...Although humans have the tendency to set idealistic goals to better future generations it can often prove to be disastrous, in this case, deadly. Victor Frankenstein is the creator of the creature. Victor becomes obsessed with the idea of creating the human form and bringing it to life. Immediately after creating the creature, he is terrified because he doesn't truly understand what he has created. He returns home to his family, only to find tragedy there. Victor is not fully aware of the consequences of his actions and in a turn of events he spends his entire life trying to destroy the the one thing he spent his entire life creating. Much like a mother figure Victor Frankenstein brings a creature into the world but unlike most mothers Victor...
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...Frankenstein, but in reality, Mary Shelley, the author of the book, never named the monster. The true main character of Frankenstein is Victor Frankenstein. This common misconception is due to popular movies such as Young Frankenstein directed by Mel Brooks; unfortunately for many this is their only exposure to the story. If more people were to read the book they would quickly discover that Victor Frankenstein is immoral, obsessive, and secretive. A person is thought to be immoral if they do not conform to accepted...
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...Author, poet and playwright Victor Hugo was born on February 26, 1802 in Besancon, France. Between 1815 and 1818 Hugo began studying law, but shortly after became uninterested in it. His literary career had started because of the influence from his mother who had encouraged him to do it. Hugo was the founder of the Conservateur Litteraire which is made up with his poetry and his friends works. His works started when he published his first book of poetry, Odes et poesies diverses in 1821. Soon after he published his first book of poetry, he published his first novel in 1823 and plays. His writing techniques can be considered Romanticism. Some of his other works include, Notre-Dame de Paris which shows the citism of a society that does not accept...
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...In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, Victor and the Monster can realistically be the same person because of the struggles they both endure physically and mentally and the intelligence the both acquire. Victor and the monster both encounter struggles with isolation. Victor takes solitude when he is creating the monster. He isolates himself from the rest of the world and has no interaction with his family or friends. When Clerval, his friend, comes to Ingolstadt University, Clerval notices how mentally and physically ill Victor really is. The isolation from the real world for several years turned Victor “lifeless, and did not recover [his] senses for a long, long time” (Shelley 55). The creation of the monster literally took the life out of Victor and cut off all his...
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...In his book, Smarter than You Think: How Technology is changing our Minds for the Better, Clive Thompson writes about how he thinks that advancements in technology is helping improve our intelligence rather than taking over our minds. Thompson uses the example of advanced chess to portray how amateur players who are able to better use technology triumph over professionals who aren’t. He explains that neither the computer nor the human is better at chess and that the victors are the humans who can work with the computers more efficiently. Thompson goes on talk about how people are incorporating technology all the time in their daily lives and becoming more adaptable to advanced new tools. In addition, he mentions that he believes the three biggest impacts of technology nowadays are the ability to store countless amounts of ideas and information in the form of sites like Wikipedia, the ability to find and interpret data from numerous other thinkers through social media sites like twitter and facebook, and the ability to share material through blogs and posts throughout the internet. He also describes how the current progression in technology resembles that of the past and uses examples of how the first books and other forms of writing were refined and improved in order to be more resourcefully used by humans. Although Thompson endorses the idea that people work better with technology, he is aware of the downsides of a heavily technology based society and that these...
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...Vizio and the Market for Flat Panel TVs Operating sophisticated tooling in environments that must be kept absolutely clean, fabrication centers in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan produce to exacting specifications sheets of glass twice as large as kingsize beds. From there, the glass panels travel to Mexican plants located alongside the U.S. border. There they are cut to size, combined with electronic components shipped in from Asia and the United States, assembled into finished flat panel TVs, and loaded onto trucks bound for retail stores in the United States, where consumers spend over $35 billion a year on flat panel TVs. The underlying technology for flat panel displays was invented in the United States in the late 1960s by RCA. But after RCA and rivals Westinghouse and Xerox opted not to pursue the technology, the Japanese company Sharp made aggressive investments in flat panel displays. By the early 1990s Sharp was selling the first flat panel screens, but as the Japanese economy plunged into a decade-long recession, investment leadership shifted to South Korean companies such as Samsung. Then the 1997 Asian crisis hit Korea hard, and Taiwanese companies seized leadership. Today, Chinese companies are starting to elbow their way into the flat panel display manufacturing business. As production for flat panel displays migrates its way around the globe to low-cost locations, there are clear winners and losers. U.S. consumers have benefited from the falling prices of flat...
