The world is an apple Can one man’s world revolve in an apple? Can all his flaws be magnified a million times beyond the naked eyes? Can he see his mistakes no matter how he avoid confronting his own conscience? Alberto Florentino did just that. One of the stories written by a Filipino author‚ "The World is an Apple"‚ has reached the conscience of even an ordinary man whose willpower to view life is anchored mainly on a three-square round meals a day. Alberto Florentino managed to tap the inner
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The Apple of Discord "The Apple of Discord‚" also known as "The Golden Apple‚" is a Greek Mythology tale that involved three Goddesses. The three Goddesses included: "Aphrodite" who is noted to have rose up from the foam on the ocean in Babylonian/Sumerian. Aphrodite was worshiped as the Goddess of love and beauty. "Aphros" is the Greek word for "sea foam." Aphrodite had powers associated with fertility and growth/harvesting of crops‚ war‚ and descent to the underworld‚ birth/life/love/death
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COMPANY APPLE COMPUTERS INC. An overview of Apple computer Inc. Some may not see it as necessary but I have included it so the reader can gain a better understanding of this project. Who are they? A Silicon Valley computer company Based in Cupertino‚ California and founded April 1st 1976 Famous for helping the personal computer revolution to commence Known worldwide for the success of their hardware including the iPod and the iMac. O ne of the main reasons that I have chosen
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The play "The World is an Apple" is one of the most famous Filipino play by famed playwright‚ Alberto S. Florentino. In the story‚ it was shown how the main character Mario was forced to choose a path that he has long promised to not walk through again because of poverty. The story shows one sad reality of life that when an individual was backed up on a wall‚ he will do anything even if it’s not accepted in his society. The scenario of the story is not far from what’s happening with members of
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GAAP v. non-GAAP: Impacts on Financial Statements A non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of past or future financial performance‚ financial position or cash flows that includes amounts that are excluded from the most directly comparable GAAP measure or excludes amounts that are included in the most directly comparable GAAP measure. Some common examples of non-GAAP earnings measures are cash earnings‚ operating earnings‚ EBITDA and FFO. The non-GAAP numbers impact revenue numbers without
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Customer loyalty and customer satisfaction Customer Loyalty can be difficult to define given the different views that are presented within the literature. Zithaml‚ Berry and Parasuraman (1996) determine that loyalty includes a customer’s intention to stay with an organisation and that loyalty includes four elements: repurchase intentions‚ recommending the service provider to other customers‚ less complaints and tolerance of price increases. Oliver‚ (1999) provides a different definition and
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Signatures and Apples: Children Claiming Identity A young girl and boy take their first steps toward forging their identities. In Julia Alvarez’s “Dusting‚” a girl decides that she wants to be more than a diligent housekeeper like her mother. In Alberto Rios’s “In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did‚” a boy catches his first glimpse of romantic love by listening to his unconventional teacher. Both of these children learn important lessons about life from
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Phil Kwon Scent of Apples The short story Scent of Apples highlights the class stratification in the Filipino community. In order to illustrate this‚ Santos foils the character of the traditional Filipino farmer‚ Fabia‚ to the main character who is from the Islands. It was interesting to see how blind the Filipinos in America were‚ to the situations present in their own country. It was as if their traditions‚ stories‚ and lifestyles were lost when they moved to the United States. Filipina exemplifies
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is more than just “telling and selling.” Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. The twofold goal of marketing is to attract new customers by promising superior value and to keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction. Hence‚ marketing is defined as the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return. Today‚ marketing must be understood not in the old sense of making
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Week 05 Case Study “Apple introduced the original iPhone back in 2007‚ instantly obsoleting every other smartphone on the planet in every way that mattered” (Ritchie‚ 2013‚ p.1). Within the next two years Apple came out with the iPhone 3G and 3GS which they were able to increase the functionality while simultaneously lowering the price‚ this allowed Apple to take the smartphone fully out of the niche and make them mainstream (Ritchie‚ 2013). Apple was able to bring the iPhone to broader
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