...Management (or Decision) Problem The board at Chestnut Ridge Country Club are concerned that they have a declining amount of membership applications. They feel that this cannot be due to any factors outside of their control such as the local economy or change in preferences because they suspect enrollment remains level at three local competitors, Chalet, Lancaster and Alden country clubs. The board has decided to conduct a survey of the local country club membership pool to better understand what reasons may be effecting their declining membership enrollments because they cannot determine any reasons for this to be happening to only them. Research Problem & Objectives The research firm intends to conduct a survey of the memberships of 3 competing local country clubs. The managers of these clubs are very reluctant to give out the mailing list of their clients because they weren’t gaining anything for doing so while giving out private information. The researchers then had to compromise and make a counter offer that they could provide an individual report to each country club about its membership after all the data had been collected and analyzed, they also promised to destroy the client mailing lists after they had used them. The managers of the country clubs accepted this offer and the researchers were allowed access to the mailing lists. The firm then needed final permission from the board at Chestnut Ridge Country Club to conduct the survey under the new agreement needed...
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...CASE 2.5 Chestnut Ridge Country Club (A)1 The Chestnut Ridge Country Club has long maintained a distinguished reputation as one of the outstanding country clubs in the Elma, Tennessee, area. The club’s golf facilities are said by some to be the finest in the state, and its dining and banquet facilities are highly regarded as well. This reputation is due in part to the commitment by the board of directors of Chestnut Ridge to offer the finest facilities of any club in the area. For example, several negative comments by club members regarding the dining facilities prompted the board to survey members to get their feelings and perceptions of the dining facilities and food offerings at the club. Based on the survey findings, the board of directors established a quality control committee to oversee the dining room and hired a new club manager. Most recently, the board became concerned about the number of people seeking membership to Chestnut Ridge. Although no records are kept on the number of membership applications received each year, the board sensed that this figure was declining. They also believed that membership applications at the three competing country clubs in the area (namely, Alden, Chalet, and Lancaster) were not experiencing similar declines. Because Chestnut Ridge had other facilities, such as tennis courts and a pool, that were comparable to the facilities at these other clubs, the board was perplexed as to why membership applications would be falling...
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...formulate the problem under study 3) determining what information is factual or opinion based 4) using reasoning skills and suppressing emotion 5) having the ability to adapt to change Directions for completing this assignment: In this assignment, you will evaluate the Chestnut Ridge Country Club case study (Click Here) by using your critical thinking skills. To successfully complete this assignment, write a 2-3 page critical essay covering the following topics: 1. Formulate a research problem. 2. Compare three basic types of research design (exploratory, descriptive and casual) 3. Evaluate the use of research design for each method 4. Determine appropriate research design method to use in marketing research process Case Scenario Chestnut Ridge Country Club The Chestnut Ridge Country Club has long maintained a distinguished reputation as one of the outstanding country clubs in the Elma, Tennessee, area. The club’s golf facilities are said by some to be the finest in the state, and its dining and banquet facilities are highly regarded as well. This reputation is due in part to the commitment by the board of directors of Chestnut Ridge to offer the finest facilities of any club in the area. For example, several negative comments by club mem- bers regarding the dining facilities prompted the board to survey members to get their feelings and perceptions of the dining...
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...Assignment 1 Chestnut Ridge Counseling Services (CRCSI) is a community mental health facility with three locations in Fayette County, PA. They are a 501 ©, nonprofit organization. They provide comprehensive behavioral health outpatient services in a professional, and compassionate manner to promote wellness and improve the quality of life of children/adolescents, young adults, adults and seniors (age 65 or older). The agency offers programs for persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, persons with serious mental illness (SMI), those who have experienced trauma, and individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They also provide assertive community treatment (ACT), consumer run (peer-support) services,...
