Subject: „A manager or leader I admire the most.” I had very big difficulties choosing one person to describe which impress me the most as a leader. This guy is Ukrainian citizen who emigrated to the USA in early ‘90s. His life was quiet difficult without any life perspectives. Jan Koum (born in Kiev‚ Ukraine on February 24‚ 1976) is an American internet entrepreneur and computer engineer. He is the CEO and co-founder with Brian Acton of WhatsApp‚ a mobile messaging application which was acquired
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The Day I met my Hero. I had always been the girl to throw money on useless things. At that time I didn’t care about anything except brands and designers. My parents were obviously worried about me as I had no aims‚ goals‚ role models or hero in life as I thought I already had everything and anything I wanted. And as I had just started my last year in high school my parents wanted me to actually graduate with good marks and go to university‚ which seemed useless to me. But that all changed when
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“How I Met My Husband” 1. The plot structure in this story is chronological order. The arrangement of the plot elements it’s effective because its tells us exactly what the title is‚ how Edie met her husband. My expectations as a reader are overturned when she marries the mailman. Throughout the whole story I thought she would marry the pilot‚ like every other love story. After waiting some time the love of their life comes back and marries them. Instead she while waiting for the pilot she
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In the short story “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro the structure of the plot and the conflict work in unity to reach the conclusion. This story has a sympathetic protagonist dealing with a relatable conflict‚ suspense‚ and a twist ending that may keep the reader thinking after the last lines have been read. The protagonist in this story‚ Edie‚ is a timid person who is always doing whatever makes other people happy and never says what she wants. She describes herself as “shy” (Munro 127)
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Morrison “How I Met My Husband” Response Q4 1 October 2013 At a young age‚ women have a tendency to be naïve and innocent. With that‚ the two factors create a vulnerable persona in a girl‚ and it compels a person to feel sympathy towards them. “How I Met My Husband” consists of a protagonist‚ Edie‚ who is also naïve and innocent as well as humble and simple. These traits convince me to believe her to be a sympathetic character in the story. As a young‚ naïve‚ gullible girl‚ I feel nothing short
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marrying him. One day while Alice‚ Mrs. Peebles and the children were away on a picnic‚ Edie goes to Chris’s campsite to talk with him. He reveals to her that he plans on leaving‚ but promises to write her. They kiss‚ and he leaves town. When the other women are told by the local gossip Loretta Bird that Chris has left‚ Alice Kelling verbally abuses Edie under the mistaken impression that Edie and Chris had sex. Mrs. Peebles protects Edie‚ and Alice leaves too. Edie waits day after day at the mailbox
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"HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: ENDING ON CONTROVERSY" The CBS television series‚ "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER" (2005-2014)‚ ended its nine season run on March 31‚ 2014. Television audiences usually greet television finales either with great satisfaction or with equal contempt. Instead of one or the other‚ the television series created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas proved to be not only divisive‚ but also controversial. And romance for the series’ main character‚ Ted Mosby‚ ended up being the center of that
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A Love Story In Reverse The success of any television show heavily depends on how it reaches it audience. People watch shows and a filtering process begins. A person decides what messages to take in and which ones to ignore for any given type of media. For television shows‚ the audience must acknowledge and filter in the correct message the writers of a show want to portray. The audience makes sense of these messages and match it to learned definitions and this is where the meaning matching process
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Patrick Silva AP Lit Period 4 Mr. Schmitz October 11‚ 2012 How I Met My Husband Thesis Paper The theme of Alice Munro’s story “How I met my Husband” is Social expectations mold individual circumstances. Edie‚ a fifteen year old housemaid in the lower class of society has qualities and talents that demonstrate a skill set of aristocracy. "Have a house without pie‚ be ashamed until you die" is a quoted statement that Edie ’s mother used to say to her that Mrs. Peebles was not very familiar
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Blueprint 2 The short story How I Met my Husband is a story about a fifteen year old girl who has a coming of age experience while working for a doctor and his wife. The author‚ Alice Munro utilizes several literary techniques to convey a very relatable theme‚ that of young idealized romance and the ironies we learn about these romances as we get older. Munro conveys this theme by utilizing an interesting first person perspective and descriptive language to provide the reader
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