![]() ![]() I’m sure we’ve all had the experience of starting a new social media account and then getting almost no likes or shares aside from some friends. ![]() But while it’s true that word of mouth marketing is very powerful, most businesses do not know how to succeed with social media. It feels like most business teachers today are talking about social media. We all love the idea that other people will promote our business for free on Facebook, Youtube and other platforms. In a world of one million self-proclaimed social media “experts,” that’s a breath of fresh air! In this book, Jonah Berger shows us how to succeed with social media using advice that is both practical and most importantly SCIENCE-BASED. ![]() Been featured in media like The New York Times and Harvard Business Review.Published over 50 articles in academic journals,.He is seen as an expert in marketing and social science because he has: Jonah Berger is a professor at Wharton Business school in Pennsylvania. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Later on, she tells L she was so struck by the sense of freedom his landscapes emitted that they gave her the courage to change her life. Second Place traces the arc of M's fraught relationship with L, beginning with the moment, as an unhappy "young mother on the brink of rebellion," she first saw his paintings in a Paris gallery. Essentially, it's a domestic novel combined with a novel of ideas in which Cusk continues her cerebral exploration of issues of freedom, how art can both save and destroy us, the rub between self-sacrifice and self-definition in motherhood, and the possibilities of domestic happiness. Unlike the trilogy, it is neither episodic nor plotless. A writer we know only as M delivers a long monologue relaying the story of her obsession with a famous painter dubbed L. The Outline trilogy is a hard act to follow, but Second Place is an excellent next step. ![]() Would she go back to her earlier, more conventional satires of the stresses of family life? Or would she continue to probe questions about the connection between freedom and gender and art and suffering in serial conversations with strangers? Rachel Cusk's Outline trilogy, which so brilliantly pushed against the confines of fiction to explore the power of narrative, left us wondering what she would write next. ![]() ![]() – Dandenong Wetlands, Stud Road, Dandenong North. ![]() The Group meets at Dandenong Wetlands on the first Sunday of every month at 9.30am. THE Greater Dandenong Environment Group formed in 1990 to increase local awareness about environmental issues. Call Lesley Jarutis on 9546 2346 for more information. – Club Noble, Moodemere Street, Noble Park. The not-for-profit club is for retired people aged over 55 and members participate in outings, coffee mornings, cinema trips and more. THE Combined Probus Club of Noble Park meets on the first Monday of the month. Call June on 9798 1784 or Ray on 9547 1907 for more information. Mondays are $5 per person and Saturdays are $8 per person. – Burden Park Bowling Club, corner Heatherton and Springvale roads, Springvale South. There’s ballroom dancing every Monday from 6.30pm to 10pm, and every fifth Saturday there’s dancing from 1pm to 5pm and ballroom from 8pm to 11pm. JOIN in the social mixed styles of ballroom dancing at the Burden Park Bowling Club. Call Carolyn Scott on 9700 1976 or 9791 5161 for more information. – Sandown Greyhounds, View Road, Springvale. ![]() VIEW stands for Voice, Interests and Education of Women. ![]() SPRINGVALE VIEW Club meets on the fourth Monday of the month for dinner, socialising and support for The Smith Family. – The Open Door, 110 Ann Street, Dandenong. No experience is necessary, just a willingness to learn. LEARN a new song or join in singing some favourite oldies. ![]() ![]() ![]() And he left the door open to a world-shaking event known as the Columbian Exchange. He left seeds and spores, microbes and mayhem. It seems Columbus left more than his folkloric legacy in the so-called New World. ![]() Like Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Mann's book changed the worldview of all who read it. Literate and surprising, "1491" was a welcome bridge between the academic and popular imaginations. In his best-selling "1491," Mann packed a generation of the latest scholarship into breezy prose to convince readers that Indians - he balks at the use of Native American - were as technologically sophisticated as the Europeans Columbus left behind. Mann tells a more nuanced story - hundreds of stories, in fact. Columbus "discovered" America and the rest was, simply, history. Schoolchildren no longer learn the old verse - "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue" - but its innocence persists. ![]() ![]() ![]() controversial novel, author Ralph Peters a U.S. ![]() The Soviet Army wages a brutal battle for Europe - even as the hidden rivalries and divided loyalties within its ranks begon to emerge. In a matter of days, refugees clog the roads and the cities are in shambles. While western leaders debate the use of nuclear weapons, the Soviet Army and its Warsaw Pact Allies crash across West Germany, exploiting the NATO armies' deadly lack of preperation. The time is tomorrow - and the Soviet Army is about to attack. ![]() They could be any two soldiers in the world. At command headquarters, a four-star general pursues a family tradition of military honor that reaches back centuries. In the heart of a European forest, a young private dreams of home and rock 'n roll. ![]() ![]() But is