...furniture, together with the flat packages, reduced space requirements in logistic operations, which lowered the costs either.2 To maintain their low-cost strategy they have to manage an international low-cost supplier network. By 2004, IKEA’s network of international low-cost suppliers had grown to the point where it had 43 trading service offices in 33 countries.3 By well thought allocation of their warehouses and stores they managed to reduce costs even further. So we can conclude IKEA is capable of sustaining its low costs, by managing, establish and designing its supplier network in such a way that IKEA achieves lowest costs in logistics. Even though they’re capable to establish a low-cost supplier network, IKEA is also capable of designing its furniture in such a way that it “fits the IKEA concept of form, function and price”4, “for example the OGLA chair which initially was made of wood but eventually is made out of hollow composite, to make the chair affordable to most people”5 Also IKEA was capable of recombining their skills to serve the needs of entire families. To create child-friendly products IKEA consulted two psychologists, which in combination with their design expertise responds to children’s needs.6 It’s clear that IKEA’s core competencies are based on a low-cost...
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...Whether you are planning a vacation some place new or looking for activities in your hometown, finding something to do can be stressful. It can be stressful if you are a parent looking for activities with your children or it can be stressful if you are an adult looking for a little fun and adventure with friends. Most ways to find exciting ventures are through word of mouth, listening to advertisements on the radio, scrolling the internet or perusing the local newspaper. However, what if there was a way to bring word of mouth, radio advertising, internet, and newspaper ads to your finger tips all in one place….your phone. Unlike any other app or website What’s The Hap’s allows you to customize your experience by enabling you to be in complete control of your settings , bringing you the hottest current events, giving you savings, and connecting you to your social media sites that you can share the selfie fun. Key partners are important when launching a phone application this fun and connected. What’s The Hap’s would like to bring the fun to you by partnering up with other cool phone applications. For example, Group-on because What’s The Hap’s not only wants to find you events but save you money at the events that may require payment. We would like to link you to any sites that may offer prepayment so that you do not have to wait in long lines at the event of your choice so as Fandango (A cool movie app). These partners are just to name a few. However, What’s The Hap’s will strive...
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...[pic] Resolution of the World Health Organization After meeting in Geneva in May 2003 for the Fifty-Sixth World Health Assembly, the WHO outlined its Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness, or VISION 2020 plan. The WHO urges national governments to: • Set up, not later than 2005, a national VISION 2020 plan, in partnership with the WHO and in collaboration with NGOs and the private sector. • Establish a national coordinating committee for VISION 2020 or a national blindness prevention committee, which may include consumer or patient groups, to develop and implement the plan. • Commence implementation of such plans by 2007 at the latest. • Include effective information systems with standardized indicators and periodic monitoring and evaluation, with the aim of showing a reduction in the magnitude of avoidable blindness by 2010. • Mobilize resources for eliminating avoidable blindness. In turn, the WHO agrees to: • Maintain and strengthen the WHO’s collaboration with governments and all partners of the initiative. • Ensure coordination of the implementation of the VISION 2020 plan, by setting up a monitoring committee grouping all those involved, including national government representatives. • Provide support for strengthening national capability, especially through development of human resources, to coordinate, assess, and prevent avoidable blindness...
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...Popular American Culture The Real Housewives of Atlanta, New Jersey, Orange County, Beverly Hills, and Miami; Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta; along with various other “reality” television are some of the guilty programming that draws my attention. The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations or b : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (Merriam-Webster, Incorporated , 2013). Embracing culture, especially popular culture can have varying meaning depending on one’s environment. The recognition of the iconic one-liners, the names of “reality” television show stars that may otherwise go unknown to the American public is a key indicator of trends in American culture. Three trends in America’s societal popular culture seem to be the fascination with other individuals lifestyles or their reality, the shift in political participation could be considered a trend linked to the election of an African-American as president a president that made varying pop culture references during speeches (ESPN Internet Ventures, 2012), and a third trend may be the continuously growing popularity of hip-hop music. The impactful nature of the trends in pop culture from relating to politics to fashion sense, is impacted...
