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...lot of things to do and not a lot of time to get them done. It has been like this for a while now. Actually it started in my vacation. Funny, huh? I had a two months period with NO school, NO to-do’s and NONE of the normal activities, which take my time. But somehow I still managed to stuff so many plans into my two months of break, that I was completely exhausted, when I finally went back to school. Of some reason I could not overcome the challenge of spending time on doing nothing, doing nothing at all. I failed. Badly. What is wrong with me? The funny thing is that when I came back to “civilization” after being away for such a long time, most of my friends had had the same problem. Apparently we, humans of the Western Europe, are exceptionally great at larding our time off with everything else than sitting in a couch and just stare. Why is that? Are we afraid of being inactive and nonsocial? What is it in us that simply demand us to have plans, being on the road and not prioritize some “Home-Alone-Time”? Well, I know that there are different personalities, different people and different needs. I, myself, am very extrovert, so I love having plans. I am feeling the best, when I am around people. But the amounts of plans I and many others have in their breaks are frightening. Why can we just not let our normal, stressed ordinary days take a rest, and do the same with ourselves? Of course, it is often great and awesome plans we have, I get it. But still… The funny thing is that...
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...Luke Shapiro Case-3 Questions on e2 Kickstarter Project What do you think makes a Kickstarter (or crowdfunding, more generally) campaign succeed or fail? What are the most important aspects? I think people can use things like Kickstarter or other methods of crowdsourcing exponentially well in today’s world. A lot of people are out there in today’s world, and they look to help. They look to help out and better society. If there is a specific thing they come across or feel connected to, they may not have a problem generously donating. Not only will random people contribute to achieve a stranger’s goal, but also greater insight may be gained to improve processes. One of the best things Kickstarter has to offer is the entirety of a project for each idea. The project offers a “webpage that describes the project, the amount of money sought, how it will be spent, how long the fundarasig compaign will last, and what rewards are being offered.” The best way to gain as much attention as possible is carrying on a heavily focused marketing plan. Kickstarter’s model is “all or nothing” meaning that if the total funding request (e.g., $17,000) is achieved in the time (e.g., four weeks), they get the total amount pledged. But if the funding request is not achieved in the timeframe, even if they are short by one dollar, the company gets nothing. How important is this model for campaign success? What do you think of the incentives that the team created for e2’s campaign? Would these have...
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...chose a manual completely at random. For my critique I chose to use a manual I found online for an Avaya 3920 wireless telephone. The five criteria I had set for the manual beforehand were: it needed to be written in the second person, it needed to have a table of contents, it needed to be easy to understand/non-technical, the terminology needed to stay consistent throughout, and the manual needed to appear professional. The first thing that I noticed when the manual opened was that the first few pages were essentially legal notices. There was also a portion about the author/s making their best effort to make sure everything was accurate at the time of writing. I thought that was a good way to start. They seemed to cover all of their bases from a legal perspective. After getting through the legal notices, I found the table of contents. Ding, Ding, Ding, it matched one of my criteria. The table of contents was laid out, in my opinion, just the way it should have been. It started out with the introduction and all things a person would expect with that. (Welcome, brief description of the manuals layout, and it gave a website where the user can get more information.) The other sections in the table of contents were mainly for installation and setup. After I got through examining the table of contents I started to read the actual manual. The main manual started in “Chapter 2” as they called it. As I was reading through chapter 2, the first thing I noticed was an acronym that...
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...I took down my blogroll a while back, mostly because it’s been the source of more headaches than happy feedback, plus when Shelley published her rant on how blogrolls are hurting us, I figured it was time for it to go. I don’t think it was all bad, though. I imagine it helped a few of you find other things to read, which is good. But I wasn’t ever really happy with it. Like Monica, I felt that a larger description was probably better, and I tried using the “hover over the link to get more text” thing for a while, but it still didn’t make me happy. Monica’s take was: Something that frustrates me in other’s blogs is an inordinately long, unannotated blogroll. I just trawl through and hit something at random, hoping it won’t be jaw-slackeningly dull. There must be a better way, non? So I’ve annotated mine to tell you a little about the links I love. Hover over them with your mouse to see text. I don’t think simply yanking it is good. As Scott pointed out in an email: Hmmm, taking down blogrolls ain’t the solution to Shelley’s problem. I found most of the blogs that I read on a regular basis by browsing the blogrolls of others. Only a few of the people I read on a regular basis link to other blogs, so, without blogrolls, my exposure to other blogs would be seriously limited. Imagine if every blog was like mine where I rarely if ever link to other blogs in my articles? How would anyone find each other? I think the solution is something different that just...
