...Gatsby’s Archetypal Quest for Daisy, the Monetary Prize In The Great Gatsby, the characterizations of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, particularly in the flashback of when they first met in Chapter VIII, expose the absence of love that lies beneath the glitz and glamour of wealthy living. When seen through an archetypal lens, Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy can be seen as an Archetypal quest where the “golden girl” is a treasure, rather than a love interest (Fitzgerald, 120) (Delahoyde, 1). To Jay Gatsby, Daisy is materialistically the ultimate peak of wealth to be obtained, a metaphor best illustrated in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s choice of descriptive words that portray her in the same way that money might be defined. Daisy is a princess “high in a white palace the king’s daughter”, beautiful and comfortably assured a life of ease due to her wealthy place in society (Fitzgerald, 120). In this novel she is more a material, a monetary symbol, than a person, and this best proved in Chapter VIII (Delahoyde, 1). In a flashback of Gatsby’s to when he first knew and loved Daisy, his descriptions paint a picture of her “gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor” (Fitzgerald, 150). In this glowing portrayal that showcases Daisy’s beauty and power, (both things that she was born with, that she did not earn) her appearance and social class is all that is focused on, she is merely an outward image. From the point of view of a man that supposedly loves her, there...
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...socio cultural perspective describes follows. In the summary, the learning outcome referring to examples will be talk about. The definitions of play have stated many theorists. During the 20th century, children’s plays have been closely observed by theorists. Play defines as playing and growing are parallel roads to life. Playfulness describes the child’s creativity and action. Through play a child acquire self reliance to represent of his inner and outer worlds. (Wood, & Attfield, 2005). That children “learn through play” is a concept that has established to show the importance of play. It is the belief that play is necessary for a healthy grow and development. Play literate states that children declare their current interests and needs through play activity. Children control the environment, materials to acquire skills to going after exploration and practice. (Piaget, 1962). Play provided an ideal way of observe children’s natural interests, behaviours and moods. The children learn when they are ready. It describes the importance of choice of a child, and that ready is to understand to adults that the child is ready to early learning. The essential value of play indicates that children develop their social skills to cooperate with their peers. As play dough, playing with blocks and clay directs children to share the tools, waiting for self turn and respecting for social rules. Role of play is an ideal way of expressing their creativity and develop their imaginations...
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...“The looming question for all believers is how will we glorify God and advance his Kingdom in the way we live and use resources?” (Guy et al., 2015). Living in Grand Rapids comes with its pros and cons. I have been surrounded by believers my entire life in an area where i can profess my faith without worry. I think there will be a big shock for me after I burst out of the GR bubble and into the world of finances and the tough decisions that go along with that. I have heard countless stories of people struggling to continue their faith and even lose their faith after they leave high school and their parents. I have always thought to myself, “Is that going to be me?”. I have taken a lot of time to think through the different situations that will...
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...African elephant population has been utterly decimated within the last two decades. Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) serves as the archetype to African insurgency; the LRA is a group that for over twenty years, has successfully managed to elude the international and continental task force who are currently pursuing Kony and his men. The LRA’s operational boundaries are vast and mobile, and their range spans from Rwanda throughout Central Africa, and reaches as far west as the Gambia; moreover, the reason they are able to continually cover so much area revolves around the territorial range of the African Elephant. The LRA, and groups similar in structure possess the ability to operate wherever there is a source for ivory; furthermore, once the insurgents establish themselves as a player within the illicit ivory trade itself, they also buy into a market that provides...
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...Lam Ka Kiu(54390709) Should same sex marriage be legalized in Hong Kong Legalizing same sex marriage(also known as gay marriage,a kind of marriage between people of the same sex) has long been a controversial issue.It is said that gay people should enjoy the same right as ordinary people while the others think that marriage should be between a man and a woman.I aim to explore whether same sex marriage should be legalized in Hong Kong.It is my belief that same sex marriage should be legalized. Everyone should have the right to love others and be loved,even for the same sex couples.All of us are equal and it applies to marriage as well.1,138 benefits, rights and protections are provided for married couples in Federal law"(Members of The...
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...wisdom is vast and I have learned many things from them. For this interview, I spoke with my Grandmother, Karen. She is 71 years of age. Her health is very good; in fact I forget that she is even 71 years. I would guess her to be early sixty’s. She is very active and has no trouble doing daily activities. During the summer she has a large garden she takes care of herself and she also mows her lawn on her own. All of her senses are still in great condition. She says she does not notice any difference in hearing, smell, or taste. She does wear glasses, but has her entire life. The decline in vision and hearing is greatest in individuals aged 75 years and older (Santrock 343). So, with her exceptional health, she may be good for a while. Her circulatory seems to be in good condition. She has good blood pressure and is at a healthy weight. She smoked for a large portion of her life, but she quit about ten years ago. Her lungs seem to still be pretty strong due to her exercise and high activity. She has no problems with arthritis or osteoporosis which are both common in late adulthood. Most of her healthy tendencies are probably significantly due to her exercise and diet. Exercise is linked to increased longevity. Energy expenditure during exercise of at least 1,000 kcal/week reduces mortality by about 30 percent, while 2,000 kcal/week reduces mortality by about 50 percent (Santrock, 346). She also eats a very balanced...
