...John Updike's short story "A&P" is about a teenager who has to make a serious decision. The story is set in an A&P supermarket in a town north of Boston, probably about the year 1960. As the plot unfolds, Sammy changes from being a thoughtless and sexist boy to being a young man who can make a decision, even though it might hurt him. Sammy tells us he is nineteen years old. He is a check-out clerk in the local A&P, where the boss, Lengel, is a friend of Sammy's parents. Sammy does not seem to like his job very much. He calls one of his customers a "witch" and says the other customers are "houseslaves" and "sheep." He himself comes from a middle-class family. When they have a party, he says, they serve "lemonade and if it's a real racy affair Schlitz in tall glasses with 'They'll Do It Every Time' cartoons stencilled on" (15). In addition, Sammy is sexist. He gives long, loving descriptions of the girls who cause all the trouble, and he thinks at first that girls may not even have minds, asking, "do you really think it's a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar?" (13) However, he does change as the plot goes on. The plot of the story deals with three girls who come into the store dressed only in bathing suits. They make their entrance in the very first sentence, and they complicate Sammy's life. At first, Sammy, his older friend Stokesie, and McMahon the butcher all look at the girls lustfully. But of them all, only Sammy enjoys...
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...Manouchka St. George Professor Jonas ENG 113 June 4, 2013 Theme: “A & P” “A & P” by John Updike, is a short story presenting the main idea of man’s struggle to conquer individuality within society. Throughout the story, Updike uses symbolism to enhance the theme and focuses on one character, Sammy, a cashier who is enlightened by three girls breaking a store rule. Sammy symbolizes man’s discontent with the norms of society. This is evident in his sharp and critical observations about the people around him. His sarcastic wit also reveals his frustration. Sammy wants more out of life than being a checker of a small town supermarket job. He does not want to become like Lengel, the store manager, who enforces company standards regardless of the situation. Sammy, the narrator, is introduced as a grocery checker and an observer of the store's patrons. He finds himself fascinated by a particular group of girls. Assuming that they are just in from the beach, although there is not one close by, and still in their bathing suits, they are a stark contrast, to the otherwise plain store interior. As they go about their errands, Sammy observes the reactions, of the other customers, to this trio of young women. He uses the word "Sheep" to describe the store regulars, as they seem to follow one and other, in their actions and reactions. The girls, however, appear to be unique in all aspects of their beings, from walking, down the aisles to against the grain by going barefoot and in swim...
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...John Updike’s descriptive excerpt, A&P illustrates the effect on, how three girls dressed in bathing suits catches the attention and affects customers and works in a small-town grocery store. Three girls walk in A&P capturing everyone’s attention especially the men’s. This excerpt illustrates the strong effect women can have on men, how the effect can be broken and how this effect can change one’s view on life. Updike demonstrates how women have a strong effect on men, by having Sammy describe how his male co-workers gawking over the girls. As soon as the girls entered A&P they had the everyone’s full attention. Well at least every guy. Sammy describes how the girls caught his eye, “The one caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece.” He continues to describe her as well as the other girl’s bathing suits, figures, skin tones and a few other features. As you notice the first attribute that caught his eye about the girls were the fact that they were in bathing suits. He explains how all the other guys are gawking including his co-worker Stokesie. “Oh Daddy,” Stokesie said beside me. “I feel so faint.” Sammy doesn’t forget to mention how another worker sized the girls up after their encounter with him. The girls have a powerful effect on the men in the store causing them...
