...bucket’s rope to float away from the flood he assumes is here. He then hits the floor, and his loud fall makes him the laugh of the town. The story is called a fabliau. This is a story that was told by only one person and intended to make people laugh and smile. This is what makes this story go down in history and so memorable. The humorous imagery and setting are nothing more than memorable. I think that the moral of the story is stating that people, especially in this time period, did not get what they deserve. John and Absolon were both great men that got the opposite of what their kind hearts should have. I think that this tale is certainly portraying some of the same stereotypes we have today. Today’s society basically says that it is oaky to be with multiple partners. Sadly, this is an idea that is practiced before and after marriage. We see the nice people getting taken advantage of all the time. They are usually the ones who love with everything they have just to be heartbroken in the end. I also think that the author is trying to portray a message that just because society says you have to be with someone, that does not necessarily mean that is where your heart is. People back then were forced to marry. Today we see the idea of people being able to love and marry who they want. This is why just recently same sex marriage was legalized. I think that Chaucer did not take the relationships a serious as society did. He realized certain genders still had roles. Just like today...
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...Fiero, when stating "Social Realism, often a vehicle of social cricism and protest, dominateed the novels of John Steinbeck . . . "(Fiero) means that Steinbeck had a lot of criticism for what he had seen. "Social Realism" (Fiero 409) itself is not some form of literary criticism, but is simply "a style that presents socially significant subject matter in an objective and lifelike manner" (Fiero 409). Now knowing what Social Realism is, we have to interpret what Steinbeck wanted people to get out of his book. The Grapes of Wrath is about a family searching for the American Dream and always falling just short, always being enticed just to go and be foiled. It begins, at the start of the book with Tom being in possession of basically a help wanted...
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...1. Who Moved My Cheese? Is the all-time best-selling book in Amazon.com’s history and is printed in 42 languages. Analyze why organizations around the world would buy millions of these books for their employees. In my opinion, this book would be beneficial to organizations to give to employees because it would help their employees to self-motivate. Would entice employees to stretch their goals and strive to increase skill level and perform better at their work and taking pride in what they have achieved. There are many employees who sit around expecting life to happen, while others are out there living it. The same can be found in the work force, employees do the bare minimum, and no initiative to go the extra mile. Then these employees expect to be given a promotions or raises. I believe that organization would also benefit by giving these out because if the employees takes the initiative then the organizations would thrive, and the employee would be self-motivate and looking to achieve and ensure that they get that raise, or promotion. 2. The book encourages readers to pay attention to what is happening around them, anticipate change, and look at the opportunities that exist outside their comfort zones. How does this reflect on those workers losing their pension funds? Employees now need to ensure they embrace change as it is more frequent in the current work force If employees had anticipated these changes it is possible that they would not have lost their pension...
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...Violet Dokaj Are Today’s Youth More Self-Centered than Previous Generations? I chose this topic because it is one that is very obvious. Today’s younger generations are very narcissistic. They have grown much more self-centered than other generations and have changed their priorities. We are now living in the I-Generation. Where looking pretty and uploading selfies has become the norm. Where children are losing their youth in order to get attention and feel important. Psychologists Dr. Jean Twenge and Sigmund Freud explore and researches the younger generations. Being a narcissist’s means that you are self-centered, and it is the pursuit of gratification from vanity, or selfish admiration of one's own attributes, that derive from arrogant pride. The term comes from a Greek myth of Narcissus. Narcissus was a handsome young man who saw his own reflection in a puddle of water and became obsessed with his own reflection. One of the many psychologists that studied this idea was Sigmund Freud. In 1914, Freud published a writing on his findings on the Narcissistic personality disorder. Freud says that the narcissistic attitude is actually a norm for people, it is part of the human experience. However, it is created into an ego through the experiences of infancy and young childhood. I agree with him on this. I feel that the self-centered part of a person doesn’t kick in until about the teenage years, or maybe even earlier. The younger generations have so much that the other generations...
