...Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco encased in cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Casual smoking is the act of smoking only occasionally, usually in a socialsituation or to relieve stress. A smoking habit is a physical addiction to tobacco products. Many health experts now regard habitual smoking as a psychological addiction, too,and one with serious health consequences. Nicotine - An alkaloid (a nitrogen-containing chemical) made by the tobacco plant or produced synthetically. Nicotine has powerful pharmacologic effects (including increased heart rate, heart stroke volume, and oxygen consumption by the heart muscle), as well as powerful psychodynamic effects (such as euphoria, increased alertness, and a sense of relaxation). Nicotine is also powerfully addictive. Tar is a sticky substance that forms into deposits in the lungs, causing lung cancer andrespiratory distress. Carbon monoxide limits the amount of oxygen that the red blood cells can convey throughout your body. Also, it may damage the inner walls of the arteries,which allows fat to build up in them. Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is a small part of the air we breathe. There are many sources of Carbon Monoxide such as incinerators, car exhaust and gas furnaces. Ammonia: A colorless gas with a very sharp odor. Made both by humans and by nature, ammonia dissolves easily in water and evaporates quickly. Liquid ammonia is found in many household cleaners....
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...former student; he has since become a journalist and leads a very fast paced life; finds Morrie after hearing he is sick on “ABC’s Nightline” and visits him every Tuesday. * Charlotte Bonnie - Barlett * Morrie’s wife, who is also a college professor; she keeps her job as a professor even while Morrie is sick because it is what he wished for her. * Janine – Wendy Moniz * Mitch’s wife; she takes a phone call from Morrie, whom she had never met, and accompanies Mitch to his visit with Morrie. As a professional singer, she never sings upon request; however, when Morrie asked heer to sing she did without hesitation and moved him to tears. * Eva Terri - Hanauer * Morrie’s stepmother who came into his life when he was about nine years old. She provided much love to Morrie and his brother, David. She highly valued education and served as a great motivation for Morrie to work hard at his education. * Connie - Caroline Aaron * Morrie’s at home care aide; she assists Morrie in going to the bathroom, getting up into his chair. V. PLOT Albom wrote the plot very straightforward with little ambiguity and complicated historical references. He has a tendency to include flashbacks to his college years from when he was a student of Morrie’s; he does this to give background on his once, slightly naïve and...
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...Name: Joel Sanguinetti Title: All About Eve Year: 1950 Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck Three Performers: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders Costume/Wardrobe: Edith Head, Charles LE Maire, Sam Benson, Josephine Brown, Ann Landers, Merle Williams Hair and Make-up: Ben Nye, Bunny Gardel, Franz Prehoda, Kay Reed, Gene Roemer, Gladys Witten Set and Stage Design: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott Musical Score Composer: Alfred Newman Cinematographer/Photographer: Milton R. Krasner Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Original Novel, Play, or Story: Mary Orr – The Wisdom of Eve Academy Awards (Oscars) Won: 1. Best Actor in a Supporting Role – George Sanders 2. Best Costume Design, Black-and-White – Edith Head & Charles LE Maire 3. Best Director – Joseph L. Mankiewicz 4. Best Picture – 20th Century Fox 5. Best Sound, Recording – 20th Century-Fox Sound Dept. 6. Best Writing, Screenplay – Joseph L. Mankiewicz Joel Sanguinetti Mr. Skillings English 101-B4N December 19, 2011 All About Theatre Theatre has evolved in many ways throughout history. Theatre goes back to the 6th century BCE and develops its origins from Greece. Around 1750, theatre was introduced to New York, and eventually became what we now know as Broadway theatre. All About Eve, directed and written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, is a movie based on the novel The Wisdom of Eve, written by Mary Orr. All About Eve is a movie about Broadway theatre and the harsh...
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...Hi Business Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in business! Hi this is a business paper. This is a really good business paper. It is all about business and the business of bieng in...
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...Features for setting up a facebook page for business: There are lots of feature in a facebook business page. The features are: Page: In the business page there is a feature page. In this option we can see the whole page. Timeline: In the timeline option we can see all about the page. All posts pictures comments and all the thing related of this page. We can also see in the timeline if any customer or anyone post about business. About: In this page there are a about option. In this option customer can know many thing about the business. In the about option there are * Category of the product or type of business * Name of the business. * Facebook web address are also available there * The joining date in the facebook * The date when the product will release * Little description about the page * A long description about the page * Founded date and founder name * Award achieved this business * Products description * Web site and official page of this business Photo: In this option we can all the pictures uploaded and tagged in this page. Like: There are like option in the page. Through this option we can know how much people are like or interested about our product or business. More: In more option there are video and manage tabs option. Messenger: There is a messenger option in the page. Through this option buyers and sellers can communicate each other. They can communicate easily without using other email option...
