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    Why are spin offs typically terrible? The word itself has a negative connotation, epitomizing our notion of “too much of a good thing is in fact bad.” Everyone loved “Friends”, certainly, “Joey” will be a huge hit. Perhaps we feel that bit of nostalgia that brings back good memories of the original show, but for the most time we are left with the feeling that something is just a bit off, and it makes us uncomfortable. Just like your father cannot relive the glory days of his college years when he

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    In a time of both social and political tension in the United States, Gil Scott Heron left a massive impression as a musician and poet. Later earning the nickname, “The Godfather of Rap,” Heron played a major role in producing soul, jazz, and blues music that was associated with social and political issues in the United States during the 1970’s and 1980’s. Heron studied at Lincoln University, following in the footsteps of other prominent African American individuals such as Langston Hughes and Melvin

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    Nike Strategy

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    for a wide variety of sports including track and field, American football, baseball, basketball, tennis, soccer, lacrosse, tennis, and cricket. The most recent additions were shoes designed for skateboarding. Nike positions its products in such a way as to try to appeal to a youthful materialistic crowd. Nike is well known and popular in Youth culture, Chav Culture and Hip hop culture as they supply urban fashion clothing. Place - Nike sells

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    introducing one of the main characters. The school bell then rings, so the boy rushes out and jumps onto his skateboard. This gives you the impression that he is a typical American boy who hates school and likes video games and skateboarding, e.t.c… The camera then cuts to a man who is wearing safety gloves and handling chemicals, which indicates he is working. A whistle then blows, and the mans face lights up as he exits to the left. The eagerness he expresses to

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    The Travails of Nike

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    athletic shoes and sports apparel. It was founded on January 25th, 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Philip Knight and Bill Bowerman. It officially became Nike, Inc. in 1978. Currently their brands include Nike Golf, Nike Pro, Nike+, Air Jordan and Nike Skateboarding, while their subsidiaries are Cole Haan, Hurley International, Umbro and Converse. During this stage, the Nike brand has become so strong as to place it in the list of recession-proof consumer branded giants, in the company of Coca-Cola, Gillette

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    melbourne and spent most of his time living and working there with his new, growing family. In 2011, Luke was still working for magazines riding skateboards but then at that time Luke and his wife has their first child. Luke made the decision to quit skateboarding for magazines and spend more time with his family and start a full time freelance career on typography, which he loved doing and was very passionate about. Design Process: Luke’s design process normally starts off with a brief with 20 pages of

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    80s Research Paper

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    Jeffrey here for Channel [V]. Welcome back to another segment of ‘Songs of My Generation’. This week we’ll take a look back at the totally tubular 80s. The 80s was full of many things: Rubik’s Cubes, Wrestling, Pac Man, Lip Smackers, Nintendo, skateboarding, roller skating, Horror films, the BratPack, connect four, Tupperware parties, pop rocks, Weird Al Yankovic, who’s currently making a comeback FYI… and the list goes on! Horror films made their way onto the scene in the 80s with thousands flocking

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    Exercise 3c - Compare adidas AG versus Nike on Social Responsibility Corporate social responsibility is a commitment to improve community well-being through discretionary business practices and contribution of corporate resources. If you are employee in the company, it just likely that you are a manager or employee that have responsible for job scope. But, for corporate social responsiblility it is intended to make corporate managers, executives and the employess to work in surrounding of social

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    • Introduction Nike was found by Bill Bowerman, the legendary University of Oregon track & field coach together with Phil Knight, a University of Oregon business student and middle-distance runner under Bowerman. At the beginning Nike was found in January 1964 with the name of Blue Ribbon Sport (BRS). The first-year sales totaled was $ 8.000. In 1972, Nike was introduced by BRS as the new brand of athletic footwear, the name was for the Greek winged goddess of victory. The Nike's mission is

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    in to when he travelled to France. In the world of street art most artists try to keep themselves anonymous. Thierry got to introduce himself with many artists. For example, Shepard Fairey who was a very well-known artist that came from the skateboarding scene who knew Thierry’s cousin Invader. Invader then takes a trip to visit Thierry in Los Angles and goes to meet with Shepard Fairey. Thierry Matas

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