spontaneous combustion of several chemical stored in the manufacturing plant caused a fire to start. This fire burned for more than 8 hours, causing toxic smoke to fill the air and released contaminated chemicals into nearby Trail Creek. No one was in the building when the fire started, and no firefighters or anyone else was hurt while battling the blaze. The Athens-Clarke County Fire Department used thousands of gallons of water to fight the fire. This large amount of water usage “caused the stream to be highly polluted”, according...
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...the former king of Iolcus, Aeson, was one of the heroes taught by the centaur Chiron. As a young man Jason went to the court of his uncle Pelias to reclaim the throne his father had given his uncle with the condition that Jason would become king when he came of age. King Pelias, warned by an oracle that a man with one sandal would cause him to lose the throne, was alarmed when he saw Jason because, while crossing a river, Jason had lost one of his sandals. To stave off the oracle's predicted ill fortune, Pelias sent Jason on what was presumed to be a suicide mission, which was to fetch the Golden Fleece from Colchis. Jason succeeded in the seemingly impossible quest, with the help of his many heroic friends, known collectively as the Argonauts, and by charming the king's daughter Medea, a witch/sorceress. (It should also be noted that before he met Medea he had slept with a woman of The Isle of Lemnos, and left her with child When he left Colchis, Jason was obligated to take Medea with him because she had betrayed her father. On their sea passage, Medea killed her younger brother in protection of Jason and tossed his limbs upon the sea. Medea won the throne of Iolcus for Jason by tricking Pelias' own daughters to kill him. The pair continued together and had two sons, but later Jason reconsidered marriage to such a barbarian princess, so he set her aside in order to marry a Corinthian princess, Glauce....
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...A Tale of Two Londons Who really lives at One Hyde Park, called the world’s most expensive residential building? Its mostly absentee owners, hiding behind offshore corporations based in tax havens, provide a portrait of the new global super-wealthy. BY NICHOLAS SHAXSON Up until the 18th century, Knightsbridge, which borders genteel Kensington, was a lawless zone roamed by predatory monks and assorted cutthroats. It didn’t come of age until the Victorian building boom, which left a charming legacy of mostly large and beautiful Victorian houses, with their trademark white or cream paint, black iron railings, high ceilings, and short, elegant stone steps up to the front door. This will not be the impression a visitor now gets as he emerges from the Knightsbridge subway station’s south exit. He will be met by four hulking joined-up towers of glass, metal, and concrete, sandwiched between the Victorian splendors of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, to the east, and a pretty five-story residential block, to the west. This is One Hyde Park, which its developers insist is the world’s most exclusive address and the most expensive residential development ever built anywhere on earth. With apartments selling for up to $214 million, the building began to smash world per-square-foot price records when sales opened, in 2007. After quickly shrugging off the global financial crisis the complex has come to embody the central-London real-estate market, where, as high-end property consultant...
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...called Wroxeter. It is also interesting to note that this place too never became a Saxon town. King Arthur’s burial at Glastonbury The place where King Arthur was buried is another evidence that is argued by many people. In 1911 the monks of Glastonbury Abbey discovered a body of a gigantic man, and it is argued that the body must have been that of King Arthur. The body was wounded severally on the head, and he succumbed to one fatal blow. The assumed bones of the wife together with the tress of her golden hair shared the oak coffin. These are some of the evidence that is argued and presented by some scholars (Field). The site was recovered by Radford in 1962, and it showed how the two slab-lined tombs of the earliest stratum of the ancient church had indeed been disturbed at that particular time (Gidlow). Also, the monks also displayed an ancient lead cross found with the burial inscribed, ‘Here lies buried the famous King Arthur with Guinevere his second wife, in the Isle of Avalon’. However, nobody can tell where the bones and the cross are currently, and this is another line of weakness in an attempt to justify the claim that the legendary King Arthur is real. Tintagel, The London Basilica, Silchester, South Cadbury Castle, Wroxeter and King Arthur’s burial at Glastonbury all are historical evidence of the existence of the legendary King Arthur (Kiernan). Nonetheless, there is no concrete or scientific to confirm the same, so it would be impossible to ascertain and confirm...
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...the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) with additional Standard Playing Conditions for Test matches and One Day Internationals.[1] Cricket was first played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, it had developed into the national sport of England. The expansion of the British Empire led to cricket being played overseas and by the mid-19th century the first international matches were being held. The ICC, the game's governing body, has ten full members.[2] The game is played particularly in Australasia, the Indian subcontinent, the West Indies, Southern Africa and the British Isles. The rivalry between England and Australia gave birth to The Ashes in 1882 and this has remained Test cricket's most famous contest. Test cricket began to expand in 1888–89 when South Africa played England. The last two decades before the First World War have been called the "Golden Age of cricket". Team structure A team consists of eleven players. Depending on his or her primary skills, a player may be classified as a specialist batsman or bowler. A well-balanced team usually...
