Need an research paper on i used to live here once by jean rhys. Needs to be 2 pages. Please no plagiarism. Stepping stones and rivers have traditionally been symbolic of the journey of life. Rivers are also important as boundaries and crossing them often signifies the passage from one world to another. The crossing of river Jordan into the Promised Land, for instance, is a crucial element of the Bible (Ferber, 2007, p. 170). The stepping stones, that are at first harder to cross and easy afterward are also symbolic of the passage of life. This is the first hint that the speaker may be coming from a different land or even a different plane of existence. The emphasis on the “glassy” sky is yet another symbolic clue. Glassy has connotations of an unnatural or artificial material, as it is man-made. It can also signify a certain deadness of the subject, an absence of expression as in the phrase “glassy eyes”. The absence of life, and the distance she feels from manmade objects further intensify the suggestion that the speaker is already dead. The narrator also mentions several objects of the landscape that she finds missing, suggesting a rather long absence. There was now a road that had replaced the pave and the pine tree she knew was gone. The pine tree is often used to symbolize immortality and its disappearance is yet another subtle indicator of the narrator’s death. Instead of the pine tree, there is now a mango tree under which two children are playing. The entire image is deeply symbolic of a new life. Other than imagery like the stones or the tree and verbal symbols like “glassy”, Jean Rhys also uses color symbols as well as symbolism in the action. For instance, the grey eyes of the boy who looks right through the speaker are a sudden contrast to the previous color-scheme of yellow and green. The symbolic value of the life-giving green and yellow, the joy of the clear “blue day” is replaced by the cold grey of the boy’s eyes and this is emphasized in the boy’s speech, “Hasn’t it gone cold all of a sudden [?]” as well as the action of the children who, in a manner of speaking, leave her out in the cold. The narrator’s instinctive reaching out towards the children is also symbolic of her desire to belong. She does not want to be the unacknowledged outsider. This short story on the theme of death can be read in an alternative manner also. It can be read as an outsider’s return to her homeland which she finds changed beyond recognition. A. C. Morell interprets the story as “It relates a brief, emotionally significant incident during Jean Rhys’s return after many years of exile to her old home in Dominica. […] What she knows is that she has brought on the cold. Her strangeness inspires mistrust if not fear in children. […] And there can be no return home to her warm and colorful West Indian world” (1979, p. 237). Seen in this light, “I Used to Live Here Once” is still a story of loss and death, except a more symbolic nature than physical death. That the speaker realizes for “the first time” (that she is an outsider) also supports this view of the story.&nbsp.

Need an research paper on consumer brand relations. Needs to be 8 pages. Please no plagiarism. Several constructs initiate, maintain and prolong the consumer-product relationship.

The relationship between consumers and brands is one of the most influential forces in marketing. This explains the vast literature on the importance, concepts, and nature of the consumer-brand relationship. This review of literature explains the conceptualization and significance of the consumer-brand relationship, as envisioned by different authors. According to Patterson and O’Malley (2006), the relationship that exists between brands and consumers emanates from the acceptance of various ideals that brands posses and that are beneficial to the consumers. The concept of consumer relationship with particular brands emanates from the intrinsic satisfaction that consumers’ gain and the fulfillment of self. There is a notable increase in literature on brand-consumer relationship over the past decade as noted by Patterson and O’Malley (2006, p.10).

The high number of publications on brand-consumer relationship reiterates the considerable importance of the concept of relationship in branding. In the view of Patterson and O’Malley (2006, p.10), the concept of consumer behavior can well be understood through the exploration of brand-consumer relations. Brand management is among the main considerations in promoting relationship marketing that depends on stable consumer relationships. Patterson and O’Malley (2006, p.12) explain the concept of brand relationship to surpass the mere identification of a brand with a producing company but the attachment of trusts, by consumers, to a brand. Regarding the relationship, the role of brand personality is invaluable in developing the trust that consumers have towards a brand. The existence of the relationship is a factor that is dependent on the extent of the growth of the brand, itself, and the increasing level of attractiveness associated with the brand. The concept of the relationship is that it develops over time through improvement in features that brands bear and their appeal to consumers.

There are diverse types and levels of the relationship between brands and consumers, as Patterson and O’Malley (2006, p.12) outlines. They explain the explicit interrelatedness between interpersonal relations and the concept of the relationship between brands and loyalty of consumers. Such relations include the characters as love and passion that individuals attach to interpersonal relations and brand loyalty. The expression of self-connection with a brand and the extent of its initiation of satisfaction constitute one of the determinants of strong consumer brand relations, according to Patterson and O’Malley (2006, p.13). The interdependence that consumers perceive to gain from a brand is among the major determinants of strong brand-consumer relations. Patterson and O’Malley (2006, p.13) identify intimacy as one of the greatest constructs related to strong consumer brand relations. This refers to the extent of knowledge that consumers have on the functionality of a brand. Another construct of a strong relationship between consumers and brands is the brand partner quality that entails the attribute that consumers attribute to their preferred brands.