...her heart. In the next stanza, the speaker states that they do not have time, since life is short and death is forever. He states that eventually, beauty will no longer exist due to aging and when she is dead, she will not be able to hear the speaker’s song when inside her coffin. Furthermore, the speaker states that the worms will try to take her virginity and will result in his no longer feeling love for his mistress. In the last two lines of the stanza, he comments that a grave is a nice and private place but does not have much room to be together and embrace. In the last stanza, the speaker once again compliments his mistress’s beauty and youth and that they should embrace just like the birds of prey and play games. In the last few lines, the speaker states that time cannot stop even though he wants to have more time; however, time gains the speaker pleasure with his mistress. | Speaker | The speaker of the poem is an anonymous male who speaks about his mistress extremely highly. He feels as if he has a lack of time and that time is a trap to the speaker. Ironically, the speaker needs time in order...
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...his father, religion, and love cause Hamlet to have to deal with many consequences due to his actions which leads to his death. One of the main themes in this play is revenge, and Hamlets biggest obsession in this play is seeking revenge on Claudius for his father’s death. Hamlets plot for revenge starts after he speaks to The Ghost a.k.a his father who tells him that his brother killed him (Claudius). The Ghost ““But know, thou noble youth. The serpent that did sting thy father’s life. Now wears his crown.” (Act 1 Scene 5, Line 38 – 40). After Hamlet hears this, he goes insanely mad and becomes extremely obsessed in getting revenge for what his uncle did to his father. This obsession that takes over his life causes him to lose his self-control which leads to his death and other mains characters deaths. During the Elizabethan Era, religion was something that people, as well as Hamlet took very serious. Religion effected a lot of Hamlets decisions, and in Act 3, Hamlet had to a chance to kill Claudius while he was praying but he didn’t because he believed in the idea that if you kill a man when his not sinning he won’t go to hell. Hamlet “And so he goes to heaven. And so am I revenged. That would be scanned. A villain kills my father, and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven.” (Act 3 Scene, and line 75- 79) Religion became an obsession of Hamlet because no matter how badly he wanted to get revenge, religion was still...
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...| Team building Activities | | 1. Blind Wine Waiter Team Building Task Overview Teams of six must successfully find, uncork and pour a bottle of wine into five glasses. Each team manner must carry out no more than one element of the task and at least five of the team must wear blindfolds. Pre-Work None required Equipment and Layout One bottle of wine per team, one wineglass per team, blindfolds for 5 members of each team, one corkscrew per team. Running The Activity 1. Introduce this as a light-hearted activity that will improve communication across teams. 2. Divide the group into teams of 6 and ask each team to elect a leader. 3. Hand out blindfolds to all team members other than the leader, instruct all team members other than the leader to put on their blindfold. 4. Ask the team leader to take a seat somewhere close to his/her team and ask him/her to sit on her hands. 5. For each team, position one bottle of wine, one wineglass and one corkscrew in various locations around the room. Take care to ensure that nothing is positioned where it might easily fall or break (eg make sure the wine bottle(s) and glass(es) are placed on the floor against a wall, or in the centre of a table). 6. Tell all participants that their task is to find a bottle of wine, a corkscrew and a wine glass, open the bottle and pour their leader a glass of wine. 7. Tell the participants the rules: - the team leader cannot move from his/her position and cannot...
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...Transien Achieving a sustainable competitive edge is nearly impossible these days. A playbookfor strategy in a highvelocity world by Rita Günther McGrath 62 Harvard Business R ARTWORK Tara Donovan, Untitted (Styrofoam Cups), aoo8, Styrofoam cups •and glue, installation dimensions variable SPOTLIGHT ON STRATEGY FOR TURBULENT TIMES Each month we illustrate our Spotlight package with works from an accomplished artist. We hope that the lively, cerebral creations of these photographers, painters, and installation artists will infuse the pages with additional energy and intelligence and amplify what are often complex and abstract concepts. This month we showcase Tara Donovan, a Brooklynbased artist known for her large sculptures and installations. Donovan, whose work is composed of everyday objects like pencils and toothpicks, has explained, "It's all about perceiving this material from a distance and close up and how the light interacts with it." View more of the artist's work at pacegaUery.com. S R T G IS STUCK. For too long the business world an inflection point. Thefieldof strategy needs to acT AE Y has been obsessed with the notion of building a sus- knowledge what a multitude of practitioners already tainable competitive advantage. That idea is at the know: Sustainable competitive advantage is now the core of most strategy textbooks; it forms the basis exception, not the rule. Transient advantage is the of Warren Buffett's investment strategy; it's central new...
