...The Point and View of Dying A short story gives the reader an opportunity to experience a work of literature in a short amount of time. This also leaves the author with less runway to get their key message and points across in their story. There are many different literary concepts or elements that an author may use based on the type of story they are telling. Point of view is one concept that can influence how a story is perceived by the reader based on who is telling the story. First person point of view implies the author is the one narrating the story; while third person point of view implies the narrator is an observer or external narrator (Shakel and Ridl 146-147). This is a high-level explanation of point of view, but gives a base...
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...6. Assessment Tasks Assessment Task 1: Assessment Task Case Study: IKEA: A Long March to the Far East Schedule Week 4 Performance Criteria: Outcomes Assessed 1.1,2.1,2.2, 4.1 Also addresses some elements of required skills and knowledge as shown in the Assessment Matrix Description: From its humble beginning as a small general retail store in a village situated in the south of Sweden, IKEA has grown into the world's largest furniture retailer with 279 stores in 36 countries today. Specialising in furniture and home decoration, IKEA has an annual turnover of 19.8 billion euros (source: IKEA, www.ikea.com, accessed 25/03/2012). The IKEA catalogue is printed in 52 editions with 25 languages, with a global distribution in excess of 160 million copies. IKEA sees the Far Asia as an emerging market still in its infant stage. Its number of retail outlets in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are very small and comprises a mere 3% of the company's total sales. These stores were expected to be more successful in the near future. IKEA's imminent strategic expansion into this region exemplified its ambitions to dominate this emerging market. This Case Study illustrates how IKEA's ventures into China and Japan are laden with unique marketing challenges which it had not encountered before in other international markets. Read the attached case (Case Study: "IKEA: A Long March to the Far East" - Source: Oxford University Press) and ...
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...process, I started thinking about my first name. I knew a little of what my first name meant, but not much. When actually searching my name with (www.thinkbabynames.com), the name Kai’Lyn means keeper of the keys and pure. Not many people have my name, but it was one person that I came across from, and see was from the reality show “Teen Mom 2,” Kailyn Lowry. I also found out that Kailyn is not a female name, it is most commonly in male population. I also interviewed my mom about my first name, and she said, “I wanted you to have a white...
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...Entrepreneurial Leadership Raven N. Owens Dr. Katrina Anthony BUS 508 October 17, 2011 Introduction: The focus of this paper is to analyze the entrepreneurial approaches of profit oriented businesses and social oriented businesses. This paper will focus on the American Red Cross whose goals are more socially oriented and Amazon.com whose goals are more profit oriented. American Red Cross: Clarissa Harlowe Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. A true pioneer, Clara risked her life to bring supplies and support to soldiers during the Civil War. Her understanding of the needs of people in distress and the ways that she could provide for them guided her through this journey. The American Red Cross charter states that is a non-profit, charitable, tax exempt organization. It’s seven fundamental principals are: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. The mission is the provide relief to victims of disasters and to help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. The American Red Cross has responded to thousands of natural disasters. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, the American Red Cross was one of the organizations that responded quickly with food, water, and clothing for the thousands of people at the Louisiana Superdome. Without these types of organizations to help when disasters happen, the economy would be in serious trouble. The American Red Cross offers...
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...feature in her lifetime and limited career. She dwelt mostly in Georgia as one of the minor Catholic emphatic. What is amusing is that, she spent most of her lifetime in struggle and met her death immediately it was ripe for her to start enjoying life. At such time it is expected that people should get time in life so that they can enjoy and do whatever they had in mind but they have never got the opportunity or power to do them. It is ironical that, she becomes popular and passes away before she is rewarded for her determination and hard work. The family plans to go to Florida except the grandmother who wants to go to Tennessee. She tries to convince the family by telling them that there is Misfit, the murderer on the way to Florida but they give her deaf ears. At last the grandmother joins the family to Florida with her pet cat. At their first stop, the grandmother talks with the Red on how people are bad. “Good men are hard to find”, the Red said and added that Europe has contributed to the deteriorating behavior of people. As they continue with the journey, the grandmother gets upset because she desires to see a plantation which she...
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...Pre-assessment: In previous lessons, students have participated in activities related to citizenship, laws, and rules. They have an understanding of the need for rules and law and how citizens participate in creating and choosing those laws. However, students do not have experience in engaging in material related to voting and elections. This lesson will serve as a foundation for this unit because this lesson focuses on key vocabulary terms necessary for the continuation of upcoming lessons. Ohio/Common Core Standard(s): 1.8 Government Individuals are accountable for their actions. 1.9 Government Collaboration requires group members to respect the rights and opinions of others. W.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topics, and provide some sense of closure. SL.1.1 Participate in collaborative conversation with divers partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. • Scoring Guidelines (Long term): By the end of this unit, students will understand and define...
