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    Slide 1: Introduction Welcome. The point of this presentation is to outline the case for expansion, specifically to becoming a national presence. We have a strong company, but the world is changing and we have to change with it. This is a risky proposition, yes, but if we equip ourselves with knowledge we will be better equipped to make the right decisions going forward. The presentation will focus on the economic conditions in the US, and then conditions in a number of foreign markets that we should

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    The Turkish Language Reform And Its Effects Linguists consider language as a living asset. It rises, develops and eventually dies. If we consider the language our grandparents use, we surely remark some differences with our language usage. My grandmother still says “ bencileyin” instead of “ benim gibi” for instance. The improving technology, the intercultural attainability ,etc...bring new words into our vocabulary or change their actual meaning. Although language develops naturally through generations

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    serve as examples of artistic puissance. Many of these films are regarded as classics because they, for the most part, are centered on universal and timeless interests paralleling the history of Italy. One such film is Life is Beautiful, a 1997 tragicomedy directed by Roberto Benigni. Life is Beautiful is an encouraging tale about a father’s love for his family set against the backdrop of despair. It is set in the late 1930s, during the early onset of Italy’s fascist years to describe the plight of

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    Anger is a complex emotion. Anger can be a destructive behavior if man could not control it. The levels of anger relate to information which is processed of attributions, images, and thoughts that include one feeling excessively blamed, attacked, wronged, inferior, and violated. Anger appears to direct attention, perceptions, memory, and interests into paths of aggression (Averill 135). Anger perception differs from one to another. There are people who easily provoked and others who hardly get angry

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    The play Chicago was written in 1926 by Maurine Dallas Watkins. The director of the Movie Chicago, Rob Marshall, used all resources available, the movie starts out in a club with Velma dancing on stage. Roxie is standing in the back her nonchalantly. Roxie had no idea was to come. Plot In the beginning of the movie it only shows Roxie watching Velma on stage wanting to be just like her. Next Roxie leaves with Fred Casley, and they go back to her apartment. The audience sees them all over each other

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    1400 of unknown causes at sixty years of age (www.biography.com). Shakespeare then began to write around the year 1590, and over two decades he wrote almost forty plays revolving around several main themes: histories, tragedies, comedies and tragicomedies. The Tempest was one of Shakespeare’s famous comedies and is thought to be his last play even though it is known that he wrote other plays before he died in approximately 1616 (www.biography.com). Within The Canterbury Tales, there is a character

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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead is a very captivating book! It is a tragicomedy written by Tom Stoppard. This book was written in 1964, also known to be during the devastating Vietnam War. The play was published in 1967, and it played on Broadway in 1968. It won the Tony for best play. It is based off of the very famous book Hamlet which was written by the very famous William Shakespeare. It is the point of view of two characters from Hamlet: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

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    An Analysis on the Metamorphosis of the Four Men into Representations of Nature In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s tragicomedy The Visit, the most minute of details reflect important messages including the odd transformation of the Four Men into representations of nature. The scene occurs twice in the play and this alone affects the value of its underlying messages. The way Claire Zachanassian and Alfred Ill interact and reminisce in the presence of the presumed Konradsweil woods reflects on their relationship

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    Kyung Jin Kim Limon AP Lang Per. 5 23 November 2015 Biographical Summary Despite being a world-renown playwright, William Shakespeare remains to this very day a man with a past shrouded in mystery. Very few documents provide historians insight on his personal life. In fact, the record of Shakespeare in his earliest years is limited to a mere baptismal record that reveals his birth date to be around April 26, 1564. Fifty-two years later from that day, Shakespeare would be interred at Trinity Church

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    It is a play about distress, futility, and tragedy, but also about hope and pride and what kind of conviction and commitment it takes to bring hope out of hopelessness, courage out of fear, and idealism out of fatalism (Morrin 15). Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930-1965) wrote her play, A Raisin in the Sun, in 1959. Its title is taken from "Harlem (Dream Deferred)", a poem by Langston Hughes. "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up? Like a raisin in the sun?" The poet is asking what would

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