...After many years, a nostalgic man returns to a childhood vacation in an attempt to relive his memories with his son. Upon arriving, the lake seems untouched by time, but the small changes of the modern age did not live up to his idealized expectations. Through his son, he notices his childhood paradise has been altered and realizes the passing of his youth. In “Once More to the Lake” E.B. White’s descriptive visual imagery reflects both the continuity and changes of his childhood retreat. Through an assortment of vivid images, White paints the lake the “same as he left it" in nostalgic and reverence. With phrases such as “hills that the sun set behind” and the “cool and motionless” lake, White establishes a portrait of the beauty of an unchanging nature. His metaphor of comparing the lake to the “stillness of a cathedral” arrested time in his childhood utopia. The writer is convinced that “there had been no years [passed]” when he takes his son fishing, similar to how his father did. When he lowered the tip of his fishing rod “into the water, tentatively, pensively dislodging the fly, which darted two feet away, poised,” White asserts that “everything was as it always been, that the years were a mirage.” However, as White begins comparing his memories to his experience of revisiting the lake with his son, he confronts multiple changes. For example, walking with his son through the “teeming, dusty field,” White notices “the middle track was missing.” The absence of the “marks...
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...The temptation to live in our memories, rather than except the present somehow keeps us from the realization that we are aging at all. E.B. White's essay Once More to the lake, evokes tones of pleasure and melancholy as he examines the relationships between father and son, realizing that past memories have an enormous effect on the present, and finally concluding that mankind has a foolish way of letting death sneak upon us. White's essay is about a man recounting his childhood summer's at the Lake with his family; his narrative is calm and unassuming. The essay begins with the yearning to relive secure memories of simple happiness. White's main character states, " I have since become a salt-water man, but sometimes in summer...
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...Analyzing Once More to the Lake In E.B. White’s Once More to the Lake, White is continually questioning his own mortality and identity. The theme of White’s essay is the passage of time and the changes that occur. After returning to the lake from being absent for so many years, White relives the memories from the lake he visited as a child. At times he would catch himself living a duel existence. White is trapped between a world that seems impermeable to changes yet realizing his own acceptances of life. White’s childhood memories of the lake leads him to realize his own mortality. When reading White’s essay it is prevalently clear that he would relive the lake through his son, Joe. White finds it difficult to distinguish himself from his...
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...Growing up is difficult; everyone can agree on that. It's something that everyone has to go through, but it is needed to become a more emotionally mature adult. The narrator of "Once More to the Lake" realizes how much he has grown up when he takes his son to "a camp on a lake in Maine". The narrator grows up, but everything at the camp is mostly the same. Symbolism of the setting, characterization, and the structure of the story, reveals a theme of growing up is difficult to accept until it happens. Everything about "[this] camp on a lake in Maine" is mostly the same physically, but for the narrator, it's emotionally different. "[He] could tell that is was going to be pretty much the same as it [had] been before." He remembered everything about the camp like how it was when he was younger, but he was no longer a child. He was now an adult. He was seeing his new experience at the camp through his son's eyes, but now he was the father in the situation. "[The...
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...simulation when phytoplankton die. 7.1. Based on your sampling, what do Bosmina in the lake eat? Green Algae. 7.2. Based on your sampling, what do Daphnia in the lake eat? Green Algae. 7.3. Based on your sampling, what do Trout in the lake eat? Daphnia and Bosmina. 8.1. After reading the above statement, did you miss any species in your gut content sampling? If so, which ones? The specie I missed was cyanobacteria. Exercise 2: P in the Water. 3.1. When the simulation stops, record the population size of green algae (from the graph), and the dissolved oxygen (DO) level. Phosphorus input | Green Algae Population Size | Dissolved Oxygen (Mg/L) | 1x | 184 | 6.8 | 2x | 335 | 3.8 | 3x | 487 | 1.7 | 6.2. Draw a line graph of your green algae population size data to show how green algae relate to phosphorus input levels. 6.3. Does the relationship between green algae population size and phosphorus level indicate that phosphorus was a limiting nutrient for green algae in the lake? Explain. Yes it does indicate that phosphorus is a limiting nutrient. With phosphorus at a normal level the green algae population does not increase in size too much. As we add more phosphorus the population size increases dramatically. 6.4. Draw a line graph showing how oxygen relates to phosphorus population size. 6.5. What is the relationship between dissolved oxygen and phosphorus in the lake? The higher the level of phosphorus is the lower the dissolved oxygen is. 6.5...
