Majestic Wine PLC Annual Report & Accounts 2012 Majestic Wine PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2012 Come & explore Majestic aims to be the nation’s favourite wine specialist. We stock wines for every occasion. Our range is innovative‚ vibrant and diverse whilst representing the best quality and value. With some of the best trained people in the business‚ we share our enthusiasm and expertise to encourage our customers to explore the world of wine. Highlights Group profit before tax
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Executive Summary Majestic Printing Works Ltd. is one of East Africa’s leading high end print houses. The family-owned business was established in the 1940’s and has since developed into a successful‚ one-stop printing house with a presence throughout East Africa. Their previous system had many shortfalls and lacked the insight and functionality that a growing business requires. Do to the fact that many transactions were completed manually and accounts outsourced. This lack of access to information
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Michelle Salcedo OEDIPUS THE KING Mr.Marzian AP English “Oedipus the King” was a tale depicting the human experience; each human has a great victory‚ shortly accompanied by a great demise; the rollercoaster of life. Oedipus had his great success soon become the reason for his fall. With Oedipus’ deadly flaw being ‘hubris’; his excessive pride led him to believe he was on the level of ‘gods’. Once he paraded that he was invulnerable (untouchable by even the gods)‚ his fall would be all
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downfall‚ suffering‚ or defeat. Oedipus and Okonkwo are both fantastic examples of a tragic hero because they have it all in the beginning and then they both fall. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ Okonkwo is a man from the village Umofia; he has many wives‚ a famous wrestler‚ and a big yam plantation. In the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles‚ Oedipus is a man from Corinth who runs away from his homeland in fear of a prophecy from Apollo that Oedipus will murder his father‚ and his
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stroll through a minefield. However‚ we often 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
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the hero does not deserve his fate‚ and fear because anyone could have the hero’s fate. Consequently‚ in Sophocles’s Oedipus The King‚ Aristotle’s definition of tragedy applies to Oedipus. Oedipus’s hamartia is arrogance. Fisler states‚ “Hubris is his flaw; his actions are the result of his excessive pride” (Fisler 1006). Oedipus possesses a tremendous amount of pride. When Oedipus solved the riddle‚ 20 years prior to becoming king‚ he gained
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many aspects that reflected the moral values and ideals of society. Their customs were tightly woven into the scripts of plays. Antigone and Oedipus the King‚ two renowned works of the Greek playwright Sophocles‚ explore these values through a plot thick with corruption‚ virtue‚ and determination. These plays reveal the burdens two Theban kings‚ Oedipus and Creon‚ as their lies and poor judgment corrode the integrity of their city‚ their families and themselves. Possessing a strong faith in their
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is defined as a literary character that makes an error of judgment or has a total flaw‚ that combined with fate and external forces‚ brings on a tragedy. This pertains to Oedipus‚ as his brash decisions and unwillingness to accept the truth‚ along with his doomed fate‚ leads to his demise. The first thing that makes Oedipus a tragic hero is that he makes some large errors of judgment. This occurs when he decides to announce the punishment for the murderer of the late King Laius in front of all
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“[He] did it all [himself]”: Oedipus’ Self-destruction Oedipus is demonstrating a very key component to the play when he says that “the hand that struck [his] eyes was [his] alone.” The metaphor of three fingers pointing back at you when you point a judging finger at someone else is perfect for this situation. In being so quick to judge the situation and assume that he will bring honour to the land‚ uncovering Laius’s murderer‚ Oedipus curses the one responsible and declares that they will be
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secrets are generally bad‚ but if they were known could people possibly make different choices in life? In the story of Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus’ entire life is build around so-called “family secrets”. In the end of his misguided choices which result from his lack of knowledge of his heritage lead to the development of his character and his tragic fall. The development of Oedipus’ character is essentially lead by a family secret. A secret can misguide our lives; it can mix up our identities and
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