Essays on Mainstream

The amount of clothing brands is increasing worldwide. Today the fashion industry produces more clothes than in the entire previous history. Such changes are partly caused by the development of technologies. The article “The Power of Buying Less by Buying Better” by Elizabeth Cline is devoted to changing trends in the global fashion industry. The phenomenon “fast fashion” gains the increasing popularity all over the world. And today most clothing designers are focused on how to produce more, but with less quality. The situation in the fashion industry has changed due to the occurrence of alternative offer. In contrast ...

The introduction of new media has created various challenges to the old media in the recent decades. From the onset, it is important to note that the development of internet from the 1980s to date has been swifter than other communication media. For many centuries the old media, which comprises of the mainstream platforms such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, has been used as a platform for advertising and communication. Although the old media has been an effective way of marketing for many years, the advent of new media led by the internet and the subsequent professional and ...

Born in 1958 in Shanghai China, Wong pursued graphic design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University prior to enrolling in the training programs provided by the local television station. He started his career as the screenwriter, initially in television, then in the movies, and established his debut as a director with the 1988 film As Tears Go By, in the prime of Hong Kong movies (Yeh 6). The movie, which had a gangster theme, joined genre conventions with the infrequent visual skill, representing the gift of the formal experimentation, which was still evident in the succeeding work—earning him ...

Executive summary

The smart home integrated energy efficiency product will come in packages of silver, bronze, and gold to target consumers and homeowners in the United States of America. Bronze packaged products will be marketed to consumers of lower income bracket while energy efficiency products that are packaged in silver and gold will be marketed to high-income homeowners. This product is fabricated to ensure that it reduces the amount of energy consumed by electric appliances and in effect reduce the electric bills that are paid by consumers. Due to the complexity of this product market representatives will be used to visit ...

Introduction

The film, “If these Walls Could Talk,” is a compilation of three generational segments of stories that exonerate the plight of women in the society against the general view of the dominant sex. This film was released in 1996, and it exclusively discusses the controversial issue of abortion, which seeps in three distinct generations. The three segments of the film entail different generations and decades, but the setup for the entire story transpires in the same house. The first story is a widow, whose husband was killed on the battlefield (Stuart, 2008). Demi Moore is the woman in the ...

Executive summary

Drone technology has been in used for quite some time now in many western nations for military operations. More recently, this technology is being applied to manufacture inexpensive technology and in the filming technology. Unmanned systems commonly referred to as drones continue to be made available to different consumers globally for their private means. The use of drones in the film making industry has helped to improve the quality of films produced. Further, it has increased efficiency and grown the film industry as film directors are able to capture moments that were nearly impossible to obtain some few years ...

Executive summary

This product is centered on virtual reality technology. As a matter of fact, this product is designed for law enforcement officers. By simulating the dangerous conditions and circumstances that police officers have to work under on a periodical basis, the software will help law enforcement officers, make better decisions in a short period. Some of the decisions that it will help a law enforcement officer make are when to discharge a weapon when to engage a suspect and how to ascertain whether a situation has a potential of being volatile. What is more is that this software not only ...

In this paper, we will explore the psychological impacts of two human-made disasters. One that happened during the First World War, and the other one is a recent terrorist attack in Paris, in 2015. The Lusitania Disaster was an attack from the German army to a British ship liner coming from New York to Liverpool, UK. The terrorist attack in Paris however was not a war attack, so people were not expecting anything as such. However, it can be argued that we are on a war today, that begun by several attacks of radical Islamic groups against the West. ...

Discussion Questions on the Institutions of Higher Education

Discussion Questions on the Institutions of Higher Education

Nowadays, the emerging “for profit” institutions become a popular alternative to the traditional “non for profit” higher educational institutions. The for-profit-sector, as Lloyd Armstrong claims, “has not made the mistake of equating program quality either with the level of prior educational attainment of entering students, or the fraction of applicants who are rejected” (Armstrong, 2010). Thereby this strategy and a greater innovativeness of the institutions result in a great interest to them among the working adults and the members of minority groups. Considering their students as the clients, for profit organization ...

