Abstract
This paper provides an overview of Saks Fifth Avenue, a department store chain that specializes in offering upscale merchandise to higher income individuals, while at the same time, being able take advantage of economy-of-scale dynamics to offer high-end merchandise at better prices then smaller boutique type stores.

Outline
Introduction
Saks Fifth Avenue
Overview of Management
Facilities
Operating Hours
Outline of the History of the Company
Future Plans for the Company
Daily Operations
Customer Relations
Merchandising
Competition
Personal Reactions and Comments
References

From the Paper
"Both the Saks Department Store Group and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, the company focuses on its commitment to a merchandising strategy that emphasizes branded products, (i.e. Bali, Hart Schaffner, etc.), coupled with a sophisticated style and feel of its merchandise presentation. The company's emphasis on high level customer service helps fuels the merchandising focus. Finally Saks Inc. believes that their emphasis on presenting branded products in the best possible setting coupled with a focus on providing outstanding customer service makes them a preferred distribution channel for premier brand-name products."

Tags:customer, service, upscale, merchandise

Abstract
This paper introduces and discusses the book "The Spencers of Amberson Avenue: A Turn of the Century Memoir" by Ethel Spencer. Specifically, it answers some precise questions regarding the book and history. Clearly, there are positive and negative aspects to history and growing up in an earlier time. This memoir illustrates some of those positive and negative qualities and makes the reader think about the many conveniences we have today. All in all, it seems as though it is much more simple to live today, but we are missing some of the things that people like the Spencers took for granted.

From the Paper
"Probably the most important loss of quality we have in our lives today is the loss of fresh foods and the natural world. Mrs. Spencer remembers cherry and apple trees in their yard, and lining Amberson Avenue (Spencer 3). Today, something like this is an unheard of luxury in most cities and suburbs. Our food comes from a grocery store, and is filled with preservatives and additives that we cannot even pronounce. At the turn of the century, the food was fresh, (for many years the Spencers had their own cows for milk, cream, and butter, for example). People knew were it came from, and what was and was not in it. It was a time of healthier eating simply because there were no "convenience" foods and drive-thrus. It seems like food quality, even though there were certainly problems with cleanliness and germs, was better then than it is today."

Tags:childhood, memoir, labor-saving

Abstract
This paper is written about a principal intersection of Toronto's now traditional Chinatown area. This district has a timeless quality about it, in a bustling street life that might be found in a Chinese working-class district of San Francisco or perhaps, a Chinese enclave in a Malaysian coastal town, as easily as in Toronto.

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This paper focuses on the problems of drug trafficking in the poverty-stricken neighborhood of Allerton Avenue in the Bronx, New York and how drug trafficking is a very common issue in most poverty-ridden neighborhoods in the United States. It evaluates the lack of education and incentives of the youths in these areas who seek refuge in the delusional world of drugs and how drug-curtailing efforts by the police and other law-enforcement agencies are not successful. It discusses how the solution seems to be community involvement through citizen-driven programs which give citizens a chance to participate directly in those government actions, which aim at providing relief to poverty-stricken people of a particular neighborhood.

From the Paper
"Recruiting the right community members for the task force may often become a major problem, as people do not want to become part of an active campaign. Therefore the more discreet and low profile a campaign is, the better are the chances of its success. People join action committees when they are certain others would not be able to find out. This is because oft-times news of such an action committee may leak out which alerts the drug-dealers and they stay on the lookout for those who support such committees-illegal activities in poverty-stricken areas. We have seen that usually in more affluent areas, there are social networks that regularly arrange social events for the community. This is done both for recreational as well as educational purposes. People in the community gather at one place and get a chance to discuss various problems. It is here that they can come up with effective solutions to eliminate neighborhood problems."

Tags:police, law-enforcement, agencies, poor, problem, community, campaign

Abstract
This paper explores several avenues of analysis which prove relevant to a data set regarding 100 individuals and their correlating data. The mean, median, range, standard deviation, and skew were all calculated as part of the data analysis. With that corresponding data came various graphs and charts such as a box and whisker chart and a histogram. Finally, the coefficient of variation was calculated using megastat.

Tags:statistics, wages, analysis

Abstract
This paper explores Sander Gilman's theory that the representations of illness and disease are manifestations of society which are susceptible to changes, much the way knowledge is. Art and literature are two major avenues in which society projects its beliefs and views. Gilman uses this phenomenon to examine how disease and illness are seen through society. Gilman contends that in art and literature, painters and poets have accumulated their society's fears of illness and disease and manifested them into very detailed pictorial representations. The writer stresses the need to create representations that can be physically seen which would lessen society's fear of illness. This paper also discusses the various methods created by scientists in which observations and ideas can in fact be seen and scrutinized which results in better understanding of disease and illness.

From the Paper
"Scientists have created a method by which observations and ideas can be observed and scrutinized in order to better the comprehension of the world. The scientific method is central to new ideas and theories becoming more accepted in the scientific community. Just as a human relies on its five senses to interact with the world, the scientific method relies on human observations and ideas to create knowledge. Thus, in its own essence, the scientific method is relying on lesser means of perception in order to broaden the understanding of the world. As an idea passes through the scientific method on its way to becoming accepted knowledge, it must first pass the task of acceptance by society."

