...Introduction This report is the internet marketing analysis for Church’s Chicken. For over 60 years the franchise has been known for making quality chicken at a reasonable price. Church’s Chicken, which became a billion dollar business back in 2006, expected to reach another billion-dollarindustry. With over 1,500 restaurants worldwide, Church’s Chickenhas grown significantly since its opening in 1952. Church’s Chicken originally intended to be a private owned business. However eventually became a national market in 1969. “Church’s Chicken started in 1952 by George W. Church Sr., a retired incubator salesman, started his own chicken stand across the street from the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. (franching.com)” In1955, Church added Jalapeños and French Fries to the menu in it became an instant hit. A year later, Church died, however he already established four franchises. By 1962 the franchise had doubled to eight. By 1967, Church’s Chicken had established five more franchises throughout Texas and by 1969; it reached 100 franchises in seven states. At the end of 1974, there were 487 franchises in with the total revenue of $100 million. Five years later, the franchise started to expand internationally with franchises in Puerto Rico, Indonesia, Canada, and other countries. “Now the franchise has over 1700 franchises in 22 different countries with the revenue of $1.2 Billion (franching.com)” “In 2003, AFC made a bold decision by changing their slogan...
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...Company Overview According to the Popeye’s chicken restaurant website (Our Company, 2002-2011), the company was founded in 1972 by Al Copeland in Arabi, Louisiana, just outside of New Orleans. The company grew relatively quickly with over 500 franchise restaurants in 1985 throughout the southern Unites States. The company relocated its headquarters to Atlanta, Georgia, around the time of the 1996 Olympics and opened its first international location in Toronto Canada. It expanded and formed America’s Favorite Chicken (AFC) enterprise. The market or industry in which AFC Enterprises operates can be considered the fast food service industry. AFC Enterprises, Inc. develops, operates, and franchises quick-service restaurants under the trade name Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. According to Ho and Cho (1995), the fast food service industry operates on a just-in-time (JIT) theory, which indicates that the food product must be fresh and available just in time of the consumer order and most often have a drive through window for even speedier service. The Popeye’s marketing strategy has focused on this handmade concept in its “bonafied” hand battered products (Newman, 2008). Popeyes distinguishes itself with a unique "New Orleans" style menu that consists mainly of a variety of mild and spicy chicken products with some seafood and sandwich products, as well as regional products. Popeye’s is continuously ranked as one of the top preferred...
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...Church’s Preferential Option for the Poor When there is question of defending the rights of individuals, the poor and badly off have a claim to especial consideration. The richer class have many ways of shielding themselves, and stand less in need of help from the State; whereas the mass of the poor have no resources of their own to fall back upon, and must chiefly depend upon the assistance of the State. The obligation to provide justice for all means that the poor have the single most urgent economic claim on the conscience of the nation. In teaching us charity, the Gospel instructs us in the preferential respect due to the poor and the special situation they have in society: the more fortunate should renounce some of their rights so as to place their goods more generously at the service of others. He who has the goods of this world and sees his brother in need and closes his heart to him, how does the love of God abide in him? Everyone knows that the Fathers of the Church laid down the duty of the rich toward the poor in no uncertain terms. As St. Ambrose put it: “You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich.” Therefore everyone has the right to possess a sufficient amount of the earth's goods for themselves and their family. This has been the opinion of the Fathers and Doctors...
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...The importance of Holy Bible in Church's Tradition Psalm 119:1 “Your Word is a lamp unto my feet: Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!” I would like to bring to your attention, two quotes from two well-known Orthodox teachers about the relationship between the Bible and the Church: “In the great Tradition of the Orthodox Church, the Bible is the central source of truth and the most creative factor behind the worship, doctrine and practice of the Church. The great Fathers and saints of the Church viewed the Bible as an ocean of divine mysteries, having inexhaustible breadth and astonishing depths.” – Father Theodore Stylianopoulos “The Bible is the book of the Church. It is the main written authority within the Church – not over or apart from it. Everything in the Church must be biblical: for the Church, in order to be the Church, must be wholly expressive of the Bible. The Bible lives in the Church! Without the Church, there would be no Bible. The Church gives the Bible its life as a book. It makes the book come alive!” – Father Thomas Hopko So, Orthodox Christians understand the Bible as central to the life, teaching and worship of the Church and the Church’s life teaching and worship as wholly expressive of the Bible. The Bible is not merely a single book, but a whole library of books containing many different kinds of writings: poetry, prayers, hymns, historical narratives, biographies, prophecies, letters, proverbs...
