...Story Analysis Michael Sanchez A museum chaperone named Mary Beth takes a group of children on a tour of Mexican folk myths and legends. She tells them the story of the Mexican town of San Angel from the Book of Life, which holds every story in the world. The spirits La Muerte, ruler of the Land of the Remembered, and Xibalba, ruler of the Land of the Forgotten, set a wager at San Angel's Day of the Dead festival after seeing two boys, Manolo and Joaquín, competing over a girl named María. La Muerte bets that Manolo will marry María, while Xibalba bets on Joaquín. If La Muerte wins, Xibalba can no longer interfere in mortal affairs, but if Xibalba wins, he and La Muerte switch realms. However, Xibalba cheats by giving Joaquin his Medal of Everlasting Life, which grants the wearer invincibility. María frees a herd of pigs from being slaughtered, angering her father, who sends her away to a boarding school in Spain. While saying their goodbyes, Manolo gives her a baby pig from earlier and she gives him a guitar which is engraved with "Always play from the heart". Years pass and Manolo's musician dreams are suppressed by his father Carlos, who trains him to become a bullfighter like the rest of their family, while Joaquín becomes the revered town hero with the Medal's aid. On the day of María's return, a celebration is held culminating in Manolo's first bullfight. Manolo defeats the bull but...
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...The company under study is the FMCG behemoth Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL). A partially owned subsidiary of Unilever, HLL was set up in India in 1931. Today it has gained the status of the biggest FMCG player in the country. With a wide product base and a mass market focus, HLL touches the lives of people all over India. In the 70-odd years that HLL has been in India, it has adopted several different strategies to leverage its strengths and gain the success it currently enjoys. Backed by a very able management team and the support of its parent company, it has achieved enormous success that few other companies its size and age have managed in India. However, the recent years have seen many challengers to HLL’s previously undisputed status. The market is saturated and sales have stagnated. HLL has responded to this challenge by studying its shortcomings, identifying failing strategies, and adopting new and innovative methods to re-gain market share. Some of the strategies it has adopted are moving to the low margin mass market, pruning it’s brand portfolio, and strengthening it’s distribution network. One of the key strategies is shift in target segment to the relatively unexplored rural markets. While most MNCs wrote off this segment as difficult to reach and unprofitable, HLL learned from success stories such as that of Nirma and Cavin Care and used it scale up on core competencies to enter and succeed in the market. HLL’s growth has been both organic and inorganic...
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...During the years 1933 – 1945, Hitler and the Nazi party introduced various policies in which impacted the economy, is it necessary to label them all a success? The most successive policy that they announced was those in which was led by Albert Speer, this had a great influence on both the economy and the final stages of war; despite Germany being unsuccessful. The first policy that was introduced was the “New plan” which was created by Hjalmar Schacht in the year 1933. Schacht intended to reduce imports, reduce unemployment, create agreements with other nations and finally channel the government’s spending. In some perspective, the “New plan” was a success; unemployment had decreased significantly, it was reduced from 6 million in 1933 to 300,000 by 1939. Moreover, industrial production had rose considerably in comparison with Weimar Germany before the Wall Street Crash. Due to these factors, it can be interpreted as a great success however, there are features that hinder it. Firstly, Germany were still importing a huge amount of their produce, they failed to produce the same amount of money that they were spending; by 1939 the German government were in debt of 40 million Reichmarks. As a result of this, the new plan cannot be labelled as a great success, however there were aspects that influenced the success of other policies. As the war drew closer, Hitler was aware that the country was not prepared for confrontation therefore he advised his Nazi associate – Goering, to...