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...Shortly before her seventeenth birthday, K.P. confided in a family member that she had been repeatedly molested since she was twelve. She confessed that these incidents began in the late summer of 2002. In 2006, Steven W. Everling, then 33 years-old and stepfather to K.P., became a prime suspect in the case when K.P. established that her perpetrator had been Everling and later reported him to the police. Part of the allegation included Everling forcing K.P. into intercourse and other abusive sex acts that included: initiating sexual intercourse with her before her fourteenth birthday that continued until she was sixteen and performing oral sex. K.P. revealed that the delay in her confession was due to fear because Everling had previously threatened to kill her if she spoke out about the abuse. In August 2006, K.P. underwent clinical and mental health counseling in which they discovered that she had sustained injuries to her hymen and vagina from the continuous forced intercourse with Everling. Additionally, Charla Hazen and Dr. Timbali, K.P.’s clinician and psychiatrist, also emphasized that the sexual abuse K.P. experienced negatively affected her mental health. The medical examiners explained that K.P. appeared to have chronic and severe internalization of emotions, lack of distrust in others, post-traumatic stress disorder, long-lasting nightmares and sleeping problems. The police investigation began in February 2008 when Patrick Raigan, one of the leading prosecuting attorneys...
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...Hale questions why the South would stop short of disunion if they were so far prepared to put a certain man at the head of the Union. Hale then says that the senator from South Carolina, Mr. Calhoun, said, “[anti-slavery agitation] which, as is now acknowledged, has endangered the Union.” Hale then says this is not true. He then cites a newspaper called the “Union”: Before Texas was annexed, and the treason of John P. Hale to the Democrats, the party was free of any trace of abolition or “free-soilism” as the Democracy of Virginia. “[the Democrats] opposed all agitation of the slavery question, and they opposed the abolitionists in every form.” Hale says one thing that can’t be disputed is the fact that New Hampshire had just as little “abolitionism”...
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...As you grow, you learn. About your surroundings, your family, the world and yourself. In this short story, we learn about a young girl as she tells her story with youthful perspective and unique insight.“This is my mother: as the questions go on, she takes from her pocket document after document as if they will support my right to attend school, as if she had been saving them up for this moment” when she observes this situation, she can pick up on only what is visually shown to her. So then would a child know of world rank and race, or of their own parents? If the narration in this book were factual, what would the girl at five know about her surrounding world and the ecosystem of her own home? The first day by Edward p. Jones is a short story...
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...Jourdon Anderson was, I’m sure very happy with the end of the Civil War, and the fact that it brought him, and other members of his family their freedom from their masters. In the letter he wrote to Colonel P.H. Anderson, he was very descriptive on the horrific events that occurred while living on Colonel P.H. Anderson’s plantation. He mentions the time that Colonel P.H. Anderson shot at him twice for leaving his property, the horrible treatment they received while living and working there, especially with the young women. Jourdan seemed to have made it very clear that there was no way he, and his family would go back to live with the colonel unless he would offer a better, and safer living for the family, than he is getting in Ohio. He pretty much said, “Pay us the $11,680 you owe us for our work in the past, and I’ll consider the move back.” I don’t think Jourdon Anderson would have ever moved his family back to Tennessee as Colonel P.H. Anderson’s property. Mr. Anderson and his family seemed pretty content with what they had been offered in Dayton as far as their wages, clothing, adequate housing, friendships, safety, and education for his children. Jourdan has lost all trust and respect for the old master, rightfully so, and knows that if they were to move back to his plantation in Tennessee; there is no way he would give them a better living. He also doesn’t believe that his two daughters Milly, and Jane would be safe there as someone else’s property. He would rather starve...
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...Battle Joseph Professor Gary McDonald Comp Eng 111 April/9/2015 In P. Lorillard Company. v. The harmful effects of cigarettes was brought out by the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), most of the companies were big name cigarette companies. A research laboratory stated that no exact name brand of cigarettes was markedly more damaging and in other cases harmful to many others. Statistics show the comparison and the factor of how much nicotine and tar are in big cigarette companies. . Lorillard stated that his brand had for a fact the lowest amount of nicotine and tar in their cigarettes. In a 1950 a decision the change the rule of law, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding the commission's cease-and-desist order, it made them declared that Lorillard's advertising violated the FTC Act and its rule of law because, by printing small parts of the article, it created an entirely false and misleading impression giving people false information and false belief....
