...London Riots The London Riots occurred in 2011. It first started on Saturday August 6 and ended on Thursday August 11. Thousands of people rioted in several London boroughs and in cities and towns all over England. The riots are sometimes referred to as the "BlackBerry riots" because of the use of mobile phones and social medias to organize them. The riot first began in Tottenham, North London after the death of Mark Duggan. 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot by the police in Tottenham on August 4, 2011. He was shot in the chest because the police had suspicion that he had a weapon and was planning an attack. This event wouldn't have turned to much if Mark was not dark skinned. No one would have given it a second thought, but he was. There was always tension between black people and the police since 1985 the Broadwater Farm riot. Since 1985 there was progress in the relationship but the shooting raised the tension once again. According to David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, Duggan's death was part of "a history in Tottenham that involves deaths in the police custody". Claudia Webbe the chairperson of Operation Trident, asserted that many black people saw Dugan's shooting as "yet another unjust death in custody" and that young people in Tottenham are "still six, seven eight times more likely to be stopped and searched than their white counterparts". One of the reasons I think the riots occurred and turned to more than just a protest was because of what Claudia Webbe said. Black...
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...Raffles College of Design and Commerce Associated College of Shanghai Marketing Strategy 003FM410 Yumiko Zhang | | RCDC: 124FZG9584 Date of Submission: Week 10 November 5, 2012 Lecturer: Delphine L Table of Content Abstract…………………………………………………………………………….4 CHAPTERE 1 - External environment analysis………………………………..5 1. General environment (PESTGD)…………………………………………….6 2.1 Demographic……………………………………………………………………6 1.1.1 Population size……………………………………………………………7 1.1.2 Income distribution………………………………………………………9 1.1.3 Ethnic mix……………………………………………………………….10 2.2 Economic……………………………………………………………………...12 2.3 Political Legal Environment…………………………………………………..13 1.3.1 Taxation law……………………………………………………………..13 1.3.2 Labor law………………………………………………………………..13 1.3.3 Voluntary standards………………………………………………………14 1.4 Socio-cultural…………………………………………………………………..15 1.5 Technological…………………………………………………………………..17 1.6 Global………………………………………………………………………….18 2. Industry Analysis………………………………………………………………19 2.1 Industry Overview…………………………………………………………….19 2.2 Industry Growth Trends……………………………………………………….20 2.3 Porter’s 5 Forces………………………………………………………………21 2.3.1 Bargaining Power of Suppliers………………………………………….21 2.3.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers……………………….................................22 2.3.3 Threat of Substitute Products ……………………………………….23 2.3.4 Rivalry among Competing Firms……………………………………24 2.3.5 Threats of New Entrants…………………………………………….25 3. Consumer Market…………………………………………………………26 ...
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...of the influence that a city like London exercises across the globe, it’s natural to think of that influence being exercised abroad. But that is too simple. While people around the world do engage with London remotely – they learn about it at school, read about it in books and papers, see it on TV, or meet visiting and immigrant Londoners – their most intense engagement with it will be as visitors to the city, whether as students, migrant workers or tourists. Millions of people visit London every year for business, leisure or study, creating a web of human connection which helps the UK maintain a prominent position in the collective global consciousness. So what is it that makes London so attractive to potential visitors? And what can we do to ensure tourism continues to bolster our soft power? Tourism in London is booming. There were a record 16.8 million visitors from at least 60 overseas markets in 2013, 1 making London one of the most visited cities in the world. Last year tourism added over £9 billion to the London economy and is responsible for 200,000 jobs across the capital. 2 Motivations to visit vary from market to market, but the city’s cultural offer is a consistent draw; the British Museum alone recorded over 4 million visits from international tourists in 2013. 3 The Royal Family and Buckingham Palace have a strong appeal, especially to American visitors. Shopping, parks and nightlife all contribute to a perception of London as a vibrant and appealing place to...
