...Getting Tough for the World of Business Undoubtedly, the world of business is highly competitive, and with countless of careers within the field, it may be difficult for some individuals to stand out. Though one is certainly capable of advancing with a normal curriculum or program, the advantage one would receive through an opportunity like the UIC Business Scholars program would make transitioning into the vast business path a lot smoother. Knowing how rigorous business, especially international business, can be, I would love to have the opportunity to learn the ways around the field. The ability to receive close guidance from professionals and knowledgeable faculty is a great aid in familiarizing one’s self with the many obstacles waiting in the real world. In view of the support an undergraduate would obtain by being a part of this development program, one could say the student is likely to progress faster than others taking the same career path, but that are not in the program. Believing the UIC Business Scholars program would be the best way for me to start my journey to prevail in business, I...
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...Johnny writes about a sunset and then tells Dally to watch one “Tell Dally to look at one he’ll probably think you're crazy, but ask for me” (pg 178) Johnny wants Dally to realize that there is still some good in the world because Dally does not care...
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...STYLUS TOUGH-8010 / μ TOUGH-8010 STYLUS TOUGH-6020 /μ TOUGH-6020 STYLUS TOUGH-3000 /μ TOUGH-3000 Instruction Manual DIGITAL CAMERA ● Thank you for purchasing an Olympus digital camera. Before you start to use your new camera, please read these instructions carefully to enjoy optimum performance and a longer service life. Keep this manual in a safe place for future reference. ● The application software and instruction manual PDF file are stored on the internal memory of the camera. ● We recommend that you take test shots to get accustomed to your camera before taking important photographs. ● In the interest of continually improving products, Olympus reserves the right to update or modify information contained in this manual. ● The screen and camera illustrations shown in this manual were produced during the development stages and may differ from the actual product. Unless otherwise specified, the explanation about these illustrations is provided for STYLUS TOUGH-8010/μ TOUGH-8010. Step Checking the contents of the box 1 or LI-50B*1 Strap *1 LI-42B*2 *2 Lithium Ion Battery STYLUS TOUGH-8010/μ TOUGH-8010 and STYLUS TOUGH-6020/μ TOUGH-6020 STYLUS TOUGH-3000/μ TOUGH-3000 or Digital camera USB cable (CB-USB6) Other accessories not shown: Warranty card Contents may vary depending on purchase location. AV cable (CB-AVC3) USB-AC adapter (F-2AC) Step Preparing the Camera “Preparing the Camera” (p. 11) 2 4 Step Shooting and Playing...
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...2015 Kaleishka Echevarria Dr. Andrew (Business 302) 3/5/2015 2015 Kaleishka Echevarria Dr. Andrew (Business 302) 3/5/2015 21st Century Leadership 21st Century Leadership Bill Gates Microsoft Software Bill Gates one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. He is the co-founder of the world’s largest software business, Microsoft. Bill Gates leadership styles were known to be very demanding and a slightly abrasive boss who encourages creativity and innovation and recognizes individual and team achievements. Bill Gates leadership styles are best known as authoritarian (also known as autocratic). The styles of authoritarian (also known as autocratic) are characterized by individual who control over all decisions and want little input from group members. Autocratic leaders typically make choices based on their own ideas and judgments and rarely accept advice from followers. Also group member are rarely trusted with decisions or important tasks. Authoritarian leaders like to keep control. Bill Gates required so much control that he even signed off the expenses of Steve Ballmer who was second in command! Microsoft’s organization structure has been a working process for them. They have been trying to slowly experience changes in power, culture, and innovation processes, some are self-induced while others are market induced. Microsoft have been adapting to changes of its management, culture, and product line. Microsoft’s company is in the works of a big culture...
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...The world can be a tough place, and it is hard being courageous when you're in a tough situation. In the story “Fly Away Home” by Eve bunting, Andrew is a young homeless boy has a tough life in front of him, but he learns how to be courageous even in his tough life. For one Andrew is responsible. Also Andrew does things he doesn't like. Lastly Andrew doesn’t have much money but it is ok and he doesn’t complain about it. Being courageous in a tough situation isn’t easy but Andrew somehow manages to be courageous in his tough time. The first reason is that Andrew is responsible. To begin with Andrew finds work in the airport. For example Andrew returns luggage carts and offers to carry bags. To add on the list Andrew doesn’t argue with his...
