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Marketing 3.0 Book
INTRODUCTION In this new book, written by Iwan Setiawan, Hermawan Kartajaya and Philip Kotler titled Marketing 3.0: Values-Driven Marketing or the human-centric era is the age where consumers will be treated as human beings who are active, anxious, and creative. They define Marketing 1.0 as a product-centric era, marked with the famous saying of Henry Ford, "Any customers can have a car painted any colour that he wants as long it is black". When it
Rating:Essay Length: 387 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 2, 2011 -
The Adventure of Tom Sawyer - a Book Review
"The Adventure Of Tom Sawyer" The book begins in St. Petersburg, Missouri, a small village on the banks of the Mississippi River in the mid-1800s. Tom, a mischievous boy, is hiding from his Aunt Polly while stealing jam from the pantry. When caught, he runs away and goes swimming instead of going to school. The next day, Aunt Polly punishes him for playing hokey by making him whitewash their entire fence. Tom instead convinces
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Book Review - a Small Place by Ms. Jamaica Kincaid
My Home Home, a place where I was born and where I grew up, always bring upon great memories throughout my stay as an international student in the United States. Home, is also a place that I love with all my heart and soul. Well, everybody loves their home, their very own home. I love my home, people from Texas love Texas, and even the author of A Small Place, Ms. Jamaica Kincaid loves her
Rating:Essay Length: 568 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: February 13, 2011 -
Are Books More Important Than Experiences?
Are books more important than experiences? From the past time, human has gained knowledge through many ways to improve our life. Throughout a long history until today, people never stop widen our knowledge because it is limitless. We can acquire knowledge from many source but we often learn it from books or through experiences. Both of them are very important for everybody. First of all, experiences provide some knowledge which it is hard for us
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The Book Nisa - the Life and Words of a Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak
This paper I am going to discuss the book Nisa The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak. In doing this I will describe the culture of the !Kung people, a small hunter-gatherer tribe in Africa. Then I will go on with telling about their sociocultural systems that I have read about in this book. To rap things up I will tell my prediction where the !Kung population is headed into the
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The 8th Habit Book Review
The 8th Habit...is about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. This 8th Habit is to find your voice and help others find theirs." Modern Bloodletting Under the old approach, employees experience a great deal of pain and frustration at every company, no matter how successful. Fortunately, today the workplace paradigm is shifting, as expressed by the 8th
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A Book of Peace: A World of War - the Holy Koran's Connection to Islam
A Book of Peace: A World of War The Holy Koran's Connection to Islam The Koran is a book of peace thrown to a wild race of murdering, vengeful tribes that populated the Arabian Peninsula. Its creation helped shape history of this region for millenniums to come. The Arabs had been at war within the peninsula and ever since the followers of this book which was verbally given by the prophet Mohammed; they have been
Rating:Essay Length: 990 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: April 11, 2011 -
The Minutemen and Their World: Book Review
The Minutemen And Their World: Book Review Gross constructs this book as an interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement. Gross states, "By seeing how earlier Americans have lived and struggled in their daily lives, we can come to realize them as people like ourselves and gain a new understanding of our society and our heritage". Gross uses many different biographies that assemble his argument throughout the book. From the different biographies in
Rating:Essay Length: 524 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: April 13, 2011 -
Book Case - 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have recently I have being reading a book that has opened my understanding of Latin America. The book 100 years of solitude has impacted the way I look at my culture. The book written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is about the struggle of a Latin American family in a time of crisis in the fictional town of Macondo. For some people, it is just a book for textual pleasure. For others it is way
Rating:Essay Length: 769 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: April 19, 2011 -
Pearman's Book
Final Paper "There are always two parts to an interaction" (Goldstein, 1993, p. 150). This I discovered throughout the course. I learned that I don't really pay all that much attention to the people I have conversations with. I am just off in my own little word although I am listening; to somebody else it would not look like it at all. I don't keep eye contact either, I look away a lot. For example
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Book Banning Pointless?
Book Banning Pointless? Books are usually challenged with the best intentions-to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information (American Library Association, 2010). While I'm flattered with their concern, it is almost laughable that certain groups and individuals feel the need to challenge or ban books that are geared for young adolescents. Unless, these youngsters are orphans, I believe it is the parents that should be making the call on what their children should
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Feed - a Book Review
"Feed," by M.T. Anderson is a dark novel about power and control. The book is written in first-person narrative through a teenager's perspective. Titus McNeal's speech consists of words like "brag," "so null," and "like" to start off many of his sentences. He uses foul language and proves to be a typical adolescent boy. He also shows throughout the novel that he really has no concern for what is going on around him in the
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Book Review - Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brian Jacobs Ms. Colangelo English 9 7 November 2010 Animal Farm Usually when one person takes control of everyone else, the people get angry. In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, the pigs take control over the other animals. Throughout the novel the pigs begin to change the rules of animalism by putting themselves above the other animals. One of the things the pigs do to control the animals was steal what they produced.
