...Who is Mina Murray? The character Mina Murray appears in several storylines, including Dracula and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, that take place during and after the Victorian Era. This era contained debates at the time regarding women’s suffrage. Mina’s character signifies the transition and change in women’s roles in society. She has qualities that can relate to multiple controversial ideas at that time regarding women. Those include women’s intellect, their qualities of thought, and the importance of their roles in their families and the community. Throughout her appearances in the stories, she always has character foils alongside her that emphasize her qualities as a leader and a traditional but also modernized woman. Mina’s character is a depiction of the idealized feminine figure, which is subordinate to all men and maintains the identity of a housewife. Simultaneously, she is a figure that foreshadows the women of the twentieth century, when women are independent and active members of the society. These are supported through the actions she takes and the decisions she makes throughout her journey across multiple stories. Mina Murray’s character contains significant attributes that allow her to be contrasted with other characters in her stories and to stand between the definitions of the idealized Victorian women and women of the modern era. Mina’s character qualities in Dracula are highlighted by those around her. Mina and Lucy are placed under similar...
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...Business Strategy Nestle Strategic Evaluation and Implementation LO3: Understand approaches to strategy evaluation and selection 3.1. Analyse possible alternative strategies relating to substantive growth, limited growth or retrenchment Nestle’s Vision: To be a leading, competitive, Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company delivering improved shareholder value by being a preferred corporate citizen, preferred employer, preferred supplier selling preferred products (Nestle, n.d.) 3.1. 5-year objectives 5-year objectives (2015-2019) (fulfilled SMART and linked with vision): + Objective 1: Increase market share to 30% in Vietnam by the end of 2019 + Objective 2: Improve the quality of products to satisfy Vietnamese customers’ needs + Objective 3: Keep the complaint rate from customers averagely < 4% 3.1. Stages for 5 years Objectives Stage for 5 years Stage 1 (2015-2017) Stage 2 (2018-2019) Objective Achieve market share Increase market share 1 20% from 20% to 30% Objective Improve the quality of products to satisfy 2 Vietnamese customers’ needs Objective Keep the complaint rate Keep the complaint rate 3 from customers < 7% from customers < 4% 3.1. Alternatives for Nestlé's strategies (archive 5 year objectives) Alternatives Option 1 Strategy Joint venture Option 2 Option 3 Market penetration Diversification + Market development + Build up new business 3.1. Key activities for each alternative Alternatives Option 1: Joint venture Option 2: Market penetration...
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...T.C. Ege Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Arkeoloji Bölümü Klasik Arkeoloji Anabilim Dalı Al-Mina Ders: Kolonizasyon ve Ticaret Öğr. Üyesi: Arş.Grv. Mehmet GÜRBÜZER Şahin MENTEŞE 07070008321 Kemal Özgür TALAY Gökmen Elmalı 07090000759 İzmir, 2014 İsmi Arapça’da liman anlamına gelen al-Mina, 1936-37 yıllarında L. Wooley tarafından yapılan kazılarda ele geçen seramik buluntularına göre 8. ila 4. yüzyıl arasında Doğu Akdeniz uygarlıkları ile köprü görevi gören bir ticaret ve liman kentidir. Bir Yunan Emporion’u olduğu konusu tartışmaya açıktır. Yapılan kazılar ve yüzey araştırmalarında al-Mina’da Kıta Yunanistan, Lefkandi, Rhodos, Kykladlar ve Kıbrıs’tan ithal edilen seramikler, Attika etkili seramikler, Korinth seramiği, Fenike seramikleri ve Kuzey Suriye demir çağı seramikleri ele geçmiştir. Bunlara ek olarak adı geçen merkezlerin taklidi veya bazı görüşlere göre öncüsü olan yerel üretim günlük kullanım ve ticaret malları da bulunmuştur. Ele geçen eserlerin büyük bir kısmı British Musesum’da, Londra Arkeoloji Enstitüsü’nde, Cambridge ve Oxford Üniversiteleri koleksiyonlarında ve Hatay Arkeoloji Müzesi’nde bulunmaktadır, henüz yayınlanmamış eser sayısı oldukça fazladır. Bu çalışmada al-Mina buluntuları ve diğer merkezlerdeki buluntular arasındaki benzerlikler, farklılıklar yardımıyla kültürel etkileşimi, al-Mina’da ele geçen ithal seramikler ile de ticari bağlantıyı değerlendirmeye...
