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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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    1. Which of the four basic strategy types were used by GM? Explain your rationale. GM employed the use of establishing the grand strategy‚ and formulating strategic plans. In this case‚ it used the growth strategy as the means of carrying out its restructuring. My reasoning behind this choice is that establishing the grand strategy is the level at which a company makes a “rigorous analysis of the organization’s present situation to determine where it is presently headed.” After that‚ the next step

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    Objective: I will give an informative speech about the history of Mattell’s Barbie Doll.   I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: a. Girls‚ this is a question for you. How many of you have had Barbie dolls growing up? (Have time to answer) b. Well‚ believe it or not‚ our beloved Barbie dolls have a whole lot of history behind them. B. Tie to the audience: a. I think we‚ as girls‚ can all vouch that Barbie dolls were all the rage and so much fun when we were younger‚ and even when our

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    Barbie A Popular Culture focus study A popular culture is a shared set of practices and benefits that have attained global acceptance‚ and which can be normally characterised by: being associated with commercial products; developing from a local to a national to a global level; allowing consumers to have widespread access to it and; is constantly changing and evolving. As a focus study‚ it is seen that Barbie inherently displays such characteristics‚ and is therefore a legitimate popular

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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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    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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    be herd by society. She shares her opinions threw the characters she makes in her writing and poetry. Piercy wrote the poem Barbie Doll‚ and in this poem she states woman do not need to fit into society’s point of view of what a woman should look and act like. Piercy has a fascinating history and high valued awards‚ but what was Piercy’s message to her audience when Barbie Doll was published in 1973. Piercy was born on March 31‚ 1936 in Detroit‚ Michigan into a family that was greatly affected

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    2010 Ninth International Conference on Mobile Business / 2010 Ninth Global Mobility Roundtable What factors contributed to the success of Apple’s iPhone? John Laugesen Yufei Yuan McMaster University‚ DeGroote School of Business Hamilton‚ Ontario CANADA laugesjd@mcmaster.ca McMaster University‚ DeGroote School of Business Hamilton‚ Ontario CANADA yuanyuf@mcmaster.ca Abstract — Unknown to most North American consumers‚ a mobile data and Internet service in Japan called i-mode has been highly successful

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    Barbie Doll Everyone gets asked the same question when they’re taken in: “Do you know why you’re here?” For someone like me‚ after what I did‚ it seems like a waste of words. But that’s how people are I suppose; we are always talking just to hear ourselves. If people would take the time to think about their words before vomiting them onto one another‚ maybe we all would be better people. People would have an entirely different form of speech. We would all know the difference between what should

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    BADM 372: Advertising Case 2: Barbie vs. Bratz 1. Provide an analysis of the Mattel Barbie brand. What factors shape perceptions of the brand in the eyes of parents and young girls? Barbie was billed as “a shapely teenage fashion model‚” and made her first appearance at the American Toy Fair in New York City and soon became a hit. (http://www.brandchannel.com/features_profile.asp?pr_id=160) Barbie was then and still is a popular doll for young girls. In the beginning she was popular because she was

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