I was asked to consider writing an article on greed. For weeks or more, I went from psychology, to socio-biology, and none if it fit.
I then saw a pattern emerging which was, not so much greed, we all know about it, but what about the consequences of greed? More importantly, why and how is it tolerated by the many who are so ill-affected by it.
The transcultural female hybrid green papers vol. 1thegarnercirclepr
The Garner Circle PR launches The Green Papers, an ongoing series of white papers analyzing trends and consumer insights that are driving the future of culture and marketing. The Green Papers is authored by agency executives and senior level management.
The Green Papers, published quarterly, will encapsulate the progressive thinking The Garner Circle PR undertakes. The series launches with Volume One titled, "The Transcultural Female Hybrid" which analyzes and explores this psychographic of cultural blurring.
2020 has been one of the most polarizing years in recent history. A global pandemic decimated the economy, the murders of Ahmaud Aubrey, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd sparked a worldwide outcry for social justice, and a contentious presidential election gripped the nation while the world watched. All these events culminated in a complex display of cultural dynamics that influence contemporary consumer attitudes and behavior.
In our 2020 ThinkNow Year-End Report, we examine these events through a multicultural lens to provide actionable insights on key consumer trends to watch heading into 2021.
Translation of a June 2012 article by Jorge Majfud (http://www.majfud.org) which ran on Alai-AmLatina (https://www.alainet.org/es/active/55384). Given that a multinational like McDonald's has its workers use "food stamps" (strictly speaking, Supplemental Nutritional Asssistance Program) as reported in such.... radical outlets like The Atlantic & Business Insider (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/instead-living-wage-mcdonalds-tells-workers-sign-food-stamps/309625/ & https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-mcresources-hotline-tells-nancy-salgado-to-get-on-food-stamps-2013-10), I'd say Majfud's piece is close to the mark. If not right on target.
This translation is somewhat more "liberal"/"flexible" although I tried to stay as close as possible to the source text. Some phrases that I used such as "Big Business" and "pretty penny" may be more appropriate for American English audiences, which is just as well given the McDonald's-food stamp incident. I originally translated the title as "Unemployment's double game" but I decided to give this upload another title: "The unemployment shell game". "The unemployment scam" works just as well. The broader point still stands. All errors are mine.
The big problem’s name is capitalism, not globalizationGRAZIA TANTA
There are those who consider that globalization must ridden by capitalism, and those who believe that nationalism must replace globalization all the while accepting capitalism. Two ways, one winner: Capital.
The Barefoot Seller is a story of artisans who have the wealth of their skills and the courage to see their dream come true. It is a social idea to eradicate poverty by supporting artisans round the globe through Artisanal Revolution.
I was asked to consider writing an article on greed. For weeks or more, I went from psychology, to socio-biology, and none if it fit.
I then saw a pattern emerging which was, not so much greed, we all know about it, but what about the consequences of greed? More importantly, why and how is it tolerated by the many who are so ill-affected by it.
The transcultural female hybrid green papers vol. 1thegarnercirclepr
The Garner Circle PR launches The Green Papers, an ongoing series of white papers analyzing trends and consumer insights that are driving the future of culture and marketing. The Green Papers is authored by agency executives and senior level management.
The Green Papers, published quarterly, will encapsulate the progressive thinking The Garner Circle PR undertakes. The series launches with Volume One titled, "The Transcultural Female Hybrid" which analyzes and explores this psychographic of cultural blurring.
2020 has been one of the most polarizing years in recent history. A global pandemic decimated the economy, the murders of Ahmaud Aubrey, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd sparked a worldwide outcry for social justice, and a contentious presidential election gripped the nation while the world watched. All these events culminated in a complex display of cultural dynamics that influence contemporary consumer attitudes and behavior.
In our 2020 ThinkNow Year-End Report, we examine these events through a multicultural lens to provide actionable insights on key consumer trends to watch heading into 2021.
