Unit 2 Assignment: Marketing Mix Finagle a Bagel Maria Mella MT219 Marketing Professor Nora King April 5‚ 2010 “Finagle a Bagel” Maria Mella 1. Describe Finagle A Bagel ’s marketing mix. Marketing Mix is four activities- products‚ pricing‚ distribution and promotion - that a firm can control to meet the needs of customers within target market. Finagle a Bagel uses all four marketing mix variables. The product‚ pricing‚ and distribution are the variables that firm’s marketing department
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Ellis’ novel American Psycho portrays a charming Patrick Bateman who cannot identify the real world from his fantasy and Sheldon’s Tell Me Your Dream illustrates Ashley Patterson having two alter egos. The issue of identity conflict within the characters is what brings the characters to a loss of identity. Hence‚ in this essay I will first define what multiple personality disorder is followed by an analysis of the character Patrick Bateman from American Psycho through the way he views himself‚ other’s
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’s novel American Psycho sketches the life of Patrick Bateman‚ an attractive 26-year-old Harvard graduate who earns a six-figure income on Wall Street. Bateman and his Ivy League educated friends enjoy all the luxury Manhattan has to offer‚ including expensive restaurants‚ exclusive nightclubs and excessive amounts of cocaine. However‚ what their money‚ education and beauty truly affords them is the right to humiliate‚ harass‚ and in Bateman ’s case to kill‚ those in the social classes beneath them
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result in an explosive and dangerous package.” Within “The American Psycho”‚ Bret Easton Ellis composes a narrative which attempts to instil in us the idea that “that society is responsible for creating the warped aspirations of people like Patrick Bateman...” the main protagonist and serial killer within the novel. Similarly‚ Sylvia Plath creates the character Esther Greenwood‚ the protagonist and narrator of “The Bell Jar”. However the novel has been described as a “thinly veiled autobiography of
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drives Mersault and Bateman towards their respective social alienations. However‚ despite the inextricable link between the Absurd and Otherness within the texts‚ the means by which the Absurd interacts with each text‚ and‚ in turn results in alienation is unique. Within Camus’s novel‚ the world itself is portrayed as being oppressive‚ with harsh landscapes and indifferent characters leaving Mersault feeling judged and persecuted‚ quite literally The Outsider. Conversely‚ Patrick Bateman‚ by all accounts
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References: Bateman‚ T. S.‚ & Snell‚ S. A. (2009). Management: Leading and collaborating in the competitive world (8th ed.). New York‚ NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Bizquest. (2010). Bizquest. Retrieved from http://www.bizquest.com/franchise-for-sale/McDonald’s-Restaurants-franchise
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consumerism of the 1980’s and how it created so many identical‚ self-obsessed yuppies. The title of this is hinting again at the theme of redemption. The ‘End of the 1980’s’ is Ellis saying that this is the end of all the greed and vanity that is consuming Bateman entire existence. This is a very effective style as it bookends the theme of revelation against the last line‚ ‘anything is possible.’ In my opinion this style is very effective in subtly preparing the reader for what is to come in the chapter as
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evident through the characters of their violent psychotic narrators. Unlike Burgess’ social outcast Alex‚ Ellis presents a complete conformist‚ compulsively fixed on the fashion and materialism of people around him as opposed to a human connection. Bateman presents the height of society in the 1980’s and
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portrays the main character‚ Patrick Bateman‚ banker and homicidal maniac‚ as the ultimate capitalist fiend. Patrick Bateman is not only an “American Psycho‚” he is also the human embodiment of the effects that capitalism has on society. American Psycho is told through first person point of view by the main character‚ Patrick Bateman. Patrick Bateman is indeed‚ an American psychopath‚ even referring to himself as one within the first chapter. Furthermore‚ Bateman is a symbol for capitalism. He is a
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turned serial killer Patrick Bateman. Where the book gave readers the eyes and insight of a warped Patrick Bateman‚ the movie displayed a more outward perspective‚ balancing the darkly comical with hints of insanity that built toward the unraveling of this American Psycho. Some may argue that serial killers are born with the inevitable urge to murder‚ while others believe these actions are a direct result of environmental culturing. The character of Patrick Bateman would justly cause anyone to
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