1- what were the reasons for laura ashley intial success? The strategy they are employing was good one and credits two factors for its success in bucking the downward trend amongst retailers: a focus on furniture and a move towards e-commerce. he key success factors of Laura Ashley up to 1985 are identified as high quality production‚ innovative designs‚ good brand management (the ‘Laura Ashley’ name was and is strong)‚ well placing of stores‚ creation of good atmospheres in stores‚ general design
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The book Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyers is a story about the obstacles that Bella‚ a human‚ and Edward‚ a vampire‚ must overcome to finally reach their “forever”. In the beginning of the story‚ Bella and Edward get married and have their honeymoon on a private island. After about two weeks there‚ Bella discovers that she is pregnant. The half vampire‚ half human baby weakens Bella greatly in just a mater of weeks. When the time comes for Bella to give it birth‚ it will have already left her close
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In 1999 in the country of Jordan 35 year old Sirhan tells the story of how he murdered his sister‚ he is relaxed‚ happy‚ and proud of the fact that he saved his family from suffering the shame of her rape. His sister Susan was only 16 years old. Sirhan says she made a mistake; and even though it was not her fault‚ it is better for her to die than the whole family to die of shame. How could a brother kill his sister and feel no remorse? What emotions and feelings are involved in such a crime? How
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William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ illustrates a gothic fiction that depicts the distress and love story of Miss Emily as narrated in the point of view of the residents of Jefferson County. I must admit that Faulkner knew exactly how to evoke an atmosphere of dismay supported by dark images‚ murder‚ mysterious life of Emily‚ and the gossips of the Jefferson residents. The central theme in the story is isolation where the entire society and change seem to have neglected Emily‚ who readers can understand
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The story‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ is about this insane man who breaks into a house and slowly watches an old man as he sleeps. Edgar Allan Poe uses literary devices of setting to create a dark‚ threatening tone to his short story‚ “Tell-Tale Heart.” Poe uses the description of light‚ sound‚ and tone to help the reader identify the type of setting the story takes place in. The setting is described by Poe’s writing style which is very unique due to the careful word choice. One way
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working class young men who were to become cannon fodder for the sake of their country. These kings and queens who were supposed to be the ruling elite‚ didn’t have to lay down their lives and die‚ however‚ these young men did. This provides The last stanza ends‚ “Grinning as if it were all An August Bank Holiday Lark”. This line of the poem is poignant in conveying the merriment; the beginning of the war was viewed as a carefree adventure. This was all done through the use of propaganda. This
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local cafe while two waiters watched him. Hemingway uses such depictions to create a somber and lonely mood throughout the short story. He highlights this feeling by describing a lonely setting in the cafe‚ using repetition in his phrases to emphasize this mood‚ and displaying the characters and their personalities in a certain light through their conversations with one another. Throughout the story‚ readers can picture the bar’s setting using Hemingway’s vivid descriptions. Readers can note the bar’s
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In a dramatic monologue‚ the poet‚ like an actor in a play‚ speaks through the voice and personality of another person. Robert Browning wrote many different dramatic monologues such as those three particular poems which are known as‚ “My Last Duchess‚ Porphyria’s Lover and The Laboratory.” The reason why Browning wrote his poems in that particularly dialogue is because of the certain century it was produced. It was brought out during the Victorian. In that century woman where treated differently
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The use of language to convey changes and contrasts in mood and meaning Rachel Carson uses a wide variety of linguistics to convey various changes in mood and meaning. The extract has been labelled “A fable for tomorrow”; the word ‘fable’ shows Carson has intended to capture the reader’s thoughts about the article written and to suggest a meaningful moral at the end of the story. The first section begins with introducing a town in a very simple manner “there was once a town”‚ that an
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life and all of his sonnets appeared in a collection called “SHAKE-SPEARS SONNETS” in 1609. Shakespeare’s sonnets consist of three quatrains and are finished off with a couplet. Around the third quatrain his sonnets take a turn‚ which is when the mood of the poem changes for the better‚ taking a more optimistic approach. His sonnets speak of political events‚ love‚ beauty‚ and sex. In “Sonnet 71”‚ Shakespeare discusses the mourning of his beloved after his death. The speaker of this sonnet
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