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...During the Victorian era, there was a rise in tension between the Protestant church and the Catholic church. The majority of people in England practiced Protestant religion, but Dracula is about a blood-thirsty vampire that meets his demise with the use of the Catholic religion. Mina, Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing, John Seward, Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris use a variety of symbols from Catholicism that kills Dracula and protects them from being harmed. Dracula is a Satanic being that in the end meets his defeat by the power of God. In the novel Dracula, Bram Stoker uses various Catholic symbols in the fight against Dracula, the antichrist, to illustrate the good of the Catholic religion and the promise of its salvation. The crucifix is...
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...their mark on the world. One of the periods in history in which men’s role in society was at its height was during the Victorian Era. This era was a time in English history in which the British empire flourished and prospered. There was a revival in the arts, especially, gothic literature. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mina Murray symbolizes the modern woman through her relationships with the other characters, her strong will to participate and learn, and her perseverance. Wilhelmina Murray’s closest friend in the novel was Lucy Westenra. Mina and Lucy were childhood friends, but were not of the same social standing. This was so because Mina’s mother worked for the Westenra household. Therefore, Mina was the child of a servant, which did not entitle her to the same privileges that Lucy had. As the two girls grew up, they each encountered different obstacles which shaped them into unique women. Jonathan Harker, as Mina’s husband, was utterly enchanted to have a woman like Mina as a wife. Not only knowledgeable and resourceful, she offered advice and opinions about how to deal with the dilemma of Count Dracula. Arthur Holmwood, Lucy’s fiancee, took a unique liking to Mina. Surprisingly reaching out to her about his grief over...
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...Dracula questions 1. How long has it been since Mina last heard from Harher? 2. Look up what carrion food is 3. What does Renfield ask Dr. Seward to get him? 4. How does he react when he hears Seward’s response? 5. What happened to the birds? 6. Why is Dr. Seward upset? 7. What are Mina’s worries about Harker? 8. What has Lucy been doing? 9. What calls the attention of Mina, Mr. Wales, and the coastguard on Aug. 6? 10. What is the name of the ship? 11. Where did it come from 12. Whose was the cargo on the ship? 13. Who took possession of the ship? 14. Upon reading the log of the Demeter, what happened in it from july 6 to august 2? 15. How did the last mate die? 16. Why did the captain not leave the ship? 17. What happened to Mr. Swales 18. Describe what Mina discovers at the opening of Chapter 8 19. What happens to Lucy upon her return to the house? 20. When does Mina finally learn something about Harjer? 21. Who writes to Mina? What is revealed in that letter? 22. What happens with Renfield at the end Chapter 8? 23. When mina goes to Harker, what is this condition? 24. When do Mina and Harker get married? 25. When will Lucy and Arthur Write to Dr. Seward? 26. When Renfield goes out again at night, what makes him suddenly calm down? 27. Why does Arthut write to Dr. Seward? 28. What are Seward’s conclusions about Lucy? 29. Who is Dr. Van Helsing? Why does Seward...
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...Why do humans always become disappointed when their favorite novels become films? It is because adaptations of films tend to sway from the truth of the novels. The same common belief may be illustrated in both the film and the novel, but major alterations are made in the film to make it more exciting, attention grasping, and addicting. Dracula by Bram Stoker is just another novel made into the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola. Distinct changes take place from the novel on paper to the film on the screen. The characters of Dracula, Lucy, and Mina tend to share some of the same characteristics in both the film and novel, but the movie changes aspects of the characters to be more sensational and dramatic. Just as the characters are changed and reshaped, the plot has tweaks of its own. The novel and the film have similarities, but the differences are clearly visible. Count Dracula is portrayed as animal and beast-like in both Dracula and Bram Stoker’s Dracula; he also displays aspects of humanity. Within Dracula, Count Dracula survives by quenching his thirst for blood. He is driven by this yearning for blood and nothing seems to get in his way. He has the attributes of a lion in search of its prey and feeding off of it; he cannot control it, nor does he want to stop. Killing does not disturb him in the least, and he is in search of power. He displays the characteristics of a beast through his continual vicious, grueling slaughtering of his prey- humans. He feels...
