...[键入文档标题] [键入文档副标题] Bishan Nandy HaiYang Yu Pei-Chieh Huang Xi Lin Ashwin Kumar [键入作者姓名] Business summary Begun in 1993 by designer Kate Spade and her husband Andy, signature Kate spade bags were an instant success because of their uncomplicated design. Since then, the manufacturer has expanded into stationery, various functional bags (think diaper bags), and licensing -- with lines of homewards (sheets, tabletop items, and wallpaper), as well as beauty products, eyewear, and shoes. Women's items are sold under the Kate spade name while men's products carry the jack spade moniker. The company, which is owned by Liz Claiborne, distributes its products in Asia and sells them in the US through about 65 of its own shops and in upscale department stores. Development Strategy There are few major steps that the founders of Kate spade took to grow the business and improved the shareholders value. The business expansion strategies can be broadly subdivided into three segments: (a) forming the company and implementing the business plan; (b) positioning the product for continued growth in sales, and (c) building the brand equity and expanding the business. Kate spade started with a group of self motivated people who put forth both financial and emotional support to form the business. The founders worked with no salary and 20% stake on the company for a prolonged period until the company started making significant profit. Unlike other early stage entrepreneurial businesses...
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...cards to create a battle scene to keep the poem as mock-heroic as possible. Ombre is a card game that is very much similar to the modern game of Hearts and Spades. In Oliver Baker’s “Pope’s Ombre Enigmas in The Rape of the Lock” he states, “In order to appreciate the Ombre allusions in The Rape of the Lock a modern audience must understand how this complicated and counter intuitive card game is played.” (Baker 211). The game is played with a standard deck of cards with the 8’s, 9’s and 10’s removed. Each player is dealt 9 cards and the remaining 13 cards are placed in the talon, which is the pile of cards left after the deal. (McLeod sec. 2) The ranking of the cards depends on the type of “contract”. The rules of Ombre is that the players bid or auction on who will be able to take most of the tricks and the winning bidder becomes the declarer, or the Hombre and must play against both of the other two players. The player that wins the bid is allowed to declare which suit will be trump, which is the dominant color of the hand. After, each player plays a card counter-clockwise and in order to win, the declarer must take five tricks. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda and the baron played in game contracts, which means that there is always a suit. The black aces are independent of which suit is trumps. In this game, the spade ace is called spadille, which is always...
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...the novel resort to the traditional gender-based methods of influence to get what they want. The female characters in the novel are able to utilize their femininity and sexuality to influence Sam Spade and the other male characters. An example of this technique is the complex relationship between Spade and Brigid O’Shaughnessy. After Joel Cairo offers Spade five thousand dollars for the recovery of the missing falcon, Ms. O’Shaughnessy attempts to regain Spade’s loyalty with payment as well but is unable to match Cairo’s offer: “It is far more than I could ever offer you, if I must bid for your loyalty.” After Ms. O’Shaughnessy accepts that she cannot use money to reclaim Spade, she instead tries to convince him with her sex appeal: “Can I buy you with my body?” This method is proven to be effective after Spade replies that he will “think it over” (57). Ms. O’Shaughnessy’s approach in this passage clearly expresses how women in the novel are able to use their sexuality as a means of leverage. In addition to leveraging their classic sexual qualities to get what they want, the women in the novel are also able to use dated stereotypical female behaviors such as innocence and daintiness to gain sympathy from the male characters. When Ms. O’Shaughnessy approaches Spade for the first time, with the alias of Ms. Wonderly, she...
