David Henry Hwang’s M. Bufferfly: From Puccini to East/Western Androgyny by Sheng-mei Ma 598202156 Lia 598202170 Cathy 598202259 Dora 598202376 Tina Outline I. Introduction to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly II. The arguments of the author A. Reinterpretation B. The Western fantasy and racism C. Androgyny and homosexual in M. Butterfly III. Conclusion Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Cho-Cho-San—a Japanese geisha Pinkerton—an American naval officer The Author Argues: M. Butterfly is the
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of Finance in Successful Serial M&A What distinguishes companies that gain maximum competitive advantage from mergers and acquisitions—deal after deal— from those that do not? An Accenture survey of finance and strategy executives from serial acquirers around the world suggests that successful M&A is based on five key practices. Why do companies decide to intensify their merger and acquisition efforts‚ and what separates those that generate value from their M&A deals from those that do not?
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the height of something very tall by using the daytime shadow length of the object and its shadow being down along the ground. Hypothesis: if the measurement of the known
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Title: Trurl’s Machine Author: Stanislaw Lem As a boy Stanislaw Lem showed an early interest in science as well as in the imaginary worlds of fantasy and science fiction. The young Lem’s interest in tinkering mechanical devices of all sorts was put to use by secretly damaging the German vehicles during the Nazi occupation. Later on‚ he became a full time writer establishing himself as leading science fiction writer in Eastern Europe. This writer from Lvov Poland (now Ukraine) worked on serious
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“Fight Club” Shadow Interpretation In the movie “Fight Club” is about the narrator‚ Jack’s‚ fantasy of an alternate reality‚ his personal shadow. Tyler Durden represents Jack’s unconscious collective shadow. Jack‚ the protagonist‚ has a meaningless‚ boring and empty life‚ and suffers from insomnia. Jack tries to lend color to his insignificant life by purchasing new commodities like his furniture which are the fetish items of the narrator and they provide him with more meaningful existence. Jack
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Management in Mergers & Acquisitions Organizations of all sizes and across all industry sectors are increasingly looking to M&A to support their global growth strategies. The primary objectives for M&A’s are to cut costs‚ broaden market shares or take advantage of each other’s synergies and most typically to accelerate growth. Yet several studies indicate that more than half of all M&A deals fail to meet management’s strategic‚ operational and financial objectives. The crux of the matter lies in
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The Economics of M‐PESA1 WILLIAM JACK 2 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY AND TAVNEET SURI 3 MIT SLOAN First version: October‚ 2009 This version: August‚ 2010 We gratefully acknowledge the support and collaboration of Pauline Vaughan and Susie Lonie‚ and other staff of Safaricom and Vodafone. The survey whose results are reported here was commissioned by the Central Bank of Kenya‚ managed by Financial Sector Deepening
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Over the duration of six weeks‚ we worked in a math unit called "Shadows." During the unit‚ we worked to solve the unit problem‚ which was to find a formula for how long a shadow was. When first given the unit problem‚ I considered it a simple task but soon after I realized there were many steps and ideas that needed to be learned before the unit goal could be reached. Throughout these six weeks‚ we learned about trigonometry‚ similarity‚ patterns‚ congruency‚ and using angles to solve problems.
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rumbling voice. “If you are to survive‚ you must believe.” “Believe what?” asked Shadow. “What should I believe?”… “Everything‚” roared the buffalo man. (p. 18) This passage holds a very important significance as it captures the theme of the novel. There is a reason why it was introduced so early and not later. The buffalo man doesn’t merely offer this advice to make Shadow curious‚ nor does he offer it so that Shadow can expand his intellectual capacity or attain
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Feminism in M. Butterfly In the 1989 drama M. Butterfly‚ the masterwork of contemporary American playwright David Henry Hwang‚ the topic of sexual politics underlies all other themes‚ and creates a tension between the genders that pervades throughout the text; moreover‚ Hwang subverts traditional thematic aspects of sexual politics by questioning the most fundamental unit of sex by considering the very nature of gender and what defines a male or a female. These elements unite and develop a penetrating
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