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- 1251: Governement's Bureaucratic Half-Witted Laws
- ... public in a swimsuit. These laws and ordinances display Florida state government legislating laws that to show power and a suppressive attitude. In some states the act of suppression is shown in the control of personal activities. For instance citizens are not allowed to attend a movie house or theatre nor ride any form of public transportation within at least four hours after eating garlic in the state of Indiana. Another act of personal suppression by the government is the Iowa state law that states, "Kisses may last for as much as, but no more than, five minutes." One is not allowed to transport an ice cream cone in ones pocket or one can be arrested in the state of Kentucky. New Mexico also has its own form of personal suppression in the form of a law that states "Females are strictly forbidden to appear unshaven in public." Massachusetts has an array of personal suppressors involving its citizens. One such suppressive law states that ...
- 1252: Paper About New Product, Bount
- ... consumers from their brand loyalty to competitors. To achieve these goals the IMC Program Proctor & Gamble uses with this product will require a large budget due to the costs of direct marketing, advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. In the end, P & G wishes to reach a large audience with the potential to stand firm in its position as leader in the toilet paper industry. Direct marketing will play ... per visit to the retail outlet. This will serve as a way draw in the consumers that are out to get the best possible deal for their money. Proctor & Gamble will limit the use of Personal Selling that it uses to promote Bounty Toilet Paper. Memos will be sent to all regional managers of the retail stores in which Bounty Toilet Paper will be sold. The memo will inform the regional ... take a small approach in the area of Sales Promotion with new Bounty Toilet Paper. The use of a bonus pack deal will be the single act of Sales Promotion used to introduce this product. Personal Selling is another IMC Tool that will be used for the introduction of this new product. With the large size of Proctor & Gamble, Personal Selling seems almost obsolete, but there are still methods in ...
- 1253: The Pelican Brief: A Review
- ... finished in 1987. This book was based on his own experience as a small-town lawyer but it wasn't a hit (it is today). John Grisham continued to practice law and he also started writing his second book, "The Firm,." His luck changed one day in 1990 when Paramount Pictures paid him $600,000 for th e rights to his new book and this happened even before a publisher accepted ... his job as a lawyer and resigned his seat in the state Legislature to write books. Today he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Renee and his two kids Ty and Shea. Apart from writing books John also coaches his son's Little League team. He also has a small farm in Oxford, Mississippi. II. Characters In the novel The Pelican Brief a young female Law Student named Darby Shaw ... sneaky cover-up, made by the most prestigious men in the country. Darby Shaw is the main character in the novel. Darby moves the entire plot, by being the instigator of the entire plot. By writing the brief Darby caused herself to be followed, stalked, and wanted for dead. Darby was a young woman, completely in love with her Law Professor. The first major conflict Darby experienced in the novel ...
- 1254: Taoism
- ... known as the Four Noble Truths based on his experience and inspiration about the nature of life. These truths are the basis for all schools of Buddhism. The fourth truth describes the way to overcome personal desire through the Eightfold Path. Buddha called this path the Middle Way, because it lies between a life of luxury and a life of poverty. Not everyone can reach the goal of Nirvana, but every ... right path or behavior is followed. The path to Tao and Nirvana are similar, yet different. Both believe there is an inner light which guides a person in the right direction to the ultimate goal. Personal desires must be forsaken to enable the inner light to guide a person to achieve eternal bliss. The teachings that discuss the inner light of a person are as well renowned in the Tao philosophy ... come from within. Tao means the way, but this way is never taught. Desire, ambition, fame, and selfishness are seen as complications to the end. That idea is consistent with Buddhist teachings; it is the personal life of each individual that gives Taoism its special form. Taoism and Buddhism perceive life, death and rebirth as a continuous cycle. This cycle has no beginning and no end. The soul is eternal, ...
- 1255: Old Man And The Sea - Santiago Is Hemingway
- There is an old saying in the english language, "Every piece of writing is at least a little bit autobiographical." This may be true in all cases, but it is clearly predominant in Ernest Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea." It is evident that Hemingway modeled the ... an elderly gentlemen and was such an avid fisherman throughout his life, that books such as "Ernest Hemingway, The Angler As Artist." were written on the sole subject of how this obsession influenced Hemingway's writing. Furthermore, he fished off the coast of Cuba so much that he decided to "buy the 'Finca Vigia' in Cuba, a substantial estate located about fifteen miles from downtown Havana . . ." For entertainment Santiago would "read the baseball." Meanhile Hemingway often "relied on baseball analogies" in his writing, suggesting that he also loved the game. These similarities between Santiago's lifestyle and Hemingway's cannot be ignored or passed off as coincidence because they are much too precise. Already, from these prominent ...
