Hansel y Gretel A Classic Childrens Story in Spanish

Hansel y Gretel vivà ­an con su padre, un pobre leà ±ador, y su cruel madrastra, muy cerca de un espeso bosque. Vivà ­an con muchà ­sima escasez, y como ya no les alcanzaba para poder comer los cuatro, deberà ­an plantearse el problema y tratar de darle una buena solucià ³n. Una noche, creyendo que los nià ±os estaban dormidos, la cruel madrastra dijo al leà ±ador: —No hay bastante comida para todos: maà ±ana llevaremos a los nià ±os a la parte mà ¡s espesa del bosque y los dejaremos allà ­. Ellos no podrà ¡n encontrar el camino a casa y asà ­ nos desprenderemos de esa carga. Al principio, el padre se opuso rotundamente a tener en cuenta la cruel idea de la malvada mujer. — ¿Cà ³mo vamos a abandonar a mis hijos a la suerte de Dios? Quizà ¡s sean atacados por los animales del bosque? —grità ³ enojado. —De cualquier manera, asà ­ moriremos todos de hambre —dijo la madrastra y no descansà ³ hasta convencer al dà ©bil hombre de llevar adelante el malà ©volo plan que se habà ­a trazado. Mientras tanto los nià ±os, que en realidad no estaban dormidos, escucharon toda la conversacià ³n. Gretel lloraba amargamente, pero Hansel la consolaba. —No llores, querida hermanita —decà ­a à ©l—, yo tengo una idea para encontrar el camino de regreso a casa. A la maà ±ana siguiente, cuando salieron para el bosque, la madrastra les dio a cada uno de los nià ±os un pedazo de pan. —No deben comer este pan antes del almuerzo —les dijo—. Eso es todo lo que tendrà ¡n para el dà ­a. El dominado y dà ©bil padre y la madrastra los acompaà ±aron a adentrarse en el bosque. Cuando penetraron en la espesura, los nià ±os se quedaron atrà ¡s, y Hansel, haciendo migas de su pan, las fue dejando caer con disimulo para tener seà ±ales que les permitieran luego regresar a casa. Los padres los llevaron muy adentro del bosque y les dijeron: —Quà ©dense aquà ­ hasta que vengamos a buscarlos. Hansel y Gretel hicieron lo que sus padres habà ­an ordenado, pues creyeron que cambiarà ­an de opinià ³n y volverà ­an por ellos. Pero cuando se acercaba la noche y los nià ±os vieron que sus padres no aparecà ­an, trataron de encontrar el camino de regreso. Desgraciadamente, los pà ¡jaros se habà ­an comido las migas que marcaban el camino. Toda la noche anduvieron por el bosque con mucho temor observando las miradas, observando el brillo de los ojos de las fieras, y a cada paso se perdà ­an mà ¡s en aquella espesura. Al amanecer, casi muertos de miedo y de hambre, los nià ±os vieron un pà ¡jaro blanco que volaba frente a ellos y que para animarlos a seguir adelante les aleteaba en seà ±al amistosa. Siguiendo el vuelo de aquel pà ¡jaro encontraron una casita construida toda de panes, dulces, bombones y otras confituras muy sabrosas. Los nià ±os, con un apetito terrible, corrieron hasta la rara casita, pero antes de que pudieran dar un mordisco a los riquà ­simos dulces, una bruja los detuvo. La casa estaba hecha para atraer a los nià ±os y cuando à ©stos se encontraban en su poder, la bruja los mataba y los cocinaba para comà ©rselos. Como Hansel estaba muy delgadito, la bruja lo encerrà ³ en una jaula y allà ­ lo alimentaba con ricos y sustanciosos manjares para engordarlo. Mientras tanto, Gretel tenà ­a que hacer los trabajos mà ¡s pesados y sà ³lo tenà ­a cà ¡scaras de cangrejos para comer. Un dà ­a, la bruja decidià ³ que Hansel estaba ya listo para ser comido y ordenà ³ a Gretel que preparara una enorme cacerola de agua para cocinarlo. —Primero —dijo la bruja—, vamos a ver el horno que yo prendà ­ para hacer pan. Entra tà º primero, Gretel, y fà ­jate si està ¡ bien caliente como para hornear. En realidad la bruja pensaba cerrar la puerta del horno una vez que Gretel estuviera dentro para cocinarla a ella tambià ©n. Pero Gretel hizo como que no entendà ­a lo que la bruja decà ­a. —Yo no sà ©.  ¿Cà ³mo entro? —preguntà ³ Gretel. —Tonta —dijo la bruja—, mira cà ³mo se hace —y la bruja metià ³ la cabeza dentro del horno. Rà ¡pidamente Gretel la empujà ³ dentro del horno y cerrà ³ la puerta. Gretel puso en libertad a Hansel. Antes de irse, los dos nià ±os se llenaron los bolsillos de perlas y piedras preciosas del tesoro de la bruja. Los nià ±os huyeron del bosque hasta llegar a orillas de un inmenso lago que parecà ­a imposible de atravesar. Por fin, un hermoso cisne blanco compadecià ©ndose de ellos les ofrecià ³ pasarlos a la otra orilla. Con gran alegrà ­a los nià ±os encontraron a su padre allà ­. à ©ste habà ­a sufrido mucho durante la ausencia de los nià ±os y los habà ­a buscado por todas partes, e incluso les contà ³ acerca de la muerte de la cruel madrastra. Dejando caer los tesoros a los pies de su padre, los nià ±os se arrojaron en sus brazos. Asà ­ juntos olvidaron todos los malos momentos que habà ­an pasado y supieron que lo mà ¡s importante en la vida es estar junto a los seres a quienes se ama, y siguieron viviendo felices y ricos para siempre. This version of Hansel y Gretel is in the public domain. To find lessons related to other words in this story, try using the search box.

