...would see this culture as soon as I would realize that it is actually world famous American culture. There are a few rituals that I would like to observe from that individual’s view who have never been to Nacirema society before this. The “use of expensive magical charms and potions” and “spending quality time in shrine” would make me think of this society as a magic ridden people who are shallow and superficial with their appearance. They would make their body go through extreme pain by following some rituals, such as, going to” holy-mouth man to get the painful procedure done”, “putting hog hair in the mouth” and ”women boiling their heads in ovens.”(Miner) Being an outsider in this culture, I might quickly attribute these strange rites as supernatural rituals because these rituals and their names are unfamiliar to me. My first impression would be “What is wrong with these people? Why do they go to this holy-mouth-man to get tortured? Why do women put their heads in ovens? Are these people ignorant or superstitious?” I would be really confused and feel awkward about all these rituals. In order to get the right meaning of these rituals, I...
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...Introduction Rite of passage refers to as the occasion or an event that classifies an individual to have transition from on stage of life to another. This activity encompasses Clitoridectomy, rite, Circumcision and infibulations. It is valued, treasure within the community, and is normally commemorated or rather celebrated through performance of fork dance and song to entice the entire event. It exists in between the current or present time and the standing reality. Rite is classified into different distinct form namely territorial passage whereby a person is required to go by certain set formalities. The other types of rites are childbirth and the period during of pregnancy. On event of birth of a child, people in that particular community comes together to celebrate and official welcome the new born to the society. It is also a ritual for a woman who is pregnant she is given a special treatment. Methodology The research was conducted through a thorough reading of both primary and secondary source collected from different written records. The analyzed information has been collected from materials such as articles, by conducting an interview to person conversant with the practices and get first hand information. The researcher put in place observation methods in determining the manner in which different community that has very different traditions and cultures conducted the ritual ceremonies. The research is also from governmental records and from both published and unpublished...
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...Apache Girl, presented two different rites of passages. Even though they are two different rituals, they have some similarities. In “The Medicine Bag”, Grandpa traveled a long way to see Martin just to pass on the medicine bag tradition before he dies. During the Lakota rite of passage, the oldest male in the family will receive the medicine bag. In The Apache Girl, Dachina went through a long ritual to become a strong woman, and get her woman name, which was Morning Star Feather. During the Lakota rite of passage, the oldest male in the family will receive the medicine bag. First, the person who currently has he medicine bag will travel to the person they are passing it to. After arriving, he must give the bag to the oldest male child in he family. Lastly, the child must remove two things from the bag and replace them. After the bag is the child’s, he must never open it until its time to pass it on again. During the Apache rite of passage, thirteen-year-old girls will participate in the ritual that will transform them into strong women. Their family members will create medicine for them, and make sure they get enough sleep and enough to eat before the ritual. The ritual begins with the rising of the morning star. Before joining the girls, Dachina...
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...A rite of passage is a series of rituals or events that push an individual to the next stage in his or her development, when it is either a young African man hunting down a lion or a child get circumcised for religious reasons. They are a part of life and been here since species have been put on this planet. Rites of passage are a part of life and will always be in our life. My rites of passages began started when I was 12; my dad had to work full time and didn’t get off till 8pm at night. So my dad left me in charge of my brothers and sister, I was told to make dinner and told to make sure they were in bed. Another rite of passage was when I turn 12, I was so excited to finally be able to swim in a swimming pool without parental supervision, So around 12 pm I ran to the pool full sprint and when I reached the gate… to my heartbreak they increased the age to 14 cause kids were getting hurt. Another rite of passage for me was when I joined football for high school. My dad warned me about the first hit was going to hurt the most. So my first padded practice I remember running a post route and I leaped in the air to catch the ball as I turned to make a run down the sideline I didn’t notice the linebacker and he laid me out. I remember the air leaving my body and me struggling to catch my breath. After practice my dad said how it felt, my response was it sucked, and I struggled to catch my breath. His response was I guess you will be more aware of your surroundings. The biggest...
