The Proposition 227 requires that all public school instruction be conducted in English. However‚ in “The Political Paradox of Bilingual Education”‚ Crawford argues against Proposition 227 and provides an overview of the political and educational discourse on immigrant children’s language rights. He starts with questions such as “Was the proposition intended primarily to assimilate limited-English-proficient (LEP) children more efficiently? To teach them English as rapidly as possible? To encourage
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Importance to economy The revenue of international airlines industry has increased from 476 billion USD in 2009 to 567 billion USD in 2011‚ a 9.3% year-on-year increase. This industry employs 56.5 million workers and accounts for US $2.2 trillion of the global GDP. Indian Aviation industry contributes to 0.5% of the India’s GDP and generates 1.7 million jobs. Technological Trends Major cost items for airlines are fuel‚ labour and maintenance. Airlines are able to reduce the cost/increase profit by
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CASE STUDY BY Aurelio Montelongo Jr. June 22‚ 2012 Southwest Airlines is in an environment whose conditions for most in this type of industry have been anything but profitable. So why is it that Southwest Airlines‚ who has been profitable in this volatile market been able to make money? Though Southwest did have a losing quarter it was not due to lack of fliers or its service to its customers‚ but an investment in its fuel hedging cost. As fuel dropped in price‚ Southwest
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Virgin Active is one of the largest health club businesses in the world‚ with over 170 clubs and more than 900‚000 members spread across the UK‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ Portugal and South Africa. Virgin Active is currently developing sites across Australia. The Virgin Active club located at 138 Bourke St‚ Melbourne officially opened in May 2009. Virgin Active opened its first Australian club in French’s Forest‚ Sydney in December 2008. Virgin Active offers convenient class times as well as fast classes for
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GROWTH (BG 007) ANALYSIS REPORT ON STUDY OF EMERGENCE OF EMIRATES AS A GLOBAL AIRLINE
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Case Analysis: Virgin Mobile USA What we are analyzing here is pricing of a service in a market which is saturated‚ as it has reached maturity‚ is highly capital intensive and in which a large amount of competition prevails. Virgin however is a known brand name with an extremely diversified portfolio. It has experimented successfully with the telecom business in the UK but failed in Singapore. It now targets the USA market; the problems before it are to: come up with an appealing offer and ensure
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VIRGIN ATLANTIC GLOBALIZATION Virgin operates in the third era of Globalization (2000 onwards) where everything is connected through the Web. This means that Virgin use extensively Internet and other technological platforms to conduct its business. The Globalization of Virgin Atlantic contributed to capture the international market and to the improvement of the organization‚ but still there are some challenges experienced that influence the organization policies and the decision making‚ they
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Overview This chapter looks further into key customer-driven marketing strategy decisions—how to divide up markets into meaningful customer groups (segmentation)‚ choose which customer groups to serve (targeting)‚ create market offerings that best serve targeted customers (differentiation)‚ and position the offerings in the minds of consumers (positioning). Target marketing is dividing the total market into different segments based on customer characteristics‚ selecting one or more segments
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Question 1 Virgin group limited is world largest british multinational company founded by Richard branson.it has various core business like travel‚entertainment and life style and it includes 400 companies world wide. Virgin Group’s date of incorporation is listed as 1989 by Companies House‚ who class it as a holding company; however Virgin’s business and trading activities date to the 1970s. The net worth of Virgin Group as of September 2008 was £5.01 billion. Virgin Group operates from
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