Xiaoqing Ding Dr. Haendiges Engl-1010 6/23/13 Is Higher Education Worth the Price? A recent study shows that less than sixty percent of students can be graduate form four-year colleges. Interestingly‚ tuition of most of American colleges improves fast year by year. Beth Pinsker said in his article “The message that everyone should go to college does a disservice to the 60 percent of students who do not finish their degrees within six years‚ according to new research from Brookings Center
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LUXURY GOODS: NO SIGN OF SLOWING Discussion question : a) The word “luxury” is ambiguous‚ in the sense that the perception of luxury is subjective. A poor person with less than $1 each day to survive on would think that a proper dinner is luxury while the CEO of a MNC would consider five Ferrari cars as luxury. Thus‚ everything could be luxury depending on the circumstances‚ experiences and features of an individual. Chevalier and Mazzalovo (2008) define a luxury brand as a brand that is
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What do you think is unethical? The countrywide approved everyone to get their loans‚ no matter they have jobs or not‚ no matter they have income or not‚ no matter they have assets or not. The criteria they use may be unethical. They don’t care whether the documents are valid‚ whether they can verify the income‚ whether the appraisal is any good. They just care about getting the loan closed‚ in order to do another loan. The underwriters/ contractors looked through the loan as quick as they can.
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LVMH and Luxury Goods Marketing 1. Bernaud Arnault has built LVMH into a luxury goods empire by making numerous acquisitions. What strategy is evident here? LVMH or more specifically Bernaud Arnault wants luxury items to appeal to everyone‚ not just the wealthy and elite as in the past. The major issue in doing this is to keep the core luxury consumers‚ which means still keeping the product exclusive or exclusive feeling‚ while making the product available to a larger market. LVMH has used licensing
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non-essential luxury goods or services are paid very highly. The wage rate is not the economic value of a good or service‚ but more to social factors or fashion. The economic theory of wages is‚ therefore‚ of little use in explaining wage differentials. Assess this argument. Intro: Labor market supply and demand‚ wage determination‚ wage differentials general‚ ECONOMIC THEORY OF WAGES P1: production of luxury goods vs. other normal/inferior/Giffen/Veblen goods. Demand for this good influenced by
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Wei-Hsiang Wang What do you think art is? In my opinion‚ the major purpose of art is to influence someone. Some of the most common types of art in public are paintings‚ photos‚ and sculptures. When I go to the library‚ I would see photos of intellectual people‚ such as Gandhi‚ and Albert Einstein. These photos on the wall can greatly influence my mood and efficiency on studying. When I go to a hospital‚ I would see paintings and pictures that show life. Most of these paintings would have the
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LUXURY MARKET OVERVIEW Luxury goods have more than the ordinary and necessary characteristics compared to other products of their category. Their characteristics can be divided into 6 parts Symbolism‚ Price‚ Extraordinariness‚ Rarity‚ Aesthetics and Quality. The global market size for the industry has been at a growth rate of 9% per annum. This trend has been seen in the market since 1995 till 2000. The luxury market took a hit from 2000 to 2004 when incidents like the September 11 and SARS epidemic
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The Price We Pay - Is It Worth It? Junk food has crept into the lives of the American people. There are over 160‚000 fast food restaurants in the United States of America. (Static Brain‚ Source Pew Research Center) With that many sources for junk food and soft drinks‚ Americans make poor choices everyday. In hopes of creating financial stability in our economy‚ men and women are busy pursuing their careers. People are working longer hours than their elders did in the past. Time to fix proper
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Is Organic Food Worth Its Price? Organic farming began in the late 1940’s in the United States‚ and in recent years it has seen a dramatic increase in popularity (Rubin 1). The sales of organic food have been increasing by about 20 percent a year over the past decade (Marcus 1). That is over ten times the rate of their conventional counterparts (Harris 1). There are 10 million consumers of organic food in the United States‚ yet organic food represents only one percent of the nation’s food
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members‚ low price marketing strategy‚ delivery of groceries were free of charge‚ however this was proved that the sustainability of online grocery business can be achieved through go-slow approaches and partnership with existing grocery chains. Of course we see Webvan was good business it was like a luxury service which help the customer and for them it was cheaper‚ for example the delivery was free of charge‚ that was only in the beginning‚ although the delivery was free of charge they goods they purchase
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