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...Samantha Wilson Dr. Carter English 112 FO1 24th February 2013 Pop culture and Our Society Pop culture gives the notion of having a lot of negative implications associated with it. Opponents accuse the mass media of minimizing the intellect of society. Pop culture has grown increasingly more complex over the past thirty years. Some of the biggest influences of style in pop culture stems from watching television, genres of music, video games, the internet and individual trends and fashions. Television plays a major role in present day pop culture. The Nielsen Company estimates that there are 114.7 million United States households with a television. Commercials, music videos, and television shows that push the limits of the FCC, are in a continuous rotation on most networks. TV shows have changed a lot over the past thirty-five years. Also, people have changed their thoughts and perceptions about family concepts, social behaviors, personal interactions, and what’s acceptable in society. Families are no longer viewed perfect as they were once portrayed. Television shows with families like the Cosby’s, the Cleaver’s (Leave It to Beaver), and the Brady’s (Brady Bunch) have become obsolete to today’s suggestive humored sitcoms. Nowadays most television shows are based upon sex, drugs and violence. Sex and murder have become the norm on primetime television. Media news today did a study with 600 films and 5,000 students to find that movies play an important role in people lives (medical...
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...[pic] College of Humanities HUM 186 Course Syllabus Media Influences on American Culture 6 – 10 p.m. Tuesdays Course Start Date: 06/14/2011 Course End Date: 07/12/2011 University of Phoenix South Florida Campus Miami Learning Center 11410 NW 20th Street, Miami, FL 33172 Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright © 2011, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix® is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft®, Windows®, and Windows NT® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix® editorial standards and practices. Course Description The course provides an introduction to the most prominent forms of media that influence and impact social, business, political...
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...Dr. Faucette English 111 October 14, 2013 Footloose “While the 1984 original is hardly a perfect film, New Footloose has some hefty shoes to fill,” as stated by Benjamin Wood. The original movie and new make of the movie Footloose are perfect examples of change in pop culture. In my essay, I have decided to compare and contrast the values and characteristics of these two movies. From the first to the second there are the same basic ideas, but so many differences in the characters and events. Christ Lemire describes the old Footloose as a “flood of fond memories” for anyone who grew up in the 1980s. This movie was a true symbol of the growth of pop culture during this time. The main character, played by Kevin Bacon, was a bad boy from big city Chicago. He was forced to move to a small town called Bomont, Utah with his mother into his aunt’s house. All he wanted to do was dance, but it was banned. This had a lot to do with the church and their moral beliefs. The boy meets a rebellious girl and it almost halfway becomes a love story also. His goal in this movie was for the town to put on a prom for the teens in school. He even goes before the town council in order to change the law against dancing. Although he portrays a very good argument and quotes from the bible about how they danced and rejoiced, the council voted against it. The young boy is determined and does not give up. In the end they hold the prom at a grain mill outside of town and everyone has the time of their...
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...Rock is strongly connected to an ongoing mass culture and economic engine in popular culture. It helped define the voice of youth during the rise of the adolescent class. It is known for being a creative and imaginative expression of music that holds an elevated position in culture. Rock has a background history in protests, riots and being bold on what one likes or believes in. In the article “Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi stands in glass box for cancer awareness campaign”, Iommi is making a statement by standing within a two way mirror to highlight the loneliness felt by people diagnosed with cancer. Bystanders could see into the box however Iommi could not see out, instead herd audio of personal stories from cancer sufferers. Iommni was personally diagnosed with stage three of cancer, lymphoma. He is not just standing up for but was relating to the situation through hand. The mission of this article was to proclaim the understanding of cancer and how it makes those diagnosed with cancer feel. It also confirmed the rumors of Iommi being diagnosed with cancer. I believe the article is both informational and advertising to help the awareness and to help bring donations to cancer foundations. The author is clearly identified, labeled right before the prompt begins. The author’s article is informational within the article giving a basic brief summary on the situation being placed. The article page is relevant and was written this year on August 27th. There was also a video of an...
