...Comparing Two Similar Businesses: Amazon.com & Borders Books Strayer University Bus 302 – Management Concepts October 31, 2011 Envisioned by its company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos since 1994 as "Earth's most customer-centric company" Amazon.com today, with more than 17 million customers and over a billion and a half dollars in annual sales, stands as the world’s largest E-commerce E-tailer. Named after the Amazon River, one of the largest and most exotic rivers in the world, Amazon.com started as an online bookstore but quickly diversified its selling efforts to DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys with the aim, as implied by its logo “A to Z with a smile,” to attain customer satisfaction and carry every product from A to Z. Although it was a slow starter, not showing a profit for the first five years, and enduring the dot-com burst, Amazon.com persevered and now profitable it is recognized as having popularized online shopping (Schneider, 2011). Without any experience in the business of selling books, Jeff Bezos realized that the books had a great potential shipping profile for online sales. Always believing in the economic network effects, he decided to setup his company in Seattle, WA, very close to the largest book distribution warehouse and talented computer programmers in the U.S. According to a quote that Bezos said in an article publicized in U.S. News, “While we're crossing the...
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...complex sentences. In paragraph 9 he says: “However,you may have reformed your life in many things ,and may of had religious affections,and may keep up a form of religion in you families and closets,and In the house of god,it is nothing but this mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction”. Edward uses a series of tense sentences towards the reader which approaches the reader emotionally.For it raises fear that those who do not convert or already believe- will have to deal with the destruction of God. Martin Luther King Jr is a child of god. Growing up,Martin Luther King Jr was a child of a pastor.He grew up in a religious house of Christianity,who spent his young life in education systems.Martin Luther KIng Jr,entered as the creator of the civil rights movement when segregation and hate divided our nation at its highest point.In 1963,Martin Luther King Jr. preached in letter to Birmingham to the clergymen to join the civil rights movement to stop the violence caused by hate and discrimination to save the lieves of everybody.Today,Martin Luther King Jr is known today as the most influential civil rights leader in America. To initiate, while writing,Martin Luther King Jr incorporates allusion to the bible too.Written in paragraph 3: “Just as Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world,so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home...
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...P. Dash | Assignment Title | #2 Group AssignmentMartin Luther King Jr. - I Have A Dream | Due Date | Week 8 | Date Received | | DECLARATION | To be completed if this is an individual assignment: I declare that this assignment is my individual work. I have not worked collaboratively nor have I copied from any other student’s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgment is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written for me by another person. | Student ID | Student Name | Student Signature | Student 1 | | | | To be completed if this is a group assignment: We declare that this is a group assignment and that no part of this submission has been copied from any other student's work or from any other source except where due acknowledgment is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written for us by another person. | Student ID | Student Name | Student Signature | Student 1 | 4240138 | Danushka Nirmal De Silva | | Student 2 | 4235150 | Ngu Ing Sung | | Student 3 | 4237293 | Dashilla Ladaey | | Student 4 | 4237323 | Ahmad Akmal Afiq | | Student 5 | 100070566 | Lasse Svenning Jensen | | MARKER’S COMME Total Mark | | Marker’s Signature | | Date | | EXTENSION CERTIFICATE | This assignment has been given an extension by Unit Convenor | | Extended due date: | | Date Received | | Martin Luther King Jr. – I Have a Dream An analysis of a historically important leadership speech Words:...
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...to emotional language and signals, and paring down irrelevant details), (3) practice the big emotional stretch, by transitioning among the emotional spectrum from happy to sad (becoming more comfortable with big feelings, facial expressions, gestures, and motions), (4) babble to increase nonverbal skills, by delivering the essence speech with nonsense phrases, gestures, and body language to convey meaning (learning to demonstrate charisma and becoming comfortable with our emotional attitudes), (5) put on a persona, by taking the role of another person to allow the speaker to become much more expressive (finding someone who engages you imaginatively and emotionally), and (6) learn from the best, by watching Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have a Dream speech” and following his dramatic starts and endings. Once the speaker has practice several of these techniques, it is important to practice the entire speech in his/her personal style while retaining the expressiveness attained through the exercise. Only then can the speaker become much more powerful, charismatic, and most importantly, authentic. It is important to prepare a story. In “Leading Words: How to Use Stories to Change Minds and Ignite...
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...MLK Letter From Birmingham Jail Rhetorical Analysis- w/ focus on Ethos “...we are now confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of our Negro citizens, directed and led in part by outsiders…” In this quote, from the third paragraph of the letter written by eight Alabama clergymen, the term outsiders is used. Early on, this creates a label for Martin Luther King, outsider. Throughout his Letter From Birmingham Jail, King is able appeal to ethos in order to refute his title of “outsider” and generate a connection with his audiences, the clergymen and the people of America. King is able to do such a thing by alluding to multiple passages from the Bible as well as the figures it contains, which is done so that he may identify with the clergymen. When not speaking in reference to the Bible, King makes allusions and references to specific points and people in American history, which allows him to connect to his larger audience, the people of America. By demonstrating his practical wisdom, through the use of allusion, King attempts to strengthen his character with a visible appeal to ethos. King alludes to the Bible multiple times throughout his Letter From Birmingham Jail. These allusions are notable in paragraph three, where king refers to the biblical figures “Jesus Christ” and “the Apostle Paul.” The context in which these two are used is to reiterate the story of Paul leaving Tarsus, which King also mentions, to spread the word of Christ. In paragraph...
