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L.L. Bean, Inc., 2004.
This paper discusses the marketing case of the L.L. Bean Company, which operates on three channels, including catalog, Internet, and retail stores.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 101.95
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This paper explains that L.L. Bean experienced a slight decline in growth because of increasing competition and other market forces, which requires more research about the existing business to decide the proper strategies. The author points out that L.L. Bean's emphasis on customer service sets it apart from some other catalog companies and helps in its marketing. The paper stresses that inventory management is a key issue that must be addressed because goods now are shipped ready for the direct channel and not for the retail channel; therefore, a dual flow system in which the goods are sent ready-for-sale to retail centers would eliminate time and costs for a considerable savings of about $.95 a unit.
Table of Contents
The Problem
L.L. Bean Overview
Background
Retail Clothing Industry - Overview
L.L. Bean's Strategies
Case Situation
Alternatives
Evaluation
Implementation
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"L.L. Bean dedicated to the sale of outdoor wear, clothing for hunters, campers, and those who want to commune with the great outdoors. The company is known for is outerwear, sportswear, house wares, footwear, camping and hiking gear, fishing gear, and the Maine hunting shoe that served as the company's first big success. The company sells through retail outlets and has five retail and sixteen factory outlets in the United States, as well as nine additional stores in Japan. The main means of selling, however, is through its more than 200 million catalogs sent out each year. The company also has an online presence in both English and Japanese, bringing the catalog into the computer age for the company founded in 1912."
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L.L. Bean and Land?s End: The Impact of Internet Sales, 2004.
Thesis paper studying the effects internet sales have had on the market of two companies, L.L. Bean and Land's End.
1,868 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 86.95
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The thesis of this paper contends that internet sales of L.L. Bean and Land's End have impacted their apparel market. The paper attempts to demonstrate this thesis by examining the sales record, corporate image, and customer relationships of both companies since commencing with a web presence.
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"In order to determine the degree to which L.L. Bean and Lands? End have been successful in further evolving and establishing their traditional catalog and retail store customer base to the online shopping world, one measure have success may be evidence of customer satisfaction in addition to customer purchases. According to Hill (2002), when attempting to determine the degree to which customers are satisfied with an online shopping experience, the best measure of customer satisfaction is the likelihood that a customer will return to the site to shop again. While some have suggested that customer relationships are best understood by examining a group of attributes, including use of email and other channels to connect with the company, the real indicator of customer satisfaction is the degree to which they will make online purchases from the company on a repeat basis."
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X-L Clothing, 2008.
An outside consultant's view on the business situation of X-L clothing.
1,149 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 57.95
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The paper discusses the problem of declining revenues of X-L Clothing but adds that it has the potential to become a market force in the world's largest country, and explore one of the international community's greatest, untapped and expanding markets. The paper discusses the various options for improvement and concludes that an expanded advertising budget will secure the X-L brand, help distinguish X-L against inferior imitators and competitors, and create product loyalty amongst the young. Many young people will be trying different outdoor sports for the first time, and it is essential that, when they do, they do so using X-L products.
Outline:
Key Issues: Sales Revenues
List of Alternatives
Increasing Advertising: Pros and Cons
Discontinuing Brand: Largely Cons
R&D Expansion: Some Pros, Mostly Cons
Final Recommendation: Increase Advertising
From the Paper
". But the Chinese market, even its most affluent members, is not likely to be encompassed by the highest end consumers when viewed in an international context, as compared to elite hikers in the United States, Australia, or Great Britain. Consumers are only beginning to explore the outdoors, and are likely still focusing on the basics, still learning to consume like capitalist sportsmen and women. Some R&D is always necessary, but this should not be the primary focus of the company, nor where it places the majority of its funds at this juncture of its history in China."
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Teaching Multiplication Using "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", 2008.
A discussion of how Cindy Neuschwander's book, "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", may help in teaching children multiplication.
1,175 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 58.95
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This paper proposes an effective new approach to teaching students in Grades 4 to 6 multiplication, using Cindy Neuschwander's, book "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", which features the concept of multiplication as a shorter way to find an answer than counting. The paper explains that the book's approach involves teaching the children why one needs to learn the multiplication tables, since children are often preoccupied with the reasons they are asked to do things. The paper also explains that the book places emphasis on applying math to everyday real-life situations that children can relate to. To conclude, the paper maintains that "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream" will help to motivate children towards learning multiplication by making it into something fun.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
A Three-Part Lesson Plan
Exploration
Overview
Conclusion
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"Children in Grades 4 to 6 are more given to questioning and this can become a device in postponing work sessions, in asking why something is undertaken. Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream has appealing illustrations reinforcing the idea of a world of many particularities. Using the example above, if a city neighbourhood has 200 televisions in about 200 dwellings but the class estimates that there are perhaps 50 to 75 dogs, what does this tell us about how people live?
