...and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is about his childhood life in the eastern reign of America 1950’s era. He channels his experiences through his eyes in Des Moines, Iowa about his imagination with superpowers, friendships with new people throughout the years and family trials. In the book he talks about events that changed history and all types of new inventions that come out during his adulthood, more in the fourteenth chapter of the book, but he shines the problems of America as thou it’s just a small nuisance in Iowa. During his childhood, Bryson soon discovered that his parents can’t be his biological family and that he’s not from earth but a distant planet called planet electro because of what he found in his house. It was a sweater with a golden thunderbolt and no one in the family knew about it and assumed he was sent to earth by king Volton. Now with this new discovery he spent all his time zapping morons and shooting his thunder vision at people, mostly women’s clothing, that he’s been perfecting for years with his very...
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...2013 Ella Fitzgerald was born to William and Temperance Fitzgerald on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. Ella’s parent’s divorced when she was only a month old and her mother moved them to Yonkers, New York to live with her mother. Her mother had another daughter in 1923 by her second husband. To help her struggling family, Ella helped out by working as a messenger “ running numbers “, and acted as a lookout for a brothel. Her first love was to become a dancer. In 1932, Ella’s mother Temperance died from a heart attack, and Ella and her sister was sent to live with her aunt. During this time, Ella began getting in trouble with the police and her aunt sent her to a reform school. She later ran away and lived on the streets of New York during the Great Depression. At the age of seventeen Ella’s name was picked in the weekly drawing to perform at the Apollo, where she was given the opportunity to compete in amateur night. On this night, she had planned to dance until she saw her competition. Not knowing what she was going to do after what she had seen, she decided to sing her mother’s favorite song “ Judy “ by Connee Bowell. After winning on this night, she won the chance to perform with a band called “ Tiny Bradshaw Band “ at the Harlem Opera House. After being noticed with “ the Tiny Bradshaw Band “, she later recorded her first song “ Love and Kisses “in 1936, at the age of nineteen. She was also performing at what was known as “ The World’s...
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...the audiophile, and this in turn has helped me to become a better speaker as well as a better writer. Within many songs, stories are there to be heard, and that’s the beauty of sound. Growing up in a fairly Christian-ideal home, my first half-decade of life was mostly spent hearing strictly country music due to its clean lyrics and “good values” to be taught. However, that didn’t stop my step-dad at the time from playing his AC/DC or Pink Floyd in the car when my mom wasn’t there to object. Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with older country music, in fact at just six years old, I sang on stage with one of the early 2000’s better artists, Toby Keith, whom I...
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...What was the Bretton Woods system? Outline its main pillars and discuss to what extent, if any, its architecture led to both post-war stability and prosperity in the developed world throughout capitalism’s ‘golden age’ “50 Years is Enough” In the final months of the Second world war, an architecture of stability for the international economy emerged. The United States and Britain, having already committed to each other with the signing of Mutual Aid Agreement(1941)1, vied to create a multilateral economic system to replace the international gold standard and its structural rigidity. The Bretton Woods agreement of 1944 established a dollar-gold standard of fixed, but adjustable, exchange rates of $US35 an ounce2. Which, according to Milton Friedman, “carried within it the seeds of its own destruction”3. The Institutions of neo-liberal global economic governance4, were formed; International Monetary Fund, & International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The Twin Pillars of post-war order5, an “economic super-government”6 essentially adopting both; U.S. Inflation rates.7 and US political policies8. There has been no country in history that has emerged from war into such happy economic circumstances as the United States in 19459. General Maximum Price Regulation(1942) was signed after the attack on Pearl Harbour, controlling most prices beneath a price ceiling until '46, and imposing penalties on violations. In addition to a comprehensive ration system. In order to maximise...
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...were depicted as an era of social stability of secure functioning institutions, full employment, benign welfare state and trusted systems of expert knowledge.’ How far do you agree with this claim as an accurate picture of the UK after the Second World War? Did things change towards the end of the twentieth century? The question requires a two part answer. First, do I agree with the claim regarding the immediate post war years, and second, was there a change towards the end of the twentieth century? First I shall look to the immediate post war years to see if the claim paints an accurate picture of the era in question, and second, I will look at some of the changes which occurred in more recent times. In the immediate post war years in the UK the traditional nuclear family was a widely accepted concept. The father, as head of the household and the bread winner, would go out to work. In this role he formed the link between the family and the state. The mother’s responsibilities were to take care of the children and the home. Marriage was seen as a heterosexual union and was taken on as a life long commitment. Generally religion and the church would play a part in most family’s lives with religion taught in school during the week and Sunday school or church attendance expected at the weekend. Most men of that era were employed in the manufacturing or industrial sectors and these jobs were generally very secure, widely thought of as ‘jobs for life’. This was also the time when...
