Victoria Beckham

The celebrity that this ad uses is David Beckham, a well known English soccer player and model. Consumers looking to buy the watch can find comfort in knowing that they will surely be considered a member of the upper class, since such a successful and prestiged man wears the watch too! Beckham is in fact using his aura to advertise this watch. Twitchell helped describe this when talking about Michael Jordan by saying…

Million Dollar Arm is based on a true story of how two young teenagers, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel became baseball pitchers who were discovered by sports agent name J.B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition. It all started when J.B and his business partner, Ash lose a huge client. J.B then struggles and in desperate to find new clients. He came up with an idea of travelling to India of hosting a contest called “Million Dollar Arm” hoping to find the next great baseball pitcher. J…

Amrita Bhandari English 1001 Scott Keels 10/12/ 2015 Bend It Like Beckham Gurinder Chadha, director, author, and producer of Bend It Like Beckham (2002), focuses on sports named soccer. In this popular movie, she also shows British and Indian culture and their lifestyles. According to Graham, the title refers to David Beckham, the star of the Manchester United soccer team, the husband of one of the Spice Girls, and his ability to bend the ball. The title is metaphorical and the main character of…

I am an environmental consultant for EcoFrame, a small-scale company in Victoria, British Columbia. EcoFrame was founded in 2010 by a group of PhD graduates in order to tackle restoration issues on Vancouver Island. Our vision at EcoFrame is to educate, engage, reclaim and restore while keeping ecological and social wellbeing in mind. This report, commissioned by the University of Victoria (UVic), outlines plans and suggestions for the long-term management of Mystic Vale on the university’s…

Lake Victoria (LV) is the largest tropical lake and has experience a series of changes in dynamics. In the 1970s most of the fisheries were artisanal and was mostly Cichlids, and then LV was converted to a multimillion dollar commercial fishery and was about 90% of the fishing exports in volume and value when the Nile Perch was introduced to LV. This interest the fisheries because the different governments that have jurisdiction of LV incented the move to a more commercial fishing by licensing…

In today’s society, the idea of becoming a mother at the young age of nineteen is a difficult thing to imagine. At this age, you're just beginning your young adult life, funds are sparse, and motherhood is a very big responsibility. The number of orphaned children throughout the world is astounding, the Amazima organization founded by Katie Davis has made great strides in diminishing the number or orphaned, uneducated children. Despite these odds, Katie Davis decided to take on the role of…

To the Environmental Protection Agency, As you are aware of, there is a rising threat that was introduced over 50 years ago in Lake Victoria. The massive and ravenous fish, Nile Perch was released by humans into Lake Victoria and was introduced to improve the fishing economy. They were brought from other African lakes like Lake Albert or Lake Turkana which the Nile Perch is indigenous to. According to National Geographic The Nile Perch was inserted into an ecosystem where it had no natural…

This term, my group for the Eco Action project decided to undertake a garbage cleanup in hopes of making our targeted area garbage-free by the end of our three-month timespan. We decided to do our cleanup in Mystic Vale, a forest southeast of the University of Victoria’s campus. My group—which consisted of Cole, Matt and Jed—aimed to influence others by eliminating the garbage in the forest, which would make others less inclined to litter. Although we face many challenges throughout the term, in…

Mexico has many unique celebrations just like every other country does. Different traditions and value are what distinguish each country from one another. For Instance, In Mexico. Holidays such as Halloween, Christmas, and Independence Day are celebrated. However, they are celebrated differently cultural wise as well as the day the holiday is celebrated. Catholic celebrations, such as Three Kings Day and Day of our Lady of Guadalupe are also celebrated. Dia de los Muertos, also known as Day of…

Abstract The Nile perch was introduced to Lake Victoria, Africa in 1954 to counteract the drastic drop in native fish stocks caused by overfishing (Lowe 2000). ¨They originally comprised 80% of the total fish biomass in Lake Victoria, but have now decreased to less than 1% offish catches from the Kenyan waters of the lake¨ (Lowe 2000). A 2003 study in the journal Nature examined algae records from the bottom of Lake Tanganyika and found that over the last century, warming waters have driven down…