...LIFE OF PI (BOOK REVIEW) PRESENTED BY : Raja Haider Ali (29658) Shayan Bashir (30205) Abdul Hannan(28919) Abdul samad(28115) Submitted to: MAAM PARVEEN PASHA Biography of Yann Martel How does he look like? I think he looks better with his hair cropped Birth date: June 25, 1963 He’s a Quebecer His first language is French. This is evident in Life of Pi constituting Pi’sname, Piscine, which is French for ‘swimming pool’ and denotes Pi’s mamaji love for pools and his father enthusiasm for them. As an adolescent he attended high school at Trinity College School a boarding school in Port Hope, Ontario. That’s a day after my birthday Meaning he’s French Canadian As an adult, Martel has spent time in Iran, Turkey and India. Not only that Martelimmersed himself in the Indian culture to accurately create his main character. Life of Pi is set in India and Pi’s childhood is stein Pondicherry, a state of India. It is a former French colony in India. The actual zoos in Pondicherry does not have any animals larger than a deer. The other places in India that are referenced in the novel are Manner (the destination for the Patel families vacation) in Kerala, and Madurai in Tamil Nadu. Martel spent 13 months in India visiting mosques, churches, temples and zoos, and spent two years reading religious texts and castaway stories. This is where and how he acquired his vast knowledge of multiple Religions. As a child, Pie braced multiple religions, namely Christianity, Islam and...
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...MALHOTRA SEC-H 11BSPHH010930 PROJECT ON PLACE & PROMOTION, C.S.R, SOCIAL MEDIA OF Place Strategy of Samsung The place strategy of Samsung is of three types: * It follows intensive distribution. * It follows selective distribution. * It follows exclusive distribution. The place strategy also includes * 24 state level distribution offices * Direct Dealer interface * Regional dispatch centers(RDC) Distribution System * One level channel * Two level channel * Shop-in-shop * Exclusive Showrooms * Sales and Service network all-over the India. Distribution Network Original equipment manufacturer/vendor or supplier Factory Regional Distributing Centre Direct Dealer Branch Warehouse Modern retail/ Exclusive stores & Samsung digital plazas Distributor Sub- Dealer Consumer/ Customer In India, apart from a lot of multi brand outlets, Samsung has a lot of flagship stores- which sell a wide range of Samsung products from mobile handsets, kitchen appliances to televisions. In this context it’s interesting to see Samsung explore all the more new avenues like opening a Smartphone Café. Promotion Strategy * Sales Promotion The main objective of sales promotion is to induce new customers to purchase as well as to keep attracting existing customers by providing special incentives to them. Offering discounts coupons displays and demonstration would help in increasing sales volume...
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...University of Southampton Winchester School of Art MA Design Fashion Management ARTD 6086:Research Skills Literature Review Assignment Student Name: Mengfei Gu Student Number: @25468014 Word Count: 1313 Date Submitted: 2nd Nov 2012 Introduction The luxury goods may be are fatal temptation for each girl. In economics, luxury goods are good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises. It present a striking contrast to "necessity goods". As the demand of "necessity goods" are not related to income increasing or decreasing. On the other hand, Begin with 2007, global economy has been stumbling under recession. As known to all, financial crisis brought to United States economy slowing down and it has spread globally effecting all countries. Economic recession directly influenced on income level and employment. In addition, consumption levels have fall off drastically. Such two characteristic factors make me interested in the relationship between luxury brand and Economic recession. So I researched the ideas and found a few books which talked about the luxury brands in Asia under economic recession. The literature review will pay attention to a book on the cult of Luxury Brand, Impact of Personal Orientation on Luxury Brand Purchase Value, Shopper Behaviour in Recession and...
