relations executive was enthusiastic on the phone. The IT Company he represented had started installing green data centres and energy-efficient computers. Would I like to fly to California to see for myself? That would be a 2‚500-mile round trip from my home in Midwestern Canada. According to the online calculator from Terapas‚ the trip would release 1.132 pounds (About 500 kilos) of CO2 into the atmosphere. ‘if you’re really into green technology‚ couldn’t we do a videoconference instead? ‘I asked. ‘Sure
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“Harlem Hopscotch”‚ by Maya Angelou. The comparison in this poem is a game of hopscotch being compared to life. In life people are battling themselves to make it from the bottom to the top with other people watching‚ sometimes judging. In hopscotch you battle yourself to make it from the bottom of the triangle to the top‚ with people watching you play the game. Due to Maya Angelou using this metaphor rather than just talking about life’s ups and downs‚ gives the poem a unique style of writing. It
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Mystery Play‚ written by Jean-Claude van Itallie was first produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City on January 3‚ 1973. Jacques Levy was the director. Peaslee wrote the song “We Want a King” for the play. The song is included with the play book. Words were written by van Itallie and Peaslee wrote the melody and basic harmonization. The music came from the previous collaboration‚ The King of the United States‚ that Peaslee wrote for van Itallie. Troilus and Cressida opened November 10
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Christy Koestner Maggie Bergin American Literature 211H 1 May 2012 Zora Neale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance From the beginning‚ Zora Neale Hurston was ahead of her time. She was born early in 1891 in Notasulga‚ Alabama. While she was being born her father was off about to make a decision that would be crucial to her in the development as a woman and as a writer; they moved in 1892 to Eatonville‚ Florida‚ an all-black town. In childhood‚ Hurston grew up uneducated and poor‚ but was immersed
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Hughes and Harlem The land of the free and the home of the brave is a simple yet powerful motto that supposedly describes the inherent rights allotted to each American. Yet‚ the truly brave are often the ones who have the least amount of freedom. America is a young nation with a past full of prejudice‚ but more importantly a past full of bravery and triumph. Americans like Martin Luther King‚ Rosa Parks and Malcolm X‚ all fought for equality. These great Americans rose to the occasion and succeeded
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Does the amount of funding a school receives affect the quality of education a school can provide in the United States? Because academic opportunities require sufficient funding‚ do schools with more funding have more opportunities for the students? Do schools that have more funding receive a superior education compared to low funded schools? As a student from a small‚ underfunded school‚ I observed my friends from the next town over attend a large‚ highly funded school with an abundance of resources
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possible. People procratinate lots of things. From small things like homework and making dinner‚ to large things like studying for a big test and paying bills‚ the question is raised “what happens to a dream when it is procrastinated?” In the poem Harlem by Langston Hughes‚ the author discusses the different things that could potentially happen to a dream deffered. This poem’s meaning is to question why one would abandon a dream in the first place‚ and how it may not be possible to revive a dead dream
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The poem "Harlem" was written in 1951 by Langston Hughes and offers a theme in that of a warning: Those who cannot realize their dreams due to systematic oppression‚ will inevitably resort to violence. "Harlem" is a short‚ eleven line poem‚ consisting of three stanzas which are littered with literary and poetic devices such as imagery‚ italics‚ diction/syntax‚ figurative language‚ and rhetorical questions to name several. However‚ despite all the clever techniques Hughes deploys‚ his use of symbolism
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Financial Terms and Roles By: Efrain Gonzalez FIN/370 June 5‚ 2013 Ghassan Rahal During this brief summary the author will identify a list of terms followed by the role each one plays in finance. The terms that will be identified are: finance‚ efficient market‚ primary market‚ secondary market‚ risk‚ security‚ stock‚ bond‚ capital‚ debt‚ yield‚ rate of return‚ return on investment‚ and last but not least cash flow. Finance is the history of funds management‚ saving and lending money‚ how
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Throughout the years‚ Claude Monet’s Impression‚ Sunrise has been celebrated as the quintessential symbol of the Impressionist Movement. This renowned work of art which illustrates a view of the port of Le Havre in north-western France is considered to be one of Monet’s “most poetic expressions” of his engagement with France’s revitalization efforts after the Franco-Prussian War.[1] Unlike other artworks of the time‚ the subject matter and specific painting techniques evident in Impression‚ Sunrise seek
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