...utilize the availability of this information and integrate according functionalities in to their websites, creating a better experience and positively influencing sales. But although revenues in online shops are increasing, physical stores still retain their attractiveness to customers. A reason for that is certainly that the overall shopping experience created in a shopping mall or a corner store is very different from shopping with a web browser. As for a traditional travel guide book publisher, Lonely Planet, it also can use this good opportunity to release new product in order to change customers’ ideas about this company, which can help the company to change its impression of traditional consumers. Besides, it can also address consumers’ concerns about the timelessness and currency because the new products that used in mobile devices can provide real-time information and update information constantly, which traditional travel books cannot do. Requirement 2 As we know from the case, Lonely Planet was always looking for ways to expand its market and brand image through new technologies. For example, it offers audio phrasebooks and city guides that can be downloaded to several brands of smart phones....
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...Flash animations in sites such as these. Consider the retailer’s objectives, the characteristics of the products being sold, and the type of customers who visit these sites. Case 1. Lonely Planet In 1972, Tony and Maureen Wheeler were newlyweds who decided to have one last adventurous travel experience before settling down. Their trip was an overland trek from London to Australia through Asia. So many other travelers asked them about their experiences that they sat down at their kitchen table and wrote a book titled Across Asia on the Cheap. They published the book themselves and were surprised by how many copies they sold. More than three decades and 60 million books later, their publishing enterprise has turned out to be one of the most successful in history. The Wheelers’ publishing company, Lonely Planet, has grown rapidly, with typical annual sales increases of 20 percent or more. In 2007, BBC Worldwide purchased a 75 percent ownership interest in the company and purchased the rest of the company’s stock in 2011. Lonely Planet TV now produces a variety of travel and documentary programs that appear on cable networks throughout the world. As a BBC subsidiary, the company does not release sales figures, but industry analysts estimate current annual revenues to be about $110 million. Lonely Planet publishes more than 600 titles and holds a 20 percent share of the travel guide market. The company has more than 450 employees in its UK, U.S., French, and Australian offices...
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...Lonely Planet Lonely planet is one of the largest publishers of travel guide books in the world. The company was originally founded by an adventurous newly married English couple, Tony and Maureen Wheeler who travelled to Asia and then Australia in 1970s and after years of struggle the company grew internationally with success. In this essay, it is tried to study the environment of this company with the emphasis on management concepts which were studied in “Competitive Advantage through People” course. More specifically, the purpose of this essay is to consider Lonely Planet and apply the concepts of trust, intrinsic motivators and stakeholders management to it. It is very important for managers to develop a better understanding of building trust in their organization, since lack of trust between employees and managers can reduce the productivity. Not only that, trust between staff people within the company itself can also lead to increase in trust of brand. The products of Lonely Planet were in the way that attracted many travelers in the world that influenced them to trust the Lonely Planet brand. One of the main slogans of Lonely Planet is “Honest, trusted travel content that spans the globe”. This exhibits that the company stresses significantly on both honesty and trust which has inspired travelers to explore the world for over 30 years by now. In other words, brand loyalty of Lonely Planet due to trust by word of mouth is attracted and encouraged many people...
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...knowledge among his employees as an important resource because he makes them feel comfortable and secure and make them feel that he wanted them. 3. What steps might Original Penguin as a company take ensure the satisfaction of its employees? - The company must give credits to the accomplishments of the employees by acknowledging their efforts and by giving them rewards or something. The free flow of ideas must still be there and respect and treat everyone as they wish to be treated. Communication with one another must remain intact to ensure that the employees are satisfied with what they do, and making sure that they still have the same goal/s for the success of the company. Video Case 2: Lonely Planet Travels the World Questions: 1. Identify at least three ways that Lonely Planet can benefit from the use of technology...