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...Cultural Values Cultural Values When I was a kid growing up in a small town with 10000 population in Brazil. I was a the second to last child to be born in my family and we were very poor. My father, a Italian Immigrant came to Brazil in the 1950’s to escape the second world war II and to start a new life. Our family were very poor and even tough we didn’t have all the material stuff my mother, a Portuguese decedent were very religious. They brough religion in our every day life and every Sunday we went to church, follow religious holidays and most important of all. My father one rules was that everyone must sit in the dinner table every night and pray the blessing we receive that that, even tough we didn’t have much. I didn’t understand sometimes why we would that every day instead of playing with the others kids. In the beginning I tough it was a tortuture sitting in that table for dinner and having the same thing almost every night instead of playing outside with my friend I had to follow my father’s order because I knew the consequences and it wasn’t very good. The years part and little by little my brother and sisters were getting married and our daily reunion at the dinner table started to fade way and I started missing it. Our daily dinner reunion started to become Sunday reunion when we meet after church on Sunday for Lunch. This tradition lasted for a couple of years until I decided to go after my own luck and moved to the United States in 1996 to look for...
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...were unqualified for their positions and the academics were pitiful. The curriculum was taught just to get by. As a result of that, I come to college grossly unprepared for the academic challenges put before me. But I do know one thing, I am not to blame. Writers, such as Randal C. Archibold, Benjamin R. Barber, Ted Gest, Michael Moore, and the authors of “Tough Choices or Tough Times” and Michael Winerip expound on how the education system is not preparing students for the “real world” . The authors propose that some of the major problems in American education are substandard curriculum and insufficient school funds. The majority of the authors concur that the major underlying problems of school curriculums would include the standardization of education, the education level itself, and the fact that we have uneducated teachers. Several of the authors maintain that education should be on a continuous upward motion, constantly learning new information and broadening the mind. However, many schools have implemented standardized state tests that control the way curriculum is taught and stifle further growth. The writers of “Tough” put it “Many states have tests that students must pass to graduate from high school. But few require more than an 8th-grade-level of literacy in international terms” (51). As Winerip, columnist of the New York Times quotes Priscilla Rorie, a teacher at Agassiz Public School, in “Going for Depth Instead of Prep”, ''Everything at the Agassiz is teaching...
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...humanity showed in the movie is also intriguing. In the future not far away, the nuclear war caused by the lack of water resources break the world apart and the lands are lead by several tyrannical rulers. Max is one of the last free men in the world and helps a woman rebel against a tyrannical ruler to find her homeland group of female prisoners (breeders), a psychotic worshiper. The most interesting thing of the story is the change of the psychotic worshiper (presented by Nicholas Hoult), who strongly believes in the faith of “I live, I die, I live again.” With such a crazy belief, he tries hard to make his life glorious and he is even willing to die for that believe. However, after get to know about the breeders and the women, he understands how wrong he is and tries to help them....
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...neighborhood in the United States, where hard work is in their blood but little progression is made for the betterment of them or their family. The people of the blasket islands were tough, they were employed from the oceans resources but also torn apart by its vast storms. Keeping them from sinking in the treturous sea was their religious devotion that was always by their side. The Blasket people were tough, hardworking, and religious due to their surrounding environment, however that same environment that provided for the people, also tore them apart. Hope is the inspiration for hard work. For most, you work hard in pursuit of a greater goal, however in the case of the Blasket people their hard work is put in to simply maintain their current status. Being isolated on an island meant they had to produce and provide almost everything with no help from the outside world. There was no police or governing body, every single item was built by hand, by the people. As a result, every single person who lived on the island had no option but to devote painstaking hours in order to live. This is seen with Tomas and his endless dedication towards hard work and manual labor, “Five new houses were built in the Island. I and the ganger put up every inch of them” (234). As if being on the Blasket Islands were not tough enough, Tomas worked for himself where he received two shillings a day. However, the struggle did not end there, often when he had to repair houses the people he worked with either...
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...Enrico (“Rico”) Bandello who epitomized the rise and fall of the gangster. Edward G. Robinson was the first Gangster star in this genre. These career criminals live double lives as respectable business men, who defy the law, and are tough who also operate under a cloak of fear portrayed as respect. The popularity and appeal of these films during the 30’s was divided among the public. Some would see these films as a sort of participation in the rebellion against a failed government and others would see them as revenge against the bad guys. Hollywood would put the gangster in a mostly retributive frame with the negativity of the gangster myth ratifying the belief in the public enemy system. This would be seen as the result of the collapse of law enforcement in a society or loss of morality, and ultimately social disorder. William Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931) starred James Cagney as the fast talking and cocky Tom Powers and his most famous line, “I’m on top of the world Ma!” This is an example of a well dressed man with street smarts who is a criminal bootlegger and womanizer. One of the films most controversial and pivotal scenes is when Tom Powers assaults his floozy girlfriend with a grapefruit by slamming it into her face at the breakfast table. Howard Hawkins “Scarface: The Shame of a Nation” (1932) starred Paul Muni as a Immature, power hungry, monstrous and beastly hood in prohibition era Chicago, whose character was loosely based on Al Capone. This is the first movie...
