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Library Research The concept behind torsion spring powered alternative energy vehicles can be understood through a widely used high school physics experiment—the mousetrap car model (Roberts & Gonzalez-Espada, 2006, p. 15). The mousetrap model is very straightforward (Jumper, 2012, p. 137). A bow with a lever arm is installed in the model car, and this lever arm is then connected to the car’s rear axle with string. At rest, when potential energy is at its lowest, the lever arm is leaning…

Misty Danielle Copeland was born on September 10, 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri. Even though she was born in Kansas City, she was raised in San Pedro, California. Misty was very late in starting ballet studies, but it didn’t stop her. Usually, ballerinas start studying when they are three or four, but Misty was thirteen when she took her first ballet class. When she unlocked the magical world of ballet, Misty was coping with the fact she was living in a shabby motel room with her five siblings…

Background: Lego was found by a Danish man named Ole Kirk Kristiansen in 1932. He started with wooden toys as he was with a strong sense of craftsmanship. He then passed the company on to his son and grandson. In 1946 they bought the first plastic injection molding machine to make his toys. However, the plastic toys was not popular as people still prefered wooden toys until 1960 that Lego decided to finally abandoned wooden toys’ production to Plastic completely after the devastating warehouse…

The purpose of this report is: to analyze the most relevant effects of the film Blackfish to SeaWorld, how those effects have affected SeaWorld’s business, management, and shareholders, and finally, determine if SeaWorld’s response to the film is enough. Soon after Blackfish was released, the controversy started. Since the beginning, PETA has been one of the most persistent issues for SeaWorld; using different tactics and technology, PETA managed to reach thousands of people that rise against…

camp sites. The Film and Television industry has succeeded to create multiple stereotypes over the years like the “smart Asian” and the “gangster African American” and have generalized these populations to give them one inaccurate image. Hasbro and Mattel are experts at creating the perfect toy. As a result, girls have been taught to be different from boys from the moment they are born. When taking a walk down any Target or Walmart store, it is not hard to tell the girl’s toy aisle from the…

Assignment – KAZOOS business plan Introduction: Kazoo is a clear service oriented toy shop located in Denver, Colorado launched in 1998; Kazoo & Company was bought by Mrs. Diana Nelson. Diana Nelson has decided to become a good entrepreneur by buying a business instead of starting from the scratch. She can cashed out her retirement account, and got a bank loan, and borrowed money from her father and put the money on a bank credit card, and she says: I gambled everything to buy…

for roles they will take on as adults. Barbie’s teach young girls to have a desire to be thin, and strive for a body like her. This is substantially represented in the critical essay where a new type of Barbie was produced, “In the 1960s, toymaker Mattel released ‘Slumber Party Barbie’ along with combs, hair rollers and a sleeping bag. This Barbie set included a scale permanently stuck at 110 lbs, and a small book titled “How to Lose Weight”. The only words written in the book were the…

The Barbie Anomaly The success of Barbie as a meme in owed to her creator Ruth Handler. She was married to the co-owner of renowned toy company Mattel, and avid in the business and brought many ideas of success to her husband’s desk. Her greatest idea began when she saw her daughter Barbara playing with a paper doll. She decided that a three-dimensional plastic doll with an adult body would much more enjoyable for kids. Her idea was put on hold, though, because her husband and his partner…

From the Mattel toy models that young little girls admired on shelves of toy stores and human doll transformations videos that are popular on the internet, Barbie and many other plastic heroines have made a huge influence on today’s modern women. Marge Piercy’s poem, “Barbie Doll”, explores the awkward obstacles of puberty and the pressures of reaching the standards of beauty and acceptance. This story of a young normal girl being conformed into the lifestyle of being “perfect” is a true…

Within the field of Social Psychology, the most agreed upon age at which children form and begin to follow cultural stereotypes is age five (Psychology Today). Mattel Inc., the company that owns Barbie, starts marketing their dolls to children ages three and up. As more than a doll, as a role model and a representation of the ideal woman, Barbie’s form, perceived values, and lack of authenticity create a complicated paradox between celebrating diversity, perpetuating colonialism, and sexualizing…