...Scorpio- The Scorpion (October 24th – November 22nd) Sanskrit Name: Vrishschika | Type: Water- Fixed- Negative | Ruling Planet: Pluto Lucky Color: Scarlet, Red | Lucky Day: Tuesday | Lucky Number: 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90 Scorpio is the eighth sign of the zodiac and is represented by a Scorpion. Fierce and strong, Scorpio is driven by passion and a focus that is nearly impossible to break. Incredibly ambitious, and intense in nearly every way, the Scorpio still manages an elusive edge, and a mysterious and magnetic charm. The calm outer surface of a Scorpio is often the lid for an extremely complex personality. Scorpio Personality Overview Scorpio, you are brave and full of focus and determination. Your will can never...
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...When a prophecy is told and nightmares become reality, Macbeth, from William Shakespeare's play “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, is determined to keep his power at any cost. When he encounters three wicked sisters, a line of kings, and bloody daggers his ambition will get the best of him. The kingdom hears of killings but does not know that their king is the murderer. And Macbeth, the coward, becomes fearless. Because he is brave, ambitious and dishonest, Macbeth will learn that power cannot protect him from fate. After hearing of the prophecy that Macbeth will be king, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth decide to kill Duncan and pin the murder on his men. Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth’s manhood and convinces him to man up and take the life of the current king of Scotland. Lady Macbeth drugs the guards and Macbeth goes in the chamber kills Duncan and his guards and says “I have done the deed, didst thou not hear a noise?”(Mac 2.5 14) Macbeth showed bravery in killing Duncan so that he can rule Scotland as king. Not only did Macbeth display bravery, but he also presents himself to be highly ambitious as well....
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...Decius says that Calpurnia’s nightmare is, “all amiss interpreted,” and that it was a, “vision fair and fortunate (II: ii: 83-84).” Decius tears at the credibility of Calpurnia’s interpretation of the dream and in turn reinterprets it in a new and better light. A light in which Caesar is of upmost importance and needed in Rome, both of which fuel his large ego. Decius warns, “if he shall send him word [he] will not come,” that the plebeians’ swaying “minds may change (II: ii: 95-96).” Decius knows that Caesar desperately wants the crown, so he uses the emotion of fear of the senate changing their minds about his crowning to encourage him to go to the senate. This use of pathos shows how vain and desperate Caesar is for power. Decius asks, “if Caesar shall hide himself,” will...
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...competition from companies all around the world. This, by no means is an easy task. A very key to the success of a small-to-medium sized enterprise (SME) is originality. You may be passionate, hardworking and more than willing to work around the clock. Nevertheless, if you are unable to stand out of the crowd, your business will simply fall with an unimaginable pace. You may have heard of G.O.D., a large brand selling products that strongly resemble the Hong Kong culture. Vision of its founder Douglas Young was at the time so revolutionary that it is fair enough to say G.O.D.’s success came so naturally. So, to embark on your road to a successful business, first you will need to come up with a brilliant and unique idea. The inescapable nightmare that haunted every business-starter is the lack of initial capital. It is going to be a long uphill battle. Without sufficient funding, you will not be able to maintain the business until it finally yields its fruit and hits a profit. In fact, the lack of funding is so strong a discouragement that it leaves most SMEs with no choice but to give up. One may be delighted when they heard of the government-managed SME funding schemes. And yet, after the one-off sum of a few thousand dollars, you are left on your own in the long run. There is an orthodox but effective solution to this problem: following a prudent gradual developing strategy. What began as a small project in an industrial building in Ap Lei Chau, G.O.D. became today’s trendy...
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... It’s very important to her, for Macbeth to become king – shown as she helps out Macbeth covering up the murdered King Duncan. This makes her seem very cold and ambitious – but in this case, she had to call on evil spirits to “stop up th’ access and passage to remorse”, to make her bad conscience go away. At first, Lady Macbeth doubts that her husband is able to murder Duncan – she thinks he’s too kind to be the murdering type. Lady Macbeth is actually talking Macbeth into killing Duncan – she believes that it’s the only and fastest way for Macbeth to become king, and that it’s what’s best for both of them. Macbeth agrees with her at first – but later on he doubts her decision. She responds to his reaction by manipulating him by questioning his manhood and love for her. She is successful in her mission, and her plan about killing Duncan is completed. Macbeth returns to their chamber after the killing scene, Lady Macbeth cleverly goes back and deletes any trace that could indicate that Macbeth was the killer. Instead, she smears the grooms with Duncan’s blood so the blame is on them. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth perhaps felt, that their bad conscience for the deed might disappear as time went by. But that is not the case. They experience problems with going to sleep and they both are having terrifying nightmares. Despite all this, Lady Macbeth maintains her sanity and composure better than her husband does. Now when he’s king, she wants him to be lighthearted and happy....
