...The quality of written work is important. First, the caveat! I entreat those of you who are seasoned and excellent writers to not be offended by my comments below. You may rightly think that you don't need a mini-lecture on writing. Please bear with me. Read through the comments and use the ones you find to be relevant. As you might suppose, I have high expectations for the quality of writing produced by learners at the undergraduate level. I believe how well you state something is integral to the soundness of the content you are conveying; the two are intertwined. Imprecise or ungrammatical writing signals lack of conceptual crispness. "Good thinking" and "bad writing" usually do not coexist. In the workplace, excellent writing gets people's attention. Good writing signals leadership potential. Good writing is hard work. Each of you has had training in writing, and some of you know what the principles are. Putting them in practice is the challenge. If I had to boil down into a single thought or phrase what I think is most essential to effective writing, it would be this: attention to detail. Think precision. Precision is both a process and a product. Be sure your grasp of the English language is complete and correct. Here is an example of a common misuse of a word: "In today's discussion, we are going to hone in on the early weeks of the Civil War." The word "hone" means sharpen, as in sharpening a knife. It is the wrong word to use in the context above. A correct...
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...Navigation app is only available for users of android and Apple devices. The app is free to download and is able to connect on all RCL guest using Royal Caribbean Wi-Fi networks. The Royal Caribbean navigation app connects to the ship networks in the port terminal as well. The Wi-Fi network is complimentary only if Royal Caribbean guest use it to access the app while the mobile device is on “airplane mode”. The Royal Caribbean navigation app complies with mobile device settings, so therefore within the app it allows the guest to change the settings to airplane mode. The Royal Caribbean app brings excitement to all guests with the wonderful countdown feature. The app allows the user to enter their plan vacation date, and the app will store the information to countdown to the scheduled vacation. The Royal Caribbean navigation app countdown minutes, hours, and days. With a simple tap of your smart device, Royal Caribbean navigator app permits guest to information regarding characters, deck parties, dining, entertainment, live shows, nightclubs and lounges, ports of call, spa services, shopping, youth clubs. The best part of the Royal Caribbean navigator app is the guest locator. Royal Caribbean guest are able to locate other guest in their group, which also have the app devices. Royal Caribbean guest is able to view what is happening every minute of every day. The Royal Caribbean navigator app syncs with the devices calendar to alert the app user of saved activities. It also compiles a...
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...Axia College Material Characteristics of the Expository Essay What Is an Essay? An essay, or personal-opinion paper, is an important part of your college experience because it requires critical thinking as well as organization and research. Essay is a broad term. Sometimes an essay is just a page long; sometimes, essays are five pages or longer. Essays, however, focus on a single subject and idea. They also have different purposes: to persuade, explain, or entertain. Consider the following essay titles: • “Why You Should Never Vote for a Democrat” • “My Friend Harry Reasoner” • “Cells Phones: Getting the Most for the Least” • “Gay Marriage Does Not Hurt Traditional Marriage” • “How to Write an Essay” How would you categorize the essays above based on the titles? Is “Why You Should Never Vote for a Democrat” a persuasive essay or an entertaining one? Does “How to Write an Essay” explain or persuade? Even within a classification, writers use different types of development and have multiple purposes for their essays. Essay Classifications Writers classify essays in different ways. The following table includes common types of essays as well as examples: |Type of Essay |Definition |Example | | | | ...
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...Associate Program Material Characteristics of the Expository Essay What Is an Essay? An essay is an important part of your college experience because it requires critical thinking as well as organization and research. Essay is a broad term. Sometimes an essay is just a page long; sometimes, essays are five pages or longer. Essays, however, focus on a single subject and idea. They also have different purposes: to persuade, explain, or entertain. Consider the following essay titles: • “Why You Should Never Vote for a Democrat” • “My Friend Harry Reasoner” • “Cell Phones: Getting the Most for the Least” • “Gay Marriage Does Not Hurt Traditional Marriage” • “How to Write an Essay” How would you categorize the essays above based on the titles? Is “Why You Should Never Vote for a Democrat” a persuasive essay or an entertaining one? Does “How to Write an Essay” explain or persuade? Even within a classification, writers use different types of development and have multiple purposes for their essays. Essay Classifications Writers classify essays in different ways. The following table includes common types of essays as well as examples: Type of Essay Definition Example Expository Uses evidence, examples, or facts to explain a concept or to inform about a topic with a thesis as its base; the information must be presented fairly and in a nonbiased manner “How to Stop Smoking” Persuasive or Argumentative Uses evidence, examples, or facts to persuade your...