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...a huge part in keeping the supply chain of Wal-mart together. Wal-mart became an (Traub, 2012) innovator in technology the way it structured on how stores keep track of their inventory. The Walmart stores does not have to stock their shelves on the assumption of what customers need, but will restock on the customer’s demands on what they want and is needed. The demand of the supply chain in Wal-mart has goals set in place to manage their companies. Their strategy consist (Wal-mart Keys to Succesful Supply Chain Managment, 2014) of four components vendor partnerships, cross docking, distribution management, technology and integration. Cross docking has to do with the technology where this innovation get the products to different Walmart stores. Wal-mart believes in keeping their prices at a low cost and are willing to do business with manufactures who are willing who are able to keep up with the demand the of customer. The strategy of Wal-mart is to keep their competitive prices and remain a dominant force in the supply and demand market and keep customers coming back, and take as much customers from the competition. References Traub, T. (2012, July). Wal-mart used Technology to Become Supply and Chain Leader. Retrieved from http://www.arkansasbusinss.com.../wal-mart-used-techonolgy- to- become-sup... Wal-mart Keys to Succesful Supply Chain Managment. (2014). Retrieved from...
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...fill those positions. Furthermore, outsiders can bring new ideas or new ways of doing business that can help the organization. Lastly, bringing in new talent from outside sources can help strenghten an organization and weaken the competitors. On the other hand, there are several strategies that might call for internal recruitment. It is to a companys advantage to hire someone withing who is already well known. The company knows how they work, what they are able to produce, and what they can expect from them. Second, internal employees are well aware of open vacancies withing the company, which minimizes the expectations of the job. Finally, it is faster and cheaper to recruit someome internally. One factor that might lead a firm to decide to switch from internal to external is for innovation. Outsiders bring new ideas to a company. In cases where everyone in the job think alike, it is good to bring new talent that can practice new ways of doing business. The result from outsiders with new ideas can help a company be succesful and even more succesful in the long run if a company continues to...
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...REACTION PAPER Water is very important to us specially to all species of fish because, without water fish not alive, but boni comandante a successful entrepreneur he wasn’t a scientist but he found and gathered another information, knowledge and ideas on how the fish alive, same texture, less expense and exporting to other country without water. Put’s fish to sleep? This is a crazy and unvailivable idea but with this idea, boni comandante become succesful and become a millionare. Influence of other people specially boni comandante do some research regarding to the fish puts to sleep he eventaully succeed and he become a successful. Boni comandate story a succesful entrepreneur i am so much amaze and idolize him, and one thing you have to remember, if thier is one thing you discover dont wates a time do some reseach or gathered other information to become successful. SUMMARY Bonifacio Comandante Jr., was born in the island of siquijor ,his father was an architect and his mother a nures .boni comandante gradauted from the university of the philippines at los banos with the degree in agricultural engineering. He went to work for a government irrigation and boni comandante won in the international category of the University of San Francisco business plan competition in California. He, invented the technology by undergoing a conditioning process in which the fishes, or any marine species, are held overnight in filtered, circulated seawater at about 30-degrees Centigrade...
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...The medical industry is constantly changing the way service is provided to patients and how to treat a particular diagnosis. Hospitals and medical centers need to adapt to the change in order to continue to have a succesful business. Alta Med HB has gone through numerous changes through out the previous year and to this day there is no set plan. When there is no set process everyone is affected from the patient to the employees. Their are three catergories of improvement that can be worked on to create a succesful work flow. Some people are used to a fast paced environment were they expect certain things to be taken care of quickly. Since most employees are occupied in the medical center it takes longer to process a certain request. Changing up the cycle-time will improve the way the patients expeperience would be. An example of improvement would be to shorten the length of the wait time to see a provider. A set schedule would need to be created to have enough time to see each patient at a reasonable time. When patients wait for a long period of time they are frustrated and want to be seen for more than one complain. Some challeneges that the organization may face is that many patients would not be able to schedule an appointment and would be referred to the walk in clinic. Patients would get upset and might change medical groups. Providers would need to stick to a set schedule and not double book patients if its not necessary only double book when its an urgent reason. Another...
