...1901 Harder Road Hayward, CA 94542 December 9, 2013 Cely Pichay 2005 W. Olive Avenue Porterville, CA 93257 Dear Ms. Pichay: I am writing to inform you about how it is hard for filipinos in the city of Porterville to be accepted into society. It is hard for any race to be socially accepted in this country. There are so much criteria that you have to pass to even be considered into society. You have to look a certain way, act a certain way, talk a certain way, etc. To be honest, I don't even know if I am socially accepted because I don't pass a certain criteria. If it's hard for me, then I can't imagine what it must feel like for another person in my race. If you are filipino, it is especially hard to get accepted into society because we're different from other people. We have different values and outlooks on life. I want to know what you are going to do to fix this issue in the city of Porterville. There are a lot of filipinos, teenagers especially, that will do anything to get accepted into society. We want to be accepted by everyone because we want them to like us. We care about what other people think about us because that's just how we are. I know I am like that because if someone doesn't like me, then I will do anything to get them to like me. Filipinos have a difficult time getting accepted because we look or act differently compared to other races. When someone looks at me, I feel their eyes judging me and I don't want to feel like that anymore because I get really...
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...INTRODUCTION Forever 21 is an American chain of fashion retailers with its headquarters in Los Angeles and sales of $3.7 billion in 2013. Forever 21 began as a 900 square foot store in Los Angeles in 1984, and has grown to sell their clothing lines Forever 21, XXI Forever, Love 21, and Heritage in over 600 stores in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and the UK. More than 60% of its apparel is manufactured in China and the average store size is 38,000 square feet. According to Adrienne Tennant, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities, and Andrea Chang of the Los Angeles Times, Forever 21 is known for its trendy offerings and its economical pricing. The company sells clothing, accessories, and beauty products for women, men, and girls. The company has been involved in various controversies, ranging from labor practice issues and copyright infraction accusations to religion. HISTORY Forever 21 founders Do “Don” Won Chang and his wife Jin Sook Chang emigrated from South Korea to the United States in 1981.The luxurious cars of those in the retail industry influenced Don to enter the garment industry and so Fashion 21, later renamed Forever 21, was established. Don is the Chief Executive Officer and Jin Sook the Chief Merchandising Officer, with a combined net worth of $5 billion. As of September 2013, the couple ranked 264 in Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list and 90 amongst America’s wealthiest. Their two daughters joined the business in 2009, Linda leading the Marketing...
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...Forever 21, Inc. Private Apparel Founded 1984 Headquarters Los Angeles, California[1] Number of locations 480 (2011) Key people Do Won Chang Founder & CEO Jin Sook Chang Chief Merchandising Officer Linda Chang Chief Marketing Officer Esther Chang Chief Visual Officer Products Clothing, Accessories Revenue increase US$2.6 billion Total assets $1.40 billion Employees 27,228 Forever 21 is an American chain of clothing retailers with branches in major cities in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East that offers trendy clothing and accessories for young women, men, and girls at low, affordable prices. Forever 21's marketing image is based around made-in-the-USA merchandise produced in California, however most product pages indicate items are imported. It sources its designs from hundreds of Southern California suppliers. Forever 21’s merchandise does not have uniform specifications, quality, patterns or even sizes; these details vary by supplier. Contents 1 History 2 Stores 2.1 Conversions 2.2 International 2.2.1 Europe 2.2.2 Asia 2.2.3 Latin America 3 Controversy 4 References 5 External links History Forever 21, Briarwood Mall, in Ann Arbor, Michigan The chain, originally known as Fashion 21, was intended at first mostly for middle-aged women. The store was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1984 by Do Won Chang...
