...Mary Quant: A woman who completed women and the youth culture During the 1960s, although Great Britain was referred as the empire on which the sun never sets, the nation itself was too busy in replicating and imitating culture and arts of France. Even the young nation, United States had the victory of seizing hegemony right after World War 2, which hurt the Great Britain’s pride. Not only the nation itself but also the people of Great Britain desperately wanted something “British-like,” something of their own. Furthermore, the social issues for wanting individualism, having a will to express their own selves, and second wave of feminism, more liberated life styles for women, erupted across the Western countries. New definitions of youth and femininity were epitomized through fashion typically created by Mary Quant, a British fashion designer. She had not only helped translating a generation of women, but also helped the failing British fashion industry into a thriving commercialism. Mary Quant was born in London, 1934. She studied illustration at Goldsmith College of Art and met her future husband, Alexander Plunket Greene and a former solicitor, Archie Mcnair. When she failed to become an art teacher, she teamed up with her husband and Mcnair to open up a boutique called Bazaar in Kings Road, London. In the beginning, she planned to buy clothes from the private wholesalers and sell it as retail items at her boutique, but with the limited designs, which...
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...6-3 Consumer Behaviour * relationship between stimulus and response 6-4 * cultural factors (6-5) * combination of values, beliefs, behavior * acquired through socialization processes * why are values and beliefs important to marketers? * Forms their needs, shapes their wants * Tells us about their preferences * Subcultures * Determined based on: * Nationalities * Religions * Racial groups * Geographic regions * French Canadians (subculture) – 22% of population * Immigrants * Aboriginals * Asian Canadians * Chinese Canadians * Have different consumption patterns * Social Classes (6-7) * Based not only on income but also occupation * Different media for different income groups * Upper income groups watch news or talk shows * Lower income watch sports related programs or drama shows * Viewing pattern and consumption pattern varies depending on their social class * Social Factors * Reference groups * People that consumers are influenced by * Primary and secondary ref groups: pressure to conform * People you spend time with put pressure on you to conform to their lifestyle * Aspirational groups * People whom you don’t belong to but want to...
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...20TH CENTURY DESIGNERS YourFirstNameYourLastName University title Course title: Lecturer’s name: Born to welch school teachers in 11 of February in the year 1934, Mary Quant is a renowned welsh fashion designer and present day icon in British fashion circles. Quant graduated from the Goldsmith College in London with a diploma in Art and ventured in to fashion. She is credited with the popularization of the miniskirt, an outfit whose invention she is silently credited with. During the swinging sixties, her designs tailored from the miniskirt, managed not only to capture her clientele, but the swinging sixties zeitgeist. For this invention she so flawlessly and successfully popularized, she received the OBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) award in the year 1966. As a design guru, Quant has inevitably developed long lasting fashion silhouettes in her artistic work of the miniskirt and the go-go boots. This is emphasized by the development of high boot and rain boot from the foundation laid across by Quant’s go-go boots. She has left her mark not only on the trends but also on a number of fashion designers whose work bear her mark such as Anna Sui, Betsey Johnson, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Marc Jacobs. Listed among the top 100 designers of all time, Rudi Gernreich is idolized for being the first to develop unisex clothing and the famed mokini. An American fashion icon of the early 60’s, Gernreich was born in 8th of April in the year 1922 to Vietnamese parents resident...
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...fields, music, fashion, life style, politics, it was a free, glamourous, rebellious and modern decade. So we can ask how the 60s became a famous decade ? Fisrt, in the 60s lots of revolution and new kinds of hereos appear in music, fashion. In a second part, big changes, in equalty women/men new technologies, industry. In fact, in the 60s fashion became an important because of the start of consumer society and the whishe to copy the raising celebrities like twiggy the supermodel. People could choice between differents kind of styles. In class we listen an audio document which introduce the main styles in the 60s, the rockers with black clotthes and chains, the hippies with flowers and casual clothes and the mods which start thanks to Mary Quant and the mini skirt. It was a famous decade also because of the music became an important part of the british decade, the brand new bands like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones or the Who, and the music from America. Other hereos were born, the pirates DJs, the text page 34 show us the djs broadcast rock music and commercial which was ban on official radios like Bbc, poeple loved those radio because it was new and they feel like rebel because they disobey to the law. The pirates radio changes things because people start to open their cultural opinion. But the 60s change also in the lifestyle. In class we listen a recording, where people talks about their 60s memories. They remenbered, it was a revolution in the new technologies, families could...
