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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Ernährungswissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Institut für Wirtschaftslehre des Haushalts und Verbrauchsforschung), Veranstaltung: Ökotrophologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Da immer mehr Mütter halb- oder ganztags arbeiten gehen, soll in Zukunft jedem Kind ein Platz in einer Kindertagesstätte (Kita) zustehen. Viele dieser Kinder werden in der Kita mit einer warmen Mittagsmahlzeit und Zwischenmahlzeiten versorgt. Daher spielt die Kita eine wichtige Rolle in der Entwicklung von Ernährungsgewohnheiten und kann dies als Chance nutzen, Grundbausteine für eine gesunde und nachhaltige Ernährungsweise zu legen.Da Kinder sich in einer körperlichen und geistigen Wachstumsphase befinden, ist eine optimale Versorgung mit Nährstoffen wichtig und es sollten ihnen vollwertige Lebensmittel zur Verfügung stehen. Doch auch das Wissen über Lebensmittel, zum Beispiel (z.B.) das Kennenlernen von Produktionsketten verschiedener Lebensmittel und was es bedeutet nachhaltige Lebensmittel zu konsumieren, sollte mehr gefördert werden. Viele Eltern wünschen sich zwar eine gesunde Ernährung für ihre Kinder, doch oft scheitert die Umsetzung einer Speiseplanumstellung auf Bio-Produkte an den befürchteten Mehrkosten (vgl. BLE und aid 2006, S. 5).Das Thema Bio-Lebensmittel wirft viele Fragen auf:- Machen Bio-Lebensmittel in Kitas Sinn - Welche Vor- und Nachteile haben Bio-Lebensmittel - Wie kann man sie im Speiseplan integrieren oder wie können Mehrkosten vermindert werden In der folgenden Hausarbeit sollen diese Fragen beantwortet werden. Im zweiten Kapitel wird die Kita in die Außer-Haus-Verpflegung eingeordnet. Anschließend (Kapitel 3) wird der biologische Landbau beschrieben, sowie seine Richtlinien und Ziele erläutert. Ferner werden Möglichkeiten zum Einsatz der Bio-Lebensmittel vorgestellt. Anschließend werden in Kapitel 4 wirtschaftliche Aspekte in Bezug auf die Mehrlosten in der Kita analysiert. Abschließend werden die Ergebnisse zusammengefasst und ein Fazit gegeben.Ziel dieser Hausarbeit ist es, Unterschiede zwischen ökologischem und konventionellem Landbau zu verdeutlichen und Möglichkeiten aufzuzeigen, trotz leichter Mehrkosten, Bio-Lebensmittel in der Versorgung von Kindertagesstätten zu ermöglichen. 32 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Neueste Geschichte, Europäische Einigung, Note: 2,0, Universität Bielefeld, Veranstaltung: Geschichte der Migration im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es ist weitläufig bekannt, dass es nach dem 2. Weltkrieg eine starke Migrationsbewegung von Bürgern aus der DDR in die Bundesrepublik gab. Insbesondere in den 50er Jahren waren die Zahlen enorm, allein im Jahr 1955 kamen mehr als eine halbe Million Ost-Bürger in die Bundesrepublik. Während die Auswanderung bzw. Republikflucht stets ein Thema in der bundesdeutschen Öffentlichkeit war, blieb die Gegenbewegung, namentlich die West-Ost-Migration, weitestgehend unbeachtet und das obwohl auch hier die Zahlen für sich sprechen. So suchten Hunderttausende im Laufe der Jahre den Weg in die DDR. Im öffentlichen und politischen Diskurs gewann das Thema jedoch erst nach der Wende an Interesse. Auch die Geschichtswissenschaft entdeckte die deutsch-deutsche Migration als tatsächlichen Forschungsgegenstand erst spät. Dies hatte unterschiedliche Gründe. Zum einen war das Thema Zu- bzw. Abwanderung in beiden Staaten vor 1989 nicht nur eine rein statistische Angelegenheit, sondern war auch Gradmesser für den Erfolg des entsprechenden politischen Systems. Insbesondere in der DDR interpretierte man hohe Zuwanderungszahlen als Legitimation für den neu gegründeten sozialistischen Staat und dies wurde auch dementsprechend propagiert.Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, den komplexen Verlauf der West-Ost-Migration darzustellen. Erstens soll das Wanderungsgeschehen in Hinsicht auf Volumen, Verlaufsformen und Strukturen untersucht werden. Zweitens soll das Wanderungsverhalten analysiert werden. Aspekte der Untersuchungen sind hier Schub- und Anziehungskräfte der Ausgangs- und Zielräume, unterschiedliche Motivationen bzw. Wanderungsabsichten in regionaler und schichten- oder gruppenspezifischer Hinsicht, wanderungsfördernde oder -hemmende Faktoren sowie Integration und Akkulturation. Drittens sollen all diese Fakten und Aspekte in die sozialen, kulturellen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Umstände der jeweiligen Regionen eingebunden werden. Darüber hinaus soll die Frage beantwortet werden, welche Kontinuitäten bzw. Diskontinuitäten die Einwanderungspolitik der DDR aufweist. 28 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Linguistik, Note: 2,0, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germanistisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Geschichte der sprachlichen Zweifelsfälle, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Autor des Buches Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod , Bastian Sick, studierte Geschichtswissenschaft und Romanistik, arbeitete als Lektor und Übersetzer, Dokumentationsjournalist, war Mitarbeiter von SPIEGEL ONLINE und ist seit 2003 als Autor für die Kolumne Zwiebelfisch tätig. Im Folgenden werden wir uns besonders mit der Frage beschäftigen, ob man ein Germanist sein muss, um sich mit den Zweifelsfällen der deutschen Sprache auseinanderzusetzen. In dieser Hausarbeit möchten wir überprüfen, ob die in seinem Buch aufgeführten Phänomene von Bastian Sick auch in linguistischer Hinsicht als Zweifelsfälle zu verstehen sind. Des weiteren werden wir nachvollziehen, wie bzw. ob seine ausgesprochenen Empfehlungen wie in seinem Vorwort angekündigt von den verwendeten Grammatiken abweichen und was im Kontext zu diesen vorgestellten Problemen vorgeschlagen wird. Dabei können wir nicht auf die besonderen stilistischen Zweifelsfälle, die in Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod vorgestellt werden, eingehen, da die Überprüfung dieser sprachlichen Varianten die Möglichkeiten und den Rahmen der Hausarbeit überschreiten würde. Außerdem vermuten wir, dass es dazu oft keine sicheren Quellen gibt und damit der Zweifelsfall zwar als solcher kategorisiert werden kann, allerdings keine allgemeine Richtung in der deutschen Sprache zu erkennen ist. Und auf diese wollen wir uns hier besonders konzentrieren. Des weiteren ist das Buch mit 229 Seiten sehr umfangreich, so werden wir nicht alle vorgestellten Zweifelsfälle näher beleuchten können. Die Unterteilung der Hausarbeit in die Unterpunkte 3. und 4. dient lediglich der leichteren Unterscheidung der Teile, der dritte Teil ist von Frau Plenge geschrieben und der vierte von Frau Beneze. Die übrigen Teile sind das Ergebnis einer gemeinsamen Arbeit. In seinem Buch gibt Sick keine Bibliographie an. Die Tabellen, welche er vielen seiner Kolumnen nachstellt, scheinen eine eigene Interpretation zu sein, jedenfalls gehen diese nicht auf eine gesicherte und nachvollziehbare Quelle zurück. An einigen Stellen beruft er sich jedoch auf den Duden, doch auch dazu werden keine weiteren Angaben gemacht. Einzig der Duden-Band 9 (Richtiges und gutes Deutsch) und der Duden-Band 11 (Redewendungen) werden genannt. 36 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Hamburg, course: Human Perspective and Language: Deixis, language: English, abstract: 1.IntroductionThis paper will deal with politeness distinctions in personal pronouns. Thus, le leading question will be: In how far can personal pronouns, being deictic expressions, serve as elements of politeness To clarify this a little more, I would like to begin with a short explanation of the term 'deictic expression': Deictics, also known as 'pointing words', are for example: I, you, here, there, before, after. One can distinguish between person, local and time deixis. Special to deictics is the fact that they are meaningless unless we know who speaks and thus forms the center of orientation - the origo . Personal pronouns, however, form a category of person deixis. They relate to either the addressee or to someone talked about in a conversation, they 'characterize the referent as well with respect to the speech act role and the size of the respective speaker and hearer groups.' In a discourse, personal pronouns lexicalize the relation between the origo, which is the cognitive ground for an act of pointing, and the intended referent, who is the figure of the pointing act. Unlike in local or time deixis, this intended referent is a human being (I will omit the situations when human beings speak to animals here), not an inanimate thing like a piece of furniture or an abstract unit like for example a time span - in short, it makes a difference if I say something like: 'Here is the green chair', or 'It rained really hard yesterday.' or if I speak either about 'I have met that Mrs. Jones' or directly to 'You can leave the room now' other persons. If in direct address or not, the issue of politeness gets important in these cases. We can express distance and dislike in demonstratives as shown in the Mrs. Jones sentence, and we can be nice or rude depending on the form of address we use.As this paper thus will primarily be focused on person deixis, I will omit the topics of local and time deixis but investigate the use of person deictic expressions in their various uses with regard to the question of politeness. Therefore, I want to start with a chapter about politeness in general: What is politeness Why are human beings polite (or impolite) And how is this politeness conveyed through language To specify the various strategies used to perform politeness, I will then introduce Brown and Levinson's concept of 'Face', and, later, draw the link to the use of personal pronouns. [.) 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: In this research paper the focus shall be on Chinese workers in the garment factories of New York City's Chinatown as an example of immigrant workers in the United States. After the Immigration Act of 1965, which abolished the national origin system and gave priority to the reunification of families, chain immigration in the United States of America started in large numbers. The most visible beneficiaries were the Asians because the quota system was abandoned for them. A lot of Chinese immigrants, especially women, entered the United States with this chain immigration. The high number of women amongst the immigrats was a reason that the former bachelor's society - which means that the Chines male population outnumbered Chinese women in New York City on a large scale - turned into an almost well - balanced one. The labor force of the newly arrived women enabled the growth of New York City's garment industry.According to some statistics of Min Zhou and Regina Nordquist, the concentration of immigrant Chinese women in the garment industry was - and still is - extraordinary. Almost 85% of the work force in Chinatown's garment industry are immigrant women, and the largest group of them are Chinese immigrant women (Zhou/ Nordquist 262). Because of the large-scale immigration after 1965 and the large supply of female work force, the garment industry of New York City's Chinatown continued to be based on low-cost immigrant labor (Zhou/ Nordquist 261). Overall, more than half of Chinese women find jobs in garment factories. Because of the obvious dominance of Chinese immigrant women's labor force in the garment industry, this research paper will concentrate on them.Although these women earn only minimum or even lower wages, the labor force participation rate of them is exceptional high: 73% (Zhou/ Nordquist 264). Despite long wrking days and bad working conditions, it appears that Chinese garment workers do not feel exploited. In the following we will examine the situation of Chinese garment workers a little bit more in detail. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Pre-University Paper from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, Antwerp Local School, course: Last year of High School, language: English, abstract: 1.IntroductionAfrican American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety formerly known as Black English Vernacular or Vernacular Black English among sociolinguists. It is also called Ebonics outside the academic community. While some features of AAVE are apparently unique to this variety, in its structure it also shows many similarities with other varieties including a number of standard and nonstandard English varieties spoken in the US. AAVE has been the subject of several public debates. The analysis of this variety has caused a lot of discussion among sociolinguists and also among the American people.AAVE is a language that I hear every day through the music I hear and the Internet I use. This was the main reason that I chose to learn more about AAVE. Many people think AAVE is the same as Standard American English but this is not true.In this paper I will investigate whether AAVE is a dialect or a slang. And also the origins of AAVE and the features of AAVE (Phonological-, grammatical and lexical features) and the social and educational context of AAVE will be explained more in this paper.Through many research in the library of the university of Antwerp and the library of the university of Leuven but also through many research on the internet I was able to collect and investigate this subject. With the great help of my teacher I was able to make this paper 24 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, language: English, abstract: In 2010, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is equipped with approximately six billion euros - the highest budget it has ever had on its disposal. But still, the choirof critics is growing louder. One group is unsatisfied with the amount of money provided. They claim that the poverty of more than two billion people in the world cannot be overcome with 104 billiondollars - the worldwide amount of development aid in 2006, which is only one third higher than the budget of North Rhine-Westphalia. The other group of critics points to the fact that more than 500 billion dollars of development aid have been spent since the 1960s - whereas poverty, public debts and violent conflicts in the Global South3 have not at all diminished. They plead for a renewal of development policy concepts. One of those more progressive concepts is the idea of empowerment, which I am going to examine in this paper. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2004 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - General, , course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: 'Chinefarge' is an intercultural business case study report and refers to a Sino-western joint venture of Paris-based Lafarge and Huaibei Mining Company (HMC) near Beijing. Lafarge is a major global player in construction materials that tries to gain a foothold in Asia, more specifically in China which has an extraordinary need of construction materials and know-how to satisfy its emergent economy. While one can gain market share and the other a powerful partner, the cultural challenges of the IJV constituted a barrier for both sides. This succinct case study report diagnoses the cultural challenges they encountered in the initial stages of the joint venture and recommends some solutions. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 65 (ca. 2+), University of Cambridge (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages), course: German Autobiography, language: English, abstract: The Poetics of Memory and Fragment in Max Frisch's Montauk and Peter Handke's Wunschloses UnglückNägele warns of the dangers of proclaiming a general trend towards autobiographical fiction in the 60s and 70s and de Man even doubts the existence and status of the genre. Therefore, I want to aim at a simple comparative perspective and just look at the comments Max Frisch and Peter Handke make on memory (and so inevitably also on the self and our perception of self) in Montauk (1975) and Wunschloses Unglück (1974).The extent to which these works really are autobiographical is irrelevant. It is not whether or not a text is autobiographical and what it tells us about the author's life that is interesting. How one author fictionalises a personal event is also obviously impossible for criticism to analyse (and subconscious). What interests me is not how Montauk (M) and Wunschloses Unglück (WU) are two examples of the genre of autobiography but what they disclose about the processes of literary production in general and what this can reveal about our perception and reminiscence of experiences, and how it contributes to the 'invention' of the self.[.] 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Scientific Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3 (First Class), University of Sheffield, language: English, abstract: IntroductionMany textbooks and articles describe how best to plan strategically and what the fundamental steps must be taken in the strategic planning process. One main issue is that many authors are unanimous in relation to the mission statement, which should be the first step in the corporate planning process. However, others think the mission's mapping should be stated in another level of the planning hierarchy. Therefore, it is essential to specify the role of mission in that process to be able to dwell on the different perspectives. But first, before the general role of mission is described, there will be an outline of the reasons why many authors put the mission in different levels of the process. This could help to understand the general role of the mission in that context more precisely. At least, writers are of the same opinion that the major argument in favour of planning is in the co-ordination of decision-making in order that an organisation moves in a well-focused direction. Without planning, the efforts of the organisation may not be well coordinated and managers and staff may be headed in different directions. Planning also helps to ensure that the corporate future is taken into account, so that the organisation can control the situation it finds itself in and prepare for unexpected eventualities (Hannagan, 1995). [.] 