Week 10 EOC: What would you do?

Michael Dorsey is a waiter at a restaurant, but he used to be an actor two years ago. He has not acted since two years ago. Michael Dorsey went to his agent after hearing some news. He wanted to prove to his agent that he can get the role somehow. His agent did not believe him what so ever. What Michael Dorsey did correct was that he did not let anything stop him from getting a role. He dressed up like a woman and he went to the audition. Right before he could fully audition the actor/director told him no, that he was not right for the part.  “…working for the same company for a lifetime are long gone and in some industries having one job for a significant period of time is frowned upon rather than considered an asset.” Michael did not take no for an answer and he stood up for himself. He did not fail to show his disguise, he stayed in costume the whole time. Later on he showed his agent how he got the role and that he was able to achieve his goal in getting the role. “As unattainable as a dream job might sound, with the right amount of forethought and preparation, you can make the move...” What he possibly did wrong was that, instead of telling his female friend, the one who really wanted the role also, he lied to her and did not tell her about him getting the role. Sometimes to achieve your dream job you might need to go above and beyond for something you really want. And that is something that Michael did. To get a big role he had to dress up like a woman and he was able to get the role. “...to conduct a self-exploration and identify possible careers that truly inspire.”

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http http://career-advice.monster.com/job-search/getting-started/6-tips-for-landing-your-dream-job-hot-jobs/article.aspx://jobsearch.about.com/cs/cooljobs/a/dreamjob.htm

Week 9 EOC: How has Fashion,Creativity and Design changed me

 ....I love everything about fashion. The fact that I could not go to the school I wanted to, I had to choose The Art Institute of Las Vegas. When I heard that they had a fashion program that changed my whole perspective on this school. I was really hoping that this school at the time had fashion design because that was my whole set mind when it came to a fashion classes or main subject of fashion. When I realized that I was taking the management part of it, I actually was super happy because I was going to learn the management of managing my own company; breaking all things down to target markets to strategies to a successful business. I have learned so much just from coming to school, classes, and participating in fashion things. Fashion, creativity, and design have helped me as a whole and fashion student. Being here at AILV has taught me a lot about myself as a person and student. Fashion itself is why my degree will be outstanding because this school provides the best. According to the design book it states; aims to inspire and empower designers by helping them to develop their personal creativity and use it as a tool to achieve design goals. It also states that creativity is a tool available to anyone who understands its components and teach students to identify and then seek out or avoid the personal and environmental factors that promote or inhibit their own creativity.

1.    http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/creativity-in-fashion-design-9781563678950/

2.    http://img.tedcdn.com/r/images.ted.com/images/ted/28709464d3c8e1d4e8c3762c97c73322e01ed106_1600x1200.jpg?ll=1&quality=89&w=800

Week 8 EOC: Evaluate the clips "How To Make It In America"

To Be Continued

Week 7 EOC: Tim Horton

The chain's first store opened in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, under the name "Tim Horton Donuts"; the name was later abbreviated to "Tim Horton's" and then changed to "Tim Hortons". The business was founded by Miles G. Tim Horton, who played in the National Hockey League from 1949 until his death in a car accident in 1974. Soon after Horton opened the store, he met Ron Joyce, a former Hamilton police constable. In 1965, Joyce took over the fledgling Tim Horton Donut Shop on Ottawa Street North in Hamilton. By 1967, after he had opened up two more stores, he and Tim Horton became full partners in the business. Upon Horton's death in 1974, Joyce bought out the Horton family's shares for $1 million and took over as sole owner of the existing chain of forty stores. Joyce expanded the chain quickly and aggressively in geography and in product selection. The 500th store opened in 1991. Ron Joyce's aggressive expansion of the Tim Hortons business resulted in major changes to the Canadian coffee and doughnut restaurant market. Many independent doughnut shops and small chains were driven out of business, while Canada's per-capita ratio of doughnut shops surpassed those of all other countries. By the 1990s, the company name had changed to The TDL Group Ltd. This was an effort by the company to diversify the business, removing the primary emphasis on doughnuts, and continuing the expansion of the menu options as consumer tastes broadened. The removal of the apostrophe allowed the company to have one common sign image across Canada. "Tim Horton has outlets located on at least seven Canadian Forces Bases". Everyone loves a good donuts and coffee every now-and-them. In my opinion I feel like this business should be in the US because they have yummy looking products. According to twitter, Last Thursday the company tweeted, “Excited to announce we're joining a new global company to help us grow & share a taste of Tims with more people”.

