...Alaska analysed There are some books which ruffle your feathers..in a good way!I stand here,my feathers uprooted. I did not buy this book,I read it online after coming across it in the most funny way.I was sitting jobless in office having shut out myself to the Gulti banter of my colleagues. And was surfing the net,reading stuff on Google Reader.In a funny picture,there was a note scribbled inside some wretched instalment of the Twilight series,urging the readers to please not read it and go look for other books in the huge sea of literature.One name mentioned there was Alaska by John Green.The title is Looking for Alaska btw.So I decided to give it a look,and directly got the pdf on the net. So here it goes The book got me reeling,and made me type this. This is rarer than the appearance of the Haley’s Comet .But something about this book,touched my heart deep down.It is not a literary masterpiece,deemed even offensive by some(read it on wiki),it isn’t like I have the ultimate authority on literary masterpieces.But the writing is fluid,very conversant,almost mundane yet very engaging. The zen of life as it is called is conveyed in the most subtle form,but does not answer any definitive questions and lives it open to the readers interpretation,just like a good book should.Let the reader develop her own idea and opinion instead of inculcating one.The backdrop is the Culver State School and the lives of 16 something high school students.The narrator is a social Nobody who...
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...analysis essays to pull old ideas and included them into my analysis essay. I believe I was pretty successful in doing so, to achieve my intended heartbeat, I made this essay, but short and I believe I was successful. I feel the easiest part of this draft was that first paragraph, I like writing introductions in fact, I find it the easiest thing to write in an essay. I’m proud of my character description for Miles because I feel it is well structured.I think something that was hard for me in this piece was this writer’s memo specifically in the category of genre I didn’t have much of a clue of what to put in that category. If I had to revise this piece I would change the end of the draft and reword this writer's memo Looking For Alaska In the book “Looking For Alaska” Miles is just your average shy teenage guy with a slightly weird obsession with people's last words. Miles leaves his public school in Florida to seek a “great perhaps” in a new boarding which he chooses to attend and in that school he manages to find his first actual friends and the first “love of his life”. You see miles in public school never had any friends and he hated it. So obviously in boarding school Miles had a lot of new things to try, including cigarettes and alcohol.And even though Miles got into some trouble Miles managed to go from this guy who keeps to himself and doesn’t have any friends to a guy who has several “real friends” and the love of his life. In this book miles matured in certain aspects...
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...What is the labyrinth? Do you think anyone will get out of this labyrinth of suffering? In the novel, Looking for Alaska by John Green, Miles remembers last words. He is tired of his life at home and goes to boarding school. There he meets Alaska young and the Colonel. Alaska makes miles wonder how to get out of the labyrinth of suffering when a sudden tragedy strikes and leaves Miles, the colonel and the whole school with questions. Miles is not able to rest until he finds out what exactly happened to Alaska young. He and the Colonel search and eventually start piecing all of the clues together to figure out Alaska was upset she didn't go visit her mom's grave on the anniversary and was so upset she decided to take her life quick and fast. The labyrinth of suffering is not knowing how to be happy and when it is hard to be happy. The labyrinth to me is knowing how to be happy, able to be happy and to live freely without worries. This is a labyrinth because life is like a maze. There will always be obstacles in the way of being happy and living freely. There may be some tragic thing to happen that will cause a maze. This could include something happening to a family member to not having money to pay bills. Life will always be a maze. I feel the labyrinth is an endless...
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...The Man Who Can Do it All John Green is a talented American author, but also a video blogger, writer, producer, actor, and editor. John Green was born on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis along with his brother and sister, Henry Green and Alice Green. After graduating Kenyon College John had double graduation degrees in English and Religious Studies and worked as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital. John Green’s first book “Looking for Alaska” made a record staying at New York Times best-seller list in the span of seven years. John Green’s books have been published in more than 55 languages and over 24 million copies are in print. ¨The Fault in Our Stars¨ by John Green supports the idea that friendship can help someone battle and...