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...evaluate the ethical dilemma surrounding the product offering of Great Lakes Chemical Corporation. The company produces tetraethyl lead (TEL), which is an additive for gasoline. Surmounting studies from the past few decades have proven the extensive harmful effects leaded gasoline has on the environment, which has caused considerable vocal opposition from environmental organizations against the company. The dilemma arises in the fact that TEL is a huge financial success for Great Lakes; the company controls 90% of the market and the product accounts for 59% of their annual profit. Great Lakes should cease all operations involving the sale of TEL and focus on being a responsible corporate citizen. They will need to reinvest their resources on penetrating new markets, using their existing products as well as new products made possible by the special bromine production process of their subsidiary company Octel Associates. The distribution of TEL has given Great Lakes a very negative brand image. They have the chance to reverse that image by exiting an ethically unappealing market on their own terms. The company has a successful history of entering foreign markets and adapting to regulations overseas. This plan of action is feasible because Great Lakes is already so financially sound and is established as an international corporation with contacts across the globe. Situational Analysis Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, originally McClanahan Oil Company, was founded in...
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...a Walk in my Shoes: An Analysis of William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote, "And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me."”(A)The quote couples well with the simple pleasures found in William Wordsworth’s poem titled “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. On “April 15, 1802, Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, were walking near a lake at Grasmere, Cumbria County, England”(B). While walking the coastline, Wordsworth stumbles upon a sea of daffodils swaying in the wind. In his poem Wordsworth sits on his couch thinking back to this experience, appreciating how lovely it was. Through careful choice of metaphors, similes, personification, and diction, William Wordsworth guides the reader through his experience walking with the daffodils. Wordsworth puts to use poetic devices to give the reader a clear image of what he was seeing that day by the water. Not only does he want the reader to feel his emotions, but to stand in his shoes and experience the moment with him. In the first stanza, we are given a wealth of imagery to set the scene. The author wanders through “vales and hills, When all at once [he] saw a crowd/A host, of golden daffodils.” Here the author uses alliteration to demonstrate to the reader that the daffodils come to view as a group as if he is summiting a hill and they wait on the other side, hiding from behind the hill. The daffodils are situated “Beside the lake, [and] beneath the trees...
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...The Great Lakes: Great Decision Rita Stroud-Lipsey Strayer University Professor: Dr. Barry Adkins BUS 499—Business Administration Capstone January 13, 2012 Introduction The main purpose of this essay is to analyze the social/demographic, technological, economic, environment/geographic and political/legal/governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. It will also describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. It will then analyze the lead additives industry in the U.S. using the Five Forces of Competition Model. The Five Forces will display the impact it has on the industry based on the analysis, in which it can then be determined if the industry is attractive or unattractive. Next this essay will describe who Great Lakes’ immediate, impending, and invisible competitors are and how Great Lakes measures up against these competitors. For the conclusion it will describe the main capabilities of Great Lakes. Great Lakes: Great Decision Perform an analysis of the social/demographic, technological, economic, environmental/geographic, and political/legal/governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. Social/Demographic Social/Demographic: Great decisions are constantly being debated for the Great Lakes as to what factors tend to affect the Social and Demographic segment. Socially our society...
