...In this essay I will give a brief overview of the natural ecosystem of Cedar Hill State park. I will examine the major structural and functional dynamics of that ecosystem and how it has evolved over time, how humans may have affected biogeochemical cycles in that ecosystem, how knowledge about that ecosystem’s structure and function can help or has helped to develop plans for its management and restoration. Cedar Hill State Park is a 1,826 acre nature preserve located on the Joe Pool Reservoir. Cedar Hill State Park has a climax ecosystem meaning that the environment consists of a variety of plants and animals which through the process of succession the development of vegetation has reached a steady rate. The park is dominated by upland forests that include cedar elm, honey locust, mesquite and juniper trees. This park host a variety of common animals that include bobcat, coyote, fox, and raccoon, as well as aquatic species ranging from large- mouth bass, white bass, and crappie. Over the years this ecosystems functional dynamics have changed because of the development of homes and retail shopping centers that have diminished the cedar forest that covered the land. The Golden-cheeked Warbler suffered due to habitat destruction and was on the verge of extinction but because of the unique habitat found at Cedar Hill State Park the Golden-Cheeked Warbler was spotted in 2004. The tall grass prairie was a migratory habitat for the Eskimo Curlew now thought to be extinct. These are...
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...Symbiosis, Symbiotic Relationship A relationship where both sides benefit from the other Roone Arledge, Jr. - American sports and news broadcasting pioneer - President of ABC sports from 1968 to 1986 - President of ABC news from 1977 to 1998. - Key part of the company's (ABC) rise to competition with two other main television networks (NBC and CBS) in the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. - Created many programs still airing tonight such as Monday Night Football, ABC World News Tonight, Primetime, Nightline and 20/20 Jim McKay An American tv sports journalist. Is best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports Billie Jean King An american former World No. 1 professional tennis player. In 1973, at the age of 29, she won the s0-called Battle of the Sexes match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs Bobby Riggs An american tennis player who lost to Billie Jean King in the Battle of the Sexes Match What is meant by the relationship between sports and tv being a symbiotic relationship? - Both have derived enormous benefits from the other. - Both have been around for most of the last 100 years. - The world of sports has helped to grow the business of tv, while tv has enable sports ventures, worldwide, to become high-end family entertainment. By the end of the '50s, what happened to sports programming and where during the weekly programming schedule did they find their place? What were the factors mentioned in the text that contributed to...
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...CHAPTER ONE CAMERA OBSCURA A camera obscura was one of the most important devices ever created in the world of photography. It is an optical device that led to the camera. A camera obscura consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside, where it is reproduced, rotated 180 degrees upside-down, but with color and perspective contained. The image can be projected onto paper, and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation. Did you know he largest camera obscura in the world is on Constitution Hill in Aberystwyth, Wales? The first surviving mention of some of the principles behind the pinhole camera or camera obscura belongs to Mozi who lived 470 to 390 BCE. Mozi was a Chinese philosopher and the founder of Mohism. He correctly asserted that the image in a camera obscura is flipped upside down because light travels in straight lines from its source. His disciples developed this into a minor theory of optics. The Greek philosopher Aristotle lived from 384 to 322 BCE, understood the optical principle of the pinhole camera. Aristotle viewed the crescent shape of a partially eclipsed sun projected on the ground through the holes in a sieve and through the gaps between the leaves of a plane tree. In the 4th century, Greek scholar Theon of Alexandria observed that "candlelight passing through a pinhole will create an illuminated spot on a screen that is directly in line...
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...Bibliography of Entrepreneurship Where can you find out what research has been done in a specific field of entrepreneurship? This bibliography lists major books and articles on various aspects of entrepreneurship grouped by subject. It does not claim comprehensiveness. Checking these sources, however, will give you a good coverage and encourage further investigation. A list of journals can be found in the Entrepreneurship Journals section. * Adamson, D. Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise. McGraw-Hill, 1994. * Baird. M.L. Engineering your Start-up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur. Professional Publications, 2003. * Bhide, A. The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses. Oxford University Press, 2003. * Birley, S., and D. Muzyka, eds. Mastering Entrepreneurship. Pitman, 2000. * Boston, Thomas, and Catherine Ross. The Inner City. Transaction Publishers, 1997. * Brown, S.L., and K.M. Eisenhardt. Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos. Harvard Business School Press, 1998. * Bygrave, W.D., and A.L. Zacharakis, eds. The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship. 4th edition. Wiley, 2010. * Cristol, Steven, and Peter Sealey. Simplicity Marketing. Simon and Schuster, 2007. * Drucker, P. Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2Rev Ed edition. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010. * Hopkins, Bruce. A Legal Guide to Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization. 3rd edition. Wiley, 2000...
