The Growing Importance of Corporate Reputation in India A recent re-branding exercise by Asian Paints‚ India’s largest paint manufacturer‚ took the market watchers by surprise when the company took a hard decision in casting off its popular mascot Gattu. The mischievous boy with paint tin and brush—Gattu—was born in 1954. Designed by India’s well known cartoonist R.K. Laxman‚ Gattu served as an endearing anchor for all Asian Paints communication for over four decades. However‚ after years
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In "Growing Up Digital"‚ the author begins to speak about technology usage in schools’‚ and how it affects the academic growth of students’. According to recent studies‚ technology usage causes a tendency to procrastinate‚ a shorter attention span‚ and a lower quality sleep. For example‚ a student may begin a homework assignment‚ but receives a text message so instead of finishing the assignment the student will focus on their cellphone. Thus‚ the student will end up procrastinating and forget about
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The Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ Holden struggles to grow up. He is in a big city all by himself. The theme of growth is shown at the end of the novel by Holden maturing and going into adulthood. The first example that shows Holden is growing up is when he goes to Phoebe’s school. He notices vulgarity on the walls and it drives him crazy. Holden‚ then “rubbed it out.” This suggests that Holden is maturing because he doesn’t want Phoebe and the other children to see profanity on the
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Thesis: There is a growing propensity of children of ages 8 to 12 (tweens) acting more like teenagers and adults. There is no such thing as preadolescence anymore. Kids are teenagers at ten." Tweens see themselves as sophisticated‚ flirtatious‚ sexy‚ trendy‚ athletic and cool. By 11 years of age they no longer see themselves as children. It gets easier for them to portray a negative image of themselves because parents do not have much control over them‚ due to the lack of time and communication
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than likely overweight? That child in the group is at risk of health problems. Studies now show that the rate of overweight children has tremendously increased to one in five children between the ages of 6 and 16. Childhood obesity has become a growing epidemic with many health risks associated with childhood obesity. Families today‚ are now spending less time focusing on healthy lifestyle. While unhealthy foods have become more convenient‚ more effort in healthy eating will help prevent childhood
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The Causes and Effects of Growing up in an Abusive Home Coming from an abusive home myself I personally know what the uncalled for causes and the dramatic effects of abuse are. During the ages of 5 until I was 16 my stepfather physically abused me almost daily. I get beat with a belt‚ a wire hanger‚ extension cords‚ wooden spoons or anything else he could get his hands on. I was 4 or 5 the first time it happened‚ he told me to clean my room and when he came to check on me I was not yet done.
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Growing up in the United States I’ve learned that some Western cultures identify gender by sexual appendages. This is now known to no longer be true. Sexual orientation on a global scale has different outlooks. In Western Civilization when a person is confused about their sexual orientation‚ they switch to the other gender. For example‚ in the intersex video a child named MC was given the gender of female after being born intersex. While growing up MC was physically a girl‚ but showed characteristics
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want a better life for their children‚ they want them to be high achievers‚ they feel they have something to prove. Many years ago Asians were thought of as less then Westerners‚ and Asians had to prove that they were just as good as westerners‚ In ‘Growing Up Asian in Australia’ written by Alice Pung‚ Paul Nguyen said “We aimed high because we had no choice.” (pg. 291). Paul makes it sound like that if he did have a choice he wouldn’t put such an emphasis behind education‚ proving that what he thought
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A young man going through puberty‚ not knowing what he is doing or where he is headed‚ in a world in which he feels he doesn’t belong in‚ and feels he is always around a bunch of "phonies." This would describe the position of Holden Caulfield‚ the main character in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) written by J.D. Salinger. The book‚ all narrated by Holden in first person‚ in its very unique and humorous style‚ is about Holden‚ and all the troubles he has encountered through school‚ family‚ friends
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significant portion of the world population. City farms contributed 15% of the world food production in 1993 and that percentage is planned to increase to 33% by 2005 (4). Around 800 million people in 1996 partook in urban agriculture‚ which includes growing fruits‚ vegetables‚ and herbs‚ as well as raising livestock (4). Oddly enough‚ a large number of people believe our only option is to abandon research and technology and regress to primitive forms of farming. And contrary to popular belief‚ people
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