...REI Marketing Environment Worksheet List the current characteristics of each environmental factor as they relate to REI. U.S. Economy How does the current U.S. economy affect REI retail operations? 1. If the country was in a depression that would affect REI retail operations. People would begin to adjust their spending habits and would cut back on buying items that they don’t necessarily need such as a vast array of REI products. This would decrease REI sales which in turn would decrease revenue. 2. An economic downturn would not only affect retail operations it would potentially cost employees their jobs, or at the very least they would have to take pay cuts in order for REI to stay alive while the economy recovers. Global Economy How does the current global economy affect REI retail operations? 1. One example how the global economy would affect REI retail is if their products were purchased from overseas distributors and the currency values were to increase. REI would have to raise the purchase price of their products in order to turn a profit. The risk of doing that would be losing customers because they are charging more then consumers can afford or the consumer feels they can get a better price with REI’s competitors. 2. REI has joined other business to assist in banning and eliminate fair labor violations. Fair labor is an important issue. Everyone wants to be treated fairly in every aspect of business. REI joining along side of other business to...
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...REI Marketing Environment Worksheet List the current characteristics of each environmental factor as they relate to REI. U.S. Economy How does the current U.S. economy affect REI retail operations? The U.S. spent the years 2007 – 2009 in a period of serious recession. This caused consumers to seek out lower prices for the goods and services they need and caused a significant decrease in spending for anything other than necessity items (Charles W. Lamb, 2013). Since REI is in a broad sense in the entertainment industry, spending for the type of items REI sells would have been reduced. Yet, it seems that, according to the outdoor industry association, that more than 140 million Americans place outdoor recreation in a position of high priority in their lives. Therefore, though they may search competitors to find the best prices, Americans have not significantly lowered the amount they are spending on outdoor recreation (Outdoor Industry Association, n.d.). So it seems the current economic conditions are forcing REI to face losing sales to competition and not simply losing sales to lack of spending due to economic conditions. Global Economy How does the current global economy affect REI retail operations? The global economy, which had shown signs of recovery, has weakened (Wessel, 2012). Therefore, any market REI had outside of the U.S. will be reduced. This can have a dual effect. Any competitors that REI in terms of U.S. exports will be suffering the same...
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...Although based in Vancouver, BC, Naa Sheka Fashion is inspired by the richness of Ghana’s culture. Established in 2007, Sheka’s designs grabs your attention with the vibrant textiles utilized which are a reflection of this West African country. This line is also produced in a socially conscious manner and provides steady jobs to locals since all the manufacturing is done in Ghana. Naa Sheka’s label includes recyclable bags, trendy yoga mats, totes, accessories, ready-to-wear clothes and will be introducing a children’s line this upcoming summer. Fashion 360 Magazine snagged an exclusive interview with Naa Sheka herself and we have it for you here. How did your career in fashion begin? My career in fashion began when I moved to Ghana in 2007 to do a semester at the University of Ghana. I was fascinated by the textiles and wanted to learn more, so I engaged with the local community to learn the history of the fabrics. After the semester, I moved back from Ghana and started to design and build the company. Interestingly I later learned, my grandmother traded textiles throughout West Africa to support the family. Why did you decide to focus on West African with your designs? My father was born in Accra, Ghana and although I had only been to Africa a couple times as a child. I was always exposed to the vibrant textiles of the region. While I had always like them I appreciated them more as I got older. Also, growing up we always had traditional outfits made for us from Ghana...
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...Carly Fiorina Presentation Sources 1. In this article, it mentions Fiorina’s recent visit to a Stockton peanut plant where she spoke about creating more job opportunities in the San Joaquin Valley. She also mentions how she will fight to turn on export pumps that shoot water of the Delta. Fiorina blasts her opponent, Boxer, for not being accountable when she said, “the state bleeds jobs.” She also highlights on how President Obama’s federal stimulus plan is ineffective. Many ways to cut back on job loss would be to eliminate taxes for small businesses so they have the chance to grow and eventually provide more jobs. Keith Reid. "Fiorina talks jobs in Stockton. " McClatchy - Tribune Business News 23 October 2010 ABI/INFORM Dateline, ProQuest. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. 2. This is Fiorina’s campaign website and it speaks a lot about the issues she focuses on and the strategies of what she should like to accomplish if elected. This site goes very in depth about all of the issues she is concerned with and also exactly what you can do to donate and help her with her campaign. Carly for California. 10 Mar. 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. 3. In this article, Fiornia speaks about how America was based off of small businesses and if we are trying to create more jobs in our economy right now, we need to help boost the small businesses. She also talked about proposed tax incentives for small businesses and how she doesn’t appreciate the earmarks that “benefit(s) the insiders.” "FIORINA...
