...“We Need to Talk About Kevin,” a novel written by Lionel Shriver about a boy who commits a Columbine at his high school. Written in the perspective of his mother, she reflects and analyzes starting from the point prior to Kevin's birth. She questions whether choices she made, how she felt about Kevin, actions that were taken, not taken, was the cause of her son killing his classmates. Or the possibility that Kevin was born with an unstable mindset. Eva, the mother, had a very successful career. She was the CEO and owner of a travel agency. Prior to having children, she traveled a lot and for months at a time. She married Franklin, who was a freelance photographer. They were a slightly older couple in their forties when they decided to have children. Eva loved her career; her life was her work, so why have kids when their relationship seems so peachy? “(She) was absolutely terrified of having children.” (pg. 32 WNTAK) The decision boiled down to having children was for the sake of having something to talk about. This was a huge indication that this couple should not have had children under such pretenses. Eva had Kevin, but did not have that bond that forms between mother and child. She described her pregnancy as “battling the idea of Kevin, the notion that (she) had been demoted from driver to vehicle, from householder to house.” (pg. 58 WNTAK) “Childbirth had left her unmoved.” (pg. 83 WNTAK) On another hand, Franklin embraced parenthood. In the father's eyes, Kevin was a...
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...Rasmus Würtz Engelsk A Essay The story about Kevin and his family takes place in Ireland. We hear that Kevin is studying at a grammar school, and he has problems in latin classes. His father is a barman, and as Kevins mother says, they never got the chance of going to school, but his father would certainly have passed it, but his mother probably wouldn’t. Kevins mother doesn’t seem to have a education, but she might have a job, but we doesn’t hear about that. The Sweenys is a not a wealthy family, but they’re not concerned about money, which mean that they aren’t poor, but it’s not possible to make more money than they currently are, so there is no need for concern. Money isn’t a subject of conversation at the Sweenys, it is a well functioning family. The boy and his father have a relationship which isn’t characterised by a paternal dominance, the way they talk to each other is reflecting that. Kevins father, whos name we doesen’t know, is a calm type and is pleasant for the boy and his brothers to be around, and they to admire him, as in when he gets home from work, sits in his chair and simply commands “Slippers”, and the boys come as faithful dogs, to take of his shoes and put on his slippers. His father helps him with some latin grammar, as he is in a hurry to get to work, and Kevin trusts his father with deep faith, so he is sure that it must be correct, but at school he is picked out by the strict and respect demanding...
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...Robin and I Characters: Robin (main), Kevin, Perry Park, joseph, Jonah, nana, Mr.X “Anna! Tell the police what happened. You don’t have to be scared. Just tell what your father did to you,” Robin shouted. “My dad didn’t do anything to me. It was that guy who intruded our house and beat my father up,” Anna told the police officer. “What are you talking about Anna? What are you thinking? I came to save you and that’s what you repay me,” Robin said while struggling with the officer. Robin is an only son of the big company. His parents sent him to America after the accident. He is a role model in one of the American’s college. He is good at sport such as America Football. He has a warmhearted personality. He loves to help other people. However, Robin lost his memories when he was 8. At 9 pm, one of Robin’s friends called him for help. Her name is Anna. Robin rushed to her house. He spent less than 5 minutes to go to Anna’s house. Her dad was beating her. Robin tried to stop the old man. The old man took his baseball bat and hit Robin’s head. He repeated his hitting skill on Robin. Robin was almost unconscious. Suddenly there was a gunshot. Police arrived and stopped the old man. They ask Anna who attacked her. Instead, Anna told lie that Robin intruded and her father saved her. Police led Robin to the police station while he was protesting the entire way. After police released Robin, he went home and met his secretary. “Young master? Are you in your right mind?” “I...
