...William Murduch Morrison back in 1899 starting as a wholesale egg merchant, then changed into a retail organization after becoming a private limited company. The company’s breakthrough happened during the 1960’s when Morrison’s first supermarket was opened, then followed by two other supermarkets, and during that period the Morrison’s ‘M’ logo was designed. More business grow occurred by the acquisition of Whelan Discount Stores and the development of new headquarters and other facilities, the business grew until to a point where the warehouse and distribution centre has become too small in the 1980’s, where the decision came to open a new warehouse, and continue the development (Williamson et al, 2004). As the corporate strategy of Morrison is not cleared by the organization itself in the case study (Williamson et al, 2004), but that does not mean they do not have one, all organizations do. A simple explanation of Morrisons corporate strategy is to be a specialist in food for all level of consumers, by focusing on three main values which are the freshness and quality of food, value of product, and service. Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix Ansoff matrix can help in screening options to business growth in the industry and choose the best option considering different situations (Internet). Generally in the supermarket industry the four strategic approaches can be analyzed and show ways to make growth in the business. Market penetration in the UK can help the company grow organically...
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...Alexis McMahon Mrs. Graham History 8 Period 1B 1-29-16 Hugh Williamson I. State background - The state of North Carolina was established on 1729. - North Carolina was founded by colonists in Virginia on 1653. - North Carolina has approximately 200,000 free people, most of these people were white, and not colored. - North Carolina had about 100,000 slaves. - North Carolina colonists made money by plantations, where they produced tobacco, sugar, cotton, grain, fruit, and more. - North Carolina had the largest slave work on plantations in any other colony. II. Personal background - My delegate, Williamson Hugh, was born on December 5, 1735 near Octorara creek in the West Nottingham township, Pennsylvania. - Hugh had a big family....
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...Yasmeen Williamson English 3 September 2014 The Great Gatsby Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is about a poor boy finding the love of his life, who’s a popular young lady that all the soldiers in town like and who doesn’t marry poor boys. He works and makes himself rich over time. After a few years he finally gets to own a big house with a pool and servants, a few nice cars and he throws parties all the time. The only thing stopping him from being officially happy is having Daisy in his full possession. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby’s life as almost every Americans’ average American Dream, with the big mansion like house, the expensive luxury cars, parties all the time, and endless money. The only thing is Gatsby isn’t even happy living the average American Dream. Although he may have all these nice things, he only wanted one thing, which was to be with Daisy and by way of Daisy Fitzgerald shows that material things don’t always make your dreams come true or make you happy. For example, Gatsby owned a few dozen servants for his huge home. One day he decided to fire all of them except for about two or three because he wanted to keep him and Daisy’s business between them; he didn’t want gossip going around town from the servants. Although any average American would love to have kept all those servants and it would have made them happy, they didn’t bring Gatsby any joy. He did it to keep Daisy happy with him. That’s the only thing that brought him joy. Another example...
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...If you are a blues harp player and love the music your instrument creates, you should know about the harmonica legends. These harmonica greats took this simple yet beautiful folk instrument and reinvented it as the instrument that we know today. Given below is a brief sketch of some of these legends who were instrumental in the development of the wailing, calling Blues Harmonica that we love and play today. i. Big Walter "Shakey" Horton – Along with Little Walter, Horton played a key role in defining contemporary amplified Chicago-style harmonica. No wonder he is counted among the all-time harmonica greats. Horton is known for his spacious sense of time and big tone. As he was somewhat shy, he produced a limited number of solo albums. Fine...
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...Small Town (2006) is a nonfiction book written by John Grisham, and his first outside the legal fiction genre. The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 for the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death. After serving 11 years on death row, he was exonerated by DNA evidence and other material introduced by the Innocence Project and was released in 1999. Contents * 1 Synopsis * 2 Book edition * 3 References * 4 External links | Synopsis Ron Williamson has returned to his hometown of Ada, Oklahoma after multiple failed attempts to play for various minor league baseball teams, including the Fort Lauderdale Yankees and two farm teams owned by the Oakland A's. An elbow injury inhibited his chances to progress. His big dreams were not enough to overcome the odds (less than 10 percent) of making it to a big league game. His failures lead to, or aggravate, his depression and problem drinking.[1] Early in the morning of December 8, 1982, the body of Debra Sue Carter, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress, was found in the bedroom of her garage apartment in Ada. She had been beaten, raped and suffocated. After five years of false starts and shoddy police work by the Ada police department, Williamson—along with his "drinking buddy", Dennis Fritz—were...
