...thrown into your face. It’s cold. As I close my eyes I can hear the slow and monotonous drone of the wind turbines. I’m knee depth in the long green grass that sways from side to side in the wind. From time to time you’ll just see the tip of my dogs head as she jumps above the top of the grass. Beyond the grass is a path where cyclists race along. All you hear as they pass by is the music blaring from their headphones as they compete individually against each other. Walking over the path I move closer to the edge of the cliff so that I can take in the spectacle of what this place is. From the top of the cliff the sand sparkles as the sunlight briefly breaks through the thick layer of cloud overhead. The light hits pale white cliff face and reflects off as if it has hit a mirror. I look down and see the small jagged rocks opening up to create a pathway down to the glistening sand. My dog sprints pass my leg with one goal on making it to the sand before me. I step down after my dog and the wind suddenly dies down. The heat from the sun intensifies and feeling of warm rushes through my body. The smell is now my addiction as I inhale more air with every breath. As my foot hits the sand it sinks down making it hard for me to walk, with every step that I take further from the cliff towards the water the wind strengthens. The cold air causes a tear to drip on the side of my face. The more I walk across the sand, a pain starts to set in to my calf muscles, and the burn feels...
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...Mars, Incorporated (Chocolate and much more…) Contemporary Business 201160: BUS101-002 Mars, Incorporated is a fascinating company which is so much more than just a candy manufacturer. I was interested in this company because we had purchased stock in the Wrigley Company in 1993 as a gift/investment when my youngest son was born. In 2008, the Wrigley Company was bought by Mars and taken private. Our family had to take a small lost on our shares and no longer received the new development of gum each Christmas. However, it was great move on Wrigley’s behave and for the Mars company as well. Mars is a very diverse organization and does provide a very versatile business plan in this ever changing world and economy. I find it to be an intriguing company and envy it’s progression from a small town at home business to the billion dollar international business it is today. The company began in 1911 by Mr. Frank C. Mars as the Mar-O-Bar Company in his country home kitchen located in Tacoma, Washington. His first products were butter cream candy bars which his family and friends said were the best in the land. He soon outgrew his kitchen when the business started booming and opened his first factory of 125 employees. Quality and value were the foundations for his business and his first mission statement. In 1920, Mr. Mars relocated his factory to Minneapolis, where soon the Snickers (without the chocolate coating) and Milky Way bars were developed and launched....
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...Corporate Social Responsibility Paper Corporate social responsibility, CSR, has three major trends. Shared Value, Conscious Capitalism, and Social Business. Throughout this paper, I will be discussing these major trends and demonstrating how different businesses embody them. These major trends do not always work together. However, many businesses demonstrate one or two of these trends. In today’s world, corporate social responsibility is something that every business should make a great effort to incorporate into their business model. This is important because corporate social responsibility is how businesses are impacting society. CSR is a way for businesses to have some accountability in making sure their products or services do not impact the environment or community in a negative way. Throughout the next few pages, you will read examples of companies in our current society and prove how these companies are applying these trends to their business models. Shared value is the first trend of CSR. Shared value was introduced in a Harvard Business Review article. Strategy & Society: The link between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility was published in late 2006 by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer. Both Kramer and Porter helped spread the word about shared value and revealed how it works and why shared value was a necessary component to society. Porter has been considered to be the front-runner on competitive strategy and is the chair...
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...on trees? It does! The cacao (cocoa) bean was one of the first forms of currency dating all the way back to the Mayan civilization, possibly even as early as the Olmec civilization. The cacao tree has been proven very useful over the years, more than just by providing us with decadent chocolate. ”The cocoa bean happens to be the thing from which chocolate is made” (Willy Wonka, 2005). Newfound evidence suggests chocolate promotes blood flow which reduces blood pressure. Taking a look into the chocolate world to see where chocolate truly comes from, what it is made of, what possible health benefits it offers can help decide whether to allow what was once thought of as the “forbidden food” moderately back into our diet. So, jump on the boat and take a Wonka style ride down the chocolate river to see what we can discover. Grab yourself a chocolate morsel for the ride and go ahead indulge, chocolate is good for your health. Chocolate leads a sticky path all the way back to the Classic Period Mayans (250-900 C.E. [A.D.]) and Aztecs according to the hieroglyphics and artifacts found by various archaeologists. Chocolate was relied on for many different reasons and was considered a symbol of wealth and power. Even the Oompa Loompas knew the value of cocoa beans; “The food they longed for the most was the cocoa bean. The Oompa Loompa was lucky if they found three or four cocoa beans a year. Oh, how they craved it. All they’d ever think about was cocoa beans” (Willy Wonka, 2005). Most...
