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The Response Rodger Crawford once said, “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” This quote is quite true in the non-fiction book Spare Parts by; Joshua Davis. Spare Parts is about four low class, undocumented teenagers within America, who beat the world’s best engineering university in a robotics competition. To deepen my thinking of the book, I attended an author presentation at NIACC. Spare Parts focused a great deal on immigration, education, confidence, and…

Fall of BlackBerry (RIM) and its marketing 1 – Introduction: BlackBerry Smartphone maker (RIM) was once a pioneer of Smartphone market but it’s in a deep trouble. Innovation and technological advancement in every field of life and marketing is the main reason behind fall of BlackBerry Smartphone maker (RIM) (Titcomb, 2016). Mainly this coursework is covering the fall of Blackberry Smartphone maker (RIM). BlackBerry is one of the biggest brands among Smartphone makers but for some reasons its…

As the United States grows in technology and cultures continue to mix, Americans are continuing to only focus on the big news, such as the newest iPad coming out or the violence going on around the country. J.D. Vance writes in his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, how little people know about his type of people yet how many people are just like them. He discusses how their daily life is, how it changes throughout his childhood to how he is still…

Introduction (Situation, Problem, Approach, Theme) John Updike’s story, A&P, takes place in a small, conservative New England town. The time of year is during the summer, sometime around 1960. Most of the story is set in a small, local A & P grocery store, where the narrator is the cashier. The narrator’s name is Sammy, and he is nineteen years old. When three girls in bathing suits enter the store, he watches them as they make their rounds through the aisles, judging them and making…

If you love playing video games, you need to make sure the gaming headset you purchase is comfortably non-intrusive. Comfort in a headset is vital and of course this is a very individual matter of taste. You need to consider the wearing style of your headset and whether or not you would prefer: a comfortable light weight on the ear a comfortable fit and feel around the ear perhaps you prefer to feel extreme comfort around the ear. When you are gaming, a large part of the pleasure of a game is…

One product that that comes to mind are Skittles. Introduced in 1979 (wrigley.com), Skittles are a chewy candy that come in 5 flavors, orange, grape, strawberry, lemon, and green apple. The colors of the candy represent the colors of the rainbow. Therefore, Skittles came up with the slogan "Taste The Rainbow". Today, skittles produce over 200 million candies a day and in 2010, Skittles eclipsed over 10 million followers on Facebook (wrigley.com). According to Bloomberg Business, Skittles…

1. Describe the Initiate's life before the Call Before the Call, the initiate, Ponyboy, is a 14 year old boy who lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darry. He lives in a society where the population is separated into two different gangs : the Socs (the rich kids from the West-side) and the Greasers (the kids from the East-side). The Socs are a very brutal gang that enjoy bullying and attaking the Greasers : "Not like the Socs [..] for kicks" (page 3). 2. The Call, where conflict is…

The release date for Like Mike the movie was released on July 3rd, 2002. Like Mike made a humungous profit, when it came down to their budget and the number of ticket sales they made. Their budget was $30,000,000 and the number of ticket sales or box office, was $51,432,760 rounding out to about an eleven million dollar profit. The production company that produced the film "Like Mike," was 20th Century Fox, which is known for some of the best movies. The main actors in "Like Mike," were Bow Wow,…

The society we are being raised in has shaped us into mindless, mechanical robots. Our opinions are being spoon-fed to us through forms of entertainment to the point where we can’t even think for ourselves anymore. Our status and our worth is based off of how many things you have. Not the measure of intelligence. Not the measure of creativity. The measure of our value is based on material things. Because of this belief that society has engraved in our brains, we all wait for the next best…

I went to visit these two stores on a Wednesday when I got off work between 5pm to 7pm. The two grocery stores I chose was: Super Foods: low end Earth Fare: high end I stay in a small city in Alabama, where the population is major over crowed. Just like any other city, the city is split into different selection like; North, East, South, West. From the luxury neighborhoods to the suburbs, to the nice neighborhoods to the “OK” neighborhoods to the low end neighborhoods. Super Foods is located, I…