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“melting-pot” or a “salad bowl”. It was more like a patchwork of ethnically and religiously diverse colonies. a) Growth and Social Inequality At first they were more egalitarian than the manorial estates of New York. In the colony of New York there were great estates owned by the gentry on which tenant farmers worked (tenant = rent land). There was a strict hierarchy. Colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania offered fairly equal economic opportunities to settlers. But progressively, during the

people, landscape even. --Michelle Cliff, Free Enterprise What is really Swedish culture? In an era of population movements and communication satellites will it survive, or will it be enriched? And the questions are perhaps just slightly changed in the real centres of the world. What would life be like there without swamis and without reggae, without Olympic Games and ‘the Japanese model’? In the end, it seems, we are all being creolised. --Ulf Hannerz, “The World in Creolisation”

1 Ten-year-old Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in rural Nebraska when his parents die. Jim and Jake Marpole, one of the Burdens' farm-hands, travel to Nebraska on the railroad together from the hills of Virginia. An immigrant family, the Shimerdas, is traveling to their destination as well. Like most other immigrants, the Shimerdas left their native Bohemia and moved to America for a better life. Like Jim, the Shimerdas have no one to turn to in a new, frightening place. Chapter

the United States and is expected to become the largest market for luxury goods in just five years. The luxury good market in China was valued at 9.4 billion U.S. dollars at the end of 2009 which accounts for 27.5% of the world’s luxury goods market. As the larger cities in China become more populated with luxury good outlets and stores, the competition continues to heighten and companies have begun to turn to smaller cities in the country as an opportunity to sell luxury goods. This trend is

Water wars Fishermen haul in their nets on the Sea of Galilee. Things seem to have changed little from biblical times, but they have. These waters are a source of great tension between countries, not because they are holy, but because they are scarce. Yitzhak Gal from the Lake Authority showed me how the waters have fallen to a critically low level. “Five years ago, the water reached this line,” he explains. “Today you can see the lake is lower and the shoreline is in the distance.” In the

we are going to analyze Fnac’s chances of success on the French e-reader distribution market. Indeed, in order to assess the profitability of that choice, it is important to focus on the business strategy decision. That’s why we are first going to wonder if Fnac can get any advantage of being an “innovator”. Then, we will conduct a strategic diagnosis to see if Fnac masters the KSF required in this industry. Eventually, we will focus more specifically on the incumbents’ position to be as precise as

h. Conclusion 9 2) Describe Apple’s development over the years and highlight any key stages 10 3) Can Apple be seen as a strategic innovator today? 11 4) How would you describe the way Steve Jobs runs Apple? 11 1) What is Apple’s position in this industry and what are Apple’s competitive advantage? Apple is a multinational which is famous for competing inside the Consumer Electronics Industry. Apple is an American company which is hugely admired around the whole world

Introduction to bada: A Developer's Guide - (draft preview, July 2010) Part 1: About bada 0 Introduction to bada: A Developer's Guide - (draft preview, July 2010) Chapter 1: The mobile difference In this chapter we present detailed information about what the ‘difference’ of mobile software is made up of and we describe the essential characteristics as opposed to ‘conventional’ fixed software for desktops or web applications. We also summarise some recommended mobile software development

Water wars Fishermen haul in their nets on the Sea of Galilee. Things seem to have changed little from biblical times, but they have. These waters are a source of great tension between countries, not because they are holy, but because they are scarce. Yitzhak Gal from the Lake Authority showed me how the waters have fallen to a critically low level. “Five years ago, the water reached this line,” he explains. “Today you can see the lake is lower and the shoreline is in the distance.” In the summer

Notes The following report has been realized in order to fit the examination requirements of the International Marketing course included within the European Master in Business Studies during the Winter semester 2008/2009 at the University of Kassel in Germany. This report added with a 30 minutes oral presentation on the same topic counts for 50% of the final examination regarding the course of “International Marketing”. The work requested to the student for these 50% is the following: « Select a