Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci in the early 1920s. As an immigrant in Paris and then London‚ Guccio made a living working in luxurious hotels and was impressed with the affluent luggage he saw the guests carrying. Inspired particularly by the elevated lifestyle he witnessed in the Savoy Hotel in London‚ on his return to Italy he decided to merge this refined style of living with the exclusive skills of his native craftsmen. Specifically he utilised the skills of local Tuscan artisans. He began
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What caused the Korean War? The Korean War started in 1950 and took place in a time that was very known to war. The war ending in a peace treaty singing between USA and North Korea‚ the South Koreans never actually signed for peace. This is often said by the North Koreans as an excuse to carry on the so called war by having army troops all along the border. This may not be a surprise to many due to North Koreas well known extremism and overall lack of connection the rest of the world. This is an
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Cited: Brooks‚ Van Wyck. America ’s Coming-of-Age. Garden City‚ NY: Doubleday‚ 1958. Print. Brown‚ Clarence A. “Walt Whitman and the ‘New Poetry’.” American Literature 33.1 (Mar‚1961): 33-45. JSTOR. Duke University Press. Web. 22 Mar.2012. Frank‚ Jason. "Aesthetic Democracy: Walt Whitman And The Poetry Of The People." Review
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Cited: Bradby‚ C.F. The Problems of Hamlet. New York: Princeton University Press‚ 1928. Foss‚ George R. What the Author Meant. London: Random House. 1932. Jones‚ Ernest. Hamlet and Oedipus. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books‚ 1949. Mauerhof. Ueber Hamlet. Trans. Harvard College Library. Cambridge‚ Massachusetts: Harvard College Library‚ 1907. Deuticke‚ 1911. Wolff‚ Gustav. Der Fall Hamlet. Trans. Meuchen. Germany: Barth‚ 1914.
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motivations for annotation in mobile and online media. Proc.CHI07. [2] Farrell‚ S.‚ Lau‚ T.‚ Wilcox‚ E. & Muller‚ M.‚ Socially augmenting employee profiles through people tagging. Proc.UIST07. [3] Goffman‚ E.‚ Presentation of self in everyday life. Doubleday‚ New York‚ 1956. [4] Golder‚ S. & Huberman‚ B.‚ Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems. J. of Info. Sci.‚ 32 (2006)‚ 198-208. [5] Glaser‚ S. & Strauss‚ A. Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. Aldine‚ New York
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In the short story “The White Umbrella” the narrator and her sister Mona find themselves in a dilemma when they find out that their mother has a job. Needing to be at their piano lesson at 4:00 they decided to start walking despite the giant grey clouds above. They arrive at Miss Crosman’s house (the piano teacher) soaked to the bone. While in the room the narrator notices a very nice white umbrella. After their lessons were all over Miss Crosman asks if they want to wait inside due to the weather
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Cited: 1) Swartz‚ Mimi with Watkins‚ Sherron. Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron. New York: Doubleday‚ 2003. 2) "Enron: A Pattern of Abuses.?" NewsMax Wires March 21‚ 2002 < http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/21/60605.shtml> 3) Taylor‚ Chris. "California Scheming." Time May 20‚ 2002 4) "Enron: Endless Possibilities and the 2000-2001
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Form and Content The Story of My Life is an account of the early years of a woman who overcame incredible problems to become an accomplished‚ literate adult. The book does not give a complete account of the author’s life‚ as it was written when she was still a college student. It is‚ however‚ a unique account of one young woman’s passage from almost total despair to success in a world mostly populated by hearing and seeing people. This book is relatively short‚ but the modern editions also include
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Cited: Achebe‚ Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Doubleday‚ 1959. Print. Conrad‚ Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New York: New American Library‚ 1997. Print. Kincaid‚ Jamaica. “On Seeing England for the First Time.” AP Language and Composition Exam. College Board‚ 1999. Paul‚ Raffaele. "Out of Time." Smithsonian
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The Red Baron is the autobiography of the famous German flyer‚ Manfred von Richthofen. The book was published in Garden City‚ New York by Doubleday & Company‚ Inc. in 1969. In 230 pages‚ The Red Baron‚ demonstrates what warfare is like from the eyes of von Richthofen. The book was crafted using entires to his diary and letters he has written to his family. Manfred von Richthofen was born in Kleinberg‚ a small town near Breslau (Now Wrocław‚ Poland)‚ May 2nd 1892. He was born the eldest in to an
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