Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007. Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994‚ following the sudden death of his predecessor‚ John Smith. Under his leadership‚ the party
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Part B Biography of Malaysian entrepreneur: Tony Fernandes Tan Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes CBE (born 30 April 1964; also known as Tony Fernandes) is a Malaysian entrepreneur and the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd.‚ who introduced the first budget no-frills airline‚ AirAsia‚ to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". He has since founded the Tune Group of companies. In 2007‚ Tony Fernandes started a hotel chain‚ Tune Hotels‚ based on the no-frills concept. The first Tune Hotel was
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Alicia Collins November 10‚ 2015 Assignment 1 Prime Minister Profile: Tony Blair Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh‚ Scotland on May 6‚ 1953. Although born in Scotland‚ Blair spent several years of his childhood attending the Chorister School in Durham‚ England. When Blair was 10‚ his father ran for Parliament as a Tory but suffered from a stroke the night before the election. Blair later cited his father’s inability to finish the election as a driving factor behind his own political ambition. Blair
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Since Tony Hoagland wrote “The Change”‚ there have been copious amounts of praise and attacks by whites and African-Americans and tagged as a racist piece of art. When first reading this poem‚ offense will be taken and thoughts of racism will be brought to your attention. However‚ Hoagland’s intentions were not race. His intentions were to cause discomfort when reading this poem. Hoagland uses syntax to make readers feel offended and the narrator in the poem is not a racist but actually an observer
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13-year-old Tony DiMarco was always in the shadow of his older star athlete brothers‚ when his late Uncle Angelo left his Boston home at 13 Hangmen Court to Tony with the requirement that Tony sleep in his uncle’s attic bedroom‚ the family happily moves in. Tony’s father is suspicious about Uncle Angelo’s death‚ Tony investigated with help from his uncle as a 13-year-old boy and other 13-year-olds who lived in that room in the past. Tony DiMarco was always outcasted by his older brothers. Tony is 13
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God and the Virgin Mary. He commutes with the dead; the dead asks him for blessings. Just who is this Tony person! You might not believe that this is only a seven year old kid‚ but he is the hero of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me‚ Ultima. Tony is valiant‚ and this courage sometimes reflects his curiously precocious nature. Precocious he is‚ he still is in constant mental ambivalence.<br><br>When I say Tony is brave‚ I don’t mean that he fights demons or kill dragons‚ but rather that he stands for what he
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Background Tony Riviera founded "Tony Maroni’s" in the 1980’s selling Pizza‚ calzones and other various pizza products. Approximately two years after the founding‚ with eleven locations in the Seattle area‚ the company decided to expand‚ announcing a plan to open as many as five hundred locations in by the early 2000’s. Even with the large plans‚ by the end of 1997 Tony Maronis had yet to profit and found itself in a very large debt. Summary of Facts The case begins when Tony Maronis agreed to
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EN4405 Don Paterson Tony Harrison and the Language of Authority ‘And so it seemed to me then that the greatest gift I could acquire for myself was the gift of articulation‚ the treasure of eloquence‚ the power over words‚ the power of words.’ So wrote Tony Harrison in his essay ‘Facing up to the muses’ in the Bloodaxe Critical Anthology of his work‚ explaining the origins of his strong belief in the power of language‚ and particularly poetry. Tony Harrison‚ though he has written for both television
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Antone Charles Costa or Tony Costa better known as the Cape Cod murder‚ was a carpenter who killed in the town of Truro‚ MA. Costa was born in Provincetown‚ Massachusetts on August 2nd‚ 1944. Tony Costa received a high school diploma but never went to college after. Tony was an only child while growing up. While he was an infant his dad was killed in World War II during combat. When Costa was 7 years old he told his mother that “a man” was entering his room at night and identified this man as his
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etiology of the complaints he provided. Etiology is the study of why something has occurred‚ or how it came about (Raskin‚ 2012). Tony was born and raised in Texas‚ joined the military‚ and traveled to Tokyo‚ Japan for two weeks of leave where he met Kioko through a Japanese bride service. One piece of information that caught my attention was the fact that Tony and Kioko were from two different cultures who grew up in two different countries.
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