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...NOTE #6: EUROPE (Patrick Ellwood, Fall, 2011) Page 1 NOTE #6 relates to Chapter 2 of the text. In Chapter 2 pay particular attention to the following pages: Map, p.44; Main Points, p.43; FIGURES 2.10 and 2.11, p.53; FIGURE 2.12, p.55; Wine, p.56 and 57; Europe’s Golden Triangle, p.62 and 63; The Southern Crescent, p.65; FIGURE 2.29, p.71; A “European” Identity?, p.72; FIGURE 2.34, p.75; FIGURE 2.35, p.76; FIGURE 2.36, p.77; Future Geographies, p.77; FIGURE 2.37, p.78; Main Points Revisited, p.78. Movie: "Blue Danube" 1. Physical Geography The boundaries of Europe have been determined more by politics and culture than any physical barriers like mountains and rivers. Today, the eastern boundary is the western frontier of Russia following the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. So countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova are considered part of Europe. These countries had been forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, but had previously been independent from Tsarist Russia since 1919. Moving westwards from Russia are some plainlands, but Europe mainly consists of a peninsula of Eurasia fragmented into smaller peninsulas (Scandinavian, Iberian, Balkan, and Italian) and large islands (Britain, Ireland, Sicily, Iceland and Sardinia). ( 1, pp.59-65 ) Europe has benefited from its location and major physical features. It has direct land and sea routes to Asia (through Southwest Asia, Middle East, and Africa (post 1488 around the...
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...500 extraordinary islands G R E E N L A N D Beaufort Sea Baffin Bay vi Da i tra sS t a nm De it Stra rk Hudson Bay Gulf of Alaska Vancouver Portland C A N A D A Calgary Winnipeg Newfoundland Quebec Minneapolis UNITED STATES San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Phoenix Dallas Ottawa Montreal ChicagoDetroitToronto Boston New York OF AMERICA Philadelphia Washington DC St. Louis Atlanta New Orleans Houston Monterrey NORTH AT L A N T I C OCEAN MEXICO Guadalajara Mexico City Gulf of Mexico Miami Havana CUBA GUATEMALA HONDURAS b e a n Sea EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA Managua BAHAMAS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC JAMAICA San Juan HAITI BELIZE C a r PUERTO RICO ib TRINIDAD & Caracas N TOBAGO A COSTA RICA IA M PANAMA VENEZUELA UYANRINA H GU C U G Medellín A PAC I F I C OCEAN Galapagos Islands COLOMBIA ECUADOR Bogotá Cali S FR EN Belém Recife Lima BR A Z I L PERU La Paz Brasélia Salvador Belo Horizonte Rio de Janeiro ~ Sao Paulo BOLIVIA PARAGUAY CHILE Cordoba Santiago Pôrto Alegre URUGUAY Montevideo Buenos Aires ARGENTINA FALKLAND/MALVINAS ISLANDS South Georgia extraordinary islands 1st Edition 500 By Julie Duchaine, Holly Hughes, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, and Sylvie Murphy Contents Chapter 1 Beachcomber Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Aquatic Playgrounds 2 Island Hopping the Turks & Caicos: Barefoot Luxury 12 Life’s a Beach 14 Unvarnished & Unspoiled 21 Sailing...
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...In the novels Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote both authors demonstrate their use of characters and their change throughout the novel. In Kidnapped, the characters David and Ebenezer Balfour and the characters Herb Clutter, Perry, and Alvin Dewey in In Cold Blood are dynamic characters because they all undergo a change within the novels. Furthermore, Capote and Stevenson use suspense to promote the character dynamics within the novels. Capote and Stevenson cohesively use suspense with irony, the theme of chase and the overall structure of their novels to illustrate the character dynamics. Suspenseful irony is used to show the change in character throughout the novels. Suspense adds to the theme of chase because the characters try to converge on something they are after. The structure of the novels plays to the authors’ use of suspense in their own styles. Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, Kidnapped, depicts the adventures of David Balfour in search of his inheritance in the perilous Scottish Highlands in 1751. David comes close to retrieving his inheritance, but his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, has other plans for David. He tries to kill David by coercing him to climb a rickety, old stair-tower. David barely manages to make it out alive because his uncle has lied to him about the condition of the stairs thus the devious side of Ebenezer Balfour emerges. Ebenezer’s failed attempt to get rid of David calls for the use of his secondary plan involving...
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...Author Note: This paper was prepared for Managing Organizational Change HRM 410 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Background 5 Reason for Change and Change Diagnosis 6 The Success in Change 7 The Undoing of the Successful Change 8 References 11 Introduction JC Penney was a thriving retailer business that played on consumer’s emotions and made a consumer feel proud of themselves. JC Penney as a retailer created a buzz about themselves with their pricing strategy and coupons that they offered to their consumers. Consumers often discuss the sales and the great price of a sale of items amongst themselves. This was definitely a strength for this retailer. JC Penney was also a great place to shop for big and tall in a concrete building and store, not a catalog that was another appeal to their consumers. J.C. Penney was using a decentralized system of purchasing merchandise and inventory while other companies began to use centralize systems. To centralize the buying activities and revamp the stores, funds were needed. Funds were raised through the sale of JCP’s Direct Marketing Services, which sold insurance and travel and auto club programs. It led to a significant improvement of cash flow. The company then began to close down 120 of outlet stores that were under performing and sold its interest Eckerd drugstore chain to improve an influx of cash flow. J. C. Penney lost its edge over its competitor and started to lose money in the 1990’s and their investors...
