...Sweetest Dreams Inn Case Analysis #1 1) Mr. Phan, owner of the Sweetest Dreams Inn, is extremely production-oriented. This is probably due to the fact that he has held a job as a production manager for a company producing industrial machinery for many years. Production orientation can be defined as: making whatever products are easy to produce and then trying to sell them. Customers are viewed by managers like as Mr. Phan, as purchasers of their product instead of people with needs that must be filled (Perreault, Cannon, McCarthy 16-17). By assuming that all customers want what he himself wants when traveling, he created a product (a plain but modern room with a comfortable bed, standard bath facilities, and free cable TV) without any research done to either support or deny his ideas. He took the easy route when deciding on whether or not to include additions such as a pool and a restaurant, deeming them “unnecessary”. David Bowie and Francis Buttle (14) stated that “to achieve superior business performance companies need to identify what customer needs and wants are, and to satisfy them better than competitors”, that is adopt a market orientation. This way of doing business focuses on creating relationships with customers and striving to maintain them long-term. It also avoids price competition because it is believed that cost is a secondary concern to level of service. 2) Operating without set objectives can be like traveling without a destination...
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...Sweet Dreams By: Nikki Schott, Autumn Holzinger and Korina Stelzenmueller Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is when a seemingly healthy infant, usually less than a year old, suddenly die to an unknown cause. However, there are some physical and sleep factors that can make an infant more likely to get SIDS. One of the main physical factors are brain defects, which happened when the part of the brain that tells the body to breath has not fully functioned properly. Additionally, the weight of the infant at birth is a very important cause of SIDS, since a premature baby’s body and brain has not fully developed. Moreover, the way an infant sleeps also can cause SIDS. For example, if an infant sleeps on his stomach, instead his back, he or she...
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...Study : Sweet Dreams Motel in Far North Queensland ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1.INTRODUCTION Mr Smith is the owner of Sweet Dreams Motel in Far North Queensland. He owns the property since four years ago and he is not happy with the occupancy in the motel which only 50% year round while the other property can reach to 68% occupancy rate. Mr Smith believe his property have some strengths especially if we look at locations, large grounds, cheap rate, and room size. But he also aware of some weaknesses issue in the property such as: no television units in the bedroom, less attractive grounds, very little promoting activities and no restaurant services in the premises. In order to increase the occupancy rate , there is still some positive external factor to consider of such as : the needs to install the entertainment unit in the rooms, opportunity to construct the landscape to become more attractive, and a options to increasing the room rate. This case study will try to provides an overview to Sweet Dream motel current status in the market, a summary of products, competition and distribution analysis in challenging market opportunities. It will be a brief summary of internal strengths and weaknesses compare to external threats and opportunities for Sweet Dreams motel. 2. Situational Analysis 2.1 Background This case study is driven by a need understanding of how to make a better of improvements for Sweet Dreams motel...
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...Viewing/Paper of Sweet Charity Plot Synopsis: The movie Sweet Charity begins with Charity singing through Central Park with her ‘boyfriend’ Charlie. Hopelessly romantic and optimistic, Charity believes they will get married and even has a tattoo of his name on her arm. However, as Charity is about to make a wish, Charlie pushes her off a bridge and steals her entire lifesavings. In denial about what happened Charity returns to her work as a Dance Hall Hostess at the Fandango Ballroom and tries to convince her taxi dancer friends Nickie and Helene that Charlie will be back. Upon leaving work, Charity runs into the famous Italian actor Vittorio Vidal having an argument with his girlfriend Ursula. When Ursula departs in a cab, Vittorio asks a nosy and starstruck Charity to accompany him to a party. At the party Charity finds herself surrounded by luxury and fame and upon leaving the party the two return to Vittorio’s luxurious apartment where Charity is overwhelmed by the sheer extravagance and refers back to her life due to a “fickle finger of fate”. As she thinks back to her taxi dancer friends, she begins in song wishing her friends could only see her now. She then realizes that her friends would never believe her. It is then that Vittorio autographs a picture made out to Charity and givers her a few mementos from his old movies to remember him by and to use as proof. Unfortunately, Ursula unexpectedly shows up causing Vittorio to hide Charity in the closet for the rest of...