Translation of a June 2012 article by Jorge Majfud (http://www.majfud.org) which ran on Alai-AmLatina (https://www.alainet.org/es/active/55384). Given that a multinational like McDonald's has its workers use "food stamps" (strictly speaking, Supplemental Nutritional Asssistance Program) as reported in such.... radical outlets like The Atlantic & Business Insider (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/instead-living-wage-mcdonalds-tells-workers-sign-food-stamps/309625/ & https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-mcresources-hotline-tells-nancy-salgado-to-get-on-food-stamps-2013-10), I'd say Majfud's piece is close to the mark. If not right on target.
This translation is somewhat more "liberal"/"flexible" although I tried to stay as close as possible to the source text. Some phrases that I used such as "Big Business" and "pretty penny" may be more appropriate for American English audiences, which is just as well given the McDonald's-food stamp incident. I originally translated the title as "Unemployment's double game" but I decided to give this upload another title: "The unemployment shell game". "The unemployment scam" works just as well. The broader point still stands. All errors are mine.
The big problem’s name is capitalism, not globalizationGRAZIA TANTA
There are those who consider that globalization must ridden by capitalism, and those who believe that nationalism must replace globalization all the while accepting capitalism. Two ways, one winner: Capital.
The Barefoot Seller is a story of artisans who have the wealth of their skills and the courage to see their dream come true. It is a social idea to eradicate poverty by supporting artisans round the globe through Artisanal Revolution.
The following paper offers a glimpse into what retailing will look like in 2020 and outlines the implications for retailers today. In order to succeed, retailers will have to rethink their strategies and their points of differentiation; the customers of 2020 will require it.
My team and I at Sixth Sense PR developed this public relations plan for a small business in the Ithaca area: Brookton's Market. Our plan entailed a heavy focus on social media strategies and tactics to attract our target audience more effectively, which were millennials and college students.
Conserving Communities The world is essentially a two-party AlleneMcclendon878
Conserving Communities
The world is essentially a two-party system. One is the party of the global economy, and the
other is the party of local community.
By Wendell Berry
There are other unanswered questions about the global economy, two which are paramount:
How can any nation or region justify the destruction a local productive capacity for the sake of
foreign trade? And how can people who have demonstrated their inability to run national
economies without inflation, usury, unemployment, and ecological devastation now claim that
they can do a better job in running a global economy? American agriculture has demonstrated by
its own ruination that you cannot solve economic problems just by increasing scale, and more
over that increasing scale is almost certain to cause other problems--ecological, social, and
cultural.
It is time for us to face the likelihood that human intelligence is not competent to work on the
scale to which we have been tempted by our techno logical abilities. Some such recognition is
undoubtedly implicit in American conservatives’ long-standing objection to a big central
government. And so it has been odd to see many of these same conservatives pushing for the
establishment of a supranational economy that would inevitably function as a government far
bigger and more centralized than any dreamed of before. Long experience has made it clear--as
we might say to the liberals--that to be free we must’ limit the size of government and we must
have some sort of home rule. But it is just as clear--as we might say to the conservatives--that it
is foolish to complain about big government if we do not do everything we can to support strong
local communities and strong community economies.
But in helping us to confront, understand, and oppose the principles of the global economy, the
old political alignments have become virtually use less. Communists and capitalists are alike in
their contempt for country people, country life, and country places. They have exploited the
countryside with equal greed and disregard. They are alike even in their plea that it is right to
damage the present in order to make “a better future”.
The dialogue of Democrats and Republicans or of liberals and conservatives is likewise useless
to us. Neither party is interested in farmers or in farming or in the good care of the land or in the
quality of food. Nor are they interested in taking the best care of our forests. The leaders of these
parties are equally subservient to the supranational corporations. NAFTA and the new GATT’
revisions are the proofs. Moreover, the old opposition of country and city, which was never
useful, is now more useless than ever. It is, in fact, damaging to everybody involved, as is the
opposition of producers and consumers. These are not differences but divisions - - divisions that
ought not to exist because they are to a considerable extent artificial, trum ...
