Question 2 Introduction Takealot.com is one of South Africa fastest growing and largest online retail stores. This great e-commerce business was officially launched in 2011 after the acquisition of Take2.com by Kim Reid who is a former senior executive at Naspers and the US based hedge fund‚ Tiger Global. Takealot.com offers a service of online shopping to consumers. This business was developed with a simple vision and goal in mind which is to offer a one stop customer focused online retail store
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Arthur Miller‚ a great playwright of his time‚ wrote The Crucible. The Crucible‚ a 1953 play‚ was written at the time of the Red Scare in America. The author was accused of being a communist during this period of time and wrote the play to show how out of proportion the government was while the Red Scare was commencing. Miller used various forms of satire to show his feeling towards this ordeal in the play. The forms of satire were used to compare the Salem Witch Trials to the Red Scare. His drama
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with the unknown‚ or as many believe‚ our obsession with perfection that epitomizes what it means to be human. Is perfection in a human being even an achievable goal? As Salvador Dali once put it‚ “Have no fear of perfection‚ you’ll never reach it‚” the general consensus is a blatant no. No matter how perfect they seem‚ someone can always strive for more. The film Gattaca looks at perfection in another light‚ in a time where near-perfection is easily attainable‚ it is however‚ our imperfections
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definition‚ a utopia is impossible. A utopia is a place of pure perfection‚ but how can a society be perfect if the people living in it are not perfect. Perfection is being free from all defects and flaws. Everyone is born with a defect of flaw that extract them from being perfect. Perfect is an abstract concept‚ and can only exist in someone’s mind; therefore everyone’s view of perfection is different. Additionally‚ if everyone’s view of perfection is different‚ it would be impossible for everyone to agree
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was not of this master race because he thought that Aryans were destined to rule the world and nobody can stand in their way. Any race of group that it was believed would make Germany weak if they continued to live side by side with the perceived perfection of the "The Aryan". Hitler would send the “low ranking” races to concentration camps. Such as Auschwitz Birkenau‚ the largest camp of them all.The Holocaust was the most gruesome and memorable event that has happened in history. More than eleven-million
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For Jay Gatsby and many others‚ the American Dream is about gaining wealth and material possessions in an attempt to find happiness. Throughout his novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald shows how the American Dream is only the concept of perfection‚ something that can never be acquired‚ but always can be reached for. Daisy Buchanon was always mesmerized by wealth. Her dream is to have a luxurious lifestyle filled with splendor. She could not see Gatsby providing this lifestyle
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GATTACA AND 1984 COMPARITIVE ESSAY How has the comparative study of 1984 and Gattaca offered insights into ideas of control and freedom. Control and freedom are both heavily universal aspects to the societies of the late 1900s. The ideas of control and freedom are presented in Nineteen Eighty Four written by George Orwell and “Gattaca” a film by Andrew Niccols. Both texts offer insights into the nature of societies dictated by control such as the totalitarian society of Nineteen Eighty Four and
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a curtain of ignorance. He believed that educating a man would remove that cover so that knowledge which is inherent in the person shines through‚ allowing one to achieve perfection. The perfection‚ he says‚ is the realization of the infinite power which is in everything. Vivekananda says that in order to achieve perfection‚ man has to eliminate ego‚ ignorance and all other encumbrances which stand in his way. He also advocated meditation to assist man to leave the body‚ the senses and the ego
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Angeles Philharmonic. In comparison to other major operas‚ its viability to increase the current combined annual endowment 10 fold was a likely probability. The merger did not come without opposition. Carolyn Abravenal‚ widow to the longstanding maestro and music director to the USO publicly denounced the new company. Scott Parker‚ Chairman to the Utah Symphony is best suited to discuss the merger with Mrs. Abravenal to gain her support so that the symphony could achieve the true potential her
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Before this‚ composers (or maestro di cappella ) had little or no place in the society of the day. A composer was “a servant of greater or lesser rank depending on his patron’s inclination or on the fame that he himself enjoyed.” A composition did not belong to them‚ it belonged to
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