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...Brogan Walters Higher osmolarity in sweet potatoes than ordinary potatoes Biology 182 Lab, Thursday 11:00am Lab 5 Osmosis, Dialysis and Diffusion Laboratory 10/1/14 Introduction: Osmosis is the diffusion of water across a semi-permeable membrane. (1) This process depends on the difference of concentrations of solutes on each side of the membrane. In this experiment the osmolarity of two types of potatoes were compared, the sweet potato and the ordinary potato. The sweet potato is more nutrient dense than a normal potato, in that it has more sugar, fiber and vitamins than a normal potato.(3) The hypothesis is the sweet potato will have a higher osmolarity than the ordinary potato because of its more nutrient dense nature. The ordinary potato will see an increase also but not to the magnitude of the sweet potato. Methods: Fifteen potato cores were prepared from both the sweet and ordinary potato and trimmed to be 1cm long. Each core was weighed using a balance and set aside for later in the experiment, keeping them organized. There were five different solutions; 25 mL were placed in each beaker. For each type of potato 15 beakers were used, three for each of the known solutions. When each beaker was ready, one of the weighed cores was placed into each of them. Time was recorded when submersion commenced. After 45 minutes, the cores were pulled out and patted dry to resemble the starting moistness. Each core was weighed for the final weight. The data was...
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...mile a minute. Five minutes after this dream about half of its content is forgotten and in 10 minutes 90% of it is gone. According to the New York time study done on October 20, 2013 by Gary Matter you spend about 6 years of your life dreaming. That’s more then 2100 days spent in a different realm. So today, lets look at how dreams really do occur, the part of your sleep cycle that dreams occur in and lastly different types of dreams. Transition: So where do dreams really start? Body I. REM Sleep A. Rapid eye movement sleep, the part of your sleep cycle charactized by rapid and random eye movement B. Occurs in the cycle for about 90-120 minutes throughout the night 1. REM sleep dominates the latter half of the sleep cycle 2. Five minutes after you wake up half of your dream is forgotten and 10 minutes 90% of it is gone. C. The eye movements may relate to internal visual images of the dreams that occurs during this stage of sleep 3. Associated with the brain wave spikes in the regions of the brain that is involved with vision 4. Studies have shown that your brain waves are more active when you are dreaming than when we are awake. D. Majority of dreams happen in the REM Sleep 5. the most memorable and vivid dreams 6. muscular atonia that accompanies the protection of us from self-damage which could occur while physically acting out these vivid dreams E. Stage 5 - REM - breathing...
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...are… Probably you are not! For I am like Medusa. I can run circles around what you think is “smart.” How could you ever challenge me? Your girls, your girls will also get to meet my sweet revenge. I still can’t believe what he did. Dreaming, surely I dream now: I can still shake my hair down long and billowing like waves upon the sea, how tender I am, how fair I can see the reflection of water and shield and a man’s eyes, and this softer hair makes no difference I still turn a man to stone when he looks, even just glances at me, the part of him that snakes inside me, a clefting of stone and my body weeps the sea, pours forth the thickest sea for what was my man who smells of brine as if he was my God Poseidon. But they took him from me. It’s not fair! He chose me first, they all try to hurt me but I love my living hair these serpents whisper when men come close. Each strand with a split, spitting tongue hissing my desire for them. I shake my tresses down and they curl back up their black eyes flashing and my man cries out at my beauty and then his tongue, face, chest, arms, thighs and his toad headed serpent all turn hard forever the clearing before my cave is thronged with them my admirers, but my hair is my true love, rooted in my brain and gathered sleeping against my face muttering sibilant dreams of love. You had no right to do what you did to me. You stupid and pathetic man, I have become the shadow of Medusa and you thought you could challenge me, leave me and for that...