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...Julius Caesar is a story about ambition. There are four specific incidents which demonstrate the "vaulting ambition" and desire for power in the character Julius Caesar. When Caesar comes back to Rome, when Marullus picks on the crowd when Casca is walking with Brutus, and when Calpurnia begs Caesar not to go to the Senate. All of these examples show that Julius Caesar is a play that shows ambition. In the exposition of the play, Caesar returns to Rome after having defeated Pompey's sons, who at one time was Caesar's friend and ally as they had both been powerful executives. Caesar's having gotten rid of Pompey's son is a sign that he does not want to have competition in his ambitious drive to power. In Act I, Scene 1, Marullus chides the others, asking them if they now "strew flowers in his [Caesar's] way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? (1.51-52) Caesar has wooed the crowd into loving him and turned them away from the deceased Pompey. Marullus dislikes Caesar gaining power. He knows that the crows is fickle and is easily swayed, just like Cassius and Brutus and the rest of the coup....
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... but one person pushes him over the edge of no return. The biggest influence of Macbeth dive into madness and ultimate demise was his wife, Lady Macbeth, and the cowardice he had toward her. First of all we know Lady Macbeth isn’t exactly a nice lady. She calls on spirits in her “prayer” by saying, “Come, you spirits/ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe-full/ Of direst cruelty” (1.5. 30-33). She’s praying for the bad spirits and demons to fill her with absolute cruelty when killing King Duncan. Lady Macbeth also refers to this undertaking as her battlements furthering that this was her idea and she was just undermining Macbeth’s masculinity to get him to do her bidding. They were both ambitious but she was the one who pushed her iffy husband over the edge....
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...This case discusses the different organizational changes that Ford Motor Company had to make in order to face competition from companies entering the car market. Ford Motor Company is an American multinational company incorporated in 1903 by Henry Ford who changed the way of life for many people, with his practical and affordable cars. The moving assembly line and mass production techniques that he invented set the standard for worldwide industrial practice in the first half of the 20th Century. Henry's intention was to produce the largest number of cars, to the simplest design, for the lowest possible cost. When car ownership was confined to the privileged few, Henry Ford's aim was to "put the world on wheels" and produce an affordable vehicle for the general public. After years of declining sales, other companies such as General Motors or Chrysler took the opportunity to make serious inroads into Ford's dominance. Thus, Ford was forced to change its corporate culture and after the drawback that hit Ford Motor Company by producing more and more of particular product without customizing the product, they changed their strategy and become more employee centered. They choose to adopt human relation model to handle their employees in the best possible way so that an organization can get flexible in dealing with change and every give respect to the employees by making them communicate and coordinate their point of view. That lead to an important improvement of efficiency. ...
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...proving Andy’s innocence, was like a key for unlocking a cage for releasing a big tiger called Hope, Andy was full of life and he saw his freedom coming very quickly. When he approached Norton with idea of re- trial, he was hoping for the best. From the start, Andy possessed something that other prisoners lacked, and this was untiring faith that one day the nightmare would come to an end and he will be a free man. Red remembers when Andy turned a small smelly room into the library where prisoners could go and read and forget their problems and feel like free people for some time, this gave them hope of seeing outside world again. The letter Red receives from Andy gives him a lot of hope, Red is happy to receive this letter, which gives him courage to move towards hopeful future. This makes him hope that one day he will be free like Andy and join him in the free world. Red’s decision to travel to Mexico to look for Andy is another trait of hope. Red dreamt of being paroled but even after almost forty 40 in prison, he never lost hope in life. He worked hard to get his place in the society. Even in prison, Red was ambitious and could smuggle anything, but for a price. He never lost hope of good life even in prison. His desire to escape too gave him hope to be free again and gives him courage to face the challenges in prison. Brooks, who was the original librarian, and who was replaced by Andy, got paroled early. He had hope of joining the outside world and making good life, but...
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...Background of the Study Basically the Internet was an emergency military communication system operated by the Department of Defense's advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). The whole operation was referred to as ARPANET. The speed of Internet has changed the way people receive the information. It combines the immediacy of broadcast with the in-depth coverage of newspapers making it perfect sources for news and weather information. Even with the multimedia excitement of the web, Electronic mail (email) is the most frequently used application of the Internet. Many people, who have access to the Internet at school, home and at work place use the Internet for no other purpose than to send and to receive the mail. It's not just friends and co-workers that are receiving email. Wherever you look, the web is providing email addresses. This has made communication between the strangers easier than ever. Chatting is one of the more popular activities on the Internet- people can talk to anyone across the world. Introduction of social online networking sites has facilitated communication. These are web-sites where users can create a profile and connect that profile to others to form an explicit personal network. They are web-based services that allow individuals to: (1) Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system (2) Articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection and (3) View and traverse their list of connections and those made by...
