The Host Chapter 24: Tolerated

It was true that I did non smell good.Id wooly count of how many days Id washed- out(a) hither-was it a great deal than a cal depotar week now? more than two?-and all(prenominal) of them sw swallowing into the comparable(p) vesture Id worn on my disastrous desert trek. So much flavour had dried into my cotton shirt that it was creased into rigid accordion wrinkles. It used to be pale yellow now it was a splotchy, diseased- noteing print in the same dark purple color as the cave floor. My short tomentum cerebri was crunchy and gritty I could finger it standing out in vehement tangles around my head, with a stiff crest on top, care a cocka in additions. I hadnt memorizen my face recently, exclusively I imagined it in two shades of purple cave-dirt purple and healing-bruise purple.So I could understand Jebs point-yes, I needed a vat. And a assortment of clothes as well, to clear the bath worth the lawsuit. Jeb despatchered me some of Jamies clothes to wear while mi ne dried, entirely I didnt want to ruin Jamies few things by stretching them. Thankfully, he didnt deliver to murderer me anything of Jareds. I ended up with an old merely clean flannel shirt of Jebs that had the sleeves ripped off, and a pair of faded, holey cutoff sweatpants that had at peace(p) unclaimed for months. These were draped over my arm-and a bumpy raft of vile-smelling, loosely molded chunks that Jeb claimed was homemade cactus soap was in my hand-as I followed Jeb to the live with the two rivers.Again we were not al hotshot, and over again I was miserably foil that this was the case. Three men and unitary woman-the salt-and-pepper braid-were filling buckets with irrigate from the smaller stream. A loud splashing and laughing echoed from the bathe board.Well just wait our turn, Jeb told me.He leaned against the wall. I stood stiffly beside him, uncomfortably conscious of the four pairs of eyes on me, though I unplowed my own on the dark wild spring rushi ng by underneath the porous floor.After a short wait, three women exited the bathing room, their pixilated hair dripping over return the backs of their shirts-the athletic caramel brown-skinned woman, a young blonde I didnt remember eyesight so iodiner, and Melanies cousin Sharon. Their laughter stopped abruptly as soon as they caught sight of us.Afternoon, ladies, Jeb reckon, touching his forehead as if it were the brim of a hat.Jeb, the caramel woman ac sire doledged dryly.Sharon and the early(a) girl cut us.Okay, Wanda, he said when theyd passed. Its all yours.I gave him a glum look, then made my guidance carefully into the black room.I tried to remember how the floor went-I was authorized I had a few feet before the edge of the water. I took off my shoes introductory, so that I could tactile property for the water with my toes.It was just so dark. I remembered the inky appearance of the pool-ripe with suggestions of what ability lurk beneath its swarthy surface- and shuddered. But the persistenter I waited, the extensiveer I would prolong to be here, so I put the clean clothes next to my shoes, kept the smelly soap, and shuffled forward carefully until I install the lip of the pool.The water was cool compared to the steamy air of the outer cavern. It felt nice. That didnt keep me from cosmos terrified, precisely I could stable appreciate the sensation. It had been a long clipping since anything had been cool. Still fully dressed in my dirty clothes, I waded in waist deep. I could feel the streams current swirl around my ankles, petting the rock. I was glad the water was not stagnant-it would be upsetting to demoralize it, filthy as I was, if that were the case.I crouched vote down into the ink until I was immersed to my shoulders. I ran the coarse soap over my clothes, thinking this would be the easiest bearing to practice sure they were clean. Where the soap touched my skin, it burned mildly.I took off the soapy clothes and sc rubbed them under the water. Then I wash awayd them again and again until there was no way any of my sweat or tears could turn in survived, wrung them out, and laid them on the floor beside where I melodic theme my shoes were.The soap burned more strongly against my bare skin, besides the sting was bearable because it cockeyedt I could be clean again. When I was do lathering, my skin prickled everywhere and my scalp felt scalded. It take careed as if the places where the bruises had formed were more tippy than the rest of me-they must still ask been there. I was felicitous to put the acidic soap on the rock floor and rinse my body again and again, the way I had my clothes.It was with a strange unify of relief and regret that I sloshed my way out of the pool. The water was very pleasant, as was the feeling of clean, if prickling, skin. But Id had quite lavish of the sightlessness and the things I could imagine into the darkness. I felt around until I found the dry clothe s, then I pulled them quickly on and shoved my water-wrinkled feet into my shoes. I carried my wet clothes in one hand and the soap gingerly betwixt two fingers of the early(a).Jeb laughed when I emerged his eyes were on the soap in my wary grasp.Smarts a bit, dont it? Were resolveing to fix that. He held out his hand, protected by the tail of his shirt, and I placed the soap in it.I didnt coiffe his question because we werent alone there was a line waiting taciturnly behind him-five people, all of them from the country turning.Ian was eldest in line.You look better, he told me, just now I couldnt tell from his tone if he was surprised or annoyed that I did.He raised one arm, extending his long, pale fingers toward my neck. I flinched away, and he dropped his hand quickly.Sorry approximately that, he muttered.Did he mean for scaring me now or for marking up my neck in the first place? I couldnt imagine that he was apologizing for difficult to erase me. for sure he still wanted me utterly. But I wasnt going to ask. I started walking, and Jeb fell into step behind me.So, instantly wasnt that bad, Jeb said as we walked with the dark corridor.Not that bad, I murmured. After all, I hadnt been murdered. That was of all time a plus.Tomorrow give be even better, he promised. I always enjoy planting-seeing the miracle of the smaller dead-facial expression seeds having so much life in them. Makes me feel like a withered old guy might have some potential leftover in him. Even if its tho to be fertilizer. Jeb laughed at his joke.When we got to the big garden cavern, Jeb took my elbow and steered me east rather than west.Dont try to tell me youre not hungry after all that digging, he said. Its not my excogitate to provide room service. Youre just going to have to eat where everyone else eats.I grimaced at the floor but let him lead me to the kitchen.It was a good thing the nourishment was exactly the same thing as always, because if, miraculously, a filet mignon or a bag of Cheetos had materialized, I wouldnt have been able to taste a thing. It took all my concentration just to practice myself swallow-I hated to make even that small sound in the dead silence that followed my appearance. The kitchen wasnt crowded, just ten people lounging against the counters, alimentation their tough rolls and crapulence their watery soup. But I killed all conversation again. I crotcheted how long things could last like this.The answer was exactly four days.It also took me that long to understand what Jeb was up to, what the motivation was behind his switch from the courteous soldiery to the curmudgeonly taskmaster.The day after turning the soil I spent seeding and irrigating the same field. It was a disparate group of people than the day before I imagined there was some kind of rotation of the chores here. Maggie was in this group, and the caramel-skinned woman, but I didnt learn her name. Mostly everyone worked in silence. The silence f elt unnatural-a refuse against my presence.Ian worked with us, when it was clearly not his turn, and this bothered me.I had to eat in the kitchen again. Jamie was there, and he kept the room from total silence. I knew he was too sensitive not to account the awkward hush, but he deliberately ignored it, likely to pretend that he and Jeb and I were the only people in the room. He chattered some his day in Sharons class, bragging a little astir(predicate) some trouble hed gotten into for speaking out of turn, and complaining about the chores shed given him as punishment. Jeb chastised him halfheartedly. They both did a very good job of acting normal. I had no acting ability. When Jamie asked me about my day, the best I could do was stare intently at my food and mumble one-word answers. This seemed to make him sad, but he didnt push me.At night it was a different story-he wouldnt let me stop spill the beansing until I begged to be allowed to sleep. Jamie had reclaimed his room, t aking Jareds side of the bed and insisting that I take his. This was very much as Melanie remembered things, and she approved of the arrangement.Jeb did, too. Saves me the trouble of finding someone to play guard. withhold the gun close and dont for draw in its there, he told Jamie.I protested again, but both the man and the boy refused to listen to me. So Jamie slept with the gun on the other side of his body from me, and I fretted and had nightmares about it.The third day of chores, I worked in the kitchen. Jeb taught me how to knead the coarse bread dough, how to lay it out in round lumps and let it rise, and, later on, how to feed the fire in the bottom of the big stone oven when it was dark enough to let the pasturage out.In the middle of the afternoon, Jeb left.Im gonna pay back some more flour, he muttered, compete with the strap that held the gun to his waist.The three silent women who kneaded alongside us didnt look up. I was up to my elbows in the sticky dough, but I s tarted to rankle it off so I could follow him.Jeb grinned, flashed a look at the unobserving women, and shook his head at me. Then he spun around and dash out of the room before I could free myself.I froze there, no longer breathing. I stared at the three women-the young blonde from the bathing room, the salt-and-pepper braid, and the heavy-lidded mother-waiting for them to realize that they could kill me now. No Jeb, no gun, my hands trapped in the gluey dough-nothing to stop them.But the women kept on kneading and shaping, not seeming to realize this glaring truth. After a long, breathless moment, I started kneading again, too. My still would probably alert them to the seat sooner than if I kept working.Jeb was asleep(p) for an eternity. Perhaps he had meant that he needed to grind more flour. That seemed like the only explanation for his endless absence.Took you long enough, the salt-and-pepper-braid woman said when he got back, so I knew it wasnt just my imagination.Jeb dro pped a heavy burlap transformation to the floor with a deep thud. Thats a lot of flour there. You try carryin it, Trudy.Trudy snorted. I imagine it took a lot of rest stops to birth it this far.Jeb grinned at her. It sure did.My heart, which had been thrumming like a birds for the entire episode, settled into a less frantic rhythm.The next day we were cleaning mirrors in the room that housed the cornfield. Jeb told me this was something they had to do routinely, as the combination of humidity and dust caked the mirrors until the light was too dim to feed the plants. It was Ian, working with us again, who scaled the rickety wooden ladder while Jeb and I tried to keep the base steady. It was a difficult task, given Ians weight and the homemade ladders poor balance. By the end of the day, my arms were limp and aching.I didnt even notice until we were done and mind for the kitchen that the improvised holster Jeb always wore was empty.I gasped out loud, my knees locking like a startle d colts. My body tottered to a halt.Whats wrong, Wanda? Jeb asked, too innocent.I would have answered if Ian hadnt been reform beside him, watching my strange behavior with fascination in his vivid gamy eyes.So I just gave Jeb a wide-eyed look of mingled suspense and reproach, and then slowly began walking beside him again, shaking my head. Jeb chuckled.Whats that about? Ian muttered to Jeb, as if I were deaf.Beats me, Jeb said he lied as only a human could, smooth and guileless.He was a good liar, and I began to wonder if leaving the gun behind today, and leaving me alone yesterday, and all this effort forcing me into human company was his way of getting me killed without doing the job himself. Was the friendship all in my head? Another lie?This was my fourth day eating in the kitchen.Jeb, Ian, and I walked into the long, hot room-into a crowd of humans chatting in low voices about the days events-and nothing happened. Nothing happened.There was no jerky silence. No one paused to stare daggers at me. No one seemed to notice us at all.Jeb steered me to an empty counter and then went to get enough bread for three. Ian lounged next to me, casually turning to the girl on his other side. It was the young blonde-he called her Paige.How are things going? How are you holding up with Andy gone? he asked her.Id be fine if I werent so worried, she told him, biting her lip.Hell be home soon, Ian assured her. Jared always brings everyone home. Hes got a real talent. Weve had no accidents, no problems since he showed up. Andy will be fine.My interest sparked when he mentioned Jared-and Melanie, so slumbery these days, stirred-but Ian didnt say anything else. He just patted Paiges shoulder and morose to take his food from Jeb.Jeb sat next to me and surveyed the room with a deep sense of rapture plain on his face. I looked around the room, too, trying to see what he saw. This must have been what it was usually like here, when I wasnt around. Only today I didnt seem t o bother them. They must have been tired of let me interrupt their lives.Things are settling down, Ian commented to Jeb.Knew they would. Were all reasonable folks here.I frowned to myself.Thats true, at the moment, Ian said, laughing. My brothers not around.Exactly, Jeb agreed.It was interesting to me that Ian counted himself among the reasonable folks. Had he noticed that Jeb was unarm? I was burning with curiosity, but I couldnt risk pointing it out in case he hadnt.The meal continued as it had begun. My novelty had seemingly worn off.When the meal was over, Jeb said I deserved a rest. He walked me all the way to my door, playing the gentleman again.Afternoon, Wanda, he said, tipping his imaginary hat.I took a deep breath for bravery. Jeb, wait.Yes?Jeb I hesitated, trying to find a polite way to put it. I well, maybe its stupid of me, but I sort of thought we were friends.I scrutinized his face, looking for any change that might indicate that he was about to lie to me. He only l ooked kind, but what did I know of a liars tells?Of course we are, Wanda.Then wherefore are you trying to get me killed?His furry brows pulled together in surprise. Now, wherefore would you think that, honey?I listed my evidence. You didnt take the gun today. And yesterday you left me alone.Jeb grinned. I thought you hated that gun.I waited for an answer.Wanda, if I wanted you dead, you wouldnt have lasted that first day.I know, I muttered, starting to feel embarrassed without spirit why. Thats why its all so confusing.Jeb laughed cheerfully. No, I dont want you dead Thats the unit of measurement point, kid. Ive been getting them all used to seeing you around, getting them to accept the situation without realizing it. Its like boiling a frog.My forehead creased at the eccentric comparison.Jeb explained. If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesnt radiation diagram out whats going on until its too late. Boiled frog. Its just a matter of working by slow degrees.I thought about that for a second-remembered how the humans had ignored me at lunch today. Jeb had gotten them used to me. The realisation made me feel strangely hopeful. Hope was a silly thing in my situation, but it seeped into me anyway, coloring my perceptions more brightly than before.Jeb?Yeah?Am I the frog or the water?He laughed. Ill leave that one for you to puzzle over. Self-examination is good for the soul. He laughed again, louder this time, as he turned to leave. No pun intended.Wait-can I ask one more?Sure. Id say its your turn anyway, after all Ive asked you.Why are you my friend, Jeb?He pursed his lips for a second, considering his answer.You know Im a curious man, he began, and I nodded. Well, I get to watch your souls a lot, but I never get to talk with em. Ive had so many questions just piling up higher(prenominal) and higher Plus, Ive always thought that if a person wants to, he can get along with just about anybody. I like putting my theories to the test. And see, here you are, one of the nicest gals I ever met. Its real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that Ive managed it.He winked at me, bowed from the waist, and walked away.Just because I now understood Jebs plan, it didnt make things easier when he escalated it.He never took the gun anywhere anymore. I didnt know where it was, but I was grateful that Jamie wasnt sleeping with it, at least. It made me a little nervous to have Jamie with me unprotected, but I decided he was actually in less danger without the gun. No one would feel the need to hurt him when he wasnt a threat. Besides, no one came looking for me anymore.Jeb started sending me on little errands. Run back to the kitchen for another roll, he was still hungry. Go fetch a bucket of water, this corner of the field was dry. Pull Jamie out of his class, Jeb needed to speak with him. Were the spina ch sprouts up yet? Go and check. Did I remember my way by means of the south caves? Jeb had a message for medical student.Every time I had to carry out one of these simple directives, I was in a sweaty haze of fear. I toilsome on being invisible and walked as quickly as I could without running through the big rooms and the dark corridors. I tended to squash the walls and keep my eyes down. Occasionally, I would stop conversation the way I used to, but mostly I was ignored. The only time I felt in immediate danger of death was when I cut off Sharons class to get Jamie. The look Sharon gave me seemed designed to be followed by violent action. But she let Jamie go with a nod after I choked out my whispered request, and when we were alone, he held my shaking hand and told me Sharon looked the same way at anyone who interrupted her class.The very worst was the time I had to find Doc, because Ian insisted on showing me the way. I could have refused, I suppose, but Jeb didnt have a p roblem with the arrangement, and that meant Jeb self-assuranceed Ian not to kill me. I was far from comfortable with testing that theory, but it seemed the test was inevitable. If Jeb was wrong to trust Ian, then Ian would find his opportunity soon enough. So I went with Ian through the long black southern dig as if it were a running play by fire.I lived through the first half. Doc got his message. He seemed unsurprised to see Ian tagging along beside me. Perhaps it was my imagination, but I thought they change a significant glance. I half expected them to strap me to one of Docs gurneys at that point. These rooms continued to make me feel nauseated.But Doc just thanked me and sent me on my way as if he were busy. I couldnt really tell what he was doing-he had several books open and load and stacks of papers that seemed to contain nothing but sketches.On the way back, curiosity overcame my fear.Ian? I asked, having a bit of difficulty reflexion the name for the first time.Yes? He sounded surprised that Id addressed him.Why havent you killed me yet?He snorted. Thats direct.You could, you know. Jeb might be annoyed, but I dont think hed shoot you. What was I saying? It sounded like I was trying to convince him. I bit my tongue.I know, he said, his tone complacent.It was quiet for a moment, just the sounds of our footsteps echoing, low and muffled, from the tunnel walls.It doesnt seem fair, Ian last said. Ive been thinking about it a lot, and I cant see how killing you would make anything right. It would be like executing a one-on-one for a generals war crimes. Now, I dont buy all of Jebs crazy theories-it would be nice to believe, sure, but just because you want something to be true doesnt make it that way. Whether hes right or wrong, though, you dont appear to mean us any harm. I have to admit, you seem honestly fond of that boy. Its very strange to watch. Anyway, as long as you dont put us in danger, it seems cruel to kill you. Whats one more misfit in this place?I thought about the word misfit for a moment. It might have been the truest description of me Id ever heard. Where had I ever fit in?How strange that Ian, of all the humans, should have such a surprisingly gentle interior. I didnt realize that cruelty would seem a negative to him.He waited in silence while I considered all this.If you dont want to kill me, then why did you come with me today? I asked.He paused again before answering.Im not sure that He hesitated. Jeb thinks things have calmed down, but Im not completely sure about that. Therere still a few people Anyway, Doc and I have been trying to keep an eye on you when we can. Just in case. Sending you down the south tunnel seemed like pushing your luck, to me. But thats what Jeb does best-he pushes luck as far as it will go.You you and Doc are trying to protect me?Strange world, isnt it?It was a few seconds before I could answer.The strangest, I finally agreed.

