Executive Summary What are the secrets of India’s success in information technology? By using Porter’s Diamond Model‚ this article tries to answer that question. Based on the analysis‚ it seems the only determinant in the Porter’s Diamond that creates India’s success is Factor Condition (i.e. the Indian intellectual capital and “Indian connection” in Silicon Valley). The supporting determinant outside the diamond is the outsourcing trend in current global competition‚ which can be considered as the
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WHAT IS STRATEGY? BY MICHAEL PORTER! 1! ! ! What is Porter’s definition of Strategy? ! Porter claims that a competitive strategy refers to the fact of being different to the competition‚ choosing a different set activities to deliver a unique mix of value to the client. He affirms that the essence of strategy is in choosing to perform actions in a different way than the rivals do and differentiate themselves in the market aligning themselves at the same time with the needs and wants
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Sylvia Plath draws upon her personal experiences to blend a range of powerful emotions‚ weaving them cleverly throughout her poems. ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Daddy’ explore her intimate struggles and how the abandonment and betrayal of masculine figures in her life shaped her views on life and death. Her carefully selected language is crucial in exhibiting her feelings about the oppression of herself as a woman and her demand of dominance over the men around her. The protagonist of ‘Lady Lazarus’ is
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Both Sylvia Plath and Penelope Lively explore situations that evoke the primal fear in all of us. They use various images and different symbols to explore these fears through neurosis‚ nightmares and hallucinations. “The blue capes all dissolved and vanished”‚ just like their childhood’s innocence. The whole dreamy fantasy world of the two main characters (Sandra‚ from ‘The Darkness Out there’ and the little girl from ‘Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit’) burnt into ashes by the antagonist.
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“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath is a poem narrated from the perspective of a mirror. Within this poem‚ there is a clash between truth and perception. This idea is first presented through the form of the stanzas where the mirror is “silver and exact” (Plath 1) then when the mirror is “now [...] a lake” (10). The poem then illustrates how even the truthful mirror has preconceptions. Then finally how the woman‚ who comes every morning to look in the mirror often deludes herself with “those liars‚ the candles
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Are Porter’s Five Competitive Forces still Applicable? A Critical Examination concerning the Relevance for Today’s Business Author: Fabian Dälken University of Twente P.O. Box 217‚ 7500AE Enschede The Netherlands f.dalken@student.utwente.nl Abstract‚ Porter’s Five Forces model is a powerful management tool for analysing the current industry profitability and attractiveness by using the outside-in perspective. Within the last decades‚ the model has attracted some criticism because of the developing
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Sylvia Plath’s poem "Daddy" portrays her love and hate relationship with her own father. At first glance‚ the poem almost spits vivid words of rage and hate toward her father; but even on the second reading the very structure of the poem‚ as well as a few word choices betray the love she feels for him. This creates a warring duality and she herself the views this unresolved relationship as the root of her misery. The very title of the poem Daddy contradicts the face value of the poem as a whole
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Analysis of the Edge by Silvia Plath Sylvia Plath wrote the poem “Edge” six days prior to committing suicide on 11th day of February1963. According to Alexander (1991:214) the poem is alleged to be the author’s last work. The form bears an exciting feature: It has ten stanzas‚ with each having only two lines‚ seized in an enjambment. The second line of every stanza is at all times half of the building and denotation of the first line of the subsequent stanza. Therefore‚ the break of verse
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In both literary pieces‚ the fathers have been denominated as barbaric males that had created a dysfunctional relationship upon their children. In the case of “Daddy‚” Plath creates an environment enriched with violence and frightening. Through the poem‚ the father is being envisioned in terms of his dominance‚ cruelty‚ and authoritarianism. She compares the relationship with her father resembling the Holocaust/victim analogy‚ making him a Nazi and herself a Jew; which helps her in the dramatization
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was 11 years old‚ Sylvia Plath‚ was an extraordinary girl with a troublesome mind. In 1962‚ shortly before her death Plath wrote one of her most significantly popular poems “Daddy”. This poem is about Path’s regards towards her father. It describes the relationship they had and how it affected her. Her fathers way of being did not only affect her during childhood but even after the day she got married to the end of her life. Upon reading‚ one can clearly imagine the way Sylvia Plath lived‚ and was
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