A careful analysis reveals what went wrong with FoxMeyer that transformed the pharmaceutical giant into the biggest liquidation case in US Bankruptcy History FoxMeyer sued SAP‚ Andersen and Pinnacle. This is just a knee-jerk reaction of a business entity that had gone down. It wants to take others in its fall. It is easier to pass the blame on to something else because the hardest thing in the world is to call one’s self stupid and claim full responsibility. After all‚ FoxMeyer is an American
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texts that have lasting relevance. Two texts that demonstrate this are Aldous Huxely’s satirical trail-blazer Brave New World‚ and Stanley Kubrick’s screenplay‚ 2001: A Space Odyssey‚ composed simultaneously as the novel of the same title by Arthur C. Clarke. Both texts were influenced by major world events at the time and continue to be of significance today; Huxley by the assembly line production of the Model T Ford and Kubrick by man’s imminent departure to the moon the following year. Both texts
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following a man named Arthur Dent. He is an ordinary man living a normal life. One day a friend of his‚ Ford Prefect‚ tells him the world is going to end. Arthur doesn’t believe him. Later that day the earth is exploded by alien spaceships. Arthur and Ford are the only survivors‚ only because Ford Prefect wasn’t a human after all. He was a galactic traveller/hitchhiker working on a book‚ called “the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy”‚ and he was able to save himself and Arthur. The rest of the book
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Christina Robinson ENG 101 College Compositions 1 Professor Roberto C. Garcia Is Google Making Us Stupid? Feb. 18‚ 2014 Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr narrated his essay based on a thesis‚ by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001movie: A Space Odyssey. A character named Bowman‚ whom has been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine‚ is calmly‚ coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “brain.” The
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Donnie Darko: A Review What comes to mind when you think of a modern adolescent coming of age movie? Is it alienation‚ rebellion‚ probably first love? In Donnie Darko (2001)‚ writer/director Richard Kelly employs all of these familiar themes; then he adds humor‚ witty satire‚ time travel‚ apocalyptic prophecy‚ and a bi-pedal‚ six foot tall nightmare of a rabbit‚ who instructs the young and confused Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) through haunting visions and an eerie voice that runs through Donnie‘s
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“…the Romantic allegory presents a “return journey” undertaken through – and ultimately transformative of – the perception of the protagonist‚ whose sublime encounter with metatemporal Nature presents the possibility of a purely spiritual becoming which is also a homecoming.” (Rowe‚ 56) Kubrick as a director and writer‚ does not convey meaning and emotion through the traditional senses‚ but rather uses allegory and metaphor within films to provide a baseline for meaning. This implicit nature is what
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residents of A.D. 2029" illustrate this point. Pollution is a worldwide epidemic and everyone is guilty of this problem. Have you ever wondered what would become of the earth in the future? The short story‚ AIf I forget thee‚ oh earth@ by Arthur C. Clarke shows us a futuristic world with the outcomes of pollution. All of the pollution left radioactive chemicals in the earth wiping out every human being. In this story Marvin looks at the earth with his father from the moon. His father told him
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2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. This film is about the evolution of mankind. The film jumps through time from monkeys to humans and into the future. The one thing that appears in all time period is the black monolith. In order to further analyse this movie‚ I will look at the composition and design of 2001: A Space Odyssey and look at the design of the set and use of props and how it sets up the futuristic feel of the movie. In the first scenes in the movie before we
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Childhood’s End In the book Childhood’s End the character Rikki Stormgren faces a private passion that conflicts with his responsibility. Stormgren is the Secretary-General of the United Nations. It is his job to maintain a strong relationship with Karellen‚ the Overlord of the world. The only problem is no one ever saw Karellen before. Stormgren only talks to Karellen on his ship that hovers above earth but they communicate through a screen between two rooms. Stormgren’s private passion is to
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Spanning contentious themes of morality and psychology‚ Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange sparked polarizing reception among critics upon its 1941 release. The film‚ based on the novel by Anthony Burgess‚ follows the exuberant amoral acts of Alex‚ a thug in a dystopian city‚ until his gang betrays him to the authorities and‚ rather than be taught right from wrong‚ is brainwashed to detest sex and violence through inhumane techniques. While some critics‚ such as Vincent Canby of The New York Times
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