Kassandra Chang 8/21/14 Period 1 APHG Summer Writing assignment The World is Flat By: Thomas L. Friedman 1. What is it about the flat world that both excites Friedman and fills him with dread? Friedman gets excited because the flattening of the world means that we as people who inhabit Earth are collecting all of our knowledge and putting it together into this worldwide network. By doing this we would start to emerge ourselves in an era of prosperity‚ innovation‚ and collaboration‚ by company’s
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Linden B Johnson had 3 heart attacks during his lifetime. His wife was nick named Lady Bird‚ and he was the 36th President Johnson was the 1st of 5 kids born to Samuel Johnson and Rebekah Baines. He grew up in a 3-room house on the Pedernales River in a poorer part of the town. He taught briefly at a Houston high school‚ and in 1930 campaigned for Texas senator Welly Hopkins. Johnson married in 1934 and had 2 girls with Claudia Alta Taylor. IN 1937 Johnson worked in the House of representatives
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The Shoe Horn Sonata By John Misto The scene from The Shoe Horn Sonata I chose was act 1‚ scene 1. The Play begins on a dark silent set‚ which evokes in the audience the darkness and pain of the characters memories as well as suggesting their stores have been hidden for too long. Out of the darkness with come truth. The play in scene 1 begins with an army nurse that is being interviewed for a documentary program about her experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese. Misto cleverly
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English Speech It was Albert Einstein who said that ’as an artist‚ or a musician‚ Mozart was not a man of this world’. His extreme talents enabled him to master a piano piece in half an hour at just 4 years old‚ write a symphony at five years old and complete writing his first full Opera at the age of 12. Was Mozart a genius or just a talented and hard working person? A scene in Amadeus the play written by Peter Shaffer uncovers Antonio Salieri’s realisation of Mozart’s Genius. This is discovered
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History: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg‚ Austria on January 27‚ 1756. He was born into a musical family being the son of a successful composer‚ violinist and assistant concert master. He learned at the young age of three how to play the piano and by the age of five had mastered multiple instruments. At the young age of six he was touring European concert halls and opera houses dazzling the audiences with his works that included sonatas‚ symphonies‚ masses‚ concertos and operas‚
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The World Is Flat A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman First published: 2005 Table of Contents • Key Figures • Short Summary (Synopsis) • Thomas L. Friedman - Biography • Genre | | | | Chapter Summaries with Notes / Analysis • Chapters 1 - 4 - How the World Became Flat • Chapters 5 - 9 - America and the Flat World • Chapter 10 - Developing Countries and the Flat World • Chapter 11 - Companies and the Flat World • Chapters 12 - 14 - Geopolitics
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)‚ “Mozart is among the least autobiographical of composers” (Greenberg‚ 2011‚ p. 144). According to Greenberg (2011)‚ regarding Mozart‚ “his music came from a source frankly divorced from issues and worries of the everyday”‚ the things inspired him were not from emotional events in his life expressed in his music. Deep emotional events in his life which should have inspired certain emotional expression in his art were in fact not reflected at all. What was expressed
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Assignment 1: The World is Flat 3.0 (10 points) Listen to Tom Friedman’s MIT talk titled “The World is Flat 3.0” and answer the following questions. Your answers must be short‚ succinct‚ and structured‚ and not of the rambling type. The suggested total length of your answers is 1-2 pages. 1. According to Friedman‚ what are the differences between Globalization 1.0‚ 2.0‚ and 3.0? What was the key driver for each phase of globalization? (3 points) Globalization 1.0 was built around countries having
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Tannya Trudeau 4135080 Professor Grant Musi200 D004 Fall10 15 January 2011 Concert Report: Mozart Symphony No. 40 The western classical concert that I have chosen to review is A Tale of Two Symphonies. This concert is performed in the Avery Fisher hall within the Lincoln Center in New York City. It was performed on July 29‚ 2008. The orchestra that is performing is the 42nd Mostly Mozart Orchestra. The conductor is Louis Langrée. The two pieces being performed in this concert is Mozart’s
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115 prevalent view‚ some critical scholars propose a different historical setting for chapter 40 and following. K. Baltzer argues for a later date of Isaiah 40-55‚ the period of Nehemiah (between 450 and 400 B.C.) by observing the parallels between chapters 40-55 and the book of Nehemiah.93 Watts allocates Isaiah 40-55 into several different historical contexts: 40:1- 44:23 (550-539 B.C.)‚ 44:24-48:22 (539-522 B.C.)‚ 49:1-52:12 (522-486 B.C.)‚ 52:13-57:21 (485-465 B.C.).94 The lack of explicit markers
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