...Analysis of “The Monkey’s Paw” William Wymark Jacobs, also called W.W. Jacobs, wrote “The Monkey’s Paw” in 1902. Jacobs was a comedic writer, and his stories fascinated both his readers and listeners. The story is about the Whites family, comprised of three people, namely Mr. White, Mrs. White, and their son Herbert White. They are a very happy family who have everything they need. Their heart could not desire more. One day Sargent – Major Morris, a man who has travelled a lot in the world, among others India were he found a monkey’s paw, knocked on the Whites door with the paw in his pocket. There is this thing about the paw. It is magical. Anyone who owns the paw gets three wishes, but one thing is there to know – magic comes with a price. Mr. Whites wants the paw, but he has to buy it first so he wishes for two hundred pounds. The paw symbolizes the greed and desire that is part of a human and Mr. White has a lovely home and a happy family, but he still wishes for money that he may not even use. Because of his wish, Herbert dies at a machinery and his corpse comes to knock at the family door. Mr. White uses his last wish to wish the son gone, because he is afraid of what might be on the other side of the door. He will not take the chance. In “The Monkey’s Paw” Mr. White and his son love playing chess. They are both competitive persons so they play a lot chess to get revenge on each other. The chess can symbolize life. Chess is a game that is unpredictable, like life....
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...beating?! Why does it not stop!?”(Poe 94). In the story, the narrator keeps saying that he isn’t mad and yet this clever man gives everything away because he thinks he hears the man’s heart still beating. Because of his madness, he killed the old man, which led to the police coming, and then because he heard the man’s heart he revealed what he had done. Again, this story leads from one thing to another yet still is full of suspense. In the stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Monkey's Paw" the authors use cause and effect to create suspense for the readers. Knowing what the cause is and how it created the effect is important because it enables us to be able to comprehend what comes next. Reading is the best way to feel suspense. Jacobs, W. W. ""The Monkey's Paw"." Collections Grade 8. N.p.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2015. N. page. Web. 4 Apr. 2017. Poe, Edgar Allan. ""The Tell-Tale Heart"." N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. page. Collections Grade 8. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2015. Web. 4 Apr. 2017....
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...ACC 230 Steve Bell 5/1/2013 Introduction and Business History/Description Yum! Brands was found in 1997, originally named Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. Its headquarters is located in Louisville, Kentucky. Their website address is http://www.yum.com. In 1997 PepsiCo disposed of its restaurant division to Tricon. On May 16, 2002, Tricon changed its name to Yum! Brands, Inc. With its 37,000 units in over 120 countries, Yum is currently the world’s largest quick service restaurant company. Yum has three major restaurants, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. The company franchises and licenses its restaurant worldwide. In February 2012, they acquired controlling interest in Little Sheep Group Limited. They have around 18,000 system restaurants in the United States and in 2011 had revenues of $3.8 billion and operating profits of $589 million. Suppliers Yum purchases its supplies from a number of different suppliers throughout the world. The primary items that Yum purchases are cheese, beef, chicken and pork products, as well as paper and packaging materials. Their China division deals with around 500 different suppliers, primarily based in China. Yum and the representatives of the company’s franchise groups are members of the Unified Co-op. The Unified Co-op provides companies with the opportunity to purchase lower priced products and equipment. Customers The company does not focus or rely on just one group of customers. Quick services...
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...RED LOBSTER MOVES to CHINA? HTM 540, International Tourism Development May 26, 2013 Review key points from Darden Restaurant’s most recent 10-K. Their stock symbol on the NYSE is DRI Darden Restaurants based on company sales, market and the amount of company owned and managed restaurants, is the world's largest casual dining restaurant company who has a variety of dining brands to choose from. Their mission is to be “The best, now and for generations... and a place where people can achieve their dreams” (Darden 10K, 2012). According to their most recent 10-K report (2012), there are many key points for review. “Of the 1,961 restaurants across the United States & Canada none of them are franchised” (Nation’s Restaurant News, 2012, p.1). Domestically Darden doesn’t offer franchise opportunities. However, they do have 28 restaurants outside of the United States operated and independent to third parties. Other key points are company sales and stocks. The total company started out in 1970 with 3.5 million in sales ending with 7,998.7 million, with 9.5% attributing to alcohol, in 2012, showing significant growth. Stock prices were at a high 55.84, low 40.69, and closed at 53.06 per share as of May 27, 2012. Ford Equity research (2013) projects that Darden will perform in line with the market over the next 6-12 months based on key factors such as earnings strength, relative valuation, and recent price movement (para. 1). “To support future growth,...
