The Great Gatsby & Enduring Love ‘Obsessive love has the capacity to drive a person to insanity‚ leading to irrational behaviour‚ alienation and despair’ Compare and contrast the ways McEwan and Fitzgerald present the complexities of human love in light of this comment. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ian McEwanpresent obsessive Idealised love as deranged and harmful.Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ published in 1925‚epitomises the euphoric atmosphere which permeated consumerist attitudes after
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Identifications: * Yuppies/VCRs/Three Mile Island * Yuppies: young‚ urban professionals who wore ostentatious gear such Rolex watches or BMW cars. they came to symbolize the increased pursuit of wealth and materialism of Americans in the 1980s‚ represented decade of greed‚ stopped being radical‚ worried about weight. * VCRs: video cassette recorders became popular in the late 70’s that allowed viewers to tape and view later their favorite programs and to rent movies on cassette
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Discuss the narrative voice in the opening two chapters of Enduring Love. Which is more important here‚ plot or narrative technique? Enduring Love‚ by Ian McEwan was first published in 1997. It details‚ from the former’s point of view‚ the story of Joe Rose and Clarissa Mellon as they experience the effects of an obsession suffered as a result of De Clerambaults Syndrome by Jed Parry. We can draw a lot from the narrative voice in the opening two chapters‚ and it really does give the reader an idea
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Ian heller believes a valid business strategy has five components: The first component of a valid business strategy is a clear description of your company’s current or desired core competencies First of all‚ he defines core competencies‚ which is something that a firm can do well and that meets three conditions : ‘’It provides consumers benefits’’‚ ‘’It’s not easy for competitors to imitate’’ and ‘’And it can be leveraged widely to many products and markets ‘’. A core competency can take various
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Ian Terz Prof. Andy Smith 17 November 2014 Television made it much easier and less expensive to get new information. In the past‚ to get a news a person had to buy a newspaper‚ that is to spend time getting to the newspaper stand and pay some money for a newspaper. Television provides people with an ability to get news instantly‚ without getting up from the couch‚ and for free. Of course‚ there is a certain sum one should pay monthly for using a TV cable‚ antenna‚ or a satellite dish‚ but this fee
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Abbasid Caliphate Dynasty of caliphs who ruled an increasingly fragmented Islamic state from 750 to 1258‚ eventually becoming little more than figureheads Al-Andalus Arabic name for Spain (literally "land of the Vandals")‚ most of which was conquered by Arab and Berber forces in the early 8th century C.E. Anatolia Ancient name of Asia Minor‚ part of Byzantine Empire that was gradually overrun by the Turks and that’s now the Republic of Turkey Battle of Talas River Arab victory over the Chinese in
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Marriage‚ Family and writing After Cambridge‚ Byatt spent a postgraduate year at Bryn Mawr. It was there that she met her first husband‚ Ian Byatt‚ a British economist‚ and subsequently had two children‚ Antonia and Charles. In 1962‚ she began teaching part-time at the University of London‚ and in 1965‚ at the Central School of Art and Design. Her first novel‚ The Shadow of a Sun‚ which she had begun at Cambridge at her seventeenth‚ published in 1964. These years were extremely busy for Byatt as
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Chapter 28: The Liberal Era‚ 1960-1968 A New Beginning: Nixon-Kennedy televised debates made voters choose Kennedy: chose Lyndon Johnson as VP‚ got Catholic votes JFK won and promised a “new frontier” to get America moving again--won in ’61 Kennedy’s Domestic Record: JFK’s major policies included: Boost defense budget—nuclear weapons‚ military‚ and “Green Berets” to do guerrilla warfare “Race to the Moon” Cut in corporate taxes Anti-pesticide warnings and Clean Air Act—regulating automotive/industrial
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I. Payback period computation; even cash flows Compute the payback period for each of the following two separate investments (round the payback period to two decimals): 1. A new operating system for an existing machine is expected to cost $260‚000 and have a useful life of five years. The system yields an incremental after-tax income of $75‚000 each year after deducting its straight-line depreciation. The predicted salvage value of the system is $10‚000. Payback period =Cost of investment/
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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 1. Why did BICBC feel it was necessary to issue equity in markets outside China? What are the advantages of such move? Can you see any disadvantages? * They feel it was necessary because they want to attain global equity. This is to win overseas corporations to invest in China Commercial Bank. 2. What was the attraction of the ICBC listing to foreign investors? What do you think are the risks for a foreigner associated with investing in ICBC
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