...and he quickly ducked quickly. Joseph began to run faster than ever his heart was pounding out of his chest. He ran until he saw a figure in the distance in front of him. He ran closer and yelled help someone is firing shots at me! But the figure did not answer. The figure pulled his hand out of his pocket and joseph thought he was calling 911. But instead the figure pulled a gun and aimed for Joseph. He felt it he had just been shot in the chest. The figure left Jospeh to die and Joseph had no choice but to lay there in the alley and yell for help. It was dark as night and as the dream started to fade Joseph woke up to find himself in the hospital wounded. The doctor told Joseph that he had actually been hurt and lost quite a bit of blood but they don’t know how he hurt himself. A couple days later Joseph was released from the hospital and he decided he was going to go back home but he would stay the night at the hotel and headed back home in the morning. Joseph took his medication ate dinner and went to sleep. Jospeh...
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...KIDDER PEABODY GROUP In the last years the financial market has been hit by many financial scandal the most recent in 2000s are Enron and Parmalat which has affected the entire market. This paper is going to take in consideration an old scandal the Kidder Peabody Group that first has been implicated in insider trading and later in a complicated method for which losses counted as huge profit. In specific this paper will analyze the case study of Kidder Peabody Group starting with brief overview of the company, then analyze the motivations and synergies that GE and Kidder Peabody should have got and finally it will explain the strategy that the bond department especially Joseph Jett used to falsify the books. The company was founded in 1865 in Boston by Henry Kidder, Francis Peabody and his brother Oliver. The company grew between the end of the 19th and begin of the 20th century where it became a leading bank in New England and a major player in the US financial market. In fact it opened an office in Wall Street, New York. The firm’s headquarter stayed in Boston until the Wall Street crash in 1929 where Kidder had to face some financial difficulties. Here thanks to some investors that injected the necessary capital recue Kidder Peabody and Chandler Hovey, Edwin Webster, and Albert Gordon became the new partner. The firm survived the difficult 30s and got back its leading position among the most important investment bank after the end of World War II. In 1985 Kidder Peabody...
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...Dictionary Project: Genesis - The book of Genesis has been said to have been written by Moses, while some people believe it to have been an anonymous author. Genesis goes as far back at 1445 BC. Some of the major people in Genesis are of course Adam and Eve, Cain and Able, Isaac and Rebekah, and of course Jacob’s wives and his twelve sons. Genesis reminds us that, “In the beginning God created the heaven and earth.” (Gen. 1:1) Also, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created him, male and female created he them” Joseph (son of Jacob) Joseph was the son of Jacob and Genesis 37-50 focuses on his story and how God used him to move his family to Egypt. He was first son of Rachel and the eleventh son of Jacob. Jospeh was Jacon’s favorite son was given a “long coat of many colors”, because of this coat and the fact that Joseph was the favorite son his brothers hated him. At age 17 Joseph dreamed that his family would bow down to him, that caused his brothers to hate him even more and begin to plot on how to get rid of him. His brothers came up with a few ways to kill him but his oldest brother Reuben did not want him to die. They ended up selling him into slavery for twenty piece of slavery. The brothers then placed males goat’s blood on Joseph’s coat to convince their father that he was really dead. In prison Joseph was put in charge of the other prisoners. He came into contact with the Pharaoh’s chief cup bearer and chief baker, he interpreted dreams...
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...They hosted beneficial theatrical events, art exhibitions, and auctions. After a while money started coming in. Jospeh Pulitzer opened editorial pages in his newspaper to support the fundraising. The designer of the pedestal was architect Richard Morris Hunt. America made enough money for the pedestal in August 1885. The construction of the pedestal ended in April 1887. The Statue was completed in France in July 1884, and arrived in the New York harbor in June 1885. In transit to the United States the Statue was reduced to 350 parts and packed in 214 crates. The Statue was reassembled on the pedestal in four months. On August 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland oversaw the the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in front of thousands of...
