...Week 4 Bus 210 SWOT Analysis The business plan I chose was regarding a local pub and eatery business plan titled “The Spunky Monkey Bar and Grill”. This business plan is very well thought out and provides much strength. The owner/proprietor has 20 years of executive management experience, budgeting experience, and has a lot of knowledge in the bar industry. The industry consultant is relied upon for industry expertise and offers insight regarding rules and regulations, and government programs. This person is qualified because they own multiple small businesses in the area. These are mainly consisting of local juice bars and espresso stands. The bar manager has a BS in business management, 5 years experience as a bar supervisor, and 4 years of hands on bar management experience. The co-owner offers college level public relations experience, 5 years of customer service experience, 4 years of restaurant services experience, and an extensive knowledge in business management. The business plan expresses a need for an experienced CPA and emphasizes that some of the current members need to obtain their food handlers permits along with local city business permits. Also necessary will be associate credentials, which will be a requirement among future upper-level employees. The business model is very well developed and researched. The plan provides breakdowns of what capital is needed to start-up, maintain the business, and provides an anticipated growth plan for the next three...
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...work the farm and send word to the orphan asylum to send a boy to help. The request was confused through miscommunication and when Matthew arrives at the train station to pick up the boy- he meets Anne Shirley. Anne is a constant dreamer- always talking about the “scope of imagination” and immediately charms Matthew into staying with them. Anne takes quite the toll on Marilla- who is very straight laced and proper. Often she tells Anne to “hold your tongue.” Anne has been tossed from home to home to take care of children- both of her parents had died when she was young. She had no family to take her in- so she became an abandoned child. She is a very homely girl and doesn’t think of herself as beautiful, however with her charming spirit and spunky personality she makes her way into everyone’s heart. Theme: The idea that children are to be seen and not heard, really gave Anne grief. She knew that children are supposed to be rowdy and playful and loud. Anne broke the barriers on that saying by being imaginative and free spirited. The story shows how one girl- who thinks outside of the box can soften even the hardest of hearts. Strengths/Weaknesses: I really enjoyed how the author gave Anne the true imagination of a child. I feel children today don’t experience imaginary play, like children have in the past. Worldview Element: Community, meaning and purpose, redemption Significant quote: “Isn’t it splendid to think of all the...
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...The character I have chosen is Holly Golightly, from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. This has been my all time favorite movie. In the movie, Audrey Hepburn plays a female character that is very spontaneous and spunky. I feel that throughout the movie she shows to be an extraversion. She meets a neighbor who is amazed how she talks and lives her life. She throws a party in her apartment and is very sociable and seems to be star of the show. Holly comes off to other people as very friendly and affectionate. Throughout the movie, the neighbor “Fred” finds out that deep down she has a lot of problems. He finds her to be in the neuroticism category. She is nervous about her past and she is insecure of herself. Holly feels the need to sneak up to her neighbor’s apartment because she is lonely. As soon as he asks her why she is crying, she becomes high strung and a bit upset. Holly and “Fred” go out into New York City and have a fun day together. They pick original things for them to do and some are creative. At this point in the movie I feel as though she falls into the openness to experience category. She has a great imagination in which “Fred” points out and is attracted to. Towards the end of the movie, Holly’s former husband comes to find her. When she finds out he is in New York, she becomes nervous again. I feel as though at this point she is in the agreeableness category. She agrees to go back with him and is forgiving. She seems to be soft hearted to her former husband. Then...
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...Pixar’s Up tells the story of Carl Fredricksen, the protagonist, and his long life. It tells of how a quiet, yet spunky young boy, grows into a bitter old man. Carl’s life is a roller-coaster of happiness and misery which would explain why he had such a dramatic personality change. Carl is portrayed as that stereotypical grouchy elderly neighbor once the movie actually starts and everyone assumes it is because he is just old. However, the first few minutes show his entire life and how happy he was spending it with Ellie, his wife; she was his entire world. She died first, shattering Carl’s bubbly demeanor and creating the man he portrayed for most of the film. When his land is trying to be bought so another building can be built, Carl decided to do the thing him and his late wife dreamt of doing their whole lives: Going to Paradise Falls. He didn’t want to leave behind the house because in his mind, that was Ellie. After Turning the house into a hot air balloon and picking up a young wild scout, Russell, on accident, Carl flew to South America. After a series of events, Carl went from stubborn, bitter, and cranky to happy, caring, and adventurous. Carl Fredricksen is a very stubborn old man. He becomes a shut-in when his wife, Ellie, dies. He refuses to let anyone near him or help him....
