...group; she is wearing glamorous, sparkly dresses, she’s dancing nonstop and having fun, and they try to make the audience “join the movement.” Figure 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMt6TFO0zn4 Figure 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMt6TFO0zn4 The advertisement starts out right away with the popular music artist Taylor Swift as the only person in the entire commercial. The company makes a big emphasis on this and even puts her name in the commercial underneath the company name, seen in Figure 1, as if to highlight the fact that she’s in the commercial and wearing their product, even though it’s very clear who it is to the majority of the population. Cover Girl chose Taylor Swift to be the star of their commercial for a few reasons. They are targeting teenage girls, and Taylor is in that age range herself. She’s also extremely successful in her career and is an attractive young woman that a lot of girls wish they could look like or just be. By using Taylor Swift when she has all these qualities, it sends out a message to the watchers that if you use their product, you’ll be able to be like Taylor Swift. Figure 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMt6TFO0zn4 Figure 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMt6TFO0zn4 Another way this commercial really targets women is not only by having a celebrity in it, but by having that celebrity dress in glamorous clothes. In Figure 2 and Figure 3 one can see the two outfits Taylor wore throughout the entire commercial. This...
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...FUN IN THE WORKPLACE: TOWARD AN ENVIRONMENT-BEHAVIOR FRAMEWORK RELATING OFFICE DESIGN, EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY, AND JOB SATISFACTION By ALEXANDRA M. MILLER A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF INTERIOR DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2005 Copyright 2005 by Alexandra M. Miller ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I would like to thank my committee chair, Dr. Margaret Portillo, for her direction and guidance throughout the entire research process. I would also like to thank Dr. M. Joyce Hasell for her support and valuable expertise. Additional thanks go to Dr. Larry Winner for his indispensable assistance as a statistical consultant. I would also like to thank PUSH for providing an excellent example of a fun workplace. In particular, I would like to thank partners John Ludwig, Chris Robb, and Rich Wahl for allowing me to conduct a case study of their business. Additional thanks go to Ron Boucher, Jourdan Crumpler, and Gordon Weller for taking the time to participate in interviews. I would also like to express my gratitude to Kathryn Voorhees for her help, humor, and friendship as she accompanied me throughout the research process. Finally, I would like to thank all of my friends and family for their support. In particular, I would like to thank to my parents for their constant support and for helping me to achieve my dreams. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ..........
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...In many clothing brand almost all of them use the same type of rhetorical appeals. They all use logos. The way they do this is by having good looking model wearing their brand of clothing. In all clothing advertisements, there are two elements that you always see in the ad. The first thing you may see in the ad is a group of diverse good-looking people male, and female. They all may be from diverse cultural background but always all the same type of body figure and that is usually slim or athletically built. The reason for this is because the company want to put the image that people who wear that brand are that type of built. They want that so it is a way of associating their brand with fit people and that way the consumer has it in their...
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...Handy Handouts® Free, educational handouts for teachers and parents* Number 272 Context Clues—Can You Figure It Out? by Rynette R. Kjesbo, M.S., CCC-SLP What Are Context Clues? Context clues are hints or bits of information that help us figure out the meaning of difficult or unfamiliar words we read. Context clues are the words, phrases, or even pictures that surround a word, which help explain the word’s meaning. For example, “During winter, there is not enough light or water for leaves to keep their green color. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors.” We can determine from the context clues that the word “fades” means “loses color.” Why Are Context Clues Important? Understanding context clues and using them effectively contributes to children’s success in school by improving vocabulary, reading fluency, reading comprehension, and even their enjoyment of reading. • Vocabulary – Context clues help children build on the vocabulary they have in order to learn the meanings of words they do not know. • Reading Fluency – Context clues help children decide how to pronounce words. For example, you can put a bow in your hair or you can bow to the audience. • Reading Comprehension – Context clues help children see the “bigger picture” and understand what they are reading about, including new topics or subjects. * Enjoyment of Reading – Children who are able to use context clues to understand what they are reading...
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...school student who started figure skating. I begged my parents who eventually agreed to let me start classes. I was in middle school at the time, so I thought I had plenty of time to become a real ice princess. A girl’s dream always seems to be becoming a princess, or an ice princess, but over time and experience, reality hits. Figure skating is seen as a very graceful and effortless art, but it is still a sport. I tried all sports as a kid but never grew attached to any. Being athletic just wasn’t my thing. Figure skating appealed to me because of the ice, and how I would never get hot because of the cold temperatures. It seems like that at first, but it does get very hot after training for hours. As with any sport, training starts with the very basics. The way my program did it was there were multiple levels with certain elements in each one. After you finished all levels, then you would start doing programs, or performances, and competitions. It took me about a year to pass through all the levels, which normally takes two or three for other girls, so I thought I had finally found something I was good at and could stick to. I also felt the graceful aspect, when spinning, jumping, and footwork. Something about the different body positions to get into that a position someone wouldn’t do normally everyday. My favorite was a sit spin where I spin on the ball of my left foot then bring my right leg and connect my knees in a sitting position. What was fun was I could just plop...
