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Crooners sing close to the mic in a soft, intimate style. In this
book Alex Coles explores the crooner in popular music from the
1950s to the present. Each chapter focuses on one song and one
singer – Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, Barry White, David Bowie,
Bryan Ferry, Tom Waits, Grace Jones, Ian McCulloch, Nick Cave and
Nas – and examines in detail how each contributes to the crooner
image. The book describes how crooners traverse era, gender,
geography and genre – where Barry White developed out of disco,
Nick Cave sprung from alternative rock; where Grace Jones was born
from reggae and funk, Nas originated from hip-hop. Ultimately,
Coles shows how the crooner continues to be a figure that enables
listeners to reflect on and communicate their emotions.
Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and
critic of modern art. Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics
and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his
commitment to political transformation of the arts as a means to
bring about social change. Benjamin witnessed first-hand many of
the cataclysmic events of modern European history. He took a
critical stance on the dominant ideologies of Marxism, Zionism and
Technocracy, and his attempt to flee Nazi Europe ultimately led to
his suicide in 1940. With its brilliant combination of words and
images, this is an ideal introduction to one of the most elusive
philosophers.
This particular research is aimed at finding the marketing
implication of influence of social class on consumer behavior for
Sainsbury. Social classes differ in respect of behaviors,
attitudes, and preferences. To investigate the consumer behavior
and social class relationship, triangulation methodology has been
adopted. A sample of 75 consumers of Sainsbury has been selected
through convenience sampling. A questionnaire has been designed to
collect data from sample. The findings showed that most of the
respondents belonged to middle and lower social classes. The
research found that middle and lower classes spend major part of
their income on food and necessities of life whereas upper class
spends its income on luxuries. It has been found that upper class
uses internet for getting information about products and services
of Sainsbury. Middle class uses televisions and newspaper for
getting information about products and services of company. Upper
class has more intentions of online shopping as compared to other
classes. Upper classes have more attitude of investing in
profitable projects. It has been found that lower and middle
classes use credit cards for shopping and take bank loans for
fulfilling their needs. Marketers can identify needs and
preferences of different social classes from results of this
particular research. Research has been limited to the findings only
which have been collected from a small sample.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Business
economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A,
The University of Liverpool, language: English, comment: Very well
presented, abstract: This particular research has been conducted in
order to compare the employee retention practices of Tesco and
Sainsbury in United Kingdom. This particular research has been
conducted through triangulation methodology. Qualitative and
quantitative data tools have been employed for comparing the
employee retention practices of both competitors. Primary data has
been collected through a survey which is conducted through a close
end questionnaire. A sample of 100 employees has been selected
through convenience sampling technique. The survey generated a
response rate of 93%. The findings of the research suggest that
Tesco has been more effective in its employee retention practices
as compared to Sainsbury. Tesco adopts long lasting and effective
tools for employee retention whereas Sainsbury looks for short term
gains. The research found that in Tesco, management role, high
salaries, extra benefits, and good working environment has been
created for influencing employees to stay with the organization for
a long time. On the other hand, Sainsbury lacks some important
practices such as management role, extra benefits, job authority,
job empowerment, and communication across departments which make it
ineffective in its employee retention practices. In order to retain
key employees for a long time period, it is important for Sainsbury
to provide extra benefits and management support to the employees.
This research has been limited to the Tesco and Sainsbury in United
Kingdom. Future researchers can expand the scope of this research
by taking a large sample from different stores. They can generalize
the results by taking large sample from different organizations.
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Law,
Delinquency, Abnormal Behavior, printed single-sided, grade: A,
University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: If students
are to succeed within the confines of the school community, all
involved stockholders must create a positive, safe and encouraging
learning environment. In order for the stockholders to develop this
environment, everyone must feel respected by and involved in the
school community. Creating an effective school climate must be a
community process so that all involved can thrive. Standard,
exclusionary models of discipline in the school systems work
against this concept of education and only decrease students'
success. This is particularly true for low income and minority
students. More promising models of school discipline are those
based on the Teen Court systems of justice. These models rely on
peer and community concepts of discipline enforcement. When used in
an educational setting, Teen Court is proving to be more effective
in reducing recidivism and dropout rates. Rather than promoting a
culture of exclusionary and punitive justice for youth, Teen Court
models effectively discipline, while promoting a culture of safe
and positive education (Harrison et al, 2001). Problem The data
related to the biggest school districts of California reveals a
much higher level of expulsion and suspension of students for the
year 2009-10, and the statistics for California are a lot higher as
compared to the rest of the country. While the rate for California
remained 9.9 percent for both expulsion and suspension put
together, the overall average for the nation was a much lower 7
percent (Losen and Skiba, 2010). However, in various cases in the
state of
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics
- Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, University
of Canberra, course: MA, language: English, comment: Very good.,
abstract: This particular research is aimed at finding the
marketing implication of influence of social class on consumer
behavior for Sainsbury. Social classes differ in respect of
behaviors, attitudes, and preferences. To investigate the consumer
behavior and social class relationship, triangulation methodology
has been adopted. A sample of 75 consumers of Sainsbury has been
selected through convenience sampling. A questionnaire has been
designed to collect data from sample. The findings showed that most
of the respondents belonged to middle and lower social classes. The
research found that middle and lower classes spend major part of
their income on food and necessities of life whereas upper class
spends its income on luxuries. It has been found that upper class
uses internet for getting information about products and services
of Sainsbury. Middle class uses televisions and newspaper for
getting information about products and services of company. Upper
class has more intentions of online shopping as compared to other
classes. Upper classes have more attitude of investing in
profitable projects. It has been found that lower and middle
classes use credit cards for shopping and take bank loans for
fulfilling their needs. Marketers can identify needs and
preferences of different social classes from results of this
particular research. Research has been limited to the findings only
which have been collected from a small sample.
