Who would have imagined it? After years on top‚ Nike suddenly looks like a world-class marathoner who‚ in midrace‚ questions whether he’s got what it takes to keep on running. Nike’s symptoms of distress: a global glut of shoes‚ flat sales in key markets‚ and declining profits. Moreover‚ the global brand champ that captured its own winning corporate mindset with the "Just do it" ad slogan has a new pitch‚ "I can"--to which investors seem to be retorting‚ "No‚ you can’t." Losing faith‚ they have knocked
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This paper will summarize the history of Nursing during World War II – The attack on Pearl Harbor. On the historic date known as December 7th‚ 1941‚ at 7:55 am- over three hundred Japanese pilots attacked the base known as Pearl Harbor in Oahu‚ Hawaii. This left over 2‚235 military personnel and roughly 68 civilians dead. This attack‚ over 60 years ago‚ was one of the greatest milestones and historical turning point for women in the United States as they would become military nurses. The calm response
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Eng305 Prompt 3 November 13‚ 2013 The Flapper Girl and the Gibson Girl At the end of the nineteenth century and into the early part of the twentieth century there were two predominant styles of dress and manner for women. The Gibson Girl was popular from about 1890 until the end of World War I which then gave rise to the Flapper Girl of the 1920’s. They were different in most things‚ except that they both promoted the sense of what the time thought the “modern woman” was. They both
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and gardening.] A teenage girl in the mid-1960s abandons her home on Antigua‚ a tiny island in the West Indies‚ bound for New York and not to return home for 19 years. She becomes an au pair for a family in Scarsdale‚ N.Y.‚ then for a different family in New York City. She breaks off all contact with her mother‚ takes photography courses at the New School‚ dyes her hair blonde and changes her name. A few years later‚ in her early 20s‚ she convinces Ingenue‚ a girls ’ magazine‚ to allow her to interview
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AIR POLLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES Guides and Tips Home / Blog / Air Pollution in the Philippines Air pollution is a common and frequent problem nowadays. When you are on your way to work‚ you pass by your neighbors’ backyard where he is currently burning their garbage from yesterday‚ then you come across a smoke-belching public utility vehicle‚ then a guy beside you lighted a cigarette and started suffocating you with second-hand smoke. You cannot always depend on your handkerchief on covering
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Soils of the tropical savannas The soils of the tropical savannas‚ along with the distinctive wet/dry climate‚ are a major determinant of vegetation in the region‚ and of potential land uses. Soil is an outcome of five broad factors: parent material‚ climate‚ relief/slope‚ time and organisms. | Infertile soils Given the variations in all of these in the savannas it is no surprise that there are many different soil types in evidence in northern Australia. Generally speaking the combination of these
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identity will be constructed and re-constructed as much by who she hangs out with as by what she does. Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters. The screenplay was written by Tina Fey and is based in part on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman‚ which describes how female high school social cliques operate and the effect they can have on girls. The film stars Lindsay Lohan and features a supporting cast of Rachel McAdams‚ Lacey Chabert‚ Amanda Seyfried
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Name: Junchuan Zhang (Bill) Date: November 6‚ 2014 EAD II Section 21 3.3 Professor: Karen Kalteissen Women’s Social Status Changes between 1930s and 2014 How much has women’s social status changed from the 1930s to 2014? It has changed quite a lot. Women were not allowed to do quite a lot of things in the past. For example‚ they were not allowed to have a proper job and were only allowed to stay at home‚ do housework and teach children. Since the feminist movement‚ there are absolutely more
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1. Introduction Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor is one of the most well-known military installations in the world. Pearl Harbor is located on the south coast of Oahu‚ the third largest of the eight major islands generally considered to be Hawaii. In the vicinity of Pearl Harbor are there many U.S. military installations: the U.S. Pacific naval base‚ Hickam Air Force Base‚ Pearl Harbor Naval Air Station‚ and Camp H. M. Smith‚ headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Command. The U.S. first gained rights there in
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successfully struck‚ and triumphantly destroyed the naval base Pearl Harbor‚ which left many Americans dead or wounded. The United States had allied with China and due to the imperialistic views of Japan. China was always a place that Japan saw valuable due to natural resources and the large population. Japan had invaded and gained control
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