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...immediately. Refer to Ch. 16 of Your College Experience to identify at least three areas of stress in your life. List these in the first column in the table below. In the second column, identify stress management best practices or techniques you can use to address the stressors you listed in the first column. Briefly indicate how you will use that best practice. Stressor | Stress management tip | Work | My work is stressful because I am working midnights and weekends right now and my time with family is getting shortened because of working weekends. The way I have ease some stress from myself is telling myself it will get better and by completing school I can better my career. | School | The best way for me to not have so much stress is making sure I set enought time for me to be succesful. I also need to make sure I make this my first priority. | My Family | My stress with my family is to make sure I spend enough time with them and make sure I make them happy. I am trying to save my weeknds for my family and by completing school I will make them happy and their lives easier. | In 50 to 100 words, explain the link between time management and stress. How can time management help with stress management? Time managment can help with stress because you can set a time on things and you don't need to feel like you need to get them done. You will have a dead line and slowly work on things to have them finished by that date and it will ease a lot of stress from yourself. I like...
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...| Google Inc | | | | 8/15/2015 | | Google is a worldwide technology focusing on getting better the ways citizens connect as well as employ the information. And also they are operating to manage the earth's information along with create it simply accessible as well as useful to one and all. Google web search as well as promotion has made Google individual of the most accepted brands of the earth. Google Inc produces revenue through delivering applicable as well as cost effective online publicity and providing other goods. This document represents a full study of the industry of Google Inc as well as its performance for a period of 3 years. I will focus on the years between 2009 and 2011. The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are standards and interpretations adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The functions of the IFRS foundation can be divided into two main areas: Governance and oversight, and operations. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are committed to crafting one set of accounting standards. The goal of the convergence project is to unify accounting standards, which in turn should improve comparability of financial statements across national jurisdictions (Shim, Siegel, 2010). Google has a reputation as an innovative company, but in fact it owes a lot of its success to acquisitions. Merging with or acquiring another firm represents a considerable...
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...These are the kids that need that special treatment. Also she gives an example how tv programs can affects kids life and actions. Affecting them to do bad things without knowing it was bad because they dont know the real consequences. Another author who i agree with is Paul thompson who is foward with abolishing the mandatory life in prison for juveniles who commit murders, he also agrees that young adolecents dont commit murders just because they want to but because they go through changes which makes them act the way they do. Thompson researches on the human brai he says that any young teenager is far from adulthood. Also he gives facts on how theirs a “massive loss brain tissue occurs in teen years” also how the tv programs is a major factor on the brain and how the brain changes its development because of that. On June 25, 2012 the supreme court ruled that the juveniles commiting murder will not be sentenced to life in prison because it violates the eight amendment on no cruel and unsual punishment. The authors from the articles who disagree with me is Gail Garinger “juveniles dont deserve life sentences” aregues that teens should be in prison for the crimes...
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... The film is about the life of a girl called Andy, and the expirence that she earns working for Miranda Priestly which is a routhless boss of a magazine named Runway. The title of the movie reflects the concept of the boss, Miranda. She is seen as the Devil becuase she acts cold, authoritarian and routhless. The movie highlights the infinite power that Miranda has over Emily and Andy and all the imposible tasks that she achives them. Did Andy choose the right job? Andy wanted the job only with one objective, get the best references in order to work any place she wanted. So at the end, yes, she was capable to adapt to a job that it was completly different to her dream job and also get the best reference to work were she wanted. How did the organization socialize her? The organization socialize her by making the understanding of the culture of the company and the company expectation. All the employees that she meets, treat her as Miranda was going to treat her in order to settle in the job. It is a case of individual socialization. What are the benefits and costs of belonging to this organization? The benefits that the company offers are good preparation as coaching, Miranda is pushing Andy to want the work, to be better, to reach almost imposible tasks. Furthermore, the company also benefits with good references. The costs are explain in the movie as the sacrifice your personal life. Working for Miranda is shown as the most stressful and killer work, becuase...