Customer Behaviour & Decision Making
This report concentrates on providing a balanced view about the benefits and drawbacks of approaching customers as group segments or as individual consumers, by providing academic underpinning from reputable sources & personal critique.
“...Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. “ Steve Jobs.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of multiple actors in the customer behaviour and STP process, while observing the impact of key areas, such as: culture, globalisation, current marketing trends, postmodernism and brand affection. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of complexity, regarding market segmentation. The paper discusses the various problems that today’s marketer’s face and focuses on the emerging challenges of the new marketing reality.
This paper mainly deals with the concepts and issues surrounding the matter of consumption. Consumption is a complex social phenomenon, in which people consume goods or services for reasons beyond their basic use.
A consumer society is one in which the entire society is organized around the consumption and display of commodities, through which individuals gain prestige and identity. Given the above context, globalization brings about diverse trends, cultural differentiation and cultural hybridization (Pieterse, 1996).
The term “consumer culture” refers to cultures in which mass consumption fuels the economy and shapes perceptions, values, desires, and personal identity. Consumers do not make their decisions in a blank moment.
Their purchases are highly influenced by cultural, social and psychological factors. Therefore, a customer’s want has to be identified and his expectations must be matched with the other economic and social factors.
The world is moving and changing at a pace that is both positive and negative in a way. Britain is an exceptional example of this ongoing situation. London is now more diverse than any city that has ever existed. Altogether, more than 300 languages are spoken by the people of London, and the city has at least 50 non-indigenous communities with populations of 10,000 or more. (www.statistics.gov.uk)
People are changing from time to time, so do their tastes and preferences. Marketers are always concerned about cultural shifts and keen to discover new products or services that consumers may want. Understanding the ingredients and drivers of global consumer culture is the key to gaining insight regarding consumer behavior. In a diversified country like UK, culture not only influences consumer behavior but also reflects it. Marketing strategies are unlikely to change cultural values, but marketing does influence culture.
MKT334 Consumer BehaviorDr. Stella LiAssistant Professor in IlonaThornburg83
MKT334 Consumer Behavior
Dr. Stella Li
Assistant Professor in Marketing
1
Week 11—
Cultural Values & Age Cohorts
1
Understand core American cultural valuesSummarize changes in self-, environment-, and other-oriented valuesDiscuss values as they relate to green marketingDiscuss values as they relate to cause-related marketingDiscuss values as they relate to marketing to gay and lesbian consumersDiscuss values as they relate to gender-based marketing
Learning Objectives
2
L06
L05
L01
L04
L03
L02
Culture
Culture is a set of socially acquired values that society accepts as a whole and transmits to its members through language and symbols.
Reflects a society’s shared meanings and traditions.
Includes language, knowledge, religions, food customs, music, art, technology, work patterns, products, that distinct it from others.
3
Cultural Value
Cultural values are
personally socially worth striving for.
widely held beliefs that affirm what is desirable.
Value systems are the relative importance cultures place on different values.
Asian culture emphasizes “inner harmony”, collectivism.
Western cultures emphasize individual achievement, individualism.
Observable shifts in behavior, including consumption behavior, often reflect underlying shifts in cultural values.
4
Traditional, Current, and Emerging American Values
Changes in American Cultural Values
5
5
Characteristics of Cultural Values (1)
Cultural values are learned
Enculturation—learn the values of one’s own culture since childhood
Family passes values to the next generation
Learn through school, religious institutions.
Acculturation—learn the values of another culture.
A person may adapt the consumption values and behavior of another country.
Learn through observation, word-of-mouth communication, and mass media.
Cultural learning can occur through informal learning (e.g., observation), formal learning (e.g., family), technical learning (e.g., school)
6
Marketers influence our cultural learning
Repetition of marketing messages creates & reinforces cultural beliefs & values.