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...named Rainsford get washed up on an island called Ship Trap Island. Little did he know that this island was used for a game made by a sociopath called General Zarroff. This game is the last game you would want to play. The rules are; You have three days to survive on the island with food, and a knife, and no going out of bounds! However, General Zarroff is an excellent hunter and thinker, he has never lost his game. This story is very much alike to the movie High Noon which takes place in the old west. Will Kane also known as the marshall got married to his quaker wife, Amy. On this day Will decides to retire from being marshall and move somewhere new with Amy. However, he is told Frank Miller, the man he put into jail is coming back to get revenge. Will has till noon to decide whether he wants to...
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...reciprocate the same need for the man and is therefore an untouched figure. The overall message of the poem is to convey that desires come in such temptations, which are impossible to resist and man falls for the traps, irrespective of the knowledge that there are consequences. The poem begins with the first stanza simply stating that the siren song is “irresistible” (3). This diction at the beginning of the poem communicates the idea of temptation being strong and powerful. The speaker immediately opens the theme of dangerous desires in the first line by expressing her view that “everyone/ would like to learn” this song to lure the men in close to themselves (1-2). This line also represents an element of exaggeration because the sirens never left their cliff and so to claim that “everyone” has a desire to learn the song is a hyperbole (1). This shows the speakers attitude towards her lifestyle and that she is attempting to convey that she is indeed trapped away from everyone. Atwood also uses colons in the first stanza to represent that the poem in its entirety is a description and definition of the irresistible siren song. Atwood uses imagery early in the poem to help convey the message of the beautiful desires that the men “leap overboard in squadrons” for; this line specifically creates the image of men jumping overboard out of their ships to find the source of this enchanting...
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...diction, and a framed form of writing to artfully display the speaker’s complex attitude. When initially describing the speaker’s actions and other elements throughout the poem, Gascoigne implements imagery that allows the reader to visualize the events of the poem. He encapsulates the narrator's feelings through the acknowledgment of his “louring head” and his eyes taking “no delight in range…,” (Lines 2 - 3). Imagery is also present in the dismal images throughout the poem. To further argue for or validate his actions, the speaker describes his existence as “still in deep deceit,” (Line 8). The use of imagery in this poem adds fearful and gloomy dimensions which translates into a seemingly dark attitude of the speaker....
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...of still loving a woman, but refusing to even look at her due not wanting to become hurt by her a second time. This poem would be considered a Shakespearean sonnet because it is made up of 14 lines which contain quatrains and a couplet. The quatrains illustrate the problem and and the couplet is the last two lines which solve the problem. The poem also follows an “ABAB” rhyme scheme which helps determine it to be a Shakespearean sonnet. The central theme of this poem is love and heartbreak. It is...
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...10(Saul Bellow- Seize the Day) Seize the Day was a comparatively easy read, and seemed like a very real life depiction of American life, from the eyes of the two generations, Tommy Wilhelm and his father, Dr. Adler. Comparing it to one of the first novels I read in this course, Death of a Salesman, I realize that Seize the Day also has the theme of the broken myth of the American dream embedded in the story. Also the title of the novel struck me at first, but I could not remember where I had read or come across this phrase before. Upon searching online, I remembered that it has its origin in one of the poems of a Latin Poet Horace, the word being “Carpe diem” in Latin. I remembered that I had read this back in high school, the stanza of the poem was: While we speak, envious time will have {already} fled Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future. It’s interesting how just a small phrase can carry so much meaning. Saul Bellow has very effectively depicted the philosophy of carpe diem by narrating a real life scenario of war stricken America where maximizing the utility of time is the very important. Although the theme of alienation and isolation is prevalent throughout the book through Tommy’s life events, Saul could not make me feel sympathetic towards Tommy. Tommy’s inability to judge himself, and be self-aware of his strengths and weaknesses causes his downfall. He is always reluctant to confront his failures, and does not have the courage to make...
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...Culture and strategy Introduction In the strategic literature the need to develop a strategy that requires the foundations of a culture that is compatible with the intended strategy is widely recognized. However, what is less widely understood is what happens when you have to fast track both cultural and strategic change when the strategy and its desired outcomes are both incompatible with the culture of the organization. How should managers deal with these challenges? How should such cultural appreciations be brought in to the discussion to develop and implement the business strategy? Cultural change is strategic change It is important to understand cultural change as also involving strategic change. Strategy can be considered as a cultural production that may involve cultural adaptation, or transformation, or both. This conceptualization is particularly useful if the organization is “betwixt and between” cultures and organizational identities i.e. a local authority department aspiring to become a commercially driven company. I will use a case study of such an organization that was changing from a council department into a Limited Liability Partnership to flesh out some ideas that illuminate the relationship between strategic development and organizational culture. Culture is not like a skin that an organization can discard as it selects a new organizational culture that is perceived to have strategic fit with its commercial strategy. In my view culture is the organization...
