... Poetry, Drama, and Writing. There will have to be many tough decisions made on selections of literature that should be in the next edition. I would like to offer you a suggestion on a piece that I find very interesting and should be used in the next edition. That is a poem by Wilfred Owen “Dulce et Decorum Est.” I consider myself to be a bit of a war buff, and this poem gives you the feeling that you are there in the trenches with the men. Wilfred Owen is able to give you a first person point of view of war through his poem. Owen uses great visual imagery on what life is like during trench warfare to help you feel like you are there beside him during the horrors of war. I beg of you to include Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” in the next edition! Throughout the poem Owen uses visual imagery to get his message of the horrors of war through. In An Introduction, to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing you define visual imagery as “Often this experience is a sight . . .” (751). When reading “Dulce et Decorum Est” Owen gives the ability to visualize what is going on constantly throughout the poem. Owen is able to use visual imagery to show you the shape the men are in during the battle and what chaos goes on during a gas attack. Owen also uses visual imagery about the nightmares he deals with after the war. Many poems leave a lot to be interpreted, but Owen uses visual imagery to eliminate interpretation and give exactly what is happening. Through visual imagery Owen describes a...
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...Will Raspberry and her mother ever have a better? Raspberry mother tries to keep the neighborhood quiet and clean. Seems like she can’t with her lousy no good teenager neighbors, one of the neighbors shiketa almost killed her mother by hitting her in the head with a metal pipe. Raspberry is having trouble with a lot of stuff going on in her life like almost losing her best friend Zora over money she took . Then her drug addicted dad comes back in her life when she doesn't want him to. She still has to deal with Shiketa sister coming after them. Raspberry accomplished her dream by the help and support from her Mother , Friends, and Neighbor. Her mother never gave up on them when they were having tough times, Raspberry Mother got another job...
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...to fight back communism, it helped to stabilize economy after the eighties’ stock market crash and more. At the same time, changes in music and other trends began to influence on nineties people, especially teenagers. Music and music artists had a great influence on nineties fashion, as well as modern fashion. And also, movies like horror genre became more successful. Both movie and television reflected more of reality than written scripts. Family life and gender roles started changing in nineties. Women were secure in their working roles and were not afraid to show their femaleness. This leaded to increase in gender equity. Most of them were two income families, which raised the chances for divorce. Husband and wife shared their household and child care responsibility equally. Nineties women became less dependent on men. Women are allowed to do anything that a male can do. Nineties people put more importance to their carrier than family and became selfish with no humanity. For example, in the movie American psycho, Patrick spend most of his time with his friends and discuss about who had the better suit, business card, and superior restaurant reservations. And he didn’t listen to his girlfriend’s wedding plan. He also killed his coworker Paul Allen, because he performed better than him. Nineties music gave birth to all different kinds of new music we listing today. Variance in music started from eighties pop and, dance music to 90s grunge, heavy metal, alternative pop...
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...movies such as "28 Days Later," one of my ongoing complaints about the explosion of the zombie genre is the general mopery and overall predictability of those ever-staggering creatures. They lurch. They snarl. They sniff the air for the scent of human flesh. They pounce and gnaw. They pound windows and doors, and express frustration when confronted with 10-foot-high cyclone fences. And then they get shot in the head and die. That's pretty much it. We almost never get inside the rotted mind of the zombie or see things from the zombie point of view. They're forever penned in as the Big Metaphor. One of the many exhilarating pleasures of "Warm Bodies" is the flipping of that script. This is a bloody fresh twist on the most popular horror genre of this century, with none-too-subtle echoes of a certain star-crossed romance that harks back to a certain bard who placed a certain young Romeo under a certain balcony. I kinda love this movie. "Warm Bodies" is a well-paced, nicely directed, post-apocalyptic love story with a terrific sense of humor and the, um, guts to be unabashedly romantic and unapologetically optimistic. Looking a little like a boy-band heartthrob who won first place at a Hollywood Halloween party thanks to a a professional makeup job and an...
