Conk- The fake equalizer
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
African Americans from the 1920's through the 1960's wore a style of hair known as a conk. The conk was is most notable for making the normally kinky hair of the wearer become as straight and smooth as white people's hair. By being black and by logically having black features...
Trichotillomania
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Introduction Over the course of the last several years, medical professionals and psychologists have developed a wide range of new methods for categorizing and classifying disease and dysfunction. Among the most inched in classifications to be made in recent years has been the diagnosis of...
Investigating the frequencies of gene and genotype in the human population
Thesis - 21 pages - Biology
Mendelian genetics is built on the work done by the "father of genetics", Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884). His contributions to the study of inheritance paved the way for our basic understanding of how traits are inherited from one generation to the next. He was also instrumental in applying...
Female Beauty in Japan: perceptions and evolutions
Thesis - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Japan, is widely known for origami, the art of folding a kimono, ikebana and many such arts that require patience and discipline and seek to "beautify" the environment. However, in this document we will study the Japanese notion of beauty as it is applied to women. What does it mean to be...
Study of international communications strategy of Dove
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Dove is a brand of cosmetics and is now part of the Unilever group. The trademark logo of this company is a dove, whose stylized color often varies according to the advertising campaigns. The brand communicates significantly through the media especially establishes a close relationship with some...
Product mix: Head and Shoulder shampoo
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Head and Shoulder shampoo is one of the brands of Procter and Gamble Company, which has a wide range of products. The company is a top notch in its field dealing with care and hygiene products aiming different market groups. The company has a well spread out product mix. In this regard the...
Wilkinson sword intuition
Essay - 9 pages - Services marketing
Every woman old enough to remove hair knows the Wilkinson Sword Intuition. It is a product which has been launched on the women shaver market because it is a market which is strongly expanding nowadays and represents potential profits for producers: it became as competitive as the...
On the job: Female journeyman wig makers in colonial times 1750 - 1800's
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
“In the colonial era, men wore wigs made from human and goat hairs and even wool or straw.”¹ The practice of men wearing elaborate wigs in the colonies originated in Europe and became fashionable here creating an industry that accepted women as journey women or apprentices for...
Dove - Analysis of marketing plan
Market study - 15 pages - Services marketing
We will reveal later that we have decided to develop a green product to be innovative and in sync with Unilever. We need to clarify what is Dove's business. Dove is working on the market of women's personal care. Dove has a large range of products from soaps to shampoos. The key point of...
Procter and Gamble
Market study - 8 pages - Services marketing
Procter & Gamble was founded in the United States in 1837. The company prospered during the 19th century and is now the world's biggest manufacturer of packaged consumer goods and a global leader in six main categories: laundry and cleaning (detergents), paper goods (toilet paper), beauty...
Can the UK ad be used in the foreign market in its current form? - Using a UK advert in the Poland market in its current form
Thesis - 25 pages - Services marketing
The aim of this report is to provide additional key information with respect to using a UK advert in the Poland market in its current form. The idea of globalization is found to exist in Poland yet there is still a strong culture which affects buying decisions. In the UK context the advert is...
Environmental issues affecting beauty salon in the international arena
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The beauty industry has been drastically growing and spreading into various countries around the world. In the United States, the industry has proven to be a recession-proof industry that has not been affected by the economic recession. A beauty salon is a component of the beauty industry that...
The popular Culture of Albinism
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Albinism is a skin condition present at birth and passed on from the parents to the offspring. It is a condition resulting from a significant reduction or absence of pigmentations in the skin, hair, and eyes. Individuals with this condition are fair-skinned and fair-haired most often with...
Case of the Nickel Company
Case study - 29 pages - Business strategy
Like women, men are increasingly aware of the importance of their bodies and their image. According to the reports in 1995, 65% of men thought that, it is "important to take care of their skin” and it was seen that, 19% of men used their partner's skin care products. In 2004,...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
It is a well-established notion that in his writings, F. Scott Fitzgerald was able to capture the spirit of the 1920's like few other authors. As a member of the Lost Generation, the group of writers who worked in the years following the First World War, Fitzgerald's novels and short stories are...
Langston Hughes's "Trumpet Player"
Thesis - 2 pages - Literature
Langston Hughes's poem, "Trumpet Player", is both a celebration of and reach for a Black identity. The poem's vivid imagery and careful metaphors connote to a theme consistent among Hughes's work. The poem quietly speaks of oppression, of a violent past, of desperation and ongoing...