Invisible Man And Nella Larsens Passing - 922 Words

2. W.EB. Du Bois introduces the expression â€Å"double consciousness,† which is the idea that Black Americans are aware that they are perceived as two different identities. In Society white oppressors don’t view black people as individuals but as stereotypes of what they think of black people. This leads two conflicting identities because black people are torn between joining their black identity and their American identify. Two pieces of work that illustrate characters that are conscious of experiencing both identities are Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Nella Larsen’s Passing. In Invisible Man the narrator remembers his grandfathers words that leads him to act differently in front of white people compared to acting like his true self. It†¦show more content†¦Race can change and be recreated since it is an ideology and not a definite structure. In Charles Chesnutt’s â€Å"The Wife of His Youth† and in â€Å"Black Boy† by Richard Wright, it can be seen that race is not a natural concept. In â€Å"The Wife of His Youth,† Mr. Ryder is apart of the Blue Vein Society where most of the members are black, but act in a way that can be associated with the way white people act. Mr. Ryder is of mixed race so he feels compelled to act White, but will always face criticism from both his black and white identity. His current identity shows how he is trying associate himself with his white identity but when Liza Jane appears she is a reminder of his black identity. These conflicting identities exemplify how Mr. Ryder invents his own characterization of his identity. Mr. Ryder illustrates the fluidity of his identity proving that race is not a stable concept. In â€Å"Black Boy† Richard is aware of how people expect him to act so he knows how to behave to manipulate the intolerant people in society. Richard does not have access to a library card so he borrows his white coworkers library card to check out books for himself. Because Richard is aware of the discriminator y system he decides to forge a note from his coworker to show the librarian. When the librarian is suspicious that Richard might read the book he acts like he is illiterate. If race is a biological factor into how

Business Law Gratuitous Consideration

Question: Describe about the Business Law for Gratuitous Consideration. Answer: 1(a): Jane had gone abroad and he gave his care to Jack as a gift. Jack immediately agreed to the offer made to him. Jane was the offeror and Jack was the offeree. The car that was offered by Jane to Jack was of 25000 dollars. The problem that shall be discussed in answer 1 (a) relates to an enforceable contract between them. To bring into life a contract, necessary elements have to be fulfilled. A contract remains unenforceable unless the requisite elements of a legitimate agreement are fulfilled. Consideration is one of the most important elements of a valid contract (McKendrick, 2014). Consideration means exchange of something either in cash or in kind in return of execution of contract. A contract that has no provision of consideration is no contract, meaning an agreement without consideration is void, unenforceable and no one can be sued in the Court for this (Hillman, 2012). Thus, it may be said that when a contract has gratuitous consideration it is not enforceable in the opinion of law. A gratuitous consideration is merely a gift and it becomes not enforceable in the Court (Knapp, 2013). Hence, in the given case study as well, Jane and Jack have a non-binding contract between them, as consideration between them is absent. The exchange of car that has taken place between them shall not be considere d as a contract rather it will only be considered as exchange of gift, which is gratuitous, by nature. Therefore, Jack and Jane were involved in a contract that could not be enforced in the Court. 1(b): Jane presented her car to Jack on the price of 25000 dollars. The cost of the car otherwise is also 25000 dollars. Jack admitted to the offer. The subject that shall be discussed here relates to the enforceability of the contract between Jane and Jack. The given are the essential requirements, to make a contract enforceable in the Court of Australia: Offer Acceptance Legal competency Consideration (Pui Weele, 2014) Offer is the promise that is made by one party to the contract to the other party of the contract in return of consideration. The consideration is the price that the promisee pays to the promisor at the time of execution of the contract (Landa, 2014). Consideration causes detriment to the promisee and gives advantage to the promisor. Legal competency signifies that the parties to the contract should be of more than 18 years age and sound mind. If a person enters into a contract with an unsound mind or a minor a contract is void. If the above-mentioned essentials are fulfilled the contract may become legally binding and enforceable. In the provided case study, Jack and Jane were part of an agreement in which all the legal formalities were fulfilled. Jane offered, while Jack accepted the offer and the amount of consideration were also fixed up for the amount of 25000 dollars. This means that the authorized ceremony to form a contract was rightfully completed by them that are, offer, acceptance and consideration. Moreover, the contract does not seem to be induced by fraud, coercion or misrepresentation. Existence of elements such as fraud or coercion makes a contract voidable at the option of the party to the contract (Hillman, 2012). Therefore, Jack and Jack were part of an enforceable and valid contract being that all the legal formalities were fulfilled. 