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    Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific 1.0 Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific Region Citibank should launch the card product in Asia for several reasons. Firstly‚ Citibank can ride on the rapid economic development in the region via credit card products. Secondly‚ it is also an excellent way to overcome distribution limitations imposed on foreign banks in the region. Thirdly‚ it allows Citibank to expand its customer base from the upper income segment to include the rapidly

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    focuses on the arrival of the two “submarines.”‚ Marco and Rodolpho. This arrival causes some family disputes that ultimately lead to Eddie’s tragic death at the end of the play. In the play the central themes are: betrayal‚ pride‚ reputation and obsession. Miller also uses foreshadowing to tell the readers Eddie´s destiny. Eddie has maintained his family through life and this fact has made him overprotective and suspicious of anyone who may come between them‚ especially Catherine. Eddie’s feelings

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    to uncover the mystery of what is hidden behind the wallpaper. a. The significance of the woman in the yellow wallpaper it that she is the one telling the story to the readers‚ so they are able to see the wallpaper from her perspective. b. Her obsession with the wallpaper causes her to perform an investigation which leads her to find that she is the woman in the wallpaper. c. Instead of seeking help for her illness like most people would‚ her husband decides to isolates her in the room with the

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    In a world consumed by economics‚ it is easy to get swept away by the desire for power‚ wealth‚ and prestige. Many people lose sight of life’s natural wonders and become engrossed by greed as they yearn to acquire and maintain an affluential reputation. This central theme is apparent in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth‚ which is further translated into Billy Morrissett’s Scotland‚ PA. Although Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s desire to “achieve absolute monarchical authority is absurdly reduced to the McBeths’

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    Case Study #4 Currently 37 years of age‚ Darcy started to have problems around the age of nine‚ shortly after the passing of her grandmother that she was very close to. The case study goes on to say that Darcy experienced a lot of anxiety following the death of her grandmother‚ and started to alienate herself. This isolation and anxiety was deepened when Darcy’s father relocated the family from a small town to a large city. Darcy had to ultimately adjust to life in the city and was afraid of her

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    but later became to be the premier of pure cinema. Through the use of formal elements such as lighting‚ color‚ spacing‚ and sound Hitchcock brings the film off of the screen and into the audience’s head. The themes presented in Vertigo: love‚ sex‚ obsession‚ and guilt play a far more important role in telling the story than the acting. These are common Hitchcockian themes‚ which culminate all within this one film. The visual elements in Vertigo are exceptionally important in the telling of the

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    Sofia Coppola‚ in The Virgin Suicides‚ use a range of stylistic features (film techniques) to display the movies themes and with what effect on the audience? INTRO: Director Sofia Coppola uses a range of film techniques to display themes of obsession‚ the superficiality of vision and isolation from the real world in her film The Virgin Suicides. Through use of symbolism‚ characterization‚ setting and techniques specific to a film such a soundtrack‚ Coppola is able to construct the intricate

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    distressing but very difficult to overcome (geocities). OCD is linked to a kind of "short-circuit" in the way the brain processes worry thoughts (kids health). People with OCD have obsessions and compulsions. Obsession is defined as a compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or unwanted emotion (American Heritage). "Obsessions lead to anxiety (kids health)." To relieve their anxiety people will perform compulsions. Compulsion is defined as an irresistible impulse to act (American Heritage). An example

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    obsessed thoughts interested me. When you have the obsession‚ no longer can you think about your job‚ or focusing on important procedures through the day. No matter how hard you try‚ the thought linger and become excessive until they interfere with the most important things in your day (Robinson‚ Smith‚ Segal). OCD is an anxiety disorder‚ which often gives people thoughts that can be troubled by images that stick in their mind‚ an obsession (Developed by RelayHealth). The cause of OCD all has

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    along the Jersey Shore” (p.279). This quote clearly shows that he was living in a parallel world between the war that he was living at that moment and his obsessed love for Martha. During the war Jimmy Cross had two obsessions with his love back home Martha. The first obsession that Jimmy shows is that he thinks all the time that “she was a virgin‚ he [and that he] was almost sure.” (p.274). Another quote that can be used as an example is how he describes her from a photo that she sent him as

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