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Opening	Found	“Hello Georgetown”
Contents	Found	Information of the event including advantages, time, place, and opening schedule.
Closing	Found	Contact address.

 

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Opening	Found	“Call for proposals funded by the European Comission”
Contents	Found	Information about what, where, when, who about the event, possibilities, request, and announcement about proposal contest and awards.
Closing	Found	Source to further information.

 

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Closing	Found	Contact address

                             
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Text	Main Idea	Details
Text 1	Informing the people of Georgetown about the opening of a Suit Shop in a new venue.	-          The announcement came from J.Crew Store -          The opening will be in April, 2013 -          The shop will offer more of men’s and women’s, weddings and parties collection.
Text 2	Calling for proposals about bird flu virus outbreak for research purposes.	-The announcement came from WHO -The impacts and damages of bird flu -The need for proposals to bolster research -The requirements for the proposals -The announcement is for competent researchers.
Text 3	Neosys store moves to a new place.	-The announcement came from Neosys. -The address of the new store -The changes on the old place -The informations regarding contacts, etc.
Text 4	New branches are open.	-The cities where the new branches were opened. -The reasoning of the new opening -The expectations for the new opening. -The branches will be opened starting in January 1st 2018.

JOHN D. ROCKEFFELER

John Davidson Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history. He amassed a fortune of about 300-400 billion dollars (adjusted for inflation), only surpassed by people such as Augustus Caesar, who "privately own all of Egypt", and Mansa Musa, whose generosity cause inflation of gold in the Saharan Africa.

He was born in 1839 in New York in a poor family. His father, claiming to be a "botanical expert", is a trader of elixir and known for his shady business. At a young age, he started his career as a bookeeper. He was told by his mother "to work, to save, and to give", and he always give a portion of his income to the poor.

His business career began in Cleveland with his partner, Maurice Clark. They both found the potential of oil that most person doesn't recognize. At the time, the oil boom in Pennsylvania is ongoing and everyone is mining. But this two person has another idea. Rather than drilling the oil, they will buy all of the oil and refine it. Usually, people will take the usable part of the oil and throw the rest onto the river. Rockefeller, instead use it to power his refinery, most importantly kerosene. At the time, there was no electricity yet, so all of America light their places with oil gained from killing whales, making it very expensive. By producing kerosene, light is now very cheap for poor people, at least until Edison/ Tesla came.

Rockefeller is obsessed with controlling every aspect of his industry. Oil requires barrel to store, so he bought the barrel producing company, and instead buying the wood, he own a forest.

This business is a success and other people started to open their own refining companies. But Rockefeller did not want competition. So he, which will be his future business model, started to eliminate competition and after partnering with Samuel Andrews, he bought out the Clark's shares. Soon he, his brother William, Andrews, and a man named Pfleger join and create the largest oil refining company at its time.

In 1870, they merge the various companies into one companies, the Standard Oil. Transportation of oil requires trains, so so he control the train company, and use it only to transport his oils, only his oils, instead of passenger. This made SO's product way cheaper than competition, meaning price can be lower while still maintaining profit. With his monopoly, Rockefeller will soon buy out other companies and stamp out competition. If they refuse, Rockefeller will start a "price war", where he dropped the oil price to the point that they start losing money, however their consumer would start exclusively buy Standard Oil's product, therefor their competitor will be unable to compete and soon be bankrupt.

This practice would only repeat and repeat and repeat until Standard oil controlled 90% of the US oil supply. Public animosity is high against this company and finally in 1890 the government pass the Sherman Anti-Trust act, which basically outlaw the monopoly he was conducting. But at this point the company has grown so big that they can bribe the politician into looking the other way. This will take a man brave enough to stand against this practice, and the man is Teddy Roosevelt. Finally in 1911 the supreme court rule out that the Standard Oil Company has been in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act for about twenty years and dissolve the company into more than 90 companies.

However, all of those companies is still owned by Rockefeller. After the dissolution, the stocks that he have would double in value, leading him to own 300-400 billion dollars.

Today, public opinion about this man is diverse. Most people saw him as an evil capitalist trying to get every dollar but some see him as a generous person giving 6% of his income to charity since he was a bookkeeper and actively combat slavery of African-American (though some might say that he is trying to replace them with wage slaves). But he taught us that with bravery, cleverness, and most importantly hard work, we can achieve anything that we want.

ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES: STRUCTURE

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Once upon a time, there lived Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter, in the middle east. He was in the forest when he saw forty thieves stop in front of a cave.

The leader said “Open Sesame!” and before Ali Baba’s amazed eyes the sealed mouth of the cave magically opened and the men disappeared inside. To come out and close the entrance, the leader said “Close Sesame” and the cave sealed itself once more. Trembling with excitement Ali Baba waited till the thieves had left and then entered the cave after saying the magic words. To his delight he found lots of treasure.

Ali Baba told his brother Kasim about the wondrous cave. Kasim set off to get some treasure for himself too. Sadly, he forgot the words to leave the cave and the thieves killed him. Ali Baba discovered his brother’s body in the cave. With the help of a slave girl called Morgiana, he was able to take Kasim’s body back home and bury it.

Realising that someone else knew about their cave the thieves tracked Ali Baba down. The leader, disguised as an oil seller stayed with Ali Baba. He had brought along mules loaded with forty oil jars containing the other thieves. Clever Morgiana knew who the oil seller really was and poured boiling oil into the jars killing the other thieves. While dancing in front of the leader of the thieves Morgiana stabbed him.

After the death of the thieves, Ali Baba was saved. His wealth made him prosper and they lived happily ever after.

Orientation: Ali Baba was a poor wood cutter who encounter forty thieves.

Complication: Ali Baba saw the thieves' secret treasure. He told Kasim about it. Kasim rushed in, but was stuck and killed. The thieves realized this, and plotted to kill Ali Baba by disguising as an oil trader. Their trick was found out and the thieves were killed.

Resolution: Ali Baba lived happily ever after with his wealth.