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...Mock Behavioral Research Paper On Hamilton Howard “Albert” Fish AJS/584 Professor Steven Hoenig 3-14-2016 Serial killers is a person that kill three or more people in a short amount of time. He or she murder one after another in a similar way with an inactive period between each murder. The motivation for murdering an adult or child is based on psychological gratification. The serial killer is normally an adult white male in his late twenties, who has killed four or more individuals in separate incident with an inactive period between. It is impossible to tell just by looking at a person who will become a serial killer, the traits of some criminals or serial killers appear to be similar most of the time. The types of behaviors includes violence in the home, sexual assaults, molestation, alcohol and drug abuse, lying, animal cruelty, and a history of bedwetting. The types of serial killers are as follow. Thrill seekers are individuals that are smarter then law enforcement and think of it as a game, enjoy the media, attention seeker, police pursuit, and avoiding authorities. They send messages and keep record of the murders. Mission oriented serial killers an individual that think or claim they are doing society a favor by killing people like prostitutes. Power and Control serial killer are individual that get a kick out of or enjoy the victim’s terror, suffering, and screaming. The chareristics of a serial killer are often subject to debate. As stated in an earlier...
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...Plot Overview The first chapter of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter introduces us to John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, two good friends who live together in a town in the Deep South and who are both deaf-mutes. Antonapoulos works in his cousin's fruit store, and Singer works as a silver engraver in a jewelry shop. They spend ten years living together in this way. One day Antonapoulos gets sick, and even after he recovers he is a changed man. He begins stealing and urinating on buildings, and exhibiting other erratic behavior. Finally, Antonapoulos's cousin sends him to a mental asylum, although Singer would rather have Antonapoulos stay with him. After Antonapoulos leaves, Singer moves into a local boarding house in town run by a family named the Kellys. The narrator then introduces us to Biff Brannon, the proprietor of the New York Café, the establishment in town where Singer now eats all his meals. Biff is lounging on the counter watching a new patron named Jake Blount, as the constantly drunk Jake is intriguing. Blount goes over and sits with Singer and begins talking to him as though the two are good friends. Then Singer leaves. Once Jake realizes in his drunken stupor that Singer has left, he goes into an alley and begins beating his head and fists against a brick wall until he is bruised and bloody. The police bring Jake back to the café, and Singer volunteers to let the drunk stay the night with him. The narrative shifts to the perspective of Mick Kelly, the young teenage...
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...Search Enoch Arden by Lord Alfred Tennyson Published 1864 Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a moulder'd church; and higher A long street climbs to one tall-tower'd mill; And high in heaven behind it a gray down With Danish barrows; and a hazelwood, By autumn nutters haunted, flourishes Green in a cuplike hollow of the down. Here on this beach a hundred years ago, Three children of three houses, Annie Lee, The prettiest little damsel in the port, And Philip Ray the miller's only son, And Enoch Arden, a rough sailor's lad Made orphan by a winter shipwreck, play'd Among the waste and lumber of the shore, Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets, Anchors of rusty fluke, and boats updrawn, And built their castles of dissolving sand To watch them overflow'd, or following up And flying the white breaker, daily left The little footprint daily wash'd away. A narrow cave ran in beneath the cliff: In this the children play'd at keeping house. Enoch was host one day, Philip the next, While Annie still was mistress; but at times Enoch would hold possession for a week: `This is my house and this my little wife.' `Mine too' said Philip `turn and turn about:' When, if they quarrell'd, Enoch stronger-made Was master: then would Philip, his blue eyes All flooded with the helpless wrath of tears, Shriek out `I hate you...
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...Duffy’s poem ‘whoever she was’ it suggests to be a nostalgic poem of someone without an identity, with the ‘whoever’ suggesting a careless attitude towards the character. Similarly in Pugh’s poem ‘hello’ the title suggests loneliness and the character wanting to create a relationship with someone. Duffy’s ‘whoever she was’ is written predominantly in third person, to create a careless attitude and detach the reader from the character, emphasising the lack of her relationship. However, Duffy uses a confusion of pronouns, ‘she, myself, I’ to exaggerate her confusion over her identity. Pugh’s poem is also written in third person, as we get to hear the onlooker’s views towards the man, emphasising that people don’t really understand that he’s lonely. However Duffy’s poem ‘Mrs Lazarus’ is written in first person, allowing the reader to emphasise and connect more with what is happening throughout the poem, and also Mrs Lazarus’s feelings. Imagery is used in Duffy’s poem to present the uncomfortable memories of the character. ‘Clumsy tongue’ gives the impression that these memories of the past relationship are hurtful to her. The contrasting imagery of ‘six silly ladies torn in half by baby fists’ suggests an abrupt end to the relationship with her children. The innocence of ‘six silly’ massively clashes with ‘torn in half’ to emphasize the idea of the relationship being unfixable, as it was ‘torn’. ‘She shapes a church steeple in the air’ is powerful imagery, as I believe that it relates...
