...While researching the different amount of book covers, one distinctively stood out. On this book cover, a man can be seen who appeared to have a good amount of unexplainable tattoos placed on his body. This book cover allows an individual’s curiosity to spark at first sight. At a glance, one may say that the tattoos seem very mysterious and colorful. Which causes one wanting to know more. For instance, a viewer of the cover may say to themselves “why would a man have such a variety of unusual tattoos on him?” With this in mind, any person who may have viewed the cover will only feel a sensation of wanting to know more. For this reason, any individual who actually likes a good story would open up “The Illustrated Man” and proceed to find out the details of the man’s baffling tattoos by reading the book in order to subdue their curiosity....
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...E-Book’s Case Table of Content Introduction ..……………………………………………………………………………… 2 Crafting a Strategy………………………………………………………………………... 3 The Business Model ………………………………………………………………………. 3 The Platform ……………………………………………………………………………… 4 Key Success Factors (KSF) ………..……………………………………………………… 4 Evaluating a Company’s External Environment ……………………………………….. 6 The Five Forces Model of Competition ………………………………………………….. 6 The Industry ………………………………………………………………....……………. 7 The Four Test of Resources Competitor Power ………………………………………… 8 SWOT Analysis …………………………………………………………………………… 9 Product Attributes …………………………………………………………...…………… 11 Introduction The case begins with Professor Harry Lindsol who noticed a trend in 2012. What he noticed was a rapidly changing environment with advancements in technology that led to the internet taking over how americans purchased things. He also began to see big internet retailers like Amazon taking out brick and mortar style companies like Barnes & Noble and local bookstores. The one market that had not been penetrated yet by these large internet retailers was the college bookstores. Lindsol also observed that even though students all owned electronic devices and e-readers, they still preferred the convenience of buying hardcopy textbooks from student stores. Lindsol recognized an opportunity but had to analyze the business models of the current large scale textbook publishers...
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...Jonathan M. Reiland 5th Period Mr. Nabors English 4206 [ 11 November 2010 ] The Book of Job: An Examination Of all of the stories, fables, proverbs, and histories of the Bible, The Book of Job is one of the most compelling due to its unique literary style and the complex treatment of the issue of suffering. Unlike other books of the Bible, The Book of Job details a conflict between man and God within a poetic structure, and is the only book in the Bible to take on the problem of suffering as its main purpose. Throughout the book, Job pleads to God for all of the misfortunes that have befallen him. This type of discourse found in Job cannot be found anywhere else in scripture. Upon examination of the roles of protagonist and antagonist, it becomes apparent that the roles may be alternated between Job and Satan. Moreover, different conclusions and interpretations of the book can be made. Theological complications due to the existence of evil in a world ruled by an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent god will be attempted to be reconciled by theodicy. As coined by Gottfried Leibniz, theodicy is a branch of apologetics which attempts to reconcile the apparent evil in the world with God’s benevolent nature. Job’s nature and wealth is described in the first three verses of the book. He is depicted as “perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil” (Job 1:1). It would seem unlikely that Job would ever find himself on the negative side of God,...
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...decides to protect a Jewish man in their basement, a young girl’s stolen books help her develop a deeper understanding of the world beyond Himmel Street, encouraging her to give a new life to Hitler’s toxic words in her own stories. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the simultaneous existence of anti-Semitic propaganda in Nazi Germany alongside Liesel’s cherished books and Max’s captivating stories demonstrate how words can be both destructive and self-delegating in an oppressed society. First, Hitler demonstrates the...
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...Marketing through E-Books In her newspaper article “Your E-Book is Reading You”, Alexandra Alter uses an informal tone to grab the reader’s attention. Alter informs the reader of the new methods used to improve book sales and customer reading experiences. She demonstrates that major book publishers are capable of tracking reading habits including how much of the book is read, and how long they read for. The data also indicates that readers use methods of reading depending on the genre of the book. Once Alter provides the information regarding what publishers are capable of, she points out the negative aspects of the data collection including the loss of creativity and privacy. While Alter does address the negative aspects of data collection, the primary focus of the article is the positive aspects of having reader data. The research she includes comprises mainly of statistics and quotes from book publishers. Through her use of style, tone and research, Alter successfully convinces the reader that the act of habit analysis by publishers is in the reader’s best interests. Initially, Alter sets up her article in a style that appeals to the reader. Throughout the essay, she jumps back and forth between expository and persuasive tones. The main purpose of this article is to inform the reader; however, she also includes the use of pathos to get the reader emotionally involved. In her opening paragraph she appeals to the reader’s emotions by stating “Nearly 18,000 Kindle readers...
