issues: Issue 1. Value added in high-end furniture retailer: As in IKEA motto: low price‚ there is no delivery and credit services offered. Whereas a typical American furniture retailer (Wal-Mart excluded) offered free delivery service‚ on top of personal consultation‚ interior design‚ credit (easy payment scheme) and huge selection of products. Issue 2. Reluctance to change furniture: mind-set of Americans. Americans typically have the mind-set that furniture should last a lifetime‚ which is
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IKEA is a furniture company that bases its business on the general idea of saving whenever and wherever possible. It differentiates itself from every other type of furniture company by the combination of its designs and prices and by the experience it offers to every customer that visits its stores. They do not only offer the services of a general furniture shop‚ but they also give to their customers a wide range of services that can complement their experience in an IKEA store: restaurants; kids’
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Space exploration and the space program in general‚ have been an important part of our past successes as a country. Today‚ as our government looks at budget reduction and cost cutting measures‚ the space program is being scrutinized more than ever. Should the space program be cut or should it be reinvented? To fully understand why the space program is so controversial‚ one must first understand where the space program began. Shortly after the end of World War II (1939-45)‚ the U.S. and the
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I think that invasive species are invaders. An invasive species are living organisms that are non-native species in particular environment. In other words‚ it is an imported species that has a tendency to spread and is capable of damaging the environment‚ the human economy and human health. Some of these invasive creatures have caused the extinction of whole species and have caused irreparable damage to the surrounding ecosystem. For example‚ alien insects‚ organisms‚ plants cause damage to crops
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Space technology has been developing considerably these recent decades. New discoveries about the moon and others planets are fascinating us. Even some fiction movies make us think that one day we can go to live on another planet. However‚ for the following reasons I do not support the idea that government should spend as much money as possible on developing space technology for the exploration of the moon and others planets. Space technology is very expensive and needs a colossal investment
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The Space Travel and Research Introduction Space contains the planets‚ countless galaxies and milky ways. Man has been able to go to space and collect pictures of the sun‚ the planets and the moon. Man has landed on the moon and he is trying to find out the existence of life on other planets. Telecommunication‚ weather forecasting‚ radio and television programmes etc. are all monitored by satellites in space. There are also military stations and spy satellites in space which pose a threat
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Life In a Chinese School The first day that I came back to QSI from a chinese school made me felt like I was in heaven. Since I studied in QSI in a young age‚ I could hardly write Chinese. So one day‚ my mom came to me and said‚ "You are going to a chinese school." I was astonished because it was too sudden and I wasn’t prepared to go there. She said I needo to learn Chinese. I didn’t argue with her because I know it is impossible to convince her. I was transferred to a local school in the
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Personal Space and Boundaries; making friends in USA Most of the foreign students who come to the United States to study find out that the concept of friendship is not what they know‚ or not what they have been brought up to believe. They believe that Americans seem very friendly at in the beginning stage of friendship and then they sort o disappear. In my culture‚ people who don’t know each other don’t say “Hello‚ how are you etc.” to people they don’t know or they don’t get into conversation
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FIRE RESISTANT BALLOON: Materials - 1 matchbox - 1 candle - 1 yellow colored balloon - 1 blue colored balloon - Half a cup of water Procedure: 1. For this experiment‚ the independent variable is whether the balloon is filled with water or not. The dependent variable is what happens to the balloon when it is placed above the lit candle. This is determined by observing the balloon. The constants (control variables) are how much the balloon is inflated and the amount
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Strike in Space Case Study Executive Summary This case centers on the original 3 Skylab missions that began in 1973 following a successful series of Apollo missions starting in the 1960’s. NASA viewed the Skylab missions as logical successors of the Apollo missions and each of the Skylab missions picked up where the prior one left off. The primary focus of the missions was to determine if humans could in fact live comfortably for extended periods of time in weightless conditions and prior to
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