Abstract

After conducting analysis of the literature, it is possible to provide the following classification of the managerial and medical approaches towards the drug and alcohol treatment of aboriginal women: drug treatment, development of the personal skills among the target population as well as practical implementation of the therapeutic strategies, which are mainly based on the cultural and social contexts of such women. There is a considerable difference in terms of availability of such services for the Aboriginal populations and non-Aboriginal populations. For instance, those women, who are not referred as representatives of indigenous population, have an access to the ...

It is redundant to acknowledge what a crucial role technology plays in our lives today. Over the last century, such scientist as Gerhard Lenski, Leslie White and Alvin Toffler introduced their theories trying to break down the issue into smaller pieces and offered their view on the evolution of the technologies, the reasons that stand behind and perspectives for the future. Gerhard Lenski was a scientist that produced one of the theories about the types of societies that can be defined by their technologies. He was a true believer that technology is the main force that drives change and ...

Schools of thought have different views regarding labor unions. The mainstream economics school of thought view on labor unions can be said to be negative. It takes unions as a collective with other interventions in the market such as government intervention. It perceives unions to influencing the supply of labor negatively. This is because its views competitive markets as being perfect thus unions hinder the supply of labor. Additionally, its provisions reveal that the relationship between the employees and the organizations is perfect. This means that unsatisfied employees can leave or the employer can allow the employees to go ...

Methodology and Research Design

The choice of a methodology in a research is based on the properties of the methodology and their ability to meet the purpose of the study in a qualitative research or to answer the research questions in a quantitative research. The analysis of the methodology chosen by the researchers can shed light on the appropriateness of the choices with respect to their ability to meet the purpose of the study. This paper explores the methodology and research design chosen by Humphrey & Symes (2010) in their article on Responses to bullying and use of social support among pupils with autism ...

Economic inequality Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Introduction Thought the last century, the subject of inequality has come to the fore. It seems that social, economic, racial, ethnic disparity became ubiquitous under the circumstances of economic and technical progress. While some countries take a course of rapid development, others remain behind. It happens not only on the political level but also within the country on the social scale. The emergence of perceptible economic inequality can now be observed in developed countries, and Australia is not an exclusion. Historically, economic inequality strengthened disparities of income and living standards of the individual layers of the population, increased the ...

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The Gangster Movie: Questions and Answers

1. VIDEO CLIP 1: Identify two classical conventions of gangster genre (e.g. theme, plot device, character type, and/or stylistic device) present in this image and briefly explain the significance of each one. (2 points) The two classical conventions of Gangster Genre present in the first video are theme and character type. The theme that is being explored in the video clip is the immigrant criminal, who has been left to die in humiliation and as a comic, as required by the Production Code Administration (PCA). The character type is the gangster, who has dark, ethnic ...

Discussion Board Post.

One Reading: Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins Article, “Race, Gender, and Class: An Anthology. Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins article, “Race, Gender, Class: An Anthology, 6th Ed,” gives a clear comparison on how sex, race, and gender shapes people’s lives. To give a clear meaning to their discussion, Margaret and Collins try to attach these issues to certain controversial elements in the society. Specifically, they discuss these elements alongside issue like Muslim life in the United States of America, Incarceration, the working poor and affirmative action. The article is clearly organized into four distinct ...

Capella University

PSY7650 Children with autism spectrum disorders are prone to bullying and stigma. This is especially the case when they are mainstreamed into classes with students with other disabilities and those without any disabilities. Mainstreaming offers more opportunities for the children with disabilities to learn, especially through the interaction with other students. However, the challenges that bullying presents might serve as impediments that reduce the ability of the children with autism spectrum disorder to benefit from the additional learning opportunities (Humphrey & Symes, 2010). The main topic upon which the research is based is the bullying of children with autism spectrum ...

Thesis: Social media is increasingly becoming a fundamental tool for fostering political awareness and action in Saudi Arabia.

