Introduction Les Mills is fully New Zealand owned operated‚ Les Mills are a team of passionate‚ positive professionals who have been making a difference in people’s lives since Olympian Les Mills opened the Auckland Club in 1968. Les Mills International was founded by Phillip Mills and named after his father Les Mills‚ four times Olympian and founder of the Les Mills World of Fitness chain in Auckland‚ New Zealand‚ Phillip and his team developed new programs and distributed it via DVD to improve
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The Internet Takeover The piece‚ “Is Google Making us Stupid?”‚ by Nicholas Carr provides an interesting view from a writer’s perspective of his change in processing information due to the growing digital world. He reflects on how the internet has made his life easier but also caused his attention span to shorten. He believes that while the internet is very helpful‚ it is changing the way people think. Carr relates his struggles to those of many of his intellectual colleagues and how it has changed
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your surroundings. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “The Deepening Page” by Nicholas Carr the author explains the rise in value of undistracted reading and the how technology took away that skill but brought us closer to our primal way of thinking. Reading is an abnormal skill that takes training and practice. It is not something humans are born knowing how to do. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Carr states
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An analysis of Le Corbusier’s “Le Villa La Roche-Jeanneret” ! Le Corbusier’s modernist residence which was built in Paris‚ 1923‚ has become one of the most widely recognized examples of what could be argued as a residential home‚ a project often considered as the pivotal point of an architect’s career. Designing and building a personal dwelling allows the architects freedom to manifest their sense of individuality‚ and in Corbusier’s case‚ the opportunity to build the ultimate modernist home with
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Jacob Crandall November 21‚ 2011 Comp II Les Miserables: A Summary Imagine a world where your legal system is so unjust‚ you would be sent to prison for 20 years for stealing an single apple. This is the world of Jean Valjean in the adaption of Victor Hugo’s classic play‚ Les Miserables. This story is set during the early 18th century in France‚ and the story is full of sociological issues‚ some of which are still prevalent in our society today. The first major sociological issue that
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10.24.11 Evolving Tensions: The Effects of Heightened Animosity Between Jews and Christians The Chronicle of Le Mans depicts events that took place in the French town of Le Mans toward the late 10th century. The document tells primarily of the evil acts of Sehok ben Esther Israeli‚ a former Jew who has converted to Christianity‚ and how he strove against the Jewish community in Le Mans. By examining this text‚ we can glimpse the beginnings of Jewish animosity toward converts; the events of the
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Assignment 3 Le Petit Chef Handing in your assignment This assignment regarding the Le Petit Chef case should be delivered through the Assignment Section on Blackboard before Wednesday‚ May 2‚ 2012‚ 12.00 hours (noon). Be aware that this is an individual assignment and plagiarism will be punished: Every individual student is required to hand in his/her own unique work. Please upload your answer to this assignment as a Word document. If you have any problems or questions about this assignment
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’The characters in Le Cid are extremists prepared‚ at whatever cost‚ to live up to their convictions.’ Do you agree with this comment on the play? “Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid focuses on a legendary hero of eleventh-century Spain and his feats of heroism‚ chivalry and honour. But a more pervading element of this play‚ one that is acted out by not only the protagonist but many other characters is that of sacrifice” . Having been set in the Seventeenth Century it was “adapted to the heroic ethic
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REPORT Le grotte Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc is the French name of the Chauvet cave. Chauvet cave is the most monumental and historical value cave in art circles in the world. This majestic cave is found by a team of three speleologist in 1994. It is 25 meters deep in the ground‚ length about 500 meters located in the Ardeche region of the southern France. When in 1998‚ the Franch archeologian Dr. Jean Clottes is the first research leader to leaded the research team in Chauvet cave. Chauvet cave is very
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‘LE LOUPGAROU’ The poem begin with a ’curious tale’ which ’threaded through the town’ (note the use of alliteration). Through greying women sewing under eaves. These ’greying women’ (meaning old women) may not have been literally sewing under the trees‚ but were ’threading the tale’; meaning‚ they were gossiping. Was how his greed had brought old le brun down. (what comes next is a tell of how his greed brought him down’ Greeted by slowly shutting jalousies (refers to the people who shut their windows
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