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...Diversity in the Workforce Raul Rios Jr. Columbia College Thesis Statement What are the different aspects of diversity within the US workforce and how might it be effectively managed? What positive and negative factors are derived from diversity training? This research paper aims at answering this particular question. In order to do this, the paper will look at the challenges of diversity in the workplace from many different angles. Abstract This paper first explains what diversity really is and the impact it has on today’s workforce. It also explores why diversity needs to be managed in workplaces in the United States. It then discusses the positive and negative impacts of managing diversity (mainly diversity training). This paper identifies some of the major challenges associated with managing diversity. This research paper concluded with some recommendations on how to manage diversity within a workplace. Diversity in the Workforce Changes in the US Workforce Make Diversity an Organizational and Managerial Issue The United States has historically been a land of the immigrants; it continues to be the same today. People from al around the world come to settle in the US. United States has people from ever ethnic backgrounds, whether those people are in the majority or minority. The diversity of America does not only encompass different races of people, but many other aspects which differentiate people from each other. Diversity can refer to people who practice...
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...Every year, around 300,000 students from over 100 countries across the world are found heading to Australia for their studies. Australia is also home to five out of the 25 most livable cities across the world. Insofar as Nepalis students are concerned, the country had stood third after the United Kingdom and the United States in the list of most sought-after academic destinations just a few years ago. Now, however, it has climbed to the top spot. The fact that Australia boasts world-class academic institutions, part-time and post-study work facilities and a relatively safe environment insofar as the students’ investment is concerned are what have made it the most preferred place for higher study at present. Records from Nepal’s Department of Scholarship at the Ministry of Education show that of the around 15,000 No Objection Certification Letters have been issued for 64 countries in the last eight months of the current fiscal year, 8,959 have been for Australia alone. The number of Nepali students opting for an Australia n education had soared in the year 2007-2009, but dropped significantly thereafter when the Australia n government issued stricter visa regulations for students. The adoption of the streamlined visa policy (SVP) two years ago, however, has raised figures once more. It was in order to ensure that only genuine students are given opportunities to pursue higher education that the Australia n government had introduced the new visa policy for international students...
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...typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | I’ve lived in Connecticut my whole life and until now I was unaware of its geological history. Admiring the landscape of the state has always been one of my great pleasures. When I traveled around the country I would compare the natural wonders of each state to my own. Besides the rocky mountains in Colorado and the white mountains of New Hampshire few places match Connecticut’s regal terrain. Growing up in Bristol I would hike up to Pinnacle Mountain in Plainville, my friends and I would stand in awe of the magnificent rock structures. In the summer I would go on vacation to Old Lyme, it was there I fell in love with the earth’s most beautiful contrasts, the ocean meeting the rock and vice a versa. But until now I never educated myself on how all this magnificence came about. In this paper I will chronologically describe the eras and events that formed Connecticut’s geologic history. The oldest rocks provide a window through time telling a story of continental collisions so powerful that they raised mountains thousands of feet high. Others reveal evidence of a slow but constant attack from the elements that wore down those same majestic peaks (Mchone 2004). Giant monoliths stand testament to a time when the earths crust was cracked and lava flowed over the state. Beaches and enormous boulders are the remains of when Connecticut was frozen beneath a sheet of ice (Mchone2004). The Archeozoic...
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...RES/341 January 29, 2012 Learning Team C selected Century National Bank data sets to analyze and research an issue or opportunity as indicated in Week 2 of the Team Assignment. The bank has been in existence for more than one hundred (100) years with a combination of great services with convenient banking options and extraordinary customer service. This bank focus is on being the best not necessarily on being the largest like its competitors Citigroup; which is one of the world’s mammoth banks and Bank of America; which is the largest is the United States of America. Team C research provides an explanation using central tendency methods preferably descriptive statistical method. This paper seeks to discuss the definition of the selection using quantifiable measures; discuss the steps of the business research, addressing the problem definition; the research hypothesis; the variables to be tested will be identified as well as the level of measurement and the measurement scale for each variable. According to John B. Taylor in November 2008, which states that, “the empirical research he presents in his paper strongly suggests that specific government actions and interventions should be first on the list of answers to all three questions that he posed, which were; What caused the financial crisis? What prolonged it? Why did it worsen so dramatically more than a year after it began?” Problem Definition Century National...
