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    Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter is a coming of age narrative. Throughout the work, Pushkin illustrates many familial relationships surrounding the protagonist, Petr Andreevich Grinev. These relationships Pushkin creates in The Captain’s Daughter are beyond Petr’s mother and father, stretching into non-biological relationships that mimic the growth-fostering environments and experiences of the nuclear family. When considering Petr’s migration to Fort Belogorsk, these non-biological…

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    Anita Desai's first novel Cry, the Peacock (1963), is about Maya, a dissenting female who battles against three traditional forces in her life: male authority expressed by her husband; her female friends who play stereotypical submissive-wife roles; and her religion's beliefs in karma and detachment. Being over-sensitive, sentimental and imaginative Maya is a total contrast to the rational, logical, Gautam. By making a beautiful use of the symbolic technique, Anita Desai has delved deep into the…

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    multiple Romantic traits to write the personality of the character in “Rappaccini’s daughter”. The story happened in a small and limit space with only 4 major characters; in the story, Hawthorn constructs Rappaccini, Beatrice, Giovanni and Baglioni with many different Romantic traits. Innocence, the concern for hidden truth, the inexplicable, and the love of nature makes Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Rappaccini's Daughter” Romantic literature. Dr. Rappaccini, a genius doctor with the crazy…

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    Longitude by Dava Sobel is a book about how the first accurate clock for determining longitude was made. The book starts off by describing the longitude problem which is about how difficult it is to determine longitude at sea. In order to determine longitude, two clocks are needed, one from the home port and one based upon the local time of the ship. The difference in times allows for the longitude of the ship to be determined. However, it is very hard to make accurate clocks at sea due to the…

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    1995, by a mother and daughter team in the state of Virginia. The variety of crafts are produced from the family home and delivered based on the customer 's needs. July of 2014, there was a total of 1,500 customers and by June 2016, customers had tripled, leading the owners to look for a building that would accommodate their increase in customers. J Square Crafts also sell their products online. There are no employees, the business is owned and operated by a mother and daughter team, who…

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    More often than not, customers refuse to give employees the time of day and spurn to respect the clothes and the store. Many great skills will develop from working with difficult customers; due to the fact that there are more bad customers than goods ones, it is imperative that employees learn the types of bad customers and what to expect from them. The worst types of customers an employee will typically encounter at American Eagle are as follows: the neglected housewife, the mall rats, and the…

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    Rappaccini's Daughter

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    Though there are countless interpretations of the short story “Rappaccini's Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the most predominant is the parallelism to the Garden of Eden found in the Old Testament of the Bible. For example, the main character, Signor Giacomo Rappaccini, tends a beautiful garden full of lustrous colorful plants, much like God is the creator of the Garden of Eden. Similar to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the center of the garden contains a magnificent plant covered…

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    service. By display of suitable or unsuitable behaviour, the quality and effectiveness of the customer service relationship is determined. Customer service is provided before during and after the customers’ needs have been met. The requirements of a good customer service relationship are achieved through rapport building, engaging in active listening, having empathy, and showing respect.The Evidence to be presented has been taken from a scenario which was provided where an interview took place…

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    Every day when I clock into my job at Old Navy, I already know I’m going to be tired. During orientation My boss told me I was never going to get bored because every day was going to be different. My boss lied. Every day is about the same. Sure the people are different but, they all pretty much fit into the molds of their clones from yesterday. Day after day, after day, the customers make my life a living hell. When I first started, I loved my job. I was always happy to be there, at that drab…

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    His daughter was worried that he wasn’t going to be able to get access to food. In a panic she began to call multiple stores to see if they would deliver to her Father’s home. They all declined. Except one – Trader Joe’s. Given the dire situation, they agreed…

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