Unilever UK
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Boasting annual sales of nearly ?2.4 billion, after the US, the UK is the second largest Unilever country. Around the UK, it has annual sales of almost £900 million, employing 2,000 people at 11 locations. While there are 400 brands globally, UK has over 35 brands covering food, home and personal...
Business model of Coco Chanel's fashion and design industry
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Born on August 19, 1883 in Maine-et-Loire, France, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was raised in a poor family of 5 siblings that depended on the father's income as a clothes street vendor for sustenance. In 1895 when Chanel was 12 years of age, her mother Eugénie "Jeanne" Devolle died of a respiration...
Changing mentality: An analysis of Dove's "Campaign for real beauty" (2006)
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
The brand Dove is part of the English-Dutch group Unilever. It accounts for 3% of Unilever's turnover. In 1957, Dove created soaps that contained 1/4th moisturizing cream, especially for sensitive skins (50% of women). Since then, Dove has always known how to appear different from its...
Middle childhood and adolescence development
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
Adolescence is undoubtedly the most unbalanced division of an individual's life span development. It is during this part of an individual's life that they are transitioning from youth into adulthood. This era of transition changes faintly between every individual but all adolescents go through a...
Common Clinical Sequelae of Aging
Presentation - 98 pages - Medical studies
Increased longevity throughout the world is influencing medical care dramatically as more older individuals develop or survive with various medical conditions. Although some elderly present typically with single-system disease, they often have presentations and responses to treatments...
Marketing and branding strategies of consumer durable companies in India
Dissertation - 37 pages - Services marketing
The Consumer Durable industry is huge! Think of a typical day then you wake up to make coffee that has been brewed by your-controlled coffee maker. You pop a couple of slices of bread into your electric toaster, grab some juice from the refrigerator and throw a load of laundry into your washing...
Evolution of marketing in the cosmetics sector by Dove: A three-point analysis
Worksheets - 5 pages - Management
Through the centuries, the image and role of women have taken several forms. However, women have always been confronted with very restricted stereotypes of beauty. Historically, society and the media define the standards of beauty that most women seek to comply. From the 60s, the cult of...
Waiting for a Miracle: Waiting and its many forms portrayed in 'Largo Desolato', 'The Polish Complex', and, 'Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light'
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
“The typically human act of trying to see oneself is always fascinating, agonizing, comical, for we can never turn fast enough to see all sides at once in the mirror. And the greatest trick remains seeing how we see” ('The Polish Complex' Intro, page V). Throughout 'The...
Management of human resources: L'Occitane
Essay - 18 pages - Human resources
Olivier Baussan founded the company l'Occitane in 1976. At the beginning the main idea was to manufacture natural products, thanks to ingredients coming from near Provence. L'Occitane's activity consists in providing natural and quality products for hair and body to favor wellbeing...
Defamiliarization and whether humans can act rationally
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Durkheimian perspective is particularly interesting in its ground-breaking suggestions and novel ideas. Usually, when we consider the behavior of humans, especially humans living in "Western" society, we usually associate the behavior with actions that are "rational" and based on some sort of...
Launching of the wines of the Center-Loire in China: analysis and potential of development
Market study - 121 pages - Services marketing
In order to provide a detailed answer to our question, we conducted this study in three distinct phases. During these three phases, we have always tried to keep in mind the characteristics of BIVC and its members in order to maintain greater consistency in all our analysis and answers. We first...
Venomous Species and Venoms
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Biology
Insects of the order Lepidoptera typically cause human envenomation, but effects generally are less serious than with hymenopterans. Injury usually follows contact with caterpillars, occurring less frequently with the cocoon or adult stage. The larval lepidopteran (caterpillar) is usually free...
Spa business plan
Business plan - 14 pages - Business strategy
Mia Day Spa is a new type of Day spa in Toulouse and even in France, offering complete day services for women who gave birth recently. We offer a 5 ultra-chic, ultra-comfortable treatment rooms with the finest spa linens and equipment. We will use two of them as massage rooms and the two...
Compare the ways in which the writers present the relationship between the colonial authority and the oppressed in the novels 'The Siege of Krishnapur' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
In their novels, both Carey and Farrell present the Colonial Authority as multi-faceted organizations. In Farrell's ‘The Siege of Krishnapur' the foremost voices of the Colonial Authority are the Collector, initially representative of the British Empire's quest for progress, and Fleury,...