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Pre-University Paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics - English - Applied Geography, grade: 1, Helene Lange Gymnasium, language: English, abstract: The relevance of modern web 2.0 for the United States presidential election was often emphasized. Especially Twitter and YouTube seemed to have huge influence on the election campaigns but how did they get used during the campaigns How did this new era of web influence the voters' choice The web obviously played an important role and was used to get the people involved. It helped to create an attachment to the political candidates and it was although a great technology for collecting donations. Especially Barack Obama used the web sent for his propose and had great success with this strategy. This scientific work will explain in which way the web got influence on the campaigns and their strategies. It will also explain the role of the voters, which is in general not as great as it often seems to be. In the end of my work there will also be a case study of 2008 that focuses Barack Obama and his campaign, which was rather more interesting than the Republicans'. 28 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 1994 in the subject Film Science, grade: B/A, University of Amsterdam, language: English, abstract: As the film Total Recall was released in 1990 critics were confused. In theirattempts to give a summary they all created different stories. Some even figuredout some failures in the plot and for some the story line was an enigma.1Though there was a lot of misunderstanding about this film there was alsoa consens on the kind of genre the film belonged to. Fred Glass gave in his article'Totally recalling Arnold' the film 'Total Recall' the label NBF 'New Bad Future',which has to be understood as a subgenre of the fertile SF (Science Fiction) ofthe 1980's. NBF is defined as following: 'NBF films tell stories about a future in the grip of feverish social decay. While some posit a post nuclear barbarism (as inthe Mad Max trilogy, .), most envision the world that will emerge without such anapocalyptic break with history. The NBF scenario typically embraces urbanexpansion on a monstrous scale, where real estate capital has realised its fondestdreams of cancerous growth. (.). The heroes., go up against the corruption andpower of the ruling corporations, which exercise a media-based velvet glove/ironfist social control.'2Exactly these characteristics can be found in 'Total Recall'. In consequenceit could be read as a film that is following these patterns which are founded in the1980's Science Fiction. In this respect one could argue that 'Total Recall' is aquite traditional movie. But 'Total Recall' offers something new through usingcyberspace. This world that is defined as virtual reality mixes all the patterns andnorms of traditional SF and makes this film very special in its appearance.As Paul Verhoeven says about his film: 'For the audience every moment inthe movie seems to be real. But when you get to the next scene, you can doubtthe scene before, yeah I'm exaggerating, because it would be really terrible to dothat to an audience; everybody would be driven crazy, probably. But every once ina while you realise that what you saw before should have been seen in a differentway, It was not reality, or it was a misinterpreted reality.'3The narrative structure of this film is therefore extremely complicated. Itcombines reality, dreams and virtual reality. Perceiving this film means having thechoice between many narrations. They all depend on the point of view theperceiver wants to take. [.] 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Computer Science - Internet, New Technologies, Leeds Metropolitan University (Arts, Environment and Technology), language: English, abstract: Selection and configuration are widely met tasks in design; this is an example of a web-based selection/configuration tool with embedded optimisation. Pumps inevitably deteriorate over their product lifecycle, in which interaction generally occurs in terms of flow, pressure and electricity consumption. Practical implementations of pump scheduling suggest that a 10% of the annual expenditure on energy costs may be saved. The object is to minimise the energy cost incurred, while selecting the best schedule of legal available pumps. The results illustrate that the recording of pump characteristics over the internet provides an efficient method of pump performance and evaluation. 32 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 2.0, University of Southampton (School of Humanities), course: Language, Discourse and Identity, language: English, abstract: Frank Beyer's Spur der Steine (Trace of Stones) is a controversial 1966 film production released in East Germany that had long been anticipated by Party officials, film artists and the general public. Not only was it the most expensive DEFA- production of the day, but its story had caused debate within the studio in the months leading up to its short-lived release. Beyer's work presents multiple perspectives on a construction site crisis and thereby openly questions the possibility of 'communion between individual destiny and collective destiny predicated by socialism's utopian goals.' 