"Flash cards indicating equations of 5 x 6, for instance, or 7 x 2, should be incorporated into the day at more than one point. Most children can attend to a focused lesson but will welcome the card's reappearance, later on, as a very old method of 'saturation' that also helps to break up the day. The teacher makes the reminder that times tables are learned a little at a time beyond formal efforts to memorize tables in printed form, till students do not need to think each time but realize they can recall more equations. The teacher should state that no one learns them perfectly, this human touch of stating which table she may have to pause and think through each time helping the task of memorization seem less daunting."
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Francis L. Sampson, 2004.
An analysis of the life of World War II veteran, Francis L. Sampson.
712 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 37.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the life of Francis L. Sampson, World War II veteran. The paper presents the biography of Paratrooper Francis L. Sampson during World War II. The paper explains that Father Sampson was an ordained Catholic priest, a paratrooper and an Army chaplain, who rose through the ranks to become a Major General during his Army service. The paper examines what happened when Paratrooper Sampson was taken prisoner by the Germans during World War II.
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"Francis L. Sampson was born in Cherokee, Iowa on February 29, 1919. He graduated from Notre Dame University in 1937, and entered St. Paul's Seminary located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he studied to be a Catholic priest. He was ordained as a priest in 1941, and worked as a priest briefly until 1942, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a chaplain. By 1943 he had completed Army chaplain school and joined the 501st Parachute Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division, as the regimental chaplain, a position he held until the end of the war. Sampson was well liked, as his official Army biography notes, he was "'one of the most respected and best-loved officers in the Regiment,' while S.L.A. Marshall in Night Drop, portrays Sampson as 'a jolly man, deeply loved by the Regiment'" (Hourihan). The 101st was one of the regiments that parachuted into France during the Invasion of Normandy, or D-Day."
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Lockheed?s L-1011 Tri Star Program, 2005.
A look at the Lockheed L-1011 Tri Star program and if it was a financially sound undertaking.
3,082 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 130.95
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This paper presents a history of the Lockheed L-1011 Tri Star program and uses a break even and cost of capital analysis to see if the program should have been started considering the risk involved. The paper also deals with the politics and competition involved surrounding commercial aircraft development and manufacturing.
Table of Contents
Lockheed Martin's Tri Star Program
Lockheed's Break-Even Analysis for the L-1011
Cost of Capital
Conclusion
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"In the break-even analysis introduced by U.E Reinhardt in The Journal of Finance, the Lockheed L-1011 Tri Star program is scrutinized for its viability. Many of the article's ideas stem from the 1971 Congressional hearings concerning the emergency loan guarantee legislation. At the time, Lockheed was experiencing a liquidity crisis and large cost overruns on several military contracts. The Department of Defense refused to absorb these additional costs, forcing Lockheed to seek a federal guarantee for $250 million of additional bank credit for the completion of the L-1011 Tri Star program."
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Case Study: "Beans of the World", 2005.
This paper analyzes the case study of "Beans of the World, Incorporated" regarding changes in their human resource practices.
1,810 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 84.95
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This paper explains that "Beans of the World" is not able to meet their desired production quality or quantities because of their substandard hiring practices and their inability to motivate their employees. The author recommends that "Beans of the World" stops hiring anyone who walks in the door and instead develops an effective and efficient recruitment method such as the use of the Internet. The paper advises that an employee appraisal system can achieve a number of benefits including benchmarking performance, identifying improvement areas, setting goals, discovering desire for development in employees and improving communication, all of which are key to employee motivation.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Problem Statement
Background of Facts
Analysis of Problems
Recommendations
Conclusion
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""Beans of the World Incorporated" manufacturers commercial and private coffee machines. Over the course of the last five years, they have grown from a small company to a medium-sized one, through several purchases and mergers. They have the ability to develop and introduce new, marketable products, as demonstrated by the introduction of 'The Heavenly Coffee Machine'. The introduction, of this new product, caught the attention of one of Australia's largest electronic retailers, Franklin Electric. A presentation and contract was hastily given and entered into. "Beans of the World", however, was ill prepared to fulfill the obligations of the contract."