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...go viral Kevin Allocca is the trends manager at YouTube, this is a fancy title for someone, as he puts it “watches YouTube videos all day and gets paid to do it”. He claims that all successful videos meet one of three criteria mentioned in his TED talk. The purpose of this critique is to explain these points, evaluate them and then explain how Kevin’s video has influenced me with regards to social media marketing and how these points can be applied to marketing. The Big Three Points Kevin Allocca attributes the success of all videos with many views on YouTube to them having met one of three critical factors. The first of these factors is the influence of trendsetters. Trendsetters are someone who initiates or popularizes a trend, or in this case causes a video to go viral. This can be done in a variety of ways; it can even be something as simple as tweeting about it. Jimmy Kimmel did this with “double rainbow” when he tweeted about it on July 11th 2010 and caused it to go from almost no views when it was posted on January 18th 2010 to over 400 000 by the end of July 12th 2010 (Allocca, 2011). This however isn’t an isolated phenomenon; this happens everyday with celebrity endorsement and people even making their living by showing popular YouTube videos to others such as the comedy central program Tosh.0 The second point that Kevin made was that communities of participation often turn mediocre success into phenomenal success. This often comes about due to parodies...
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...“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” -Sir Winston Churchill 62 Amazing Customer Service Tips and Quotes Time tested ideas and suggestions to keep your customers happy and loyal. by Kevin M. Stirtz www.AmazingServiceGuy.com 62 Customer Service Tips & Quotes “Care more than others think wise. Risk more than others think safe. Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others The New Era of Customer Service We are in a new era of customer service. In fact, at the risk of sounding cliché, I’d even call it a new paradigm. Because much of what worked in the old days is just not effective any more. Many of the attitudes toward customer service are no longer relevant or useful to people and organizations who want to be successful. The new paradigm of customer service calls for people and their organizations to work together better than ever before. It is embodied in two concepts. They are the fundamental values behind every action and every decision. They are: To Serve and To Connect. As we work with our customers, we need to make sure we are constantly meeting these two standards. We need to serve them and we need to connect with them. think possible.” -Howard Schultz www.AmazingServiceGuy.com Copyright 2013 Kevin M.2Stirtz 2 62 Customer Service Tips & Quotes “Customer service is just a day in, day out ongoing, never ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type...
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...believe what I am seeing. This supplier was clearly a star when we performed our supplier visits before awarding the contract for the new Amrod product line. Bill: I’m not pleased. I was on the team that performed the audit and site visit. Foster’s management was so smooth--they indicated they could meet all our requirements. I feel like we’ve been mislead by this supplier. Susan: Didn’t you look at their processes and quality systems? Bill: Sure we did. Everything checked out fine. But now every other shipment has some problem and the delays are hurting our ability to get our product to our customers. What really struck us about this supplier was how innovative they were. Foster’s biggest drawback was their size--they lacked some depth at key manufacturing engineering positions. Maybe that’s why they are having problems. It could be that someone has left the company. Susan: We are going to have to address these problems quickly. Bill: I’ll tell you what I am going to recommend. We should begin immediately to look for another supplier. I never was a fan of these single source contracts. They leave us open to too much risk. Susan: But won’t that take a long time? Bill: Sure. We’ll have to perform another supplier search with team visits. New tooling could really cost, too. This could take months. Susan: Has anyone talked with the supplier about these problems? Bill: Kevin went over personally today and talked with the production manager...
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...When I am at school people like to tell others names and label them for what they look like. This year I had zero period PE and I saw a lot of new faces. One day when I was in PE a girl I never knew was late. She had brown/ black hair and was about the same height as me. She was very pretty. I figured that she was a mean popular girl and knew everyone. The next day we started to talk and we became pretty good friends and were still friends today. Turns out that she is really nice and doesn’t consider herself popular. This example demonstrates how In the book Freak the Mighty there is a theme of , “You shouldn’t judge a person by their appearance,” The character of Kevin is first described as a,” ...crippled-up yellow-haired midget kid strutting around the sidewalk, giving orders to the beards.” If we were to judge him on his appearance, we might assume that he is dumb or...
