ECHOES

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ECHOES
A through Z

• Power Point Presentation
• COURSE LIBR 500
• Foundations of Information Technology
• Instructor Mary Sue Stephenson, Ph.D.

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PREFACE
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• But so be it. With partial hand
• take this collection of variegated chapters
• half droll, half sad,
• plain-folk, ideal,
• the careless fruit of my amusements,
• insomnias, light inspirations
• Aleksandr Pushkin Eugene Onegin,
• translated by Vladimir Nabokov

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A Alain de Botton
One of my favorite authors
Born in Switzerland

• Lives in London

Educated at Cambridge

• He is the author of
• On Love
• The Romantic Movement
• Kiss and Tell
• How Proust Can Change Your Life
• The Consolations of Philosophy
• The Art of Travel
• The dedicated Web site for Alain de Botton and
  his work is http//www.alaindebotton.com/
• (click on the link above)

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C Chocolate
Cant live without

• Quick facts
• Nominated for Academy Award in the year 2000
• Blends well with coffee
• People who like chocolate live longer
  (scientifically proven fact!)
• Cacao tree is called Theobroma Gods meal

Perfect Diet
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My dream life
D Dance

• In this life
• I am a Roundhouse Community Dancer
• Enjoy taking modern dance, barre-a-terre, and
  creative dance classes
• Modern dance in front of the mirror

Stunning performance! Good morning Europe
Magical! The New York Tonight
Dazzling! Moscow Dancer
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F Family Tree
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J Joseph Brodsky
His poetry I adore

• Lived in St. Petersburg
• Came to US in 1972 as an involuntary exile from
  the Soviet Union
• Received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987
• Served as Poet Laureate of the US in 1991 and
  1992

His books include

• Part of Speech
• To Urania
• So Forth
• Watermak

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M Moscow
The city I like to visit

• Architectural masterpieces
• the Kremlin (15-17th centuries) - the former
  residence of the Russian czars,
• the St.Basils Cathedral (1551-1561)
• Theatres and museums
• The Bolshoi Theatre (1776)
• The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
• The Tretyakov Gallery
• The ancient estate Kolomenskoye (14th century)

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R Russian
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My mother tongue
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• The official language of Russian Federation
  (population 146.9 MM)
• and the spoken language for a vast majority of
  people living in the ex-USSR countries
• It gave me a solid grounding in Russian culture
• I was fortunate enough to read Pushkin, Gogol,
  Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Nabokov
• Almost one third of the scientific literature in
  the world is published in Russian

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S SLAIS
School of Library, Archival and Information
Studies, University of British Columbia
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• First-year student in the Master of Library and
  Information Studies program
• Battling my way through core courses
• Enjoying being here making new friends
• Hoping to find a great job when (or if?) I
  graduate

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U Ukraine
Born in Kharkiv

• Territory 603.7 thousand sq. km
• Population 50.1 MM
• Capital Kyiv (2.8 MM)
• Major cities Kharkiv, Donetsk, Odesa
• Official language Ukrainian
• Currency grivna
• National holiday 24 August - The Independence
  Day (1991)

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V Vienna
My future destination
Coffee mania

• Has indescribable old charm
• Cosmopolitan
• The city of Mozart
• The most caffeinated European city

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INDEX CREDITS

• Botton, Alain de, 3
• Biography
• eating habits in, 4
• education, 10
• family research, 6
• place of birth, 11
• Brodsky, Joseph, 7
• Chocolate, 4
• Dance, love to, 5
• Family tree, 6
• Gogol, Nikolaj, 9
• Kharkov, 6, 11
• Kyiv, 11

Moscow, 8 Nabokov, Vladimir, 2, 9 Nobel Prize,
7 Puskin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 2, 9 Russian,
language, 9 Tolstoy, Leo, 9 SLAIS, 10 Ukraine,
11 Vienna, 12
Original ideas re. family tree indexing Alain
de Botton Backgrounds on slides 45 Vogue
magazine Graphics of the animated book and flag
provided by Animation Factory Images of two books
by Alain de Botton www.alaindebotton.com Map of
Russia www.nakarte.ru