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...I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth uses many literary devices in his poetry; especially in “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. In this work, Wordsworth uses personification, metaphors, and repetition. Wordsworths uses these three literary devices to get the reader interested in what he has to say . Wordsworth even shows how he feels when he uses these in a certain way. By doing these things Wordsworth begins to build a picture of his surroundings in the audience’s mind. “I Wandered as Lonely as a Cloud” becomes more than just a poem it becomes art. The first line portrays a wonderful use of personification “I wandered lonely as a cloud”(line 1) immediately creates a sense of melancholy.Wordsworth compares himself to a cloud, a cloud being lonely and wandering across the sky. He starts his poem bold by immediately making the reader wonder if he might be sad. Being compared to a cloud is like being compared to the air, a whole bundle of nothing. He makes readers understand that he is more of a serious writer “his style tends more toward an Arnoldian “High Seriousness” than toward a playful tour de force of language” (Joplin 1). Personification is used once more in the first stanza he writes of floating over hills and valleys and looking down and seeing “A host of daffodils...fluttering and dancing in the breeze”.(line 4-6 ) It starts to show that daffodils have significance to him it makes the reader wonder “why?”. When Wordsworth talks of the host or crowd of daffodils...
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...I wandered lonely as a cloud" In the first stanza the speaker describes a time when he meandered over the valleys and hills, "lonely as a cloud." Finally, he came across a crowd of daffodils stretching out over almost everything he could see, "fluttering and dancing in the breeze": I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. In the second stanza the speaker goes into more detail about the daffodils. They reminded him of the Milky Way, because there were so many flowers packed together that they seemed to be neverending. The speaker guesses that there were ten thousand daffodils, which were "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance": Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. In the third stanza the speaker compares the waves of the lake to the waves of daffodils and decides that even though the lake is "sparkling," the daffodils win because they have more "glee." He then comments that he, like any other poet, could not help but be happy "in such a jocund company." He looked at the scene for a long time, but while he was there he was unable to understand what he had gained from the experience: The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the...
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...Justin Bieber has served as inspiration to everyone since he discover by Scooter Braun last 2008. In fact, his songs are his big factor why every girls have "BIEBER FEVER" plus his good-looking. Justin Bieber songs like Baby, One Time, One Less Lonely Girl, Never Say Never, Eenie Meenie and Pray were some of his popular songs that earned millions views at YouTube. These certify how everyone, girls and boys love his songs. In addition to this, I first saw him when I watched and listened to the "We are the World (Haiti)" by late Michael Jackson and he really caught my heart with his angel voice, because of that I started searching him on YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia. Justin Bieber always dedicated his songs not only to all Beliebers but also to his family. Like his songWhere are you now that he dedicated him to his father. Down to Earth to his parents who divorced when he was young. As a matter of fact, Justin and his songs are great factors of who I am today. He told me to NEVER SAY NEVER when there's gonna be times in my life when people tell me that I can't live with my dreams. And when I listen to his song ONE LESS LONELY GIRL, I really felt that I am the one who tell him in the song. And when I first listened to his new release song PRAY, the song told me that there's always hope to everyone. Everyone can change for a better and ask help and guide to the Lord to do this via talking/praying to Him. Lastly, I always listened also to his song...
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...Jenna Nacht I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth In the first stanza of the poem, Wordsworth is wandering a lake along when he comes upon a crowd of daffodils. In this first stanza, Wordsworth characterizes the daffodils to be “golden” rather than just yellow. This suggests a sort of glowing, just as angles would. He also gives the flowers human characteristics when he describes them to be “fluttering” and “dancing.” The personification of the daffodils creates a In the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, techniques such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification are used to display Wordsworth’s deep love of nature and the joy it brings to him. This lyric poem recalls the deep feelings and emotions of Wordsworth while he was walking beside a lake and came upon a “never-ending” line of daffodils. The emotions expressed by Wordsworth through these techniques suggest that nature’s beauty uplifts the human spirit. By using metaphors and similes, Wordsworth creates these associations between himself, nature, and spirituality. Wordsworth begins using these techniques in the title and first line of the poem when he says “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (line 1). The poet feels lonely in the sense that he is separated from the rest of the world. We all know that clouds cannot be lonely, which is why it seems that the speaker is projecting his own loneliness onto the clouds. In stanza 2 of the poem, Wordsworth creates a simile between...
