...Babette’s Feast is about two pious aging sisters living an extreme sense of Lutheranism in a small, isolated northern village; their very simple and mundane form of living is challenged when a French civil war refugee, Babette, knocks on their doorstep with a letter from Papin, the world renowned Opera Singer, who in fact was fairly astonished and infatuated by one of the sisters during his initial visit decades ago. The father of the two sisters was a delusional preacher, who believed in the ludicrous idea that for one to attain eternal salvation, one must renounce all physical and sensual pleasure life has to offer them, something that the sisters follow with the most unwavering dedication. Who knew a Stranger from the city could change all that through a 7-course meal. The film centralized on its most prominent image: Food. No image could better fit comparing the joyless austerity of the Lutheran sect of the sisters, Martine and Philippa to what is coming to them after the dinner celebration than the meals. Before Babette’s presence is felt, the village lived a very monotonous, dull and repetitious lifestyle. The sky is gray, the sea even grayer. The sisters sit indoors to eat their usual bowls of dried fish and dull brown mush with the most horrible excuse for bread one has ever seen. As viewers will soon find out, the food is the perfect measuring apparatus of change around the village. Throughout the film, viewers see the daily fare of dried fish cut in half, hanging...
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...Running Head: Paws and Claws Pet Store Paws and Claws Pet Store: Business Plan Heidi Bell, Jennifer Lakowski, Aubrie Lasby, Miles Pipher and Justin Teplitz Keller Graduate School of Management Table of Contents Executive Summary Page 3 Introduction Page 4 Goals Page 4 Location Page 4 Culture Page 5 Values Page 5 Products and Services Page 5 Mission Statement Page 6 HR Objectives Page 6 Organizational Chart Page 7 and Appendix A Job Descriptions Page 7 and Appendix B Points Factors Page 7 and Appendix C Market Data Page 7 and Appendices D & E Pay Structure Page 10 Performance Evaluations Page 11 and Appendix F Merit Pay Grid Page 12 Employee Benefits Page 14 Yearly Budget Page 14 Conclusion Page 21 Appendix B - Job Descriptions Page 22 References Page 5 Executive Summary It is our idea to open a new pet store in the Phoenix, AZ area. Our research has shown that despite a bad economy, pet healthcare and supplies remain a top priority in people’s budgets. Our store, Paws and Claws Pet Supplies and Services, aims to capitalize on the affection that people have for their pets. We will provide a wide range of quality items and services for pets and their families. We first determined that our goals are profitability, efficiency and growth...
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...to satisfy costumers’ needs and wants S.W.O.T Analysis: Strengths | Weaknesses | * Iams and Eukanuba as successful retailer of pet products; understands consumer behavior to successfully grow their business. * Iams and Eukanuba recognizes psychological and social influences in pet food purchasing. * Iams and Eukanuba mirroring products purchased and used by humans as part of the trend in pet products. * Iams and Eukanuba offers products same quality and nutrition as other family members. * Iams and Eukanuba offers products for fancy pet items that allow owners to spoil their pets. * Iams and Eukanuba provide unique opportunities like initiating a free online platform that let owners learn more about their pets. * Iams and Eukanuba has a lot of partners from institutions such as Procter & Gamble (P&G), Dog Fancy and Cat Fancy. | *...
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...met in my entire life. I feel that she practices honor in her everyday life and shows it to our community and many other communities. She has taught many children to adults to elders on our culture. Josie Augustine has taught me to give thanks and pray to the creator, plants, and animals. She has explained and taught me why we do such things and why it is so important to us. Not only has she taught me as I was growing up but she has taught people from the community. When I decided to fancy shawl dance and to jingle dress dance that was when I became closer with the creator, and she was there to guide me. When I smoke my language and mispronounced she would not judge me or laugh at me for speaking it incorrectly. Josie would simply say “it’s alright douce, try it again”. She has travelled from Elsipogtog, New Brunswick to Potlotek, Nova Scotia to teach children at the Elementary School. She has introduced different dance styles to the children, and I had gone in one day to teach them how to fancy shawl and jingle dress dance. She has taught them to try and speak mi’kmaq, make their very own regalia’s to wear at pow wows, and also different crafts. She volunteers every other day to help teach children on our reserve and several others because she has so much belief in our culture. She will try and pass down as much to the younger generation because they are the ones that have to keep it going and pass it down to the next generation. She wants to keep our culture alive because that...
