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- 371: MkIS Support For The Marketing
- ... and Konsynski, 1985). IT has a key role in new flexible organization forms such as strategic partnerships and cross-functional networks. New organizations will be designed around business processes rather than functional hierarchies (Rockart and Short, 1989) and we will face the need for new kinds of IS in marketing. In fact, IS will be the cornerstone of new approaches to marketing. Management and systems designers should therefore be better aware ... this kind of thinking, developers may omit important issues – company strategy, and business and marketing processes. Business processes consist of a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome (Davenport and Short, 1990). The marketing management process is defined by Kotler (1994) as a process, which “consists of analysing market opportunities, researching and selecting target markets, developing marketing strategies, planning marketing tactics, and implementing and controlling the ... activities that are hardly linked. “Each organizational sub-unit within the process had optimized its own IT application, but no single sub-unit has looked at (or was responsible for) the entire process” (Davenport and Short, 1990 ). Earlier it was believed that achieving maximum efficiency in single activities would improve the whole process. However, this is not necessarily true – while the efficiency of a specific task may be improved, the ...
- 372: The Story Of An Hour
- ... even the five o clock news. However this evolution did not occur over night, it took time and can be made apparent in places one might not think to look. The roles of women in short stories have changed from a typical voiceless human being to one that dominates a story. In the short story The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, the character Mrs. Mallard demonstrates a transformation that is necessary for a woman to have. The character Mrs. Mallard defies the traditional role of women ...
- 373: Loneliness 2
- Loneliness Loneliness is inherent in the lives of Charlotte, from "Pomegranate Seed," and Lyman, from "The Red Convertible." The writers of the stories have their personal experiences built into their work. In addition, the characters from both stories suffered through similar ordeals; they helplessly watched a loved one dissolve like a fading dream. Kassanoff explains, Wharton recognized her younger self in Sara, a woman in "All Souls'" who, is paralyzed by loneliness (383). This loneliness in the younger life of Wharton was inevitably ingrained in her stories. The story "Pomegranate Seed" is a perfect example of how Wharton's loneliness seeped into her writing. Erdrich's "The Red Convertible" is contained in the book Love Medicine. Marie, a character in another ...
- 374: Voices Of Women Writers Lesson
- ... of a mother s lesson on a daughter, while following women s paths to discovery of their own voice or identity. In Kincaid s poem, Girl; Hong Kingston s novel, Woman Warrior; and Davenport s short story, The Lipstick Tree, various themes are presented in contrasting views and contexts, including the influence of mothers upon daughters. It is said that a girl can often develop some of her mother s characteristics ... Kingston describes the puzzling pursuit to understanding not only her identity as a woman, but also as an Asian-American woman. Hong Kingston displays the Chinese dissenting view of women by using anecdotes and talk-stories, specifically her mother s story about her aunt s suicide and adulterous pregnancy. This specific talk-story is her mother s way of advising her to be a perfect female. Don t let your father ... villagers are watchful Hong Kingston s novel explores her female and Chinese identity. Because of her heritage, and mother s influence, Hong Kingston learns to accept her childhood and character by accepting her mother s stories as an integral part of her identity. Also, the fact that she retells the stories shows the significance they had for her. From Hong Kingston s recollection of the Fa Mu Lan legend of ...
- 375: Tv And Media Effect On The Pub
- ... Their style may be cheesy and there tactics dicey, but they are doing a lot of old-fashioned, roll-up-your-sleeves journalism," (Zoglin 1997). Of course these shows need to work hard on their stories, but their reasons are not always for the sake of reporting the truth. Tabloid news programs serve the purpose of entertainment for the public, and in order to ensure good ratings, they must produce the best stories. These stories seem well put together and researched, but this should not make them seem any more truthful than the thrown-together, late- breaking and unorganized news we see on legitimate news program. Deborah Baldwin wrote ...