- 1256: Stephen King
- ... cinematically. I write down everything I see. What I see, it seems like a movie to me”(Beaham 17). During this year the biggest event that probably had the biggest impact on Stephen King’s writing style was the discovery of the author H. P. Lovecraft. King would later write of Lovecraft, “He struck with the most force, and I still think, for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer ... writer on their hands. From then until he graduated with a bachelors degree in English from University of Maine at Orono in the Spring of 1970, King concentrated on rounding off the edges of his writing technique. One short story that best shows the type and technique of Stephen King’s writing is “The Body.” “The Body”, which has been adapted into to a Hollywood movie, was first published in the collection of short stories called Different Seasons. The story is a tale of four twelve ...
- 1257: Bill Gates
- William (Bill) H. Gates III is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading provider of software for personal computer. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Mary Gates, their late mother, was a ... of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school before moving on to the private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It was at Lakeside that Gates began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates ... his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to the success ...
- 1258: Octavian Augustus
- ... priest, and Octavian. These three men who would vie for this power: Gauis Pompey, Julius Caesar and Licinius Crassus. These three formed the First Triumvirate, or rule of three men, by dominating Rome with their personal armies (Drinkwater & Drummond 1993). When Crassus later died, Caesar defeated Pompey and became Rome's sole leader (Hadas 1969). In 44 B.C.E., the senate declared Caesar dictator for life. But, he was murdered ... citizen(Coppolino 1997). The Senate also gave him the name Augustus, meaning ‘revered one'. The Senate knew that it could not accept Octavian's offer to resign; he controlled a vast army and had tremendous personal wealth not to mention being the man who brought the civil wars to an end. The Senate decided to give Octavian control of the provinces of Gaul, Syria, Spain and Egypt. These areas had large ... his stepson Tiberius and made it clear he would be his successor but could anyone govern as well as Octavian had? Tiberius, although highly experienced and a superb commander of troops, did not have the personal touch of Octavian (Drinkwater & Drummond 1993). Tiberius left Rome and lived on the island of Capri where he maintained his power as emperor, but was the target of many rumors and plots back in ...
- 1259: Emily DIckinson
- ... of the seventeenth century in England, and by her puritan upbringing. Dickinson was an obsessively private writer. Dickinson withdrew herself from the social contract around the age of thirty and devoted herself, in secret, to writing. She never married, finding in her poetry, reading, gardening, and close friendships, a rich and fulfilling life. Emily grew up with a privileged childhood. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Dickinson, a successful lawyer ... Susie, will you indeed come home next Saturday, and be my own again, and kiss me like you used to?"- Emily Dickinson Some historians describe Emily’s letters to Susan Gilbert as representative of the writing style during the Victorian era. Others, including Dickinson’s biographer Rebecca Patterson, saw the letters as evidence of Emily’s homosexuality (Sullivan, 1). It is not known when Dickinson began to write poetry or what ... 1858, she apparently convinced herself that she had a genuine talent, because now, the packets were carefully stored in an ebony box probably awaiting discovery by future readers or publishers. Perhaps Emily knew that her writing was too far advanced for her time and that her accomplishments would be recognized and given the recognition that they deserved in the future. Publication remained a considerable conflict throughout her writing. A publisher ...
- 1260: E-commerce
- ... United States is more than 1.3 million. Most major companies now have Web sites, if only to market themselves, and many others are exploiting intranets to improve internal operations. As many as 163 million personal computers worldwide will have access to the Internet by the year 2000. As television and telephony migrate onto the Internet, wireless communication explodes, and countless other new applications attract users, one of the biggest challenges ... the leading categories of products that are now being sold as commodities via the Internet. Yet this commoditization is coupled with a growing personalization of service. Amazon.com, for example, invites customers to submit their personal preferences of authors or book genres in order to receive automatic e-mail notices about new books. Customers are also invited to submit their own reviews of books, which are then aggregated with other customer ... An intriguing question is whether the dichotomy of commoditization and personalized service will persist over the long term. "A brilliant new company may come in and provide both global and local services, and develop incredible personal service as well," said Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Novell. "The point is, with computers you can have the appearance of personal service while driving commoditization and services on a global scale. If ...
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