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...English essay Mary-Louise Buxton, “Mount Pleasant” “Mount Pleasant” is a short story written by Mary-Louis Buxton, published in 2005. The theme in this short story is the children thoughts in their everyday life. The short story is about a girl named Elizabeth and her everyday life. She starts by being up in a attic where she finds a photo which she takes downstairs when she's called by her mother. Elizabeth's mother doesn't like the photo which is an old photo of an unknown boy. She talks a little about the roads around Mount Pleasant which they now know pretty good. She talks about how known herself and her sister are in the area. Later she talks about being home with her father and sister, drink hot cocoa and eat syrup sandwiches. That night in her bed she feels that someone sat in her bed which made her very scared but in the end nobody was there. The story is set in a house called Mount Pleasant and the area around the house where the main character lives. The narrator is the main character who isn't described in the story but we're told that she's about 6 or 7 years old which is shown in this quote: “He's maybe nine or ten, not that much older than I am.” The narrator describes the hole story through her thoughts and what she sees which is very childish e.g. when she speaks of her mother and father she calls them Mammy and Daddy. The narrator's named Elizabeth which we are told at the first page when her mother calls her. She's a first person narrator because...
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...when we meet someone like this we treat them as ‘warm’. We give ‘warm smiles’ to be nice and give ‘warm hospitality’. Sally Augustin Ph.D., an environmental psychologist writing for Psychology Today shows an example of the connection of warmth and good-heartedness. She cites research done in 2008 by Williams and Bargh, “...those who’d held warm things were likely to have generally more favorable opinions of others...seeing them as warmer, more generous and caring...also more generous to others and trusting”. Our brains tie amiability to warmth. Those who are kind act warmly and are generous to others. I was raised to be kind to everyone, no matter what qualities separate the two of us. I can hear my mother telling my time and time again to open my heart to all people, and scolding me and my siblings if one of us did...
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...asked to do; Describe four types of business from the, primary, secondary, and territory. I will be describing their purpose, ownership, size, scale. Differences & Similarities between Business because each business are different from each other in so many ways. I need to illustrate how the 3 sectors are all linked together. All businesses have objectives which they aim to fulfill in order for their business to run smoothly and effectively as possible. I will also be, looking at the companies aims to see if they have reached them yet, or what they are doing to reach their aim. I will be explaining areas of growth. As a result of the research I found the following information from research on the computer, getting help from teacher and by my own knowledge. :Sainsbury’s: Background information Sainsbury's Supermarkets is the UK's longest standing major food retailing chain, having opened its first store in 1869. The Sainsbury's brand is built upon a heritage of providing customers with healthy, safe, fresh and tasty food. It differentiates itself by offering a broad range of great quality products at fair prices with particular emphasis on fresh food, a strong ethical approach to business and continuous leadership and innovation. Size of business J Sainsbury plc consists of Sainsbury's – a chain of 504 supermarkets and 319 convenience stores. A large Sainsbury's store offers around 30,000 products and an increasing number of stores also offer complementary non-food products...
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...Eve Wydebach, 2010)” To show a product portfolio I would like to use CADBURY as an example. It is one of the largest confectionery companies. Cadbury’s offer: * Bars: Fredo, Curly Wurly, Brunch, Snack, Fudge, Picnic, StarBar, Timeout, Dream, Flake, Boost, Double Decker, Bournville, Chomp, Dairy Milk, Dairy Milk Chocos, Dairy Milk Bliss, Wispa, Twirl, Crunchie. * Cakes and biscuits: Digestive biscuits, Flake Celebration Cake, Mini Rolls, Fingers, Caramel Cake Bars, Half Coated Mini Animal Biscuits. * Boxes, bags and tins: Twirl Bites, Heroes, Chocolate Eclairs, Dairy Milk Caramel Nibbles, Milk Tray, Buttoms, Clusters, Crunchie Rocks, KOKO, Dairy Milk Tasters, Roses. * Drinks: Highlights, Hot Chocolate Instant, Bournville Cocoa, Drinking Chocolate. * Ice cream and desserts: Heavenly Vanilla Cup, Crunchie Cup, Dairy Milk Caramel Cone, Flake 99 Cone, Chocolate Trifle, Chocolate Mousse, Twin Pots Flake, Dairy Milk Stick, Dairy Milk Fruit and Nut Stick, Crunchie Blast Stick, Dream Stick, Wispa Bar, Wispa Cup. Another...
