CASE STUDY 2 Hello Kitty and the spread of Nippon Culture. Answers to Questions: 1. Explain the appeal of characters like Hello Kitty to younger consumers in both Asia and the western economies‚ taking note of cultural and group influences. Hello Kitty and her colleagues are ‘soft‚ round‚ toothless‚ clawless and mute’. As such‚ they are helpless‚ inspiring a certain level of protectiveness and affection in youngsters who are replicating the protection and affection given by their parents
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Kitty Forman is Eric’s mother. Not only is she a housewife‚ but she is also a nurse. She is the one who does the cooking and cleaning around the house. Her children Eric and Laurie are older so they are able to tend to themselves. Red‚ who is the father doesn’t do anything around the house. His day consist of working‚ drinking beer‚ and reading the newspaper. Red’s housework consists of fixing things around the house like plumbing and fixing the lawnmower. Kitty is seen as the mother figure for
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August 20‚ 1989 Jose and Mary “Kitty” Menendez were brutally murdered in their Beverly Hills mansion‚ with no lead suspects at the time. Lyle and Erik Menendez were reported to be the first witnesses at the crime scene‚ not yet considered suspects because of their physically altered states of mind. At 21 and 18 years old‚ the Menendez brothers walked away from murder. The disdain behavior the brothers acquired through negligent parenting were strong indicators in which investigators came to the conclusion
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Lucky Luciano Lucky Luciano made the modern mafia. In 1931 he cut New York into five slices and served the rackets up in a form that still exists today. He had his fingers in every slice of the metaphoric mince meat pie that was America in the first half of the twentieth century‚ and then spent his remaining years ruling the underworld from afar. In the history of organized crime‚ there has never been a more powerful boss‚ and unless there is a drastic change in American law enforcement‚ no one
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(A&E) Beginnings o New York Mafia—five families o Bootlegging was initial business o Cohesion‚ discipline‚ organization—Made mafia successful They relied on Money and Muscles o Joe Valachi—first to publicly acknowledge existence of mafia o Vito Genovese Godson interviewed in this film‚ Ralph Caglioti Frank Caglioti—baker‚ trucks used for bootlegging by mob. o Mayor of New York’s dad was threatened o Irish and Jewish gangs made up New York before mafia o Joseph Bonanno ° His son is interviewed
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In 1930‚ the Castellammarese War was a bloody was between two major factions in New York of the Castellammarese branch of the mafia (Abadinsky‚ 2010). Salvatore Maranzano (held in Midtown Manhattan) headed one and Giuseppe Masseria (Little Italy of East Harlem) headed the other (Abadinsky‚ 2010). The war would determine the future of the Mafia in America. Prohibition enabled the Mafia gangs to break out of the bounds of Little Italy and operate in the wider society (Abadinsky‚ 2010). The struggle
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did not report the incident. Although this number was very facetious‚ it still supports the fact that some people did not report the incident because they didn’t know Kitty Genovese or her situation. Overall‚ the result was lethal however; if any of these 37 people had been a Good Samaritan‚ than it would not have mattered who Kitty was‚ or how much information the witnesses had on the incident. In the end‚ it is always
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The Bystander’s Fire Indifference empowers wickedness to flourish in our society. The speech “The Perils of Indifference”‚ by Elie Wiesel and the article‚ “The Murder of Kitty Genovese”‚ by Linda Melazzo both argue that a bystander’s actions play a huge part in an evil situation. They show the problems bystanders have triggered while describing the positive effects of people who took action during the situation. Both authors show how the only way to stop tragic events from occurring again is to
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I had always wondered why people wouldn’t help someone in need. For example‚ when a kid was bullied in a school‚ none of the students surrounding stepped in to lend a hand; when someone got assaulted on the streets and asked for help‚ people walked away pretending not seeing it; when there was a car accident‚ no one stopped and called the police. After the learning about the Bystander Effect‚ I realized that the examples above are the phenomenon that individuals are less likely to help a victim when
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Introduction It is not uncommon for people to go over situations in their head beforehand in order to prepare. Some imagine being superheroes that help police officers catch an armed robber or sprinting into action to save a drowning child. But of course it rarely seems to go according to plan. It’s hard to know exactly what a person‚ even yourself‚ would do when a situation arises. Instead scientists describe likelihoods of reactions and try to predict what the average person might do. Predictions
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