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...this time capsule in the distant future, then times have absolutely changed. It is my objective to enlighten you to a couple of of the things that this humanity has discovered to be significant and to give you an concept of what life was like in the year 2011. In the time time span that I am composing this, numerous persons are very cognizant of their wellbeing, and I am no exception. Every forenoon, I awaken up at 5am to exercise. This encompasses not less than 45 minutes of cardiovascular workout and heaviness training. This assists me to organise my engaged work week and give me the power to join categories at night. At present, I work as a task coordinator in the Informational Technology field. During my day, my job comprises of coordinating job location setups for job trailers and considering with mesh management and demands for my company’s nine agencies that are established all through the U.S. Although this can be time spending, I relish it and find that the busier I am, the more creative I will be. Once my workweek is over, although, I spend my time playing golf, paintball or softball. The more hardworking I can be on the weekends, the better individual I am at work and at home. Staying fit assists me to find a affirmative balance in my life that I could not manage without. In 2011, times are very unsure, and I genuinely wish that this note will be read in more affirmative times. Here and now, too numerous countries—especially in the Middle East-- are battling, numerous...
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...upon a number of themes, many of which have to do with new notions of masculinity arising after the war. Jake's purported impotence is a powerful symbol for the emasculated postwar male psyche, and bull-fighting describes sex as warfare on a metaphorical level. In addition, Hemingway conceived of the idea for The Sun Also Rises while attending the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, with friends in July, 1925. The novel is a roman à clef where the characters are based on real people and the action is based on real events. 2. Biographical: Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, heavily influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. In 1925, Hemingway took a trip to the famous Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain that would later provided the basis of Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises. The novel is widely considered Hemingway's greatest work, artfully examining the postwar disillusionment of his generation. 3. Literary/Philosophical Time Period: The Sun Also Rises was written based on the Lost Generation. This term refers to the wandering, purposeless time period where society as a whole lacked masculinity after WWI. It is typically a time that captures the attitudes of a hard-drinking, fast-living disillusioned...
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...Xcellon Institute A Study on Supply Chain Management at wal mart Submitted to: Prof Mhihr Das Submitted By: Kunal Bhatia (M00116, Hitesh Bambhaniya (M00126), Saloni Umraniya (M00128), Sagar Nathani (M00134) 3/6/2014 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Value Chain System of wall mart 4 Porter 5 force 4 SWOT 5 Competitors 6 Suppliers 8 Back haul of wall mart 9 Role of HR 10 Role of RFID 11 Strategy 12 Strategy of other companies 13 Conclution 16 Introduction The retail industry is dominated by few retail giants, with Wal-Mart competing in several retail categories. Wal-Mart competes against Kmart and Target in the general merchandise retailing; against Costco in the warehouse club segment; and against Kroger, Albertson’s and Safeway in the supermarket retailing. Competition among retailers centers on pricing, store location, variations in store format and merchandise mix, store size, shopping atmosphere, and image with shoppers. Further analysis provided by the following figure diagnoses the competitive environment of the retail industry. As a fact, Wal-Mart is considered as the world’s largest retailer nationwide that has been guided by its founder Sam Walton’s passion toward customer satisfaction, and his beliefs in excellence, as well as his philosophy in lowering his prices that has been proven with his famous slogan “everyday low prices.”1Visible outstanding success has required a lot of effort, strategies, dedication...
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...each Christmas. However, it was great move on Wrigley’s behave and for the Mars company as well. Mars is a very diverse organization and does provide a very versatile business plan in this ever changing world and economy. I find it to be an intriguing company and envy it’s progression from a small town at home business to the billion dollar international business it is today. The company began in 1911 by Mr. Frank C. Mars as the Mar-O-Bar Company in his country home kitchen located in Tacoma, Washington. His first products were butter cream candy bars which his family and friends said were the best in the land. He soon outgrew his kitchen when the business started booming and opened his first factory of 125 employees. Quality and value were the foundations for his business and his first mission statement. In 1920, Mr. Mars relocated his factory to Minneapolis, where soon the Snickers (without the chocolate coating) and Milky Way bars were developed and launched. Both candies are just as popular 91 years later. The company in 1922 actually loss $6,000 money, but in 1924 had a sales profit of over $700,000. In 1926, Mars changed the name of the company to Mars Candies. By 1928 again the business had outgrown his factory so Mars relocated his business to Chicago where business quadrupled even during the depression. After his son graduated from...