Dashboard Mockup for Bigbazaar

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As bizarre is a nation wide company with over 700 million dollar venue in last year it is essential to keep in head teacher that threshold value or minimum value for each quarter mustiness not be less than 180 million dollars which is be by xanthous color. Any revenue above ass be considered as good profit margin and is denoted by green and revenue below 180 should be considered as danger zone and is denoted by red color.If a quarters revenue is in red then it should be considered as an alert and authorities must revise their goals and objectives. go of new stores This KIP is primarily linked to second goal of impact customers demand and plays a role in increasing net revenue. As there is a v ast need of products that is required by customers and not everyone likes to purchase online. Increasing number Of stores yearly to meet the demand will also increase sales of Bizarre. To achieve this Bizarre needs to unfastened stores in north, south, west, and east regions in India.Opening of stores can be schedules in every quarter basis. To achieve the goal and produce good outputs company has to open to a greater extent than 25 stores in each quarter if this criterion is met than the graph is stand for in green color. The management can handle more than 20 stores per quarter, which is labeled in allow color. However, if the stores opened per quarter is less than 20, then the production of the company will be effected hence it must be considered as an alert and new stores should be planned for the next quarter.Delivering services This KIP is aligned with part of third goal that is proportioning delivery system. Most of the customers prefer shopping in store mainly because with in Store shopping products are obtained instantly. However, by providing proper discipline and good delivery system online shopping can decrease strain of driving. 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For any retail store, it is very primary(prenominal) to maintain a good customer service relationship.To see through that there is a good reputation on customer services offered by the store we can conduct survey and call members to run low feedback from them and ask them to rate the services on a scale of five. get grade of 4 or 5 can be considered as good, which is dingy in green and a grade of three can be reflected as moderate that is colored in yellow, which means it can be improved with little effort. But a grade of 1 or 2 should be considered as threshold and colored as red and a serious effort has to be put into rectifying the customer services. The aim is to get at least 60% of the customers to grade amongst 4 or 5.Memberships registered monthly This KIP addresses fourth goal, which states to increase memberships by religious offering coupons and discounts. 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Some security measures need to be interpreted in order to avoid thefts in stores.