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...focused on who wore what on the red carpet, some tend to forget the origins of modern fashion and how much of it has evolved from ideas that will soon be a 100 years old. Many actors nowadays neglect the common standard and look towards a unique style they can call their own, whereas many rely on commercial endorsement. Almost all the benchmarks followed by directors, actors and studios alike, come from, as most critics would agree, the golden age of Hollywood. Lasting from the 1920s-1960s, films produced between these years gave true recognition and uniqueness to US cinema. Also known as Classical Hollywood, these years provided the public with a sense of fashion like no other. We...
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...“iron curtain” was the ideological and political barrier that separated Eastern and Western Europe. It could be speculated that when said curtain dropped, the Cold War began. Throughout the Cold War, numerous technological advances took place, despite combat never taking place. One of the most notable advances made during the war was the development and improvement of aeronautical weapons and technology. The two frontrunners of these advances were the two major “belligerents” of the war; the United States of America and the Soviet Union. As the war progressed, numerous fighter planes,...
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...1920’s, all women were given the right to vote. In the 1930's, the roles of men and women varied greatly. From the workplace to the home, the expectancies were different. The views of both genders were also very different. And things kept changing from one decade to another. The role of women and their importance...
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...What is the role of institutions according to North? How far does this theory go towards explaining the contours of world development in the pre-modern growth era? Maddison (2006) stated that he “would characterise the whole period 1000-1820 as ‘protocapitalist’”. He believes the transition from pre-modern to modern economic growth took place at around 1820. This will set the stage for this discussion. Within that period, there were two groups of countries which were differentiated by their deviation in economic growth. They were the Group A nations, which included Western Europe, Western Offshoots and Japan, while the rest of the world made up the Group B nations. The contours of world development in this era, largely shaped by Douglass North’s theory of institutions, can be categorise into two main subsets which are Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and population demographics, for the purpose of this essay. North (1990) defines institutions as “the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human action”. Institutions exist in every economy, in the form of either formal or informal constraints, developed to define the choice sets, within which individuals and organisations make their decisions. Economic growth is heavily dependent on the productivity of an economy, which in turn is affected by the costs involved. In the neoclassical world of complete information, the gains of trade are only negated by the costs...
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... Sometimes a movie makes a lasting impression on you as an individual, sometimes you'll come back to this movie time and time again. LA Confidential (1997) is a combination of a star studded cast and a scintillating detective story set in the 50's. The movie combines all aspects of movie making, from acting, directing, writing, mise en scene and all sorts of film techniques to make one of the most entertaining noir's you'll ever see. LA Confidential (1997) is directed by Curtis Hanson, he doesn't have this prolific history of stunning movies like some other directing heavy weights but he handles an a-list cast and directing duties admirably here. While most of the big names in the cast weren't technically BIG names yet they must have still had personalities or needed work to get the job done. Notably at least to me is Kim Basinger, someone who usually I do not enjoy, usually a weak point in movies for me, but in this she is perfectly fine, nothing to much, but not noticeable like usual, a feat in directing to me. The cast is name after name, Russel Crowe as the ham fisted Officer Bud White, Kevin Spacey playing the mercurial Detective Jack Vincennes, Guy Pearce in my eyes as his break out performance playing the golden child Ed Exley. You have a plethora of famous character actors to back these boys up, David Strathairn as the rich Pierce Patchett, Danny DeVito sliming the place up as Sid Hudgens a enquirer type reporter. James Cromwell plays the police chief Dudley...
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...everywhere around hip hop community discussions during the last years. Rapper “Nas” titled his eighth album in 2006 with this statement, and has caused a controversy among rap artists and listeners all over the world. But comparing today`s hip hop music with the roots of hip hop can we really claim that hip-hop is really dead? If so, what are the facts that lead in the death of hip hop? What does its demise mean for the average fan? How to bring it back? Does it mean the genre will go down in irrelevance like what happened in disco music? All these questions will be investigated during this paper, and to understand this complicate statement itself, we should figure out what the statement really means. Maybe it is the fact that most of the genre’s songs and music videos look exactly the same. Maybe it’s the mainstream hip-hop game’s emphasis in ridiculously shinning jewelry, the sexism and the focus on money and women. Better yet, according to Mickey Hess, “hip-hop’s untimely demise could be a result of the cancerous lack of creativity that plagued the general music industry in the last few years”. (Mickey Hess, 2007) So many people have said that this music once so radical and new is dead, Nas included. Nas in an XXL magazine interview when asked what he meant when proclaiming hip hop is dead he said:”Yeah Hip-Hop is Dead ‘cause America is dead...