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...Public figure Speech Analysis This particular speech was given by Barbara Bush. The speech was presented at “Commencement Address at Wellesley College” at severance green gardens, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. She was addressing at a private liberal arts college for women in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The speech was delivered on June 1, 1990. The total length of speech was about 11 minutes. Barbara Bush’s commencement address successfully honored and inspired the graduates of Wellesley College. The is an important speech of Barbara Pierce Bush’s “Commencement Address at Wellesley College” speech because she encouraged women to stay true to who they are, enjoy life, and most importantly to cherish their families rather than to focus only on studying and wasting their life's becoming well educated women only, because at the end of the day with family, friends, and children are by far more important than a textbook and a pen. I think that she was little nervous because she was so cautious that don’t miss to think anybody and constantly looking at the piece of paper for this. In the introduction, Barbara Bush successfully grabs the attention of her audience as she sparks interest, honors the occasion, establishes credibility and relates to her audience. I think she very well knew that what kind of the audience, she is going to address and she seems prepared for it as she as written the speech keeping in mind her audience. Barbra bush’s speech made an impact on...
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...After reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and watching the documentary Roger and Me, it’s easy to compare the desperation the people seem to have in both of these circumstances. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote Nickel and Dimed to demonstrate the desperation of the jobs that an unskilled worker has. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? Erenbeich decided to find out by actually living the life that people would have under these circumstances. She traveled to three different cities in which to work. The first was Florida, the second Maine and the last Minnesota. To make everything realistic she spent only money from her wages and nothing from her savings. While there, she lived in the cheapest housing and accepted work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She also found out that even the humblest livelihoods require strenuous mental and physical effort.. In a capitalistic society, where "unskilled workers" struggle to make ends meet, big companies continue to exploit their labor. The idea of reification also plays well into this story, where the amount of money received in wages is not an equal representation of the worth produced by the laborer, and the laborers act as if they...
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...Activity 3 I choose to do the Who are the Amercians exercise for Chapter 9 for this activtiy. Chapter 9 is all about political parties and the people that represent those parties. Our book focuses on 3 main parties all though there are more the most imporant ones are covered here. The book uses a series of charts on page 365 to show us who makes up these parties. The chart breaks it down into these catagories age, gender, race, income, education, and region that they live in. The statistics are quite suprising in some ways. The perecent of black people that are democratic as opposed to republicians is alarming, 86% of black people are democrats only 7% are repubilcan. In fact the only ethnicity that has a higher percentage of reublicans is white. Another interesting stat is that Americans making over 75,000 dollars per year are almost equal in perecentage of republicans to democrats. I would have expected that a significantly larger portion of people in that bracket would be republican. Another interesting statistic i noticed was that the older we get the more likley we are to be republicans. Due to the current eeconomic situation of the country I feal it is more likley that the democratic party will see more growth in the near future. I am a white male and I grew up in a rural small town in the south and i was raised a christian, I currently make less then 20,000 dollars per year, I am working on achieving my college education. The statistics show that i have a pretty high percentage...
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...Lindsey Matthiesen November 3, 2015 Throughout Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees, examples are shown of how important the name someone posses is. First, Taylor wants to change her destiny so she changes her name. Second, Esperanza’s name shows the course her life is going to take.An insight on destiny can be whown through a person’s name. Taylor and Esperanza’s struggle with identity shows the importance of naming which proves that destiny is chosen by the name possessed by an individual. When Taylor changes her name she knows she will be changing her destiny, which shows her struggle with identity. In the beginning of The Bean Trees Taylor changes her name from Missy to Taylor. When she leaves Pittman there are two things she states...