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...International Business True / False Questions 1. | All managers need to have a basic knowledge of international business. True False | 2. | As the term is used in the text, foreign business is business whose activities are carried out across national borders. True False | 3. | An international company is an organization with multicountry affiliates, each of which formulates its own business strategy based on perceived market differences. True False | 4. | A business whose activities are carried out across national borders is known as an international business. True False | 5. | Foreign business refers to the operations of a company outside its home or domestic market. True False | 6. | A company headquartered in another country is known as a foreign business. True False | 7. | The term international business is used to describe an organization with multicountry affiliates, each of which formulates its own business strategy based on perceived market differences. True False | 8. | A multidomestic company is an organization that attempts to standardize and integrate operations worldwide in all functional areas. True False | 9. | The term international company refers to both global and multidomestic companies. True False | 10. | A global company is an organization that attempts to standardize and integrate operations worldwide in most or all functional areas...
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...required to write a piece of advice to a group of Level Three business students on the usefulness of innovation management and new product development in an essay format. The topic of the essay is “what skills should a business graduate acquire about innovation management in order to advance their career development and employability”. "We live in a society where technology is a very important force in business, in our daily lives. And all technology starts as a spark in someone's brain. An idea of something that didn't exist before, that once they have invented it —brought it into existence — could change everything. And that activity is generally one that's not very well supported." - Nathan Myhrvold, CEO, Intellectual Ventures From a 2010 interview with Harvard Business Review Introduction In the development of new businesses today, initiatives that spur knowledge-based competitions amplify the importance of boundary spanning activities and tactical coalitions, which cause organizations to focus more on institutional knowledge, system improvement and knowledge management (Quah, 2001). This essay will help the level 3 business school students to understand the required skills about innovation management to to advance their career development and employability. An innovation is something that is new. You are required to write a piece of advice to a group of Level Three business students on the usefulness of innovation management and new...
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...What issue do you want to ilustrate in your story? The issue about our story Is based in our own experiences, about disloyal people that used to be in our life, but for different circumstances in our separated life, they are not part of it anymore. The main issue is about trust and how this can break really strong relationships, where based on the definition of ‘being willing to depend on the behavior of others and accept a certain vulnerability, assuming that others will not betray us’, so when that ‘other’ person betray you, you are in front of a disloyal person that you cannot rely on him or her. What concepts did you choose to ilustrate the issue you have chosen? The main concepts that we chose and the main reasons were: * Trust We used this concept because they were friends, and Nicolas didn’t have the money to started the business, so their friend trust in all the effort that he put in developed the business and they put more money or their pockets to pay the part of Nicolas. * Fear We used the term Fear, because George worked for more than 2 years to get that money and he felt fear to loss that amount of money, that he worked so hard to get it. * Intuition This concept it used because George had an intuition about that something was missing in the business plan, that was only because he didn’t know all the process that Nicolas follow, George always had been a person that need all in control. * Empathy This concept we used in the situation...
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...Business Name : Crazy Shirts Operates as a Sole Trader 1. ENTREPRENEURIAL QUALITIES Successful businesspeople have many traits in common with one another. They are confident and optimistic. They are disciplined self starters. They are open to any new ideas which cross their path. Here are ten traits of the successful entrepreneur. 1. Disciplined & Confident • These individuals are focused on making their businesses work, and eliminate any hindrances or distractions to their goals. They have overarching strategies and outline the tactics to accomplish them. Successful entrepreneurs are disciplined enough to take steps every day toward the achievement of their objectives. • The entrepreneur does not ask questions about whether they can succeed or whether they are worthy of success. They are confident with the knowledge that they will make their businesses succeed. They exude that confidence in everything they do. Crazy Shirts shows a lot of confidence and discipline the employer as well as the employees are well mannered they speak to each other in a respectable manner they also give each other hope and boost each others confidence. The business has a great chance to be highly successful as this kind of behaviour and confidence is hard to gain. The employees are confident and disciplined as they work with excellence in a team. Their teamwork is a great advantage to the business and this will help expand the ideas of the enterprise. 2. Open Minded & Creative ...
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...Medium Enterprises) are those business enterprises which run their business in small and medium level. Small and medium business has no single definition but have some standards on the basis of which we can say they are small and medium enterprises. Different institutions has given different definitions but in Pakistan SMEDA (small Medium enterprises development authority) has defined SMEs as “the enterprises can be small and medium which has up to 250 employees and having annual return about Rs.250 million.” In Pakistan we can say that there are about more and less about 2 million small and micro level business and enterprises are exist. In among these 2 million there are about 400000 are form manufacturing side about 600000 from services side enterprises and about one million are exists from trade sector mean retailers. In Pakistan Small Medium enterprises is almost near to ninety percent of the whole business enterprise. It contributes a lot in almost every sector of Pakistan like manufacturing, agricultural and services based organizations. The part of every province in SME are contributed in SME Punjab province has the highest contribution about 65.26% share is in Punjab, KPK has about 12.21% while Sindh province has about 17.82% share in SME in total of 2.96 million units in Pakistan of which about 93.9% are established enterprises and 6.1% are household enterprises. Baluchistan share is about 2.09% in over all units in Pakistan. All sectors are very important in...