1(c): Jane being the offeror sells his car to Jack for the amount of 2500 dollars. The cost of the car otherwise was 25000 dollars. Jack readily accepted the offer of Jane. The topic that shall be discussed in answer 1 (c) is sufficiency of consideration. According to the standard rule of contract law, there is lack of boundaries with regard to consideration if all the requirements of the contract are duly followed. We all know that an agreement in which there is no consideration is not enforceable. Nevertheless, the question that is discussed in relation to consideration is about its sufficiency. It is the promisor, who calculates the sum of consideration and wants the sum of consideration from the promisee. The promisor calculates keeping in mind the current value of his service or product (Hillman, 2012). The reason why the offeror does most of the calculation is that, it is the offeror who shall receive the amount of consideration in return or exchange of the service or the product that he has offered (Niu, 2015). The offeree has the liberty of bargaining the amount of consideration if he feels that the amount is not sufficient or feasible. As per law, sufficient consideration means a consideration that is of some value in the opi nion of law and is normal for both the parties to the contract (Andrews, 2016). In the milestone issue of Chappel v. Nestle, the Judge held that a peppercorn is regarded as valuable and sufficient as long as the promisor is fine with it. A consideration that is valid and valuable and is sufficient if the promisor has done the necessary calculations then the consideration may be deemed as sufficient. Therefore, consideration is an imposition of a proviso to the promisor and a consideration is deemed as valid if it is not against law. Additionally, it also important to be noted, that the consideration should be of some value in the opinion of law and should not be a mere illusion (Chen-Wishart, 2012). In the given case study, the price of consideration was 2500 dollars and the price of consideration may be regarded as sufficient as Jane being the offeror is fine with the price of consideration. Jane calculated the amount of consideration. Hence, the agreement of which the parties to the contract were Jane and Jack was enforceable. 2: The buyer and the builder were parties to a contract in behalf of North Ocean Tankers. As per the agreement, the consideration was in dollars containing no provision of currency fluctuation. While the builder was halfway on its manufacture of the ship, the price of the dollars was diminished by ten percent. The builder realized that he was making loss in the contract and because of the loss in the amount he stopped working. The builder demanded for the amount that it lagged and it further stated that he would not complete the work unless he is paid the extra amount as consideration. The buyer was ready to pay in excess of the initial price decided. However, on a later date the buyer bought an action against the builder for recovery of the amount he paid in excess. The issue that shall be discussed in answer 2 relating to the contract is whether the purchaser will be able to recover the amount he paid in excess to the builder. The meaning of consideration is benefit, the benefit that the promisor obtains by the promisee at his detriment. The best manner to make a agreement enforceable is by way of having clause containing consideration. A mere promise is not enforceable in the opinion of law and it becomes invalid (Hunter, 2015). This was elucidated in the example of Currie v. Misa and it was held that a consideration could become enforceable only if it is valuable and has some right that benefits the other party to the contract (Eisenberg, 2014). In Stilk v. Myrick, the ship was on voyage to London wherein two sailors decided to abandon the ship. The captain of the ship told to his remaining sailors that he would share the salaries if they continued with the voyage. It was seen on a later date, that the Captain did not keep his guarantee (Bix Bix, 2012). The Court in the case of Hartley v. Ponsoby opined that a promise to pay extra money becomes enforceable only if it has involvement of some kind of lawf ul advantage (Poole, 2012). In the milestone decision of Universe Tankships Inc of Monrovia v. International Transport Workers Federation, the claimant paid extra amount to the defendant when he wanted his money at the time of constructing the tankships. Sometime later in the future the claimant sued the defendant for recovering the extra amount he gave to the defendant. In this case, the court held that the defendant used duress and warned the plaintiff that if he failed to pay the money to the plaintiff he would stop working on the tankships (Hillman, 2012). Thus, the defendant paid the amount to the plaintiff. Since there was use of economic duress to receive the amount of consideration from the plaintiff, the Court ordered that the plaintiff should receive the amount he paid in excess to the defendant. The defendant lost in his claim (Murray, 2014). In the case of Williams v. Roffey Bros and Nicholas (Contractors) Ltd, an agreement survived between the contractor and the sub contractor. The amount of consideration that was formed between them 20,000 pounds. The service on which the contract was based was carpentry. The subcontractor was in the middle of his construction when he realized that the consideration amount is not enough for him and he asked the additional amount from the main contractor. The main contractor agreed to pay the extra amount of consideration to the sub contractor when he asked for it, as he was afraid that he might be penalised for the same. Soon after, the primary contractor filed a case against the sub contractor for receiving the amount in surplus of the original consideration amount. The principal contractor succeeded as the Court decided that the contract between them was an outcome of economic duress making the contract void (DiMatteo Hogg, 2016). Similarly, in the given case study of the shipbuilder and the buyer, there were many chances that the buyer may be penalised if he delayed in the delivery of the tanker. The construction of the tanker was midway. This case involved the application of doctrine of consideration and economic duress. Two agreements were established between the builder and the buyer. One contract depended on the initial amount of consideration while the second contract depended on the extra amount that the buyer paid to the builder. The initial contract that was formed had no proviso for currency fluctuations (Hillman, 2012). The Court in the case of Universe Tankships and Williams held that a contract which is induced by economic duress shall not be enforceable in the