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, , language: English, abstract: This paper explores the factors responsible for the underdevelopment of most African states with an attempt to provide some possible recommendations to overcoming the socio-economic and political problems faced by the continent in a growing inter connected (globalised) world. Some of the factors that hinder Africa's development are at the starting point of this essay. The possible measures that may help reduce the agony in the continent if applied sincerely were put forward for consideration. It is assumed that states do not fail because of accidents but primarily due to the faults of kleptocrats who find themselves in power either through force or rigged elections. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2000 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Western Europe, grade: 2, Cardiff University (School of European Studies), course: British Society and Culture, language: English, abstract: In the UK you can find a wide range of newspapers. In general you can divide them into quality and popular press. Quality newspapers are The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent and The Financial Times. The popular press consists of The Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Daily Star and The Sun. You can also find a lot of regional newspapers; for example The Evening Standard (London, popular press oriented), The South Wales Echo (South Wales, popular press oriented) and The Western Mail ( Wales, more quality press oriented). In this essay I will refer to the popular press as tabloid press. The aim of this essay is to compare quality press and tabloid press. This I will do with two examples: The Times and The Sun. So the question might arise why I chose just those two newspapers They are both reflective of their field and are recognized all over the world. However they both belong to the same person: to the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. And so a second question arises: Are there indications that this constellation might minimize the difference between quality and tabloid press Yet we are in the age of the internet. So a third question arises: Are both newspapers sufficiently represented on the internet 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Customer Relationship Management, CRM, grade: 1,0, University of St Andrews, course: Business Marketing, language: English, abstract: The business-to-business (B2B) landscape is rapidly changing due to a variety of trends: The evolving end-customer expectations drive companies to be more responsive and provide a better value-proposition to their customers. This has translated into business markets, demanding greater responsiveness, reliability, and quality consciousness from supplying firms (Sheth & Shainesh, 2001: 274). Market consolidation as a result of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in many industries during the past two decades forces many companies to focus on the few large customers that survived (Narayandas, 2003: 1). Globalization, hyper-competition, the rapid rise of information technology, and the commoditization of many products through e-commerce have resulted in better visibility of demand and supply and lower switching costs. Logistics and communication advances have made buying from across the globe as easy as buying locally (Schäfer, 2007: 10).All this has lead to an erosion of customer loyalty and the ability to seek lower priced, better quality options from a wide variety of suppliers instantaneously. Therefore, building customer loyalty through relationship management is not a choice anymore for most businesses; it is crucial for the achievement of sustainable competitive advantage (Sheth & Shainesh, 2001).This report to the head of marketing of an imaginary business-to-business supplier aims to discuss the implementation of a customer relationship management (CRM) system. More specifically, the author will define the relevant terms, outline the suggested CRM techniques, and highlight their potential benefits and limitations. At the end, some final conclusions and recommendations will be presented. 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Physical Geography, Geomorphology, Environmental Studies, grade: A, , course: Calculus, language: English, abstract: AbstractThe Richter Scale is a quantitative measure of the magnitude of an earthquake. It has been invented in 1935 by Charles F. Richter and is based the amplitude measured by a seismograph with a correction factor for the distance from the centre of the earthquake from which the measurement is taken. This measurement is totally independent from the damage that it might cause. Although invented in 74 years ago, it is still in use and has many advantages compared to the other scales used for earthquakes. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 1995 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Hannover (Englisches Seminar), course: Introduction to Literature, language: English, abstract: 1. Background to the time the story was writtenTo reveal the social background of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' , as well as the aspects of religion and science that influenced on society, we have to consider the events of that time. 'Dracula' was written in the year of 1897. It was the so-called Victorian Age that was expressed by a high morality which was especially celebrated by the upper class who more than ever felt superior towards the poor working classes. It was a time when great social and economical problems struck society, especially its poor levels. But it also was a time of great scientific progress that lead to an upper society becoming richer and the working class remaining poor. The final result was a strong belief in materialism on the side of those who considered scientific progress as important and positive and a growing interest in Roman Catholicism, parapsychology and spirituality on the side of those who were more sceptic towards science and materialism. Society was more and more divided into rich and poor and the problems on the side of the poor increased. That was one reason why the church lost its power and influence on the majority of the society. Another reason for this was Gladstone's 'Disestablishment Act'. But it was also a time when England invaded other countries to increase their number of colonies that could be exploited.