Born on June 21st‚ 1963 Lucas de Groot was born in Noordwijkerhout‚ Netherlands. He is known as being an influential Dutch type designer and has worked with and for‚ many well-known companies and publications. Between 1982 and 1987 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague under Gerrit Noordzij. Between 1989 and 1993 he worked on corporate identity projects at the Dutch design group BRS Premsela Vonk. In 1993 he joined MetaDesign in Berlin where he worked with Erik Spiekermann on
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summer holidays in Brittany‚ birthplace of the crepes‚ when we would eat galettes every time we could. Then‚ at the beginning of my studies in Paris‚ and after being a waiter in a famous brewery of the Champs-Élysées‚ I started to work in La Crêperie de Josselin‚ one of the best crepe place in Paris‚ where Marie-Thérèse —a woman I consider as my second mother as for my culinary education— taught me and passed me down her know-how‚ her art and all the
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of. Out of any explorer out there my explorer is beyond the best explorer‚ not only for what he has done‚ but for his very own name. My explorers name is Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca‚ which in contrast from every other explorer has the coolest and weirdest name out there. For many of you who don’t necessarily know what Cabeza de Vaca means‚ it means Cow head. Although his name was weird and funny catching‚ he also was the first to do much of many things‚ like being the first European to describe America
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Social Responsibility Practices. This paper attempts to define the reasons why this is so‚ and what strategic issues are faced by companies who adopt these practices. The issue of Corporate Social Responsibility will then be highlighted in a case study of De Beers‚ the world’s leading diamond producer. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AN INTRODUCTION Research into the topic of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)‚ has shown that there is no single universally accepted definition. CSR has
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distribution de montures de lunettes auprès des opticiens avec un capitale 5 millions francs et elle couvre 12% de la part de marché français de la monture‚ elle est la 6eme dans le marché français. Son chiffre d’affaires en 1992 est de 43 millions de francs. EQUAL SA est une multinationale elle adopte une stratégie de diversification (géographique) internationale. En effet elle dispose de bureaux au Japon‚ Singapour‚ aux États-Unis‚ au canada et elle couvre tous les pays d’Europe grâce a des agents
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TERRESTRIAL THINGS Poems Ingrid de Kok Kwela/Snailpress Acknowledgements I would like to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for granting me a residency in 1999 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Centre in Italy. The period spent there was invaluable. Thanks are also due to the University of Cape Town which awarded me four months of study and research leave in 2001 to complete the book. Acknowledgements are due to the following journals and books‚ in which some of these poems originally appeared:
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Louis XIV Louis XIV‚ a marvelous leader during his reign (1643-1715)‚ was a prime example of an absolutist ruler. He used his position to expand the power of his government with projects like the expansion of the Chateau de Versailles‚ completed in 1688. Despite the unimaginable cost of the monumental construction of Versailles that exhausted much of France ’s finances‚ its creation was beneficial for the French government‚ foreign influence‚ and the historical impact on France and the world.
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Salar de Uyuni Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat located in Bolivia. It is over twelve thousand square kilometers in area‚ which makes it the largest salt flat in the world. It also has the distinction of being the highest salt flats in the world at three thousand seven hundred meters above sea level. From a distance the salt flats look like a huge white sea. When there is rain then something magical happens. The salt flats become a mirror of the sky. The origins
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Bibliography: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-de-kooning-willem.htm http://www.biography.com/people/willem-de-kooning-9270057 http://quote.robertgenn.com/auth_search.php?authid=58 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/153632/Willem-de-Kooning http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=3213 http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Between-sense-and-de-Kooning-by-Richard-Shiff.php 1. 2. 3. 4.
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Olympe de Gouges was a woman who lived in France during the French Revolution. She was a feminist and an abolitionist. She accomplished many things during her life. One of the things she accomplished was writing pieces of literature and plays. She was the first woman to publish books and plays using her own name and not a male pseudonym. Every woman who was a playwright before her had used male pseudonyms to avoid being criticised for it. Her first play was called The Generous Man‚ and it was about
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