Invictus †Path Goal Theory Essay

Invictus, is a powerful movie representing what Nelson Mandela taking the office as the low unappeasableen electric chair of to the south Africa and set to set up majuscule things. Nelson Mandela was the founding father and consort of the African National Congress and spent 27 vast age in prison on charges for sabotage against the white military and electric chairial term to end apartheid. The movie starts with his release from prison on February 11, 1990 greeted by the dim population eager to fight while the white population was expecting the worse from it.The environment factors stird dramatically for Nelson and he found himself ready to forgive those that detain him and call them comrades. His amazing lastingness of character can be recognised in the movie and the Path-Goal Theorys fartership behaviors can be found along with them. Path Goal Theory Path-Goal Theory argued that subordinates motivation, enjoyment and work fulfilance be dependent on the leadershi p means chosen by their superior. Moreover, a person may behave these by adopting a certain leadership style, based on the situation. Ive picked Nelson Mandela as the leader.Mandela has a very difficult projection of uniting a artless that has been for so long divided and full of hatreds. After his release the black people started riots and Mandela enshrouded them as a directing leader to the black crowd in Durban, on February 25, 1990 asking to lay dget the implements of war and end the war, saying My message to those involved in this battle of chum salmon against brother is this take your guns, your knives, and your pangas and throw them into the sea. Close down the death factories. finale this war now Mandela speaks clearly close to whats required of second Africa and give them directions to accomplish it.He realized that his embattled rude need to unite perspirations regarding of race to be able to build a emerging together. Once a fighter against the regime, he realizes now that nevertheless repose and unified sweats can lead to progress and leaving imperturbablely together. He sets directives as such. Later on, when he won the death chairial elections and he is curse as a hot seat on May 10, 1994 and he unavoidablenesss the exceed for his country, to stop the offending and suppression of his people, he asks for building a current country together.We must(prenominal) act together as a fall in people, or national expiation, for nation building, for the birth of a new creative activityNever, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land forget again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the orb. His message is directive, reinforced and clear. He had an amazing mogul to change depending on the environment contingency factors. On the stolon sidereal day to take office the President Mandela talks to the staff of the former chair when he sees them packing a nd assuming that theyll get fired from their positions and they be no longer needed.He befits a supportive leader and asks for their help. He combines it with directive leadership asking them to do their work to their best abilities. If you want to convey thats your ripe(p) that you cant work with your new regimen leave entirely if you pack because your language, color or you work for the prior death chair disqualifies you slang no fear. The past is the past. We look into future and we want your help. If you want to stay youll do your country a huge favor. go around abilities and a rock-steady heart. I promise to do the equivalent. Our country go away be shining.This shows Mandela strong support and loading for considering and consolidative efforts among white and blacks. Addressing to a white majority with kind words and tope and asking for help try ons one more time Mandelas mightiness to change his leadership style according to the situation and change. Mandela s commitment to a supportive leader surface again when he assigns intravenous feeding white men to the credential squad and talk to the head of the security that has assignment concerns since the white security forces were the very men that fought against them and may have killed their friends and colleagues.Mandela shows support and consideration to the chiefs cutaneous sensess and takes the time to explain wherefore he made the stopping point. Reconciliation starts here Forgiveness starts here, too. Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. This is why its such a powerful weapon. Please Jason, try. The president appeals at the very inner soul of the security chief. To help people gain to the same goal Mandela saw a rare opportunity in the rugby football football team. He knew that blacks spent years to hate the game and the Springbok, the rugby team, since for them it represented the white supremacy and their boycott hurt them.Mandela himself admits doing just the s ame while in prison on the Robben Island. This time he thinks about using Springbok to unite people and that the team needs to become pull aheadners. With one year until World Rugby Cup 1995 to be contend in South Africa, and him just taking office, Mandela doesnt lose time and invites Francois Pienaar, the Springbok police chief, for tea in his office to indirectly letting him turn in about what achievement is expecting of him to win the World Rugby Cup in 1995 that would be hosted by South Africa. You have a difficult job. master copy of the Springbok We need to exceed our expectations. said Mandela. This accomplishment was very challenging since the rugby teams performance was low but president set up his expectations very high requiring the team to perform accordingly. wholeness important moment of Mandelas directive leader abilities are captured when he fights the new Rugby Sport Association, composed of mostly blacks, to not surrender Springbok name, emblem and the team colors. As we can see, Mandela was not unstatedly challenged by the white population but by his black people, too.The blacks get dressedt support the team because they viewed it as it represents the prior suppression. However, Mandela saw as his duty to keep the Springboks name, emblem and colors. You reached a decision with insufficient info and foresight. I am here to ask you to desexualize Springbok, the name, emblem and color because , learn enemy to prevail, enemy is not Africana, they are partners in democracy, they treasure Springbok rugby, if we take it away we lose them. We prove that we are what they feared we would be. We have to be better than that. To surprise with with compassion, generosity.They denied us but this is not revenge time, we have to build the nation using both(prenominal) brick, even if its green and gold. You elect me as leader. Let me lead you know. Who is with me? Mandela asks the current leaders to change tactics and work towards a peaceful en vironment. Its a lot to ask but Mandelas strong commitment for unity prevails. The very task of uniting the country by means of rugby shows a supportive leader towards whites look upon and love for a feature that meant the world to them rugby. Rugby is a human beings calculation. If we take away what they cherish we enforce the circle of fear.I must do what it takes to break the circle. Mandela even learns the name of the melters to be able to address them by name making it very ad hominemly and proving his concerns for their well-being. Mandela showed participative leader skills in the movie by working closely with his stuff on discern decisions however, since the movie revolves around rugby we can see him consulting more with the attend of Sports to understand how the rugby team can get better until the world cup. He learns the rugby game, rules of the games, qualifications in the world cup and the audience the sport reaches. A billion people watch us?What a great opportu nity He learns about the New Zealand team history to understand Springbok chances to win. How can we beat them? Its not enough, not when we are so close. This country is ready for greatness. Its amazing to see how one person that once hated even the world rugby and cute Springbok to lose now puts every effort in the verificatory direction to participate and contribute towards harming. expectation Theory of Motivation Expectancy theory argues that the strength of a tendency to act in a certain way depends on the strength of our expectations of a given effect and its attractiveness.There are links to it the effort that leads to performance (effort), performance that lead to bribes (performance) and the reward that satisfy the personal goals (reward). One accessory of President Mandelas leadership is the security chief, Jason. His assignment is to be presidents bodyguard. His effort goes into protect the newly black elected president, which is a big task on flock. When the whit e security forces join the team he makes a special effort to work together as explained above pinch that the whites are very well trained and he needed especial(a) people. His performance depends on his team performance.Jasons efforts go into extra precautions when the president attends the rugby games. He knows that performing his job very well is the only way he can protect the president. The movie doesnt enactment a money reward upon performing very well. The reward comes in pride of protecting the president and willing to sacrifice his own purport to protect presidents. His well performed job was satisfying his personal goal of protecting the president. In a way his willingness to follow the presidents advice of reconciliation leads to a good bodyguard team and turns into a good teamwork.The candidate where they all play rugby proves one more time the good relationships and their unique goal of taking care of the president. Springbok captain, Francois Pienaar, proves to hav e strength to act on the of presidents expectations. Francois meeting with the President Mandela is a turning point in his career. He is asked to perform better than anyone pass judgment and his efforts will be recognized by the president himself. The fact that the president shows interest in his performance makes him want to put every effort in achieving the unthinkable to win the world cup.The presidents practice in his abilities makes him believe that his work will lead to performance. To inspire him to perform better the president asks the captain how he inspires the team and what his philosophy on leadership is. Sometimes by using the work of other haggle helped me to stand up when all I wanted was to lay down. The poesy inspires me to do better. Mandela was referring to the national South Africa song, God Bless Africa. He in any case was referring to the Invictus a poem whose words kept him going while he was in prison.At one point he writes the poem on a paper and gives it to the rugby captain for inspiration to perform better. The captain puts the effort in to teach his team the song knowing it will lead to better performance. The Springbok is asked to perform clinics around the country and he complies understanding that times change and they need to change as well. The team puts the effort into it and manages to perform the clinics. The smiles on the black kids faces when they are teach rugby by the national team is a reward to their effort to change and contribute to the unity effort.Another turning point is when the captain takes them to the island where the president was in prison. They visit the prison to get a feeling for what the president experienced. The presidents prison cell had a just a tin mattress on the floor and a chair. He remembers the poem and understands the thickset meaning and his fight for survival. I am a master of my faith. I am the captain of my soul. He knows that his hard work will be paid off and he has a good shot t o win the cup that will mean a lot to his embattled country just like the presidents long fight was rewarded with his freedom.In a way winning the World Cup was liberation from the long battle between blacks and whites. It was his duty to fight now and win. The Springbok won every game in the World Rugby Cup and it culminated with the finals play against the New Zealand, which was an unstoppable team. They won the finals, too. Its an diachronic moment for every person in the country but it was an extraordinary moment of reward when the president himself dressed in a Springbok shirt and article of clothing their hat gives the cup to the Springbok captain. The captain aimed for performance beyond expectations and achieved the best.His personal goal was achieved. Springboks captain is a good guinea pig of the Expectancy Theory of Motivation given the motivation and relationship that he builds with the president. But Springboks captain cant accomplish his task by himself. His team is another example of a follower of captains dream and goal. Captain becomes the leader and his team the followers. Their own effort to train better, to reach to the black kids, to learn the national anthem, perform the best to their abilities and beyond, and believe in the winning its rewarded by winning the World Rugby Cup 1995.They are bought slowly in by the captain belief for a better performance and play. They see their efforts arrange with every game won and push forward with an ecstasy and evolution enthusiasm never felt before. One touching moment is right before the finals when they sing the anthem along with the whole stadium. When the president comes and shakes their hand in their own shirt and colors they are proud of their efforts and hard work. This is a completely different picture than the one at the first game when almost everyone boomed the president when he shook the hands of the team.At the end of the game with New Zeeland, the president presents the cup to Fran cois saying, Francois thank you for what youve through with(p) for the country. And Francois replied, No, Mr. President. Thank you for what youve done. One team one country finally became reality. masses celebrated the victory regardless of their gender and color. The victory was felt loving and there couldnt have been a better reward than feeling pride of a job very well done. This was one historic moment that will always be cherished by South Africa.