opinion of law and the plaintiff will have to pay extra amount amount that he made the defendant pay him by using economic duress. In the same way, the plaintiff may also file a suit for recovery of the amount that he paid in excess of the decided agreement (Hillman, 2012). Presence of economic duress makes an agreement void if the plaintiff is able to prove successfully that the contract was induced by the use of economic duress and that he lacked in availing other options as his recourse. The term duress means threat or application of threat to force the other party to form a contract. A contract is deemed voidable if any one of the parties has used economic duress for formation of contract. The word economic duress means use of threat involving some kind of monetary transaction. In the famous case of Siboen, it was decided by the Privy Council that if a contract involves usage of duress for monetary transaction it shall be taken as void making the consideration doctrine not applicable (Landa, 2014. Thus, it may be held in the case of North Ocean Tankers as well that the use of economic duress makes the contract void as it leads to existence of two contracts. The initial contract contains the initial amount of consideration while the second contract involves the use of economic duress making the contract void. Thus, it may be held that the buyer has the right to file a suit for recovery for the amount that he paid in excess to the shipbuilder. References: Andrews, N. (2016). Sources and General Principles of English Contract Law. InArbitration and Contract Law(pp. 165-175). Springer International Publishing. Ayres, I. (2012).Studies in Contract Law. Foundation Press. Bix, B., Bix, B. H. (2012).Contract law: rules, theory, and context. 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Sexual Harassment Essays - Workplace Bullying, Business Ethics

Sexual Harassment Over the years, many people have believed that the issue of sexual harassment should not be discussed in public. Sexual harassment was to be discussed behind closed doors. In spite of this, the social and political systems have changed instantaneously. This social problem has affected men and women throughout time, however, it seems that the women of our society more closely look at this issue. This social topic has encouraged women to establish organizations in order to help them discuss the issues more openly and to demand equality including fairness and justice throughout the workplace and in their social lives as well. In recent years, sexual harassment has been one of the most serious and widespread problems found in the workplace. For this reason, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed, by the United Nations in 1948, to help everyone in their fight for self-respect and dignity. Indeed sexual harassment is an issue that complicates employment decisions. People also recognize that it is an issue involving the creation of an antagonistic or offensive work environment. In many instances, the issue of sexual harassment is not something minor that can be easily solved. The issue of sexual harassment pertains to everyone's apprehension of an individual's comportment due to our societal social norms. Sexual harassment, in most cases, involves a superior's behavior towards a subordinate. As mentioned before, most forms of sexual harassment occur in the workplace. An employee can charge an employer with sexual harassment as a result of the misconduct of managers, fellow employees, vendors, and even customers. Eventually, this can cause a hostile work environment. 3 It is true, for the most part, that sexual harassment comes in many forms in the workplace. There are two significant ways in which one can identify sexual harassment. They are called the "Quid Pro Quo" and the "Hostile Environment Harassment." The essence of the Quid Pro Quo theory of sexual harassment occurs when an employee is confronted with sexual demands to keep her job or obtain a promotion. This is a true violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is also referred to as the Title VII Act. Even though sexual harassment by its very nature is complicated to define, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provides a general description of sexual advances. The several basic varieties of the Quid Pro Quo harassment indicate the unwelcome sexual advances and requests for sexual favors. It also consist of other verbal or physical conducts dealing with a sexual nature of constituting sexual harassment when the submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly just because a term or a condition of an individual's employment. Secondly, the individual is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting such individual. Finally, the result of such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment. (Aggarwal, 89-93) Another form of sexual harassment is a hostile work environment. The hostile environment theory involves sexual advances between the supervisor and the employee. An employee's work performance will be less effective due to these so-called sexual advances. However, a victim can file a complaint against their harasser so that they do not continuously force them to participate. Consequently, they will be forced to hand in their resignation. This issue of power has nothing to do with sex. For this reason, both 4 male and females can be the harasser. The harasser's main purpose is to force another to feel or act in a certain way. Sometimes, sexual harassment causes an individual from effectively performing his/her job. As a result, is undermines an individual's dignity. In our society, there are three essential factors that relate to the issue of sexual advances. These elements are a divergence of perceptions, the complexity of human behavior and the attitudes of a sexist. (Lindemann, 46-48) It is often difficult to draw a line between what is acceptable and what is unacceptable in a working environment because of the existence of these ingredients. Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination, which can manifest itself in terms of physical and psychological acts. Physically, the recipient may be the victim of

Fashion and Zara Essay Essay Example

