Company Background & Brand Description Starbucks began in 1971 when three teachers "Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel, and Gordon Bowker "opened a store called Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice in a tourist area, called Pikes Place Market, in Seattle. ... Baldwin, Siegel, and Bowker chose the name Starbucks in honor of Starbuck, the coffee-loving first mate in Herman Melville's Moby Dick and because they thought the name evoked the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders. ... Product and Brand Description Starbucks stores offer a choice of re...

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Marlow arrives at the Central Station, run by the general manager, an unwholesome, conspiratorial character. ... Analysis of Major Characters Marlow - Although Marlow appears in several of Conrad's other works, it is important not to view him as merely a surrogate for the author. ... Kurtz is related to figures like Faustus, Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost,Moby-Dick's Ahab, and Wuthering Heights's Heathcliff. Like these characters, he is significant both for his style and eloquence and for his grandiose, almost megalomaniacal scheming. ...

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Introduction Company overview Starbucks, the coffee making and serving company took its unique name from a character of the novel "Moby Dick- and has its roots in Seattle, Washington. ... Partners are required to be able to identify the correct type of coffee a customer is looking for by description only. ...

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