The rewards of establishing a quality company are immense. Look at the growth, profitability and image of Marks & Spencer and British Airways through focusing on quality. Any company in any industry can follow their path and share their success provided its management is serious about meeting customer requirements. Total quality management is the route to creating a quality company and requires complete commitment and […]

English 1101 Social Commentary Essay The automobile has had a tremendous impact on society and the environment since its development in the beginning of the 20th century. Today, there are over 500 million motor vehicles on the earth. People enjoy their privacy and the convenience of an automobile. There are no schedules to keep track of. A person can come and go from a destination […]

In “Sonny’s Blues,” by James Baldwin, the two main characters, Sonny and the narrator, face many conflicts with each other. These conflicts all contribute and lead to the climax of the story, the scene in the narrator’s apartment. The first conflict between these two characters occurs after their mother dies when the narrator discovers Sonny’s dream to become a jazz piano player, which the narrator […]

The section “Factors motivating variation” of Chapter 2 of Introducing Sociolinguistics (Meyerhoff 2006) introduces four social factors that motivated people how to use language. Meyerhoff provides a rough introduction on these factors that would be discussed deeply in latter chapters. The first factor is speakers desire to show how to join in a group and separate from others. That means people use language to identify […]

For millions of years, the oceans have been filled with sounds from natural sources such as the squeaks, moans and clicks of whales and dolphins, the snapping of shrimp, the sound caused by wind upon the surface and even the occasional rumble from earthquakes. Over millions of years, the ocean’s marine species have developed into what they are today, with their own specialized acute hearing […]

The structure of your vegetable garden does not have to be entirely functional but it should also look and feel good. Building some decorative arches and some tomato cages not only makes your garden look good but also helps it produce more crops. After all, there is more to planting vegetable gardens than just cultivating a spot of land. Function Over Form The most well […]

Frances Hill’s book is not in a horror genre as what the first impression could be with regards to the title itself.  It is merely a collection of facts and stories untold, and an extension of a historical argument that is more terrifying than fictional horror stories.  Is the book A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trial still timely to […]

It was approaching midnight on a warm winter night, rare in medieval England, with the moon halfway on its journey towards fullness.  Rarer still was the tempest, an approaching storm that brought howling winds, crackling light bolts and ear piercing thunder to the winter night sky.  Isadore had never seen a thunder storm in the winter.  She had only heard tell of it once, the […]

Question Answer the trend towards worldwide markets makes it easier to predict where competitors will spring up. true or false? false because many countries are investing in countries other than their own, each country is becoming more autonomous and independent. true or false? false an advantage of international expansion is that competition within foreign countries is generally very similar to that of the US. true […]

Mary Kay vs. Maybelline Mary Kay has been one of America’s most trusted global names in skin care, makeup & body care for many years, as well as Maybelline cosmetics. Both provide America and the rest of the world with astonishing beauty products like make up, lip stick, and lip gloss. When American women and teenagers go out to buy their cosmetics, they are bombarded with different […]