4‚ Prompt 4 “At dark‚ shadowy intersections‚ I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk‚ thunk‚ thunk‚ thunk of the driver - black‚ white‚ male‚ or female - hammering down the door locks(Staples 34).” Throughout the whole essay‚ Staples gives different examples of how society views him as a menace without even actually knowing him. A lot of the people he encounters are quick to judge him‚ mainly because of the color of his skin. He touches on the point that
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4 “At dark‚ shadowy intersections‚ I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk‚ thunk‚ thunk‚ thunk of the driver - black‚ white‚ male‚ or female - hammering down the door locks.” Throughout the whole essay‚ Staples gives different examples of how society views him as a menace without even actually knowing him. A lot of the people he encounters are quick to judge him‚ mainly because of the color of his skin. He touches on the point that it’s a little unfair that
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retail channels to reach end customers – Reshape the business to reduce cost • In addition to its retail outlets‚ Staples sells office products via the Internet and through its catalog and direct sales operations‚ including subsidiary Quill Corp - Take advantage of the increase in demand of electronics • Dependence on third-party vendors – Increase in online shopping • In 2015‚ Staples incurred expenses of $53 million in connection with the planned transaction to acquire Office Depot – Reshape the
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Hi everyone‚ We will discuss the Staples-Office Depot case. How would you characterize the industry structure? Oligopoly Small number of big firms‚ with notable entry barriers‚ high competition and rising demand‚ competitive prices‚ present on national scale‚ efficient cost structure. 1. Are there barriers to entry that help maintain this structure? The broad present of actual market competitors‚ the cross price elasticity. Economies of scale‚ advertising‚ channels of distribution‚ purchasing
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Table of Contents Introduction Overview of Staples‚ Inc. and Office Depot‚ Inc. ………………………………..……3 Case Objectives…….……………………………………………..………………..…….4 Financial Analysis Common-Size Vertical Analysis & Comparative Horizontal Analysis Common-Size Balance Sheet ….…………….……….……………..….……….4 Common-Size Consolidated Statement of Income…………….………..……. 5 Comparative Balance Sheet ….…………….……………………………..…….6 Comparative Consolidated Statement of Income……..……..……………….. 7 Financial Ratio Analysis
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the essay Just walk on by‚ author Brent Staples shares his experiences of living with the prejudged notion that he is someone to be feared because he is different from his peers. Brent Staples grew up in the small town of Chester‚ Pennsylvania where he was an outsider. He caught on to something that most of his friends probably had never thought about before or even felt that they had the right to think about. Somewhere along the line of his child hood Staples chose to rise above the normality of his
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Exemplification of Staple’s Essay The essay by Brent Staples‚ “Just Walk On By” is popular because most everyone has been exposed to a form of racism in their own lives. In today’s society‚ we are “judged” every day. Whether is it on appearance‚ our speech‚ or our standing in the social crowd‚ it is happening. Staple brings this point home when he said‚ “I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I’d come into – the ability to alter public space in ugly ways.” (236-237). When we are young
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Brent Staples’s “Just walk on by” was written to clarify how African-Americans like Staples go through stereotypes when in actually reality‚ shouldn’t be prejudged in the first place. He reminisces being perceived as dangerous just because of his skin color‚ and how this situation puts himself in endangerment. Staples arguers that people shouldn’t be so judgmentally and should get to know the person by the actions. He not only makes statements all through the text‚ but gives incidents of how his
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name Expos US 1 11 September 2013 Deepening the essay “Just walk on by” by Brent Staples In the front part of the essay “ Just walk on by”‚ Brent tells a few little stories which are talking about how bad racism is hurting him. He is hurting for racism as a child‚ as an adult‚ as a student and as a journalist. People are giving a mark of bad people on him. However‚ in the last paragraph‚ he “whistles melodies from Beethoven and Vivaldi....” (qtd. in Brent) and “Even steely New Yorkers
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The Three Staples I was laying on the ground bleeding the crap outta my head. Wait i’m too far ahead let me rewind a bit (flashback). out side with the warm sunset and the cool breeze of fall elegantly blows in my face. My friends and i were playing from noon to 7-ish. We all had smiles across our faces as big as they could stretch. Running in circles and up and over‚ down and under random objects trying to escape the tagger who was my friend chase. The smiles we had began to fade as we obtained
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