Harvard Business Review Case Study : The Customers’ Revenge by Dan Ariely (December 2007) As an introduction of this case‚ a little recall of the facts may not harm anyone. Atida is a 70 year old motor company‚ producing and selling stylish and innovative cars and they have just launched a new one on the market : the Andromeda XL. The brand has many loyal customers and devoted fans among various clubs and communities. Jim MacIntire and his colleagues from the customer service department
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State laws are not always just. State violence is not always legitimate. Discuss these issues in relation to protest and dissent. In his 1918 essay Politics as a Vocation‚ Max Weber described the monopoly of state violence as an essential characteristic of modern governments. (1918 p.1) State violence is monopolised towards the pursuit of societal compliance‚ which according to political history‚ is a necessary condition for a functioning democracy. (1918 p.2) As Tolstoy points out‚ history has
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people fall. Without drive‚ humanity would be lost in the dark ages‚ doomed to stagnate. However when ambition is left unchecked‚ humans pay a grave price. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ the tragic characters often have ambition to thank for their fatal or perilous ends. Ambition cannot exist in a pure form‚ free from consequence because there will always be a dark path to take that might seem to be justified by the ends. The natural order of humanity is disrupted once Macbeth indulges his ambitions
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two older brothers‚ Noah and Timmy Hamilton. Her parents are both surfers‚ which is how they met in Hawaii.(“Bethany Hamilton” Gale Database 1) Ever since Bethany was a little kid she’s always wanted to be a Pro Surfer‚ and her life goal to be one. When the shark attack happened‚ people thought it would change her perspective on the whole pro surfer “pipe dream”‚ but instead the attack made her determined to a whole new level. All of the sacrifices‚ choices‚ tools that she had to relearn how to
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Depending on the situation I would. For example‚ Elizabeth was pregnant and if I were Elizabeth‚ I would because I would want my child to have a father in their life. Now‚ I wouldn’t trust him but I would want us to be family. When it comes down it‚ it’s hard letting go of someone that you love but sometimes the best option for you is to just move on. If I didn’t have a situation like Elizabeth had‚ I would not have given a cheater another chance. Why? I would not have because
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civilization". President Harry Truman made a difficult discison and the day the first atomic bomb was dropped Philosophers‚ Historians‚ and many other scholars have had the debate: Was using the atomic bomb on human beings justified? I think it was indeed justified and justified on different levels. It prevented a land invasion of japan witch would cost massive toll on American soldiers‚ the soldiers were already been at war for two long violent years with million’s killed and injured and japanese
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Can the bombing of dresden be justified? On the evening of February 13‚ 1945‚ a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden‚ reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames‚ and killing as many as 135‚000 people.More than 3‚400 tons of explosives were dropped on the city by 800 American and British aircraft. The firestorm created by the two days of bombing set the city burning for many more days‚ littering the streets with charred corpses‚ including many
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The difference between revenge and justice is hardly noticeable. These two words are so similar that many people often get the two confused and connect the two as if they were the same. Revenge is not something that can right an injustice; a form of justice can be revenge to someone but it doesn’t mean it’s right. Not only can revenge be justice but justice can be seen as a way of revenge. There is still a difference between them though--don’t forget that. According to Dantès‚ exposing someone of
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Johan Rueda Michael Mendoza ENC1102-CRN#21229 25 April 2014 Revenge Hamlet is a very tragic and diverse story. What really makes Hamlet a unique revenge play from others is that the action in the story the audience expects to see‚ especially from hamlet is that its there is always something holding back the action from happening. All of this happens while Hamlet is always trying to deal with his
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Revenge in Hamlet “Hamlet is the finest of all plays in the English revenge tradition” (Shakespeare‚ IV). The recurring theme in William Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ is revenge‚ every character in this play wants revenge on someone else. Revenge in this play means murder. From the beginning right through until the end of the book‚ there are three instances where revenge is seen; the ghost of Hamlet senior wants revenge on Claudius‚ Hamlet wants revenge on Claudius and Laertes wants revenge
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