The Glass House Designed by Philip Johnson New Canaan, CT (1949)
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Architecture
Over fifty years ago, the “Harvard Five” architects descended upon New Canaan, CT to build houses for themselves and their clients. These architects, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Eliot Noyes, and Philip Johnson designed some of the most famous modern houses all within the...
Prize Winning Design
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, directed by Jane Anderson and released in 2005, tells the true story of a mother from Defiance, Ohio who helped raise her rather large family by winning contests to earn money and necessities in absence of a steady income from her husband. Julianne Moore plays...
Becoming Me: My journey through life
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
From birth my life was destined to be anything but usual. I was born into the broken lower-class home of a sixteen year old girl and her parents, who resented the girl for having pre-marital sex. I know this because of a letter this girl wrote to me and sent with me when I was adopted....
British housing policies Case study: Impact on the social exclusion experienced by the Pakistani minority
Case study - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Water and food are commonly accepted as the basic needs of life. Housing, by providing us a shelter, is also necessary so that you survive. Therefore it is also a fundamental need. However, every house should not only be a shelter, but also a real home. What makes a house a home is...
An analysis of the structure of the canadian retail industry - published: 15/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Management
A common theme of the Canadian retail industry is that it is evolving at a rapid pace. External factors, such as the growth in the relative purchasing power of the Canadian dollar; increasing competition from discount rivals such as Wal-Mart; shifting consumer trends; and the emergence of the...
Business communication: Netflix and Amazon.com
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Amazon is company which has been experiencing strong expansion. They moved from book distribution to, tools, auto, industrial, sports, health & beauty, grocery, electronics & computers and other products and services. Amazon is constantly scrutiny new market for new growth opportunities. The...
Discussion of developing, building and marketing an intelligent refrigerator
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
Of the ideas, a smart refrigerator seems either existing or a bit too specialized. My guess is that refrigerators that can inventory and restock themselves already exist too. It is certainly do-able now because the items are bar-coded and data regarding servings is online, so it could b guessed...
Japanese Canadians, the Second World War and Canada's mistreatment of these ethnic minorities
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
Following the bombing, by Japan, of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the life of Japanese, both immigrants and Canadian nationals in Canada, drastically changed. Well documented are the horrific, slave-like conditions many Japanese immigrants were forced to endure in...
An introduction to the hotel industry: An investigation of the departments
Thesis - 36 pages - Business strategy
To most people, the hospitality industry consists only of hotels and restaurants. However, the Oxford English Dictionary defines hospitality as the 'reception and entertainment of guests, visitors or strangers with liberality and goodwill'. Therefore, the hospitality industry can be...
A study on Ikea's strategy
Tutorials/exercises - 18 pages - Business strategy
The main Ikea's service is to provide all consumer design furniture at a low price. IKEA entails a qualitative change by making design and practical products at the same price than the basic one. IKEA creates something new by creating new processes through innovative design, production,...
Running header: Riordan benchmarking
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
Riordan Manufacturing faced several issues but none that are uncommon in any growing organization going through a transitional period. By simply looking at companies such these General Motors and Wal-mart, Royal Bank of Scotland and Goodyear, Hudson Highland Group (Hudson Employee Index) and...
The energy drinks market in Europe : a market for the future ?
Market study - 35 pages - Services marketing
The on-the-go market has witnessed continued, robust growth over the past five years and this shows no signs of abating in the next five years. The demand for on-the-go products has been set in motion by significant shifts in the underlying structure of socio-cultural and economic patterns. These...
Persuasive Essay: The Benefits of Adopting Rescue Animals
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
"Imagine a dog with a shaking body, eyes full of fear and uncertainty, standing in the corner of a concrete kennel, with the cold blowing around it. This is the North American experience for millions of dogs and cats in animal shelters, not knowing their fate. Every year, these shelters get...
An analysis of the structure of the Canadian retail industry
Market study - 9 pages - Services marketing
The Canadian retail industry is evolving at a rapid pace. External factors, such as the growth in the relative purchasing power of the Canadian dollar, increasing competition from discount rivals such as Wal-Mart, shifting consumer trends, and the emergence of the retail industry in Western...
E -Business Model -La Redoute
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
With 80-years of catalog experience, La Redoute has long been a household name in France, trusted for its quality, style and selection. Indeed, as a part of PPR's home-shopping division, Redcats, a global retail leader, the company is a Fashion and Home decoration...