Introduction Saudi Arabia has one of the most repressive media regulations in the world with a score of 83/100 in the most recent survey by the Freedom House, where 0 represents the best score while 100 represents the worst score. The authorities mugged the freedom of the media, further, in 2014 with the passage of the antiterrorism legislation and a series of arrests that silenced some of the most vocal critics (Freedom House). The fragile environment from which journalist operate from has led to a high level of suspicion on the mainstream media which is controlled by powerful government ...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle first led the discussions on the concept of genre in order to create a distinction between multiple works of text based upon their common characteristics. The word itself is a Latin derivative of genus. It implies a sense of definition that can be stated in common English as ‘the like of’. The word genre has went on to include a vast number of different types of text, music and visual medium since the ancient Greek empire. Specific words such as drama, essay, commentary, news etc. are now used to identify the specific nature of a ...

Introduction

The issues of whether or not to treat juveniles or minors the same ways as adults when they commit a crime is a delicate one and has been debated for decades. Many authoritative figures believe they should be treated in a similar manner. However, there are many researchers that feel differently, believing that charging a child with what many consider an “adult crime” could affect the rest of their life and leave them with no hope of redemption. When making such a life-changing decision a judge or jury should already understand the social, biological, and psychological factors that differ ...

PART 1 – IDENTIFICATIONS (25 pts)

Define and explain in 2-4 sentences the importance for hip-hop culture of FIVE of the following identifications: Hip-hop music has its origins in the 1970s from South Bronx. Over the years, it has grown into rap music and even further to hip hop culture. Hip hop culture all over the world has incorporated various aspects in the society like technology, fashion, racism, art, and urban life among others. Multiple identifications in hip hop play a vital role in its culture. For example, sampling is the use of a song portion in another song either as a sound recording or ...

Executive summary

Tesla is an example of a company that is able to disrupt an industry. Before Tesla, the fully electric car was an idea in the research and development laboratories of gasoline-powered cars. After Tesla, the fully electric car is almost synonymous with the name of the company. The technologies behind the car are still expensive and this means that it is still a niche product. However, Tesla is working towards making it a more mainstream car. This paper looks at the efforts of Tesla to get its Model S into the Singaporean market. This paper begins with an introduction ...

Institutional analysis

The aim of this study is to demystify the effects of charging and incarceration minors alongside their adult counterparts. The papers explore the judicial process and how juveniles cannot handle the stress that comes with the trial processes. Minors will be compared with their elderly counterparts in their undressing of the rights including waiver of Miranda rights. The paper also explores the psychological and socio-behavioral implication of holding minors in adult prisons (Siegel, 2014). The research will use literature and court's published data to justify the need for separating the mainstream legal system from juvenile system.

Thesis

Criminal Minors are ...

Although this topic has been in the limelight for long, it is shrouded by ambiguities. It is imperative therefore that empirical enquiry be mad more often to the effects of castration on adolescents compared to mature individually. This study will quantitatively and qualitatively explore implications of holding juveniles through the mainstream legal system. I argue that the legal system should differentiate juvenile trial from the mainstream legal system. This research is relevant for parents, policy makers, educators and parents. This paper will explore physiological, emotional and physical implication of juvenile persecution in both mainstream courts and special/juvenile court. “Juveniles' ...

Discussions about LGBT rights, civil liberties have been ongoing since the dawn of the 20th century. From the initial period where LGBT people were looked down upon or shunned from regular life and activities, to today, where there is more awareness and recognition about civil liberty and LGBT rights; the nation has come a long way. As time progressed and with the end of WW II, there was more awareness and sensitivity towards homosexuals and discussions and policies to provide fair treatment and employment began to emerge. These discussions, as we notice from the NYT articles are still holding ...

Identification of the Article and Its Methodology

The article upon which this paper is based is the Responses to bullying and use of social support among pupils with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in mainstream schools: a qualitative study which is authored by Neil Humphrey and Wendy Symes. The article was published in the 10th Volume, number 2 of the Journal of Research in Special Education Needs in 2010. The article is based increased mainstreaming of children who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. While the authors laud the efforts towards mainstreaming, they still recognize the insurmountable challenges and barriers that may serve as impediments to children ...

