Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Ethiopia is something of an outlier in modern African history in that it was largely spared from European colonization in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some have ascribed this anomaly to the strength of the Ethiopian state compared to other African polities, the difficulty of the geography, and the ineptitude of the Italians as a colonial power, and while there is some element of truth to these statements, the crux of Ethiopia success lies elsewhere. What ultimately spared Ethiopia from…

redemption, proving Doerr’s larger point that there is “light we cannot see” in all of us. Wartime affiliation falls away as Werner, trapped and starving in the basement of the Hotel of Bees in Saint-Malo, hears Marie-Laure reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea through the radio- the purity in her storytelling drawing him back to the moral words of Jutta. When Werner hears her hiss that the German Sergeant is on the floor below the attic before “the broadcast cuts out” (393)- putting out…

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in Italy in 1922 greatly fueled this feeling. At first, Mussolini veiled his true intentions about Ethiopia, to colonize Ethiopia like they did with neighboring Somalia, and today’s Eritrea. As a result when Ethiopia was seeking admission to the League of Nations in the 1920s it appeared like Italy was one of their main supporters. For instance, during his European tour in 1924, Emperor Haile Selassie was welcomed very enthusiastically in Italy with shouts of “Viva Ethiopia! Viva Tafari!”.…

had shouted at the top of her voice for the execution of people whose names she had never heard and in whose supposed crimes she had not the faintest belief. When public trials were happening she had taken her place in the detachments from the Youth League who surrounded the courts from morning to night, chanting at intervals 'Death to the traitors!' During the Two Minutes Hate she always excelled all others in shouting insults at Goldstein. Yet she had only the dimmest idea of who Goldstein was…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…

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…