Introduction to University Writing June 9‚ 2013 Assignment 2 – Summary of The Waltz of Sociability: Intimacy‚ Dislocation‚ and Friendship in a Quebec High School Vered Amit – Talai indulges her readers with a commonly accepted phenomenon of Western civilization in which adolescents rarely transition into adulthood with their childhood friends through the experiences of a group of high school students in The Waltz of Sociability: Intimacy‚ Dislocation‚ and Friendship in a Quebec High School. It
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"Those Winter Sundays" and "My Papa’s Waltz" are two fairly short poems that are similarly themed. Neither poem lends any sure knowledge as to what the gender of the children are‚ other than the assumption that since both authors’ are male‚ then it must be a poem about their own childhoods. One thing is made clear through the voice’s in each poem‚ neither father is perfect and both children have a bit of fear with regards to their fathers’. In "My Papa’s Waltz"‚ the opening line informs us that
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My Last Duchess When a man cares more about his status and image than his wife‚ he may feel the need to take drastic measures to ensure that he is always the center of attention. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “My Last Duchess” paints a picture of a duke who is trying to escape from his past‚ by proving to himself that he has power over his deceased wife.During the poem‚ the duke shows a painting of the last duchess to a representative from the Count‚ who is there making arrangements for the
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Robert Berg‚ (My dad) is just one of the adults who have had a positive impact on my life. Robert Berg works at Mercy Medical Center as a radiologist (A type of doctor that reads X-rays). He is 50 years old and went to college for 17 years. Despite being 50 Robert still runs‚ bikes and swims regularly. Robert Berg has been a positive influence on my life since the day I was born because he encourages learning‚ gives good advice‚ and is always there for anyone who needs him. The first reason that
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near by the beach at Long Island Sound in the 1980´s. The story is all about a family‚ where the mother/wife get strangled and then the father has to take care of the six children‚ so he´s taking them to this bungalow‚ where they aren´t doing anything except smoking and drinking. This family can´t handle the grief‚ and they haven´t move on since the day their mother and wife get strangled. The story starts in medias res‚ by telling about the mother´s funeral. The narrator of the story is a first person
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In "Tree At My Window‚" Robert Frost addresses a tree growing outside of his bedroom window with these words: "But tree...You have seen me when I slept‚ ... I was taken and swept / And all but lost. / That day she put our heads together‚ / Fate had her imagination about her‚ / Your head so much concerned with outer‚ / Mine with inner‚ weather." In these lines Frost conveys several emotions and themes that infiltrate many of his works. These common themes include darkness‚ nighttime‚ isolation‚ inner
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return. It’s highly likely that no financial analyst would ever compare a stock to a deposit box; hence‚ it also doesn’t make sense to compare stocks with very short-term Treasury Bills. For the beta of Papa John’s equity (PZZA)‚ we regressed the monthly return on PZZA with the monthly return on the S&P 500 index. Through doing so‚ we determined that PZZA had a market beta of 0.53. (Please refer to the attached spreadsheet for calculations of beta.) We also used the Ibbotson estimate for market premiums
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Papa John’s has been known for the quality and freshness of their ingredients. Papa John’s needs to drives home this added cost is the so worth that you are getting for. Our society has become a food industry that is flooded with frozen and processed foods. We cannot even pronounce half of the stuff in our food anymore. Additives have been added to our foods to save cost and we the customer have fell victim to this. Papa John’s needt to heavily promote to the customer the excellent quality of their
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Business Level Strategy: Papa John’s use of differentiation as a business level strategy is a major component of their continued success. Creating pizza with higher quality ingredients was rare in the industry when Papa John’s introduced this concept. Papa John’s not only differentiates through superior quality but also through a significant emphasis on legendary customer service. Papa John’s uses these elements of differentiation to create superior brand loyalty. Corporate Level Strategy: Corporate
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Papa John’s is a pizza delivery and carryout chain that was founded in 1985 by John Schnatter in Jeffersonville‚ Indiana. Schnatter had a goal to build a better pizza than that of his competitors by focusing on fresh quality ingredients. This focus on quality lead to the slogan “better ingredients‚ better pizza.” Today Papa John’s is ranked the third largest retailer of quick service pizza in the world due to great customer service and an offering of quality ingredients. The company typically competes
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