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...Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) project or possess that make her seem so tough? How or where does her femininity figure in her toughness? According to Sherrie A. Inness in “Lady Killers, Tough Enough?” what are two ways that Hollywood cinema undermines and punishes tough or powerful women? How is this twice demonstrated in Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur,1998)? And how does Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) re-assess her gender to secure lasting power? Finally, in what way can she be considered according to Inness’s formulation, “pseudo-tough?” It is interesting to note that women in Hollywood are not considered tough even when they play characters that can break and haunt a male protagonist in the film. Sherrie A. Inness in her chapter, “Women warriors and wonder women in popular culture,” mentions that, all women in Hollywood are not as tough as they seem. They repeatedly show the tough and masculine killer nature is nothing but all women or feminine underneath. They are made and designed to be desirable by men, even if they are found in the middle of an intense battle, they show no signs of breaking a sweat, with their beautiful hair flowing in high speed shots and are lithe stylistically to make them look like an Amazon warrior with a ton of sexuality. I found this analogy true and very interesting as we were shown the clip from the Ridley Scot film, Alien. Here we see Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, as tough commanding officer of the ship, Nostromo, who is a women (a very distinctive...
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...Executive Summary Costco is one of the most profitable retail stores in the United States at the moment. This is in spite of the prevailing tough global economic times and stiff competition from stores such as Wal-Mart and Target. Costco, a members’ wholesale retail store, was founded in 1983 in Washington by Jeffrey Brotman, who serves as the current Chairman of the board of directors and James Sinegal, the current company president. Costco has not been spared by the current global economic conditions. They have affected it in a number of ways that have made the company’s management respond in a manner that is meant to ensure that the business not only survives but grows even stronger. First, Costco has taken strong measures to keep enough employee numbers. Customers are better served by employees who are in good health. Employees are not going to be in good health if they work long hours and cannot visit a doctor when sick. Costco employees work normal hours since there are enough employees to serve the company’s customers. While other stores such as Wal-Mart have seen it fit to downsize their workforces, Costco has moved to ensure that employees are of the right numbers all over its stores within and without the United States. Secondly, the current tough global economic conditions have driven Costco into extending good salaries to its employees. The good compensation has ensured that employees are well motivated and ready to serve customers in a better manner. As counter...
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...show demonstrates how women and men are different and how they are treated differently. The show “How I Met Your Mother” shows many examples of inequality and reinforces the beliefs that are in place at the moment. Some examples that I saw were how the men would talk about their sexual conquests that they have had. This reinforced the idea that men in the world should think that women are only objects and that men should have as many sexual conquests as possible and to brag to other males . “How i met your mother” also shows examples of women and work. In the television series, it shows a woman working as a kindergarten teacher while the husband...
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...military that was the path I wanted to take. This decision was a hard one to make, since I knew I would be away from my family for long periods of time. I knew I would join the military a couple of months before my graduation. I had not told my parents my decision, because I wanted to be sure that was what I wanted to really do. Not only was it a tough decision deciding to join the military, but it was even more tough picking what branch I wanted to enlist in. My older brother and sister were in the Army and my dad was in the Navy. The Airforce was not challenging enough, so that’s why I chose to go into the Marine Corps. About three months before my graduation I ran into a recruiter for the Marine Corps at my school. I told him I wanted a challenge and I wanted to discipline myself, the recruiter told me the Marine Corps was perfect for me. So that’s when I made up my mind, that this was what I was going to do for sure. I signed the papers to enlist and swore into the military about a month after I graduated. Not only was this decision tough on me, but it was tough on my mother as well. She was not ready to let me go into a world that was new to me. It was hard seeing my mother cry when I left...
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...and a blindness of humanity in comparison to the perceived badness of humanity. In order to eliminate the prominence of hate and evil, King argues that Christians must maintain a tough mind and a tender heart while understanding the idea that God is able. King develops this idea through the discussed social and global issues of segregation, slavery through colonialism and the prevalence of communism. Perhaps the most obvious social issue that Martin Luther King Jr. ever addressed was segregation, particularly the segregation of the black man in a white America. King demonstrates that the role of the persecuted man, woman, and child is not to retaliate in kind. A tough mind allows the persecuted individual to deal with the persecution, yet the tender heart promotes reconciliation between individuals and groups through love. As his wife eloquently articulates in the foreword, “Someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives” (King 9). This idea...
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