...see our exponential growth through a different lens becomes a necessity. But then how does Frankenstein by Mary Shelley written over two centuries ago, still manage to have a lasting impression on today’s society? Even though 250 years on, Frankenstein still manages to be relevant and pertinent to this very day. The reason being is that Frankenstein becomes more than synonymous with “monster” and “crazy inventor” but is in fact a cautionary tale of the monstrosity capable by man. It’s the universal themes of Frankenstein such as what it means to be human, medical ethics and the darker natured tendency of man to achieve ultimate glory. The events that occur in the text stem from Victor Frankenstein’s want and desire for glory. Dr Victor Frankenstein embarks on a futile quest to create and sustain life where he constructs his nameless monster from various dead matter. Here is where the nameless monster comes to life through being electrified into a conscious being. However, when the experiment is finished, Frankenstein is petrified by what he sees and flees the scene. However, for Frankenstein, time and space are unable to separate himself from his creation where the text delves into a cold and thrilling...
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...Introduction In the market world or segment the companies would have to take a good look on the environment where they want to launch a new product or service. This can only be done by researching the products target market. Also to be successful in the business the company would have to identify the major competitors. All these steps are a good approach and would allow the company to enter into the market with an immediate approach. Maslow’s theory needs and its application Abraham Maslow’s is a modern psychologist of science that was born in Brooklyn New York. He develops the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs the theory of needs that he stated that the people have two major types of needs. One is deficiency and the other is growth needs (Huitt, 2007). The growth needs consist of major behavior such as, aesthetic, self-actualization, cognitive, and self-transcendence. The deficiency will consist of the safety/security, belongingness, physiological, and love, and esteem. Abraham Maslow’s went onto say that people will look at their deficiency needs order to get a better outcome. Once a deficiency need is detected then they would have to remove that need. For example if one is hungry they will eat to remove that hunger. If the person has more than one deficiency it will be a major urgency. For example if one is hunger and then they have to use the restroom the will...
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...Reducing the Spread of Structure Fires Nameless Abstract This paper gives an overview of just a few of the ways fire companies can help limit the spread of a structure fire. A few factors to take into consideration that are discussed here are ventilation, nozzle type, and time. Along with the ways that these concepts can help reduce the spread of a structure fire are ways that, if used incorrectly or misjudged, can greatly worsen the situation and the behavior of the fire. Reducing the Spread of Structure Fires Structure fires can spread very rapidly if proper precautions are not taken. Fire companies have a variety of actions they can take and many factors to take into account to help limit the spread of structure fires. A few of these are ventilation, nozzle type, and time. These factors can be very helpful in limiting the spread of a fire, however if used improperly or misjudged they can cause worsen the situation tremendously. Ventilation has a great impact on fire behavior within a structure. West, Garcia, and Hartin (2009) describe ventilation as, “The exchange of the atmosphere inside a compartment with the atmosphere outside the compartment. Ventilation is ongoing in all habitable spaces. Under fire conditions, this involves exit of smoke and intake of fresh air” (para. 35). Fire companies can use Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV) to influence and boost the exchange of fire effluent...
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...Life’s Flawless Fallacies In today’s society, many of us do not always use our common sense, let alone our imagination in day to day situations. Some people make senseless decisions based off of their own experiences, thoughts, or pride. When you are unsuccessful in realizing the possible dangers and outcomes of certain situations, you could end up in big trouble. In the following paragraphs you will read about a story written in 1910 and how it compares to today’s animal cruelty in the food production industry. Jack London wrote a short story about pure foolishness and the consequences of failing to snap to reality. The story is called “To Build a Fire”. It is about a nameless man who decides to travel in the subzero climate of the Yukon Trail, which is between Alaska and Canada. He also brings along his wolf dog as his only companion, although they are far from intimate and loving towards each other. As he is traveling along throughout the story, he continues to receive signs that he shouldn’t be out there. For example, right from the start he “…spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled” (London 107). For any rational person, that would send a flag right up and they’d turn back to civilization until weather permitted them to continue. But not for this man, he knew it was cold and even kept track of the temperature in his head as he walked on. Not only did he ignore his own frostbite, but he also ignored the advice of an old...