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...The Beautiful and Brutal Beauty and Brutality can co-exist, and this is something that is very present in The Book Thief. Imagery is used to convey the beauty and brutality. Zuzak uses sight, touch, and sound most often to show what is happening, and help make the beauty and brutality visible. Everything has beauty and brutality, and this is portrayed many times throughout the book. Beauty and Brutality is shown to co-exist when bombings would happen, Hans slapped Liesel, and the bombing of Himmel street happened. Beauty and Brutality was very prominent during some of the bombings that happened. Michael was a character and he was trying to get his mother to a bomb shelter. He cried to Rosa, Liesel’s step mother, “‘Tell me, Rosa, how can she sit there ready to die while I still want to live?’ The blood thickened. ‘Why do I want to live? I shouldn’t want to, but I do.’ (Zusak 487). He was trying everything to get her to move. He had a desire for life, something his mother lacked. Zuzak was using imagery, by hearing his voice, seeing his mother, and trying to pull her to the shelter. Even though this was brutal, beautiful moments were still happening. On Page 488, we learn of the event of the bomb shelter. “The night was long with bombs and reading. Her mouth was drying, but the book thief worked through fifty-four pages. The majority of children slept and didn’t hear the sirens of renewed safety. (Zusak 488)” In the midst of chaos, there was beauty in the...
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...As children grow up, they start to become more and more independent. When there is a loss in the relationship between a child and his/her parents, the child is forced into independence. This is something that happens in both The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Night by Eliezer Wiesel. For Liesel in The Book Thief, she is initially at loss for her relationship with her father Hans Hubermann when he has to go out to war and serve his country. For Eliezer in Night, he is faced with forced independence when his father Shlomo dies as a concentration camp prisoner during the Holocaust. But, if there is no hope tied to the independence, then he/she has no motivation when they are independent, making it less significant and purposeful in comparison to when someone does have hope. By analyzing the actions and decisions of both Eliezer and Liesel when they are forced into independence, it shows that when there is hope related to it then the independence they have is more meaningful in comparison to...
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...The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is a novel about a girl in Nazi Germany, who moves into a new town after gaining new foster parents. There, she meets a lot of troubles in her life. She experiences person vs society conflicts many times during her stay on Himmel Street. She realizes that Nazi Germany was not so great as people had said when she asks her foster father “‘Is my mother a communist?’ Staring. Staring ahead. ‘They were always asking her things, before I came here.’ Hans edged forward a little, forming the beginnings of a lie. ‘I have no idea-I never met her.’ ‘Did the Fuhrer take her away?’...‘I think he might have, yes.’ ‘I knew it.’ The words were thrown at the steps and Liesel could feel the slush of anger, stirring heavily in...
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...When looking at the children’s story, The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss, the alternative perspective suggests that the story is attempting to represent the conflicts between the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War. To begin, there is clear evidence of tension between the Yooks and the Zooks due to their differences. The dispute between the two sides is that the Yooks eat their bread with the butter side up: “But we Yooks…honest way!” (Seuss. 6), while the Zooks consume their bread with butter side down: “It’s high time…side down!” (Seuss. 5). This relates to the tension built up between the US and USSR during the Cold War due to their different ideologies. The US was capitalist and had a democratic government, while the Soviet...
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...Dr Seuss’s The Butter Battle Book, written about the butter side-up Yooks and the butter side-down Zooks, is just one of his greatest, well-known books. In The Butter Battle Book is the story of the back and forth conflict between the Zooks and Yooks trying to out do each other with inventions of machines. Throughout this book Dr Seuss uses his narrative elements like his rhymes of course, theme, and allusion to hook the reader and make it enjoyable to read. The way he uses these devices in a lot of his other popular books people know as Green Eggs and Ham or even The Cat in the Hat, is the reason people say he’s one of the best authors and in result makes him so successful. As everyone knows, Dr. Seuss is one of the best at writing...
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...The deeper I get into this historical fiction novel by Markus Zusak, the more interesting and captivating it gets. As the plot and characters develop, I get a deeper understanding of the characters and this makes me connect with them even more. The character I most admire and, in a way, look up to is the main character, Liesel Meminger. I really admire Liesel because when she starts something, she finishes, no matter the circumstances; for example when she was learning how to read, “There were, of course, some problems as well… Just when progress seemed to be flowing well, somehow things would become lodged… but she had neither the selflessness to allow him to sleep… She was a girl with a mountain to climb” (Zusak 71 & 86). Acquiring a new...