Lakunle stupid as he is made out to be? He loathes Bale Baroka, whom he regards as a corrupt ruler, bent on resisting modernity to protect his abusive ruler. The villagers, children even, regard him as a fool and a laughing stock. ![]() His smattering contains loosely combined verses and phrases from Western literature and the Bible. He old-style English suit, a size or two too small, and his twenty-three-inches trousers, makes him look ridiculous. He attempts at emulating Western culture, oftentimes appear clumsy, awkward, and laughable. He is a young man of nearly 23 years old, and advocates Western culture, which he is bent on spreading throughout the village to replace its supposedly backward traditions and customs. ![]() Lakunle is the school teacher of the village of Ilujinle, who is portrayed as representing Western culture values. ![]() ![]() ![]() He thought it had become a cult, busy with creating a private language that is legible only for a selected few. More recently, the performance artist Scott Burton became fed up with the art world. In many ways his operation was closer to that of a modern advertising agency than a single artist toiling away with no purpose. Peters cathedral, he was running a giant studio employing dozens of sculptors, so of course he designed a colonnade buzzing with sculptures. ![]() At the time Bernini was designing the plaza in front of St. The orange trees were a symbol for the Medici’s, so he basically placed the clients giant logo right into the picture. Sandro Boticelli had to fit his Venus exactly into a given panel in the living room of the Villa of Castello for the Medicis. ![]() Function used to be part of the very heart of art, so all art was also close to being design: In the Renaissance, art had to work hard for its reason for being. ![]() ![]() But as the TV show never formally adapted SOTL (yet.), we'll leave behind any further discussion of resemblances between Hannibal and the novel. That being said, it should be noted that many elements (and in some cases, verbatim exchanges of dialogue) from Harris's novel were borrowed by Bryan Fuller and company in Hannibal, including a subplot concerning Jack Crawford's wife Bella and her battle with cancer, as well as the character Miriam Lass (Anna Chlumsky), who in many ways echoes Starling-both are FBI trainees, tasked with "interesting errands" by Jack Crawford, both of which involve interviewing Hannibal Lecter. ![]() This time around, we'll be dealing with only one adaptation, the 1991 Oscar darling written for the screen by Ted Tally and directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Jodie Foster as protagonist Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins in his first appearance as Hannibal Lecter, a role for which he is perhaps most recognized. Now, with 2015 nearing an end-the year in which the aforementioned television show said goodbye (for now)-we're ready to move ahead into Thomas Harris's sequel to Red Dragon, perhaps the most famous and revered of all Lecter properties, The Silence of the Lambs (or SOTL). ![]() ![]() ![]() Last month, I took a look at the first of four novels featuring the character Hannibal Lecter, Red Dragon, as it related to its two screen adaptations, Manhunter and the Brett Ratner film of the same name, as well as the TV series Hannibal, which I felt handled the material the best. ![]() ![]() The alternation of ascending and descending tones in the poem conveys the mood of the struggle against the slave-owning society. The ascending tone is intertwined in the poem with the descending one and this conveys the ups and downs, emotions and feelings of the lyrical hero. ![]() The text ends with an ascending tone: the words “of Me” sound with increased emotionality (Dickinson 1). The take-off takes place in words expressing hope for the defeat of the slave-owning society (“Hope”, “And sweetest”) (Dickinson 1). The text of the poem alternates ascending and descending tones. This confrontation, which is present in the poem even at the phonetic level, reflects the struggle of the north and the south. Thus, in the imagination there is a picture of the struggle of two tones, the struggle of dark and light colors (Parker 22). Voiceless consonant sounds are associated with rustling, noise and dark tones: “sore must be the storm” (Dickinson 1). At the same time, the positive image of “chilliest land” is a metaphor which means the North struggling with the slave system. ![]() ![]() The vowel sound is associated with blue, green – these are the colors of light, joy and tranquility: “I’ve heard it in the chilliest land” (Dickinson 1). The poem is dominated by the vowel sound, the sibilant deaf consonant, the sonorous consonants. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As it turns out, there were plans to give Forrest something to say during this scene, but director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Eric Roth never agreed on what Gump should state in this particular moment.Īs Eric Roth explained to Yahoo! News, Robert Zemeckis wanted something "way funnier and more important" than what Roth initially had in the script, and the screenwriter tried to put together something that would fit the director's specifications. It's an amusing moment, though that wasn't how the scene was originally staged. Billy Crystal And Robin Williams Were Consulted To Write A Funny Speech For The MovieĪs you likely remember, during the famous Washington Monument scene, Forrest Gump goes up to the mic to say something, only to be promptly cut off. ![]() |