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The Greek System: American Fraternities: Why you want to be a part of it
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Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delt uh… uh…uhm… This is about as far as most American students who aren’t part of the Greek system will get when attempting to recall the Greek alphabet. This is also one of the many seemingly menial tasks you are subjugated t...
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Promoting the learning mobility of young people
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On July 8th, a Green Book called «Promoting the learning mobility of young people» was issued by the European Commission. This Green Book, meant to receive recommendations aimed at facilitating student exchanges in the European Union, is based on ...
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What can you expect when travelling to Italy ?
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Italy is often associated to Roman ruins, to gastronomy or to football, depending on your preferences. But does this image fit to reality?
The pizzas and the pastas are really the gastronomic symbols of Italy and they are served in most of th...
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What about travelling from your own living room ?
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Thanks to nowadays' technological headways, we are now able to travel more quickly and more easily and to make light work of big distances. It is also easier to cross most of the borders around the world: in many countries, a simple stamp on a pas...
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David against Go...ogle!
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The fighter to my left is Google. It is the first Internet search engine in the world with more than 65% of the market shares, 20.000 people, 111 billions dollars of stock appreciation (for now). A 20 billions turnover in 2008.4-billion net profi...
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Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delt uh… uh…uhm… This is about as far as most American students who aren’t part of the Greek system will get when attempting to recall the Greek alphabet. This is also one of the many seemingly menial tasks you are subjugated to as a new pledge (for those of you unfamiliar with pledging: a pledge is a person who attempts to join a fraternity to become a qualified member through a process consisting of a school term long interview and test). That along with memorizing long ...
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On July 8th, a Green Book called «Promoting the learning mobility of young people» was issued by the European Commission. This Green Book, meant to receive recommendations aimed at facilitating student exchanges in the European Union, is based on the report of the High level expert forum on mobility entitled « Making learning mobility an opportunity for all ». This report sets several goals, that should encourage and increase the number of student exchanges programs in Europe.
Should be ...
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Italy is often associated to Roman ruins, to gastronomy or to football, depending on your preferences. But does this image fit to reality?
The pizzas and the pastas are really the gastronomic symbols of Italy and they are served in most of the ITalian restaurants. Are we going to enjoy our meals in Italy
if we are fond of Italian food? Maybe yes, maybe not. Since it is each to his own, there is no general advise about it; however, do not expect to find the same taste in
the dishe...
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Thanks to nowadays' technological headways, we are now able to travel more quickly and more easily and to make light work of big distances. It is also easier to cross most of the borders around the world: in many countries, a simple stamp on a passport and you can enter the teritory. So that it is quite easy to yield to our desire of travel and tourisme.
There are plenty of stories of adventurers who followed Jules Verne's steps and who go around the world, alone or with their families....
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The fighter to my left is Google. It is the first Internet search engine in the world with more than 65% of the market shares, 20.000 people, 111 billions dollars of stock appreciation (for now). A 20 billions turnover in 2008.4-billion net profit.
The fighter to my right is Facebook, a social network created in 2004. Even if Facebook is a heavyweight in terms of audience with 250 million of members, it is extremely different as far as finances are concerned: in 2008 the social network wa...
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