...boot, flip flop, or many more. This go to shoe can dictate someones entire style. One shoe that has completed many styles is the All Star Chuck Taylor Converse. Converse has changed its image and due to the demands of what is popular during the time period. Converse created its first image as a basketball shoe, due to the rise in popularity of the sport. The 1920’s is coined as the roaring twenties, for good reason. From flappers, to the jazz age, there was never a dull moment. Many things were advancing in the twenties, and so was the sports industry. One sport that was progressing at a rapid speed was basketball. Many people were participating in...
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...hard to argue that any other brand has been independent enough to be tied to so many market segments. This paper will provide insight into how Converse and the Chuck Taylor All Star was able to maintain its prominent position in the shoe market for over 100 years, despite competition, an ever changing market, and even bankruptcy. History Of Converse In 1908, Converse began as a rubber shoe company specializing in tennis shoes, rubber boots and automobile tires. The All Star shoe was created in 1917 as a specialized basketball shoe. It was competing with A.G. Spalding, U.S. Rubber, and Goodrich. Spalding invented the basketball as we know it today, and the basketball shoe, which included a rubber sole for traction. Previously, athletes competed in a high top shoe with a leather sole. At this time, the sport of basketball was still primitive and lacked the national prominence it has today. In 1921, Converse brought on Charles “Chuck” H. Taylor as a traveling sales representative to help promote the brand. Chuck was previously a professional basketball player who was looking for an off-season job. He was brought on as an athlete to help improve the shoe. Chuck made design changes for traction and added the ankle patch for extra support. He later went across the nation putting on basketball clinics to teach children the sport of basketball. While on these tours, Chuck would...
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...medium of choice, such as the visual artist creating a new style never seen before or reviving an old style for future generations. This can also be seen in the musical artist who can bring people together after a tragic event or rally people together to share a message of change. It can also be seen in more so than most with the writer who writes about the ills of a society to bring it to the forefront of the people’s mind. It is in these ways and others that the three artists that we will be looking at have had an effect on the world around them, but before we look at that we should look at the people themselves. The first person we will be examining is the visual artist Chuck Close who was born in 1940 and is part of the Photorealism...
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... Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………. 7-‐9 Competitive Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9-‐14 Market Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 14-‐15 Other Considerations (Past and Present Communications)…………………………………………………………………… 15-‐17 SWOT………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 18-‐19 Primary Research Considerations………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 19 Work Cited and Appendix……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 20-‐29 2 ID: 936605550 ID: 911484064 ID: 933327329 ID: 919538922 ID: 938345647 Company Analysis Company Mission and Philosophy Converse sneakers were originally created as a basketball shoe, and the Chuck Taylor All Star is now an iconic part of the fashion industry and...
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...back to being one of the leading sneaker retailers in the world. Background It was in 1908 when in his late 30’s that Marquis Converse, who was a manager at a footwear manufacturing firm, opened the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in Malden, MA. Originally he began selling winterized rubber soled footwear for men, women and children. In 1915 after producing 4,000 pairs of shoes daily, Marquis began manufacturing athletic shoes for tennis. Two years later he designed and produced the world’s first performance basketball shoe called the Converse All Star. The new Converse All Star shoe helped revolutionize basketball. Synonymous with Converse sneakers is a logo on the shoes with the name Chuck Taylor. You may wonder why that appears on every sneaker and who is Chuck Taylor? Chuck Taylor was a basketball player for the Akron Firestones who sported the Converse All Star shoes while he introduced the game of basketball to Americans across the country. In 1921 he joined Converse to become the first player endorser. Two years...
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...to being one of the leading sneaker retailers in the world. Background It was in 1908 when in his late 30’s that Marquis Converse, who was a manager at a footwear manufacturing firm, opened the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in Malden, MA. Originally he began selling winterized rubber soled footwear for men, women and children. In 1915 after producing 4,000 pairs of shoes daily, Marquis began manufacturing athletic shoes for tennis. Two years later he designed and produced the world’s first performance basketball shoe called the Converse All Star. The new Converse All Star shoe helped revolutionize basketball. Synonymous with Converse sneakers is a logo on the shoes with the name Chuck Taylor. You may wonder why that appears on every sneaker and who is Chuck Taylor? Chuck Taylor was a basketball player for the Akron Firestones who sported the Converse All Star shoes while he introduced the game of basketball to Americans across the country. In 1921 he joined Converse to become the first player endorser. Two...