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Luther L. Terry, 2002.
A discussion of Luther L. Terry and his anti-smoking campaign.
2,093 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper evaluates the work of Luther L.Terry who was Surgeon General of the United States during the Kennedy Administration and the first part of the Johnson Administration, from 1961 to 1965. He was prominent in taking the lead in public health issues and ruffling feathers in many American industries. This paper examines his famous report on smoking and its dangers in 1964, now known as Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, which lead to the greater prominence of anti-tobacco forces, the warnings on cigarette packages, the banning of cigarette ads on television and radio and recently court and legislative actions taken against the tobacco industry after decades of resistance. It shows how this was the first official recognition that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer and how attitudes towards smoking were changed forever.
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"For most of its history, the office of Surgeon General was non-controversial. That would change with Luther L. Terry and his smoking report and recommendations, though interestingly Terry was not the first Surgeon General to address this question. Surgeon General Hugh Cumming in 1929 stated that "cigarettes tended to cause nervousness, insomnia, and other ill effects in women" and "warned that smoking could lower the 'physical tone' of the nation" (Parascandola 440). Cumming's challenge to smoking was rather weak. It was directed only at women smokers, for one thing, for it was generally accepted at the time that women are more susceptible than men to certain injuries to the nervous system."
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Carl L. Becker, 2002.
A discussion of the life and theories of the historian Carl L. Becker.
2,084 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper examines how Carl L. Becker was one of the most eminent American historians of the early 20th century. It looks at how his long and distinguished career and his impressive list of scholarly monographs alone qualify him as an important figure in the development of historical understanding and how his contributions to historical methodology were equally weighty. It shows how Becker was a progressive historian and how his historical analyses tended to focus on how historical process lead to later development and how these later developments could indeed be seen in the earlier historical precedents. He saw history as defined solely by the store of knowledge that we have about a historical event.
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"Becker?s work was typically presented in book format, and, while in his early work, especially, he presented his work in ways that were meant to be scholarly and academic, his work was to have a much broader popular appeal as well. As a progressive historian, much of Becker?s concern was in reevaluating history and in occasionally examining social movements that were not culturally dominant in considering how they also affected history. As a result of his interest in action and untold narrative, Becker has a tendency to bias these elements in his later work. Often, he focuses on how events have continued to be significant today, rather than focusing on their unique historical importance of the time. Similarly, he is often willing to privilege the untold history of a movement that had not received what he considered to be a significant enough amount of historical attention over received historical narratives that were commonly accepted."
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Dwight L. Moody, 2005.
A look at the life and career of evangelist and speaker, Dwight L. Moody.
2,920 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 125.95
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This paper sketches Dwight L. Moody's life and career from the age of ten until his death. The paper describes the significant events that attracted Moody to mass evangelism, his success in his field, and his final days.
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"In 1856, the second year after his conversion, Moody went to Chicago, where he joined the Plymouth Congregational Church and became a very vigorous Christian worker, putting his soul and energy into the work of winning men to Christ. Moody's great Sunday school work was achieved before he was more than twenty-three years of age. With all his work for Christ he had no idea of entering the ministry until he found that souls were being directed to Christ by his hard work. Mr. Moody decided to go to Great Britain in 1867 and learn the system of Christian work used in that country. It was in this first visit to Britain that Moody heard the words which set him yearning and thirsting after a profound Christian experience and which indicated a new period in his life. Moody had a continuous desire for an expansion of his own spiritual life and experience. He had been very much made use of God, but thought that there were much better things in store for him. For him the year 1871 was a crucial one."
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E. L. Doctorow?s ?Ragtime?.
This paper discusses the theme of social distinction in E. L. Doctorow's "Ragtime".
1,060 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 54.95
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This paper explains that E. L. Doctorow, in "Ragtime," brings to light the fact that social distinctions and prejudice have always permeated American society. The author points out that, early in the novel, Doctorow writes that New Yorkers despised the immigrants because they were "filthy and illiterate". The paper relates that, through the characters of Evelyn, Emma, Tateh, and Coalhouse, the lives of many were shaped by their heritage, where they were born, or how much money they had, conditions that have an impact on almost every aspect of life, as these characters illustrate.
