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    The history of Barbie’s trace back to the 1950’s. Dolls have generally changed in size and appearance over the years. Growing up every holiday‚ birthday or Christmas I would want a new doll. My mother was the same way‚ as soon as she found out she was having a daughter she found all her old dolls to pass on. My favorite doll she passed down to me was her Barbie. Barbie dolls were the coolest dolls because they had different hair and different eye colors. Still to this day Barbie’s have been produced

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    body and what a person should or could look like is a very controversial issue in the world today. Barbie‚ a fashion doll manufactured in March 1959‚ portrays what the perfect body is presumed to look like. For over fifty years‚ Barbie’s creator‚ Ruth Handler has been the subject of numerous disputes and lawsuits. One of the most common complaints of Barbie is that she promotes an unrealistic idea of body image for a young woman. For centuries media has broadcasted this “ideal image”. For instance

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    Chapter two Books: Perceiving Women‚ The First Sex‚ Identity: A Reader Part I Within today’s western world‚ women are often subjected to critical analysis and study when they are portrayed within the media and other influential forms of communicative channels. They are portrayed as objects of desire for the eye of the public and thus sex is a tool to attract customers. The consequence of this is that is can represent women as sex objects‚ provide unrealistic beauty standards and disregard

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    MATTEL CASE I. OVERVIEW Mattel was founded in 1945 by Elliot and Ruth Handler. The couple started out making furniture to sell out of their garage. This business was a success‚ but they wanted a new business approach to remain competitive in the fast-changing world. So‚ they turned to making toys‚ and Mattel became the world’s largest toy company‚ with a revenue of $5.8 billion and a net income of $684 million in 2010. Recently‚ the company commissioned Chinese companies to produce some

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    Mattel Case Study - Presentation Transcript 1. no. 1-0013 Mattel‚ Inc: Vendor Operations in Asia Only 3% of the world’s children are here in the U.S. Our biggest opportunities are in growth outside the U.S. – Jill Barad President & CEO Mattel‚ Inc. The sun was just breaking over Kowloon Harbor. From his corner office‚ Ron Montalto gazed across the water and watched the early morning light reflect off Hong Kong’s famous downtown skyline. Only 24 hours ago Ron had been riding around the Carolina

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    jQUERY 1.4.2 VISUAL CHEAT SHEET = NEW IN jQUERY 1.4.x / ❉ = DEPRECATED / SELECTORS ✼ CORE ✼ ATTRIBUTES ✼ CSS ✼ TRAVERSING ✼ MANIPULATION ✼ EVENTS ✼ EFFECTS ✼ AJAX ✼ UTILITIES a = ARRAY / jQ = jQUERY / El = ELEMENT / 0-1 = BOOLEAN / Obj = OBJECT / NUM = NUMBER / Str = STRING ❉ SELECTORS / 1. BASIC All Selector (“*”) Selects all elements. a :first Selector Selects the first matched element. a [name$=value] Selects elements that have the specified

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    Jobs Performed in the Company I was assigned at Handler Maintenance Group-PM Bay. I was given the task to calibrate the temperature limits of different handlers such as Aetrium 55V6/ 55V8/55VMAX‚ Multitest 9308/9320/9928/9510‚ and Delta Edge 8000. Before calibrating handlers‚ I prepare the set-up of thermocouples that are used for acquiring the actual temperature of the handlers. When the set-up is installed to the handler‚ calibration starts. Handlers must be calibrated according to the assigned set

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    PeopleSoft Messaging Server Settings Guide 1 Contents 2 Introduction Introducing the PeopleSoft Messaging Server 3 Messaging Server Processes 4 Configuring Messaging Servers in PSADMIN 4 Understanding Dispatcher Parameters 5 Understanding Handler Parameters 7 Understanding Integration Broker Parameters 8 Minimum and Recommended Values. 9 Edit History 10 Introduction Introducing the PeopleSoft Messaging Server PeopleSoft Messaging Services exist on the application server and are

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    Plastic Perfection In 1956‚ Ruth Handler‚ an American businesswoman‚ was vacationing in Switzerland when she came across Bild Lilli‚ a doll that‚ unlike popular baby dolls at the time‚ had long‚ shapely legs and wore heavy makeup. Lilli‚ in fact‚ was based on a prostitute in a postwar German cartoon‚ but Handler was inspired. She bought three Lilli dolls‚ returned to California and in 1959 created the world ’s first Barbie doll (Lowen). Since her debut in 1959‚ over one billion Barbie

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    Perception of Foreign Students on Food Safety PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH Perception of Foreign Students on Food Safety and Hygiene Practices among Food Handlers in Malaysian Restaurants: Public Health Perspective Olumide Adedokun Odeyemi School of Biosciences and Biotechnology‚ Faculty of Science and Technology‚ National University of Malaysia‚ UKM Bangi 43600 Bangi‚ Selangr Darul Eshan‚ Malaysia. *For reprint and all corresponding: Olumide Adedokun Odeyemi‚ School of Biosciences and Biotechnology

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