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business
economics - Miscellaneous, printed single-sided, grade: A,
University of Hertfordshire, language: English, abstract: In the
management of any business and industry the function of strategic
planning plays a key role that gives direction for future and
assists in identifying the organisations competitiveness. Evidences
suggests that construction companies are not putting enough efforts
and are not emphasizing enough on strategic planning in comparison
with their counterparts in other industries. The paper gives a
platform for an enhanced framework for practices of strategic
planning for construction companies in UK. The analysis of
strategic planning as right method for defining and implementing
future strategic options for the UK construction industry is
proposed from the current practices in the industry and online
available literature on the topic. The paper highlights related
external factors and scenarios of the industry, considers the
engagement of the stakeholder during the process, and helps to
analyse the overall effectiveness of the strategic planning. The
paper should help companies in construction industry of UK to plan
and implement their future strategic options in a better way and
thus improve their practices.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics
- Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, The
University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: Abstract A
great number of smart phones still are inadequately interactive
with visually impaired and blind users and thesteps to providing
access that actually exist does not give or sustain some of the
tasks efficiently. This literature review presents some of the
issues and gives different yet effective solutions and guidelines
to improve the Smartphone's interface with visually impaired and
blind users. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Nowadays, mobile devices allow
the disabled people with many different opportunities to act
independently in the world. However, these powerful and competent
devices may have large number of interactivity challenges,
especially for the people who are blind or visually impaired.
Research and different studies proves that a blind or visually
impaired person has better capability to rely on other senses most
importantly the touch and audio sensors. This literature review
would be dealing with the analysis and studies of different
interfaces for the blind and visually impaired patients, keeping in
view the important points that favour the user in every way. Using
the haptic concept, to elaborate the letters for the blind user
while writing a text message or calling someone and an audio
interface to direct and communicate between the phone and user.
There are some problems that hinder blind users to interact with
the Smartphonewhich includes screen touch, interface, text entry,
navigation, individual differences and some other problems. There
are no efforts that have been made to discover the control of touch
or smart phones in non-visual mobile interface. In this lecture
review, I am going to present some works that have been done
recently about interacting challenges with Smartphone devices and
blind people.
Project Report from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics
- Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, The
University of Liverpool, language: English, comment: Very good,
abstract: Recruitment and selection are the processes of human
resource management that are applied in organization for fulfilling
its human resource needs. In this report, recruitment and selection
processes adopted in Sainsbury and Tesco have been discussed and
compared. This report also discusses the importance of recruitment
and selection for the organizations. Only secondary data has been
included in the report for the evaluation of its aims and
objectives. Through company reports and articles, recruitment and
selection processes in both organizations have been discussed and
compared. The findings of the report suggest that recruitment and
selection in both organizations has been developed in terms of a
structured activity. At Tesco, internal and external sources of
recruitment are used for fulfilling existing posts in the
organization. It relies on internal sources more than on external
sources. Television, radio, newspapers and internet ate preferred
tools of recruitment by Tesco. It also allows candidates to drop
their resume in stores for further selection process. On the other
hand, Sainsbury relies on internal and external recruitment tools,
equally. Internally, existing employees are assessed for promotions
on higher levels in the organization. Through external sources,
Sainsbury attracts suitable employees from website and assessed the
suitable candidates through several tests and interviews. By
comparing the recruitment and selection strategies of both
organizations, it is found that Tesco has adopted costly and time
consuming strategies. Moreover, its store recruitment strategy does
not ensure selection of suitable candidates. On the other hand,
Sainsbury is cost effective in its strategies but these strategies
can be time consuming. It is recommended that Tesco
David Marshall is bored and annoyed. He's been bored and annoyed
for ages. Everyone thinks he is living a middle class dream. No one
has any idea that he isn't happy, or that he is full of hatred.
People are parasites. Life isn't fair. Idiots go about their
selfish and thoughtless lives and get away with it. One of David's
friends has an accident and injures his brain, leaving him with an
inability to lie. David watches his friend's life crumble around
him as his inability to lie gradually alienates everyone. David is
appalled that honesty has such severe consequences in modern
society and decides it is time to do something about it. David
exposes the liars and the cheats, and makes them face the
consequences of their lives and their choices, but with traumatic
consequences of his own. A story of obsession and the selfish
foundation of human existence.
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