Book Review: Co Aytch or a Side Show of the Big Show Sam Watkins was born in 1839 in Tennessee where he enlisted to join to the First Tennessee Regiment and fight alongside the Tennessean Confederate Army. During his time in the Civil War, Watkins identified himself as Maury Grays. In his memoir, Co. Aytch or a Side Show of the Big Show, Sam distinctively displays details to describe his life changing experiences from conflicts that arose from the war such as when he discusses his battle at Shiloh. Being that Samuel endured the Civil War himself, his vivid descriptions are even more believable. Furthermore, in Co Aytch, Watkins constantly reminds readers that he, in no way, “intends to write history; rather, he sought to convey his own impressions of a ‘few sketches and incidents from the observation of a ‘high private’ in the rear ranks of the rebel army,
Could you imagine having a kid practically from the 60’s join your school? The novel that I read last month is called Schooled, by Gordon Korman. The book was about a thirteen year old boy named Capricorn, who’s hippie grandmother, Rain, broke her hip and needed to go to the hospital, leaving Cap with no one to take care of him. May I mention, Cap was homeschooled by his grandmother. So, without someone to teach him or someone to live with, he was forced to go to a public school, Claverage Middle School.
The opinion piece published by the Los Angeles Times, “Amazon.com Is a 21st Century Deal with the Devil,” by Amy Koss states her central argument that Amazon is destroying jobs, malls, and stores in the outside world. I strongly disagree with the statement that Amazon is destroying jobs and stores because I believe Amazon brings convenience by allowing people to sell things they might not need that others do. According to Koss,” I also think that it is at the convenience of consumers who have a difficult time going outside because of a medical issue or if they’re just lazy because of the fact that they can order something and have it delivered to them in less than a few days with an even cheaper price tag. Online shopping on Amazon allows others to earn jobs as well because they might work from home and work for Amazon or they might deliver items to the consumer. Some people may even start their own online selling business on Amazon.
Adolescence; the transitional period of our lives when we are developing from children to young adults. It may be the highlight of our lives before having to actually grow up and become adults. Though despite this, we all know it is a remarkably difficult period in our lives. Not everyone is going through the same problems as each other, but we can all agree that adolescence is undeniably not all fun and games. Each of us face our own difficulties with life, with the most common issues related to family, relationships, school, self esteem, and coming of age.
Everyone has a favorite store that they prefer to shop at like Wal-Mart, Target, and BestBuy to name a few. However, when talking about favorite big name stores, Amazon can’t be left out of the equation. Amazon was founded in 1994 which put it as the youngest of retailers. However, with the boom of modern technology and internet, Amazon is now one of the biggest name when it comes to major retailers and is still continuing to grow bigger every year.
Works Cited Atkins, Stephen E. The 9/11 Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2011. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 18 Oct. 2014.
We will also look at how Amazon builds trust with their customers to keep them coming back to shop. Additionally, this paper will analyze the internal strengths and weaknesses of each company and their strategies used to increase profitability and efficiency. By using each companies balance sheet, income statements, and financial ratio we will be able to see how each company is performing and if they are staying ahead of the competition. After looking at all aspects of both companies functionalities, we can the make recommendations of ways to improve their competitive advantage so that the companies continue to be front runners in their competitive markets. Mid-Term Exam Industry Overview
Amazon’s competitive strategy is cost leadership. Amazon has achieved a lot on a great scale that it gets the best prices from its vendors so they can operate in very flexible and thin margins and sell their items easily at retail prices and make money. They also provide shipping products for a reasonable cheap price. They also have improved their warehouses by giving some space to other sellers who want to sell their items through Amazon. They differentiate and provide better quality than their competitors across the industry.
Amazon, one of the most successful technology companies in the world, is planning to evaluate place for its next headquarter, which has been known as HQ2. According to CNBC’s news (2017), cities from U.S. and Canada (which includes Vancouver) will submit their proposal before October 19th. As the first headquarter of Amazon, Seattle shows the world how amazing can be when you work in Amazon. Unlike the other technology-based companies in the bay area, Amazon put its building in Seattle’s urban center, “ Employees in suburban campuses arrive by car or corporate buses in the morning where they find everything they need — free food, dry cleaning, barbers, sometimes even doctors” (CNBC, 2017). Becoming one of Amazon’s employees is not easy.
Today, many people prefer to order products from Amazon instead of going to stores or malls. c. DESCRIPTION OF MY SUBJECT (AMAZON.COM): Amazon (Amazon.com) is the world’s largest online retailer and a prominent cloud services provider. The company was initially a book seller, then later it expanded to sell a wide variety of consumer goods and digital media as well as its own electronic devices, such as the Kindle e-book reader, Kindle Fire tablet and Fire TV, a streaming media adapter (Rouse, 2018).
However, Amazon has advanced websites and high brand recognition that other competitors may not reach its level. ii) Threat of substitutes The book publishers can publish the books and distribute them directly to the public. iii) Power of buyers Amazon experiences a low buyer power since the book items can’t be bargained since the prices are fixed. iv) Bargaining power of suppliers
The business model of Amazon ensures that the product is available for the customer at the best possible price. The fast shipping strategies also ensure customer satisfaction. These aspects offer an excellent value proposition to the customer. Since Amazon is present globally and is successfully into business for a long time period, the strategies of Amazon are sustainable.
Amazon’s major guide has been its strategy for low cost and effective innovations gaining advantage over its competitors. Amazon’s established strategies can be deemed suitable and successful and thus making it dominating player in the market. This dominance may very well continue as Amazon explores new innovative products and
Amazon has achieved many milestones from starting in the founder’s garage in 1994 to the growth in revenue to US$147.8 million in 1997 and then to the revenue growth of US$177.866 billion in 2017 (Amazon, 2018a, Amazon, 2018b and Jurevicius, 2018). These milestones were achieved through tenacious focused strategies of meeting their customers’ needs and wants. These strategies have maintained and expanded their customer base locally and internationally and have increased its market shares and profit over the last two decades. In addition, projection for the company’s growth and expansion for the next three to five years looks positive as it predicted to grow at the same rate with its expansion internationally and continued focused in satisfying consumers’ wants (Amazon, 2018a). Although, some factors such as governmental policies, legal issues and natural disasters could pose a threat to Amazon’s growth plans, the management team led by the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) are working on mitigating the risk (Amazon, 2018a).
3.3 Customers and Competitors Customers Amazon customers consist of upper & middle class social groups who have inclination towards using E-commerce portals and are comfortable with online shopping. Majority of the customers are professionals or businessmen who are busy with their business/Job & find it convenient to purchase anything online rather than visiting the physical outlet in order to save time & money. Furthermore, the customers might also be the ones who are searching for deals.
