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    highlighting society changes through the transformation of values. Heckerling and Austen convey the values marriage‚ integrity versus wealth and social status through cinematography and writing techniques such as dialogue‚ characterisation and stereotyping. A value which Austen conveys through her text Emma is the importance of marriage in relation to “climbing” the social ladder. This can be seen through the determination of Emma in finding a man of a higher social status for Harriet‚ and dialogue‚ when

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    How does the composer of Clueless use film techniques to transform the social‚ historical and environmental context of Jane Austen’s Emma to the modern context of Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s Clueless involves a storyline‚ which closely follows the text of Jane Austen’s novel Emma. However‚ there are some key points of difference in the transformation that has taken place. This is due to the individual context of the nineteenth century prose text and that of the modern appropriated film text. The

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    During the 1800s‚up until 1860‚the North and South did not see eye to eye on economic and social issues.Inevitably leading to a much anticipated Civil War in 1861.The seeds of the Civil War were planted way before the actual fighting broke out ‚the antebellum years prior to this event were filled with political turbulence.Tension between the North and South reached an all time peak when slavery expanded to newly acquired states.To the North slavery was morally wrong and cruel.The South however

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    Canadian history and use of the Atlantic Cod Fishery In the 1990’s‚ the Canadian Atlantic Cod fishery suffered a collapse when the populations were extremely overexploited and caused a massive dip in the cod’s biomass. Presently‚ the populations have still not fully recovered and as a result‚ the cod fishery is very limited in terms of catch. Thinking back to the collapse‚ one may wonder what factors contributed to the drop in biomass and if people have changed their outlook on fisheries enough

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    Transformation at Renault Nissan Nissan Motor Company was on the edge of bankruptcy when French automaker Renault purchased a controlling interest and put Carlos Ghosn as the effective head of the Japanese automaker. Nissan’s known problems of high debt and plummeting market share‚ Ghosn identified that Nissan managers had no apparent sense of urgency for change. Ghosn’s challenge was to act quickly‚ minimize the inevitable resistance that arises when an outsider tries to change traditional Japanese

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    Executive Summary Virgin Atlantic is one of the leading luxury airline and part of the Virgin Group of companies‚ a highly valued name in United Kingdom and United states. Virgin is one of the leaders in most of the industries it operates in. A major reason for the success of Virgin Air is the CEO of the Virgin group Richard Branson‚ whose vision and dynamic personality has led to one of the most talked about creation and growth of a business group. Richard has been able to use his personality

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    How would you identify and characterize the roles of incentives‚ training‚ and education in promoting innovation in your organization? With the current state of the economy many organizations are searching to recruit potential employees that are able to bring to the business creativity and innovations to their table. Many organizations are looking into graduates who have been educated with more recent information on how to a business strive and what resources can be used to make it happen. Other

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    Case Notes – Atlanta Home Loan Al Fiorini‚ the founder of Atlanta Home Loan‚ was caught in an unfortunate situation when he lost control of his start-up company‚ and also was faced with an unfavourable credit rating which forced him to sell his home. I feel that this situation may have been avoided if Al had developed and enforced “tighter results controls”. In order to produce tighter results controls‚ Al had to consider the following: 1. Definition of desired area: This section is concerned

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    collegiate goals I want to carry out at Palm Beach Atlantic is to believe in Christ purpose without hesitation. Being hardworking within my education‚ and‚ in my religion because opportunities arise when you add a great work ethic to the ability to serve Christ. See‚ high school was the start of my faith journey. Often‚ the preoccupying force of maintaining my mother’s health and covering the problems within my family from the outside world ruled as priority. School became an afterthought‚

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    In this essay‚ I will attempt to explain why Sartre argues that emotions are transformations of the world in his book‚ “A sketch for the Theory of the Emotions”. According to Sartre‚ an emotion is a response to a situation‚ an interaction with the world. Emotions control the way we act under certain circumstances and in certain situations‚ which is our behaviour‚ and we feel like we have no control. However‚ although we blame our behaviour on our emotions (“I hit that man because I was angry”) Sartre

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