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...Suicide is the taking of one’s life on purpose. It is sometimes a way for people to escape pain or suffering. There are many reasons that people consider and attempt suicide. Suicidal behaviour is any action that could cause a person to die, such as taking a drug overdose or crashing a car on purpose. Suicide and suicidal behaviours is considered to usually occur in people with one or more of these, Bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, drug or alcohol use, post-traumatic stress disorder , schizophrenia and even when someone has stressful life issues such as financial or relationship problems. Not everyone that is suicidal is suicidal because of a mental illnesses. People that are suicidal are often trying to get away from a situation that seems impossible to deal with, they are usually seeking relief from emotions and things that are going on in their life, like feeling ashamed, guilty or like a burden to others, like a victim, feelings of rejection, loss or loneliness. The reason that someone wants or tires to commit suicide depends on the individual. In the eyes of the Catholic Church God is the giver of all life. They believe that each and every single human being has been made in God’s image and likeness with both body and soul. For that reason alone, they believe that life is sacred from the moment that a person is born to the moment of their ‘’natural’’ death. The Catholic Church believes that no one can defend the intentional taking of someone’s...
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...Marketing Mix Zawanica Williams MKT/421 September 11, 2013 Dena Walton Marketing Mix Research shows that an organizations marketing plan should evolve around a mix to meet the needs of the target market. The marketing mix includes variables of the four Ps of marketing; product, price, place, and promotion. P one is the product and is the tangible item or service introduced to the market. The product life cycle is known as the introduction stage. The objective is to introduce the product to the target market. P two is price and is the amount the company will charge consumer to buy or use the product. P three is promotion and encompasses the marketing of the product to the consumer. An organization should identify what the consumer wants before beginning promotion to prevent unnecessary cost of marketing. P four is placed and involves where the identified product will be promoted to achieve optimal exposure to achieve profitability. The company has to create consumer awareness and buying behavior to offset slow sales growth and profit. A coordinated action plan is required for all four variables to provide one message to target the customers. To build consumer awareness organizations can use advertising and promotional tools to introduce new products to maintain the control of the quality of product and restrict competition. A competitive marketing department would be advised to research and experiment personally and impersonally to accomplish the...
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...affirmed in the Council of Trent (1545–1563). This council reconstituted Catholic teachings, cleared doctrines, and addressed internal abuses while strengthening the authority of the Pope. The Counter-Reformation aimed to bring together Catholic unity and stop the spread of Protestantism, making a significant effort to reestablish the Church's authority and moral teachings. Humanist Perspectives During the Renaissance, humanist thinkers like Erasmus gave a large amount of criticism to the Roman Catholic Church, challenging its religious grounds and intellectual practices. Erasmus, in his work "Praise of Folly," criticizes the arrogance and elitism of the clergy, whom he mocks and refers to as "divines." His satire showed their elaborate theological arguments, which he portrayed as disconnected from the real and sincere teachings of the...
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...Social doctrine of the church as a social instrument of the new evangelization Three terms are present in the title of this issue: two explicit (social doctrine of the church and new evangelization) and an implicit (evangelization). We can’t talk about the new evangelization without connecting it with the evangelization itself; the relationship between the church’s social doctrine and the new evangelization comes through the evangelization. The first thing it’s the evangelization, the most original, and that goes back to the origins of the church. The church’s social doctrine, born in the 19th century as an attempt to answer of faith to the great problems which occurred with modernity, as new ideologies that give the body and the political and socioeconomic systems derived from these. The new evangelization is a most recent proposal, from Juan Pablo II, that is intended to realize the meaning and scope of evangelization in the circumstances of our historical moment. Evangelization and mission as a framework The four evangelisms present us a resurrected Jesus who appeared to theirs and charges them a mission: to be witnesses in the villages. The conscience of this mission has been realized in a different way for each historical era. To illustrate the variety and to best understand what the evangelization today is, it will be useful to distinguish the four models of the evangelization. The evangelization of the first Christian times The Christians from the origins...
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...The Court of Appeals dismisses the Church’s Establishment Clause claim on the grounds that it is irrelevant because the Entanglement doctrine applies only to cases in which the government offers funding to religious organizations. While that is the Entanglement doctrine’s historic use, the Court of Appeals must consider the purpose of Establishment Clause more thoroughly. The Court of Appeals’ holding is correct, however, it should not dismiss the Establishment Clause claim without consideration. The Supreme Court often notes the three evils that the Founding Framers attempted to avoid by creating the Establishment Clause: compulsion of nonbelievers to support religious institutions, corruption of religion, and religious and...
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...Basic Principles of Catholic Social Teaching By Daniel Gannon Gannon.dan@gmail.com Copyright © 2011 Deacon Dan Gannon Introduction The Church’s primary mission is to help man on the path of salvation.[i] The Church’s social teaching is, “an integral part of her evangelizing ministry”[ii], and is theological in nature – viz. “aimed at guiding people’s behavior”.[iii] Thus, the Church’s social doctrine is integral to the life of the Church and her mission. Key principles of the Church’s social doctrine include her evangelization and teaching regarding: the dignity and right to life of the human person – as revealed by God via Divine Revelation, the centrality and preeminence of the family to society, man’s fundamental freedom, the right to labor, just wages and working conditions, the right to own private property in service to the common good, the democratic government model and the right to freedom of religion and to form associations. We will briefly review these basic principles in the context of the Compendium and other Church documents, elucidating their importance in our duty as Catholics to witness Christ’s love in society. The Dignity and Nature of Man in the Image of God – Sources of Social Doctrine The Church’s sacred sources are the origin of her principles on social thought – Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, as interpreted and promulgated by the Magisterium.[iv] Scriptural principles are innumerable...
