the idea of a scapegoat. The scapegoat is usually the tradition that starts because the society need someone to give the blame to and usually sacrifice “the virgin” which helps for a good harvest or a plentiful year. This is true in The Lottery because one person in the society brings up the desire for a good harvest of Corbin the summer season. This leads to the belief that the community does this for a good
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Hope in old age In "Loneliness" by Laura Cortes‚ the author paints a picture of a man whose family has grown up and moved on. The poem shows that a man‚ older and alone in the world‚ can still hold on to hope for the future. Cortes establishes that the man has aged considerably since “he planted the trees forty summers ago” (line 6) and “time has gone by too soon” (13). Cortes appears to be describing the old man from when he began his family‚ perhaps when he may have married and began
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The early civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt were very similar‚ but they were also different in some ways. Both Mesopotamia and Egypt developed their civilizations centered on rivers‚ but these rivers were polar opposites. Mesopotamia was between two rivers called the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Egypt’s civilization developed around the Nile River. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers differed from the Nile River. The Nile River was calm‚ and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were wild and very unpredictable
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10/13/2010 GE _ McKinsey Matrix QuickMBA / Strategy / GE-McKinsey Matrix GE / McKinsey Matrix In consulting engagements with General Electric in the 1970’s‚ McKinsey & Company developed a nine-cell portfolio matrix as a tool for screening GE’s large portfolio of strategic business units (SBU). This business screen became known as the GE/McKinsey Matrix and is shown below: GE / McKinsey Matrix Business Unit Strength High High Medium Low Medium Low The GE / McKinsey matrix is
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sharp reversal in the economic and social developments making a condition favorable to revolution. Contributing factors can be seen in the sever droughts and storms in 1785. The fluctuating harvests that affecting more then just food products‚ fabrics and textiles were also disrupted because of inconsistent harvest. The monarchy had through the nation into severe debt and in 1786 the Controller general of finances‚ Calonne reported to the King that radical reform was required. Interest payments sucked
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were weather reports forecasting a possibility of a storm ‚ Mr. William confronts a problem where he needs to decide whether he should harvest the grapes immediately or wait for the storm leaving the grapes on the vines. He must consider the risk and the estimated revenue with each of the alternatives and thereafter choose he should wait for the storm or harvest the grapes immediately. There is a equal probability of storm hitting the valley and not not striking the valley with the vines. If the
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to the Happy Jack Harvest Camp. This event is significant to the rest of the story because without this event‚ the main characters would have never gone to the harvest camp‚ which would impact the rest of the book. They would have never had to gone through the pain of knowing they could lose one of their friends at any time. Without this event‚ the main characters would have been stuck at the Graveyard and not have been able to save the other lives of other Unwinds at the harvest camp. This is the
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suffer for happiness to exist. Likewise in “Lottery”‚ as for the tradition‚ it started with a sweet hope. The townsfolk hope God can bless them with a good harvest. For showing their respect for the omnipotent God‚ they sacrifice a person each year‚ even in the crude way. That’s why each year a person should be killed to ensure a good harvest. Therefore‚ from the above‚ I can conclude that sacrifices are involved in both the two stories. Secondly‚ the contrastive methods are both adopted in the
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The BCG matrix can be used to determine the appropriate mission of an organization with four common missions to choose from: Build (?)‚ Hold (Star)‚ Harvest (Cash Cow)‚ Divest (Dog). Yellow Trubrite Dye: 1) For Monarch‚ In the BCG matrix I think this product should be Build (?)‚ it is because Monarch got about 50% of the market share‚ however because of the obsolescent technologies used‚ the vast industry overcapacity‚ the severe price competition‚ the limited profitability‚ the possibility of
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(Connecticut‚ Rhode Island‚ New Hampshire‚ and Massachusetts) and the Southern colonies (South Carolina‚ North Carolina‚ Virginia‚ Maryland‚ and Georgia). Although they had many things in common‚ both of them had their own religious freedoms‚ crop harvests‚ economies‚ and lifestyles by the end of the seventeenth century. The New England colonies were dominated by Puritans (reformers seeking to “purify” Christianity) who had come from England to practice religion without persecution. Unlike the southern
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