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...Appreciation Assignment #2 – Research an Artist The Early Life of the Artist 1. When was the artist born? Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886. (Wiki) 2. Where was the artist born? Rivera was born into a well off family in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, Mexico. (Wiki) 3. Note any information you were able to find on the parents of the artist. Rivera’s maternal linage stemmed from Jews who had converted to Roman Catholicism. His father’s side came from Spanish nobility. (Wiki) 4. Did the artist have any brothers or sisters? Rivera was born with a twin brother, Jose Carlos, who died before he was two years old. He also had a sister, Maria del Pilar Rivera, who was 4-5 years younger than he was. (diegorivera.com) 5. What were some of the significant childhood experiences in the early life of the artist? Rivera enrolled in his first art classes at ten years old. By thirteen, his father forces him into military college, but after only two short weeks he is allowed to enroll in regular classes in San Carlos. (diegorivera.com) 6. Note any information on the education of the artist. At the age of twenty, Rivera received a four year scholarship for European study and begins training under Spanish realist Eduardo Chicharro. (diegorivera.com) 7. What was the artist’s early career like? Was it as an artist or was it in another field? By age eighteen, Diego was painting both figures and landscapes, similar to the manner of his teacher...
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...The Globalization of International Financial Markets: What Can History Teach Us?* Michael D. Bordo Rutgers University and NBER Paper prepared for the conference “International Financial Markets: The Challenge of Globalization.” March 31, 2000. Texas A and M University, College Station Texas. * For valuable research assistance, I thank Antu Murshid. 1. Introduction Globalization has become the buzz word of the new millennium. It is viewed as the cause of many of the world’s problems as well as a panacea. The debate over globalization is manifest both in public demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle in the Fall of 1999 and the IMF and World Bank earlier. It also has led to a spate of scholarly and not so scholarly books on the subject.1 Until three years ago the consensus view among economists on the issue of the international integration of financial markets was very positive. The benefits of open capital markets stressed include: optimal international resource allocation; intertemporal optimization; international portfolio diversification and discipline on policy makers.2. However, the recent spate of crises in Latin America and Asia has led some to argue that the costs of complete liberalization of financial markets for emerging countries may outweigh the benefits.3 The paper focuses on the globalization of financial markets from the historical perspective of the past 120 years. In Section 2, I summarize the empirical evidence on the international integration of financial...
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...PIONEER The golden age of comics, 1938 to 1950, is considered by some as the preeminent and most inventive of all the comic book ages. This is due to the archetype of the superhero was defined during this generation and many of our most beloved heroes have their beginnings in the golden age. Characters like Captain America, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman were introduced to the American public during this era. However, with these new personalities, there is one who brought modern and innovative ideas to the genre and is often overlooked. That major player is Captain Marvel. Let’s face it, comparisons are everywhere. People usually want to compare things that are somewhat similar and feature just a slight change. These contrasts include the first incarnation of an item and the subsequent follow up creation. For example, in music, some may consider this true for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, in electronics it’s usually the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy, and for me, growing up, it was the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. The earliest model is great but the follow up incarnation is sometimes exclusively judged against the original because of subtle changes or simply because the original came first. Can this be true for the Captain Marvel and Superman comparison? In 1940, many companies created copycat characters to attempt to gain from Superman’s popularity and profitability. As the saying goes - from success imitation is bred. A perfect example of this was Fox Publications’...
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...Alvesson Organization 2011 18: 23 originally published online 15 July 2010 DOI: 10.1177/1350508410372151 The online version of this article can be found at: http://org.sagepub.com/content/18/1/23 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Organization can be found at: Email Alerts: http://org.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://org.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://org.sagepub.com/content/18/1/23.refs.html >> Version of Record - Feb 11, 2011 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Jul 15, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from org.sagepub.com at Sheffield Hallam University on January 18, 2014 Article Organization 18(1) 23–44 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1350508410372151 http://org.sagepub.com Ways of constructing research questions: gap-spotting or problematization? Jörgen Sandberg Mats Alvesson UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia Department of Business Administration, University of Lund, Sweden Abstract This article examines ways of constructing research questions from existing literature, which are likely to promote the development of interesting and influential theories. We review 52 articles in organization studies and develop a typology of how researchers construct their research questions from existing...
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