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...meaning in the author’s words, because the books didn’t make sense to me. It always felt as if it was fight that I’d never win. I felt this way for some time till I read, ‘The Not So Lonely Good Company of Books’ by Bryce Shoemaker. Instead of searching for a meaning Shoemaker’s essay confirms how books are a learning experience and how the reader chooses to apply that knowledge to their everyday life. This furthered my idea that not everyone is able to be successful at reading, but can still have learned something that will impact their life. Inside the student essay Bryce Shoemaker shares his opinions on literature as well as his thoughts on an essay,...
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...Book analysis-----“Winner-Take-All Politics” Jingshu Xu This book discusses the rising income inequality in America. During the last 30 years, the very wealthy people enjoy the unbalanced government politics and the middle class goes missing. The richer you are, the more you have benefited from economic changes. On the opposite, the poorer get the worse economic life and the middle class become vulnerable. The author give some statistics, since 1978—the richest 1% gaining 256% after inflation while the income of the lower earning 80% grew only 20%. In addition, the authors point out that it is not the market that makes this happen, but the politics. This book is divided into three parts. First, in Part One, the authors raise a question about the how the puzzling politics of winner-take-all politics formed. In chapter 1, the authors use Piketty and Saez’s results of research. Rather than talking to witnesses, which is useless because it is not easy to find the super rich people and know their exact income, Piketty and Saez’s look into their income reported when paying taxes. However, the authors mention that argue that many of the explanations simply don't explain what is going on because it does not consider the government’s effect on incomes as well as tally up private noncash compensation. While the authors agree that technological change is part of the reason, they consider that politics plays a key role. Chapter 2 talks about the how the winner-take-all economy was made...
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...Boganalyse af "The hungergames" Jeg har i et kort forløb ladet mig dykke ned i denne fantastiske bog af Suzanne Collins ved navn "Dødsspillet" Som er oversat fra den engelske version "The hungergames". Jeg har igennem forløbet skulle, bruge nogle forskellige teknikker og øvelser, som ville hjælpe mig med at blive mere udviklet som læser. Der gik ikke længe, før jeg nærmest bandt mig til bogen. Den blev så spændene, at jeg måtte drage den med på forskellige cafebesøg, endda blev den smidt i tasken til over flere besøg hos mine bekendte, og den var altid ved min side ved hver en lejlighed det var muligt for mig, lige at smuglæse et par sider igennem. Normalt vil jeg ikke mene, at den type genre er mig, men bogen har virkelig et spændene og gennemtænkt plot, hvor jeg ikke bliver forvirret over måden forfatteren har formuleret sig på. Bogen foregår i landet Panem, hvor hovedpersonen den 16 årige Kattua bor sammen med sin moder, og søster. Panem er et helt specielt land. Det er delt op i 12 distrikter, som alle er styret af de magthavende fra hovedstaden Capitol. Hvert år udvælges én dreng og én pige fra hvert af Panems 12 distrikter til at kæmpe i det blodfyldte Dødspil. Kattua og hendes familie er ludfattige, og efter faderens forsvinden, har de ikke andet end Kattua tilbage til at sørge for dem. Det er dog ikke et problem for hende, da hun er vand til at jage med bue og pil, i den bevoksede skov tæt på distriktet. Ikke nok med at Panem skal udvælge to til at deltage...
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...Book Analysis Robert J. Barnett Olivet Nazarene University Theories and Techniques of Counseling II MAPC 20 - PSYC 611 Professor Tina Burton September 25, 2014 Certification of Authorship: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used data, ideas, or words, either quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for the purpose of this assignment. Robert J. Barnett Introduction: What Jim Collin’s epic book Good to Great is to the business and leadership world, Len Sperry and Jon Carlson’s book, How Master Therapists Work (2014) is to the field of psychotherapy and counseling. Both books tell us with vivid accuracy what key qualities separate the best of the best from simply being good at what you do. Len Sperry, MD, PhD, ABPP and Jon Carlson PsyD, EdD, ABPP. and their subject matter are of great interest to me. The subtitle captures the heart of the book’s content and the quintessence of what I want to learn more about, Effecting Change from the First through the Last Session and Beyond. I felt very inadequate as I began practicum concurrent with starting the MAPC program in August, 2013 (still do). Adding the privilege of doing practicum in a real clinic right from the start with real clients resulted in a high motivation to learn quickly in...
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