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    IN STORE PROMOTION COMPARATIVE STUDY - WOMEN FRAGRANCES - ANDREEA ELENA PALICI - BRAND MANAGER APPLICANT 28th of July 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. BRANDS & RETAILERS - SHORT PRESENTATION 2. FINDINGS & CONCLUSIONS     Sephora Marionnaud Douglas Kendra 3. RECOMMENDATIONS Prepared by Andreea Elena Palici‚ 28th July 2013 BRANDS – SHORT PRESENTATION Founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy Owned by luxury goods corporation LVMH Headquarters – Paris‚ France Founded in

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    The Chilean American writer‚ Isabel Allende is best known for her novels The House of Spirits‚ Eva Luna‚ Paula and Daughter of Fortune. Allende throughout her lifetime has also been the author of several short stories and the participated in the act of writing plays as a youth. The stories she conveys mix together the elements of myth and realism and are also all projected from a feminine point of view; full of drama‚ romance‚ and the struggle that many women face in reality. Isabel Allende’s novels

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    tie to one another; Tom can only leave the house when his ‘sister gets married’ as she is the elder. Tom’s dreams are bound by his commitment to his family and his job in the warehouse; his “ambitions do not lie in this house”. The warehouse represents a sense of lack of adventure and instinct. Similarly the mines in Sons and Lovers represent the same idea. The novel‚ Sons and Lovers‚ is set in England in the beginning of the industrial revolution. Like the Wingfield’s‚ the Morel’s also represent

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    quotation‚ phrase or motto at the beginning of a piece of literary work‚ thus setting forth a theme for the piece of literature. In this case‚ this epigraph gives the readers a small gist and theme of what to expect when they read the novel. “The House of Spirits” is a novel which was written by Isabel Allende. This story revolves around family life‚ mainly around two upper-class families; the Del Valle and the Trueba family and was originally written in Spanish‚ then translated to many different languages

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    one level‚ while the symbolism of certain things in the writing of this story act on another level to enhance the story. The sharing and writing of stories among the various generations of females symbolizes a great deal in this book. The House of the Spirits begins and ends with the narrators referring clearly to the use of Clara’s journals in order to write the story at hand. Both Clara and Alba first learn how to write and then learn how to use writing. Writing in this book testifies each of

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    WORLD LITERATURE ASSIGMENT ONE The significance of blurred gender roles for the key male characters in ‘Kitchen’ and ‘Like Water For Chocolate’ Word Count: 1497 Banana Yoshimoto’s novella ‘Kitchen’ and ‘Like Water For Chocolate’ by Laura Esquivel explore the blurring of gender roles through the characterisation of the key male characters‚ Eriko and Pedro. The obscurity of gender roles is utilised by both authors as a literary tool in the formation of interpersonal relationships with the protagonists

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    Comparative Essay on the Extreme Transition of Two Powerful Women Several years ago‚ men had little respect for women because of their gender. Females were not given the rights they deserve. They were controlled by their fathers‚ then handed straight over to their husbands. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion have occurrences that show similarities between the two female protagonists‚ Nora Helmer and Eliza Doolittle. Nora and Eliza are comparable in several different ways

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    Burk e  1    Omar Burke  World Lit  Mrs. Bregeth  th​ December 11​ ‚ 2014  In the novel‚ ​ Like Water for Chocolate​ ‚ Esquivel “represented the written  counterpart to women’s socialization” (de Valdes 1). Esquivel wrote ​ Like Water for  Chocolate​  with women as the head of the household. Esquivel “playfully appropriates  resources from the Spanish American canon” (Ibsen 3). Although Esquivel had written  this novel as a parody of a genre‚ it is also a love story that follows Tita‚ Esquivel’s 

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    The Highest Good Is Like Water In the eighth chapter of Laozi’s Daodejing‚ there is a famous saying‚ “The highest good is like water.” In my opinion‚ water has three main characteristics: flowing downhill‚ purifying dirt and benefiting everything without contending‚ which are also possessed by the highest good. Water always flows downhill and so does the highest good. Water is always in accordance with its natural tendency—flowing downhill by gravity. During the flowing period‚ it evaporates

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    ’Life is like a box of chocolates...’ At first glance the quote ’life is like a box of chocolates seems’ rather silly. How could such a large and complicated concept such as life be compared to something as small and simple as a box of chocolates? There have been two opposing viewpoints in regards to the meaning of this quote‚ and each viewpoint comes about by a different analysis of what life and chocolates represent as well as what they mean in today’s world. The conclusion to the question can

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