Cultural Artifact Essay – Blue Jeans Introduction Blue jeans in the last thirty years have attained such world wide popularity that they have come to be considered an American icon. However jeans have not always been held in high stead‚ but rather have had a troubled history including its beginnings within the working class movement‚ being considered unsavory by religious leaders and also seen as a rebellious statement about ‘western decadence’. According to the University of Toronto
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This article provides an illustration of how strategic cost management can make financial analysis a more powerful decision making tool. This idea is illustrated through the examination of the Levi Strauss Company’s past initiative to “lean thinking.” The lean initiative was part of an overall strategy of sustaining a competitive advantage. Beginning in the mid-1980s‚ starting with the automobile industry‚ companies have studied techniques on how to achieve sustained competitive advantage. Companies
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"A Pair of Tickets" Amy Tan’s classic short story‚ "A Pair of Tickets"‚ is a coming of age story as the protagonist wakes up to her heritage when she travels to her native land‚ but it is also a story of internal racial tension. Not in the sense of one class looking down on another but of the internal racial tension that rages on inside Jing-mei as the battle between what she is by birth and what she is by nature tears her apart when she suddenly discovers her long lost sisters just a month after
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but overconsumption is worse” tells the readers that overconsumption is worse than overpopulation. Whereas‚ on the other hand‚ the author of “Blue jeans”‚ Leslie C. Smith worked in medical profession as a specialist in nuclear medicine. His idea affected the lifestyle of people to different style when “Blue Jeans” was published in 1992. Do you know what makes a reading interesting to its readers? We read so many essays but there are only few we like and find interesting. The reason we like
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LEVI STRAUSS & COMPANY CASE STUDY Cevdet KIZIL Master of Science in Organizational Leadership Program 1- Knowing that its managers are willing to trade off some economic efficiency in order to operate according to their collective view of what is “ethical”‚ would you buy shares of stock in this company? Why or why not? First of all‚ I think we are experiencing a paradox in this situation. Because‚ the company is trading off economic efficiency in order to operate‚ but it’s
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Adjacency Pairs Adjacency pairs Schegloff and Sacks (1973) define adjacency pairs according to the characteristics of being adjacent; produced by different speakers; ordered as a first part and a second part; typed‚ so that a particular first part requires a particular second (or range of second parts). Typical adjacency pairs include greeting-greeting (1)‚ question-answer (2)‚ offer-acceptance/rejection (3) patterns (Levinson‚ 1983: 303):. having produced a first part of some pair‚ the current
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refer to themselves as such. This one would be Levi-Strauss‚ often seen as the founding farther of Structuralism and the only thinker whose “commitment to structuralism is straightforward and total” (Sturrock 1979 p2). He started a Structuralist movement in France in the 1960’s that would eventually take the intellectually world by storm. The movement was new‚ exciting and “changed the mind of an age”(Gertz 1988 p26). If this is the case‚ why is Levi-Strauss’ the only thinker fully commitment to structuralism
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1850‚ Strauss was already calling himself Levi. In 1853‚ Strauss became an American citizen.[3] He moved to San Francisco‚ where the California Gold Rush was still going on. Strauss expected the miners would welcome his buttons‚ scissors‚ thread and bolts of fabric. He also brought along canvas sailcloth‚ intended to make tents and covers for the Conestoga wagons many miners lived out of. Strauss opened his dry goods wholesale business as Levi Strauss & Co. He often led his pack-horse‚ heavily
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"A Pair of Tickets" A message I think the author Amy Tan is trying to give in "A Pair of Tickets" is the importance of knowing your heritage. The beginning starts off with a young lady named Jing Mei and her father on a train in China to visit their estranged family for the first time in years‚ but it’ll be Jei Ming first time ever. Jing Mei never felt like she had Chinese in her at all‚ because
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From the first breath of life‚ people begin to develop a sense of who they are. Cultural heritage is the source of identity and the key to what sets nations apart from one another. Amy Tan’s short story “A Pair of Tickets” illustrates the journey that a mother and a daughter face trying to understand the different cultures and perspectives of the Chinese and American way of thinking. Through the use of setting and theme‚ Tan demonstrates the importance of family‚ heritage‚ and identity. From a young
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