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...Purpose – To assist colleagues in tying current ideas to previously established practices. To generate discussion of the current relevance of students’ understanding management history. Design/methodology/approach – A review of representative classic theorists with an eye toward matching their behavior to that of current newsmakers. This is presented in a model to insure that like areas are compared. Findings – The past is in the present. Although we may live in the day of “enlightened” “collaborative” management; there are still successful people who operate differently. Practical implications – Readers of the paper will be able to make immediate application of the model. Originality/value – Even presentation of the obvious has value. The model format is a dynamic document that others can use and improve upon. Keywords Management history, Management theory Paper type General review ˆ Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. The more things change, the more they stay ¸ the same. Whatever the intended interpretation, this well-known phrase communicates the idea that the past serves as an accurate prologue and interpreter for the present as well as the future. Plutarch, centuries ago, observed: To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Journal of Management History Vol. 12 No. 3, 2006 pp. 278-292 q Emerald Group Publishing Limited 1751-1348 DOI 10.1108/17511340610670188 ...
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...The police and neighborhood safety BROKEN WINDOWS by JAMES Q. WILSON AND GEORGE L. KELLING James Q. Wilson is Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard and author of Thinking About Crime. George L. Kelling, formerly director of the evaluation field staff of the Police foundation, is currently a research fellow at the John F Kennedy School of Government Harvard. In the mid-1970s, the state of New Jersey announced a "Safe and Clean Neighborhoods Program," designed to improve the quality of community life in twenty-eight cities. As part of that program, the state provided money to help cities take police officers out of their patrol cars and assign them to walking beats. The governor and other state officials were enthusiastic about using foot patrol as a way of cutting crime, but many police chiefs were skeptical. Foot patrol, in their eyes, had been pretty much discredited. It reduced the mobility of the police, who thus had difficulty responding to citizen calls for service, and it weakened headquarters control over patrol Officers. Many police officers also disliked foot patrol, but for different reasons: it was hard work, it kept them outside on cold, rainy nights, and it reduced their chances for making a “good pinch.” In some departments, assigning officers to foot patrol had been used as a form of punishment. And academic experts on policing doubted that foot patrol would have any impact on crime rates; it was, in the opinion of most, little more than a sop to public...
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...The Relationship of the IoT and the Smartphone Jasper Venema Student number: 6137822 Coordinator: Professor G.T. Vinig Course: International Entrepreneurship Date: 14-12-2014 Jasper Venema Student number: 6137822 Coordinator: Professor G.T. Vinig Course: International Entrepreneurship Date: 14-12-2014 This paper focuses on the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the evolution of the smartphone. We have seen big changes in the mobile industry with as headliner the great increase in accessibility to mobile broadband internet. The smartphone is becoming more than just a phone; the next big thing in the industry might be our surroundings. This paper focuses on the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the evolution of the smartphone. We have seen big changes in the mobile industry with as headliner the great increase in accessibility to mobile broadband internet. The smartphone is becoming more than just a phone; the next big thing in the industry might be our surroundings. Contents Introduction 2 Internet of Things 3 The smartphone 5 Conclusion and discussion 8 Reflection 9 References 10 Introduction A term that is often crossing our path at the moment is the Internet of Things. Although the term “Internet of Things” was first coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, its emergence only recently began to take off. It is supposed to be a new, third wave of disrupting technology throughout the internet´s history (Witchalls, 2013;...
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...NAME: GRANT BARZDO MODULE: PARAMEDIC PLACEMENT EDUCATOR REFLECTIVE ESSAY TUTOR: KEVIN BARRET Introduction: This paper will be written in a reflective style which will utilise Gibbs reflective model (Gibbs, 1988). As a Paramedic Practice Placement Educator (PPEd) and health care professional it will enable myself learn from the experience (Bolton, 2014). This reflective essay will analyse and evaluate the feedback provided and how it was received by a student. Additionally, it will analyse and evaluate different types of feedback including different models used in the healthcare setting. Finally, I will further seek ways to improve this process for the future when giving feedback. Description: So as to comply with the Health and Care Professions council, PPEds must undertake appropriate practice placement educator training (HCPC, 2014). Hence, as part of the PPEd course it essential carry out the teaching of a skill, assess the student and give the student relevant feedback. This was all observed and assessed by a qualified PPEd. The skill I selected to teach was the preparation and insertion of a nasopharyngeal airway (NP) to a first year student. I prepared for this by finding out where the student was in their BSc paramedic degree course and to what level they knew about the skill. Additionally, I ensured that I had the correct equipment needed for the teaching sessions, as well as preparing an assessment sheet. At the beginning if the session I explained...
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...Guarascio Dorothy Sinclair Valerie A. Vargas Karolina Zarychta Harry Nolan Madelyn Lesure 4 Design Group Wendy Lai Elm Street Publishing Services Anna Melhorn Hilary Newman Teri Stratford Emily McGee Allison Morris Elena Santa Maria This book was set in Janson TextLTStd-Roman 10/13 by MPS Limited, a Macmillan Company, Chennai, India and printed and bound by R. R. Donnelley & Sons. The cover was printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons. This book is printed on acid free paper. ∞ Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of knowledge and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Our company is built on a foundation of principles that include responsibility to the communities we serve and where we live and work. In 2008, we launched a Corporate Citizenship Initiative, a global effort to address the environmental, social, economic, and ethical challenges we face in our business. Among the issues we are addressing are carbon impact, paper specifications and procurement, ethical conduct within our business and among our vendors, and community and charitable support. For more information,...
