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Megan Meier was a 13 year old teenager living in Missouri. Meier wasn’t enjoying a normal teenage life filled with friends. Instead, Meier battled loneliness and depression because she was obese and for years had tried to lose weight. She also had attention deficit disorder. Meier’s dark and depressed days were finally over when she made a friend through her MySpace account named Josh. Josh was the most friendly, and cute boy she ever met. Moreover, he was the first boy who called her pretty. As…

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Career Coach – Autobiography – GEB 3035 Sadok Hasan 1. Family Background. I was born in Baghdad, Iraq to a humble family of 5 – in the heart of the second Gulf War. I spent only my infant years there as my family struggled to get by. My dad had his own computer business while my mom stayed home to take care of the kids. I think inevitably my parents wanted to leave their home country with their kids one day, but it was made apparent when Saddam Hussein’s army stole my father from our house and…

“Christians need to be loving… Christians should be living witnesses.” Those were two sentences I heard on the drive to the restaurant with a christian family friend. This family friend seemed to genuinely care about the lost people of this world, and more importantly the condition of their salvation. Or at least I thought so. Upon arriving to the restaurant, just as we were beginning to eat, a “gay looking” man simply minding his own business passed by our table to join his friends. Immediately…

Don’t look for happiness, create it Written by Alecsandra Plavan “I looked around me, all my friends seemed to have found happiness, whether it was their dream job, travelling the world or starting a new family. I lay awake all night long, trying to figure out what I am doing wrong, why I feel so lost and why my life lacked so much direction. Little did I know that instead of spending countless sleepless nights trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, I should have focused on what I wasn’t…

In the late '80s I consulted with a small regional coffee roaster in Southwestern Colorado. Coffee as a global obsession hadn 't yet begun. The most useful fact to put this time in perspective is that Starbucks only owned 55 stores. The term coffee shop was then still synonymous with diner. Fast forward to 2009: Starbucks now owns more than 14,000 stores and coffee shop culture has been redefined numerous times. Generally a good coffee shop features coffee and espresso as the centerpiece of…

1. How was Starbucks able to take a commodity product and successfully differentiate it to the point where customers would pay seemingly high prices to obtain it? Starbucks is a popular retail which focuses on quality; its products are considered to be of high quality and value to consumers. Starbucks has used this to differentiate its products from that of competitors, the company also uses it to apply value-based pricing to its product and in return consumers pays for it. Therefore, the…

Sometimes in life, we take a moment, or a place, or even just a person for granted. But we need to learn how to embrace every experience fully and completely. Each day, then, is a journey in discovering the value of the things we take for granted. These experiences teach us how we ought to live in the future. However, we tend to realize this when it is too late, because not everything in life lasts forever. No matter how much time has passed, these things that were taken for granted will still…

Starbucks is the global leader in the coffee house industry. With it primary market in the US, Starbucks hinges its competitive advantage on the quality of its products and services. In addition to a globally recognized brand, the company has achieved wide-ranging success in spite of the implementation of a premium pricing strategy. Although the company has diversified its coffee brands, specialization in coffee stands as a strength and weakness in the enterprise. However, based on the…

Revised April 7, 2003 Starbucks Corporation: Competing in a Global Market Starbucks Corporation is a Seattle, Washington-based coffee company. It buys, roasts, and sells whole bean specialty coffees and coffee drinks through an international chain of retail outlets. From its beginnings as a seller of packaged, premium specialty coffees, Starbucks has evolved into a firm known for its coffeehouses, where people can purchase beverages and food items as well as packaged whole bean and ground…