two teenage street gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The members of the Sharks are first-generation Americans from Puerto Rico taunted by the Jets‚ a white group who consider themselves the true Americans. The young protagonist‚ Tony‚ one of the Jets‚ falls in love with Maria‚ the sister of Bernardo‚ the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme‚ sophisticated music‚ extended dance scenes‚ and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein’s score
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Hall‚ Theory Hall has become one of the main proponents of reception theory‚ and developed Hall’s Theory of encoding and decoding. This approach to textual analysis focuses on the scope for negotiation and opposition on part of the audience. This means that the audience does not simply passively accept a text — whether a book or a film — and that an element of activity becomes involved. The person negotiates the meaning of the text. The meaning depends on the cultural background of the person
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British Labour Party I would like to start by explaining The British Labour Party. The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom‚ and one of the two main British political parties along with the Conservative Party. In 1997‚ Tony Blair led this political party and he tried to change the environmental policy. Blair criticized other governments for not doing enough to solve global climate change. In a 1997 visit to the United States‚ he made a comment on "great industrialized
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Pg1 Tony uncle johnny‚ Ronald ‘big ron F‚ don Antonio‚ kevin finnerty‚Bada bing‚ T‚ and skip. All of these names are aliases for a mob boss formally known as Tony soprano. He wasn’t always the boss of a family he had to climb his way up the latter of success from being a normal lackey to being initiated as a made man‚ then a capo (captain) to finally a boss. Through out his journey tony soprano has committed some heinous acts of violence to reach his position as Boss which contradicts
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situational leadership theory and Fiedler’s contingency theory. Besides by completing this I can learn and know about Tony Fernandes background‚ achievement‚ leadership style‚ traits and personalities. If we did not doing this we unable to know this great figure that have been contribute in Malaysian airline business. Next‚ I can better understand this leadership subject. I found that Tony Fernandes is very interesting person because he is not only good in business but he also good in music and sports
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Question : How would you describe Fernandes’ entrepreneurial strategy? 1. General. Tony Fernandes was a risk taker; he bought his airline without prior knowledge about aviation as well as firsthand experience with the airline industry. He said in one of the interviews‚ “Go with your gut‚ give it your best bet and you may fail‚ but don’t give up” (INSEAD Knowledge‚ 2007). This statement shows the type of the person that he is. He is an independently-minded person who knows when to trust his gut
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Vegas. The company was founded in the year 1999 by Nick Swinmurn. The company’s initial inspiration came after he was not able to find one of his favorite pair of shoes‚ the air walks‚ at the local mall. The same year‚ he approached Alfred Lin and Tony Hseih with an idea of selling different types of shoes online. However‚ Hsieh was skeptical at first and went to the extent of deleting voice mails sent by Swinmurn (Harnish‚ 2012). After Swinmurn stated that the footwear in United States is a forty
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commenced operations on 18 November 1996‚ AirAsir was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate DRB-Hicom. On 2 December 2001‚ the heavily-indebted airline was purchased by former South East Asian regional vice-president Warner Music Group Tony Fernandes ’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for one ringgit. AirAsia Berhad is a Malaysian low-cost airline. It operates scheduled domestic and international flights and is Asia ’s largest low-fare‚ no-frills airline. AirAsia is a pioneer of low-cost flights
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Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives In 1975‚ Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party and began to steer it towards what many have dubbed ÔThatcherismÕ. Margaret Thatcher believed in radical change‚ individuality‚ and a strong Government that enforces the law‚ rather than interfering in the economy. She was also opposed to the welfare state. In many ways‚ her ideology was broadly similar to classical liberalism‚ and many theorists see her ideology as neo-liberalism. Under her
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has gotten Zappos is a loyal customer base and word-of-mouth advertising. Approximately‚ 50 percent of Zappos’s orders come from existing customers‚ and an additional 20 percent are from new customers who were referred by existing customers. Tony Hsieh CEO Tony Hsieh is at the center of everything Zappos does. In his early 20s ‚ Hsieh started a company called LinkExchange‚ which let small
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