...Dorothy Parker went through many things in her life that led her into depression. She suffered abuse from her father, she was reported to have more than one abortion, and she was married to three men. Throughout her life she struggled with the use of alcohol and many times she tried to comitt suicide. Her life influnceded many of her poetry topics. In her poem Resume the line "Razors pain you" can be connected to the many times that she has suffered with suicide. Also, in her poem News Item we can connect these words to the abuse she felt from her father when she was younger. Her topics give her poems authenticity because she is talking about real life things that she suffered with. Her way of letting out pain was writing about it. Parker had a rough and unpleasant relationship with men. Going through many different marriages and having affairs with different men can mess with your view on the male population. Also, she was never a huge fan of her dad. She had many guy friends and worked for men. When it came to her affiars she used men. "Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad." This was quoted from her poem The Lady's Reward. The line in this poem shows that to get a man you need to be wise. Parker was always wise when dealing with men because she dealt with many of them. Her attitude towards men is reported in her work. Parker's poems show how she felt about her life. She wrote about the suffering that she went through and how she got through it. In...
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...Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker was an American poet, and a short story writer. Dorothy Parker was born August 22, 1893, and came to fame writing book reviews, poetry, and short fiction for fledgling magazine The New Yorker. Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, as the last child of Jacob Rothschild, a garment manufacturer, and Annie Eliza Rothschild, the daughter of a machinist at Phoenix Armour. She has three siblings. Parker's mother died in 1898. Jacob married in 1900 Eleanor Frances Lewis, a Roman Catholic, but Parker never liked her stepmother. Eleanor Frances died three years after the wedding. Parker's father died when she was twenty. As a young girl, she attended, and despised, a Catholic school in Manhattan, later transferring to Miss Dana's, a boarding school. Miss Dana's School in Morristown, New Jersey, there was only fifteen girls to a class and each received considerable personal attention. Moreover, the classes were in the form of a seminar, with students and teachers sitting together at tables, the school made serious efforts to turn out well-read, well-informed, and well-spoken young women who would be effective in the world. She left school abruptly at age fourteen, never to return, to take care of her ill father, who was once again a widower. When he died in 1913, the twenty-year-old Dorothy made a living by playing piano at a Manhattan dance school. She moved to New York City, when she wrote during the day and earned money at night playing the piano...
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...------------------------------------------------------------------------ ▶ 와비파커 새로운 혁신의 아이콘이 되다. 매년 50개의 혁신기업을 선정해 발표하는 미국의 비즈니스 매거진 패스트컴퍼니(Fast Company)는 ‘2015년 가장 혁신적인 기업 (Most innovative Companies 2015)’에서 미국의 온라인 안경판매업체 와비파커(Warby Parker)를 50개의 업체 중 1위로 발표했다. 혁신의 아이콘으로 불리는 ‘애플(Apple)’, 중국의 거대기업 ‘알리바바(Alibaba)’, 최근 패션업계에 가장 아름다운 영향을 미치고 있다는 소셜네트워크 ‘인스타그램(Instagram)’, 등을 모두 제치고 리스트에서 1위를 차지한 와비파커. 미국 뉴욕을 기반으로 설립된 지 어언 5년, 매출 1억 달러 남짓의 안경판매업체 와비파커가 이 모두를 제칠 수 있었던 이유는 무엇일까. 수백 년간 변화가 없던 안경업계의 판도를 바꾸었다는 점에서 패스트컴퍼니(Fast Company)의 ‘2015 가장 혁신적인 업체 리스트’에서 1위로 선정된 와비파커. 그러나 이외에도 와비파커가 왜 혁신적인 업체인지 주목할 이유는 더 많다. 1. 인터넷 상에서 자체로 만들어진 고유 브랜드라는 점 2. 3단계에 걸친 독특한 온라인 유통구조를 가진다는 점 3. 온라인 유통과정에 ‘고객의 실제경험’이라는 단계를 제공한다는 점 4. 창립자들의 열성적이다 못해 광적인 수준의 브랜딩에 대한 의지와 실행 이 모든 것이 와비파커라는 브랜드가 사람들에게 인정받고 기억되며 가장 혁신적인 기업이 될 수 있도록 만들었다. ▶ 와비파커의 시작 와비파커는 미국 펜실베이니아의 와튼스쿨(Wharton School) 대학친구인, 데이브 길보아(Dave Gilboa), 닐 블루멘탈(Neil Blumenthal)이 두 명의 친구를 더 데려와 함께 세운 회사다. 이들은 “대량 생산이 가능하고, 플라스틱이 대부분 주재료가 되어 재료값이 비싸지 않은 데다 제작 공정도 복잡하지도 않은 안경이 왜 아이폰만큼 비쌀까”라는 의문을 가지고 사업을 시작했다. 최근 CNN 인터뷰에서 데이브 길보아(Dave Gilboa)는 “가장 최고의 비즈니스는 ‘얼마만큼의 마진을 고객에게 쥐어짜낼 수 있을까’를 고민하는 것이 아니라, ‘고객에게 얼마나 더 많은 가치를 전달할 수 있을까’를 고민하는 것이다”라고 밝혔다. 이 말 한 마디에서 우리는 와비파커의 본질적인 시작과 그 가치를 엿볼 수 있다. 자신과 자신의 주변 사람, 즉 안경을 사는 고객의 마음으로 시작된 온라인 안경판매업체 와비파커는 이제 12억 달러의 가치를 가진 미국 제 1위의 혁신기업이 되었다. ▶ 10억달러 클럽을 목전에 둔 와비파커 美 금융 분석 리서치 펌 프리브코(PrivCo)의 CEO 샘 하마드(Sam Hamadeh)에 따르면, 최근 신규상장업체 투자자들이 와비파커의 이전 평가가치액을 훨씬 넘어선, 거부할 수 없는 조건의 투자를...
