Soft skills

A health crisis has been taking place with the excessive selling of food products that have an excess of calories and no nutritional value. This is the case of beverages that contain high amounts of sweeteners and whose consumption has increased progressively in the last decades. This increase is partly due to many people prefer to drink a can of soda to accompany their meals or refresh their thirst, instead of preparing a natural juice or drinking water. This reality has made these drinks…

In Transformers Age of Extinction the product placement was overall effective in changing viewer’s ideas about the product. The Budweiser was effectively placed in large part due to the emotions that the product played on. The beer was placed in Budweiser’s American flag can, and the beer was served in the main character’s workshop. The main character drove a vintage American made truck, was a hard worker, and struggled to make ends meet. By connecting the workshop scenery with an “all-American”…

In order for Big Rock to enact its future strategic objectives, they must determine whether to position itself as a premium or craft beer. Since their inception, Big Rock marketed itself as a craft brewery, but in a 2015 market research survey, consumers positioned Big Rock in between craft and premium (1). Interestingly, the delineation between premium and craft beer is not readily apparent. While the Brewers Association has created a definition of craft brewers as being “small, independent,…

New research suggests that excess sugar, particularly the fructose in sugary drinks can potentially damage your brain. Researchers found that people who drink sugary beverages frequently often are more probable to have poorer memory, smaller brain size (volume), due to having a much smaller hippocampus, which is a part of the brain that is crucial for learning and memory. According to a follow-up study, it was found that people who drank diet soda daily were almost three times as likely to…

In Hardin county Tennessee,1850, the son of James Henry, a past Confederate soldier,and Mary Jane Grove was born. His name was Edwin Wiley Grove who would, by the time of his success, be referred to as E.W. Grove. Little did Mary nor James know that their son would become a successful entrepreneur in the fields of medicine and in many others. commons.wikimedia.org After Edwin made a move to Memphis Tennessee he began to study the field that had intrigued him,pharmacy. Once he’d completed years…

After Pemberton's death, the business belongs to Atlanta businessman Asa Griggs Candler with rights for a total of about $2,300 (about £1,500). So Candler would become Coca-Cola’s first president and the first who build and innovate business and the brand of Coca-Cola. Candler found brilliant and innovative ways to introduce them to this exciting new refreshment. He hired traveling salesmen to pass out coupons for a free Coke. The goal was for people to try the drink and purchase it after that.…

The way my friends and family described Texas was incredible. They described every single detail about this “Lone Star State” with so much love and pride! I also did some research and found out some very interesting things that made me love Texas even more. Texas is the second largest state in the United States Alaska being first. Most of the people who live in Texas consider themselves Texans not Americans. When other states think of Texas they think about everyone owning 5 pairs of boots,…

When you put Mentos in Diet Coke, the surface of the Mento allows carbon dioxide bubbles to form, as this happens the Diet Coke “explodes” out of the bottle (Hiskey). This reaction can result in large geysers of Diet Coke. As the Mentos candy sinks, carbon dioxide bubbles form on the surface, more and more bubbles from until they eventually shoot out of the bottle (Science Buddies). This experiment is well known and many people have done it before, but most do not know the reactions that cause…

James Walton's latest creation is being touted as the most expensive bottle of beer ever produced, thanks to its artistry in each bottle. James Walton, owner of Storm Brewing and often referred to as the "mad scientist" in Canada created Glacial Mammoth Extinction beer. This special beer might imper your wallet as each bottle costs $1,000. Glacial Mammoth Extinction is a sour beer, but it's not the taste that makes it pricey but the packaging itself. Each bottle was crafted by a "Vancouver…

The purpose of this experiment was to be able to identify certain substances that the Armadillidium vulgare is attracted to or would be likely to move towards. The substances were three different liquids and three different solids. Another purpose of the lab was to learn the characteristics of an Armadillidium vulgare also known as a pillbug (Mader, 2013). The main topic was based on whether the pillbug would be attracted to certain substances, and the reason they’re attracted to it. The pillbug…