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    Case 04-7 Lighthouse

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    I. Succint Lighthouse provides a ship tracking service for shipping companies to locate their ships at sea, as well as knowing their speed and the weather they are facing. Lighthouse does a contract for the delivery and installation of the physical device that is capable of achieving this through a tracking service that calls for a second contract. The price for the dedicated hardware (exclusive to Lighthouse services) and installation is a single nonrefundable amount of $10,000 payable at completion

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    Often times, humans are known to reflect on their past actions in search of significant moments contributing to their life purpose. The novel To the Lighthouse has many hidden meanings within the characters thoughts and actions relating to the themes of the novel. Lily Briscoe, a young female artist and guest staying at the Ramsay family summer cottage, reflects on a painting in progress throughout the novel. Over the course of 10 years, the characters and environment change dramatically, causing

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    Reading the novel To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf was hard labor. Every page I turned made me feel that I was in a different place at a different time. Due to the lack of its plot and entertainment, this novel, unfortunately, would immediately fail to engage teenagers, as well as other readers, who are not as interested as Virginia Woolf, to study the humans’ consciousness and the way time moves over the courses of our days. In our everyday lives, we always expect, including myself, to read

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    Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ is written in a Modernist style, is very philosophical, does not have a traditional casual plot, and focuses on the exploration of the mind. Woolf uses experimental techniques, such as writing as a stream-of-consciousness in order to present the experience, subconscious minds, and the conscious thoughts of characters. The sense of a clear authorial narrator is missing as Woolf describes the minds of her characters in poetic images and her free-flowing style allows Woolf

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    To the Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf, the author of To the Lighthouse is well known for her amazing creativity and past experiences which she is able to mix all together to make a wonderful and engaging piece of writing. Many of her books are inspired by her childhood and the diverse life she has experienced being bipolar. Virginia's inspiration specifically for the book To the Lighthouse, written in 1927, came from the view she had from outside the window of a small Talland house

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    Comparing Dubliners and To the Lighthouse In Dubliners and To the Lighthouse, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf explore the depressing results of lives devoid of growth or meaning versus those who dare to live their lives in spite of all strife and adversity. Joyce and Woolf are both concerned with the meaninglessness of stagnant lives, the first operating in pre-WWI Ireland, the second in England during and after the war. "The Dead" and To the Lighthouse both reveal the despair of lives that

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    Organization One: IU Yoga and Pilates 1. Which organization did you choose? Why did choose this organization? The first organization I choose to research is IU Yoga and Pilates. I choose this organization to research because I am very interested to participate in Yoga and Pilates here at Indiana University. I have danced competively for the vast majority of my life. We were required to take varies dance classes were we did an abundance of Yoga and Pilates in many of my ballet classes to improve

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    In the early 19th century, Whitewash Village brought marine traffic to Monomoy which resulted in a need for a lighthouse. This lighthouse was not welcomed by all, as some people in Whitewash Village were “wreckers” who hoped for shipwrecks, so they could loot the crashed ships. The “Pollock Rip” caused many shipwrecks off the coast of Monomoy, another reason for the lighthouse. Whitewash Village was torn apart by a hurricane and it was abandoned until 1863. After the villagers returned, a series

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    was the Cape Hatteras lighthouse built, and where? The original Cape Hatteras lighthouse was built in 1803. The structure was 90 feet tall when it was built. Unfortunately, the lighthouse was too short, and could not stop ships from crashing into the shore. The lighthouse was also not kept very well, resulting in many complaints at the time it was built. In 1868, Congress decided to start building a new lighthouse, and found the money to do it. In 1870 the new lighthouse was lit, and the old one

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    starting point of Virginia Woolf’s history of depression, within a ten year period her father and her elder brother also died (Lavizzari 1991 251). These biographical aspects are relevant, in so far that some events of to the Lighthouse are influenced, or mirror them. To the Lighthouse was Woolf’s fifth novel and the publication with which she felt that she finally had successfully established herself as a writer (Bell 1980 137). Woolf herself tried to reject her Victorian and Edwardian age literary

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