Fashion and Zara Essay Essay Example Fashion and Zara Essay Essay Fashion and Zara Essay Essay At the proclamation of her battle to Spain’s Crown Prince Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano wore a smart white pant suit. Within a few hebdomads. 100s of European adult females sported the same expression. Welcome to a manner. a tendency that sees dressing retail merchants often buying little measures of ware to remain on top of emerging tendencies. In this universe of â€Å"hot today. gauche tomorrow. † no company does fast manner better than Zara international. Shoppers in over 70 states are fans of Zara’s bent for conveying the latest manners from sketch block to vesture rack at lightning velocity and sensible monetary values. ot replenished. : Alternatively they are replaced with new designs to make scarcity value-shoppers can non be certain that designs in shop one twenty-four hours will be available the following. Shop directors track gross revenues informations with hand-held computing machines. They can reorder hot points in less than an hr. This lets Zara know what’s merchandising and what’s non ; when look doesn’t pan out. interior decorators quickly put together new merchandises. Harmonizing to Dilip Patel. U. K. commercial manager for lnditex. new reachings are rushed to hive away gross revenues floors still on the black plastic hangers used in transportation. Shoppers who are in the know recognize these designs as the newest of the new ; shortly after. any points left over are rotated to Zara’s criterion wood hangers. Inside and out. Zara’s shops are specially dressed to beef up the trade name. lnditex considers this to be of the greatest importance because that is where shoppers finally decide which manners make the cut. In a fake shopping street in the cellar of the company’s central office. stylists trade and photograph eye-catching layouts that are e-mailed every two hebdomads to shop directors for reproduction. Zara shops sit on some of the world’s glitziest shopping streets- including New York’s Fifth Avenue. near the flagship shops of taking international manner brands- which make its sensible monetary values stand out. â€Å"Inditex gives people the most up-to-date manner at accessible monetary values. so it is a existent alternate to high-end manner lines. † said Luca Solca. senior research analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein in London. That is good intelligence for Zara as many shoppers trade down from higher-priced ironss. Catfights on the Catwalk Zara is non the lone participant in fast manner. Competition is ferocious ; but Zara’s overpowering success ( recent gross revenues were over $ 13 billion ) has the competition scrambling to maintain up. San Francisco-based Gap. which had been the largest independent vesture retail merchant by gross until Zara bumped them to 2nd topographic point in 2009. late posted a 23 % diminution in full-year gross revenues and had programs to open a modest 50 new shops. Merely clip will state if super-chic Topshop’s entry into the American market causes a furrow in Zara’s success. Some manner analysts are mentioning to all of this as the democratisation of manner: delivery high ( eR ) manner to low ( Er ) income shoppers. Harmonizing to James Hurley. a senior research analyst with New York-based Telsey Advisory Group LLC. big-box price reduction shops such as Target and Wal-Mart are emulating Zara’s ability to analyze emerging manners and strike hard out look-a- likes in a affair of hebdomads. â€Å"In general: ’ Hurley said. â€Å"the manner rhythm is going sharper and more instantly accessible. † In Fast Fashion. Moments Matter Because style-savvy clients expect shorter and shorter holds from track to hive away. Zara International employs a originative squad of more than 200 professionals to assist it maintain up with the latest manners. It takes merely two hebdomads for the company to up-date bing garments and acquire them into its shops ; new pieces hit the market twice a hebdomad. Defying the recession with its cheap-and-chic Zara vesture concatenation. Zara’s parent company Inditex posted strong gross revenues additions. Low monetary values and a rapid response to manner tendencies are enabling it to dispute Gap. Inc. . for top ranking among planetary vesture sellers. The improved consequences highlight how Zara’s expression continues to work even in the economic downswing. The concatenation specializes in lightning-quick turnarounds of the latest interior decorator tendencies at monetary values tailored to the young- about $ 27 an point. Louis Vuitton manner manager Daniel Piette described Zara as â€Å"possibly the most advanced and lay waste toing retail merchant in the universe. † Inditex Group shortens the clip from order to arrival by using a complex system of just-in-time production and stock list coverage that keeps Zara in front. Their distribution centres can hold points in European shops within 24 hours of having an order. and in American and Asian shops in under 48hours. â€Å"They’re a antic instance survey in footings of how they manage to acquire merchandise to their shops so quick’ . ’ said Stacey Cartwright. CFO of Burberry Group PLC. We are aware of their techniques. † lnditex’s history in cloths fabricating made it good concern sense to internalise as many points in the supply concatenation as possible. Inditex controls design. production. distribution. and retail gross revenues to optimise the flow of goods. without holding to portion net incomes with jobbers or intermediary spouses. Customers win by holding entree to new manners while they’re still fresh off the track. During a Madonna concert circuit in Spain. Zara’s speedy turnaround Lashkar-e-Taiba immature fans at the last show wear Madonna’s outfit from the first 1. Twice a hebdomad Zara’s finished garments are shipped to logistical centres that all at the same time distribute merchandises to shops worldwide. These little production batches help the company avoid the hazard of glut. Because batches ever contain new merchandises. Zara’s shops perpetually energize their stock lists. Most vesture lines are A Single Fashion Culture With a web of over 1. 