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...New economic policy (NEP) NEP era advertizement It was an idea based on ambition and imagination; an idea that worked so well, it managed to drag an entire country out of starvation and chaos and drive it onto the road to quick economic and industrial recovery. It created capitalism in a socialist state and cabaret-style debauchery under a military-communist regime. And like many other great yet paradoxical projects, perhaps, the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy of the 1920s was too visionary to remain sustainable for long. Preconditions The year is 1921. Russia has just survived two revolutions, WWI and the Civil War. Not only the last royal family but the entire empire is gone, executed and left to deteriorate. Significant territories including Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, parts of Ukraine, Belarus and more lands have either broken away or been taken away, while the population has diminished by at least twenty five million people. Production has fallen to the levels of the times of Peter the Great, hunger and devastation are the general picture all around. In fact, things are going so bad, even the revolutionary leadership, backed fearlessly by millions of people just a few years before, is itself becoming a target of mass anger. Fresh uprisings grip Siberia, the southern and western regions and even spread to the Red Army. The new communist regime headed by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky realizes something needs to be done quickly to prevent the country...
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...The war came to an end at the foothills of the Bear Paw Mountains, just 40 miles south of the Canadian border. The Nez Perce believed they had outran General Howard and other trackers but they were unaware of the recently promoted General Nelson Miles. He led a combined use of force units of Fifth Infantry, Second Calvary and the Seventh Calvary. Along with the troops were the Lakota and Cheyenne Indian Scouts who had fought in the Sioux War. On the morning of September 30 General Miles surprisingly attacked the Nez Perce camp. A standoff lasted for three days until General Howard arrived with his command on October 3rd. Chief Joseph surrendered on October 5, 1877, his famous surrender speech that we would “fight no more forever”. Chief Jospeh became immortalized by his famous speech: I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohoolhoolzoote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say, "Yes" or "No." He who led the young men [Ollokot] is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are -- perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever. Upon Chief Joseph surrendering,...
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...The Journey of Crazy Horse is a biography written by Joseph M. Marshall, III. It was copyrighted in 2004 and published by the Penguin Group in London. Joseph goes and takes a legend, and shows you that behind the legend of Crazy Horse that he was just a man, like the rest of us. But not only that, he shows us part of the way of the Lakota life during the life of Crazy Horse and how that had changed with the invasion of the whites. The story stars with a little boy born, who is the son of Crazy Horse. This boy is different from the others with the unusually lighter hair color, which gave him his name of Light Hair. This difference is a source of teasing from the other boys. In the early years of his life, we learn that not only is he taken care of by his mother, but by every women in the camp. From them he learned the virtues of gentleness and patience. The games he played with the other boys, as well as the chores given to him by High Back Bone, was the ground work to lead into the skills he would need later in life as a hunter and a fighting man. Around his 9th year, the intrusion of the whites began to appear in the Lakota lands and their trail was beginning to change the way of the buffalo. As Light Hair was growing older, his skills grew close to expert level. In the summer of 1851 his camp moved south closer to Fort Laramie, a checkpoint along the Oregon trial. As Light Hair and is friend, Lone Bear, grew tired of watching the fort there was a meeting with all...
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...Why shared moral values by team players of the firm reduce conflict and dependency that occurs due to bounded rationality and opportunistic behavior. Term paper for the module “Ethics, Compliance, and Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms” at Hamburg School of Business Administration Prof. Dr. Christoph Niehus Simon Rybach Langenfelder Damm 90 22525 Hamburg Tel.: 0173/ 2196726 simon@rybach.de Matriculation number: 1896 MBA HL 2013 Charles Darwin described 1871 that “[…] an advancement in the standard of morality […] will certainly give an immense advantage to one tribe over another. A tribe including many members who, from possessing in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to aid one another, and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes” (Darwin, 1871/1981). His work about the antecedent of men pointed out to the importance of shared moral values as an element for the survival of certain tribes. These findings in the context of evolution are still valid and appropriate in the context of building high productivity teams in firms as a competitive advantage. Organizations have to cope with today’s complexity of a global business environment. Meeting this challenge requires a high degree of flexibility in companies in order to adapt to constantly, rapidly changing external factors. The globalization forces companies to develop new organizational structures...