The first sketches of the landscape in the form of contours of the mountains, trees and rivers appeared in primitive cave drawings. At that time, people made the first attempts to portray themselves surrounded by wildlife. Landscape elements can also be found in the art of ancient Greece. Halls of the Knossos Palace on Crete have so far preserved the frescoes, wall painting with a realistic pictures of people against the sea, garden and mountain landscape. Before appearing in the west, landscape as an independent genre appeared in ancient China as a lyrical direction, celebrating the beauty and elegance ...

Society has always been divided along racial, gender, class, religious, sexual identity and various other lines. The divisions among society more often than not give rise to negative reactions and stereotypes towards the members of society belonging to groups that are perceived as inferior and not of equal status for one reason or the other. Discrimination and stereotyping affect those it is directed to and deny them the various opportunities to be productive and successful members of society. Therefore, this paper aims to show that the only way to stop discrimination is to experience what the discriminated group goes ...

Abstract

The following examines Mexican American and African-American cultures and the ways that these two cultures interact the dominant white culture in the United States. While on the surface these two cultures might seem to have much in common (given that they are frequently discriminated against minorities in the United States), in point of fact they are very different in the ways that they assimilate into American culture. Anthropologists and sociologists have traditionally used words like “integration” and “acculturation” to describe the process in which immigrant cultures ultimately blend in to (and accommodate themselves to) the dominant culture of the ...

Issue and Solutions for Various Minority Groups in South Asia

Introduction The term “South Asia” is given to the nations occupying the southern section of the Asian continent. This area is dominated by the region of the Indian Plate, to include the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (United Nations Statistics Division: Composition of Macro Geographical Regions, Geographical Sub-Regions, and Selected Economic and Other Groupings). South Asia’s population is said to be about one-fifth of the world’s total population, and thus it is known to be the most densely populated geographical region in the world (South Asian Regional Gateway: South Asia ...

Virtual Reality

Introduction Technological advancements are essential to the development of any nation. In fact, lack thereof compromises the overall potential of a region being self-sustainable. With this in mind, it is worth mentioning that the progressions in science and technology over the years fostered the development of virtual reality. Popularly referred to as VR, this marvel is a computer technology that replicates realistic human environments and simulates the user’s physical presence to fit the setting presented by the system thus allowing interaction. Currently, most of the virtual reality presentations are conveyed on a computer monitor or a head-mounted display, ...

Introduction

Advertising is form of communication that is directly invoked in passing critical messages to the target audience. It is also termed as a promotional mode that has persuasive instincts of swaying buyers to a given direction. Therefore, advertisements for sales promotion are destined to orient the thinking and perception of buyers to a given product. While there are different forms of advertising, the main message expressed by these ads is always the same, and it holds one precept of persuasion to the target audience. It is the backdrop for competitive edge that most advertisers come up with different messages, ...

Using the five concepts of representation, sexual, content, media and free speech, my definition of pornography is that is a representation of free speech using sexual content through different media. The history of pornography and its struggle to be included in mainstream entertainment has revolved around these five words. My understanding of these five concepts is as under. Representation is the basic concept of displaying and conveying the information from the point of enactment to the point of viewing. In context of pornography, this representation can be in different forms and styles. Also, I think that pornography as a ...

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Background.3-4 Discussion4-10 Support of E-Sports as Sports.5-7 Opposition to E-Sports as Sports7-8 Responses to Objections.8-9 Conclusion10-11

Work Cited.12

INTRODUCTION On October 19, 2014, more than 40,000 fans crowded into the sold-out World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, to watch a highly anticipated final match of a world championship series. The massive audience did not pack into the stadium to watch a concert. They did not come out in droves to witness teams of football players make touchdowns. They did not scream and cheer as men made baskets in a tense basketball game. This was not a traditional sporting event; ...

The history of film, much like any other industry throughout time, has largely been male-dominated, with the vast majority of opportunities and accolades going to male filmmakers. However, it is important to note the influence of women in the film industry, and the sorely underappreciated role they have throughout the history of cinema. When tracking women directors through the 100+ years film has existed, their impacts and struggles has ebbed and flowed in surprising ways. From the silent film era’s breadth of opportunities to modern filmmaking’s slow but steady infiltration of women directors today, female filmmakers have ...