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...breakthroughs and education, cancer became less of a mum word and more of a buzzword. Hollywood jumped on the drama surrounding the disease, and soon films like Terms of Endearment and Beaches were keeping tissue companies in business. Novels and magazine articles highlighted survivor stories; television started adding characters afflicted with illness. Even Sex and the City's carousing Samantha had her share of chemo. In recent years, the trend has gone one step beyond talking about cancer — the goal now, at least for pop culture, is to find the humor in it. Fortunately, John Green is the kind of writer to deliver it. John Green is the New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. John Green is the New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. Ton Koene Green writes books for young adults, but his voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. He writes for youth, rather than to them, and the...
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...phenomenon every person experiences, and will continue to experience until death.The way that experiences happen is especially different, although they all share one thing in common: Even if you don’t realize it, personal experience can lead to changes in ideals and ways of thinking. John Green characterizes this fact in two of his novels, Paper Towns and looking for alaska. These books show this point by almost blatant changes in his characters. Furthermore, in the introduction of the books the main characters seem boring and opaque. When Miles “Pudge” Halter leaves Florida, things seem pretty stagnated. “The Week Before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing a going away party....
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...having a conversation with the author. One of my favorite books (by my favorite contemporary novelist) is Looking for Alaska by John Green it sparks those feelings every time I open it. The ambiguous nature of it allows me to discover something new all the time, like I am uncovering a new layer of a dear friend with the turn of a page. The novel is told from the perspective of Miles Halter (known in the story as Pudge) as he starts attending an out-of-state boarding school in search of a great, life-defining adventure. He finds his adventure in Alaska Young, a headstrong, impulsive, messed-up girl that is best friends...
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...including extended family. Even though this statistic does not consider undiagnosed cases and children, it is still a staggering number. In fact, we see youths being affected by mental illness more frequently in this generation than the last. Alaska Young, a compulsive, emotionally detached and socially withdrawn sixteen year old girl is the secondary character of John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska. The girl exhibits clear symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, which causes the effected to “[be] focused on details rather than the whole picture”...
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...The book that has had the biggest impact on me is Looking for Alaska by John Green. I know that most people believe John Green is only an author for teenage girls that are looking for a nice romance novel, but this book is not the case. This book is about more than love; it is about life and death. Throughout the story the main character, Pudge, is searching for his meaning of life, his "great perhaps." He goes to a boarding school and meets a mysterious girl named Alaska. He does fall in "love" with her, but it is not real because he is in love with the girl he created in his head not the girl with all the problems. Throughout the story it is clear that Alaska must have some mental illness or emotional scarring, but the real twist is when...
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...In the book Looking for Alaska by John Green, Miles a high school student, leaves his parents to attend boarding school. Miles is obsessed with famous people’s last words and before he left his parents, he said, “i’m leaving to seek a great perhaps” (Green 18). Miles meets many new people throughout the book, some are disreputable and others are stately. Within the book, Miles pushes through many challenging periods. While he is pushing himself and while teachers are on his back he learns many lessons. Suffering and choices are two things that can push you to your limits, as Miles learns. I learned a very important lesson about how friendships are essential to life. One lesson that Mile’s learned was how suffering can be like an endless tornado:)....
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...left on shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown. -The Fault in Our Stars Y’all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. -Looking For Alaska I’m not going to be one of those people who sit around talking about what they’re going to do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. -The Fault in Our Stars At some point you just pull off the band aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved. -Looking For Alaska That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. -The Fault in Our Stars My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations. -The Fault in Our Stars I’m on a rollercoaster that only goes up. -The Fault in Our Stars The world is not a wish granting factory -The Fault in Our Stars I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once -The Fault in Our Stars Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. -The Fault in Our Stars It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you -The Fault in Our Stars It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you -The Fault in Our Stars Nothing even happens like you imagine it will, but then again, if you don’t imagine nothing ever happens at all -Paper Towns It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. -Looking For Alaska Sometimes people don’t understand the promises that they’re making when they make them -The Fault in Our Stars I’m a grenade...