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...Johnson & Wales University Providence, Rhode Island Feinstein Graduate School Research Report: Company Resource Analysis A Research Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the MBA Degree Course: MGMT6800 Business Policy and Strategy Professor: Trent Theroux Po Chiao Huang May 1, 2014 According to my research on company resource analysis in the drug store industry, I will select the CVS Caremark Corporation as my study company. Question 1: Whether the company's present strategy working? CVS pharmacy services business strategy centers on providing their customer and client high quality and innovative pharmaceutical solutions, while assisting their member managing overall health care costs by leveraging CVS expertise in core PBM services. (Form -10k) (1) Moreover, the retail pharmacy business strategy, base of the CVS pharmacy services model to maintain successful growth they focus on new store development by expanding the number of retail pharmacy stores and retail stores range in size in order to provide better service, help client lowers overall health care costs and improve health outcomes. (1) How these strategic working? Look into the financial performance in the Appendix 1, table 1. CVS compare well on these profitability ratios with industry averages. Most of ratios are better than the industry averages. Ventureline (2). Study the CVS’s financial report I found the company is “Solid and significant growth.” According...
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...Rite Aid Corporation, as the third largest drugstore chain (behind Walgreen and CVS) in the United States, operates more than 4600 drug stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and engages in selling prescription drugs (more than two-thirds of sales), health aids, cosmetics, beauty supplies, convenience foods and other merchandise. It is headquartered in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania, near Camp Hill, and has about 90,000 employees including pharmacists and part-time employees, as of March 3, 2012. (Marketline.com) Rite Aid Corp. also had a long history, which helps it become a mature company now. In 1958, a businessman named Alex Grass founded Rack Rite Distributors in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to provide health and beauty aids and other sundries to grocery stores. In 1962, he had his first drugstore, called Thrif D Discount Center, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which was an offshoot of Rack Rite Distributors. In 1965, pharmacy was added in its stores, and this chain was officially adopted its new name Rita Aid in 1968. At the same time, this company went to public and made its debut on the American Stock Exchange. After that, Rite Aid started to make many diverse acquisitions. For example, in the 1970s, it purchased nearly 300 stores, and by 1981 Rite Aid was the #3 drugstore chain, and sales exceeded $1 billion. During 1980s, approximately 900 stores were added in Rite Aid, due to acquisitions. On the other hand, the cost of expansion eroded Rite Aid's profit...
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...Controversy and Twentieth Century Music Controversy and Twentieth Century Music The music has presented ever-changing throughout history. A variety of musicians has passed through each century leaving a lasting impression on the world. Each musician gave you a piece of him or her and how he or she saw the world of music and life through his or her eyes (Kamien, 2011). The write will elaborate on two well-known musicians of the 20th century, and then contrast and compare a 20th century musician song and a modern day song which both had aspects of controversial issues within each work. Ravels lacked emotion within his music. His music had extended harmonies. In his time, Ravels music was seen as very controversy. It seems as if his music had no feeling. The music seemed just to play. There was no intimacy or remembrance by it. When Ravels wrote this piece, it was as if he separated himself from everything around him. Although his music was bland, Ravels stayed true to his form of music. His music put a person in the mind of elevator music that has vague melodies. One can forget that the music is playing in the background after a while. Stravinsky music was unpredictable. It was as if he created a box around him and said, "This is what I am going to play, and you can either like or dislike, because I do not care and will play it." Stravinsky broke away from the romantic period and any other period. He created his own period. The Romantic period had a wide range of emotions...
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...Introduction Walgreen Co. and CVS/Caremark are two of the largest retail drugstore chains in the United States, offering consumers a variety of basic consumer goods including household products, convenience foods, personal care, beauty care, photofinishing, and seasonal items, as well as over-the-counter and prescription medication. In addition to their well-known retail pharmacies, both companies also operate a health services health and wellness division. Within the retail pharmacy industry CVS/Caremark and Walgreens continually battle for the retail position. This document will offer an overview and basic competitive analysis of the two companies. Background Location & Type of presence (brick and mortar, or internet) According to the CVS/Caremark 2011Annaul Report, page 23; as of December 31, 2011, the CVS/Caremark Retail Pharmacy segment operated 7,327 retail drugstores with 7,271of these retail stores operating a full service pharmacy. Their stores are located in 41 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Additionally, within these retail stores operate 657 health care clinics conducting business under the Minute Clinic name. The retail pharmacy stores operate primarily under the CVS/pharmacy or Longs Drugs names. In addition, the Pharmacy Services segment operates under the names CVS Caremark Pharmacy Services, Caremark, CVS Caremark, Care Plus CVS/pharmacy, Care Plus, and Rx America to providing pharmacy benefit management services to employers, insurance...