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... This report reflects the efforts of few people who assist us in its preparation. First we avail this opportunity to bow our head before ALLAH almighty in humility who given us the wisdom and perseverance for completing this piece of report. We invoke peace for Holy Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) who is forever torch. We feel highly privilege to ascribe the most and ever burning flame of my gratitude and deep scene of devotion to the “Sir Naveed M. Khan” who taught us “Strategic Management” with heart and also gave a guideline to this report and guides right from the beginning till the completion of this report. Than we are grateful to Mr. Tabassum Mumtaz (HR Manager) at Coca Cola in Karachi who guides us about their organization, its products their strategies, financial positions and also guide us about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that Coca Cola is facing and gives us his precious time and assistance in making this report. I am also appreciative towards my university as it has provided us a platform where we can have exposures to learn from the real world. Finally I thank my group members for giving a great hand, being...
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...to taste phenomenal regardless of their flaws. It’s like leaning to ride a bike, except that when you “fail” you get delicious cookies instead of a skinned knee. So relax. Tell yourself it’s okay if they don’t have feet, it’s okay if they crack, it’s okay if they’re hollow. Each time one of those things happen, you have a chance to learn about what went wrong with your technique if you want to learn. If you don’t care about learning, focus on flavor, have fun making a tasty cookie and leave obsessive perfectionism to the professionals. If this is your first time making macarons, read through these posts to familiarize yourself with some common problems and mistakes. Macaron Mythbusters: 10 myths you don’t need to worry about (with my recipe anyway). Macaron Ten Commandments: 10 important points to remember when macaroning All About Hollows: pointers for honing your macaron technique and minimizing hollow shells Macarons Are For Eating: macarons are crazy delicious; don’t forget that in pursuit of perfection! I get a lot of macaron emails each week and most of them are about a question already answered in one of those posts. Essentially everything I know about macarons is here, so please check out those posts before emailing. If I haven’t covered your question or problem, snap a pic of your tray of macarons and upload it to the Facebook page so I can help you troubleshoot (seeing them still on the...
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...Two Methods to Losing Weight Dean L. Norton COM/155 March 16, 2013 Adria Carey Perez Losing weight can be a challenge for anyone. A simple weight loss plan should not be difficult for most people to maintain. There will be differences in the way men lose weight, and the differences in the way women lose weight. In my experience, it is generally harder for women to take off the pounds than it is for men. Conceivably, a man can cut out something as simple as soda, and drop several pounds in a week. A woman, who cuts out the same amount of soda, will drop fewer pounds in that week. Is it fair? Maybe not, but that is how it seems to work between the sexes. We will be discussing two methods for weight loss. One will be a diet and exercise regimen; the other will be through the use of medications, supplements and medical procedures. Both have their potential advantages as well as their unfortunate drawbacks. Before any kind of weight loss regimen, it is a good idea to see your doctor first. Various weight loss regimens may have to be altered or customized for each individual. Selecting a diet and exercise program you can stick to can be important. Many people who begin a weight loss regimen, may get bored, lose interest and/or get discouraged and quite possibly, slip back into their old behaviors. Eating the right foods is important in any diet as well as drinking plenty of water. To start, you want to make sure that you are getting enough fresh vegetables and fruits...
