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“Yep.” “So why do you look like your heart is breaking?” Damon grimaces at the soft question. Ric continues, strangely encouraged by the mildly angsty display. “I’m lost, too, you know? Feel like I’ve forgotten something important, but I know it’s just…you.” The vampire’s expression softens and is replaced with a curious moue. He closes the gap between them, moving close enough to touch, but carefully avoids contact. “You don’t see anything at all? You’re sure it’s gone.” “Pretty sure, yeah.…

music they are listening too is a trend and they all sound the same. First of all, the Music Industry is a monopoly. There are three companies that own most of the radio stations in the US: EMMIS, Radio One and Clear Channel. Also, there’s four major labels that…

Girl on Fire “She’s just a girl, and she’s on fire...” The song keeps echoing again and again in my brain is “Girl on Fire” by Alicia Keys. I bet you are not new to this song as it peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 100 chart, and with the impressive performance by Angelica Hale these days, it goes viral again. I first listened to it was five years ago when I was still in Hong Kong. Perhaps I did not have much life experience at the moment and I was taking care well by my parents, the song…

Don’t you just hate all the fakes out there? All the fake friends, or fake promises. What about the fake voices? I’m not talking about when people say things that aren't true, I’m talking about the people out there that are making thousands off of being fake. Autotune has completely taken over the music culture today and I have a problem with that. Over 90% of artists today use or have used autotune in some capacity. Why is it we are taught not to be fake all our lives and then turn around and…

With certain people, Hamlet is resolved to get revenge for his father’s death. With other people, this thought is the last thought in his mind. If he had any of the resolve he had showed earlier, his act of revenge would have already been completed. Instead of playing the part of the vengeful son, or dropping the issue entirely, he spends the entire act “slacking off';. He avoids the decision he has to make and pretends to be mad. This is shown when he says to Rosencrantz and…

Introduction The story of K-Mart began in 1897, when a man by the name of Sebastian Spering Kresge had the idea to open up a discount store in the heart of Detroit and form a partnership with a man by the name of John McCrory. This whole idea of offering goods and products to customers at discounted rates changed the ideas of retail in a way that was never seen before. It was two years after this partnership began, that it also ended in which Kresege took over, entitling these Detroit stores…

stores spread out across 32 states, including Trader Joe’s units, and it employs over 18,000 people, which makes it the 25th largest grocer in the country by store numbers and employee roster (MENA Report, 2013). Aldi sells a wide range of private label and branded household items, including food and non-food products, such as vegetables, dairy products, fresh fruits, meat, toilet roll, and sanitary items among others (Canadean, 2015; Steen & Lane, 2015). Private labeling is the deliberate…

strategies is through the emergence of private-label brands. While such brands used to carry an associated image of low-cost, low-quality alternatives, “[today’s] perceptions [on] private label are overwhelmingly favorable” (“The State of Private Label Around the World,” 2014, p. 4). Studies have shown that 67% of consumers believe that they receive extremely good value for their money when purchasing private-label products (“The State of Private Label Around the World,” 2014, p. 4). With the…

Some of the driving forces of change in the discount/variety store industry are gaining new customers and retaining frequent customers. Dollar General accomplishes this by offering low prices and convenient locations and easy to shop store formats. Frequent customers are retained because they save money. Another driving force of change is the digital revolution. Dollar General offers customers DG Digital Coupon program to more than 11,300 stores across 40 states (Dollar General News Center,…

meet the lifestyle expectations of millennials (Grewal & Levy, 2014). To keep up with the demands of the largest target market, retailers like Walmart are utilizing their financial capacity and store-front space to expand and develop their private-label brands (Grewal…