’ "I [Bilbo Baggins] come from under the hills‚ and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air‚. I am he that walks unseen." ’ (Tolkien 258). Bilbo Baggins is the widely known hero of The Hobbit. His transformation into a hero was a difficult journey‚ and his evolution came from multiple different sources. The importance of social pressure for an individual to reach their full potential is one theme explored in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien‚ as the peer pressure from the
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Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Macbeth undergoes a profound and gradual evolution throughout the play. He regresses from a logical‚ compassionate‚ caring‚ and conscientious man‚ to an entirely apathetic‚ moral less model of cynical numbness. Macbeth’s transformation from logical to irrational‚ from compassionate to indifferent‚ progresses slowly but definitively. We first hear of Macbeth in the wounded captain’s account of his battlefield valor‚ and our initial impression is of a brave and capable warrior
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Shadow of the Vampire is a post-modern text which is a reconstruction of Dracula‚ a novel by Bram Stoker‚ and Nosferatu a film directed by F.W. Murnau. The use of intertexuality in Shadow of the Vampire is a key aspect which allows it to echo; themes‚ the gothic mode and issues that are present in the other two texts. Through a clear pastiche‚ Merhige produces a new text from the old. Immortality is a key theme which has been subverted from the physical sense through sucking blood‚ as it’s represented
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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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Twenty years ago Hillton was a small city (about 70‚000 residents) that served as an outer to a large Midwest metropolitan area. The city treated employees like family and gave them a great deal of autonomy in their work. Everyone in the organization (including the two labor unions representing employees) implicitly agreed that the leaders and supervisors of the organization should rise through the ranks based on their experience. Few people were ever hired from the outside into middle or senior
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PatientInformation AnkleSprains The condition • • • • Ankle sprains Lateral Ligament tears Medial Ligament tears Inferior Tib-Fib joint strain Superior Tib- Fib joint eversion strain About the condition The ankle is most commonly sprained by what is called an “inversion” injury‚ which means the ankle has rolled over and outwards. This strains the lateral (outside) ligaments of the ankle and the Inferior TibFib joint. The reverse injury an “eversion” strain is less common and involves
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film‚ The Godfather‚ Francis Ford Coppola orchestrates the filmic elements (especially: editing and mise-en-scéne) to give the audience an intimate view of the complex world of a Mafia Don: Coppola’s techniques sensitively portray the life and transformation of Michael Corleone; he leaves his status as a family outsider to become king of the underworld. Michael is the son of Vito Corleone‚ Don of the Corleone Crime Family1. The story of The Godfather is the story of both Vito and Michael. Vito
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In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses a multitude of characters to assist Scout as she slowly matures to the likeness of Maycomb County. During the third chapter‚ Lee takes advantage of Atticus’s role as a father to drop a bit of advice for Scout’s future. The piece of moral advice Atticus passes down can be found in this specific quote‚ “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (pg.
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Transformation in bacteria is the genotype alteration by the uptake of naked‚ foreign DNA from the environment. This concept of transformation was first discovered when Fred Griffith an experiment using mice and strains of pneumonia. Griffith concluded that a “principle” was transferred from heat-killed S strains to the R strains‚ which transformed them into deadly S strains. Oswald Avery later determined‚ through a series of experiments‚ that DNA was the “principle” that caused the R stains to become
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Transformation is the process in which a bacterial cell takes up extracellular DNA. This can be especially useful for bacteria in order to acquire certain traits such as: antibiotic resistance‚ synthesis of catabolites‚ or any other trait that would help improve its survival. However‚ not all bacterial cells are naturally competent (able to naturally take up extracellular DNA). There are several techniques that can make cells artificially competent‚ some of which will be discussed later. Bacterial
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