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...these fad diets on television and are convinced that they will work wonders to improve their weight. These people are so focused on losing the weight that they do not care if it jeopardizes their health. Yes, you read it correctly-fad diets can be harmful to your health! I hope to help take a stand against fad dieting and hopefully open the eyes of many people who choose to look the other way when it comes to this type of dieting. Who is your primary audience or reader? Why? Be detailed in your answer about your audience. My primary audience is those who want to be educated and stop wasting money on things that do not work. My secondary audience is my Professor and classmates, some whom may have experienced failure with a fad diet. Finally, my last audience would be one that shares my opinions and values and will likely be on my side. In a sentence or short paragraph, what is your thesis statement, including your angle? Write what will appear in your essay. My point is that Fad diets do not work because of the dynamic that they teach, not everyone is metabolically the same and they react differently to dieting. The public needs to be properly educated on the topic to make an informed decision. What topic sentences will you use as the foundation of your communication? (If necessary, add more points.) * Why fad diets do not work. * There are a ton of uneducated people out there that see these fad diets...
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...Prof. Kate Simonian English 1010 30 September 2013 Personal Essay. It was a sunny day. My older brother and I were playing in the kid’s room, when our parents came. “We want to talk with you about something very exciting! We are going to move pretty soon! It is will be a long way to our new home! But, finally, our family will live closer to grandparents. Do you like that?" they asked. Of course, we did! Denis and I were very inspired about this news. We were too small to analyze how bad or good this decision was and accepted everything that our parents told us. Our family did not know how immigration from Kazakhstan to Russia would affect all aspects of our life. I looked to the daddy’s eyes and knew: everything was going to be alright. “I will prepare faster”, said my brother.” No, no! I will”, we were run to our room to pack all our toys for the new adventure. That night I had a hard time trying to sleep. I was imagining a new place, incredible house. I thought about how I could finally have a dog, a cat, or both! * * * So why did we leave? It was early 1990. The Kazakhstan steel was a part of Soviet Union, but the smell of close collapse of the system was in the air. My mother was pregnant with her third daughter and, of course, our decision about immigration was not so easy for my parents. They understood, that they left high-paying jobs, excellent apartment, good schools for...
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...Amber Jacobson M. Cook 16 November 2012 English 1301.30 E4, Persuasion Voices Not Heard Seeing the face of a helpless animal can break your heart. Many animals go through torturous testing on a day to day basis that they cannot help, nor can they defend themselves. Since Ancient Greek times, animals have been undergoing cruel and inhumane medical testing that should not be done for the benefits of the human race. Animal testing is wrong because it is cruel, costly, harmful to animals, unreliable, and outdated. Animal testing has been around since the times of the Ancient Greeks. Between seventeen million and twenty-two million animals are used for biomedical research each year (Leepson). Many believe that animals do have rights, and there are many organizations out there to trying to ensure their safety and help them get out of the horrible treatments they endure. For example, the ASPCA, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has been around since 1866 trying to curb the gruesome treatment of humans to animals. The ASPCA tries to prevent the abuse and neglecting of animals around the nation. They set up shelters for animals and they give vaccines and anything else they may need. The different types of animals being tested are endless; from mice to sheep, they all serve their own purpose in the medical field. Even though these animals have helped scientist break through some medical mysteries, it is still inhumane how they have to suffer in...
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...CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1 1.1 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO NESTLÉ S.A. Nestlé began in Switzerland in the mid 1860s when founder Henri Nestlé created one of the first baby formulas. Henri realized the need for a healthy and economical product to serve as an alternative for mothers who could not breastfeed their babies. Mothers who were unable to breastfeed often lost their infants to malnutrition. Henri’s product was a carefully formulated mixture of cow’s milk, flour and sugar. Nestlé’s first product was called Farine Lactée (“cornflour gruel” in French) Henri Nestlé. The product was first used on a premature baby who could not tolerate his mother’s milk or other alternative products of that time. Doctors gave up on treating the infant. Miraculously the baby tolerated Henri’s new formula and it provided the nourishment that saved his life. Within a few years the first Nestlé product was marketed in Europe. In 1874, Jules Monnerat purchased the Nestlé Company. Nestlé developed its own condensed milk to contend with its competitor, the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. The Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company made products like cheese and instant formulas. The two companies merged in 1905, the year after Nestlé added chocolate to its line of foods. The newly formed Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Milk Company had factories in the United States, Britain, Spain and Germany. Soon the company was full-scale manufacturing in Australia with warehouses in Singapore, Hong Kong and...
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