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...Sashay Schettler Mr. R English 120 12 September 2013 Fancy Feast’s New Flavor for Snakes: Tender Kitten Feast in Grilled Chicken Flavored Gravy We tend not to drive too deeply into subjects that pit our brains against our hearts, animal human relationships being one. While easy to overlook, these relationships play a big part in our day to day lives, and as I’ve learned not always in a good way. I found out firsthand, while reading Hal Herzog’s Some We love, Some We hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals, how hard it is to see a subject in a new light. I found myself torn between what I thought of as morally right and logically correct. The major argument being, is it morally ok to feed unwanted kittens to snakes? As I write this paper, I periodically glance at the picture I have of my fluffy grey cat Henry. Henry passed away when he had to be relocated to my aunt’s ranch, our house flooded in 2009 and our new condo didn’t allow pets. Now Henry had a cozy life with the Schettlers and on the ranch. Yet my aunt claims to this day, that he died of a broken heart. I, however sweet and sentimental the thought, argue that he died because my mom accidentally let him go a couple of turns in the dryer… Henry was always a fighter; I rescued him from the woods, out of a litter of two kittens he was the only survivor. His mother and sister did not make it out of the woods, but Henry wasn’t giving up that easily. After the tragic incidents...
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...Valenzuela Blog "I'm Your Horse in the Night" is a story that blurs the lines of reality and our narrator's dream, putting it into the category of magic realism. The story begins with the setting of our narrator's home, when she gets a surprise visit from her lover. After a hot drunken night with Beto, Chiquita is tortured after the police come looking for him. The police then start breaking her belongings and torture her for information about her beloved. The theme of this story uses a stereotypical female who is only wanting love and a man who is only wanting a bed for the night. Both of our main characters are flat, as we know hardly anything about them let alone their real names. This story is fiction however the events seem all too real, especially to a female reader reading from a female's point of view. Mrs. Dutta Blog Mrs. Dutta is a heartfelt short story about a woman who moves to America to live with her son's family after their strong suggestion. The point of view this story is written in is third person; as an outsider telling the events. Mrs. Dutta, being the main protagonist in the story, is struggling to adapt to her new life in America. The biggest change that Mrs. Dutta is struggling with is being a housewife stereotype. The most interesting thing about Mrs. Dutta is the subplot containing her flashbacks back home and the conversations between herself and Mrs. Basu. Being such a round character, Mrs. Dutta shows a lot of progression at the end of the story...
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...The Effect of the Daily Allowance in the Academic Performance of the Second Year Students of the University of the Immaculate Conception Ay 2012 – 2013 CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction The practice of giving children allowances developed in the early twentieth century when children's purchases of movie tickets, candy, and toys raised concerns about their spending habits. During the Progressive Era (1890s–1920s), allowance advocates recommended giving children a regular but fixed supply of money to inculcate respect for money. Child had endorsed allowances to encourage benevolence and fiscal responsibility. Progressive-era child-rearing authorities joined a much larger chorus calling for new money training regimes in women's magazines and parental advice literature (Child, L.M., 1831). However, despite the benefits gained by the students of having allowance, there are problems and disadvantages present. For example, a student has poor spending habits. They tend to think that this is their money and they can do whatever they want with it. Students have the tendency to spend their allowances on their recreational activities such as, renting a computer unit for fun and games, buying items at the shopping mall, and spending money for the peers. As a study, the proponents seek the effects in line with the daily allowances of students to their academic performance. Statement of the Problem 1. What is the academic performance of the Second year...