Example: ads of coffee , Coffee break
7
Product marketing messages enhance informal cultural learning by provding the audience with a model of behavior to imiae. The is true for the visible and conspicuous consumption, where peer evaluation plays a rol.
7
Marketers influence our cultural learning
8
9
Green Marketing
Cause-Related Marketing
Marketing to Gay and Lesbian Consumers
Gender-Based Marketing
Marketing Strategy and Values
Will discuss these more in the lecture about marketing ethics
10
10
The gay market is estimated to be approximately 4% of the adult U.S. population, or approx. 10 million people over age18.
The purchase power of the gay market has been estimated at over $900 billion.
Marketing to Gay and Lesbian Consumers
Getty Images/Westend61
11
11
Marketing to Gay and Lesbian Consumers
Hero Images/Image Source
Many companies find the gay m ...
Transportation and Food: The Importance of Access
`
For more information, Please see websites below:
`
Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Farmers Markets as a Strategy to Improve Access to Healthy Food for Low-Income Families & Communities www.scribd.com/doc/239851313 ~ Public Spaces, Columbia University, For more information, Please see Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children www.scribd.com/doc/239851214 - Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech www.scribd.com/doc/239851079 - Free School Gardening Art Posters www.scribd.com/doc/239851159 - Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/239851159 - Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success www.scribd.com/doc/239851348 - City Chickens for your Organic School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/239850440 - Huerto Ecológico, Tecnologías Sostenibles, Agricultura Organica www.scribd.com/doc/239850233 - Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools, Teacher Guide www.scribd.com/doc/23985111 ~
The following paper offers a glimpse into what retailing will look like in 2020 and outlines the implications for retailers today. In order to succeed, retailers will have to rethink their strategies and their points of differentiation; the customers of 2020 will require it.
My team and I at Sixth Sense PR developed this public relations plan for a small business in the Ithaca area: Brookton's Market. Our plan entailed a heavy focus on social media strategies and tactics to attract our target audience more effectively, which were millennials and college students.
Conserving Communities The world is essentially a two-party AlleneMcclendon878
Conserving Communities
The world is essentially a two-party system. One is the party of the global economy, and the
other is the party of local community.
By Wendell Berry
There are other unanswered questions about the global economy, two which are paramount:
How can any nation or region justify the destruction a local productive capacity for the sake of
foreign trade? And how can people who have demonstrated their inability to run national
economies without inflation, usury, unemployment, and ecological devastation now claim that
they can do a better job in running a global economy? American agriculture has demonstrated by
its own ruination that you cannot solve economic problems just by increasing scale, and more
over that increasing scale is almost certain to cause other problems--ecological, social, and
cultural.
It is time for us to face the likelihood that human intelligence is not competent to work on the
scale to which we have been tempted by our techno logical abilities. Some such recognition is
undoubtedly implicit in American conservatives’ long-standing objection to a big central
government. And so it has been odd to see many of these same conservatives pushing for the
establishment of a supranational economy that would inevitably function as a government far
bigger and more centralized than any dreamed of before. Long experience has made it clear--as
we might say to the liberals--that to be free we must’ limit the size of government and we must
have some sort of home rule. But it is just as clear--as we might say to the conservatives--that it
is foolish to complain about big government if we do not do everything we can to support strong
local communities and strong community economies.
But in helping us to confront, understand, and oppose the principles of the global economy, the
old political alignments have become virtually use less. Communists and capitalists are alike in
their contempt for country people, country life, and country places. They have exploited the
countryside with equal greed and disregard. They are alike even in their plea that it is right to
damage the present in order to make “a better future”.
The dialogue of Democrats and Republicans or of liberals and conservatives is likewise useless
to us. Neither party is interested in farmers or in farming or in the good care of the land or in the
quality of food. Nor are they interested in taking the best care of our forests. The leaders of these
parties are equally subservient to the supranational corporations. NAFTA and the new GATT’
revisions are the proofs. Moreover, the old opposition of country and city, which was never
useful, is now more useless than ever. It is, in fact, damaging to everybody involved, as is the
opposition of producers and consumers. These are not differences but divisions - - divisions that
ought not to exist because they are to a considerable extent artificial, trum ...