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...Country Lovers ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Shatara Williams Instructor: January Pearson May 27, 2013 COUNTRY LOVERS Nadine Gordimer wrote Country Lovers in 1975. This story is about a prohibited relationship between an African American girl and a Caucasian boy on a South African farm. (Clugston, 2010) Years ago a relationship between two people of the opposite ethnic group was frowned upon. I am going to explain why this story caught my interest, explain the reader response method, and I plan to assess the story I chose using the reader response method. I chose Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer because I love romance and mystery stories that are full of suspense and drama. Country Lovers is one of those short stories that have romance, suspense, and drama. Thebedi and Paulus are the main characters in this story. Thebedi and Paulus grew up together on Paulus father farm. (Gordimer, 1975) Thebedi and Paulus were childhood friends who flirtation leads to them to have a sexual relationship. (Gordimer, 1975) This story is full of suspense, drama, and romance. Thebedi had gotten pregnant from Paulus but she never told him. (Gordimer, 1975) She married another man he was a member of her tribe in South Africa. (Gordimer, 1975)When Paulus returned, he found out that she had married another man and had a baby. (Gordimer, 1975) The baby that Thebedi gave birth too was Paulus baby. (Gordimer, 1975) Paulus did not know that Thebedi daughter was his. (Gordimer...
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...FREEDOM OF A WOMAN Susana Saldana Eng 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Lora Carmichael 04/15/2013 In the Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (1984) Kate describes Mrs. Millard as being afflicted by heart problems. She is young and has “a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression.” It seems as Mrs. Millard is not happily married to Brently Millard. When she hears the news of his accidental death she has mixed feelings. At first she wept from the awful news her sister Josephine purveyed upon her but then stops and only sobs. She seems to have joyous moments after the death of her husband because of the freedom she will unveil. She will no longer be to the beck and call of her husband as it seems she is. Mrs. Millard feels she will now be free, free, free. Mrs. Millard realized she will now only rely on herself and not anyone else; she could finally do as she pleases. After Mrs. Millard realized this she begins to see her possibly new reality. “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.” Implying that she is now to undergo a new beginning. She seems happy and relieved she could start alone. Chopin’s theme for this story was Freedom of a woman from a marriage. This...
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...and the literary elements helps you to focus more on developing it meaning. Research states that the theme is a broad idea, message, or moral of a story. It even goes to say that it is the central message of a literary work. But mainly to me whenever I want to identify the theme in a story I think of it as the main idea, or ask myself what the author is saying in the story. As I read the text the author “explain”? the theme as been define as “A story that representation the idea behind the story” (Clugston, R. W. 2010). As you continue to read the information that the author provides you with you learn that the theme also goes beyond the plot, by telling you what the story is about (Clugston, R. W. 2010). Truly, I think when the author Kate Chopin wrote this story, “The Story of An Hour” she was thinking about a friend, a love one,...
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...Introduction: The Story of an hour is a short story written by Kate Chopin whose feminist ideas rocked the world in the early in the mid 1800’s where women’s lib movements were in their infancy. The lack of control over their lives make female emancipation a distant dream and it was due to the death of a loved one that much cherished independence of self could be attained. Kate Chopin lived life on her own terms and in her works allowed her support of women’s independence and sexual freedom to shine through which was shocking to the society still warped in long skirts and layers of petticoats. She focused her attention on love, sex, marriage, women, and independence and raged against the unjust world which viewed women as a lawful property. Her assertion that self matters above all love comes through brilliantly and the protagonists cry for freedom triumphs over her love for her husband.(Chopin) Plot overview: The story describes the one hour in the protagonists life where in she experiences heart wrenching grief, ecstasy of freedom and death. Louise Mallard is a typical housewife who is beset with the familiar problems awaiting the arrival of her husband. Her sister, Josephine at the beginning of the story breaks the story of her husband’s fatal accident gently and Louise cries in her arms with wild abandonment. The reader is introduced to the mysterious heart trouble which Mrs Mallard suffers from and this ailment keeps its date with Mallard’s destiny till the very end. After...
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...house gives Alcée and Calixta shelter during that storm and allows them to be together. The storm almost seems to have more of a presence than the house. One thing that stands out here, of course, is the fact that the storm is taking place during the important sexualized scene, keeping Alcée and Calixta within the house, and Bobinôt and Bibi outside of it. When the storm dissipates, Alcée and Calixta must go their separate ways, seemingly much richer for their encounter. When Bobinôt reenters his own home, he has no idea of the torrid encounter that just happened there. Clarisse, too, is removed from the main area of action – she's in another state. On a larger scale, the setting reminds us of the characters' places in the world. As the Kate Chopin International Society's site points out, there are some subtle class differences between the four main characters represented in "The Storm": Alcée and his wife Clarisse are Creoles, descendants of French settlers in Louisiana. Calixta and her husband Bobinôt are...
