In 1972 cruise industry pioneer‚ Ted Arison and the owner of American International Trade Service (AITS)‚ Meshulam Riklis‚ formed Carnival Cruise Lines as a subsidiary of AITS. They purchased their first ship for $6.5 million and renamed it to the Mardi Gras. The Mardi Gras’ first trip was along the Florida coast with travel agents. In 1974‚ Mr. Arison bought out his partner’s share with $1 and assumed the $5 million debt of the company. In order to compensate for the debt and reduce costs‚ Mr
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The City of Paris “Paris‚ La Ville-Lumière.” Paris is known as “The City of Lights”‚ from its luminescent glowing lights‚ seen from rooftops and hotel rooms. Paris is a gorgeous site‚ but how was it in 1930? Paris became a place for rising artists‚ writers‚ musicians and film-makers. The city had many things new brilliant ideas from new artists such as Picasso‚ Braque‚ Man Ray and Duchamp. Many new people and things came from U.S.A. such as artists and writers like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude
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The 1900’s were a very eventful era with many new innovations and inventions‚ some deadly and some beneficial. A crucial event during this time period was the Paris Peace conference in 1919. The need for this conference was caused by World War I and the big three (Woodrow Wilson‚ David Lloyd-George and Georges Clemencueau). The Paris Peace Conference had many outcomes such as the Treaty of Versailles‚ the formation of the League of Nations‚ L’ Organisation de la Paix (1921-27) and the Dawes plan
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friendship with his crude and extremely inappropriate teddy bear‚ Ted. I just want to state off hand that this is my first movie review‚ well other than just telling someone what I thought. So if you are looking for a well written‚ witty review then.. you might want to stop reading now. But since this movie is still in production‚ this will probably be your best bet for the time being. I just went to a free screening of Ted at the Greenback theater in Sacramento‚ CA. And I just have to say
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‘Midnight in Paris’ report Paris is one of city I like the most. When I start to watch this movie‚ I can appreciate really beautiful Paris’ views for four minutes at the beginning of film. I think if anyone watches these views‚ he/she could not have appealed to that city. So‚ I guess why the background is Paris in the film. I conclude Paris has a lot of thing including historic romance and arts. It gives us food for thought. The movie ‘Midnight in Paris’ showed us beautiful Paris views‚ fantasy
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According to the biography (Gioia‚ N.D.)‚ Ted Gioia - a man of many hats - grew up in Hawthorne‚ California and graduated from Hawthorne High School. Gioia focused his studies at Stanford and Oxford University‚ with degrees in English‚ philosophy‚ politics‚ and economics. Dabbling in the business world as a consultant‚ Gioia proved himself the jack-of-all-trades as he also made himself prominent in the music realm as an author and musician. Gioia has written many books‚ including History of Jazz
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The Paris Peace Accords of 1973‚ intended to establish peace in Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam ‚ officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ‚ is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north‚ Laos to the northwest‚ Cambodia to the southwest‚ and the South China Sea‚ referred to as East Sea ‚ to the east... and an end to the Vietnam Conflict‚ ended direct U.S. military involvement and temporarily stopped the fighting between north and
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Sequoia Booth ENG 100 Professor Legler Short Paper #3 One of the videos we viewed in class was a Ted Talk by health psychologist Kelly McGonigal. She talked about stress‚ particularly making the case that stress is not as detrimental as we have been taught to think it is. In fact‚ McGonigal claims that stress can actually be a friend to you and your health. Mcgonigal asks her audience to indicate the level stress they’ve felt over the past year. To not surprise the vast majority of the
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full of facts. I used some Ted Talk videos to do some research. I will only be using a few ted talk videos. First was the tree canopy ted talk. In that video it showed me how
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The Ted-Talk‚ “Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali”‚ given by siblings Melati and Isabel Wijsen was seemingly directed towards “all the kids of this beautiful but challenging world”. Therefore‚ centering their audience at all those kids in the crowd that will later become the future “leaders of today”. The main idea that the two sisters draw up within their speech is the concept that “you are never too young to understand” the world around you alongside the fact that making a change “isn’t going
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