...CESPEDES JAMES KINDLEY Clique Pens: The Writing Implements Division of U.S. Home A fierce thunderstorm had just brought brief relief to the sweltering mid-August temperatures in Tampa, Florida, as Elise Ferguson, president of the writing implements division of U.S. Home, Clique Pens, stared at the notepad in front of her. She had jotted some thoughts about just whose needs were more important for Clique to satisfy—its retailers or its consumers? Fortunately, the 2013 back-to-school sales of her core writing implements product lines appeared to be on goal for a 3% increase over 2012. These sales were not without a cost, however, as various discounts, allowances, and other off-invoice deals had pushed gross profit margin down from 42% in 2010 to just over 36% in 2012. (See Exhibit 1.) Another one of Ferguson’s primary goals for Clique was to stop this decline in gross profit margin percentage and grow its overall gross profit by 4%. She hoped to accomplish this by growing revenues and increasing the gross profit margin. At this point, she felt it was unlikely that the latter would happen this year (2013). Ferguson wondered, were all these “giveaways” to retailers necessary? If so, couldn’t the monies be shifted to a form referred to generally as Market Development Funds (MDF), which would in theory allow Clique to have more control over their use in driving sales of its products, rather than just increasing retailer margins? Clique had spent considerable effort...
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...When you walk into a store and go to buy a pen or pencil or some other writing utensil, you go to that aisle with hundreds of packages and various combinations and try to find one that fits your needs. Well one of such companies has had an 8% decline in their gross profit margin while seemingly reaching their goal of 3% increase in sales. Such company was named Clique Pens. This occurred through many under the table deals with both consumers as their items went on sale or discounted as well as with retailers. In this case, there are 3 main people involved in the decision making. Elise Fergusen, the president, who is rethinking how the company advertises, sells the products and the price associated in order to increase profits for her company. There is also Logan Chen, the VP of marketing, who believed that the company needed to be more customers driven with less money going to sales and more focused on advertising to the customer. Whereas, Ross McMillay, the VP of Sales, had the complete opposite mentality and believed more deals should be made with the retailers. This ended them up in a conundrum as to how to improve profit margin while accomplishing goals in sales. Asked the question “can Clique Pens implement a price increase”, it is easy to answer yes. However, that may not be the most beneficial for the consumer, retailer, or company (in this case, Clique Pens). There needs to be a balance in price where the customers perceive the price as fair as well as the company needs...
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...appearances and different likes. They all come from different cliques, different homes, and different lives. They are drove away by many differences. Most of the differences were personal opinions, which they never agreed on. A big similarity almost all of them had was marijuana. The kids do not social outside of detention due to the fact they are our part of different groups. Claire is very prim and proper; meanwhile Allison Reynolds is very quiet and not as fashionable as Claire. Andrew and Bender have many struggles in the beginning, which causes a somewhat strain at the beginning of the movie. Bender has no respect towards authority, he does what he wants to do and then will face the consequences. I believe many teenagers are very hateful towards authority due to the non-authority they have in their own family. At the beginning of the movie, you notice how Bender talks about how he is treated and mimics his cruel father. As the sit in the circle and talk about their families, you start to notice a trend in all of them. They are some what strained by their families actions. As much as everyone was completely different in the movie, at one scene at the end Claire take’s Allison and does her make up, as you can see it starts to go back to the whole changing what is different to what is popular or in. I attended a very large high school, largest in the state of Oklahoma, Broken Arrow High School. At my school, there was every clique you could think of. We had the athletes, the nerds, the...
