principles. Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1927) and George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) both provide dystopic projections about a future where the corruption of power and the exploitation of technology create significant threats to humanity. The context of the two texts has obvious influence on the key concepts and values presented. The Weimar Republic (Germany) context of Lang’s Metropolis creates his fear of society’s growing corruption and mechanisation at the cost of dehumanisation‚
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The conflict between the individual and the state is perpetuated in Metropolis‚ and it is in its plot that the modernists fears of the machine age are evident. Robot Maria is used as a narrative device in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to orchestrate chaos and disunity in the city‚ perpetuating the conflict between the Head and the Hands. Rotwang creates her as the antithesis of Maria and the personification of vice‚ so Joh Fredersen can use her to “…sow discord between them and her!” It is in the visual
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group is divided into four divisions‚ NASA (North America and South America) and EROW (Europe and rest of the world)‚ Research department and Global Marketing department. NASA and EROW operate as profit centers each produce butyl and halobutyl dedicated to regional customers. Both of the centers have relatively flexible producing schedule to satisfy the increasing demand of halobutyl. After establishing the second plant in Sarnia‚ NASA is able to have each plant producing halobutyl and regular butyl
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and worst of human nature‚ and through the study of the underlying political commentary in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (BNW) and Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi film Metropolis‚ these motivations are demonstrated. Reflecting and critiquing the oppressive social and political values of their time‚ Brave New World and Metropolis each serve as a medium of exerting their composers beliefs. These dystopian texts serves as a catalyst for criticising the inability for a perfect society to eliminate revolution
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time consuming and a routine for CKD patients every week. The patient has to report to a dialysis center and if not lucky has to wait till his turn comes even after taking a prior appointment. The relatives have to accompany every thrice a week during an appointment in case of aged and seriously ill patients. This is very inconvenient and inefficient for the patient and relatives. The dialysis centers are usually large hospitals that create a negative and a depressing vibe even after being expensive
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who aren’t familiar with the name‚ you probably are familiar with his work. Ferriss was the master draftsman of his time of the American metropolis‚ both real and ideal. In the course of his career‚ he rendered hundreds of buildings and projects around the country‚ but it was his visions for the ideal city‚ particularly as illustrated in his book The Metropolis of Tomorrow‚ that would earn him his fame and legacy‚ which still resonates today. Born in 1889‚ Ferriss earned his degree in architecture
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products. Chuck questioned if the current cost-management system was providing the management with accurate data about product costs. In a traditional‚ volume-based product-costing system‚ only a single predetermine overhead rate is used. All manufacturing-overhead costs are combined into one cost pool‚ a grouping of individual indirect cost items‚ and they are applied to products on the basis of a single variable that costs over a given time span (cost driver) that is closely related to production
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Q: Is depreciation expense or depreciation cost is fixed cost or variable cost in nature? Fixed costs: Fixed costs are such costs that do not change with the change in activity level within the relevant range. Where relevant range can be defined in terms of time or activity level. Variable costs: Variable costs are such costs that change with the change in activity level . Coming to the question‚ depreciation expense or depreciation cost can either be fixed or variable and this depends on the
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COST CONCEPTS AND COST ACCOUNTING By: Aman Jawahar Sarika Deepak Muneer CONTENTS Concept of Cost Cost Accounting Terms in Cost Accounting Elements of Cost Meaning of Overheads Classification of Costs Methods of Costing Types of Costing MEANING: Cost Concept: The term ‘cost’ means the amount of expenses [actual or notional] incurred on or attributable to specified thing or activity. Cost means ‘the price paid for something’. Cost Accounting: Cost Accounting is concerned with recording
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Call Center Technology in the Philippines New graduates like to call it a stepping stone to a better career while others see it as a glorified phone operator job. No matter what people think about the call center industry‚ there is no doubt that it has been a sector that has helped boost the local economy and has put our country back on the global trading map. Contact centers in the Philippines offer 24/7 multilingual and multimedia supported premium services for marketing‚ sales‚ customer care
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