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...Nonverbal Communication In The Workplace Edward G. Wertheim, Ph.D. says “People in organizations typically spend over 75% of their time in interpersonal situations” (Wertheim P. 1). Even though we are all capable of communicating, not everyone is an effective communicator. The ability to communicate effectively is essential in the workplace. I am going to focus on the importance of becoming a more effective communicator in the workplace through nonverbal communication. Kory Floyd suggests that we often relay more information through nonverbal communication, than we do by using words alone (Floyd p. 211). Floyd suggests that since our nonverbal communication is going to convey the majority have what we intend to say it is important to understand what our nonverbal behavior is saying and it is also important to use how to use nonverbal communication to our advantage. Generally, when people hear the word nonverbal they think of hand gestures and facial expressions. However, there is much more to it than that. Edward G. Wertheim, Ph.D., explains that nonverbal communication consists of 4 parts: visual, tactile, vocal and use of time, space and image (p. 2). I am going to focus on the visual part of nonverbal communication. The clothing that we wear, our hair style, and the way we present ourselves in the workplace can have great influence over others’ perception of us. Depending on the nature of your business or line of work this can all vary in importance, for example: if...
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...I know this church is true: Deconstructing the falsehood of the LDS Establishment. “I know this church is true.” These words echo through every chapel of the 29,253 Wards and Branches (churches) in the LDS faith every first Sunday. Anyone sharing their testimony mechanically recites this followed by its companion phrases “I know the Book of Mormon is true” and “I know Joseph Smith was a prophet.” After obligatorily reciting these lines every congregant old enough to talk and brave enough to stand behind the pulpit shares their testimony of how the church affected their lives since the last time they bore their testimony. This profession of belief in the church serves a dual purpose in the eyes of many LDS members. They are taught from an early age that bearing one’s testimony wipes clean any sin leaving them spotless and without fault. (Smith 1835) This is one of the many fallacies heaped onto members and converts of the LDS faith commonly referred to as Mormons. This trinity of mantras is a short version of the church’s foundation and its belief system. The fast Sunday recitation is the cornerstone by which all temple-worthy members live their lives. It is also the stumbling block by which the façade of godliness within the Mormon faith can be deconstructed. By using the words of the Book of Mormon and other holy texts, as well as the words of their leaders, one can reveal a works-based system that is neither effective nor Biblical. The trinity of Falsehood LDS apologetics...
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...The British Political Reflection through The Westminster Alice by Saki, The Parody of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland Lecturer: Dr. Novita Dewi, M.S., M.A (Hons) by: Miranda A. R Siregar Student Number: 136332007 THE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2014 The British Political Reflection through The Westminster Alice by Saki, The Parody of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland I. Introduction Alice and the adventure in wonderland and Alice through the looking glass are the master pieces of literary work by Lewis Carroll. The characters in the story, particularly Alice herself become such an iconic character. Alice is basically a girl who has a high imagination and able to see the world differently, out of general border. We may discover several works based on Alice in wonderland, from the day the story was published until this present time. There are a lot of books and movies that inspired by Alice. In this essay, I would like to discuss is “The Westminster Alice” by Hector Hugo Munro (Saki) in 1902, The specialty of this book is so much different from any other work adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, which most of them are actually similar story or the adult version of Alice. This book is a parody of British politic based on Alice in Wonderland character. The Westminster Alice is the name of a collection of vignettes written by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) in 1902 and published...
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...Black Experience in America: Slavery to Emancipation AAAS 106 Professor Shawn Alexander KU 2011 Final Exam Study Guide Some important dates and events - Remember that this guide only gives you a chronology of important events. It is not sufficient for the exam - you must fill in the details from your lecture notes and readings. All the reading is compulsory, do not leave out any portion of the texts or articles. Slavery and the Slave Trade African Slave Trade: Conventional Dates – 1450 – 1867 Early controllers of the Trade: 1494 the Spanish turned to the Portuguese to supply slaves for their colonies. By the 17th C Northern European countries began to dominate the trade. 1621 Dutch West Indies Trading Company 1672 British Royal African Company (by the end of the 17th England dominated the trade.) The Scale of the Trade: Between 1492 and the end of the trade in 1867 Europeans transported a minimum of 10 million people in some 27,000 slaving expeditions – or some 170 slave ships per year. 50% mortality rate (rough estimate) About 95% of the captives were sent to the brutal tropical sugar growing regions of Brazil and the Caribbean. 40% Brazil 5-6% North America Before the trade picked up (1700) 2.2 million Africans had already been shipped to the Americas. The trade climaxed in the 1780s, when 80,000 Africans were shipped a year. 5/4 of all those shipped came in the 18th and 19th centuries. Three major areas in Africa supplied...