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...Comparing High School to Freaks and Geeks Freaks and Geeks is a show about two sibling experiencing high school life. (McKinley) Making new friends and facing their obstacles. (Bully, problems) Sam is one of the two sibling. He is a geek. He appear to be pretty smart but his physical appearance is not quite impressive. Only weighing at 103 pound. It's his first year of high school and he facing a big problem. His sister name is Lindsay. Lindsay is a bright girl, very intelligent. She has been doing very well, every teachers approved of her. But she’s a wannabe freak. Questioning why she needed to be good girl. She is starting to skip classes, hanging around freaks, and dropping out of the math league. Sir Winston Churchill is a high school in Hamilton Ontario. It's a older high school in this areas. Everything about the school seem normal. Problems do happen, things seem odd, But great things can happen in this school. Every students are special in their own ways. Every high school are similar. Teachers, students, events. But there is a few difference between McKinley and Churchill. The first difference is how they shown the bully and the victim. With my experience, I've never seen what has happen in the movie, happen in real life. If someone does get bully, they would do something about it. Telling the teachers or they might handle it themself. Someone would never just take it. Obviously at some point they can't take it any longer, they will break and then explode with anger...
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...Kyra Rudnicki is the most fun, interesting, nicest 7th grader I know! Even though she has her moments. She is always so fun to hang out with even when she is busy she finds time to hang out with me. And if you get to know her she just gets nicer! You would really want to get to know her. First of all, Kyra is so beautiful, tan, skinny, short, and she has blue eyes. When I first saw her I was like she looks really nice and I found out she actually is. Her eyes are as beautiful as a baby kitten. Also her hair is as long as Rapunzel's! She has really long eyelashes, too. Kyra is so funny and she is loved by everyone. She is so caring, smart, and active. She also told me that in every class she is getting A’s and B’s! Surprising right...
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...Based on our knowledge of our daughter, Dominique’s experience at Archer has been very beneficial to her overall development as a person. Prior to Dominique’s attendance at Archer, she had not been exposed to nearly half the extracurricular activities offered by the school as her elementary school did not offer any. We were excited for her new journey but a little concerned, thinking she might have to get use to all of the newness: new school, new area, new friends, and that it might take her a minute to find her way because she had been in the same school, located within 15 minutes from our home, with the same friends since kindergarten. However, she entered Archer in the 7th grade ready to experience new things, meet those new friends...
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...American high schools today have their own sets of cliques, who not only threaten parental authority, but often come with undesired changes in adolescent behavior. During adolescent years, students obtain membership in a clique in order to avoid anonymity and make the transition to secondary school easier. The types of cliques found in a school vary significantly because of the variation in adolescents’ personalities, which are encouraged in these cliques. Some typical types of teen cliques that are observed include: geeks, jocks, outsiders, hipsters, preps, and nerds. An in-vivo observation was conducted at Riverside High School in Greenville, South Carolina of both preps and nerds in a tenth grade social studies classroom. Both groups consisted of four girls, which at the time of observation, were working on a cooperative learning activity involving the history of the United States. This activity involved making a timeline of the American Civil War between the Union and Confederate armies and reconstruction. For the prep group, a powerful, yet unstable social hierarchy occurred that structured the interactions between group members; rare is the group where all members enjoy equal amounts of authority, status differentiation almost always takes place. One member was observed to be the leader or “queen bee,” two sidekicks, and another a floater. The leader first maintained power over group membership by inviting only her clique to be a part of the project group; another student...
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...CS113: Academic Strategies for the Business Professional Unit 6 Academic Writing Assignment Full Name: Heather Taylor Two-digit Section #: 06 Instructions: Download this document to your computer before filling it out. Save using “Save As” and add your name to the front removing the phrase “YourName” All of the gray boxes below should be appropriately filled in and the document saved again before submitting to the Unit 6 Dropbox. Paragraph Writing Paragraph #1: Purpose: Describe Write a complete paragraph about a person who has influenced you in positive ways. Do not write more than 1 paragraph for this topic. Focus on at least one way in which this person has made an important impact upon you. Use specific ideas and examples to illustrate your points and make sure to refer to the Paragraph Structure Chart located at the end of the Unit 6 Reading. Include a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion (minimum 10 complete sentences). My pastor has been a big influence. He has influenced me in many positive ways. He is a role model for me to follow. He is always trying to brighten up a person’s day. He often visits people in the hospital. This gives them a reason to smile. He does food drives for many organizations. He collects food for Book Bags of Hope. He volunteers and gives out food to the less fortunate. He is a person that has a big impact on many lives. Paragraph #2: Purpose: Share an Opinion Write...