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...“Some Thoughts about E-Reading” Verlyn Klinkenborg’s article “Some Thoughts about E-reading “discusses the pro and cons about E-reading; Klinkenborg discusses her personal thoughts and compares e-reading and reading an actual book. Although technology is much more advanced still it is complicated and not so easy to use. Klinkenborg’s purpose of writing this article is to inform the audience about her personal experiences with reading both and what she likes and dislikes about the quality of the two. Although e-reading is very helpful still it is much different than reading an actual book and it is not so easy to cope with. Klinkenborg discourses about her love for e-book because of the immediacy that e-booking offers and the escalating lavish of its resources. However, Klinkenborg discusses how reading using an iPad is not as simple as reading a book being that a book is easier to handle; she supports her statement by stating how she is able to shake a book and does not have to worry about mushrooms falling from the upper part of the screen. Klinkenborg also discusses that she doesn’t have to wonder if there is another window open behind a certain a page number or about a software glitch that keeps her from turning the page and being able to read the book and there is nothing meta about the metadata about a real book. When reading a book you are not able to take away its facts details and information whereas when you are reading a book electronically the book seems as if...
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...about her husband death involving a train accident. Richards, a close friend of Mr. Mallard, knows that Louise does have heart trouble. So when relaying the information, they “ break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death (Kate Chopin IP1).” Going to her room, Louise locks herself in. Now standing there she’s finds a “roomy armchair” facing an open window. The sadness she’s feeling is gradually turning into joy. Kate Chopin “The Story of an Hour” Louise Mallard experiences rare emotions when grieving, which leads to her ironical death. To begin Mrs. Louise Mallard suffers from a heart condition and when asked to believe the story of her husband’s departure, “she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept significants (Kate Chopin IP3)." Her response was one-off; Mrs. Mallard sobs once and then locking herself in her room. Once sitting in her room she lets her mind run crazy, thinking of what she will do without Mr. Mallard? Could she ever do anything without him? However "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it fearfully..creeping out of the sky, reaching Puhlmann 2 towards her through sounds, scents, and colors that filled the air(Kate Chopin IP9)." Louise originally shattered, but thinking she begins to like what her future might be like without Mr. Mallard. In this time period society thinks that women cannot do as much as men. At this time her mind is running a hundred miles...
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...My Career as a Reader Throughout my career as a reader, I have read many books from when I was a kid to the present. I have read many different types of books including children’s books, comic books, drama books, adventure books, autobiographies, fiction and nonfiction. In my career as a reader, my reading experiences as a child, my favorite book as a child and the books I read in grade 9 have influenced my reading career. My reading experiences as a child are one of the three things that have influenced my reading career. When I was very little and had a hard time reading, before I would go to bed my mom or dad would read me a story. The books were about 15 pages long and were an adventure story. My mom and dad read books to be almost every day of the week and sometimes on the weekends. When I was able to read all by myself I got a library card so I could sign out books that I wanted to read by myself. I usually signed out either sports books or adventure books. These books were usually fiction. At school there were times where we could read, so I read a lot at school. My favorite book as a child is the second thing that has impacted my reading career. As a child I would read a lot of different kinds of books, but one of my favorite book series as a child was the books Brady Brady. When I was growing up as a kid I loved to play hockey. I loved the book Brady Brady because it was about hockey and as a kid that’s all I thought about. I also liked many other sports books...