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...Abstract Telecommunications is one of the conventional and fastest rising industries all over the world. It has left the great impact on the people of current times. The industry has given the new way to this world and has open wide variety of working opportunities for the people. In the service sector, it has given the toughest competition to its competitors. Now, in this industry by following the same business strategy is not an easy way to resist in the market for any of the organization so, better to change or adopt the new market strategy. Before planning for the new strategy for giving the hard-core challenge to the competitors, it is essential to analyze the market and does comparison with the current strategy. Consumers play the significant...
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...AUSTON INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF BUSINESS, ENIRONMENT & SOCIETY DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS A123KM BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS COURSEWORK 2 PROBLEM SOLVING COURSE STUDENT NAME : Ameel Ajwad STUDENT ID NUMBER : T31200694 SUPERVISOR : Mr. Inham Hassen SUBMISSION DATE : 10th January 2013 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 Question. 1 4 Below are the list of services www.ups.com is providing for individuals: 4 List of services provided for Small Businesses: 7 List of services provided for Large Organisations: 10 Question 2 12 Question 3 13 Impacts on UPS if the website was not available 14 Conclusion 15 Reference; 16 Declaration Of Originality: 17 Marking Scheme 18 INTRODUCTION www.ups.com United Parcel Service, or typically known as UPS, is an American package delivery company which was formed in 1907 by Jim Casey. The main company is located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States. Overtime the company’s service has expanded so much that it has become the leading global supply chain management with the capability of delivering 15 million packages per day to 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries around the world. Purchasing UPS' own airline in 1981 was a big milestone for the company which enabled them to reach more destinations and expand their services globally. Including air freight, UPS use different modes of transportation like sea, road, rail transport. And UPS has taken information technology...
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...I agree about that video and Web conferencing will make business travel extinct.Because business travel is Easier to meet with clients from all over the world on a more frequent basis, creating better working relationships by talking face to face more and the cost reduction with travel expenses. Business time managerment is extremely important. Business travel can save more time for another work. At the same time, we can have enable online training or product demonstrations to other company. It no need to bring many product demonstrations to other target company so it’s very convenient. I agree about that video and Web conferencing will make business travel extinct.Because business travel is Easier to meet with clients from all over the world on a more frequent basis, creating better working relationships by talking face to face more and the cost reduction with travel expenses. Business time managerment is extremely important. Business travel can save more time for another work. At the same time, we can have enable online training or product demonstrations to other company. It no need to bring many product demonstrations to other target company so it’s very convenient. I agree about that video and Web conferencing will make business travel extinct.Because business travel is Easier to meet with clients from all over the world on a more frequent basis, creating better working relationships by talking face to face more and the cost reduction with travel expenses. Business...
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...CHANGING WORLD How business leaders are reframing success March 2012 Ashridge Business School http://www.ashridge.org.uk Produced on behalf of the United Nations Global Compact and Principles for Responsible Management Education for the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development Lead Authors: Mathew Gitsham, Director, Centre for Business and Sustainability, Ashridge Jo Wackrill, Leadership Agenda Project Director, IBLF Supporting Authors: Graham Baxter, Senior Advisor, IBLF Mark Pegg, Director, Ashridge Leadership Centre © Ashridge & IBLF All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism or review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Ashridge and IBLF. ISBN 978-0-903542-85-2 Ashridge Business School http://www.ashridge.org.uk CONTENTS 1 4 7 7 12 12 17 22 27 28 28 29 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION LEADERSHIP IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD A different perspective: reframing the business leader’s role and purpose LEADERSHIP ROLES OLD AND NEW A familiar leadership role: leading change and innovation across the business A new leadership role: leading change beyond business boundaries HOW CAN THIS TREND BE ACCELERATED? IMPLICATIONS FOR THINKING ABOUT BUSINESS LEADERSHIP CONCLUSIONS NEXT STEPS POST-SCRIPT: HOW IS BUSINESS LEADERSHIP BEING...
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...Business Tourism as an Industry Driver Lilla Széplaki DISSERTATION FOR BA (HONS) IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT OXFORD BROOKS UNIVERSITY AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL – BUDAPEST 2007/2012 1 Acknowledgements Hereby, I would like to express my deepest appreciation to the Sales team of the Budapest Marriott Hotel, who gave their assistance informing me about all the needed data. I would like to thank to the people with whom I have had interview and also for my former colleagues from the Kempinski Hotel Corvinus. They supported me in my research work. I am deeply indebted to my supervisor Mr Alan Godsave. His suggestions helped me to write this thesis. 2 Table of Content 1. 2. Introduction......................................................................................................... 4 Literature review ................................................................................................ 7 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. What is Tourism? ........................................................................................ 7 The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) .......................................... 8 Current situation of business tourism ....................................................... 9 Globalisation ......................................................................................... 9 International Trends .......................................................................... 10 The affecting factors of Business Tourism...
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