...Vishnu Venkateswaran Writing 140: Section #64330 Rory Lukins November 15th, 2013 Assignment #4 The Tea Party’s Illegitimate Reactions to Perceived Failures of Society Signs that read “revolt against socialism”, arguments racing across the floors of Congress, and meddling in the electoral process to protest against the Democratic agenda are just a small number of the Tea Party’s activities. The Tea Party is a movement spurred on by CNBC’s Rick Santelli whose angry rant rouse the fervor of many a conservative. (Skocpol & Williamson, 1) In particular, he argued against the economic stimulus package introduced by the Obama administration in 2009. Shortly after, the official commencement of the Tea Party movement began with a rally of the fiscal conservative. It started out as a grassroots movement and later evolved into a widespread local and national organization. With generous funding from conservative billionaires and large political organization committees, the Tea Party grew exponentially from state to state. Tea Partiers called for a cut in taxes and public spending as well as deregulation of business operations to lower the national deficit. These individuals started their protest by conventional rallies with signs denouncing Obama’s policies. This later escalated, however, into endorsing candidates into the GOP and reforming the Republican Party. The Tea Party’s activities have contributed towards the recent government shutdown causing scorn amongst many in American...
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...The Mystic Tea Room Tina Hoskie Keller Graduate School of Management [pic] Marketing Plan Outline 1. Executive Summary 2. Situation Analysis 2.1 Market Summary 2. SWOT Analysis 3. Competition 4. Product (Service) Offering 5. Keys to Success 6. Critical Issues 3. Marketing Strategy 1. Mission 2. Marketing Objectives 3. Financial Objectives 4. Target Markets 5. Positioning 6. Strategies 7. Marketing Mix 8. Marketing Research 4. Controls 1. Implementation 2. Marketing Organization 3. Contingency Planning 5. Conclusion “The tea party is a spa for the soul. You leave your cares and work behind. Busy people forget their business. Your stress melts away, your senses awaken…” 1. Executive Summary The Mystic Tea Room is in the start-up stages. The concept of opening a tea room has been explored and is presented in this marketing plan. There is a lack of tea rooms in the Murray-Calloway County area and The Mystic Tea Room will be entering the market with limited competition. The closest tea room is located in Hazel Kentucky. The Mystic Tea Room will be a unique local tea room in the Murray-Calloway County area that will be a friendly social place to escape the daily stresses of life and will be a comfortable place to meet friends, old and new, while enjoying a cup of their favorite tea. With the...
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...minorities. Furthermore, racial antipathy affects the way individuals perceive Barack Obama. In light of recent trends, this study tested whether individuals who identify themselves as Republicans are substantially more likely to maintain negative racial attitudes. The study also investigated whether white Americans are more likely than other racial groups to harbor racial prejudices and disapprove of Barack Obama. Results from this study indicated that racial resentment plays a significant role in contemporary politics. Data from between-subjects ANOVA and correlational analysis suggested that the Democratic Party and Republican Party are polarized in regards to racial issues. Moreover, conservative whites are the most likely racial group to hold racial prejudices against African-Americans. Finally, disapproval of President Obama is highly associated with high levels of negative racial stereotypes. Keywords: race, antipathy, conservatism, prejudices, Obama Is Racial Antipathy Increasing? The Polarizing Effect of Obama’s Presidency In 2008, Barack Obama became the first African-American to become President of the United States. His election marked a pivotal turning point in American politics. To millions, Obama’s election signaled the start of a post-racial America. The country was infused with euphoria as citizens from diverse backgrounds celebrated his historical victory. For a brief period, grievous injuries and acts of unkindness committed throughout America’s...
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...upset over “Taxation without representation” chose to do something about it. On December 16, 1773, a group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded ships and dumped entire shipments of tea into Boston harbor. Although this is as deep as knowledge of the Boston Tea Party goes for some, the real reasons the Boston Tea Party occurred were vastly more complex. You could pin the blame simply to the Tea Act of 1773, or you could broadly state “taxes” as the cause. But truly, these things, along with a few other stressors, working in tandem, were responsible for the Boston Tea Party. To really understand the events which occurred, one must know about the mercantile system. According to Accountingtools.com, The mercantile system is a system of managing the...
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...The Ideology of the Tea Party Movement Tuinei, Alex Salt Lake Community College Abstract In the last few decades there has been no political movement comparable to the Tea Parties. The Tea Party Movement is unique because it is entirely grassroots and desires to change American politics from the bottom-up. The mainstream media and the Democratic leadership as well as some establishment Republicans all misunderstand and grossly underestimate the movement. They have labeled it a movement of extreme right-wing nuts that are angry at having a black President, or don't want to pay taxes, or cling to guns and religion (Avalon, 2010). They are wrong. In fact, the Tea Party Movement is a mainstream awakening that has been long overdue and will not wither and die within a couple years as some predict. The Tea Party groups are a loose and decentralized coalition of libertarians, conservatives, disenchanted independents and moderate democrats. Tea Partiers are not a concentrated group of ideologues but a diverse collection of regular groups that are alarmed at the direction of the country. Stimulus Package was the start of it all and was further amplified by hidden taxes built into cap'n'trade and healthcare reform. (Murphy, 2008) American history remembers and teaches about that memorable night on December 16, 1773 the British Parliament passed The Tea Act. This turns out to be the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes that where imposed by Britain on her American...
