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    MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING MAMA BEAR – CASE ANALYSIS VIEWPOINT Mama Bear Child Care Center – Mylene Bartolome‚ Antonette Evangelista‚ Mary Rose Ang and Alalyn Ramos. TIME CONTEXT Last quarter of year 2010. I. PROBLEM STATEMENT How can “MAMA BEAR” strategically expand their customer reach? II. STATEMENT OF THE OBJECTIVE To gain additional market segment in less than 1 year period. III. AREAS OF CONSIDERATION Strengths * Mama Bear’s services are customized‚

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    2. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker‚ Maggie and her mother’s relationship is depicted as tight-knit. This can be interpreted throughout the story because Mama describes how they spend the majority of their time together. An example of this is when Mama says‚ “Maggie will marry John Thomas… then I’ll be free to sit here and I guess just sing church songs by myself”‚ implying that they normally sing together. Mama also predicts Maggie’s actions. She predicts how Maggie will “be nervous until her sister

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    critic and after reading Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” and Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie”‚ we experience two characters that display this to be true. In “Everyday Use” we are introduced to Maggie‚ the timid and homely little sister who has burns throughout her arms and legs due to a house fire which occurred many years prior to when the story takes place. In “The Glass Menagerie” we read about Laura‚ an introverted character who suffers from a childhood illness causing her

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    of her household duties due to a lack of opportunity to further educate herself. This ‘uneducated’ attitude can be particularly seen through Mama’s interactions with Beneatha‚ a more educated and modern young female characters‚ in their discussions regarding heritage and education. Mama is unable to understand Beneatha’s refusal to assimilate and need to express herself as an African-American women who is proud of her heritage‚ asking her continuously ‘what is it you want to express?’ This creates

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    Why is family the most important relationship to Mama in A Raisin in the Sun? Mama is a character in A Raisin in the Sun who tries to keep everyone together because family is important. She believes it’s the most important relationship because she’s the head of the family‚ she strives for happiness‚ and she wants to follow her husband’s values. First‚ Mama is the head of the family and she makes most of the decisions. The decisions she makes in this novel are for everyone’s happiness. Her decisions

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    Mama and the Graduation Present In the story mama and the graduation present‚ Katrin begs for an expensive present that her family cannot afford what she wants. When Mama offers Katrin her brooch she refuses it. It is near graduation time for Katrin. Katrin brags to her friends of the expensive graduation present that she is so sure of receiving. She has her eye on a little pink dresser set in Mr. Schiller’s drugstore window. Katrin tells her Mama of the custom

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    have wanted. In the play‚ Mama states‚ I guess that’s how come that man finally worked hisself to death like he done" (1483). This shows how the grandfather did everything he could to keep his family happy even if it meant working until he couldn’t work anymore and as a result‚ his life was sacrificed for his family’s happiness. Everyone in the family has their own plans for the money. Walter wants to invest in a liquor store‚ Beneatha wants to save for medical school and Mama isn’t really worried about

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    Dee has always been different from her Mama and sister‚ Maggie. In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker‚ Dee feels that her family heritage is a nuisance and wants to have a different one. Coming home from college one weekend she brings a boy with her named Hakim-a-barber‚ are visiting the family and having a dinner that Mama has prepared for everyone. Dee has many conflicts with her mother. Dee has high self-appearance standards‚ wants everything to be hers‚ and knows little about her family

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    The short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker took place in the late 60’s or early 70’s. During this time‚ Blacks were given the opportunity‚ along with the tools‚ to explore and gain control of their political‚ social‚ and culture identity in American society. In “Everyday Use” Dee had arrived home a product of the cultural shift that had taken place. She is a first generation black college student and is experiencing the same search for belonging that blacks were forced into during this time.

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    Heritage The story “Everyday Use”‚ written by Alice Walker‚ is a story of heritage and learning what kind of person you are. In Alice Walker’s stories‚ they focus on personal and African-American situations back in the early 50s’. In “Everyday Use”‚ the story is based on background information about Dee and Maggie’s life that’s being told by their mother. Dee and Maggie have chosen to live their lives in a different way. As a result‚ Dee and Maggie brought a different view of the meaning of

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