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...DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY YOUR UNIT YOUR BASE AFVB-XB-F 26 March 2012 MEMORANDUM FOR SGT SMITH SUBJECT: Motor SGT Initial Counseling/ Philosophy 1. The purpose of this counseling is to provide you with the information about my philosophy on leadership, standards and expectations. I have tremendous expectations of you as a Motor sergeant in this company. I am confident that you will not have any difficulty implementing and accomplishing what is expected as long as we work together as a team. Always remember, there is no “I” in “TEAM”! As a leader, I owe you the opportunity to perform to the best of your abilities. By the same token, I will not do your job for you. Always do what is right not what is easy and when no one is looking. 2. I am proud and honored to be your Motor Sergeant. My goal is to ensure this Team is the best MST in the Army (and I mean it)! Your job as a Squad Leader is tough and demanding. I understand this because I once was where you are today. 3. LEADERSHIP: Effective leadership can sometimes appear strange because there are no set rules or formula to guide you. Every soldier’s (regardless of rank) personality is different. Therefore, I place the utmost trust and confidence (until proven lost) in the abilities of my leaders and charge them to effectively lead, develop and take care of soldiers entrusted to them. I will delegate and give as much responsibility as any soldier can handle and is willing to accept...
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...Budgie Crashes, Dudley is a Dud In the spring of 1995, shortly before the close of Happiness Express’s 1995 fiscal year, a Wall Street investment firm projected a “precipitous” drop in the company’s earnings during fiscal 1996. The firm predicted that declining interest in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television program would quickly translate into falling sales of licensed merchandise featuring those characters, Joseph Sutton responded to that grim prediction by referring to another earnings forecast for Happiness Express released at approximately the same time by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), a major investment banking firm. This latter forecast a sizeable increase in revenues and profits for Happiness Express during fiscal 1996. To support this second forecast, Sutton revealed that his firm’s backlog of toy orders in the spring of 1995 was nearly three times larger than the company’s backlog 12 month earlier. While admitting that sales of Power Rangers merchandise would likely decline in fiscal 1996, Sutton insisted that the company’s new product would more than make up for those lost sales. Bolstering Sutton’s point of view regarding his company’s future were the record operating results that Happiness Express reported in the late spring for fiscal 1995 of $7.5million was nearly double the figure reported the previous year, while its 1995 revenues rose to $60million, a 50% increase over the previous 12 months. Approximately one-half of the latter increase...
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...hey. It's just me, your friendly neighborhood spiderman. charot. okay so I'm a superhero! or maybe not much of a SUPER hero. just a simple one. though I can't really explain how so 'simple' and so not I am as being a SUPER hero. as the world moves fast around me, I can slowly see each and every one of their faces as they walk pass by. worried, stressed, sad. even if they plaster a big smile on, it doesn't work. I can see through it. I can feel it, I can see what hides underneath it. what's really going on or what had happened for them to answer me how they're so perfectly fine when I ask them If they are. weird power right? mahirap. pero I take full responsibilty. hindi man nila aminin. hindi ko man sila kilala ng napakatagal. pero malalaman at nalalaman ko pa rin. annoying as it sounds but I still thank God for it. It's a gift. people need it. and I'm the one who was chosen to give it to them. in a sort of stranger-suddenly-tells-you-everything's-going-to-be-fine-even-if-he-hardly-knew-you way. though I really know that everything will be okay. I mean, bibigyan ka ba ng pagsubok ng Diyos na hindi mo kaya? binigay niya sa'yo yan dahil alam niyang kaya mo. alam niya na hindi ka susuko. katulad ngayon, sinusubukan na naman ata ako ng nasa itaas. late ako nagising off to work ang ka-macho-han ko, pero traffic masyadong magulo aligaga ang mga tao pero may isa dito na para bang kinuha sa kanya ang pagkakataong huminga...
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