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...------------------------------------------------- [Document title] [Document subtitle] December 16th , 1773 A day that ignited the fire for the American revolution. This day was the day of the Boston Tea Party or as previously called The Destruction of the Tea. This was an act of rebellion towards British parliament due to the ongoing conflicts involving the unfair taxation of the colonies with out there representation. The sons of liberty Were the group who planned and successfully carried out the Boston tea party. There are 116 known participants recorded, but due to the fear of punishment many others stayed anonymous. The unrest leading to the Boston tea party was directly influenced by the high taxes on tea. Britain at the time was trying to take advantage of the fact Americans drank 1.2 million pounds of tea making it extremely profitable to tax. This made tea a very pricey item leading to smuggling from Dutch and other European markets threatening the British trade. In response parliament passed the indemnity act in 1767 repealing the tax diminishing the tea smuggling. This was until later the same year a new tax on tea was created by the Townshend Revenue Act. This act also taxed lead, paper, glass, paint, and oil. This again raised tensions inspiring boycotts and protests eventually pushing parliament to lift the taxes on all the goods but tea in 1770. In colonies three ships The Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor were docked in Griffin’s Wharf in Boston. All three ships carried a total of 340 chests...
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...The Boston Tea Party In 1773, the East India Company was dying. The American and Dutch smuggling business were slowly killing the company. The British had to do something fast, before the company collapsed entirely. This was known as the Tea Act of 1773. The Tea Act was basically a government bailout that reduced that amount of taxes the Company had to pay, thus in theory saving the company. This was a major blow to the American and Dutch smugglers, who depended on the high prices of the East India Company to sell their smuggled tea and make their living. Therefore, in protest, hundreds of Boston citizens boarded the ships Eleanor, the Beaver and the Dartmouth on December 16, 1773, and dumped 45 tons of tea into Boston Harbor. This event was later known 50 years later as the Boston Tea Party....
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...The Boston Tea Party was a colonial revolt against exploiting laws imposed by the British in 1773. The colonists believed that Britain had no right to virtually represent them and tax them without full representation. The American colonists embodied the transcendentalist ideas of writer Henry David Thoreau in the belief that a law that is not just should be violated. Through civil disobedience, the colonists brought a greater awareness to their displeasure with British taxes, and inadvertently helped to separate from Britain to form the United States. In the early 17th century, thousands of British natives sailed across the Atlantic ocean and landed in various places throughout the Eastern coastline of America. Men were given charters of...
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...skills you have gained so far and referring to the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking as those historical events unfolded prior to taking a stand and acting according to their beliefs. Samuel Adams may have used strategy one: analyzing a single statement for what is means by asking yourself if the statement makes sense and if so responding with a yes or no answer. Adams was not only an extremist but a political writer speaking to issues that directly affected colonies like the Stamp Act and tea distribution from East India. Both of these events affected many colonists in a negative way because the Stamp Act added taxation to certain products, while India tea imports, caused some colonists to lose money from their own tea sells. Adams would have had to ask himself why these acts where just or unjust by analyzing them individually in a literal sense. He publicly came to the conclusion that these acts were unjust because they both caused colonists to lose money and also put a damper on their personal values and liberty. Another strategy he may have used it number 3, which is when something that is presented as factual isn’t and therefore needs an explanation on why it can or can’t be validated. By evaluating and concluding in his writings that colonists should not be taxed without the proper representation to back up this very law. He successfully...
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...1. Based on the segmentation variables, how is Beano’s Café now segmenting and targeting the coffee market? [20%] The Egyptian market was locally driven toward oriental café, Turkish coffee and shisha and Egyptian might not be keen on coffee made from unfamiliar and new ingredients. Thus, when they want to enter the market, they have to segment the market in order giving out suitable strategy to introduce the Egyptian consumer to a new café experience. A market segment consists of a group of customers who share a similar set of needs and wants. Segmentation variables consist of geographic, demographic, psychographic and behavioral considerations. Geographic segmentation divides the market into geographical units such as nations, states, regions, counties, cities or neighborhoods. Beano’s café initially geographic segmented the market in the own country of the creator of the Beano’s Café group in Egypt. As Beano’s Café is one of the most successful and popular café chains in Egypt and it segmented the states throughout the country and has branches in Cairo, Alexandria and Giza and many. Eventually, when their target segment in Egypt is stable, they even have a branch in French, Paris. Moreover, the cultures in Europe like Paris, London, Italy and more. They are many café around the street and the country. Perhaps Beano’s café will have slightly different menu in Paris compare to Egypt like it might more focus on baguette products in Paris as they have to apply grassroots marketing...
