INSIGHT PAPER BY MARIE GRACE HERNANDEZ WEEK 7 PM587 Our group for the Team Project consisted of Janet Hackler‚ Jevona Maniex‚ Charles Gibson Jr‚ Vinh Ha‚ Enje Brown and I. The team was assigned to work on Portfolio Management process by which the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) would decide on what projects would fit into its current portfolio‚ adopt processes and methodologies to monitor and make changes to the portfolio based on the overall strategy of the company. The team made the decision
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tend to approach “sight” and “blindness” from very literal perspective. Whereas Sophocles‚ in his play Oedipus Rex‚ approaches the sight-blind dichotomy metaphorically. Sophocles associates sight with possession of prophecy and knowledge while connecting blindness to ignorance‚ using Tiresius and Oedipus as physical representations of the latter and former. Sophocles uses sight and blindness to establish that humans are natural drawn to the unknown and that insight of the future is detrimental to
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Love The saying ’love makes the world go round’ is accurate‚ in a metaphorical sense. Some people may disagree‚ saying that greed or money makes the world go round‚ but in order to be greedy you have to love something (or at least feel passionately about it) and the most common thing greedy people crave is money‚ even if it is to buy other things. Films are made about it‚ books and songs and poems are written‚ artists draw and paint and sculpt‚ people spend their entire lives waiting for ’The
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Furthermore‚ change blindness has been detected in many other studies. In most cases‚ observers do not notice changes that are introduced‚ particularly when these changes occur during disruptions such a blank screen‚ a blink or an eye movement (Simons). Change blindness occurs whenever attention is diverted from the change signal. Additionally‚ changes to objects that are significant to the meaning of the scene or changes to visually distinctive objects are detected more rapidly than other changes
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para In the play Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus has many negative qualities. The first flaw is stubbornness. Oedipus shows stubbornness‚ when he doesn’t listen to the truth. Oedipus shows it by not listening to Tiresias: "Enough I won’t listen to this sort of talk from you‚ Damn you! Get out of here‚ quickly(29)." Oedipus requested Tiresias for the truth‚ instead of taking advice from him he took everything in wrong way. He didn’t listen to his advice‚ at all and decided to go with his own decision. Another
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Oedipus Paper Humans often come upon interactions in every day life causing conflict‚ which forces humans to make important decisions when put into different situations. A conflict is an interaction that can be made between two things causing good or bad scenarios. The interactions mentioned in this play are mainly causing bad situations. In this play Oedipus the King by Sophocles‚ Oedipus faces a painful truth that brings him through many different contradictions. Oedipus’ conflicts are shown
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In Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus is the new king of Thebes after the former king‚ Laius‚ was killed. Thebes has been cursed‚ and a prophet of the god Apollo tells Oedipus that Laius’ killer must be banished from Thebes. Oedipus begins on a disastrous quest to find the assassin‚ and finds that he is the one he seeks. He pierces his eyes and tries to kill himself‚ and is banished from Thebes at the end of the play. Oedipus realizes his foolishness at the end of the play‚ comparing his lack of wisdom to
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Oedipus‚ The Tragic Hero The story of Oedipus is a prime example of a classic tragedy. A classic tragedy is described as a story that involves a successful being who‚ because of a flaw‚ experiences a downfall. Like a classical tragedy‚ Oedipus is a tragic hero whom fulfills his prophecy and brings disaster and tragedy to his city and family. The story of Oedipus has the elements for a classic tragedy‚ such as Oedipus’s tragic tale‚ the developing of the plot‚ and the downfall at the end. A tragic
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In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus is a man who exemplifies the typical tyrannical leader of ancient times. A man blind to the path his questions take him on. Oedipus is a character dominated by strong emotions‚ and it is the way in which he negotiates his feelings and reacts to information uncovered that makes Oedipus a legendary cautionary tale in literature. The famous stoic Seneca wrote his own version of Oedipus a few hundred years after Sophocles’ Oedipus. The tale remains the same
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According to Aristotle‚ Oedipus in the play Oedipus Rex by Sophacles would be a prime example of a tragic hero as he perfectly portrays the qualities of good‚ consistency and necessary or probable. The quality of good played by Oedipus in the play Oedipus Rex is a perfect portrayal for the element of character in a good tragedy. Aristotle discusses‚ "First‚ and most important‚ it must be good…the character will be good if the purpose is good" (Aristotle‚ 6). First and foremost‚ a character in a tragedy
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