Essays on Jackets

This report recommends that no bonuses be awarded to the production department. Responsibility accounting assigns costs, revenues, and profits to those managers who have direct responsibility (Hansen, Mowen, & Guan, 2009). Responsibility accounting forms the basis of assigning responsibility, establishing performance measurements, evaluating performance, and awarding rewards. The production manager is responsible for the costs incurred in the production department. The standard cost and quantities establish the performance measurements. The production manager performance can be evaluated against the standard costs and the variances computed. The variance analysis forms the basis of awarding the bonuses. The variance analysis shows that the ...

Introduction

Visited the GAP store in New York and filled this market and consumer analysis pertaining to how the retail store carries out its activities. The walls of the store are made of glass with various attires being displayed and hence this gives one the chance to be able to window shop. The store was well lit with varying colors on the walls depending on the aisle that the individual was at. Once I entered the store I was received by an attendant how was all smiles and willing to help me out to effectively be able to look for ...

The Concept of the Collection: Japanese Warrior

Introduction Nature, the environment and the universe as a whole, provided a huge influence on mankind for a long time. It was particularly pronounced prior to the active development of technical progress. Japanese culture can be considered as one of the brightest representatives of such influence. It is a multi-faceted, surprising and unusual world of images and objects. Everything is living his own life in harmony with the surrounding space. Japanese style evolved over the centuries. Now it is an excellent example of the preservation of a constant shape in combination with the cycle of patterns and colors. The ...

It would be difficult for one to survive in a complete isolation from other people and therefore, it is a well-known fact, that people tend to socialize, interchange their experience and knowledge, cooperate and communicate in different spheres of their life. Territory, language, culture and certain traditions let people organize and unite into the groups, which are often defined as communities. Once a person identifies him- or herself with a community, accepts the existing norms and prescriptions in this group, he or she becomes a member of it. Fashion is a particular phenomenon, which is directly connected and dependent ...

The focus of the essay is the history of fashion from the 18th century to the 1950s. Fashion has come a long way if one looks back and clothes are not just a means of covering the body but are a part of the personality of the individual. Fashion is taken very seriously and is a full-fledged industry today. It is amazing to see how fashion and attitude towards fashion have changed over the years. Some classic fashions can stand the test of time and never go out of style. Other clothing items are a temporary craze and last ...

The heat was intense. The orange light shone on the desert, drying up the remaining puddles of water into vapour, rising into the atmosphere. A lizard crawled slowly, almost dying, parched and with a hide so leather like, one would think it was crisp fried. Slowly, I heard the intense ringing of the siren. Waaang waaaang waaang. It was time to get inside our shelters. The shelters were not made of concrete. Unlike the olden days, concrete was the material of choice. All buildings were once made from stone, from cement mixed with water to form hard solid blocks. ...

In most cases when we think of pollution very rarely do we spare a moment or two to think of ecological footprints of the shoes on our feet, the cap on our heads nor the shirts on our backs (Claudio). Instead, all we think of is the raw sewage piped into our watercourses; we envision the emissions from the textile and coal industries, our bare-stripped forested landscapes, and the municipal wastes piling on our streets and landfills (Sweeney). The bitter and unfortunate truth, however, is that the overall impact of the apparel industry on our plant is quite grim ( ...

The uniform was one of the methods through which fashion was applied in the men’s bodies. This happened, especially during the World War II. Battle prejudiced the guys’ physiques were socially shaped by the substantial forces that profoundly affected not only the texture of the body and row shape, but also the castigations applied machismo and the principles applied to the body. The uniforms were able to outline the men’s body in that, those that were physically fit, others personnel could admire their hard effort they inflicted to look that amazing. The outfits clung onto their bodies ...

Introduction

Cultural diversity plays important roles in people’s identity. This is because cultures influence how people relate as well as how a society interprets its values. It is also through culture that nations are defined, for their identity is mostly founded in their cultures (Ruhl, 26). One country whose identity has had great influence from cultural basis is Canada. This paper looks into different aspects and features which are associated with Canadian culture. This is in consideration of Canada’s multicultural aspects with different traditions and customs derived from different people who form Canadian community. The paper attempts to ...

Market Research Plan

Before a company decides on the manner of delivering a new product to its market, it has to conduct a market research so that it can define some of the ways in which it can maximize the implication of the launch. The business entity of focus in this paper is a fashion apparel store called Diva Junction. This firm plans to introduce a new product in the form of sun dresses in preparation for the approaching summer. The business has been in existence for about five years and despite this experience in the market, the product is has been ...