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    Crossing the Chasm What’s New? What’s Not? Strategic Management of Emerging Technology Hult School of International Business May 23, 2014 Disruptive Innovation Sources of Wealth Creation in the Current Decade •  Eating other people’s lunch •  Software eats hardware •  Op ex eats cap ex •  Services eat products •  Leveraging next-generation technology •  •  •  •  Social Mobile Analytics Cloud 2 Marketing Disruptive Innovation •  High Risk What Makes High-Tech Marketing

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    Mathurshan Nadarajar Nov.12/17 Why Shakespeare Should Be Studied in High Schools First and foremost, reading Shakespeare’s work leads to a better understanding of the English language. The bard had a vocabulary of over 24,000 words, most of which still exist in modern English. High school students enhance their vocabulary and sentence structure through reading his work. The subconscious use of new words and phrases through reading Shakespeare’s works leads to improved writing and oral skills. The

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    The title Managing the Other: The Changing Perception of Witches in Popular Culture gives us an insight into the angst of the witches who become the other to a male source of power and to the ideal female constructed. This thesis studies this change in perception of witches in popular culture taking into consideration feminism, performative theory and popular culture analysis to understand the new fascination and the place of witches in culture. The earlier labelling of women as witch was a way of

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    In Herbert Gans’ Deconstructing the underclass, he provided the original definition of the underclass by Gunnar Myrdal that was a purely economic concept to describe the unemployed, underemployed and underemployables. The original definition is to describe the people who were push to the margin by the the economy. The current buzzword, underclass has transformed overtime and different scholars interpretation and some of them define it as the persistent poverty instead of the joblessness. This new

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    Symbolism, the representation of an object, mark, or word to signify a hidden meaning, has been incorporated in a multitude of occasions throughout Ishirō Honda’s 1962 film King Kong vs. Godzilla. Utilizing two of the most iconic monsters in cinematic history, Honda integrated these creatures to represent different cultures and the battle that ensued as one culture shifted to another. By highlighting certain characteristics shared between one monster and culture, Honda showed how King Kong was the

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    British state’s desire to end the Pit Bull breed. He approaches the topic from many angles such as its relation to gangs, the genetics of Pit Bull’s and the instances when the Pit Bull has attacked humans. He does a marvelous job of systematically deconstructing this moral panic. He concludes that “the dogs are the victims and humans the inhuman aggressor” (391). Hallsworth begins by showing how the Pit Bull got the public’s attention, three attacks on humans between 1990-1991. He considers these cases

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    challenged by David Huang. Male dominance and the preconceived idea of orientalism construct a generalized theme of power and stereotype. While Madame Butterfly constructs these stereotypes, M. Butterfly challenges patriarchy and orientalism by deconstructing these themes. However, despite these challenges, the same ideologies of western supremacy and feminist stereotypes are ultimately still present. In Luther Long’s Madame Butterfly, gender stereotypes are formed as Pinkerton a Western patriarch

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    In some sense, Crack-Up is about national crisis and confronting societal perceptions. “Cassius,-”talks about protest in the aftermath of senseless killings of unarmed African-Americans, deconstructing female stereotypes and their rising empowerment on “Naiads, Cassadies,” and the general sense of post-election anxieties in “If You Need To, Keep Time On

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    The setup of this sonnet is applicable and conveys a simple yes/but argument. The fact that semicolons are used in the quatrains indicates that the speaker tries to create an image of his mistress without taking a breath. The images all relate to each other in how they convey her looks and emphasize how Shakespeare feels about her. Also by continuously trying to create this image of her he creates a “yes” argument: yes, her hair is wiry, yes, her cheeks are wan, and yes, her eyes are dull, among

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    Though it is extremely difficult to single out one brilliant instructor from the renowned faculty of undergraduate and graduate studies at Stanford, I would have to choose Dr. Margo Horn, due to her devotion to investigating the overlap between American women’s history and the history of medicine. I would be honored to join her American Studies seminar “Madwomen: The History of Women and Mental Illness in the U.S.” so as to discuss the prevalent gender biases throughout the history of psychopathology

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