Metamorphosis is an illustrious short story‚ which manifests Kafka’s complex character‚ his beliefs‚ and real-life dilemmas. It highlights the existentialist credo by elucidating the quandaries faced by an individual in the face of absurdity. Kafka critiques the impersonal and materialistic society around us‚ which mitigates individualism‚ restricts freedom‚ and engenders alienation. A whirlwind of redundancy and absurdity pose Gregor with an identity crisis. Initially‚ his individuality is tethered
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The X-Files The X-Files is generally acclaimed as the television cult hit of the 1990’s. The pilot that aired in September of 1993 introduced FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Together the two work to uncover the truth behind unsolved cases that defy normal investigation‚ the cases that the government has buried or ignored‚ labeling them the "x-files." The two agents are wonderful examples of modernism and post-modernism world views. First in order to understand the reasons Scully and
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During the late 70’s and throughout the 80’s‚ the sexual revolution was sweeping the nation and sex was becoming a more permissive topic of discussion. Many movies released around this time‚ capitalized on this and included sexual themes. Blue Velvet is no exception to this. Blue Velvet is a 1986 cult-classic mystery film the title of which coming from a song of the same name. The film follows a college student named Jeffrey who returns home after his father suffers from a stroke. While walking
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procrastination. Or should I write about how the novel is structured with every second chapter being a separate story and how that is entwined with the duality of procrastination? Perhaps I could relate the novel to a movie or two‚ now that I think about it The Matrix has quite a parallel I could write about. The exordial six pages of the novel are all about procrastination. When you have read them you have not actually began read the actual story yet. His prefatory sentence is “You are about to begin reading
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McKinsey Matrix (The GE multi factoral) With the help of McKinsey and Company‚ a leading consulting group‚ the General Electric Company (GE) developed a popular business portfolio analysis tool called the GE Multifactor Portfolio Matrix. This tool helps managers develop organizational strategy that is based primarily on market attractiveness and business strengths. Industry attractiveness might be determined by such factors as the rate of industry growth‚ the number of competitors in an industry
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R for Programmers Norman Matloff University of California‚ Davis c 2007-8‚ N. Matloff December 4‚ 2008 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This document is no longer being maintained. My book on R programming‚ The Art of R Programming‚ is due out in August 2011. You are welcome to use an early draft at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/˜matloff/132/NSPpart.pdf; it was about 50% complete and contains bugs‚ but should be useful. Licensing: This work‚ dated December 4‚ 2008‚ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No
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environmental factors 1.2 Compare and contrast a minimum of two tools such as SWOT and POWER SWOT and apply to business solutions 1.3 Critically contrast Primary and Secondary research methods 2.1 Evaluate the use of tools such as Boston and Ansoff Matrix to business situations 2.2 Analyse the effectiveness of models such as Porter’s Generic Strategies 3.1 Evaluate consumer buying behaviour and the adoption process 3.2 Analyse the role of marketing mix to specific products 3.3 Evaluate the Product
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3. The Ansoff Matrix Ansoff (1957) designed a framework called Ansoff Matrix. This strategy helps identifying corporate growth opportunities‚ also analysing companies based on market‚ product with possible growth opportunities which can be established by merging current and new products. Ansoff identifies four generic growth strategies‚ these are: 1. Market Penetration – tool used to increase organisations share in the market with its current product line. 2. Market development
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1306 IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS‚ VOL. 31‚ NO. 7‚ JULY 2013 Sparse Attack Construction and State Estimation in the Smart Grid: Centralized and Distributed Models Mete Ozay‚ I˜ aki Esnaola‚ Fatos T. Yarman Vural‚ Sanjeev R. Kulkarni‚ and H. Vincent Poor n Abstract—New methods that exploit sparse structures arising in smart grid networks are proposed for the state estimation problem when data injection attacks are present. First‚ construction strategies for unobservable
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Matrix Management ____________________________________________________________________ We typically see it as the leader’s responsibility to get the best out of his or her people – but how do organisational structures help or hinder performance? In the better‚ cheaper‚ faster world of the global economy anything that creates bottlenecks and slows up decision-making is an obstacle to success. In this respect hierarchical management and functional silos are bad news; what employers want to drive
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