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...We've all been there -- fast asleep, caught up in the middle of a cinematic dream that feels so real you think you've actually experienced it. Sometimes even after waking up you question if it was real. Or maybe it was a nightmare that left you in a cold sweat, heart pounding. But what are dreams? Sigmund Freud believed that dreams are a window into our unconscious. Other researchers also discovered that dreams are our brains’ attempt to make sense of the meaningless stimuli. But regardless of which theory they agree with, all dream specialists conclude that all people dream. No matter what age a person is, it has been proven that every person dreams. In Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya the main character, Tony, has many dreams which offer...
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...Sofia Pérez Semanaz August 23, 2013 Character Development Story Her name is Victoria May and she is 32 years old. She has a beautiful blonde hair color, skinny, beautiful ocean green eyes, and a smile that shines like the sunrays. She has always been a dedicated, goal-oriented, intuitive, sweet and caring person. She comes from a humble high-class and wealthy family. She is recently engaged to a very sweet and handsome man. Her family has always been there for her with all the support she needs. When she was 13 years old, she dreamed of becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon that was her “difficult to get dream”. Her biggest fear was becoming something else, just like everyone told her it was going to happen. Until one day, a successful doctor gave her the best advice to keep dreaming for what she really wants and never giving up. When all the years passed, she graduated from medicine school and her biggest day is coming up. She’s going to be interviewed for jobs in hospitals. She is finally going to be working as a pediatric neurosurgeon. She is delighted for achieving her biggest dream. This is one of the most inspiring stories of all time, everyone told her: “what if you finish studying something else? Do you really want to go to medicine? It is really hard.” And Victoria just ignored them and said to herself: “who are you to tell me what is going to happen with my life? Unlike you, I am a very confident and goal-oriented person that knows exactly what she wants to...
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...takes…”(p.84). Veronica Yonker, a seventeen-year old girl, who dreams big in the post-apartheids era, may have just been the breakthrough for many young strong women of South Africa. These words, coming from a white man( the AUTHOR), was the last boost she needed to go get and live her biggest dream in Johannesburg, as a black girl coming from the Valley. Veronica was born and grew up in the Valley, in the shadows of her mother and grandfather, but in the light of her loving grandfather. Being the sweet, innocent, obedient and respectful child, as she was, pleasing her grandfather and growing up, in the same way her mother did, she was not stuck in her past. She had her own dreams- and dreaming big, she did- and plans for her own future. And reaching these dreams was her passion. Especially her dream of becoming a famous singer. Veronica, not being stuck in her past, strengthens her believes in reaching her dream. She wants to do things differently than in the past “… and all that talk that was going on about how things was going to change and be different from now on.”(p. ). And by this means, not ending up spending her future days, cleaning and scrubbing floors in a white man’s house “…you will never see me on my knees scrubbing a white man’s floor”(p.68). This, however, was the planned future for most of the young black women in that time, especially those living on a farm. But Veronica Yonker had this dream and passion, that carried her through every day and through every...
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...Specific purpose: To inform my audience about the 3 types of dreams they might have. Thesis Statement: Introduction I. I was alone in a dark alley, running for my life, panting and sweating, my heart pounding. A. Was I writing an essay? No. B. It was what I had dreamt of when I as asleep one night. II. I have always been curious about the dreams I had a night, why I would wake up crying at times, or maybe even screaming. III. Throughout the period of research, I have found out that the dreams you have can actually relate to the events you participated in during the day. IV. Therefore, I would like to share 3 types of dreams you are most likely to have during the course of your sleep. Body I. The first type of dream and most common type of dream you might have is a falling dream. A. A falling dream is where one has the feeling of falling thru the air feeling frightened. 1. A theory by Professor O’Conner from the University of Glasgow suggests that a falling dream may occur when one has lost control over something. 2. These situations could be linked to work, school home or even in a relationship. 3. As falling dreams are usually vivid, you can recall the contents of the dreams quite easily. 4. The more you can remember, the better it is to figure out what the dream means, and try to correct the problem you may be facing. B. So when and how does a falling dream occur? 1. It typically occurs during the first stage of sleep...
