| | | | | | | | INTRODUCTION This preliminary project scope statement defines the scope of The Toronto Sun Caribana Parade Project. The project deals with managing a major sponsorship event for the Toronto sun and its presence in the city’s annual caribana parade, on Aug 2, 2008 at 10:00AM. The main challenge is to make the company’s float a success. The Toronto sun earned its place in the parade as the primary media sponsor for the event. Pulling the company’s float from the biggest event in the city would mean gaining valuable marketing exposure. PRODUCT & PROJECT OBJECTIVES Project objective is to manage Toronto Sun’s involvement at the Caribana Festival before August 2, 2008 (within 40 days) which includes:- …show more content…
* Scope Constraint The project has many deliverables dependent on many stakeholders (internal & external). * Cost Constraint Cost not to be exceeded by $400 cash and contra advertisements only. PROJECT REQUIREMENTS & DELIVERABLES S.No. | DELIVERABLE | REQUIREMENT | 1 | Float | Design & Assembly of Float | 2 | Banners | Color & Placement of Banners on Float | 3 | Truck Driver | Must be available for minimum 08:00hrs on the day of parade | 4 | T-Shirt | Bright Colored T-Shirts with “Toronto Sun Caribana” written on it. | 5 | Waivers | Appropriate Volunteer Waiver Forms for legal department/requirements. | 6 | Giveaways | Assorted Candies, Whistles and Necklace (Mardi Gras) | 7 | Entertainers | Requirement of Live Band/DJ Radio/Pre-recorded Music | 8 | Truck/Tractor/Trailer | Must have a safe and easy access place for keeping giveaways. | 9 | Volunteer Kits | Snack food including Granola Bars & Fruit, Sunscreen, Water Bottle. | PROJECT ORGANISATION CHART INITIAL DEFINED RISKS Bad Weather Delay in float preparation Driver doesn’t show up Fire on float Flat tire of float Less volunteers show up Delay in banners Less sponsors for contra advertisements Delay in FMC Permission Delay in t-shirts and wrong printing/wrong color used SCHEDULE MILESTONES Volunteer Management Entertainment & Materials Sign In of float by FMC Float design completion INITIAL WORK BREAKDOWN
This essay will discuss Justin Trudeau’s interview in the Ottawa Citizen, titled “Q and A: Why Justin Trudeau says he’s the real alternative”, where he shares his plan to increase taxation on the rich in order to give the middle class a tax break. This plan is in response to the larger issue of income inequality in Canada. Analysing the income inequality from a liberal “justice as fairness” perspective, one can conclude that Justin Trudeau is taking the correct action, as taxation on the rich is in compliance with the two principles of justice as described by John Rawls.
QMDS400 The Toronto Sun and Caribana Case Study Project Content 1. Objective 3 2. Work Breakdown Strcture 3 3.
Baldrey highlights the fair's contribution to the Canadian economy and its economic impact on young people, the memories, and celebrated events that occur at the PNE which creates a sense of community. Furthermore, Baldrey discussed the problem PNE is currently facing, the changing weather patterns and how changing the fair's date may impact other fairs.
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An economic impact study was conducted on the festival to show that the city was receiving a great come back for its investment. On the other hand, a survey was proposed to gather information from the local population to determine whether the festival was a quality community event and whether it was generating spending by attracting non-local and out-of-state visitors. The research team piloted an economic impact analysis with importance on the total value added to the community through expanded spending and the city’s tax collections through the event. The team also measured the level of satisfaction that the event participants had to determine the percentage of repeat visitors. However, the study rediscovered that 34,000 visitors spent an estimated $7.32 million with local vendors on many goods and services during the festival. The positive economic impact, favorable reviews by attendees, number of return visitors, and variety of attractions that festival goers selected indicated that this even is both a successful economic stimulus and an effective community development
Family is such a central aspect of all of our lives that it affects us in both negative and positive ways, as is seen with the characters in Jandy Nelson’s novel, I’ll Give You the Sun. In this novel, two twins are the focus, but all the characters are intertwined within each other as they have all crossed paths at one point, not realizing it until the end of the story. Before diving into the relationships among them though, it is important to note that this story is told in a unique way in that it is told from different periods of time from the two twins -- so that neither character knows the full story of their lives until the end.
With its inception in 2004, the Writers at Woody Point Festival have become an ever increasingly popular annual literature festival for Newfoundland’s west coast. The festival has grown each year and has now reached the point where council believes a formal marketing strategy and plan is necessary for the festivals short and long term economic sustainability in the ever-increasingly competitive literature festival market. To create the marketing strategy for the festival, analysis will include looking at the events strengths and weaknesses, as well as its opportunities and threats in its external environment. Viable options will then be considered that will dismiss managements
“That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner is a good example of a great emotional turmoil transferred directly to the readers through the words of a narrator who does not seem to grasp the severity of the turmoil. It is a story of an African American laundress who lives in the fear of her common-law husband Jesus who suspects her of carrying a white man's child in her womb and seems hell bent on killing her.
Over the last several years the Writers at Woody Point Festival has expanded. Discussions from the board of directors meeting held in the last week of January 2011 highlighted the need, in light of this expansion, to develop a marketing plan that can guide the event for the next three to five years. The festival could provide long-term economic sustainability for Woody Point and the other nearby communities. With this in mind this report will propose a marketing plan and propose marketing communications recommendations.
The proliferation of events, and event-producing agencies, has resulted in the need for the performance of events to be evaluated more stringently. Event managers and planners are now being called upon more often to prepare comprehensive post-event evaluations with detailed accounts of the impacts of the event. As many special events require financial assistance from governments and businesses in order to be staged, post-event evaluations are required by such agencies that need to assess the value of their investments. Evaluation is also required by event organisers who need to justify their activities to a diverse set of stakeholders, which includes sponsors, funding agencies, economic and tourism development agencies, special interest groups, and the
In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is a lost man who wastes his life on drinking. Towards the beginning of the book Robert Cohn asks Jake, “Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize that you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” Jake weakly answers, “Yes, every once in a while.” The book focuses on the dissolution of the post-war generation and how they cannot find their place in life. Jake is an example of a person who had the freedom to choose his place but chose poorly.
In That Evening Sun, William Faulkner approaches the story through an anecdotal style that gives meaning to the story. The narrator uses the anecdote that happened to him to convey the story’s underlying meaning that people are restricted by social class and race, not realizing this meaning himself at the time. The era of racism pertains to the meaning of the story, discussing the aversion of southern white people to help those different from them, focusing on the restrictions that society has placed on social class and race separation and the desire to maintain the division.
"One generation passeth away, the passage from Ecclesiates began, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. The sun also ariseh…"(Baker 122). A Biblical reference forms the title of a novel by Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s, portraying the lives of the American expatriates living in Paris. His own experience in Paris has provided him the background for the novel as a depiction of the 'lost generation'.
The sun is the largest object in the solar system. It is a middle-sized star and there are many other stars out in the universe just like it. Even though it is only a middle-sized star it is large enough to hold over 1 million Earth’s inside if it were hollow. The temperature on the sun is far too much for any living thing to bear. On the surface it is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit and the core is a stunning 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit. But don’t worry we are over 90,000 million miles away, the sun could never reach us, at least not yet. The sun is a still a middle aged star and later in its life it will become a Red Giant. In this stage it will get bigger, and closer to us causing a temperature increase and most likely the
Looking down the list, another thing becomes immediately clear — all of the events sound awesome.