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...Effects of Study Habits in Academic Performance of the Students of Immaculate Conception Seminary Academy (S.Y. 2013-2014) CHAPTER 1 The Problem and its Settings Introduction The knowledge of a student does refer to the performance and his/her grade. But grade is always a primary indicator of learning. If a student earn high grade, he/she learned a lot in a lesson. Meanwhile if a student earn low grade, he/she can’t adopt a lesson. They say many factors that would get you high grades. These factors are gender, IQ, study habits, age, year level, parent’s educational attainment, social status, number of siblings, birth order, etc. Many of the students and teachers take studying for granted. Students think that they know how to study. Teachers assume that students know how to study and they leave their students to their own devices. Different persons develop individualized methods of study. Slightly different methods are appropriate for different subjects. Environmental and personal factors are of the variable of academic performances the researcher wants to know what are the factors affecting the study habits of Immaculate Conception Seminary Academy. Statement of the Problem This study to find out the factors affecting the study habits of the students of Immaculate Conception Seminary Academy education. It also aimed to answer the following questions: 1. What are the causes of study habits affecting their academic performance of the students of ICSA? ...
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...The last week of July, for as long as I could remember, has been reserved for a fourteen-hour strainuises car ride to Pensacola, Florida. This was not like any other family vacation, we never had to book a condo to see the beach, we never had to reserve a table at a fancy restaurant to feast upon a delicious meal, and we always had a clean comfortable bed without paying for a hotel. This was a fourteen-hour drive that I loved to make not because of the destination but because of the people we would see while we were there. When one thinks of a relative’s house, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Some think of constant stress, some think of endless weird aunt’s and uncle’s who constantly ask how schools going or when you are going...
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...pagano Chicano Studies 141A Fall 2013 Like water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize falseLeCount, Lisa J. American Anthropologist103.4 (Dec 2001): 935-953. In the article “Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Maya at Xunantunich, Belize, author LeCount documents the various reasons behind the feasting traditions of the Maya and how these are linked to the political rituals and power of the Mayan people. LeCount uses the discovery of the pottery vessels and their uses in the feasts. LeCount also shows the importance of the types of food and drink served and the significant meaning behind these foods such as tamales and chocolate. LeCount references articles by several authors to compile her data and come to her conclusion about the importance of the meaning behind the food, pottery and different types of feasts whether they are for political, religious or social reasons. Archeologists have discovered that the Mayans have symbolic uses for their serving paraphernalia and the foods that are served in them. The Maya have elite and commoner living in Xunantunich, Belize. The architecture is the easiest way to determine the status of the Maya. The location and the sizes help us to know the social status of a community. El Castillo is a settlement and it was a primary site for rituals. This was a multi-level complex that was centered in the community. It is surrounded by other smaller...
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...AMADALLI Between the Sahyadris and the Arabian Sea is a narrow coastal strip, known as the Amadalli which varies from 8 to 10 kilometres (5.0 to 15 mi) in width. Amadalli is a large village in the southern state of Karnataka, India and lies between the coordinates 14°44'42"N and 74°13'33"E. It is located in the Karwar taluk / tehsil of Uttara Kannada district. Village code of Amadalli is 691200 / 602627. It is situated 18 kms south of Karwar, 100 kms south Goa, 260 Km north of Mangalore and 545 kms northwest of the state capital, Bengeluru. The village stretches from Todur Village to the boundaries of Harwada village in Ankola Taluka on National Highway 17 (which will be NH 66). It is centrally located between Karwar and Ankola. The village is tucked in the Western Ghats from three sides and the Arabian Sea on the southern side, a beautiful place to be explored. Western Ghats or Sahyadri range, which runs from north to south through the district passes through the village. Behind the coastal plain are flat-topped hills from 60 to 100 meters in height, and behind the hills are the ridges and peaks of the Sahyadris. The village is situated 14 mtrs above sea level. It symbolizes beauty and nature amalgamated at one place. The tranquil ambience of the place inspires one to ponder on the deep mysteries of the nature. It offers an opportunity for the voyage of discovering the thrills of the sea, fishing, sand, sun, awesome scenario from the mountain, taste of the backwater fish...