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...to rise for another hour? This violates the intellectual standard of clarity. We do not know any reason as to why the roommate is expected to wake up an hour after. The character fails to elaborate her reasons as to why waking up an hour later would be appropriate for the roommate without even telling if she has a class or even sets her alarm for 9 am every morning. This point could have been expressed in another way to bring out clarity. It would make more sense if she, at least, told the readers more about the sleeping patterns of the roommate Indeed, at every minute, she will encounter the need to make decisions This violates the intellectual standard of accuracy, fairness and breath. After this statement, the reader is left wondering about the kind of decisions that we will have to encounter on a minute interval. Why one minute and not every second, or even an hour? We cannot even find out if this statement is true being that no proof is attached to it. Breath is not met, and one is left to have the opinion that the question could have been asked from another point of view. We could have even simply talked about the whole day, rather than talking about minutes. Fairness is breached when the main character opts to talk about her roommates expected predicament of decision making, simply because she was faced with one in the morning. We do not understand her basis for telling the reader about someone else' struggles, a person whose day is not related to the alarm clock incident...
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...Kevin Mitnick Summary Kevin Mitnick was once wanted computer criminal in the United States, he now owns his own firm and tours around places to talk about hacking. Mitnick hacked numerous of systems computer & phone alike. Born on Los Angeles, California, Kevin grew up fascinated by technology. Through his love for it, he got himself into a lot of illegal activity. He was wanted for hacking into computer & phone systems from corporations (such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Pacific Bell). He also intercepted and stole computer passwords, altered computer networks, and broke into/read private e-mail. After accepting a dare from his fellow classmates (in high school), he stole valuable information from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). He was arrested and sentenced to prison for 12 months followed by 3 years of supervised release in 1988. His love for technology only grew from that, in 1995, the F.B.I. arrested him after a 2 ½ year chase for hacking into Pacific Bell (PacBell) and countless computers and phones. He spent 5 years in prison and 1 year in solitary confinement with no interaction with a phone or computer. In 1999, He confessed to one counting of intercepting communication, 2 counts of computer fraud, and 4 counts of wire fraud as part of his plea agreement before the United States District Court for the Central District of California. We should care about this because he showed the world of how valuable our information is and how vulnerable our...
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...little work and effort. So many times in our society we see examples of bad parenting. No child is born with a how to manual and this is why the whole family needs to be involved in the child’s life. There use to be an old saying “It takes a community to raise a child”, but to many times it is the community that has became the most dangerous to the child. Doing my research for this paper I have found numerous resources available to parents to help them along the way. This paper will look at good parenting techniques using “The Top Ten Parenting Tips” by DR Kevin Ryan. I will discuss all ten tips from DR. Ryan and either argues for or against each tip. I choose DR Ryan’s ten tips because of all the information out there I found his to be the closet to what I consider to be a good parent, although I do not agree completely with him. “Put parenting first. This is hard to do in a world with so many competing demands. Good parents consciously plan and devote time to parenting. They make developing their children’s character their top priority” (DR Kevin Ryan). I agree with DR Ryan good parents make their kids a priority in their life. I do not agree that it is hard to do. It is very easy if you use DR Ryan’s second step and you truly enjoy spending time with your child, you will find it easy to make being a parent your number one priority. “Review how you spend the hours and days of your week. Think about the amount of time your children spend with you. Plan...
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...Cory Blane Ms. Meyers Social Psychology May 27, 2014 Project Paper Rough Draft In this paper I will be talking about discriminations towards women in the workplace. Now when talking about discrimination I know that there are so many forms that I need to focus on just one, to get my point across, so I choose sexual harassment towards women in the workplace. Is there still sexual harassment with woman? What constitutes sexual harassment? How is sexual harassment towards women different between now and 50 years ago? These are the questions I hope to ask and hopefully answer throughout this paper. What constitutes sexual harassment? Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexually determined behavior as physical contact and advances, sexually colored remarks, showing pornography and sexual demands, whether by words or actions. Such conduct can be humiliating and may constitute a health and safety problem; it is discriminatory when the woman has reasonable ground to believe that her objection would disadvantage her in connection with her employment, including recruitment or promotion, or when it creates a hostile working environment. With this it is also considered to be that submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment; submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably...
