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- 3801: Federal Express
- ... Smith saw the air freight industry in the early 70’s as inefficient and unreliable. In the early stages Smith was quoted as saying, “Federal Express has the opportunity to become one of American’s great corporations and the dominant force in the small package air express industry. We have found a gap in the transportation industry and we are going to fill it.” The hub-and-spokes system addressed the ... Opportunity) With Fred Smith’s commitment to technology, FedEx is constantly innovating. It is hard to imagine that packages could be moved anymore quickly than FedEx currently does. In the area of efficiency FedEx sees great opportunity in motivating customers to conduct their business online. They realize that maintaining their current level of service will allow them to grow. If, as they grow, their current customers as well as new customers do their business online, they will make great strides in efficiency. (Use of Information Technology) FedEx, with the need to be quick and efficient to keep cost for consumers at a minimum, continues to be the worlds largest express package transportation company ...
- 3802: Crime And Punishment
- Sonya’s affect on Raskolnikov Sonya, throughout the story had a great affect on Raskolnikov’s changes. In the novel, Crime and Punishment by Fyoder Dostoevsky, this can be seen from all the things Sonya had done for Raskolnikov and what affect the cold person turned loving. Sonya is the daughter of Rodia’s friend that was forced into prostitution to provide for the family, but all is done willingly out of love. In Sonya, one can see a great sinner as Raskalnikov at peace with her and with God. Sonya’s knowledge that God alone gives one worth allows Sonya to love others unconditionally, including Raskalnikov. Sonya also helps Raskolnikov to get rid of ... holy fool!" Raskalnikov thinks to, but yet Rodia is still drawn to Sonya’s strength. At last, Raskalnikov begins to realize that he is not alone, and it is because of this realization that the great sinner began to confess to Sonya. It can be said that, in this confession, Raskalnikov’s strength returns. However, Raskalnikov’s confession to Sonya is not enough, and Sonya knows it. Sonya "asks only ...
- 3803: Heracles
- ... one in each hand, before they could bite him. Hera decided to pay Zeus back by making the rest of Hercules life as miserable as she could. When Hercules grew up and had become a great warrior, he married Megara. They had two children. Hercules and Megara were very happy, but life didn't turn out for them the way it does in the movie. Hera made Hercules go so crazy that put him into a great rage. Heracles murdered Megara and the children. When Hercules regained his senses and saw the horrible thing that he had done and he asked the god Apollo to help him with his problem. Apollo commanded ... wood on the top of Mount Oeta. This would be Hercules funeral pyre. He laid himself upon the pyre, and told his friends to light it. As the fire began to burn Hercules alive, the great gods looked down from Olympus. Zeus said to Hera that Hercules had suffered enough. Hera agreed and ended her anger. Zeus sent Athena to take Hercules from the pyre, and she brought Hercules to ...
- 3804: Cry. The Beloved Country
- ... It is this so called racism that is essential to the setting of the story. Without it, the book would not have as much of an impact as it does. The story begins, as many great stories have begun, with a solitary man taking a long and dangerous journey to a distant land. The man is an Anglican Zulu priest, Rev. Stephen Kumalo, and the journey is to the white-ran ... for his sons wrong doing. Jarvis then comes to a realization and decides to build Kumalo a church because he now understands what Kumalos people were going through. Rev. Stephen Kumalo was a man of great moral value. He was very firm in his beliefs, yet very nave when it came to the "real world." Kumalo could not imagine why his son did what he did nor did he want to ... words alone would do an injustice on this book. I firmly believe that because this book was a life experience, that it is to complex and to profound to put into words. It was a great book, Paton took a tragedy and made it into a lesson on life that every individual can relate to. I like the perspective he took on it, it was as if you became the ...