Biographical Criticism: To Build a Fire by Jack London

The short storey To Build a Fire is non the true man versus man struggle. It is more of a man versus nature, or in other perspective, a man versus himself struggle. It single has two characters, a man and a dog, both traversing a clean path towards a certain place, despite knowing the inevitability of insecurity or even death itself. In the end, death was sure for the man, as his struggle against himself and against nature ended drastically.The dog, following his instinct, went away towards safety. But the story is not only a bat of fiction. It is in itself, a crew of the writers imagination and his real animateness. turd London is 1 of those writers who lived a very colorful life. Jack London is not the typical writer who wrote for pleasure in his pastime or has made a living out of writing. London grew up without knowing his dad, and eventually lived his life under the give care of a foster parent.He worked manual labor in both earthly concern and sea, and when he find s a free time, thats when he scribbles down his thoughts. London literally struggled against himself and his surround. When the time came that he has to live by himself, he worked hard in order to sustain his needs. It was like assay to create a fire in a vast land covered by snow so that you would survive the night and would not freeze to death. He has to take care of everything in order to survive.As a man, Jack London grew up in a hostile surround full of snow which would kill him anytime if he doesnt take care of himself. The story To Build a Fire is not just the work of imagination by Jack London. Somehow, it is affected by his outlook in life, as well as his influences in life. All of his struggles against himself and his harsh environment were reflected in the story. These struggles would literally make or break you. It made Jack London, and it killed the man in the story.

A Comparison between Hills Like White Elephants

Below is a big essay on Compare from Anti Essays, your source for free explore papers, essays, and term paper examples. Comparison between Hills desire white Elephants and regorge in the Rain Similarities between regorge in the Rain and Hills like white Elephants 1) Characters are couples in both. throw off in the Rain at that place were only two Americans stopping at the hotel Hills like white Elephants The American and the young woman with him sat at a table in the shade, outside building 2) The place where actions occur is not home, characters stayed there for a while. Cat in the Rain There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel Hills like white Elephants He picked up the two heavy bags and carried them more or less the station to the other tracks 3) In both works one of characters is girl and she complimentss something, she was looking for something. Cat in the Rain And I want to run through at a table with my own silver and I want candles.And I want it t o be spring and I want to traverse my hair out in front of a mirror and I want a kitty and I want some smart clothes Hills like white Elephants Could we try it? , We want two Anis del Toro, I wanted to try this new drink 4) Secondary characters are speech another language. Cat in the Rain- The housemaid looked up at her. Ha perduto qualche cosa, Signora? Hills like white Elephants Dos cervezas, the man said into the cape 5) Also secondary characters are staff. Cat in the Rain The maid looked up at her ha perdute qualche cosa, Signora? Hills like white Elephants The Man called discover through the curtain. The Woman came out from the bar. 6) Characters a little bit nervous. Cat in the Rain I get so tired of it, she said. I get so tired of looking like a son Hills like white

Wolf Lichen

Poisonous but in like manner a healer. It is really abundant in Idaho but actually infrequent and hard to start in S jackpotdinavia. barbarian Lichen is the name of this mysterious plant. It is iodin of many distinct types of lichen strand in nature and varies in commissions such as habitat, use, and appearance. Lichen is a slow-growing plant genus that is unremarkably structured in a stiletto heel or leaf like shape. Lichen is made up of ii comp whiznts kingdom Fungi and algae. (Hollering, J. 014) The Fungal aspect is present in that it contains Chitin in their cell walls, they construct hyphen, spore producing, it is multicultural, and that they deed on stone-dead points/plants . The algal component means they argon eukaryote, atomic number 18 able to photosynthesis, and they cave in exceptionalized tissues. (Thomas-Sucker, J. 2012) In creature Lichen and dead/dying trees form by symbiotic relationships. Symbiosis describes a fast interaction between two orga nisms that benefits/harm at least one of the organisms. Sometimes symbiotic relationships can be beneficial, but can be sometimes harmful.This symbiotic relationship is beneficial to one an another(prenominal), because if we did not arrive at dead or dying plants we could never have Wolf Lichen(Hollering,J. 2014). Wolf Lichen to a fault produces its own food in order for it to survive. To do so, it goes finished photosynthetic accomplishes. Photosynthesis starts with trapping the suns energy in the form of sugar. Then the Wolf Lichen stores the resulting sugar in cells to form glucose for quick growth. Photosynthesis represents the beauty of the chemical process that takes six water molecules from the roots and six carbon dioxide molecules from the air and creates one sugar molecule.If at that place was no such thing as photosynthesis there would be no life on earth as we bed it. (aesthetic, J. , & Comma, C. 014) Lichen argon categorized into three different kingdoms, which arg on region Fungi, Kingdom Protests, and Kingdom Moaner. One interesting fact about Wolf Lichen is they are able to shut down their metabolism during times when nutrition is curious and also in freezing weather. Wolf Lichen typically grows less than a millimeter per year. There are a total of 287 different types of species of lichen of 68 genres, and a total of 8 different varieties in Idaho .According to recent investigate conducted by Dustin Shown, John Areola, and Braided Irishman on the Ph of lichen Wolf Lichen, along with other lichen have a mean of approximately 4. 1 on the Ph scale. This means that Wolf Lichen have an acidic compound (See haoma 1 at presentation). (Thomas-Sucker, J. 2012) Wolf Lichen is also named Lethargy. There are two types of Lethargy (L. ) that are not easily noticeable L. vulpine and L. Columbian. These two species are very similar in many ways but also very different. L. vulpine is asexual and reproduces with sorehead, while L. Alumina is sexual and does not reproduce with sorehead. L. vulpine is the only when lichen that is poisonous. (Hollering,J. 2014) Sorehead is a reproductive structure for lichens. Lichens can reproduce asexually and sexually. Sorehead is a powdery substance composed of fungal hyphen that wraps around contractible. Fungal hyphen make up the underlying body structure of lichen. (Conrad,J. 2005) As Wolf Lichen can grow to the size of it of 1 CM. But can be as large as 12 CM. The branches are round and wrinkled when in very wry conditions. The color ranges from a light yellow-green to a dull yellow.It forget not grow in freezing temperatures. However frost does not kill it, it Just stops growing. Once the weather is warmer the lichen go forth start growing and reproducing. Wolf Lichen is extremely sensitive to air taint and will not grow in polluted areas. Wolf Lichen grows on dead trees and stumps. It grows more often on sunny sides of trees and rocks. It does not usually grow in coastal rain forest s. (Conrad, J. 2005) In the past say have poisoned wolves and other animals with Wolf Lichen. Since the lichen is poisonous, it allowed the Coachman muckle in Northern calcium to use poison arrow heads.Farmers in the past apply pieces of meat, lowly glass, and inserted Wolf Lichen to poison the wolves and other animals that would bother their crops. (aesthetic, J. , & Comma, C. 2014) The lichen has vulpine acid in it which stops the respiratory systems of the animals. The glass is used to persecute the intestines of the animals, so that the toxin could labialize the body and kill the animals. Wolf Lichen is very poisonous, which made people have to use a mask so they wouldnt harm themselves. (ABA, N. 2011) Wolf Lichen was used as a yellow dye. This dye was used for coloring baskets.Wolf Lichen was also used for medicine. Lichen was used to wash out wounds and cuts, curing their injuries. (Conrad, J. 2005) Statistics show that fifty percent of all lichen are known as an antib iotic. In the coupled States they used lichen for mouth, stomach, intestines, anus, vagina, nose, ear, and come up pain. While in Finland it was used for treating skin eruptions, skin wounds, and athletes foot. (Hollering, J. 2014) In Scandinavia, Wolf Lichen is a rare species and are red-listed, which means that they are in danger of becoming extinct.Wolf lichen used to be abundant in an area of Scandinavia called sauryenslaved, but after the years had passed, Wolf Lichen became scarce and harder to find. The Wolf Lichen was exploited and ruined, so trying to protect Garenslaved against people who destroyed Wolf Lichen is one thing we can do to hopefully save the Wolf Lichen. Also Wolf Lichen is the most photographed lichen in Garenslaved. The species are also located around Europe and all the way to North America. (ABA, N. 2011) Although Wolf lichen is scarce in Scandinavia it is very abundant in Idaho.Wolf Lichen is found on most of the trees that are dying or already dead. Wo lf Lichen is an indicator that helps people tell if trees or other plants are dead or dying. It can be found all everywhere the town of McCall, Idaho, which is right next to Ponderosa State Park. Wolf Lichen helps the state park by letting them know what trees to cut down or to watch out for so it does not cause any damage to the people visiting or damage to the ecosystem. (Shoehorn, S. 001) Wolf Lichen is mostly found on twigs and stumps of most trees or plants. There are, however, lichen that is found on tree bark,and also houses and fence posts.It sometimes begins on rocks. It usually grows in a thick, solid cover, around and on dead trees and limbs. It is more abundant in numerous habitats where sunlight is more commonly found. (Turner & Kindle, 1998) Overall, Wolf Lichen is a special type of lichen, not only is it poisonous and a healer, but it is the only type of lichen that contains poison. It is also categorized into three different types of Kingdoms which differentiates fr om all other lichens. Wolf Lichen has many uses. The way people used to use it is very different from how we use it today.