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...he called Antarctic France. This discovery of so vast a country seems to be of very great consideration. I cannot be sure, that hereafter there may not be another, so many wiser men than we having been deceived in this. I am afraid our eyes are bigger than our bellies, and that we have more curiosity than capacity; for we grasp at all, but catch nothing but wind. Plato brings in Solon, — [In Timaeus.] — telling a story that he had heard from the priests of Sais in Egypt, that of old, and before the Deluge, there was a great island called Atlantis, situate directly at the mouth of the straits of Gibraltar, which contained more countries than both Africa and Asia put together; and that the kings of that country, who not only possessed that Isle, but extended their dominion so far into the continent that they had a country of Africa as far as Egypt, and extending in...
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...William Shakespeare The Tempesthttp://shakespeare.mit.edu/tempest/full.html) LIST OF CHARACTERS ALONSO, King of Naples SEBASTIAN, his brother PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples GONZALO, an honest old councilor ADRIAN and FRANCISCO, lords CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave TRINCULO, a jester STEPHANO, a drunken butler MASTER of a ship BOATSWAIN MARINERS MIRANDA, daughter to Prospero ARIEL, an airy spirit IRIS, the rainbow, messenger of Juno CERES, goddess of the harvest JUNO, queen of the gods and wife of Jupiter: the goddess of riches, the air and of marriage NYMPHS REAPERS SPIRITS The scene: an uninhabited island The Tempest ACT I SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard. Enter a Master and a Boatswain Master Boatswain! Boatswain Here, master: what cheer? Master Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. Exit Enter Mariners Boatswain Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to themaster's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,if room enough! Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others ALONSO Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?Play the men. Boatswain I pray now, keep below. ANTONIO Where is the master, boatswain? Boatswain Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep yourcabins:...
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.................................................................... 3 I. Literature review ........................................................ 4 1.1 Studies on co-creation ....................................................................................4 1.2 Opportunities and challenges of co-creation .......................................5 1.2.1 Opportunities of co-creation ................................................................5 1.2.2Challenges of application co-creation ...............................................7 1.3The process of co-creation ............................................................................8 II. Impacts of the concept co-creation on film tourism. ........... 9 III. Case study: Co-creation in case of Studio Tour with examples Lord of the ring tours and Harry Potter tours ................... 12 IV. Conclusion ............................................................ 17 References ................................................................ 18 Page | 2 Introduction Globalization has had a great impact on economic activities, of course, including services. Wilson, Zeithaml et al (2012) explained that services are not tangible things that can be touched, seen and felt, but are rather intangible deeds and performances. Similarly, Ballantyne and J. Varey mentioned in their paper that services is an interactive process of “doing something for someone” that is value. In fact, all activities of economic always...
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...15 The Adventures of Odysseus The only authority for this story is the Odyssey, except for the account of Athena s agreement with Poseidon to destroy the Greek Fleet, which is not in the Odyssey and which I have taken from Euripides' Trojan Women. Part of the interest of the Odyssey, as distinguished from the Iliad, lies in the details, such as are given in the story of Nausicaii and the visit of Telemachus to Menelaus. They are used with admirable skill to enliven the story and make it seem real, never to hold it up or divert the readers attention from the main issue. When the victorious Greek Fleet put out to sea after the fall of Troy, many a captain, all unknowing, faced troubles as black as those he had brought down on the Trojans. Athena and Poseidon had been the Greeks' greatest allies among the gods, but when Troy fell all that had changed. They became their bitterest enemies. The Greeks went mad with victory the night they entered the city; they forgot what was due to the gods; and on their voyage home they were terribly punished. Cassandra, one of Priam's daughters, was a prophetess. Apollo had loved her and given her the power to foretell the future. Later he turned against her because she refused his love, and although he could not take back his gift-divine favors once bestowed might not be revoked—he made it of no account: no one ever believed her. She told the Trojans each time what would happen; they would never listen to her. She declared that Greeks...
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...I DO NOT OWN THIS FOREWORD ______________________________________________________________________________iii Of the Beginning of Days ____________________________________________________________________ 12 Of Aulë and Yavanna _______________________________________________________________________ 17 Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor____________________________________________ 19 Of Thingol and Melian ______________________________________________________________________ 24 Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië _______________________________________________________ 25 Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor________________________________________________________ 28 Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor ____________________________________________________ 30 Of the Darkening of Valinor__________________________________________________________________ 33 Of the Flight of the Noldor ___________________________________________________________________ 35 Of the Sindar______________________________________________________________________________ 42 Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor __________________________________________________ 45 Of Men __________________________________________________________________________________ 49 Of the Return of the Noldor __________________________________________________________________ 50 Of Beleriand and Its Realms__________________________________________________________________ 56 Of the Noldor in...
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