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This project discusses Allure Cruise Line and its operations and relates that the company is intending on expanding into the Mediterranean market from its home market in the Florida area of the United States. The paper relates that presently, the firm operates a fleet of three ships in the high-end cruise market and explains that its main competitors in terms of the general cruise line industry are Carnival and Royal Caribbean among others. The paper explains that the company also faces cultural and human resources issues among its various crew because of the diverse nature of its crew members which are represented by approximately 40 different nationalities. The paper explains that these and other organizational culture issues ensure that developing hiring and retention strategies that support the company's long-term expansion plans is critical, and this is especially important in view of its short-term plans of expanding into the Mediterranean market. Finally, the paper addresses how the company's leadership motivates staff and crew that is also a central part of the organization's mission since a motivated crew ensures a positive guest experience and high return traffic for the company's cruise products.

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"This project discusses Allure Cruise Line and its operations. The company is intending on expanding into the Mediterranean market from its home market in the Florida area of the United States. Presently the firm operates a fleet of three ships in the high-end cruise market. Its main competitors in terms of the general cruise line industry are Carnival and Royal Caribbean among others. The company also faces cultural and human resources issues among its various crew because of the diverse nature of..."

Tags:extension, allure, cruise

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This paper asserts that warfare has always had a peculiar seduction on certain people. The paper then examines this allure of warfare as exemplified in John Knowles' "A Separate Peace", Michael Herr's "Dispatches", and Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried."

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"There has always been a strange connection between beauty and destruction, but this love of war is unspeakable. When you really think on it, war does have a strange seduction on soldiers, politicians, and the people at home. There is something exotic about the places we fight; there is something intoxicating about the high after a victory; and there is something about how a country rebounds after they have been devastated by a war. The unspeakable seduction of war can be seen in many texts, including Dispatches by Michael Herr. Herr uses his memoir as an embedded reporter in Vietnam to create a first hand account of those seduced by the war in Vietnam. There are also seductions of war seen in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and John Knowles' A Separate Peace. The seduction of war is reflected in the true and fictional characters in war stories, and it manifests itself in politics, physical attributes, and emotions."

Tags:war violence vietnam, john kowles, tim o'brien, seduction death soldiers

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This paper discusses how people, in general, like to get a visual picture of what they are hearing about and how, through the media and constant representation of statistical data as hard fact, numbers can control people's opinions on issues. It shows how one of the largest issues regarding statistics and their appealing nature is the fact that most of us are innumerate. It also shows how, in addition to innumeracy, the public's opinion of ideas often leads to skewed views on issues; statistics can become so alluring to activists that they can say something that will change a large group of people's minds on an issue, and then they will get what they want.

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"Although even though some statistics are wrong, people want to believe them so bad that they will ignore all logic just so that they will have a numerical view of the situation. Perhaps the biggest real life example of this is a social statistic that Joel Best-in his book Damned Lies and Statistics-describes as "The worst social statistic ever... Every year since 1950, the number American children gunned down has doubled" (Best 1). To anyone using this statistic to promote gun control, this statistic is gold, and it sounds believable too. But if you analyze it you'll find otherwise."

Tags:data, activists, innumeracy, media, numbers, schools

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This paper goes into why youth join gangs and what we can learn from the theory of symbolic interactionism to understand and solve the escalating gang epidemic.

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"Gang violence in America has been a problem since the early nineteen fifties, but in our modern world, the role of the gang in the life of American youth has become increasingly more dangerous. These dangers manifest themselves in terms of the relation to guns, violence, drugs and the overall intensity of gang practice. These factors, coupled with the interconnectivity we now have with the media, Internet and cell phones play a huge role in how our society is shaped. Nowadays, the stakes are higher than ever for America's youth to want and feel acceptance, and a gang- for many alienated and at risk youth- becomes a sort of family that..."

Tags:youth, gang, culture

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This paper explains that, with the character of Denise Baudau, a lowly worker, Emile Zola presents in "Ladies Paradise" a somewhat skewed vision of the struggle between the sexes with this protagonist ultimately obtaining her goal to marry the less than admirable but higher ranked Monsieur Mouret. The author points out that advertising in the days of this novel worked the same way as today: To create a need by implying that women have some defective quality and promising that their product will make them more beautiful. The paper relates that Zola observes that women come to equate the products with their sexuality with its sensual allure festering and growing until they become an addiction for the women that they must have the products at all costs.

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"Consequently, a raging competition ensues and the ladies compete with each other for customers and the attention of Mouret. The shop girls are forced to dress in a certain way in order to be successful, which is by pleasing Mouret and garnering his attentions. If they can garner Mouret's attentions, a shop girl will have the great honor of exchanging sexual favors for the right to do as she pleases at the department store, as Clara Prunaire does. As long as the shop girl can keep Mouret pleased, she is protected from being sacked."

