Harold Wilson

outdoor footwear and also carried a selection of sports related attire. Just For Feet, Inc., was incorporated in 1977 and was listed on the NASDAQ after its IPO in 1994. The management of the Company was very tightly controlled by founder and CEO Harold Ruttenberg, a South African by origin who shifted to USA in 1970s, and oversaw the rapid expansion of the shoe store chain since the first superstore was opened in 1988. It initially started with the concept of “Super Stores” and grew rapidly till

In Winston Churchill’s speech, ‘We Shall Fight On the Beaches’ he presents a powerful call to action directly to the British House of Commons in the year of 1940 on the forth of June. Winston uses the techniques of figurative language to capture his audience’s attention in a way they could understand the importance of his message, without disregarding his high level of intellect. In order for one to truly understand Churchill’s message one must understand the difficult task he was coined with prior

Marshall McLuhan’s theory of “hot” vs. “cool” classified media into two groups and took into consideration extensive understandings of how the media interacts with audience and catoragized them based of an extensive list. Although McLuhan gives an excellent theory of hot vs cold media, time has shown how a hot media has the power of transforming into a cold media and vise verse. In his essay, “Media Hot and Cold,” McLuhan identified film as a very hot media and the internet as a very cool media,

Harold states that the masculine form of her name is Porphyry, a representative in the school of Neoplatonism (20). He concludes that, "Porphyria’s lover fanatically acts in accordance with a Neoplatonic view of the world which carries him . . . into madness

The Power of the Family in White Noise   Don Dellilo's protagonist in his novel "White Noise," Jack Gladney, has a "nuclear family" that is, ostensibly, a prime example of the disjointed nature way of the "family" of the 80's and 90's -- what with Jack's multiple past marriages and the fact that his children aren't all related. It's basically the antipodal image of the 1950's "nuclear family." Despite this surface-level disjointedness, it is his family and the "extrasensory rapport" that

The Character of Tom in The Glass Menagerie   Tom Wingfield has a dual role in The Glass Menagerie. The first Tom is the narrator, who introduces his second self, the character. In his fifth soliloquy, Tom the narrator indicates that time has detached him from the drama, "for time is the longest distance between two places" (Williams 1568). In the closing soliloquy Tom recounts how he lives and re-lives the story in his memory, though he is detached from the participants in the original affair

“It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked,” believes Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Various propaganda from the totalitarian government of Among the Hidden will affect citizens, baron or farmer. Either way, there will be attempts to voice other sides of the story. The government is spreading lies about the population police; their deceptive ways will change citizen’s lives. Luke is the third child of a farmer’s family

Introduction Harold Godwinson was born in the 1022s to a powerful Anglo-Saxon family in Wessex, United Kingdom. Throughout his life, he achieved many great things, including being the last Anglo-Saxon to be crowned King of England and being the Earl of Wessex. He was at the top of the social structure from the 6th of January 1066 until his death fighting the Norman Invaders on the 14th of October at the Battle of Hastings. The Battle of the Hastings was a major event during

In Franz Kafka’s short novella, The Metamorphosis, he presents the transformation of a man into an insect and the family’s adaptations to this change. Once the proud man of the house who brought in the revenue, Gregor is now an insect that cannot do anything but survive.  At the beginning of the novel, the family tries to accommodate for the insect by feeding him and making him feel as comfortable as possible. However, as time goes on, they grow more and more tiresome of the nuisance living in their

Nightburn closed the journal and replaced it in the secret compartment in his desk. He would read more later, but for now he was weary from all the apportation he had performed that day. He pushed his chair back, stood up and walked out onto the balcony. It was late evening and he hadn’t eaten all day and decided he should make an appearance to avoid undue suspicion even if it was late. Washing up, he changed into his usual attire and left his room for the dining hall. Voices drifted down the