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    In the poem, My Papa’s Waltz, by Theodore Roethke is about a young man with emotions of fear and unconditional love for his father. The imperfections of his father has never seem to bother him instead he tried to make great memories out of it. This poem showed emotions of fear and love through word choice, imagery and metaphors. Theodore word choice brings mixed emotions into the poem and how boy feels towards his father. The words “death” (line 3) and “waltzing” (line 4) in the first quatrain…

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    What makes an organization “great” is the way they structure themselves with the goal that customer satisfaction is extremely important with how prosperous they want to be. A mission statement that they stand by also ensures that there is always a goal they’re trying to achieve. Having a very motivated group of individuals in the organization will make sure that they take care of the things necessary to become as successful as possible. Anyone that is employed at an organization has their own…

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    Fixing the objective is like identifying the star. The objective decides where we want to go, what we want to achieve and what is our goal or destination. 1. To study the customer perception & awareness towards the International brands. 2. To study the international Prada brands in the Indian Markets. 3. To know the main factor which motivates customer to buy international brands? 4. To know the main source of awareness in them about the international brands. 5. To study the influence of…

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    “We believed in our idea- a family park where parents and children could have fun together,” Walt Disney once said (Fanning 167). It is hard to believe that Walt Disney World was once just land. People’s ideas, thoughts, and actions helped Walt Disney World to become what it is today. Walt Disney World is known to most people as the “Most Magical Place on Earth.” There are many reasons why. The main reason is Walt Disney World transports you into a world where you can have fun with your family,…

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    there are policies prevented for the people’s security. For who try to do the research, they discover how the slavery time was terrible, especially when they figure out how the slaves’ transportation was like from where they were taken to the final destination. Of course without forgetting how they were treated…

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    hours as she tells me her story into the late night. She tells me about her trek to America. It was 1982 and Yen peered across her backyard to see a white boat floating on the murky water. She listened as her father told her directions to her destination. “Don’t get lost,” he said. His voice trembled as he tried not to cry. A tear fell down her mother’s cheek as she told her daughter, “Take care of yourself. I love you.” Yen hugged her parents as if she were a child again, hugging them tight…

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    born, or the day you came home from the hospital; but I do not remember a time or event in my life in which you and I were apart. You have always been there; like an annoying rashes we earned from playing outside in the sugar cane fields of Louisiana, you were always there. Every minute spent outside, playing video games, every jump shot taken, and every fist fight with the neighborhood bullies I was involved my right hand man, you. We were inseparable; if someone saw one of us, they saw both…

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    to stay so he could keep recovering, but when he heard the news, he decided to loyally follow his father into the march, despite his foot. Even though it caused Elie much pain, Elie still joined his father. He painfully recalls, “I had up my mind to accompany my father… Night had fallen. Everything was happening according to plan. The searchlights came on. Hundreds of SS appeared out of the darkness with police dogs. The snow continued to fall” (82,84). Night is when reality is more brutal. At…

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    As Durentha Hines watched her son walk across the stage to receive his bachelor’s degree. She was proud of his accomplishment, but the thought of her own dreams not being achieved crossed her mind. There was a feeling of selfishness because the day was to celebrate her son achievement, and she was thinking of herself at this moment. The dream of one day walking across the stage to receive her degree, and hearing her children give her praise seemed reachable. At that moment, she made a promise…

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    1) I have never chosen to read a nonfiction book on my own time because when I think nonfiction I oftentimes think of something boring and dry. The ones I have read have been strictly informational and in general very uninteresting. However, I am excited to read a biography as as of late there have been quite a few I have wanted to read and I think I will find them more interesting than what I traditionally associate with nonfiction books. 2) I am reading the memoir Let's Pretend This Never…

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