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...Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XLV (March 2007), pp. 83–126 A Flat World, a Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is Flat EDWARD E. LEAMER∗ Geography, flat or not, creates special relationships between buyers and sellers who reside in the same neighborhoods, but Friedman turns this metaphor inside-out by using The World is Flat to warn us of the perils of a relationship-free world in which every economic transaction is contested globally. In his “flat” world, your wages are set in Shanghai. In fact, most of the footloose relationship-free jobs in apparel and footwear and consumer electronics departed the United States several decades ago, and few U.S. workers today feel the force of Chinese and Indian competition, notwithstanding the alarming anecdotes about the outsourcing of intellectual services. Of course, standardization, mechanization, and computerization all work to increase the number of footloose tasks, but innovation and education work in the opposite direction, creating relationship-based activities—like the writing of this review. It may only be personal conceit, but I imagine there is a reason why the Journal of Economic Literature asked me to do this review. 1. Prologue hen the Journal of Economic Literature asked me to write a review of The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2005) by Thomas Friedman, I responded with enthusiasm, knowing...
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...position in the book industry, we develop a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis can help one uncover opportunities that his/she is well-placed to exploit. And by understanding the weaknesses of the business, one can manage and eliminate threats that would otherwise catch his/her unawares. More than this, by looking at Ginger and the competitors using the SWOT framework, we can start crafting a strategy that helps her distinguish herself from your competitors and to compete successfully in the book market. Strengths and weakness represents internal factors while opportunities and threats represents external factors. (See figure 1) Figure 1 Strengths | Weakness | -Focus on educational topics-Support from parents-Trilogy | - She does everything on her own- She doesn’t make good use of social media- No brand power | Opportunities | Threats | -Present the book in a launch party -Expand to market through social media-School encourages the the topic | -Too many competitors out in the market-May receive bad book reviews. | Strengths are those that Ginger is good at or something that can help the enables her to have competitive edge. Ginger has some strengths that make her stand out in the market. First, her book The Boy Who Rode the Tiger focus on positive spirit and teaches teenagers the concept of courage and grace. Her book contains important classroom values and will be welcomed by schools. Ginger has gone to different schools to present her previous book. It is an...
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...International Research Journal , July 2010 ISSN- 0975-3486 RNI: RAJBIL 2009/30097 VOL I *ISSUE 10 Research Paper—Marketing A STUDY OF INDIAN ONLINE CONSUMERS & THEIR BUYING BEHAVIOUR 2121098765432109876543210987654321210987654321098765432109876543212109876543210987654321098765432121098765432109876543210987654321 2121098765432109876543210987654321210987654321098765432109876543212109876543210987654321098765432121098765432109876543210987654321 2121098765432109876543210987654321210987654321098765432109876543212109876543210987654321098765432121098765432109876543210987654321 2121098765432109876543210987654321210987654321098765432109876543212109876543210987654321098765432121098765432109876543210987654321 2121098765432109876543210987654321210987654321098765432109876543212109876543210987654321098765432121098765432109876543210987654321 2121098765432109876543210987654321210987654321098765432109876543212109876543210987654321098765432121098765432109876543210987654321 2121098765432109876543210987654321210987654321098765432109876543212109876543210987654321098765432121098765432109876543210987654321 2121098765432109876543210987654321210987654321098765432109876543212109876543210987654321098765432121098765432109876543210987654321 2121098765432109876543210987654321210987654321098765432109876543212109876543210987654321098765432121098765432109876543210987654321 July, 2010 * Ankur Kumar Rastogi * Assicate Prof. Comm.Dept. Sant Gadge Maharaj Mahavidyalaya, * Ph.d Research Scholor...
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...series ‘An Idiot Abroad’. The book not only re-tells the TV series, but also sports new, unseen parts from the series and offers a fresh, simple perspective on the ‘Seven Wonders of the World’. I think it’s reasonable to say that those who find themselves reading this book will have seen the Sky1 series, ‘An Idiot Abroad’ of which this book accompanies and thus, not much of an introduction to Karl is required. However for the purpose of this review, Karl Pilkington is an English television personality, actor, author and former radio producer. Karl met Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (Whom sent him on his travels) through gaining prominence as the producer of their show on XFM. Karl tends to be the butt of Ricky’s practical jokes. The book begins with an illustrated conversation between Ricky and Steve that was filmed for the TV series and sets up the entire premise of the project. The book comprises of seven chapters, each consisting of one visit to a ‘wonder’. Countries visited in the book are: China, Jordan, India, Egypt, Peru, Brazil and Mexico. The chapters are presented in chronological order which differs from the show, but makes sense from a narrative point of view as you see Karl’s attitude to each trip change. He goes from careful excitement to irritation and exhaustion as he finds himself having to take part in cultural activities, living their ways of life and quickly wanting to go home. I’ve never read any of the other Karl Pilkington books, but after seeing the series...