- 376: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... his beloved wife, Virginia. Poe become absent minded and began drinking heavily. Edgar Allen Poe’s life experiences, particularly his repeated substance abuse and the loss of the women he loved, are evident in the stories that he wrote. Edgar Allan Poe Pg.1 On January 29, 1845, Poe’s most mystifying poem appeared, The Raven. This was a story that Poe wrote that helped us understand his feelings that were ... a mathematical beauty and precision in which one might catch a glimpse of the divine(Blair Hornberger Stewart). This thought of Poes’ was one that was repeatedly used by him in many of his other stories. The stories main concern was that the universe is a plot of God. In various stories such as this one Poe rejected democracy, social reform, and the doctrine of progress. He had no faith in democratic ...
- 377: Dr. Suess
- ... reason at that. With classic books such as Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish , Blue Fish, and Dr. Seuss’s ABC’s, children and adults alike are drawn to his imaginative stories and catchy style of writing. He makes reading fun by using rhyming words as well as including many colorful pictures, easily keeping a young child’s attention. Although some may say Seuss’s use of ... I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." -Dr. Seuss. Be able to enjoy a story is equally important to what is learned from it, and millions of people enjoy the stories of Seuss each day. Seuss helps the reading process along by making reading fun for children. He uses rhyming words, like in his book Fox in Sox. The line "When beetles fight these battles in ... in the United States, but also throughout various other countries around the world. The topics and themes of his writing are universal, and are enjoyed by people of all origins. As nonsensical as Seuss’s stories may seem, some of them venture into very deep and serious subjects. The Lorax, for example, deals with the subject of environmentalism, where a beautiful, almost magical place outdoors is transformed into a barren ...
- 378: Jack London(biography)
- ... as mayor. Always a prolific reader, he consciously chose to become a writer as an escape from the horrific prospects of a life as a factory worker. He studied other writers and began to submit stories, jokes, and poems to various publications, mostly without success. Spending the winter of 1897 in the Yukon provided the metaphorical gold for his first stories, which he began publishing in the Overland Monthly in 1899? From that point he was a highly disciplined writer, who would produce over fifty volumes of stories, novels, and political essays. Although The Call of the Wild brought him lasting fame, many of his short stories deserve to be called classics, as does his critique of capitalism and poverty in The ...
- 379: Ceremony
- ... the things they fear all the animals the people will starve." "They will fear what they find They will fear the people They kill what they fear" (Silko 136). Leslie Marmon Silko uses these three short passages taken from an ancient Indian story included in the novel Ceremony to express and convey the idea that the white man’s fear was the primary factor contributing to their negative actions toward the ... their native tongue or take part in any of their old ways. The teachers told them to forget what they had learned back on the reservation, that they had no reason to believe the superstitious stories any more. Now they should believe in books and science because they explained the causes and effects (Silko 94). The white man feared the different culture of the Indians, and they wanted the Indians to forget their past so they could easily influence them and make them conform to the white ways. An Indian story says, "Their evil is mighty but it can’t stand up to our stories. So they try to destroy the stories let the stories be confused or forgotten. They would like that They would be happy Because we would be defenseless then" (Silko 2). For example, one day ...
- 380: The World Of Odysseus
- ... provides the reader with a strong sense of reliance, as the author persistently deals out information and expresses his historically-backed opinion throughout the course of the book. The author carefully analyzes the well-known stories of Ancient Greece, primarily The Odyssey and Iliad, which are accepted as accurate sources of Ancient Greek history. As he divides the book into five chapters, the author organizes his data while carefully providing the ... assess the roles of Greek man and his relations and beliefs as told through The Odyssey and Iliad. The most interesting aspect of The World of Odysseus, is the smoothly flowing relationship between the mythological stories and the historical facts. The author rarely explains the great stories of the gods and heroes of Ancient Greece without identifying it's historical impact, relating it to actual events, or explaining how it describes the values and morals of the men living in Greece ...
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