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...Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer. This reminds of Haley Diaz, a young, but expressive author of her own works inside of a first grade classroom. She has the smarts, and the ability to reel you in with the words she applies with the use of pen and paper. Haley knows how to construct her papers from start to finish using conventions provided by her teacher. She connects you with imaginative thinking, real life events, and things she has seen. Her use of imagery, English-Language Arts conventions, and detailed illustrations will leave you in awe, and with a big smile. When reading through the first grader’s writing named Haley Diaz, the literary element imagery comes to mind. She allows for you to go with her on her journey from being an amateur writer to an advanced writer. She paints this picture of herself, the things she likes, her family, and what’s most important to her. She captures every single detail, unless it’s something that she doesn’t care about. She pays very close attention to detail to everyday life events, and replicates it in her storytelling. Her illustrations are vivid and provide us with much detail of things that have occurred regardless of the interest level. I see a developing learner with plenty of potential when I read the words she writes on such thick lined paper. This is a learner...
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...Paper Chromatography Purose- the purpose is you will use paper chromatography to separate colors from ink. If the ink is soluble in water, it will travel up the paper with the water. Solubility is related to the type of intermolecular forces between the substances; substances with similar IMF’s will be soluble. As the solvent rises on the paper and evaporates, it leaves the colors in its path. Background info- I know that water is a polar solvent and that rubbing alcohol is a nonpolar solvent. Materials- 1. Chromatorgraphy paper 2. 2 Petri Dishes 3. Black felt tips pens 4. Water 5. Felt tip pens of other colors 6. Alcohol Procedure- 1. Obtain two pieces of chromatography paper. Trace a quarter in pencil, in the center of the paper 2. Poke a small hole in the center of the circle 3. Select 3 felt tip pens of different colors (one must be black). Make one dot with each en on each piece of chromatography paper along the line traced around the center, as illustrated on the board. 4. Use a pencil to label these dots with the color and “FT” for felt tip. 5. Select 3 permanent makers of different color (one must be Black). Make one dot with each marker on each piece of chromatography paper along the line traced around the center, as illustrated on the board. 6. Use pencil to label these dots with the color and “P” for permanent. 7. Remove the papers from the solvents when the solvent has moved to within 2 cm of the edge of the paper....
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...this week: $1.00 For going to the store for you: $.50 Baby-sitting my kid brother while you went shopping: $.25 Taking out the garbage: $1.00 For getting a good report card: $5.00 For cleaning up and raking the yard: $2.00 Total owed: $14.75 Well, his mother looked at him standing there, and the boy could see the memories flashing through her mind. She picked up the pen, turned over the paper he’d written on, and this is what she wrote: For the nine months I carried you while you were growing inside me: No Charge For all the nights that I’ve sat up with you, doctored and prayed for you: No Charge For all the trying times, and all the tears that you’ve caused through the years: No Charge For all the nights that were filled with dread, and for the worries I knew were ahead: No Charge For the toys, food, clothes, and even wiping your nose: No Charge Son, when you add it up, the cost of my love is: No Charge. When the boy finished reading what his mother had written, there were big tears in his eyes, and he looked straight at his mother and said, “Mom, I sure do love you.” And then he took the pen and in great big letters he wrote: “PAID IN...