Analysis of the e-business strategy used at Picard Surgeles
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
Picard Surgeles or Picard Frozen foods is a French company that was founded by Raymond Picard in 1906. This company is France's leading frozen foods specialist. It is both a manufacturer and distributor of frozen foods. It has about 1000 products on offer, and a distribution network of 800...
Human Resources department of IKEA
Essay - 38 pages - Human resources
Since it was registered as a corporation in 1943, IKEA has developed into an international group, present in approximately 43 countries. IKEA gets its name from the initials of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, located in Småland, Sweden. Ingvar Kamprad was just 17 when he registered IKEA...
Product analysis of Senseo
Case study - 20 pages - Services marketing
Senseo was established by the merger between the small electrical company Philips and Douwe Egberts, and it is the subsidiary of the Sara Lee Corporation. By 1995, both companies began combining their projects, 6 years after the concept Senseo was launched in the Netherlands. Senseo coffee makers...
Strategy marketing of the Zara group
Case study - 28 pages - Services marketing
The clothing industry represents a steady 6%- 7% of household incomes. The sector is inevitable, and everyone from the most affluent to less affluent, spend the same share. However, the textile market is primarily a volatile sector, subject to seasonality and fluctuations of fashion. Furthermore,...
Goals and objectives
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Families sometimes fall onto hard times. There are many reasons why a person may become homeless, but there are not as many ways to help these families. Not every city in The United States has organizations to help with the homeless. Some cities do have different organizations which help the...
Pepsi-cola versus Coca-Cola
Case study - 24 pages - Services marketing
The PepsiCo group distributes products of different brands in 192 countries, including Pepsi, which is the primary brand of the group. The core business of Pepsi Co is the manufacture and distribution of soft drinks. Thus, the Pepsi brand ranks the second in the world in soft drinks, behind...
The Pierre & Vacances Group
Case study - 18 pages - Services marketing
Pierre & Vacances is one of the leading European groups in lending holiday apartments. Its success is based on an economic model based on the synergy between real estate and tourism. The headquarters is located in Europe with more than 8 complementary brands. ? Commitments / Values The...
Balancing work-family conflicts
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
At some point in our careers, we have all experienced something that is referred to as a “Work-Family Conflict.” The best way to describe this, and in the simplest terms, is that issues at home are taking a person's attention away from work or situations at work are taking a...
Gender and family
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In any given year there is an estimate three million runaways. Children run away from home for a number of different reasons; “may be [they are] evading the law, suffering depression, or dealing with a personal crisis, most are running from a disturbed family or home...
Socio Economic Factors Influencing Delinquency
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
Contemporary delinquency theories can be deployed in supporting economic deprivation as a contributing factor in elucidating many crimes, though it is directly linked to property crimes like theft (Borraz & González, 2011). However, this does not imply that the cause-and-effect association...
What Factors Are Likely To Result In Greater Delinquency Among Abused Children?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Juvenile justice system in the US focuses not only in disciplining juvenile offenders but also in trying to come with factors which accelerate these offences. This is with the aim of avoiding these problems in the future and also trying to identify the most effective methods of handling juvenile...
The Obesity Factor
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
As Becky waits for the bus on a chilly Thursday night she paces back and forth in anticipation. Stressing over why the bus is taking so long, she feels a pang of hunger in her stomach and realizing that she hasn't got anything at home to eat, she decides to quickly run across the street...
Ecuadorian Immigration to the NY-Metro Area in the 1970s-80s
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
America has (nearly) always been the destination of choice for the world's migrants. Spanning an entire continent, the country has historically offered land, jobs, and tolerance to those who seek them. For South Americans especially, the United States had been attractive for its accessibility...
The development of art and architecture and how it reflects the social and cultural attitudes underlying social discourse.
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
Research on the development of art and architecture demonstrates that works created during different time periods clearly reflect the social and cultural attitudes underlying social discourse. With this in mind, it is not surprising to find that the middle class interiors of the nineteenth...
Business development plan for cleaning service company
Business plan - 7 pages - Business strategy
For the purposes of this investigation a comprehensive review of a new cleaning company will be provided. The company, named “Next Best to Mom” seeks to provide college students and young professionals with all of the home-based and cleaning-based services provided by...
