Outback Essays

  • Outback Steakhouse's Competitive Advantage

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    selection methods at Outback Steakhouse help the organization achieve a competitive advantage a. The employee selection methods at Outback Steakhouse help the organization achieve a competitive advantage by discovering and hiring employees who fit their needs and strategic plans. Implementing a challenging selection process allowed Outback to select the most qualified candidates who will adhere at all times to the vision and beliefs of what the restaurant stands for. Outback Steakhouse utilizes psychological

  • The Drover's Wife: Hardship of Life in the Outback

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    The Drover's Wife:  Hardship of Life in the Outback The short-story "The Drover's Wife" is written by Henry Lawson, Australia's most famous short-story writer and poet. "The Drover's Wife" is probably Lawson's best-known work, and was first published in the collection entitled "While the Billy Boils" in 1892. Lawson was deeply interested in the effects of the harsh Australian outback on people's lives, having himself spent 18 months in the bush. This was expressed in a number of so-called "bush

  • Outback Steakhouse

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    Outback Steakhouse When deciding upon a steakhouse to eat at there is many places to choose from. I always went to Longhorn steakhouse until I was introduced to Outback steakhouse. In my opinion, outback steakhouse is number one for many reasons but the top reason is for its outstanding quality food and service. When you first walk into outback you will be greeted with the hostess opening the door for you with a welcoming smile of their face. After you check in there is nice seating areas for you

  • Outback Steakhouse Goes International

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    The two first Outback Steakhouse stores were created by Chris Sullivan, Bob Basham and Tim Gannon in 1988 in Tampa. Within 7 years, the company became "the fastest growing US steakhouse chain with over 200 stores throughout the United States". In 1994, the company's stock increased from $22.63 to $32. Moreover, Outback Steakhouse seen as an example of a great success story was awarded many times. In the context of this successful evolution of the company, the question of its internalisation and

  • Outback Steakhouse Case Study

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    STRATEGIC IMPACT OF BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOR “OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE RESTAURANT” Outback Steakhouse is an American casual dining restaurant chain based in Tampa, Florida with over 1200 locations in 22 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It was founded in1988, and now owned and operated in the United States by Bloomin' Brands and by other franchise and venture agreements internationally. And now Bloomin' Brands are opening its branch in Lahore Pakistan. PAKISTAN

  • What role does the landscape play in contributing to three Australian

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    Lawson, Short-Shift Saturday by Gavin Casey, and Trees Can Speak by Alan Marshall. I will argue through contributing to character development, they provide insight into the construction of contempory Australian identity. In Water Them Geraniums the outback is shown to be an emasculating force, particularly for women, that strips away their humanity until they function in a mechanical way to survive off the land. In Short-Shift Saturday the narrator is a product of an inherited colonial culture and imagines

  • One Night the Moon Film

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    One Night the Moon (2001), is based on the events that took place in the harsh Australian outback in the early 1930s. The film evolves when a young girl, Emily, goes missing into the mountainous terrain of the Australian outback one night to follow the moon. Her family, European settlers, though desperate to find her, fail to employ the skills of a local Indigenous tracker, Albert Riley, due to their own racism. Perkins uses many literary elements such as camera angles, music, dialogue and editing

  • Gillian Armstrong

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    became the first woman to direct a feature length drama in Australia in 46 years, (Carter, 2002). The film is about Sybylla Melvyn, a sensitive, passionate young woman with high hopes for a writing career. When offered the opportunity to escape her outback station home to stay with relatives in New South Wales, she accepts willingly. In New South Wales, her cultural openness and writing career is encouraged. She eventually meets Harry Beecham who is wealthy and handsome. Sybylla struggles with the tough

  • Adaptations of Australian Animals to Desert Conditions

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    Desert Conditions Australian desert animals are exposed to such conditions as scarcity of food, increased body temperature, and dehydration. However, through behavioral, physiological, and anatomical adaptations, they can survive in the harsh outback. What specific functions allow desert animals to conserve water and reduce heat gain while maintaining homeostasis? How is metabolism affected? For many Australian animals, enzymes or cells are altered and hormones adjusted. Australian Western chestnut

  • Interpreting Worldviews in Art and Cinema

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    worldview typically through the arts. Artwork, music, and movies are just a few examples. For instance, in the movie, “The Earthling” (1980) starring William Holden, there are a combination of worldviews portrayed. Taking place in the Australian Outback, its perspective is primarily naturalistic, but also conveys a transcendental view of God. Ignoring any theistic worldview, the primary message of this deeply existential movie is that man is alone in the world, without any deep meaning or fundamental