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...COMPANY BACKGROUND Warby Parker is an American eyewear company that was launched in February, 2010 as part of the Venture Initiation Program by four students from the University of Pennsylvania. The company’s initiative was to sell cheap eyewear online combined with a good cause. Warby Parker believes that “everyone has the right to see” this idea lead to forming partnership with renowned non-profits – e.g. RestoringVision.org – to give a pair away to someone in need for every pair sold. However, it was not just the company’s generous intentions that made Warby Parker so successful for a start-up firm. Warby Parker’s brand is both trendy and classic providing high quality frames with best in class polarized lenses. As a way of cutting costs, Warby Parker decided to avoid middlemen and go directly to the manufacturers in China, circumventing traditional channels. The company is considered a made-on-the-internet brand: it has a huge presence of the internet and most of its advertising campaigns take place there, which constitutes an advantage, given the growing popularity of e-commerce and social network advertising. They started off as an online company however, in the past years they have also opened stores and showrooms in 15 location across the US with their headquarter in New York. BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS ARCHETYPE Warby Parker’s business is based on the low price and high quality of the products, the solidarity branch of their program and also on their online shop. To...
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...PROGRAM ON NEGOTIATION AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL AN INTER-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM TO IMPROVE THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION PARKER – GIBSON TEACHER’S PACKAGE Review Copy Do Not Reproduce P ROGRAM O N N EGOTIATION AT H ARVARD L AW S CHOOL AN INTER-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM TO IMPROVE THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION PARKER-GIBSON Teaching Notes Parker-Gibson is a two-party, single-issue negotiation for the purchase of a vacant lot. It is a refinement of an earlier simulation, Appleton-Baker. Overview The Parkers and Gibsons are neighbors. A vacant parcel of land, now owned by the Parkers, sits between their two house lots. The vacant parcel is smaller than the minimum required by zoning for a building lot, but potentially has value to abutters for "accessory uses" or simply as a buffer. The Parkers bought the land 15 years ago for $20,000 thinking that they might build a tennis court on it, but never went ahead with this project. The Parkers recently sold their house, but the purchasers are not very interested in buying the extra land. As a result, the Parkers have approached the Gibsons to see if they would like to acquire the parcel. As it happens, there is a large bargaining range in this case. The Parkers are moving out of state and will reluctantly sell the land for $15,000 to the purchaser of their home if the Gibsons aren't interested in buying the lot. Unbeknownst to the sellers, the Gibsons are very interested in purchasing the land...
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...Song * A Dream Lies Dead * "Star Light, Star Bright--" * A Certain Lady * Résumé * A Fairly Sad Tale * Afternoon * August Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the Hollywood blacklist. 1920: Parker's caustic wit as a critic initially proved popular, but she was eventually terminated by Vanity Fair in 1920 after her criticisms began to offend powerful producers too often. 1925: When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, Parker and Benchley were part of a "board of editors" established by Ross to allay concerns of his investors. 1934: In 1934, she married Alan Campbell, an actor with aspirations to become a screenwriter. 1936: At the behest of Otto Katz, a covert Soviet Comintern agent and operative of German Communist Party agent Willi Muenzenberg, Parker helped to found the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in 1936 (which was suspected by the FBI of being a Communist Party front). 1941: She wrote additional dialogue for The...
