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Navy, Forth & Towne, banana republic, and Gap (Gap Inc., 2015). The company’s retail stores are in countries like USA, Japan, Ireland, France, Canada, and United Kingdom. Franchised outlets are in Qatar, Oman, Indonesia, UAE, Croatia, Jordan, and Cyprus. PESTEL Analysis PESTEL analysis evaluates six factors in external environments, which affect the company’s performance.…

English Playwright and poet, William Congreve wrote “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” This quote is a direct way to explain the struggle of the women in Othello. There are two women in Othello who a share a common problem. Emilia’s husband and Desdemona’s husband do not treat them the way they would like to be treated. They bond over this common problem. However, this leads to more problems as their relationship gets tested. A recurring theme in Othello is revenge. Revenge is the…

In the William Shakespeare’s play Othello, Emilia and Desdemona are the major female characters that are remarkably notable in the play. When the two are separated and looked at they are two completely different individuals who come from different backgrounds. While Desdemona comes from an upper class family very wealthy and prosperous, Emilia comes from a middle class family comfortable and probably in those times what would be considered an average normal family. In principle, few individuals…

Emilia: The Loyal Heroine At first appearance, Othello seems to be about disloyalty and betrayal between the main characters in Venice and Cyprus. Even though there is much of this, one character, the lady-in-waiting of Desdemona, shows the exact opposite by showing honest love and respect through her actions toward Desdemona. Emilia stays true to Desdemona from the beginning of the play until the very end. Some may argue that when she gives the handkerchief to Iago instead of Desdemona that…

Isolation. Self-destruction. Desolation. When societal influences become that little voice planting doubt in the mind, the line between personal values and the cultural normalcy become blurred. The influence of those around us becomes the only thing that is discernible. When society is working against personal values, self-isolation becomes an appealing choice. Alienation provides the main characters in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and William Shakespeare’s Othello with their motivation,…

Review of Literature Thousands of people participate in brain taxing assessments every day. Most people rely solely on hours of studying to get an acceptable grade, but what if something as simple as chewing gum could improve memorization? Many studies over the years can show that chewing gum can affect how effective your brain is at memorizing information. Chewing gum can be known to speed up the brain by get more blood flow to the brain. The effect can cause the brain to warm up quicker and…

The Black Death, as it was most commonly called, was renowned as the most devastating pandemic to have even swept over the Eastern Hemisphere during the fourteenth century. It was the cause of over tens of millions of deaths throughout Europe and Asia and went by many names, including the “Great Mortality,” and “Universal Plague.” The widespread plague originated in Central Asia and was most likely variants of the bubonic and pneumonic plagues. The bubonic plague, which was the most common…

In Crime and Punishment written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, religion is strong with many characters but is seldom with others. The main protagonist, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, breaks one of the Ten Commandments, “shall not murder,” within the first few chapters. Raskolnikov is troubled and angry with his pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, as he believes that she has continually cheated him out of his money, and he was determined to get acquire revenge for himself and others she has done wrong. Following…

Merriam-Webster simply defines the term 'Renaissance Man ' as "a man who is interested in and knows a lot about many things;" (Merriam-Webster) emphasis on the word 'man. ' This is because the Renaissance was not the liberating era for women that it was for men. Though many pieces of literature and art of that era depicted feminine themes and held women at the center of the narrative, "women continued to be used in society only for the benefits of men—as daughters who could potentially help…

every side houses as pleasant as their gardens and bright with white marble and columns decorated with leaves, which make them look like living trees’ ” (“Heilbrunn Timeline”). By the end of the Third Crusade Syria had Jerusalem but the Crusaders had Cyprus and the coastal town of Acre. Acre was host of one of the most unusual military manoeuvres ever in 1191, during the third Crusade, when Richard the Lion-Hearted captured the city of Acre. The inhabitants were barricaded inside, so King…