...all alone in their own house at 2 o’clock in the morning.) Sometimes I feel like I have more than most. And most of them were the result of the age old struggle of trying to “fit in” Of course in my childhood and teen years I wanted to please, most children do. All through my twenties I wrestled with question of where I belonged and what made me happy. I was often TOLD what would make me happy and when it didn’t I believed it was a failing on my part. I suppressed and ignore my instincts. I had zero confidence that I could make good choices and second and third guessed myself in every way. I lacked a certain type of social skills. The “acceptable” social groups felt I was dull, uninteresting, refused to conform and regularly stuck my foot in my mouth. I felt they were dull, shallow, incredibly insular and had zero imagination. (but I could connect with them if I just tried harder). The truth was they were not bad people; they just weren’t my people. Attempting to fit together on any level deeper than civil acquaintance was unfair to both parties. Part of this was my upbringing; the upbringing of a “southern lady”. A “Southern Lady” is charming. She smiles all the time at everyone and everything. Her motto is unflappable amiability. A Southern girl’s mission in life is to make everyone else feel at ease with themselves. The ideal ingredients for the parlor cocktail: people...
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...weighed a hundred and forty pounds. After his body was flown out of the wilderness, an autopsy determined that it weighed sixty-seven pounds and lacked discernible subcutaneous fat. The probable cause of death, according to the coroner’s report, was starvation. In “Into the Wild,” the book I wrote about McCandless’s brief, confounding life, I came to a different conclusion. I speculated that he had inadvertently poisoned himself by eating seeds from a plant commonly called wild potato, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum. According to my hypothesis, a toxic alkaloid in the seeds weakened McCandless to such a degree that it became impossible for him to hike out to the highway or hunt effectively, leading to starvation. Because Hedysarum alpinum is described as a nontoxic species in both the scientific literature and in popular books about edible plants, my conjecture was met with no small amount of derision, especially in Alaska....
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...My Favorite three food brands are listed below: (1) Cadbury Dairy Milk. (2) K F C. (3) Lays Potato Chips. The Brand Personality of my Favorite Food brands: (1)Cadbury Dairy Milk: Dairy milk is the megabrand of the Cadbury Family focusing on consumers of all ages. The core proposition is 'something to celebrate all the good occasions in life with'. The communication proposes that no matter what the occasion of your happiness, Dairy Milk is the perfect way to celebrate. It is actually a feminine product. The joyful & playful color of Cadbury dairy milk gives the impression of a joyous teenage girl. The brand Personality of Cadbury is somewhat Sophisticated & joyful. This brand is basically focused on those people who are more social, family oriented & friendly. The Personality Traits of Cadbury Dairy Milk are: (1)Generous (2)joyful (2)Optimistic (2)KFC: KFC Corporation is the world's most popular fast food restaurant chain specializing in Original Recipe of 11 secret herbs and spices, hot &spicy, extra crispy Kentucky fried chicken. KFC (the name was originally an initialize for Kentucky Fried Chicken). It actually offer complete meal solution. The core proposition of KFC is:”That’s why KFC is so good because it tastes so good!’’ The Brand Personality of KFC is: bold, easy, cool attitude, generous, honest, spirited and original. The KFC’s brand experience is both comforting and unexpected. The brand basically focused on young-minded people...
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...Comparative Test Brand Rank Weight Price (in gm.) (in `) potato Chips Bingo Parle Lays Haldirams Pringles Uncle Chips 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 3 4 66 84 63 66 182 72 200 60 18 130 110 120 150 20 20 20 15 122 20 42 10 5 20 15 20 20 Branded Chips & Snacks Stay within Munching limits! Bikano Balaji Diamond Snack Food Kurkure Bikano Chatex Parle Fulltoss Haldiram’sTakatak 2 Branded chips and snacks have become part of the daily diet for rural and urban kids in india. Working parents prefer to buy the branded chips and snacks as they believe that these are prepared hygienically and will provid some amount of energy and nourishment that the children are deprived of because of their parents busy schedules. Parents tend to forget that chips and snacks are fillers and not a whole meal that provides nutrition in some proportion. Consumer VOiCe did comparative testing of well known chips and snacks brands to find out how well these products perform on health and hygiene parametres . Fortunately all the tested products were endorsed as hygienic and as far as being healthy, the manufacturer were playing with words – ‘no added msg’, ‘edible oil’, ‘iodized salt’. So many different names confusing even educated consumers searching for definition of these words in dictionaries rather than being able to make a quick decision as to which product is most suited for them. Read our report to help you make a better choice next time! F rom being a poor man’s staple diet ensuring sufficient...