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...Strayer University |Assignment for Course: | Business 508 – Contemporary Business | Date of Submission: December 14, 2011 Title of Assignment: Internet Technology, Marketing, and Security Executive Summary of Internet Technology, Marketing, and Security In society companies spent a lot of money on branding their company’s image. Due to the rapid growth in technology, the internet has become the fastest way to expand many marketing campaigns. Many companies number one priority is to ensure that their company’s image is maintained while making a profit. Security risks are more likely to take place on the internet because of many companies lack of safeguard focus of customer’s information. The Evaluation of JC Penney’s Production and Corporation Information J. C. Penney Company, Inc. is one of America's leading retailers, operates over 1,100 department stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as one of the largest apparel and home furnishing sites on the Internet, jcp.com. Serving more than half of America’s families each year, the JC Penney brand offers a wide array of private, exclusive and national brands which reflect the Company’s vision to be America’s shopping destination for discovering great styles at compelling prices. Traded as “JCP” on the New York Stock Exchange, the $17.8 billion retailer is transforming its organization...
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...Corporate Strategy Benchmarking Composition By Kelli Schroeder I chose JC Penny and Harley Davidson as my two companies to research for this assignment. JC Penney was founded in 1902 with the opening of its first stores along the west coast in small mining towns. It was popular because it brought goods at “one fair price” and also led the way to bring east coast fashions to the west. In 1963 JC Penney mailed the first catalogs out to customers in eight states and paved the way for the mail order business. What made this company strong, fashion at a fair price, was lost among the plethora of items from cookware to scarves that they now sold by mail, and later in stores. ("International directory of," 199) The early nineties brought struggles of competition with lower end stores like Wal-Mart and midrange stores such as Kohl’s. JC Penney found their merchandise had become diverse like Wal-Mart; however, their prices were higher like their competing boutique stores. Product value was perceived by consumers to be suffering. Profits for the more than 1200 stores fell two percent in only one year, leading JC Penney in have the worst performance of its peers in 2011. (Clifford, 2012) Harley Davidson has also struggled with the same issue of losing itself amongst fierce competition and diversification. Harley-Davidson began in a shed in 1903 by two brothers who set out to make the best American made motorcycles that money could buy. As Harley-Davidson became more successful...
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...WAGIn the highly competitive prescription drug market, Walgreens is no longer competing only against the well-known traditional drugstores, but also with other new competitors that are increasingly proving to be strong competitors our two main traditional competitors are: CVs and Rite Aid. On the other hand, we are facing increasing competition from some discounters such as Wal-mart and target ------------------------------------------------- and also from, online pharmacies. First, let’s talk about Rite Aid.. Despite the fact that Rite Aid is the largest drugstore chain on the East Coast of the U.S, we don’t consider it, at least for now, a significant threat to us. After the acquisition of Brooks and Eckerd drugstores in 2007, Rite Aid is now financially the weakest compared to Walgreens and CVS ------------------------------------------------- , and as a result, Rite Aid added to itself a huge long term debt. Our second traditional competitor I wonna talk about today is CVS …as a matter of fact, we consider CVs our major competitor among all other competitors. It’s the second largest chain in the U.S. Also, it’s is the nation’s largest pharmacy service provider, having purchased Caremark group in 2007, which handles a good portion of CVS annual revenues. Although we might have similar operational activities, we, up to a certain extent, take different approaches to achieve our growth. While we choose to organically grow by opening new stores, CVS assumes...
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...HRT 3M1 Religious Education Rite of Passage Culminating Activity Over the course of this semester, a number of religions were studied in terms of origins, beliefs, practices, symbols, milestones and impact. The time has come to put into practice the learning that has taken place! Many religions have a method by which youngsters in their particular faith are recognized as adults. The Learning Goal: • I will present a rite of passage from any religion discussed and researched throughout the term. • I will research and describe an important rite of passage from a particular religion and compare it to rites of passage from my own religion or to ones I knew of in general. • I will analyze the meaning and significance of the rite of passage I chose. Any rite of passage from a religion not discussed in class must be approved by the teacher first. The Process: This culminating activity will be completed in groups of 2 -3, but marks will be awarded individually based on the attached rubric and peer/self-evaluations. You and your partner(s) will present your rite of passage idea in the form of a written report and your choice of creative presentation that can be a video, a song, a game, an activity, interactive smart board exercise, presentation a role play, a website etc. The groups are encouraged to use multiple presentation strategies. This will tie in everything you have learned and demonstrate...
