Victor Hugo is a celebrated French Romantic author best known for his poetry and his novels‚ including Les Misérables. Victor-Marie Hugo was born in Besançon‚ France‚ on February 26‚ 1802‚ to mother Sophie Trébuche and father Joseph-Léopold-Sigisbert Hugo. His father was a military officer who later served as a general under Napoleon. Victor Hugo studied law between 1815 and 1818‚ though he never committed himself to legal practice. Encouraged by his mother‚ Hugo embarked on a career in literature
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Children who use Facebook a lot are more likely to get lower marks at school‚ says new study By Paul Thompson UPDATED: 07:25 GMT‚ 10 August 2011 * * * * 10 View comments Teenagers who regularly log in to their Facebook page and other social media will get lower grades at school‚ according to a US study. They are also likely to have behavioural problems and narcissistic tendencies from spending too much time logged on to the site. According to the research popular social network
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Characters: Georges Méliès The Station Inspector Hugo’s Father Mama Jeanne Etienne Rene Tabard Hugo is the kind of “smart” kid that adults are constantly chasing after. He is a twelve-year-old boy who lives in a train station. Hugo is an orphan‚ and his uncle‚ who’s supposed to be taking care of him‚ is a drunk who just so happens to have disappeared. Therefore‚ Hugo runs the clocks in the station‚ and spends his days avoiding the Station Inspector‚ who is not the nicest of people
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Victor Hugo Many critics would go as far as to say that Victor Hugo was and remains the Charles Dickens of France. Hugo is most well known for the writing of the famous Broadway show and book Les Misérables as well as what became the Disney Hit Hunchback of Notre Dame. A brilliant author‚ artist‚ and poet‚ Hugo is most recognized for his writing of government and revolution. But these themes that are common for many authors to write of have actually deemed Hugo quite unique‚ so much so that critics
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Hurricane Hugo‚ one of the strongest hurricanes in South Carolina’s history‚ originated from a wave that moved west off of Africa’s coastline on September 9‚ 1989. Throughout the night and into the morning of September 10‚ Hugo had been classified as a tropical depression. As Hugo moved across the warm waters of the Atlantic it gained more and more strength. It wasn’t until September 14th that Hugo gained enough strength to be classified as a hurricane. On September 15th‚ Hugo turned west-north
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To: Ms. Green-Thomas At: Columbus Technical College 928 Manchester Expressway Columbus Ga. 31904 IF YOU WERE THE BOSS 1.You are the manager of a bank‚ and one of your employees comes in on a Monday morning with a pierced tongue and purple hair. What should you do? I would first call the employee into my office. The sooner I remove the employee from public view the better. Allowing an employee to badly represent the company
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A perfect example of nationalization is in the year 2006‚ Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez initiated naturalization. Nationalization according to Funk and Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia” is in broad economic terms‚ the governmental appropriation of property other than land‚ transferring it from the domain of private property to national control”. However‚ if a nation decides to nationalize there may be some international investment risk. These risks can be currency inconvertibility‚ transfer
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business > Benefits of Facebook for bus iness Benefits of Facebook for business A Facebook page has many potential benefits for your business. While some of these benefits are similar to having a website‚ a number are unique to Facebook. Combined‚ the benefits listed below can lead to increased sales and profits for your business. Facebook is a low-cost marketing strategy Marketing activities that would cost thousands of dollars through other channels can be used on Facebook for a fraction of
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THE PROBLEM AND IT’S BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 4‚ 2004‚ owned and operated by Facebook‚ Incorporated. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin
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story by Courtney Jones‚ published in 2003 The shortstory Irregularities is told by the maincharacter‚ who is a secretairy and have had an affair with her boss. She is carrieng his baby indside her and haven’t told him‚ mainly because he is married and intent to stay married. The maincharecter pictures herself getting married to her boss and is thrilled to go on to a medical conference with him. A trip he originially was going on with his wife‚ but she cancelled and he therefore asked his assisent
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