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What is your evaluation of the women’s apparel industry and Harrington’s market position? The US women’s apparel industry, in 2007, was highly mature and competitive and consumers were price sensitive. Half of the apparels were sold on sale. The short lived fashion was challenging for the industry. So the apparels differentiated each other on the basis of 1. Fabrication (patterns) 2. Silhouette (outlines) 3. Quality 4. Brand 5. Price Brands were in a great competition to increase their market…

Wilson Pickett was an icon before he knew it. There was always something special about him. Wilson Pickett is a singer/songwriter and made it to the top and remained there until he died. Songs like “In the Midnight Hour” and “Mustang Sally” got him inducted into the Hall of Fame. Wilson Pickett had a rough childhood, but he changed that and made his life the success he was and still is today. Wilson Pickett was born March 18, 1941 in Prattville, Alabama. Wilson grew up singing in Baptist church…

Emerging from the southern states of the USA, country music was one of the earliest genres in modern American history. The birthplace of country, or early folk music, was in Bristol, Tennessee. This developing style is a mix of folk music from the British Isles, church hymns, and African American blues. By the early 1900s, the recording industry was booming and brought about many new talents. In 1927, Ralph Peer of Victor Records noticed that most musicians had to travel to New York to make…

With the rise of popular stars such as Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, many people think that country music is a new genre. The truth is that country has a long standing tradition in American music, going all the way back to the 1930's. The history of this music is important to understand if someone is curious about how it has become such an immensely popular genre today. When country music first hit the popular music scene in the 1930's, it was in a form known as honky tonk music. The genre…

(Merriam Webster). 1.3 million children aged 5-17 in Bangladesh are engaged in hazardous labour. Children and adults alike are given no choice but to work in unethical factories creating clothing for large international corporations. Developing countries such as India, Bangladesh and China are found with countless amounts of sweatshops. Sweatshops are unjust and unethical because of the unsafe and uncomfortable work conditions, long hours with low wages and the use of child labour. Workers are…

Environmental Justice in the United States The environmental justice movement gained a national spotlight in the early 1980s with a few notable cases including the protest against the proposed siting of a PCB landfill in Warren County, North Carolina. At the time of the siting, Warren County had the highest percentage of blacks of any county in the state at 66% – even though blacks were 22% of total state population – and was also one of the four poorest counties. The residents of the…

Throughout this article, Nicholas, Elson, and many more contributors looked closely upon Aztec ceramic pottery during the Post-Classic Period, which thus put in perspective the trade patterns and economic state of the empire. It analyzes Chiconautla, Mexico, the capital of small Post-Classic city-state on the southern edge of the Teotihuacan Valley, and it’s specific relation to the development and growth of markets for trade (Nicolas et al 2009:443). This growth in ceramic trade is shown to…

a developed country. People think about developed countries like the United States and Britain, and these countries already have a strong power in economic and other factors. Massey provides the example of Argentina, which is a developing country. She believes that in order to let Argentina become a developed country, the nation should follow the same history as London has. However, maybe in reality, Argentina would like to develop other aspects in order to become a developed country; instead of…

and incentive to be more flexible and cut costs whilst achieving growth. Free trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement have made it easier for countries to trade goods and services however this freedom of trade has also acted as a catalyst for companies to shift employment to developing or third-world countries such as Mexico in which labour and the cost of producing materials is substantially cheaper. In this paper I will make the argument that since the inception of…

Dream Interview I believe that Toni Braxton is a leader in her own way and has achieved things some people can only dream of doing. 1.)Toni Braxton first started rising in the industry in the 1990s, Toni quickly established herself as an R&B icon and became one of the best-selling female artists of the 1990s decade, garnering her honorific titles such as the "Queen of R&B" and being recognized as one of the most outstanding voices of the generation. 2.) Toni Braxton’s years active are from…