600 shops around the universe. Zara International is Indites’s largest and most profitable trade name. conveying home 77 % of international gross revenues and about 67 % of grosss. The first Zara mercantile establishment opened store in 1975 in La. Coruna. It remained entirely a Spanish concatenation until opening a shop in Oporto. Portugal. in 1988. The trade name reached the United States and France in 1989 and 1990 with mercantile establishments in New York and Paris. severally. Zara went into mainland China in 2001 and expanded into India in 2009. Essential to Zara’s growing and success are lnditex’s 100 plus textile design. fabrication. and distribution companies that employ more than 80. 000 workers. The lnditex group began in 1963 when Amancio Ortega Gaona. president and laminitis of Inditex. got his start in fabric fabrication. After a period of growing. he assimilated Zara into a new keeping company. Industria de Diseno TextiI. Inditex has a tried-andtrue scheme for come ining new markets: start with a smattering of shops and derive a critical mass of clients. Generally. Zara is the first lnditex concatenation to interrupt land in new states. paving the manner for the group’s other trade names. including Pull and Bear. Massimo Dutti. and Bershka. lnditex farms out much of its garment production to specialist companies. located on the Iberian Peninsula. which it frequently supplies with its ain cloths. Although some pieces and cloths are purchased in Asia- many of them non dyed or merely partially finished- the company manufactures about half of its vesture in its hometown of La Coruna. Spain. H A ; M. one of Zara’s top rivals. uses a somewhat different scheme. Around one one-fourth of its stock is made up of fast-fashion points that are designed in-house and farmed out to independent mills. As at Zara. these points move rapidly through the shops and are replaced frequently by fresh designs. But H A ; M besides keeps a big stock list of basic. mundane points sourced from inexpensive Asiatic mills. lnditex CEO Pablo Isla believes in cutting disbursals wheresoever and whenever possible. Zara spends merely 0. 3 % of gross revenues on ads. doing the 3-4 % typically spent by challengers seem inordinate in comparing. Isla disdains markdowns and gross revenues every bit good. Few can knock the consequences of Isla’s frugalness. Inditex late opened 439 shops in a individual twelvemonth and was at the same time named Retailer of the Year during the World Retailer Congress meeting. after raking in net net incomes of about $ 2 billion. Possibly most of import in an industry based on image. Inditex secured boasting rights as Europe’s largest manner retail merchant by catching H A ; M. Harmonizing to Jose Castellano. lnditex’s deputy president. the group plans to duplicate in size in the coming old ages while doing gross revenues of more than $ 15 billion. He envisions most of this growing taking topographic point in Europe- especially in trend-savvy Italy. Manner of the Moment Although Inditex’s laterality of fast manner seems virtually complete. it isn’t without its challenges. For case. maintaining production so close to place becomes hard when an ncreasing figure of Zara shops are widespread across the Earth. â€Å"The efficiency of the supply concatenation is coming under more force per unit area the farther abroad they go’ . ’ notes Nirmalya Kumar. a professor at London Business Schoo1. Inditex plans to establish its Zara online shop in the United States in 2011. Ther e is every indicant that it will make good. A Zara application for the iPhone has been downloaded by more prospective clients in the United States than in any other market. harmonizing to main executive Pablo Isla- more than a million iPhone users in merely three months. In 2010 Zara rolled out its online shop in six European states and programs to increasingly add the staying states where Zara operates. Analysts worry that lnditex’s rapid enlargement may convey undue force per unit area to its concern. The lifting figure of abroad shops. they warn. adds cost and complexness and is striving its operations. Inditex may no longer be able to pull off everything from Spain. But Inditex isn’t worried. By closely pull offing costs. lnditex says its current logistics system can manage its growing until 2012. Jose Luis Nueno of IESE. a concern school in Barcelona. agrees that Zara is here to remain. Consumers have become more demanding and more arbitrary. he says- and fast manner is better suited to these alterations. But does Zara International have what it takes to win in the hypercompetitive universe of fast manner? Or is the company seeking to spread out excessively rapidly? 1. In what ways are elements of the classical direction and behavioural direction attacks evident at Zara International? Specify precisely which elements are apparent and how they are apparent. 2. How can the systems theory and the theory of eventuality believing explicate the success of some of Zara’s typical patterns? List specific points as to how these theories are straight or indirectly related to Zara’s patterns. 3. Zara’s CEO has asked your direction consulting house for advice on how the house can do immediate betterments to remain in front of competition. You must take one of the advisers mentioned in Chapter 2 for this occupation ( antique: Frederick Taylor. Max Weber. Mary Parker Follett ) . Which one/s would you delegate to Zara. and why? Explain your option in item by discoursing precisely what points of the â€Å"consultant† from his/her well-known theories are applicable to Zara and how these may be applied to the company in modern twenty-four hours. . Discuss each of your suggested â€Å"improvements† for Zara in item. ( More specific information. illustrations ) . 5. Gather the latest information on competitory tendencies in the dress industry. and on Zara’s latest actions and inventions. Then answer the followers: a. Is the house go oning to make good? What makes you say so? ( List statistics of competition. reappraisals. etc. Cite sources. ) B. Is Zara accommodating in ways needed to remain abreast of both its major competition and the force per unit areas of a altering planetary economic system? What makes you say so?