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...The Gilded Age marks a significant and decidedly unique transitional period within American history. It was an era that was defined by rapid economic growth as well as an influx of millions of European immigrants. Further, American wages were much higher than those in European countries, especially for skilled laborers. In spite of this, the Gilded Age was also an era of severe income inequality as well as a high degree of poverty. High levels of corruption as well as a lack of regulation in regards to labor, chiefly contributed to this. This period also enjoyed a number of significant technological advancements and implementations. Railroads, mining, and the factory system all contributed to the rapid industrialization of America throughout this time. What’s more, significant contributions were made to the field of photography. The advent of magnesium flash powder allowed photographers to more reliably capture photographs at night than they had ever been able to. Before, subjects had to be well lit in order to be photographed. Jacob Riis, a Danish born, American immigrant, used this flash powder to great effect during the gilded age. In 1870 Riis arrived in New York amid an economic depression. For several years he battled poverty and unemployment before...
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...Homelessness, Poverty and Politics in America At no time in American history is the poverty and homelessness problem more salient than it is now. Jabs and insults are hurled at political opponents like dirty bombs are hurled during war. Words like “food stamps” and “working poor” and “47%” become a regular part of the national rhetoric and almost seamlessly, they enter the ugly arena of bad words that people use to denigrate and demean. Meanwhile, the nameless and faceless majority of people living at or significantly below the poverty line still yearn for a voice. In days past, impolite rhetoric was covered up with a thin shroud of political correctness, today, there’s no such need as social media opens the floodgates for frankness and politics gets dirtier and uglier than ever. And still, the homeless men, women and children in America have no voice. On the left, President Obama’s administration reminds America that the 47% of people who rely on government programs of some kind and who legitimately need assistance are a group of people forgotten by the right. On the right, Governor Romney’s obsession with cuts and reductions on everything from taxes (paid by the top 1%) to government programs (that benefit everyone else) sound a lot like the fiscal policies espoused by President Bush and President Reagan three decades before that. Reagan has been credited with exploding the homeless problem in the United States (BBC News, 2004; Kengor, 2012) and yet there are many whose...
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...Case Analysis for Corona Beer (Modelo) BUS599 Identify and discuss the trends in the global beer markets There is a common item found at sporting events, entertainment venues, restaurants, bars, and mainly in the refrigerators of Americans. This item is beer. Of the 67% of Americans who consume alcohol 42% prefer beer (Frank Newport, 2010). Beer consumption is continuously increasing not only in the United States but also globally. There are several trends within the global beer market which accounts for the potentials seen throughout the industry. One of the main trends of the global beer industry is the growth rate. The growth rate globally over the past five years is reported at 3.5%. “The largest contributors to this growth have been China (now the world's largest beer market), Africa and Eastern Europe” (SABMiller Investors, 2011). Another trend seen in the industry is consolidation. At the beginning of the twenty first century there were ten major brewers accounting for one third of the beer sales. Today there are four top brewers which include “Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller, Heineken and Carlsberg – accounting for almost 50% of beer sales volumes and up to 75% of the global profit pool” (SABMiller Investors, 2011). This is due to the increase in consolidation. Another trend in the beer industry is premiumisation. This term refers to the sales of premium beer brands. “As economies improve, the trend towards premium will resume as consumers become...
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...INTRODUCTION Marketing is about identifying and meeting human and social needs. One of the shorter goods definitions of marketing is “meeting needs profitably.” People were unable to locate some of the items they desired most, it created an online auction clearinghouse. When IKEA noticed that people wanted good furniture at a substantially lower price, it created knockdown furniture. These two firms demonstrated marketing savvy and turned a private or social need into a profitable business opportunity. Definition of Marketing “Marketing is defined as a social and managerial process by which individual and groups obtained what they need and what through creating and executing products and values with others” -PHILIP KOTLER “Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and it stakeholders.” Coping with these exchange processes calls for a considerable amount of work and exchange thinks about the means of achieving desired responses from other parties. Thus we see marketing management as the art and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing customers through creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value” -A.M.A (American Marketing Association) “The market include both places and region in which buyers...
