Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines” degrades women in the aspect of being “sex objects” and has an underline meaning towards men that rape is “okay”. Although “Blurred Lines” was a top summer hit back in 2013‚ many sang along to this unpleasant song just because it was catchy. The underline message might be hard to detect at first‚ but while observing the lyrics the meaning seems to become more clear. Good beats can catch the ear‚ but can meaning? For seven weeks in a row‚ “Blurred Lines” was the
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Unit 4222-324 Support individuals with specific communication needs (HSC 3029) Outcome 1 Understand specific communication needs and factors affecting them. 1.1 It is very important for the individual to be able to communicate. They need to tell us their practical needs‚ emotional needs etc and to respect their rights. 1.2From my own practice I can judge if an individual is struggling to hear or understand what I am saying‚ if so then I will see how I can make things easier by talking slower
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CASE 1 : ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE TOURISM INDUSTRY Individually‚ hotels do not have a significant negative impact on the environment. Collectively however‚ they can be very wasteful and consume huge amount of resources. It has been estimated that seventy-five per cent of hotels’ environmental impacts can be directly related to excessive consumption (Bohdanowicz‚ 2006). This is wasteful in terms of resources and it creates unnecessary operational costs. The three key areas of environmental
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economy: TAX: Since 99% of H&M´s garments are produced outside of Sweden‚ and they claim that “H&M sees tax as an important part of its social responsibility”‚ it´s hard to understand why the company does not redistribute any profit to the producing countries. H&M avoid paying income tax in sourcing markets by coordinating all their procurement orders through representative (procurement) offices in the producing countries. According to Erik Knijnenburg‚ the Global Tax Manager of H&M‚ there is no commercial
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Cultural Sensitivity and International Human Resource Management Team project Chanel vs H&M Instructor: Tom Chan Submitted by: Avis Jiao & Jay Liang Submitted on: Dec 14th‚ 2012 Chanel vs H&M Chanel and H&M are both famous global companies. They share different market as fashion industrial competitors. Chanel is all about extravagant‚ classic and high class. But when we talk about H&M‚ we would say it’s affordable‚ stylish‚ and middle class. It is so nice to have this
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In completing this chart‚ I have noticed that the lack of discipline‚ has been a major down fall. It is clear that the values that we would like our children to grow up with have changed drastically over the years. It seems as though discipline has become a past time and medication has become the new behavior modification technique. In this drastic change‚ the children’s future is bound to suffer. What kind of future can come from someone who has not been responsible for their choices a day in their
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the board of directors of H&M to develop a business manual. This manual has to contain all the required information for a new employee to find his way through the company. We had to do research after a lot of points which where needed for the assignment. We had to do research about: the financial part of the company ‚ HRM‚ products‚ information channels. The information we’ve found was put into words and included to the ‘’manual’’. Most of the information comes from the H&M website itself where all
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Human Resources The Human Resource is a strategic partner to H&M’s business. They set standards for recruitment‚ implement training and support the development and growth of their entire organization. The human resource planning‚ the recruitment and the selection is one of the major human resource management responsibility. All to ensure their have the right people with the right skills in the right positions – and at the right time. H&M’s goal is to be a fair partner to their employees and to act
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Spain’s Zara‚ the Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) differentiates itself from most apparel chains for its idiom “treat fashion as if it were perishable produce.” In Europe‚ H&M is considered to be an industry leader because it offers the “on-trend” look at an extremely lower price. In 2000‚ it decided to begin to establish a predatory marketing strategy of expansion within the US. The strengths of H&M are that it is a well-known company worldwide; it responds quickly to trends‚ particularly
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In her painting‚ Plate with Wreath‚ Robin Jebavy uses everyday objects and combines them with unordinary colors as an attempt to make people change how they think about their everyday life. Jebavy herself states that her artwork is “a reference to our fragile and often precarious human condition.” The manner in which she uses color allows for the objects‚ such as plates and glasses‚ to be unrecognizable at first glance. She does this to blur the sense of reality and illusion that all people have
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