Tim Hortons @TimHortons · Aug 26

Excited to announce we're joining a new global company to help us grow & share a taste of Tims with more people. http://bit.ly/1svwj6o 

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The Tim Horton company decided t start The Children's Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization committed to providing a fun-filled camp environment for children from economically disadvantaged homes. It was founded by Ron Joyce, Co-Founder of Tim Hortons, in honour of his friend and National Hockey League star, Tim Horton, who died in a car accident in 1974.

1.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons

2.     "Tim Hortons Inc. – Company Overview". Hoover's.

3.    http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/corporate/worlds-third-largest-quick-service-restaurant-company-launched.php?sf30287938=1#?

4.    http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/corporate/media-tim-horton-childrens-foundation.php                                        

Week 6 EOC: Advertising on Linkedln

Using Linkedln when it comes to marketing and advertising is a very good aspect when it comes to promoting who you are and what you do in the professional business. Me personally I love this social media option and glad it has got brought in the marketing industry because I feel that it’s a digital resume. Linkedin is not just some ordinary social media website because it’s for professional people trying to get “linkedin” with other business people. Someone who is into arts such as music, graphic designing, or even designing would use Linkedin so promote his or her’s talent. Just like any social media website, they are not always safe but the person can control what goes on within their social media lines. Linkedlin I very professional so nothing but business people add you, but the problem with that is because you don’t know who is adding you. In class my FRM teacher Frank Pinto says, “One day I asked a guy that goes to AILV did he have a business card and he said yes but he asked for his LInkedin.” I had wondered why he said that or why he say, “I do not add students unless they are graduates.” According to Linkedin their LinkedIn Advertising Plan Outline is:

• · A LinkedIn account to use LinkedIn advertising. While you don’t need a completed profile or company page if you are linking to your website in your ad, having both are good for your overall online presence.
• · A definition of your ideal customer for ad targeting purposes.
• · A landing page customized for the product or service you are advertising targeted to your ideal customer.
• ·  An idea of how you want your ad to look by researching other ads on LinkedIn.
• · Strong headlines, descriptions, and images for your LinkedIn ad variations.
• ·  Time to review your ad variations to only use the ones with the best conversion rates.
• · Time to measure your results to determine if LinkedIn ads are right for your business.

1.  http://partner.linkedin.com/ads/info/Ads_faqs_updated_en_US.html

2.    http://unbounce.com/social-media/guide-to-linkedin-advertising/

Week 6 EOC: Ferguson and Marketing

A police officer brutally shot Michael Brown on a street in Ferguson, Missouri, on his hands in the air to show he was unarmed. When the officer opened fire, authorities counter that Brown attacked the officer in his car and tried to take his gun. The St. Louis suburb of 21,000 was wracked by violence as protesters outraged over the 18 year old shooting faced off with police. Although there were reports that some demonstrations were peaceful -- protesters held up their hands, as Brown reportedly did, and others demanded a fair inquiry, chanting, "No justice, No peace”. There were also reports of fires, looting, vandalism and attacks on police officers. In my opinion in lower-class neighborhood, they should be trying to bring justice and peace to make a safer community. Shooting now-a-days is the highest crime rate in the United States especially in lower-class community’s. I feel that everyone that is taking pictures are that are into “no justice no peace”. Federal civil rights investigators and the FBI carry out their own inquiry into the case. Tensions are running high in Ferguson, where there's a history of distrust between the predominately black community and the largely white police force. In my opinion because of all of the black crime back in the day and the past, African Americans are going to feel threatened by white people, especially police officers because it all go back to racial province. According to reporters they state that, “Brown was African-American. Police have not identified the shooter, but a witness told CNN on Tuesday that the officer who opened fire is a Caucasian male.” They also state that “The dispute between distraught Ferguson residents and police isn't likely to be settled soon.” I feel that It needs to be settled just so the community know that they are safe and that don’t have to worry about getting shot unharmed.  The story itself has been torn up in so many ways. I pray the blessing on Ferguson and that the crime stops and everything gets settled with the case so those can be at peace.

