My dear shareholders‚ ladies and gentlemen: I am very happy to see you all at our fifty-first Annual General Meeting. I trust all of you are pleased with the results for the year ended March 2011 and our recommendation for a dividend at the rate of 400% or 40 per share. 2. Those of you who have read our Directors’ Report for the year 2010-11 may remember the following statement: “Despite our pressure cooker production increasing from 28 lakh units to 31.4 lakh units‚ we were not able to supply
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Why Celebrities make bad role models The truth is that we are obsessed with celebrities. Everywhere you go‚ celebrities are being advertised. When your son or daughter hears a new singer or sees a new actor on their favourite t.v show‚ they want to be just like them. Sometimes that is not a good thing. You think to yourself why do people look up to those celebrities? Well it seems to me most celebrities get into these habits because they are too involved in fame and fortune. These people
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TITLE Celebrity Endorsement‚ its impact on Consumer Behavior: An Adidas Case Study 2.0 BACKGROUND & JUSTIFICATION Research into the world of celebrity advertising sprang from the modern day phenomena of celebrity culture and the total incomprehension of its extent until I became a victim to celebrity endorsement without realisation of the occurrence. My purchase of a certain cosmetic item that’s allegedly worn by a Kim Kardashian triggered the idea of research into the world of celebrity advertising
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The Aspect of Sound in Meet Me In St. Louis In 1904 Eugene Lauste successfully recorded sound onto a piece of photographic film. This invention was known as a "Sound Grate" the results where still far to crude to be used to public display. The cameras used to film "The Talkies" as they where known‚ had to be kept in enormous soundproof casing. This immediately hindered directors creativity and made movies such as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) much more rigid. Because of the fascination with
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If you asked teenagers or even children if they idolised a certain celebrity the likeliness is that they would say yes. However nowadays‚ a child’s obsession with any one particular celebrity has been taken to a whole new level… in fact it’s almost unhealthy. Back in 2012 internet trolls took to Twitter to shave their head in support of the pop star being ‘diagnosed with cancer’. It all started when an edited screenshot of what seemed to be a tweet from the official Twitter account of Entertainment
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HOW MANY CHANCES FOR SMALL INDEPENDENT BICYCLE RETAILERS? Executive summary The purpose of this report is to provide key findings of New Zealand’s current external business environment of small independent bicycle retailers. This was achieved through analyses of articles and reports about existing bike retailers industry. The report established New Zealand’s demand for bikes is currently high due to several benefits of cycling and the Government’s encourage. Findings also highlighted that there
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throughout many high school cafeterias and hallways. The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a relationship between celebrities in the music industry and their influence among young people with drug consumption. In a study done by Rachel L. Shawn et al Health risk and Society 2010 This study analyzed new media content to examine the role played by celebrity drug use in young people’s perceptions of drug use.1 The study focused on drug abuse and investigates new media coverage of celerity
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom recounts the life of the main character‚ Eddie‚ and his realization of the impact‚ no matter the size‚ that each person has on every other person. Eddie dashing in the street to retrieve his ball‚ the Captain shooting Eddie’s leg and stepping on the landmine‚ and the boys on the overpass throwing whiskey bottles onto the highway below show that every life is connected and that there are no random acts in life. Eddie first meets the Blue Man in Heaven
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Life is a thrilling mystery novel‚ a conglomeration of seemingly random events‚ pieced together to form a thrilling story. The Five People You meet in Heaven‚ written by Mitch Albom‚ is a novel about the afterlife of Eddie‚ an amusement park maintenance worker. When Eddie arrives in his afterlife‚ he meets five people who were involved in his life. These five people explain to him the meaning of events that took place in his life. “The Book of Esther” one of the latter books of the Hebrew Bible‚
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CELEBRITIES vs. CITIZENS Drunk driving is a serious crime that holds many offenses. Some of these offenses include license restrictions‚ fines‚ and mandatory attendance of “Alcoholics Anonymous” meetings‚ community service‚ or probation. Some jurisdictions even sentence drunk drivers to serve jail time. The justice system is very unfair when it comes to the sentencing of theses crimes when convicting celebrities compared to the average person. Paris Hilton‚ for example‚ committed her first DUI
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