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...it for a good reason and I’m planning on going to visit someday. How was your life like in Mexico before coming to the United States? I worked in a candy store and then in the afternoon I worked in the farms to support my family of 9. What did you do after you got to the United States? I got to my cousins house and she took me to go see around and showed me where all the stores were and she showed me what meant what because I didn’t know English. Did you have a job? No but I was working so hard on finding one and a few weeks later I started to work with my oldest sister that has been in the united states for 3 years. We were both working in an airline company. How was your life so far in the United States? It was oaky, but I missed Mexico because the life over there was easier and it wasn’t hard to get a job. Was it hard to understand people and sardine things when you first got here? Yes I had to finish my high school years to understand more English....
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...no it was for selfish reasons. He wanted to be seen as the hero and to catch the girls’ attention so Queenie will thank him, but they just keep on walking. During the story Sammy constantly judges the characters. The story starts off with Sammy making comments on the girls’ appearances. He talks about the shorter girl saying, “she was a chunky kid, with a good tan….” He judges her based on her weight and this leads to all his other judgmental descriptions of characters. He then talks about a costumer by stating, “if she’d been born at they would have burned her over Salem….” Sammy does not stop there with the comments. He even makes sly comments about his favorite girl Queenie. He describes her legs as “white, prima-donna legs” and her “oaky hair that the sun and salt have bleached….” Even though his comments were not as hateful to Queenie as the others he was still judgmental. The protagonist in “A&P” by John Updike is a static character because he reveals himself as a juvenile who remains envious of “his” girls, determined, and judgmental throughout the story. He shows these characteristics by making comments that can be interpreted. The way Sammy describes his opinion of the girls’ personalities, makes his decision at the end, and how he describes the characters reveals how his character did not change throughout the story. ...
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...trees were swallowed by the storm. The friends are shocked by the wreckage making them feel uneasy in their stomachs. Jimmy breaks the silence by softly saying, “We should move to California.” In surprising unison, Billy and Ol’ Greg said, “Agreed” as they still were looking at the destruction of their home. The three got what little they had and began their long journey towards a new life. The group managed to find a welcoming, American citizen that offered to take them to his hometown in California through a car. As the vehicle drives over the dusty road, the driver suddenly says, “The name is George McCallester.” The three introduce themselves as well and thank George once more. He replies, “No worries, anything for some Oakies. You guys have it tough.” Ol’ Greg responds, “Yea for sure! Also do you have any idears on where we can work?” “Oh yea! Ever since that feller Roosevelt has come into office, there have been more places for people to work! The Tennessee Valley Authority or the Civilian Conservation Corps are providing good work for people.” Ol’ Greg looked pleased, he had not been able to work or receive money for 4 years. Billy whispered to Jimmy, “I told you so!” The 10 year old grinned and then began to look out the window searching for the color green. He was disappointed. Everything the human eye could see was brown and gray, until they got to California. It seemed like the entire country had been affected except for this little town. The...
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...Updike’s short story, “A&P” takes place in a small conservative town. Sammy the protagonist struggles between conforming and rebelling against the conservative society of the 1960s. I argue that the narrator’s point of view, setting, and dialogue relates to Sammy being overwhelmed by internal struggle, power and pain. These rhetorical devices will allow younger audiences to feel Sammy’s struggle. The first person narrator Sammy has an internal struggle between conformity and rebelling against the status quo. The story begins by Sammy stating, "In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I'm in the third check-out slot, with my back to the door, so I don't see them until they're over by the bread". The first sentence establishes a connection and draws interest to readers. Sammy’s colloquial tone allows younger adults to relate to Sammy and the position he is in. Also his tone allows readers to experience the situation at first- hand. Although the reader’s view of the character is limited through Sammy lens and what he sees as his truth, he shifts back and forth of his limited opinion of people he sees For example, he refers people as sheep’s and followers. The author incorporates the use of animals and clothing as symbols in ways to characterize the town and people throughout the course of the story. Sheep’s are described as close group animals that do the same routines and don’t have a mind of their own. This symbolizes how the people in this town are not risk-takers...
