Half of a Yellow Sun

I spent one year training at Ginásio Clube Português which is located near a refined square where a beautiful garden stands. My ping pong teacher took me and two other colleagues into somewhere in a white Renault 4; later I met Canina there at the football field. I have met two Canina´s. Canina means a boy which is short in analogy into dogs. The first Canina scored a good goal at my elementary school while the second was traped in our high school though he could fought back and around 1995…

Chapter-1 Introduction Plantains and banana constitute the fourth most important global food commodity (after rice, wheat and maize) grown in more than 120 countries over a harvested area of approximately 10 million hectares. The annual production of banana is about 88 million tonnes (Frison and Sharrock, 1999). It is the crop in superior position due…

respect, the younger two waited for the oldest bruja, Geralda with her hip-length white hair floating around her shoulders, to lower her elfin self onto a flattened rock. Even though the most aged, Geralda’s wicked magic exerted a violence seen in women half her age. With hardly a furrow on her brow, her powers burned white hot. A flick of her right index finger and boulders exploded, leaving nothing but a neat little cone-shaped pile of dust. What she could do to flesh and blood was beyond…

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The service provided in McDonald’s Singapore is reliable. They are accurately delivered, and they are dependable. The service and service providers are responsiveness. The service providers in McDonald’s Singapore all have the willingness to assist customers whenever they need help, and they provide timely service. Assurance is the third servqual dimension. Assurance combines a number of things to ensure assurance is achieved. Competence is one where the employees at McDonald’s Singapore posses…

Gold margins are standardized because of adornment+ investment factor. However, quest for greater margins is driving diversification from gold jewellery products. Demand for gold jewellery remains very strong because of cultural traditions, Gold jewellery sales - for weddings, in particular - will continue to generate volume growth for jewellery retailers. Platinum and diamond jewellery sales will generate margin growth. The shift to more profitable diamond jewellery has been smooth because…

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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…