Chapter 1- Saying No: The Basics
In the first chapter of How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty, the authors present the basics of saying no. But why say no? Many times people are persuaded into doing things they don’t want to do, simply because they can’t find the right words to say no. Another reason why people don’t say no is because they are afraid of what the person will think of them if they say no. I can understand this, because many times I have found myself doing things for people because I couldn’t think of a good excuse to get myself out. After reading the first chapter, I learned the basic techniques to politely saying no. The first one is surprisingly simple—just buy more time. If you can put off your decision to accepting a request from someone, you then have the time to really think about what it will take to satisfy the other person. One of the phrases they suggested was, “I need to find out if I work first”. As a college student, my work schedule is anything but consistent, so that phrase will be great for me to use. Another suggestion was to say you have a “policy” against doing something. It’s good because it lets the person know how important it is to do what you need to do. But for me, I don’t think this would be any good, because my friends wouldn’t buy the fact that I have a “policy”.
The prevention technique seemed like it would be a good one. I have a friend who whenever I see, he always wants to go out to a bar and drink. I normally don’t mind, but if I go over to visit him and I’m not in the mood to go out, he will insist that we go anyways. Prevention would be good in this case because if I don’t feel like going out that night, I should probably just avoid this friend entirely. Lying to someone in order not to hurt them, or the face-saving excuse is also a good tactic. If an unattractive girl were to ask me out, I wouldn’t tell her no because I thought she was unattractive. I would probably tell her that I have a lot of work to do for the next couple of months, and I don’t really have time to be going out with her.
The industry is concentrated, with a few major companies owning the majority of brands. The Coke vs Pepsi rivalry itself is very intense. Market growth is not as high as it once was, and the market appears to be fragmenting because of obesity concerns and the need to develop more nutritious offerings
Ooka Shohei named the last chapter of Fires on the Plain “In Praise of Transfiguration.” Through the whole novel, readers witness the protagonist Tamura transform from an innocent soldier to a killer. Readers watch him go from condemning the practice of eating human flesh to eating human flesh for his own survival. At the end, Readers see Tamura’s redemption as he shot Nagamatsu who killed and ate his own comrade Yasuda. What was the difference between two men who both killed and ate human beings? To Tamura, the guilt of eating human flesh distinguished himself from Nagamatsu who cold-bloodily killed Yasuda. As Tamura recalled, “I do not remember whether I shot him at that moment. But I do know that I did not eat his flesh; this I should certainly have remembered.” (224) The fact of him shooting at Nagamatsu had no importance to Tamura. However, his emphasis on not eating
The city shown in the background of the photograph is Dubai, the second largest city in the state of United Arabs Emirates. However, one may be wondering, how a city came to be in that desert environment. The answer is in the natural resources the country has. The oil boom in the Middle East has led to great economic growth making some Arabian nations to become more westernized and industrialized.
As you grow older, you’ll be faced with some challenging decisions to make in your life. Some don’t have a clear choice or right or wrong answer- like should you listen to a person and make the decision to hurt someone or should you not listen to them. That is the decision you need to make. Making a decision on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder. Like said earlier in the essay, we pass the hat down to someone else to make the decision for us because we cannot make the decision
To summarize, Pepsi tries to create a new target audience which is adults. Compared to Coca-cola, Pepsi does it more fair and success to create a more divine atmosphere. In my point of view, this is a winning concept in the long run.
Coke continuously out-stands Pepsi, even though they share a very similar taste and colour, however Coke should not be the drink that receives all the love and attention for what it offers. Despite their similar soda colour, the drinks actually contain some different ingredients, which produce a different taste, and affect the body differently. Furthermore, the way the companies markets their drinks makes a huge contribution to how successful their products will become. The major element for success however stems from their impact on society and how the companies utilize their social power to evolve. The two major soda companies are constantly head to head with one another, yet it is what they do that sets them apart.
“Words Don’t Mean What They Mean” by Steven Pinker is an essay clarifies that people use vagueness and innuendo to deliver information instead of saying what they need to say directly. According to Eschholz, Rosa, and Clark (2013), Steven Pinker was born in Canada the city of Montreal in 1954. Later, Steven Pinker becomes a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. (Eschholz, Rosa, and Clark, 2013). According to Harvard university website (2017) “Words Don’t Mean What They Mean” was published in 2007. In fact, in 2007 his total publications were 15 publications in one year (Harvard University, 2017). Steven Pinker writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time and The Atlantic (Harvard University, 2017). In 1994 he published the first book that written for a general audience which is “The Language Instinct” (Harvard University, 2017). According to TED talk’s website (2017), Steven Pinker has done several TED talks videos.