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...the mottled white and blue colors of the sky, the “brinded” (brindled or streaked) hide of a cow, and the patches of contrasting color on a trout. The chestnuts offer a slightly more complex image: When they fall they open to reveal the meaty interior normally concealed by the hard shell; they are compared to the coals in a fire, black on the outside and glowing within. The wings of finches are multicolored, as is a patchwork of farmland in which sections look different according to whether they are planted and green, fallow, or freshly plowed. The final example is of the “trades” and activities of man, with their rich diversity of materials and equipment. Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; And here come two more hyphenated words, along with two more examples of "dappled things." The first example is "Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls." This is probably the trickiest image in the poem, partly because we're not nearly as familiar with chestnuts as 19th-century English people would have been. "Chestnut-falls" is not too hard to imagine. It refers to chestnuts that have fallen off the chestnut tree. This hyphenated word points to the specific chestnuts that have fallen from the tree. But "Fresh-firecoal" requires some background on nuts, a field we at Shmoop like to call nut-ology. When they are on a tree, chestnuts are covered by a spiky, light-green covering, but the nuts themselves are reddish-brown. When the nuts fall, they are "fresh" from the tree. Because...
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...Name: ________________________________________ Period______ Date ______ AP Environmental Science: Ch.1 Study Guide (20 points) Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability Read Ch. 1, pages 6-26 Answer questions 1-10 on page 25 Selected Critical Thinking Questions Define the following: exponential growth development at an increasingly rapid rate in proportion to the growing total number or size; a constant rate of growth applied to a continuously growing base over a period of time sustainability the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance natural capital the extension of the economic notion of capital (manufactured means of production) to goods and services relating to the natural environment sound science to achieve the adaptive management of lands, waters, and natural resources on which human communities depend. environmentally sustainable society the Earth's resources must be used at a rate at which they can be replenished. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. economic development the sustained, concerted actions of policymakers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area. developed countries is a sovereign state which has a highly developed economy and advanced technological...
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...this fact. Around 17 or 18 families moved onto Cherokee land and began living in Cherokee homes, and according to Boudinot, there were even some reports of retaliation by the Georgians when the Cherokee people tried to keep their homes. Not only were homes up for the taking by the Georgians, but the Georgians began to steal horses and livestock that belonged to the Cherokees as well. Although the Cherokee people lodged complaints, General John Coffee admitted that while it was legally Cherokee land, it was the responsibility of the Principle Chief to throw the Georgians off of the land. Although this strategy of throwing Georgians off the land had not worked in the past, Major Ridge gathered a group of Cherokee people and dressed up in war-like attire and went to confront the white families. Major Ridge and his troops gave the white families time to evacuate the stolen homes and then they set the homes on fire and demanded that the white families leave the land permanently. This was the Cherokee peoples attempt to send a clear message to the Georgians that they were unwelcome. 2. In the report from Major William M. Davis to Secretary of War Lewis Cass, Major Davis accuses reverend J.F. Schermerhorn of submitting a false treaty. Major Davis lived in a Cherokee county during the time that the treaty was signed and he states that he is concerned over the actions that Schermerhorn took to negotiate with the Cherokees and the overall manner in which the treaty was obtained. Davis...
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...Thao Luong Instructor: Christopher Collins History 17A January 9, 2014 Legislating Women's Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century Nineteenth century was a time of social upheaval and enormous political in the Cherokee Nation. Most readers will probably be familiar with the tragedy of the “Trail of Tears " when federal troops Cherokee Indians forced to give up land in Georgia , Alabama , Tennessee and North Caroiina settled in India Territory ( present day Oklahoma ) in 1838-1839 . What may not be widely is known to kill just one of a number of significant changes are experienced by Cherokee Nation in the nineteenth century. The Cherokees radical transformation of political institutions and their legal at the beginning of the century; survivors internal conflicts, which verged on civil war, as a result of the removal policy of the 1830; beyond the American Civil War and its reconstruction as they struggled to combine their slaves into society, and face federal efforts to dismantle the sovereignty of India as the century drew to a close. In many respects, the legal institutions of the nineteenth century Cherokee Nation like those of the United States. The Cherokees split their government into three branches: an executive expressed by the Minister, a judicial body with district and supreme courts and legislatures have created laws for the nation. This article will review some of the laws passed by the legislature of Cherokee governments, especially those...
