...Company Background This report is a comprehensive marketing plan for Burlington Sporting Goods, located in Alamance County, NC. Burlington Sporting Goods (BSG) is Alamance County’s oldest sporting goods store. Since the store opened in October 1947, BSG has offered a wide variety of sport related products and services to the people of Burlington and Graham. Along with retail sporting goods and apparel, BSG offers corporate screen-printing for team uniforms, a basketball facility and an indoor batting facility. The batting facility features a completely enclosed 70' x 70' batting cage with nine token operated pitching machines. Additionally, BSG offers Nike SPARQ training and hosts birthday parties and summer camps for basketball, cheerleading and baseball. Mission Burlington Sporting Goods strives to foster mutually beneficial ties in Alamance County. Since we opened our doors in October 1947, Burlington Sporting Goods has provided the towns of Graham and Burlington with a wealth of services for all their athletic and sport needs. We're the oldest sporting goods store in Alamance County, and we take pride in providing Alamance County with our team-oriented and friendly staff (BSG, 2013). The following plan is designed to boost the financial success and brand equity of Burlington Sporting Goods in order to help the organization achieve and maintain its stated mission. It features an analysis of BSG’s current position within its market, an analysis of the organization’s target...
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...until the 1990’s, life was not diverting due to the Residential School systems. Canada has been struggling to gain the forgiveness of the Residential School attendants and gladly, they had finally accepted our apologies, but will they ever forgive themselves for not being one of us? During the twentieth century, Residential Schools became widespread in all Canadian provinces and territories except Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. Aboriginal children had been seized from their homes and had been placed into these ‘boarding schools’. They had to do labour work, live with complete strangers, and also study the Canadian culture just to kill the Indian in the Child. The young children had to do all of this for the government while being abused. Sexually, physically and mentally. About one hundred and fifty thousand children were placed into this horrid living and only eighty thousand made it out alive as in two thousand and eight. In order for us to be forgiven, we did two acts that will never make up for what our country had done to them. We wrote a state of apology that was read in front of a crowd of survivors. We had also given each of them a generous amount of money as a materialistic apology. But how did the aboriginal community act upon the materialistic goods and apology? Has Canada as a whole done enough to heal the wounds of aboriginal students that had attended the Residential schools? Firstly, Canada had a requirement to make an apology to...
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...Reconciliation Payments for All Indian Residential School Survivors CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION February 2005 PREFACE The Canadian Bar Association is a national association representing 38,000 jurists, including lawyers, notaries, law teachers and students across Canada. The Association’s primary objectives include improvement in the law and in the administration of justice. This submission was prepared by the National Aboriginal Law and the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections of the Canadian Bar Association, with assistance from the Legislation and Law Reform Directorate at the National Office. The submission has been reviewed by the Legislation and Law Reform Committee and approved as a public statement of the Canadian Bar Association. The Logical Next Step: Reconciliation Payments for All Indian Residential School Survivors Executive Summary At its Annual Meeting in August 2004, the Canadian Bar Association adopted a resolution1 calling for the government to go beyond the existing Indian Residential Schools Dispute Resolution process to provide a base payment to all survivors of Indian Residential Schools. The CBA recognizes the tragic legacy of Indian Residential Schools and the failure of the current options of either litigatio n or the dispute resolution process to resolve the situation. The harms caused by Indian Residential Schools are still profoundly felt by the individual students who attended the schools, as well as their families, communities and...
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...Indian School Days Book Review Justin Delorme Introduction The book, “Indian School Days” is an autobiography of the author Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe native from Wasauksing First Nation, in Ontario. This piece by Author, “Basil Johnston”, gives the reader more and more evidence of the structural lifestyle of the Spanish Indian residential school. From the very beginning his writing style links the reader to never put down the book, it is full of action and true events that took place during his lifetime. The book starts off with Mr. Johnston as a young child of ten years, skipping school with another student, an act that they didn’t think would get them both shipped off to a residential school. But as fortunes and his unfortunate luck would have it, the feared Indian agent showed up to Basils door and took himself, along with his 4 year old sister to St. Peter Clavers School, a boarding school run by Jesuit priests at Spanish, which was close to Sudbury, Ontario. With the fear of police and punishment his mother and grandmother got both children ready and there was nothing nobody could say or do to change the mind of the Indian agent. In the pages that were to follow, Basil creates many portraits of the young Indian boys who struggle to adapt to the harsh and inhumane environment of this institution. By looking at some key examples from the book that Basil Johnston wrote, it will show the reader why this would be a good book to read as his writing style is from his own...