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...was asked to or volunteered, but Sybil left at around 9 pm to warn her father’s men about the incoming British. She ended up traveling 40 miles - about twice the distance that Paul Revere had travelled. She raised up the troops who fought the British back. Friedrich von Steuben He was a Prussian military officer who was discharged and eventually taken up by George Washington to strengthen the American Army. At age 17, he joined the Prussian army and subsequently moved up in the ranks. He was later introduced to Ben Franklin, who in turn introduced him to George Washington in a letter. Due to allegations of Steuben’s possible homosexuality, he travelled to America, where he made a good first impression on Congress because of his exaggerated high-rank (possibly due to a mistranslation), pleasant personality, and positive comments by Washington. So Congress appointed him to train the forces at Valley Forge. He trained the soldiers well, and later published a book that would serve as the official military guide for the entire country until 1812. He then participated in the Battle of Yorktown, where the British admitted defeat. James Armistead Lafayette: He was an African-American slave who acted as a double-agent for the American army: he spied on Benedict Arnold (after he had defected) and Lord Cornwallis, while giving false information to the British. His master consented to him joining the American army under the Marquis de Lafayette, who had him pose an a runaway slave in order...
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...The colonist declared their independence in 1776 from Great Britain because they felt that they had been treated unfairly. One of the main reasons that the colonist felt mistreated was because they were being taxed by Britain without any representation in Parliament. To show Great Britain how much they hated taxation without representation the colonist refused to purchase English goods that they felt were being unfairly taxed. Some of these goods included printed-paper, tea, and clothes. One of the most famous protests was the Boston Tea Party. At the Boston Tea Party colonist, dressed as Mohawk Indians, dumped English Tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the high tax that had been placed on tea. Because of this, King George III closed...
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...The amount of taxes and tariffs piled upon the colonists by the British set the precedent for the coming Revolution. While they were considered “just” by British Parliament, it was seen in complete disgust by the colonists on which they were placed. This all led up to the Boston Tea Party, in which men disguised as Mohawk Indians, protested The Tea Act of 1773, requiring colonists to buy only British tea, but it was heftily taxed. Defiantly they boarded British ships and threw their tea overboard, making a point to Parliament that they would not stand for this tax. Angry with this they attempted to gain more control over Massachusetts, but the colonists resisted their efforts. Their refusal to become subordinate to the British shown through...
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...The Employee Buy out: Case of Tata Tea Dr Deepika M G, Faculty, Icfai Business School, Bangalore, India ABSTRACT The article discusses about the Employee Buy Out business model adopted by Tatas on their exit from plantation business in their southern plantation operations in Munnar district of Kerala in India. Tata Tea had sold off 17 tea estates in southern India to the company formed by its employees named Kanan Devan Hills Plantation Company Pvt. Ltd.(KDHPCL). In sharp contrast to the situation in the tea industry experiencing closures affecting thousands of employees, KDHPCL with 13,000 employees could not only recover within a year the loss of $ 24 million run up by Tata Tea, but could also register a post tax surplus of $ 50,000 as on March 31st 2006. However, when Tata Tea went onto implement a similar model in the North Indian Plantation Operations, it met with considerable resistance. The article discusses about the crisis that was facing the tea industry in India, the role played by Tatas in the formation of the KDHPCL and the challenges faced by the employees of South Indian Plantation Operations in accomplishing this unique business model. It also critically reviews the factors that are essential for the success of Employee Buy Out, by enumerating the factors that led to the success of EBO in southern operation of Tatas and its failure in their northern operations. INTRODUCTION In February 2007, Tata Tea, an INR 3500 crore beverages company, decided to divest...
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...of the Republican Party Compared to all the excitement in 2008, there was very little enthusiasm four years later for Obama’s re-election. Yet on the other side, there was almost a sense of disappointment for Romney’s candidacy. During the mid-term elections, amidst the hype of the Tea Party and Republican takeover of Congress, it seemed like the presidential race would prove to be a thrilling ride, but the election in 2012 was disappointingly routine. However, events surrounding the nomination process and leading up to the election have set the stage for the possibility of a realigning election in the near future. In the days following the election, it was repeated over and over that Mitt Romney’s loss to President Obama signaled the end is nearing for the Republican party and a new period of Democratic dominance was coming. The same happened in 2008 with the election of Obama. Enthusiasm for the Democratic party was high in the early stages of Obama’s first term, however hope for the future of the GOP came with the rise of the Tea Party. Beginning in small town hall meetings across the country, the Conservative movement rapidly gained momentum in opposition to Obamacare. Town hall protesters quickly organized into a nation-wide grassroots movement that resulted in the GOP retaking the House in the midterm elections. At that point, it appeared that the progressive movement was possibly finished. With Obama’s re-election, it is clear that the Democratic Party is still strongly...
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