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...Social media sites are the highest growing online sites, their popularity is not slowing down. Millions of peoples use social media to, actively network, share and exchange news, information, views and give their opinions on everything. Therefore social media sites are starting to exceed popular search engines when it comes to researching for products and services online. Social media also can offers a lot of way for people to connect and work together, and small and large businesses recognize that people like to keep connect with companies on a more personal level and want to feel that they are part of the conversation and not just a unknown, nameless sale. The strategy of using social media marketing is to increase and create awareness of a company brand, by helping companies connect with their customers and actively this approach create good customer relations. Marketing using social media is important in today society because customers buy from people they like, know and trust. Today businesses are learning that customers are more eager to share their positive and negative experiences on social media sites. So the more customers like and trust a business, the more credibility and authority business earns which in turn, wins companies more devoted customers. The advantage that social media marketing bring to the table for small business is the ability to cut marketing expense and still reach a large percentage of customers and potential customer by creating a free page...
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...novel. Woland, the devil, is the main arbitrator of justice and evil, but also creates the main paradox in the novel. Unlike the devil of traditional Christian teachings, Woland is capable of good and benevolence. This paradox plays an important role in both the story in Moscow and Jerusalem. Woland causes the characters, and the reader, to question life by encouraging awareness of the interdependency of Good and Evil in the proper functioning of life. In the novel, all evil is necessary in order to obtain a greater good. However, we see this end goal lost in the stories of Caesar and Stalin. They no longer have are able to recognize the difference between constructive evil and destructive power. However, evil seems to play as a nameless character in the novel, and in turn, in Stalinist times. Stalin does not directly kill any individuals, and neither does Caeser, but people still live in fear of him. People are surrounded by this terror, and only those who are self-aware and willing to call reality into question are able to create meaning for themselves. Bulgakov uses characters to possess this ability to display how meaning can be attained even when surrounded by terror and repression. People are able to persist, despite the conditions, acting as an optimistic reassurance in troubled times. The rest of this essay will focus on specific examples of how this self-reflection and awareness act as a salvation. The first instance of evil that we see in the novel comes...
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...Growing up, we tend to look up to our parents/guardians and all that they do. Our parents are there to help us celebrate our best moments in life, to kiss our cuts when we fall down and hurt ourselves, to love us, to nurture us, to be our backbone. We learn life-skills from them such as how to walk, how to count, how to tie our shoes, how to ride a bike, to stand up for ourselves when dealing with bullies, we are even taught about the birds and the bees. But what happens when we’re the ones teaching our parents? In Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, we are met with the nameless characters, known as a father and his young son, who travel and attempt to survive post apocalyptic Earth. They set out to the south west in hopes to find people just like themselves, who are still morally correct in a world full of cannibalistic savages. The father shows the boy how to survive through making fires, dispersing their daily intake of food, sleeping in various locations, and other ways just to be safe and healthy. The father teaches him that they are the few morally correct people still left on Earth, as he wishes to teach his son as much as he can, before the father’s time runs out. The boy is seen as a God-like figure to his father as he is a beacon of light in a world full of darkness, the hope of the future, due to his correct moralities, as this reflects onto the father in various situations through the novel. It is quite notable that though the father plays an influential figure for...
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...Shehzad Chowdhury Don Taylor Seminar: Issues in Corp Finance 01/31/2015 Warren Buffet Case This case study talks about Warren Buffets’s Berkshire Hathaway company; initially, it discuses regarding the possible meaning of the alters in stock price for Berkshire Hathaway and Scottish Power plc on the day of the acquisition announcement is for the reason to the truth that the deal formed value for both consumers and suppliers; In addition, Berkshire was extra expanded subsequent to the acquisition. The $2.55 billion gain in Berkshire’s market value of equity oblique that the basic value of PacifiCorp was fine since it cut down within the range of challengers supported on the subsequent result, which is $2.55 billion divided by 312 and 312 again divided by 18 million gives $8.17.Next, Berkshire is keen to give this premium for every share of PacifiCorp 5.1 billion divided by 312.18 million that results $16.30 per share of PacifiCorp $8.17 plus 16.30 equals $24.47. Later, we discover the range of likely values for PacifiCorp in Exhibit 10 as follows: Revenue median of $6.252 Billion, average of $6.584 Billion, EBIT median of $8.775 Billion, average of $9.289 Billion, EBITDA median of $9.023 Billion, average of $9.076 Billion, Net Income median of $7.596 Billion, average of $7.553 Billion, EPS median of $4.277 Billion, and a mean of $4.308 Billion and Book value median of $5.904 Billion, mean of $5.678 Billion. The Question about income; the implied worth of PacifiCorp is giving...