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...INTRODUCTION Site A: Istana Lama Seri Menanti The Istana Seri Menanti also known as the Istana Lama Seri Menanti is one of the famous landmarks in Negeri Sembilan. It is situated in the Royal Town of Seri Menanti, about 50 km from the capital, Seremban. It is a timber palace constructed between 1902 to 1908. Yang Dipertuan Muhammad Ibni Almarhum Yamtuan Antah officially opened the palace. The palace was his royal residence until 1931 before moving into the new palace that was built not far from the old palace. Two local carpenters, Tukang Kahar and Tukang Taib designed the palace and Mr. M.Woodford who was the head draughtsman at the Public Works Department provided the detailed drawings. This four-storey building is special because it was built without using any nails or screws. They used wooden pegs called pasak to hold the structures together and to ensure that the palace would be able to withstand the times. It also uses 99 solid timber pillars to denote the 99 warriors of the various clans, soaring 2 meter above the ground. Site B: Lukut Fort Lukut Fort was built by Raja Jumaat bin Raja Jaafar circa 1847 during the reign of the 3rd Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Muhammad Shah. It was situated on Bukit Gajah Mati or Bukit Raja. This fortress is very strategic becaused it faced Sungai Lukut and the Straits of Malacca. Raja Jumaat built this fortress to prevent attacks from his enemies and to be protected from any disturbance or rebellion as happened to Raja Busu...
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...about indigenous people” (Hitchcock 2002). The Khoe and San are still not officially recognized and statistics does not show their presence in South Africa. The Khoisan are made up of five main groupings, namely San, Griqua, Nama, Koranna and the Cape Khoi. However there is no precise number of Khoisan people that currently live in South Africa (Hitchcock 2002). The Khoisan are not constitutionally recognized as Indigenous communities. “The current legal institutions continue to classify them as “Coloureds” just like the apartheid regime did” (Barnard 1992). The San people also called Bushmen, or Basarwa all considered pejorative to some degree are members of various indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples of Southern Africa, whose territory spans Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa (Barnard 1992). There is a significant linguistic difference between them. The definition for indigenous people is a broad one and is defined differently according to people and organizations, but generally “indigenous people are those that have historically belonged to a particular region or country, before its colonization or transformation into a nation state, and may have different often unique cultural, linguistic, traditional, and other characteristics to those of the dominant culture of that region or state” (Barnard 1992). Ancestral land...
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...et al. (2008), state that strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long term. Without a strategy in place to refer to, it is easy for a business to become overly focussed on the day-to-day business activities, temporarily losing sight of the goals and aspirations they have set for the business. This loss of vision can in turn lead to strategic drift, a concept explained by Handy (1989), as being the cause for businesses becoming uncompetitive in their respective environments and ultimately failing as a result of being too slow to respond to external trends and losing touch with customers. One of the main causes for strategic drift is thought to be substantial changes in technology, which have been rapid across the span of the information age. Narayanan & Fahey (1986), highlight that as the external environment changes, business strategies must be modified to take account of newly emerging opportunities and threats and that businesses must be proactive in responding to such changes in order to maintain competitive advantage. This notion is only proving to be ever increasingly important as businesses now operate in an environment where they are...
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...Benefits of Video Games English 223 D 12/5/2012 Intro I have played video games since I was five years old, they have been a huge part of my life. They have made me the person I am today for better or worse, but I believe for the better. They have helped me significantly in my social life. They helped me make friends, and have allowed me to have a common ground with people I would other wise never have anything in common with. It allows me to meet new people and keep in touch with friends in far off places. The challenges that video games have presented me have taught me how to analyze the situation quickly so I can react just as fast. Also I have learned a lot of random facts from video games about the real world. Many of the situations in video games have connections to the real world and thanks to the simulations of real life in video games I know how to react to certain situations or perform certain task appropriately with out actually ever doing them before. I believe video games have many benefits to offer everyone, they have been great to me and I am sure they can help everyone. Video games are deemed as toys with no apparent value but to waste time. This is very untrue, video games can be very beneficial if used properly. They can increase analysis and problem solving skills, they allow people the ability to keep in touch with their friends from all around the world and even make new ones because they have a shared interest, and they can...
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...Democracy, Religion and Inequality University of Groningen Faculty of Economics and Business Bachelor Thesis International Economics and Business Name Student: Yitian Jing Student ID Number: s2012790 Student email: y.jing@student.rug.nl Date Thesis: Jun. 5th, 2012 Name Supervisor: Dr. Robbert K. J. Maseland First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to my advisor, Dr. R. K. J. Maseland, for his academic guidance and encouragement throughout the research. He has been very generous sharing his experiences on institutional and cultural determinants on economy, as well as on academic research methodology and beyond. I would not have finished such a thesis paper without his support. His effort and patience would never be forgotten. Abstract The democracy’s inequality decreasing effect has been appealing to researchers for long but lacks concentrated argumentation and empirical evidence, as well as the interaction between democracy and religion. This paper conduct an empirical analysis covering time period of 1978-2010 with 86 countries to test the hypotheses of whether democracy decreases inequality and whether an egalitarian religion decreases the influence of democracy. The result shows the direct effect of democracy is weak, however, the hypothesis of religion’s effect on the democracy’s influence is partially confirmed. Therefore, democracy itself has minor influence on inequality while a large proportion of the effect is...
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