Tags:science, perception, art, literature, illness, disease, society, social

Abstract
This paper examines how one of the greatest jazz musicians of recent date is Charles Mingus and how his work and his life cry out for a biography of his contribution to the musical medium and of his life as a performer. It reviews the documentary film, "Charles Mingus: he Triumph of the Underdog", and shows how it offers an opportunity for a music historian to see the man and listen to the tunes that formed his life's passion. In contrast, it also examines the book, "Central Avenue Sounds", which attempts to give a portrait of an era and a specific time and place in history, rather than one man.

From the Paper
"But how to contextually render that life in history? The text of Central Avenue Sounds offers perhaps the best literary compromise it is a work of prose, but one that offers an oral history of jazz. Through weaving in the voices of different musicians, and different perspectives of the musicians of the Los Angeles music "scene" the book hopes to offer a fully-fleshed internal as well as external history of these artists. Charles Mingus was a critical influence upon many of these artists, as well as was influenced by those who preceded him. But the book is not only a triumph, to borrow the documentary's title, of prose. It is also a triumph of the medium recorded oral history."

Tags:triumph, underdog, central, avenue, sounds

Abstract
The paper relates that observations were made at a Starbucks in downtown San Diego, not far from the campus of San Diego City College. The paper describes the store as one of a chain with more than a dozen stores in San Diego, and this one is located at 1194 6th Avenue, at the corner of 6th Avenue and B Street. The paper relates that Starbuck's is a very popular coffee shop chain, and in many cities it is even more concentrated than it is in San Diego. The paper explains that the location at 6th Avenue and B Street is near the city college on one side and the downtown business and financial district on the other, at least close enough so that much of the traffic through the area is tending toward one or the other.

From the Paper
"The observations were made at a Starbuck's in downtown San Diego, not far from the campus of San Diego City College. The store is one of a chain with more than a dozen sores in San Diego, and this one is located at 1194 6th Avenue, at the corner of 6th Avenue and B Street. Starbuck's is a very popular coffee shop chain, and in many cities it is even more concentrated than it is in San Diego. The location at 6th Avenue and B Street is near the city college on one side and the downtown business and financial district on the other, at least close enough so that much of the traffic through the area is tending toward one or the other. Sixth Avenue is by far the busier street and connects to a large parking garage down..."

Tags:starbucks, store, observations

Abstract
This paper examines how, in the writings of Shakespeare, there are many great loves and how some of the greatest are also the greatest examples of love for a purpose. It looks at how the love between a man and a women is often the avenue by which intrigue transpires into change by examining and comparing three of his plays. The love between Ferdinand and Miranda in "The Tempest" acts as the starting point from which the other two are compared. The second couple is Queen Margaret and the Duke of Suffolk in "Henry VI", and the third Desdemona and Othello in "Othello". It shows how it is partly through these three couples that Shakespeare proves his literary prowess, as he uses love as a tool to increase the dramatic depth of the work and how, in the character development of these six individuals, is the demonstration of love as an avenue for intrigue and intrigue as an avenue for love.

From the Paper
"Miranda's first sight, of Ferdinand sets in stone her love and admiration for him, as does his of her. Prospero hopes that through the trickery of the storm and the union of these two young people he will be able to regain his rightful place as the Duke of Milan. Ferdinand is so equally bewitched by Miranda that he is blinded of even the grief he should now be feeling for his father and his shipmates. He asks the Goddess if Miranda is real: "Most sure, the goddess / On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer May know if you remain upon this island;/And that you will some good instruction give/ How I may bear me here: my prime request,/ Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!/ If you be maid or no"? (Tempest Act 1 Scene II) He wishes even with his last wish, and when he should be wishing for the safety of his father, to know if Miranda is truly a maid or if she is simply a spirit come to trick him."

Tags:miranda, ferdinand, desdemona, othello, queen, margaret, suffolk

Abstract
This paper explains that "Sidewalk" by Mitchell Duneie describes a Sixth-Avenue society, which was observed for five years, where people of diverse race and class find similarities among their differences and establish a new order and stability. The author points out that the writer states that many of the rules of the Sixth-Avenue society are very different from what is seen in an average capitalistic economy. The paper concludes that, although symbolism is a part of the sidewalk society, even the dialogue is symbolic because language is involved; it is the fundamentalist perspective that Duneier stresses as he relates the maintenance of order and the continuance of the sidewalk society, despite the many challenges it continually confronts.

From the Paper
"The functionalist perspective focuses on how a part contributes to the survival of the whole. In sociology, functionalism rests on the belief that society is based on order and stability that come from the cultural consensus of values and norms. Early functionalists in the 1800s, such as Emile Durkheim, Auguste Comte and Herbert Spenser, stressed that extensive social change can be very damaging for social systems. They focused on the need to maintain equilibrium through conformity. Throughout history, societies have been quite varied, from the mainstream to the alternative. Yet they all have needed this agreement of values to remain cohesive and functional."

Tags:observation, functionalist, symbolism, ethnic, dialogue