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...courageous and sacrificial. Dracula written by Bram Stoker portrays the young and witty Mina Murray later known has Mina Harker who is married to Jonathan Harker. She is the best example to fit the description of a strong character. Mina is known as young school mistress who is engaged. As the plot progresses, her simple life changes and she is faced with many challenges like becoming a vampire that she overcomes by Dracula, that shows that she is the strongest personality in the novel compared to Cady from Mean Girls. The first characteristic that represents Mina as being the strongest character in the novel is her habit of being caring of everyone. Mina Murray is the ultimate...
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...England. Mina is the perfect embodiment of the ideal victorian woman. Throughout the novel, Mina continues to stay a very loyal and intelligent woman. In the traditional sense, Mina is what the Victorians would consider a perfect wife, or wife-to-be (with regard to the first half of the novel). While Jonathan is missing, trapped at Count Dracula’s castle for many months, Mina shows much concern for him. One instance in which we see this is in chapter six when Mina is writing in her journal. She writes, “No news from Jonathan. I am getting quite uneasy about him…” (Stoker 72). Not only does this one of many occasions display that she worries for Jonathan and his safety, but during his long duration away from her, Mina remains faithful to Jonathan. It could have been just as easy for her to find another man when she thought hope may be gone for Jonathan’s safe return, but she remains faithful and does what she can to get Jonathan back. Also, when Mina and Jonathan are reunited once again, she takes care of him and remains at his side like a loyal fiance/wife. Not only does Mina represent traditional values of the Victorian woman because of the aforementioned reasons, but she also represents the values of the Victorian woman because she is not sexualized. By not making Mina a sexualized being, Stoker retains Mina’s purity that is so highly favored in the book by the other characters. We see that Lucy has similar qualities to Mina. She has a similar innocence that Mina possesses...
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...Bukovina to deal with Dracula’s business of the purchase of the estate at Purfleet. Jonathan is controlled by Dracula and locked in his vast ruined castle. He finds many strange and terrible things in the castle. With the passage of time,Jonathan understands that Dracula is a vampire living more than 400 years. Finally he escapes from the castle and marries Mina. Mina Murray is Jonathan’s love,but she also looks like Elisabeta. Elisabeta is the love of Dracula,but she kills herself because she hears Dracula’s death when he is in the war in 1462. However the bad news is the wrong news. Elisabeta’s soul can’t rest in peace. That’s the reason why Dracula becomes a devil. Dracula goes to London looking for Mina,he wants to awaken memories of her previous life. When he hears Mina’s wedding,he is so angrg and transforms Lucy into a vampire. Lucy is Mina’s best friend ended her vampire life by her fiance,Arthur. Dracula loves Mina deeply,in order to stay with her all the life,he transforms Mina into another vampire. Dracula is killed by Professor Abraham Van Helsing with the help of Dr. Jack,Lord Arthur and Quincey P. Morris. Mina becomes a human again. The story shocks us with the great and forever love. Because of the ideological content of the book,it shakes the position of traditional culture in England when it published. So it is called “ The invasion of literature” by some people. Vampires may represent death, brutality and evil. But comparing Louis in Loneliness...
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...espresso blends, and is great straight. The coffee plant can tolerate low temperatures, but not frost. Milder frosts, called "white frosts", kill the flowers that grow into the harvested cherries, but new flowers are regrown by the tree the next season. White frosts only affect the following year's harvest, but more severe frosts, "black frosts", kill the entire tree and have more long-term consequences. Brazil wants to boost exports of roasted blends, while reducing the sale of green beans and start importing coffee from countries such as Colombia to blend with its own beans, Trade Minister Fernando Pimentel said. The vast majority of coffee farms in Brazil are less than ten hectares in size. According to the Diagnóstico da Cafeicultura em Minas Gerais, 71% of farms are less than 10 hectares, 25% of farms had less than 50 hectares, and only 4% of farms were larger than 50 hectares. Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer and produces around 25% of the world's supply of coffee. Eighty percent of coffee from Brazil is Arabica. Brazil processes its coffee by the wet (washed), dry (natural), and semi-washed (pulped natural) methods. The vast majority of Brazil coffee beans are still processed via the dry method since Brazil is one of the few countries in the world that has the appropriate weather to do so successfully. Due to Brazil's...