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...American Barrick Resources Corporation Managing Gold Price Risk Gold Demand Supply 1. Jewelry (80%) 1. Expanding Production 2. Commercial and Soviet Union Industrial use South Africa 3. Back-up for currencies North America Australia 2. Central Banks Liquidation Factors that may increase gold price: 1. Large government deficits 2. Financial and economic crisis 3. Wars and doomsday scenarios 4. Increase in gold jewelry demand ? 5. Commercial and Industrial demand ? Factors that may decrease gold price: 1. Financial and economic stability 2. Trends towards democracy and free markets 3. Effective use of monetary policy by central banks 4. Liquidation by central banks Long-term trend? Should Gold Producers Hedge Gold Price Risk? Pros Cons 1. Protect downside 1. Sacrifice Upside 2. Share price premium? 2. Unsystematic risk? 3. Specialize in gold production 3.Share price penalty? not gold risk taking 4. High operating leverage and high sunk costs 5. Limited ability to adjust production 6. Lock-in the low total costs (see exhibit 3) Managing Gold Price Risk – The Evolution 1. Gold Financing Barrick-Cullaton Gold Trust Bullion loans (denominated in gold – e.g., to finance Goldstrike mine) Gold-indexed Eurobond offerings The main disadvantage Conservative financial...
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...6/15/2015 A good paragraph has both unity & coherence UNITY & COHERENCE What is Coherence? • Coherence means establishing a relationship between the ideas presented in a paragraph. • It brings about a rationale in the arrangement of the ideas which are introduced either in the chronological order or in the order of importance. • Besides, transitions that compare, contrast, illustrate, add or show cause and effect build logical bridges. • The ideas, thus expressed in the paragraph, flow smoothly from one to the other in a logical sequence. • This helps the reader to understand the paragraph. Element #1: Unity What is Unity? • Unity in a paragraph means that the entire paragraph should focus on one single idea. • The supporting details should explain the main idea. • The concluding sentence should end the paragraph with the same idea. • Thus, a unified paragraph presents a thought, supports it with adequate details and completes it with a conclusion*. How to create good paragraph & essay ? Unity 2)Order 3)Coherence 4)Completeness 1) Example: No Unity • Start with the topic sentence. • The start of this paragraph is incorrect: • Every other sentence supports this one idea with information that points back to it, or explains it! • "Sunday is my favorite day, because I can watch football with my dad. There are other sports on other days to watch on TV." • The paragraph is unified around that one idea. • The second...
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...I. We see and experience problems as we go through life. A. Sometimes we wonder why these things happen. B. If a person is trying to be good, why doesn’t God protect him from evil? II. First, what do we mean by “good” A. Technically, only God is good - Luke 18:19 B. In God there is not even a shadow of darkness - I John 1:5 C. In contrast, we are unable to live without sinning at times - I John 1:8, Romans 3:23 D. When we ask “Why me?” we are implying that we have no responsibility for the problems we sometimes face. 1. This might be true at times, but I’ve seen people say, “Why am I being evicted from my apartment?” Perhaps it is because you are behind on paying your rent. 2. People tend to ignore or make light of their own responsibilities. E. Yet there are times that bad things happen, which are totally out of our control. 1. Still, we shouldn’t say that these things should not happen because we are too good to experience them. F. One of the things that the Bible teaches us is that sin has consequences – whether we are referring to our own sin or the sins of another. 1. Jeremiah lamented that their fathers and sin, yet they still bore the consequences...
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...Sports Fans Sports fans are a definitely a different breed of people. When their team or teams are playing their mentality is they better win this game and if they lose its then end of the world and puts a lot of the people in bad moods. This happens on the daily basis. Sports fans thrive for the excitement of the games. The excitement of the games and the atmosphere of the stadium bring them in to a whole different world. The fans that take it the most seriously are definitely soccer, baseball, hockey and football fans the most. The die-hard fans care about every game that is played by their team. Most of the time they will take the hard fought loss as if they are part of the team. People are crazy about sports, they’re die-hard fanatics, which sometimes care more about sports then their actual life. The biggest sports fans would have to be football; they go all out for their team. People plan their day around the game by getting to the field to barbeque and tailgate before the game. Most of the time it will be two to three hours before the game. Even some times people will just get to the stadium to tailgate and be in the atmosphere of everyone else and not go into the game because they don’t have tickets. Football fans are crazy they will throw parties in the parking lot before and after the games. They also have fans that paint their bodies and stand out in the freezing cold when normal people would be bulled up in cloths. Football Fans are crazy but that is just the...
