I) Book-keeping is an art of recording the business transactions in the books of original entry and the ledgers. This work is of mechanical nature which does not require knowledge of the principles of accountancy. Accountancy means the compilations of accounts in such a way that one is in a position to know the state of affairs of the business. The man who performs this work is called an accountant. His work is to interpret and review the accounts and draw conclusions to guide the management in
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The Iliad Homer Major Themes The interaction between fate and free will: A complicated theme‚ the interaction between fate and free will is present in every book of the Iliad. At times it seems that men have no real freedom. The gods intercede repeatedly‚ altering events as they please. But Homer was no determinist‚ and there is a place in the Iliad for human agency. At key points‚ Homer makes it clear that mortals make important choices‚ and a few times mortals nearly overturn the dictates
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THE FALL OF TROY | | THE STORY of the Iliad ends with the death of Hector‚ and it is from the Odyssey and later poems that we learn the fate of the other heroes. After the death of Hector‚ Troy did not immediately fall‚ but receiving aid from new allies still continued its resistance. One of these allies was Memnon‚ the Æthiopian prince‚ whose story we have already told. Another was Penthesilea‚ queen of the Amazons‚ who came with a band of female warriors. All the authorities attest their
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how David Mamet’s “widely regarded proficiency with dialogue; an audience’s enjoyment of both play and the movie versions of Glengarry is sustained by it” (Lublin 39). He talks about how the film version even though it has similarities to the play version‚ the film “presents a simpler understanding of society than does the play” (Lublin 40). The film version also shows the “dichotomy between the ‘halves’ and the ‘have nots‚’ the powerful and the powerless” (Lublin 40). According to Lublin film version
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The Allied powers were Great Britian‚ France‚ and the Soviet Union. The Nazi Party killed over 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. Also‚ members of the communists and socialists were also murdered. “The Book Thief” is a portrayal of life during the Holocaust. The movie is set in 1938 by a girl with the name of Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nelisse) who is traveling on a train with her communist mother and her little brother. On the trip her little brother passes away. While the
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Book vs. Movies A long time has passed since the idea that “The book is better than the movie” was accepted without question. There are almost no exceptions. Some key reasons why the film version of a book is so lacking relates to‚ one‚ the lack of depth of the story‚ two time constraints and‚ three‚ the inability for producers to include the full content of a story. Most of the time‚ if the movies follow an original script‚ and there is no book version to compare it to‚ it is most likely
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published both as a book and as a movie. Being a reader or a viewer entirely changes our point of view on the story. As a reader‚ we get descriptive insight on the situations and emotions of the characters. We are then able to re-create these visually using our imagination and have endless freedom doing so. As a viewer‚ our creativity is somewhat restricted. We do not imagine the characters’ physical appearance‚ the locations or the overall situations in the same way as in a book. These elements are
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The characters portrayed in the Iliad are culturally similar to the people living in the United States today‚ but they are also different from us in several ways. The people that lived during the time of Homer had different ideas on many issues. The way they viewed things were somewhat different to how we view things today. This is to be expected because throughout history many events reshaped their views and beliefs. Events such as disasters‚ plagues‚ and wars occurred which brought about change
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big role in the Iliad and we see it throughout the majority of the book. Achilles is the most rage-filled character in the entire book and because of his rage‚ he acts childish and does not fight in the war. Achilles also shows a vengeance-filled rage on the battlefield when the enemy kills his best-friend Patroclus and rage is what starts this war against Troy. The characters in the Iliad exhibit an unbridled rage‚ which affects the event occurring throughout the war against Troy. Rage is what
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the action in which drives the story and is created by the mythical figures called the Fates. In The Iliad fate is a prevalent subject throughout the poem. There is a constant clash between gods and man in the Trojan war. They are always at strife with one another with the god fighting in the background‚ but they will also cross paths and interact in the fighting. With the constant interaction between the two the god’s power can be seen and is used against man. In their use of power some may think
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