Book Review The protagonist Andrea Sachs is a fresh graduate from college who surprisingly lands up in a job as assistant to editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly at fashion’s top-notch Runway magazine. Though she knows nothing about fashion‚ she is told that it would be a stepping stone to any job in the publishing world once she gets a review from Miranda on completion of her first and only year at Elias-Clark. The book has described in great details the errands ’Aan-dre-aah’ has to run for her boss
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world‚ the magazine nor the well-known editor Miranda Priestly. After an emotional and what seemed bad interview‚ Andrea is appointed as the second assistant of Miranda Priestly‚ who is the editor and chief of the Runway fashion magazine. Miranda is powerful‚ sophisticated and also known as merciless and cruel towards others. This job happens to be a job that millions of girls
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knew Andy would describe her as a very talented‚ smart person who was very happy and had certain goals in life. Working for Miranda Priestly made her realize and understand what she really needed in life. Andy had to go through a lot and made a lot of mistakes; but for every mistake made‚ a lesson was learned. Andy had always been a really hard worker but working for Miranda made her feel like she wasn’t good enough. She felt like giving up so many times‚ but she put up with being treated like an
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position as one of the assistants to the head of Runway Magazine‚ Miranda Priestly‚ who is played by Meryl Streep. Meryl Streep is depicted in the movie as a cutthroat bitch; she constantly says mean things to her employees with disregard to their feelings. For example‚ Miranda meets Andrea for the first time and Andrea is not the most fashion worthy person‚ she wears stripes with plaid and wears military boots with her dresses to work. Miranda looks up and down at Andrea and says to her “you have no style
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Sachs’ personal transition‚ a plain and unstylish young women‚ to a trendy and classy fashion victim. Played by Anne Hathaway‚ Andrea lands a job at ‘Runway Magazine’ and assist the editor in chief‚ an intimidating and assertive women known as Miranda Priestly‚ played by Meryl Streep. Andrea gets caught up in her working life where everything and anything she does revolves around pleasing her newest boss and keeping up with the latest trends‚ something which is very different to her ordinary life
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behaviour. The movie The Devil Wears Prada‚ set at Runway fashion magazine in New York City‚ is the story of Andrea "Andy" Sachs‚ an aspiring journalist who gets the job that “a million girls would kill for”. She is hired as the second assistant to Miranda Priestly‚ the powerful and ruthless executive of the magazine. The job is her stepping stone into the world of publishing and if she lasts a year in the often unreasonably demanding position‚ it will open up the realms to the journalistic position she
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Based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger‚ the film is a wickedly funny tale about working for a boss who is a tyrant (rumor has it that the book was inspired by Weisberger’s stint at Vogue Magazine working for Anna Wintour). Meryl Streep stars as Miranda Priestly‚ Editor-in-Chief of Runway Magazine. Think Cruella de Ville with Medusa eyes. While the movie is an entertaining romp about the travails of working for a tyrannical boss‚ it raises some important questions: If you work for a Boss-from-Hell how
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woman‚ Andy wasn’t necessarily up to speed with the fashion industry‚ but ended up landing the job. Miranda Priestly‚ editor in chief at Runway hired Andy because she was “different” from any of her previous assistants. If Andy worked as an assistant to Miranda for at least a year‚ she was under the impression that she could easily be hired as a journalist in the future. The only problem was Miranda was a ruthless‚ cold-hearted person‚ and she expected people to bend over backwards and cater to her
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cultural dimension theory where the company “Runway” is very high distance power (http://www.andrews.edu‚ no date; full link in References). In definition this means that there is a large power distance between the employer and the employees. Miranda Priestly‚ who is the head of the company is treated with much respect and uses her power to control and lead the company‚ which can be seen in the movie during the scene where panic is laid out through the company due to her arrival (moviemomentsAUS
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After a chance encounter with a beautiful girl at a music concert‚ your character in Sonicomi struggles to get her out of his mind. Much to his surprise he runs into her again at his work where he is apprenticing with a professional photographer. It turns out that the girl‚ Super Sonico‚ is planning on making her modelling debut and your boss has appointed you as the photographer who will help her with this. As her personal photographer you are not only responsible for her image‚ but also carving
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