Introduction Completing a business plan is necessary to operate and run a effectively yet efficient business. The plan is included to help an individual accomplish their goals during the process. Shania is a Christian and wants to open a Christian coffeehouse near Denver, Colorado. Shania sister Kelsey is a new christian and want to be part of the business, and Shania neighbor Carlos is a non- believer and have expressed an interest in participating in the business. She wants to name the…
In the book A History of the World in Six Glasses, the author Tom Standage, travels through time along the history of six different beverages. He devotes each section to a specific drink and provides its background and origin, revealing how most all of them were first used for medicinal purposes before they were used recreationally. Along with this, Standage describes significant historic events of civilization, oppression, intellect, imperialism, and globalization, and boldly states that the…
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Reflection • The rise of beer was closely associated with the domestication of grains and the eventual adoption of farming by nomadic tribes after they began settling into an agricultural lifestyle in the areas surrounding the Fertile Crescent. Beer was a unifying force in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt because everyone had access to it and it wasn’t just a drink for the rich. Beer was often times used as a form of currency because it was…
For thousands of years, water has been a vital and imperative substance that managed to shape many civilizations. Humans had settled down near freshwater sources in order to decrease the risk of dehydration. However, as people had become more technologically advanced, many new beverages challenged the popularity of water. Tom Standage divides the world’s history into six popular beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-cola. Drinks have been used throughout history to symbolize the…
on its addictive properties, commercialization of coffee products became imminent. Starting with the invention of dehydrated coffee and instant coffee (Howard “How Coffee Changed America”). This introduced ad campaigns nationally and a spike in coffeehouses throughout the nation. The number of coffee houses increased 450% in a ten-year period (“How Coffee Changed America”). The working class sought-after ‘coffee breaks’ in the middle of the work day. Influencing ingenious ad campaigns such as,…
In this final discussion, we are asked to evaluate business start-up options for Shania Jackson. Shania is a mature Christian. She has a desire of opening a coffeehouse. Shania seems to have the support of her husband, sister, and neighbor, but in varying degrees of commitment and perspectives. Shania’s husband is willing to invest capital, but not help in the day to day operations. Her sister, a new Christian is eager to participate in the business, but her husband is completely against the…
I saw a man at a coffeehouse today. He just sat there drinking his coffee and staring out the window. He wasn 't sitting with anyone and his deep brown eyes looked so sad. But strangely enough I 've seen this man before. Not on the train home or at a concert or anything, but every year on my birthday since I was three. I 'd started calling him the Eternal Man since he looked the exact same every time I saw him. Never changing. Never aging. Same black hair, same dark green button down and…
A History of the World in Six Glasses “Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt” (Chapters 1 and 2) 1. Beer became important to hunter-gatherers. To ensure the availability of grain, hunter-gatherers switched to farming. Beer helped to make up for the decline in food quality as people started to farm, provided a safe form of liquid nourishment, and gave groups of farmers who drink beer a nutritional advantage over people who don’t drink beer. 2. First is that somehow ancient civilizations understood in…
Most Americans spurn the saying to "have breakfast like a lord, lunch like a sovereign and supper like a homeless person." U.S. grown-ups expend 17 percent of their day's calories at breakfast, 24 percent at lunch and 34 percent at supper, as per the USDA's "What We Eat in America" overview. Cortisol and adrenaline, two hormones that take after the common circadian musicality, fall when 3 p.m. moves around, as do vitality levels, as the body plans for the finish of the day. That is fine in…
during the Enlightenment, philosophers in the 18th century began developing ideas based on logic and reason instead of the accepted truth of contemporary religion which is what the traditional gender roles were based on.. Classical liberalism, claimed that each individual has the fundamental rights and freedoms that cannot be taken away by the government or any organization. If each individual, according to these theorists, had certain, rights regardless of class, creed, or colour, it was only…