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...unhappy. My boyfriend and I broke up the night before my last exam. I would talk to my friends about it but I felt like it became too much for them. I knew they wanted to make me happy so they would listen but I didn’t feel right about putting them through it so I started writing. Whenever I needed a break from everyone around me, I would grab a piece of paper and a pen and just start pouring my thoughts onto paper. It was usually about how I was going through a tough time, which now seems increasingly petty, but at that time paper was my confidant. I wrote everything, even if it was a paragraph, or even barely a line. I used to transfer all the bad thoughts in my mind onto paper and just leave it there. I substituted my friends for paper. Paper wouldn’t talk back or tell me that it wasn’t god for me. It would just listen, absorb, and always be there. And that’s when I fell in love with writing. This is when writing became a habit. When I got over irrelevant boyfriend issues, I still had that craving to write something, anything, so I started writing about my day. If I had had a bad day, I would sit with my book and pen and just write till I overcame the bad thoughts. Those rare but sweet moments when I would go into a stream of consciousness showed me glimpses of certain peculiarities I didn’t even know I possessed. Sometimes I would re read things that I had written previously and I would be able to feel what I had felt when I was writing those words. All those memories would...
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...You almost have to be of a certain age these days to remember what it was like to sit down and write out a letter or to even have had to handwrite it. A handwritten or typed letter takes time, creativity and thought., which is why people prefer to text, email, or just jot down a short note, etc. There are times when all you want to say is "meet me at 8" and then a text or a short note is perfect. The problem comes only when you are required to put together a proposal letter for a business, a cover letter for an open job position or even when you want to journal some things so that you read it at a later date. It is with those opportunities that we find our skills have been reduced to LOL, k, brb, tc, cya. Letter writing is important as it reveals something about your personality that a machine can't. Your style of handwriting, choice of ink and paper all say something about you as an individual. Now almost everyone has become too busy so there is no time for anyone to put their words in thoughts. Writing love letters is no longer interesting to people. Lot of new technology has replaced the beauty of writing love letter. Sending email, messages, SMS has become the trend now. But when you express your love, the best way is to write a letter to your beloved one. And when you start writing your thoughts there are no limitations to convey what we think. The quantity and quality of contemporary written communication is fast flowing down the tubes of mindless entertainment devices...
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...this poem, Morning is a new sheet paper for you to write on -the poet is comparing the day with a sheet of paper and your action with a pen without an eraser. Every word on this paper represents something priceless. Each sunrise symbolizes a new sheet of paper or a new day. The pencil that writes on this piece of paper can only relate to your action. It cannot erase or rewrite what was noted down. Whatever you want to say, all day, until the night folds up and flies away- May your words have a solid foundation that will bring joy and happiness to oneself. Every sentence that contains my words shouldn’t offend anyone but should bring joy and satisfaction to my fellow being. A sheet of paper completes when sunset appears, and no line can repeat itself because once it is gone it can’t return again. The bright words and the dark words are gone-May this pen always be exposed to light in order to continue to write the glory of positivity, and to never encounter darkness where all lines will disappear. Until dawn and a new day to write on-The light are fading away, soon dawn will appear, and there will be an absent of light that will resolve in darkness. Light will disappear, and darkness will appear and so there will be no more line on this sheet of paper. In conclusion- Only my pen can determine what the future holds for me. I hope that this pen have enough ink, to write about the glories of this sunshine. Now I will file this paper and put it away for I have no guarantee that...
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...July 13, 2015 Cognitive view writing is a very simplified and descriptive writing that paints a picture and allows the person reading it to comprehend and understand what they are reading. I recently wrote a brochure to hand out to my employees here at UPS on heat related injuries. I wrote simple steps to prevent getting overheated, and the dangers of what could happen if proper measures were not taken. I gave examples and illustrations that would make the employees stop and think about what to do as they are getting hot, and before they get over heated and tragedy occurs. Some examples of this would be proper amounts of water drank daily, and proper amounts of water drank while working in the heat. I explained how caffeinated drinks, sugary foods, and some medications will dehydrate the body, which can lead to heat exertion, heat stroke, or even death. I added many pictures to illustrate proper hydrating methods, and pictures showing foods and drinks that can quickly dehydrate a person. I also explained and illustrated what to do in case a fellow employee showed signs of heat exertion, or stroke. After brochure is read and explained each employee must take, and pass a test at 100 percent. Each employee must also verbally explain to me proper methods to helping a fellow employee that shows signs of heat distress. I have each employee to take the test to make sure each and every employee not only understands, but also remembers what they have read. The conclusion...
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