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... Analysis of Alternatives V. Detailed Recommendations VI. Answer to Case Questions VII. Learnings 1. Summary of Findings II. Background Information CJ Industries got the opportunity to provide Great Lakes Pleasure Boats with key engine components for their line of pleasure boats. They earned this through the culmination of several years of hard work and dedicated service, the development of a strong buyer-supplier relationship with Great Lakes and this 5-year, $10 million per year contract offers them the chance to have an extended relationship if they can satisfy Great Lakes’ needs. The opportunity given to CJI is very critical for the success of their company, and the principal goal of the company should be to fully satisfy the requirements of the contract with Great Lakes, and secure their future business with Great Lakes. CJI has been doing most manufacturing in-house, however, they have been sourcing their bilge pumps out to Heavey Pumps on an informal basis. Heavey has been a reliable supplier, however, their company is small and the expanded business will stress their production capabilities, so CJI has been planning whether to build the pumps in-house, or continue to subcontract them. III. Problem Statement Normally, CJI orders a batch of 50 bilge pumps eight to ten weeks ahead of time which occurred every four to six months. However, there is a new demand now of 50 pumps per month or more depending...
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...Perform an analysis of the Social/Demographic, Technological, Economic, Environmental/Geographic, and Political/Legal/Governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. Social Demographic Great Lakes began as a small oil and gas exploration company named McClanahan Oil Company. It was based in Michigan. In 1948 Charles Hale took over the company and changed it into a chemical and bromine business. In 1958 Emerson Kampden became the CEO. Hale found bromine and rich deposits in Arkansas. The company subsidiary with Octel Associates allowed the company to produce lead additives which afforded it the opportunity for growth. The company went from $50 million in revenues to a multinational company with $1.8 billion in sales. Technological Great Lakes was the top bromine business. This product allowed Great Lakes to produce a wide array of products as well as household items. Great Lakes also produced several specialty chemicals. Some examples of its products are water treatments, specialty household cleaners, polymer stabilizers, and performance chemicals. Octel gave the company the push it needed by producing tetraethyl lead (TEL). Octel produced lead additives. These additives were used as color stabilizers and as fire retardants. The salt water and bromine extraction process is what made the company international. Economics Some countries were developed and some were not...
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...Yingxi Chen German 380 Dec 5th, 2012 No path to the Lake An analysis of Elisabeth’s alienation in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Three Paths to the Lake Three paths to the Lake is a story by Ingeborg Bachmann published in 1973. In the story, the female protagonist Elisabeth Matreis is a world-renowned photojournalist reaching her fifties. Frustrated after attending her brother Robert's wedding in London, she took a vacation back to her hometown Klagenfurt in South Austria. Elisabeth tried to hike to the lake of her childhood memory through different trails with the help of an outdated map, and she reflected in terms of her past during the trips. In the end, she found out all paths to the lake were destroyed by Germans building Autobahn. The lake she wanted to reach also serves as a metaphor for “Heimat”(home), and salvation of her inner life. There was no path to the lake, so there is no path to Elisabeth's salvation—each of them has been destroyed in their own ways. In this paper, I attempt to analyze Elisabeth’s inner morass and alienation through her geographic and the language deterritorialization associated with Heimatlosigkeit, and substantiate them with the recollections between her and her former lover Franz Joseph Eugen Trotta. In the beginning of the story, Elisabeth was exhausted from the "bad time she'd had" in London (Bachmann 129), desperately seeking an escape back to her childhood home and 1 Yingxi Chen visiting...
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...Business Administration Capstone – BUS Affiliation Here 499 Assignment 1 Great Lakes Great Decisions Strayer University April 15, 2012 Abstract The Great Lakes Great Decision case is about the social responsibility a company leader would have to face, based on her decision on joining one of the top lead addictive producers Octel & Associates. It narrows down to two questions. Does the company end production of the lead addictive, since there have been added pressure from the environmentalist? Or do she continue for the benefit of the company’s profits and earning? Although originally a gas and oil exploration company, Great Lakes has had it changes throughout the years, since being founded in the early 1930s. Today, there are they are a top lead addictive producer, ever since the purchase of the company Octel in 1997, which in fact never sat well with US environmentalist. The Case 1.) Perform an analysis of the social / demographic, technological, economic, environmental / geographic, and political / legal / governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. The Analysis of the Social/demographic- The primary consumers of the products produced by Great Lakes—especially lead additives—comes from developing/third world countries. Although the case study does not specifically comment on the demographics of these countries or the social status of their people, it is presumed...
