Greasy Lake & Other Stories

another, but they also showed loyalty, love, humor and sympathy for each other. The people in this family are genetically bonded, but still try their best to tear each other down. Their evil engagements are partly due to their own misery, but also out of their distorted version of love. They divulge intimate information about their lives, and the lives of their family members, realizing that they truly never understood each other. In the unbearable August heat in Oklahoma, they’re a group of…

Real What goes around comes back around eventually. When will someone get what they deserve in life? How does someone earn what they get out of life? Who decide when enough is enough and someone has reach there breaking point in life? In the story “Sweat,” Zora Neale Hurston introduces several characters named: Delia Jones whom is a fighting to keep her home and sanity dealing while dealing with an abusive husband. “Sykes what you throw dat whip on me like dat?” Skye’s is Delia husband…

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Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…