in a hospital after being shot at five times by the assassins. Michael‚ his youngest son‚ saves his life in the hospital and in the meantime Vito’s eldest son Sontino takes over the family business. The book starts with the wedding of Don Vito Corleone’s daughter. In the opening part of the book‚ Vito seems to be a very kind and ethical person. He listens to the requests of different people even on the day of his daughter’s wedding. He comes across as a man of moral values as he refused to kill a
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THE TAO OF TIMBUK2 CASE 1. Consider the two categories of products that Timbuk2 makes and sells. For the custom messenger bag‚ what are the key competitive dimensions that are driving sale? Are their competitive priorities different for the new laptop bags sourced in China? In today’s global market not only is there a trend mounting toward shopping online but also product customization to meet and satisfy individual requirements. Timbuk2 has done just that‚ that in the bag market. In the year
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overlap and impact a person’s chances in life greatly. Gender‚ race‚ class and sexuality are predators of one’s chances in life. These concepts are socially constructed. We learn that this concept come in light when identities are represented. In the book ISS Dasgupta discussed
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The thoughts of Tao Te Ching (Philosophy) The first thing that struck me about Tao Te Ching is Albert Einstein. I am a big fan of Einstein‚ perplexed by years of studying his scientific theories and thereafter forever being awed by his genius. As for Taoism‚ being of Chinese descent‚ growing up in the eastern world‚ I have constant exposure to the Taoist practices‚ culture‚ traditions‚ images and symbols. However‚ the irony is that I had never ventured further than just being a mere observer
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Macbeth is the shortest tragedy ever to be written by William Shakespeare. He wrote this play for King James I‚ who was a largely active supporter of the theatre. The king watched many productions and soon Shakespeare’s company was called ‘The King’s Men’. In honouring the king‚ Shakespeare used King James’s I history to create characters and pieces of the plot for the play. He named Banqou after an ancestor of the king‚ who ties into Banqou’s prophecy of his children becoming kings‚ the ‘child’
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Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Penguin Book‚ 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is the story of an immigrant who came to America for a new beginning involving a “great” job. The immigrant‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ comes from a poor family in Lithuania and wants to now support his future wife‚ Ona Lukoszaite by working for a meatpacking factory in Chicago. Jurgis soon realizes that America and its’ people and opportunities are not all that he thought they would be. Sinclair exposes the horrors and
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“Afro-American Music‚ without Apology”: The Motown Sound and the Politics of Black Culture Chapter 4 in the book Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit by Suzanne E. Smith focuses primarily on Motown’s popularity and “the question of the relationship of the negro artist and his or her art to black struggle”(Smith‚ 139). Langston Hughes believed that “all forms of black culture‚ including popular music‚ confronted these issues (black struggle) in some way during the
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The Tragedy of The Girl On the basic level The Girl can simply be summarized as follows: The Girl is a simple country girl who travels to St. Paul to find work at the German Village‚ a bootleg joint run by Belle‚ Hoinck‚ and Ack. She falls in love with Butch‚ an unemployed former baseball player who occasionally works as a scab during strikes. She quickly becomes pregnant by Butch and resists the attempts of Butch and others to provide an abortion. Gantz‚ a gangster to whom Belle‚ Hoinck‚ and
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Dabawalas Dabawalas‚ the story of Mumbai’s homemade food delivery service gives an insight of a 115-year old enterprise and what makes it a successful enterprise. Through the series of conversation amongst four characters- Anita Dalal‚ Srinivas Pandit‚ Raghunath Megde (Raghu) and Gangram Talekar (Ganga) a different perspective of organisation and its working model is known. At the end of every chapter are the takeaways which tell the reader how Dabawalas differ from their competitors in their working
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The Goal The Goal‚ by Eliyahu Goldratt is a novel focused on the challenges and improvement of operational efficiency. The book is about Alex Rogo‚ a thirty something year old‚ probably has an undergraduate degree in engineering and an MBA. He is married with 2 children‚ working as an executive for UniCo for the past 15 years. He began his career as project engineer‚ now works as a plant manager of manufacturing factory in Bearington‚ his home town. His boss is Bill Peach‚ division manager at the
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