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...“On the page headed May 17, 2155, she wrote, Today Tommy and I found a real book!” Can you imagine living in a world without a paperback or living on a different planet where it rains twenty-four seven. Well this is how the two authors Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov set up their characters in the books “All Summer in a day” and “the Fun They Had”. The authors used lots of literary elements to reveal the setting and set the tone of the story. They also used figures of speech, sensory details, and dialog to add more depth to their stories. Plus the authors used details to affect the mood and atmosphere of the two stories. The Two stories “All Summer in a day” and “the Fun They Had” have lots of differences and similarities such as they both portray the future in a sad and depressing way with little chance of contentment. For Example, in “All Summer in a day” the kids don't believe in the sun or what Margot tells them about...
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...Grid Analysis Making a Decision By Weighing Up Different Factors Also known as Decision Matrix Analysis, Pugh Matrix Analysis, and Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) Imagine that your boss has put you in charge of taking on a new outsourced IT supplier. You've already identified several different suppliers, and you now need to decide which one to use. You could decide to go with the lowcost option. But you don't want to make your decision on cost alone - factors such as contract length, underlying technology, and service levels need to be taken into consideration. So how can you make sure you make the best decision, while taking all of these different factors into account? Grid Analysis is a useful technique to use for making a decision. It's particularly powerful where you have a number of good alternatives to choose from, and many different factors to take into account. This makes it a great technique to use in almost any important decision where there isn't a clear and obvious preferred option. Being able to use Grid Analysis means that you can take decisions confidently and rationally, at a time when other people might be struggling to make a decision. How to Use the Tool Grid Analysis works by getting you to list your options as rows on a table, and the factors you need consider as columns. You then score each option/factor combination, weight this score by the relative importance of the factor, and add these scores up to give an overall score for each option. While...
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...women--including Victor's mother, the aunt in "The Fun House," and Norma Many Horses--are symbols of strength. In the novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Victor's mother is one of the women who symbolizes strength. In the chapter "Jimi Hendrix," when Victor's father wrecked his bike, he was in the hospital for two months, and Victor's mother visited him every day until he recovered although she and Victor's father were split up. The narrator, Victor, states that "even though my mother didn't want to be married to him anymore and...
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...Wooden Kitchen Center. The Hot wheels cars are different in size and have multiple colors, which are usually dark colors such as black, blue, green etc. The cars can teaches boys how to identify cars and grow up to like them as the boys grow up. Minecraft started out as a videogame that became popular where toys created for boys to play with. The package comes with Steve, Pig, Chestnut Horse, Saddle, two Grass Blocks and two Hay Blocks. The toys mimic the game where boys pretend to be Steve, who is the main character of the game and goes out to the virtual world and builds thing like a house and a farm. It helps with creativity and role-play. With LEGO’s, they are fun and are blocks that children use to build things. The LEGO train set is a motorized train set with cargo cars, forklifts and LEGO figures. The LEGO set when built looks like a complete train that works, it teaches them how to create by following directions or use their imagination. I...
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...thrilled our team was to have to write a paper during the holidays, with a deadline just two days after the winter break, so we came up with a clever way to bypass all the research work needed and just start writing about things we already knew and also loved doing, in order to grasp a more subjective approach on the chosen topic. People often say that if you don’t truly believe in the things you are working on and don’t have fun whilst doing them, you won’t be successful in any of your endeavors. This means you have to work with passion, because the first person you are ultimately going to sell the idea of the finished product is yourself, and if you can’t fully embrace the concept, it’s going to be even harder to pitch it to someone else. That being said, we quickly searched for a topic that each member of our team could relate to, and also provide valuable insight upon his experience and personal preferences on the subject at hand. In the end we settled on the topic of video games, due to the wide variety available these days. Figure 1. Pacman machine Figure 1. Pacman machine The first ever commercially produced video games were arcade games back in the early ‘70s in the United States, and I think we all remember in movies those huge machines that took up quite a lot of space in pubs, where people could play games such as Pacman, Space Invaders or Donkey Kong. They were very successful and in fact, they provided the buzz that this industry needed at that time in order to grow...