Information technology for pims pumps Essay

compend naval division 1 Background/to identification of problem Pims Pumps ar an industrial pumping comp whatsoever which atomic number 18 involved in the distribution, inst exclusivelyation and maintenance of industrial pumping units. The companion has a large fleet of vans and umteen specialised tools and lots of equipment. Currently from to each(prenominal) iodin one(prenominal) of the equipment is logged in and out of the workshop and vans and this entropy is stock certificated on paper. psychoanalysis portion 2 identification of the prospective substance ab exploiter(s) The prospective users are the managers of the business solely of whom are computer literate and are already using a computer strategy for other aspects of the business.The company feed a pocket-sized network of computers inst all told in alled and all involved are competent in spring and using Microsoft gateway 2000 Analysis component part 3 identification of user needs and accept compe tent limitations The form needs to be able-bodied to enclose large amounts of data about the whereabouts of equipment, it must(prenominal) be able to cypher to by dint of the data for any specified criteria, it must be able to be edited, it must be secure and user friendly. Inter beguile illustration documents from user Observation The proposed dust can only be well-tried to a certain extent on being able to store large amounts of data.Analysis piece 4 rea referic appraisal of the feasibility of potential resolvents. Analysis ingredient 5 justification of chosen root I need chosen to use this schema because Analysis discussion component 6 description of menses governance & data sources and destinations The current establishment involves the user logging in and out equipment to vans and back into the warehouse. The user must enter his/her call forth, the date and time, the registration of the vehicle they are taking it to, the name of the component part of e quipment and the serial number of the piece of equipment.At the end of each week the logbook except for the most recent page is taken to the admin representation and stored in a filing cabinet in date order. When a piece of equipment is missing, needed of has been damaged the user can and so intimate back to the log book to find out who if anyone still has the piece of equipment and who else has utilise it recently. This can be very time consuming, as the user has to visually scan by the logbooks until he comes to the en turn up, which could be anything up to 15 pages. This could easily result in human fracture and is a tremendous waste of time Analysis discussion piece 8 data meld diagram of current outline.At current there is no advert of data as the in coiffureion is simply logged and referred to if needed in the future. Analysis section 7 objectives of the project Input tasks (Data entry / Modification / View) The system testament provide a user-friendly simple p orthole with the initial user allowing them to enter the same information as they usually do just on a recognizeboard. This should avoid all complications. The user interface for the initial user go away be very secure to try and stay accidental damage to the system however the management features will be able to be accessed by the management team through a password.There will be a user endure and a trouble shooting section to try and solve any potential problems. The system will be presented in form view with a main menu and various forms for different functions Output tasks (Reports) The system will be able to produce a report presentation the location of any piece of equipment, or all the equipment one appendage of staff has recently used or all the equipment currently in a particular van. The system must be able to seek through all the records for any criteria and produce a report for each one Processing tasks.The system must be able to unconscious process the information and sort it into any order that the user wishes. Quantitative mental process considerations The system is going to be diddle over a big period of time and so will need to be able to store a very large amount of data. This s one thing I will not be able to quiz to its full extent however I can estimate through computer hardware performance whether the system is adequate or not. Qualitative paygrade criteria Data security of the new system The system will have security passwords and all obvious features that would allow the user to enter restrict areas of the system would be disabled.The system will prompt the user to unless changes or automatically save changes on exit anyway. Analysis section 9 Data flow diagram of new system Analysis section 10 E-R Model Project power point 2 end Design section 1 boilers suit system design The system will involve a series of add-ins, queries, reports and forms all linked in concert to provide a user-friendly system capable of all o f the system requirements. I will have send backs for vans, equipment, warehouse and users and will link these unneurotic and display them on one form.There will be a menu form giving the user options and security passwords for management to access and edit existing data or to view existing data. wholly of the data entry will be validated and the tables will be set to certain data types to try and ensure the user is entryway the correct information. There will be four main tables connect to bookings, employees, equipment and vehicles. There will also be four forms based upon these tables and then a main menu form for easy navigation of my database system Design section 2 translation of modular structure of system.The system will be based around 4 main tables. These are TblEmployees, which expects information about the employees that work at the company. TblEquipment, which lists equipment, details about it, its current location and a list of who has recently used it. Tbl veh icles will contain a list of all of the vans that Pims Pumps use and contain a list of all the equipment that is currently in each van. TblBookings will record all the bookings in an out that a piece of equipment makes and records the equipment and employee ID numbers. These tables will all be linked together in an entity alliance diagram.Design section 3 Definition of data requirements The database will have to store relevant information about the employees using the booking system information about the companys vehicles and equipment information. The palm I will store in my equipment table are as follows 1. Equipment ID A unique number depute to each piece of equipment. 2. Description a brief description of the piece of equipment 3. usefulness interval The next date when the piece of equipment is due to be serviced The fields I will store in my employee table are as follows 1.Employee name full name of the employee 2. Employee ID a unique number assigned to each employee The fields I will store in my vehicles table are as follows 1. Registration The registration number of my vehicle 2. Vehicle ID A unique number assigned to each vehicle I will also have a bookings table, which will store the employee and equipment ID for each booking of equipment, and the date on which the booking was made. This will enable me to run a query to find out for example what equipment any employee has used or what equipment is currently in a certain van and so forthDesign section 4 Identification of storage requirements and media Development hardware I can design my system on any hardware running Microsoft Windows 95 or later and that is capable of running Microsoft gate at speed. I do not require any special specific hardware for designing my database. End-user hardware The end user already has hardware capable of running my database and all the staff are old(prenominal) with Microsoft based course of instructions. Development software I will design the database in Microsoft Access as this is very flexible and powerful enough to insure all or the required tasksEnd-user software The end user will also have to use Microsoft Access as that is the only program that my database will run on I will design the database to be user friendly and limit access to all of its functions to try and prevent accidental damage to the system. Design section 5 Identification of qualified algorithms for data transformation Queries bigs Visual basic code Design section 6 identification of any validation required I have several excitant masks throughout my tables however no validations are needed.The input masks that ii have used are simply in attitude to ensure that the user is entering the correct information or at least information that is in the correct format. Design section 7 overall user interface design Here is a program of the layout of my main menu Design section 8 Sample of plotted data capture and entry (e. g. forms Design section 9 exempla r of planned data validation Design section 8 Description of record/database structure & normalisation Normalisation Tables design Design section 11 Sample of planned valid output (e. g. reports).I will produce reports based on queries related to different things however the format will remain the same. Below is an example of what a report would look like if the user queried for what equipment an employee has recently used Design section 12 Database design including relations, opposed keys, and primary keys. Entity-relationship diagram List and describe all relations separately 1. There is a one to many relationship from Equipment ID in the Equipment table to Equipment ID in the booking table. This enables there to be many pieces of equipment logged in the bookings table.2. There is a one to many relationship from Employee ID in the Employees table to Employee ID in the Bookings table. This enables there to be many employees listed in the bookings table of that one employee can have many bookings. Indicate all primary and foreign keys for each table TblEquipments primary key is Equipment ID and it contains no foreign keys TblBookings primary key is Booking ID and it contains Equipment ID and Employee ID as foreign keys TblVehicles primary key is Vehicle ID and it contains no foreign keysTblEmployees primary key is Employee ID and it contains no foreign keys Design section 13 Planned measures for security and integrity of data Design section 14 Planned measures for systems security Design section 15 Overall test strategy Project stage 3 Technical solution Project stage 4 System testing Test section 1- Design of test plan & strategy Test section 2 Minimal test data Test section 3 anticipate results for typical test data Test section 4 preposterous data (Check forms reject invalid data) Test section 5 evaluate results for extreme data.Check that data just within range is original and stored Check that calculations using extreme data works Test se ction 6 Hard copy of representative samples of test runs Project stage 5 criminal maintenance Maintenance section 1 System overview Maintenance section 2 Summary of features used Maintenance section 3 -Sample of detailed algorithm design using a recognised methodology Maintenance section 4 Annotated listings of program code, macro code & orient Maintenance section 5 Screenshots (Mainly from design view) Table screenshots.Reports screenshots Query screenshots Macros screenshots Visual basic code Maintenance section 6 List/description of package items developed Project stage 6 user manual User manual Brief introduction User manual Samples of actual screen displays in situ User manual Samples of error messages and/or error recovery procedures Project stage 7 estimate Appraisal section 1 Comparison of project performance against objectives military rank of end-user requirements Evaluation of the qualitative criteria Evaluation of the quantitative criteria.

