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There is common perception that people age into wine, but in the last year we have seen that wine has lost share of wallet across all generations. As we have seen in the data reflected on in Distilled, in our eldest customer groups, Wine represents 6 out of the top 10 products segments segments purchased, but no Wine subcategories are present in the top 10 for Gen Z and only one appears for younger millennials . As the generation most likely to their spend to other discretionary spend categori...

To better understand and explain the current global economic and development trajectories, it’d be important to go back at least 65 years. This period is immediately after the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Bretton Woods organizations. These organizations, which included the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have played a significant role in tracking and recording the trajectory of development through open markets (Rob...

Post World War two (WW2) America saw the rise of the working class lifestyle made possible by the emerging economic boom that followed the war. This saw a seismic shift in the American music culture from an elitist to a proletarian/working class subculture. With this new development emerged the rock and roll genre in the mid-1950s. Perhaps as a reflection of the era’s poor and working class rebellion against bourgeoisie music and art. From then onwards this new purely American music genre and ...

The folk music genre has a rich history. This history dates back to its origin from Great Britain when the British people immigrated to the United States during the period of the Agrarian revolution. In Britain, this genre of music was brought about by manual laborers who performed boring and tiring repetitive tasks. They made tunes that turned musical to finish off the boredom created by the daunting tasks they had to carry out daily. The British people performed the Traditional Folk genre. How...

Nitrate is a regulated water contaminant in the United States. It is very common in the rural areas and causes “blue baby” disease (Methemoglobinemia) when it is over concentrated in water. It is an inorganic compound found in the environment due to both natural and unnatural. Its major components include Nitrogen and three parts oxygen. The major sources of nitrate contamination in water include, but not limited to farming fertilizer which gets washed away from the soil to ground water sour...

Equality is the highest valued virtue in the world today. The reason as to why countries have systems of law and governance is because some elements in those countries may try to exploit others. As such, efforts are made to curtail any people who may feel that they are more human than others. As such, an ideal society can be defined as a society where the rule of law is upheld to the maximum. This is whereby everyone has equal access to social amenities and various resources of the state. Also,...

The novel The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka explores the theme of change and transformation as insinuated by the title of the book. This relationship between the novels title and the theme is brought to life through the story’s protagonist Gregor Samsa. Gregor wakes up one morning from a troubled dream to realize that he has turned into a monstrous vermin. The story is a follow up of Gregor’s ordeal as he tries to come terms with new condition. But although undergoes tremendous physical chang...

On watching the film, it is evident that being a big part of what it means to be human is having a brain that is the powerhouse of thoughts and decision-making which makes a distinction between us and other animals. The brain is a necessary tool for the ideal functioning of a human being. It should be in a position to process information that it receives I order to relay back another set of information which has been derived from inner emotions. The film discusses the brain as a crucial componen...

Question 1: Schools of Thought of the Zhou Dynasty The Zhou Dynasty was characterized by intense political rivalry that had interesting effects on Chinese society. The most interesting was the positive impact the period had on intellectual growth. “China entered one of its most creative periods, when the ideas underlying Confucianism, Daoist and Legalist traditions were developed” (Ebery and Walthall, p.20). As the warring states became more and more advanced in warfare, they became relian...

Sex is a basic need that all human beings require for a psychological, emotional, as well as physical wellbeing. People who are incarcerated lack access to this basic need. It is no surprise then that most of them engage in same sex relationships to fill the gap. The ethical question of such sexual relations is complex. Inmates who engage in a sexual relationship with mutual consent should not be judged. This same precept justifies homosexual relations out of prison. It would be wrong to apply t...