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...Dave Madsen JGRD 915: Mass Communication Theory Dr. Linda Shipley Final Paper Dec. 14, 2009 Discovering Methods of Communication Use in Ord, Nebraska In a recent editorial opinion column in the Sioux City (Iowa) Journal, Editor Mitch Pugh wrote “We are becoming a nation that only wants to consume news that perpetuates or supports our own tightly held beliefs. I’m not sure I quite understand how that line of thinking contributes anything to a society that used to value open and fair-minded debate and learned from absorbing diverse viewpoints.” (Pugh) If you actually asked people about their news consumption practices, would they agree with that sentiment? Would the residents of a particular small town in Nebraska be able to determine if any commonly held beliefs might be determined by the selection of a specific type or style of media? These are just some of the questions that arise when evaluating the results of just such a research project. During the month of October, 2009, students of Dr. Linda Shipley’s Mass Communication Theory class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conducted interviews with 33 residents of the small town of Ord, Nebraska. The purposes of the survey were: 1) To measure the use of media by the people of Ord. Specifically, how do they gather information about Ord and how do they disseminate information about Ord? 2) To measure their opinions about living in Ord. The interviews were conducted by telephone, with each of the eleven...
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...Jshon Twine Com 205 Dunleavy Personal Application Agenda Setting Theory On your way to class in the morning you over hear a group of people talking about some eventful news that has taken place over the last couple weeks following the recent presidential election. The group seems to have strong views towards the particular subject so this draws you in to the conversation. After being briefed on what the topic of discussion is you also begin to voice your opinion on the subject because you also feel as if it is an important topic. You later find out that this was headline news in the newspaper and will continue coverage throughout the week on the particular story. This emphasized importance of the story can be explained by what is known as agenda-setting theory a theory created by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw. Much of our media has had the same effect on our society. A particular story receives large amounts of coverage or is simply elaborated to a point where the importance of the story seems increased compared to others. This in turn shapes the public’s opinion and reflects what is presented by the news providing “not what to think…but what to think about”(Cohen 1963 as cited in M. Dainton and E. Zelley). This paper will give the basic overview; listing assumptions and concepts, of the theory along with recent additions. It will also provide personal and actual examples of where the theory has applied. Agenda-Setting theory, in its original state, contains two...
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...Women in the Engineering World Engineering is a field dominated by men in today's society. When people think about engineering they think about men with glasses and never does a woman come to mind. However, there have been many studies on the skills that keep women out of engineering as a career yet there is no proof that women cannot or do not possess the skills needed to be a successful engineer. Therefore, it is thought and stereotyped that women do not have the skills to have an engineering career. Women are stereotyped as being dumb just because they are pretty, but many women have proven that stereotype wrong. These women who do have the skills to enter into the field face bias everyday in the field because they are women, not because they lack in the required skills. There have been organizations that spend their time encouraging women to enter into engineering. The Organizations and societies have become so strong and so persuasive that even the company that makes Barbie is coming out with a computer engineering Barbie to attract young girls into the field. The push from the organizations and the drive of the women for success has helped some women to make a breakthrough in the field. Those few women who have overcome many challenges and obstacles in the field have to prove themselves to be looked at with even the slightest bit of respect. These women who make a breakthrough are making huge impacts on the field and improving it tremendously. Women are important to engineering...
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...express the same opinion and thought. As their thoughts vary, their idea on perceiving things vary. A research work eventually results in an inference by a person on a particular concept. Obviously, no two researchers conclude the same thing. All of us would be aware of the Big Bang Theory. I am also not an exception to it. I am also one of the poor victims who were made to sit in a class room with boring lectures and lessons. Big Bang theory was the one that I studied in my higher secondary Physics class in a chapter by name, "Universe". The Big Bang theory as all of us know is one of the widely accepted theories that explain about the origin of our universe. According to Big Bang theory, the universe has emerged out of nothing [Karen C. Fox, 2002]. The Big Bang theory has proven that there is an origin...
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...Chapter Seven Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship: Economic Rocket Fuel Review Questions 1. Review the benefits an entrepreneur might seek in starting a new business. Which benefits are most appealing to you? Why? 2. Do you recognize any of the entrepreneurial personality characteristics in yourselves? Which ones? Do you think it’s possible for a person to develop the characteristics that he or she lacks? Why or why not? 3. What role does failure sometimes play in entrepreneurial success? What can an entrepreneur gain from failure? 4. How could you convince family and friends to support your new business launch? What kind of assurances would they need? What could you do to keep the funding relationships professional? 5. Beyond personal resources, what are other funding options for small businesses? Why don’t more entrepreneurs tap into these resources? 6. Compare the opportunities and threats that small businesses face. Which opportunities are most compelling? Which threats are most intimidating? Why? 7. Review the definition of niche marketer, and cite three examples of niche marketers. How has technology affected niche marketing? 8. If you were to launch a new business, would you start from scratch...