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...Two things didn't mix well in my life. One was being a full time student and the other an athlete. It was great not having parents around telling you to do your homework or to go to class, of which I never did. I had a choice, which was more important, playing lacrosse or studying. Like any first year college student I picked lacrosse. At that point I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. Who at that age would know either? My worst nightmare came true in the summer of 1989. I was academically dismissed from the university. I thought to myself "no way, this could never happen to me, I played lacrosse, had a girlfriend, and I was popular, how could this have happened". The worst part of the whole experience was the car ride home from the post office. The feeling of emptiness overwhelmed me, I felt as if I had nothing inside my body. I thought, "what am I going to do?" Then I had to face my parents, boy was I scared. What was I going to tell them? Sorry mom and dad but I wasted your money; I had no excuses so I told them the truth. What happened after that changed my life forever. It was either the military or go to a community college and try to redeem myself. I wanted to do neither, but I had to choose. The military was off my list and going to a community college sounded o.k. So I registered and the rest of that summer I had to deal with the fact that I had not accomplished anything in the past...
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...Upon being introduced to Macbeth, he is portrayed as a war hero turned evil by his ambitious desires and greed. His wife Lady Macbeth is described as a power-hungry woman whose evil thoughts and cruel desires have earned her the reputation of a woman too masculine to fit the description of the fragile, gentle beings that women in those times were thought to be. From the beginning, Lady Macbeth is seemingly blamed for corrupting her once honorable husband. It has been argued that Lady Macbeth convincing her husband to commit murders for power is the sole root of all of their problems. Alternatively, some might believe that Macbeth already had the desire for power, and that Lady Macbeth simply gave him the last bit of motivation he needed. I’d like to propose a different perspective, that neither Macbeth nor his lady are evil or ill-natured, but suffering from a crippling mental illness...
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...Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born into slavery as Frederick Bailey in Talbot county, Maryland, since he was born into slavery, he has no legitimate account of his birth date. He also cannot determine who his father is but knows of his mother, Harriet Bailey who was a slave. Later on in his life, he acquired the skills to read and write and soon used it as a key to his freedom. All through the selection, Douglass demonstrate his excitement, depression and fear using diction, reiteration of watchwords and utilization of simile and metaphor to convey his state of mind. Douglass uses diction to pass on his feelings for achieving his objective of entering a free state. Slavery is any colored person’s worst nightmare. Enduring...
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...Macbeth Essay Every person has flaws, and every person has the potential for evil in their hearts. It’s human nature! Most of us are tamed by society and our own morals, but for some, it spirals out of control and William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, is no exception. We’ve all heard the name, we all know what happened our tragic hero, but what caused his downfall from the King’s greatest warrior and favourite, to a cold-hearted murderer? He had a great personality, but a major flaw in his character. Many have debated what exactly his flaw was but one thing’s for sure; his vaulting ambition obstructed him from what was reality. Furthermore, when the witches revealed the prophecies to him, his power-crazed mind took over; this ultimately led to his blind charge at death. Most people do not believe in witches, fairies or any of the sorts, but almost everyone acknowledges the presence of evil in our world. From the beginning of the play, there have been a lot of a lot of thunder, lightning, and drama surrounding these figures of evil that represent all the dark and chaotic forces in the universe. I think that Shakespeare began the play with the witches because they are the ones who catalyze all that happens in the play (and we all know that a good story always begins with something evil and exciting!). Their words plant the idea to kill Duncan in his mind. When he heard that he was going to become King, he mentally begins to plan his actions in order to fulfill what he thinks is...
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...Sonia PAIN, I have realized, is beautiful only when one can rise from its depressing power. I have known people who have become bitter and cynical under the lash of sorrow; and I have known some who never recovered from anguish. My experience is important only so far as it may help others toward growth; it is worthless to me if it implies vanity. Sonia to me is a fairy tale half told or a lyric half lost in fancy, a delicate melody unsung. Had she grown into full womanhood, she might have become an intellectual; for she was deliberate and clearcut in her language, precise in her reasoning, and keen in sensing nuances which maturer minds about her could not appreciate; then I should have remembered her as reason grown into wit and perhaps into philosophy, but the impression of a fairyland would have been forever lost, the glamor of its poetry never felt even in vague suggestions, and the delicate melodies never perceived. As a friend suggested to me when grief was most oppresive: "You shall always remember her as a child." How beautiful I felt it was! For nothing but poetry could give such a feeling. In such a moment, reason would have destroyed me with consummate triumph; for if I had tried to explain why God had snatched away from me the thing I loved best in life, I would have allowed reason to rob me of sorrow to show me the way to a more beautiful, more full, and nearly perfect life. Sonia shall always live in my memory as a child who wonders why the stars shine in the...
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