Interdisciplinary Sudies 104 final exam Voltaire and Rabelais satirize war and religion in their works. Voltaire goes after religious hypocrisy in chapter three of Candide. An orator asks Candide whether or not he supports “the good cause”. Candide‚ being a man of reason‚ responds by saying “there is no effect without a cause”. The orator‚ feeling challenged by Candide’s reaction challenges him right back by asking Candide if he believes the Pope to be the Anti-Christ. Candide doesn’t know and
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interlocutor appears baffled. "But what football team are you?" he says. I tell him‚ he rolls his eyes‚ grabs me by the forearm and hauls me inside. During the next month visiting mafrishes in south London‚ I will be scorned often for being a Tottenham Hotspur supporter. Issues of my nationality (British)‚ ethnicity (white) and profession (journalist) pass without comment. No one attempts to recruit me to al-Shabaab. According to most recent figures‚ there are close to 110‚000 Somalis in the UK‚ around
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Tottenham Hotspurs‚ Plc. This certain case has many different possibilities for evaluation which gives it much complexity and much liberty while evaluating it. The soccer business sure has a certain relation with the performance and their revenues which makes it highly unstable when speaking of forecasted income of the club. We must first value the firm at its current position in order to be able to value as compared to acquiring the new stadium and obtaining a new goal scorer. In
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The costs of the Olympics were really high.it was estimate of £2.4 million in 2005 to£9.3 billion now. The average overspend is 179%. The games will inspire people to exercise more. The London 2012 had more disadvantages. Some people might disagree to this statement as they might think they had more benefits than disadvantage. The Olympic Games have some benefits like the stadium we can use the stadium for other sports and will have a track or we could sell the stadium for example football group
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case 6 Manchester United: The Glazer Takeover On June 14‚ 2005‚ US businessman Malcolm Glazer announced he had acquired over 90% of the shares of Manchester United plc. This would allow him to delist Manchester United’s shares from the London Stock Exchange and turn it into a private company. Glazer’s offer of £3 per share was over 40 times the previous year’s net income and was almost double the average market price of Man United’s shares during the preceding three years. All told‚ the buyout
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One of Britain’s most renowned entrepreneurs had never felt so wrong in their life. “Next Christmas the iPod will be dead‚ finished‚ gone‚ kaput.” they told an interviewer from the Daily Mail in 2005. This entrepreneur had no idea that he had got his statement wrong‚ 350million times over. (Hazelton‚ 2008) (NewsWeek‚ 2010) This entrepreneur was Sir Alan Michael Sugar‚ born 24th March 1947. Notorious for his smash TV show‚ the Apprentice UK‚ Sugar truly epitomises the saying‚ rags to riches. Sugar
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight I would like to take you back 9 months in time. On the 17th March 2012 Fabrice Muamba was playing for Bolton Wanderers against Tottenham Hotspur when he collapsed on the pitch. The paramedics who treated him realised he showed signs of a cardiac arrest. He was‚ in effect‚ dead‚ for 78 minutes. The cardiologists who saved him were likely to have earned £85‚000 a year. Muamba‚ a 23 year old young footballer‚ earned 5 million pounds a year. Is it right that
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it won the League and FA Cup Double‚ in the 1970–71 season‚ and in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century won two more Doubles and reached the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final. Arsenal has a long-standing rivalry with neighbours Tottenham Hotspur‚ with whom it regularly contests the North London derby. Arsenal is also the third most valuable Association football club in the world‚ valued at $1.2 billion. History Arsenal Football Club started out as Dial Square in 1886 by workers at the Royal
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Football in England Bill Shankly‚ Liverpool manager on football: “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much‚ much more important than that.” General facts:- national sport in the United Kingdom -over 40‚000 association football clubs‚ England has more clubs than any other country - played in English schools since at least 1581 -modern global game of Football was first codified in 1863 in London -UK is
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as soon as he came in he made some dramatic changes. He released best in the world‚ at the time‚ Ronaldinho and Deco. Guardiola had already offloaded full back Gianluca Zambrotta to AC Milan‚ attacking midfielder Giovani dos Santos to Tottenham Hotspur‚ and midfielder Edmílson to Villarreal CF. He was going to release forward Samuel Eto’o but his performance in pre-season kept him on the team. He also went out and signed Dani Alves and Seydou Keita from Sevilla FC‚ Martín Cáceres from Villarreal
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