The Matrix‚ a 1999 film created by The Wachowskis‚ and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ a philosophical story written during 560 BC‚ both introduce thought provoking questions. These include: “Are we living in the real world or an illusion of the real world?” and “What is reality?” The Matrix is a sci-fi action film that attracts modern viewers who can relate to the main character‚ Neo. The film is about how the world that Neo thinks is real‚ is only just an illusion. Similarly‚ The Allegory of the
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Dublin Institute of Technology MSc COMPUTING SCIENCE (Information Technology for Strategic Management) BCG Growth Share Matrix Research Assignment No. 2 The BCG Growth-Share Matrix The BCG Growth-Share Matrix is a portfolio planning model that was developed by Bruce Henderson of the Boston Consulting Group in the early 1970’s. It is based on the observation that organisations business units can be classified into four categories based on combinations of market growth and market share
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The Shell Directional Policy Matrix is another refinement upon the Boston Matrix. Along the horizontal axis are prospects for sector profitability‚ and along the vertical axis is a company’s competitive capability. As with the GE Business Screen the location of a Strategic Business Unit (SBU) in any cell of the matrix implies different strategic decisions. However decisions often span options and in practice the zones are an irregular shape and do not tend to be accommodated by box shapes. Instead
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Expenditures and Revenues Matrix and Summary Amber Pickett AJS/522 April 16‚ 2012 Park Atatah Expenditures and Revenues Matrix and Summary Budgets are significant in the budget formulation process. Budgeting as a tool is the make-up of public policy (Smith & Lynch‚ 2004). Budgets exist at all levels of government‚ local‚ state‚ and federal. When describing revenue sources in public budgeting‚ it is important to describe the source of revenue‚ the source of the funding‚ importance of
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1. Introduction HRM is the process of managing people in organizations in a structured and thorough manner.HRM encompasses the management of people in organizations from a macro perspective. The most important tasks of the Human Resource department are to make sure that the people working in an organization 1) feel happy 2) are in the right job‚ and 3) get the opportunity to upgrade their skills when necessary. Therefore employee/labor relation is a very important factor of Human Resource Management
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A NEW APPROACH TO PORTFOLIO MATRIX ANALYSIS FOR STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANNING 1 2 Vladimir Dobrić ‚ Boris Delibašić Faculty of organizational science‚ vdobric@fon.rs 2 Faculty of organizational science‚ delibasic.boris@fon.rs 1 Abstract: Portfolio matrix is probably the most important tool for strategic marketing planning‚ especially in the strategy selection stage. Position of the organization in the portfolio matrix and it’s corresponding marketing strategy depends on the aggregation
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Analysis Paper: The Matrix The Matrix is a science fiction film produced in the 1999’s by the Wachowski Brothers that revolves around the idea reality is not what it seems to be. The movie is essentially about machines that have enslaved the human population‚ using people for means of bioenergy; that being body heat and electrical activity. The main protagonist is the character of Neo‚ a computer programmer‚ who finds himself continuously concerned about the idea that his world isn’t all he thinks
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Matrix and Plato’s Republic Plato is known to be one of the greatest philosophers of his time‚ and even still considered to be one of the greatest of today. Many of his works have been used to analyze and answer important philosophical questions and are even used today as the basis of different stories and movies. One example of the use of Plato’s philosophy is the movie The Matrix directed by the Wachowski brothers. The Matrix is a reenactment of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave with
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Composition I 3 October 2012 The Matrix and the Allegory of the Cave What if one were living through life completely bound and facing a reality that doesn’t even exist? The prisoners in Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" are blind from true reality as well as the people in the movie The Matrix. They are given false images and they accept what their senses are telling them. They believe what they are experiencing is not all that really exists. Plato‚ the ancient Greek philosopher wrote "The Allegory
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Melissa A. Reeves Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Essay 02/14/2014 Phil 201-B15 Liberty University Professor Ronald Kuykendall In comparing the movie The Matrix and the readings from Plato and Descartes‚ the major similarity found among the three is deception. It is the deception of the mind that these excerpts deal with. The idea of being in an illusion or reality is addressed. All three take into account sense perceptions. Also‚ all three have an outside influence that is controlling the
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