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...It’s difficult to talk about the two-time NBA MVP and world champion Stephen Curry without bringing up his rise from an undersized, scrawny point guard to the baby-faced assassin of the Association. And in Kevin Pelton’s excellent article, he does just that, bringing Curry up as one of the prime examples of UPenn Professor Angela Duckworth’s new definition of “grit”: “passion and perseverance for long-term goals.” Indeed, he is deserving of the praise, overcoming the many doubts surrounding him entering the league and inspiring young players, showing them that you don’t need to be a freak athlete along the lines of LeBron James to have success at the highest level. But six-foot-three isn’t exactly short or undersized in the NBA at the point guard position. In fact, according to Draft King,...
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...Ford raps the competition with a surprising customer experience by Kevin Stirtz on September 2, 2009 A powerful way to increase customer loyalty is to give your customers a positive and memorable experience. Some days it’s easy. Just be nice, attentive, listen well and be helpful. But other times you might break out of your comfort zone and give your customers something they’ve never seen before. This Ford dealer clearly went beyond the usual and expected when they decided to treat their customers to the “A-B-C’s of the Ford Focus”. It’s not something every business would do. And it might even annoy some customers. But you have to give them credit for trying. What could you and your team do to offer a better, more memorable experience? I’m not suggesting you sing to your customers but there are ways to make their experience better. If you’re unsure, observe what other companies do – both in and out of your industry. And ask your customers what they think would create a better experience. Then have regular creativity and brainstorming sessions to develop fresh new ideas. Make this a regular thing so you’re constantly evaluating the experience you deliver your customers. Then watch your customer loyalty go through the roof! Ross Shafer shares the ultimate customer experience story by Kevin Stirtz on June 17, 2012 · 2 comments In this video, Ross Shafer talks about an amazing customer experience he had at a well known hotel brand. The story is both funny and inspiring...
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...service (p. 407). He further suggests that there must be a systematic order in which a prospective consumer is carried through the promotional message. The AIDA concept Though several approaches exist, the most common and effective formulas are the acronym AIDA. This acronym stands for Attention; Interest; Desire; and Action. The AIDA concept was first introduced by a scholar named Elias Lewis in 1898 (Janoschka, 2004, p. 06). This concept best describes the ultimate goal of every advertisement; that the client gets to buy a product. This model posits the buying process as a cognitive, feeling and a conative sequence of things. In this regard, the model illustrates that the marketer must develop a thought in the mind of a consumer, develop a need, and finally an action through purchasing the product. The four steps of the AIDA process clearly explain the promotional approach. The first step is attention, this posits that an advertisement must gather the attention of the consumer; create an awareness that the product exists. Simple awareness of the product may not suffice to change the mind of a consumer; therefore Interest comes as the second stage; here, the marketer demonstrates how unique the brand is. After awareness and interest have been achieved, desire must be created in the product, this should be done through outlining the most outstanding features of a product. It may also be achieved through...
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...Macroeconomics Assignment 2 Prof. Theodore Tolias 14th November, 2012 Moiz MansoorAli 211386380 Section F Question 1) Interest rates affect various economic variables hence its changes need to be computed carefully before a decision is taken. However Bank of Canada (BoC) needs to increase the interest rates within the next six months based on the future market conditions. These conditions are fragile at the moment and a certain hypothesis cannot be made as to when the market will ease down. Looking at the domestic markets, BoC needs to gradually increase the interest rates. One of the major factors supporting this argument is to avoid another ‘housing bubble’. With ultra-low interest rates and loose credit underwriting standards the demand is more than the supply and hence people are piling up on debt which may lead the economy into another financial crisis. Hence that bubble needs to be broken. Adding to that, with low rates, individual investors, insurers and pension funds have no incentive to save which is adding to the problem of high consumption that plays a huge role in raising inflation. Another factor supporting this argument is helping private sector financial intermediation, which is basically a company that borrows from savers and lends to companies in need of investment. Technically, a wider gap between long term and short term yield rates make intermediation profitable. However since 2011, the US yield curves are quite flatter and the returns reflect the...
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