a kind of utopian society‚ There were flying cars and underwater cities‚ and human civilisation had expanded outwards into space. There were‚ of course‚ predictions of a completely opposite kind of world‚ but this bright and optimistic retro-futurism was everywhere‚ not least in mainstream advertising. ll Nowadays‚ pop culture predictions of the future are of a more subdued and dystopian nature. Civilisation is being destroyed by all kínds of viruses and zombie apocalypses‚ the planet
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ALVIN TOFFLER Alvin Toffler literally invented the role of the futurist with the publication of his seminal work‚ Future Shock‚ creating an all new discipline around the study of change and its impact on business and culture. Throughout his long career‚ Alvin Toffler has remained one of the world’s most prescient‚ insightful and influential voices in business and intellectual life. He has continued to produce creative ideas that define how we think about our world. Time magazine wrote that he has
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Project History of Trends (1940-1950) Introduction/table of content Introduction/table of content 2 First Half decade 1940-1950 3 Second half of decade 1940-1950 4 Inventions in 1940 till 1950 5 First Computer 5 Fashion in the 40‘s 6 The ‘Sweater girls’ and ‘Pin-up’ girls 7 The New Look 7 Theatre de la Mode (theatre of fashion) 9 The birth of the Bikini 9 Cosmetics 10 Hairstyles‚ Turbans and Snoods 10 Literature 11 Music 12 Music 12 Movies 13 Dominant styles
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evolution in arrivals and receipts‚ tourist attractions‚ transportation modes‚ and 1999 Published by Elsevier Science management of hospitality and tourism enterprises. Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Future; Year 2050; Tourism forecasting; Futurism 1. Predicting the future Sam Goldwyn‚ a prominent Hollywood "lm producer who died in 1974 was reported to have advised his friends and colleagues to `never make forecasts‚ especially about the futurea. This being a sound advice‚ the following
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Thomas Jefferson and the Character Issue November 1992 As the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth approaches‚ a Jefferson scholar reflects on Jefferson ’s life and in particular on the enigma at its core: that a slave holder should be the nation ’s most eloquent champion of equality. To understand how this could be so‚ the author explains‚ is to appreciate the perils of "presentism " and the difficulties that may impede the historical assessment of motive
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Toward a New Vision: Race‚ Class‚ and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection People have a tendency to emphasize the importance of one type of oppression over another (ex. white feminists point out gender oppression but fail to realize their white skin privilege. There are few pure victims and oppressors and that everyone has varying amounts of penalty and privilege from multiple systems of oppression. Need to create new categories of analysis that are inclusive of race‚ class‚ and
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1 The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft Written Summer 1926 Published February 1928 in Weird Tales‚ Vol. 11‚ No. 2‚ p. 159-78‚ 287. Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested‚ perhaps‚ in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods‚ monsters‚ mythical beings of all sorts and
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ART and NATION BUILDING in COLONIAL INDIA Introduction In nineteenth century India‚ national art had the same status as national demands: it seemed condemned to be a deceived aspiration. The colonial encounter had indeed this effect that it submitted Indian culture to the judgment of Western colonizers; and the result was a strong depreciation of Indian past and present art. To the eyes of the colonizer‚ the artistic tradition in India was indeed a tradition
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Poem Summary Lines 1-6 This epigraph is taken from Dante’s Divine Comedy. It reads: “If I thought my answer were to one who could ever return to the world‚ this flame would move no more; but since no one has ever returned alive from this depth‚ if what I hear be true‚ without fear of infamy I answer you.” The words are spoken by a lost soul‚ damned to Hell for the attempt to buy absolution in advance of committing a crime. This correlates with Prufrock’s need to know the answer to the question
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Diesel ’s marketing strategy Overview Introduction Part I: Product I.Competitive Analysis
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