...Persuasive Memo on Fitness Center at Rocky Mountain Mutual To: Mr. Zachary Evans, Vice President of Operations From: Joseph Mirola JM Date: November 13, 2011 Subject: Company Fitness Center makes a profit Thank you for allowing me to explain to you the benefits of having the company fitness center. Company reports indicate that the Fitness Center has led to an overall decrease in employee absenteeism, reduction in employee medical costs, and an increase in productivity. Employees who have taken advantage of the Fitness Center miss half the amount of work days than employees who do not use the fitness center. This claim can be substantiated by the following data: * Employees who used the Company Fitness Center missed on average 6 days of work in a year. * Employees who did not use the fitness center missed an average of 12 days of work per year. There are three category of medical costs effected by use of the Fitness Center: * Frequent users (10% of all employees,...
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...Persuasive Memo on Fitness Center at Rocky Mountain Mutual To: Mr. Zachary Evans, Vice President of Operations From: Joseph Mirola JM Date: November 13, 2011 Subject: Company Fitness Center makes a profit Thank you for allowing me to explain to you the benefits of having the company fitness center. Company reports indicate that the Fitness Center has led to an overall decrease in employee absenteeism, reduction in employee medical costs, and an increase in productivity. Employees who have taken advantage of the Fitness Center miss half the amount of work days than employees who do not use the fitness center. This claim can be substantiated by the following data: Ā Employees who used the Company Fitness Center missed on average 6 days of work in a year. Ā Employees who did not use the fitness center missed an average of 12 days of work per year. There are three category of medical costs effected by use of the Fitness Center: 1. Frequent users (10% of all employees, 25 people):...
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...is that of responsibility. The author’s message in the play is that society is interdependent and that we are each responsible for the welfare of all its members. He develops this theme through the experiences of the family of a wealthy, influential and ambitious industrialist, Arthur Birling. To understand the significance of the key scene and its relationship to the theme we must first set the scene in context. The stage directions at the beginning of the play describe the Birlings as ‘pleased with themselves’. At first sight they have good reason to be: Arthur Birling is expecting to be knighted in the next honours list and his daughter, Sheila, is engaged to be married to the son of another wealthy and titled industrialist. This appeals not only to Mr Birling’s social class aspirations, but also to his capitalist values of ‘lower costs and higher profits’ through a potential merger. The key scene occurs as Mr Birling is lecturing his son, Eric, and future son-in- law, Gerald on the nature of society: . . .a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own. His point of view is self- centred and entirely the opposite of the responsibility Priestley wishes his audience to adopt. As Mr Birling utters these words the Inspector of the title calls to show the Birlings that this attitude is both wrong and immoral. The mysterious Inspector investigates the consciences of each of the Birlings and Gerald to show them how their thoughtless actions...
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...[pic] Management consulting To the brainy, the spoils As the world grows more confusing, demand for clever consultants is booming May 11th 2013 | NEW YORK |From the print edition [pic] ELITE management consultancies shun the spotlight. They hardly advertise: everyone who might hire them already knows their names. The Manhattan office that houses McKinsey & Company does not trumpet the fact in its lobby. At Bain & Company’s recent partner meeting at a Maryland hotel, signs and name-tags carried a discreet logo, but no mention of Bain. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which announced growing revenues in a quiet press release in April, counts as the braggart of the bunch. [pic] Consultants have a lot to smile about (see table). The leading three strategy consultancies have seen years of double-digit growth despite global economic gloom. In 2011, the last year for which Kennedy Information, a consulting-research group, has comparable revenue numbers, Bain grew by 17.3%, BCG by 14.5% and McKinsey by 12.4%. All three are opening new offices. Big trends that befuddle clients mean big money for clever consultants. Barack Obama’s gazillion-page health reform has boosted health-care consulting; firms would rather pay up than read the blasted thing. The Dodd-Frank financial reform has done the same for financial-sector work. Energy and technology are hot, too. Companies are reluctant to talk about their use of consultants, and consultancies are relentlessly tight-lipped...