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...Literary Techniques of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech Literary Techniques of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech Introduction Martin Luther King, Jr., a prominent civil rights leader, delivered a powerful speech at the historic March on Washington. The speech uses several literary techniques to engage the listener. In the speech, King especially likes to use repetition and metaphor to convey his ideas. These devices are the foundation of King?s unique and effective style. Repetition In I Have a Dream King uses repetition throughout. Repetition is a good tool to use to reinforce an important idea. In Dorothy Seyler?s Read, Reason, Write, she states: ?Some repetition of key words and phrases will occur in well-written and unified essays. Some writers, though, go beyond this technique of unified writing and use repetition to produce an effective cadence, like a drum beating in the background, keeping time with the speaker?s fist pounding the lectern for emphasis.? (58). King?s speech is a perfect representation of this. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons...
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...CRITICAL THINKING ANALYSIS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING’S SPEECH, “I HAVE A DREAM” Martin Luther King uses a strong approach to deliver a speech full of encouragement and motivation for the deprived freedom of blacks living in American in the mid-1900s. With a recording break crowd in attendance in Washington in August 1986, Martin Luther King expresses the experienced suffering and demand for change in the lives of blacks. His purpose is clear and without hesitation. As I listener, I felt his passion that was supported by his appropriate boundaries to live equally. With the limitations and challenges King faced during that time, I can understand why his speech is a significant milestone in our country’s history. King makes the listener understand that his purpose is to fairly achieve the long overdue equality blacks have been robbed of. He is clear in his mission and has no intentions of entertaining such an mission with wrong doings or harm. I can only imagine, while during this time in American history the blacks had lived with so much oppression and discrimination, how challenging it would have been to approach such freedom with proper actions. Although King is trying to gain something in his speech, he is not driven by a selfish motive. He distinctly states his purpose and strategizes on the actions needed. At the end of his speech, I ask myself, “Do I agree with the necessity of blacks’ freedom?”. King presents his speech in a manner that is realistic, future...
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...A Rhetorical Analysis of MLK Jr.’s “I have a dream” Speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which outstandingly furthered the civil rights movement. At that time, racial segregation, police brutality, and other forms of racial inequality were terribly prominent in America. The speech successfully focused the country’s attention at the need for racial equality “Now” (King, I Have a Dream). King gave the speech in order to motivate his followers to peacefully continue to demonstrate, protest, and boycott until they were fully granted the equality and privileges that any other citizen was allowed to have. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech is his most notable, and one of the most influential of Twentieth-Century-America because of his excellent rhetorical use of repetition and anaphora, contrasting metaphors, and appropriate quotations and allusions throughout the speech. Martin Luther King Jr. used a profuse amount of repetition and anaphora throughout his speech. A subtle form of repetition, the repetition of singular words, was mainly used to emphasize key themes in the speech and keep them in the minds of the audience. Such repeated key themes were “freedom”, “justice” and “injustice”, “America” and “American”, and plural nouns such as “we” and “our”. Since the preceding words were repeated so frequently...
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...Disillusionment, & Pressure On the surface, “Salvation” by Langston Hughes and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. seem to have very little in common. They were written by different people about different topics and use different techniques. However, they share a lesser related theme: Pressure. Pressure from others is a powerful thing. This secondary theme supports each main theme; “Salvation” demonstrates what pressure from adults can do to disillusion an individual adolescent while “Letter From Birmingham Jail” demonstrates what societal pressure does to permit injustice. In this paper I intend to not only illustrate the impact pressure can have, but also examine the literary devices used by each author to illuminate their main theme, discuss how I personally related to the themes of each story, define Non-Fiction, and explore the use of imagination in Non-Fiction works. Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful motivational speaker. His passion shined through in not only how he spoke, but the words themselves. This is because he used imaginative metaphors and rhetorical questions to pull his audience in. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” rhetorical questions are used sporadically throughout to engage the reader and continuously present the main theme: injustice. Sometimes King uses it to show that he and his followers have considered the other side of the issue, “One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others"” (King, 1963, p 1305)...
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...was an awesome book about many things, it was about a black family struggling with economic hardship and racial prejudice, this play showed the importance of family, the value of dreams, and about racial discrimination. The I have a dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr. is known as one of the best speeches ever given, the key message in the speech is that all people were created equal. His speech demanding racial justice and an integrated society became an expression for the black community. I have a dream speech and A Raisin in the Sun both talk about pride. “In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred” I think Dr. martin Luther king means that even though freedom is what and people might do whatever to be free, don’t lost pride in yourself and don’t stop pushing even with all the hate. A Raisin in the Sun “I’m going to look that son-of-a-bitch in the eyes and say all right Mr. Linder that’s your neighborhood out there! You got the right to keep it like you want! You just write the check and the house is yours, you people just put the money in my hand and won’t have to live next to a bunch of stinking niggers”. I think for a minute Walter lost his pride, the fact that he was about to give Mr. Linder exactly what he wanted, which was for the youngers not to move in the white neighborhood but when Mr. Linder came Walter got his pride back...