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...Parker Hannifin Corporation Customer Success Story Success in motion. Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, standardizes on the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping. Autodesk® DesignStudio® (Now known as Autodesk Alias Design) Autodesk® Inventor® Autodesk® Showcase® Autodesk® Maya Autodesk® Streamline Autodesk® Moldflow AutoCAD® Electrical By using Digital Prototyping, we’re reducing our reliance on physical prototypes and have a better chance of getting the physical prototype right the first time. —David Bosworth Manager Enterprise Engineering Systems Parker Hannifin Image courtesy of Chelsea Products Division, Parker Hannifin Corp. Project Summary With annual sales exceeding $12 billion, Parker Hannifin Corporation (Parker) designs and manufactures products vital to virtually everything that moves or needs to be controlled. The company’s motion and control technologies are critical in a wide-variety of commercial, mobile, industrial, and aerospace markets. To increase revenues and margins, Parker recently transitioned from simply supplying parts to offering customers complete motion and control systems. The Autodesk® solution for Digital Prototyping has helped Parker shift its focus by supporting a streamlined, highly efficient product development process. The company combines surface models from Autodesk® Alias® software, electrical schematics created in AutoCAD® Electrical, and mechanical design data from Autodesk®...
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...progressions and melodies with a strong concentration on the rhythm section”(historyjazz.com). Although not as popular as the jazz styles that came before it, bebop still created a well-defined audience. Since bebop’s origination was not a result of a single musician or band, bebop’s formation cannot be attributed to any single musician. There are many origins of bebop that made it relevant during its time. The early formation and history of bebop consisted of how the musical form was created and the numerous reactions that were caused by its existence. The musical style of bebop is like no other jazz style. Bands were usually smaller and included different types of instruments. Some influential players of bebop music were Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk. These players created the foundations of bebop and continue to influence musicians of all genres. During the 1940’s, America underwent a number of drastic experiences that would change the American economy forever. One of these occurrences of the 1940s was World War II. Beginning in 1939, World War II required the assistance of all United States citizens and left America with a massive debt. Many men were forced to ship overseas in order to aid in the wartime efforts. The great depression also left the American economy in a crisis. Both of these events led up to the ending of a musical era known as the swing era. Ending in the mid 1940s, the swing era was a musical era filled with...
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...Began using amplification in 1937 * Developed a style by Django Reinhardt, Christian took his style and applied it to playing melodies on his amplified guitar. * 1939 John Hammond put him on with Benny Goodman he hired him cause he was so impressed * Moved to NY many nights at the Milton’s Playhouse exchanging ideas with the young bebop musicians. Some phrases were incorporated into standard bebop vocabulary. * Died March 1942 cause of developing tuberculosis. Charlie Parker- Alto Saxophone (1920-1955) Kansas City, Missouri. * Sneaking out after mom went to night job to hear Jazz * Idol Lester Young * Had music training by band teacher, played in various bands 1935-1939. * Became Proficient in all twelve keys * Nickname Yard bird or bird * 1938 joined Jay McShann Band * Jazz was forever changed after the Parker/Gillespie 1945 recordings were released. * 1946 Parker and Gillespie traveled to LA nightclub to show their talent * Parker made recordings for Ross Russell’s Dial label. * Drug addiction then ended up in the Camarillo State Mental Hospital. * Concerts were called Jazz Philharmonic. * 1949 and 1950 made two Europe tours * Drugs took affect after his daughter died pree * Managed to...
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...Major Historical Events Timeline Cleveland was inaugurated President for a second term (1893). William McKinley became President (1897). Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898) ended the war. 1901 September 14 President William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York. The first Rose Bowl Game was played between the University of Michigan and Stanford University (1902). The first World Series was played between the Boston Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates (1903). The 1906 San Francisco earthquake killed over 3,400 people and destroyed over 80% of San Francisco; being the deadliest earthquake in American history (1906). President Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese war; becoming the first statesman to win a Nobel Prize (1906). The Titanic crashed into an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean, sinking the ship entirely less than three hours the initial collision, killing over 1,500 of the 2,224 passengers aboard (1912). Former President Theodore Roosevelt was shot, but not killed, while campaigning for President as the candidate for the progressive Bull Moose Party (1912). Henry Ford developed the modern assembly line (1913). World War I: Austria-Hungary invaded the Kingdom of Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; triggering the start of World War I (1914). The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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...biggest globe producer of sports footwear and apparel by sales. In the Fiscal Year 2009 the finished sales totaled to $19.2 billion. As well that the indicates that the firm has a globe attendance alongside 34% of its finished revenue in the year 2009 pending from the US and at the alike period Europe, the Middle east and Africa accounting for 29% of its revenue in that year Long beforehand he was shouted CEO of NIKE, Inc., Mark Parker was managing the firm in supplementary ways. Later running competitively at Penn State University, Parker joined Nike as one of our early footwear designers back in 1979. And he’s been at the center of Nike change ever since. For extra than 30 years, he’s held innovative thoughts and engineering expertise into such vital acts as Vice Head of Customer Product Marketing, Vice Head of Globe Footwear and Co-President of the Nike Brand. He’s managed the method for Nike Air and a multitude of industry-breakthroughs in product design. In supplement to helping lead the endured development of the Nike brand, Parker is accountable for the development of NIKE, Inc.'s globe company portfolio, that includes Converse Inc. and Hurley Global LLC. The Business sells its produce to retail reports, across NIKE-owned retail stores and Internet sales, and across a blend of autonomous distributors and licensees, in concerning 190 states concerning the world. The Firm focuses its product offerings in seven key categories: Running, Basketball, Soccer, Men's...
