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Columbia Sportswear Born in Portland, Oregon in 1938 as a hat maker, Columbia Sportswear has been outfitting adventures for generations. Led by the mother-and-son of Gert and Tim Boyle, Columbia remains a family-run business, but one with a global reach as products are sold in approximately 100 countries. For many years, Gert Boyle was portrayed in the company’s advertising as “One Tough Mother,” defining the company for many people. In fact, “the current ‘tested tough’ campaign borrows from the original and builds on the idea for today’s outdoor adventures by connecting the brands built-in toughness to the conditions where Columbia Sportswear products are developed and tested” (experticity). Brand Awareness & Ad Campaigns Columbia Sportswear…

Geography is the study of the interaction between people within their environment at a place. It includes three factors: space, place, and environment. In this paper, I will first explain what those three factors entail. Then, I will relate the factors to Portland in detail. Finally, I will discuss the research a geographer would need to produce knowledge by exploration and observation in regards to a city. The central concepts of geography are the space, place, and environment. The three…

“What makes someone a trail blazer?” This question was posed to me by my mother when advised to expand my ideas when writing my essay. “What defines a trail blazer?” A trailblazer is defined as a pioneer and innovator. I was astonished to find that a word that is so influential to me would have two unstimulating words as its definition. So, I posed the question to myself “What makes me a trail blazer?”. My thoughts are a trail blazer is someone who creates their own pathway to success, while…

Oregon Episcopal School is a college prep school located in the suburbs of Portland Oregon (Speik, 1986). Included within their regular classes was their Basecamp Wilderness Education Program, designed, among other things, to give sophomores a chance to summit Mount Hood. The 1986 trip and attempt of summiting was scheduled for May 12th. According to Plummer in his article describing how the climb turned into a disaster, early that morning around 3:00 a.m. the group consisting of fifteen…

purpose. Although I came to the United States as a chaperon for my child, the result that I came across a good college and considerate people in Portland stimulates my curiosity about education, I take delight in studying education at Portland community College (PCC). The heart of my issue before I moved to the United States was where I should live. I couldn’t decide the best place to live just because of a famous city. Unlike a summer vacation, an environmental sustainability was significant…

interest due to the fact that the state of Oregon has always been an extremely fascinating place to me. Undoubtedly, Oregon state has numerous captivating forests that seem as if they were taken straight out of a fairy tale. I would absolutely adore spending a great portion of my life in a place with fairy tale forests that is also within a reasonable distance of the ocean. The University of Oregon was at first brought to my attention whilst doing research of the top schools for medical…

planning approach. Portland, Oregon is one of the few areas in the US that has adopted this approach (CSIRP). In 1990, Portland’s view of growing populations and cities changes and they began to realize impacts of…

Introduction The Maine Red Claws is becoming one of the major No matter the size of the organization, public relations departments are now focusing their attention the booming social media movement in Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, blogs, and many more. The Maine Red Claws had a impactful 2015-2016 season recording 31 wins and 19 losses ranking them as number 1 in the Atlantic division, and rank 2 in the eastern conference in the National Basketball Association development league(NBA…

Being as I’m made up of many races and ethnicities; my favorite one being Jamaican. It’s fair to say I’ve heard, and done plenty of research of the land of the Black, Green, and Gold. At the age of eight learning the whole Jamaican National Anthem, and citing it just about everyday since then. Knowing fun facts like the population of my dad’s hometown, Montego Bay, being 96,488 people. Also, people don't know Montego Bay wasn't considered a city until May 1st, 1981; seventeen years after my…

Now Dubai already has the world’s third-busiest international airport, with the growth of the movement of people. The government will invest more in infrastructure. The United Arab Emirates realizes the benefits from aviation industry; it becomes a crucial source of finance to this country so they will consider more about development of the aviation industry. The structure of industry： The aviation industry belongs to service sector in terms of transportation, but this industry also includes…