One such instance involved the act of moving into a new apartment and attempting to persuade friends to help with the work. In this example, the author offered dinner and drinks for helpers, and reminded some of his past assistance with their own similar tasks. This was a demonstration of reciprocity. The author made sure to begin these attempts at persuasion well in advance of the move in hopes of accounting for scarcity in his friend’s availability of time. The author also presented a clear plan as to how the process would be achieved and in what timeframe. This was an employment of the principle of authority, demonstrating knowledge about how well-developed the task’s proposed resolution already was. Over the days as the move date approached, reminders were mentioned in hopes of making sure a commitment would be maintained. Changes to the plan were not made and this demonstrated consistency. The consensus principle was used at any point a new friend was asked to help, showing the burden wasn’t only being placed on them because others already saw fit to join. Lastly, the principle of liking was relevant to the fact that friends were asked rather than strangers, and that their own inconveniences had been considered and would be alleviated or compensated for as best as
The birth of Coca Cola began in May 1886 when the first coke formula was invented. It was invented by a pharmacist who lived in Atlanta, Georgia called John Pemberton as drink at soda fountains. The name of the drink “Coca Cola” was a suggestion given by Pemberton’s bookkeeper Frank Robinson (Bellis). Pemberton wanted his invention to bring him commercial success, however, Coke did not do well in its early years (Martin). The man died in August 1888. After Pemberton’s death, a business man named Asa Candler bought his formula for $2300 and rescued his Coke business (Bellis). In 1891, Candler became the sole owner of Coca-Cola (Martin). Coca-Cola became one of the most popular fountain drinks in America by the late 1890s (Bellis). However, Pemberton would never see this commercial success he had been looking for during his lifetime since his life ended in 1888 before Coca-Cola became popular. After the 1960s, soda fountains became less popular and coke began to be sold in bottles. On April 23, 1985, the “New Coke” formula was released (Bellis). The Coke we drink today is the “New Coke” that comes in bottles.
Coke and Pepsi have been raging war for over a century now, turning their sodas into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Coke has been able to drive more earnings for its bottom line, and while Coke’s net income has been trending downward in recent years, it manages to stay ahead thanks to superior margins. Pepsi, on the other hand, has produced consistent net profit margins of around 10%, while Coke margins have been in the 15-18% range for the past several years (O’Brien). Every company has a Market Cap, which is basically a fancy way of saying how much the company is worth, and Coca-Cola’s market cap is a whopping $180 billion. Pepsi’s Market Cap is $150 billion, which may not seem like a big difference, but $30 billion is a lot of cheddar. Therefore, Coca-Cola owns 51% of the soft drink market, whereas Pepsi only owns 22% of it. Coke claims to own a total of 35 different brands, including Fanta, Sprite, Powerade, Vitaminwater, and many others. Pepsi owns 22 different brands, including 7up, Gatorade, and Mountain Dew “Coke (Coca-Cola) vs Pepsi - Soda
When it comes to date rape, which can happen with a co-worker, friend, boyfriend it’s hard to believe that these people would do such a thing but ways to limit it is; go out in a group rather than alone, keep an eye on your drink that you made yourself, notice their mood and reaction to things. According to the Huffington post website there are seven warning signs that can help women avoid date rape. “ Your date tries to get you to ignore your instincts, your date wants to take you to a secluded location, appearance will lull you into a sense of safety: meaning just because he is handsome you will tend to feel unrealistic security, your date encourage you to drink or take drugs, your date tries to separate you from your friends, Accomplices and conspiracies: There may be multiple perpetrators who conspire to commit the crime, and date rapist amp up their attack gradually so the victim doubts herself” (Bradley-Colleary,
Every day you have a choice to do something in order to give up another. This is an example of modern day economics, which revolves around the world. You need to make the right choice that either you have to make or someone else makes for you. If you decide to change the choice chosen, good or bad will come upon you. Things to help you with choice is listening, understandment, and detailed thinking. If you don’t make the right choice, it could change how your life goes. Things that you need to worry about would be reputation, mental demons, and false curiosity. Reputation meaning that it would reflect on your social status and mental demons meaning that you don’t want to do it but the part inside you that does is your mental demon. For example, you decide to skip a class to go do something bad with some people you’ve never met. You have the 2 choices to either stay at school or go. When you decide to go, you get arrested for illegal stuff. When you don’t go, you aren’t hurt or in jail, but you make up for what you missed in class. Choice is the most important because if you make a bad choice, you usually have to lie about it, which goes around with honesty. If you choke on your words and can’t tell the full truth, this ties around feelings that you have for either the person or the
As we all should know, PepsiCo is one of the world’s leader in convenient food and beverages. PepsiCo shares are traded worldwide and particularly in NYSE (United States). PepsiCo is in the same line with Coca cola and Cadbury Schweppes as the dominating beverage companies. PepsiCo has successfully built a great brand name rivaling with coca cola, probably because PepsiCo unlike coca cola has its own bottling companies. With a competitive strategy based on differentiation rather than cost leadership like its fellow competitors PepsiCo invests highly in new packaging, flavors, formulas to outsmart their competition. Founded in 1919, producing a variety of sweet and grain-based snacks, carbonated and non-carbonated
The two companies in the same industry used for this assignment will be Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. These companies are similar because they are in the beverage industry. They were both established in the 1800’s and to this day are expanding more and more. This report will examine the financial analysis of each company as well as different business aspects that they convey such as type of business ownership, how economics affects business, the role of the government in business, leadership styles, motivating employees and promotional and marketing strategies.
"People! Come on! All of us are cutting history. Who wants to go take that stupid exam? We're going to BreadSticks instead. Let's go!" says the coolest kid in your class. Do you do what you know is right and go take the history exam? Or do you give in and go with the crowd? As you grow older, you'll be faced with some challenging decisions. Some don't have a clear right or wrong answer - should you practice the piano or text your girlfriend? Other decisions involve serious moral questions - should you cut class, should you lie to your parents? Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and pressure you to make a certain choice, it can be much harder.