In 1972 cruise industry pioneer‚ Ted Arison and the owner of American International Trade Service (AITS)‚ Meshulam Riklis‚ formed Carnival Cruise Lines as a subsidiary of AITS. They purchased their first ship for $6.5 million and renamed it to the Mardi Gras. The Mardi Gras’ first trip was along the Florida coast with travel agents. In 1974‚ Mr. Arison bought out his partner’s share with $1 and assumed the $5 million debt of the company. In order to compensate for the debt and reduce costs‚ Mr
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"Mulatto"‚ a play by Langston Hughes‚ is an incredibly remarkable drama that instantly shapes individual’s perspective on race‚ discrimination‚ sexual exploitation‚ and family relationships. This play explores the impact of a sexual union between unmarried people of different races and the offspring of a mixed-race individual. Mixed-race individuals in the twenty-first century are less likely to experience the sense of displacement and rejection Hughes’s poem describes. However‚ the Caucasian individuals
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In the poem Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes there is a hole on the roof of the house. The landlord has already been informed about it. The steps have been broken down. But when the landlord comes up‚ he does not fall down. The landlord says that the tenant has to pay him ten dollars. But before the landlord repairs the house‚ he will have got more than that. Will the landlord get expulsion orders from the court to expel the tenant and throw his furniture in the street? But he talks about
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Gary J. Leleux 27 June 2012 Western Civilization ii Dr. James Rogers The Winds of Change World War I and World War II had the biggest impact on the West than any other conflict Western Civilization has had to experience or had experienced since. From the start of World War I by an assassin’s bullet in June of 1914 until the signing of the Japanese instrument of surrender onboard the USS Missouri in September 1945‚ this planet‚ more specifically‚ Western Civilization had rapidly changed. Why
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lives where they wish someone could just pick for us‚ or times when we wish there were more to choose from. All Americans have many choices‚ and it is such a part of our daily lives that we don’t even realize it. Barry Schwartz and Sheena Iyengar‘s TED talks bring up interesting ideas about choice‚ how people deal with them and their affects. They both state that although choice is good‚ it can also have negative effects. Schwartz explains what most people believe and experience with choice‚ while
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Wind is an important source of non-conventional energy which is cheap‚ pollution-free‚ environment friendly and can be developed away from the sources of conventional energy. This energy was utilised in sailing ships and wind mills since ancient days. In India the generation of electric power through wind mills started in 1950 and by March 1993 about 2‚900 wind pump sets has been installed in seven states of the country. At the beginning of the Eighth Plan the installed capacity of wind-based
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Article 1 Wind of Change Change having a consistency since the beginning‚ the beginning of time. First‚ the big bang‚ then our forefathers‚ then the apple and now the apple again. Now the kinds of changes; passing of the years brought about the change of man from ape‚ wood age to the current age of technology and speed. Now to speak about the constant‚ the social change‚ Satyagraha‚ force-love and force-truth. Changing the physiology from resistance and non-violence to patience and
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began the process of choosing a TED Talk topic‚ I had absolutely no idea what I wished to talk about. I knew my subject had to be interesting‚ at least enough so I wouldn’t get bored of it‚ and that I needed my ideas to keep the audience’s attention. I just could not think of anything. The ideas I had would either be boring for my peers‚ or there simply was not enough research on the topic. As I listened to my classmates tell me about their grand ideas for their TED Talk ideas‚ I was even more clueless
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Introduction This report aims to give a non-bias detailed view of the Ted Talk by Mikko Hypponen titled How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust -- time to act. Summary Mr. Hypponen talks about how the national security agency or NSA for short and other American agencies are monitoring foreign data connections that enters or passes US soil‚ which includes personal data such as emails‚ text messages‚ phone calls and other types of data and how our encryption methods are being weaken by installing backdoor
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Bibliography: Barksdale‚ Richard. Langston Hughes: The Poet and His Critics. Chicago: American Library Association‚ 1998.
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