most distinguished American picture book for children by the American Library Association. The 1986 recipient was The Polar Express‚ written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg‚ published in 1985. “In a true picture storybook‚ the pictures and the text work go hand-in-hand: we can’t have one without the other” (Russell‚ 103). Through his illustrations in The Polar Express‚ Van Allsburg demonstrated conventions of picture art‚ design and meaning‚ and artistic media style. Convention of Picture
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The Polar Express was written by Chris Van Allsburg. It won the Caldecott Award in 1986. The book is considered under the fantasy genre. Through the imagination and belief of a child one could think of it as realism. It could also be a myth. A boy’s wild adventure on a mystical train in the middle of the night is‚ to ones that believe‚ completely realistic but to the ones that has lost their virtue it is impossible and a fantasy. The genre is considered a fantasy while at the North Pole but moves
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Q: Do you think Courier Pak is a good fit or a bad fit for Federal Express? Why? The Courier Pak was a good fit for Federal Express (FEC) from an environmental‚ company‚ cost‚ and competitive standpoint. The business environment of the mid 1970s airfreight industry played almost directly into the relative strengths of a small-package air service like FEC. As stated in the case study‚ "Bulk products and commodity goods were rarely sent by air. Indeed‚ most air shipments were rather small." This
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Airborne Express Tigran Hakobyan To answer the questions of this case let’s first of all understand the overall industry where the company is operating. In general‚ we can state that there is a strong competition between firms in this industry. Firms provide similar services and also the degree of substitutability is high. Profit margins are relatively low. The threat of new entrants is low because market for express deliveries is difficult to access‚ capital requirements are high and also
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The advertisement I selected is from the Federal Express. A good advertisement must have a very clear product positioning‚ and makes target audience to know what is the product. The advertisement vision needs an attractive design; the contents of the advertisement should be simple‚ impressive‚ interested and understood because that not everyone wants to guess the contents even sometimes that makes the audience feel excited. The most important thing is audience to believe that they have to choose
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American Express: Branding Financial Services Introduction American Express is known worldwide for its charge cards‚ travelers’ services‚ and financial services. It is one of the best-known and most-respected global brands. As it grew from a 19th Centurynineteenth- express company into a travel services expert by the mid-1900s‚ American Express (AMEXAMEX) became associated in the minds of consumers with prestige‚ security‚ service‚ international acceptability‚ and leisure. Advertising
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Background American Express is very large‚ world-wide company‚ which originally started as freight forwarding and delivery services. Now with the main focus being on financial services they want to train their employees with the knowledge to be efficient‚ knowledgeable‚ with good listening and speaking skills. Jeanette Harrison‚ a vice president at American Express‚ feels that compliance and control should be very important for customer care. Today American Express is the largest card issuer by
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� PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� Property 2 Constitution is the last of the formalities that the law requires to create an effective and enforceable trust. Failure to constitute a trust will mean that no gift or trust is applicable; and the law that relates to perfect constituted gifts and trusts will not be appropriate. Moreover‚ the axiom of equity will intervene: "equity will not perfect an imperfect gift". The state of equity at the start of 21st century has changed significantly through a number
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Rhetorical Analysis of “I Express My Shame” by: Gerhard Schroder Gerhard Schroder‚ the German chancellor gave a moving speech upon 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. This speech known as “I Express My Shame” was addressed to the Holocaust survivors and the International Auschwitz Committee. It had the purpose of serving as an expression of regret from current day Germany for the treatment of the Jewish during the Holocaust‚ as well as that these events
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critical analysis on tax disclosure of two selected companies—GD Express Carrier Berhad (GDEX) and Bonia Corporation Berhad (BONIA) which falls under trading/services sector and consumer sector respectively. Analysis is based on the annual report 2015 of each company (extracted in the appendices). All detailed calculations are performed in the footnotes attached. GDEX‚ founded in 1997‚ focuses on two business segments‚ namely‚ Express delivery and Logistics. Primarily‚ it operates in Malaysia and Singapore
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