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...Estimating the New GCI model The appropriate weighting of individual indicators in determining overall competitiveness is a crucial part of any index model.74 The New GCI model calculates weights based on a regression of the pooled dataset on country GDP per capita.The stability of the model is tested by reallocating individual indicators and assessing the stability of the weights and the overall score. Other similar indexes have almost invariably set weights based on subjective priors based on the literature.Yet differences in opinion in the academic literature leave the door open for different choices that can compromise the resulting rankings. The New GCI is generated in a two-stage process. First, the weights for aggregating individual indicator scores to an overall country score are obtained using panel data for over 130 countries and up to 7 years (2001–07).The weights obtained from estimating the model are going to be kept constant over time. Additional years of data will be used to check the stability of the model over time. Second, the index score for a particular country in a given year is calculated by summing its weighted indicator values. The New GCI model uses principal component analysis (PCA) to aggregate individual indicators (or categories of indicators).The premise of the PCA method is that within a “conceptual category,” indicators are highly correlated and related to the underlying phenomenon that is being measured.Within the area...
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...1. Ideal situation: Setup the spreadsheet model correctly and answer (in a Word document) all questions in the first part of the case. I provide feedback and you continue working on the second part. (Note: To be able to do the second part, we need to learn the content in Module 3.) Then, by December 9, you consolidate your analysis of the first and second parts, put them in a report format with the instructions given (executive summary, etc.) and submit. 2. Expected situation: Setup the spreadsheet model and provide brief answers to part I questions within the Excel worksheet. I provide feedback, and you will be working on the rest of the questions until December 9. If there is any mistake in your progress submission, I will provide specific instructions on how to fix them, and in the following weeks after that, you may submit additional progress reports to make sure you are on the right track. I will provide feedback on your progress if you ask for it. 3. Flexible situation: Read/understand the case, have some ideas about what method you will use to solve it and how you will set up the Excel model, and have a feasible plan that will help you finish the case by the final deadline. In this case, you can submit a draft or partially-complete Excel worksheet and I will provide feedback based on your submission. Case: Location, Distribution, and Capacity Expansion at a Beer Manufacturer A Case Study of Location, Distribution, and Capacity Expansion Decisions at Anadolu Efes ...
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...Quant Investments “It had not been a particularly good year for Quant Investments”, mused Alain over his pate de foie gras and champagne. It was lunchtime on Christmas Eve, and his three colleagues Belén, Carlos and Dawood had already set off on holiday to far-off, exotic locations. The four of them had worked as a close team of analysts for the past 15 months since graduating as MBAs, and Alain realised that their performances had not come up to expectations. Alain feared that all four may lose their jobs shortly. At this moment of low spirits, Xavier, one of the senior partners whom Alain had always found remarkably candid, joined him for lunch. “Well, Alain, I’m sure you have heard rumours about the board meeting this morning. The future of the four of you was discussed and a decision was taken to release one of you. I can’t tell you who - the Chairman is writing to you all immediately. However, I can say that we were unable to make the decision on merit, so we made it at random. The Chairman took one of four cards, each of which had one of your names on the back!” “So, I have a one in four chance of being out of work after Christmas”, said Alain. He felt relieved, as he had thought the odds might be worse. “But of course you know definitely who it is”, he added. Alain felt he could leach rather more out of the partner. “Since we both know that at least two out of Belén, Carlos or Dawood will definitely have a job here next year, if you tell me the name of...
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...HANH NGUYEN - SHORT WRITING ASSIGNMENT #2 The video Quants - The Alchemists of Wall Street (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2010) introduced some information about Quants and their roles in Wall Street. As mentioned in the video, a quant said it was a mathematician-led market meltdown, and here he had to apologize to the planet. A statement came from a Wall Street’s quant caught my attention about what and how quants can do in the financial market. Quants are people who specialize in application of mathematical and statistical methods to financial and risk management problems. Then they try to know how to structure and hedge financial securities. One ethic issue of quants that I got from the video is that the intention of Quants in structuring...
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...Overview of Quantitative vs Qualitative Articles NURS 4000/NURS 4001: Research and Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice March 17, 2015 Overview of Quantitative vs. Qualitative Articles Using two research studies selected from the list of articles provided. I choose A Bundle Strategy Including Patient Hand Hygiene to Decrease Clostridium difficile Infections (2014) and Impact of a Smoking Cessation Educational Program on Nurses' Interventions (2014). The purpose of this paper is to do an overview of both a quantitative and qualitative article. Review each selected article on learning about study design, by identifying information from each component of the study. Then evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each study. Overview of Quantitative Article Research Question According to the article, A Bundle Strategy Including Patient Hand Hygiene to Decrease Clostridium difficile Infections (2014), the research question is, does patient hand hygiene included in the bundle strategy help decrease Clostridium difficile infections? According to information found in Chapter 3 (Adams, 2012), using the abstract of problem-solving, nursing process and research process, the information found in this study was impertinent to the outcome. Determining that hand washing does help decrease c-diff infections. Study Design The article, A Bundle Strategy Including Patient Hand Hygiene to Decrease Clostridium difficile Infections (2014), is a quantitative study, and...