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...especially as they pertain to people I love to offer assistance especially when I see someone in need I get a joy from helping others I feel I am a great listener I try and listen and give good advice to those who need it, I am a people person I love being around people especially ones who make me laugh, my friends would say I'm rather friendly as you can say “ I don't meet a stranger”! My interest are family,my granddaughter, friends, scouting, being outdoors, singing, sewing and my boyfriend jimmy, my son is special needs so I spend a lot of time in boy scouts with other special needs children as well as being outdoors with them, they are a great help to my life and make me see things from a different perspective. My attitude is very spunky, but it depends on my current mood mornings are not my friend, my attitude is great unless someone or something changes it, my outlook on life is taking control of it and getting organized, preparing myself and family for the future. My intellegiance is music and singing, I love music I listen to music all the time, holidays, cleaning, every day doings I love listening to music, some say music gets you through a lot and it really does, I have realized that especially with some of the new songs, not too fond on instruments also karaoke I love karaoke. My goals are...
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...My name of course is Jonnisha Jena Bridges. I am twenty-three years old, with three kids. I am from Joliet IL, which is 30 minutes away from Chicago IL. I moved to cape Girardeau MO in 2002, at the time I was thirteen years old. As a child I dreamed of being a ballerina, but my career choice changed to business along the way. Now I am a dedicated mother and individual who is striving to become so much more. I want to show my children that there is so much more to this life. Making the choices I have made about my education, will motivate me to do exactly that. I remember as a child, I was outgoing and very personable. I found that my 5 year old, Auria is a lot like me. She has a spunky attitude, a sassy mouth, and she is very intelligent. I did not think that traits like those were passed along. I recall that I used to be a tom-boy. I never really liked hanging around girls or having them as friends. I was happy when I had my son Is’ryel because he portrays that side of me, mentality and all. With my mom being as strict as she was, I was a bit on the wild side. Sometimes I would break curfew and sneak out. Of course there were always consequences to these actions. They say when you do things as a child you get that back ten times worse with your children. I always had a down home country-city family with plenty of rules and regulations. We could never spend the night away from home. We had a curfew of 11 p.m. at the ages of 16 to 17 and could not wear make up until we were 18...
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...Criticism-Why is it typically thought of as negative? Most times when we think of the word criticism, we think of it in a negative way. However, there are many different ways that one can critique something. For example, Siskel & Ebert “Halloween” (1978) film review expresses that you can create a gruesome, but still entertaining movie. Criticism can also be a favorable praise (Siskel and Ebert); which is what they give the entire film. The mother played in the movie is independent, intelligent, spunky and interesting.” She is not portrayed as being the typical, clumsy female in average horror films. It shows that the writer is appreciative of women and film (Siskel & Ebert). They were not knocking horror films, just a certain kind and addressing...
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...Are going against limits really worth it? Guy Montag is in that exact same situation Ray Bradbury’s classic “Fahrenheit 451.” “Fahrenheit 451” is about a time in which the government has taken over and books are illegal. One young man named Guy Montag comes to his senses and realizes what books are all about. This essay will explain how he changes throughout the book. First of all, Montag goes from ignorant to curious throughout the book. Montag is a fireman who lives in a crazy world where books are punishable by death. In their world they don’t finish fires they start them. The next upcoming thing is the first thing that leaves an impact on Montag. Montag lives next to a spunky and intelligent 17 year old girl. It all starts when Montag offers to walk his new neighbor home. This is the part that questions his life and marriage. While walking her home, Clarisse asked him a...