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"Emma is a revolutionary character that causes Evelyn to think about her life. Emma is more concerned about making a difference than she is being subtle or nice. She tells Evelyn she was nothing more than a "clever prostitute" who was a "creature of capitalism" (49). Evelyn does not discard what Emma tells her but instead listens and eventually becomes a liberated woman. With Emma's character, we can understand the difficulty women faced during this era in American history. Because these two very different women are able to relate to each other, we can better relate to them. Emma makes it a point to tell Evelyn that they are not as different as she believes."
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"World War II" by C.L. Sulzberger, 2002.
A book report on C.L. Sulzberger's "World War II".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 51.95
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This paper is in the form of a book report on "World War II" by military historian C.L. Sulzberger, and focuses upon the Allied strategy behind Operation Overlord and the campaign that led to the defeat of Adolf Hitler and the Axis Powers in 1944-1945.
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Chives: Allium schoenoprasum L., 2008.
An analysis of the characteristics and uses of the plant known as chive or Allium schoenoprasum L.
1,219 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 60.95
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This paper discusses the plant known as chive or Allium schoenoprasum L. The paper first discusses the plant's physical characteristics and biological and chemical make-up. The paper then discusses chives in terms of food and flavor and then analyzes its medicinal uses. Finally, the paper looks at the hazards that are associated with chives, including toxicity and allergic reaction.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Physical Characteristics
Distribution (USDA database)
Biology
Cultivation
Chemistry
Food and Flavor
Medicinal Use
Anti-tumor Properties
Anti-oxidative Properties
Allergenic Extracts
Biological Control in Gardens
Environmental Use
Hazards
Toxicity
Allergic Reaction
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"Cultivation of chives is relatively easy because the plants are hardy and can grow in a broad range of environmental conditions. They can grow in different kinds of soil, from sandy, to loamy to heavy clay. However, the soil should be moist but well-drained. Chives can grow in a broad range of soil pH from acidic soil, to neutral or and even in highly alkaline soil. They thrive in areas with semi-shade or direct sunlight."
"Bulbs or seeds should be planted in early spring and bulbs should be planted deeply. Bulbs grow in clumps and have to be divided 3 to 4 times a year. Because they are perennial plants and resistant to frost, they can be planted outside and the leaves can be harvested the whole year round."
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Thomas L. Friedman's "The Lexus and the Olive Tree", 2007.
This paper reviews Thomas L. Friedman's book about globalization, "The Lexus and the Olive Tree".
2,020 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 91.95
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This paper explains that Thomas L. Friedman's interesting title for his book "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" was taken from two conflicting concepts: The Lexus represents globalization; whereas, the olive tree represents culture, traditions and community. The author points out that Friedman believes that this relationship must be in balance because too much globalization can pose a great threat to the integrity of the olive tree and too much protection given to the olive tree may hinder the development promised by globalization. The paper states that Friedman argues that globalization is not, and cannot be, regulated because there is no one regulating it. The author stresses that globalization was perceived by Friedman as beneficial not only to the electronic herd, which is the millions of investors moving money around the world with a click of a mouse, but also to the average blue-collar worker.
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"The problem with this, though, as explained by Stiglitz, is that, in industrialized countries, the pain of layoffs is acknowledged and somewhat ameliorated by the safety net of unemployment insurance, but in less developed countries it is a different case--the unemployed workers typically do not become a public charge because there are seldom insurance schemes there. Globalization has not worked for millions of people. Many have actually been made worse off, as they have seen their jobs destroyed and their lives become more insecure."
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L.A. Eyeworks, 2005.
This paper discusses L.A. Eyeworks, a company operating in the eyewear industry.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 64.95
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This paper describes that the eyewear industry is an ever growing industry and that L.A. Eyeworks, a company which has been in existence since 1979, is trying to expand beyond Europe and the U.S.. The author points out trade barriers and expansion questions, which many companies may encounter when dealing with or formulating their expansion projects. The paper includes examples of what other companies have done to expand successfully.
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"When Gai Gherardi and Barbara McReynolds started their company in 1979. they had one vision, to create amazing looking eyewear. Their vision has not only passed the test of time but it has spread beyond the borders of the U.S. and has touched several countries around the world. Today their products are sold in several countries in Europe and Asia as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Canada (25 Years, 2004). In the beginning, the duo starting this eyewear company had not idea that their products would not only be popular but that famous people would flock to purchase their products. Those who love the L.A. Eyeworks products, vary from those in the performing arts to those who are activists in the AIDS awareness campaigns (Improving World Vision, 2005). Regardless the L.A. fan club is quite large and growing."
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