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...Assistant for my church’s local scout group the Duluth Pioneer. While being an assistant, I help organize many activities such as canning and our annual Christmas banquet. I also lead out in various activities such as canning and organizing agendas for camp outs. Along with assisting my church’s scout group, I also helped my church’s youth group. I along with some other colleges helped organized our church’s youth program to what it used to be. This required me leading both a small group and also become one of the leaders for our Youth program. The final leadership activity I participated during my high school career was being a camp aide at George Pierce Park. Although I went through numerous leadership training seminars, nothing truly...
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...Furthermore, Bokenkotter (2004) argues that this was cognizant of the fact that the city of Rome, whose prominence and importance had ceased, remained a home of the popes. Accordingly; the Empire centered in Constantinople kept on being authoritative such that quite a number of successor kingdoms to the Empire, especially the Germanic ones often presumably accredited the sovereignty of its Emperor. As such, the Catholic Church was in one piece. The third factor to consider in Catholic Church’s survival is the important fact that the region (Europe) had a subservient unity (Gerberding and Moran Cruz, 2004). As such, this unity was not ultimately shattered for a longer period of time even after the fall of the Roman...
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...Developing a Mission & Vision Statement that Aligns to the Church’s Strategic Plan A church’s strategic plan provides structure, accountability, and directional oversight as the church reaches out to church members and to those within their community. A church is most effective in planning, executing, and evaluating the success of its ministry when it is actively operating under the clear understanding of its mission, vision, and purpose statements. “Being strategic [in ministry] means having a carefully devised plan of action to achieve a goal,” and the best way for a church to develop a strategic plan is through adherence to their mission statement (Browning, 2009, p. 45). In some cases, this may require developing or revising the current mission statement. Developing or revision of a church’s mission statement is a critical aspect of the strategic plan, and it is vital that it reflect the current mission and vision of executive leadership and the church. At times, it may be necessary to make minor changes to the current mission statement to eliminate wordiness or unclear objectives. A great key to developing a concise mission’s statement is to keep it simple, and to “streamline the organization so it can shed deadweight and achieve greater” impact within the church and community (Browning, 2009, p. 167). A strong mission statement will enable executive leadership to stick to the primary mission and purpose of the church and church membership. Although a church may...
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...Why were Puritans perceived a threat in the Elizabethan period? Puritans were perceived a threat during the Elizabethan period due to a number of reasons. One of the most recognizable objects of the Puritans that could be perceived as a real threat to Elizabeth, was their belief in taking the title and offices from the Bishops. They also gave rise to threatening Elizabeth’s power through their attempts to reform the Church through parliament. Due to Elizabeth’s religious settlement at the time being neither Catholic nor Protestant, rise of a hugely exaggerated protestant religion could of have serious percussions including a Catholic rebellion against Elizabeth. The Puritans belief in taking the titles and riches from Bishops, creating Bishops centered on a spiritual life only created a serious potential threat to Elizabeth. Thomas Cartwright lectured in Cambridge University in 1535-1602 of the abolition of Bishops power and titles along with other Puritan beliefs. Thomas’s beliefs left little room for Elizabeth’s Supreme Governship and his idea of clearing the power of the Bishops lead to several threats towards Elizabeth’s power. Having Catholic leaning, rich, powerful Bishops meant if it were advisable for reasons of foreign policy to minimize the differences between the Church of England and the continual Catholic Church having a shared institution of episcopy would help a great deal. Elizabeth was also keen on keeping tradition. Her Father, Henry VIII had never discarded...
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...David is an ethical/virtuous person because he is aware that there are people that are in need and decides that he is going to help his local church run a clothing drive to send clothes to those who have been impacted by the earthquake in Asia. He knows that there will be people in need because of the recent earthquake. David has also had good intentions in the past because he always volunteers for his church’s charity drives because he thinks it is important to help. David intentions for this scenario is good because if everyone volunteered and helped out in a time of need the world would be a better place because it wouldn’t be so many problems and corruption in the world. David’s decision is respecting everyone involved because everyone is autonomous and free. David is valuing the people beyond what they can provide for him because they did not say they were going to reimburse him for helping that have been impacted by the earthquake in Asia. He is helping because he feels like it is important to help others. Therefore, David is an ethical person in Kant’s theory. David had performed well consistently as far as past actions doing good/positive consequences,...
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