Tips and Techniques to Avoid Writers Block

Tips and Techniques to Avoid Writers Block Tips and Techniques to Avoid Writer's Block The writing process is rarely a straightforward one. It always comes with periods of self-doubt and lack of inspiration. Most authors struggle to know how to handle these challenges. This is why we decided to interview a specialist on writer's block: Tom Evans.Tom is the author of over 10 books on creativity, meditation and Big Questions. He teaches authors how to ‘meditate’ to get inspiration and words for their books.In this interview, he teaches us simple techniques and principles to keep writer’s block at arm’s length and unlock our creativity - even under tight deadlines!Hit â€Å"play† if you want to hear him offer his advice in a calm, soothing voice; or, alternatively, read the transcript below! Hi Tom, great to have you here! Why don’t you give us a bit of background on your writing career and how you got started as an author unblocker?Sure, I’ll tell you how my career started, because I think most writers end up being writers by accident - you can’t necessarily plan it. I was on a plane going on a holiday to the Caribbean when all of the sudden this idea for a book came in. So I started writing furiously and by the time we landed the first draft was finished. I published it when I got back to the UK, it’s called 100 Years of Ermintrude, as a hommage to One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.That was before the Kindle, so I just published it as a PDF-ebook and people started downloading it and liking it! A lot of people started approaching me, saying â€Å"you’ve written a book, can you help me write one?† and it kind of started from there. At the time I was a bored IT consultant. Before I knew it I had written and published a second and third book and was helping a lot of writers with the creative process. But many people came to me as they were stuck, and I had no tools to deal with the â€Å"stuckness†. So I went and learned a bit of hypnotherapy and progression therapy and I discovered mechanisms to unblock pretty much anyone.In all cases of writer's block, there is an underlying life block, which you need to deal with.Let’s say an author approaches you because they’re stuck. What do you do to unblock them, do you look for the underlying life block?There are two main ways of doing it. The first one is to put such a big carrot in front of the author that it blasts the block away: â€Å"look, getting this book out is going to change your career; it’s going to open a bunch of doors, etc.†Or, sometimes, they just don’t have a big enough idea. I was talking to a couple of authors this morning who had been writing this book for 5 years now, but didn†™t have the idea for it formed that well. So I didn’t technically need to do any unblocking; all I needed to do was give them the whole vision for their book - through mind-mapping. I also gave them the structure for the book and how they were going to co-write it. Now they’ve got the vision, they’re up and running.A few weeks ago, we were interviewing Scott Berkun, a speaker and myth-buster on creativity and innovation, and he said that writers’ main problem is laziness. Would you agree with that? What can writers do to avoid it?Yes, it’s actually amazing how people can become creatively uncreative: they get really creative about doing everything else but the creative task.A lot of times, what happens is people have false starts when getting started. I’m sure there are many more half-written manuscripts on people’s hard-drives than there are published books out there. For most of them, it’s because the idea wasn’t st rong enough, so they get to a point where they ask themselves â€Å"where is this going?†So I always start with a structure. Of course I leave the author enough freedom to creatively wander around, but always within a structure. All my books have got a metalayer. For example, for my latest book, I knew it was going to be 18 chapters. And what I do is I make appointments for my chapters in my diary. I move other plans around these appointments, but these are sacred because no one else is going to write my book. It’s a really good discipline to have.And what happens then is that the information that you need to write that following chapter has that uncanny way of just showing up. There are a few neurological reasons for that, but basically your brain tunes in to what you need to write, so you get into that lovely zone on the given day and the chapter just flows.But of course, if you allow other elements to come in, it will disrupt that process and the book will never get written.But doesn’t this outlining, defining of the structure and planning of the writing process impose constraints on your plot and characters that go against the idea that the story will develop by itself?There are two approaches I think. In non-fiction, structure is vital. In fiction, I believe you still need some form of structure. It can be temporal - a chronology you’re going to follow - or event-based, or even character-based.Let’s say you have this classic structure of a character who goes through a journey of trial to find enlightenment, you need to define a meta-level for this character that you’re going to hold, and then you can throw things at the character that will challenge them and help them find their way.If you think about Dan Brown - my guilty pleasure – all his books have this hero A, hero B, and then the albino monk. And you know that at some point the heroes are going to get together and the albino monk will come in as we ll. Having that kind of meta-structure works. Obviously, you let things