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...horror film. The unspoken premise behind it suggests that a new generation of cold young men has arisen who are so obsessed with fattening their portfolios and chiseling their abs that they have forgotten to grow souls. And yes, that premise probably contains a tiny grain of truth. Out of this grain, however, the movie has conceived a caricature even more monstrous than Glenn Close's voracious Medusa in ''Fatal Attraction.'' On a certain tit-for-tat level, ''Enough'' might even be seen as a feminist revenge for the stereotyping in ''Fatal Attraction,'' even though both films were written and directed by men. The movie, which opens today nationwide, also exploits an ugly undercurrent of class warfare. Its star, Jennifer Lopez, plays a spunky working-class woman suckered into marriage with a rich yuppie master of the universe who brutally abuses her. In the movie's climax, she faces down her husband in one-on-one combat, armed with brass knuckles and fortified by a crash course in martial arts. Will honest working-class pluck and self-reliance triumph over spoiled upper-class privilege? You don't have to ask. Throughout, Ms. Lopez holds the screen in a star performance that has less to do with acting than with embodying a forceful, streetwise woman who stands up for herself. The movie's yuppie monster, versions of which you may have already met in ''Sleeping With the Enemy'' and ''American Psycho,'' is a handsome, homicidal rageoholic and control freak named Mitch (Billy...
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...in which Arnold Friend quickly shatters with his arrival. The words and phrases Arnold says to Connie, while attempting to maintain a “teenage lingo,” are very much so adult-fashion and suggestive. Connie, including absence of prior preparation, succumbs to Arnold Friend’s charismatic nature, as the text elaborates “He spoke in a simple lilting voice, exactly as if he were reciting the words to a song. His smile assured her that everything was fine.” (Oates 4). This shows that Connie does not initially see the danger in the situation, instead getting lost in the conversation and charismatic nature of Arnold Friend. Nevertheless, Connie herself is not the only factor at blame in this scenario. 1960’s society is a prosperous time full of spunky, outgoing personalities full of people trying to discover themselves. Connie is simply a product of this generation’s willingness to explore. “ They sat at the counter and crossed their legs at the ankles, their thin shoulders rigid with excitement, and listened to the music that made everything so good: the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.” (Oates 1). Obviously, the two girls were exuberant about being in the older kids’ environment, complimented nicely by the music choice. Connie’s exposure to this unfamiliar environment contrasts to her life at home, in which she is typically ignored by her mother and father, in comparison to be the shining star at this restaurant. Connie...
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...“Thin” Reaction Paper “Thin” a documentary about women facing their eating disorders. “Thin” focused on four particular women Polly, Shelley, Brittany, and Alisa. These women were all brave enough to realize they had a problem and wanted help with the exception of Brittany. Sometimes when I hear about women with eating disorders I can be unsympathetic. I just feel there are so many things in life to think about other than what people think of you. Then I had to realize media has a lot to do with the way our young women picture themselves. We all want to look like this superstar. They all see this fat, ugly person when they look in the mirror and I realized I do the same thing, if we admit it we’ve all done it. The only difference is I’ve come to embrace this so called “fat” person. I wasn’t happy with my body image so I’m doing something about it but in a healthy way. These woman have so much more going on mentally they probably should have gotten therapy way before it got this far. These women just had so much more going on than they can show in a short documentary. I felt the documentary was ok. I don’t know what the director was going for but the documentary was a bit fluff. I don’t think it really went as deep as it could have. I mean the stories were real but the Renfrew just seem like it wasn’t really helping that much. The fact that they would throw you out as soon as you’re insurance ran out, even though it’s clear you still need to be there, was disgraceful. It showed...
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...Women’s Film 10/5/2011 There’s Something About Mary! In the film There’s Something About Mary a few men fall in love with a beautiful women named Mary. This very attractive women is portrayed as a women who has it all, a great personality, spunky attitude, college graduate, smoking body, and a caring kind heart. She is portrayed as the ideal woman that any man would love to fall in love with and in fact in this comedy film some men did although some seemed more obsessed than in love. It all starts with a man named Ted, that fell head over heals over Mary in high school but unfortunately lost touch with her over the years. After a few years Ted decides to find her and hires a sketchy private investigator recommended by his friend Dom, named Healy to find Mary, who then falls for Mary when he finds her but in the process he crashes into a guy named Tucker. Tucker is also a friend of Mary’s and is head over heels for her as well and gets in the way of Healy’s schematic newfound relationship with Mary. All these guys knew Mary including Dom and had created a relationship with her but Mary had a slight more attraction for Ted and Healy. Unfortunately every man had lied about their lives to Mary in order to stay on good terms with her or to impress her. After Ted had regained contact with Mary and as Mary was falling for Ted and leaving Healy behind Dom wrote a letter to Mary revealing how Ted had found her and Healy as well and ruined the relationships between the guys and...
