Levi Strauss

question to then president, Jimmy Carter, as to whether his office were in contact with Levi Strauss & Co, or whether the company acted on its own initiative. More importantly the action configures an imaginary by permitting three intimations. First, Levi Strauss & Co is denoting the primacy of US identity over its initial economic function by spurning a brand new market in the Soviet Union. Secondly, Levi Strauss & Co is reprimanding the Soviet Union for its bad behaviour, the move constituting…

Defining Myth Many scholars interpret theories of myth differently. Because of the variety of tales told in myths, it is hard to narrow it down to one established definition. Its’ Greek origin suggests myths are stories narrated either by mouth or through other media such as art, drama, or music. For this reason, myths can be applied universally due to their broadness. Legends, folktales, and fairytales are often confused with myths and for that reason many who study mythology attempt to…

Making Labor Unions Certified to Represent Employees In America and abroad, living and wanting the same things as our friends have become the norm. The big wigs in corporate America have taken notice to the consumer. Having what you want and when you want it has made the manufacturing industry boom over the last half century. As a result of this, many manufacturing companies have asked its employees to produce more in the same eight-hour workday. Employees feel if they are producing more in…

estimated imports. The fashion and apparel company that I choose is Levi’s Strauss & Co. I choose this company because it has created a large market of fashion clothing…

1. Aristotle believed this was the finest tragedy because the protagonist 's recognition of the truth coincides with the reversal of his fortunes [peripetes]. Where, exactly, does this occur in the play? (From the Temple University Study Guide.) They coincide when the shepherd informs Oedipus that he is Laio 's son. Oedipus acts accordingly. "Ah God!/It was true!/All the prophecies!/--Now,/I, Oedipus,/Oedipus, damned in his birth, in his marriage/O Light, may I look on you for the last time!…

work like anthropologists before them had. Carrying out participant observation. For Mary Douglas who was influenced by the structuralists particularly Levi-Strauss elements of their anthropological practice are seen in her work. She reads and analysis the bible for her major work, purity and danger this analysis is similar to that of Levi-Strauss work on myths and draws on many Ethnographic examples to demonstrate and support her arguments. This method used by Douglas is still quite scientific…

is the ability for a photo to do many things: create a memory, create and construct ideas and memories, and many more. The function of illstruate can be easily seen in the article “Revisiting 9/11: Unpublished Photos by James Nachtwey” ,by David Levi Strauss.” In this article there are many photos of the tragic event of 9/11. The photo illustrate the burning of the twin tower, the debris coming off of the building, and firefighters working in the field digging for bodies. These photos…

lot of people today share Warhol’s affection for jeans. Denim is a staple of the modern wardrobe. It is comfortable, practical, and fashionable. However, jeans weren’t always common and popular. Denim has first been popularly used when designer Levi Strauss figured out a way to make denim affordable in 1936. Since then, denim has been through an interesting revolution. All kinds of people, including cowboys in 1950’s, Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, and Marilyn Monroe, a famous and iconic in…

reading the different ideas on myth, however I agreed that no one person had the correct, all encompassing, definition for a myth. The difference between myth and legend interested me. In the article “Myth: Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought” Claude Levi-Strauss states that myths are relatives of legends. Legends are defined as “fantasized history”(Myth: Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought). Myths on the other hand are used to “wrestle with the fundamental and irreconcilable contradictions…

companies that is known worldwide today started in California during the Gold Rush. Levi Strauss was a merchant who arrived in California in 1853. Strauss began his career by beginning to make pants for gold field workers. Originally called “blue jeans,” they were highly demanded in the gold fields due to the fact that they would not tear when gold was put into the pockets, like other pants did. Today, Levi, Strauss & Co are among the top sellers of jeans and other apparel. They are a huge…