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...Ryan Furlow Argosy University Atlanta Social Stratification June 10, 2014 Social Stratification and social mobility are important factors in our personal development. In the current US economic situation, class ranking or social status can be a critical inhibiter to your personal growth as well as gender, age, or ethnicity. Social mobility and success are important motivators to the people living in a monetary society, without success labels and social stratification work as a deterrent to success. Very few people are able to rise out of the situation they were born into and create different of better situations for them selves. In most situations, those of us born into poverty will more than likely remain so for the duration of their life. The following are personal accounts of two men and their experiences with social stratification during their professional journey. Chef Larry Powers is the Executive Chef at an Irish Fine Dining Restaurant in Roswell GA, he is 46 and a proud Irishman, from Dublin. Despite his parents immigrating to Georgia from Ireland at age six, Chef Larry remains a proud Irishman. Chef Larry describes his child hood as normal middle-class environment, three bedroom house two cars and a dog. When questioned about his teen years the Chef was hesitant, he went on to explain that his teen years are what shaped his life. Being an overweight kid, Chef endured teasing and ostracizing from his peers. His only acceptance came as a football player...
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...Growing customer value, satisfaction and loyalty Building customer value, satisfaction, and loyalty As marketing expert Don. Peppers and Martha Rogers say: The only value your company will ever create is the value that come from customers-the ones you have now and the ones you will have in the future. Businesses succeed by getting, keeping and growing customers. Customer are the only reason you build factories, hire employees, schedule meetings, lay fiber-optic lines, or engage in any business activity. Without customers, you have don’t a business. CUSTOMER VALUE: * The level of priority the customer gives to a product. CUSTOMER SATIFACTION: * When the customer perceive expected value from the product is called customer satisfaction. CUSTOMER LOYALTY: * the totality of feelings or attitudes that would incline a customer to consider the re-purchase of a particular product, service or brand or re-visit a particular company, shop or website. Customer perceived value Is the difference between the prospective customer’s evaluation of all the benefits and all the costs of an offering and perceived alternatives. Total customers value- is the perceived monetary value of the bundle of economic, functional, and psychological benefits customers expect from a given market offering. Total customer cost- is the bundle of costs customers expect to incur in evaluating, obtaining, using, and disposing of the given market offering, including monetary, time, energy, and psychic...
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...the existence of the individual person as free and responsible for their own actions behaving on their own will. Not only does Ellison highlight a need for identity, but he specifically relates this need to African Americans during this time. Ellison questions whether or not race is an authentic marker of individuality and identity. The relativist aspect of postmodernism suggests a wrestle with the truth of defining race and locating one’s own identity within a relationship with race. Racial identity is a constant subject of inquiry throughout the entirety of the novel. Invisible Man is a well-constructed illustration of life with and without a sense of identity in relation to race in American society. In Ellison’s The Invisible Man, the nameless narrator shares his story of learning the importance of coming out of his hibernation and escaping his invisibility. Having been ashamed of the slavery of his grandparents and his own blackness, the narrator was not rejected for the world but chose to no longer participated in it as he accepted his invisibility and found a home in a comfortable hole in the ground. The narrator believes that he is invisible because if the racists saw their victims the way they actually were then they would not treat them the way that they do. He shares the story of how he found a need to break out of his comfortable state of invisibility and, as he says, stop “[Trying] to go in everyone’s way but [his] own” (274). He does not know what steps to take towards...
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