America’s Drive-In - Case Analysis Table of Contents i. General Background / Key Issues ii. Analysis a. Internal Analysis b. External Analysis c. Business-level Strategy d. Corporate-level Strategy e. Structure and Controls f. Strategic leadership/ Entrepreneurship iii. Case Recommendations iv. Referenced i. General Background / Key Issues Sonic was created over 50 years ago‚ the enterprise started as a small drive in Shawnee
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Propaganda Techniques in Today’s Advertising by Ann McClintock Americans‚ adults and children alike‚ are being seduced. They are being brainwashed. And few of us protest. Why? Because the seducers and the brainwashers are the advertisers we willingly invite into our homes. We are victims‚ content—even eager—to be victimized. We read advertisers’ propaganda message in newspapers and magazines; we watch their alluring images on television. We absorb their messages and images into our subconscious
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Sonic Drive-In Case Background In 1953‚ Tyro Smith founded the prototype of the first Sonic drive-In in Shawnee‚ Oklahoma. Before 1953‚ he had already tried opening two other restaurants. Smith eventually bought a steak house that had a root beer stand on the lot. He intended to tear the stand down to add more parking for the steak house‚ but the root beer stand‚ called Top Hat Drive-In‚ proved to be more profitable and even outlasted the steak house. While traveling in Louisiana‚ Smith saw homemade
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DATE : October 5 ‚ 2006 TO : Board of Directors ‚ Pechanga Casino Entertainment Center FROM :SUBJECT : Red Cross Blood Drive Despite being responsible for half the nation ‘s supply of blood and blood products ‚ the American Red Cross ‘ supply for donated blood has fallen dangerously low . Although during highly publicized disasters when people are eager to help out by donating blood ‚ it is a fact that in calmer times ‚ only 5 percent of eligible donors think of donating blood .Donated blood
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Don’t text and drive Victoria Guerriero Image Analysis “Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph‚ that ’s enough time to cover the length of a football field.” (2009‚ VTTI). While texting and driving has always been an issue since people were able to text on phones‚ it has not gained much media attention until recently. People may have sent an occasional text while driving ten years ago‚ but because the keyboard was
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Victoria Long Composition I 25 June 2012 Don ’t Text and Drive What does it mean to be a distracted driver? Every day‚ each and every second‚ there are car accidents that caused by texting while driving. Over the years‚ driving while texting has been rated as the most dangerous of all distractions. How does texting while driving be so distracted? According to the Official US Government Website for Distracted Driving‚ the three main types of distraction are visual‚ manual‚ and cognitive. Visual
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Visual Techniques Dara Nichols CGD 218 Professor Argo August 31‚ 2009 There are many different types of visual film techniques that I see being used in contemporary television. Some of the techniques I see are the use of extreme long shots‚ which shows a lot of landscape that helps establish the location and atmosphere of the film that is being shot. Another technique that is used frequently is the use of a bridgingss shot‚ which is used to cover a change in time or place. Some specific
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The 1999 film Fight Club‚ based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name‚ was received as one of the most controversial films of the year‚ and has since gained a strong cult popularity. The movie places strong emphasis on the evils of modern consumerism‚ and adopts a “fight the system” attitude throughout. The setting is bleak and degraded – the main character‚ who remains unnamed for the entirety of the film‚ inhabits a city that seems perpetually dark and run down. All in all‚ the film attempts
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banned “Whts up‚ not doin ne-thing im jst driving” How important are the abbreviations OMG‚ LOL‚ and JK to you? Are they worth risking getting into a car accident‚ horrific enough to end the rest of your life? If not‚ then why do you text and drive? Almost everyone now days has the capability of texting on their phones. You see people texting everywhere you go whether they are eating‚ walking‚ sitting‚ and I know most of you check your phone first thing in the morning to see if you have any missed
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Tonia 11552 9/28/2013 Self-portrait Intercultural Communication My drive for success My name is Tonia 11552; I am from the Caribbean‚ a small island located off the north eastern coast of Venezuela. I am 43 years old born November 5th 1969. My mother is a lawyer for the federal government in New York City. My father is a distributor for Coca Cola and Nestle in with a PHD degree in accounting; this is the reason for my story. I attended HS in the Caribbean for five
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