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...party while in masks every once a year. It is a traditional holiday that takes place in most countries around the world. Halloween’s tradition began in Northern Ireland and Modern Britain, and it has spread to most of the countries all over the world. To some countries, Halloween is a formal holiday while to others it is still an informal break. The popularity of this festival continues to increase year after year. Media outlets such as radio, television, and movies have helped the festival to grow into America’s second largest commercial holiday. This growth contributes to bringing in an estimated revenue of around $6.9 billion dollars annually. Most people spend the day watching horror movies, visiting important attractions, theme parks, and having snacks at Halloween theme restaurants. I interviewed an American citizen who has quite a lot of information concerning other countries and his country’s Halloween parties. His name is Trevor A. Jonathan, and he was born in the year 1976 in California, United States of America. He joined Harvard University in the year 2002 and undertook a Bachelor of Arts in Development Studies where he graduated in the year 2005 and joined the United Nation’s travel team. He has participated in a few countries’ Halloween’s holiday such as Russia, South Africa, Brazil, and China during his travel assignments around the world. a) What do you know about Halloween? Halloween was introduced to America in the year 1840 by Irish immigrants...
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...Rose was terrified. "I didn't see anything. Then it was like snowmen coming to life, I just sat there in the car frozen. I was so scared" Rose said in a shaky, little girl voice, a tear rolling down her cheek. The next moment the young woman shook her head wildly from side to side, pounding on her good leg "No more, I won't let them have that power." Trey fetched a glass of water when Peach sat on the bed to comfort the patient. Rose insisted on continuing her tale. "You know the world has ended when you just stop your car and pee on the road. I managed to squeeze through the stopped cars in St Joseph, if I drove too slow the zoms would pound on the windows. Leaving town I saw a zom by itself, so I stopped to confront the horror. You know, to desensitize myself. They don't move well in the snow, I didn't know until later how bad they smelled. It was harder to kill than I thought, but my technique became better with practice." "I went west on the smaller roads. The gas ran out in Cillicothe and I walked for a while. It took a month to get across the state. Looking for food, a place to sleep and a car that would start took time. A lot of what I needed was in abandoned cars along the road. If I was lucky there would be an empty house to sleep in, if not I'd spend the night in a barn or a car." "The trees were starting to show some green by the time I reached Hannibal on the Mississippi River. The water was really high and fast, from the snow melting...
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...Both “Knocking” by Rick Hautala and “The Road Virus Heads North” by Stephen King are masterfully crafted horror stories that lead readers on a psychological rollercoaster. The authors are able to generate such a detailed and in-depth atmosphere that it causes readers to picture themselves in the terrifying situations that they have devised for those reading. Through the evolution of “monsters”, point-of-view and atmospheric conditions which help to create a mood that engulfs readers both King and Hautala are able to write brilliant horror stories. “Monsters” do not have to be literal to create an enjoyable piece of horror fiction. King and Hautala are both able to create thrilling stories by utilizing fear of the unknown and exploiting the reader’s own fear. In “Knocking” Martin Gordon has become overcome by his fear of the unknown and can’t leave his house. The “monster” created by Hautala exists only in Gordon’s head and it is the fear that something could possibly be out there waiting to get him. “His eyes felt like they were bugging from their sockets as he watched…and waited…wishing that the knocking would stop and the person would go away and leave him alone.” At this point I knew that the monster was psychological because without any proof that anyone is there Gordon becomes convinced that someone out to get him and won’t think logically about what else it could be. It seemed to me like Gordon wouldn’t allow it to be anything else. Fear the “monster” has crept into Gordon’s...
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...Enthaice Thai Restaurant | | | Consumer Behavior Keller Graduate School Of ManagementProfessor Kissi PeprahBenchawan SomroupJiraporn BenjapornpaisitNichamon Moramat | | | Consumer Behavior Course Project: Enthaice Thai Restaurant. 1. Marketing Analysis: * Company; Enthaice restaurant is the food establishment start up Thai restaurant in NYC. It will be located in Upper East Side, Manhattan, and NYC area. It will serve authentic traditional Thai food, providing the best experience at a reasonable price and great environment. Enthaice is the name which played by word from “entice” which refer to attractive surrounding or arousing hope and desire. The name was create for a strong brand recognition and set the restaurant apart from other competitive restaurants around the areas Enthaice is a convenient restaurant on third Avenue corner of 90th St. The restaurant is serving an authentic Thai food, wine, and beer. It will offer a modern décor and electric light in the relax environment. It will be a small warm Thai place around 30 seats. The dining room will decorate by black panel and white letter tile the other side and the wood panel in the middle. The room will be romantic set up in the dark light with candle and electric light color that can change different colors every day. Enthaice’s concept is simple and warmed with care. It will provide the perfect place to enjoy a Thai cuisine. It will offer delivery, catering, and private...