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...and scary to look at. So why do people enjoy horror movies so much? It is the same kind of concept, something scares and disgusts us, but when it comes to horror films, shows, and etc. we find it to be pleasurable at the same time. Noël Carroll believes that the thing that attracts us to unpleasant feelings, like being scared and disgusted, is due to the monster. The monster is why there is a paradox of horror. Humans are extremely curious beings of life. Doctor Who season 4 episode 11, “Midnight”, demonstrates Carroll’s philosophy behind why people enjoy horror. “Midnight” starts off with the Doctor trying to convince his partner in crime to join him on a visit to a waterfall made of sapphires, which is located on the planet called Midnight, but she refuses, and the Doctor gets on the Crusader Tour Bus with seven strangers. On his way to Midnight Palace, the bus stops due to “engine” problems; however the Doctor quickly figures out that the Crusader Tour Bus is in perfect condition. The mechanic seems to see an odd shadow that appears to be running toward them, but the driver says its nothing and that help is on the way, reassuring the passengers and the bus attendant that everything will be fine. Suddenly, a random but constant knocking begins. The plot has finally come to the “monster”. The passengers start panicking and guessing what could be knocking: a person or maybe rocks falling. But it is neither, the viewer is now eager to find out who or what is knocking. Carroll...
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...is not that most towns kill startups. It's that death is the default for startups, and most towns don't save them. Instead of thinking of most places as being sprayed with startupicide, it's more accurate to think of startups as all being poisoned, and a few places being sprayed with the antidote. Startups in other places are just doing what startups naturally do: fail. The real question is, what's saving startups in places like Silicon Valley? [2] Environment I think there are two components to the antidote: being in a place where startups are the cool thing to do, and chance meetings with people who can help you. And what drives them both is the number of startup people around you. The first component is particularly helpful in the first stage of a startup's life, when you go from merely having an interest in starting a company to actually doing it. It's quite a leap to start a startup. It's an unusual thing to do. But in Silicon Valley it seems normal. [3] In most places, if you start a startup, people treat you as if you're unemployed. People in the Valley aren't automatically impressed with you just because you're starting a company, but they pay attention. Anyone who's been here any amount of time knows not to default to skepticism, no matter how inexperienced you...
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...story “A fortune” by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi. In the short story we meet a young man, who lives on pickpocketing. Mainly because he grew up in a less fortunate environment, with a dad who wasn’t caring, and a mother who only focused on the problems and worst things in life. But after all the times the father had let his boy down, the boy still came to him every time, he had snatched a wallet. This was a boy who was seeking the feeling of presence and love from his parents, this might be the the reason why he started pickpocketing for his father; because when he did that he felt like he had something in common with his father, and by doing it he (sometimes) made his father glad. But he was still worried about his father’s view on him; this is obvious where he thinks ”I should have counted the money I just didn’t want to know how much Pop thought I was worth” (p. 1 l.13) The mothers influence on this kid has not been much better, I guess that it must have been more depressing to have a mother, who doesn’t do much more that sitting down crying over all the things, in life that had, and could go wrong. But on the other hand she tries to give the boy a proper childhood: “My ma tried to raise me well. I have to give her credit for trying to make an honest boy.”(p.1 l. 15-16) But with this in mind she end up confusing the...
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...A famous quote I have heard by J.C. Watts is, “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.” That is something that my parents taught me as a young child. I have also been told to treat someone the way I would like to be treated, and I try to live by those mottos to this day. My parents told me that I should not follow everyone else’s actions and to be my own person. Sometimes it can be difficult because in the real world not everyone is easy to get along with and there can be so many ways to fall into peer pressure. When I was younger, I was always taught that if I did not do the right thing something bad would happen. I heard the same thing everywhere I went. If I was not going to obey my parents when I was told to do something, I would be sent to my room for a time out. If I did not listen to what my teacher said, I would be sitting in a desk bored out of my mind after school to serve a detention. If I told a sin at church, I would go to Hell and not Heaven. So, my parents brainwashed me into doing the right thing at a young age. That made it really easy for me to get along with almost everybody because everyone loves a goodie goodie when you are little. I am a pretty easy going person because it is important to get along with as many people as possible. I like to live in the moment and have fun. I am almost always happy because creating a positive vibe with the people surrounding me is extremely important. Nobody wants anyone else being rude to them, so...
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...My quest for an undergraduate degree began in August of 2008.I spent my first two years in college studying business and other random courses because I thought I wanted to be something that truly wasn’t the right fit for me. I always struggled as a student I just never found the interest in school like everyone else wanted me to. I always saw school as an easy task and I could just put off until the last minute. Some of my strengths include that I have a very strong work ethic and great communication skills. I have passion for literature it allows me to be somewhere mentally rather than physically. I can imagine myself as an actual character in that particular piece of work. I also have a passion for history because it allows me to learn about the past an envision my future. My communication skills might need to be refined so that I can be more focused when talking to large crowds. Recognizing my personal strengths wasn’t as simple as I thought. Knowing and understanding my skills, personality traits, and job qualities is a very important thing in today's work society. Once these characteristics are understood and identified, I then could begin to think about my weaknesses, which are generally more difficult to admit. The thing I loved about this class it focused more on my strengths as opposed to my weakness, which I thought, was ironic. Realizing my own weaknesses, and being able to admit them is the first step in creating a positive learning experience especially when...