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...Darren Estes Professor Addington English 111 04 November 2014 Digging In Seamus Heaney’s, “The Digging” the author tells a story that emphasizes strength and family values to portray that your upbringing and family roots do not have to define your route in life. Heaney also incorporates different rhetorical devices throughout the poem to make the text more vivid. Through this use of language and text manipulation, the reader can grasp the weight of this poem for Heaney, while also identifying with his early background in life. Heaney begins the poem from the perspective of a young man, who has taken a different path in life from that of his family. The son immediately identifies himself as having a different outlook on life by emphasizing the weight of his pen “Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.” (Heaney 1-2). This comparison between his pen and a gun shows how powerful he believes his pen can be in regards to the work of his father. We are then shown a scene of his father working outside of his window, which relates to overall theme of the poem and the strength needed to perform hard labor. Through this use of language Heaney shows us the power struggle for the son in this poem, the son sees strength not through the use of manual labor but by other means, while the father values physical strength. Any type of work that requires manual labor can be extremely taxing if done for long periods of time, while visibly showing on the workers...
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...Immigration Before and After the Potato Famine Globalization is to be defined as, “The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration,” according to BusinessDictionary.com. The immigration to the exponentially growing United States had been open to all types of ethnicities and cultures throughout the 18th and 19th Century, and along the North-Eastern coast, the people of Ireland were settling. I chose this group and time frame, because I believe it represents globalization at its finest. Immigrants from Ireland had been immigrating to the United States before the Potato Famine, but it had been just the wealthy population of Ireland, because they could afford to start a new life in America. After the Potato Famine in the 1840’s, the majority of the immigrants were the surviving peasants of Ireland, which I will need to research why that was. As I searched for a background source by looking up Irish Immigration to the United States, I found a very informing and reliable website named Irishamericanjourney.com. After I read through this website, I was able to understand their culture and the reasoning behind why they left their country even before the Potato Famine, and how these Irish immigrants were accepted into American Culture and ideology. To find even more in depth information I used Google Scholar through the library’s database to explore what books and articles had been written about the topic. I found my source through the database...
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...find a home without a television. We have flat screens, touch screens and even TV’s that can connect to the internet. Americans love it and some feel they can’t live without it. Is this a healthy relationship? According to Statistic Brain, 99% of American families have at least one TV in the home. 65% of American families have three or more TV’s in the home. (Statistic) For most homes that is a TV in every room. It’s nice to be able to watch movies with your family on a comfortable couch. We all have our favorite shows that we like to watch at a specific time on a specific date every week and that’s ok. However, is there such a thing as watching too much TV? The average American watches more than four hours of TV each day. In a 65 year life that’s nine years of just watching TV. Nine years is a long time to waste on TV. We as Americans always complain about not having enough time in a day. If we really made the effort to turn the TV off and leave it off, I bet we would all get a lot more done in the day. Back in the day the types of TV shows that used to play were funny and the whole family could watch them. More kid friendly shows were played back in the day. Now days what appeals to America is sex and drama. It seems to be on almost every channel. Cursing, swearing and other things contradict what we try to teach children in school. Watching so much television can affect a child’s health. The American Academy of Pediatrics actually recommend that children under two years...
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...potential of the solution at equilibrium will be equal to the water potential of the potato cells. This value is useful because it allows us to predict the direction of the flow of...
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...Name HIS/125 Immigration Experience In the early 1900’s my father, mother, brother, two sisters and I immigrated to the United States from Ireland. We are the O’Farrell family and this is our story. My family and I at the age of 17 left Ireland in hopes of bettering our life and to make a future for myself. Our families are farmers and we had just lost our land. There was another Potato Famine like the one in the 1800’s, where people were starving, getting sick and not being able to make money to get what we needed. With no way to feed our families and no stability we sought a better opportunity elsewhere. As time passed things only got worse in Ireland and the conditions were horrible, many of us including our neighbors were trying to move to America. We first took a boat across the Atlantic Ocean. It seemed like it took forever and it was no luxurious ride by no means! We were miserable and there was a certain stench that burned our noses. Our beds were way down in the bottom of the boat. There were bunks here, one on top of the other, they were everywhere! There were so many people I felt like we were a stack of potato sacks. There was no room to actually get comfortable. One night there was this huge storm that rocked the boat back and forth making me sea sick. The rain would pour down like it would never stop. One person I heard saying the Captain thought we were going to sink. I had begun to get very scared. Eventually...
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...October 1846 Dear Journal, Today is another day that we have gone without our potato crops growing. I do not understand what is going on. We have a huge farm land in the outskirts of Dublin and we are doing everything right but the crops will not grow or they will grow and will then wither which at that point, we are unable to eat them. My family is starving and we are loosing weight at a rapid rate. I do not know how much longer I am going to be able to deal with this. I have taken the time out every night to make sure that I pray but it seems as though my wishes have not been answered. I have been speaking with some of the other farmers in the area and we all agree that maybe it would be time to pick up and leave the area and we were all thinking about going to the United States. My hopes, by leaving, is that I will be able to make a better life for my family and I will be able to feed my family without relying on my crops, that obviously do not want to grow. November 5, 1846 I spoke with my fellow farmers and we have all agreed that this is now the time that we must move on and immigrate to the United States. I heard that there will be a ship that will leave in a few days and I must get my family on the ship. I know that this will be the best for all of us in order to survive because these potato crops are just not growing like they use to. I need to inform my family to pack what we have, but make sure that it is only the essentials because I do not want to be worrying...
