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    In the novel "Looking for Alibrandi" by Melina Marchetta‚ the main character Josie undergoes numerous changes by the end of the text. Throughout the year that the book covers‚ many events occur that change Josie’s personality and attitude towards the world. She matures from being a very stubborn and hot-tempered girl to a more responsible and experienced young woman. When we meet seventeen-year-old Josephine Alibrandi‚ at the beginning of the text‚ our first impression of her is that she is very

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    The Looking Glass Wars is a book about a girl named Alyss who lived a wonted life. She was en route to become a princess. But one day an evil queen named Redd came and slaughter her family. Alyss escaped through a Looking Glass that would take her to another place. Alice in Wonderland is a similar story. There’s a girl named Alice who was reading a story to her sister. Then she saw a talking rabbit‚ who ran into a rabbit hole. She followed the rabbit and ended up in Wonderland. Alice then traveled

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    a lot of questions that could be asked so that we can source out a firm’s competitive advantage. Several things are needs to be assessed‚ evaluated and decided on in order to formulate a firm’s competitive advantage. For Jay Barney‚ the author of Looking inside for competitive advantage‚ a company’s competitive advantage can be source out from its external opportunities and threats and its internal strengths and weaknesses. From these environmental factors‚ we can now pick up the strengths‚ weaknesses

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    You are looking at Chuck Close. Close is a post-modern‚ American artist who exhibited during the 1970s. Technically‚ you are looking at Big Self Portrait (1968) – a painted self-portrait of the artist. The original version of the picture measures just less than nine square metres‚ and in it Close’s eyelashes and pores are individually visible. Close worked in a technique that came to be known as ‘photorealism’‚ in which artists produced astoundingly life-like paintings‚ that presented ‘reality’ as

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    Looking to the Bible: the original identity of the Church as being missionary by nature According to Van Gelder‚ the nature of the Biblical church is based heavily on the sense that it is a social community rather than a collection of individuals. Similar to the reality of the Trinity‚ this social community is now living in reconciled relationship with God and with one another. The author shows this new community with four main and distinct characteristics. 1) The church as a people of God “live

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    Kirstin McLin April 5‚ 2010 Social Theory Th Looking-Glass Self Looking-glass self and it can be found in every day life; it is a part of our literature‚ television‚ and especially movies. People in these cases perceive themselves as others perceive and respond to them‚ what social psychologists call “reflected appraisals.” It can have both positive and negative impacts on how one sees and relates to oneself and influences one’s self-image. Another example of getting knowledge

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    Looking for Alibrandi: “When we are no longer able to change a situation‚ we are challenged to change ourselves” Victor Frankl “When we are no longer able to change a situation‚ we are challenged to change ourselves.” By Victor Frankl Victor Frankl is saying when we come to the point where we can’t change a situation that we are forced to change ourselves instead. This process of changing ourselves is a challenge but in a funny way is easier than pushing and trying to change a situation

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    Page 1 of 8 ANZMAC 2009 Celebrities in advertising: looking for congruence or for likability? Nathalie Fleck*‚ University of Cergy-Pontoise‚ Thema‚ France Nathalie.flec@u-cergy.fr Michaël Korchia‚ BEM Bordeaux Management School‚ France Michael.korchia@bem.edu Isabelle Le Roy‚ CSA‚ France Abstract Celebrities used as endorsers in advertising are often very popular ones. However‚ from a cognitive point of view (and more academic one)‚ congruence between brand and celebrity seems to be very

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    Response for “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird” I think the most difficult yet most appealing concept in the reading is the concept that the content arises from the temporal duration of the artwork. I like how McEvilley thinks artwork is timeless and eternal. The author also described in the article that “The divine spark inside the artwork is its immortal Soul‚ which enables it‚ like the magical ritual‚ to penetrate through to higher metaphysical realms and to act as a channel to

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    Through the Looking Glass of Amelia Earhart “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things: Knows not the livid loneliness of fear‚ nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living‚ compensate for dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice‚ we pay with courage to behold the resistless day‚ and count it fair” (“Poem

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