Blue Ridge Manufacturing produces and sells towels for the U.S. ‘sports towel’ market. A ‘sports towel’ is a towel that has the promotion of an event or a logo printed on it. Their most popular use is distribution in connection with major sporting events such as the Super Bowl or the U.S. Open. The firm designs, knits, prints and embroiders towels in three sizes: regular (18”x18”), hand (12”x20”) and mid-range (15”x24”). Occasionally, customers order towels in another size, referred to as ‘special’. Blue Ridge Manufacturing serves three types of customers: large (national chains), small (single store operations) and medium sized customers (small chains, large single stores, licensing agents). Recently Blue Ridge introduced an activity based costing (ABC) system to determine product costs. The system is fairly complicated and the management is confident of the accuracy of the manufacturing cost figures for each product line. The question of Blue Ridges’ management is to advise them on the potential of using strategic cost analysis in assessing the profitability of their customers’ accounts. Potential behavioural implications on the marketing and selling personnel arising from using ABC in costing distribution, marketing and customer support functions should also be discussed.…
Back in the 1880’s, after the civil war had ended, blacks wanted to establish their own foundation for themselves and their families. A lot of them really didn’t want to move to white towns, so they developed their own independent communities that were called “race colonies”. Also during this time a lot of families migrated to the Central Florida area looking for work and land to call their own.…
After that my mom took me and my 13 year old brother to FlorIda to lIve a lIfe of apparent luxury. WhIle there we InexplIcably came Into large amounts of money and lIved In lavIsh houses and at one poInt we had a yacht, a lImo and even a four foot chocolate fountaIn. QuIte a hard lIfe thus far rIght?…
Part of growing up in such neighbourhoods is that one's environment feels isolated from the rest of the world. Opportunities such as travel, the latest technology, or even role models in the family are often rare.…
Are ludicrous legends, or do they give us insights to the nature of our world?Some people think ludicrous legends are old fiction tellings, but they give us insight to the nature of the world. Myths are fiction, but they have lessons for us to learn. Not all myths have well being lessons, but we should pay attention to what they are trying to tell us in the story. Consequently the story “The Wooden People,” give me good examples for my answering.…
Years go by, and the same kids you were in grade school with are now the same kids you are in high school with. You know close to everyone in the grade, you know the ways of the halls, and you swear you could drive the roads blindfolded and backwards. For me, this is the town where I learned every backroad and every deer stand within a 20 mile radius. This was my town, this is the town where “We slip out to the field, climb a tree, shoot a deer. I reminisce about these days, man I get a chill.”…
I grew up in the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, living most of my life on the country side with my Mom. My father was not in the picture, as he abandoned the house when I was very young. We lived with many limitations as my mother worked in the needle industry, earning minimum wage. She only went to first grade of grammar school.…
Living in "the hood" in Weslaco,TX surrounded by my entire family was really a fundamental thing in my life. When i say entire, I mean literally all of us live a minute maybe two away from each other, and some of us were even neighbors. Now things are a little different and we may have scattered around all over Weslaco but we remain united and always available if one of us needed each other.…
I lived in a small town named Harlem, and it was nice in the summer, but it ends up getting too hot in the summers. Most people here are people hanging out windows, people on fire escapes, and anywhere trying to get a cool breeze. Harlem was a town that you could get a job for a day and that's it pretty much it. I loved playing the saxophone, so I tried to use that to get money but it didn't work as well as I planned. My dad says I should get a part-time job, but I wanted full time to get extra money. I finally got a job at this business and I finally thought it would have been great. Then after awhile, it started to get harder to wake up and get to work. Then I meet Fats and that's when everything went south. Fats was someone that had a bootleg…
The environment that I was raised in when I was a youth child was a bit rural. I grew up in Reynosa before I moved to Hidalgo, Texas and the way people were raised there was very different.…
Growing up in rural Kansas was boring. Especially since I grew up in the seventies. There were no cell phones or game systems to occupy my time. My family had an old black and white television set. I loved to watch The Price is Right in the days before Bob Barker’s hair turned white. After the show was over, the only way to kill time was to play outside and wander down to the creek that ran parallel to our property. There was a secret trail buried in the wall of trees that lined our two acre yard. My brother and I would slide down the trail, landing on the dirt banks like explorers on a mission. Sometimes we would hunt for crawdads under rocks. Other times we would take our poles and fish. We never went into the water after the time I got bit by a gar.…
One significant experiance in my life has been my dad being in the Millitary. My dad was in the Millitary for a short time of one year before he decided it wasnt for him. But in that one year we moved two times. We moved from my hometown of Anacortes Washington to California. I started school and things werent that bad, I made friends and had a park right across the street from my house! life was good. But then we had to move again, to Arizona. We moved from sea side California to the Arizona Dessart. This is where I was really challanged, I didnt make friends as easy as the first move. We moved from a spacious town house with a park to a tiny appartment with no backyard. I distanced myself from my parents and everyone else in my family, I…
I was exposed to drug dealers, prostitutes, violence, fights, police raids and shooting while growing up in the projects. The excessive exposure was normal for us kids, to be surrounded by it all was just a way of life for us. As I got older, I began to hate growing up in the projects because I realized how different my upbringing was compared to my classmates. I was jealous of my friends with functional families, married parents, siblings in college and a house that was paid off. In addition, I noticed how different I was from my friends in the projects. I enjoyed school and doing homework, them on the other hand, disregarded homework to play outside. It was at that point when I realized I wanted better for myself, my friends and even future…
The fallen log in the back of my house was used as our tree fort. As a small child, it was a place where I spent a considerable amount of time by myself, with my younger brother, or with my friends. This was a place to go, out of the great boundaries of the yard, and into the unknown woods. At the time at least, that's what it seemed to be to us. When we were younger, exploring our surroundings was a great adventure. From this, we developed and controlled our own unique surroundings and environments to enjoy our separate freedom from the restrictions of the adult world. It was an important part of our, and especially my, growing up experience.…
My name is Justin Firpo and I grew up in a decent sized town called Fullerton, California. Let me backtrack a second. I was born in Dallas, Texas, but raised by my adopted parents in Southern California from age 3 months until 18 years old. Fullerton was your standard definition of a town for people who were of the upper middle class to the lower upper class income classifications. This paper is being written with the intent to describe to you how my upbringing at a very early age, my own secretly kept views, and later events in my adolescence has shaped me into who I am today.…