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...Forever 21 a Global Company The global retailer that I have chosen is Forever 21 because they are a well-known retailer. Forever 21 is a well-known chain store and mostly targets young teenage to college age women. The store was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1984 by Do Won Chang and his wife Jin Sook Chang. The first fast fashion store opened in April 21 in 1984 and has grown nationally and globally since then. The market for Forever 21 has grown drastically within the past couple of years and they have ventured from just women and men’s clothes. Forever 21 carries a very wide assortment of merchandise and now caters to children and plus size women. The fashions of Forever 21 have a lower price point than most other chain stores so the fact that they are affordable items to attain and manufacturing is cheaper it is easier to expand their stores across the globe. Forever reaches its audience mobile all across the glove via the Forever 21 app because the CRM enables the brand to research their consumers by knowing their demographics and what they like and catering to the consumer and allowing interactions with the brand to be easier. “We’re looking to scale our online and mobile business faster, drive more return on ad spend and increase revenue through paid channels. Sociomantic and AdX are helping us accomplish these goals.”( Gerard Florendo) Forever 21’s consumers is very technology savvy and looks convenience so I think this approach works well for them along with...
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...Killa Tay-K Taymor Travon McIntyre better known as Tay-K is a seventeen year old rapper from Arlington, Texas. He burst on to the rap scene with his song “The Race”. Tay-K started his career by posting songs on Soundcloud. His songs got thousands of plays on Soundcloud and his music video posted on Youtube got 76 million views. Tay-K’s songs had violent and vulgar lyrics which reflected choices he made that landed him in jail. Tay-K has violated federal crimes and those crimes are murder and assault. On July 26th, 2016 Tay-k went and did a house invasion and homeowner Ethan Walker dead. Tay-K then found guilty and was arrested for murder and then let out and was put on house arrest. Tay-K had a separate killing in San Antonio, Texas and...
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...1. Introduction “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” (Bill Cosby) The reason is because there are no two people that have exactly same likes and dislikes. Everybody in this world is different. Hence trying to make everyone happy at the same time merely blow the pleaser’s mind off. Taking that quote into consideration, it is not only true to an individual but also to every industry. A business cannot aim to sell their products to the whole market, because every customer has different wants and needs. Only a group of similar consumers that suites the products’ property best should be considered, so the business can use the right marketing strategy. In other words, business should segment their market in order to have clear image about their customers. Thus the business would make high profit by selling right product to right customers. 2. History of Cartier Started in 1847 when Louis-François Cartier took over master-craftsman Adolphe Picard jewelry workshop. Owing to Cartier’s great quality of manufacturing, they were trusted and selected to be many royal family official purveyors, including: King Edward VII of England, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King Carlos I of Portugal, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, King Paramindr Maha Chulalongkorn of Siam, King Peter I of Serbia, Duke Philippe of Orleans, King Albert I of Belgium, Duke of Windsor (Prince of Wales, future King Edward...
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...THE GOLD DINĀR AND SILVER DIRHAM: ISLAM AND THE FUTURE OF MONEY Imrān N. Hosein MASJID JĀMI’AH CITY OF SAN FERNANDO TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 1 Published by Masjid Jāmi’ah, City of San Fernando. 76 Mucurapo Street, San Fernando. Trinidad and Tobago. Imrān N. Hosein 2007 Free downloads of several books written by this author are available at his website: www.imranhosein.org Online purchases of the author’s books and DVDs of lectures can be made at: www.ummahzone.com Books and DVDs of lectures can also be ordered from the distributor: Al-Tasneem Sdn. Bhd. 35-1, 1st Floor Jalan Melati Utama 4, Melati Utama Setapak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: 603 – 4107 2999 Fax: 603 – 4108 9815 Email: tasneem@streamyx.com The author would welcome comments on this booklet emailed to him at: ihosein@tstt.net.tt; or inhosein@hotmail.com 2 CONTENTS Preface Chapter One: Chapter Two: Chapter Three: Chapter Four: Introduction Money in the Qur’ān and Sunnah The Grand Design The Grand Design and the Judeo-Christian Alliance Chapter Five: Notes Our Response 3 PREFACE I am happy that this booklet was written here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a city which has been so kind and hospitable to me over the years, and was completed in blessed Ramadān 1428H while I am still engaged in a year-long Islamic lecture-tour, and far away from the comforts of my home in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. A writer who writes a book while travelling, as many distinguished scholars of Islam...
