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    What would you do if you got attacked by a rip current? Would you panic or would you stay calm and swim? Rip currents are strong waves that take the water from the coast and take it back to the ocean. Over 100 people drown each year because of rip currents. Over 80% of the rescues on beaches are because of rip currents. In all three sources: “Life Saver” by John DiConsiglio‚ “Rip Current Safety” by National Weather Service‚ and “How to Survive Beach Rip Currents” by UNSWTV‚ it shows that lifeguards

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    Van West

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    contributing to the problems? In this case the cultural issue is that Van West didn’t speak Spanish that well. Gonzalez actually spoke a little bit of English‚ so they could communicate. However‚ if Van west would speak better Spanish‚ then it might have solve a lot of problems even quicker. Furthermore‚ both Hernandez and Van West grew up differently so they had different visions of approaching problems with workers‚ and production issues. Van West was looking for solutions with enthusiasm‚ while the other

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    Sunflowers by Vincent [b]Van[/b] "The sunflower is me in some way." -Vincent van Gogh Van Gogh’s "Sunflowers" are among his most famous paintings‚ but few realize that many sunflower pictures‚ not only the most famous "Vase with Twelve Sunflowers" and "Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers." These were canvases he decorate the Yellow House in Arles in anticipation of the visit of his friend Paul Gauguin‚ and hope that others will follow him and form a utopianArt community. Some of the paintings of Vincent’s

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    Case Study – VANS – Skating on Air 1a) What were some of the key characteristics of Van’s earliest customers in the 1960’s and 1970’s? Some of the key characteristics of Van’s customers are teenagers who needed strong and durable footwear for their rough sports like skateboarding‚ people who needed customized shoes sizes due to various width and lengths of their feet‚ people who just simply want a shoe customized to their style and liking‚ and schools that needed shoes that could match the school

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    VAN MAHOTSAV Van Mahotsav is an annual pan-Indian tree planting festival‚ occupying a week in the month of July. During this event millions of trees are planted. It was initiated in 1950 by K. M. Munshi‚ the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food to create an enthusiasm in the mind of the populace for the conservation of forests and planting of trees. The main objectives of the planting of trees during Van Mahotsav are to:  Provide fuel and thus release cow dung for use as manure

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    Van Heusen

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    Contents 1.HISTORY 3 2.EXPANSION AND GROWTH 4 3.CORPORATE VISION 7 4.VAN HEUSEN IN INDIA 8 4.1 Location of stores 8 5.PRODUCT CATEGORIES: 11 5.1 Van Heusen 12 5.2 Van Heusen women 13 5.3 V DOT 14 5.4 VH Sport 15 6.CURRENT RETAIL PRESENCE 16 6.1 Retail Format: 17 7. EVOLUTION THEORY AND LIFE CYCLE 18 7.1 Retail Life cycle of Van Heusen 20 8. MERCHANDISE HIERARCHY 21 9. PRODUCT ANALYSIS 22 9.1 DESIGN PHILOSOPHY 24 9.2 Customer Profile: (for men and women) 27 10

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    Vincent van Gogh was a unique artist who worked with a sense of urgency which often caused him a great deal of stress. He was famed for his bold‚ dramatic brush strokes which expressed emotion and added a feeling of movement to his works. It´s thought that he often used paint straight from the tube (impasto) and in the 70 days leading up to his death‚ he averaged one painting per day. Early Years: Largely self-taught‚ van Gogh started his career copying prints and reading nineteenth-century

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    The Americanization of Ben Franklin As human beings age‚ the opportunity to move up through the social hierarchy seems to disappear. In Gordon S. Wood’s biography‚ The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin‚ he tells a unique story that allows us to take a deeper look into almost every social class of the 18th century. As Franklin makes his way through the social hierarchy‚ Gordon Wood paints a picture of what society was like and how it works around Franklin. Franklin portrays this hierarchy through

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    In the article “Literature‚ Imagination and Human Rights‚” Willie Van Peer proposes that through excursions into the literary canon one can evoke their imaginative sense and ultimately escape an encapsulated society‚ through developing a higher ethical awareness. Further he notes the “Edification hypothesis” which articulates that reading literature makes the reader more socially tolerant‚ more perceptive‚ and more politically conscious. In other words‚ he emphasizes the role literature plays in

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    of 1881 Vincent Van Gogh asked for his cousin’s hand in marriage and was turned down. He was very insistent on seeing her and took action on this by holding his hand in a flame and holding up the words “Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame” (Wikipedia‚ Letter 193 from Vincent to Theo‚ The Hague‚ May 14‚ 1882). In 1885 Vincent’s father died (ArtBook: Van Gogh; A profound and tormented genius—his life in paintings‚ 1998). In December of 1888‚ Vincent Van Gogh had been living

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