1. http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/11/us/missouri-ferguson-michael-brown-what-we-know/

2. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/14/michael-brown-ferguson-missouri-timeline/14051827/

Week 5 Midterm: Networking in the United States

There are many positive and negative aspects to networking in the United States. On the positive side, networking brings in a lot of new faces and connections. Having good connections also helps out business and getting more exposure and or help from other outside parties. The more networking you do, the more likely you will have a popular and successful business.  There are so many ways to network with people using social such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Blogger.  There are also such things as certain parties that you can attend to network with people, such as an elegant formal party after a fashion show etc.” It is a sign of how deeply and widely social networking companies have penetrated the lives of ordinary people and, in turn, transformed the ways in which people communicate, authorities govern and companies sell things.”  -SOMINI SENGUPTA.

On the negative side the more people that you network with will also become confusing on who’s who. Also the more people the more likely you are going to meet a shady dishonest person whose only intention is to use or scam you. It also is not great for this generation coming up because of all the bad predictors and “catfish” people. People can hack into your social media’s and does harm to your information, better yet get some of your private information. Another reason networking can be a bad thing because of cyber bulling.  

1. Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online. 1 in 4 has had it happen more than once.

2. 70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online. Filling up your friends' Facebook feeds with positive posts instead of negative ones can boost school-wide morale. Start a Facebook page for students to submit positive acts they see in school to promote a culture of positivity on and offline.

3. Over 80% of teens use a cell phone regularly, making it the most common medium for cyber bullying.

4. 68% of teens agree that cyber bullying is a serious problem.

5. 81% of young people think bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person. 

1.    SOMINI SENGUPTA

2.    https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-cyber-bullying

Week 4 EOC: McDonalds and Hot Coffee

If you were heard that and elderly women got burned from McDonald’s coffee, what would you do? Continue buying or ignore the fact? And because she go rewarded so much money, would you use that to bash the situation? This all happen in reality when and elderly lady in Albuquerque by the name of Stella Liebeck bought a cup of coffee in the drive thru at McDonald’s and spilled the cup on her lap. When reporters captured data about the incident, the coffee was overly hot. The temperature on a daily workday should be at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit. According to Ms. Liebeck she is indeed not in it for the money but of course people who knew she got rewarded such a large amount wondered how it all happened. People such as TV reporters, cartoons, and TV shows such as Seinfeld al made jokes and comments referring to the coffee incident. When it came down to court time with Stella the evidence that’s satiated were very interesting like;

• McDonald’s operations manual required the franchisee to hold its coffee at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Coffee at that temperature, if spilled, causes third-degree burns in three to seven seconds
• McDonald’s admitted it had known about the risk of serious burns from its scalding hot coffee for more than 10 years. The risk had repeatedly been brought to its attention through numerous other claims and suits.
• McDonald’s quality assurance manager testified that McDonald’s coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into Styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat.
• McDonald’s admitted it did not warn customers of the nature and extent of this risk and could offer no explanation as to why it did not.

The lady was happy with what the jury was intend to reward her with which was $20,000 to cover the injury between her legs which bothered McDonald’s because they ever gave more than $800 before. Later as the time went while this was still the “hot topic”, she died. According to the video she died because all the pain and compassion going on. She felt as if she was being bashed about the whole trail, jury, verdict, and just everyone in general.  

1   1. Consumer Attorneys of California

https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts

 2. Wikipedia 25 June 2014 at 08:32

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants

 3. Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants

EOC Week 3: How To Make It In America

v  What’s your superpower? What do you do better than anyone else?