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...var products = [ {name: 'Milk', quant: 10, wholesale: 1.05, retail: 1.35}, {name: 'Eggs', quant: 25, wholesale: .95, retail: 1.05}, {name: 'Soda', quant: 30, wholesale: 1.25, retail: 1.75}, {name: 'Doughnuts', quant: 25, wholesale: .60, retail: 1}, {name: 'Chips', quant: 30, wholesale: .75, retail: 1.15}]; var myproperties = ['name', 'quant', 'wholesale', 'retail']; // array containing property names for my products, used it to iterate through the properties when building a table var myprofits = [0,0,0,0,0]; // array contining the profit made from each product, another 0 is pushed to the end each time we add a product var tp = 0; // variable containing the total profits on all products function Addproduct(name, quant, wholesale, retail){ // object constructor that takes the values entered by the user and as assigns them to right keys this.name = name; this.quant = quant; this.wholesale = wholesale; this.retail = retail; } function newprod(){ var prodname = document.getElementById("prodname").value; var prodquant = parseFloat(document.getElementById("prodquant").value); var prodwhole = parseFloat(document.getElementById("prodwhole").value); var prodretail = parseFloat(document.getElementById("prodretail").value); products.push(new Addproduct(prodname, prodquant, prodwhole, prodretail)); myprofits.push(0); document.getElementById("prodname").value = ""; document.getElementById("prodwhole").value = ""; document.getElementById("prodretail")...
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...LONDON: THE SWINGING CITY Before Affluence and After Austerity SLIDE: London smog 1953 In the mid-1960s, London was the place to be. ‘Fifteen years earlier, few would have predicted that London would soon play host to the most swinging ball of the century’ (Sandbrook, 2006b)[i] In fact Hardy Amies had had a similar opinion when reflecting on the legacy of the Festival of Britain in 1951; nothing in it signalled the onslaught of the Swinging Sixties, making particular reference to the Britishness of design in the shape of Mary Quant and her artistic contemporaries which would have enormous further global impact (Banham & Hillier 1976)[ii]. In retrospect it is understandable; the gloomy and restrictive situation of the country locked in the interminable shackle of debt from which it seemed almost impossible to free itself, gave absolutely no hint at the transformation to come. Historical descriptions of Britain in the 1950s are invariably depressing (Akhtar & Humphries, 2001; Marr, 2007; Kynaston 2008; Sandbrook, 2006ab; Tarrant, 1990; White, 2008)[iii]. The word that tends to sum up these accounts is ‘grey’. Cyril Connolly, the writer and critic wrote in 1947 after the worst winter since records began followed by the worst flooding, that the British people had been reduced to ‘a neuter class …with [ ] drab clothes … - a careworn people … in their shabby raincoats, under a sky permanently dull and lowering like a metal dish-cover.’ (Gardiner, 1999:35)[iv] SLIDE: London...
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...a week → Page(s) Bird's Eye View......................................................................... 2 Do This Homework..................................................... 3 - 11 Try Easier Quant............................................ 12 - 20 Only do as needed or → wanted (and if you have time) Try Easier Verbal............................................ 21 - 29 Try Harder Quant............................................. 30 - 36 Try Harder Verbal............................................ 37 - 42 Try More IR.................................................... 43 Try More Essay............................................. 44 Page 1 of 44 Bird's Eye View of Class Attended In Class Quant Verbal Topics & Methods Sentence Correction Critical Reasoning Reading Comprehension Other IR / Essay Preparing for the GMAT Session 1 □ DS Methods & Computation Methods 2 □ FDPs 3 □ Algebra 1 4 □ Algebra 2 5 □ Word Probs 1 6 □ Word Probs 2 7 □ Geometry 8 □ Num Props 1 9 □ Num Props 2 Subj-Verb Parallelism Pronouns Arg. Structure Assumption Modifiers Verbs Evaluate Comparisons Str/Weaken Idioms etc. Evidence Short Long IR Basics Essay Review Assess Gameplan Build "Do This" Checklist At Home Quant FoM Odds After Session 1 2 3 4 5 6 x 7 x 8 x 9 x x x □ □ □ □ □ □ □ x x x x □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ x x □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ x x □ □ □ □ □ □ □ x x □ □ □ □ □ x x x x Strat Guide Read Odds...