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...(2012/2013) AALBORG UNIVERSITY COPENHAGEN RESEARCH QUESTION Do Danish families Prefer traveling more abroad or within Denmark for holidays ? As a National Destination Management Organisation- VisitDenmark, what is the organization doing to stimulate Danish families to participate more in domestic tourism? * The theme of our research is Motivation. What motivates Danish families in choosing their holiday destinations? Do they mostly go abroad or not? And why? * Problem area is improving the tourism sector of Denmark to attract local Danish families. Here we will be analyzing the campaign VisitDenmark to see what the organization has been doing so far to encourage domestic tourism. TABLE OF CONTENT * chapter one……………………………………………………… …..Page 4 -Introduction (some background on tourism in Denmark)………………………4 -Problem formulation/ hypothesis -Research objective (what do we want to achieve in this research……………………………………………………………5 - Delimitation………………………………………………………………..........6 * chapter two……………………………………………………………………….7 - History of leisure tourism …………………………………………………......7-8 - Definition of theory…………………………………………………………..9-12 - Analysis of the Campaign, how does VisitDenmark promote domestic tourism……………………………………………………………………… 13-19 - Danish outbound tourism…………………………………………………...20-22 * chapter three………………………………………………………………….....23 - Research methodology……………………………………………………...23-25 - Research design……………………………………………………………..25-26 -...
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...Introduction This paper is an analysis of the “The Bathtub Period” using Earned Value Management principles. My intention is to discuss the case from the standpoint of the project manager and provide facts, assumption and a conclusion on whether this project was actually a good investment for Park industries or not. In the case where mathematical figures were not provided I have used my own in attempt to provide some cohesiveness to the analysis of this case. Case Summary In January 1987, Park industries was awarded a ten (10) month Research and Development (R&D) project by Scott Corporation. If this initial R&D project was successful there would be follow-on contracts awarded for the next five (5) years. The understanding was that this follow-on projects would be negotiated yearly as part of contract. Jerry Dunlap was selected as the project manager for this project under the supervision of his manager Frank and indirect supervision by the general manager. The Park industries organization uses a matrix culture which means that resources are shared amongst the organization’s project. For the Scott Corporation project, Jerry was provided with seven (7) full-time employees including himself and an additional eight (8) employees from the functional departments – of these eight employees four (4) are full time and the other four are part-time. Jerry calculated the cost of his employees for the next ten (10) months at $2080 with each individual valued at $60 a head. The...
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...Peshawar, Pakistan, 1994 Professional Paper presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Wildlife Biology The University of Montana Missoula, MT Spring 2007 Approved by: Dr. David A. Strobel, Dean Graduate School Dr. Daniel Pletscher Director Wildlife Biology Program Dr. Kerry Foresman Division of Biological Sciences Dr. Mark Hebblewhite Wildlife Biology Program Lodhi, Asad M.S. May 2007 Wildlife Biology Conservation of leopard in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan Director: Dr. Daniel H. Pletscher Large carnivores are important for biodiversity and ecosystem function, yet are very difficult to conserve because of their large home ranges and conflicts with humans. I examined human-leopard conflicts in and near Ayubia National Park, Pakistan, to provide management recommendations for the conservation of leopards. Persecution of leopards by humans has been on the rise primarily due to depredation on livestock and risk to human lives. Since 1989, 16 humans have either been killed or injured in and around Ayubia National Park while leopards faced 44 human-caused mortalities during the same period. I examined the management strategy adopted by NWFP Wildlife Department for leopard conservation, identify gaps, and suggest possible management actions to mitigate the conflicts. For this purpose, I reviewed the management of carnivores including mountain lions, wolves, and grizzly bears to learn from management successes...