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...Patton v. Bellingham 38 P.2d 364 (Sub Ct. Wash. 1934) Patton operates a barber shop in a hotel and works as a barber at a shop. Patton hours at the hotel have been then same for several years. 8 am to 8 pm all week except for Saturdays which he is open from 8m am to 9 pm. Now the reason the barber stays opened beyond the ordinance time is because 1/3 of his business is done before or after the ordinance required time. His customers comes from all walks of life. Bellingham is a city of first class pursuant of the referenced law the city enforced ordinance #5333 which states that Barber shop, during the week, it is unlawful for a Barber Shop to be open earlier that 8 am and no later than 6 pm. During Saturday’s they are not close and later than 7 or days preceding a holiday....
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...The Office of Strategy Management. Harvard Business Review, 72-80. Kaplan, R.S. ve Norton, D. P. (2005). A Summary by Ogunmokun Oluwatobi (15500595) Introduction In many organizations, there is a disconnect between Strategy formulation and Strategy execution. This disconnects breeds a persistent gap between the ambition and the actual performance of these organizations. The statistics says it all. Seven out of eight global corporations fail to achieve profitable growth, though more than 90% have detailed strategic plans with much higher targets but no coherent approach to manage the execution of those plans. Why do we need the OSM? Companies that have achieved performance breakthroughs by adopting the Balanced Scorecard and its associated tools to help them better communicate strategy to their employees and to guide and monitor the execution of that strategy were studied. These organizations have typically established a new unit at the corporate level to oversee all strategy related activities; it is called Office of the Strategy Management (OSM). The OSM when created becomes the central point for coordinating and facilitating the process of communicating of corporate strategy; ensuring that enterprise-level plans are translated into the plans of the various units and departments; executing strategic initiatives to deliver on the grand plan; and aligning employees’ competency development plans, and their personal goals and incentives, with strategic objectives. Strategy...
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...Quality of Work Life Communicating HRM Policies to All Employees Maintaining Ethical Policies and Socially Responsible Behavior Managing Change Managing Increased Urgency and Faster Cycle Time Who Performs HRM Activities Outsourcing The Interaction of Operating and HR Managers HRM's Place in Management HR Department Operations HRM Strategy Clarifying Meaningful HRM Objectives HRM Policy HRM Procedures Organization of an HR Department Plan of the Book Summary Key Terms Questions for Review and Discussion Notes The Human Resource Manager and Managing Multiple Responsibilities Careers in HRM A Strategic Management Approach to Human Resource Management A Model to Organize HRM How to Take a Diagnosic Approach to HRM External Environmental Influences Government Law and Regulations The Union Economic Conditions p. iv p. 1 p. 2 p. 5 p. 7 p. 9 p. 10 p. 11 p. 11 p. 12 p. 12 p. 12 p. 12 p. 13 p. 13 p. 13 p. 14 p. 14 p. 15 p. 16 p. 16 p. 16 p. 17 p. 19 p. 19 p. 19 p. 21 p. 22 p. 22 p. 23 p. 23 p. 25 p. 28 p. 30 p. 33 p. 34 p. 35 p. 35 p. 36 p. 36 Competitiveness Composition and Diversity of the Labor Force Geographic Location of the Organization Internal Environmental Influences Strategy Goals Organization Culture Nature of the Task Work Group Leader's Style and Experience Strategic HRM: An Important Key to Success Strategic Challenges Facing HRM Technology Diversity: Building a Competitive Workforce Caliber of the...
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...lOMoARcPSD Summary: Book " Purchasing and Supply Chain Management ", Arjan J. van Weele Purchasing Management (Maastricht University) Distributing prohibited | Downloaded by Paulina Gali?ska (p.s.galinska@gmail.com) lOMoARcPSD No one cares if you are fair or not. Use this summary, share it with you friends and good luck studying for your exam. Summary Purchasing and Supply Chain Management – Van Weele 6th Edition Jonas Heller Distributing prohibited | Downloaded by Paulina Gali?ska (p.s.galinska@gmail.com) lOMoARcPSD Summary: Purchasing and Supply Chain Management 10/19/14 TABLE OF CONTENT Chapter 1: The Role of Purchasing in the Value Chain ............................................................................................................... 5 The role of Purchasing and in the Value Chain (P.5) .............................................................................................................. 5 Main differences between buying for primary activities and buying for support activities (P. 7): ........................................ 6 Definition of the concepts (p.7) ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Importance of Purchasing to Business (P.12): ....................................................................................................................... 7 Classification of purchasing goods (p. 15): ....
