Tata’s Takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover: Bumpy Road or Smooth Ride? In June 2008‚ India-based Tata Motors Ltd. announced that it had completed the acquisition of the two iconic British brands - Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) from the US-based Ford Motors for US$ 2.3 billion. Tata Motors stood to gain on several fronts from the deal. One‚ the acquisition would help the company acquire a global footprint and enter the high-end premier segment of the global automobile market. After the acquisition
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A simile is used as a comparison to compare two things two one another that aren’t normally compared to get a better understanding on what the writer is meaning. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem he uses a simile in line 9. He wrote‚ ’’But we loved with a love that was more than love--’’. In this line the simile is used to describe how much the narrator and Anabel Lee were in love. There love was more powerful
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Key Image Terms 1. simile- compares two dissimilar objects using like or as. Example #1: N. Scott Momaday describes shadows from clouds "that move upon the grain like water." Commentary: This simile shows vs. tells. It helps me to picture what the shadows looked like. They weren’t stationary‚ they were moving very fluid over a field of grain. By comparing the shadows to water‚ Momaday paints a picture of something being intangible to something that is tangible. I didn’t directly see the shadows
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Outline Plato’s simile of the ship and two of its possible purposes (15 Marks) Plato’s simile of the ship is used as a retort to Adeimantus’ assertions that philosophers are “very odd birds‚ not to say thoroughly vicious”‚ and even their best qualities prove to be completely useless to society. In the simile‚ each feature represents an element of Athenian society. The ship itself represents the Athenian democratic state. The captain of the ship‚ who is large and strong‚ is also deaf and short-sighted
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The poem‚ ‘The Jaguar’ written by Ted Hughes‚ is one of his most famous poems but no his only by far. From 1984 to his death‚ Hughes wrote poetry constantly. Critics rank him as one of the best poets of his time. ‘The Jaguar’ describes the different lifestyles of animals at a zoo and expresses how they feel about being trapped in their cages. It shows the slow‚ lazy movements from some of the animals to the fast‚ rapid movement of the jaguar. In ‘The Jaguar’‚ Ted Hughes uses techniques such as tone
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Lord of the Flies The story of the Lord of the Flies is set during the Cold War. There’s a group of boys‚ and their plane gets shot down‚ and the boys get stranded out on an island.The author “William Golding”intention of treating the boys are isolated existence as a small figure of the adult military world. Without the restraints of civilization‚ the behavior of people will regress to their savage beginnings. Survival is of utmost importance. The base form of human nature will lead to anarchy
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How does Ted Huges Present Nature in His Poetry? Ted Huges presents nature by using different descriptions‚ techniques‚ vocabulary and the way he structures his poems. In the three poems ‘The Thought Fox’‚ ‘The Jaguar’ and ‘Hawk Roosting’ Huges presents his view on nature using animals. However he does portray the animals quite differently one a self-cantered and vicious creature‚ another‚ elegant and innocent and the last a trapped creature with no boundaries. Huges give animals’ human like features
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T.S. Eliot is often regarded as a poetic genius of his time and frequently‚ to this day as well. He lived a fairly‚ normal life as he grew up in St. Louis‚ Missouri then later attended Harvard University. Eventually‚ he left the United States for Sorbonne‚ England and returned to Harvard to study some more and ended up back in England where he became under the influence of Ezra Pound. Pound recognized Eliot’s poetic talent and assisted in many of his publications and influenced his work. What stood
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There are various theories in regards to marketing and the techniques used out of the various techniques different businesses choose different theories to take on board which depends on the culture and traditions of business. Factors such as legislation and ethical morals might also affect how a business might use market techniques. The following are some of the techniques: Growth strategies Igor Ansoff created one of best-known descriptions of the strategies available for growing a business
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Golding uses the conch in the novel to symbolise democracy and civilisation. Golding wrote the novel as a parody to R.M Ballantyne’s novel “Coral Island” in which a number of boys are placed on an island‚ their behaviour is civilised and Ballantyne suggests though out his novel that the Pirates and savages are the only people on the island that had the potential for evil. Golding contradicts this as he wrote Lord of the Flies after WW2 and the ‘Cold War’ he was horrified at mans capacity for evil
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