Customer Behaviour & Decision Making
This report concentrates on providing a balanced view about the benefits and drawbacks of approaching customers as group segments or as individual consumers, by providing academic underpinning from reputable sources & personal critique.
“...Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. “ Steve Jobs.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of multiple actors in the customer behaviour and STP process, while observing the impact of key areas, such as: culture, globalisation, current marketing trends, postmodernism and brand affection. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of complexity, regarding market segmentation. The paper discusses the various problems that today’s marketer’s face and focuses on the emerging challenges of the new marketing reality.
This paper mainly deals with the concepts and issues surrounding the matter of consumption. Consumption is a complex social phenomenon, in which people consume goods or services for reasons beyond their basic use.
A consumer society is one in which the entire society is organized around the consumption and display of commodities, through which individuals gain prestige and identity. Given the above context, globalization brings about diverse trends, cultural differentiation and cultural hybridization (Pieterse, 1996).
The term “consumer culture” refers to cultures in which mass consumption fuels the economy and shapes perceptions, values, desires, and personal identity. Consumers do not make their decisions in a blank moment.
Their purchases are highly influenced by cultural, social and psychological factors. Therefore, a customer’s want has to be identified and his expectations must be matched with the other economic and social factors.
The world is moving and changing at a pace that is both positive and negative in a way. Britain is an exceptional example of this ongoing situation. London is now more diverse than any city that has ever existed. Altogether, more than 300 languages are spoken by the people of London, and the city has at least 50 non-indigenous communities with populations of 10,000 or more. (www.statistics.gov.uk)
People are changing from time to time, so do their tastes and preferences. Marketers are always concerned about cultural shifts and keen to discover new products or services that consumers may want. Understanding the ingredients and drivers of global consumer culture is the key to gaining insight regarding consumer behavior. In a diversified country like UK, culture not only influences consumer behavior but also reflects it. Marketing strategies are unlikely to change cultural values, but marketing does influence culture.
MKT334 Consumer BehaviorDr. Stella LiAssistant Professor in IlonaThornburg83
MKT334 Consumer Behavior
Dr. Stella Li
Assistant Professor in Marketing
1
Week 11—
Cultural Values & Age Cohorts
1
Understand core American cultural valuesSummarize changes in self-, environment-, and other-oriented valuesDiscuss values as they relate to green marketingDiscuss values as they relate to cause-related marketingDiscuss values as they relate to marketing to gay and lesbian consumersDiscuss values as they relate to gender-based marketing
Learning Objectives
2
L06
L05
L01
L04
L03
L02
Culture
Culture is a set of socially acquired values that society accepts as a whole and transmits to its members through language and symbols.
Reflects a society’s shared meanings and traditions.
Includes language, knowledge, religions, food customs, music, art, technology, work patterns, products, that distinct it from others.
3
Cultural Value
Cultural values are
personally socially worth striving for.
widely held beliefs that affirm what is desirable.
Value systems are the relative importance cultures place on different values.
Asian culture emphasizes “inner harmony”, collectivism.
Western cultures emphasize individual achievement, individualism.
Observable shifts in behavior, including consumption behavior, often reflect underlying shifts in cultural values.
4
Traditional, Current, and Emerging American Values
Changes in American Cultural Values
5
5
Characteristics of Cultural Values (1)
Cultural values are learned
Enculturation—learn the values of one’s own culture since childhood
Family passes values to the next generation
Learn through school, religious institutions.
Acculturation—learn the values of another culture.
A person may adapt the consumption values and behavior of another country.
Learn through observation, word-of-mouth communication, and mass media.
