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This paper examines the U.S. women's designer shoes niche, identifying major designers and characterizing the niche's place in the market. It discusses why designer shoes are not just footwear but a status symbol. The paper looks at prominent shoe designers.

From the Paper
"Women's designer shoes-the top brands in the country-have found a highly profitable niche in the U S market. For the purposes of this paper only non-athletic non-casual designer shoes will be considered ..."

Tags:women's shoes, designer shoes, online shopping, market niche

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The paper shows why the issue of designer babies will become one of the most controversial issues in modern medicine. The paper explains the arguments in favor of designer babies that rest on utilitarian ethics, ethical relativism or nonmalfeasance and the arguments against this practice that also rely on a range of religious and ethical beliefs. The paper points out that the arguments that designer babies might benefit society rest on the assumption that eliminating disease would lead to an improved quality of life and that being able to control the physical or psychological features of a child would help families.

From the Paper
"The Abraham Center of Life, located in San Antonio, offers a variety of standard fertility services for hopeful parents: egg donation, frozen embryos, surrogacy, and even adoption. In addition to their standard fertility and family-planning options, Abraham Center also offers a highly controversial option to clients. At Abraham Center, couples can choose their donors' "physical traits and even personality," (Blogicus 2007)
"Choosing donor physical and psychological traits essentially means that hopeful parents can buy a baby of their choice, picking everything from hair and eye color to skin color, height, and race. The so-called designer babies that come from such deliberate selection could in the future be created in a laboratory, as scientists understand enough about the human genetic code to possibly alter embryonic DNA for parents who want their babies to look and possibly act a certain way."

Tags:embryos, genes, eugenics, utilitarianism, religion, quality, of, life

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This paper discusses the history of fashion designer, Monique Lhullier as she has risen from her roots in a third-world country to becoming one of the hottest fashion designers. It first describes the launch and progress of her career and then looks at Lhullier's deisgns and her marketing strategy. Finally, the paper provides the writer's personal opinion of the designer.

Table of Contents:
Lhuillier's Career is Launched
Her Designs
Financial Data
Marketing Strategy
Personal Observation
Overall Opinion

From the Paper
"It's as though Lhuillier has not taken a wrong step. Her rise to fame was paired with a romantic love story of the accountant fiance who became the powerful business partner. After 10 years of marriage, the couple had their first baby, a bouncing boy named Jack and his room is profiled in this year's big spread in Elle Decor magazine. Hers is a contemporary portrait of perfect domesticity, a this-could-be-you scenario that makes her beautiful, elegant, flattering wedding dresses all the more appealing. Lhuillier as a representative for her own line, the lines themselves, and what they represent, through precision marketing, outside encouraging forces (think: celebrity support) and/or the clientele's imagination all create a dream design company, and, ultimately, a dream designer."

Tags:marketing, gown, collection

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This paper examines the results of an independent survey that questioned just how prevalent designer drug use was on campus. The paper explains that club drugs, also known as designer drugs, have hit the party scenes for many college students. The paper contends that these drugs became famous in the late 1990s because they were often taken at nightclubs and parties called raves. Raves were popular because they were considered alcohol-free.

From the Paper
"The media has since rumored that these new designer drugs were so big on campuses around the nation that they could be considered the latest campus fad. This report may not be able to verify if the media claims that all young adults away from home for the first time are prone to try designer drugs, but it can verify through sampling if the drug is a regular thing on campus. It seems outlandish considering that I am not a designer drug user and most likely never will be, but why wouldn't a student stressed by tests and boredom try a drug that appears to enhance one's senses by creating an illusion of self-confidence, energy and relaxation. I wonder if students care if these drugs are dangerous or that they cause long-term damage to neurons in the brain which eventually equates to brain-damage."

Tags:campus, abuse, mind, altering

Abstract
The paper examines the various factors, such as quality and demand, that influence the price of designer brands. The paper discusses high end items in the clothing industry and the underlying economic principles that guide pricing, including social factors. The paper includes copies of the sources used.

From the Paper
"In what may be an oxymoron, designer brands are commonplace in the American economy. Perhaps designer brands are most noticeable in the clothing industry, with high-end stores selling Versace and Gucci enjoying prominent space in malls, targeting upper-middle class and upper-class consumers. However, designer brands also exist in other product categories as well. There are designer cars, such as Eddie Bauer editions and even designer water."