According to Emmet Price, dancing, in the early years of Hip Hop, was the “‘essence of early Hip Hop culture’” (qtd in Gorney 1). However, over the years, dancing in the Hip Hop culture gradually lost its significance as it became “cultural fad” and was replaced with a “take away product of hip hop,” which is the CD (Gorney 2). In recent years, hip hop dance has enjoyed a “huge resurgence” (Gorney 2). This resurgence of cultural expression has manifested itself in multiple “forms” (Gorney 2). However, it is this form of cultural expression is in danger of being “ ...

There are so many diseases, conditions and disorders that can negatively affect human beings that are inconvenient, problematic and, some can be fatal. That said finding treatments and cures for these ailments is paramount, but not everyone is comfortable with the many different chemicals and drugs that are supported by physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. Some people have, do and will continue seek out different treatments, outside the traditional medical approaches. These different approaches are called “alternative medicine.” Alternative medicine can include choosing medicinal marijuana instead of prescription pain killer, faith healing and acupuncture. However, many argue that if ...

Executive Summary3

Analysis and evaluation of alignment4 Strategic Contribution 5 Personal Credibility 5 HR Delivery Metrics6 Key Performance Measurements6 Action Plan7 HR Mission 9 HR Vision 10 Conclusion11

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Executive Summary This project report is a Human Resource Strategy for an organization in the power electric industry named Titan Electric, Incorporated. A human resource strategy is a model which begins with research into employment and moves into a framework which articulates the organization's and the human resources department main values. The HR strategic plan consolidates and presents the policies of the department in light of how individual functions operate. It then explains ...

Introduction

In the current era, global uncertainty and change are at the peak that is a big threat to sustainability. The paper aims to discuss the accounts for sustainability at the organizational level and what can be accounted for sustainability. Currently, the global organizations do not account much for sustainability. The sustainable development is considered to be a complex concept because it gives rise to social and environmental issues. An increase in critiques of sustainability reporting and speculation on accounting for sustainability is also observed in the modern world. The practices followed by the organizations for sustainability, their consideration related ...

In his book, Robert Meister criticizes Human Rights Discourse that has developed after World War Two and continues to rule a mainstream discussion today. The author discusses critical defects of this paradigm and supports his arguments with the relevant works from various areas of knowledge: from psychoanalysis to religion to political analysis. Besides, he analyzes historical examples of injustice from two perspectives: as a dichotomy of a native and a settler, characteristic of anticolonial struggle and a triad of a perpetrator, a victim, and a beneficiary, which is relevant to class struggle. The key postulate of Human Rights Discourse, ...

Introduction

The Oxford English Dictionary has myriad definitions for the word ‘cool,’ from the conceptual physical sciences where cool means lower temperature, to its cultural connotation where cool means “restrained and relaxed,” such as jazz, and “fashionably attractive or impressive,” which could be a person, trend, habit, or behaviour. If one means pop culture, then it's harder to define what is cool, because the pop culture is broken up into subcultures, each with their own definition of cool. One cannot look at the current age with the same perspective as you look at previous ones. There are reasons for this. ...

The article “Self Making as Public Spectacle: Bodies, Bodily Training and Reality TV” is written by Bree Hadley, from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. It is published in “Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Media Studies” in Issue 24, October 2012. The article starts with the commentary on how reality TV shows has penetrated the media and its definitions of what real people are like has taken the society by a storm. Reality TV has recently exploded into the mainstream media and has taken over our televisions. It has already been written about extensively how these reality TVs ...

Research Skills

2016 Introduction The use of social media has mainstreamed the marketing platforms for most companies today. This practice has been so common due to the introduction of digital technologies that connect the entire world. Therefore, information dissemination and realization of connectivity is highly manifested on the social media platform than any other marketing precepts. On the other hand, there has been a massive transition from traditional marketing concepts, even as most companies embrace this new marketing portfolio (Wollan, Smith, & Zhou, 2010). Jingle Clothing Limited Company is not exempt to this massive migration since it needs to catch up with ...