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...It was the late 60s, when the demand for sub-compacts was rising on the market. Iacocca's specifications for the design of the car were uncompromising: "The Pinto was not to weigh an ounce over 2,000 pounds and not cost a cent over $2,000." During design and production, however, crash tests revealed a serious defect in the gas tank. In crashes over 25 miles per hour, the gas tank always ruptured. To correct it would have required changing and strengthening the design. Many studies of reports and documents done by Mother Jones on rear-end collisions involving Pintos reveal that if you ran into that Pinto you were following at over 30 miles per hour, the rear end of the car would buckle like an accordion, right up to the back seat. The tube leading to the gas-tank cap would be ripped away from the tank itself, and gas would immediately begin sloshing onto the road around the car. The buckled gas tank would be jammed up against the differential housing (that big bulge in the middle of your rear axle), which contains four sharp, protruding bolts likely to gash holes in the tank and spill still more gas. Now all you need is a spark from a cigarette, ignition, or scraping metal, and both cars would be engulfed in flames. If you gave that Pinto a really good whack?say, at 40 mph - chances are excellent that its doors would jam and you would have to stand by and watch its trapped passengers burn to death. In pre-production planning, engineers seriously considered using in...
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...10 October 2011 Dr Pepper/7 Up Inc. Squirt Brand Opportunity and challenges faced by the company. Dr Pepper/Seven up Inc is the largest non-cola soft drink company in North America and the third largest soft drink company in the United States. One of the brands marketed by Dr Pepper/Seven up is Squirt. Squirt is the best selling grapefruit flavored soda in the United States but over the past several years have seen little to no growth. U.S. consumers drink more than 53 gallons of soft drinks per year, up 6 gallons from 10 years ago, and account for $60.3 billion in carbonated soft drink sales. Despite this growth in soft drink sales, Squirt has not seen the same growth partly due to competition from both Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co. Kate Cox, the brand manager for Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc., wants to write a new Marketing and Advertising plan for the brand in order to stimulate growth and target the growing Hispanic market. This paper will analysize the Squirt Marketing strategy and provides some insight to future market alternatives. Problem Statement Despite being the best selling grapefruit flavored soft drink; Squirt sales have remained stagnant for the past several years due to competition and failure to reach the appropriate target audience. Central Issues Squirt was purchased by London base company, Cadbury Schweppes PLC in 1993, which then purchased Dr. Pepper/Seven Up Inc. Since 1995, Dr. Pepper/Seven Up Inc has been responsible for manufacturing,...
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...fourteen. After experiencing these major traumas I was totally convinced that I could handle death. My senior year in high school, I decided that I wanted to enter the medical field, so I got my CNA license. Not long after doing so, I learned that I would never be fully prepared for everything I would soon encounter. Some situations are just unpredictable. I started work as a CNA in June of 2015. By early July, I was beginning to enjoy my job. I was catching on to the daily schedules, learning who everyone was, and even developing relationships with the residents. I looked forward to coming to work each and every day. The residents always seemed to look forward to my smiling face, and outgoing personality. In late July, I came to work with my spunky attitude and was prepared for another wonderful day. When I received the report from night shift, I was informed that we had a resident that was not feeling well. Shortly after 8am I made my rounds. She did not complain about anything out of the normal. She told me she would press her pendant if she needed anything. So I went on about my day, assisting the rest of the residents. About 10am I realized that I hadn’t heard anything from her, so I decided to check on her. I knocked on her door and did not get a response. I instantly began to feel chills come over my body. I knew something was wrong, because this was not like her. I entered the room and called out to her several times, with still no response. The room was quiet; it felt as...
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