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    Overall, the Group’s performance is poor due a lingering global economic slowdown, which brought down market shares throughout its automotive and architectural business lines; however, there has been a slight increase in its market share for technical glass due to the Group’s strategy to expand into a niche market and providing a superior technological component compared to its competitor. Additionally, the Group saw an increase of 5% net income over the last four-years; nevertheless it still has

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    Mr. Pilkington's men to stroke her nose. Mr. Frederick is the owner of Pinchfield which is smaller and better kept. He is a tough, crafty man often involves in lawsuits. He dislikes Mr. Pilkington and never come to agreement with him. Although, they are both scared by the rebellion on Animal Farm. Mr. Pilkington is the owner of Foxwood which is a large, neglected quaint farm. Its pastures are worn out and its hedges are in shameful condition. He is an easy-going gentleman-farmer who spends most

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    was seen as a threat to him. Stalin also used large amounts of propaganda – Squealer represents this in the novel (SMMC PowerPoint. 2014). The Battle of the Cowshed (page 26-27) mimics the Civil War that arose after the 1917 Revolution. Frederick Pilkington depicts Adolf Hitler, who established an

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    Tyranny In Animal Farm

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    Napoleon, an antagonist in the novel was a fictional counterpart of Joseph Stalin. Just like Stalin, who put Leon Trotsky into exile using his secret police, Napoleon chased Snowball out the farm using his dogs and claimed control of the farm. Pilkington, one of the farmers that neighbors Animal Farm “…was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season” (Orwell, 15). He had a farm that was “…a large, neglected, old-fashioned farm, much overgrown

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    the knowledge, we rely on media. The media actually re-present the world to us. However, the media only shows us some aspects of the world, ignoring the rest. So basically, the media chooses what is to be shown and what is to be discarded (Andrew Pilkington and Alan Yeo (2009)). . In this essay, I will explain what stereotypes are and primarily give an example of a famous men’s magazine called ‘nuts’ and explain how these stereotypes are created by print and the digital media and what are their impacts

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    to Die in Prison (n.d.), “More than 200 innocent men and women have been freed from prison in California after it was discovered that they were wrongfully convicted; three of them were sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit.” Similarly, Pilkington (2013), a chief reporter for Guardian US, claimed that at least 4.1% of US accused prisoners are flawed. Therefore, the faulty of accusation is unavoidable; nonetheless, there is a possibility for giving justice to those who were wrongly convicted

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    Should we buy or should we do it ourselves? That is a basic question that a lot of companies face when planning their strategy for their processes of production. There are arguments for and against using both strategies, although to provide services for another company that could have been done within the company itself, is widely common among companies nowadays. This strategy is called outsourcing. What defines outsourcing is that a firm allows someone else to have complete control over their production

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    The 21st century has been marred by war and terror at the global level. Much of this chaos is a result of the aftermath of the terrorist attacks that occurred on September, 11 2001 in the United States. As a result of this attack, new conflicts and wars began in order to prevent such disasters again. Unfortunately, the Iraq War was started under false conditions. The intelligence source named Curveball presented some information regarding the threat that Iraq posed to the US that led much of the

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    Britain. Pilkington and Napoleon form an alliance, which Napoleon eventually breaks. Frederick invades Napoleon’s farm, and Napoleon asks Pilkington for help, which he refuses to give. They do, however, reconcile their alliance. Pilkington and Churchill both went through some rough alliances with the countries they were partnering up with, but whenever said country needed help getting back on its feet, they ally with them once more. Frederick and Pinchfield Farm are an allegory for Hitler and Nazi

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    An allegory is a story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden message, typically involving politics. A great example of an allegory is George Orwell’s, “Animal Farm.” When just looking at this story, one would think it was just about animals that ran off their owners and then formed their own lifestyle with an animal leader. On the contrary, if one was to pay attention to the story they would notice that it is pointing the reader to a time in history. Orwell wrote the story around 1944

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