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...“Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it” - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth In cultures all over the world, music can be seen encompassing many aspects of life for many individuals. It is a form of mass communication that speaks directly to society as a cultural form", and often reflects a collection and pattern of personal experiences. Hip-hop or rap, an art form and culture nearly thirty years old originating from The Bronx, New York, has provided a forum for Black and Latino youth to express their respective cultures and speak on a number of issues. Today, Hip-hop is a global phenomenon that appeals to almost all ethnicities and is synthesizing a new culture that goes beyond race, education, and income. Hip-hop has been under continual metamorphosis since its 1970’s inner-city inception. Some of the original artists like Kurtis Blow chose to lament everyday life in the ghettos. Others, Sugar Hill Gang among them, took a more dance inspired approach to the music. But for both these and other artists from the early years of rap through the late 1980’s including KRS-One, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah and LL Cool J, fast beats and socially relevant lyrics were among the primary components of the music. By the 1990’s a new face of rap music emerged. It began with Ice T and later gained popularity with artists such as NWA (Niggaz Wit Attitude) whose first album shocked and titillated the rap world with their...
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...Jose, Kapasigan, Pasig City Sanitation Level of Cafeteria around Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasig A Library Research Presented to the faculty of The College of Arts and Sciences In Partial fulfillment Of the requirement of the course EN – 102 Writing in the Discipline Nadate, Ma. Criselda D. BSHM 2nd Semester March 2014 CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND The Department of Health’s (DOH) Food Hygiene Inspection Program is risk-based. This means that those facilities that pose a greater risk to the public becoming sick from consuming their product are inspected more often than those that pose a lesser risk. The amount of risk is determined by risk factors. These risk factors include the type of food served, amount of population that is required, the population that is served, and the quantity of food that is prepared. Cafeteria workers have made many students sick by not wearing proper gloves or reporting to work when having infectious disease. Food borne illness are especially concerning for children because they do not have the immune system needed to handle virus unlike adults. School ask for help for the checklist to know what sanitation standards are needed. International School for Food Protection (ISFP) was developed to provide an environment different from traditional professional adults learning experience. According to Chuck Jolley, to meet the complex food safety facing the Food Industry, the ISFP curriculum is influenced by the Science...
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...Journal of Multinational Financial Management 11 (2001) 17 – 37 www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase Diversification strategy and capital structure of multinational corporations Imed Eddine Chkir a,1, Jean-Claude Cosset b,* Faculty of administration, Uni6ersity of Ottawa, 136 Jean-Jacques Lussier Street, Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1N 6N5 b Departement de finance et assurance, Faculte des sciences de l’administration, Uni6ersite La6al, ´ ´ ´ Quebec, P.Q., Canada G1K7P4 ´ Received 3 April 1999; accepted 22 October 1999 a Abstract This study examines the relationship between the capital structure of multinational corporations (MNCs) and their diversification strategy. Both the international market (multi-country operations) and the product (multi-industry operations) dimension of diversification are integrated into the analysis and a switching of regression regimes methodology is employed that accounts for the bi-dimensional nature of the diversification strategy pursued by MNCs. The model identifies four types of diversification regimes. The results suggest that leverage increases with both international and product diversification. It is also found that the combination of both types of diversification leads to lower levels of bankruptcy risk. Although the role of the determinants of MNC capital structure varies with the diversification strategy, there seem to be common determinants. In particular, profitability and bankruptcy risks are negatively related to the debt ratio of MNCs. © 2001 Elsevier...
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... 4.1 Global Entry Strategy 16 4.2 Product Strategy 16 4.3 Promotional Strategies 16 4.4 Distribution strategy 18 4.5 Pricing Strategy 18 4.5.1 Value- based pricing 18 5.0 Conclusion 19 References 20 Appendix 1: World Governance Indicator 24 Appendix 2: Brazil Exports Worldwide 25 Appendix 3: Growth Tracker 26 Appendix 4: Darabif Products 27 Appendix 5: Darabif Malaysia Promotion for Restaurant 30 * Executive Summary This paper seeks examine the demand gap of halal meat in Brazil where the Muslim population exists but with hardly any proper halal meat supplied. Thereby, enabling Darabif to carry out its operations in Brazil to serve and fill up that demand for proper halal meat. At the same time halal restaurants are also scarce in Brazil, one of Darabif’s plans are to include a dine restaurant with the store. Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the world; therefore, we find a need to produce halal meat in Brazil the authentic way that could turn out profitable. This paper analyzes the internal and external environment of the company and industry. Furthermore, it...
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