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...1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As competition is becoming stiff, retailers are working on new marketing strategies to sustain in the market, one such strategy being private branding adopted by most of the retailer. Private brand is one of the strategies decisions for most of the retail organizations in recent years and hence many retailers’ have introduced varieties of private label in different categories like apparel, food and grocery, health care, personal care, consumer durables, lifestyle etc. Major driving force behind introducing store brand is to ensure the customer store loyalty. This can be accomplished as brand is available only in specific stores. The study aims to analyze the Consumer Perception towards Private Label Brands on Big Bazaar, Patia. This project report provides analysis and evaluation of customer perception towards store brands of Food Bazaar. The objective of the study is to understand the possibility of success when retailers introduce private brands. The research is aimed to explore if buying choices are made based on brand loyalty and to analyze whether customers actively seek for new brands or strict to the old brands. Methods of analysis include pie charts and graphs which chalk out the customer profile and how they make decisions with regards to brands. The project kicked off on the 2nd week at Big Bazaar,Patiawhen I got my topic. The 1st week went primarily studying retail store operation such as shelving, racking, selling and visual merchandising. From...
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...new urban ways of life around the world. Louis Wirth, author of one of planning’s earliest journal articles “Urbanism as a Way of Life” (actually a sociology journal), stated that there were three basic principles when it came to defining urbanism. Population size, density, and the heterogeneity of an area is how new urbanism is built. In this paper we will use these three principles, rational thinking, and the basic planning process to view how over 1 billion squatters around the world have built such astonishing cities, and how people work to study these places; From areas such as Turkey, who use ancient laws to build cities, to areas surrounding Delhi that deal with adaptation to squatter life. We will also be reviewing quotes from the book The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement to get a better understanding of how resident of...
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...Kumar Pakira 1 and Amalendu Bhunia 2 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce , Maharaja Manindra Chandra College 2 Associate Professor, Department of Commerce , Kalyani University Accepted 26 June , 2013 The present study explores the accounting and reporting practices of NGOs in West Bengal, one of the important states of India in the eye of socio-economically deprived background for the period from 2000-01 and ending on 2009-10. NGOs in West Bengal played a major role in bringing a change in the lives of average poor rural society. Though, the vicinity wherever NGOs are not satisfactorily plasticized in terms of adoption of standard accounting practices, transparency and communication of their financial and social performance in the course of appropriate standardized reporting practices. Their failure on this front has bred a feeling of suspicion amongst the general public regarding utilization of funds and grants by NGOs. The results illustrate that meager number of the selected NGOs in West Bengal follow written in terms of automated, manual etc. accounting and reporting practices stringently. Keywords: NGOs, India, West Bengal, Accounting, Reporting, GAAP, Funds and Grants BACKGROUND AND ISSUES A Non-Government Organization is an organization that is not part of a government and was not founded by states. Non-Government Organizations are therefore typically independent of government. Although the definition can technically include for profit-corporations...
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...Assignment 1 Project, Proposal Book Review Book title: Leadership Author’s name: Sri Sathya Sai Baba Abstract: It is well known that in every human activity a leader is needed to guide a group of people, so leadership is very important concept in our society including daily life or even in the workplace. This book includes general ideas about leadership and how to behave toward other people to improve their leadership. The author focuses on encouraging individuals to develop their skills and self-efficacy so that they can improve their leadership to the maximum extent. In the first four chapters the writer talks about leadership in general and the process, function, foundation, essential qualities and styles of leadership. Then in the next five chapters he gradually started to explain how good leaders can deal with people and motivates individuals to the self-development to be good leaders and he concluded with the role of parent and teachers in grooming leaders. The main definition of the leadership is the capacity to frame plans that will succeed and the faculty to persuade others to carry them out in the face of all difficulties even death. The common way to measure leadership is the culture of en-during excellence that a leader leaves behind after he or she is long gone from the scene. Also, this book summarizes the characteristics of the good leader and says: ‘’ only a person whose thoughts, words and deeds are in harmony can become a good and effective leader...
