Samantha Hunt 5/14/2010 Mrs. Arcement 4th Period “There Will Come Soft Rains” In both the story and the poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” they share a common ground. Both focus on world destruction‚ and human extinction. Each author discusses life after humans are gone. Even though humans have vanished‚ life as it is still continues to go on through wildlife and virtual world. In the story‚ Bradbury discusses a very high tech‚ virtual house that continues to do it’s
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In the story "There will come soft rains" there is a house that is run by advanced technology but the family that use to live there got blown up by a nuclear bomb but the house survived. There is also a poem called "There will come soft rains" and it is based on the great world war. Now in the poem it is talking about war and how even though the world is going through tough times and is not doing good nature will still be able to go on even without man kind. It also talks about how the technology
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Technology‚ Man’s Emotionless Invention In the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” Bradbury demonstrates that the technologies created by humans are incapable of obtaining emotions. The house is so advanced that it can survive the explosion of an atomic bomb‚ but is still unable to express emotions similar to that of humans. After the explosion‚ the house now stands alone in the city of Allendale‚ California during 2026. It seems as if the owners of the house were anticipating a disaster so
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Ray Bradbury‚ writer of the “There Will Come Soft Rains”‚ discusses a story of a family owning a futuristic home that reminds them of their daily events and is specifically scheduled to perform chores chronologically throughout the day. In the short story‚ Bradbury’s use of simile provides the readers with a projection of the overall tone of the narrative. To begin‚ a quite striking simile is used‚ “The fire backed off‚ as even an elephant must at the sight of a dead snake (bradbury 3)”. By comparing
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A Complete Situation Analysis for Gatorade A Steven Novak Creation Table of Contents The Creation of Gatorade Product Features Current Branding Strategy Demographic Competition SWOT Analysis SWOT Continued Marketing Objectives Marketing Objectives Continued Citations p. 1 p. 2 p. 3 p. 4 p. 5 p. 6 p. 7 p. 8 p. 9 p. 10 I Creation of Gatorade Gatorade started in the summer of 1965 with the realization that the Florida Gators football players could not make it through practice without struggling
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SWOT analysis of the Glaxosmithkline. Glaxosmithkline is‚ after Pfizer Inc‚ the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. It was formed in 2000 as the result of a merger between two large companies GlaxoWellcome and SmithKlineBeecham. The company operates primarily in 117 countries‚ their products are currently manufactured in 37 and are sold in over 140 countries. It is headquartered in Brentford‚ England and employs about 110‚000 people with sales of Ł22.7bn. Their strategies for the future
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1 India: SWOT Analysis For Indians who have access to western education and possess english speaking skills‚ times couldn’t have been better. A generation ago‚ no one could have imagined the plethora of job options available today – IT‚ BPO‚ media‚ finance‚ insurance. Even traditional professions like journalism provide many more opportunities than they did a couple of decades ago. Economic upliftment can be seen clearly in most parts of urban India. Perhaps‚ the concept of middle class values
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increase of 21.5% over FY2010.The operating profit of the company was E488.2 million ($645.2 million) during FY2011‚ an increase of 21.4% over FY2010. The net profit was E374.6 million ($495.1 million) in FY2011‚ an increase of 22.7% over FY2010. SWOT ANALYSIS Ryanair Holdings (Ryanair or ‘the company’) operates low fare scheduled passenger airline serving short haul‚ point to point routes between Ireland‚ the UK‚ and Continental Europe‚ as well as Morocco. The company follows a firm operating strategy
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Tropicana Products are currently headquartered in Chicago‚ the home of the PepsiCo Beverages & Foods North America division. Tropicana’s main brands include the flagship Tropicana Pure Premium‚ Tropicana fruit juices and drinks‚ Tropics‚ Trop50‚ and Farmstand.(1) COMPANY ANALYSIS The Pepsi Company PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with net revenues of more than $65 billion and a product portfolio of hundreds of products including 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in
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Ray Bradbury noticed this so he wrote science fiction stories because of how people were using technology. In the story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury there is a house that was on fire because of the bomb. Therefore‚ technology has improved society. Technology can be used for anything and everyone. In the story “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” it states “Out of the warrens in the wall‚ tiny robot mice darted” (Bradbury 9). The author is stating that the mice are robots are
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