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...stress? Stress is your body’s reaction to the things which you perceive as pressures. Stress occurs when you feel that you cannot cope with those pressures. Our bodies are designed to react in 2 ways to stress: to fight against the pressure, or to run from it. This is called the fight or flight response and it is controlled by the release of a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol makes your body react in ways that allow you to fight harder or run faster and it focuses your attention on the thing causing you stress. This response enables you to deal with stress effectively by either battling to get through the problem, or by removing yourself from a situation which is causing you to feel stressed. Sometimes we see so many pressures around us that stress can become a long term problem. Although being stressed for short periods of times can be good for us, long term stress can have negative consequences and lead to problem such as high blood pressure, anxiety and depression. © Microsoft Stressors Stressors are the things around us which can cause a stress response. There are different types of stressors, some of them are environmental (e.g. too much noise), daily pressures (e.g. being late), life changing events (e.g. divorce), social stressors (e.g. family commitments), chemical stressors (e.g. alcohol) and workplace stressors. The stressors you experience in college could be called workplace stressors, and the main thing likely to cause you stress at college is your...
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...The richest man in the world explains how to save the planet. At 58, Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, with a fortune that now exceeds $76 billion, but he may also be the most optimistic. In his view, the world is a giant operating system that just needs to be debugged. Gates' driving idea – the idea that animates his life, that guides his philanthropy, that keeps him late in his sleek book-lined office overlooking Lake Washington, outside Seattle – is the hacker's notion that the code for these problems can be rewritten, that errors can be fixed, that huge systems – whether it's Windows 8, global poverty or climate change – can be improved if you have the right tools and the right skills. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic organization with a $36 billion endowment that he runs with his wife, is like a giant startup whose target market is human civilization. Personally, Gates has very little Master of the Universe swagger and, given the scale of his wealth, his possessions are modest: three houses, one plane, no yachts. He wears loafers and khakis and V-neck sweaters. He often needs a haircut. His glasses haven't changed much in 40 years. For fun, he attends bridge tournaments. Related: Q&A: Bill Gates on How to Stop Global Warming Related: Obama in Command: The Rolling Stone Interview Related: Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview But if his social ambitions are modest, his intellectual scope is mind-boggling: climate, energy...
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...> 168159 CD >m Gift of YALE UNIVERSITY With the aid of the ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION 1949 OSMANIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Call No. Author %&V/S#/ 2-^ & Accession No. - . This bookihould be returned on or before the date last marked below. WHAT IS LITERATURE? JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Translated from the French by BERNARD FRECHTMAN PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY NEW YORK Copyright, 1949, by Philosophical Library, Inc. 15 EAST 40th Street, New York, N.Y. Printed in the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword I II What Why is Writing? Write? Whom Does One Write? 7 38 III For IV Situation of the Writer in 1947 161 Index 299 67 FOREWORD want to engage yourself," writes a young imbecile, "what are you waiting for? Join the Communist Party." A great writer who engaged himself often and disengaged himself still more often, but who has forgotten, said to me, "The worst artists are the most engaged. Look "If you at the Soviet painters" "You want tres is to murder An old critic gently complained, literature. spread out insolently all Contempt for belles-let- through your review." A petty mind calls me pigheaded, which for him is evidently the highest insult. An author who barely crawled from name sometimes awakens men accuses me of not being one war to the other and whose languishing memories in old concerned with immortality; he knows, thank God, any number of people whose chief hope it is. In the eyes of an American...
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...and many other but those three are the ones that are displayed the most. Out of all qualities Abigail displays devious is the one greatly revealed. Throughout the story there are many events that happen that Abigail had something to do with, with each event Abigail always has a different story from what actually happens and convinces people that her story is the truth. One event that happens that displays this would be when Abigail was in the woods with the girls dancing and took it to the next level by drinking blood and taking off her clothing. Before the questioning of what happen in the woods Abigail states “Shut up! All of you. We danced. That is all, and mark this, if anyone breathe a word or the edge of a word about the other things, I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring with me a pointy reckoning that will shudder you! And you know I can do it. I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine. And I have seen some reddish work done at night. And I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” When it came down to the questioning of what happened...
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...My favorite commercial is the Old Spice commercial that starts with a man in a shower and ends with him on a horse. Even after studying the film terms and how things are shot I just couldn’t figure out how this was shot, so I did some research to find out. I just had to know! Here is what I found and it worth the time to watch, it is so cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDk9jjdiXJQ The entire commercial is filmed in one take. There are no voice-overs. It is all a medium shot. The first scene is a man in a shower holding the product in question. They use a crane to remove the shower and drop a sweater onto his neck, but it is done so fast you can’t tell and he is suddenly on a boat. The item in his hand appears to turn from one thing to another right in from of your eyes. They are then careful to keep the camera just above his waist level and he is slid onto a horse so in the next shot he has moved from the boat to a horse. It looks almost impossible to be done without computer editing. It is amazing, but there is almost no computer graphics used. Clever scripting, great camera angles, and an awesome set are what make this commercial stand apart from the rest. As Leo Laporte says “this commercial just makes you want to smell like this...
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