...between Conrad and his parents, and in especially with his mother. She takes and interprets all of his actions the wrong way, thinking that he is pointing her out in order to hurt her feelings. Therefore, in order for a relationship to be strong and for it to last, there must be proper communication, with being outgoing and honest. Another important element in relationship is trusting. Without trust a relationship will most likely be sabotaged with suspicion and lies. Cal trusted his son, Con in many ways, even before Con learned to trust himself. One of the first evident signs of external trust in this novel was when Con gets his car for Christmas and "Cal, resisting the urge to call, 'Take it easy!' or any other of those good luck charms, thinks, He will be very careful. He will take it easy, even though he has not driven in nearly a year, because he is a good driver." (Page 117) An additional show of a lack of trust is when Con does not have enough belief in his mother to tell her how he feels about all the things he is feeling. This includes what he believes his mother thinks of him, and about his feelings on his brother's death. When a relationship is in lack of trust, many hurtful and damaging things are held inside, and feelings do not become acknowledged or known. The element of forgiveness is very important in numerous ways, because no one is exactly perfect, and everyone makes mistakes in life as expected. Some people can come to terms with the past and move on, but others...
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...all the back up and service of their mother company. NUMATIC machines have been available in South Africa since 1980. THE PRODUCT NUMATIC provides a wide range of industrial cleaning equipment, from mopping units to vacuum cleaners, single disc rotary scrubbing and polishing machines plus combination maintenance machines. The machines are all manufactured to the highest of British standards and comply with our own SABS standards. Product Ranges o Vacuum cleaners o Hotel trolleys o Mopping units o Floor machines o Janitorial trolleys o Specialised units In the beginning, the company employed six people in a little factory that was not as big as a garage and the most sophisticated equipment was a drill. Thank heavens the days were 24 hours long! The first vacuum cleaner designs were made of a combination of oil drums and everyday components that were readily available, such as suitcase handles, furniture castors and domestic washing-up bowls. All assembled in such a way as to provide a simple, reliable workhorse for commercial and industrial use. By 1971, demand had grown too big for the little Crewkerne works and the company moved to a watermill in nearby Yeovil.It was here that the first serious commercial vacuum cleaner was developed, the NV-2; followed very closely by the original (and highly successful) NV-250. Both were all-steel machines and the majority are still working today 30+ years later....
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...out with a simple idea, and by the end it got much more audacious and interesting. I got to a place I never could have imagined because I learned what worked and didn’t work. We have to embrace failure and almost get a kick out of it. Not in a perverse way, but in a problem-solving way.” Design graduate Dyson’s ultimately-successful problem-solving experiments began in 1979. “I’d purchased what claimed to be the most powerful vacuum cleaner on the market,” he tells inc.com. “But it was essentially useless. Rather than sucking up the dirt, it pushed it around the room. I’d seen an industrial sawmill which used something called a cyclonic separator to remove dust from the air, and I thought the same principle of separation might work on a vacuum cleaner. I rigged up a quick prototype, and it did.” It took five years and a further five thousand one hundred and twenty-six prototypes to perfect his design, and almost another decade of failed licensing deals and countless fruitless meetings with distributors before Dyson’s Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner finally went on sale in the UK in 1993. Having failed to interest any manufacturers in the design, Dyson had mortgaged his house to set up his own manufacturing plant. “I liked living on the edge,” he says. “All those years that my house was in hock to the bank… I liked the danger, the idea that everything depended on getting that next product right in every way.” By 1996 the business was growing rapidly and he needed to consider...
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...Dyson vacuum cleaners have some very steep competition and which vacuum cleaner has the best overall quality and price. Dyson James and his engineers develop inventions, but also improve existing Dyson technology. Conventional electric motors haven’t changed much in 100 years. They still have the characteristics of being bulky and fragile and the brushes wear down and emit carbon dust. The Dyson digital motor works differently. Controlled by microchip it spins at 88,000 rpm – five-times faster than a Formula 1 car engine. Because of its speed, the digital motor is half the size and half the weight of conventional motors. With no brushes or fixed magnets, it doesn’t emit carbon either. Only a Dyson vacuum delivers all five DC 14 advanced Dyson cyclone technology with a wand and hose instantly extend 17ft for high-reach and stair cleaning, while the vacuum remains upright and stable. Just press the remote button at the top of the cyclone and the dust empties from the bottom and Brush bar turns off at the touch of a button to protect delicate rugs and bare floors. The vacuum cleaner has a lifetime HEPA which traps microscopic allergens such as pollen. Certified asthma and allergy friendly unlike ordinary vacuums, Dyson is certified asthma & allergy friendly™ according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. This cleaner also has other features such as on-board tool storage, auto-adjusting height, ergonomic carry handle, and large debris channel. ...
