...Joseph Garrity Intro to Business Professor Patricia Devlin 13 September 2013 Chapter 1 7. Explain how current economic indicators, such as inflation and unemployment, affect you personally. Explain how they may affect you as a manager. The current economic indicators may affect me personally because if the unemployment rate is too high I will struggle to find a job, and if inflation is too high then it would be very hard for me to pay for my needs, such as food and rent. The current economic indicators may affect me as a manager because inflation would cost me a lot of money and as a result I would have to stop hiring workers. The unemployment rate would rise because of inflation, and as a result it would be hard to find workers. 9. Visit a local shopping mall or shopping area. List each store that you see and determine what degree of competition it faces in its immediate environment. For example, if there is only one store in the mall that sells shoes, that store represents a monopoly. Note those businesses with direct competitors (two jewelry stores) and show how they compete with one another. In the Willowbrook Mall, Abercrombie & Fitch is a store that sells primarily clothes or accessories to the consumers. However, the competitors are Hollister Co., J. Crew, and Banana Republic because they also sell similar items, but have their own brand of clothing as well. They have different prices or the same prices depending on the clothes they are selling. Follow-up...
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...Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. My name is Han Yu and I’m the representative from my country, Australia. Today I would like to let you know how beautiful and amazing my country is. First of all, we will go to see penguins, koalas and kangaroos on a day trip to Phillip Island, Melbourne's wildlife wonderland and holiday island. We will visit a wildlife park to get up close with koalas and kangaroos, and watch sea birds and fur seals in the rocky formation known as the Nobbies. At sunset, take your place at Summerland Beach to enjoy the nightly Penguin Parade, as cute little penguins waddle up the beach to their burrows after a day spent fishing at sea. To enhance your Penguin Parade experience, you can choose from a range of upgrade options, you can view the penguins from an exclusive viewing platform with Penguin Plus, interact with rangers and watch the parade from the exclusive Skybox, or choose the Ultimate Penguin Parade and enjoy a specially guided small-group tour at a secluded beach location. Next, we can also join a full-day Yarra Valley wine tour and visit four of the region's best known wineries, that is Yering Station, Balgownie Estate, Yering Farm and Domaine Chandon. Over lunch and a series of wine tastings, see why the Yarra Valley is one of Australia's most picturesque wine regions on your Yarra Valley wine tour, the perfect day trip from Melbourne. Other than that, we will also discover the scenic North Coast region of Port Stephens on a full-day coach...
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...William Brooks Dec 8 2015 First Draft: Learning Portfolio -Introduction In my opinion (which is what I’m assuming you’re asking) this course could be aptly described as theories on how to hire a working staff that will best serve your company. Yes, there were other sections in this course so far that covered other aspects of HR but I feel hiring to maximize productivity and motivation was the essential key. When it comes to my own personal experience I have never worked in or around an HR department (I have an extreme aversion to all jobs office related). However, I have been hired many times by HR and gone through and seen the vetting processes of different companies. In the security industry, which I have worked in for the last 6 years, vetting employees is extremely important. It really does make the difference of people living or dying. Blackwater at one time was the largest security company in America however due to bad vetting of employees they hired men who were mentally unstable and murdered a large number of civilians. This in the end created a stigma around the company and ultimately led to its ruin. -Problem based learning The PBL task given to me was based on a software design company that was expecting and planning on growing significantly within the next 2 years. My team consisted of myself, chiptandi, Monica, Isabelle, Alexa, Michelle, and Patrick. Together we kept the name of our group stupid simple and call ourselves HRM3. In about the second week of...