Let your life speak Essay

Questions for ReflectionDuring which moments/activities do you feel more or less alive?What be your feelings close to close to matchless doing the proper social function for the wrong reason?In what ways do you go tabu from graven image?What kinds of things most drain you? Stress you?What activities give you the space to invent on what is going on in cipher you? How oft do you do them?Consider the aphorism Your greatest strength derriere also be your greatest weakness. What is the partnership amidst your strengths and your limits? Suggested employmentPray by with(predicate) St. Ignatius suppliant of Examen.See www.marshill.org/groups/hc/ Select the link titled Prayer of Examen in the Practices section.Parker PalmerLet Your life-time announceChapter 2-Now I Become MyselfQuotes to conceive of or soWhat a enormous time it can take to catch the soul wizard has always been. How practically in the process we m consume ourselves in faces that atomic number 18 non our admit p. 9. We ourselves, driven by fear, in like manner often betray true self to gain the approval of early(a)s p. 12. that inspected through the lens of paradox, my desire to become an aviator and an advertiser contain clues to the core of true selfclues, by explanation, atomic number 18 coded and mustiness be rewrite p. 13.If you seek vocation without under lasting the material you atomic number 18 working with, what you launch with your invigoration leave behind be ungainly and whitethorn well abrogateow lives in peril, your sustain and both(prenominal) of those around you p. 16.In the tradition of transithardships be seen non as accidental unless as intact to the trip itself p. 18.I saw that as an organizer I had neer stopped being a t each(prenominal)er-I was tho teaching in a classroom without walls. Make me a cleric or a CEO, a poet or a politico, and teaching is what I will do p. 21. throng equal me be raised to live autonomously, non i nterdependently. I had been skilful to compete and win, and I had developed a taste for the prizes p. 22. Be suffice I could non acknowledge my fear, I had to disguise it asthe white horse of perspicacity and self-righteousness p. 28.Self care is never a selfish act-it is simply advantageously stewardship of the yet feed I have, the establish I was put on the earth to offer to others p. 30. They decide no longer to act on the outside in a way that contradicts both(prenominal) truth just most themselves that they hold out deeply on the inside p. 32. Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous some are heroic, and some are imposing and muddled. But e precise journey, h whizzstly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the conceptions deep motive p. 36.Questions for reflectionWhat role does gaining the approval of others play in how you live your behavior? As Palmer recalls his childhood, he is qualified to uncover cl ues to his true self. Parents, siblings, and even spo designs are great offsets of information to find out what you were like when you were younger.What were your childhood fascinations? Were you an artist? Were you building forts in the woods? What sorts of things held your attention? Are there connections amid the things that fascinated you then and the life that you want to live now?Half-truths go hand in hand with fear. In our fear, it is much easier to go to at another(prenominal) person, institution, or situation and point out shortcomings than it is to look at our possess. Fear may motivate us to do the right thing for the wrong reasons.What are some of the fears that trigger you to lash out at others? Palmer says that self care is good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift that I was placed on earth to offer others. He goes on to say that a lack of self care hurts not only the individual only others as well.What does self care look like for you? What restores y ou? What are the things in your life that refer your soul tired?Who are the Martin Luther King Jr.s, the Rosa Parks, and Gandhis of yourlife? Who are the heap that you admire so much that you seek to model aspects of your life after them? why these people?Learning who you are doesnt simply destine make up whizzs minding your strengths tho also your limitations. Who are you? is a very b pathway and difficult question to answer. I may not be able to see you who I am, but Ive got a list of stories to tell you who I am notFinish the sentence I could never_____ its just not me. Suggested ActivityPalmer says that clues are coded and must be deciphered. good turn a blank sheet of paper on its side and mystify a straight airwave from the left side to the right side. The line will serve as a chronological timeline of your life from consume until now. Place significant experiences and events that have shaped who you are today on the timeline. Examples family of origin, deaths, bir ths, school and work experiences, relationships, spiritual journey, great moments of joy, or great moments of sadness. allot time to share with one another closely what is on your timeline and wherefore it is significant.Parker PalmerLet Your Life SpeakChapter 3-When Way ClosesQuotes to signify about there is as much guidance in what does not and cannot glide by in my life as there is in what can and does-maybe more p. 39.If you are like me and dont readily admit your limits, embarrassment may be the only way to get your attention p. 42.As Americanswe tolerate the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our livesWe dissent to take no for an answer p. 42.When I consistently refuse to take no for an answer, I miss the vital clues to my identity that lift when way closes-and I am more likely both to evanesce my limits and to do harm to others in the process p. 43. on that point are some roles and relationships in which we thrive and others inwhich we wither and die p. 44.It took me a long time to understand that although everyone directs to be loved, I cannot be the source of that gift to everyone who asks me for it p. 48. When I give something I do not possess, I give a false and dangerous gift, a gift that looks like love but is, in reality, loveless-a gift given more from my command to prove myself than from the others need to be cared for p. 48.Our strongest gifts are ordinarily those we are barely awake of possessing. They are a part of our deity given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing p. 52.Limitations and liabilities are the flip side of our giftsa exceptional weakness is the inevitable trade-off for a particular strength. We will become better teachers not by trying to necessitate the potholes in our souls but by knowing them so well that we can avoid falling into them p. 52.If we are to live our li ves fully and well, we must learn to embrace the opposites, to live in a creative tension between our limits and our potentials. We must honor our limitations in ways that do not gloss our nature, and we must trust and use our gifts in ways that fulfill the potentials graven image gave us p. 55. Questions for reflectionCan you identify a moment in your life when perfection used a closed door kind of of an open door to guide your life in the direction it mandatory to go? Discuss your experience.Palmer says that embarrassment is sometimes the only way we become aware of our limitations. Identify and discuss an embarrassing moment that helped you become aware of your limitations.How does humor get used to avoid fresheting with our shortcomings? In American culture, weaknesses and limitations are often viewed as things that need to be turned into strengths. Palmer seems to make out that in trying to turn our weaknesses into strengths we become something that we are not and end up living outside of ourselves. How does the idea that weaknesses should be identified and esteemed rather than turned into strengths strike you? If our strongest gifts are usually the ones that we are most unconscious(predicate) of, what typesof things do people tell you are your strengths that you feel unaware of? Suggested ActivityIdentify and write down two recent moments in your life. 1. A moment when things went so well that you tangle confident that you were innate(p) to do whatever you were doing at the time. 2. A moment when something went so poorly that you never valued to repeat the experience again.Break into groups of two or three people and share these moments. In the groups, begin by service of process one another see the strengths that made the great moment possible. after(prenominal) doing that, reflect with one another about the moment that went poorly. Instead of go critiques, think about the strengths discussed in the first moment. Knowing that our strength s and weaknesses are often opposites, help each other identify if there is a connection between the strength of the first moment and the weakness of the second moment. How are they two sides of the same coin?When everyone has finished gather back unitedly as one group and discuss what you discovered.Parker PalmerLet Your Life SpeakChapter 4 All the Way Down*Before your discussion of chapter 4, it is very serious to lay a framework for your discussion. Anytime people are discussing their brokenness, it must be done in a place of safety and confidentiality. admit the group to be attentive to not try to fix one another as you interact. If you sense this beginning to happen, remind everyone that you are not trying to fix one another but to help one another hear. Also, be sure to communicate how important it is that what is discussed remains confidential.Quotes to think aboutI had no choice but to write about my own deepest woundI rarely spoke to him about my own darkness even in his gracious heading, I felt too ashamed p. 57.Second, depression demands that we reject simplistic answers, bothreligious and scientific, and learn to embrace brain-teaser, something our culture resists p. 60.I do not like to let loose ungratefully of my visitors. They all blind drunkt well, and they were among the few who did not avoid me altogether p. 61. first is the last state of disconnection, not just between people but between ones mind and ones feelings. To be reminded of that disconnection only deepened my despair p. 62.I heard nothing beyond their opening words, because I knew they were peddling a falsehood no one can fully experience another persons mystery p. 62. One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another persons pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that persons mystery and chastisement p. 63.Functional atheism-saying pious words about Gods presence in our lives but believing, on the contrary, that nothing good is going to happen unless we make it happen p. 64.First, I had been trained as an intellectual not only to think-an activity I greatly value-but also to live largely in my head p. 67.I had to be forced underground beforehand I could understand that the way to God is not up but down p. 69.One of the most painful discoveries I made in the midst of the dark woods of depression was that a part of me wanted to stay depressed. As long as I clung to this living death, life became easier little was expected of me, certainly not serving others p. 71.Questions for reflectionIdentifying our wounds is a critical part of the in journey. Think back to the timeline you drew in the Chapter 2 activity. What are the wounds you have suffered?In what ways does shame cause you to hide who you are from others? Discuss the following statement Sometimes not having answers to some of lifes questions can be comforting. Do you accommodate? why or why not?Do you feel it is important to show up when others experience hardship ortragedy? Why or why not?Discuss Palmers suggestion that no one can fully experience another persons mystery and misery.How is the phrase I know exactly how you feel a positive statement between two people? How is it a interdict statement?How do you see functional atheism in the world around you? In your life? What does the way to God is down mean to you?Palmer says part of me wanted to stay depressed. Why do you think we hold onto our pain despite the fact that we want it to stop?Suggested Activity eat someone read line of descent 29-13.What can we learn about how demarcations friends respond in these few verses? Read demarcation 48 and then Job 135.What is Eliphaz suggesting about Job in 48? What can be learned from Jobs response in 135?Parker PalmerLet Your Life SpeakChapter 5-Leading from WithinQuotes to think aboutI lead by word and deed simply because I am here doing what I do. If you are also here, doing what you do, then you also exercise leadership of some sort p. 74.Why must we go in and down? Because as we do so, we will meet the darkness that we carry within ourselves-the ultimate shadows that we project onto other people. If we do not understand that the enemy is within, we will find a thousand ways of making someone out there into the enemy, becoming leaders who oppress rather than liberate others p. 80.But why would anybody want to take a journey of that sort, with its multiple difficulties and dangers? Everything in us cries out against it-which is why we externalize everything. It is so much easier to deal with the external world, to go along our lives manipulating materials and institutions and other people instead of dealing with our own souls p. 82.Why would anyone want to embark on the daunting inner journey about whichAnnie Dillard writes? Because there is no way out of ones inner life, so one had better get into it. On the inward and downward spiritual journey, the only way out is in and through p. 8 5.But extroversion sometimes develops as a way to get laid with self-doubt we plunge into external activity to prove that we are expensey-or simply to evade the question p. 86.the knowledge that identity does not depend on the role w e play or the power it gives us over others. It depends only on the simple fact that we are children of God, valued in and for ourselves p. 87.A few people found ways to be present to me without violating my souls integrity. Because they were not driven by their own fears, the fears that lead us either to fix or abandon each other p. 93.Questions for reflectionPalmer suggests that anyone who is alive is a leader. He broadens the typical definition of leadership to include things like family dynamics and relationships. Discuss your thoughts on this.What monsters do you need to ride all the way down? What mightiness that look like?What activities have you been part of in order to prove your worth or value? Palmer finishes the chapter by saying that it is possible for communities to be with one another in a way that is safe and honoring. What do you think makes communities feel unsafe?We are meant to support and journey with one another. What alternatives are there for journeying together beyond fixing or abandoning? Suggested ActivityRead Matthew 152,10, and 11.Have someone wrap an empty misfortune as you would a birthday or Christmas gift. Decorate the exterior with ribbons, bows, and other gift decorations.Set the gift in the middle of the room and ask people to make observations about the wrapping What can we tell about the person who wrapped the box based on the wrapping? afterwards several minutes of observation, have someone open thegift to undo the empty box. Jesus observes that the Pharisees are so concerned with the exterior that they drip what is inside. How is this true in our lives? Parker PalmerLet Your Life SpeakChapter 6-There Is a gentleQuotes to think aboutAnimated by the imagination, one of the most vital p owers we possess, our metaphors often become reality, transmuting themselves from language into the living of our lives p. 96.We do not conceptualize that we grow our lives-we believe that we make them p. 97.We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed p. 97. In my own experience of autumn, I am rarely aware that seeds are being planted p. 98.In retrospect, I can see in my own life what I could not see at the time-how the parentage I lost helped me find work I needed to do, how the road closed sign turned me toward terrain I needed to travel, how losses that felt irredeemable forced me to discern meanings I needed to know p. 99.There is in all visible thingsa hidden wholeness p. 99. Until we take down boldly into the fears we most want to avoid, those fears will dominate our lives p. 103.If you receive a gift, you keep it alive not by clinging to it but by transient it alongIf we want to save our lives, we cannot cling to them but must spend them with a bandon p. 105.Authentic abundance does not lie in secured stockpiles of nutrition or cash or influence or affection but in belonging to a community where we can give those goods to others who need them-and receive them from others when we are in need p. 108.Community doesnt just create abundance-community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed p. 108.Questions for reflectionWhat season do you feel that you are currently in? Why?In your mind, what is the weirdest most obscure sentient being in all of Gods good psychiatric hospital? Why do you suppose God is so detailed and extravagant with his creation?What things contribute to the loss of imagination?In what ways do you make your life rather than listen for what God desires to make of your life?God asks that his people join him in redeeming and restoring the world. How are you joining God to redeem and restore the world? Remember that God is about expound and extravagance. We can sometimes feel that the way we join God is trivial and insignificant compared to the way others do. But it isnt. God created you to be a gift to Him and to the world and you have something to offer. What is it?How is this process transforming you?The way of Jesus, which is the way of the cross, compels us to use our freedom and abundance for the attain of others. What does it look like for you to live for the benefit of others?What does it look like for your community?Suggested ActivityAfter discussing what it might look like for your community to live for the benefit of others, finish by retentiveness hands in a circle and reciting the Lords Prayer. Matthew 69-13.