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...warships approached the coastal town of Arecibo. Two smaller boats with a company of British soldiers landed on Arecibo's beach. The Puerto Rican militia - headed by Correa - had only thirty men, armed with just spears and machetes, who fought the British, who were better armed with muskets and swords. At the end of the battle there were twenty-two British dead on land and 8 at sea, including the captain in charge of the troops that landed, who had died in the hands of Correa. Correa himself was wounded but the British left and the city of Arecibo was saved - as a result Correa was declared a national hero.[1] [edit] Honors and later years Arecibo Coat of Arms Correa was awarded "La Medalla de Oro de la Real Efigie" (The Gold Medal of the Royal Image), by King Philip V of Spain and given the title of "Captain of Infantry" on September 23, 1703. It was within Spanish tradition to name its Captain of Infantry to the position of Mayor. Correa served as temporary mayor of Arecibo from 1700 to 1701 and then as official mayor from 1701 to 1705. He also served as mayor from 1710 to 1714 and from 1716 to 1744.[2] Capt. Antonio de los Reyes Correa, who was married to Estephania Rodríguez de Matos y Colón, died on June 9, 1758....
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...move around the economy. Money also allowed individuals and firms to generate wealth and increase it. This is achieved when one can readily purchase produced items and sell them for a higher value than they were purchased. The existence of money allows goods and services to get to the people who need them. 2. Money also acts as a store of value, this is where one can sell a commodity, in return for money and be able to be reliably saved, stored, and retrieved. 3. The most important role money plays is it acts as a unit of account. This is a common standard by which all the market value of goods, services, and other transactions can be measured and compared. Without this the value of an economy could not be calculated. 4. With gold completely divorced from money, initially the British pound sterling was the world's reserve currency after World War II. With Britain's demise on the international scene the US and its dollar become the world's reserve currency. The US receives its legitimacy not from any intrinsic value but due to the global standing in the US and its ability to press the world to view global products using the dollar. This means for any nation wanting to purchase oil or platinum in the international markets they would need to convert their currency into dollars and then take possession of such goods. This means...
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...Gold Anonymous. Metal Bulletin Monthly 418 (Oct 2005): 50-51. Abstract (summary) Pure - or 1,000 thousandths - gold is equivalent to 24 carats, but gold is generally used as an alloy because it is such a soft metal. The jewellers' terms "fine gold" and "pure gold" mean 920 and 840 thousandth alloys respectively, the balance being supplied by copper. The addition of copper produces red and pink golds, while deep yellow gold is practically 100% pure and "white gold" is often a gold alloy containing nickel and palladium. Pure - or 1,000 thousandths - gold is equivalent to 24 carats, but gold is generally used as an alloy because it is such a soft metal. The jewellers' terms "fine gold" and "pure gold" mean 920 and 840 thousandth alloys respectively, the balance being supplied by copper. The addition of copper produces red and pink golds, while deep yellow gold is practically 100% pure and "white gold" is often a gold alloy containing nickel and palladium. Full Text Gold is among the oldest metals known to mankind, over whom it has often exerted a compelling force of attraction because of its rarity, lustrous beauty and permanence. A sun-yellow ductile metallic element, gold mostly occurs as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits. It has a high melting point (1,063°C) and is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity, as well as being resistant to corrosion, except from chlorine, fluorine and aqua regia acid. It is one of the densest elements at 19.3 g/cm^sup...
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...the domestication of the camel Camels were able to go much farther and travel with an increased amount of freight used for trading purposes The increased trade brought better technology to the region such as iron metallurgy It led to an expansion in tools and weaponry As trade increased it brought a major population boom along with it With the merchants traveling from the east, along with them came ideals from the East The merchants brought the study of Islam with them and the entire region became immersed in it Gold With the increase in iron technology, along with it came an increase in the extraction of gold out of the region There are three major gold extraction methods: alluvial, shallow pit, and deep shaft Gold would get caught up in the sediment of the river and people would collect it and bring it back on to dry ground and sort the gold out from the sediments The gold that was extracted from Ghana had merchants flocking form the...
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