The book that has had the biggest impact on me is Looking for Alaska by John Green. I know that most people believe John Green is only an author for teenage girls that are looking for a nice romance novel, but this book is not the case. This book is about more than love; it is about life and death. Throughout the story the main character, Pudge, is searching for his meaning of life, his "great perhaps." He goes to a boarding school and meets a mysterious girl named Alaska. He does fall in "love"
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Confirming Pages g Frank Shipper Greg L. Stewart Salisbury University CASE 26 W. L. Gore & Associates: Developing Global Teams to Meet 21st-Century Challenges1 University of Iowa Charles C. Manz University of Massachusetts–Amherst n 2010, W. L. Gore & Associates celebrated its 52nd year in business. Founded in 1958 by Bill and Vieve Gore in the basement of their home, Gore had grown into a global enterprise famous for its high performance fabrics, medical products, and
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Integrating Culture and Diversity in Decision Making: The CEO and Organizational Culture Profile Trinna Filbert Dr. Elizabeth Delone BUS 520 May 8, 2014 W. L. Gore and Associates is a company founded in 1958 by Bill and Vieve Gore. It is an inventive technology enterprise who works to discover innovative products. Numerous products from GORE-TEX fabric, cable wiring, electronics, medical devices, pharmaceutical, tubing, and sealants. The organization is referred to as a team-based
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Courageous, imaginative and adventurous are the words that best describe the once quiet, closed off young Liesel Meminger, the protagonist in the film The Book Thief, directed by Brian Percival in 2013. During the course of Liesel's journey she has gained great knowledge through her love of reading and writing but more importantly is the way her character has been shaped and moulded into the determined, strong-minded and matured Liesel she was always destined to be, through the new relationships
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A Close Up Into John Green’s Looking For Alaska “I may die young,” she said. “But at least I’ll die young” (Green 50). I didn’t have to think twice when I was thinking about which book was my top favorite to read this semester. Looking for Alaska by: John Green was by far my favorite book of all time! Looking for Alaska is about a guy named Miles, otherwise known as Pudge, is fascinated by famous last words, and he’s tired of being at home all the time. So he leaves for boarding school to seek
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Crossing the Date Line: Adventures of a Traveling Geologist by John P. Sollo Travel along with John Sollo as he takes us to whole new worlds from the 1980s to the early 2000s. John is sometimes joined by his adventurous wife, Samantha, and other times traveling alone, often without knowing a word of the native language. He takes readers into the dense, danger-filled jungles of Venezuela and Indonesia to the dry lands of Algeria. John recounts tales of less-than-perfect living situations, stomaching
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everywhere must grapple with today: Was it possible to build a company with no hierarchy—where everyone was free to talk with everyone else? How about a company where there were no bosses, no supervisors, no managers and no vice presidents? Could W. L. Gore preserve a sense of family and collegiality even as it scaled? Could you create a company with no “core” business, one that was as focused on creating the future as on preserving the past? The answers to each of these questions was an emphatic
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Loughead and used instead (Weiss & Amir, 2009). The Martin Marietta Corporation also had its beginnings in 1912 when Glenn L. Martin, an aviation pioneer, created the company to manufacture and sell airplanes. In 1916, the Wright Company acquired Martin's company to form the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation. After a couple of years, Martin incorporated a new company called the Glenn L. Martin Company, which was used for several years. Finally in 1928,
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In the book Looking for Alaska by John Green, Miles a high school student, leaves his parents to attend boarding school. Miles is obsessed with famous people’s last words and before he left his parents, he said, “i’m leaving to seek a great perhaps” (Green 18). Miles meets many new people throughout the book, some are disreputable and others are stately. Within the book, Miles pushes through many challenging periods. While he is pushing himself and while teachers are on his back he learns many lessons
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Throughout the prologue, part one, and part two of The Book Thief the author, Markus Zusak, developed/ utilized the use of colors. In the Prologue, the ‘story teller’ a.k.a Death tells of his small theory. The theory begins by claiming that “people observe the colors of a day only as it beginning and ends, but it is quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment” (Zusak 4). The beginning of the theory helps support the use of colors by creating
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