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...A Disease or a Choice? "Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever," states Bill Wilson the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA, also known as Alcoholics Anonymous, is a recovery program to help addicts cure their addiction. The addict is given a sponsor within the first 30 days of your recovery and he or she guides through the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. These twelve steps help the addict accept they have a problem, identify what exactly needs to be improved and changed, analyze the situation, learn from their progress and past mistakes, and help yourself and others. This racially mixed, self-supporting, and nonprofessional recovery program is the only way to cure addiction and reach the full potential of sobriety. In the 1930’s, it was common to consider alcoholism as a moral failure. Doctors at the time treated the situation like it was terminal. People without financial capability were able to find help through the Salvation Army or religious groups, while those who could afford it were put into a long term treatment in hospitals. In 1931 a Christian society named The Oxford Group practiced the five C’s: confidence, confession...
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...HOW TO CREATE A BROCHURE To print (and preserve) these brochure instructions, click Print on the File menu. Press ENTER to print the brochure. Using this template, you can create a professional brochure. Here’s how: Insert your words in place of these words, using or re-arranging the preset paragraph styles. Print pages 1 and 2 back-to-back onto sturdy, letter size paper. Fold the paper like a letter to create a three-fold brochure (positioning the panel with the large picture on the front). What Else Should I Know? To change the style of any paragraph, select the text by positioning your cursor anywhere in the paragraph. Then, select a style from the Style list on the Formatting toolbar. To change the picture, click it to select it. Click Picture on the Insert menu, and then click From File. Select a new picture, and then click Insert. Company Name Street Address Address 2 City, ST ZIP Code Phone (704) 555-0125 Fax (704) 555-0145 Web site address Future Solutions Now Customized Turnkey Training Courseware Adventure Works Date of publication Bridge The gap A Temporary Contact Program A Bridge between Alcoholism Treatment and AA Sponsored by: Indiana Area 23 Treatment Facilities Committee Of Alcoholics Anonymous www.area23aa.org WHO CAN I CALL? Area 23 Bridging the Gap Hotline 317-490-8036 Temporary COntact Definition: A temporary contact is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous who works with alcoholics both in and coming out of treatment...
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...admitting wrongs, making amends, using prayers and meditation, and carrying the message to others. During the early part of the 1930s, Rowland H. went to visit a Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung. He went visit Jung get help with his alcoholism. Jung was convinced that Rowland’s problem could not be treated medically and referred him to the Oxford Group. Rowland attended the group meetings and later introduced Vermonter Edwin (Ebby) T. to the group. Using and following the Oxford Group’s principles the two men managed to stop drinking and recover from their alcoholism. Ebby went on to share what he had learned with a fellow drinking buddy Bill Wilson. Wilson was once a very successful Wall Street man. His career was ruined by his alcoholism. Bill W was initial unreceptive to Ebby’s stories from his recovery, and about Oxford Group’s principles. He felt as though he was hopeless. In 1934, after finding himself suffering from major health issues due to his excessive consumption of alcohol, Wilson. found himself undergoing a powerful spiritual experience unlike one he had ever experienced. His depression was no more, and he felt free. Wilson essentially stopped drinking and dedicated the rest of his life to his work of bringing that feeling of freedom and peace to other’s suffering from alcoholism. Thus, the roots of AA were planted. 12-Step Program In 1939, shortly after the creation of AA, Wilson published the “Big Book”, Alcoholics Anonymous. This book serves as the basic text for...
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...Roberts, Joe ITDS 1145 – American Jesus Summer 2012 The Calvary Nails of Rock Bottom In many Alcoholics Anonymous meetings the term “rock bottom” is used as often as the word recovery. In the painting “Calvary,” the artists presents to the audience two characters in a small room with objects of sinful desires. What is striking however, is the two very different men portrayed. A tattooed, pierced, and rough looking man is administering drugs intravenously into his arm. Or is it his arm? Behind this character, worthy of an intervention I might add, stands a bearded man dressed in white who is looking up at the ceiling with agony on his face. It is unclear whether or not it is this man’s arm, or the man in the chair. It is important to note that both arms have tattoos. While this could be argued as both men’s arm, let’s zero in on another detail that strikes at the heart of the audience – the face of the man dressed in white. First of all, who is this man? I asked my daughter, who is only 6 years old, to identify the man in white. Her immediate response was “Jesus.” How is it that we have been groomed to establish a connection with these images of visual piety? Is it because I take my daughter to church twice a week and have other images of this man Jesus in my home? Surely, this is not the case. So let’s assume that because this man is dressed in white, resembling pure and innocent, and he resembles many other forms of art depicting Jesus, that this man is indeed Jesus. ...