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...above the knowledge level of learning. To get these questions correct, students need to be able to recognize key terms, phrases, and words (including synonyms). 3. By design, plausible distracters might be partially correct. That is why, with few exceptions, we use the words MOST or BEST in the problem statement/question. Your challenge is to know the concepts well enough to differentiate between answers that sound correct or that are partially correct and the BEST answer. 4. Give Example (Illustrate) questions are more difficult than Explain questions for three reasons. a. First, scenarios are more than simple explanations of a concept. Although the scenarios still contains key words, terms and phrases, students must be able to recognize ―how the concept is being used‖ (i.e. interpret). b. Second, unlike most K-12 and college tests, and with few exceptions, Give Example (Illustrate) questions only include some elements or steps of a concept. This is why just memorizing steps is not enough; students must recognize and understand the supporting information for each concept and know whether the actions, decisions, or behaviors portrayed are appropriate/ inappropriate and/or effective/ineffective. c. Third, understanding the supporting information for concepts is also vitally important because Give Example and...
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...Failure is the new Success A great man once said that no human on earth is created in perfection. Yet, we, as members of the human race, fear failure. We are taught not to fail and, if we do, it is viewed as a shameful sign of weakness. Although we want to be succesful, it is ofren necessary to fail in order to learn the lessons that will lead to a more meaningful life. William Zinsser in “The Right to Fail” talks about how there is nothing wrong with failing. He uses some real life examples that could apply to many other people. He explains how the term failure mostly applies to all people under the age of twenty-one if they drop out of school. We all know that education and finishing school is very important but, just because a person dropped out from school it is officially over. We automatically think that “drop out” means they will never have a bright future. Zinsser then expresses his opinion that people who have actually dropped out of school or have failed multiple times still manage to reach similar success as people who did not drop out. Clearly, failing to finish school does not mean they will not be successful. He then also explains that parents are the ones who demand that we do not fail instead of telling us to “not” be afraid to fail. Although it may be difficult for parents, accepting their child’s future will offer a way for their child to become stronger and ready for the obstacles in their life. Furthermore, Zinsser cited Fred Zinnerman, the famous Hollywood...
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...Managing people in the global enviroment: What to take in to account? ( examples) My first key learning is related to the fact of how stereotypes can make you think that there’s no business opportunities in a country. Before hearing the presentations of Botswana, Georgia and Korea I thought them as countries with no many economic development and stuck in the past century but of course this is a completely wrong assumption. Korea is not only about communism, Botswana It’s more tan tribes and Georgia is one of the fastest growing countries in Eastern Europe. For example, I was really shocked to discover that Gaborone looks like any European or Us capital.This shows that even if I have travelled to many places and somehow I have an international background,stereotypes are always there and its important to get rid of them in order to take advantage of all the opportunities that countries can offer you in the business field. This shows that even if I have travelled to many places and some how I have an international background, sterotypes are always there and its important t get rid of them in order to take advantage to all the opportunities that countries can offer you in the business field. But even if Globalization has made that cultures across countries shared more characteristics, the roots of each one are still there.This means that before any meeting we should ask ourselves: Who are we dealing with? What do we expect and what are they expecting from us? For instance...
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...Portfolio Task Module 500 words Effective Study Skills Are The Sole Foundation of a Sound Education Effective study skills are the skills which are needed to enable efficient learning and are an important set of life skills, which help to get an understanding of the information in the most efficient way. As stated by Adams and Hamm (1994) are paths which lead to the learning.” They are vital for success in schools and further education. Rwehumbiza maintains that most students fail in examinations simply because they lack study skills and, or examination taking techniques. Effective learning depends on creating an environment that is the best to get the individual into study mode and which settings suit them best. Management of time is important. Has the individual allowed enough time to study. Having the right frame of mind, the right conditions, the materials and information needed and no distractions. Considering and developing attitudes that make learning more interesting. Cottrell encourages the use of the C.R.E.A.M strategy, which helps with motivation and attitudes. Looking at each of these areas in depth might give the individual skills and strategies they might find effective,or weaknesses that can be identified and dealt with. C-Creative Have the confidence to apply imagination to your learning and problem-solving. R-Reflective Be able to sit with your experience, analyse and evaluate your own performance, and draw lessons from it. E-Effective Organise...
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