Pacita U. Juan Figaro Coffee‚ Inc. Pacita Juan’s willingness to take risks‚ coupled with her passion for coffee‚ led her to create Figaro. Together with friends‚ Juan opened the first Figaro coffee shop in 1993 before Starbucks and Seattle’s Best were introduced to the country. Figaro is now the second largest coffee shop chain in the country‚ grabbing 30% market share. It is‚ in fact often mistaken for a foreign brand. From its first store in Makati‚ Figaro now has more than 30 in the Metro
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Semiotics is a methodology for studying the production of meaning through analysis of the signs that cumulatively form the messages and texts that that we understand as having meaning. As a methodology for analysis it is particularly useful for studying performance. When we go to see a performance‚ what is it that we see? There is a written text that is communicated physically‚ vocally and emotionally. There is a set‚ an actual performance venue‚ there are lights‚ props etcetera. There is also time
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co Chanel‚ the French fashion designer who started the Fashion revolution in 20th century. In 1910‚ Coco Chanel opened her first boutique named Chanel Modes in Paris and made a living only by selling her millinery creation. Although she had great enthusiasm for designing clothes‚ as a young lady‚ Coco faced supreme difficulty engaging in commerce. Gradually‚ because of her inborn talent‚ her products were appreciated by trendy women. However‚ in 1930s‚ at the beginning of World War II‚ Chanel was forced to close her shops
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Women’s Fashion in the 1920’s Fashion became a large influence on women in the 1920’s. This allowed women to become independent and free from the society. Many designers such as‚ Coco Chanel‚ Jeanne Lanvin and Salvatore Ferragamo have made an enormous impact on the evolution of women’s clothing. Styles of clothing have changed overtime‚ especially during the 1920’s era. During this time‚ hemlines became shorter‚ clothing was more revealing‚ women dressed freely and the sophistication and elegance
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Semiotics for Beginners Daniel Chandler Glossary of Key Terms * Abduction: This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code‚ and then infer what it signifies by applying that rule. * Aberrant decoding: Eco’s term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes‚ Decoding‚ Encoding and decoding
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that due to the difference of semiotics from our own world and the world of Hailsham‚ what would appear to be a tragic dystopian fate to the reader‚ is an accepted fate that has become rationalized to the Hailsham students. Therefore‚ the disturbing concepts expressed in this novel do not raise the same controversy to the clones as it would to the reader. As meanings are changed and reshaped‚ the reader must adapt to the pragmatics of Hailsham and disconnect from semiotics and meaning that pertain to
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1.0 The Media and its Role Today The media has always been playing the main role in providing information to us. Whether it covers on education‚ information or entertainment‚ gaining the latest news on these topics has been made easier nowadays with the help of the media. There are a number of the types of media that could be obtained nowadays. This includes television‚ radio‚ newspapers‚ magazines and internet. Although the main idea of the media is to educate people on the latest happenings‚
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endorsement is becoming increasingly popular in recent decades. This essay studies how celebrity endorsement widely adopted by popular fashion brands influence the consumers’ purchasing behavior. With the example of Brad Pitt’s recent partnership with Chanel to market the brand’s prestigious No. 5 perfume‚ this essay illustrate how exactly seeing a celebrity presenting his keen appreciation of hence the close association with a particular fashion product can cast a significant impact on an ordinary person’s
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==================================================================== Abstract This paper is a feministic analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in Julia Kristeva’s perspective of semiotic and symbolic language. The focus of the paper is to expose the patriarchy and its ruthless exploitation of women. In the light of Kristeva’s semiotic / symbolic language modes appropriate sentences‚ clauses‚ phrases and lexemes have been specified and marked out to uncover the social status of woman‚ and to demonstrate
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When Luxury Fashion Brands Meet Social Networks Introduction “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky‚ in the street‚ fashion has to do with ideas‚ the way we live‚ what is happening.” -Coco Chanel In the fashion industry‚ it’s about going ahead and setting the trend or run as fast as you can to not be out of date. What’s happening right now is that the way people communicate and keep connected has been changing because of the internet and so called social
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