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...Knapp's stages of relationship development Description Initiating-This is a very short stage and is all about making an impression. In this stage judging the person would not be accurate. Most people are concerned with making good first impressions. The physical appearance plays a big role in impression making such as the clothing they wear or the car that they drive. Movie incident The scene where Rosalee and Tad first meet at Rosalee's hotel room. Rosalee is speechless and mixes up her sentences. At the same time Ted is shocked at her beauty and immediately is excited about the date. And then she sees Tad's limo and is impressed Connection This is a great example if Initiating because it shows when they first meet and interact with each other for the first time, getting all googly eyed at each other. And clearly both attracted to each other. Description Experimenting- In this stage of relationship development, it’s all about exploring to get to know each other. The experimentation is also called the probing stage because each person analyzes the other for information or common interests so they can decide whether to keep the relationship going. Movie incident Experimenting occurs in the movie in the scene where Rosalee and tad are on there first date at the restaurant At dinner Tad opens up to Rosalee when he talks about his movie auditions. Tad then asks Rosalee what she does for a living. As the conversation continues, Rosalee sees all the signs that...
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...show America as evil. Furthermore by showing that America has ruthless capitalism, banks that would take away everything, people who are looking to take advantage of you and your naivety, as well as the Associated Farmers and the true business it was. It is stated that Steinbeck relished in the criticism and writing “I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression and its effects]. I’ve done my damnedest to rip a reader’s nerves to rags.”(http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2012/08/12/banned-books-awareness-the-grapes-of-wrath/) Steinbeck became public enemy number one when it came to censorship, he stood for the injustice that was happening throughout the US. To gain the viewpoint into the “Oakies” lives, Steinbeck used motifs and speech that was considered vulgar and to adult. In September 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri there was additional complaints regarding to the portayal of the misrepresntation of the preacher. Casy, who was traveling with the Joads and is a former holy man, was brutally murdered in the novel. The novel goes into extreme graphic detail into the violent murder. The community came to an uprise with parents and other holy men complainting about the vulgarity, using the Lord’s name inappropriately and the “preacher” to be nefarious. Annette Moore, member of the Board of Education made a comment about the Grapes of Wrath “it portrays life in such a bestial way.”(Wartzman, 11) But she was not alone the community as...
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...A&P by john updike In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I'm in the third check-out slot, with my back to the door, so I don't see them until they're over by the bread. The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs. I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not. I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell. She's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I knowit made her day to trip me up. She'd been watching cash registers forty years and probably never seen a mistake before. By the time I got her feathers smoothed and her goodies into a bag -- she gives me alittle snort in passing, if she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem -- by the time I get her on her way the girls had circled around the bread and were coming back, without a pushcart, back my way along the counters, in the aisle between the check-outs and the Special bins. They didn't even have shoes on. There was this chunky one, with the two-piece -- it was bright green and the seams on the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale so I guessed she just got it (the suit) -- there was this one, with one of...
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...thing to do and good morals and begins acting on them. His sacrifice for Tom clearly shows this change in his character and how he is growing as a person to act. Tom on the other hand is still not acting, he is still observing while Casy sacrifices himself for Tom. The theme of community overcoming family is present yet again in this chapter as the Joad family loses more people ang reach out to a community. The theme of love overcoming obstacles is still present in Casy’s sacrifice and Ma helping to feed the hungry children. Chapter 21/22 Chapter 21 shows the authors anger towards larger companies eating up the smaller people. The author describes the big company people angrily and has lots of sympathy for the farmers. The threat of the Oakies in California is talked about once more, the desperation for jobs has increased further and even the people with few belongings hold onto them tightly with fear. Chapter 22 has an overwhelming theme of humanism in it. It is the pinnacle of the authors thinking, the time when people are governing people and women like Ma can get respect from others. Tom is also offered a job from another family, even though it will put them out of work before long, there is a sense of community in the camp. The people are content and have their own ways, until the fear of a riot kicks in. Chapter 23/24 This first chapter represents the relief from tension for a short while in the story. It foreshadows the joy of the dance by showing the reader what the people...