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...Date: How could Victor Frankenstein have helped the creature he created so it could acclimate and be accepted into society? What would you do? Victor Frankenstein is a man who comes from an affluent family and is obsessed in undertaking scientific advancements. Finally, he is able to create a living creature that does not conform to the human nature. The creature hence is excluded from the society due to its nature and tries to learn the language used in communication so that it can fit in the society. However, the creature is met with violent rejection. In order for victor to diffuse this rejection, he should not refer to the creature as a lifeless thing. This is because the phrase is extremely inhuman as it could refer to anything from a chair to any form of garbage in the house. This does not help in anyways the acceptance of the creature in the society. Therefore, Victor should give the creature a human name so that the society might view the creature differently. Victor begins the exclusion of the creature by referring to the creature as ambiguous, therefore Victor should give the creature a purpose in life and not just a successful experiment. Consequently, people can view the creature differently. Another important aspect to note is when the creature is lying at Victor’s feet. This means that Victor believes that the creature is physically below him. Victor feels superior to the creature both figuratively and literally. Victor should not do this...
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...Victor Brand presents analyses of the management case by academicians and practitioners DIAGNOSES ANALYSIS CASE ANALYSIS I Venaik Sunil Venaik Assistant Professor, Marketing Area Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad e-mail: svenaik@iimahd.ernet.in T he objective of this case is to review Victor India Ltd.’s (VCIL) past decisions and prepare an action plan that will enable the company to survive and grow successfully in the future. VCIL is in three types of cocoa-based product businesses. First is the industrial products business of semi-processed cocoa used in different stages of chocolate manufacturing. Second is the chocolate business where it competes with large, established brands owned by multinational companies. Third is the cocoa-based beverage business. The focus of the case is mainly on VCIL’s cocoa-based beverage business. THE BEGINNINGS The company set up a plant with large production capacities to produce and market chocolates under its own brand name. The capacity utilization for the various product lines in 2000 ranged from 9 per cent to 40 per cent. On closer examination, it is seen that the highest capacity utilization is in the industrial product lines of cocoa bean crushing and cocoa powder (40% and 30% respectively). The capacity utilization for the consumer product lines ranges from 9 per cent for the moulded chocolate line to 23 per cent for the Victor Plus beverage line. Due to the low capacity utilization, especially in its consumer...
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...Victor Frankenstein is a flawed character by alienation. Instead of embracing his family, and allowing them to embrace him in his troubles, he alienates everyone - his father, his friend, Elizabeth, and his creation. He continues to try to run away, and by doing so, he forges the path to his failure. Had he accepted parental responsibility for his creation, the creation would not have sought vengeance. William, Justin, Elizabeth -- all of these characters might have been spared their fate. However, Victor abandons his family at every turn, and suffers for it. Shelley idealizes family in the same way she does nature. The deprived life could be interpreted as the ignorant life. The more knowledge that a person gains, the more complexity he/she also gains. The more wealth, the more responsibility; Victor is blessed with intelligence and education and wealth - and look what happens to him. After losing his mother he becomes obsessed with the idea of life. While in college a professor, sparks the idea of recreating life. Frankenstein becomes very consumed in the idea of bringing back life. “As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.” He felt it was his purpose to go farther than any other scientist had ever gone before him. "A new species would bless me as...
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...Case Study Analysis of Victor Brand Introduction Victor India Limited was established in 1989 as a public Limited Company for manufacturing cocoa based products. It launched its own brand of chocolates in three categories: moulded ,enrobed and eclairs. The company launched its cocoa based cocoa based brown milk beverage brand in 1996 but it did not do well in the market.In 2000 company initiaed a brand building program to revitalize the brand.The focus is on the beverage based product Victor Plus. Problem Statement Victor India Ltd (VCIL) could sell only 250 tonne of their cocoa based brown beverage brand with very low market share in a high potential market. Even company could not use its production capacity fully despite having large installed production capacity. The company thought they could achieve at least 75% of forecast sales of 500 tonne of Victor Plus, but the sales data determine otherwise. Many of the respondents do not consider ‘Victor’ as a national brand and dealers explicitly stated that they do not rate the brand and Company is at disadvantage in term of branding cost. Diagnosis of the Solution: STP: Segmentation: Households constitute 60 percent of the total market moreover, considering that upper middle-income category and above form the major market for this product category, with the rest constituted by the institution segment where company could promote Victor Plus as an alternative to beverage like cold drinks or coffee. Targeting: ...
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...Victor Hugo’s message is to be careful how you label others because what is shown on the outside does not always reflect what is on the inside. What do you notice about a person when you first meet them? Is it what they’re wearing, how they smile or is it actually based on their personality? Throughout the book, Victor Hugo shows a variety of characters who have broken out of their labels. Characters such as Fantine, Cosette, and Jean Valjean are all key examples of how Victor Hugo showcases character development. When we first met Fantine she was a respected woman with a job, but once her secret of being an unwed mother came out, the people around her saw her in a different light. Instead of being the innocent girl she was portrayed to be, she was fired from her job because she didn't save herself until marriage. She sold everything she had, her hair, her teeth, herself. Fantine dug herself into the lifestyle of prostitution and poverty, all to...