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...accentuates the product positioning of Ferrero Rocher in the market. Market Segmentation There are many types of customers in the market and these customers have different needs and want different products. Marketers need to categorize these customers and determine which segment will benefit the company best (Armstrong & Kotler, 2010). The definition of market segmentation is separating buyers with different needs, behaviours or needs and who require separate marketing programs or products into distinct groups (Kotler, Burton, Deans, Brown & Armstrong, 2013). Market segments of chocolate are depicted below: | Babies & Children | Preteen & Teens | Young Adults & Mommies and Daddies | Older Mommies and Daddies | Grannies | Geographic | | | | | | Country | Malaysia | Malaysia | Malaysia | Malaysia | Malaysia | Demographic | | | | | | Age | 4-10 years | 11-18 years | 19-30 years | 31-50 years | >51 years | Family Life-Cycle | Young | Older | Single – With Young Children | Married – With Youngest Child 6 or over | Old | Income | None – Pocket Money | Pocket Money - Low | Medium - High | High | Retirement Fund | Psychographic | | | | | | Personality | * Playful * Easily influenced * Loves chewing and sweet treats | * Adventurous * Rebellious * Energetic | * Attentive * Caring * Loving * Determined * Willing to try * Open minded | * Persistent * Controlled * Thoughtful * Competitive...
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...Grades 3 to 5 • Personal Health Series Peer Pressure KidsHealth.org/classroom Teacher’s Guide This guide includes: • Standards • Related Links • Discussion Questions • Activities for Students • Reproducible Materials Peer pressure gets a bad rap. For many people, it brings to mind an image of kids influencing other kids to do risky things like smoke, drink alcohol, or shoplift. But it can also be a force for good, exposing kids to positive new ideas and role models. Help your students explore the benefits and pitfalls of peer pressure with these activities. Related KidsHealth Links Articles for Kids: Dealing With Peer Pressure KidsHealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/peer_pressure.html How Cliques Make Kids Feel Left Out KidsHealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/clique.html Standards This guide correlates with the following National Health Education Standards: Students will: • Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. • Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors. • Demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health. • Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. • Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health. • Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health. • Demonstrate the ability...
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...LITERACY PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT [pic] ECE 231- WINTER SEMESTER 2009 ~ Liz Witt OUTLINE: 1) STORY SONG • A House for Hermit Crab, by Eric Carle • Baby Beluga, by Raffi • The Three Little Pigs, by Paul Galdone • Dinosaurumpus, by Tony Milton • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin jr. and John Archambalt 2) SEASONAL/HOLIDAY • Round the Garden, by Omri Glaser • Mud, by Wendy Cheyette Lewison • Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, by Lois Ehlert • The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats • Thomas’s Snowsuit, by Robert Munsch 3) FICTION • In the Tall, Tall, Grass, by Denise Fleming • Strega Nona, by Tommie DePoala • Little Cloud, by Eric Carle • It Looked Like Spilt Milk, by Charles G. Shaw • The Napping House, by Audrey Wood 4) POETRY • The Foot Book, by Dr. Seuss • How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, By Jane Yolen • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, by Bill Martin Jr. • The Shape of Me & Other Stuff, by Dr. Seuss • The Wind Blew, by Pat Hutchins 5) NON-FICTION • Black? White? Day? Night! A Book of Opposites, by Laura Vaccaro Seeger • Apples Here! By Will Hubbell • Clothing Around the World, by Kelly Doundra • We Are All Alike, We Are All Different, by the Cheltenham Elementary school Kindergarteners • Little Bear Brushes His Teeth, by Jetta Langreuter SONG & DANCE LITERACY THEMES [pic] ...
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...The White Tiger A Novel Aravind Adiga Free Press New York London Toronto Sydney FREE PRESS A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2008 by Aravind Adiga All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Free Press Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 FREE PRESS and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adiga, Aravind. The white tiger: a novel / Aravind Adiga. p. cm. 1. Chauffeurs—India—Bangalore—Fiction. 2. Poor—India— Bangalore—Fiction. 3. Ambition—Fiction. 4. Business people— India—Bangalore—Fiction. 5. Bangalore (India)—Fiction. I. Title. PR9619.4.A35W47 2008 2007045527 823'.92—dc22 ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-6273-3 ISBN-10: 1-4165-6273-7 Visit us on the World Wide Web: http://www.SimonSays.com The First Night For the Desk of: His Excellency Wen Jiabao The Premier's Office Beijing Capital of the Freedom-loving Nation of China From the Desk of: "The White Tiger" A Thinking Man And an Entrepreneur Living in the world's center of Technology and Outsourcing Electronics City Phase 1 (just off Hosur...