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...Corey Campbell June 29, 2009 English 098 Kate Chopin Essay Catherine O’ Flaherty was born February 8, 1851 (tombstone date). She would later marry Oscar Chopin and become Kate Chopin, critically acclaimed and condemned author of two novels (At Fault and The Awakening) and many short stories. She was a beautiful, intelligent woman who was able to tell powerful stories about the lives of people in the nineteenth century. Chopin’s insight writing revealed the hidden emotions, trials, and tribulations of the nineteenth century women. In the story of an hour, Chopin tells the story of Mrs. Mallard and the extraordinary changes including shock, acceptance and joy she endures during this hour in her home. Mrs. Mallard’s feelings are changed by the news of her husband’s death, the reality of living her life alone and the revelation that her husband was still alive. The glimpse into Mrs. Mallards private thoughts revealed a women momentarily saddened by the loss of her husband. “Go away. I am not making myself ill. No she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window. Her fancy was running riot along those days of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long”. Chopin reveals with these words that this woman is actually relived to be a widow and excited about experiencing life without the stress and...
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...Kate Chopin In the late 1800’s marriage was known to be a male-dominated union. Women submitted to their men in all aspects of life, never speaking of the unhappiness that soon followed their marriages. Today society rarely speaks of discontent in the household, so writers express silent feelings through stories. Authors incorporate personal factuality or experience into the literary piece. In “The Storm”, author Kate Chopin, through character Calixta, relates marital problems, unsettled desires, companion necessities, and destiny to subdue persistent memories. Most evidently, Kate Chopin uses marital distress between Calixta and Bibinot to reflect on discreet complications throughout her own marriage. Critical author, Emily Toth states “Evidently no one described any marital discord in the Chopin household, but, then, Southerners rarely reveal secrets of the human heart to outsiders”(163). Like Calixta, obstacles were never noticeable, instead, shielded by temporary bliss. After Alcee offered Calixta a “sensual gift,” Bobinot offers her an equal gift but on that represents his different personality, “I brought you some shrimps, Calixta…Shrimps! Oh, Bobinot! You too good fo’ anything!...we’ll have feas’ to night!”(99). Here the audience understands voluntary submission. Though Bobinot “treated” her to intimate gifts rather than sexually stimulating ones, Calixta was perfectly content with Bobinots loving and devoted meaner. One apparent connection between Chopin and...
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...AWAKENING Edna Pontillier is the main character in the novel The Awakening which was written by Kate Chopin. She is a character that readers can both identify and sympathize with at times, and yet her actions and traits might make readers to see her as an unsympathetic character at other times, and even in my case, find her to be extremely selfish and unlikeable. Readers may sympathize with her because after all she lived in a time where women were regarded as nothing but mere objects and did not have the rights that women do nowadays. However, she can also be viewed as a selfish woman and a bad mother because she decides to fall in love with another man even though she is married, and because she decides to neglect her children. As I first started reading this novel, I found it quite easy to sympathize with Edna. Chopin starts off the novel with introducing Edna and explains that she is "married to a wealthy and attentive husband, the mother of two healthy children” and “from all appearances [she] has everything to make a woman happy.” Soon after reading more of this novel I realized that statement could not be any further from the truth. In fact, I realized that not only is Edna not happy, instead she is truly miserable. She happens to be married to someone who looks at her the same way that he would regard “a valuable piece of personal property.” She is not attracted to him and is stuck at home doing chores because that is what society expected of a woman back then. I could...
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...In Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, Edna's two different houses symbolize her life greatly. Her first house, the mansion that she shared with her husband, symbolized her life before awakened and realized the kind of life she living. Her second house, the pigeon house that she lived alone in, shows her life after she awakens and realizes what’s going on with her life and that she was not happy before. As the novel starts out Edna is a housewife to her husband Mr. Pontellier, and is not really unhappy but knows something is missing. Her husband does not treat her well. She is nothing but a piece of property to him, he has no true feelings for her and wants her for the sole purpose of withholding his reputation as a man. Edna has no clue that she is being treated so bad in the beginning of this story. With Mr. Pontellier being gone from home she finds plenty of time to spend with Robert over the summer. During the whole summer she does not realize the feelings she is developing for Robert and only sees him as a friend(friendzone). She likes spending all of her time with him and gets along with him much better than her husband. It is not until she is back home and Robert leaves that she starts to "awaken" and realize her feelings not just for Robert but also for life. At first Edna misses Robert greatly and wonders why he never writes her. She does get to read letters in which Robert has sent others though. She is glad that he asks about her in his letters yet still upset because...
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