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    power to overrides other people’s personal embitions. Everyone needs a good friendship‚ we can do nothing without it. It’s hard even impossible to be powerful without friend’s help. The things you can achieve are very limited on your own. In Gattaca‚ the main character Vincent who is destined to be a second class citizen‚ is helpless and very lonely. However‚ he meets Jerome who has ideal genes but is crippled from an accident. He helps Vincent pass all the tests by using his hair‚ blood and

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    Intel’s Ambition-of-Things Introduction Intel Corp.‚ the household name in microprocessor chipmaking‚ is aggressively aiming to derive bigger sales from non-PC segments like Data Center and Internet-of-Things (IoT) Chip manufacturing as its traditional business of PC chipmaking is weakening amidst lower PC and notebook shipments globally. The company’s recent product launches (like Atom Joule IoT Module) and investment choices point to this strategy. If this strategic shift is to happen‚ Intel will

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    Against Cassius’s advice Mark Antony is allowed by Brutus to speak a funeral oration in the market place after Brutus has addressed the people of Rome to explain the conspirators’ reasons and their fears for Caesar’s ambition. Brutus calms the crowd but Antony’s speech stirs them to rioting and the conspirators are forced to flee from the city. Brutus and Cassius gather an army in Northern Greece and prepare to fight the forces led by Mark Antony‚ who has joined with

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    My ambition for pursuing dentistry is driven by an instinct to want to help people and society in general to have a better life and to improve their wellbeing. Having good oral health has life changing benefits‚ from having greater self confidence and a more positive mindset to more obvious benefits such as improved visual appearance‚ it is my goal to be able to improve and change people’s lives through their oral health on a daily basis‚ which I believe would be achieved through studying dentistry

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    for something‚ anything. However‚ dreaming is different. Dreaming is when a person has an attainable goal in mind that they want to reach and are willing to do whatever they have to in order to achieve that goal. Dreamers are the ones who have the ambition to reach for their target goal. Chris McCandless‚ a young man who traveled across the country‚ unprepared‚ yet determined. The story Into The Wild‚ by Jon Krakauer‚ gives the readers an insight on Chris McCandless’s journey to Alaska‚ where the harsh

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    Orwell’s Oceania and Niccol’s not to distant American city are in many ways similar in the sense of totalitarianism. The systems of control are quit different. Orwell’s world seems to be an overbearing socialist police state where as‚ the world in Gattaca is almost total control by science. The two pieces were written decades apart from one another‚ but both the film and the novel send a clear message; to enjoy the social mobility and freedoms of modern life and to be aware of how fragile they are

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    Throughout Winter Dreams‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald develops the theme of ambition through the main character Dexter Green’s desire to achieve more in life. Dexter is going to college and his father offered to pay his way through a state college. Except Dexter’s dreams had other plans‚ “They persuaded Dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the State University … for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the East‚ where he was bothered by his scanty

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    Ambition and death - the story of the Renaissance in Macbeth In the tragic drama Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare in 1606 during the English Renaissance‚ the hero‚ Macbeth‚ constantly declines in his level of morality until his death at the end of the play. Because of his change of character from good to evil‚ Macbeth ’s attitude towards other characters‚ specifically Duncan‚ Banquo‚ Lady Macbeth‚ and the witches‚ is significantly affected." In a larger sense‚ the theme of bad versus good

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    throughout the novel is the prejudice that children feel. Due to the fact that Arthur Radley is a recluse and is rarely seen‚ Jean Louise (Scout)‚ her brother Jem‚ and their friend Dill‚ all think of him as something less then themselves. Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca deals with futuristic prejudice. In the movie‚ geneticists have the power to eliminate all of the flaws of mankind‚ making a superior being. The naturally conceived are looked down upon by society as they contain flaws and imperfections; hence they

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    Ambition plays a major role in Shakespeare’s tragedy of Macbeth‚ and is presented as a dangerous quality that principally influences the characters to do wrong. This play gives off a warning of how ambition can affect people and their actions by its influence on Macbeth and his wife‚ Lady Macbeth. This disastrous story begins with the witches predicting that Macbeth would become Thane of Cawdor and then King of Scotland. Hence‚ Macbeth’s ambition emerges‚ furthermore persuaded by his wife and also

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