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...Letter From Birmingham Jail Vs. “I Have a Dream Speech” The first way that a “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and “ I have a Dream” differ are in their intended audience, as one is intended for a group of white clergymen while the other is intended to rally a large group. This difference in audience and how Dr. King chooses to appeal to each of his audiences causes for the choices in language and the purpose of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and “I have a Dream” to differ. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is addressed to white clergymen, and the purpose of the letter is to defend the demonstrations that were taking place. As Dr. King is trying to defend the demonstrations to these white clergymen, his language choice is quite interesting. One brilliant way that he chooses to defend the demonstrations is by appealing to the white men through his choice of Anglo terms. For instance, in the letter, Dr. King writes, “Just as the prophets of the eighth century century B.C. left their villages and carried their “thus saint the Lord” far beyond the boundaries of their home towns…I am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town” (King). This choice of wording makes Dr. King’s argument stronger since as these white men disagree with Dr. King and his form of peaceful protest, the white clergymen will not be able to argue back because he is using religious references that if the white men chose to argue against, it would make them look like hypocrites (Eubank). While...
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...Jada Rameriz Putnam Frosh Writing F Block ELA Great speakers have a way with words. Subtle patterns flow throughout their speeches in ways that even they might not realize. It can be clearly seen with some of the greatest speakers seen; Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Jimmy Valvano, and Steve Jobs. All of them share common threads throughout their speeches, and that’s what makes them great. Their unique tones and methods of conveying their message shows their excellence. By use of tone and sharing personal stories or alluding to other texts, great speakers convey their messages in many ways. In his speech, Martin Luther King Jr. creates a distinct and professional style by use of literary devices to convey his message. MLK’s use of literary devices provides emphasis and strengthens his hopeful, unified, and well-prepared speech. MLK often uses allusions to different texts within his speech in order to get a point across, such as referencing historical texts to bring out feelings of patriotism in the audience. MLK’s message is one of unity and equality, which is eloquently proposed to the audience through his well-usage of literary devices. By unifying his speech in this manner and showing different texts as equal in value, MLK also approaches the audience with the idea that they are all equally as important as well. RFK’s speech on the death of MLK has a very somber and mourning tone, but still proves it’s greatness despite the speaker’s unpreparedness...
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...Speech Analysis: MLK After watching Martin Luther King’s speech, several things jumped out to me. At the beginning of his speech, I noticed that he did not talk fast but he started somewhat slow; as he progressed through the speech, he talked a little bit faster and maintained that pace. Throughout the entire speech, he remained confident; he talked with a booming voice, and his pronunciation was clear with every word since he never muttered. His posture was “strong” since he did not move around too much and looked at the audience very often instead of staring down at his script. Another thing that I noticed in his speech was that he was very repetitive which was effective, because people remembered what he said; two examples that was used often were “I have a dream…” and “Let freedom ring…” which are very popular in his speech. He used a couple of quotes that people recognized, one of them being from a song called “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” which even children knew. In his speech, there were some pauses in between sentences, and I believe that he was doing that to let him gather his thoughts to prepare for what he was going to say next and also allow the audience some time to think about what he was saying. After half his speech, I noticed that he had stopped reading off of his script. This displayed how well prepared he was before his speech since he knew his information. In conclusion, he was well prepared before the speech, confident, maintained a good speaking pace, and...
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...“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King Jr. lived in a time period where this was something African Americans actually had to dream about. Where their children were only judged on the color of their skin. Would we still be living in a nation like this, where whites were superior to blacks, if it weren’t for Martin Luther King Jr. and his strive for civil rights? Martin Luther King had very strong believes and he was willing to lose his life for a better future. His protests were nonviolent, and that goes to show that violence is never the answer, that he made a change by never harming anyone...
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...and narrative 4. Ability to influence and persuade 5. Visual appeal 6. The experience for the audience and the speaker Analyze the findings to identify key factors contributing to effective and ineffective public speaking and recommendations for improvement supported by concepts from the course. In addition, discuss witnessed practices that you wish to incorporate and avoid along with a rationale. Your paper should be 3 - 4 pages in length, and incorporate course references as part of your analysis. This assignment represents 6% of the course grade. The artifact itself, I consider to be one of the most influential pieces of literature ever produced. From his enthusiastic delivery, Dr. King switch from reading a manuscript into speaking extemporaneously half way through the speech. Dr. King used an extensive amount of metaphors. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered “I Have a Dream” in transformation speech; even with limited hands motion. Dr. King delivered his speech with enough clarity for his audiences. Defoe (2007) explains about the importance of clarity and how “having a substantive message is important. ” Dr. Kings speech articulated his wording and it is very understandable to others like me (Defoe, 2007). To give the audience vivid images of what he is speaking about, King uses metaphors that contrast the racial situation in America in the past and present to the situation in the future. For instance, he uses the metaphor. "signing the promissory note"...
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