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...Chapter 9 ~Recap~ “ang masasabi ko lang ay super gusto ko talaga si Ryutaro” sabi ni Yumi na kinikilig “……” di nakapagsalita si Akiko.. may feeling sya na hindi maipaliwanag *hindi niya alam pero nagseselos sya, gusto niya ring sabihin kay Yumi na crush niya si Ryu, pero naisip niya na baka mag-iba um pakikitungo sa kanya ni Yumi pag sinabi niya ung true feelings niya.. “akiko? Hui bakit ka natulala?” sabi ni Yumi *waving her hands sa harap nan mukha ni Akiko* ‘eh?huh? Ahmm.. okay lang ako” sabi ni Akiko “sure ka? Parang ang lalim ng iniisip mo eeh?’ sabi ni yumi “ahh.. hindi naman .. Naku.. kumain na nga tayo” sabi naman ni Akiko.. then ayun kumain na uli silang dalawa.. *note : hindi alam ni Akiko na kinukunan sya ni Ryutaro ng Pic habang kumakain char! Haba nan hair* ~end of Recap~ at JUMP’s Hangout— “ Sure ka okay ka na ha. Cge good night. Magpahinga ka nalang.. cge bye bye” sabi ni Yamada sa kausap niya sa phone (ako un char!) “si Kristine ba yung kausap mo yama-chan?” tanong ni yuto “yup. Okay na daw siya.. so hindi na dapat tayo mag-alala” sabi ni yama “oh, narinig mo ba un Chinen?? Okay na daw siya.. huwag na daw mag-alala” sabi ni Keito kay Chinen na hindi pa nagsasalita simula kanina nun dumating sila sa hang-out galing sa school.. “tumigil ka na nga jan.. ayan ka ana naman eeh.. palagi mo nalang akong inaasar!” sabi ni Chii “gomen” sagot naman ni Keito “guys sa tingin niyo sila kaya um may gawa nun kay Tin?” tanong ni Yabu “huh? What do you mean?”...
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...Kudl Kudler Wines Product Launch Plan MKT 571 Kudler Wines Product Launch Plan Developing strategies in relation to any application of marketing suggest a marketer’s ability to comprehend and align business practices with the need of the consumer and business simultaneously. Strategies present challenges whether domestic or international markets are the emphasis. The ability to set customary prices, have market presence, encouraging advertisements and publicity, understand the competition, develop accurate communication, a complete SWOT analysis including domestic and international markets, and customizing the target market, present boundless opportunity that consumers appreciate and market recognition. At each stage of strategy implementation, the prospect for marketers to research and comprehend the select target markets yields a profit scenario. As Kudler Fine Foods establishes the company’s presence in Italy, the home market and France, signifying the secondary market, it is essential to create strategies concerning logistics from a business perspective rather than an industry adapted or suggested alternative. It is imperative that Kudler Fine Foods marketing agents such as intermediaries are advised of the product and able to communicate successfully in each demographic. Kudler Fine Foods use of intermediaries suggests that entering international markets allows “superior efficiency in making goods widely available and accessible to target markets”...
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...CHAPTER- 1 1.1: INTRODUCTION The word 'business' is actually derived from the idea of 'busy-ness'. This idea accurately describes most organizations: they are busy organizing resources, producing, selling, managing people and keeping track of finances. The people running the business have to organize people, money, materials and machines to produce a good or service to sell or give to their customers. Organisations: Since the dawn of time, civilized man has designed and built facilities in which to present great ideas. The Concept Organization manages ideas with the same monumental approach. Few things touch our daily life as much as Organisations do. We depend on organisations for education, food, clothing, shelter, health, wealth, recreation, travel, and much more. But what are they, have they come with us? Yes, organisations are as old as the human race itself. Archaeologists have discovered massive temples dating back to 3500 BC that were constructed through the organized actions of many people. The fact that impressive monuments were built suggest that not only did complex organisations exit, but that the people in them worked cohesively for common causes. “They are groups of people who work independently towards some purpose. Organisations are not physical structure; rather they are people who work together to achieve a set of goals. People who work in organisations have structured patterns of interactions, meaning...
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