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...The five objectives of operations management (quality, speed, dependability, flexibility and cost) used to describe the operation’s strategies of McDonald, how they are implemented and how they support the organisation’s competitive or effectiveness priorities. Indicate the means of measuring the success of operations management (KPI’s). - RISHI GUPTA Introduction Operations management is important in every organisation and any company which offers any products or services must use a resource to do so. This resource utilisation is referred as an operations activity. To perform this companies needs to devise an operations strategy and these strategies aims at changing the inputs into outputs by using the input-transformation-output process. This basically is a set of processes that takes in a set of input resources, transforms something or itself to deliver output of products and services. (Slack et al., 2010). In this project we have discussed the five objectives of operations management (quality, speed, dependability, flexibility and cost) to describe the operation’s strategies of McDonald’s, the fast food chain. The discussion entails how McDonald’s have successfully e implemented these objectives and and how they support the organisation’s competitive or effectiveness priorities. McDonalds Positioning In this highly competitive food chain business, McDonalds wants to position itself as offering a high volume, fast and courteous customer service, quality controlled...
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...took this class because I take my physical health seriously. Even before I started this school year, I had been training 4 days a week, learning about many different systems of martial arts. Good physical health means having muscle strength, muscle endurance, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and core strength. ------------------------------------------------- Muscular strength is the ability to exert maximum force. Muscular endurance is the ability to repeat a lift many times. Improving muscular strength and endurance makes completing daily tasks easier. If anyone ever needed help moving furniture, or any other heavy objects, I will be able to help because of the strength training I’ve done. Also, muscular strength and endurance gives obvious advantages in the martial arts, such as striking power, and the ability to overpower someone when grappling. In other words, if a...
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...well as the fluid state of identitythe leaps through time, the collision of cultures-that mark our modern life. Like most first-time authors, I was filled with hope and despair upon the book’s publication-hope that the book might succeed beyond my youthful dreams, despair that I had failed to say anything worth saying. The reality fell somewhere in between. The reviews were mildly favorable. People actually showed up at the readings my publisher arranged. The sales were underwhelming. And, after a few months, I went on with the business of my life, certain that my career as an author would be short-lived, but glad to have survived the process with my dignity more or less intact. I had little time for reflection over the next ten years. I ran a voter registration project in the 1992 election cycle, began a civil rights practice, and started teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago. My wife and I bought a house, were blessed with two gorgeous, healthy, and mischievous daughters, and struggled to pay the bills. When a seat in the state legislature opened up in 1996, some friends persuaded me to run for the office, and I won. I had been warned,...
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...even the fish smell on his hands was a kind of perfume. If I had never known him, I'm sure I would not have become a geisha. I wasn't born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha. I wasn't even born in Kyoto. I'm a fisherman's daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan. In all my life I've never told more than a handful of people anything at all about Yoroido, or about the house in which I grew up, or about my mother and father, or my older sister -and certainly not about how I became a geisha, or what it was like to be one. Most people would much rather carry on with their fantasies that my mother and grandmother were geisha, and that I began my training in dance when I was weaned from the breast, and so on. As a matter of fact, one day many years ago I was pouring a cup of sake for a man who happened to mention that he had been in Yoroido only the previous week. Well, I felt as a bird must feel when it has flown across the ocean and comes upon a creature that knows its nest. I was so shocked I couldn't stop myself from saying: "Yoroido! Why, that's where I grew up!" This poor man! His face went through the most remarkable series of...
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...Introduction Ryanair is one of the most unique and successful low-cost airlines in Europe. Despite having so many negative associations, it still remains the leader in this market by having the biggest share of customers and flights (European Low Fares Airline Association, 2008). Hence, what are Ryanair brand key secrets making it so successful? The Keller‘s Customer-Based Brand Equity Model incorporated with Pillars of the Brand were used to make an analysis which helped to answer this question. Ryanair brand was analysed according to such components as brand awareness, brand associations (Pillars of the Brand) and brand image. Brand awareness includes the performance of both brand recall and recognition. Evaluating Pillars of the Brand and brand image, the set of both positive and negative associations was sorted out which determines the brand equity of Ryanair. Brand Awareness Measuring awareness helps us to identify how strong the brand is in the mind set of the consumers (Aaker, 1996). Different tests were carried out in order to test the brand recognition of Ryanair . The tests included making the participants identify the Ryanair brand using two cues (Appendix B). In the first exercise the participants were given a set of colours and had to match the colours to the airline. Out of fifteen responses, only three were able to attribute Ryanair with the colour blue. On the other hand, EasyJet was a clear leader in the “colours” battle, due to its strong saturation...
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