University of Rijeka Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of English Language and Literature THE SWINGING SIXTIES Student: Tea Schmidichen Course: English Language 2 Course Instructor: Irena Meštrović Štajduhar‚ M.Ed. Ac. Year: 2012/2013 The sixties were a time of rapid changes in all spheres‚ including fashion‚ music‚ literature‚ politics and sport. Everything was characterized by a revolution of some sort‚ either sexual revolution‚ political revolution or even revolution
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Technologies for Space Exploration Describe technologies for space travel: -Multistage rockets * Propelled by the recoil pressure of the burning gases it emits as it burns fuel * Most modern‚ high performance rockets are multistage * Multiple rockets stacked on top of each other that detach separately * Reasons for staging are * To improve performance by eliminating dead weight during flight * A huge‚ empty fuel tank is merely dead weight so it is dropped off
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* 41 home games * 21‚533 average attendance (1st in NHL) * 882‚874 total attendance (1st in NHL) * 105.0% capacity * Average ticket price $56 (approximately $50 million per year) * Revenue per fan $13 * Media Buzz * 1‚199‚539+ Facebook Friends * 214‚666+ Twitter Followers * TV Media Partners- CSN Chicago‚ WGN-TV 9 * Radio- WGN-AM 720 * Historical Figures * Player Expenses- $64M * OI- $20M * Revenue- $125M
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Executive Summary: Over the last decade James Patterson has published an unprecedented number of best-selling books‚ cemented a powerful brand image amongst a loyal following‚ and redefined the process by which authors create content to meet reader demand. From November 2000 through June 2003‚ Patterson had cumulative sales of over six million dollars‚ trailing only John Grisham during that time frame. He has generated the majority of his sales through a loyal readership that consistently lines
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E-COMMERCE ASSIGNMENT 1 Question 1: How do social network make money? Social networks attract plenty of visitors but have had a tougher time attracting advertisers who may be wary of associating their brands with inappropriate content….New technologies are being developed to help make social networks more attractive to advertisers. A social network is a way of connecting people and/or organizations and businesses together for mutual benefits. This network is comprised of ties and nodes
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Moon Landing Each of these four texts uses essential rhetorical techniques in order to effectively get across each purpose‚ these purposes being quite different in each text. The Times article is very analytical‚ while the speech by Safire focuses most heavily on the emotional side of the moon landing in the hypothetical context of the text. Rand’s article paints the launch in an extremely positive and figurative light‚ while the Hemlock cartoon criticizes the attention that the mission receives
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Poetic Opinions of Death The poems “Death Be Not Proud”‚ “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”‚ and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”‚ all have the same theme: death. The two final poems are by Emily Dickinson‚ a well known American poet. Although people would expect these two poems to have a similar view of death‚ at closer inspection they prove quite different. The other poem‚ “Death Be Not Proud”‚ was written by a more obscure poet: John Donne. This poem appears to have the most similarities
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exploring death is “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died”. It offers a glimpse into the actual process of dying and what the person who is dying experiences up to the moment of their death. The poem opens with a fly interrupting “The Stillness in the Room‚” which‚ however‚ is not a permanent peace‚ since it is “like the Stillness in the Air --/Between the Heaves of Storm –.” In the next stanza‚ we see that although the room is so quiet that the speaker can hear a fly buzz‚ there are in fact many people
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Post World War II‚ tensions between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. over which one of their political ideals‚ capitalism and democracy‚ or communism‚ would reign supreme. Both countries fought to be the dominant power‚ creating a cold war‚ or a war where neither side is directly fighting the other in combat. While there was some aggravation between the two superpowers over things such as the Berlin Airlift and the Korean War‚ during the early 1960s tensions between the two rose even higher. President Kennedy
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Anatomy of Buzz- How to Create Word of Marketing- (Has taken significance due to 3 reasons: noise‚ information overload‚ skepticism-don’t believe message from companies and connectivity-internet). Takes a network approach. The importance of Buzz depends on the 1. Nature of your product (paperclips vs. movies) 2. The people that you’re trying to reach (younger people are more influenced by peers) 3. Your Customer’s connectivity 4. Your marketing strategy (if you have a contract‚ buzz is less important)
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