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...creator: James Dyson 3 2) Early products by James Dyson 4 3) A new idea 4 4) The $ 2000 vacuum cleaner 4 5) The first Dyson 4 3. Product 5 1) Vacuum cleaners 5 2) Hand Dryer 5 3) Washing Machine 6 4. R&D 7 5. Marketing 7 1) Evolution of Dyson in the market 7 2) Turnover 8 3) Differentiation Strategy 9 4) Focus Strategy 10 5) Cost Strategy 10 6. Innovation 11 1) The innovator’s challenge 11 2) Fast transition from concept to 3D 11 3) Rapid prototypes from design data 12 4) Computer simulation boosts design accuracy 12 5) Protecting their innovations 13 7. Analysis 13 1) Porter’s Five Force Model 13 Existing Rivalry 14 Bargaining Power of Supplier 14 Potential Entrants 14 Threat of Substitutes 14 Bargaining Power of Buyer 15 2) SWOT Analysis 15 Strength 15 Weakness 15 Opportunity 15 Threat 16 1. Abstract In 1978, James Dyson noticed that the air filter of the workshop where the spraying finishing operations on Ballbarrow models was constantly obstructed powder particles (like a vacuum cleaner bag is blocked by dust). He has designed and manufactured industrial cyclone tower, which removed the powder particles by exerting a centrifugal force 100 000 times the force of gravity. The same principle could he operate in a vacuum? James Dyson began to work. Five years and 5,127 prototypes later, the first Dual Cyclone bagless Vacuum cleaner was created. Then a legend of Dyson was come into being. He cooperated with a Japanese companies...
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...cleaning industry has two primary market groups: consumer and commercial. The consumer arena consists primarily of residential maid services, along with carpet cleaners, window cleaners and a variety of other cleaning services required on a less-frequent basis. The commercial arena is dominated by janitorial services, which typically provide a wider range of services than maid services, along with other cleaning companies, such as carpet and window cleaners, that target businesses rather than individual consumers. While it’s recommended that you decide on a niche and concentrate on building a business that will serve your chosen market, it is entirely realistic to expect to be able to serve multiple markets successfully. With all this opportunity, what does the competition look like? Glance through your telephone directory—the number of cleaning services may make you think the market is already flooded and there’s no room for you. That’s not true. First, anyone can get a listing in the Yellow Pages just by having a business telephone line. A mere listing doesn’t mean the company is offering quality service to the market you’re targeting. Second, the demand for cleaning services is tremendous. Plenty of maid service companies have waiting lists for clients because they simply can’t serve the entire market. Many carpet cleaners and other types of specialized cleaning services are not fulltime operations and therefore don’t offer serious competition. And a significant number of janitorial...
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...Advertising for Results By G.F. Brown Advertising for Results Legal notice Advertising for Results is a work of fiction. Any resemblance between any people, things, places or entities in this book and actual people (living or dead), things, places, or entities, is purely coincidental. There is no connection whatsoever at all. In reading any part of this book, you agree to take no action against this book’s author or any party. You are completely and solely responsible for anything you do, and you will not attempt to link your actions to this book in any way. Advertising for Results is written for entertainment purposes only, so disregard everything in this book, including the so-called advice, recommendations, and statements that something will happen. No part of Advertising for Results may be sold by anyone except the author. You agree to never be compensated for it in any way. If you do not agree with all this, stop reading Advertising for Results now. All copyrights and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Copyright © 2003 by G.F. Brown from Richmond Heights. All rights are reserved. 2 Advertising for Results For my wife. 3 Advertising for Results “It is the dry and irksome labor of organizing precincts and getting out the voters that determines elections.” Abraham Lincoln 4 Advertising for Results Acknowledgments Thanking everyone would almost be a book in itself. It would fill lots of pages, and many excellent people would still...
