Hut

(noun)

A small wooden shed, a primitive temporary dwelling.

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Examples of Hut in the following topics:

  • Paleolithic Architecture

    • As early as 380,000 BCE, humans were constructing temporary wood huts.

  • The Rise of Egyptian Civilization

    • People lived in small huts, created simple pottery, and had stone tools.
    • People lived in huts, and had undecorated pottery and stone tools.
    • Copper was used, pottery was simple and undecorated, and people lived in huts.

  • Etruscan Tombs

    • Early forms of burial include the burial of ashes with grave goods in funerary urns and small ceramic huts .
    • Etruscan cinerary hut urn with a door.

  • The Romans

    • The most distinctive feature of Latial culture were cinerary urns in the shape of huts.
    • The huts remained the main form of Latin housing until the mid-seventh century BCE.
    • This Villanovan urn likely replicates the form that pre-Roman Latin huts assumed before the mid-seventh century BCE.

  • Intangibility

    • For example, in the case of two fast food chains serving a similar product (Pizza Hut and Domino's), it is the service quality, not the actual product, that distinguishes the two brands from each other.

  • Alliteration

    • "To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required--not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. " --John F.

  • Types of Franchises

    • Prominent examples include McDonalds , Burger King, and Pizza Hut.

  • Considerations when Managing a Global Corporation

    • Researching the failure of companies, such as Best Buy and Home Depot in China, and bench-marking this against the success of Pizza Hut or BMW, provides substantial insights as to the importance of localization to global managers.
    • Researching the failure of companies, such as Best Buy and Home Depot in China, and bench-marking this against the success of Pizza Hut or BMW, provides substantial insights as to the importance of localization to global managers.

  • Mesolithic Art

    • Some Mesolithic settlements were villages of huts and others walled cities.

  • Tutankhamun and Ramses II

    • In the years that followed, huts for workers were built over the tomb entrance, the builders clearly not aware of what lay beneath.