Elin Nordegren’s Taking the Kids to Sweden For the Holidays
Tiger Woods may be home alone for Christmas as Elin plans to take the kids to her homeland for the holidays.
Clinton
Top 8 Celebrity Sunglasses Exposed! – What Are the ‘True’ Favorite Brands of the Stars?
According to the data gathered over a three month period from Sept 07 to Nov 07, the most popular sunglasses worn by today’s leading celebrities include, in order of ‘sighting volume’ were Ray-Ban, Oakley, Dior, Gucci, Oliver Peoples, Tom Ford, Prada and Chrome Hearts.
Over this period 154 celebrities were tracked wearing 51 brands of sunglasses in dozens of models. Repeated occurrences of one celebrity wearing the same glasses were not included in the results.
For the data driven among you, Ray-Ban with 35 celebrity sightings outpaced their nearest competitors by almost 2 to 1, with Oakley and Dior showing up on 20 celebrities each. No wonder Oakley bought Ray-Ban! A detailed grid of the results is shown below.
The stragglers were Gucci with 18 sightings, Oliver Peoples – 17, Tom Ford – 15, Prada – 12 and Chrome Hearts came in last at 10 sightings.
Considering the average cost of these individual brands (at least for this review) these numbers are not surprising. The average price for a pair of celebrity Ray-Ban’s is about $120. The Chrome Hearts sunglasses are a little steeper, averaging $500 a pair.
The cost of these sunglasses varied from a low of $50, seen on Britney Spears sporting a pair of convenience store sunglasses (Anthropologie’s Glamorama) to the most outrageously expensive pair from Nefarious called Auric, flaunted by the ubiquitous Lindsay Lohan with a slightly higher price tag of $30,000.
As many consumers tend to buy what their idols and icons are wearing, supposedly in hopes of recreating the ‘A list’ effect, it is interesting to find that the average pair of celebrity sunglasses doesn’t cost nearly as much as you might think.
Although market research in the U.S. places the average pair of sunglasses for both men and women in the under $30 range, men actually spending somewhat more than women, a huge consumer market exists for higher end sunglasses and there are dozens of players vying for their piece of this enormous multi-billion dollar market. Why else would Luxottica pay $2.1 billion for the purchase of Oakley?
So what does it really cost to look like your favorite celebrity? Throwing out the low and high end sunglasses mentioned above, the average retail price of pair of sunglasses as seen on America’s most famous celebrities was actually only $269.
Now for most folks from the heartland that is a tidy sum to be plunking down in the hopes that someone will mistake them for Britney, Jessica, Lindsay, Angelina or Brad.
But considering this youth oriented culture has tens of millions of youth oriented consumers (including those aging baby-boomers from the sixties and seventies) who shell out hundreds, even thousands of dollars for brand name blue jeans, sneakers, t-shirts and jackets, not to mention alcohol and sports drinks, make-up, jewelry and handbags, the above price tag looks almost reasonable.
So if everyone will just Digg into your piggy banks and look under the sofa cushions and scrape together about $300 (don’t forget the sales tax) we can all toddle on down the our local Sunglass Hut and spring for another pair of celebrity sunglasses to replace the ones you sat on last week.
Here are the detailed results in table format.
Brand Avg Price No of Sightings
Chrome Hearts $500 10
Prada $225 12
Tom Ford $300 15
Oliver Peoples $350 17
Gucci $250 18
Dior $390 20
Oakley $120 20
Ray-Ban $120 35
Jaiden
How to Create an Argumentative Essay
Argumentative Essay is actually a piece of writing which presents information on a specific topic or issue. While reading, the reader comes across some arguments either supporting or opposing the issue that is being discussed. The main reason why these kinds of arguments are used is to persuade many people to accept a particular idea or concept. It is to make the individuals believe the accuracy of the discussion on a particular topic or issue.
However, there are factors that are essential to be kept in mind before choosing the topic or issue for classification essay.
o It should not be too general a topic or issue otherwise there will not be much to discuss.
o It should contain some questions and facts that can be considered for making arguments or discussions.
o It should have clear view points, opinions and also ideas that are expressed accurately.
It is advisable not to choose reflective essay that cannot be convinced during the arguments. Such topics are abortion, freedom of speech, capital punishment, euthanasia. It is very difficult making arguments on such topics as one can hardly convince and persuade readers. However, this topic is studied by so many students that one will certainly fail to impress others with the pros or cons of the particular issue.
However, argumentative type of essay consists of an introductory paragraph which states the thesis statement very clearly. Next the body actually presents the cons of the arguments and the refutation by the help of some facts, reasons and examples. At the end a conclusion is required where one can restate the opinion once again.
How to Write Argumentative Paper
How to write argumentative paper is really pretty easy once you know the formula.
The main parts to include in an argumentative paper is the thesis, which is the topic of the paper; context, the part of the paper that determines its background or setting; support of your position; counter-arguments that you will need to refute; refutations. The order you lay out these parts is mostly irrelevant aside from the thesis which should appear before you support your position.
Thesis: A good thesis is specific. It conforms to fact and it is defensible. Your thesis should be something that a person can either agree or disagree with. Your job is to convert those who disagree to agree. Context: Provide background information about the position your paper argues. Support/Evidence: The support and evidence along with the thesis form the argument with the thesis as the conclusion. Counter-arguments: In this part of your paper, you need to examine the reasons someone would disagree with your thesis, put yourself in your opponents shoes so to speak. Write the best arguments against your thesis that you can think of down. It is imperative that you can refute these arguments. Refutations: This is where you refute the counter-arguments. Explain why they are incorrect, or if they are not incorrect why they do not refute your thesis. For example, if your thesis states cable TV is better then satellite TV, and your opponent states that satellite has more channels, you could write sure that is true, but cable is reliable even in a storm that would block out satellite.
Finally you need to proof read the paper. Make sure all the details are correct. Make sure all information fits together. For example, time frame, location, and subject type remain consistent throughout the paper. Spell check it. Lastly read the paper out loud. Listening to the paper can highlight sections that do not fit well together.
Following these guidelines, you should know how to write argumentative paper without to much trouble.
Good Luck!