The Smurfette Principle The Smurfette principle is a controversy on how TV shows and movies have all men/boys as characters with zero to one girl. A writer by the name Katha Pollitt writes an article in the New York Times talking about this principle. She defines her principle as‚ “…a group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female‚ stereotypically defined” (Pollitt). She uses her daughter to explain to us that there is just not enough shows for little girls to watch. She mentions how
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External Programme Principles of Accounting Wednesday‚ 5 May 2010 : 10.00am to 1.15pm Candidates should answer FOUR of the following SEVEN questions: QUESTION 1 of Section A‚ QUESTION 2 of Section B‚ ONE question from Section C and ONE further question from either Section B or C. All questions carry equal marks. Workings should be submitted for all questions requiring calculations. Any necessary assumptions introduced in answering a question are to be stated. Extracts from compound interest
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THE IMPACT OF SALOMON V SALOMON & Co. Ltd. (1987) The most important decision ever made by the English courts in Relation to company law is Salomon v A Salomon & Co. Ltd (1897). The vital perception to become familiar with when starting a business is the idea that the business has a legal personality in its own right‚ mostly when it assumes the form of a Limited Liability Company. This basically means that if someone starts a business as a Limited Liability Company‚ then the Company is a legal entity
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Bernoulli’s Principle is a physical phenomenon that was named after the Swiss scientist Daniel Bernoulli who lived during the eighteenth century. Bernoulli studied the relationship of the speed of a fluid and pressure. The Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) discovered the principle that bears his name while conducting experiments concerning an even more fundamental concept: the conservation of energy. This is a law of physics that holds that a system isolated from all outside
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THE PARETO PRINCIPLE: ITS USE AND ABUSE Robert Sanders Vilfredo Pareto was a late nineteenth-century economist/sociologist who first noted and re- ported his observation that about 80 percent of wealth was concentrated in about 20 percent of a population. This is the basis for what we now call the Pareto Principle. J. M. Juran‚ one of the foremost practitioners of statistical quality control‚ claims credit for giving the Pareto principle its name. Juran’s Pareto Principle is sometimes known as
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General Principles As the written sources of EU law cannot always provide a solution for every question which comes before CJEU‚ there is what has become known as general principles of law. These principles originate from the laws of individual member states‚ such as equality and from interpretations of treaty articles. The legal basis for the incorporation of these principles can be found under Article 263 TFEU‚ which states infringement of rule of law‚ and in Article 340 TFEU there is a direct
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Abuse “Child abuse is not simply any harm that befalls children. Children throughout the world suffer from a multitude of harms- malnutrition‚ starvation‚ infectious disease‚ congenital defects‚ abandonment‚ economic exploitation‚ the violence of warfare‚ to name a few. Not all harm that befalls children is child abuse.” (2) Child abuse is harm resulting from intentional human action. The most fundamental attribute of child abuse is that it is harmful to the child and detrimental to his/her well-being
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the concepts of segmentation‚ targeting and positioning. 6 2.1 Show macro and micro environmental factors which influence marketing decision for Boots. 6 2.2 Which segmentation criteria would be most applicable for the Boots? 7 2.3 A range of product and service Boots offer choose a targeting strategy for one of them: 7 2.4 How buyers affect marketing strategy: 8 2.5 Propose a new positioning. 8 LO3: Understand the individual elements of the extended marketing mix. 9 3.1 explain how products are developed
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Principles of Retailing: The format of a retailer is the overall appearance and feel that it presents to customers‚ primarily its look and layout‚ the sort of range it stocks and the approach taken to pricing. New format : development of online business Format is distinct from fascia which‚ strictly speaking‚ refers solely to external appearance. Retailers occasionally use it as as a synonym for format. Retail internationalization Companies like wal-mart‚ testco‚ internationalie due to the
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Intro http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007802935x/information_center_view0/ A firm’s resources include financial (revenue‚ equity‚ etc.) and physi- cal (buildings‚ machines‚ technology) resources‚ but they also include resources related to organizational behavior‚ such as the knowledge‚ ability‚ and wisdom of the workforce‚ as well as the image‚ culture‚ and goodwill of the organization. Micro themes - the psychological principles that govern leadership‚ motivation‚ decision-making‚ negotiation
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