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...The Residential school system in Canada was a system devoted to providing a disciplined based ideal that promoted the rejection of the aboriginal culture in favor of the then dominant white European population. The teaching strategies that were encouraged ranged from pulling children as young as six away from their parents to mental, physical and sexual abuse. The Residential schools were run by a variety of participating church organizations, which received funding from the Canadian government. The funding was based on a per aboriginal basis therefore it was in the best interests of the churches to enroll as many aboriginal students as possible. The schools were run in almost every province in Canada from 1860-1884 and claimed to be promoting religious and cultural assimilation. However, the cruelty that was experienced by many young aboriginals in the residential schools emphasizes the differences between the aboriginal societies and the European dominant society making complete assimilation impossible. The imposition of residential schools on First Nations children has led to significant loss of indigenous languages, and this language loss has led to further cultural losses for traditional First Nations cultures in Canada. The earliest known date opening of a Residential school was in 1840, located in Manitowaning, Ontario. The school was the Wikemikong Indian Residential School, it closed in 1879. The last Residential school to close was La Tuque Indian...
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...The residential schools of Canada can be dated back to the 1870s. Before 1996, when the last of 170 schools were closed, an estimated 150,000 indigenous youth were forced to attend. In an attempt to blend indigenous youth into Canadian society, both the Canadian government and Christian churches believed educating and converting the youth would achieve their goal of integrating them into Canadian society (Miller, 2014). The infliction of economic self sufficiency and religious conversion caused the loss of languages which further resulted in the loss of culture among traditional indigenous peoples. The death of a language is more complex than simply a loss of communication, it is a loss of knowledge. "The wisdom of humanity is summarized in...
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...Business in Today’s Global Environment Finland Finland offers a wide variety of opportunities for foreign investment in the way of a company wanting to open a manufacturing plant or perhaps even a joint venture. Apex Furniture is looking for a location for a high quality furniture manufacturing plant. Apex is looking to expand their operations into the European regions and enter into the world market. They are looking for a location that can support the resource of wood needed for many of their items and the workforce with the skills to help create and produce the needs of the European regions. Several things need to be taken into account, including education and how it relates to the workforce, employment and how it relates to a accessible workforce, political and economic stability, median incomes and income disparity (will there be a market to purchase furniture), ease of direct investment, supply chain, and market competition. Finland is officially the Republic of Finland and is a Nordic country located in the Finnoscandian region of Northern Europe. Fennoscandia is a geographic term for the region made up by the Scandinavian Peninsula, Finland, Karelia and the Kola Peninsula. Finland is bordered by Sweden to the west, Norway to the north, Russia to the east, and Estonia to the south across the Gulf of Finland. There are 5.4 million people that live in Finland at the end of 2012 with the majority in its southern regions. Finland is the eighth largest country in Europe...
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...Robbie Gutierrez English 102 04/18/13 Road to Success Once, the American educational system was viewed as the best in the world. Other countries would study our methods and try to copy them in their own countries. Today the American education system is no longer the best in the world. With decreasing test scores and poor academic achievement, people have questioned why there have not been any changes in our education system. It’s important for the upcoming generation to get an education and take back the number one rank in public education. It should be the major concern for this country, because children are the future of this country. Other industrialized countries are ranking higher in test standardized test scores compared to the U.S. Because the educational systems of other countries are better than ours, we could learn from their educational successes. The United States could benefit from implementing three things; better teacher training, emphasis math & science, and create a system of academic student tracking. America is the land of the free and the land of many opportunities. It’s a place where many people from around the world come to have a better life. America has many opportunities to offer, but it lacks on one thing, a comprehensive education system. Each year America is falling behind other countries and it’s getting worse as time goes on. The only thing we were number one in is having the most medals in the London Olympics. Furthermore, in a...
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...call for the United States. Finland went from mediocre academic results to one of the top performers in the world. And they did it with unions, minimal testing, national collaboration, and elevating teaching to a high-status calling. A terrific synthesis by a native Finn, a teacher, a researcher, and a policy analyst all rolled up into one excellent writer. Pasi Sahlberg teaches us a great deal about what we need to know before engaging in national educational reforms. Finland's remarkable educational story, so well told in this book by Pasi Sahlberg, is both informative and inspiring because it shows that with appropriate effort sustained over time, a country can make huge improvements for its young people, something that all countries aspire to do. Pasi Sahlberg is the best education policy expert to share the Finnish experiences with the international community. The book, by Pasi Sahlberg (2011) starts with the thesis of the success of the Finnish education system. The introduction explains some of the reasons for the success story that is going to be presented in the five chapters of the book. Among those reasons are: Young people learn well in schools with low performance differences; Teaching is a prestigious profession which attracts many young people; Finnish teachers education is most competitive in the world; Teachers have professional autonomy; Those who join the profession stay in it for a life; Before leaving comprehensive schools more than half of the pupils...