Tags:economics

Abstract
In vitro fertilisation has been used for decades and allows parents and doctors to screen embryos for genetic disorders and select healthy embryos. This paper investigates and rebuts the argument against genetic engineering and builds a strong case supporting 'designer babies'.

From the Paper
"An even greater and more controversial development in medical science is the technology of stem cells developed from early pre implanted human embryo, and in the near future, the ability to manipulate DNA. The new technology of stem cells will revolutionize medicine. When someone has a heart attack cells are damaged but a dose of new cells made in the lab could cure the harm. It will be possible to cure numerous cell-based diseases like juvenile-onset diabetes and Parkinson's disease, and to make organ transplants unnecessary. An American woman recently had her sight restored using eye cells harvested from stem cells. In future procedures like this could enhance the quality of life of humankind."

Tags:cloning, fertilisation, genetics, vitro, in, dna, disease

Abstract
The case study examines the problems involving employees of a designer company. The business analyst defines the problems one by one and offers alternative solutions and recommendations.

From the Paper
"The commission only system is one of the major problems effecting morale. One option is to pay a base salary instead. This would assist in communicating to employees that they are important to the organization. By improving morale, efficiency would be improved. The benefits of this solution is that morale would improve, costs to the organization would be fixed, employees would feel more secure and employee turnover would be reduced. The problems with this solution are that employees may not be as motivated to work as hard and that the organization will be paying employees more, even when there is not enough work for them."

Tags:salary, turnover, morale, motivation, commission, job

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This paper explains that today, science is close to having the ability to selectively choose which babies will be born based on their genetic characteristics; therefore, now is the time to decide the ethicacy of this action. The author points out that the first applications of genetic manipulation will likely be medical; embryos will be manipulated to treat some genetic illness, such as Huntington's Chorea, or will be chosen selectively based on the absence of the Huntington's gene. The paper relates that, already in 2002, a hospital in Scotland was issued a license by the British government not to create "designer babies" but only to allow parents, by the use of abortion of defective fetuses, to avoid babies who are doomed to have some serious genetic disorder.

From the Paper
"The problem is that genetics is rarely that simple. Most of the time, genes only show a tendency, and experts cannot say whether the developing child will develop a specific illness or not. Even in identical twins, sometimes one develops a disease influenced by genetics, such as schizophrenia, while the other does not. Nevertheless, genetic researchers believe that eventually we will be able to screen embryos for combinations of genes that predispose people not only to life-threatening illnesses but for personality traits as well. However, people's personalities aren't as simple as a cluster of traits."

Tags:abortion, selective, medical, manipulation, license

Abstract
The paper relates that Le Corbusier is a renowned modern architect who sought to create designs filled with purity, unity, and order. The paper discusses how at the beginning of the 20th century, he saw huge technological innovations that simultaneously changed the needs of society while also providing the means to meet those needs. The paper explains that inspired by the potential of machines and industry, Le Corbusier created a unique style of architecture best demonstrated by his Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau, designed to show the world how the "new spirit" could positively impact cities, homes, and even the furnishings in those homes.

From the Paper
"Architecture is a unique art form, blending function and form, balancing aesthetics and utility, and often challenging our ways of thinking about the structures we use and the way we use them. Many architects are quite happy to offer their clients a "safe" plan that neither challenges society's notions of practicality nor excites the imagination. Yet many others see themselves as shapers of the future and fixers of failure in planning and design. Charles Edouard Jeanneret, better known by his pseudonym, Le Corbusier, is an excellent example of the latter. Le Corbusier is considered an architectural visionary and leader because of..."

Tags:le, corbusier, architect

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This papers considers the question of whether parents should be allowed to design their own babies from two different positions. First, it looks at the arguments of a group of doctors and scientists working on incurable, child killing genetic diseases, who are in favor of granting permission for such approaches as embryo screening. Then it considers the position of an environmentally and ethically concerned organization, which although not fundamentally opposed to genetic engineering approaches, fears that this approach is a step too far.

From the Paper
"Genetic scientists have already found the key that will give man the capacity to change the shape and destiny of human beings. Babies-to-order are no longer the futuristic fantasy of science fiction novels; the ability to design future members of the human race has already become a scientific reality. And as this technique advances, so will man's potential power to create, and fundamentally change, chosen aspects of human genetic make-up. This fact has already been understood by genetic engineering, and is being increasingly applied, as more and more parents opt for embryo screening (Shannon Brownlee, Washington Post, 2002)."

Tags:fatal, disease, Embryo, Screening