Internal Analysis

Internal Analysis

Introduction

According to David (2011), every organization has weaknesses and strengths in its functional areas. Organizations have several functional areas depending on the industry they operate in. A firm that seeks competitive advantage against rivals must build on its distinctive competencies, which are inimitable strengths that others cannot replicate. Similarly, it is important to build on weaknesses and to turn them into strengths. The process of internal analysis, therefore, involves establishing the company’s strengths and weaknesses within key functional areas. Once completed, an internal analysis helps employees to understand and perform their roles within the larger organizational ...

The verbatim theater is considered as a type of documentary that is grounded on the spoken words from the people who record their testimonies on interviews concerning the topic or event not common in the mainstream society. The two examples of the verbatim plays are Robin Soans' ‘Talking to Terrorist' and Alan Valentine's ‘Parramatta Girls.' Both plays are similar because they portray social and political message but different in terms of approach and ideas. On one hand, Valentine shed light on the social perspective to portray the issues that are hidden from the mainstream society and bring the stories ...

Introduction

The representation of women in the popular culture remains to be stereotyped by the naïve, sentimental, and domesticated women. It is through the media, which this issue continues to be propagated. There are several individuals and places focused on research on feminism publicizing both the positive and the negative gender disparities that are encountered daily. The resilient applauses me, hard working ladies who have undertaken significant influences through history to offer women the opportunities enjoyed in the contemporary society. Though many social revolutions have occurred, women still bear among them motifs rather than of individuals, still derided instead ...

'A New Look at Black Families' is an enlightening book written by Charles Willie and Richard Reddick. The book focuses on explaining how black families in America go about their dealings. By use of case studies the authors are able to depict an array of Black family experiences and how socio economic status affects these experiences. The book does not only try to portray the working, low-income, and middle class families but also hints on the life of highly successful African Americans, their family experiences and the environmental factors that drove them to achieve success. The authors of this ...

Salsa is a dance style which originates from the Afro-Caribbean and Latin part of the world and it reflects the culture of this region. This dance spread all over the world and each culture adopted it and enrichened it with their specific elements. Salsa is a lifestyle, it has many health benefits when regarded as exercising, its culture is very interesting and the history of this dance is rich and each person tells their personal story through the dance. Salsa is a lifestyle which reflects the personality of each individual involved in the process. Every person has their unique ...

Imperial, Dominant, and Hegemonic Feminism

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Introduction

The term feminism emerged in the contemporary socio-political discourse as an important movement encompassing ideological frameworks that seeks to establish and define a common goal to achieve equal footing in the political, personal, and economic sector. Since the emergence of the feminist movement, several notions of feminism was developed to create a greater understanding of its role in establishing equal rights and opportunities of women. In this discussion, the different notions of feminism will be explored by highlighting the concepts of each theoretical model. The discussion includes definitions of imperial, ...

An art movement is a specific period characterized by artists who are driven towards a common goal. The fashion industry has made numerous attempts over the years to associate itself with visual arts and popular artists (The Art Story Foundation, 2016). The collaboration between artists and fashion is mutually beneficial for both parties. Fashion applies art more than most practices in the world to reach a wider and a more popular audience. These collaborations have seen the fashion design industry evolve, innovate and provoke its numerous designs and collections (Blechman, 2013). These collaborations have further been encouraged by common ...

What is the reason why social movements appear? The term “social movement” implies the creation of large groups of people that share common views on various social and political issues and act to defend their views and to cause a social change. The worldwide peak of social movements was seen in the 1960s, but even after its passing, the idea of social movements continued to be challenging for society. Della Porta writes, “The excitement and optimism of the roaring 1960s may be long gone, but social and political events . . . have hardly rendered the investigation of grassroots activism any less ...

