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    1. Due to the progress of science and technology‚ customer demand and the change of market competition caused the SAB changed their way of management and competition. SAB hopes to become a supermarket companies add similar to the third party logistics enterprise service‚ such as warehousing‚ transportation and delivery‚ inventory management. SAB want cooperation with some experienced companies work together‚ such as the Central Transport Inc. it can be more successful in the face of new changes

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    between the main character Okonkwo and his son Nwoye. We see through the book that these two characters‚ with their vastly different character traits‚ can never seem to get along. But is the conflict between parent and child something exclusive to the Ibo culture? I don’t believe so‚ as even in our day in age and culture we still face the same conflicts‚ like that of Okonkwo and Nwoye’s. From the start of the book we can already comprehend the conflict between Okonkwo and Nwoye. It starts with

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    Antigone by Sophocles‚ the messenger is a sorrowful and truthful throughout the scene of Exodus. In Antigone‚ the messenger is a sorrowful person telling people news and their fate? The messenger tells people sad news but he won’t comfort you nonetheless‚ he would just let you suffer from the news. The messenger telling Choragus and Creon some news‚ he tells that “I will plainly all that seen./I shall not try to comfort you: What is the use” (Exodus.33-34). The messenger says that he won’t

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    novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ Okonkwo does not have an open mind when it comes to new traditions and a new culture. Therefore‚ when Mr. Brown came in and introduced Christianity‚ Okonkwo immediately saw him as a target. Mr. Brown and Okonkwo are almost complete opposites. Okonkwo is a self-centered person who does not respect his family. Mr. Brown‚ on the other hand‚ is very openminded and listens other’s opinions as well as his own. Okonkwo does not sympathize or empathize with anyone

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    moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity”- Aristotle. The character Okonkwo from the book ‘Things Fall Apart’ by Chinua Achebe demonstrates the role of a tragic hero. He starts off in the book as a well known and respected warrior in the clan of Umuofia. His father (now deceased) however was known for being irresponsible and cowardly. Okonkwo vowed to never be anything like his father. Okonkwo captures the role of a tragic hero according to the attributes Aristotle gives us because

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    January 15‚ 2013 Okonkwo: A Great Man‚ Tragic Hero A tragic hero is a archetype who fails to overcome or surpass his/her conflict. The book “Things Fall Apart” included a tragic hero. The book was written by the name of Chinua Achebe. The tragic hero in the book was Okonkwo‚ a warrior from a village called Umuofia. Chinua Achebe wrote the book with the purpose of showing how someone with high esteem can fall from greatness so dramatically because of that person’s actions. Okonkwo exhibited hubris

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    be like him but you’re remotely different‚ how do you handle it? In Things Fall Apart‚ a novel by Chinua Achebe‚ you view how a son‚ named Nwoye reacts to the challenge of expressing his individuality along with the expectations that his father‚ Okonkwo has for him. Nwoye’s initial struggle of finding himself and embracing his differences from his father show how a cultural collision can be for the better and have a positive effect on an individual. The introduction of Western ideas save him from

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    English II- Hyatt May 23‚ 2012 Things Fall Apart Final Literally Analysis Essay Okonkwo: A Life Story of a Tragic Hero What makes up a hero in today’s society? Young children today imagine a hero with superpowers and a cape‚ but little do they know heroes come in many different forms. In his novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe illustrates the making of modern hero. Even though Okonkwo does not act like a regular hero‚ he still has a noble structure‚ makes mistakes throughout

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    Umuofia. Okonkwo‚ a man who has captured fame with the act of wrestling‚ received the title of a hero. Okonkwo fears his lifestyle would become the idle and improvident custom like his father‚ Unoka. “Okonkwo had clearly washed his hands and so he ate with Kings and elders.” As Okonkwo raises a family with many wives and a plentiful of children‚ he also grows flaws of his own that gives his son‚ Nwoye‚ a reason to question the culture of the tribe altogether. Both the hands of Okonkwo and Nwoye

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