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...BFF9515 Options, Futures and Risk management Group assignment Semester 1, 2014 Due date: 16.05.2014 BFF5915 Group Assignment Part 1 1. Compute Beta * Method: First, compute the returns of each stocks and the return of the index. They can be calculated using excel with the formula: (current price / the previous price) – 1, Second, use covariance and variance function in excel to calculate the beta of each stock. Third, multiply each beta with the corresponding weight to calculate the portfolio beta. * The beta for each stocks and the beta for portfolio (see table 1.1) Details can be seen in sheet “EquityReturnData” in the data file “Data.xlsx”. Table 1.1 The Beta(s) of Stocks and Portfolio Name | Code | Weight | Beta | CROWN RESORTS | 51333T(RI) | 7.25% | 0.8039 | COMMONWEALTH BK.OF AUS. | 314054(RI) | 7.26% | 0.8950 | NATIONAL AUS.BANK | 901842(RI) | 3.74% | 1.1317 | COCHLEAR | 871051(RI) | 3.96% | 0.8402 | WESTFIELD GROUP | 912307(RI) | 2.56% | 0.7096 | TELSTRA | 871685(RI) | 4.60% | 0.5050 | MACQUARIE GROUP | 865438(RI) | 4.36% | 1.4238 | INVOCARE | 28047X(RI) | 3.87% | 0.7210 | FLIGHT CENTRE TRAVEL GP. | 871048(RI) | 4.28% | 1.0063 | CSL | 131775(RI) | 4.89% | 0.6488 | SLATER & GORDON | 50509L(RI) | 4.79% | 0.3001 | JB HI-FI | 27736M(RI) | 4.50% | 0.8261 | CARSALES.COM | 67967W(RI) | 4.54% | 0.8459 | WOOLWORTHS | 322714(RI) | 4.86% | 0.5500 | FORTESCUE METALS GP. | 314160(RI) | 7.15% | 1.8687 | The Portfolio...
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...fiExample: A market research analyst believes that there is a positive linear relationship between annual household expenditures on dining out and annual household incomes. The analyst collected data on a number of households. The MINITAB output of the regression analysis is given below, and includes 95% confidence and prediction intervals for dining out expenditures corresponding to different income levels. a) Is there a positive linear relationship between annual household expenditures on dining out and annual household incomes. Test at the 5% level of significance. b) Construct a 90% interval for the average annual expenditure on dining out of households with annual income is $70,000. c) Construct a 99% interval for the annual household expenditure on dining out of a household with annual income is $83,800. d) Interpret the value of the estimated standard deviation of the error. e) Interpret the value of the coefficient of determination. Regression Analysis: dining versus income The regression equation is dining = - 2525 + 0.0734 income Predictor Constant income Coef -2525.5 0.073361 SE Coef 294.4 0.002519 T -8.58 29.12 P 0.000 0.000 S = 398.821 R-Sq = 98.0% R-Sq(adj) = 97.9% Analysis of Variance Source Regression Residual Error Total DF 1 17 18 SS 134908780 2703989 137612768 MS 134908780 159058 F 848.17 P 0.000 Predicted Values for New Observations New Obs 1 2 3 4 Fit 2206.3 2609.8 3622.2 4194.4 SE Fit 148.8 138.1 114.4 103.8 95% (1892.4, (2318.4, (3380...
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...LONDON: THE SWINGING CITY Before Affluence and After Austerity SLIDE: London smog 1953 In the mid-1960s, London was the place to be. ‘Fifteen years earlier, few would have predicted that London would soon play host to the most swinging ball of the century’ (Sandbrook, 2006b)[i] In fact Hardy Amies had had a similar opinion when reflecting on the legacy of the Festival of Britain in 1951; nothing in it signalled the onslaught of the Swinging Sixties, making particular reference to the Britishness of design in the shape of Mary Quant and her artistic contemporaries which would have enormous further global impact (Banham & Hillier 1976)[ii]. In retrospect it is understandable; the gloomy and restrictive situation of the country locked in the interminable shackle of debt from which it seemed almost impossible to free itself, gave absolutely no hint at the transformation to come. Historical descriptions of Britain in the 1950s are invariably depressing (Akhtar & Humphries, 2001; Marr, 2007; Kynaston 2008; Sandbrook, 2006ab; Tarrant, 1990; White, 2008)[iii]. The word that tends to sum up these accounts is ‘grey’. Cyril Connolly, the writer and critic wrote in 1947 after the worst winter since records began followed by the worst flooding, that the British people had been reduced to ‘a neuter class …with [ ] drab clothes … - a careworn people … in their shabby raincoats, under a sky permanently dull and lowering like a metal dish-cover.’ (Gardiner, 1999:35)[iv] SLIDE: London...
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