[.] 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Englische Philologie), course: Seminar 'Shakespeare and Women', language: English, abstract: In the Renaissance, the ideal of same-sex friendship between men was highly valued (cf. Kaplan 312). William Shakespeare referred to this theme in many of his literary works. In particular, his sonnets dedicated to the 'Fair Lord' have provoked debates about the writer's own sexuality. But the idea of 'the other I' presented in the sonnets and included in most of Shakespeare's plays is not limited to male friendship alone. Shakespearean drama offers many instances of affection or at least solidarity between women as well. '[J]ust as Shakespeare seems to pull free of the strictly classical dramatic forms, so too does he free himself of the purely neo-Platonic expression and uses of friendship' (Longo 8).Feminist criticism perceives the women in Shakespeare's plays, in particular in the comedies, as powerful and dominant (cf. Berggren 18). Often cross-dressing appears to be the strategy that allows them to break with the traditional female role comprising the in the Renaissance still prevailing 'virtues of silence, obedience and chastity' (McFeely 8) . 'By obscuring their own sex, the heroines gain extraordinary access to the men they love.' (Berggren 22). But besides male disguise, relationships among women give strength to each other. All in all, nineteen of Shakespeare's plays include intimate talks between women which take place in private and refer to very personal issues (cf. McKewin 119).In the following, I will analyse the relationships that exist among the women in Shakespeare's problem play All's Well That Ends Well. They can be considered particularly important, as due to the complete absence of cross-dressing in the play, they play an exceptional role in empowering the heroine. Helena 'breaks out of both the cultural (historical) and psychic (transhistorical) strictures applied to women . by the assertion of desire' (Asp 75). Her determined way of wooing Bertram makes him an object and thus a reversal of traditional roles takes place. The audience experiences All's Well That Ends Well from a female desiring perspective. That makes the play unique within Shakespeare's canon (cf. Asp 74) and makes the careful consideration of the background allowing this changed perspective inevitable. 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: In order to examine women's status and life in a Puritan society in the New World, we first have to know why people left their native country. Marilyn J. Westerkamp tries to give some reasons in her book Women and Religion in Early America: In the early sixteenth century the Reformation arrived in England (3) and in the following decades a Puritan culture developed. A website1 tells us that in its core a description of man's direct relationship to God could be found and that thus no one needed a priest to contact God. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Puritan movement was attacked by Anglican bishops so that a few tried to flee. When Charles became monarch, a tendency of being less tolerant towards Puritan clerics grew; as a result of this many influential Puritans were arrested. Due to the fact that under the reign of this king numerous ceremonies were formalized and made more complex, the Puritans felt that religious ceremonies became artificial and thus their dissatisfaction grew. From 1628 on, they started to think of emigration to escape the monarch's control (Westerkamp 13).English Puritans founded in April 1630 a colony in the New World, called New England. Westerkamp calls this community, which was built in the wilderness, a 'holy experiment'. As New England was created with the help of England, but without an interference of the monarch (Westerkamp 14), it was possible to develop the colony independently from the oversea's monarchy. In this 'experiment' as many women as men were involved and due to the direct contact between God and the individual, religious power could be given to anybody (Westerkamp 11). Therefore the status and the role of a woman might differ to that in England. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Poetry of the 17th Century, language: English, abstract: This text will give a brief survey on the history of the Sonnet. Following this, it will concentrate on Shakespeare and his work. Firstly, it will present a short overview of the contents of all his sonnets and secondly there will be a detailed interpretation and analysis of Sonnet 60. 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War and hiscritics in Great BritainIn 1961 A.J.P. Taylor, described as 'an enfant terrible among historians' 1 by Ian F. D.Morrow, discombobulated peer historians with his publication The Origins of the SecondWorld War. In this book Taylor disputed the orthodox school of war historiography. Taylor'sthesis of the origins of the Second World War has received some support, but primarilycritique. His thesis may be briefly stated. According to Taylor, Hitler was not a demonicwarlord, who had plans of world conquest but was only an ordinary man 'who was no morewicked and unscrupulous than many other contemporary statesman' . Hitler followed aforeign policy like 'that of his predecessors, of the professional diplomats at the foreignministry, and indeed of virtually all Germans'. Adolf Hitler was not a 'a system-makerdeliberately preparing from the first a great war which would destroy existing civilisation and makehim master of the world' Hitler's purpose was to liberate Germany from the Treaty ofVersailles that 'lacked moral validity from the start' and 'to make Germany the leadingPower in Europe from her natural weight.' In fulfilling his goals, Hitler was supported byappeasers such as Neville and Chamberlain, who believed that Hitler would become pacific ifhis demands were met. Hence, all Hitler had to do was waiting for concessions. Taylorpresents Hitler as a passive Fuehrer, without clear intentions. Regarding Danzig and PolandHitler didn't intend its destruction. On the contrary 'he had wished to solve the question ofDanzig so that Germany and Poland could remain on good terms.'