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...Perhaps the standard of R&B artists of Chicago made Muddy Waters feel that he was bound to electrify his sound. “As soon as I went inside the clubs, the initial thing that I required was an amplifier. Could nobody perceive you while having an acoustic?” At least partially out of requirement, Muddy joined his amplifier and electric guitar with the Delta blues, which blasted out the volume, tension, and misperception of the streets of the big city (Edward, 2004 ). By uniting the sounds of the country and the city within a low-down, nitty-gritty, jittery sound, Muddy Waters reproduced the hopefulness of African Americans of the postwar, who had run away from the apparently inevitable cotton fields of the south. The urban music with the additional sullen country blues, which were born in bondage, were seriously...
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...he was off his rocker. I’m sure Athanas was looking at this land as his family’s ticket to financial prosperity and somewhat of a legacy that he could leave to his descendants for years and years to come. One of the items I wish the case would have divulged is the amount of money that Athanas had invested in the properties. For me this information would have given an insight to his net worth and how much he had riding on this investment. I assume it was substantial given his actions later in the process. Twenty years later Athanas’ dreams came true and all those naysayers were more than likely green with envy. The amount of pride Athanas’ had in his investment at that moment had to have been insurmountable. Being approached by a big time real estate development company and their extremely wealthy client, Hyatt Corporation, must have made Athanas feel larger than life and made him feel like something he isn’t, which is a developer himself. The case doesn’t give much insight into whether Athanas had any representation or anyone consulting him throughout the process. From the beginning, I saw this as matchup similar to David and Goliath. Athanas was 69 during the early stages of the negotiations which at that time was considered an old man and he had exceeded the life expectancy for someone born during the early 1900s. Given the history of the similar project in New York, Battery Park City, it’s hard to believe that Athanas could have possibly thought this would be...
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...computer science and studied for an MBA at Heriot Watt University. His first novel, Trainspotting (1993), a blackly comic portrait of a group of young heroin users living in Edinburgh in the 1980s, was adapted as a film directed by Danny Boyle in 1996. The Acid House, a collection of short stories, was published in 1994 and was followed by Welsh's second novel, Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995), a harrowing stream-of-consciousness narrated by football hooligan Roy Strang. Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, a collection of three novellas, was published in 1996, and a third novel, Filth, a vivid account of the violent adventures of a bigoted, racist and corrupt Scottish policeman, was published in 1998. Glue (2001), is the story of four boys growing up in an Edinburgh housing estate. Porno, a sequel to Trainspotting, was published in 2002. Welsh is also the author of two plays, Headstate (1994) and You'll Have Had Your Hole (1998). 4 Play, an omnibus edition of four stage adaptations of Welsh's fiction by Harry Gibson and Keith Wyatt, was published in 2001. His screenplay of The Acid House was directed for Channel 4 Films by Paul McGuigan (1998). His journalism includes a column for Loaded magazine and occasional articles for The Guardian. He is also a DJ and has recorded a single with rock group Primal Scream. In February 2003 Irvine Welsh began writing a Monday column for the Daily Telegraph. “His Language”: “When I first started to get into writing, it...
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...Media Violence and Children CHAPTER 7 Violent Video Games: The A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR PARENTS AND Newest Media Violence Hazard PROFESSIONALS Douglas A. Gentile and Craig A. Anderson Hazard Edited by Douglas A. Gentile In creating this electronic reprint, we have attempted to keep the style, pagination, and format as close to the published form as possible. Nonetheless, some errors may have occurred. If you discover a substantial error, please contact Craig Anderson using the following email address: caa@iastate.edu. Please note that this electronic reprint is provided as a courtesy. Please do not post or distribute this reprint in any fashion that may violate the copyright of the original publisher or the authors. Thank you for your interest in this work. In 1972, a new form of entertainment became commercially available with the release of the video game Pong. In Pong, two players tried to "hit" an electronic "ball" back and forth. From these humble beginnings, a revolution in the entertainment industry was born. Interactive game revenues are now significantly greater than the domestic film industry ("Industrial Strengths," 2000). Worldwide video games sales are now at $20 billion annually (Cohen, 2000). The PlayStation video game console, which began as a side project at Sony, now represents $6 billion of the company's $20 billion in annual sales (Cohen, 2000). It is reasonable to question whether video games may have similar effects...