Cultural learning can occur through informal learning (e.g., observation), formal learning (e.g., family), technical learning (e.g., school)
6
Marketers influence our cultural learning
Repetition of marketing messages creates & reinforces cultural beliefs & values.
Example: ads of coffee , Coffee break
7
Product marketing messages enhance informal cultural learning by provding the audience with a model of behavior to imiae. The is true for the visible and conspicuous consumption, where peer evaluation plays a rol.
7
Marketers influence our cultural learning
8
9
Green Marketing
Cause-Related Marketing
Marketing to Gay and Lesbian Consumers
Gender-Based Marketing
Marketing Strategy and Values
Will discuss these more in the lecture about marketing ethics
10
10
The gay market is estimated to be approximately 4% of the adult U.S. population, or approx. 10 million people over age18.
The purchase power of the gay market has been estimated at over $900 billion.
Marketing to Gay and Lesbian Consumers
Getty Images/Westend61
11
11
Marketing to Gay and Lesbian Consumers
Hero Images/Image Source
Many companies find the gay m ...
Transportation and Food: The Importance of Access
`
For more information, Please see websites below:
`
Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Farmers Markets as a Strategy to Improve Access to Healthy Food for Low-Income Families & Communities www.scribd.com/doc/239851313 ~ Public Spaces, Columbia University, For more information, Please see Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children www.scribd.com/doc/239851214 - Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech www.scribd.com/doc/239851079 - Free School Gardening Art Posters www.scribd.com/doc/239851159 - Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/239851159 - Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success www.scribd.com/doc/239851348 - City Chickens for your Organic School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/239850440 - Huerto Ecológico, Tecnologías Sostenibles, Agricultura Organica www.scribd.com/doc/239850233 - Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools, Teacher Guide www.scribd.com/doc/23985111 ~
history of contemporary architecture - 18. The capitalist city, Megalopolis, ...Dania Abdel-aziz
history of contemporary architecture - 18. The capitalist city, Megalopolis, Edge cities, The indigenous city, The colonial city
الشكر للدكتورة مجد الحمود
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
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The role of retail markets in impoverished neighborhoods
1. The Role of Retail Markets in Impoverished Neighborhoods
Justin Barrett
Human Factors and Research Methods
Professor Jean Von Bargen
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The Role of Retail Markets in Impoverished Neighborhoods
Building services such as retail and food markets in depressed areas are inherently
accompanied with certain challenges. These challenges involve issues dealing with the
economic stability of the area, marketing to the existing population, and enticing a new
population to inspire diversity. Baltimore, Maryland has made several attempts in urban
renewal throughout its history, some projects being the most successful in the country for
its time. However, it continues to be one of the most violent, underprivileged cities in
America. The renewal tactics in Baltimore represent numerous lessons to be learned, as
do those in many other international cities. By assessing the lifestyles and correlated
purchasing habits of the poor, hopeful retail strategies emerge that explore how the
insertion of new services into underprivileged areas can support the low-income minority
groups who live there and aim towards creating a cleaner, safer neighborhood.
In order to increase the quality of living for those in poverty, their lifestyles must
be thoroughly understood. “The most direct contact between the poor and the business
community is at retail level. The greatest opportunity to assist and to revolutionize the
daily lives of the poor rests in the retailing communities serving poverty areas (Sturdivant
143).” Numerous circumstances exist that are individual to a certain neighborhood, but
in general, many issues exist in commonality, such as consumer practices, merchant and
consumer relationships, and neighborhood isolation.
The purchasing habits of the poor are limited, for they have the narrowest
shopping scope of all social classes (Richards 51). Due to insufficient knowledge of,
access to, and discomfort in other segments of society, there is extreme tendency for the
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poor to use nearby stores rather than those at a distance, and to buy in more personally
familiar situations than impersonal ones. “The poorest housing tenants in [a] New York
study used independent neighborhood stores, chain stores, and peddlers more frequently
than department stores or discount houses, for buying durable goods (Richards 51).” And
it was they who paid more for the goods. “In a study of urban families in Wisconsin, the
preferences for independent and neighborhood stores (rather than chain stores) was
related to motives concerning the store and its personnel, rather than to motives
concerning price (Richards 51).”
