Blurred Lines: the most controversial song of the decade Another student union has banned Robin Thicke’s party track. How did it become such a lightning rod for moral outrage and censorship? This week‚ University College London student union (UCLU) took the unusual step of banning a single song‚ Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It joins around 20 other UK student unions to do so. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade:
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The Line to the Lunches Think back to when you were a kid and you waited anxiously for the whole school year to be over with so you could do that one special thing. For my friends and I it was going to the big‚ red bricked church down the road and getting free sack lunches. The older I got the roles had been switched‚ from receiving the lunches‚ to providing the lunches for the anxiously waiting kids. Community service changes the life of you‚ and also the lives of others. Even though it is cliché
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The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were
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Walk the Line Release Date: 11/18/05 Running Length: 134 mins Rating: PG-13 (Profanity‚ drugs) Cast: Joaquin Phoenix‚ Reese Witherspoon‚ Ginnifer Goodwin‚ Robert Patrick‚ Dallas Roberts‚ Dan John Miller‚ Larry Bagby‚ Shelby Lynne Director: James Mangold Producers: James Keach‚ Cathy Konrad Screenplay: Gill Dennis & James Mangold Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael Music: Johnny Cash‚ T Bone Burnett Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatre: Empire Theatres Date: 12/12/05 Time: 7:15 P.M.
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protocol hierarchy – the physical layer. -Transmission medium is simply the path between a transmitter and a receiver in a communications system. Guided Transmission media -some form of conductor that provide conduit in which signals are contained -the conductor directs the signal examples: copper wire‚ optical fiber Unguided Transmission media -wireless systems – without physical conductor -signals are radiated through air or vacuum -direction – depends on which direction the signal is emitted
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After reading many novels throughout my life I would place‚ The Shadow Lines‚ by Amitav Ghosh‚ in my top 10 list. The novel is based on the narrator who was English educated but Indian born. The narrator illustrates and shares his views of foreign countries which he has never been to with other characters in the novel. Even though the narrator is English educated his values‚ ethics‚ and culture is more Indian than an American. Many of us now notice that when a person migrates from one country
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An Improved Control Strategy for DFIG System and Dynamic Voltage Restorer under Grid Voltage Dip Peng Cheng‚ Heng Nian‚ Member‚ IEEE College of Electrical Engineering‚ Zhejiang University‚ Hangzhou‚ China cheng_peng@zju.edu.cn Abstract：With the increasing percentage of wind power in the utility grid‚ grid codes require that wind turbines must have low voltage ride through (LVRT) capability. Considering that doubly fed induction generation (DFIG) systems have the tolerance capability ‚ to
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INTRODUCTION Poverty refers to the condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as clean water‚ nutrition‚ health care‚ education‚ clothing and shelter. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country‚ or compared to worldwide averages. In the Caribbean‚ education is the most dominant way of getting out of poverty. It seems to be the main thing
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of the most influential thinkers in world history formed contrasting ideas on the concept of the soul. On one hand‚ Plato’s idea of the soul was created based on his theory of forms‚ as illustrated through a conceptual apparatus called “The Divided Line”. In this diagram‚ concepts of the absolute‚ such as the essence of absolute good‚ come from forms and ideas‚ which are eventually processed into the physical world as images in our minds. These images can then once again be manipulated into forms
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History of the Illuminati The Illuminati trace their origins back thousands of years to their conception as a result of the genetic inbreeding between a reptilian extraterrestrial race and humanity. Their modern origin‚ however‚ traces back to the 1760s and a man named Adam Weishaupt‚ who defected from the Catholic church and organized the Illuminati‚ financed by the International Bankers. Since then‚ according to the Illuminati‚ their top goal has been to achieve a “one world government”
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