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...At liftoff, Matt Eversmann said a Hail Mary. He was curled into a seat between two helicopter crew chiefs, the knees of his long legs up to his shoulders. Before him, jammed on both sides of the Black Hawk helicopter, was his "chalk," twelve young men in flak vests over tan desert camouflage fatigues. He knew their faces so well they were like brothers. The older guys on this crew, like Eversmann, a staff sergeant with five years in at age twenty-six, had lived and trained together for years. Some had come up together through basic training, jump school, and Ranger school. They had traveled the world, to Korea, Thailand, Central America... they knew each other better than most brothers did. They'd been drunk together, gotten into fights, slept on forest floors, jumped out of airplanes, climbed mountains, shot down foaming rivers with their hearts in their throats, baked and frozen and starved together, passed countless bored hours, teased one another endlessly about girlfriends or lack of same, driven in the middle of the night from Fort Benning to retrieve each other from some diner or strip club on Victory Drive after getting drunk and falling asleep or pissing off some barkeep. Through all those things, they had been training for a moment like this. It was the first time the lanky sergeant had been put in charge, and he was nervous about it. Pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death, Amen. It was midafternoon, October 3, 1993. Eversmann's Chalk Four...
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...The 882 4BH 1000 Best Songs Of All Time Countdown (2012) Website List Number 1000 999 998 997 996 995 994 993 992 991 990 989 988 987 986 985 984 983 982 981 980 979 978 977 976 975 974 973 972 971 970 969 968 967 966 Title Take A Letter Maria It's My Party I'll Never Fall In Love Again I Say A Little Prayer I Wanna Wake Up With You Nice To Be With You Pasadena If I Were A Carpenter Could You Ever Love Me Again Classic I Can Dream About You Different Drum It Never Rains In Southern California Moviestar Born To Try Rockin' Robin I Just Want To Be Your Everything Spirit In The Sky We Do It Drift Away Orinoco Flow She's Like The Wind Gimme Little Sign For Your Eyes Only Words Are Not Enough Perfect Bye Bye Love I've Never Been To Me Year Of The Cat If I Can't Have You Knock On Wood Don't Pull Your Love You've Got Your Troubles Romeo's Tune Blowin' In The Wind Artist RB Greaves Lesley Gore Bobbie Gentry Aretha Franklin Boris Gardiner Gallery John Paul Young Four Tops Gary & Dave Adrian Gurvitz Dan Hartman Stone Poneys/Linda Ronstadt Albert Hammond Harpo Delta Goodrem Henchmen Andy Gibb Norman Greenbaum R & J Stone Dobie Gray Enya Patrick Swayze Brenton Wood Sheena Easton Jon English Fairground Attraction Everly Brothers Charlene Al Stewart Yvonne Elliman Amii Stewart Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds Fortunes Steve Forbert Peter Paul & Mary 965 964 963 962 961 960 959 958 957 956 955 954 953 952 951 950 949 948 947 946 945 944 943 942 941 940 939 938 937 936 935 934 933 932 931...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Industry Analyses 4 Definition of the Business 5 Purpose of the Business 6 Map into the future 6 Supporting growth and securing funds (Attracting Investors) 6 Management of cash flow 6 Attract and Motivate Employees 7 Business Feasibility 8 Justification of the Business 9 Economic Benefits 9 Social Benefits 9 Personal Benefits 9 Organization and Management 11 Mission Statement 11 Everybody’s Bookstore Mission Statement 11 Cooperate Goals 12 Managerial Competence 12 Organizational Chart 13 Everybody’s Bookstore Organization Chart 14 General Manager 14 Financial Controller 14 Marketing Manager 14 Human Resource Manager 15 Human Resource Management 16 Recruitment and Selection 16 Training 17 Compensation 17 Performance Management 17 Conditions of Employment 18 Operational Considerations 19 Location 19 Layout of Store 19 Staff 19 Basic Operations 20 Utilities 20 Marketing Arrangements 22 Financial Considerations 23 Implementation Schedule 24 Appendix I 25 Appendix II 26 Appendix III 27 Appendix IV 28 Appendix V 29 Appendix VI 30 Appendix VII 31 References 34 Credits and Acknowledgements 35 Executive Summary Everyone's Bookstore is a start-up used book store in the Papine area of Kingston, Jamaica. The main goal of the company's management is to acquire local market share in the used book store industry through low prices, a dominant selection of products, a competitive variety of...