happen as you let the creative flow come in. But the reason you have a structure is so you finish. I started working with somebody a couple of years ago who has now ended up writing 180,000 words, so we have to split it into a trilogy. If you have a clear structure when you start writing, you know how long the book will be.You also use meditation a lot to unblock authors, slow down time and unlock creativity. How can authors use meditation in order to get past all the things that are an obstacle to the writing?The first thing I want to say is that there’s no mystic around meditation. You don’t need to sit in a dark room or in a cave. It’s a natural thing that we all do. When we fall into our creative zone we are in a meditative state.One thing we all need to remember is that our minds are only capable of having one thought at a time. When you’re thinking about what you’re think ing about, the thought you were thinking gets replaced by the thought you’re thinking about it, you know what I mean?If I’m thinking â€Å"will people really care about the words that I’m writing right now?†, then that takes my mind away from the words themselves. So getting in the meditative state with your eyes open is a fantastic way to get completely absorbed and focused on what you’re doing, and to take your conscious mind out of the loop. You become more of a channel of the work as opposed to a generator of it: it’s almost as if the work comes through you. Very often, I have to read the book that I wrote to work out exactly what I’ve written because I was in such a meditative state when writing that I wasn’t aware of it.The way to get into the eyes-open meditative state is to learn first how to meditate with your eyes closed. I’ve recorded a few visualizations that are free to teach authors how to do that. And as y ou rightly say, when you get into that state, time seems to take that lovely ethereal quality and you get more things done.You mentioned book marketing. That’s the other big thing that authors can be afraid about or don’t know how to handle, and I think marketing also requires a lot of creativity and structure. Do you also help authors on that path?Yes, more and more. I think there are two forms of block: writer’s block and author’s block. Writer’s block is the one that prevents the authors from getting the book written, and author’s block is the block that stops them from getting the book out there.Often, writers can be shy, afraid of public speaking, etc. So I help them with that. Nowadays, thanks to the internet, we can do things like this Hangout, or podcasting. There are lots of ways of being creative about getting the work out there.One of the things I love doing, for example, is serializing bits of my books in audio. You can put those out on podcast channels, you can tweet them, Facebook them, etc.That’s really interesting, because there is a lot of talk around serializing novels now with Kindle Unlimited, and there has been a lot of talk around audiobooks for some time now; but combining the two and serializing audio is something I haven’t seen any authors do so far. Thanks for taking the time to chat with us, Tom!My pleasure! And one last note to finish for all authors out there: you must get yourself a Reedsy profile, they’re absolutely brilliant!Follow Tom Evans and Reedsy on Twitter: @thebookwright  and  @ReedsyHQ!What do you do to  Ã¢â‚¬Å"get in the zone†? How do you manage to power through writer’s block? Leave us your thoughts, or any questions for Tom, in the comments below!

Quality Assurance - Ford Motor Company Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 1000 words

Quality Assurance - Ford Motor Company - Essay Example cilitated the company to keep abreast with the changes and maintain a competitive edge over their rivals, has been its ability to test new approaches in its business strategy through stringent framework of quality assurance. Montgomery states, ‘..strategy must be a dynamic tool for guiding the development of a company over time’ (Montgomery, 2004). While changing dynamics of the global business has necessitated formation and incorporation of management strategies that go beyond the realm of individual company’s concern, planning for distinctive competencies has given the company market leadership. The company’s focused vision towards quality has helped the organization to maintain its market leadership even in the recessive environment of global economy. The company has made concerted efforts to follow six sigma criteria to meet the challenges of the contemporary time. In the deteriorating market conditions of global market economy, the company is primarily faced with two major issues: efficient and timely production of new products; Quality assurance satisfying ISO 9000 standard that meets the customers’ changing demands within the constraints of rising cost. Quality Assurance can be broadly defined as the activities that deliver high standard of products and services to customers at large, satisfying their requirements and meeting their changing preferences. It ensures that production and delivery of services take place in a manner that delineates the percentage of error or the problems within the production and have requisite standard. ISO 9000 is the name of Quality Assurance standard that are followed globally. The primary requirements of ISO 9000 is to develop a well defined system that incorporates that is well documented and the information is disseminated amongst the various stakeholders so that they can be followed at each step of different business processes. In the contemporary times of cutting edge competition, Juran asserts ‘all quality