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...Greenspan (eUniverse's Founder, Chairman, CEO), who managed Chris DeWolfe (MySpace's starting CEO), Josh Berman, Tom Anderson (MySpace's starting president), and a team of programmers and resources provided by eUniverse. Myspace quickly gained popularity among teenage and young adult social groups. In February 2005, DeWolfe held talks with Mark Zuckerberg over acquiring Facebook but DeWolfe rejected Zuckerberg's $75 million asking price. Some employees of Myspace, including DeWolfe and Berman, were able to purchase equity in the property before MySpace and its parent company eUniverse (now renamedIntermix Media) was bought. In July 2005, in one of the company's first major Internet purchases, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (the parent company of Fox Broadcasting and other media enterprises) purchased Myspace for US$580 million. News Corporation had beat out Viacom by offering a higher price for the website,] and the purchase was seen as a good investment at the time. Of the $580 million purchase price, approximately $327 million has been attributed to the value of Myspace according to the financial adviser fairness opinion.Within a year, Myspace had tripled in value from its purchase price. News Corporation saw the purchase as a way to capitalize on Internet advertising, and drive traffic to other News Corporation properties. On April 19, 2008,...
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...Multinational Finance, Chapter 11, 12 & 13. - Deutsche Banks Global Registered Shares (pp.332-333). - Tirstup Biomechanics (Denmark): Raising Dollar Debt (pp.357-359) b. Week 5b - Sanyal (2001). International Management: A Strategic Perspective (Prentice Hall), Ch.2, pp.66-77 c. Week 6ab: - Read Moffet, M., Stonehill, A. & Eiteman, D. (2006) Fundamentals of Multinational Finance, Chapter 20 & Read Stanley Works & Corporate Inversion (pages 541-545) d. Week 7a 7b: - Moffat, Stonehill & Eiteman (2006). Fundamentals of Multinational Finance, Ch.19 - Gardner & Weirich (1992). Business Investigations: How CFOs can manage risk through information, Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance, Vol.10, Issue 1, (pp.129-139). - Madura & Fox (2007). International Financial Management, Ch. 19, pp.652, 659-661 e. Week 8a : - Chetty, S. & Campbell-Hunt, C. (2004) ‘A Strategic Approach to Internationalization: A Traditional Versus a “Born-Global” Approach’, Journal of International Marketing, 12 (1), pp. 57-81. - Knight, G. A. (2001) ‘Entrepreneurship and strategy in the international SME’, Journal of International Marketing, Vol. 7, pp. 155-171. - Moen, O. & Servais, P. (2002) ‘Born Global or Gradual Global? Examining the Export Behaviour of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’, Journal of International Marketing, 10 (3), pp. 49-72. f. Week 12ab: -...
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...Introduction Organizations are forced to understand the importance of the human capital. The current state of the competition which is spreading in all directions compels a company to ensure that it develops, fosters, and trains its personnel to ensure that they are in the best possible situation to tackle the challenges which are becoming so evident in the world of business today. (Fink, 2013) Despite this growing awareness there examples of organizations struggling to use their employees for the fullest extent. Uncountable resources are being spent to ensure that the human capital is at its peak but even then organizations are struggling to find the right type of people who would be able to perform the jobs and tasks in the best possible manner. The report will assess the overall HR function of DW Travel, like recruitment and selection, performance evaluation, compensation etc. but concentrate on the implementation of performance management system which is not yet accomplished in the organization. It will also provide recommendations, where deemed necessary to reduce the barriers and improve their performance. DW Travel is a subsidiary of Dubai World. It was set up in January 2004. It aims to be recognized for its high level of professionalism and claims to possess a highly experienced team. (DW Travel, 2014) Its core value are * Respectful of values, all cultures and our employees * Excellence in Customer Service * Logical and precise in our thinking ...
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...have found a way converge multiple forms of media. The creation of the SMART TV has connected television with the internet, and in turn created the most accessible form of media convergence. This paper will walk through the history of television and how it’s advances has brought it the ultimate media convergence. The first successful use of a television was demonstrated in 1927. The unit was created by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Farnsworth created a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded into radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen. The images produced were very primitive but television would grow in the years to come. After Farnsworth invention RCA invested $50 million in the development of television. This investment was used to update broadcasting systems for the new content and to create a television set that could be used in homes. In 1939 RCA televised its first baseball game and a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt and some regular programming. By 1941 Columbia broadcasting was televising a daily news cast. The first televisions were in broadcast in black and white. Color television would not be available until 1964. The 3 big broadcasting networks ABC, NBC and CBS invested...
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