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...“A brilliant light burned all around him, the lake itself like a fiery flame.” The story of Beowulf is of a hero saving innocent people from monsters by killing them. Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic; it is a story about heroism, honor, glory, goodness and the fight against evil. The hero of the story is warrior Beowulf. Beowulf has to fight three evil monsters throughout his life in the story. Beowulf, the hero and main character of the story had to fight a giant monster, Grendel with his bare hands, Grendel’s mother with a giant’s sword, and a fire-breathing dragon. He is the strongest amongst all men. His fuel for fighting these monsters is the unending thirst for glory; glory he could die for, glory that a lord seeks. His heroic abilities were present from the start. Beowulf’s character is described as if he were god. Beowulf is a form of god descended from the sky to send the demons to their final destination, hell. Beowulf’s resume includes killing sea monsters and giants. This clearly depicts the fact that he is a man with great power. Throughout the epic, Beowulf has been characterized as a supreme and divine man, a god in form of man. The quote from the epic ”a brilliant light burned all around him”, a phrase from The Battle with Grendel’s Mother, clearly means that the divine light is shone upon Beowulf to protect him and destroy evil. The powers only god could have. The clear light represents life, glowing, and guiding lord Beowulf find evil. It guides the all-powerful...
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...Customer Relationship Management at Maruti Suzuki Submitted on 20-Feb-2012 Group#08 (Section B) Basu Agarwal Bikram Satapathy Saloni Goel Shruti Mishra Srinivas Dhenuvukonda (FT12416) (FT12417) (FT12455) (FT12462) (FT12467) Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai 1 Index Page 1.0 2.0 Introduction Various Technologies at Maruti Suzuki Level of CRM 3.0 Analytical CRM 3.1 3.2. 3.3 3.4 4.0 Data base Direct marketing-Data analysis Cross-selling of various value added services 5 5 6 6 3 4 Customer Retention for Service at dealers, satisfaction, thereby, sales retention for the future 7 8 10 10 10 Operational CRM 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Campaign management for promoting the special offers SX4 Pre-launch Campaign management on MSD CRM 4.0 Insights for Dealer Development Division (DDD) & used car division (TRUE VALUE) Loyalty card implementation (Auto card) 11 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 Strategic CRM Philosophical CRM Challenges addressed by MS Dynamics CRM 4.0 Future challenges of Maruti’s CRM 11 12 14 14 Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai 2 1.0 Introduction Maruti Suzuki is the Indian passenger car market leader for several decades. It has crossed the 10 million cumulative domestic sales mark here today. It is the only automobile company in India to cross this milestone. The Company, which had rolled out its first car in December 1983, attained 5 million domestic sales in February 2006. The next 5 million domestic sales have been achieved in six years...
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...Customer Relationship Management at Maruti Suzuki Submitted on 20-Feb-2012 Group#08 (Section B) Basu Agarwal Bikram Satapathy Saloni Goel Shruti Mishra Srinivas Dhenuvukonda (FT12416) (FT12417) (FT12455) (FT12462) (FT12467) Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai 1 Index Page 1.0 2.0 Introduction Various Technologies at Maruti Suzuki Level of CRM 3.0 Analytical CRM 3.1 3.2. 3.3 3.4 4.0 Data base Direct marketing-Data analysis Cross-selling of various value added services 5 5 6 6 3 4 Customer Retention for Service at dealers, satisfaction, thereby, sales retention for the future 7 8 10 10 10 Operational CRM 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Campaign management for promoting the special offers SX4 Pre-launch Campaign management on MSD CRM 4.0 Insights for Dealer Development Division (DDD) & used car division (TRUE VALUE) Loyalty card implementation (Auto card) 11 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 Strategic CRM Philosophical CRM Challenges addressed by MS Dynamics CRM 4.0 Future challenges of Maruti’s CRM 11 12 14 14 Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai 2 1.0 Introduction Maruti Suzuki is the Indian passenger car market leader for several decades. It has crossed the 10 million cumulative domestic sales mark here today. It is the only automobile company in India to cross this milestone. The Company, which had rolled out its first car in December 1983, attained 5 million domestic sales in February 2006. The next 5 million domestic sales have been achieved in six years...
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