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...during the night. One night, Harker sees Dracula scaling the castle wall with a sack that contains a child. Another night, Harker is looking around the castle, despite the Count’s decree to stay in his room, and realizes that most of the doors in the other rooms are locked. He finds an open one and comes to the bed. Soon he is sleepy and is visited by three woman. Dracula comes in the last minute to shoo away the woman before anything sinister continued. Harker faints and wakes up the next morning in his bed. Another night at Castle Transylvania, Harker is witness to Dracula scaling an immense tower. Harker is soon left alone at Castle Transylvania in a trance. Dracula moves to England where he starts his master plan to take over the city. Mina, Harker’s British fiancé, is worried about her Harker who is sick with a brain fever. Dracula starts to make his moves on Lucy Westerna in order to make her a vampire. John Seward, one of Lucy’s love interest, sees this and contacts his predecessor, Dr. Van Helsing for assistance. Van Helsing quickly recognizes the problem and assesses it correctly. Lucy is successfully...
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..."Dracula presents three types of women... The first includes the passive, virtually asexual, victims; Lucy before her initiation by Dracula... The second category, clearly modeled on women in Dracula's castle and Lucy after her transformation, includes the ravenous and sensual vampire-brides... Last are the fully developed human beings who defy our attempts to categorize them: Mina" (Senf). The three women Jonathan Harker encounters in Dracula's castle are an antithesis to the traditional Victorian woman. Stoker characterizes the female vampires in this way to hint that behind every Victorian lady lies a vampiress. Bram Stoker creates a family structure between Dracula and his three brides as a guise to represent similarities in the common Victorian family. "Thomas B. Byers... sees Dracula as the head of the family, the father figure, with his four brides, the three female vampires and eventually Lucy. In keeping with family structure of the day, the father ministered to the needs of the women. He was the sole provider: Dracula" (Welsch 48). Stoker does this to give readers a clear comparison between the behaviors of...
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...as site for plant location. Determined to win high technology investment in the state Antonio Britto of Partido do Movimento Democratico Brasileiro offered best investment alternatives to Dell. But appointment of Olivio Dutra as new governor of Rio Grande do Sul foiled all the plans.Olivio Dutra was against governments granting of incentives to foreign transnational corporations. This is one of his objections against Antonio Britto’s government in his campaign for the post of governor. So the first thing he was supposed to do when he became the governor of Rio Grande do Sul was to rescind all benefits given to transnational corporations. The states available where Dell Computer Corporation could shift base were São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais etc.If Dell Computer Corporation shifted base it will do something which Ford had done in...
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...ankaj Ghemawat, Raymond Hill, L.G. Thomas "Southern Co. Investment in CEMIG" Harvard Business School Case 707-512 In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive privatization of Brazil's electric sector. Brazil's privatization was, in turn, part of a world wide movement toward deregulation and privatization of the electric sector. Like many of its rivals in the utility sector, Southern had committed itself to a strategy of growth by taking advantage of the significant opportunities for cross-border investment that were being created by this trend. The privatization of CEMIG was a particularly appealing opportunity for Southern. Not only was CEMIG one of the largest utilities in Latin America, but this investment would provide a base in the Brazilian market, which was expected to have the largest potential for further growth on the continent. Brazil was in the process of reforming its system of regulating electric utilities and of introducing competition into Brazil's wholesale generating market. These changes would further enhance the potential profitability of investing in CEMIG. In addition to the attractiveness of the investment, Southern had been able to secure non-recourse financing for half of the required amount. Keeping in mind Brazil's volatile economic history...
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