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...Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Sex. Drugs. Rock and Roll. Three simple words that helped shaped an era that brought some of the greatest movies, such as The Godfather, Jaws, and The Taxi Driver. In the book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, by Peter Biskind takes us on a bumpy and wild ride of the era that challenged new ideas to young filmmaker’s that stimulated an edgier movie industry. This book is compelled of hundreds of interviews, with directors, stars, agents, and even one night stands. It tells the up close and personal story in way that celebrities never talked about drugs, sex, and money and the repercussions. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is remarkable in the way that gave us an understanding and behind the scenes of Hollywood’s last golden age. “The 70s were the first time that a kind of age restriction was lifted. Young people were allowed to come rushing in with all of their naïveté and their wisdom and the privileges of youth. It was just an avalanche of new ideas, which is why the 70s were such a watershed” (Biskind 15). A small low budget biker movie made in 1969 sparked the new era of movies, known as Easy Rider. This movie was a shock but a huge success to Hollywood for the fact it was made with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry. Once Easy Rider was successful a new breed of directors were in demand, such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese. This book contains so much research and extensive interviews of not only the directors, but...
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...How American History Influenced The Movie Industry? The period of 1960’s is known as one of the most creative periods in the history of the Hollywood filmmaking. It was prominent due to usage of new narrative and style techniques in presenting changes in American values in the film industry at that time. The period of 60’s is known as a period of change, which was carrying an idea that the goal American society sets, can be successfully achieved. The most common topic in the movies of that period was America’s role in the World, as well as it’s controversial position. President of the US at that time, John Kennedy was promising that before the end of the decade men will step on the moon. He also lobbied for the civil right movement and the Civil Rights Act, which emphasized the end of the period of long segregation in the South. The latter finally gave the same amount of equality to Whites and Blacks. However, the decade ended with the Watts riots. All of these occasions summarized gave a clear sign that there was something wrong happening in America. The movies of 60’s were a way to respond to social movements, which were connected with the issues of civil rights, poverty, and feminism. Films were not only the representation of public view on the issues taking place in America, but also presented the favorable outcomes of values and institutions. Movies produced during the 60’s exposed the new figures to the audience. In addition, they presented the ways of thinking and suggested...
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...When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order. There is an example at the beginning (0) [14 marks] To which days the following refer to? 0 You can see the tea making process. There’s a view over the neighbouring country to enjoy. 1 The train will take you up to a wonderful view. 2 You can camp if you want to. 3 Start the day with some fruit. 4 Home cooking is on offer. 5 The walks are wonderful, but not easy. 6 You can really appreciate wildlife. 7 Take an evening walk through traffic-free streets. D 8 You can escape from the heat. 9 10 It’s small enough for you to see it all in one day. 11 Take your time to get used to the climate. 12 You can learn something about the background of Malaysia. 13 If you’re short of time, just take a short walk. 14 General English 2 Sample Paper 1 1 MALAYSIAN Experience A DAY 1-3 KUALA LUMPUR If you are staying in Chinatown then getting around is easy- just walk. The National Museum is a good introduction to Malay history, art and culture. Save some energy for a late night stroll around one of the busy night markets. Jalan Petaling is full of market traders who sell everything. The road is shut off to traffic at night and tables and chairs are set up outside restaurants. This is the best place to people-watch and enjoy Chinese food and a cold drink. B DAY 4 & 5 GEORGETOWN Hire a trishaw (bicycle rickshaw)...
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...you have done cleaning at some point of your life. And most of you own a vacuum cleaner. But aren’t you tired of those heavy and big machines that don’t even fit in small corners? It is a pain to drag them, right? It even takes a ton of space to store them. Well, today Home Depot brings to you the Black&Decker dust buster! The only dust buster that can make your life easier in any cleaning situation. It fiercely absorb small to medium-size particles, and even liquid (demo). Any spill can be easily cleaned without wasting an enormous number of paper towels. This dust buster is designed to be safe and comfortable to handle. Even children can use it! The dust buster is light and manageable, there is no electric danger for the little ones. If they want to pick up gello they can do it. The Black&Decker dust buster is able to reach the smallest places that you never thought it was even possible to vacuum. Use it to clean your cushions, your drawers, and your upper corners. Be creative! I own one myself and it has save me from cleaning nightmares. Last night I spilled a bag of raw rice on top of the stove. It would have taken me some time to picking up the rice with my hands, and not to mention that I would spill more rice in the floor creating more mess. So, I used the dust buster in my burner and it liberated me from the tedious cleaning (demo). Plus, cleaning the vacuum has never been so easy! You just open the front and dispose the residues. Give it a quick rinse if you’d...
