Commerce 299 is one of the most important courses in Sauder School of business. It provides students with essential information and skills to prepare them for future job interview. In this competitive market, finding a job is never easy, and after learning commerce 299, I believe I had obtained many necessary knowledge and skills to overcome future job searching and job interview challenges.

One of the most important knowledge I learned from commerce 299 is to be the real me. When people try to find a job, they always try to act like others, try to be like others. Especially when people see someone who gets a job, they try to act like that person thinking they will also get the job acting this way. However it is not true, trying to learn from other people doesn’t have negative impact on a person, but try to be another person has huge negative impact. Trying to be others make a person lose his or her own identity, a person’s identity is how others differentiate one human being from another. If we try to be another person, we will lose our own identity and as a result we will have nothing special to offer to our employers.

Another important lesson I learned from this course is to find my own interests. The time for choosing an option is almost here, and knowing what we really want to do is critical. Nobody wants to get stuck in an option he or she hates for another two or three years. So choosing one’s favorite option is much more important choosing the most popular major. The most popular major might not be what we thought it would be, and it could have negative impact on a person’s life and self-esteem if the person doesn’t like the program from the beginning. Our professor wasted a lot of time studying the major he didn’t like and doing the job he didn’t like. It cost him a lot! So be yourself and choose what you like is extremely important.

In the end, commerce 299 is a very useful course, and I am glad that Sauder School of business offers this course to its students. It is in the student’s best interest to start to prepare for their future now instead of letting their future slip through their hands.

Apple has been the leading brand in this new tablet market, and Apple had enjoyed a huge success with its first tablet device which called the iPad. This device contains most functions of a computer, and it is extremely easy to carry around. It has the advantages of being light, and the size of the device allows the user to put it into most of the bags people use. A while ago, Apple introduce the plan of iPad 2, which will be more advance than the originally iPad.

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According to the Apple website, iPad 2 will be 241mm tall, 186mm wide and 8.6mm thick. Also the iPad 2 will be 80 grams lighter than the original iPad. However the most impressive function of the new iPad, is its face time camera. It allows users to video chat with other users with the device or any other people who have a camera on their computer. The iPad 2 also allows user to record video and share them with friends at any time. However, a great product comes with great cost. The iPad 2 is considered expensive. The new iPad 2 will be sold at a base price of $499.00 for 16GB and Wi-Fi, the next step up is 32GB for $599.00, following is 64GB for $699.00. You can purchase the new iPad’s with 3G and Wi-Fi, and they will run in price as follows; $629.00 for 16GB, $739.00 for 32GB, and $829.00 for 64GB. If you are currently not an owner of the original iPad and are wandering how much more it will be to purchase the second generation instead of the first, the original is typically priced around $399.00 currently. So you could save about one-hundred dollars, but if you can afford to you might want to consider getting in on the iPad 2.

When I was young, I always gave up easy and afraid of challenges, troubles, and mistakes. A lot of times when I met a challenge I always tried to avoid the challenges. So, if there is a challenge, I couldn’t overcome it, and I appeared to be an unsuccessful person. However, deep inside my heart, I want to be successful, and I want to achieve something through my life time. After many times of avoiding challenge and troubled by failures, I finally came to realize that is not because I can not overcome difficult tasks or challenges, I was afraid of failures. Whenever things get difficult, I fail to continue, because I don’t want to accept failure. However, a conversation with a stranger changed that part of me.

One summer, I and my family were traveling. We arrived at a beach in southern California, the weather there was beautiful, it was sunny and the entire family was having a good time. After awhile I decided to take a walk myself, and I saw a person far away from me picking up something from the beach. So I went closer and try to see what that person was doing. And when I got close enough to that person, I found out he was actually picking up sea stars alone the beach. Every time when he saw a sea star got washed to the beach, he picked it up and through it back to the sea. I was standing there for around 40mins, and he kept doing the same thing. I was shocked by this person’s consistence. Then I walked to him and presented my curiosity of his action.

 There is millions of sea star being washed to the beach everyday, you will never be able to pick up all of them and throw them back to the sea. Some of them will die eventually, and your action is a completely waste of time. However, he told me:” Yes, there are millions of sea stars being washed to the shore everyday, and I don’t have the ability to save them all, and I know I can’t. However I want to try my best and save as many as I can. So at the end of the day, I can tell myself that, I have tried my best, and therefore I have no regrets.” I was stunned by his response, compare to what he just said, I felt ashamed of myself, and all the challenges and difficulties which I tried to avoid. After that conversation, I always force myself to try my best for all kinds’ challenges and difficulties, and I ended up overcoming many of them with great results.

The fast food industries have been struggling with consumers’ eating behavior for a long time. Decays ago, no one really understood the threat behind constantly eating fast food, however in recent years, the eat habit for most of the consumers had changed dramatically. People understand fast food cause various kinds of problems such as heart attack, obesity, and diabetes. As result many fast food restaurants began to bring in healthier food into their menus, and try to persuade customers that their foods aren’t so bad. However, the Heart Attack Grill had chosen a completely different approach when it comes to healthy eating. First the store offers fast foods at an extremely low price, and the French fries are completely free.

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Second any customer who is over 350 pounds can eat their entire meal for free. The store also offers a great selection of burgers: cheese burger, double cheese burger, triple cheese burger, and quadruple cheese burger. The atmosphere in the restaurant is also appealing. All the waitresses dress like nurses and they all have perfect body shape. They are constantly walking around the restaurant with smile and talking to the customers. And all the customers are provided with free costumes so they can dress up like patients with heart diseases. Finally the owner of the restaurant dressed like a doctor, and he tells all the “patients” they should eat more junk food.

The Heart Attack Grill is also using overweight people usually around 400-500 pounds to be their representative. In the TV commercial, viewers will see the super fat guy with a sexy “nurse” hugging and kissing each other while the representative is eating a quadruple cheese burger. People might think no one will go to this kind of restaurant for foods; however, the exact opposite is happening. The restaurants’ business is booming, and the owner had just opened a new chain in another state!