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...Education The United States Vs. Finland The following paper is a cultural comparison of the United States and Finland educational systems and their outcomes. Almost every American will agree that the U.S is in dire need of change within its education system. I have chosen to compare our system with Finland’s because they are at the top of the list when rated by Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 2008). The PISA evaluates students from different countries to measure the knowledge of students who are closer to finishing high school. There are a few major differences in each system which sets one apart from the other. First is how each system is funded. Second is standardized testing in the U.S verses personal assessments in Finland. Lastly, the general outlines of the systems themselves. To begin, the U.S. educational system is governed by individual states. However, there are multiple options for attaining an education in the U.S. Some of these options are: public schools, private schools, charter schools and home schools. States typically put regulations on curriculum for public schools and receive funding from U.S. Department of Education and state taxes (U.S. Department of Education, 2008). Private schools determine their own sets of regulations, policies and curriculum and these rules are created by the board of trustees. Charter schools are funded publically by groups, communities...
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...literacy, and the ability to solve a problem. These traits were lacking in the recent high school graduates of Oklahoma public schools. In rapidly evolving and fast-paced financial markets, a quality education has become the foundation for success, and the education being offered by U.S. schools proves to be a faulty base for structure. In Amanda Ripley's The Smartest Kids in the World, Ripley demonstrates the American education system's need for rigor by providing personal narratives...
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...As a high school graduate, I’ve had my fair share of standardized tests. However, I also have younger siblings in both elementary and middle schools. As they’ve gotten older, I’ve taken notice in the increase of state testing they have to go through. They’re tested far more than I ever was as a kid. In her NPR article titled “What Schools Could Use Instead Of Standardized Tests”, Anya Kamenetz, an author, discusses the overuse of standardized testing and possible alternatives for them. Kamenetz mentions that there has been discussion of cutting back on state requirements for testing by parents in different communities. The Council of Chief State School Officer and some of the largest school districts have also made demands of reform. I personally believe that standardized testing is a waste and it cuts the time students get in terms of actual education and learning. In addition, these tests cause unnecessary anxiety among the student who take them....
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...FINN-AMERICAN KNOWLEDGE LEVERAGE Education system and how it works for teachers and students across the globe varies. The Finland phenomenon fascinated many American parents and educators on how their schooling works which highlighted the American ambiguous public school system. Education systems in both countries might have a big gap and indifferences, but both systems will somehow to be never perfect. In Finland, same type of education with similar curriculum is assured for all students regardless of the socio-economic background, and by having the same teachers every year makes learning pattern easier. They secure all pupils to have equality and no one is learning different from the other. Trust, equality, professional prestige, student-teacher training and student autonomy are the areas that needed to be worked on and could give a positive impact to the educational reform for the United States. It should be considered in reform endeavor which will hopefully...
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...factor for building a knowledgeable and skillful society. This can grantee the process of facilitating learning for next generations. Education is the process of imparting general knowledge. Longitudinal studies have shown some serious impacts on children who attend school at different ages. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the impacts of attending school at different ages in both UK and Finland. I tend to agree with the educational system of Finland that children should attend school between the age of 6 and 7. Children in the UK attend school at the early age of four. In contrast, delayed entry to school is common in Finland. Children start formal schooling at the age of seven. There are some advantages and disadvantages to the two different academic systems. Attending school earlier at age of four could be good for students’ experiences, students will explore the academic field earlier, which may help them understand the new step towards their future. Child protection is another advantage of starting school earlier (Sharp, 2002), working parents usually prefer to leave their children in pre-school while they are working, which is safer than leaving them in a household. In the academic concerns, Finland students have higher levels of...
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...education system. Education is a crucial part of society and is a key factor in taking a country’s inexperienced youth and aiding them in becoming experienced working class citizens. When a country faces an education crisis the youth of the country lose out on this crucial stage of development and face being unprepared for the challenges they may face. Often youth in this situation battle to find employment after school. The education system woes are hardened by the fact that a large portion of the government budget goes towards building and developing this sector, whilst this seems to reflect a positive outlook for education there is a shocking conclusion. South Africa puts more money towards its education system in comparison to other developing nations, as...
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