My hobbies Almost everybody has some kind of hobby. My hobbies are listening to music ‚ watching television and reading books. I am very fond of music. When I am free‚ I often listen to my favorite songs from an old cassette recorder. At weekends‚ I usually go to music shops in the downtown areas to buy good CDs. Of the famous pop singers‚ I prefer Frank Sinatra‚ Elvis Presley‚ Madona and Paul MC Cartney. I also spend an hour after dinner watching news and documentary programmes. I particularly
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that led to Hannah Baker’s death and reveals that several small choices can affect a major decision. For instance‚ Hannah creates thirteen cassette tapes explaining why she is making the decision to take her life. Thirteen different ways people are hurting her. Each reason affects her differently‚ but all thirteen reasons affect her emotionally‚
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caused in her life. Hannah records her own voice on cassette tapes to tell the thirteen people why she feels that they played a role in her decision‚ which also affects their lives too. These individuals have motivated Hannah to make the decision to take her own life without realizing it. Clay Jensen‚ an acquaintance of Hannah‚ is motivated to find out where he fits into the story after he had received these tapes. Clay listens to all of the tapes in order to find out where his name appears. He finds out
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outlook on life. I was fascinated by the character Hannah Baker and her poetic way of describing the terrible events that changed her life. Hannah sends 13 cassette tapes to people she blames for her suicide‚ before killing herself by taking a handful of pills. The book is set around Clay Jensen‚ the ninth person to receive the tapes out of twelve. I was fascinated at how all of these people in her life had somehow contributed to her death‚ without knowing; how one little thing had set off a ‘snowball
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developing a new business product. Ralph has commissioned an extensive investigation into the blank cassette tape market and he views this market as poised for substantial growth and opportunity over the long-term range of ten to fifteen years. Ralph feels that his division is well positioned to enter the market through utilization of its many core strengths. Market Overview The current blank tape market segment has many weaknesses‚ such as‚ lack of widespread distribution‚ lack of media coverage‚
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replaced by iPods and CDs. However‚ in 13 Reasons Why‚ 17-year-old Hannah Baker uses cassette tapes to reveal the reasons of her suicide. After her death‚ Hannah sends the tapes to the 13 people who are the reasons so they can hear her story. As you get farther and farther into the book and you “hear” all of her reasons‚ you can start to see a deeper message. Hannah highlights three hidden messages in her tapes. She states that the smallest things can make the biggest differences‚ that people can be
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Beckett is master of absurd theater‚ and Krapp’s last tape is one of the most influencial plays in absured theater which is deconstructed by nature. Not just the work and auther but the approach itself help the auther of this essay to find the true meaning of absurdity which itself leads human‚ after passing a chaos‚ to absolute peace. In the following paragraphs‚ first there is a biography of Samual Beckett the auther of Krapp’s last tape. Then the discussion goes through deconstruction which
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THE NIGERIAN HOME VIDEO INDUSTRY: A SURVEY OF THE ACTIVITIES OF VIDEO RENTALS AND THE COPYRIGHT LAW PRESENTED BY ABDULRAHMAN MALIK AT THE WEEKLY SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT‚ KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY MALETE MARCH‚ 2013 ABSTRACT The Nigerian entertainment industry‚ particularly the movie sector has been battling with the problem of copyright infringement in the last two decades or more. In spite the legal framework put in place‚ (i.e. copyright
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Betamax‚ the evolution of the product‚ the demise of the product and what Sony could have done differently to make it a success. Sony introduced the first Betamax combination TV and Betamax system in 1975 and the first stand-alone video cassette recorder (VCR) in 1976 as the model SL-7200 (CED‚ 2006). The stand-alone unit initially sold successfully in the U.S. for $1‚295.00. An optional external clock to set recording times came at the request of Sony’s then CEO‚ Akio Morita (CED‚ 2006). Previous
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there are a total of seven cassette tapes and thirteen stories that were recorded by Hanna who killed herself about two weeks ago. On the first tape‚ Hannah tells her listeners that she holds each of them responsible in some way for her death‚ and that the tapes will explain why. After listening‚ each person must give the tapes to the next person on the list. She says that if anybody fails to pass them along‚ a copy of the recordings will be made public. The tapes also come with a map that listeners
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