Essays on The Hill

Assignment #5: Product Management, Branding and Pricing Strategies

Colgate-Palmolive as a whole seems to be excelling in terms of profitability and performance, within the global market. According to the Colgate-Palmolive 2015 Annual Report, their worldwide net sales were over 16 million in the last year alone. The company has become increasingly popular for its longtime production of high quality oral products and home care items. However, there are plans to expand the company’s operation into newer, more relevant products. Following this, Colgate has chosen to introduce a new product segment under pet nutrition. The Colgate brand is mother to world-renowned brands such as Ajax and Softsoap. ...

The article 2 of the Human Rights Act of 1998 is a fundamental provision that is usually invoked to safeguard the right to life of individuals and that which imposes the legal obligation of contracting states to take appropriate steps not only in refraining from taking life intentionally, but also to take the appropriate steps to safeguard life. This provision has become the controversy in many cases involving human rights torts, by virtue of the section 6 of the Act that provides a statutory cause of action against the public authorities or bodies. In many occasions the article 2 ...

Theater Studies: Stage Production of August Wilson

Introduction The play fences, written by August Wilson, received recognition in the 1950s but became produced in 1983. It entails the sixth piece comprised in August Wilson’s ten part “Pittsburgh Cycle” which revolves around the exploration of the evolution of African-American experiences as well as the examination of racial relations. The play employs a setting based on activities carried out in 1957 where a small dirt front yard of the Maxson household depicts an ancient two-story brick house set back off a small alley. The picture portrayed in the setting entails the impoverished inner-city Hill District in Pittsburgh. ...

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Athens and Sparta were the two most powerful city-states in the ancient Greek that developed during the Classical Age. Despite being in the same territory, they had very different modes of governance and social lives. They had different forms of governments, but both governments were elected by the people they ruled (Aristotle and Lord 7). Their geographical locations were also different. Sparta was naturally protected by mountains that surrounded it while Athens was built on a hill just below Acropolis (Aristotle and Lord 16). It was difficult to invade Athens because it was almost exposed, hence, making it vulnerable ...

Bierstadt used light and shadow in a masterly fashion, which made his painting an extremely dramatic. Incredible contrasts reveal magnificent natural environment and its immense beauty made Bierstadt’s pictures popular. The viewer can easily determine three spaces of the artwork: The foreground is the nearest area to the viewer on the right part of the picture. This part shows a hunting scene of the Indians pursuing deer with horses and dogs. Still nearer on the right the mountain spring is visible, next to which a carcass of deer and some human items were left. At some distance three ...

The Haunting of the Hill House Shirley Jackson

“The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent (Jackson 1.49)” The car journey to the haunted house means a lot more than just a road trip. She defies her sister’s rule about taking the family car and going to Hill House and gets out to be on her own after a long time. Eleanor lives a repressed life even after the death of her mother curtailed by her family who smother her and refuse to let her grow up. This act of defiance and the car ride gives Eleanor a sense of freedom. ...

Starting out from downtown and heading towards the University District provides a sampling of much of what Seattle’s landscape has to offer. Initially, the landscape is almost entirely constructed of human imprints. There are tall and taller office buildings that cut off almost any view of the horizon; literally a concrete jungle. However, as one walks to the higher numbered streets such as Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Avenues; the landscape has a dramatic change. Through the space between the buildings, on one side, you can see the Puget Sound and the islands, and mountains the face the city ...