A Character Analysis of Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s The Virgin Kerima Polotan-Tuvera’s “The Virgin” is a short story that is centered on two characters namely Miss Mijares and The Carpenter. The title “The Virgin” reflects the subject virginity which is an important and cherished value for Filipinos. A Filipina should be proud to have maintained her virginity but in the case of the thirty-four-year-old Miss Mijares‚ she is ashamed of it. In her thirty-four years of existence‚ she had never been
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Introduction Virgin Group LTD is one of the most well-known‚ respected brand and outstanding international investment group. Invented in 1970 by Richard Branson. Virgin Group became a widespread company and began to grow up in businesses such as: mobile telephony‚ travel‚ financial services‚ leisure‚ TV‚ music‚ holiday and health & wellness. It involved in the fields of airlines‚ rail services‚ and transportation services‚ motorbike and cruise packages. They also operate gym facilities‚ racing
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289 CASE EXAMPLE The Virgin Group Aidan McQuade Introduction The Virgin Group is one of the UK’s largest private companies. The group included‚ in 2006‚ 63 businesses as diverse as airlines‚ health clubs‚ music stores and trains. The group included Virgin Galactic‚ which promised to take paying passengers into sub-orbital space. The personal image and personality of the founder‚ Richard Branson‚ were highly bound up with those of the company. Branson’s taste for publicity has led him to
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THE VIRGIN GROUP IN 2012 LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGIC CHANGE WALTER FEDERICO MINETTI Universidad de Ciencias Sociales y Empresariales
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The Virgin by Kerima Polotan The title of Kerima Polotan’s "The Virgin" gives us the subject-virginity‚ female virginity‚ a cherished value of Filipino Male culture. By presenting its protagonist as "victim" rather than heroine of this value system‚ the text subverts it. Reflecting on her virginal state‚ Miss Mijares does so "with a mixture of shame and bitterness and guilt" The story’s eroticism is heightened by the lyrical‚ almost cadenced language. (The eroticism is quite explicit for it’s
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local saint of Syracuse‚ who had been denounced as a Christian by her former suitor and had died in 304 from the tortures inflicted by local pagan authorities. Caravaggio may have worked in haste to produce a picture before the feast of Saint Lucy on 13 December. Originally‚ Saint Lucy’s head was severed from her body but later Caravaggio joined it and left just a slit in the front of her neck - perhaps recalling Saint Cecilia‚ whose still-intact body with a gash in the nape of the neck had been
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After Caravaggios Sacrifice of Isaac ”After Caravaggios Sacrifice of Isaac” is a short-story written by Rachel Cusk‚ and published in 2003. Love is the world’s most wonderful phenomenon‚ it is a force more formidable than any other‚ and love is strong enough to transform you in a moment. This the story of a man‚ afflicted by love. And like all good things – The more you care about them the more you have to sacrifice for them. The narrator of the story becomes a victim of this phenomenon‚ when he
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other historical events‚ and two particular painters of the Baroque technique are Michelangelo da Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi‚ both masters at the use of chiaroscuro (from the Italian words "chiaro‚" meaning bright‚ and "scuro‚" meaning dark)‚ which is a painting technique that uses dark and light in dramatic ways in paintings and often adds to the realism. Michelangelo da Caravaggio (1571-1610)‚ was a northern Italian painter that painted such amazingly realistic scenes‚ his work
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The second piece that i have chosen to analyze is “The Taking of Christ” created in 1602 by Michelangelo Caravaggio. This 2-dimensional piece was created using oil on a canvas. What is happening in this piece is that soldiers seem to be trying to take Jesus Christ but two men are standing in the way trying to block the guards from reaching jesus while one of them even appears to be verbally objecting to the taking of christ. The most noticeable elements of art in this piece are space and color. I
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message Caravaggio was trying to portray as he is highlighted just as much as Saint Paul was. Saint Paul became a very prominenet Christian leader and according to the Testament he converted after encountering a resurrected Jesus on his way to Damascus‚ this would have been for any Christian an extremely Holy and divine moment‚ to have Jesu’s light shined upon you and in this picture nothing divine is represented‚ to the contrary‚ this is represented in a very vulgar way in which Caravaggio used
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