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...STUDENT MARKETING PLAN FOR “CALIFORNIA ROLL-THRU” Table of Contents Page 1.0 Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………….4 • Products and Services……………………………………………………………………..4 • The Financing……………………………………………………………………………..4 • Management Team………………………………………………………………………...4 • Sales Forecasts……………………………………………………………………….........5 • Expansion Plan…………………………………………………………………………….5 2.0 Strategic Focus and Plan…………………………………………………………………….6 • Mission Statement………………………………………………………………………...6 • Goals………………………………………………………………………………………6 • Competitive Advantage…………………………………………………………………...7 3. Situational Analysis………………………………………………………………………….7 • Market Summary …………………………………………………………………………7 • Market Demographics……………………………………………………………………..8 • SWOT Analysis…………………………………………………………………………...9 • Industry Analysis………………………………………………………………………...10 • Competitor Analysis……………………………………………………………………..11 • Company Analysis……………………………………………………………………….12 • Customer Analysis……………………………………………………………………….13 4. Market-Product Focus……………………………………………………………………..13 • Marketing Objective……………………………………………………………………..14 • Marketing Strategies……………………………………………………………………..14 • Market-Product Grid……………………………………………………………………..14 • Target Market…………………………………………………………………………….16 • Points of Difference…………………………………………………………………...…16 • Positioning……………………………………………………………………………….17 5. Marketing Program………………………………………………………………………...
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...I. Introduction Hospitality industry is one of the most in-demand industries nowadays. Hospitality management involves the planning, organizing, directing and controlling of human and material resources within the lodging, restaurant, travel and tourism, institutional management, recreational management and meeting and convention planning industries. All of these separate yet related segments of the hospitality industry are interrelated to deliver kind and generous services to guests. This is also one of the oldest businesses in history. People have always gone out to eat sometimes and traveled for work or leisure purposes. The industry is responsible for providing primarily food services and accommodations in places such as hotels, resorts, conference centers and theme or amusement parks. The catering or food service industry, which overlaps with the hospitality industry, primarily provides food services to institutions (such as schools, hospitals, or governmental operations), private industry (such as corporate cafeterias or motion picture studios), and private parties. Many people are enticed to bring up a business that is related to food service industry because of many potential markets that are all around the globe. However, to bring up a good food related business, one must be familiar to feasibility studies. A feasibility study looks at the viability of an idea with an emphasis on identifying potential problems and attempts to answer one main question: Will the...
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...Case Study 1 – Possibility Restaurant Executive Summary Angela and Zooey decided to open the first ever French restaurant in Draperton called “The Posibility”. They could not offer a full menu at the beginning because they had no idea which tastes their clientele would gravitate toward when it came to French cuisine. They decided to settle for two main dishes; fish and beef. Their second dilemma was to figure out the number of meals to prepare each night. This would help them to efficiently plan for the purchase of ingredients and scheduling of labor. The latter problem requires some analysis in order to find out an ideal combination of the number of fish and beef dishes to be prepared which would yield the most profit, taking into account their limited resources and limiting environmental factors. Solution As mentioned in the previous paragraph, chef Pierre will only prepare fish and beef dishes which will be complemented by various desserts, salads, soups and vegetables. This will help them tailor their menu to the clientele’s preferences. For the second dilemma, I would suggest computing the expectations and limiting factors provided so as to achieve the best possible combination that will fully utilize available resources and yield the most profit. We know that fish and beef yield profits of $12 and $16 respectively. A maximum of 60 meals can be prepared each day, of which 60% are projected to be fish due to clientele’s healthy lifestyles, and beef sales will be at...