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... American popular culture is many things. It tells us how we should live our life. It lets us know what is in or out. Some things it tells us are what to wear and what we should be watching on TV. The term popular culture was first used in the early 19th century. It was used to define the lower class. But now the term is used to describe what the majority of people like. (popular) Fashion trends seam like they are always changing. One popular fashion trend you see all the time is active wear. It used to be only acceptable to wear it to the gym. But now you will see woman wear it everywhere. Yoga pants are no longer restricted to yoga class; instead, they’re worn with a fancy fur vest for lunch with friends or a visit to Wholefoods. Sporty moisture-wicking zip-up jackets are layered between wool coats and cashmere sweaters. (Sherman) We see that active wear has become an important of a women’s wardrobe. It’s not like like most women are 100% wearing active wear. A lot of time you will see women wearing a piece or two. One very common look is to see women wear yoga pants with a sweater when they are out doing arrears or having a night on the town with friends. I wonder how many women wearing yoga pants actually do yoga. The active wear company Lululemon has been doing amazing business. Lululemon, established in 1998, was the first to see and seize the opportunity in activewear in a major way. Founded in Vancouver, Canada, by longtime surfer-turned-yogi Chip Wilson, the company...
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...REACT, 1998(2), 18-23 APPROACHES TO DIGLOSSIA IN THE CLASSROOM: THE MIDDLE WAY David Deterding INTRODUCTION The concept of diglossia was developed by Ferguson (1959). It describes a situation where two languages or language varieties occur side by side in a community, and each has a clear range of functions. One of these varieties, the Hvariety (standing for 'High'), is adopted as the standard variety and is used in official situations, such as government broadcasts, religious services, and teaching; and the other, the L-variety (for 'Low'), is used in informal situations, such as local markets and conversations between friends. The focus of this article is to discuss how the concept of diglossia might be appropriate to describe the Singapore English-speaking community, and to consider what approaches can be adopted by teachers towards the use of the L-variety in schools. Examples of diglossia that have been widely quoted are: the Arabic community, where each region has its own colloquial variety, but classical Arabic is still taught in schools and is regarded by many as “more beautiful” and therefore more appropriate for written texts; the Swiss-German community, where all children learn Standard German in schools, and most books and newspapers are in Standard German, but the people continue to use the local Swiss-German dialect on an everyday basis; the Tamil community, where the language taught in classrooms and used in literature is sharply different from the colloquial...
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...Section 7.1 92. Investing her bonus. Donna invested her $33,000 bonus and received a total of $970 in interest after one year. If part of the money returned 4% and the remainder 2.25%, then how much did she invest at each rate? x+y=33000 .04x+2.25y=970 x=-y+33000 .04-y+33000+2.25y=970 -4y+1320+.0225y=970 -.0175y=-1320+970 -.0175y-.0175=-350-.0175 y=20,000 x+20,000=33,000 x=33,000-20,000 x=13000 100. Ticket sales. Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were $824 and twice as many adult tickets as student tickets were sold, then how many of each were sold? 3x+2y=824 x=2y 32y+2y=824 6y+2y=824 8y=824 y=103 x=103*2 x=206 104. Bonus and taxes. A company has an income of $100,000 before paying taxes and a bonus. The bonus B is to be 20% of the income after deducting income taxes T but before deducting the bonus. So B = 0.20(100,000 - T). Because the bonus is a deductible expense, the amount of income tax T at a 40% rate is 40% of the income after deducting the bonus. So T = 0.40(100,000 - B). a) Use the accompanying graph to estimate the values of T and B that satisfy both equations. (35, 15) b) Solve the system algebraically to find the bonus and the amount of tax. B = .2(100,000-.4(100000 – B)) B = .2(100000 – 40000 + .4B) B = 20000 – 8000 + .08B .92B = 12000 B = $13042.48 T = .4(100000 – 13042.48) T = .4(86957.52) T = $34783 106. Free market. The equations S = 5000 + 200x and...