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...Walgreens Co. is the largest drugstore chain in the United States in terms of sales, receiving most of its revenue from retail prescriptions. These drugstores sell prescription and non-prescription drugs, and general merchandise. Its general merchandise consists of beauty care, personal care, household items, candy, photofinishing, greeting cards, seasonal items, convenience food and Walgreens offers an old-fashioned tonic for fiscal fitness. While Walgreen has fewer stores than its closest rival CVS, it is #1 in the nation in sales (Hoover's Inc, 2007). Walgreens operates about 6,000 stores in 49 states and Puerto Rico, and has three mail order facilities. Walgreen usually builds rather than buys stores, so it can pick prime locations (Hoover's Inc, 2007). Most of their stores are freestanding locations with a few outlets in mall and mini-malls. Throughout this paper I would describe Walgreens physical assets and technology and determine whether or not the organization has optimized its organizational resources for effectiveness and efficiency. In 1901 Charles R. Walgreens Sr. purchased the Chicago drugstore he had been working in as a pharmacist. A second store was bought in 1909 and by 1915, there were five Walgreens drugstore. By 1916, there were four additional stores that were bought, all on Chicago’s South Side. The stores were consolidated as Walgreen Co. with the aim of assuring economies of scale (Walgreens History, 2004). In 1919 there were 20 Walgreens stores...
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...Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 1 Christine Beverley-Wagner, Megan Hackel, Eric Cantu, and Charles Dougherty RES/351 July 21, 2014 Marcus Sherrill Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 1 J.C. Penny J.C. Penny Corporation, Inc., is an American retail company that was founded in 1902 by James Cash Penny. The company was called J.C. Penny Stores Company from 1913 to 1924 and then was reincorporated in 1968 to present as J.C. Penny Co. The firm was incorporated in 1913 and the following year the company moved its headquarters to New York City. In 1927 J.C. Penny Co., became a publically traded corporation. J.C. Penny Co. has been a household name for decades, but has seen its share of financial difficulties. Now the company is in the process of changing their culture, as it has discontinued its traditional catalog sales, and created a profitable internet shopping site. The issue that J. C. Penney is facing includes dramatic losses in sales, profits, and stock value. They recently hit a 55 week low with their stock value. They have brought back a former CEO Myron Ullman III to make some changes which does open the door for some new possibilities as well. They are currently making changes by closing 33 stores that have been underperforming to make up some of those losses and project that to make some significant differences. Other issues that come with that are the 2,000 employees that will be laid off as a result. They are battling some tough situations...
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...ANTHROPOLOGY 1AB3: Assignment #1 Worth 15% Your complete response to all components of the question should be between 1300 and 1500 words, not including your References Cited page. Note that all in text citations ARE included in this 1300-1500 word count. If you go over the 1500 word count, then 5/15 marks will be deducted from your paper. 5/15 marks will also be deducted if you are under 1300 words (remember these word limits DO NOT INCLUDE the Ref. cited page word counts). No title page: You do NOT need a title page, and you do not need to put your name, etc. on your paper. We can tell who you are on Dropbox. FONT, SPACING and MARGINS: Use Times New Roman 12 point font with 1-inch (2.5 cm) margins. Your paper should be double spaced. Due date/time: Feb. 11 by 4 p.m. to the Avenue Drop Box. Upload a single file (this must include your paper and Ref. Cited page) in Word or PDF format only to Avenue’s drop box. Then log out. Log back into Avenue to make sure it is there. If not, then upload it again. We will not accept any excuses re: “It didn’t upload properly,” “I don’t know where it went??!!” A 0 will be applied if it is not uploaded in time. It’s up to you to make sure it is there. Late penalties: 10% off per 24 hour (or part thereof) late, up to 72 hours. After 72 hours, a 0 will be given. Example: if you upload at 4:05 p.m. on Feb. 11, then 10% is taken off. Follow the AAA style guide for your References Cited page and your citations (cut and paste...
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