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...Testbank for Management of a Sales Force 12th Edition by Spiro ISBN 007352977X 9780073529776 Go to download Testbank for Management of a Sales Force 12th Edition by Spiro ISBN 007352977X 9780073529776 ISBN-10:007352977X ISBN-13:9780073529776 THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL BOOK. YOU ARE BUYING the Official Test Bank in e-version INSTANT DOWNLOAD - The test bank is what most professors use as a template when making exams for their students, which means there’s a very high chance that you will see the exact questions in the tests! - The file is either in .doc, .pdf, excel, or zipped in the package and can easily be read on PCs and Macs. - Delivery is INSTANT. You can download the files IMMEDIATELY once payment is done. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Our response is the fastest. All questions will always be answered in 6 hours, most of the time within 30mins. We also faced similar difficulties when we were students, and we understand how you feel. But now, with the Official Test Bank, you will be able to * Anticipate the type of the questions that will appear in your exam. * Know the correct answers to those questions. * Reduce the hassle and stress of your student life. * Improve your studying and get a better grade! * Get prepared for examination questions. * Save you time and help you understand the material. This is the authentic testbank that is designed for your specific textbook. Delivery is made immediately via digital download so there is no waiting...
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...from Man Belonging... (Gyldendal,1977) Morris Lurie.' Home Is Magazine,1974)' (fronrStories from the Transatlaittic I{orris Lurie. Rorn in 1938 in Melbourne,Australia, but now living in London. His literary activity consists of novels, ,,Rappaport" and ,,Tlze London Jungle Adventures of Charlie Hope", short stories,,,Happy Times", and a children's book, 27llt,Armual Af rican HippopotamusRace". ,,Th.e Morris Lurie HomeIs ( 116t ) He lived in New York and in London and on the isle of Rhodes, and in Paris there was always a room for him at Peter Stein's place with a view of grey slate roofs and the Seine, and in Prague Bob Turner who taught English chose at the University liked to have him but he sometimes a hotel (Bob's children were nice, but he didn't like having to tiptoe around when they were asleep),and in Beirut and in Istanbul and in West Berlin and in Rome he always stayed in hotels,though he had friends, good friends, in all these places, and he had friends in Athens too but he preferred the Grand Bretagne, and now, as the plane he was in touched down on Rhodes,he closedthe book he was reading (poems; For the Union Dead) and sat baik and waited for the plane to stop. He closedhis eyes.And Home Is 59 when he felt no movementhe openedthem and unlocked his seat belt and reached up for his hat and then made his lvay along the aisle and down the stepsand srniled at the hostess and then looked up and for a secondhe was completely lost...
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...Michelle Ji Mr. Hancock English 4 1 February 1, 2016 Death and Life #7 #7 “There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck” (Stoker 58). If I were a prop master directing the film version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I would make sure to include four specific props in my film that I believe to be essential to the story: a coffin, dirt from the earth, a crucifix, and blood. In the story Dracula, Stoker utilizes creepy objects associated with funerals and the dead to prove that though these items traditionally symbolize death upon first glance, from another aspect, that of a supernatural being, these items provide life. Stoker also overlaps and relates behavior and beliefs of vampires, to stories and beliefs of Christianity found throughout the Bible, in a twisted way. Though these two objects normally apply to living and being born again, Stoker reveals and illustrates how these holy and cleansing props can elicit death and darkness as well. These four props, two associated with death and two with life, enhance the story as they prove their complexity to individually represent both life and death. #7 #7 #2 #2 Throughout the novel, Count Dracula exhibits multiple...
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...name from their conviction that after the Italian painter Raphael (1483-1520), European art and poetry took a wrong turn toward representational realism and away from symbolism and simplicity. The poetry and art of the English Pre-Raphaelites, consequently, celebrated sensuality, minute detail, formal simplicity, and a symbolic system emulating medieval iconography. It is true, as Rossetti’s most recent critics have maintained, that she cannot be considered merely a passive learner of Pre-Raphaelitism—indeed, she must have influenced it as much as it influenced her. She was there at its beginning, and Goblin Market, and Other Poems was the first poetic voice of the movement, shining in popular and critical praise while the poetry of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti lingered unnoticed. Her connection with the movement may be overemphasized, but it cannot be ignored. The Oxford Movement, on the other...
