the changes would affect their long-running competitive battle. Philips: Background In 1892‚ Gerard Philips and his father opened a small light-bulb factory in Eindhoven‚ Holland. When their venture almost failed‚ they recruited Gerard’s brother‚ Anton‚ an excellent salesman and manager. By 1900‚ Philips was the third largest light-bulb producer in Europe. Technological Competence and Geographic Expansion While larger electrical products companies were racing to diversify‚ Philips made only light-bulbs
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Throughout my reading of Lawrence Hills “The Illegal” a convergent began to form. An unabating theological presence of hope continued throughout his work. “The Illegal” as well as “The Book of Negroes” coincides with the Christian definition of hope. The novel allowed me to become exclusive with the main character‚ Keita Ali‚ and his situation‚ as well as with my own beliefs towards Christianity. I was forced to question and compare many theological topics of hope due to this novel. In this paper
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The interactive oral presentation over The Assault by Harry Mulisch was mainly focused around the German occupation of the Netherlands and how it affected Mulisch´s writing and his personal life. The presenters explained that when the German Nazis invaded the Netherlands‚ they banned all other political parties. In the novel‚ we see that communism is banned‚ and people who are against the Nazis are often communists. While reading the novel‚ I did not understand how someone like Hitler could so easily
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CHAPTER III Presentation and Interpretation of Data …………………………………….... 7 CHAPTER IV Summary and Recommendation ..……………………………………………. 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY .…………………………………………………………………... 9 Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short story writer‚ playwright and physician‚ considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are
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Anton is given the start in his life that Vincent lacks. He is also described as ‘a son worthy of his father’s name’. Director Niccol uses the swimming scenes (a game called Chicken) to compare the different attitudes that both Anton and Vincent have toward their life difficulties. Anton’s true character is revealed in their final game of Chicken when he stops on several
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SHORT STORY AND ITS ELEMENTS A short story is a kind of prose fiction which has grown up besides the novel and which has its own important and recognised place in literature. It may be defined as a prose narrative‚ “requiring from half an hour to one hour for its perusal.” In other words‚ brevity is the key-note of a short story. It is a story which it is physically possible to read at one sitting. But its must not be supposed that the short story is a novel on a reduced scale. It has a definite
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The setting of a piece of literature gives the reader a proper understanding of the roots of a story. The setting is an especially important in African American literature‚ because it shows readers many of the conditions African Americans had to face‚ unlike caucasians. Works such as Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson‚ “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston‚ and “Equal Opportunity” by Walter Mosey‚ show different settings‚ which allows for different points of view on how the
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at the scene where his director was murdered. Anton‚ the younger and genetically enhanced brother of Vincent‚ was assigned to head the investigation of the said murder case. He has a long history with his elder brother – beginning with Vincent being inferior to his taller‚ stronger and perfect younger brother. As young siblings‚ they enjoyed holding swimming competitions against each other where Anton always ends up winning. A time came when Anton drowned unexpectedly and Vincent‚ instead of continuing
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The film Gattaca fails to provide us with a character that can be clearly defined as a hero. By definition a hero is a person of distinguished courage or ability and is admired for their noble qualities and exhibits certain traits that are deemed to be heroic. In Andrew Niccol’s film the character Vincent freeman at times display heroic qualities but they do not consistently show them to prove to us that he is a heroes. Vincent takes on a whole new identity changing from an in-valid to a valid
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child which means they would leave everything under his hands‚ unfortunately god did not bless Vincent with the best genetic makeup and he was destined for failure and a life expectancy of 30 years. Anton is his younger but bigger‚ stronger brother that was genetically created by the local pharmacist‚ Anton was named after his father‚ for he was more perfectly made up and was worthy of his fathers name where as Vincent
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