I can honestly say that if I won 50 million dollars in the lottery I would enjoy my winnings with my family by doing anything and everything they desire. Although I have given to charity in the past it would not be on the top of my list for things to do. I’m pretty certain that everyone wants that life of luxury and while many of us are already living quite well it just may not be well enough. So if you say you don’t want a life where you can have anything you want in this
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plan to borrow $70 million over the next year. 1) What are the most likely ways in which you can borrow $70 million? The best way the company must do in order to borrow $70 million over the next year is by issuing bonds to financial institutions such as mutual funds and insurance companies. As to attract investors‚ issuing bonds is seems to be less risky than shares and they may be willing to purchase them. The investors will invest a specific amount of money in the company for a specific period
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New Million Dollar Homepage Story Back in 2005‚ a student in England named Alex Tew launched The Million Dollar Homepage‚ the home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000×1000 pixel grid‚ through which he sold the pixels for $1 each. Although it was an extremely simple idea‚ the unique project attracted enormous amounts of press coverage‚ and eventually earned $1‚037‚100. It also spawned countless copycat websites‚ but as the old saying goes‚ lightning never strikes twice‚ the idea
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According to Kasson’s Amusing the Million‚ who embraced the “mass culture” embodied by the parks‚ and why? Who rejected it‚ and why?” 3-4 pages (700-800 words) Accepted it: The Young Americans & Immigrants trying to americanize their lives. It was more thrilling than other options at the time in Manhattan‚ saving all the money they could. Coney Island provided a means to participate in mainstream American culture on an equal footing (40). This new mass culture incorporated immigrants
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the coast of New York changed American culture and society. This island was called Coney Island. What was Coney Island and what did it bring to the Americans? It was an island that fulfilled the changing wants of American’s. This island influenced American’s wants from labor‚ and high society to leisure. Though the island didn’t remain on its all-time-high forever‚ it caused a “turn of the century.” This “turn of the century‚” was a vast shift in the mass culture of America. Before the “turn
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A Cool Million is a political novel‚ in the sense that it targets a political establishment which is corrupt and racist‚ bullying and philistine‚ but its strangeness left the political movement largely nonplussed. It is a novel of the end of the American dream. It is Candide recast for twentieth-century America‚ the destruction of an innocent by a system he simply cannot comprehend. Lem Pitkin is a simple‚ if not simple-minded‚ boy who is torn apart – literally so‚ he is systematically divested of
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Amusing the Million When you hear the name Coney Island you instantly think of excitement‚ entertainment‚ and a city where you can escape all responsibilities. This reputation began in the late 19th/early 20th century during a time when the people of America were adjusting to new lifestyles and a new country. The United States was going through an intense urbanization‚ with new developments in transportation‚ communication‚ and other inventions; citizens were living in an America they had never
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Caroline Cosgrove-Richard Professor Mark Carson HIST 2057 2 February 2015 Amusing the Millions With the turn of the century rapidly approaching‚ a societal turn began to take place in America as well. John Kasson’s Amusing the Millions vibrantly reinforces Coney Island’s role in moving America away from a genteel‚ Victorian society towards a more vivacious and energetic one‚ which would ultimately pave the way for today’s society. Kasson accomplishes this by depicting Coney Island’s amusements
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the opportunity to be fully human‚ cutting themselves off from a wide range of emotions (4). Too many men either lead lives of “desperation‚” or are eternally fearful of falling short in a competitive culture‚ or as it seems increasingly common among the young adults living in a fantasy world of video games‚ unwilling to live up to the masculine ideal. Jensen believes “it would be better for the men and women if they would stop trying to be so masculine (5). He acknowledges
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A Million Nightingales Unconditional love from Moinette to her mother was the most beautiful feelings this novel transmitted to me. The love she had for her mother gave Moinette mental peace and guts to be able to live and survive her struggles. During Moinette’s childhood she experienced the most intense and sweet feelings from her mother‚ she felt love from her mother’s look‚ care and silence. Moinette admired her mother and loved everything about her‚ from her sewing to her brave‚ for Moinette
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