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...substrates that resisted breaking under extreme tension. In 1992, Dr. Riordan acquired capital to expand his company and renamed it Riordan Manufacturing. By 2000, Riordan Manufacturing was so successful it grew into a global manufacturer that became a leader in plastic products (Apollo Group, Inc., 2012) They bring in about 46 million annually and have a global employee base of about 550 individuals. They encourage employees to submit their own ideas and try to instill and develop strong work ethics among both employees and managers. The mission of Riordan Manufacturing is to become the global leader in the polymer materials industry, by providing solutions to customers’ needs and challenges. With this goal in mind, they now have a strong research and development team that focuses on discovering new and emerging market trends and taking that knowledge to enhance profitability and overall influence of Riordan Manufacturing. Project Scope It has been determined through reviews and analysis of the current system that the current HR system is out of date. It lacks some of the specifications needed to perform many of the essential functions of the HR department. There is no centralized software or hardware system to store the information for Riordan. All input is entered manually across all of the locations and is entered by many different classes of employee, starting with simple clerks and store managers and including everyone else all the way up supervisors and other upper management...
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...substrates that resisted breaking under extreme tension. In 1992, Dr. Riordan acquired capital to expand his company and renamed it Riordan Manufacturing. By 2000, Riordan Manufacturing was so successful it grew into a global manufacturer that became a leader in plastic products (Apollo Group, Inc., 2012) They bring in about 46 million annually and have a global employee base of about 550 individuals. They encourage employees to submit their own ideas and try to instill and develop strong work ethics among both employees and managers. The mission of Riordan Manufacturing is to become the global leader in the polymer materials industry, by providing solutions to customers’ needs and challenges. With this goal in mind, they now have a strong research and development team that focuses on discovering new and emerging market trends and taking that knowledge to enhance profitability and overall influence of Riordan Manufacturing. Project Scope It has been determined through reviews and analysis of the current system that the current HR system is out of date. It lacks some of the specifications needed to perform many of the essential functions of the HR department. There is no centralized software or hardware system to store the information for Riordan. All input is entered manually across all of the locations and is entered by many different classes of employee, starting with simple clerks and store managers and including everyone else all the way up supervisors and other upper management...
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...are prey to subtle discrepancies that arise in cognitive accounting and identifying how and when you are susceptible is an important step in improving the decision making process (Tvorik, 2014). This paper will consider why people value gains and losses differently in different circumstances by addressing what mental accounting is and how it impacts consumer decision making; and how a company can take advantage of their consumers’ mental accounting (Tvorik, 2014). This writer will also consider different scenarios from differing points of view; as a marketer and as a consumer. As a marketer, this writer will analyze how I would frame certain decisions to benefit from the disparities in my own cognitive accounting. As a consumer, I will address how to avoid the pitfalls posed by the inequalities of again, my own cognitive accounting (Tvorik, 2014). Mental accounting is a term that describes how people categorize and quantify economic outcomes (Thaler, 1980). This is similar to financial accounting in the way of using a system of debits and credits and affects how people spend and save their money, thus consumer decision-making. Mental accounting determines “when an individual chooses to act or postpone a purchase, how he or she perceives gains and losses, and how timing bears on the individual’s choices” in relation to the three mental buckets: current income, current wealth and future income (Tvorik, 2014). It is a figurative, or mental, balance sheet that compartmentalizes...
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...UNLV Theses/Dissertations/Professional Papers/Capstones 8-1-2010 Evaluating point-of-sale buying decisions: Understanding why consumers purchase timeshares Lisa Y. Thomas University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations Part of the Marketing Commons, and the Real Estate Commons Repository Citation Thomas, Lisa Y., "Evaluating point-of-sale buying decisions: Understanding why consumers purchase timeshares" (2010). UNLV Theses/Dissertations/Professional Papers/Capstones. Paper 868. This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Scholarship@UNLV. It has been accepted for inclusion in UNLV Theses/ Dissertations/Professional Papers/Capstones by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact marianne.buehler@unlv.edu. EVALUATING POINT-OF-SALE BUYING DECISIONS: UNDERSTANDING WHY CONSUMERS PURCHASE TIMESHARES by Lisa Young Thomas Bachelor of Business Administration Sam Houston State University 1986 Master of Science, Hotel Administration University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2007 A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in Hospitality Administration William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration Graduate College University of Nevada, Las Vegas August 2010 Copyright by Lisa Young Thomas 2010 All Rights Reserved THE GRADUATE COLLEGE We recommend...
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