Tags:consumerism, addiction, shop-girl, sexual-favors, flattery

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The most vulnerable victims to the allure of drinking and driving seem to be young people, be they college age or younger. This essay will look at some of the arguments that are made for why young people drink and drive, as well as what sort of strategies and legislation have been argued as viable and have been enacted to put a stop to this all-too-often tragic phenomenon.

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"Mixed messages with regard to alcohol consumption are abundant in today's society. Alcoholic beverage companies sponsor television advertisements that caution drinkers to imbibe responsibly and to never, ever drive while under the influence of their products. Yet the next advertisement that flickers across the screen might extol the virtues of a similar product. NASCAR and other automobile-racing industries paste decals of beer companies across their cars' hoods and doors, touting these beverages as the cars race around the track, all the while expecting spectators to separate drinking and driving. No wonder drunk driving is such a problem in our society -- drinking and driving often are intertwined by the profit-first companies. The most vulnerable victims to the allure of drinking and driving seem to be young people of college age or even younger."

Tags:driving, alcohol, research

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This paper examines how the film, "Pirates of the Caribbean", was an immensely successful film on a financial basis, as well as on an entertainment, and even an artistic, basis. It looks at how, while there are a number of elements that added up to success for the movie, including the performance of Johnny Depp and the allure of heart-throb Orlando Bloom, the fundamental reason that the movie was successful is that it managed to take a tried-and-true movie formula and do something genuinely new with it. It shows how the film walked the thin line between being just another pirate movie and an extended version of the Disneyland ride without the fun of those two quick drops at the beginning and something so esoteric that it would not have the 'legs' to draw in a large audience.

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"The movie also had the advantage of keying in to a certain current zeitgeist: No one who wants to make money (or make movies, or make movies that make money) can afford to ignore trends in fashion, and for reasons not entirely clear pirate movies were popular this year. Maybe in a time of political and economic uncertainty, the pirate movie offers Americans a perfect chance to escape the problems of their everyday lives. After running away to join the circus, running off to sea is one of the longstanding fantasies that many people have."

Tags:jonny, depp, orlando, bloom

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The paper investigates the factors responsible for this medium's great popularity. It looks at its appeal to the democratizing influence, to people's desire for status, to natural curiosity, and to competitiveness. It also looks at other factors influencing the attraction to reality television, such as the desire to socialize and the allure of this medium for the less intellectual audience. The paper concludes with a brief synopsis of its main points.

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"Reality television can include news programming, interviews, documentaries, and almost all programs that are portrayed as non-fictional. While many definitions of reality television include programs that are recreated portrayals of past events, reality television is generally does not include "docudramas" that have invented or composite characters, or that show events that are largely fictional in nature, or historical events have been significantly changed from their original incident (CFP: Reality Television; NTVS Research Team).
Perhaps the most interesting feature of reality television is its overwhelming popularity with traditionally fickle and sometimes jaded North American audiences. A myriad of shows, including Survivor, Big Brother, The Real World, Blind Date, Temptation Island, A Wedding, and the latest fad, American Idol, have each reached close to the top of the Nielsen ratings in the past few years."

Tags:factors, popularity, appeal, democratizing, influence, status, curiosity, competitiveness, audience, non-fiction

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Savannah, Georgia is a city rich in tradition, Southern charm, and old-fashioned hospitality. Since British General James Oglethorpe landed on the historic bluff in 1733 to establish America's 13th colony, Savannah has established itself as one of the nation's most distinctive cities. This paper outlines the history of Savannah, including the city's unique design and its ornate historic district. The historic district has established the identity of Savannah as a town of grace and allure. This paper analyzes the role of the historic district in creating the economy of Savannah, as well as delves into tourism's effects on the economy of present day Savannah.

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"The colony would see a generation of peace where Savannah flourished on the world scene as a cosmopolitan city. Soon, farmers discovered that Savannah's soil was rich, and the climate was favorable for the cultivation of cotton and rice. Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793, made cotton a profitable and affordable crop. Plantations and slavery became highly profitable systems for whites in the neighboring Low country of South Carolina; therefore, Georgia, the last free colony, legalized slavery. The trans-Atlantic slave trade would bring millions of Africans to the America's with many passing through the port of Savannah forming the Gullah culture of the Atlantic coastal communities in Georgia and South Carolina."

Tags:South, Carolina, Sherman, John, Berendt

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Toronto's waste management focuses on shipping and land filling. When the Adams mine proposal was defeated in the fall of 2000, significant new recycling and composting initiatives were announced. However, they were recently abandoned in a round of budget cuts. This paper examines the allure and the environmental danger, of land filling.