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...influences our health. In life, many people do a lot of daily events and activities that help them enjoy being who they are. People may enjoy hanging out with friends, going to the mall, going to an amusement park or simply finding relaxation in nature. However one vital part of everyones life is of eating and finding the right way to do so. Eating is a very enjoyable and delectable for everyone but should be done so, like everything in life, in a smart and intelligent way. Being smart and perceptive when eating is a large part of nutrition. Throughout the Diet Analysis Project, I was able to analyze and inspect my diet to examine what I was eating, what types of nutrients I was getting and how much exercise I was participating in over a seven day period. I found some very interesting facts that was relative to my diet that were good and then some that needed work and serious altering. Especially considering that my overall physical activity has increased lately, because of the fact that I started boxing. Which that itself takes a very dedicated and serious diet. Some main nutrients in which I am at risk for deficiency include: dietary fiber; water; vitamin B6; Folate; vitamin C; vitamin D; vitamin A (RAE); vitamin A (IU); vitamin E; magnesium; potassium and zinc. Obviously some of these are much closer to satisfying about seventy percent of my daily needs than others. The diet in which I recorded is very accurate as to my typical diet at this point in my life. Sometimes I may have...
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... Stayer University Introduction In this setting their will be integrated marketing strategy and communication though adverting strategy and how it aligns with its marketing goals. Then show how effectiveness the advertising will be measured, also discuss the promotional strategies that may be used in addition to advertising. Develop an approach to measuring customer satisfaction with Lay’s Potato Chip product and service. Then, discuss how gaps in customer expectations and experience will be addressed. 1. The adverting strategy is to change the consumer’s buying behavior to achieve the goal in marketing. Doing this marketing goal, cognition relates to increasing a consumer’s awareness and knowledge of the product (Cespedes, 1996). Lay’s potato chip marketer also attempts to appeal to the customer on an emotional level. Finally, Lay’s want to encourage its customers a chance in behavior; which is purchasing the product being advertised. During the introduction stage Lay’s life cycle job is to distribute information about the product and how it is superior to the competitor’s product. In the growth stages Lay’s aim to increase the target segment’s feeling about the product in a positive way. The maturity stage sees the marketer reminding the consumer of the value of the product to maintain lay’s business. The last decline stage is the marketer reduces the amount of money spent on advertising (cespedes, 1996). Then, there...
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...beholds I just thought of it as water and nothing spectacular. 2. In the plant cell I observed the chloroplast organelle. My observations for the chloroplast organelle was that the shape was a circle and very tiny. I also I learned that the function of the chloroplast organelle is to conduct photosynthesis. In the animal cell I observed the nucleus. My observations for the nucleus was that the shape was a oval. When you look through the microscope it looks like a nucleus inside of the nucleus. I also I learned that the animal cell of the nucleus is to hold genetic code (DNA). 3. If I looked at bacterial cells with the microscope, I would expect to see neither one. Due to bacteria is a prokaryotic cell. Though, bacteria cells is a living...
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...crucial role in the world. These species are interdependent which means changes in one will cause changes in others. The biggest creator of these changes in the past decades has been human kind. Humans being able to use their intelligence, to overcome things that they naturally would not have been able to, have managed to effect almost every other species in the world. This effect came from such things as cars, industrialization and genetic modification. People should put more concern to biodiversity because of the environment, species interdependence and self preservation. It is a known that fact that humans are the species that has made the biggest impact on the environment. People made great advancements until now in bettering their life and making it easier to live. Even though these are benefits to humans they have came with a great counter-effect and that is mostly portrayed in the destruction of the environment. In order to have building, generate electricity and provide transportation, people have managed to change the face of the earth completely. These advances also lead to people living longer lives and a great expansion of the species. Being that resources and land are scarce products it made humans intervene and take over the habitat of other species. People have chopped down rainforests, built cities in valleys, built factories on rivers and lakes and built cars for transportation. Each one of these factors has greatly influenced the environment by killing off...
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...process…………………………………………………………………….14,15 Marketing Organization……………………………………………………………………….15 Contingency Plan……………………………………………………………………………….15 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………...15,16 References……………………………………………………………………………………….17 Executive Summary Clif Bar, Inc. was found in 1992 by Gary Erickson. The nature of Clif Bar is the planet, food and community. They are working to reduce their ecological footprint in everything that they do, from the field to their final products. They are the “leading maker in all-natural and organic energy and nutrition food and drinks for men, woman, and children.” (Clif Bar, Inc.) This brings me to a new product that I would like to recommend for Clif Bar, Inc. to market which are baked sweet potato chips. According to Natural News.com sweet potatoes have six facts that everyone...
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