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...Book Three • What is the significance of the Kikongo word nommo and its attendant concepts of being and naming? How do the Price sisters’ Christian names and their acquired Kikongo names reflect personalities and behavior? The word nommo means pretty much your name. In the Kikongo, they have named things because that is their name. A further explanation as explained in the book, is “you wouldn’t name a machete a human because if so it might raise up and start dancing around.” Some of the people, for example Rachel, received their name because of their name’s role in the bible. Rachel was one of the first named from creation in the bible like how she is the oldest in the family and first named. Also in many parts of the Bible, Rachel was...
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...The word ‘abandon’ can be defined in Merriam Webster’s Dictionary as “to give up to the control or influence of another person or agent”. Giving up control as the definition states, is an action that can happen two different ways, but both still significantly affect a person. Society tells us that abandonment from significant relationships affect someone’s life negatively in mostly books or stories. Some of this literature includes the sources Into The Wild, “To Build A Fire”, and “Walden” which all challenge this idea. Throughout these pieces of literature the idea of subconscious and conscious abandonment is developed on whether or not it’s someone’s choice. Furthermore these pieces challenge the idea that our choices as a society are natural...
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...The non-fiction book Nickel and Dimed, written by Barbara Ehrenreich, expressed the harsh reality of American poverty from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The idea had begun as a discussion between her and an editor, who suggested the idea to her around the time that welfare reform was becoming set into place, yet, she was originally unsure, due to the fact that her own parents suffered from actual poverty. Also, she was unaware of whether or not she was capable enough to handle it too, yet she had soon managed to overcome the fear and venture towards the idea. The journalist attempted the life of a minimum-wage worker in order to uncover how these people managed their lives on such miserable accommodations and pay. She established parameters...
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...When my mom was expecting my older brother she was frightened because she felt like she wasn’t ready to be a mom at a young age and my dad felt the same because they were still teenagers trying to figure out their own lives. As the months passed my mom was getting so much help from the community and my dad’s parents so they felt like they had so much supporter that made them feel prepared and ready for what life had in hands for them. Now twenty years later they are living the life they have wanted. The Bean Trees by barbara Kingsolver also deals with having moments of difficulties and drastic changes in life even without you planning those changes but by having those changes you begin to go with the flow in order to continue with your life....
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...Influence On My LIfe One Tree Hill. It has had a major impact on my life. It has showed me different aspects of life. It´s showed me the beautiful things in life that we overlook daily. The bad stuff and the good, that we should appreciate because it's shaped us and our world. It was a Television Show that ran for nine years. One Tree Hill has some amazing quotes that mean something to me. ¨I think we waste our words and our moments and we don´t take the time to say the things that are in our hearts when we have the chance.¨ This quote has changed my life and made me think about what I say does it have a true meaning, and that our time is limited we should take advantage of that. ¨Love means giving chances when there are no more...
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...Angelica Acevedo Professor Coogan Introduction to Fiction September 24, 2014 Barbara Kingsolver: The Bean Trees The Bean Trees is a novel about a young girl who becomes a young woman by overcoming a series of trials that life throws at her. Part of those “trials” is taking care of a three...
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...The bean tree Through an analogy of the book, one realizes that human beings partake in a series of hidden or open actions, for the sake of helping the rest of their environment. In the book by Barbara Kingsolver, the main protagonist acts out in response to the hard times that she faces and those of others in her surroundings. She first displays this through her choice to move away from her small town. She recognizes that living in that town will only limit her. Therefore, she takes measures to protect her against circumstances that would have otherwise tied her to the town. The second instance of her way of helping others takes place when she took in Turtle from a stranger (Kingsolver, 98). Although she has avoided pregnancy, she readily accepts the child without contemplating of the future consequences. Turtle has a rocky past full of abuse and Taylor takes her in. Finally, Taylor identifies with the pain that both Estevan and Esperanza faced in Guatemala and in the USA. When their life is at risk from...
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