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Identify the context and significance of this quotation from Candide (4-6 good sentences): If this is the best of all possible, worlds, what are the others like? The flogging is not so bad, I was flogged by the Bulgars. But oh my dear Pangloss, greatest of all philosophers, was it necessary for me to watch you being hanged, for no reason that I can see? Oh my dear Anabaptist, best of men, was it necessary that you should be drowned in the port? Oh Miss Cunegonde, pearl of young ladies, was it necessary that you should have your belly slit open?
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Identify the context and significance of this quotation from Gulliver’s Travels (4-6 good sentences): And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses’ feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcasses, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and destroying. And to set forth the valor of my own dear countrymen, I assured him that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship, and beheld the dead bodies come down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of the spectators.
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Pita is the CEO for Just Like Gems, which makes costume jewelry designed by a Spanish artist named Alejandro. As a result, this jewelry has strong appeal in areas of the United States with a large Latino population. However, the U.S. market already has two companies that make high-quality costume jewelry that is popular with people who have a mid-to-high range income. Considering all of these elements, how could Pita use a focused low-cost strategy to ensure Just Like Gems gains market share and is profitable?
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