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Ten Entrepreneurs And Managers is engaged in the manufacture of Pop-Up Pillows. These are small p... more Ten Entrepreneurs And Managers is engaged in the manufacture of Pop-Up Pillows. These are small pillows that can be folded and stored inside a tin can, making the product unique, attractive and portable. The company\u27s plant site located at 24-26 Elga St., Araneta Avenue, Quezon City. The main reason for the company\u27s existence is the escalating demand for portable pillows arising from the simple fact that people tend to sleep or take their nap at places not convenient and comfortable enough to do so. The cloth used for the pillow is made out of cotton. The material being stuffed inside the pillow is open fiber. The designs of the pillow will vary from plaid, stripes, plain, cartoon characters and abstract. The finished product will be rolled and placed inside a bronze cylindrical tin can, the container of the pillow. The greatest factor that will drive the company into operation is the result of the survey which shows an adequate percentage of the potential target market. For ...

This study seeks to examine the long-term implications of peace activities on children. Specifica... more This study seeks to examine the long-term implications of peace activities on children. Specifically, the researchers studied the long-term implications of peace activities on former elementary students of Jose Abad Santos Memorial School (JASMS), Quezon City, which happened last school year 1988-1989. In gathering the necessary data, the study made use of a descriptive method of analysis - an in-depth interview research design. The researchers studied ten interviewee who were treated as individual cases and picked based on set criteria prepared. Based on the study, the researchers came to the conclusion that as an instrument of making students aware of the idea of peace, the peace activities initiated in JASMS were successful. However, for the concept of peace be maintained in the students, a constant reinforcement of the activities must be present. Furthermore, it was observed that the perceived peace concept of the cases were acted on by certain factors namely family, education, peers, and self-efficacy

Key to this thesis are questions of individual versus collective action, digital versus tradition... more Key to this thesis are questions of individual versus collective action, digital versus traditional media and the overriding instance that such actions and tools are being employed not in the traditional political spheres of governments and civil society, but in the non-state space of the market. Noting key circumstances of market-based actions mediated by information and communication technology (case-studies include an examination of mobile phone philanthropy and Wal-Mart reform), this paper asks broadly: under what conditions does the market become a space for political participation? Specifically, how does consumption relate to citizenship and civicengagement? And how does technology affect collective action and efforts by consumer activists working to advance social changes within the digital economy? In response, this thesis argues that the ascent of virtuous consumption (the predication of purchase preferences on political concerns) as an increasingly viable agent for social change along with the simultaneous rise of digital social-network devices as a tool for collective action has enabled the shift of the public, political space from the state iii to markets. That the growth of responsible consumption occurs with the increase in adoption of user-driven social-software is not seen as a coincidence, but a significant, deliberate correlation. Virtuous consumption in its modern form draws its power from the information and network-inclusion that digital social-networking devices provide. The thesis synthesizes a cross-disciplinary portfolio of theoretical concerns such as citizenship and consumer behavior, information technology and collective action along with network theory, social capital and civic virtue. From this, the paper defines key conditions to virtuous consumption which include a) consumer concerns with the production, distribution and marketing of consumer goods and services; b) common distrust with government and corporate organizations along with declining reliance on civil society and other traditional forms of participation to express the virtues of citizenship; and c) emerging preference for mechanisms which imbed individualized actions in broad, informal networks. The consequent conditions to the proposed marketas-political-space draws primarily from the assertion that the market is a political space and, armed with choice and unprecedented access to information, consumers are also political actors-able to "vote" for changes in corporate policies and practices through their shopping behavior.

This document represents part of the author's study programme while at the Institute of Soci... more This document represents part of the author's study programme while at the Institute of Social Studies. The views stated therein are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Institute. ... Research papers are not made available for circulation outside of the Institute.