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...Truth About Psychology There are many scriptures that talk about physical and spiritual healing, but there are none that prescribe the infirm to set out on a self-focused journey of behavior modification, which comes with self-help and psychology based solutions. You have been healed not with rules, steps, behavior modifications, accountability, and fear, but with peace and the power that comes from being fully hidden in Christ and completely filled with the Holy Spirit. You were reborn as a new creation; a race of people never before seen on this Earth. Over and over again, throughout the New Testament, you are given permission to be healed. Jesus died and with Him, your sinful nature died. You are no longer broken, weak or struggling, you have been fully restored and healed. Jesus came to Earth and was the beginning of a new creation. A new being. A race of people that would live for eternity, equipped with the same power, ability and inheritance as Jesus. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (John 10:10) Verse after verse Jesus explains our new placement in the Kingdom and our new status. (John 10:25-30) Jesus promises us the Holy Spirit to equip us for the same power and good works that he had access to and experienced here on Earth. Once you were placed in Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus says in John 14:15-27 that you will keep his commands, you know him, anyone...
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...Company Overview: The organization we choose for the research and our group report writing is Australia’s most popular retail industry Woolworths. We choose Woolworths supermarket on of the brand of the Woolworths Limited Australia. Woolworths limited is well known retail giant over Australia and New Zealand. Woolworths started its first business in city of Sydney by opening its first store in the basement of Imperial arcade in 1924.Current stage Woolworths operates many of the retail brands like Big W, Woolworths, Dan murphy, Cell master, BWS and many more. And it serves 2.4 million customers a week (Woolworthslimited.com.au, 2014). We choose Woolworth’s supermarket located at North Ryde in Macquarie centre, which is known as the store of destination of Woolworths. Store is located inside the Macquarie centre. Store is very popular store because of its largest fresh department with onsite production of the mood. This retail store can be taken as the largest organization where this store operates 24hr work including while trading and while closed. Store has 287 staff including casuals and part time and 14 salaried managers. Store weekly sales are 1.7 million dollar average and daily operating hour is 8 am in the morning till 10pm. One of our group members does works in the Woolworths supermarket store Macquarie centre. According to his experience and analysis during the working hours in that organization he was concerned and focused in the Larger number of employee has been...
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...Executive summary of "Kentucky fried chicken A success story in China" Degree course: Module: Lecturer: Submitted by: International Business, M.A., 02nd semester International Strategy and Operations Management Summersemester 2014 Dr. Nils Stieglitz Eugen Hölzl, Jia Luo, Bingqi Tang, Xinhe Liu, Matriculation-no.: 493 396 5 Matriculation-no.: 492 574 4 Matriculation-no.: 493 581 6 Matriculation-no.: 492 682 8 1/3 KFC entered the Chinese market in 1987 as an American company. 27 years later, KFC has established its presence in virtually every larger Chinese city and has developed its localization to an astonishing degree. KFC’s performance in the Chinese market significantly outgrew the brand’s performance in its home market in terms of revenue and outlet numbers. With more than 4.500 outlets, KFC China generates more than half of its yearly revenue for the Kentucky based Yum! Brands. There is no doubt that KFC China has written an impressive page in the history of western brands succeeding in the Chinese market. The aim of our case study was to answer three questions: what made KFC so successful in China? Which challenges and opportunities does the company face today? And which strategies are and/or should be in place? To answer the first question, standard macro-analysis tools were used and a detailed look at the market environment at the time of market entry was taken as well as the measures KFC undertook by then. The following are the factors that we believe...