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...of New Entrants * Threat of Substitutes * Competitive Rivalry between Existing Players * Competitor Landscape * Alaska Airlines * Southwest Airlines * United Airlines * Air Canada * Key Success Factors * Internal 16-23 * Resources * Tangible * Intangible * Value Chain Analysis * Primary Activities * Secondary Activities * Capabilities * VRIN Testing * Core Competencies SWOT Analysis 24-25 * Strengths * Weaknesses * Opportunities * Threats Strategy Formulation 26-28 * Strategic Alternatives * Alternative Evaluation * Alternative Choice Strategic Alternative Implementation 29-31 * Action Items * Action Plan References 32 Strategic Profile: Company Introduction Alaska Air Group is made up of two principle subsidiaries Alaska Airlines and Horizon Airlines. Alaska operates all jet engine aircraft with average mid-range flight distance of 1,051 miles while Horizon is a short distance carrier averaging around 386 miles. Horizon also uses both turbo prop and jet engine aircraft. Alaska Airlines respectively has 115 jet engine aircraft in the form of 737’s and MD-80’s.1 The two carriers operate in an integrated fashion allowing for a...
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...one field, but breaking it out in departmental rates shows more detailed information of each product. Auerbach Enterprises is looking to see if one of their products is more affected by the use of departmental rates rather than a company-wide rate (Education Unlocked, 2014). Since AE has two main products that they deal with that are fairly similar it is good to compare how to two would look when it comes to the two different rate styles. If you examine the appendix you can see several different calculations that will be explained and comprised to see what would be the best solution for AE to take when it comes to which rate to choose for the upcoming year. Looking at Q1 we can determine that the department rate style is reliant on the number of machine hours and the overhead cost of the products by the department those products fall into. Radiator parts fabrication has the lowest overhead cost of the departments, but not the lowest overhead rate cost per hour. The lowest cost per hour is the compressor assembly and test department with a $4.00 overhead rate per hour cost. The highest costing department is the compressor parts fabrication, which has only five thousand machine hours, but an overhead cost of $120,000. Having such a high cost and lower hour rate made the overhead rate per hour cost sky rocket and end up being $24.00 an hour. Looking at Q2 it is pretty straight forward as we were basically computing the company-wide overhead rate. Taking the total overhead...
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...I. Company Profile Company Background “Nourishing Filipino Dreams” Alaska Milk Corporation first started developing its products through a joint venture with Holland Milk Products, Inc. In 1972, the company offered Alaska Evaporada Filled, Sweetened and Chocolate Sweetened Condensed Milk to the market. Since then the company became the number one brand and continued to expand its reach into other segments of the industry. In 1976, Alaska Milk Corporation became widely known as it launched its advertising strategies which featured the “One-on-One” campaign where the famous line “wala pa rin tatalo sa Alaska” originated, making its way into every Filipino household all over the country. The company then continued to use well-loved by Filipino sports to widen its market reach and won the various advertising excellence awards in 1977. In 1982, the company decided to revamp their packaging and developed advertising campaigns to “encourage use of Alaska liquid mild in food preparations”. Not long after, Alaska Milk Corporation expanded its product portfolio line and added the powdered filled milk in 1985 then the Alaska Choco brand in 1987. Aside from that, strong marketing initiatives were also launched in 1986 when it fully invested into sports and partnered with the “Sprint Queen”, Lydia de Vega, as the ambassador for the brand. Also in the same year, the company acquired a franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association which also helped establish the company’s equity in...
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...Indians and Alaskan Natives Shelley Thornton Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Minerva Gonzales December 06, 2015 Health Among American Indians and Alaskan Natives When compared to the National average inequality and the persistent challenges that American Indians and Alaska Natives face are troubling. Demographics and economy along with poor health standards, drug and alcohol use and disproportionate disease burden exist due to inadequate education, high rates of unemployment, discrimination in the delivery of health care and cultural differences. In this paper we will explore Native Americans current health status and the barriers that influence health in their culture, socioeconomic and sociopolitical groups along with how race, ethnicity and education influence health and address current health status in addition to how they define health promotion and what health disparities exist. American Indians and Alaska Natives are people that have origins in the North, South and Central America that maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. “There are 562 federally recognized tribes in the US, including 223 village groups in Alaska; about 100 other tribes are recognized by individual states. There are also tribes that have existed since this country was formed but do not have federal or state recognition” ("American Indians," p. 2). Per records from “2012 there were estimated 5.2 million people” ("Profile," 2015, para. 1) that fell into...
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