Those confined in poverty are isolated from the larger world, and this view as a
result produces several inhibiting mindsets such as powerlessness, meaninglessness, and
isolation. These views are, of course, relative, as they reflect a comparison to higher
society (Besner 20). Often they possess the idea that they are victims of bad luck, and
living with very little thought on the future, they find attempts to change useless. An
influencing stigma develops between societies as these views clash. “When people live
in conditions of such obvious helplessness, when they are themselves so aware of their
conditions as to feel alienated and apart from society, how can they retain, much less
implement, the values of that society (Besner 24)?”
Isolation remains a primary factor in the stagnant condition of deprived
neighborhoods. Lower-class citizens must be brought off the periphery and into the
structure of the community (Besner 26). Until they are a functioning part of the larger
population, efforts made by that community to help them will have little bearing on
change. Their motivation for achievement is hindered by their low views of themselves,
but this is not to suggest that they value achievement any less. The poor desire quality
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products and the achievement of success as much as their affluent counterparts, but
ignorance and insufficient means of attainment are inhibiting (Food Topics 189).
The conclusion that food prices tend to be higher in urban poverty neighborhoods
than in better off areas is supported by the fact that few chains exist in those areas and
that the residents lack the sufficient means or knowledge to seek out affordable prices.
“The spacious, well-stocked, and efficiently managed stores characteristic of America’s
highly advanced distribution system are rarely present in the ghetto. (Sturdivant 145)”
Even though they are less organized and less clean, some small inner city businesses take
advantage of the ignorance and bad credit of the poor, charging more for less.
However, the higher prices are not always caused by merchants taking advantage
of the ignorant consumers in the area, but mostly they are a result of inefficiency and lack
of business skills. Lacking the advantages of trained management, “mom and pop”
establishments suffer through the day to day, with little in the way of broader intentions
(Sturdivant 146). Conversely, large retailers are reluctant to move into slum areas to
take part in revitalization efforts because they lack urban experience and are nervous
about the challenges inherent in such a location (Food Topics 178). A largely organized
marketplace system is a plan appreciated by many cities to manage the individual selling
of goods from small independent vendors, eliminating some of the inefficient markup
while retaining the personal character.
Inflated prices are prevalent among stores in deprived areas, but the cost
difference between that and affluent suburban neighborhoods is difficult to identify due
to qualitative differences (Sturdivant 147). Low grade meats and poorly made appliances
are likely all that are found in such areas, and the poor, knowing little else, readily accept
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this quality. By supplying higher income shoppers as well as the low-income residents,
prices will stabilize and quality will increase as higher prices are associated with higher
quality.
It is essential to remove the barriers that confine so many poverty stricken areas
and enforce disassociation with surrounding urban neighborhoods. When the areas are
forgotten, lifestyles and economy are left to their own demise. However, if the success of
other environments symbiotically utilizes the assets of low-income areas, diversity will
inspire cleaner, safer neighborhoods that will appeal to a variety of populations. “Real
progress will come only if we can find some way to extend into the ghettos the highly
advanced, competitive retailing system that has so successfully served other sectors of the
economy (Sturdivant 153).”
Baltimore’s Westside neighborhood is geographically a dynamic intersection of
lifestyles. However, it avoids any integration between the business district of downtown
to the east and the university to the south. Despite the peripheral communities, it remains
in a stagnant deprived state, suffocated by condemned buildings and pawn shops.
Several historic cultural institutions exist, such as the Hippodrome Theater and Lexington
Market. The theater has no bearing on the population of the area besides requiring police
to escort people to their cars at night.