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...Coopers Hawk Winery and Restaurant When I turned 21 the legal age to drink always had a taste for wine. The background that I originate from is European based and wine is in our family history. Coopers Hawk is the first winery/restaurant that caught my attention that has just been established around the area which I reside in and I just had to give it a shot. The decision was made that they are not many winery/restaurants that have a high range of wines to taste from in the area and this was the perfect chance to experience. The location of the restaurant is attached to a local mall where it can attract shoppers and the structure of it looks like a high end state of the art building and great atmosphere to it. They have a wide variety of foods and depending on what you get to eat it’s a normal level price or it can be a high end price. The cleanliness of the facility will factor a test. As I walk into the restaurant the hostess immediately assist’s you in a way that you’re the number one priority to them. Also, the Wine Tasting Room greets you as well. What a great way to start off the experience by a phenomenal greeting and welcoming. The design of the building itself was astonishing. The layer of brick inside the facility and the lighting was well prepared for the human attraction. The website stated that it took some time for the planning of the design to be well played out to establish something that no one has ever seen before. They want something that will put a...
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...Restaurants may be classified or distinguished in many different ways. The primary factors are usually the food itself (e.g. vegetarian, seafood, steak); the cuisine (e.g. Italian, Chinese, Indian, French, Thai) and/or the style of offering (e.g. tapas bar, a sushi train, a tastet restaurant, a buffet restaurant or a yum cha restaurant). Beyond this, restaurants may differentiate themselves on factors including speed (see fast food), formality, location, cost, service, or novelty themes, such as automated restaurants. Restaurants range from inexpensive and informal lunching or dining places catering to people working nearby, with simple food served in simple settings at low prices, to expensive establishments serving refined food and fine wines in a formal setting. In the former case, customers usually wear casual clothing. In the latter case, depending on culture and local traditions, customers might wear semi-casual, semi-formal or formal wear. Typically, customers sit at tables, their orders are taken by a waiter, who brings the food when it is ready. After eating, the customers then pay the bill. For some time the travelling public has been catered for with ship's messes and railway restaurant cars which are, in effect, travelling restaurants. (Many railways, the world over, also cater for the needs of travellers by providing Railway Refreshment Rooms [a form of restaurant] at railway stations.) In recent times there has been a trend to create a number of travelling restaurants...
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...their time, make them comfortable due to their incredible customer service in city area. I am a breakfast Food and Beverage assistant in Strand Palace Hotel. My responsibilities are directly report to our supervisor about complaint or special events, train new staffs on serving customer with going to extra mile, preparing coffee and tea for the guest, to be sure all of the equipment in the restaurant are proper storage and security of monies, reset the table for Lunch and dinner, participate in monthly training. My experience Hostess position Firstly, I got a promotion as a hostess position at the hotel’ Curvery restaurant in breakfast session. After promotion, I have more responsibilities to check the customers’ keys cards to make sure full English breakfast inclusive or not. If not, we have to charge in their room or ask them pay by card or cash. Seating the customer is not that much easy between 6:30 to 10:30 at breakfast because we have normally 700 to 800 customers every day. Although Strand Palace Hotel has not only Curvery restaurant which is serving breakfast but also Johnson restaurant as well; everyday we face long queue problem. On the other hand, customers are waiting for having buffet in morning time that is not nice but we can’t manage it until now. From that experience, I have learnt that to get customers’...
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...I believe the night audit for Hotel Affluent had a fair balance of negitives and positives. Valet revenue goal were met and even exceeded by a large amount. Breakfast and dinner room services sales were very high, but lunch sales did not reflect the same success. Total restaurant sales for both restaurants did not meet sales goals. Vending sales are by far the lowest compared to other departments? Although, this may be because room services sales were so high and guest were not using the vending machines. Room sales left a great deal to be desired; this department only having achieved 67% of the sales goal. Non-collected sales, in my opinion, were not that bad compared to the amount of revenue generated. I was surprised the lunch revenues for room service was so low compared the breakfast and dinner sale. This may because there are fewer guests in the hotel during theses hours, but the problem could also be price or selection. Maybe the lunch prices are higher than restaurants that are close to Hotel Affluent. This would cause many guests dine at location that is not associated with the hotel. The lunch room service menu could possibly need a make over. Many restaurants are starting to offer healthier lunch options that are usually considered to be “lite” lunches. If the lunch and dinner menus are similar chances are that the menu options are suited for a lunch style meal. I believe room sales are the most important aspect of a night audit, and Hotel Affluent seems to be...
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