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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Advertising 3
<view this essay>.... start selling and the country ran out of stockings to sell; and the Kleenex company used advertising to decide which of two products they should sell. Advertising has different effects on consumers, it changes their perspective on what is, or is not, worth buying; what they buy, when they buy it and how much are bought. Advertising "symbolizes and concentrates in its image all that is considered good and bad in present day commercial and industrial capitalism in America." (Bensman 9).
When advertisers plan their strategies for the sale of a certain product, they look at who would use the item. If the product was make-up, the type of person that would use i .....
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Water
<view this essay>.... to your door, 1000 liters (280 gallons) of (poop) have been used
to produce it. A pound of steel uses 110 liters (32 gallons), but production of a pound of aluminum uses 3800 liters
(1000 gallons) of water. A pound of synthetic rubber requires 1100 liters (300 gallons). The production of a car uses,
on average, an incredible 380,000 liters (100,000 gallons). To refine 1 liter of gas, it takes 10 liters of water. Another
big industrial use of water is disposal of waste products. They use water to wash away all the garbage on the floor,
and to flush away dirty or contaminated water. They also throw out the hot water that is left after they cool metal.
The se .....
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Mystification
<view this essay>.... the topic by making it appear very important, but unknowable, thus
leaving the student with a sense of wonder, or mystery. Mystification does
count as a form of knowledge control because mystification makes it impossible
for a student to gain a full understanding of a topic from inside the classroom.
Mystification could be a way for students to get out of the classroom. This
would allow them to get out on their own to learn more about topics they are
learning about in school.
Gene Anyon would enjoy the idea of mystification. Mystification would
encourage students to work outside of the "boring" classroom and learn more
extensively about a subject .....
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The 1966 Impala Vs. 1996 Impala SS
<view this essay>.... get bigger and more powerful. One option
for the Impala was the Super Sport model, more widely known as the SS. This
option gave the car a 396 cu. in. engine, four speed manual transmission,
heavier duty suspension and all of the SS insignias. If you were buying any
car in 1966 you could order it with each individual option that you wanted.
They built the Impala SS in 1996 with many standard options. It came
with bucket seats, a console, automatic transmission, shifter on the floor,
leather seats, seventeen inch aluminum rims, all season radials, and the LT1
engine(commonly in the Corvette). This car was built with all kinds of safety
equipment, emissio .....
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College Football-bcs
<view this essay>.... of the 1997 season, Michigan and Nebraska were forced to share the national championship. Even though a championship had been shared several times before, there was much controversy over this one. Michigan fans thought that Michigan should be the sole possessor of the crown, and Husker fans thought the same for Nebraska. To avoid more co-champions in the future, and to guarantee a match-up between the top two teams in the nation each year, a new system was setup prior to the 1998 season. This new system setup by ABC Sports and the NCAA is called the Bowl Championship Series or BCS
for short.
The Bowl Championship Series is a point system that selec .....
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Reductive Psychology
<view this essay>.... a pregnant standing young woman, was obligated to shout back: “You are bothering me, you, @#&$**+@.” Several others, with no formal invitation, were moved by the environment to fight, so they did it shouting, complaining about the heat, and blaming the Subway Company because of the lack of oxygen that made them feel in such a bad mood.
Those people were healthy. They were responding to their environment in the proper way. They were reacting to (I don't want to use the word) their stimuli in the normal way that any human being would. If they didn’t, they would get home with this anguish in their chests, due (no doubt) to adrenaline and learned .....
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What Is Sociology
<view this essay>.... way but are socialised into the norms and values of the society they are born into. Research has shown that cultural beliefs vary greatly from society to society. For example, historically in Australia, female infanticide has been rife in times of famine (Giddens, 1993). Edward Hall has shown on a more general level that the manner in which individuals greet each other will depend on the cultural norms of that society, for example, Northern Americans advance on greeting while Southern Americans retreat (Hall, 1959). The importance of comparative sociology can have practical uses in giving us a better understanding of how other societies operate in relatio .....
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Reference Pricing How Effectiv
<view this essay>.... guideline for making the price decision - there is little evidence to support the theory in actually setting price structures.
Put simply, a reference price is a standard against which observed prices are compared (Biswas & Blair, 1991). There are two types of reference price: internal and external. External reference prices are ones that exist in the environment and are used by consumers to assess the value of an item. Examples of these reference prices include reduced promotional prices and a competitor's price (Biswas, Wilson & Licata, 1993). The second major type of reference price is the internal reference price. These exist in the consumer's min .....
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