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...* Page: 3 Para: 1-“Once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?'” * Page: 4 Para: 3-“For, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over.” * Page: 6 Para: 3-“Alice was not going to do that in a hurry.”No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not"; for she had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them.” * Page: 7 Para: 2-"Come, there's no use in crying like that!" said Alice to herself rather sharply. "I advise you to leave off this minute!" She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pg.3: When I was a little girl, I used think books with out pictures were boring. Now that I’m older books with pictures bore me and books without pictures make me excited because I can use my imagration...
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...had had been weeks, months or years since she last felt the sunrays on her pale skin. She had seen nothing but white since they locked her in, everything in the room was white, she had only eaten rice since she ended up in that room. It was only a matter of time before she would lose her mind completely. It was all because of him. Love can be such a dangerous indulgence sometimes, and this time she was the one to pay the price. She gave up her dignity, purity and virtue … her everything, all because of him. They could have had a future together, they would fulfil their dreams and wishes; complete the impossible mission. They would be the saviours; they would find the forgotten land. However … he betrayed her, he gave her up. He could not continue, even though they were the chosen ones… they were the lucky ones. She tried to fall asleep, though in vain. She knew that the memories would return in her dreams. Her thoughts wandered once again back to that dreadful day. Apprehension filled her aching bones, anxiety was driving her mad, she could barely breathe, when she found out that they had captured him. She was going to faint, but she was strong and could not show her weakness in front of her father. Her face flushed ten shades of scarlet, when he first confronted her with it. Her father, Christian Grey, was the leader of the people, and he would protect her no matter what, even if he found out that she was a part of the so-called scheme. She touched her hair, which was...
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...A Genuine Dream: Drive and Commitment According to Oprah Winfrey, She believes that “each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a finger-print and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” In other words, every person has their own individual unique traits that make them who they are and that anyone can accomplish great things. All these words kept going through my head as I thought about school and my future. The more I thought about Winfrey’s words, the more I wanted to find out. I never thought that to accomplish things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe if you want something bad enough, listen to your heart and gut feeling, tune others negative thoughts, and you can do anything you set your mind to. Step one is listening to your heart and fulfilling your wants and needs so you can reach anything you set your mind to, such as a dream. Dream is normally defined as a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind. In my own words dream means sticking to your morals, and sticking to the point by telling yourself that you can do anything you want, you just have to believe in yourself and follow your heart. My dream since I was a little girl has been to become a pediatrician, so I can take care of new born babies, toddlers and teenagers. On the other hand Strickland...
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...! Prof. Laffont! ENC1101! Oct 9, 2014! ! Three Key Aspects in John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row Cannery Row was written by John Steinbeck in 1945. The story takes place in Monterey, California sometime between the Great Depression and World War II. The story is based on “his non-teleological acceptance of what ‘is,’ his ecological vision, and his own memories of a street and the people who made it home” (Shillinglaw vii). Steinbeck lived during the Great Depression and his experience affected the tone within the story. Steinbeck chose to write using third person narrative within the story which is an omniscient point of view- this allows the reader to know what the characters are thinking and feeling. The author wrote this story for the soldiers entertainment throughout battle. Steinbeck uses a unique style to construct this novel by periodically incorporating anecdotes and vignettes within the book, which allows the author to paint a overall picture in the reader’s mind of the reality of this time period. The major aspects within Cannery Row are loneliness, suicide and the development of characters. In the story Cannery Row, loneliness can be considered a major aspect of this book. Loneliness describes many of the characters in this narrative- especially the character Doc. Although Doc is much loved by his peers and has many friends, he is lonely. He spends most of his time listening to music on the phonograph. The text explains that “'He was a dark and lonesome looking man'...
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