Acquisition of Motorola by Google On August 15‚ Google announced an agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility‚ based in Libertyville‚ Illinois‚ for $40 per share. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal. Benefits of the deal Google and Motorola Mobility together will accelerate innovation and choice in mobile computing. Consumers will get better phones at lower prices. Motorola Mobility’s patent portfolio will help protect the Android ecosystem. Android‚ which is open-source
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A journey is imperative for personal growth and development. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ it outlines the inner journey Offred undertakes throughout her life in Gilead and her journey to survive in a repressive totalitarian regime. This journey is also evident in Martin Luther King’s speech ‘I Have a Dream’ and the Negro’s struggle for freedom. Examining these two texts I have come to appreciate and understand the concept of journeys. In order for Offred’s journey
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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a post Cold War society plagued by infertility. Atwood presents the reader with “The Republic of Gilead”‚ the Christian theocracy that overthrew the United States government. Narrated by a woman renamed Offred‚ the reader gets an idea of a future in which women are no longer women‚ but are solely needed for reproduction. Atwood uses a system of vocabulary established under the Republic of Gilead in order to manipulate and dehumanize women and
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English 102 Of Innocence Lost Innocence is a quality that is often taken for granted and abused. In the following three stories‚ Margaret Atwood’s “Stone Mattress”‚ Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and John Updike’s“A&P”‚ the three main protagonists deal with a common theme- that of innocence lost and the consequences of your decisions. Innocence is one of the few things that can be lost by making one simple decision. Unfortunately‚ it is also one of the seldom found things that one
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Both Sonja Tanner’s “On Plato’s Cave” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Writer’s Responsibility” focus on the juxtaposition between the real and the imagined; A‚ however‚ suggests that it is‚ in fact‚ society’s ignorance and willingness to ignore the relationship between the real and the imagined that leads to the writer’s responsibility to make the relationship clear‚ while T highlights that the relationship is strained and obscured and that the responsibility is on the individual to forge the connections
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be conscious to women ’s liberalism‚ and to instruct people not to focus on the endings of stories‚ but the middle portions. Margaret Atwood‚ Gail Godwin‚ and Kate Chopin develop these ideas by utilizing plot‚ character development‚ and setting. Atwood’s “Happy Endings” uses a lack of plot to show how even though the middle parts of life can be different‚ the endings are always and inevitably the same. In her story‚ Atwood shows the diverse relationships between men and women‚ but through every situation
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The Little Mermaid and her Connection with Hoarding Melissa Legault Abnormal Psychology Anthony Smith April 30‚ 2013 Most children grow up watching Disney movies. It might be shocking to hear that a Disney princess may suffer from a psychological disorder. In Walt Disney’s movie The Little Mermaid‚ I think the main character Ariel suffers from disposophbia‚ also known as hoarding. Obsessive-compulsive disorder/hoarding has always interested me. These people take collecting to an
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Arguments between who has better taste in music‚ in fashion‚ opinions have not rested and appear to never rest any time soon. If there is one thing people love to do: it is to argue and discuss ideas. People love to argue about the best types of pets. One of the biggest debates on this Earth is which is a more adequate and loveable pet--cats or dogs. In any situation‚ dogs are better suited for the best position than cats by a long shot. There are many reasons why dogs are superior to cats because
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16 March 2010 Bizarre Eating Disorders When we think of eating disorders‚ bulimia and anorexia are the ones that come to mind. However there are many more‚ even more severe and harmful to the body. What is an eating disorder? An eating disorder is a physiological condition which affects an individuals eating habits‚ either as a result of their own doing (self-inflicted)‚ or as a bodily reaction to the consumption of food. Anorexia is one of the most common eating disorders by using self-starvation
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a runaway slave who‚ in the beginning of the novel‚ seems to sustain common stereotypes about African Americans. He is simple‚ superstitious‚ gullible and dull. His apparent dull and superstitious traits are particularly evident when Jim finds a hairball and says‚ “there was a spirit inside of it.” He also says that he can use it to tell the future. (Twain 17). Another example of Jim’s gullibility is when Tom and Huck convince him a witch bewitched him. (Twain 6). In 1885‚ this portrayal of an
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