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...Date: October 1, 2012 To: Lead Economist Laura From: Stephen Garlitz Subject: Sample report 1 for Voter Victor I have finished my finished my research for Voter Victor and my report is below. Some have informed you that in the United States are a Capitalist or market driven economy. To that end they are somewhat correct. In The United States we are a system that partially functions on a free enterprise system where a person or companies are free to run or start a business. When they do so need to be able to raise capital to run that business or enterprise. Usually the owner or set of owners have to fund the start up. This may be accomplished several different ways. They can invest their own money or they can sell parts of the interest to private investors or sometimes they can make the parts available to the public. The other part of the United States is also a mixed economy where the government can help provide funding thru small business administration, which is a government entity that will loan money to a person or small business to assist them to start or run a business. The government is broken into several different types they are as follows. The federal government is governed by an elected President and then there is a congress that consists of body of people elected by the people that represent the people. Then inside of the United States there are 50 states that each has their own state government. Since you live in Utah lets cover that state...
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...Abstract Searching for purpose and meaning in life is a trend among the human race in today’s world. This has been brought by human beings changing their way of thinking and focusing their thinking to what they think matters most in their lives. This mode of thinking is known as logotherapy. It was first coined Dr. Victor Emil Frankl. Frankl is mostly known for his book, Mans search for Meaning where he uses his life as an example to show that even after losing everything dear to them, human beings can still find meaning in his life. Frankl went through four concentration camps where he lost his wife, father and mother. Even after all this suffering Frankl still managed to find meaning in his life. Frankl’s suffering can be said to be the main motivation towards the development of Logotherapy. Key terms are Logotheraphy, Viktor Frankl, psychoanalysis. Development of Logotherapy. Viktor Frankl became interested in medicine while still an adolescent. He became interested in psychology while in High School (Life and Work, n.d). Frankl attended the same school as Sigmund Freud. Frankl became interested in Freud’s thinking and philosophies. Frankl started correspondence with Freud but soon differed with Freud’s thinking that sexual impulses explain a majority of human behavior Frankl claimed that Freud’s thinking to be too dogmatic to explain human being behavior. After leaving Freud, Frankl became interested in Alfred Alder’s philosophy on individual psychology. Individual psychology...
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...Date To: Lead Economist Laura From: Subject: GE273 Unit 1 Report for Voter Victor The United States is known for having an economy market which people produces and consumers are the people that determine the goods and services that we as a country produce as well as the prices for the products that are made. Are economy is based on markets in which goods and services are bought and sold. This includes but is not limited to food, clothing, housing as well as every thing that is needed to live on. The buyers and sellers are the people that establish the market prices and the output of goods and services. Producers are the ones in the United States who decide the goods and services to make and sell in our country. However the consumer decides what they are willing to purchase. This has a major play in the pricing of goods. Even though a producer makes the goods and provides the services that are needed. The consumer ultimately has some control over the pricing if it is something that is not a necessity, like gasoline and oil. However things like oil, electricity, gasoline and natural resources the producers have a lot more control over the pricing. Reason beings are they are things that we need to survive and ultimately have little control over the cost. The United States government has two parts to it. There is a State level as well as a Federal level. Each level has different functions that they do for our country. Even though the State might say this is ok. The Federal...
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...Customer Company Product Competition Who is the customer? - identify segments (segment size, growth rate, % of total market) - compare current year metrics to historical metrics (look for trends) What does each customer segment want? - identify keys needs What price is each segment willing to pay? - determine price points and price elasticity/sensitivity Distribution channel preference for each segment Customer concentration and power* (does one customer control all the demand, the "Wal-Mart" effect) Capabilities and expertise Distribution channels used Cost structure (mainly fixed vs. variable - is it better to have higher fixed cost with lower variable, or vice versa. High fixed cost = barrier to entry.... compare to industry, often insightful) Investment cost (optional: only if case involves an investment decision) Intangibles (e.g., brands, brand loyalty) Financial situation Organizational structure (optional: e.g., is team organization in conflict with how customers want to do business. Ex: We're organized by product line, but customers want one point of contact across all product lines) Nature of product (think out loud about the product, it's benefits, why someone would buy it) Commodity good or easily differentiable goods (could company increase differentiation) Identify complimentary goods (can we piggy back off growth in compliments or near compliments?) Identify substitutes* (are we vulnerable to indirect competitors namely substitutes?) Determine...
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