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...The Comanche Indians of Texas The Comanche Indians were great horsemen of the Southern Plains that held an important role in the history of Texas. The Comanche Indians were originally part of the Northern Shoshone tribe that wandered in the vicinity of the Great Basin, a region in the western United States. The Shoshone Indian nation were ill equipped hunters and gatherers. In the seventeenth century when the Comanche Indians obtained horses, this revolutionized their culture. They were better equipped to hunt and gather food from distances that were out of their normal range. They were able to leave the mountainous region of the Shoshone Indian nation and move to the plains just due east of Colorado and western Kansas where there was a great amount of food. The Comanche Indians did not leave the mountainous region of the Shoshone nation as a tribe but there were many groups of family members and bands. The groups split and came together depending on the needs and goals of the individual members. There were at least thirteen different Comanche Indian bands that are identified in history but there were only five that played major roles in documented Comanche history. One of the five bands was called the Penateka or also known as the “Honey Eaters; and there range extended down to the Central Texas rivers and the Penatekas played the most imperative role in Texas history. The Comanche Indians hunting was deemed an activity to be conducted by the men of the tribe. They...
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...Individual Assignment (#2) “Hasbro Interactive, Case Study” Strategic Marketing Management (MKT 600) Done By: Dima El Jalbout ID#: 23406 Submitted to: Dr. Elie Asmar Academic Year: Spring 2015-2016 Date: Monday, March 14, 2016 Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away families had a game night—once a week they'd pull out a stack of boxes from a closet and everyone would flex their knowledge of trivia (Trivial Pursuit), vocabulary (Scrabble), or even their real-estate management skills (Monopoly). All these childhood memories, the related games and much more were created by “Hasbro, Inc”. Unfortunately the company end up being sold to another French company due to many failures discussed below. After Hasbro Inc and Hasbro Interactive and all the rapid growth and success the company has had, it began acquiring software firms and became separate divisions instead of one united entity. The owner was over optimistic; he set very high target sales and revenues which led to lots of missed targets and caused Hasbro interactive to start losing money. Structural challenges were many from which we can mention: * Hasbro’s related companies departments didn’t report to the main division, * No strategic plans for the company (other than acquiring as many companies with no consideration of the prices), * Main division set very aggressive sales expectations due to overconfidence, * Huge revenues gained by Hasbro interactive were spent on large employees’...
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...1. What factors created an opportunity for Bob Reiss and the "TV Guide Game?” Reiss had previous experience on the game industry, which provided him with good understanding of that business. He knew about the popularity of trivia-based games in the U.S., the preceding Canadian success of Trivial-Pursuit and he envisioned the transferability of this success to the U.S. market. Reiss also hit the target by adding the TV element to the trivia-based game, in a time when the average U.S. family spent 7 hours in front of the television. Finally, Reiss’ good contacts in different industries allowed him to get a partner, to marshal funds, and to make further contacts to secure the required resources for his enterprise’s success, obtaining large benefits, involving low cost and risk levels. 2. What risks and obstacles had to be overcome in order to pursue the opportunity successfully? How did Bob Reiss accomplish this? Reiss had to confront several risks and obstacles. First, the presence of bigger players offering similar products, which Reiss handle by differentiating its product with the introduction of the TV element. Second, Reiss had to deal with seasonality of the toy industry, with the short life-cycle of game products, and with potential early market saturation. He managed to put its product in the market on time, finding the opportune associates to secure manufacturing inputs, and figuring out ways to simplify processes (i.e. replacing question-cards with printed booklets)...
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...As the Beat movement was getting started, the musical styling’s of Bebop Jazz was already robust especially in big cities like New York. Bebop Jazz started coming out heavily in the 1940’s and was played in every jazz club across the nation. Bebop was a groundbreaking style of jazz and many well-known musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Max Roach and Miles Davis were helping promote the new style. While researching famous Bebop musicians, I only came across African American individuals of both sexes. I was really curious as to why this was and I finally found the answer. Jazz originated from New Orleans Louisiana. Many residents from New Orleans are African American and they helped spread jazz throughout the world. Once Bebop Jazz started coming to...
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