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    Declan Carroll American Leisure: Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s “Although music‚ radio‚ books‚ magazines‚ comics‚ sports‚ and other forms of mass entertainment were all significant in the thirties‚ nothing else was a central to American popular culture in that decade as motion pictures‚” (McElvaine‚ 208). Consumer and popular culture is present in the motion picture industry after World War I. A large percentage of Americans went to the movies each week during the 1920s. Surprisingly‚ that

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    less privileged people at the bottom and the more favoured people at the top. (Giddens‚ 2006) Anthony Giddens (2006) defines class as “a large-scale group of people who share common economic resources‚ which strongly influence the type of lifestyle they are able to lead.” (pg 300). Karl Marx‚ a sociologist in the 19th century supports this as he believes that class was “a group of people who stand in a common relationship to the means of production – the means by which they gain a livelihood”

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    Everyone has a dream he wants to pursue and achieve. As they say‚ there is nothing wrong to dream and aim high especially for the children like us who have the courage to overcome trials and obstacles to reach the star that we’ve been dreaming to get someday. But if you were to write your own prophecy of the future‚ what would it be? Would it be a once-upon-a-time story? Or a happy-ever-after one? For the six years that we have been together‚ we have shared our dreams and ambitions with one another

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    Learning Plan 2 LP2 Assignment: Save Screenshots Directions The assignment for Learning Plan 2 involves various screenshots. You will use an application called WordPad and you will also use Print Screen and/or the Snipping Tool depending on the version of the operating system you have installed on your computer. (The Snipping Tool is an application included in Windows 7 / Windows Vista‚ Home Premium‚ Business‚ Enterprise‚ or Ultimate Editions.) 1. Open the WordPad application and write an explanation

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    Byon Chin Professor Caruso Writing 106 October 12‚ 2012. A child’s imagination runs wild when they are young. They want to be an astronaut‚ a police officer‚ a fire fighter‚ etc. They want to be all these things all at once just because they probably heard a fairytale story or seen an animated show about them. So they would start to pretend and act like they are these people. I think parents should allow their child to express their imagination. This will build their creativity and expand

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    1. Discuss the importance of subcultures in segmenting the market for food products. Identify a particular product and show how it should be marketed differently to different ethnic groups. 2. Foxtel is marketing pay television services in Australia. What approach should it take to households where the main decision makers are: a) Baby boomers b) Generation X c) Generation Y? 3. What allowance should be made for the ability of the elderly to process complex information in making product purchase

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    Lesson 11 Vocabulary 1. Antonyms- Words with opposite meanings. 2. Compound Modifier- two words combined to act as an adjective. 3. Compound word- two of more words combined to create a new or more specific word. 4. Hyphen- a horizontal bar character used to indicate a split of incomplete word. 5. Hyphenation zone- the maximum space word allows between a word and the right margin without inserting a hyphen. 6. Synonyms- words with the same meaning. 7. Thesaurus-

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    I was still having a dream when my alarm clock roared to life at exactly six in the morning. I focused my eyes on the cracks of the ceiling then I held my passport on my right hand. “Ava Kyara Pellosis‚ this is your time to shine “‚ I told myself. I’ll be flying to America at ten in the morning. This is a dream come true. After being the Philippine’s top model‚ I’ll be going to a new world today to show more of myself. After an hour‚ I found myself sitting inside the plane. It also happened that

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    Mobile Phones and Paper Documents: Evaluating A New Approach for Capturing Microfinance Data in Rural India Tapan Parikh‚ Paul Javid Sasikumar K. Department of CSE ekgaon technologies Univ. of Washington Madurai‚ India tapan‚pjavid@cs.washington.edu sasi@ekgaon.com Kaushik Ghosh Human Factors India Mumbai‚ India kaushik@humanfactors.com ABSTRACT CAM is a user interface toolkit that allows a cameraequipped mobile phone to interact with paper documents. It is designed to automate inefficient‚

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    ISLAMIC MUSTICISM SUFISM (Tasawwuf) 1 – Origins 2 – Sufi’s Sources 3 – Sufi Symbolism 4 – Sharia and Tariqa (the way) 5 – Sober and Intoxicated Sufism 6 – Sufi Remembrance (Dhikr) ulawa tawil – metaphorical interpretation of the Quran‚ rather than literal (tafsir) hadith al-qudsi – branch of hadith – Prophet sayings‚ but sacred sayings. – colletion. SUFI ORDERS (Tariqat) Rise of Sufi Orders Master-Disciple Relationship (Shaykh/Faqir or Pir/Shakird) Popular Sufi Orders (Naqshibandi/Qadiri/Mawlawi/Bektashi/Rufai)

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