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...London riots Manuscript Hello! My name is (...). I am very pleased to be here tonight, to talk to all of you. I am going to talk about the riots that are still going on just outside of these doors from my point of view, and hopefully help solving some of challenges that the nation is right now facing. After three days of fire, violence and looting in England, countless analyses are trickling in the media, each with their take on the cause of this sudden riot. Everyone wants to know how peaceful demonstrations in North London, unexpectedly turned into riots, that just as unexpectedly, has spread like wildfire over London and the UK and has created global debate. And I am pretty sure we are all left with the same question, because; what makes people set fire to small, family-run businesses, and why would someone beat up a random by-passer or rob somebody who has already been beaten up? But what creates the greatest schism in the analytical reverberates among experts, politicians and basically everyone with a twitter profile, are the lootings. Why do all these young people from poor areas, wade into smashed shops, take the goods and then just leave with a grin on their face, absolutely careless of whose watching? With the conservatism dominating this country, many people will think that a bunch of thugs who thoughtlessly commit criminal acts, do not deserve an explanation for their unacceptable behaviour, and supporters of the liberalistic mind will shake their...
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...London Burning By Mark Arve, 7th August. An innocent lost life during a drug-raid has brought demonstrators blood boil. Revenge is on the agenda and London is paying the price. 4th August 2011, Tottenham Hale. The death of 29-year-old Mark Duggan during a drug-raid has pulled the trigger and should apparently be the cause of the riots in London theses days. The police stopped a taxi carrying Mark Duggan as a passenger on Thursday the 4th August in the evening around 18 AM. The police were trying to arrest Mark Duggan, but the arrest lead to hand-to-hand fighting, while Mark Duggan tried to resist the overpowering police officers. The officers were compelled to shoot Mark Duggan because of his threating and violent behaviour and in preparation to their own safety. The police officers fired two shoots against Mark Duggan. One of them fatally stroked his chest and killed the family man, who was father to four children. Ambulance services tried to save his life, but his life could not be rescued – he died only half an hour later. Conflict of evidence A spokesman, representing the police maintains that the police officers shot Mark Duggan in self-defence. The spokesman claims likewise that Mark Duggan first discharged shots against the police officers, before he got shot. Family and friends, who knew the 29-years-old Londoner very well are not in doubt about the cause to the death and whose fault it was. According to them, Mark Duggan was...
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...Catherine Murray Research Paper Jack London Jack London was a great American writer, author, and journalist in the nineteenth century. He was born John Griffith Chaney, in San Francisco, California. London worked in the Klondike for a few years and then began to write and publish books and stories. His books became very successful which made him one of the most popular authors of the nineteenth century. Jack grew up in a hard working-class. He pretty much paved out the way for his own life and success. He rode trains, worked on oyster ships, shoveled coal, and found employment in a cannery. These experiments inspired him in writing some of his stories, as he really enjoyed to read and write at libraries in his free time. His writing career basically began in 1893, the year that he went out on a sealing voyage in which him and his crew almost got taken out by a typhoon. Jack London’s writing career started off by his mother encouraging him to submit one of his stories to one of the local newspapers for a writing contest. Jack was 17 at the time and even though he only had an eighth grade education, he had won the first prize of twenty-five dollars, and had beat college students from Stanford and Berkley. After this experience, he decided that he would begin to dedicate his life to writing short stories, but he had a difficult time finding publishers. He then enrolled at the University of California Berkeley, but only for a brief time before he traveled north to Canada...
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...Jack London The life experiences of John Griffith, or more commonly known as Jack London, are portrayed throughout his many stories. His stories reflect the strengths and weaknesses of the living creature (be it more or beast). Jack London began his adventures at a very early age. Born out of wedlock and into a poverty-ridden family he learned to find ways of escaping the dull routine of work. At the age of ten London was selling newspapers to supplement the family income. He labored in canneries, mills, doing laundry and shoveling coal so that he could support his family. Between the laborious chores of earning a living London also had numerous adventures when he tried the other side of the law. The adventures started when he buys himself a small skiff and teaches himself to sail but the pressures of home life take that away from he and he is forced to work at a cannery starting at the tender age of 14. Even at that age Jack London still had continuous thoughts of writing for a living. At the age of 15 London is tired of the low wages and the back breaking work of the factory and decides to take matters into his own hands. He sails out to become an Oyster pirate with the ship “The Razzle Dazzle” that he purchases with money borrowed from Virginia Prentiss. The title “Prince of the Oyster Pirates” is soon given to him, but he soon becomes disillusioned with the rough life and decides to change to the other side of the law again. The next year...
