People Around The World

different festivities over the year. The New Year’s Eve is celebrated at the turn of the 1st of January. On the night of the 31st of December, people usually gather together along Copacabana Beach to watch the firework display, famous all over the world. Around February or March, there is Carnival. On those days, people go out to the streets to parade and dance. Brass bands, cavaquinho players and percussionists play traditional songs in blocos carnavalescos, while people have…

Análise da música “Mad World” A música “Mad World” (Mundo Louco) foi realizada pela banda Tears for Fears em 1982 e desde então têm surgindo várias versões desta, realizadas por músicos como Michael Andrews e Gary Jules e até mesmo por jovens cantores da série Glee. Esta música transmite uma mensagem bastante importante que cada vez mais se adapta aos dias de hoje. Como o próprio título nos diz, vivemos num mundo louco, onde as diferenças de cada um, que nos tornam autênticos, são…

The Art of Game Design This page intentionally left blank The Art of Game Design A Book of Lenses Jesse Schell Carnegie Mellon University AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is an imprint of Elsevier Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is an imprint of Elsevier. 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA This book is printed on acid-free paper. ©…

During the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Her photographs of migrant workers were often presented with captions featuring the words of the workers themselves. Lange’s first exhibition, held in 1934, established her reputation as a skilled documentary photographer. In 1940, she received the Guggenheim Fellowship. “One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.” – Dorothea Lange Early Years One…

Letter to the German people from a Portuguese citizen Dear friends: First of all let me tell you that I have always had great admiration for you all, and when I had the privilege to be appointed to a mission of representing my country in Germany, I felt honored to represent my country and simultaneously could have the exact idea of your country and your people. The reality of the German people was someone between cold, distant, nothing comparable to us the people of the south, and

daily all over the word. It is used in air, land and sea communication, in information technology, sports, tv, movies, science, politics, music... English is necessary to surf and chat on the internet, to e-mail people around the world, to read international books, magazines, announcements, ads, song lyrics, instructions, manuals, scientific journals, etc. The following graph show the use of English all over the world. 1 The inner circle - places where English is the first language: The…

Trabalho realizado por: A brief story of the brand • In 1952 Nathan Swartz, a shoe stitcher by trade, bought half-interest in the Abington Shoe Company of Abington, Massachusetts, a firm that had been incorporated in 1933. Within three years, Nathan acquired the remaining interest in the company. For the next decade, father and sons produced and sold handmade footwear to discount outlets and stores that put house labels on them. The Swartz family developed the Timberland brand name…

THE GREAT GATSBY – COMPILATION OF ANALYSIS Setup The jazz age: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Jazz Age The 1920’s saw a break with the traditional set-up in America. The Great War had destroyed old perceived social conventions and new ones developed. Fitzgerald's personal history is mirrored in the characters of Jay Gatsby and narrator Nick Carraway. Nick is both mesmerized and disgusted by Gatsby's extravagant lifestyle, which is similar to how Fitzgerald claimed to feel about the "Jazz…

Chapters 16-18 are the key for understanding the connotation of the novel Brave New World, because it explains the entire concept of stability, identity, and community, through Mond’s and John’s dialogue. Mustapha Mond elucidates that people need to select between happiness and freedom, between emotions and pleasure, between beauty and consumption. They continuously need to sacrifice one of them, declares Mustapha Mond, “that’s the price we have to pay for stability. You’ve got to choose between

including simulations and virtual worlds, have the potential to be an important teaching tool because they are interactive, engaging and immersive activities (for example see the work of Gee 2008; Shaffer 2005; Smith 2007). this document considers this claim. it begins by briefly considering the rationale for using games in education – informal and formal. it then considers the various types of digital games that are described as being educational, specifically: – the relationship…