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...for the cinema. Awards Won the Ambassador Book Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Asian American Literary Award, Premio Speciale Dal Testo Allo Schermo, and South Bank Show Award for Literature. Was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Arts Council England Decibel Award, Australia-Asia Literary Award, and Index on Censorship T R Fyvel Award. Was named a Book of the Decade by the Guardian and a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Reviews 'An artist of fantastic cunning... demonstrates what certain trumped-up laureates of post-modernity seem incapable of grasping: that it is possible to simultaneously address the byzantine monstrosity of contemporary existence and care about the destiny of one's characters... [a] resounding success... not unworthy of Nabokov.' -- The Village Voice (full review) 'Taut and accomplished... Changez's story, which seems to gush from him like blood from a wound, traces the self's shifting sense of itself against the rumblings of a rudely shaken world... Dostoyevskian.' -- San Francisco Chronicle (full review) 'Changez's voice is extraordinary. Cultivated, restrained, yet also barbed and passionate, it evokes the power of butler Stevens in Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day... brilliantly written and well worth a read.' -- The Seattle Times (full review) 'Some books are acts of courage... Extreme times call for extreme...
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...Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative Value of Book Wonderful synthesis of recent scholarship on Rise of the West literature with an economic and ecological focus. Uses Global Historical Context to address most issues addressed in the Modern World History course. Use as: Teacher background Use isolated quotes/ chapters for all levels Review book at end of AP curriculum for review Questions raised: 1. How did industry and European-style countries called nation-states—rather than highly developed agrarian empires like China and India—come to define our world? 2. How has the gap between rich and poor increased? 3. How and why have European ways of organizing the world come to dominate the globe? 4. Was the Rise of the West a temporary blip? Scope: Global look (but especially Europe, China and India) 1400 -1900 Chapter by chapter breakdown: Intro “In the space of just 200 years, the world has seen a great reversal of fortune: where once Asians held most of the economic cards, today it is primarily Western countries and Japan.” (p. 2) Concepts addressed/ introduced in chapter: Globalization Enlightenment Communism Nation-states French Revolution Weber-Protestant work ethic Disease Industrial Revolution “modernization” Exploration/ Encounter “Progress History” Colonialism Renaissance Capitalism Slavery Modes of Historical Inquiry Comparative units of analysis Definition of Eurocentrism ...
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...Abhijith Rajan AUD 2351 MBA (GENERAL) ABSTRACT From Satyam, we can see that corporate book keeping misrepresentation is a noteworthy issue that is raising both in its recurrence and seriousness. Exploration confirmation has demonstrated that these developing number of fakes have made undermined the trustworthiness of monetary reports, added to generous financial misfortunes, and disintegrated speculators' certainty with respect to the handiness and dependability of money related articulations. The expanding rate of these sort of law violations need to get hardened punishments, excellent disciplines, and powerful requirement of law with the right soul. An endeavor is made to inspect and investigate inside and out the Satyam Computer's "inventive bookkeeping" embarrassment, which conveyed to spotlight the significance of "morals and corporate administration" (CG). The extortion submitted by the authors of Satyam in 2009, is a demonstration of the way that "the art of behavior is influenced in huge by human eagerness, aspiration, and crave influence, cash, acclaim and wonderfulness". Dissimilar to Enron, which sank because of "organization" issue, Satyam was conveyed to its knee because of "burrowing" impact. The Satyam embarrassment highlights the significance of securities laws and CG in "developing" markets. Without a doubt, Satyam misrepresentation "prodded the administration of India to fix the CG standards to anticipate repeat of comparative cheats in future". Therefore...
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