Rating:Essay Length: 289 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: April 27, 2011 -
Strength to Love - Book Review
Strength To Love Copyright 1963 Published by: Fortress Press, Philadelphia Written By: Martin Luther King Jr. Presented By: Brad Becker Strength to Love Book Review Introduction & Preface Martin Luther King jr. was a man who devoted his entire existence to the philosophies of nonviolence and the elimination of social and racial injustice. His influence was an astronomical step forward towards equality for all races and backgrounds. In the preface of this book, Luther explains
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Blind Eye - Book Review
This book, Blind Eye, follows the true story and career of Michael Swango, medical professional and convicted serial killer. Swango was able to continue his destructive career because a number of medical professionals turned a blind eye to his past. As early as medical school in Illinois, Michael Swango had significant issues of competency and judgment. And very early in his medical career he was convicted of poisoning a group of his co-workers. Despite these
Rating:Essay Length: 476 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 1, 2011 -
Biot 3603 - Apocolyptic Language - Prophetic Books and Eschatology
Running Head: APOCALYPTIC LANGUAGE Apocalyptic Language Amanda Christie BIOT 3603-Prophetic Books and Eschatology Artie Burnett Abstract Many times we get caught up in the one predictive aspect of the apocalyptic literature, when actually there are at least two other more prevalent aspects to this literature: prosecution and persuasion. By taking a step back from the intricacies of apocalyptic we are better able to see the full picture of what is trying to be portrayed. Getting
Rating:Essay Length: 511 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 15, 2011 -
Book Review - the Kiss of the Spider Woman
In his novel The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig employed characterization to compare the two characters and the subtext to foreshadow the two character's sexual encounter. Puig amplifies the use of characterization because there is no narration to this novel and in order to understand the book, the characterization must be clear. In the passage on page 140, there is a very detailed characterization of Molina. She has always been seen as mother-like
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The Killing Fields - Book Review
The killing fields is a very sad book its about the civil wars in Cambodia with all of the rebellions going on about communism. The Russian ways influence Cambodia into the government of communism and the fighting between the people who want it and the people who don't. The story starts out with the journalist who travels from new York to get the really story on what's happening in Cambodia and the day he gets
Rating:Essay Length: 441 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 15, 2011 -
Book Review - "the Hunger Games"
The book "The Hunger Games" is about a society in which the citizens are sectioned off into 12 districts. The capitol does all they can to control them and one of the primary methods is the hunger games. In the hunger games the capitol annually enters all the children's names ages 12-18 into a lottery, where one girl and one boy will be randomly selected to compete. The ones that are chosen will have to
Rating:Essay Length: 1,014 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: May 16, 2011 -
Jazz Anecdotes Book
When I started reading the Jazz Anecdotes book I thought it was boring but as the book progressed I got interested in it because I realized it is nothing but a compilation of short stories which were interesting in one manner or the other. Bill Crow the writer of the book, who himself is a jazz player wrote this book in a manner which was funny as well as informative and would give the reader
Rating:Essay Length: 313 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 18, 2011 -
The Ultimate Gift - Book
It was a bright sunny day and Lara was reading "The Ultimate Gift" while sitting under a big shaded tree at the park. She was wearing her reading glasses and a glass of wine was next to her. She was so deep in her reading that she didn't realize there was a pair of eyes was watching her. Suddenly her sunlight was blocked by a person. Lara looked up and didn't believe what shes looking
Rating:Essay Length: 1,070 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: May 22, 2011 -
Samadhi-Pada Yog - Book Review
This First Chapter of the book is focused on the outlining the essentials of yogic practice. According to the author the earlier translations of this form of yoga are wrong. He then goes into translating the first Chapter of Samadhi-Pada. The opening aphorism states the subject and nature of treatises, which looks at the instruction. The nature of Patanjali's treatise is not clear and understanding the term for exposition. Pantanjali, is simply a complier but
Rating:Essay Length: 489 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 26, 2011 -
Examining the Book - the Things They Carried
My initial impressions of the first chapter of the book "The Things They Carried" (O'Brien, Tim) were overall generally positive. I think in the first chapter the author (Tim O'Brien) intended for the reader to get familiar with each of the main characters of the story. I will take it a bit further however, O'Brien not only wanted to the reader to get familiar with the characters of the story, but also provide some symbolic
Rating:Essay Length: 289 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 29, 2011 -
Romeo and Juliet Book and Movie
Romeo & Juliet 1. The book and the movie have a lot of differences and similarities. One of the differences between them is the setting of the story is very different. In the book the setting is 16th century, Italy, Verona where as in the movie the setting is 19th century, California beach, USA. Since there is a timeline difference between the book and the movie a lot of things change such in the book
Rating:Essay Length: 249 Words / 1 PagesSubmitted: May 30, 2011 -
Girl Inturrupted - Book Review
Girl Interrupted final essay The book, "Girl Interrupted" is about a young girl named Susanna who's 18 years old. Susanna in a way, is mentally unstable so it seems and she ends up in a mental institution called , McLean. In McLean, Susanna has no freedom. She is watched like a hawk , one example in the book is when the nurses at the hospital do checks. Checks is when the nurses check the rooms
Rating:Essay Length: 403 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: June 2, 2011