Quest

Extracted Attributes

• Industry

  Clinical Laboratory / Diagnostic Healthcare Services

• Official Name

  Quest Diagnostics Incorporated

• Annual Revenue

  Over $7.7 billion USD (in 2019)

• Workforce Size

  Approximately 48,000 employees (as of 2020)

• Initial Spin-off CEO

  Kenneth W. Freeman

• Corporate Independence Date

  1996-12-31

• Headquarters / Primary Region

  United States (with operations in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Brazil)

Timeline

• Quest Diagnostics becomes an independent public company via a corporate spin-off from Corning, appointing Kenneth W. Freeman as CEO. (Source: Wikipedia: Quest Diagnostics)

  1996-12-31

• Quest acquires the clinical laboratory division of Branford, Connecticut-based Diagnostic Medical Laboratory, Inc. (DML). (Source: Wikipedia: Quest Diagnostics)

  1997-01-01

• Quest acquires SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories, adding subsidiaries and a medical sample transport air fleet. (Source: Wikipedia: Quest Diagnostics)

  1999-01-01

• Quest Diagnostics reports generating more than $7.7 billion in revenue for the fiscal year. (Source: Wikipedia: Quest Diagnostics)

  2019-12-31

Quest

A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. It serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical. Tales of quests figure prominently in the folklore of every nation and ethnic culture. In literature, the object of a quest requires great exertion on the part of the hero, who must overcome many obstacles, typically including much travel. The aspect of travel allows the storyteller to showcase exotic locations and cultures (an objective of the narrative, not of the character). The object of a quest may also have supernatural properties, often leading the protagonist into other worlds and dimensions. The moral of a quest tale often centers on the changed character of the hero.

Web Search Results

• Quest - Wikipedia

  A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. It serves as a plot "Plot (narrative)") device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical. Tales of quests figure prominently in the folklore of every nation and ethnic culture. In literature, the object of a quest requires great exertion on the part of the hero, who must overcome many obstacles, typically including much travel. The aspect of travel allows the storyteller to showcase exotic locations and cultures (an objective of the narrative, not of the character). The object of a quest may also have supernatural properties, often leading the protagonist into other worlds and dimensions. The moral of a quest tale often centers on the changed character of the hero. [...] stories as a quest in which the main character is seeking something that they desire, but the literal structure of an Arthurian quests seeking something is, itself, still common. Quests appear in fantasy literature, as in Rasselas by Samuel Johnson, or The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy, Scarecrow (Oz) "Scarecrow (Oz)"), the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion go on a quest for the way back to Kansas, brains, a heart, and courage respectively. Quests also play a major role in Rick Riordan's fantasy books, among them Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and The Kane Chronicles, and in dark fantasy novel The Talisman "The Talisman (King and Straub novel)") by Stephen King and Peter Straub. [...] A familiar modern literary quest is Frodo Baggins's quest to destroy the One Ring in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The One Ring, its baleful power, the difficult method which is the only way to destroy it, and the spiritual and psychological torture it wreaks on its bearer. ## See also [edit] Quest (video games) "Quest (video games)") ## References [edit]

• Quest: Definition and Examples | Literary Terms

  ## I. What is a Quest? A quest (/kwest/) is a journey that someone takes in order to achieve a goal or complete an important task. Accordingly, the term comes from the Medieval Latin questa, meaning “search” or “inquiry.” Quests are heroic in nature, usually featuring one protagonist who goes on a dangerous mission against all odds to save a group of people or society. Sometimes, the hero sets out on a quest to find a symbolic object or person and bring it or them back to his home. Quests are the foremost element of the epic (see Related terms). They also have a particularly large presence in medieval romance, folklore, and Greek and Roman mythology, and have been playing an important role in fiction since the earliest examples of English literature. ## II. Example of a Quest [...] Authors have been creating imaginative tales about heroes embarking on quests since the beginnings of English literature. They play a central role in epics such as Beowulf and Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad, as well as in medieval romance works like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory’s tales of King Arthur. Since it so closely follows a hero, a quest provides powerful characterization, revealing the hero’s morals, strengths, weaknesses, and struggles, and successes. By the end of a quest, the audience feels that they know the hero well. It is also a way for authors to introduce the audience to foreign settings—a writer and his readers can explore exotic places with the hero that they’d likely never hear about otherwise (especially in ancient or medieval times). For these [...] (especially in ancient or medieval times). For these reasons, quests are valuable plot devices for fiction authors and that have endured the test of time for literally thousands of years.