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...London is one of the most visited and iconic cities of the world. London has a lot to offer for everyone from history and culture to good music and extraordinary cuisines. The city is deeply multicultural and diverse. So many cultures have infused in, that one can sense the culinary aromas around the streets of London. The Cuisines that you get to eat in London, like the Italian, Mexican, Indian, French, etcetera, are simply impeccable. Indian food is the most loved food in the UK Capital. We all know Britain’s love for Indian Spices and Curries. The first ever curry house of London was opened in 1809 .It was called The Hindoostane Coffee House. The people in Britain knew nothing about Indian Cuisine beyond ‘curry’. The Indian Cuisine was only...
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...International Strategic Project Management BBIM604 In –Module assessment – Semester 1 -2011/12 By Sergey Bogdanovich Basketball Arena [pic] Executive summary Basketball is one of the major Olympic sports. And Olympic presentation of it should be as good as possible, as millions of people will watch the action from East London closely. They all want an extraordinary exhibition and performance, so the constructions of a top quality Basketball Arena, which will successfully host the games, require a lot of attitude. It is essential to understand that the arena must be a part of an Olympic vision and should address all the proposals and ideas which Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and London as a capital of Great Britain want to introduce during games and after them. It required a lot of effort, knowledge and an experience to achieve the overall goal in delivering basketball arena. In the end the project become one of the biggest of its type ever built for such an event. Several firms, agencies and organisations worked closely with each other to deliver a successful result on each stage of the project. Introduction The Basketball arena was a unique challenge. It was the first time a 12000 seat temporary arena with a span of almost 100 m had been built in UK. Because of the size, scale, complexity and the cost of the venue, it went through considerable scrutiny, deliberation and change throughout the course of 2006-2009...
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...CASE STUDY: London 2012 Olympics Games George Koduah UMUC MARKETING MANAGEMENT AMBA 650 9044 Dr. Tom L Trittipo November 20, 2012 CASE STUDY: London 2012 Olympics Games Draft. Introduction The successful organization and the London 2012 Olympics Games was an expected necessity for a program aimed at satisfying many aims and objectives including fostering the Olympic movement spirit, revitalizing economic condition, and developing infrastructural project and developing infrastructural projects to enhance the psycho-social well being of the/a nation. Identification of the strategic issues and problems The overall strategic issues revolve around achieving a ‘successful game organization’ by all standards, both domestically and internationally. The domestic components of success involves the participation of the local fans and population who must be seen to have patronized event as much as possible through fair pricing and proximity. The international yardstick for the measurement of the game relates to event organization, participation and patronage as well as meeting revenue targets. The major problems are how to strategically price tickets to the games to raise revenue and ensure equitable distribution, manage perception of observer-value judgment through television audience and other communication media worldwide in line with organizational objectives. There is also the need to ensure that, ticket pricing; accessibility, usage and the revenue implications help...
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...London and Dubai London and Dubai are somehow different, specifically speaking about the culture in both cities. As a result of London’s ancienity and Dubai’s modernity, architecture differs completely in both of them. Yet both cities are globally known for their tourism and multicultural societies, and must visit touristic destinations. Starting with London’s way of living, it is extraordinary when it comes to entertainment, crowds, events, and festivals. Yet London is not a great destination for those who seek for quiet places, and of course it is definitely not environmentally friendly. London’s air is polluted with toxins, and it has never been a great place to breathe a clean air. Speaking of living in this incredible city is something I find uncomfortable for several reasons. Rather than that, London is expensive when it comes to daily life needs. Tax is included in everything, from transportation, food, to clothing. When it comes to Dubai’s way of living, it is not really different. Dubai is a city that is well known for its developed infrastructure, and modernity, which makes it a twenty-first century modern city, although it is similar to London, yet it has its own environment, especially talking about the hot weather, and how it affects everybody’s daily life routine. Anyway London and Dubai are similar in the way of living, although Dubai is a tax free city while London is not. However London is more of a convenient city comparing it to Dubai, particularly speaking...