- 3805: Catcher In The Rye
- ... parents’ inevitable irritation. Told as a monologue, the book describe Holden’s thoughts and activities over these few days, during which he describes a developing nervous breakdown. This was evident by his bouts of unexplained depression, impetuous spending and generally odd, erratic behavior, prior to his eventual nervous collapse. Some critics have argued that Holden’s character is erratic and unreliable, as he has many of the middle-class values that ... reviews of The Catcher in the Rye that most critics enjoy picking apart the character of Holden Caulfield, studying his every action and the basis for that action. Reviewers of the novel have gone to great lengths to express their opinions on Salinger’s main character. Some consider Holden to be considerate, others consider him arrogant, but a large majority of them find him completely entertaining. One character that Holden is ...
- 3806: The Odyssey: Plot and Theme
- ... to his fathers name. To do this, Telemacus sets out on a journey of his own. He first decides to visit his fathers friend, Nestor, first (Rieu, p. 30-44). Nestor tells of his fathers great deeds. After leaving Nestors palace, Telemacus visits Menelaus. He is visiting these great men to find out about his father. Since Telemacus was only an infant when his father set out to fight at Troy, he really does not remember him. By hearing stories about the great acts his father committed, he feels that he knows him better. This brings new feelings about is father. Telemacus is also upset about the suitors that are evading his fathers house trying to marry ...
- 3807: The Contenders
- ... was appointed Secretary of State in 1845 by President Polk and in that capacity helped forge the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War. He was appointed by President Polk as minister to Great Britain in 1853. As such, he, along with the American ministers to Spain and France, issued the Ostend Manifesto, which recommended the annexation of Cuba to the United States. This endeared him to southerners, who ... closures. Secretary of the Treasury Cobb had another $4 million in gold coins minted to increase the supply, but the effort was fruitless. [Stampp, pgs 223-4] The industrialized Northeast was hardest hit by the depression and northern manufacturers and bankers naturally blamed southern Democrats. Sectionalism continued to worsen. The Kansas controversy continued to plague the Buchanan administration. He favored the admission of Kansas as a slave state. The territorial government ...
- 3808: Chaucer
- A person can almost wholly learn the history of the world though literature that has been written. This is because the people and times have such a great influence on the writers and their work. The time in which Chaucer lived was "one of the most disagreeable periods of our national history" (Legouis 80). The Black Death destroyed a third of the population and many people turned to the church for help. Goeffery Chaucer, being "the great poetical observer of men, who in every age is born to record and eternize" (Blake 51), wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late fourteenth century in England. Religion dominated this time period in history; and ... wanted people to know what was going on inside. Beowulf is an epic written in the eighth century, a time that was also dominated by religion and this is evident in the story of the great warrior. The author, who is unknown, has been called a "skilled Christian poet who has chosen to retell the story of pre-Christian hero in such a way as to impart certain moral lessons" ( ...
- 3809: Red Badge Of Courage 4
- ... all of the horrible things associated with war. The main character, Henery Fleming, joins the Union army dreaming of the heroic things he will accomplish. During the war he discovers that war is not so great and becomes real unsure of himself. Henry then meets up with his friend Jim Then halfway through the book he confronts his cowardice and gains a realistic and sense of duty and responsibility. When the ... the book he finds that he really cares about Henry. While Henry is dealing with all of his emotions they are moving into war. The book Red Badge of Courage is insightful because it gives great detail about the hardship of war, the physical and emotional side of it. It shows how a young solider of the Civil War would have felt and also it shows all his fears. It is ... gave up. Over all I thought the book was good only because I had to read it, but I would not read it again just for the fun of it. I think it is a great book to read for history. All of the characters in the Red Badge of Courage represent some aspect of man either physically or emotionally. The connection between the characters and me made the book ...
- 3810: Beowulf Theme
- Beowulf Mythical monsters with great powers that get killed by human men are a typical theme in Anglo-Saxon poetry. Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon poem translated by Burton Raffel. Three Anglo-Saxon ideals that are portrayed in Beowulf are ... example of strength is when Grendel "…Tore it's iron fasteners with a touch…"(375) at Herot's gates. Finally, when Grendel goes into Herot and slashes and kills thirty men, it shows Grendel's great power. Also, there is a great amount of strength during the battle with Beowulf and Grendel's mother. Another ideal portrayed in Beowulf is the right to boast. When the poem talks about Hrothgar's building, that it "…reaches higher ...
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