Essays on Style Page 3

Barranquilla, one of the most beautiful cities in Colombia, is the capital of Atlantico department. It is located in northern Colombia. Barranquilla is the fourth most populous city in Colombia. People who live in Barranquilla speak with an accent called Coastal Spanish. Because they do not pronounce the letter “s” in their words, I sometimes…

While the Roaring 20’s are known as period of massive economic growth for the US, for many countries it was a period of creativity that brought forth new, bold movements that changed the way the world looked at itself, both externally and internally. The Roaring 20’s was a foothold for many art movements such as…

Neoclassicism is the restoration of the classical style of art, and literature and architecture and so on. Classical influence spread across Europe around the 1850s. People began to enjoy the harmony, simplicity and proportion that art used to bring back in the old times again. This style represents the great achievements of artists like Raphael,…

La Vita e Bella (Life Is Beautiful)The film La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful) was first released in Italy in 1997, and in the United States in 1998. Co-written (with Vincenzo Cerami) and directed by Roberto Benigni, the film stars Benigni himself as Guido, an Italian Jew, Nicoletta Braschi (Benigni’s real-life wife) who plays…

Dreams are series of mental experiences that happen during sleep, typically when brain activity is high and similar to being awake. They transport us to an imaginary realm filled with beautiful things. Here is one of my own beautiful dreams. Dreams are incredible and we all enjoy dreaming and aspiring to improve ourselves each day….

Comparing Venus of Urbino Through inspiration from Giorgiones’ Sleeping Venus, Titian a younger contemporary, developed the standard for the female nude, in his Venus of Urbino. Unlike his predecessor, Giorgione, Titian’s painting is one of the first indoor nudes in the renaissance era. The painting portrays a reclining nude in oil, her body softly rounded…

The article discusses how JD sports, the Britain’s leading sportswear retailer uses the ‘4Ps’ to outgrow itself. 4Ps includes ‘product’, a good or service’s function and feature. JD works with suppliers worldwide to create their own-brand products. ‘Price’ can be the money that costs to manufacture or create the products. It can also be the…

Q1. Based on your own experience of traditional bookselling and your exploration of online bookselling, compare willingness-to-pay for books supplied by these two business models. In the US, the traditional bookselling had a market of about 26 million dollars in the year 1996 and had grown to about 33 million dollars in the year 2001….

Questions on Leadership Online (A): Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com Q1: Summarize Barnes & Noble’s business strategy and business model based on the case descriptions. How have these strategies and business models been evolved since the case was written? ANS. Barnes and Noble applied a combination of Economies of Scale and Vertical Integration and Monopoly…

As LEGO industry is continuously developing more innovated ideas to expand their product lines for their global buyers, it is my job to analyze their position in determining how to maintain market dominance in the building toy market as well in their financial success within the industry. By using Michael Porter’s Five Forces model, I…