Essays on Doris

Question 1

While taking Doris’s age, weight, and height into consideration, her BMI is 35.3, which would be categorized as Obese Class II. From that perspective, Doris faces a wide array of health risks including heart-related conditions, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes. The severity of these risks would increase in the event that she is not able to regulate her weight, which may go beyond the set limits depending on her age and height.

Question 2

Considering that her normal weight would be approximately 203 pounds, she has lost 4.9% of her weight within the past month due to nausea ...

Essay 1- We don’t make news, we just report it, or do we?

It can be argued without any contradiction that the fast-changing media has always and will continue to set the national agenda on many issues, particularly in the political arena. Political polarization, media bias and being a people’s “watchdog” are some of the agenda that the media drives today (Doris & Dunaway p. 10). For the purpose of this essay, media bias, both conservative and liberal, and its impact are discussed from a political point of view. A liberal story that suffices is the one done by the Daily Caller news website in 2010 (Huston, p.1). The “Journolist” was a ...

Female Sexuality in 1950s

The issue of female sexuality has been a cornerstone question throughout the history in many cultures. Some of them remain conservative in questions regarding portraying female body or women’s explicit behavior. Other cultures allow women to express their desires as freely as men do. Religion, regardless of the name of its teaching, mostly calls women to be humble, modest and innocent. Societal norms of behavior are based on the commonly accepted behavior and condemns women for expressing too much of sexuality. In 1950’s the world has already been through all major feminist movements that indeed brought lots ...

1. Selecting a Customer The customer who is selected as a target for the new brand is Doris, the 27-year-old woman who was pegged as a ‘shop-a-holic’. From the description, Doris is always on the look-out for things to shop and the only other activity aside from shopping is staying fit. As such, she is dynamic, single, and has work to support personal needs. Doris therefore fits the profile of the target client whose personality would fit the features and function that the product and brand would project . 2. Appropriate product or apparel for the customer Since Doris is ...

Introduction

A family business is a profit-making entity that entails the significant roles of decision making, ownership, and leadership of the business being undertaken by several generations of a family. For a firm to be considered as a family business, the multigenerational element, and the unique family is fundamental (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Florent-Treacy 12). Family businesses vary from size to industry; there are corner shops with a history of family ownership and leadership and similarly publicly listed multinationals, which share a similar foundation (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Forest-Treacy 17). Internationally, there are numerous examples of family-owned businesses; ...

The Lake Ladies was written by Paul Gullen and it is a fiction novel which deals with mystery and crime. It is a detective story involving two main characters, Bates and O’Rourke who belong to different generations of detectives. Captain O’Rourke and Bates team up and to solve crimes, but their personal stories are equally as interesting as their professional life. O’Rourke and Bates meet during a case which could not be solved which happened in Chicago and involved the murder of a female violinist. Bates solves the case because he is a genius as well ...

American Transcendentalist Literature

The Transcendentalist movement consisted of a group of people that were skeptical of the status quo in religion, science and politics. They studied philosophy and wrote great literature. In fact they even influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the American who is most often thought of when transcendentalism is mentioned. During the height of the popularity of the movement he was at the center. On December 9, 1841 Emerson gave a speech titled “Transcendentalism” at Boston’s Masonic Temple. In it he strongly stood up for less rigid attitudes towards nature for example he ...