Absent Character in Susan Glaspell

Susan Clasped Is at her best when she uses the medium of the force field In holy entrap to discuss the politics of sex, the position of wo manpower bound by the companionable and gender conventions in a male dominant society, independence of speech, womans identity and the life in womans rights. The guile of one abstracted grammatical case serves more than well to this purpose in one of Scalpels bids, Trifles. The absent heroine controls the follow by means of mechanism and raises several of the essence(predicate) issues along the focal point.It forces us, the readers, to be engaged more actively and to consider alone the clues that the absent heroine had left for us. In this case, the absence seizure of the snapper protagonist helps Clasped deal with the personal space of her female fictitious characters. This Is where Scalpels skills as a dramatist come to surface. In her other run across, The Inheritors, Clasped uses the same device to young attention to other issues of equal enormousness. She focuses on what it means to be an Ameri sess, how good deal differently perceive historical hithertots and for what reasons.In both of these plays, her device of the absent character fully engages the reader and at the same time successfully communicates Scalpels ideas. Susan Scalpels Trifles tackles gender roles and the separate spheres in which workforce and women operate, and exposes oppression and maltreatment of women in the betimes 20th century America. It also explores sympathy and sisterhood in the get reach of a conglomerate moral dilemma on approaching the truth. The exploit of the play revolves around solving the murder.What is interesting about the play, however, is that the key characters, Mr.. And Mrs.. Wright never appear on the form, which is a trademark of Scalpels plays. Although Mrs.. Wright is non physically dumbfound in the play, her existence is felt and touched upon and will prove to fix an important role for th e letment of the action in the play. Traces of the unfinished pull in of Mrs.. Wright and all the other lucubrate present at the crime picture will help two other women of the play to get an perspicacity into Mrs..Wrights state of mind, which will turn out to be of racial impressiveness for discovering the source and thus solving the murder. It is by her absence in the play that the women nonice all the trifles and that the men at the end of the play ( ) endure no more than at the beginning. How is it that we come to know so rattling much about Mrs.. Wright although she is virtually not present in the play? commencement exercise of all, her personal items help us reflect on her life as well as on the circumstances that led her to kill her husband.Interpreting all the clues that Minnie Foster left around the house, the women come to the conclusion that her marriage prided her of happiness, life paper and Joy, and transformed her into a completely different woman. We a lso come to a conclusion that Minnie was not alone, that there were m any(prenominal) women who were dealing with the same problems, alone. Moreover, the two women in the play realize that they, too, share Minces destiny. Consequently, the women are faced with a moral dilemma in having to make a decision whether to set off what they had found out and send Mrs..Wright to prison for the crime she did commit. This is where the idea of the sisterhood comes to life. Among other indications, it is Minces bird and the cage that help us realize that she was leading(a) a life in captivity. The importance of the bird involves several issues. early of all, it is a clue to solving the murder, because the strangled bird provided a motive for it. Mrs.. Hale concludes that it was Mr.. Wright who strangled the bird because he was irritated by its song.The bird and Minnie stand for beauty and life and the cage stands for Minces married life, and we do not need Minnie on stage in order to realize that. Her very absence helps the two women to take notice of the bird, perceive its importance to Mrs.. Wright and bring up themselves with her. Besides the bird and the cage, Mrs.. Peters and Mrs.. Hale keep an eye on few other things such as an unfinished quilt which represented her nervous state of mind, and find out that Minnie was a victim of domestic isolation. In this appearance, the author creates a bond between her female characters.The absence of Minnie serves several other purposes. It portrays the way in which men from the play approach the investigation and the very way they perceive women. Starting from her husband, neither of the men seems to experience Minnie. The three men performing the role of the investigators fail to see the complexity of the situation and the importance of insight into Minces psychological condition which proves to be important for solving the details of her house since the men dont share her context. The absence of the character of Minni e therefore, demonstrates the immorality and the measly in separate spheres, and the unjust treatment of women. Moreover, Clasped uses this device in order to show the ability of Mrs.. Peters and Mrs.. Hale to find out the true story of Minnie Wrights life by obviously displaying Minces everyday object and ere personal space, in this case, the kitchen. Ben-Xvi touches upon one other important issue which is high set downed by Minces absent character.Although absent from the stage, the character of Minnie Wright functions not Just as a consort that holds the action of the entire play together, entirely also as a link to the lives of the other two female characters. Linda Ben-Xvi points out Clasped depicts inarticulate power of women to visualise the shared experiences of other women unstructured by language, but nevertheless communicated with mutually shared pain. One of the central themes of the play, the shared experience, enables women to develop and nourish mutual trust an d understanding and defines how they struggle together against conventions.It is the juncture of Minnie that is echoed through the house and the play that enables women to realize this important notion. By introducing the dramatic technique of keeping the protagonist off the stage, Clasped invites the audience on a quest to truth through dialogue and actions of the characters that remain on stage. Moreover, she starts her play after a death, wishing for her audience to experience a naked kind of a Journey. Her playInheritors, on the other hand, is one of Scalpels most veritable responses to the American identity crisis and the concern by the isolationist and xenophobic form _or_ system of government of President Wilson whose anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist laws, the Espionage and Sedition Acts, were devised to protect war-time morale by curbing any political dissent. In this three-act play set in the American Midwest, Clasped uses the device of the absent character but this t ime applied to the intrinsic American population in order to express these ideas.Similar to Trifles, absent primeval Americans function on overall levels and serve several important purposes. With the two-layered temporal structure of the play, Clasped explores the construction of an American ethos. By keeping the Native Americans off the stage, Clasped tackles misconceptions that do not only concern women Native Americans were also victims of injustice and degradation. This attitude is best expressed in Smiths prejudiced misconceptions l crack you believe the saying that the only good Indian is a asleep(predicate) Indian. Smith expresses the attitude of many another(prenominal) other white Americans who were ignorant regarding successor own historical and who in their oversimplified vision of the war saw the Indians as bad and the white settlers and soldiers as good. Smith is also ignorant because he believes that the American government paid a good compensation to the India ns for their knowledge base gran But poor old Blackjack-?what he didnt know was how many white man there was. After the war-?when he was beaten but not conquered in his heart-?they took him east-?Washington, Philadelphia, New York-?and when he saw the white mans cities-?it was a different Indian came back.He Just let his heart break without bit a hand. SMITH But we paid them for their lands. (she looks at him) Paid them something. GRANDMOTHER Something. For fifteen million acres of and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents, we promised to deliver each year goods to the value of one thousand dollars. Not a fancy price-?even for them days. The portrayal of Black Hawk by Grandma Morton does not have with the picture Smith had in his mind about the Indians. He does not know that Black Hawk was a prisoner of war displayed end-to-end the USA in order to entertain the population.In this aspect Clasped is rather courageous because, under the government legislation, she loud have been a ccused of anti- field of studyism allegedly displayed in her play. Native Americans never appear on stage, they are alive through the words of the white settlers who knew them, in this case, naan Morton and later her son Sills. Nellie Hernandez-Real believes that the fact that no Native American characters appear on stage corresponds to Scalpels watch that they have been removed from the American landscape. Inline Jove further suggests that the Whites conquered the West and erased the Indians from the American sight and that by adopting the treated of the absent character, the playwright literalism the metaphor Through Grandmother Morons affectionate evocation of the Indian Chief and the references to the injustices Indians endured, Clasped presents her spectators another version of their national past and also empathizes that, in spite of their actual removal and erasure from the American landscape, Native Americans as well as women can think some visibility through oral tra dition.Grandmothers version stems from life, real experience, and not from books or official governmental documents written to arouse the loyalty of the countrys inhabitants. ) By reviving the past, Clasped aims to keep social reminiscence alive in order to preserve the ties that cement the community, the Nation. By restoring the primacy of autobiographical memories over history, Clasped also shows that the past should not be reduced to a series of sterile stereotypes.The complex nature of the past is to be passed on from one generation to the next, wanted as the gift of knowledge which, contrary to the ignorance that breeds intolerance, favors cohabitation, that is living together as a Nation. Through the role of the absent character of Native Americans, Clasped subtly questions the guiding principles underlying the foundation of the United States of America that all men are created equal, and that they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.Clasped infers th at the observe of these principles is essential if people want to live together as a Nation and that the cultural differences of each member of the community should be taken into account. Moreover, Clasped subtly removes a comparative line between the whites and the Indians in a time when Darnings theories were used to Justify the inferiority of the Indians. She does this wrought Grandmother Morton who observes that she discover something of the same nature in white folk, regarding the attitude towards land, which allows Clasped to infer that the Native Americans and the Whites are similar in nature.Although Native Americans are not present on stage, the white people who knew them help us understand their situation better and also enable Clasped to draw some of the ripple with her husband about how the Indians and the white men could live together and that share-out the same land is indeed possible. We can conclude that Scalpels theatrical device of the absent character functio ns n several levels in Trifles. First of all, the absence of Minnie helps Mrs.. Peters and Mrs.. Hales feel empathy towards her to such an extent that they are willing to hide the rise from their husbands.On the other hand, they recognize in Minnie their own position in the social system of the time. The absent Minnie found a way out of her oppression by killing her husband and shortly regained her independence. At the same time, she brought to light the dilemmas of women who live in a situation similar to hers. Furthermore, according to Linda Ben-Xvi, Trifles becomes an important vehicle that brings real-life events closer to drama. In her whimsy, Clasped even contributed to the shaping of public opinion about a woman being tried.Inheritors, on the other hand, functions as well as but has a different agenda Theatre is the art that can give flesh to the past. As a collective experience, theatre seems to be one of the most adequate forms of art to rekindle collective memory since it makes the past alive in the present of the audience who are invited to outgo the world of fiction and consider to what extent the issues raised on stage can be related to their social reality. Like the philosopher, the playwright calls upon ere readers and spectators to draw lessons from the past and act in accordance in the present in the name of Justice.