A few attempts at renewal have been made in the 1980s, but not only did the
efforts fail to fulfill the vision of a diverse and economically thriving district, they
introduced problems inherent in the post-modern designs incorporated. The Market has
lost all charm from its original character after being reconstructed according to the
shopping mall doctrine of the era, enclosing the building to protect it from the still
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suspect city (Ford 165). Currently, the market is filled with more fast food and candy
stores than fresh goods. The city is proud of the simple fact that Lexington Market serves
its neighborhood well, but they overlook the fact that it no longer serves the larger
population in any sense, especially not like it used to before the original building burned
down in 1949.
In the Westside Strategic Redevelopment plan, Baltimore is considering actively
using retail to integrate the underserved university and office markets as a more
pronounced part of the neighborhood. While many businesses approach this issue with
the question, “How can low-income people afford any of the goods we supply?” it is
obvious that the first requirement of nature is the need to eat, regardless of income level.
Centering a catalytic business on an already present food retail service will guarantee a
market for the merchandise. Supermarkets are excellent options for low-income areas,
delivering a larger quantity, better quality, and competitive prices (Food Topics 187).
However, employment in a supermarket gives little to the neighborhood in the sense of
pride.
Independent vendors located in a marketplace setting produce the same business
environment as the supermarket, only with the addition of the pride and personnel
favored by low-income residents. The redevelopment of marketplaces have been
successful in reviving deprived areas of cities, for example, Pikes Place in Seattle,
Swan’s Market in Oakland, and Santa Caterina in Barcelona, which though close to the
city center serves a relatively poor area, formerly dingy and in disrepair (Slessor 52). In
these cases, retail manifested in the form of community marketplaces is advantageous to
impoverished as well as affluent citizens, which is rarely the case in often built festival
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markets.
“The idea of festival markets was to build on the local history and sense of place
by emphasizing physical site, old buildings, views of the city, and local historic themes
and cuisines (Ford 167).” Baltimore’s festival market, Harbor Place, was built as an
urban renewal project intended to bring economic stability to the city and attract a new
population. While it was successful in achieving the definitions of its typology, Harbor
Place also demonstrated the qualities problematic to the integral function of its urban
environment. “Most, if not all, of the shopping in these marketplaces is nonessential and
depends on fairly large doses of discretionary income and tourism to keep it going (Ford
167).”
Deprived sections of inner cities encompass views of uselessness that encourage
no effort towards improvement. Isolation from the rest of society leaves those in poverty
ignorant of more affordable means and incapable of achieving them. Issues such as these
factor into the consumer practices of the poor, proving detrimental in most efforts for
alleviating depressed conditions. With retail being the most direct relationship between
income levels, and with the purchasing of food being an essential need regardless of
income, grocery vending is a means to reach both ends of the spectrum. Among the
options, urban public markets are the most successful retail strategy in dissolving the
barriers that exist between social classes. By understanding the lifestyles of low-income
neighborhoods, more intelligent devices can be implemented through retail
establishments that uplift the impoverished into a culturally and economically diverse
urban environment.
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Works Cited
Besner, Arthur and Lola M. Irelan. “Low-Income Life Styles.” The Ghetto
Marketplace. Ed. Frederick D. Sturdivant. New York: The Free Press, 1969. 17-
26.
Ford, Larry R. America’s New Downtowns. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2003. 161-178.
Richards, Louise G. “Consumer Practices of the Poor.” The Ghetto
Marketplace. Ed. Frederick D. Sturdivant. New York: The Free Press, 1969. 42-
60.
“Should Supermarkets Take a New Look at Urban Areas?” Food Topics. The Ghetto
Marketplace. Ed. Frederick D. Sturdivant. New York: The Free Press, 1969.
175-192.
Slessor, Catherine. “Market Forces.” The Architectural Record. November 2005: 44-
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Sturdivant, Frederick D. “Better Deal for Ghetto Shoppers.” The Ghetto
Marketplace. Ed. Frederick D. Sturdivant. New York: The Free Press, 1969.
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