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...The Identity Struggle Women’s roles are constantly changing. In early America, society believed that women were wives to their husbands and mothers to their children. They were there to serve the men in their lives. Young girls were required to obey the commands of their fathers, and women were to fulfill the wishes of their husbands. The men believed that this was their right. They believed that women’s job was to bolster the men’s self-esteem and to ensure that men were forever kings of their own domains. However, this belief changed drastically in the mid-nineteenth century, and by early twentieth century, women began to make statements of their own. They wanted women’s rights in marriage, voting and employment. Women became outspoken people with their own views and wishes. This change was neither simple nor easy. It took time for women’s power to emerge. Many women were successful in establishing their own identities. Freeman portrays both single and married women as strong willed characters. The women “actively determine and maintain places of their own choosing and enclosing [enclose] themselves in situations and choices that reflect personalities and purpose conducive to the affirmation” (Daniel 2). They act only to maintain their true selves. These women do not care what society will think of them or how men will react. They strongly believe that what they are doing will better themselves as people and as women. “A New England Nun” is an accurate portrayal of...
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...as a critic of gender and social codes of her time. According to Susie Steinbach “she was a harsh observer of the legal, economic, and cultural limitations placed on the women of the upper-middle classes who were her main characters” (Steinbach 131). In Pride and Prejudice Austen relates the prevailing attitudes toward women of the day, for example, by presenting how Bennets’ girls are not entitled to inherit Mr. Bennet's estate because of their gender. This entitlement belongs only to a male, which in this case is their cousin, Mr. Collins. Therefore, if they do not get married to someone affluent, who would ‘take care’ of them, they would stay dependant on the charity of a male relative. As Bennets’ girls have no secure future ahead of them, they are constantly encouraged by their mother to marry well off. Dorothy Van Ghent argues that this normative thinking of the society creates some kind of hunt for wealthy men. “The desperation of the hunt is the desperation of economic survival: girls in a family like that of the Bennets must succeed in running down solvent young men in order to...
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...The Wednesday Wars is a humorous but affecting story of the psychological and ethical growth of a boy named Holling Hoodhood. Holling, a caring but naively self-centered seventh-grader, is convinced that his new instructor, Mrs. Baker, hates him. On Wednesdays, when the other children in the class leave to attend their religious education, Holling is left alone with Mrs. Baker. These days result in the “Wednesday wars,” in which Holling does an assortment of odd jobs but then graduates to reading a variety of Shakespeare plays. Throughout the course of the year, he and Mrs. Baker grow closer, with Mrs. Baker taking on the role of his dependable adviser. Holling’s world is becoming increasingly consumed in the Vietnam War, which causes many...
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...Eliza Doolittle Eliza Doolittle is from the play “Pygmalion” who’s written by George Bernard Shaw. She is the main character in this play, and is known as a sassy, smart-mouthed flower girl with deplorable English. She is known for being an east-end girl who is very poor and is uneducated because she didn’t attend school. Although she is uneducated, this does not mean she is not smart, quick and clever. She uses her tactical thinking to pretend to whine and moan to make people believe or help her in different ways. She is very ambitious seeing as she will suffer lessons with the rude Mr. Higgins to become a flower shop girl. Eliza is shown to be an attractive person. She is around eighteen to twenty, hardly older. She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that is dirty from dust. Her hair needs washing badly. It has a mousy color and can hardly be natural. She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her knees and is shaped to her waist. One of the styles she wore described was a brown skirt with a coarse apron. Her boots are much the worse for wear. She’s cleaner than what she can afford to be, but compared to the ladies she is very dirty. “Her features are no worse than theirs; but their condition leaves something to be desired; and she needs the services of a dentist,” as it’s described in Act 1. She is described as a lady with a cockney accent and awful dress sense. Eliza Doolittle is very poor and did not attend school. Although she is uneducated...