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...INCEPTION By Christopher Nolan SHOOTING SCRIPT FADE IN: DAWN. CRASHING SURF. The waves TOSS a BEARDED MAN onto wet sand. He lies there. A CHILD’S SHOUT makes him LIFT his head to see: a LITTLE BLONDE BOY crouching, back towards us, watching the tide eat a SANDCASTLE. A LITTLE BLONDE GIRL joins the boy. The Bearded Man tries to call them, but they RUN OFF, FACES UNSEEN. He COLLAPSES. The barrel of a rifle ROLLS the Bearded Man onto his back. A JAPANESE SECURITY GUARD looks down at him, then calls up the beach to a colleague leaning against a JEEP. Behind them is a cliff, and on top of that, a JAPANESE CASTLE. INT. ELEGANT DINING ROOM, JAPANESE CASTLE - LATER The Security Guard waits as an ATTENDANT speaks to an ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN sitting at the dining table, back to us. ATTENDANT (in Japanese) He was delirious. But he asked for you by name. And... (to the Security Guard) Show him. SECURITY GUARD (in Japanese) He was carrying nothing but this... He puts a HANDGUN on the table. The Elderly Man keeps eating. SECURITY GUARD ...and this. The Security Guard places a SMALL PEWTER CONE alongside the gun. The Elderly Man STOPS eating. Picks up the cone. ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN (in Japanese) Bring him here. And some food. INT. SAME - MOMENTS LATER The Elderly Man watches the Bearded Man WOLF down his food. He SLIDES the handgun down the table towards him. ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN (in English) Are you here to kill me? The Bearded Man glances up at him, then back to his food. 2. ...
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...Tesco, and we had a higher sale than we have today. Investors once called Tesco a darling of the U.K. stock market, until January where everything went down for us. The shares has fallen by 20 percent. After this fall in market shares, my boss the longstanding chief Terry Leahy who have been CEO for Tesco for 14 years, have just gone off. The new CEO for Tesco is Philip Clarke, and it was not a nice sight he met the first couple of weeks. Experts have said that Mr. Clarke need to reconnect with customers and change the business’ culture. We did also launch the Fresh and Easy at the worst time possible, just one year into the financial crisis in 2008. We did also make some obvious mistakes though. We had no coffee in the store, as the first thing in the morning, there was no frozen food as Americans like and so on. That is why investors have called 182 Fresh & Easy stores to fail. The U.S. stores Fresh and Easy did also fail to take off and we did not catch that many customers. Still, we have some big international investors such as Warren G, BlackRock and the Singaporean Government. As a matter of fact, one in every seven pounds spend in UK are spend in one of our stores but we still needed to improve the business. Many customers...
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...The Ad That Sucks You Up Jamie Andres The Ad That Sucks You Up For women in the 1940’s the thought of working outside the house was absurd. Cooking, cleaning, and babies seemed to be all the public thought they were capable of. With men being the working type, using women on ads of household appliances seemed to work wonders for the producers. It is believed this advertisement was effective because the producers knew that using women as a cover to a product intended for housewives would make the targeted audience want the product more. Hoover had more going for it than the female targets though; they had bonuses, never seen technology, and great logos to draw people in. They used everything from amazing wording to the way they drew the advertisement for their targeted audience. There is no doubt the Hoover Company made a wise decision with their advertisement techniques in the late 40’s, which benefited their company, due to their targeted consumers. There are different reasons why this advertisement was such a success. On the political side of it, unfortunately you have sexism. Women were expected to stay home, clean house, take care of their children, prepare dinner, and tend to their husband. There were views on women compared to men on an everyday basis in the late 1940's early 1950's. It was not meant in a negative way, it was just the way things were back in that time period. No matter the time frame, in most cases, women were...
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...2011 Dyson Vacuum Cleaner Case study Sargis Sargsyan BSL Table of Contents History……………………………………………………………………………………………………2 Dyson company and world market………………………………………………………3,4 Competitors………………………………………………………………………………………5,6,7 Question1…………………………………………………………………………………………….7,8 Question 2……………………………………………………………………………………………8,9 Question 3………………………………………………………………………………………………9 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………10 Dyson Vacuum Cleaner History Dyson Company is one of the leading companies in vacuum clear industry. The company was founded by James Dyson, who is a furniture and interior designer and his product was launched in 1966, when he was student. In 1985 James Dyson had contracted with a small company in Japan. Than in 1993 Dyson opened a research center and factory in Malmesbury by using the money from the Japanese company and developed dual cyclone vacuum cleaner, which became the fastest selling vacuum cleaner in UK. Fourteen years later Dyson could present its first product in the shop and it also presented in the Science Museum. Dyson started to develop Root 8 Cyclone, which removes more dust by using more cyclones. In 2000 he launched new innovative washing machine and in 2008 the company’s revenue reached around 700 million pound, and much of this came from vacuum cleaners sales, about two third, in outside of local market mainly from US, Australia and Japan. So now Dyson Company is one of the successful vacuum cleaner producers in the world...
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