  • Comparing Lawson's Wife 'And The Bush Undertaker'

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    uses first hand observation and masterful use of the distinctively visual language to provide the reader with a bleak and uninviting perspective of the Australian outback. Visual images are the key to understanding a world that the audience have not experienced and it provides an insight into the harsh environments of the Australian Outback and the sacrifices women have to make living in such harsh and terror filled environments. These points are converted through Henry Lawson's “The Drovers Wife” and

  • Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson

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    solicitor, war officer/ correspondent, novelist and a journalist. His most commonly known name ‘Banjo’ was actually formed in his journalism time, as pseudonym to write under that he derived from the name of a family racehorse. While his love for the outback and horsemanship came from living in th...

  • Figurative Language In Out Back

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    mouldering swag out back”. Lawson ends the outback rather gloomy by repeating the second stanza again. The reason for this is that Lawson wanted to emphasis on the fact that this was the life of an itinerant worker or a poor person years ago and that although many attempted to search for work they most likely would meet their end the harsh, dessert-like environment. This couldn’t be avoided because the time has come for a shearer who “must carry their swag outback”. Although this

  • The Poetry of Judith Wright

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    The Poetry of Judith Wright Abstract This report discusses the influences of Australia as well as the universal impact on the poetry of Judith Wright. It contains an evaluation of both the techniques and the "plot" behind the poems "Remittance Man, "South of My Days" and "Eve to her Daughters" as well as a comparison between the three poems. Australia, as Wright¡¦s homeland, has had a significant effect on the content of her poems but references to English scenes are also consistent as well

  • The Drover's Wife Quotes

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    An exposed and desolate house set in the untamed outback is the setting of ‘The Drover’s Wife’. Lawson describes the two-roomed house as being “built of stringy bark”. Similarly, he identifies the environment around the house, such as “bushes… of rotten native apple-trees” and a “waterless creek”. Lawson further explains the surroundings and her isolation in this quote “Bush all round- bush with no horizon…the country is flat”, here Lawson has used the word “no horizon” to state that there is nothing

  • Comparing The Real World and Survivor

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    Comparing The Real World and Survivor While MTV's The Real World places twenty-somethings in unique arrangements in which to live as they would like for several months, CBS's Survivor elicits peculiar behavior from contestants living in unusual circumstances. Despite fundamental differences, the continued success of both The Real World[1] and Survivor[2] illustrates that American viewers love to watch reality television shows with interesting locales, competitions or tasks, and natural personal

  • The Voice Of The Australian Bush By Natalie Cook

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    Natalie Cook He’s a member of the Outback Club, travelling down the Three Chain Road in his ute to the nearest Hat Town with the Boys from the Bush in a free country thanks to the Spirit of the Anzacs. Country music legend Lee Kernaghan has become an iconic storyteller of the Australian spirit and bush life through his award winning songs. Kernaghan's connection to quintessential Australian life is one of the main reasons he is regarded as a hero of the Outback. With dust on his boots and mud

  • Tim Storrier

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    incorporating different artstyles into the one artwork. He challenges the audiences comfort zone by depicting carcasses. Tim Storrier's artworks have been influenced by his childhood memories, dreams and myths of the Australian outback, country life, his travels to the outback, his travels to Egypt, and Dutch seascapes. Dutch artist Theo Kuijpers, English artists Constable and Turner, French artists Delacroix and Gericault, and Australian artists Russel Drysdale and Sydney Nolan have influenced Storrier's

  • Walkabout (Film 1971)

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    stranded in the Australian outback. Without enough food or water, they have to find their way back without any help. When they run into the aboriginal boy, the children were almost at the "end of the line". In order to survive, they are forced to work and live by the lifestyle of the aboriginal boy, who is (to quote the quote) "a spectrum opposite, who they are forced to coexist with) 2) The landscape portrayed in the movie is the Australian outback. The outback is nothing other than a

  • Marlow and Kurtz in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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    the authority and control of his organization, that wants to put a stop to his extreme measures and "unsound methods" (Coppola, 1979; Longman, 2000). As a result of Kurtz actions, the character of Marlow is sent to retrieve Kurtz from the desolate outback and as the reader we are lead through the involvement of a tension-building journey up the great river Congo. Along the way, Marlow is given bits of information about Kurtz's actions and finds that he himself identifies with, and becoming somewhat