“The way records were sold was completely ridiculous. The covers were brown‚ tan or green paper; they were not in the least bit attractive‚ and lacked any form of sales appeal” – these are the words of Alex Steinweiss‚ the creator of album artwork‚ way back in 1939. Before Steinweiss’ revolutionary creation‚ there was quite simply no such thing as an album cover; vinyl recordings were available to buy in the back of appliance stores‚ where one would enquire for the particular title of a recording
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A summary of an Alan M. Dershowitz essay Alan M. Dershowitz in his essay “A Real Test of Any Proposed Speech Code or Policy” reports the cases of politician Tom Paulin and poet Amira Baraka. Tom Paulin was invited to Harvard to offer a speech that emphasizes hatred and racism toward the Jews‚ the author admits his words are offensive but he does not want to encourage Harvard to censor them. Dershowitz then gives us a second case of Amira Baraka a poet that was invited by a black student organization
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Neiman Marcus (A) Analysis of Growth Strategies Executive Summary Neiman Marcus (NM)‚ which mainly serves the high-end retail market‚ is currently facing a tough future. Although it currently enjoys high profit margins and has made significant improvements in its existing brand performance‚ its growth has plateaued. NM believes that there is only limited potential for growth of its current full-line stores while maintaining its exclusivity. As a result‚ it is considering other growth opportunities
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A Biography of Alan Turing‚ with Mathematics. From the middle name one may suspect a certain class value‚although the "Math" bit is a strange coincidence. His father went to Oxford and then worked for the Indian Civil Service. His mother’s father also worked in India. He was born in 1912‚ their second son. 1926 his father retired so perhaps he had something of normal family life from then on. Went to Sherborne‚ one of older public schools. Whilst there he became a close friend of Christopher
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My name is Felicia Marcus and this is my story. After the rebirth‚ I don’t know if my decision was correct or not but I’m alive right now so does my family. It was‚ worth something to celebrate right? Only if I didn’t get involved with that person. *Sigh* As Felicia try to move "Clang" a metal sound rang inside the room and on her left leg a thick metal cuff wrapped around her ankle. It was bind to her ankle and attach to the wall. It was a special type of metal that restrict her power and movement
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Joseph Spath FIL-110 Written Assignment 2 Citizen Kane is a 1941 movie that is written and directed by Orson Welles. Welles also stars in the movie as Charles Foster Kane. The movie is told in a series of nine different narrative sequences that detail the life of the main focus and character‚ Charles Kane. There are multiple reasons why the movie challenged traditional techniques and elements of Hollywood at that time including the use of depth of field‚ a nonlinear approach‚ and mobile camera
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Well his name is Alex Rider. Stormbreaker‚ written by Anthony Horowitz‚ is an adventure fiction and thriller novel targeted towards teenagers. It was published on the 4th of September 2000. Stormbreaker holds the battle between Good and Evil‚ between a young teenager named Alex Rider who is determined on stopping the main antagonist Herod Sayle. Herod Sayle‚ the main antagonist‚ is trying to kill every young school child in Britain because of past bullying experiences. Though Alex Rider‚ the protagonist
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Alex Libby‚ a teen activist‚ has been bullied from sixth to eighth grade. He has been regularly punched and kicked almost every day‚ on the bus and sometimes in school. “I stand for the silent‚” is a popular quote associated with Alex Libby himself.Even though Alex was bullied all through middle school‚ he rose up and decided to join a movie called “Bully” and another movie “The bullying effect.” Today‚ Alex is still an intern at The Bullying Effect in NYC. As of today‚ he is still in high school
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Alex Sander is a highly motivated product manager for the Toiletries Division of Landon Care Products‚ Inc.‚ a cosmetics products company headquartered in Connecticut. Alex was brought to the company by owner Sam Glass with the expectation of shaking up the product team and creating waves through his relentless work ethic. The young manager‚ undaunted by any learning challenge‚ has successfully lead his team through the rebranding of two national skin care products in just over a years’ time. A recent
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you said hello. This was Alan Turing. He was an ordinary man who made tremendous accomplishments during his lifetime that contributed towards computer science. He has been interested in science ever since he was young‚ which influenced him throughout his life. His incredible thinking during World War II led to his success in the computer science world. When he ended his life‚ he wouldn’t have expected the reaction the world had to his machine and what his machine led to. Alan Turing’s short term plan
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