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...American Author Jack London Many authors have specific distinctions in the way they write. They add their own tones and voice to give character and personality to their style of writing. Jack London is among these authors but in his own sense different. Jack London is notorious for focusing his stories on the wild outdoors of the north. In two of London’s most famous books, Call of the WIld and White Fang, he writes about the Klondike Gold Rush. The main characters in both novels are dogs. One learning to survive in the wilderness and one learning to adapt to domestication. This theme supports London’s notorious writing style about the wild. His choice to write about such events in these area and time specific settings can be traced to his childhood growing up in the middle of the Yukon Gold Rush himself. Jack like any author uses his prior experiences as a platform for his writing. What I think makes London’s tone and voice in writing these books so fascinating and successful is the detail in which he writes to convey his setting to the reader. He so accurately describes the feel of the air and the silence of the day along with the beauty of the sky to bring and mental image to anyone’s mind. This keeps the reader intrigued and interested along with a clear vision of an American habitat. This vision of Northern American tundra is crucial to the draw of the novels and short stories London writes because it does convey American culture and and the living conditions...
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...With millions of people, London truly is a beacon for multicultural capital of Europe if not the world. With over 300 languages and dozens of different cultures intermingling every-day, it makes perfect sense why so many massive multinational corporations have headquarters in London. Within the 32 boroughs that make up Greater London, the proud capital of United Kingdom, there are over 300 different languages spoken daily. This makes London a truly cosmopolitan city, probably more so than New York. New York too has diverse demographics of languages spoken but considering the presence of United Nations there, perhaps it makes more sense. But London being so close to mainland Europe, has almost become a destination of choice for bilingual professionals. The business world recognises this and has reacted adequately. A good example of this would be the fact that Air-France consolidated all of the European call centres and moved them to Wembley in North London hence creating over 200 jobs. There are plenty of other similar examples and London now hosts more multilingual contact centres than anywhere else in the world and across the board, in many industry sectors the need for bilingual professionals has seen a steady growth. Probably New York is the only city that comes close to London in terms of Internationalism. Prof. John Wells of UCL says besides the obvious business sense this helps to eliminate the narrow-mindedness of British people in learning languages. He also adds...
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...the United States. England has been of particular interest to me, as although this country has many similarities to the United States, it has many of its own unique features. London is one of the main tourist attractions in England, and I would thoroughly enjoy studying here. With all of the city’s history and landmarks, I could learn so much more about another country by taking the time to visit as many of the tourist attractions as possible. I would also have the opportunity to learn about business in a different country, an invaluable skill in today’s global business world. I cannot even imagine how cool it would be to live in a different country for six weeks and start learning about how people from England live their everyday lives. Why are you applying to this program? In what specific ways will this program contribute to your overall academic and professional objectives? I have a number of reasons why I am applying to the London School of Economics program. As I mentioned earlier, it will give me the once in a lifetime opportunity to learn about a whole different country and their societal norms. Personally, I also find studying on the other side of the world to be more intriguing than just taking two foreign language classes here at Indiana University. The classes I plan on taking at the London School of Economics will even benefit me greater, as they pertain to my intended major of accounting more closely than say a Spanish class at IU. Finally, having studied abroad...
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...them. 10 AM it said. She stood still and watched the train rumble on as it left the station. She had travelled for so long, it seemed. That train had brought her 98 miles away from Framlingham. That noisy, smelly machine seemed closer to a home than this roaring city would ever do. If it was not for John, she would probably never have gone to London. To be honest, she was not very impressed by the bigger cities. It was as cloudy here as it was in Framlingham, the air was heavy with the smell of rain, rain which just waiting for its chance to combine the ground and the sky with gallons and gallons of water. They were supposed to meet at the Subway Gallery. She took the railway heading towards Egdware ground. From there she could easily walk to the Subway Gallery. As far as she knew, he lived near the Waterloo station. They had never met, but judging from the sound of his voice on the phone, his kind words in the thousands of mails he had written, he was the one and only. He would take the subway, and they would meet to see if it would ever work between them. Bethany walked out on the street and noticed, once again, how different London was to everything she knew. It was the capital of England, but she had never been there before, not even once. She had to admit that the old buildings looked stunning with their simple brickwork and yet scrolled details. She looked up and the...
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