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...Introduction Popular culture has over the decades come and replaced every single aspect of our lives from our traditions to our worldviews. We as Africans have slowly become adapted to popular culture just as quickly as we were to adopt the colonial view of civilization during the colonial era. From music to cinema, from theatre to art popular culture has slowly crept into the African culture in the form of mordanity. Some have been able to Africanize it but most of us disappeared within it and have become some sort of slaves. Artists such as Fela Kuti of Nigeria to Hugh Masekela from South Africa just to name a few have been able to mix African influences with popular art in their music to create music that cuts across every type of audience from the miner in the coal fields to the CEO of a blue chip company. Others have tried but have only concentrated on one part of this delicate equation which is the popular aspect. They produce content that is strictly for the market without have consideration for music as a craft. Key terms Culture: As defined by live science, Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. (http://www.livescience.com/21478-what-is-culture-definition-of-culture.html) Popular culture As defined by Webster Dictionary Pop culture Commercial culture based on popular taste: fashion, music art (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pop%2Bculture) ...
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...Popular American Culture SOC/105 July 3, 2013 Popular American Culture Many Americans consume popular culture in their everyday lives. IPod, cell phones, computers, and popular television shows, are just a few things that create popular culture in society. According to Michael Petracca (2007), “popular culture has two counter parts, high culture and folk culture”. High culture consists of the artifacts, fine art, and classical music. Folk culture consists of a non-technical society of people who create artifacts and is usually passed on through tradition and communication. To answer the question on what is popular culture, it is shared practices and knowledge of a specific group at a specific time. It is obvious in today’s society what is popular to the majority of American people. Three major trends in American culture are entertainment, technology, and travel. Television has changed the way many Americans shop, eat, and even receive information. Many homes in America today have at least one television to watch the most popular shows or the hottest movies. Technology has taken the place of many things like the house phone now there is the cell phone. The cellphone technology now includes computer, camera, and television combining innovation with necessity. The automobile has been a big part of American culture and now has been manufactured to run on electricity which in turn will help heal the planet. Americans decisions are influenced daily simply by...
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...Chapter No. 1 Introduction Before going to any further about Dramas effect on our society, first of all we have to know about what drama is? Then we can easily make further research on this topic. Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.“Drama is watching one person changed by another. If two people exchange views, but neither is changed by the interaction, you have literature. If two people have an enormous physical fight but their relationship remains unchanged, you have spectacle. But if one is altered by the other, then you have drama.” Johnston (1979). In every drama, there’s always a thing called elements of drama. The elements of drama is like an analysis of it, it tells us how the play goes on and how it will end. The elements of drama consist of four main parts and they are Plot, Character, Setting and Theme. Drama doesn’t mean vulgarity, it is a source to promote any society culture. A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances...
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...UCC28C41, UCC28C42, UCC28C43, UCC28C44, UCC28C45 UCC38C40, UCC38C41, UCC38C42, UCC38C43, UCC38C44, UCC38C45 SLUS458E -- AUGUST 2001 -- REVISED OCTOBER 2010 BiCMOS LOW-POWER CURRENT-MODE PWM CONTROLLER FEATURES DESCRIPTION D Enhanced Replacement for UC3842A Family D D D D D D D D D D UCC38C4x family is a high-performance currentmode PWM controller. It is an enhanced BiCMOS version with pin-for-pin compatibility to the industry standard UC384xA family and UC384x family of PWM controllers. In addition, lower startup voltage versions of 7 V are offered as UCC38C40 and UCC38C41. With Pin-to-Pin Compatibility 1-MHz Operation 50-μA Standby Current, 100-μA Maximum Low Operating Current of 2.3 mA at 52 kHz Fast 35-ns Cycle-by-Cycle Overcurrent Limiting ±1-A Peak Output Current Rail-to-Rail Output Swings with 25-ns Rise and 20-ns Fall Times ±1% Initial Trimmed 2.5-V Error Amplifier Reference Trimmed Oscillator Discharge Current New Under Voltage Lockout Versions MSOP-8 Package Minimizes Board Space Providing necessary features to control fixed frequency, peak current-mode power supplies, this family offers the following performance advantages. The device offers high-frequency operation up to 1 MHz with low start-up and operating currents, thus minimizing start-up loss and low operating power consumption for improved efficiency. The device also features a very fast current-sense-to-output delay time of 35 ns and a ±1 A peak output current...
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