[.] 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Wuppertal, course: The Representation of Slavery from Aphra Behn to Bernadine Evaristo, language: English, abstract: Regarding his third novel, Feeding the Ghosts, the British-Guyanese poet, playwright and novelist Fred D'Aguiar states in an interview for the 'Caribbean Studies Journal' that 'it was a piece of history that then grew out of an absence of facts about it' (Hyppolite). Apparently the author does not intend to convey a coherent, continuous historical account of the infamous 'Zong-Massacre', which took place in 1781, but rather the ruins of history in a manner of an 'as-if-testimony' (Bröck 29). Thus, the novel belongs to the genre of historical fiction which combines in a postcolonial context imaginative elements and historical facts with regard to the historiographical document of the death of 131 Africans 'at the hands of profit-hungry British slave traders and investors on board the slave ship Zong' (Pichler 7).Sailing from the west coast of Africa to Jamaica, the slave ship carried 442 slaves, more than it could safely transport and was therefore overloaded and lacked sufficient provisions for its 'cargo'. Together with malnutrition and disease, this overcrowding led to Captain Luke Collingwood's decision to throw the sick overboard in order to claim money from the insurers, who covered £39 compensation a head, as long as the action was taken to safeguard the ship's safety. The resulting court trial caused much attention as the case of the Zong outnumbered the known fashion and consequently lead to abolitionist support as the legal status of slaves as 'cargo' was confirmed by the concluding verdict. Finally, in 1790 a preliminary bill was passed which ruled out 'insurances claims resulting from slave mortality through natural death or ill treatment, or against loss by throwing overboard of slaves on any account whatsoever' (Walvin 20). Even though 'those deaths [.] cannot be undone' (D'Aguiar 230) D'Aguiar succeeds at creating a 'counter-memory to Britain's official memory' (Pichler 1) by recreating this traumatic incident in the history of the Middle Passage and the subsequent trial from the perspective of his heroine Mintah, a Fetu slave woman. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Didactics - French - Literature, Works, grade: A, University of Canterbury (School of European Culture and Languages), course: Seminar, language: English, abstract: Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie. Souvenirs du Valois, published in 1853, is an exploration of time and memory, dream and reality. The first person narrator is also the main character, who is indecisive and cannot commit himself to any of the three women in his life: Aurélie, Sylvie and Adrienne.The narrator of Sylvie is unreliable because his perspective is severely distorted. Sometimes his memory fails him and he does not understand his own motives and behaviour, which is both passive and impulsive at the same time. The story he tells us is about himself and only himself, because he has little understanding of the people around him.It is obvious that the narrator of Sylvie is indeed lost in illusions - this is partly symbolised by the colour descriptions and the fact that most of the novella is set at night and in 'a dark forest' - but does that really mean that he actually prefers the state of illusion or reverie to that of clear-headedness and rationality In order to find an answer, first we have to look at the specific aspects that he is deluded about. This will certainly reveal the narrator's character and we can then go on and with the help of such psychological concepts as the of the ego's mechanisms of defence determine whether it is possible to say, that the narrator of Sylvie positively prefers illusion to reality.[.] 16 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Cinema and Society, Kino und Gesellschaft, language: English, abstract: 1IntroductionIn adapting Stoker's Dracula, Murnau has made quite a few changes to the original plot. Some of them were made due to economic and practical reasons, such as moving the setting and locations to Germany, some of them in order to avoid charges of copyright infringement, such as changing the characters' names, as Murnau was not authorised to make an adaptation.However, Murnau doesn't simply copy Dracula. Stoker's novel about the intrusion of an alien evil into English society is transformed into a story mirroring the fears that prevailed in Germany in the late 1910's. Screenwriter Henrik Galeen and di rector Murnau were obviously influenced by the impressions that both World War I and the influenza pandemic had left. The war had left large areas in Central Europe in ruins and had triggered many political changes. Often, the new-founded Weimar Republic was seen as weak and incapable of acting. Moreover, the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918 proved no less devastating, ranking 'with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics.'(1) Assisted by large troop movements and disastrous hygienic con ditions after the armistice, the disease spread across the globe within less than three months. Physicians and scientist were helpless. There was no immunization available: the influenza virus could not be isolated and positively identified as the pathogene until 1932. In fact, even today there are no means of preventing another influenza epidemic(2) . Murnau begins with a caption that presents the movie as a record of an epidemic: 'Aufzeichnung über das große Sterben in Wisborg.' The vampire is not the party animal that Lugosi impersonated; instead, Murnau draws on a tradition that associates vampires with unexpected or inexplicable death. His creature feeds on a society which is defenseless against him, either because its members are too weakened or too terrified to take action. Thus, though set almost one hundred years in the past, Nosferatu presents an actualisation of Dracula.