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    Did anyone ever ask you about lighthouses and you didn’t know what to say I’ll give you some clues. Did you know the first lighthouse was built in Egypt it was about 450 feet high? It was also one of the seven wonders of the ancient world but it was destroyed and they never built one like it again. The first lighthouse built in America was at Boston on little Brewster Island (1716). George Worthy Lake the first keeper, he died with his wife and daughter when returning to the island in 1718. The

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    Case 04-7: Lighthouse

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    Case 04-7: Lighthouse I. Summary The Lighthouse Company is dedicated to offer services to marine or shipping companies. Their services are based on the tracking and location of the boats of their clients. In order to offer the service, Lighthouse must install an equipment of tracking boats which will have a cost of sale of $10.000,00 dollars, no reimbursable and a tracking system with a monthly cost of sale of $300,00 dollars. This way their clients will continuously receive the data on the

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    The Lighthouse Water Company Tina M. Abriani BUS/211 July 27, 2015 Bruce Bowring The Lighthouse Water Company The Lighthouse Water Company is owned and operated by a husband and wife team. Together they have formed this LLC (limited liability company). This choice of business organization is a state structure that affords the owners protection for their personal assets as well as some personal liability protection. (Investopedia, n.d.). This company must strictly follow state and federal laws

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    historical moment when art was integrated into society. Her modernist novel To the Lighthouse stray's from the conventional forms of writing, concentrating not on the plot but on the characters' consciousness and physical development, producing an innovative type of narrative which depicts realities beneath appearances, and at the same time brings about a deep exploration of the human mind. To the Lighthouse was written in 1927 and it is considered a masterpiece due to the way in which Woolf

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    The Lighthouse of Alexandria is the very first lighthouse in existence. This structure is considered to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world because of its structural feats and innovative uses for the time. Not only withstanding natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes but also being able to withstand constant pounding from the sea. Alexander the Great was going around and conquering many lands and naming new cities after himself at this time. It is believed that he named up

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    The purpose of the advertising campaign is to increase Lighthouse Coffee awareness. to increase awareness a Facebook page, an app and a website. Since these advertising strategies all include long term forms of digital media, they will all exist for the remainder of the business’s life. With the use of all these media types the awareness of the business will increase. On a slightly different note, the sales promotions will include online loyalty rewards and premiums. The online loyalty program would

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    Virginia Woolf is held to be one of the great feminist writers of modern times. In To the Lighthouse, we find Woolf’s presentation of a family which is at war with itself, while surrounded by war in the world. In this paper, I would attempt a psychoanalytic reading of the text, based on Freud’s views. The paper would focus on the relationship between Mr Ramsey and his son, James, from the perspective of the Oedipus Complex. James would also be looked at separately to bring out his character from

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    The art I chose to look into is Lighthouse by Alan Foxx. It is a representational artwork of a lighthouse. The painting in its entirety is of a lighthouse on a stormy shore with a boat at sea. The art according to the artist himself is always up for interpretation but he personally likes the thought of the light house being a light in the dark. The focal point is the lighthouse. There are not really any implied lines in this artwork. All the actual lines are natural as it is a representational artwork

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    in its rhythm, in the light healing pulse of Mrs. Ramsay's sympathy contrasted to Mr. Ramsay's harsh, repeated demands for more” (pg.132 of “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf, 1969). So, in the novel, we can see that opposition develop from the very first page. Mrs. Ramsay encourages her son to hope to expect that they will go to the lighthouse. “Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow”, said Mrs. Ramsay. ‘But you’ll have to be up with the lark’, she added” (TL: 3). And even after Mr. Ramsay has

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    We see gender roles described in The Odyssey and To The Lighthouse that seem to share some similar ideas; however, the women in To The Lighthouse are more opressed than the women of The Odyssey. First, women in the Odyssey are typically submissive to men in house duties and marriage matters, like Telemachus telling his mother to get back to her loom in Book 1 and him deciding who his mother will marry in Book 2. Also, women are seen only by their identity of who their father or husband is, like

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