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...Competitive Analysis The health club industry has continued to see an increase in the amount of health clubs/fitness centers. Since 1992, the United States has seen the number of health clubs increased by almost 40 percent, from 12,635 to 17,531 facilities. It has also seen an increase in membership by almost 60 percent, from 20.8 million to 32.8 million. What this all means for Fun 4 Life Fitness Center, LLC is that the market is ever growing which translates to more competition. Most fitness centers offer a variety of services to address the needs and convenience of the customers. Some of these services includes personal trainers, facilities with state-of-the-art equipment, and programs that cater to mostly every demographic. Fun 4 Life Fitness will seek to have a competitive edge by providing customers with stellar customer service along with offering a variety of programs and equipment that is sure to develop a following for Fun 4 Life Fitness Center, LLC. Key Competitors The key competitors that have fitness centers in the Corpus Christi area are Gold’s Gym, Freedom Fitness of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi Snap Fitness Center, and Corpus Christi Athletic Club. Gold’s Gym specializes in providing some of the best cardio and strength equipment to help people realize their goals. Some of their strengths include the programs they offer, their personal trainer staff, and most importantly, the Gold’s Gym brand name. They have built up a reputation for being...
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...As a young naïve 10-year-old, not only did I let other people’s statements easily affect me, I wanted to feel accepted and “normal.” My peers at school usually made fun of figure skating as an exclusively feminine sport. Because I did not want to be perceived as feminine, and I did not have the courage to speak up for myself, I made fun of figure skating along with my peers. Throughout middle school, I never told anyone I figure skated, and I would make someone swear to secrecy to not tell anyone if he or she found out. Gradually, I let others’ words impact my love for...
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...| Problems in school | Relationship problem | Getting so much attached with social networking sites | Texting/chatting | Playing online/LAN games | 17 | 53 | 26 | 45 | 4 | 18 | 10.43% | 32.52% | 15.95% | 27.61% | 2.45% | 11.04% | Figure 1 . Based on the survey conducted, 32.52% or 53 students of 163 respondents are chose the problems in school because they think that this is the reason that affects their study habit. The next reason that affects their study habit is the so much attached in the social networking sites, it has 45 students or 27.61% said this. They are 26 or 15.95% students agreed that relationship is the problem that affects their study habit, and 18 or 11.04% students said that it was the online games/LAN games that affects their study habit. 10.43% or 17 students say that the family problem is the reason that affects their study habit and only 4 or 2.45% say that it was the texting/chatting habit that affects their study habit. Table 2. Way to avoid those alterations FREQUENCY | Getting a lot more focus in studying | Having a suitable time management to avoid alteration | Find something interesting in which I can use my time even though I’m not studying | 69 | 31 | 20 | 57.5% | 25.83% | 16.67% | Figure 2 The conducted survey shows that 57.50% or 69 students say that they going to get more focus on their study to avoid the alterations that affect in their study habit. 25.83% or 31 students say that having a suitable time management can...
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...dare to take risks. It is an environment that nurtures a love of learning. In order to be a successful teacher, you need to understand that each child has different ways in which they learn better. I feel a teacher should have a variety of teaching techniques and mix all the different ways of teaching in their lesson plans to help fill the needs of each individual student. As a teacher, Math can be and is a very tough subject to learn. Teaching Math and making it fun to learn. Teaching children that mathematics is a language that we use every day to identify, investigate and describe every day challenges. We can describe different situations and events that we have to prepare for or events that have already occurred. Understanding the world we live in is best because mathematics is all around us. Mathematics consists of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, measurement, statistics, and probability. We have numbers, quantities, data, and shapes all around us. Solving and understanding problems is mathematics. Making it fun for a student is much more than learning skills or collection of concepts. Communication with each student is the success. The major mathematical concepts of Math 213, is designed for K-8 pre-service teachers to address the concept of mathematics taught in an elementary level. This course is...
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...vivre’ (‘The Joy of Life’). The artwork ‘Le Bonheur de vivre’ was produced in 1905 – 1906 (wikipedia.org, 2012). Henri Matisse used many different ways of drawing and painting throughout the years and gesture drawing was one of his specialties. The main aspect that this work reflects is the human figure, which is typical of Matisse’s work. In addition in this work the human figure is shown in a variety of positions and sizes. The artwork has a size of 175.6cm x 241cm and Matisse has used oil colours on canvas to create it. It resides in the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Paris (Nicolas Pioch, 2002). The artwork was hung without a big frame that would possibly distract the viewer, so the focus is on the drawing. The work depicts a clearing in a forest with a group of six people dancing around, two lying down, and one couple kissing and there are also two people who are playing the flute. In the very background the viewer can see the sea. The artist has used bright colors that give the drawing a happy atmosphere. The artwork is representing the things that make life enjoyable, ‘Le Bonheur de vivre‘- ‘The Joy of Life’. Being together in a group, in nature, playing music and having fun is an easy way for humans to...
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