[.]______(1) Potter, C.W. 'A history of influenza'. Journal of Applied Microbiology 31. 2001: 575.(2) cf. ibid., 572. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1 minus, University of Dusseldorf 'Heinrich Heine' (Anglistisches Institut), course: Poets, Artists, and Performers of Black Mountain College, language: English, abstract: This thesis mainly presents Cage on the basis of his literary work. The analysis focuses on his work 'Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)', with special regard to his use of chance operations. Moreover, emphasis is placed on Cage's ideas about art in general which are inseparably connected to his writings. 20 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,3, , language: English, abstract: Learners of a second language are confronted with different challenges. They have to learn new words and grammar rules and how to apply them. To improve their skills they need to be corrected or they must have the possibility to correct themselves by comparing their usage of the foreign language with that of native speakers. However, there are some implicit rules to using a language which are rarely detected by both learners and native speakers. One of these cases is the usage of discourse markers (DM) (Svartvik 1980:171). Swedish linguist Jan Svartvik assumes that such particles' inadequate applications have more far-reaching consequences during communication than grammatical incorrectness (1980:172).In this essay I will concentrate on the DM like since it is amongst the most frequently used by native speakers of English (Fox Tree 2006:727, 2007:309; Müller 2005:197). As research has shown, non-native speakers use like less often as a DM than native speakers (Fuller 2003:200; Fung and Carter 2007:435; Hikyoung 2004:121; Müller 2005:230). Thus, I will firstly argue that the infrequent use of like as a DM is one feature by which non-native speakers can be recognized as such. Secondly, I will show that this deficit in pragmatic competence effects their communication with native speakers negatively. I claim that the reasons for the lower rate of like relates to its pragmatic functions and the way in which English is taught. 16 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Lesson Plan from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Marburg (Anglistik), course: Second Language Acquisition, language: English, abstract: 1. General OverviewThe Hessian Curriculum(1) demands that the English lesson in the Oberstufe has to improve the pupils' language skills as well as enlarge their knowledge about English literature and different cultures. Correspondingly, the pupils should gain experiences with a variety of texts and different media. By this, they develop critical media literacy which is an essential prerequisite for working independently. Ideally, these main objectives should be combinedin every teaching unit.The novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was published in 1939. It reports the story of the farmer family Joad which has, like hundred thousands of other families, to leave their home Oklahoma to start a new life in California. By this, Steinbeck exemplifies the fateof migrant workers in the USA during the 1930's. The novel should be motivating for the pupils as it constitutes an authentic documentation of the social circumstances during the time of the Great Depression.(2) Furthermore, the dramatic story of the family Joad is gripping and arouses empathy. The novel, moreover, refers to central topics, like work ethnic and inequality, which can be connected to the current problems of globalization.In The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck makes use of the migrants' authentic language. That is why the reading might be a challenge for the pupils. Besides, Steinbeck's literary techniques are note-worthy. He, for instance, adds so-called intercalary chapters, which evaluate the plot and provide further information on the historical context.Moreover, the controversy(3) of the novel led to various reactions of artists and film adaptations. So the novel is an appropriate starting point for the comparison of different media, like for instance songs, photographs and film adaptations. Correspondingly, this teaching unit aims at combining knowledge about literature and history with thedevelopment of language awareness and media competence.__________(1)Lehrplan Englisch, Gymnasialer Bildungsgang: Jahrgangsstufen 10G bis 12G, Hessisches Kultusministerium2010 (Entwurf).(2) John Steinbeck has accompanied migrant families on their way to California.(3) At first, the novel was abolished in California, later it won the Pulitzer Prize (1940).[.] 20 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: A (83%), Queen Mary University of London, course: Drama, language: English, abstract: The vampire has been an ever present figure in our folklore since the 1100's, serving to reflect and almost embody the anxieties of contemporary society. Throughout history, tales of this fictitious character have become most prominent during times of social upheaval that pose a threat to mainstream society. The use of the character of the vampire in this way serves as a means to displace our societal fears, and symbolises the Other in society, mirroring our 'ugliest fears and prejudices of the time.' In this essay I will be exploring how the threat of the vampire as a fictional Other can help us to better understand the threat of the Other in reality, which in this case will be the counterculture. 16 pp. Englisch. …