Homes myths

As a result of this new economic activity, America experienced an unprecedented wave of immigration. Many of these immigrants were impoverished and came to America looking for jobs and the promise of a better life. For many poor workers in China, America appeared to be a promised land of opportunity. California became home to masses of Chinese immigrants. The myth of America as a... 

Greece land of myth and beauty, home to some of the greatest minds the world has ever known -Socrates, Plato, Aristotle - birthplace of democracy Greece was all of these and more. It gave the world its first great art, literature, theater, political institutions, sporting events, scientific and medical discoveries - the list is endless. 

But that was thirty years and many seventy-hour workweeks ago, and today she had come to sell ideas, not products. Her company wasn t small anymore. It had become a 60-million-dollar-a-year enterprise, the leader in natural personal care products such as shampoos, salves, and her trademark lip balm, featuring the funny little pen-and-ink drawing of a sharp-nosed, bearded fellow in a railroad cap Burt, a melding of myth, man, and marketing that took off in a way no one could have predicted. In the last few years she had cashed in and turned her formidable and iconoclastic business skills—not to mention a few hundred million dollars—in another direction, conservation. Her focus was to chart a possible future for the immense Maine Woods in which spruce, pine, and icy blue lakes prowled by moose and lynx and loon would trump the real estate investors vision of resorts, golf courses, and suburban homes on clear-cut lands. 

C. Homes, D. Metcalfe, and S. Takahashi, Exposing the myth of the 5-cent RFID tag Why RFID tags will remain costly this decade, Forrester Res., 2004. 

Unlike Menenius own myth-making, the Citizen s imagery, like the palace at Birsay, reveals a state in which it is impossible to distinguish personal space from the zone of defence the arm, activating the always latent pim on arms in the sense of arms and armour , is a soldier, the leg a horse, the tongue the trumpet that sounds the declaration of war, and the body as a whole the equivalent of a munitions depot. At the same time though it remains the distinct, individualised (and hungry) body of a private person with a home in Rome. 

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