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...During the Victorian era, there was a rise in tension between the Protestant church and the Catholic church. The majority of people in England practiced Protestant religion, but Dracula is about a blood-thirsty vampire that meets his demise with the use of the Catholic religion. Mina, Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing, John Seward, Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris use a variety of symbols from Catholicism that kills Dracula and protects them from being harmed. Dracula is a Satanic being that in the end meets his defeat by the power of God. In the novel Dracula, Bram Stoker uses various Catholic symbols in the fight against Dracula, the antichrist, to illustrate the good of the Catholic religion and the promise of its salvation. The crucifix is...
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...Running Head: DRACULA “I Never Drink Wine” C. S Intro to Film “I Never Drink Wine”, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Director, France Ford Coppola~ A Director according to Goodykoontz in Film: From Watching to Seeing, by definition is “the person with the ultimate responsibility for the overall film.” While this may not sound all that difficult given the fact that there are many, many crew members involved in the making of a film and all have there own unique, various job descriptions to fill, but in fact the director is the most crucial person involved with the production of a film. “The director interprets script into personal vision and decides overall "look" with the production designer and cinematographer; directs actors and the action while shooting.” It is clear that the Director is the driving creative force behind a film's production, and acts as the crucial link between the production, technical and all the creative teams. In order to creatively translate the film's written script into actual images and sounds on the screen the director must visualize and define the style and structure of the film, then act as both a storyteller and team leader to bring this vision to reality. Not only must the director bring the film to life he/she will play a variety of roles from the start to the release of the film including but not limited to; casting, script editing, shot composition, shot selection and editing, as well as be aware of budget constraints. Ultimately being...
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...Control of the study environment 1. Set aside a fixed place for study and nothing but study. Do you have a place for study you can call your own? As long as you are going to study, you may as well use the best possible environment. Of course, it should be reasonably quiet and relatively free of distractions like radio, TV, and people. But that is not absolutely necessary. Several surveys suggest that 80% of a student's study is done in his or her own room, not in a library or study hall. A place where you are use to studying and to doing nothing else is the best of all possible worlds. After a while, study becomes the appropriate behavior in that particular environment. Then, whenever you sit down in that particular niche in the world you'll feel like going right to work. Look at it this way; when you come into a classroom, you sit down and go to work by paying attention to the instructor. Your attitude and attention and behavior are automatic because in the past, the room has been associated with attentive listening and not much else. If you can arrange the same kind of situation for the place where; you study, you will find it easier to sit down and start studying. 2. Before you begin an assignment, write down on a sheet of paper the time you expect to finish. Keep a record of your goal setting. This one step will not take any time at all. However, it can be extremely effective. It may put just the slightest bit of pressure on you, enough so that your study behavior will...
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... was a prisoner of war (between the years 1863 through June 1865) and would later in history be considered one of the immortal 600. The immortal 600 were prisoners of war who were sent to Morris Island in Charleston Harbor which was an area that was in direct line of fire from the Confederate guns of fort Sumter. He eventually survived the war and went back home, where he married Lottie Putman and spent his days as an engineer and postmaster for Radford, Virginia. Richard H. Adams died in Radford, Virginia in October 1896. What remains of Richard H. Adams Jr. is 47 original letters dated from November 1863 to September 1866 all written by Richard H. Adams Jr. Including a manuscript dairy that he kept while serving the 5th Alabama Regiment in Virginia dated April 1862 - May 1862, transcriptions of two other diaries that were kept on which included a prison diary, a script of Wheelers raids which was written after war, a friendship book with fellow prisoners names, 2 pictures of Richard H. Adams Jr. and various clippings/documents. There were also 23 original letters addressed to Richard H. Adams Jr. from his wife Lottie Putnam written between, March 1864 to January 1865. The letter I picked from remains of Richard H. Adams is one that was written while he was a prisoner of war and on Morris Island....
