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Nike Inc, is an American sportswear company. The company was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sport by student Phil Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman. Knight was a middle-distance runner for Oregon University team and Bowerman coached local team. Both of them felt the lack of good equipment for the competition at an affordable price. In fact, the only serious brand in this area was then Adidas, but, unfortunately, their athletic shoes were highly priced and the products of local companies for…

Calixto 1 Marco Calixto Instructor: Jamie Schulman Soc 103: Section 1 11/27/17 Paper Report Subculture: Greasers The term “subculture” is defined in the dictionary as “a culture within a broader mainstream culture, with its own separate values, practices, and beliefs.” Studying subculture in the perspective of a sociologist, is to understand and comprehend a specific culture. In today’s modern society of America, there are many variety of subcultures that a sociologist can examine…

The Greaser Co-Culture From the first time the movie Grease premiered, an image for the 1950s was created (Kleiser, 1978). Young girls spent days trying to learn how to dress just like Sandy, and even made their own little gang of Pink Ladies with their friends. Even before the premiere of that movie in 1978, in 1967 the novel The Outsiders was written by S.E. Hinton. The story told of a gang of Greasers in rural Tulsa, Oklahoma, just trying to make their way in society. Greasers are what…

There are different types of diversification. Accordingly, NIKE INC implements related-constrained diversification, because all the businesses it operates share a significant number of inputs, distribution channels, production technologies, similar customers and so forth and less than 70% of a firm’s revenue comes from a single-product lines- $18.3 billion revenues, 59.7% of…

twice with them in the Bricklayers Arms pub, before they became known as the Rollin' Stones. Some time later the band went on their first tour in the United Kingdom; this was known as the "training ground" tour, because it was a new experience for all of them.[21] The line-up did not at that time include drummer Charlie Watts or bassist Bill Wyman. By 1963 they were finding their musical stride as well as popularity. By 1964 two unscientific opinion polls rated them as Britain's most popular…