TRAVEL AGENCY THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES: THE PERSPECTIVE OF SUCCESSFUL OWNERS Laura Jane Lawton David Bruce Weaver ABSTRACT. In-dep th interviews with 19 owne rs of exceptionally successful US-based conventional travel agencies revealed negative public perceptions of travel agencies to be the m ain extern al th reat facing the se ctor. Mispla ced f aith in Inte rnet-based cybermediaries‚ unqualif ied travel agents‚ nega tive m ass media coverage and failure to attract young entrants were
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In the article‚ “Elephant Genes Hold Cancer-Fighting Secret‚” the author‚ Laura Geggel‚ explains how researchers have recently discovered that cancer is less common in elephants than in humans because they have more copies of a gene that stops tumor growth. Researchers that understand how this gene has evolved and why it works to stop cancer growth in elephants may be able help find ways to treat or cure cancer in humans. Researchers conducted a study that focused mainly on the TP53 gene‚ which normally
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The Supernatural as a Means of Protagonist Empowerment in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende IB A1 English HL World Literature Comparative Essay Word Count: 1496 Keri-Anne Murray Candidate #: 003072-058 World Literature Comparative Essay 1 In Like Water for Chocolate and The House of the Spirits‚ respective authors Laura Esquivel and Isabel Allende use a connection with the supernatural to empower the protagonists in three
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The Transformation of European Society‚ by Gary B. Nash‚ analyzed the British colonies in North America. By highlighting major changes that took place in the colonies in the eighteenth century‚ Nash showed how the European mind was transformed from the rigid‚ hierarchal society of Europe‚ to the democratic‚ individualist of America. Nash’s first point was about how economic change affected people’s views. Since there was so much land in the colonies‚ it was easier for people to "get rich quick" and
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To what extent is Laura Mulvey’s article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ true to the representation of women in film noir? Feminism is a social progress that has had a large impact on film theory. Cinema is said to be taken by feminists as a medium which represents myths about women and their femininity and men and their masculinity. Previous feminist theory has been focussed on stereotypes of women particularly in film (Rosen‚ 1973) In her article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’
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April 19‚ 1962 - 11:59 pm What a f#$&ing week! I can’t believe Andy is really gone‚ I mean‚ I knew all along with him being part of a gang that he’d get hurt sometimes‚ but this... it’s too much. The Royals are all hastlin’ me‚ it’s been real rough. They seem to think that it’s my fault Andy’s gone‚ as though if I hadn’t sent him for those cigs that it wouldn’t have happened. Or that if I was a decent girlfriend that I would have gone with him or that I would have worried about him sooner‚ before
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“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred‚ and we are better throughout the year for having‚ in spirit‚ become a child again at Christmas-time.” (Laura Ingalls Wilder) Christmas is coming‚ it is one of the most important and magnificent holidays of the Christian calendar. This is a miraculous time of year when people begin to believe in miracles again and become pure-minded like heartfelt children. We all come from childhood. This is a fun and good time which
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the individual due to Mama Elena’s harsh rule. The use of symbolism and the portrayal of the household tyrants used by the two Spanish speaking authors express the characters’ defiance due to their strained environments. Federico Garcia Lorca and Laura Esquivel both use symbolism as a means of expressing the frustration and desire felt by the characters to demonstrate the effects of forbidden love on the individual. Although symbolism is present in both novels‚ in The House of Bernarda Alba‚ it is
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Ponzi schemes was engineer by the 70-year-old Bernie Madoff. While Enron was also one of the world’s greatest substantial catastrophe‚ do partially because of its magnitude‚ as well as of its complication‚ moderately because the needs to guard the truthfulness of investment markets botched‚ and especially because of the enormous gluttony and involvement of key contributors. I strongly believe that the state of affairs surrounding both the Bernie Madoff matter and Enron matter can very well command
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Jeffrey Skilling‚ Bernie Madoff the Monster & the Other Smartest Guys of the Room Enron and Madoffs Ponzi scheme: two scandals that changed U.S. history and prove just how weak the controlling mechanisms of developed economies are. Enron‚ the seventh largest company in the United States‚ was declared bankrupt in December 200 1 after its investment partnership proved to be masking a colossal mountain of debt (around $1.2 billion). Similarly‚ Madoffs company‚ Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities
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