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...Enille Clarisse T. Dela Cruz AB-ENGLISH 3 Mending a Broken Heart Admit that these are the five usual things we do after break-ups, listening to sentimental music, thinking of getting back together, looking at the pictures of your exes, excessive eating and changing lifestyle. Mending a broken heart is never easy but aren’t these masochistic? Don’t they just add up to the pain? Just like what other say “time will heal the pain” but isn’t the meantime turning out the mean time? Break-ups are really disillusionment and a good cry simply can’t allocate the pain and surely, morphine won’t help. And though it can make you numb, even liquors can’t drown your sorrows. But whether you did the break-up or you are the one who gets’ busted, there are ways to make your situation somewhat easier to bear so you can move on. One thing is to never fantasize about your getting back together, remember that assuming and expecting is the root of all heartaches. The first and hardest part of moving on is to dispose everything that reminds you of your ex: pictures, favourite music together, monthsary or anniversary gifts, couple shirts, letters, everything! And cutting all the lines of communication as well as blocking him/her on your facebook. Never mind if he/ she will feel you’re bitter because this is the fastest way of moving on. Next is to make yourself busy. Instead of locking yourself up in your room, spend time doing necessary things like working, sporting, exercise/jog and bonding with...
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...Mending a Broken Heart Admit that these are the five usual things we do after break-ups, listening to sentimental music, thinking of getting back together, looking at the pictures of your exes, excessive eating and changing lifestyle. Mending a broken heart is never easy but aren’t these masochistic? Don’t they just add up to the pain? Just like what other say “time will heal the pain” but isn’t the meantime turning out the mean time? Break-ups are really disillusionment and a good cry simply can’t allocate the pain and surely, morphine won’t help. And though it can make you numb, even liquors can’t drown your sorrows. But whether you did the break-up or you are the one who gets’ busted, there are ways to make your situation somewhat easier to bear so you can move on. One thing is to never fantasize about your getting back together, remember that assuming and expecting is the root of all heartaches. The first and hardest part of moving on is to dispose everything that reminds you of your ex: pictures, favourite music together, monthsary or anniversary gifts, couple shirts, letters, everything! And cutting all the lines of communication as well as blocking him/her on your facebook. Never mind if he/ she will feel you’re bitter because this is the fastest way of moving on. Next is to make yourself busy. Instead of locking yourself up in your room, spend time doing necessary things like working, sporting, exercise/jog and bonding with friends. Another good option is going into...
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...Running head: PASSAGE Passage of Time Alyssa Smith Grand Canyon University Passage of Time Life is never guaranteed. A person does not know when their end will come. People go through day to day life and rarely stop to look around them. It seems that the older a person gets the faster time appears to go by. This is not an uncommon theory. The play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder (1938) is a representation of people versus time. The theme is to appreciate the moments in life because time passes quickly. In three short acts, this play covers twelve years in the lives of the townspeople. There are many references that indicate passage of time as a theme. As the stage manger is introducing the town, he states “Naturally, out in the country – all around – there’ve been lights on for some time, what with milkin’s and so on. But towns people sleep late” (Wilder, 1938, pg. 7). The reference to people in town sleeping late compared to in the country is a way of saying that townspeople waste valuable time. Time sleeping is time that could be spent with family or friends enjoying moments that do not come along often. When the town does awaken they are being rushed. The kids are in a hurry to get ready, they eat breakfast quickly, and then they run off to school so as not to be late. Everything is rushed. Life proceeds in a way that indicates it is something that needs to be done. When Emily is talking about doing her homework, she stated “Well, I always feel it’s...
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...The Thin Blue line, directed by Errol Morris investigates the murder of Officer Robert Wood. Randall Adams was wrongfully accused of committing the crime and sentenced to life in prison. David Harris, who accused Adams of murdering Wood, was the real killer. Through the use of interviews, voice recordings, and reenactments, The Thin Blue Line challenges the justice system of Dallas, Texas as to whether they convicted the right man for the murder of Officer Robert Wood. Morris first heard about this case while he was working as a private detective during the 1980’s on Wall Street in New York City. He had heard through lawyers that he knew about a psychiatrist named Dr. Grigson who was known in Dallas as Dr. Death. The reason Dr. Grigson...
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