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    1. The Definition of utility in a marketing or economics context is perhaps best described as: a. Reward value b. Use value c. Electricity d. Cheap advertising e. None of the above 2. What is meant by the term “early adopter”? a. Someone taken into care at an early age b. Someone who gets to the sales early c. Someone who buys new products & technologies when they first come out d. Someone who quickly learns how to put together self assembly equipment

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    "Now give those kine a wide berth‚ keep your thought intent upon your course home‚ and hard seafarings brings you all to Ithca. But if you raid the beeves‚ I see destruction for ship and crew..." Odysseus has his own decisions this quote is a prefect example of how he had control and choices in/of his life especially in the Land of the Dead and Charybdis‚ Sirens and Scylla that could change his journey. Odysseus had control of his own fate and was not a puppet of the gods because he was able to

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    The History of Macromedia Flash Adobe Flash‚ formerly known as Macromedia Flash‚ is a software program used to create and manipulate graphics and animation. It is one of the most common programs used for creating animated web pages‚ video players‚ and audio streaming applications. Flash files are traditionally in the SWF format‚ or ShockWave Flash‚ though many other types of files can be viewed or manipulated with this software. 1. Early History * The history of Flash can be traced

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    Erin Krogstad Compare-Contrast Synthesis 10/11/2013 English 111x Gay Marriage Gay marriage is a topic that is heavily debated in this day and age. Whether or not it should be legal for homosexuals to get married is a theme that authors Andrew Sullivan‚ who wrote “For Gay Marriage” and William J. Bennett‚ who wrote “Against Gay Marriage” use in there articles. The main points the authors both discus is the meaning of marriage itself‚ the social impact same sex marriage will have on society

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    | | | 2. |The general term for socially recognized links between ancestors and descendants. |descent (or descent bond) | | 3. |The kind of kinship bond that links husband or wife‚ mother-in-law‚ father-in-law‚ brother-in-law‚ and |affinity (or marriage) bond | | |sister-in-law.

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    Perfection is merely an ideology that can never be obtained and is constantly being pulled down by human’s own imperfections. In William Shakespeare’s‚ Hamlet‚ Shakespeare sheds light on the tragic flaws of heroic characters; the tragedy that befalls Hamlet is the result of his unrealistic idealism‚ which is the cause of Hamlet’s alienation and indecisiveness. Hamlet’s unrealistic idealism alienates him‚ and can be seen through his abhorrence of women’s “frailty” (I‚ii‚146) which causes his relationship

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    The quaint and obsolete buildings are the remains of some prototype air-raid warning structures built in 1920; by accompanying the images with ambient sound recorded in 1999‚ she doubles the act of preservation of those buildings‚ already saved from destruction in 1988. She was shortlisted for the 1998 Turner Prize. Tacita Dean’s newest series of blackboard drawings‚ ‘Fatigues’ (2012)‚ presents a discourse on the fragility of the human gesture. This vulnerability stands in the face of many things:

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    Nadine Gordimer’s “The Moment before the Gun Went Off‚” at face-value‚ is an obvious critique of the Apartheid situation that occurred in South Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century. Her use of a biased narrator helps portray this concept easily. What is less obvious‚ until the twist ending‚ is that she is also making a point about how easy it is for people to rush to judgment without having all of the facts. Upon revealing that the man who was shot (Lucas) is actually the illegitimate

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    the outline of a mountain. The mountain is merely two intersecting lines and nothing more‚ yet it manages to make its presence clearly known as everything else seems to point in that direction. These visual elements bring the work together in a maelstrom of movement and their chaotic differences bring the work together in

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    Darkness is usually associated with fear or the unknown. As children‚ we are afraid of the unknown under our bed that darkness brings‚ which‚ in turn‚ makes our imaginations run wild‚ creating monsters‚ ghosts‚ and of course‚ the occasional boogeyman. Even as adults‚ we still have an antipathy to drive at night or go walking alone in the darkness. So it only makes sense that darkness is used in all forms of art to symbolize some kind of fear‚ unknown thing or place‚ or a mournful state. Within the

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