Virtual Reality in Business

Today the business is 100% dependent on computer applications. It is hard to imagine that it would have existed, let alone prosper in isolation. All business today is based, on the one hand, around users (both internal and external), and on the other hand - around some internal infrastructure. Accordingly, the tendency can be divided into user-related and infrastructure relations (Ducker). Business applications, and especially business infrastructure are influenced by the current trend of consolidation, which involves the centralization of resources - all the intellectual power of the company is gathered in data centers. Secondly, more attention is now ...

Report of Hudson’s Bay Company

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Introduction

Founded in 1670 in Canada, Hudson Bay Company (HBC) is the oldest firm in North America, operating in the retail segment across Canada, United States, Germany or Belgium (HBC official website, n.d.). With a long tradition in the fur market, the company adapted to socio-dynamic changes that marked clients’ loss of interest in fur, and adjusted to more modern requests, entering the general retailing business, currently operating in luxury fashion, after acquiring brands such as SAKS Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, but also owning department store (GAMERIA Kaufhof, Galeria INNO, Sportarena), off-price stores (Designer Depot) or furniture, appliances ...

Within each society, people build relationships that foster growth and development as people interact with each other. The relationships vary according to the work and social standards of the specific society. In other words, most people in a particular society will work together to develop a common idea that will help to bind people together as a community. Within these societies, there are those simple or common guiding principles that are practiced for extended periods and become an integral part of the culture and the traditions of the society. But, not all consensuses within the society will guarantee the ...

Culture is one of the most important variables that define a civilization. In this paper, the author focuses on the different types of culture that exist in the country of Puerto Rico. Here, the author talks about popular and official culture, and authentic and commercial culture, citing some concrete examples along the way. In terms of differentiating popular and official culture, the best way to simplify it is to say that an official culture can be both an official and a popular culture but a popular culture may not always be both the popular and official culture. Popular culture ...

Veganism:

Various Types of Vegans

For many people, there are fine lines with how a vegan can be defined. Different from vegetarians and other people who modify their diets to be more plant-based, veganism has some subcategories. One of the defining markers of veganism based on the literature is that a vegan must abstain from all animal products in his or her livelihood. This would include the exclusion of any animal products that a person can wear, such as skins and furs, and products that were tested on animals. In this way, veganism is driven by ethical concern for animal ...

Sustainable Technology – Smart Houses

Global Warming and Energy Efficiency Mankind has always strived for progress. This progress can be attained in the largest, existential scales, and the most mundane, everyday ones. Certainly, global warming is an existential challenge for humanity. The United States Energy Information Administration (2014) discloses that fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation has increased from 1990 to 2014. This trend indicates a general increase of global demand for electricity, which places pressure on more environmentally-friendly forms of power generation (that use renewable resources), which can curtail their development. It is also true that technological breakthroughs are commonly brought about to ...

Multiculturalism in the classroom is beneficial for the students and for the general atmosphere at university. Students and instructors need to be from different nationalities because that is what enriches the experience of everybody and raises the influence of the university. People feel best when they are surrounded by people of various cultural, racial and ethnical backgrounds which is why multicultural classroom is what matters most when it comes to the benefits young people can have from their learning experience. The advantages of multicultural classroom are numerous because students have the opportunity to get familiar with other cultures and ...

Introduction

Hanna Arendt is a one of the philosophers whose viewpoints have been given greater accords and consideration. In fact, her contributions to the field of political philosophy are immense, and she made outstanding manifestation in delivering critical lessons and concepts about the worldviews about politics, power, and its associated influence. Therefore, it is essential to have sure understanding on the Arendt’s philosophical thoughts and perspectives before delving into the book, “Crisis of a Republic”. Arendt philosophy is anchored on the emphasis on maintaining a meaningful distinction among various concepts of “strength,” “power,” “authority”, and “violence,” besides the need ...

  Fashion can carry significant meanings about culture, tradition and the outlook of people around the world. Fashion not only encompasses many social issues but also individual backgrounds of people, and it can be a very useful tool in expressing one’s personal identity. According to Barber, "Fashion has also been used in reference to language usages, literature, food, dance music, recreation, indeed the whole range of social and culture elements" (Barber, 1993). Throughout history it has been evident that, fashion has revealed itself during the evolution and revolution of many aspects of issues, including but not limited to class ...