Executive Summary Hauter Couture Fashions (HCF) was established in the 1974 by the Tan family. Tan Boon Kheong‚ the patriarch of the Tan family was a skilled master cutter‚ trained by British master cutters in the 1950s in Penang. He ran a small business but successful business tailoring men’s clothing in Argy11 Road‚ Penang until his retirement in 1980. HCF started out as a family owned business with all of its shares being held by the Tan family. Peter prepared to bid for contract manufacturing
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April 21‚ 2013 Venus de Willendorf VS The Barbie Doll Who are they today? Venus de Willendorf and Barbie are two very different representations of women and their beauty. Both are man-made and inspirational‚ both from two very different times. Venus by the homosapiens millions of years ago and Barbie a mere fifty years ago by a woman and mother looking for a doll her daughter could play and grow with. In looking at Venus de Willendorf and the Barbie doll‚ they seem to be related in a way and yet
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Deandra Mckie E. Dekline English 201-085 16 April‚ 2013 A Doll’s House: Woman Sacrifices How would you like to live in a society in which you were subjected to live for a man and not yourself. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen tells the story of Nora a wealthy woman and the struggles she as well as the other female characters in a male dominant society face because of their gender. In this essay I will discuss how the women in Ibsen’s society scarifies themselves in order to remain in there gender
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SYNOPSIS The case study is about Haute Couture Fashion Bhd (HCF) and how it ran into trouble in early 2009. HCF was established in the 1974 with first fully equipped factory in Penang then started out as a small unlisted family business in the clothing manufacturing business. HCF has very quick established as high quality manufacturer of both men’s and women’s clothes. The case relates‚ in particular‚ to the problems currently being faced by HCF. Its new Managing Director‚ Jeffrey Cheong had just
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Synopsis The case started with the dilemma faced by the protagonist‚ Jeffry Cheong when both of his major clients KiKi and Houida (European fashion houses) was writing to Jeffry to inform him that they may be looking forward to China as the prices are very competitive. Jeffry Cheong was managing director at Haute Couture Fashions Bhd (HCF). Loss of its major two clients (KiKi and Houida) would be catastrophic to HCF as now the financial statement of HCF showed HCF has been experiencing falling margins
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Rikitta Chowdhury A Doll’s House How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? I understand better that women had very little say over political and economic matters and they were economically‚ socially and psychologically dependent on men. Especially on the institutions of marriage and motherhood. Also towards the end of the 19th century the world was changing drastically in terms of politics and economy so people at that
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outgoing character with an outfit for every occasion. She’s Barbie. Today we will learn about this amazing doll and the affect she has had on toy industry. First we will examine the pink and perfect history of Barbie‚ then we will try on the many different characters in Barbie’s family‚ and finally we will hit the shelves to examine the marketing of Barbie merchandise. First we will examine the pink and perfect history of Barbie. Barbie was first introduced at the American International Toy Fair
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Set in Burma during the time of British imperialism‚ George Orwell’s ‘A Hanging‚’ provides an in-depth account of a singular instance of capital punishment. The essay captures the event in its entirety and‚ through Orwell’s powerful structure and style‚ allows readers the chance to experience it as if in the room with Orwell himself. The essay begins by setting the scene within the confines of the jail‚ poetically describing Orwell’s surroundings and the manner in which they are perceived. It goes
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in a prison in Burma experience every day one after the other watching their fellow men die because of capital punishment. George Orwell’s text “A Hanging” uses a variety of rhetorical devices including similes‚ characterization and juxtaposition to convince people of the wrongness of capital punishment. WS1: The use of similes in “A Hanging” are almost always a description of the dehumanization of the people in the prison. One example Orwell uses at the beginning of the passage is when he
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controversial issue in the world today. Barbie‚ a fashion doll manufactured in March 1959‚ portrays what the perfect body is presumed to look like. For over fifty years‚ Barbie’s creator‚ Ruth Handler has been the subject of numerous disputes and lawsuits. One of the most common complaints of Barbie is that she promotes an unrealistic idea of body image for a young woman. For centuries media has broadcasted this “ideal image”. For instance‚ to further explain why Barbie promotes an unrealistic body image
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