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...house smell like thanksgiving. Cousin I haven't seen in ages came in frilly dresses and the boy's dressed up in button down shirts and nice blue jeans. My grandparent from the Brookhart side came with amazing pudding pie. I could smell the creamy homemade milk chocolate pudding. I tried to sneak a lick but grandma Starr ruffled my short brown hair "not before the feast." I frowned and walked to play with the kids. In the kitchen the adults hugged and exchanged pleasantries with each other and caught up. The kitchen timer went off as loud as a horn on a boat making us kids jump slightly. Then went back to being too distracted to notice the commotion of the table being sat until, we caught a whiff of something that smelt of a sweet aroma savory food and we ran to the table set for the festive meal. We climb in the chairs the towered us then noticed that something was not right. The fine china was set out with the gold utensils neatly on the table. Then we looked to our right to see our table set up with the unbreakable colorful plastic plates and the stainless steel forks and spoons that made us feel grown up and fancy. We scurried down like mice, giggling and settling into our soft cushioned chairs with the popular Disney character of our generation on them. Our parents brought us plate piled high with the delicious mountain of thanksgiving food that was helped made by all members of the gathering. We got excited and almost dug in before saying grace. We froze and dropped our heads...
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...Mathilde Loisel is “pretty and charming” but feels she has been born into a family of unfavorable economic status. She was married off to a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education, who can afford to provide her only with a modest though not uncomfortable lifestyle. Mathilde feels the burden of her poverty intensely. She regrets her lot in life and spends endless hours imagining a more extravagant existence. While her husband expresses his pleasure at the small, modest supper she has prepared for him, she dreams of an elaborate feast served on fancy china and eaten in the company of wealthy friends. She possesses no fancy jewels or clothing, yet these are the only things she lives for. Without them, she feels she is not desirable. She has one wealthy friend, Madame Forestier, but refuses to visit her because of the heartbreak it brings her. One night, her husband returns home proudly bearing an invitation to a formal party hosted by the Ministry of Education. He hopes that Mathilde will be thrilled with the chance to attend an event of this sort, but she is instantly angry and begins to cry. Through her tears, she tells him that she has nothing to wear and he ought to give the invitation to one of his friends whose wife can afford better clothing. Her husband is upset by her reaction and asks how much a suitable dress would cost. She thinks about it carefully and tells him that 400 francs would be enough. Her husband quietly balks at the sum but agrees that she may have...
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...Nayar of India Sandelle Studway ANT 101 Jeffrey Ratcliffe 06/04/2012 Nayar of India The Nayars of India are an upper caste group mainly residing in the Indian state Kerala. Their culture has held a wide interest of many with their unique practices in marriage and family life. Women are held with the highest respect and they live in a matrilineal family. As an Agrarian state the Nayars are rulers, land owners and warriors. This essay will discuss the life and customs of the Nayar culture. By the end of this essay you will have a great outlook on their kinship, gender relations, believes, and values. Nayars belong to the southwest coast of India which is the state of Kerala. The language spoken is Malayalam belonging to the southern brand of the Dravidian Family. The Nayars are a part of an upper caste system that consists of land owners and rulers. Their land allowed the cultivation of leafy root vegetables, eggs, fish, poultry, goad meat, beef, and water buffalo meat. Most Nayars were vegetarian. Before the British conquest in 1792, the Nayar caste supplied Kerala’s royalty and nobility, militia, and land managers. During British rule, Nayar became more involved in politics, medicine, education, and law. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1994-2009). Nayar household consisted of matrilineal related Kin where male and female descended from a common female ancestor. In the article “The Nayar Taravad”, C.J fuller discusses M.A Moore argument “A taravad is not a 'matrilineage';...
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...they will become good Catholic wives, mothers, and daughters. An important part of the coming of age ritual is the celebration in the church. According to LEARN NC, a program of the UNC School of Education, states that the one of the most important part of the ritual is the ceremony in the church because this is where the girls mark their transformation into womanhood and they also give their blessings to God. The celebration of a quinceanera is a renewal of baptismal promises and a moment for the young girl to give her thanks to God for the gift of life, family, and community which helps a gesture that continues to reaffirm her beliefs to her church and her personal faith. Today, a quinceañera celebration often is a fancy party that includes a mariachi band, a feast and many guests—much like a wedding. In retrospect, a quinceanera is just like a mini wedding especially with all the planning you need to keep in mind. The girl’s parents and godparents play a huge role in planning the ritual. Actual preparations for the ritual may take anywhere from six months to a year and a half because dances have to be learned, decorations decided upon, cakes ordered, decide on the court of honour, and dresses must be decided on. The young girl wears a special dress in pastel colors or bold colors.There are traditional customs that vary but may include; receiving a church blessing which includes the mass held in honor of the young girl in front of her community, having 14 male and female attendants...
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