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...The role of Hamlet in Hamlet December 23,2011 Mr. Santin English 12-U Ethan D’Mello In many pieces of literature, it is the characters actions and words that have the greatest effect on the story line. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, there are many characters that are key to furthering the plot of the story, while keeping the reader engaged and interested in the book. These dramatic forces add suspense, irony, and mood which together makes for a good read. The characters who further these dramatic forces are Hamlet, Claudius, and Laertes. The character that furthers the dramatic forces the most is Hamlet. By examining the theme of love, their views on life and death, plus the act of scheming between Claudius, Hamlet, and Laertes, it will be evident that Hamlet furthers the dramatic force the most. Hamlet is a better character to reveal the theme of love when compared to Claudius. Hamlet encounters his father’s ghost and is told that his father’s brother Claudius had murdered him in his sleep. “O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain, My tables,- meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain, …So, uncle, there you are; now to my word; It is ‘adieu, adieu! Remember me.’ I have sworn’t” (Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 106-111). As a dutiful and loving son, Hamlet decides to avenge his father’s death. By doing so, he is accepting the task of going against all of Denmark and is planning to prove that his father was killed by the present...
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...Tartuffe is the true moral of the play. He observes that “dupe and deceiver—and which is which?—are seen to be partners in the same enterprise” (as cited in Men and Masks, 1963). It is his opinion that Orgon basically didn’t care if Tartuffe was truly religious, Orgon just liked to revel in the obsequious attention given to him by Tartuffe (Mills, 2011). Moliere toys with us while expounding on this theme of appearance and disguise. At one point in the play, Orgon angrily disinherits his son, Damis because Damis voices his disgust of Tartuffe. Tartuffe makes the pretense of speaking up for Damis by saying to Orgon, “Believe his story; the boy deserves your trust. Why, after all, should you have faith in me? How can you know what I might do, or be? Is it on my good actions that you base your favor? Do you trust my pious face? Ah, no, don’t be deceived by hollow shows; I’m far, alas, from being what men suppose; Though the world takes me for a man of worth, I’m truly the most worthless man on earth” (3.6.28). This excerpt is the main take away from the play. Another key line in the play is when Cleante states to Orgon, “There’s a vast difference, so it seems to me, between true piety and hypocrisy:...
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...Harlem with all its negative influences tend to affect its children's upcoming. Either to take the difficult route of finding one's self or to fall in the drug trap of Harlem “ it's simpler to submerge oneself, at the most dismal level, the limbo of drug addiction, rather than to truly find oneself” ( Murray 353). Murray sheds light on Baldwin's use of light and darkness in the story to exemplify “man's painful quest for identity” ( Murray 354). In many cases Baldwin uses this imagery to draw an emphasizing image of his theme in the story. In multiple areas of the story Baldwin mentions light and darkness such as the subway encounter with one of Sunny's friends and the waitress at the pub. “All they knew were two darknesses,the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them , and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness (Baldwin 328). This excerpt from the story is one of the main examples of the use of darkness and light in the story. As can be seen here darkness is representing the bitter reality that is consuming the people living in Harlem. Yet they try to somewhat escape this by watching a movie which is ironically another darkness that is only taking their attention or entertaining them until the main darkness consumes them. Another interesting use of this method of theme application which Murray stated is the scene where the family is sitting together. “There is no escape from the darkness for Sonny and his family. Dreams and...
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...K. Rowling is a loose interpretation of The Pardoner’s Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The main theme between both tales is the disappointment that arises when one sins and tries to cheat Death. The Tale of the Three Brothers is based on a legend of the three Peverell brothers and is found in the fictional book “The Tales of Beedle the Bard.” Three brothers of the wizarding world use magic to cross over a river. An entity of Death bitterly offers each one a gift for outsmarting him. The first one, being power-hungry, asks for a wand more powerful than any other in existence so he may win every duel he takes part in. The second brother, being arrogant, asked for the power to recall the dead in order to humiliate Death further. The third brother was wise and humble and did not trust death so he asked for a gift that would enable him to travel without being followed by Death....
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...The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has been around for a thousand years, evolving and developing. It was first written by author Nennius, but Sir Thomas Malory, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, and Alfred Lord Tennyson contributed to the legend and expands it even more. They introduced new characters and the different aspects of them into the legend, along with the themes. One of the most important themes depicted by the characters is the theme of betrayal. Using this theme, authors let characters both develop and decline throughout the legend. In the Arthurian legend, betrayals of characters such as Lancelot, Mordred, and Viviane result in the characters’ death in the end. Lancelot's betrayal is the center...
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