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...Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary 1 2.0 Introduction 2 3.0 Evaluation of the Tools 4 noobs generated summary 2 4.0 Evaluation of the word cloud 3 5.0 Evaluation of the 140 character summary 3 6.0 The reasons why I recommend these tools 4 6.1 The advantages of the Tools 4 noobs generated summary 4 6.2 The advantages of the word cloud 5 6.3 The advantages of the 140 character summary 5 7.0 Conclusion 5 8.0 Appendix 6 8.1 My humanly generated summary 6 8.2 Tools 4 noobs generated summary 6 8.3 The word cloud 8 8.4 The 140 character summary 8 9.0 Reference 8 1.0 Executive Summary The main purpose of this report is to evaluate Tools 4 noobs generated summary, the Wordle to generate a word cloud and the 140 character (Twitter style) summary by comparing them to my own summary. Information tool is the material basis for the implementation of information management, through the comprehensive information to refine and induct, then analyzed and compared, given the options of the principle of information tools to enable individuals to efficiently carry out information integration, improve the value of the individual in society and the organization (Earl, 2000). 2.0 Introduction There are two requirements to extract information: timely and accurate. Timely means that extracting information is sensitive, and rapidly provide the information needed in management activities (Lansdale, 2001). This includes...
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...strengths while working around external and internal weaknesses Wheelen / Hunger, 2010, p 224 SWOT Analysis SWOT- Strengths-WeaknessesOpportunities-Threats Strategy = opportunity / capacity Opportunity has no real value unless a company has the capacity to take advantage of that opportunity Wheelen / Hunger, 2010, p 224 Institut für Strategisches Management Distinctive Competency – Success ? A distinctive competency in a key resource or key capability of a company is no guarantee for a competitive advantage Weaknesses in other resource areas can prevent strategy from being successful Wheelen / Hunger, 2010, p 224 Institut für Strategisches Management SWOT - Analysis Broader view of strategy SA = O / (S – W) Strategic Alternative = Opportunity : Strengths – Weaknesses More investment in strengths to make them stronger ? More investment in weaknesses to at least make them competitive ? Wheelen / Hunger, 2010, p 224 Institut für Strategisches Management Criticisms of SWOT analysis Generates lengthy lists Uses no weights to reflect priorities Uses ambiguous words and phrases Same factor can be in 2 categories No obligation to verify opinion with data or analysis Requires only a single level of analysis No logical link to strategy implementation Wheelen / Hunger, 2010, p 224 Institut für Strategisches Management Strategic Factor Analysis Summary SFAS summarizes an organization’s strategic factors by combining the external factors...
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...| Did it Fly | American | Continental | Delta | United | Total | Yes | 48 | 69 | 68 | 25 | 210 | No | 52 | 41 | 62 | 35 | 190 | Total | 100 | 110 | 130 | 60 | 400 | | | | | | | Expected | Airline | | | | | | American | Continental | Delta | United | | Yes | 52.5 | 57.75 | 68.25 | 31.5 | 210 | No | 47.5 | 52.25 | 61.75 | 28.5 | 190 | | | | | | | CHI SQ | American | Continental | Delta | United | | YES | 0.385714286 | 2.19155844 | 0.000916 | 1.34127 | 3.919458 | NO | 0.426315789 | 2.4222488 | 0.001012 | 1.482456 | 4.332033 | | | | | | 8.251491 | | | | | | | | df=(n-1)(m-1)=(2-1)(4-1) | | | | | | | | | | | | chidist= | 0.04109026 | | | | Chapter 12 #5 SUMMARY OUTPUT | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Regression Statistics | | | | | | | | Multiple R | 0.877498417 | | | | | | | | R Square | 0.770003471 | | | | | | | | Adjusted R Square | 0.731670716 | | | | | | | | Standard Error | 5.383266912 | | | | | | | | Observations | 8 | | | | | | |...
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