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...The Life of Justin Bieber “Baby, baby, baby, oh, I thought you’d always be mine.” Anybody could sing these lyrics, but no one could ever do it as well as Justin Bieber. Every time I hear a Justin Bieber song on the radio, I find myself singing along with a smile on my face. Although he is worshiped for his good looks and amazing voice, Justin has much more to offer his fans. Justin Bieber is my hero because he is a successful pop star and an inspiring person. He has had the split second where his reputation became bad, and people had brought him down, but now he’s back at the top. Yes, Justin Bieber may be one of the most popular pop singers, but he tries to be a normal kid, works hard, and shares his wealth with people in need, and still makes time with his family. These are just some of the reasons why the pop star Justin Bieber is my hero. The first thing that impresses me about Justin Bieber is that although he is extremely famous, under all that fame there is still a real person who cares deeply about his friends and family. Even though Justin’s two best friends and most of his family live in Canada, he tries to see them as often as he can. He tries to at least take off one day a week to just hang out with friends and family and play basketball and video games. Also, even though Justin is a huge star, he still lives under his mothers rules. Many may think he gets to do whatever he wants whenever he wants; however, Justin’s mother, Pattie Mallette treats...
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...Download Lagu 1. (00:04:00) - (VBR 287 kbit/s) Justin Bieber Duet With Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (Superfestive!) 2. (00:02:53) - (VBR 234 kbit/s) Justin Bieber - Someday At Christmas 3. Intro (01:36) 4. 5. I Gotta Feeling / Stereo Hearts (01:55) 6. Valerie / Torn (02:55) 7. Shot In The Dark (1:27) 8. Dance Dance Dance 9. We Can Work It Out (2:15) 10. Help (2:12) 11. Can’t Buy Me Love (2:08) 12. A Hard Days Night (2:34) 13. Innocent 14. Christmases When You Were Mine" 15. Safe sounds Ringtone 1. Come in with the rain 2. fearless 3. You’re Not Alone 4. Worldwide 5. Time Of Our Life 6. This Is Our Someday 7. Superstar 8. Stuck 9. Paralyzed 10. Nothing No Matters 11. No Idea 12. Intermission 13. If I Ruled The World 14. I Know You Know 15. Elevate 16. Cover Girl 17. Count On You 18. Better With You 19. Any Kind Of Guy 20. All Over Again 21. Gotta Find You 22. SOS 23. Be Alright 24. Christmas Love 25. Common Denominator 26. Down To Earth 27. Fa La La Acapella 28. One Time Acapella 29. Hummingbird Heartbeat 30. Part Of Me 31. We will Not Grow 32. Always Be My Baby 33. The Lazy Song 34. Call Me Maybe 35. Waiting Outside The Lines 36. Barricade 37. Mean Girls 38. One Thing Acoustic 39. Another World 40. Everything About You 41. Forever Young ...
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...I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud NEW CRITICISM Introduction Shortly after Poems in Two Volumes (1807) appeared, Wordsworth worried about readers misinterpreting "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (Letters 174, 194-95). Still concerned in 1815, he attached a note to the poem in his first Collected Works. "The subject of these stanzas," he asserted, "is rather an elementary feeling and simple impression [...] upon the imaginative faculty, than an exertion of it" (qtd. in Stillinger 539). Some critics have basically followed Wordsworth's lead: To Jack Stillinger the mental experience embodied by the poem is simple and ordinary (544), and to John Milstead the first three stanzas exemplify merely "a physical stimulus-and-response mechanism" through which the poet remains "passive" . Nevertheless, in the preface to the 1815 collection Wordsworth not only argues that the imagination is ruled by "sublime consciousness" (Stillinger 486), but he also places "I Wandered" among poems categorized by "Imagination." Indeed, many critics ignore Wordsworth's comments on the poem and instead read it as representing a moment in nature of spiritual insight that recurs during a later imaginative re-creation (Joplin 68-69, Stallknecht 81-82, Hartman 5). More precisely, though, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" dramatizes an experience of the sublime in its first three stanzas, which the poet recollects and re-experiences as a "spot of time" in the last stanza. Like other sublime...
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