Answer: Ben and Cam’s super power was to have ambition about what they were trying to sell/make as their own product or brand for their jeans. What they do better than anyone is go out and keep trying no matter the outcome was. They always took their ambition to the next level making things work to get their jeans out there on the market.

v  What do people frequently compliments you on or praise you for?

Answer: What others frequently compliment or praise when it comes to ben and Cam they got compliments on how they never gave up and anyone they went to see what can be done to get there jean line started always either came with something good for them or something bad.

v  What adjectives do people consistently use to describe you –

v  perhaps when they’re introducing you to others?

Answer: When it comes to the best friends Cam and Ben some people may have seen them as a little show ad unorganized because they didn't bring anything to the manufacturing company to even get things started, but that was in the begging of the show. As time progress they got better. Some may classify them as very ambitious because they never gave up and they always came up with plans or some “off the wall” just to make their “under construction line started”.

v  What energizes or ignites you? What are your true passions? 

Answer: What energizes or ignites they boys are the fact that they know with a little more help; guides, they can make their jean collection legit and even worth being on the market for people to buy. Ben and Cam's true passion is jeans (their brand to be). I know they will be a success.

Week 2 EOC: More In America

For today episode of How to Make It in America I love how everything was about confidence. For today’s show they guys wanted to start their own Jean line but when they went to the manufacturing company, they guys was not ready for what was being asked, instead they were to determine to get their jean line/collection on the roll. When they guy that worked there asked did they have a plan for the jean line or some type of organizational structure to be presented. They did not have anything to bring to the table so as a company the guy who worked at the manufacturer didn’t know what to tell them but gave the men harsh but positive critiques. What they boys should have done was had some type of plan , them made some type of samples so when it’s being presented to a company you look and seem as professional as possible. What the boy do, do right was not giving up and taking what the other man said and turned it into something positive.

Week 1 EOC: How to make it in America

I really like certain things about this show and of course the similaritys between it and Entourage are there and they share a producer and a certain feel, difference between the two is that How to Make it in America doesn't have a Arie that you either love or hate type character to balance things out. you have a good hustle of action and things happening in this show but nobody ever overshadows or takes it beyond what is presented. it is a very well placed cast, however its a cool show which works well in its lane. I really like the show's atmosphere: the visual style, the soundtrack, the New York scenery. All of it. I also like that it is kind of slow paced (fortunately it's airing on HBO or else it would get axed). I find the characters easy to relate to. You feel their desire to make their way in the big city, the moments of self-doubt, the questioning, the ups and downs in friendship. Anyway I guess it's not for everyone but at least I enjoyed it. Season 2 just ended and I can't wait to see the next seasons to come. I like the Dominican aspect of the pilot, but I think the lead character is alright. Wahlberg is trying to portray ordinary Americans instead of stars, Entourage. This takes much more skill as the audience must connect with the characters. I do not think America
ns will develop a fondness for the characters, overall I rate this show excellent.

My Voice

My aspiration in the field and marketing is to first design my own line of clothing which would be named "Beauty" by- Gabrielle. This will be a universal line of fashion and cosmetics, as well as many other women's hair, nail etc. products. This line will also include many separate divisions and collections. The earliest and most important collection would have to be the "Princess" collection. This specific collection will consist of everything and anything involving clothing. There will be reasonable pricing on everything involving this line. There by making it possible for more customers to be able to purchase these items. Also reasonable pricing on these items will make it possible to be sold in bigger more vast variety of stores and other shops. The demographic of customers we plan on selling to will include women ages 18 - 40. Plus sizes as well petite sizes. There will also be an exclusive sub division of this clothing line called the "little princess" line. This line will cater to infants, toddlers, and most importantly ages five years old all the way to sixteen years old. I also plan on being the main model represent this particular line. This work great to give my lines exposure as well as my self since i also have a passion for modeling. If all of these pieces fall into place i have other ventures i would like to branch out to.