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...Summary of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Chapter I-IV Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave brings to light many of the injustices that African Americans faced in the 1800s under slavery. Through vivid images of brutality, Douglass presents the story of his life in a way that implicitly critiques the institution of slavery. In the first few chapters of his narrative, Douglass chronicles the barbarity that he witnesses and experiences himself during his childhood at Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, including the separation of families, the whipping of slaves and crimes against slaves. Douglass introduces his family circumstances in the first part of his Narrative. Because he lacks accurate knowledge of his birthday and age, Douglass notes the place of his birth—“Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland”—indicating the importance of his birthplace, the only piece of information he possesses about his own identity. He regards his “want of information” about his background as “a source of unhappiness” during his childhood. Moreover, according to Douglass, slaveholders always separate slave children from their mother before the children reach twelve months. Douglass decries the fact that this separation inevitably extinguishes the natural affection of the mother for the child as well as the child’s affection toward his mother. His own reaction after he heard about...
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...• Summary of the Case: Tommy Miah the name itself explains the person very nicely. Today Tommy Miah has become a brand name, whenever we hear the name first thing we recognize is food. This became possible only for the true entrepreneurial effort given by Mr. Tommy Miah, as we know that he believes in a slogan “Hard work, more hard work and marketing”. This great man is a gift to Bangladesh form a historical place of Bangladesh, The place is Maulvibazar which is positioned in Sylhet, 1959 was the year when this living legend was born. So the root of Mr. Tommy Miah is Bangladesh, he got the opportunity to migrate himself to another historical place of the world popularly known as Britain. The foundation base of cooking mania was actually a gift from his mother, when Mr. Tommy was young considerably a kid, he got the opportunity to get informal training from his mother so that was the starting of the journey now he is a celebrity chef of Britain. At the age of sixteen he got married to Rina Miah, only courageous people can take such decision. Getting married only at the age of sixteen is not a matter of joke. Now he has three children’s even grandchildren’s. Tommy got a job in one of Birmingham's many Indian restaurants as a kitchen porter, washing pots and pans. Back in his kitchen he kept on practicing and perfecting the dishes he learned from observing his master chefs at the workplace. Tommy Miah first started a conventional and restaurant in Birmingham's Broad Street...
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...How does Susan Hill present the change in Arthur Kipps and what is the significance of this change? The novel The Woman in Black written by Susan Hill is narrated by Arthur Kipps, the main protagonist, who throughout the story changes profoundly through his experiences of the woman in black. Structurally, starting with the older Kipps who looks back on his past and is able to comment on the events with the added benefit of hindsight, during which Susan Hill cleverly adds suspense by withholding information. At the start of the novel in chapter 1 (Christmas Eve), the older Kipps is narrating and is a thoughtful and peaceful man who is content with his family. But reveals he has ‘escaped a long shadow’ cast over him by events of the past including his experiences of the woman in black re-awakening which gives an ominous atmosphere. When the children are telling their ghost stories, Kipps starts off ‘amused and indulgent’ but as he ‘sat on, he felt apart from them all, like an outsider to their circle’ and the ghost stories bring back ‘ a rising flood of memory’. “You must know at least one ghost story, stepfather, everyone knows one…” (PG 16) “I am sorry to disappoint you,”… “But I have no story to tell” (PG 17) This shows that through the first chapter Susan Hill has presented Arthur changing from a thoughtful and peaceful man to an odd/strange...
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...Introduction We at Company G know that we are a well-established firm being highly regarded in the electronics market. We know our previous products are tremendously dependable and convenient and we have succeeded once more in creating a next generation device. Our new product line of brightly colored compact coffee and cappuccino machines contain significant ease in use while maintaining credibility and dependability. Our new product will allow our target consumers to have a more enjoyable experience whether they drink coffee in the morning as they get ready for the day or as they relax and decompress in the evening. The subsequent marketing plan for our new product will ensure that Company G will reach full profit potential and create a larger consumer loyalty base. Mission Statement “We enable consumers to improve the quality and convenience of their lives by providing high-quality, innovative electronic solutions.” Product Description and Classification Our new product line of brightly colored compact coffee and cappuccino machines contain significant ease in use while maintaining credibility and dependability. This coffee and cappuccino machine includes extras, such as convenient digital settings for a nightlight, clock and timer, a refrigerated milk and creamer dispenser that can be set up to four personal tastes, as well as the capability of brewing coffee and cappuccino simultaneously. Our coffee/cappuccino machines come in five colors, brushed bronze, pewter...
