International Marketing Textbook page 30 Case 1-2 1. Identify the key elements in McDonald’s global marketing strategy. In particular‚ how does McDonald’s approach the issue of standardization? Does McDonald’s think global and act local? Does is also think local and act global? Answer: Market penetration: McDonald’s is one of the world’s most valuable brands. The golden arches are said to be the second most recognized symbol in the world. Market development: Because changing lifestyles
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of romantic novels; Janice Radway used an ethnographic and regional approach (using a series of ethnographic questions) to researching a group of. ‘Compulsive romance readers in a predominantly urban‚ central midwestern state among the nation’s top twenty in total population’ as she states in :Radway.J.A.‚ Women Read Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context. (Dikes. G. & Humez. J.‚ Gender‚ Race and Class in the Media; 1995: 202-214). When conducting her interviews Janice relied on Dot Evans for
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The story is told from the perspective of the adult narrator looking back on a key incident from her early childhood in which she and her neighbourhood were threatened by the unpredictable aggression of the local "bogeyman" ironically named Fearless. The first level of conflict in "Fearless" is between the public and Fearless. This arises out of Fearless’s lack of respect for the "norm" of society. He is extremely rude and aggressive "...he lived in a state of permanent anger." and "He would stop
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Does Rousseau ’s _Du Contrat Social_ signal the advent of modern democracy? Or does it represent a dangerous recipe for the suppression of individual human freedom? Rousseau ’s social contract is often likened to modern democracy‚ however‚ most political ideologies can be likened to one another in some form and one doesn ’t have to dig deep before they find some major differences between the two ideologies. In his writing‚ Rousseau tries to develop an ideology that maintains humans individual freedom
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After reading “Recipe” by Janice Mirikitani‚ “Puerto Rican Obituary” by Pedro Pietri‚ and “Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question” by Diane Burns‚ The answer is yes and no. All three of these poems show you that while we may all be human and experience the same emotions‚ we are not always treated that way. Race plays a major role in how we are treated and how we precieve ourselves. These poems illustrate how race can make one feel self-conscious‚ lonely‚ and misunderstood. “Recipe” explains how
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is to be “real”‚ in the sense that the reader feels that they are listening to someone say something as opposed to reading words off of a paper. The speaker also allows the poet to make his or her point in a clearer manner. “Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani is an example of the importance of a speaker in poetry. The speaker of this poem is an Asian student that has reached her breaking point because of the pressure that she has felt from her parents and she has committed suicide. The speaker of
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emotions of life from those happy to those that are painful. Many authors take inspiration from their own lives to create them more personal and seem more tangible to the reader as well. The poems “Lost Sister” by Cathy Song and “Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani are similar in theme as well as how they encompassed many elements to entrap the reader in their expressions of identity and rites of passage. After reading and comparing these works it is found that they have more similarities than differences
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her death from her dorm-room window. She explains her pain‚ “I’ve worked very hard . . . harder‚ perhaps to please you/ If only I were a son . . . I would see the light in my mother’s eyes‚ or the golden pride reflected in my father’s dreams‚” (Mirikitani 1209). This pain ate her up inside so much that she was never able to feel any sense of self-worth or gratification in life. Psychologist Dr. Dung Ngo from Baylor University in Texas explains‚ “And in Asian cultures . . . you don’t question parents
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point of views including my own life. For example‚ “Suicide Note” written by Janice Mirikitani helped me to understand more of another’s personal life and what they’re going through. As for my own life‚ “Dusting” written by Julia Alvarez helped me to better understand what I’m going through. I learned through poems that they can help you to understand what another person may be going through. “Suicide Note” by Mirikitani is about a college student who took her life because she received an imperfect
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"A Young Woman’s Suicide" "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy and "Suicide Note" written by Janice Mirikitani are both poems about the story of a young woman’s reasons for committing suicide. Both explain that their suicides were influenced by their feelings of not being ’perfect’‚ rather or that the people around them did not think they were ’perfect’ or ’good enough’. Though the tone‚ language‚ as well as the story written in the poems are different they both share the theme of a young woman’s conflict
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