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...A famous scene from one of the first notable horror films, Nosferatu (1922) Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films often feature scenes that startle the viewer; the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Thus they may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres.[1] Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, curses, satanism, demons, gore, torture, vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers. Conversely, movies about the supernatural are not necessarily always horrific.[2] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 1890s–1920s 1.2 1930s–1940s 1.3 1950s–1960s 1.4 1970s–1980s 1.5 1990s 1.6 2000s 2 Sub-genres 3 Influences 3.1 Influences on society 3.2 Influences internationally 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links [edit]History [edit]1890s–1920s See also: List of horror films of the 1890s, List of horror films of the 1900s, List of horror films of the 1910s, and List of horror films of the 1920s Lon Chaney, Sr. in The Phantom of the Opera The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts...
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...INTERNATIONAL MARKETING CASE STUDY ZARA: THE SPANISH RETAILER GOES TO THE TOP OF WORLD FASHION Professor: Jennifer Stack Student: Martina Sekuloska San Sebastian October,2014 International marketing [ZARA:THE SPANISH RETAILER GOES TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD FASHION] INTRODUCTION Inditex is a fashion retailer which dates back to 1963 when it started life in a small workshop making woman’s clothing. Today it has more than 6.460 stores all over the world (Inditex, 2014). Officially it all started with the launch of the first Zara store in La coruña, north-west of Spain in 1975. At that time the textile maker Amancio Ortega decided to open his own store after years of work in the textile industry. This was followed by the brand’s internationalization at the end of the 1980s and the successive launch of several another retail concepts: Pull&Bear, Massimo Duti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home and Uterqüe. Today, Inditex is considered to be the greatest fashion retail group, and its founder Amancio Ortega, the richest person in Spain. Zara is the flagship chain of the Inditex Group which generates nearly 65% of the net sales of the group (Inditex annual report 2013). It encompasses many different styles, from daily clothes, to more formal elegant clothes for women, men and children. This case study tackles the challenges of being the world’s fashion retailer, the sustainability of the competitive strategy, and the group’s internationalization process. ...
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...published a collection of short stories, a novella entitled The Acid House and a second novel, Marabou Stork Nightmares. IRVINE WELSH TRAINSPOTTING Minerva Thanks to the following: Lesley Bryce, David Crystal, Margaret Fulton–Cook, janice Galloway, Dave Harrold, Duncan McLean, Kenny McMillan, Sandy Macnair, David Millar, Robin Robertson, Julie Smith, Angela Sullivan, Dave Todd, Hamish Whyte, Kevin Williamson. Versions of the following stories have appeared in other publications: 'The First Day Of The Edinburgh Festival' in Scream If You Want To Go Faster: New Writing Scotland 9 (ASLS), 'Traditional Sunday Breakfast'in DOG (Dec, 1991), 'It Goes Without Saying' in West Coast Magazine No. 11, 'Trainspotting at Leith Central Station' in A Parcel of Rogues (Clocktower Press), 'Grieving and Mourning In Port Sunshine' in Rebel Inc No. 1 and 'Her Man, The Elusive Mr Hunt' and 'Winter In West Granton' in Past Tense (Clocktower Press). The second part of 'Memories of Matty' also appeared in the aforementioned Clocktower Press publication as 'After The Burning'. Contents KICKING – – * THE SKAG BOYS, JEAN–CLAUDE VAN DAMME AND MOTHER SUPERIOR; JUNK DILEMMAS NO. 63; THE FIRST DAY OF THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL; IN OVERDRIVE; GROWING UP IN PUBLIC; VICTORY ON NEW YEAR'S DAY; IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING; JUNK DILEMMAS NO. 64; HER MAN; SPEEDY RECRUITMENT RELAPSING – – * SCOTLAND TAKES DRUGS IN PSYCHIC DEFENCE; 1 THE GLASS; A DISAPPOINTMENT; COCK PROBLEMS; TRADITIONAL SUNDAY BREAKFAST; JUNK DILEMMAS...
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