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An Examination of The Theory of the Leisure Class

all, a class of people set higher, financially and socially, than others who must somehow struggle and work for a living. Veblen f...

Leisure Pursuits, Cultural Practices, and Their Primary Motivation

In six pages this paper discusses how prestige is the motivating force for leisure pursuits and cultural practices with travel and...

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...

Leisure Industry and Making Decisions

need to ensure that marketing allows for the variety of purchasing models and influences that may be seen as applicable to the tar...

Alzheimer’s and Therapeutic Recreation

2001). Current theory suggest that the disease initiates the internal cell-death programs which exists in neuronal cells (Marx, 2...

Marketing Plan for the Sun Disk

salon business remains quite healthy. Exposure cautions eventually extended to tanning beds as well, with the added caveat that n...

Trustworthiness as it relates to Mergers and Acquisitions in the Leisure Economy

by movies (Fischer, 1994). Film-going would grow as would radio that first appeared in the 1920s (Fischer, 1994). It seems that b...

DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Competitive Profile of Hilton Worldwide

Roosevelt and the Plaza, and then in 1945 there is the purchase of Palmer House and the Stevens in New York(Hilton Worldwide, 2010...

Marketing A Hotel in New Zealand

may serve as a foundations in which to build further successes. Hilton is an intentional company, and along with several subsidi...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

Leisure and Event Tourism in Dubai

in 2011 handled 47.2 million passengers (Dubai Airports, 2011). Furthermore, airlines are making investments that will increase ca...

Background and Competitive Strategy of Hilton

expansion was undertaken with the reaction of a wholly owned subsidiary; Hilton International Co. (Hilton, 2012). Hilton expanded ...

Could Diversity Management Add Value to The Hospitality and Leisure Service Sectors?

The writer examines the idea that increasing the level of diversity management in the hospitality and leisure industry may help t...

Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

United Kingdom's Leisure Industry and Car Ownership's Impact

the US soon spread and cars became more affordable and used in a wide range of ways. Convenience was a major factor, and it was i...

2 Adolescent Peer Interaction Journal Articles Reviewed

most part, peer groups are formed out of a similarity in interests and personality behavior. This clearly explains the reasons wh...

Sports and Leisure Time

less and less are seniors retiring to go sit on the couch, while more often they are spending their golden years in sports-related...

19th Century US Labor Movement

16). The author goes on to talk about Jacksons Democratic party and the problems it has had. For instance, many policies associate...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

Aristotle and Sebastian de Grazia on Leisure

In fact, he suggests that work is done for the "sake of leisure" (267). More completely, Aristotle believed that it is important ...

Georg Simmel and Leisure

People seek out leisure activities, especially leisure activities that remove individuals from the frenetic metropolis because of ...

Research in Tourism and Leisure

words, "Heritage tourism reintroduces people to their cultural roots" (McKercher, Yo and du Cros, 2004, p. 539). Furthermore, cult...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Leisure Theory and the Absence of Jungian Psychology

Jungs Basics To understand the application of Jungs theories and the absence of his theories relative to leisure theory, it is ne...

3 Article Reviews on Children's Health

a significant clustering of fast food restaurants within a 1.5 mile radius when compared to other non down town areas. The researc...

Lifetime of Leisure

category refers to personal unexpected events, such as divorce or disability (Mannell and Kleiber, 1997). A major landmark study...

Small Leisure Boat Environmental Audit

environmentally damaging transportation. The chain is very long, and this extended in many directions, so in reality a true total ...