• Quest Learning & Assessment

  []( []( Welcome to Quest Quest provides tools to incorporate online multimedia content and assessments into your course. This hybrid of in-class and online teaching can take on many forms: Flipped Classroom Quest provides lecture content to students online before class and the classroom time is saved for case studies, problem solving, demonstrations, etc. The linked assessment feature assures students have seen the content and reveals their level of understanding of the material. Online Content Quest prepares students for lectures with prerequisite knowledge. Feedback from the assessment highlights areas that may need emphasis.

• Quest Diagnostics - Wikipedia

  Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is an American clinical laboratory. A Fortune 500 company, Quest operates in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Brazil. Quest also maintains collaborative agreements with various hospitals and clinics across the globe. As of 2020, the company had approximately 48,000 employees, and it generated more than $7.7 billion in revenue in 2019. The company offers access to diagnostic testing services for cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, neurological disorders, COVID-19, and employment and court-ordered drug testing. ## History [edit] ### 1960–1995 [edit] [...] In 2018, Quest Diagnostics was among a number of U.S.–based laboratories linked to inaccuracies of over 200 women's cervical smear tests for CervicalCheck, Ireland's national screening program. Audits of the testing performed by Quest (and another subcontractor, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. of Austin, Texas) showed a high rate of errors in analysis of samples which led to lawsuits and a government inquiry. Quest and the Irish government continue[clarification needed] to settle the resulting lawsuits. [...] ### 1996–2000 [edit] On December 31, 1996, Quest Diagnostics became an independent company as a spin-off from Corning. Kenneth W. Freeman was appointed as CEO during this transition. Over the next year, Quest acquired a clinical laboratory division of Branford, Connecticut–based Diagnostic Medical Laboratory, Inc. (DML). Two years later in 1999, Quest added SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories to their subsidiaries; which includes a joint venture ownership with CompuNet Clinical Laboratory. The purchase of SmithKline Beecham also included the lab's medical sample transport airline (ICAO: LBQ, call sign "Airline codes"): LABQUEST) originally founded in 1988.

• The Quest in Literature – Literary Theory and Criticism

  The quest story has existed for centuries, with Homer’s The Odyssey serving as the prototypical example. Also known as the hero’s journey, plot aspects of the quest often appear in the modern English-language romance novel and may be identified in international literature. In a classical quest, the male hero completes a journey focused on “winning” a prize through the application of wits and daring. As the plot developed, females also became hero figures and, beginning in the latter half of the 19th century, the quest could focus on an internal, or psychological, journey toward self-realization or actualization, generally signaled by an epiphany on the part of the protagonist. Closely related is the Arthurian romance legend, later used in the service of English nationalism, as well as the [...] An additional stage might involve a responsibility on the hero’s part to share what they have learned, through storytelling and writing, as in the German version of an initiation story that traces the development of a writer, called a Künstlerroman. The Bildungsroman, which features the development of a young person into maturity, may feature many aspects of the quest. Examples are legion and include romance-genre novels by Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Gothic-genre novels by the Brontë sisters, Henry Fielding, seafaring tales by Frederick Marryat, and adventure/survival tales by Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Henry Rider Haggard. Modern darker versions of the quest may be designed to question what constitutes success, or may exist as ironic quests, in which no reward is gained by [...] Once the hero gains the necessary knowledge, he emerges, moving literally upward or outward from the low ground, reemerging with renewed strength and confidence. While he may be further challenged, he will successfully reach his goal, procure his treasure, and begin the final stage, “The Return Home.” The hero may at first refuse or resist, necessitating an event to convince him, or the return may become a lengthy quest on its own, as was that of Odysseus; it may also be completed quickly and without event.

• Instance Of

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