National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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    The Real Awareness of Pink Ribbon Month: A critique of Robin Hilmantel’s “The Problem with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” Even though breast cancer is an important issue in today’s society and there are different organizations and charities that raise money for breast cancer; the pink ribbon is something that causes a variety of problems. In her article “The Problem with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month,” Robin Hilmantel makes an effective argument and uses pathos to reach out to

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    diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime (thebrayonline). It's the most common cancer in woman and is also the second leading cause of cancer death among women. Every year it’s estimated that over 252,710 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40,500 will die (NationalBreastCancer.org). Women are diagnosed with breast cancer every 2 minutes and 1 woman will die from breast cancer every 13 minutes (NationalBreastCancer.org). Breast cancers tend to mostly

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    Breast Cancer Advertisements 1) Criteria for Comparison Cancer that starts in the tissues of the breast is known as breast cancer. Breast cancer is a potentially deadly disease that is one of the major causes of cancer related deaths among women. One woman in fourteen will contract breast cancer during her lifetime and one in twenty one will die of it (Fallowfield, & Clark 1991). The national breast cancer awareness is vastly known throughout the entire month of October in the United States. The

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    noted in ch 4, Sports Marketing by Sam Fullerton (Sports, Entertainments, Causes, Art, Festival, and Association). I will also identify one of the five primary objectives of sponsorship for each category (drive sales, improve image, create greater awareness, provide hospitality opportunities, enhance employee morale). I will evaluate whether these sponsors and sponsees are a good fit. And will they be successful for the sponsor. For sports, I will be looking at the NBA as the sponsee and Pepsi Co

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    Attention getter: About 85% of breast cancers occur in women who have NO (make sure to emphasize) family history of breast cancer. This disease occurs mainly in women but men can also get it. b. Why should we care? According to (Bender, 2012) 40,000 women and approximately 390 men will die this year from breast cancer. Cancer does not discriminate; it could be someone you know. It could be you. c. d. According to breastcancer.org, Breast Cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide and the

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    and they mourn those who have fought Breast Cancer. October is the month dedicated to raising awareness of the disease and finding ways to educate the public, while creating funds to further the research of the Breast Cancer, but most of all it's about supporting those fighting everyday. One in eight women have the chance to develop breast cancer according to the American Cancer Society. The same organization states that 40,610 women will die of breast cancer each year. One in eight means there are

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    noted in ch 4, Sports Marketing by Sam Fullerton (Sports, Entertainments, Causes, Art, Festival, and Association). I will also Identify one of the five primary objectives of sponsorship for each category (drive sales, improve image, create greater awareness, provide hospitality opportunities, enhance employee morale). I will evaluate whether, these sponsors and sponsees are a good fit .And will they be successful for the sponsor. For sports is will be looking at the NBA as the sponsee and its new

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    Breast Cancer has seemed to be popularized in the more recent years by society. We have seen trends evolve from trying to bring attention to this deadly cancer. When we see the color pink we automatically associate it to the popular movement trying to bring awareness to this cancer; heck we even have a whole month dedicated to it. But is this enough? Does professional sports teams wearing pink arm bands and catchy shirts saying “save the tatas” really motivate women to be aware of the symptoms that

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    Redo The Buy Nothing Day was organized in Canada in 1992 to encourage people to freeze their purchasing “as a way to increase awareness of excessive consumerism”. It is not considered as a splendid idea and it would not be acceptable in the American society today. As there has become an increment of random days the actual value and implications of non-celebrated modern purposeful days has dropped dramatically. Although this event has been holding annually over the past 22 years in many nations to

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    Case Analysis Introduction The Desmond Tutu Center is in need of knowledge regarding successful awareness campaigns. Research must be conducted in other areas to determine what has worked for other organizations with similar goals, weaknesses and possible threats. This will guide the campaign in the right direction and help the creators of the campaign to make it more specific while maintaining sight of the original objectives. The cases that are picked must have some relativeness to the topic

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