Coca-Cola in Brazil

1920s and 30s International expansion The Company began a major relate to establish bottling operations outside the U. S. Plants were opened in France, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Belgium, Italy, Peru, Spain, Australia and South Africa. On May 8, 1886, a pharmacist named Dr. John Pemberton carried a jug of Coca- booby syrup to Jacobs Pharmacy in downtown Atlanta, where it was mixed with carbonated water and change for five cents a glass. In 1942 Coca-Cola entered the brazilian market. ? Brazil is Coca Colas third largest operation and second largest international market. ? Low add up consumption (144 bottles/p/y) USA (462 bottles/p/y) ? Mexico (402 bottles/p/y) ? low favorableness market ? 20th position ? ? ? ? ? ? From 1986 to cc3 nonalcoholic drink consumption AVG one-year growth of 13. 92%. ? Per Capita Consumption of aristocratic Drink in Brazil has increased by average rate of 17. 37% per year. Highly rivalrous market ? AmBev main competitor with 17% market sh are. It partnered with Pepsi increasing sales profitability. ? Other competitors have an average market share of 33,5% (within these, there are illegal manufacturers operating without permissions and without paying taxes). More than 3500 brands of soft drink in Brazil.More than 700 plants in 2004. Difficulty to reach rural communities. POS consumption. ? ? ? ? ? Cola was the Brazilian favored flavor (41. 8%) followed by Guarana (23. 9%) and Orange (11. 4%). Soft drinks were sold in variety of containers made of glass, PET and aluminum, having capacities that varied from 200 ml to 2. 5 liters. The most favourite advancement is the disposable bottle from 2 to 2,5 litres with a total percentage average consumption of 72. 88*. Average sales growth rate in brazil amongst 1986-2003 in parcentage 5,74 Consumers cares about price, flavor and quality, without being influeced by brand name.Poor diffusion channels. ? Only 25% of soda sales are done supermarkets. ? scarcity of vending machine s. A- B C D-E ?Most sophisticated class. ?They have the highest take aims of income and training ? Typical worker ?Lack purchasing power ? Low/ philia class ?Struggle to afford basic ? Compromise 12,6 million goods & serve households ? 28% of total national consumption ? ? ? ? ? ? Worldwide top know brand. Distribution network (9000 vehicles). High quality produces. Wide product mix. handsome market share. Large scale of operations. ? Poor distribution network in rural areas Investment reduction in media and advertising in 67% of product categories ?The price of Coca-Cola is higher than that of competitors ? Price cutting strategy has imprint only on market share and not on profitability ? Develop a much accurate distribution network in rural areas. ? Expanding product range (Guarana). ? Partnership/acquisition with local anaesthetic brands. ? Sponsoring to a greater extent social events (Rio 2016) and contribute to social development. ? Coming up with more(prenominal) eco nomical promotion. ? Leveraging class C. ? Consumer behavior strong price consciusness and low level of loyalty ? Intense competition. B brands competiting illegally (no legal existence hence not paying taxes) ? High threat of new entrants (ex. RC Cola) ? High cracking of demand ? Expanding the output of the companys product (Guarana Kuat) planting 200ha of Guarana Pros they secured the 11% Guarana market in Brazil. Pros they allowed to reach a constitute benefit authoritative the supply and quality of raw materials. ? Venture into Tubainas territory Pros acquisition and engine block of new competitors. Cons acquiring a competitor does not signify securing from its time to come actions. ? Price cutting from $0,65 to 0,45 ? -30%Cons negative effect on profitability. ? Buying arse franchise operations Pros market share back from 48% to 50%. Cons negative effect on profitability. ? Partnership with Norsa Pros market share from 42% in 2002 to 44,5% in 2003 and increasing operati onal profits by 40%, thus implies Tobainass market share dropping by 4%. ? Sponsoring national events (mostly Rio de Janeiro Carnival) Pros dissemination of brand awareness. ? Renovation of the companys plants Pros more effective and efficient operations. ?introducing returnable glass bottle Pros reducing cost of packaging. Strenghten its position in the south-east of Brazil widening its distribution network. ? keep on going on strategic partnerships with local competitors. ? Extend the existing product range and effectively advertise and market it. ? Use different types of packaging to arrive to customers thus increasing their demand ? introduce limited changeation bottles maitaining the same price. ? Make the company organization and asset structure more flexible in order to better respond to an high rivalrous and fast changing environment. ? Increase promotional activities in order to date price competition and improve the peirceived quality for the products.Achieve operatio nal efficiency through economies of scale. ? Exacerbate legal actions against B brands. ? Acquire or build articulatio Ventures with Brazilian companies for exploiting their local knowledge. ? To be more involved in the local distribution, concentrating on the positioning of the products in the shelves. ? To better understand the customers needs and to adapt to local tastes. ? Make the customers understand that they are paying a gift price for a higher quality of products, and not because of the high promotion and advertising expenses.