...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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...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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...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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...ways. In the title of 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...
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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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...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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...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 BABY at YouTube which earned half-billion views, this is my favorite song of all, because I always feel when I listened that I am her GF. =) There's gonna be times in your life when people tell you, you cant live...
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...Dylan Gordon ENG 4U July 2015 Take a Walk in my Shoes: An Analysis of William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote, "And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me."”(A)The quote couples well with the simple pleasures found in William Wordsworth’s poem titled “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. On “April 15, 1802, Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, were walking near a lake at Grasmere, Cumbria County, England”(B). While walking the coastline, Wordsworth stumbles upon a sea of daffodils swaying in the wind. In his poem Wordsworth sits on his couch thinking back to this experience, appreciating how lovely it was. Through careful choice of metaphors, similes, personification, and diction, William Wordsworth guides the reader through his experience walking with the daffodils. Wordsworth puts to use poetic devices to give the reader a clear image of what he was seeing that day by the water. Not only does he want the reader to feel his emotions, but to stand in his shoes and experience the moment with him. In the first stanza, we are given a wealth of imagery to set the scene. The author wanders through “vales and hills, When all at once [he] saw a crowd/A host, of golden daffodils.” Here the author uses alliteration to demonstrate to the reader that the daffodils come to view as a group as if he is summiting a hill and they wait on the other side, hiding from behind the hill. The daffodils are situated...
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...I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a poem about the relationship between nature and human beings: how nature can affect one’s emotion and behavior with emotion and sound. William Wordsworth uses simple, yet profound, words to convey his message of the connection between nature and the universe. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud tells the emotional life of William Wordsworth as it reflects his alienation, memory, and healing. Alienation is a terrible feeling of isolation which is healed by solitude or reflection. Solitude allows for floods of memories to remind us of our reason for living. Solitude is our saving grace which is essential for reflection, a time in which we discover things about our past which were previously unknown. Being in a state of solitude brings many memories from our past to the stage, allowing us to celebrate the joys of past experiences once more. Memory is an extremely powerful force which defines us and creates our identity, thus giving us a reason to live. Through a process of solitude and reflection the much needed power of healing can be achieved. Healing can be found in reflection on memories and in the beauty of nature. Nature allows the feelings of alienation and isolation to escape our tranquil minds and therefore rejoining us with society. Wordsworth was a poet of nature and his struggles made him develop a deep connection with the world around him. Healing from the sufferings of the world can be found in reflection, memories, and nature. Alienation...
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...Happiness is important than wealth How can I choose?Wealth or happiness?It is the normal phenomena among people who is difficult to choose.Although there are many people think that wealth is better than happiness. I think different people have different idears about this topic.But in our group opinion,we would choose the second one, happiness. The reason is that people cannot do anything without the happiness.To be honest,no matter what you rich or poor,happiness is the first thing in our life.However,many people think if they have a lot of money,they can buy everything which they want,as far as I am concerned,I admit things have its own value and it also could make our quality of life become more better,at the same time we cannot buy love,friendship,espcially happiness,whether you believe or not.I realize that if people onle have lots of money,he ignores his relationship,without friends,lover and family.How can he change?Just a lonely people in the world.,nobody would pay attention to you,you have to go work ,go shopping or whatever you do by youself.I want to know how your feeling is?I just to say lonely people without happiness cannot live in our society. A successful businessman, one of my father's friends, devoted himself to his business. He works from morning to night every day. There is no weekends in his mind. He often says, "I must earn much money so that I can get what I want. "Lately, he is ill. Though he has a lot of money, he can do nothing but lie in the hospital's...
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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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...[pic] ASSIGNMENT COVER |Course code: |BC 301 | |Course name: |Critical Thinking | |Assignment title: |Viewpoints Comparison | |Instructor’s name: |Vesselin Todorov | |Student’s name: |Redjon Xhafa | |Date: | | |Comments: | | | | | |Grade: |/100 | Viewpoints Comparison Redjon Xhafa May 25 2014 A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of BC 301 Critical Thinking ………...
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