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...Lily Turner Professor Carlson 4/19/15 Discourse Analysis Daily Devotion There are many people that judge the effectiveness of alcoholics Anonymous. The research on this matter is controversial and subject to a wide variety of interpretation. Within A.A., there are several aids available to alcoholics, both social and textual. However, the sociocultural dynamic in the group holds a higher significance than the suggested A.A. readings. One of the most celebrated textual materials offered to alcoholics would be the “Big Book”, consisting of Alcoholic’s stories and their solutions. Another text that holds great value is the “Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions” this describes a twelve-step program and how it should be implemented in every day life of an Alcoholic. These texts have been in existence for almost seventy-five years and have helped many addicts across the world. However, there was a time where alcoholics did not have such resources. The first A.A. meeting was held in New York in the early 1930’s underneath the Oxford Group, which was a religious movement. The Oxford Group practiced a recipe of self-improvement through honesty, making amends, prayer and meditation. Cases of Alcoholism that were proven medically “hopeless” were referred to the Oxford Group. Possibly the most recognized case of Alcoholism and author of the “Big Book”, was a Wall Street stockbroker, Bill Wilson. His professional success was ruined by his chronic Alcoholism. Landing in hospital...
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...Creativity at Apple 1. Apple has relied on the imagination approach. This refers to the creation of new ideas, break troughs and radical approaches to problem solving. Apple could use the improvement approach to change up their iPhone. A lot of people complain that all though they love their iPhone, there is never a significant difference with newer versions except the price. The improvement approach. He creatively changed the way hamburgers were made and served. He created the largest food service in the world. Ray Kroc’s secret was incremental improvements on existing ideas. Honda’s president Kawashima used the investment approach in the “Honda-Yamaha” Motorcycle War”. Bill Wilson used the incubation method to come up with Alcoholics Anonymous. 2. I would advise him that we need to give our consumers options. One thing that android has that iPhone doesn’t have is options. I would also advise him that most people enjoy customization and that we should make it possible for people to easily customize their phones. In order for Apple to make money based on its own inclination, it has to take in account the aforementioned. Apple would have to creatively work on give their customers better and even more options when it comes to phones. They can also come up with creative ways to allow people to customize their phones. 3. Apple is currently facing many obstacles. A conceptual block that Apple is currently facing is that it doesn’t want to give consumers what they really want...
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...Check Out Human Resource Management (HRM) of KFC Corporation. This can be MBA project Topic for all MBA, BBA, BMS and PGDM students. KFC is world largest food chain which has unique Human Resource Management to mange huge number of employee worldwide. KFC Corporation (KFC), founded and also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. KFC has been a brand and operating segment, termed a concept of Yum! Brands since 1997 when that company was spun off from PepsiCo as Tricon Global Restaurants Inc. KFC primarily sells chicken pieces, wraps, salads and sandwiches. While its primary focus is fried chicken, KFC also offers a line of grilled and roasted chicken products, side dishes and desserts. Outside North America, KFC offers beef based products such as hamburgers or kebabs, pork based products such as ribs and other regional fare. The company was founded as Kentucky Fried Chicken by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952, though the idea of KFC's fried chicken actually goes back to 1930. Although Sanders died in 1980, he remains an important part of the company's branding and advertisements, and "Colonel Sanders" or "The Colonel" is a metonym for the company itself. The company adopted KFC, an abbreviated form of its name, in 1991. Starting in April 2007, the company began using its original name, Kentucky Fried Chicken, for its signage, packaging and advertisements in the U.S. as part of a new corporate...
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...High employee turnover is always a threatening problem to the organizations. It may affect the company’s daily operations in the form of direct and indirect cost. Direct cost incurs for replacing resigned staffs like recruitment, selection, orientation and training. Cost of diminished morale, pressure of the existing employees and poor working atmosphere are the indirect cost incurred by the organization because of high turnover rate. It is suggested that turnover rate is the result of a social exchange process in which the employees perceive care and support from the organizations and in return they will develop a stronger commitment to the organization and will diminish the intention to quit the organization. (Loi, Ngo & Foley, 2006) Although employee turnover is a normal organizational problem, it is even more difficult for the small and medium-sized enterprises. In the following, we will use a marketing firm as an example to illustrate the importance of organizational justice and its relationship with employee turnover rate and organizational citizenship behaviors. Company Background - Small and medium-sized enterprise - 30 staffs - 2 administrative departments and 2 operation departments Appraisal system of the account department - Structure (1 general manager-boss, 3 directors, 3 team leaders, 9 junior and senior account executives) - 4 ways performance review 1. Self appraisal - Each of the staffs will review, grade and reflect their own performance 2. Subordinates...
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