Why We Buy Introduction In an effort to discover why we buy‚ Paco Underhill set out a mission using video equipment‚ store maps and customer profile sheets to gather research. Once his business began to grow he founded a consulting firm‚ Envirosell‚ and began to discover over 900 aspects between the shopper and the store. Why We Buy‚ gets down to the basics of how retailers and consumers interact. Each chapter takes the reader through a series of important tactics to remember when being involved
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Zhumabekov Adilzhan 11”A” How do we know what we know? We know a lot of things‚ but have we ever asked ourselves: “How do we know what we know?” As an example let’s take a student. A student gets knowledge from the teachers in the school. But why that student unreservedly listens in what does teacher say? The main reason is that a student believes‚ that his teacher teach him only truth. And if you make so that teacher tells incorrect information‚ a student will just remember it and will not try
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The Way We Say What We Say In his book The Stuff of Thought (2007)‚ Steven Pinker states that all humans‚ universally‚ must be careful in the choice of their words in order to convey a specific message while keeping up a particular relationship between the speaker and the listener. In the simplest form‚ people do this for basic politeness. Whether it is asking for someone to pass the salt or asking somebody to donate to a specific cause‚ people phrase their desires in a way to not offend the listener
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Shall We Walk? by Pura Santillan-Castrence This essay was written during the Japanese Occupation but it is as relevant today as it was then. I wrote an article some years ago on the benefits of walking. My automobiled friends praised the article politely enough‚ they liked it (at least they said so); the points were well taken; people should really walk more; it took someone like me to show in such graphic terms what could have been clear to everyone before… then they went on their morning-till-night
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Life As We Knew It Time was running out. Stakes were high. It was supposed to be a particular day for everyone including Miranda‚ a typical teenage girl. As usual‚ she went to school‚ then went home with the knowledge that an asteroid was to hit the moon later in the day. At first‚ nothing seemed to have happen until a noise almost like a sonic boom erupted from the sky. The moon appeared closer than ever in an eerie‚ unnatural sort of way. Almost suddenly‚ Earth was hit with tornadoes‚ tsunamis
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The Other Wes Moore In the book‚ The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore‚ there are issues of institutionalized oppression‚ internalized oppression‚ power and privilege‚ race‚ human rights‚ social justice and economic justice. All throughout this book each and every one of these topics were portrayed at one point or another. These issues shaped the two Wes Moore ’s as well as their family and friends which made them into the people they are today. Oppression usually comes from individuals that are
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Why Do We Hurt the Ones We Love? “You love each other but can’t manage to communicate without arguing‚ fighting and ending up exhausted‚ each one in his corner‚ trying to lick his wounds and thinking of how to protect oneself against a new attack. And in spite of that..you love each other?” (Westt‚ James) Lorraine Hansberry’s acclaimed play A Raisin in the Sun‚ tells the story of the Youngers‚ a poor African American family in the 1950s. There are four of them‚ all living in a cramped and tiny apartment
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live life as normally as possible. She goes to the pond to ice skate for as long as she can breathe. She visits her friends‚ who are not the same people they were before the disaster. The question is‚ how long can Miranda and her family survive with minimal water‚ a dwindling food supply‚ no heat or electricity‚ and subzero temperatures? When so many people are giving up hope‚ starving‚ and dying of diseases we rarely get‚ Miranda is still clinging to normality. She still wants to date Dan‚ her swimming
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Emily Macal Narrative Essay 1 "We Lie Loudest When We Lie to Ouselves" We all know liars. The majority of us even become liars from time to time. Some people will tell a fib for just about anything. Maybe its to get themselves out of trouble‚ possibly to spare someone else hurt feelings‚ or simply because that is what one is used to doing. Unfortunately‚ I’ve told a lie to my parents and it didn’t turned out to not be such a good idea. I ended up with all my stuff being taken away‚ dealt with
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Life as we know it‚ is short‚ there are many things that we can comprehend and some that we are not meant to. The human race‚ rich with its diversity of people‚ is coming to an end as we speak of it. Who is to be arraigned of bringing such mobocracy to the human race? We are the ones‚ we have brought this dilemma upon ourselves‚ we invented and innovated technology without thinking of its aftermath. Where do we stand today? In the field that builds and destroys. Almost everything is stereotyped‚
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