Porter Five Forces: The piano industry. Threat of substitute products or services: LOW A portable keyboard can be regarded as a substitute but those interested in buying a piano are interested in superior sound‚ better performance‚ good looks and elegance. The keyboard has none of these. It is complicated to sell a piano and move it in order to put a keyboard. Threat of new competition: MEDIUM-LOW The capital investment in a piano factory is very high. The market already
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Joy Cannot Exist Without Pain “It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”-Marquis de Sade. This quote describes life and the obstacles throughout it. The people who have been through the most pain truly know what joy is. A lot of people go through struggles and pain at more than one point of their life. For some people‚ it is more enduring than others. However‚ everybody must suffer some sort of pain and must struggle at some point in their life in order to truly experience joy and
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Personal Worldview As a foreign-born American‚ experience has taught this writer that the world is a place of extraordinary opportunity. The US is a land of unparalleled potential. One need only have a dream and the drive to succeed. As a practicing Buddhist‚ a life lived honestly and respectfully toward one’s fellow man will bring good fortune; however‚ while the future is predetermined‚ God has vested in me power of free will. Thus‚ I remain the master of my own fate. I intend to make the
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Symbols of Evolution Symbols of Evolution Two billion years ago two prokaryotes bumped into each other and formed the first multi-cellular organism. 65 million years ago an asteroid hit the earth and dinosaurs became extinct. Three days ago‚ in your notebook‚ you drew a mess of squiggles which to you represented Jackson Pollock ’s painting‚ Number 1‚ 1948. You wrote the word entropy on the upper left hand corner of the page. On the bottom right hand side you wrote‚ Creativity is based
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Comparing Worldviews Take one current expression of worldviews (e.g. a movie‚ a book‚ a song‚ etc.) found in our modern popular culture and analyze it in 2-3 pages. Include a summary of the material and a critique of it from a Christian theistic perspective and/or your own personal perspective. If you have ever experienced the phenomena of déjà vu or felt beside yourself‚ then the television Lost may be your kind of program. The television show Lost includes a number of mysterious elements
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My Worldview Name J.S. & G.B. My Worldview "Grappling with uncertainty- not over the existence of God or the divinity of Jesus but over the fundamental issue of whether he could totally trust what his bible was telling him" (Strobel‚ Pg 9). I start with this quote because I feel it describes how I feel about my worldview. I feel that I’m Christian‚ but I am always questioning my religion. Whether or not to believe everything that is told to me. I do believe that God is real and that there is
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The Joys of Home Before I am going to start my speech‚ I would like all of you to think of a person who possesses my following criteria. She is a supplier of strong wifi connection‚ sufficient people’s basic needs‚ and a strong and powerful flow of warmth. (3 sec) It’s our HOME! In my mind‚ home is not just an apartment‚ instead it is like a mysterious and colorless magician who manages to link all my family members together‚ back me up in times of hardships‚ and turn my frowns into smiles whenever
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vs. Individual Thought: Discussing the Categories of Understanding When discussing the use of symbols in both Durkheim and Strauss’ works‚ it is important for us to look at how both thinkers talk about the categories of understanding. In Elementary Forms‚ Durkheim believes the categories of understanding are grounded in the social‚ using Australian totemism to explain how the primitive mind used symbols derived from collective thought to create the ways in which we categorize ideas in society today
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Yong Choi Mrs. Kelly AP Lang Period 5 28 August 2013 Critique Of Such‚ Such Were the Joys In his personal essay Such‚ Such Were the Joys‚ Orwell abhors the idea that rich and powerful are favored while poor and weak are scorned at and uses anecdotes from his childhood to support his position. At every mention of such idea‚ his tone is clearly of a disapproving one. Orwell attempts to convey to the readers of his position by using many kind of literary devices. Orwell supports his view by
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How does Stienbeck explore different attitudes to women in the novel? ‘Of-Mice-and-Men’ was written by Steinbeck in the 1930’s towards the end of the depression where millions of people were financially ruined and had lost everything. This crisis was added to by a series of droughts which caused crops to fail and lots of farmers were unable to cover bank loans used to buy their farms and had to sell up to cover debts. One third of America’s population were unemployed and there was then no dole
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