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...Dexter Davis Professor Heppding History 221- D16 14 November 2011 Determined Statesman, Self Promoter and Innovator 1. Bio of Benjamin of Franklin 2. A young child as an avid reader 3. A journeyman printer and continual pursue as a writer 4. Benjamin the journalist 5. Benjamin achieved success as a clerk of the General Assembly and became the Poster- Master General in Philadelphia 6. Benjamin the Statesman, Self promoter and Innovator 7. Conclusion Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States. He was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. Benjamin was the youngest son of seventeen siblings. He did not complete his formal education; however, he was a person who was extraordinarily ambitious, free thinker, self-promoter and a determined innovator, who changed many minds and cultures through his journalisms, inventions, political influence, scientific researches, statesman and diplomat. Benjamin, as a young child, read many books that he could get his hands on, such as the first collection, “Paul Bunyan’s” literary work that he treasured, and later sold, to purchase Burton’s Historical Collections. His father, Josiah Franklin had his own library. However, majority of his father's book were religious materials, moreover, Benjamin did not enjoy reading them; that became a turning point for not becoming a clergyman. He continues to pursue other interest books, such as “De Foe’s”, an Essay on Projects and “Dr. Mather’s”...
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...Lockdown By Walter Dean Myers Year of Publication: 2010 Setting: Juvenile Facility Overview: This book is mainly about a young man named Reese that really wants to change his life around. Reese is being moved from a juvenile jail to a real jail. He has many different problems going on while he is in the juvenile center. Reese gets involved in a fight with his friend Toon and gets put in a bad situation. Reese is given a second chance and promises to turn his life around. At the beginning of the book, Reese, a 14 year old boy has already spent twenty-two months in Progress, a juvenile facility for troubled youths. Reese really wants to get out, and some of the authorities have noticed his potential. Reese spends his first day in a pilot work-release program. His job is to do whatever is asked of him at Evergreen nursing home. When Reese gets to Progress after his day of work, he finds out from his friend Play that one of Progress’s bullies, Diego is planning on jumping his friend Toon. Usually, Diego’s makes threats but doesn't follow through, but this time they are worried because a serious gang member named Cobo has been sent to Progress before he goes to an adult facility. Reese does not want to just stand and watch while Toon is beaten up, but he knows that if he wants to get out of there, that he cannot get into a fight. The next morning, when the guards walk through and calls roll, Toon’s doesn't answer, and he shows up at breakfast with bruises and cuts...
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...Dear Mrs Hopkins, I have read your article and I am sorry but I strongly disagree with what you are stating. I think it is appalling that you think like that, it’s a very unfair way to judge children as they didn’t choose their name, their parents did. Preventing your children from enjoying their childhood because of another child’s name is shameful. Children have the right to interact with other children regardless of their background and it is through interaction with a diverse range of abilities yours will develop into well rounded individuals. I think it’s rather hypocritical of you to say you don’t like ‘geographical names’ considering you have called your daughter India? On a similar note, you said you don’t like seasonal names yet you have called your child Poppy whilst poppy is a flower rather than a season, it is a name taken for a similar desire to suggest something about your child’s nature. You have contradicted yourself without even knowing it which proves you are a hypocrite. Do you really think a child should suffer your judgement because of their name chosen by their parents? Surely you should be judging the parent not the child. As a matter of fact you shouldn’t be judging anybody! You think that children should only be friends with those who will ensure they’re an academic inspiration. ‘Children who chose less successful friends ended up not doing as well.’ This is a shallow approach, you only appear to want your children to associate with snobs...
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