Valley Glen Voice OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE VALLEY GLEN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION Volume 12‚ Issue 1 www.valleyglen.org Winter 2013 Your VGNA Board: Carlos Ferreyra President Dean Abston Vice President From Our President Carlos Ferreyra — Another year is upon us and we must ask ourselves‚ “Did the Mayans just run out of space on their rock when carving out their calendar?” As your Association (“VGNA”) moves forward this new year to continue its work of improving the quality of life
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FULL TITLE: Frankenstein: or‚ The Modern Prometheus AUTHOR: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley TYPE OF WORK: Novel GENRE: Gothic science fiction‚ Gothic Horror‚ Gothic Romance LANGUAGE: English TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN: Switzerland‚ 1816‚ and London‚ 1816–1817 SETTING (TIME): Eighteenth century SETTING (PLACE): Geneva‚ the Swiss Alps‚ Ingolstadt‚ England and Scotland‚ the northern ice DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: January 1‚ 1818 OTHER PUBLISHED EDITIONS: 1823 and 1831 PUBLISHER: Lackington‚
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Glen Ballard was born and raised in Natchez‚ Mississippi in 1953. Ballard started working with music by playing piano‚ followed by guitar‚ in his early years. He started writing songs at ten years old and was in many local rock bands by the beginning of fifth grade. Soon after he graduated he joined Elton John’s organization in L.A. in which he had such success to get him a secured professional job as a songwriter at MCA Music Publishing. As his music taste is exceedingly diverse he has worked with
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Ozy’s Holy Thursday: Shelly and Blake’s Satirical View of Monarchy and Empirical Rule P.B Shelly‚ once penned‚ “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” (“A Defence of Poetry”). Certainly‚ Shelley is not shy to admit the political power of the Romantic period poets and how they can shape ideologies through their narration at a time of immense instability and discord. However‚ how one can interpret the multiple works of Blake‚ Wordsworth‚ and Shelley amongst others can be significantly
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If you’ve watched the legal drama suits‚ one of the protagonists Mike Ross‚ knows the law inside out yet he’s been knocked into a different kind of life because of circumstances and he keeps wishing for a chance to get out of it and when he does‚ he makes it count.This goes on to show how important a chance is in life. Some wait all eternity waiting for a chance to come knock their doors but I’m the kind of guy who will relentlessly pursue and tirelessly run to get that once chance that will transform
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In 1991 March 3rd‚ Rodney Glen King lead police on a high speed chase through the city of Los Angeles. It all started when California highway patrol officer noticed King speeding in the freeway. King was intoxicated and also on probation‚ for this reason he did not pull over when the officer turn on his siren. Rodney was under the influence of PCP but was never prosecuted for it‚ because of the way the arrest occurred. Instead‚ this simple traffic violation lead to a high speed chase on the freeway
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Arthur Levine born on July 14‚ 1917 in Brooklyn‚ NY. Accepted at Cornell University‚ where he nurtured an early love of theater by obsessively reading plays in his spare time. Remembered as a prolific stage director and screenwriter‚ who was credited for the musicals from there books "West Side Story" (1957) and "Gypsy" (1959). In 1957‚ Laurents wrote the libretto for "West Side Story." Which was originally conceived by Jerome Robbins as a twist on “Romeo and Juliet”. Idea for this began with Robbins
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Title: Fairest Author: Gail Carson Levine By: Jane Phillips Page Number Direct Quote from the book Response 5 I developed the habit of holding my hand in front of my face when guests arrived‚ foolish practice‚ because it raised curiosity and concealed little. This part reminded me of myself because I have stupid habits. Also‚ I felt sad that Aza would think that she would have to hide herself or feel ashamed about what she looked like. 87 She was our ruler now! Everyone in the
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Truth and Beauty of Passing Time Neglect‚ death‚ and immortality are powerful themes of not only Romantic poets‚ but poets throughout every age of history. Countless works of poetry dwell on the seemingly inconsequential passing of life‚ while still more endeavor to discover something so significant that it can entrench itself into the folds of history as truly immortal. Two Romantic poems that engage wonderfully with these themes are Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and John Keats’ “Ode on
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Case Three 1. Earnings per share: Sales…………………………………45‚500‚000 Less:Fixed Costs…………………….12‚900‚000 Less: Variable Costs (58% of sales)…26‚390‚000 (45‚500‚000 x .58) Operating Income……………………6‚210‚000 Less: Interest…………………………1‚275‚000 Earnings before taxes………………...4‚935‚000 Less: Taxes (34%)……………………1‚677‚900 (4‚935‚000 x .34) Earnings after taxes…………………..3‚257‚100 Shares…………………………………2‚000‚000 Earnings per share…………………….$1.63 2. 1.63 = 104.48 % ‚ Earnings per share increased
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