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...the 1790s to the 1840s. The book did not seem to really discuss the actual trail of tears but rather the Cherokees Nation rise and fall. However, the book seemed to focus on the more successful or richer Cherokees. Reflecting on the title, it is called the rise and fall of the Cherokee nation but Ehle only seems to cover the rise and fall of specific people and events. The Trail of Tears focuses mainly on Major Ridge and his family, specifically his son John Ridge and his nephews Elias Boudinot and Stand Waite and other missionaries who were sent to convert the Cherokees to Christianity. Major Ridge would not convert to Christianity but did accept some of the white ways for his family. The principal chief of the Cherokee was named John Ross who was believed by many to be in state of denial. Ross and his followers blame Ridge and his followers for selling the Cherokee out when they sign the Treaty of 1835 that puts the seal on the removal. . Major Ridge was born around 1771 and died on June 22, 1839. Ridge married Sehoya who was a mixed-blood Cherokee in 1792. Ridge could not speak or write; he had no formal education. He received his title as major in 1814 after serving alongside Andrew Jackson. After receiving the title major he used Major as his first name for the remainder of his life. He later in life moved his family to what is now Rome, Georgia. Moving to Georgia helped him develop a plantation and become a successful planter which allowed him to own thirty...
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...The Cherokee Nation: Individualism, Collectivism, Power, and Quality of Life Individualism/Collectivism “In the beginning there was no land; just water and the sky. The animals lived above the solid rock vault that formed the sky, but they were very crowded”(Perdue, 2007). This is the introduction of the Cherokee people’s birth and come to being on this earth. Like our tale of Adam and Eve, the Cherokee also had their version of it and their people were named Kana’ti and Selu. They had both lived in a paradise that was created for them, but had a flaw of wanting more and thus were cast out of their own Garden of Eden. When the original Cherokee people were cast out of their paradise they found themselves having to hunt and harvest their food. They developed methods to help kill the bigger animals and trounce on the smaller ones with little to no regard for their lives. The story goes on to tell that the Cherokee people began to get sick from the animals they were eating and their harvest were not growing the way they intended either. The animals were punishing the humans for not respecting their right to live along side with them. The Cherokee soon realized that they must perform rituals to avoid the diseases, give thanks to the animals and land for what they used, and that is when they began to understand the importance of respect for all living things and not dominion over them (Perdue, 2007). Cherokee’s today believe that they are one with their environment...
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...emotional narrative that would be sympathetic towards the Cherokee people, but it was a mixture of narrative plus historical facts. The book portrays the actual history, through the use of the many primary sources mentioned earlier, of the Cherokee people, but I believe that the author used that to frame the personalities of his characters as to what their decision making might have been like at the time. Having no connection to this part of history, I empathized with the Cherokee nation and cannot image the amount of suffering they faced in this time. This is something that I think the author did well, portraying the history of the people and the sheer magnitude of suffering the Cherokees went through. The major players at the time were John Ridge and John Ross....
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...Continental drift, seafloor spreading and plate tectonics have many similarities. They also have many differences. Sea floor spreading is when new molten material comes up through the mantle onto the ocean floor. Continental drift is when the continents break apart and move. Plate tectonics is what the continents and ocean are on and moving on. Continental drift, seafloor spreading and plate tectonics are all related. Continental drift, seafloor spreading and plate tectonics are all similar in many ways.They all have many processes and in them. Seafloor spreading and continental drift are two of the major processes in plate tectonics. They also deal with moving on the plates.They also are all part of the lithosphere and mantle. The plates...
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... Sea-Floor Spreading, plate tectonics,and continental drift. Are all parts of the earth,that make the Earth still survive today.Seafloor Spreading is a geological process in which tectonic plates, large slabs of Earth’s lithosphere split apart from each other. Seafloor spreading helps us in many ways. One way is that, it makes up the the oceanic crust. Another way is that it makes large mountain ranges, that rise from the ocean floor.Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle, the rocky inner layer above the core. These plates make up Earth’s outer shell, called the lithosphere. (This includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle).There are 3 plate boundaries, Transform, Divergent, and Convergent. Transform boundaries are where the plates move sideways in relation to each other. Divergent boundaries are plates that move apart, And Convergent boundaries are plates that collide.When these plate are tugged, giant troughs form. Just like the one in Africa called the Great Rift Valley.Continental Drift, is the theory that explained how continents shift position on Earth’s surface. All of the continents look like they could fit together like giant puzzle pieces. Even though these scientific theories help us, they are still alike and different in many ways. For instance, Alfred wegener proved that the continents moved apart. But he could not prove how they moved. We later found out it was from plate...
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...Vimy ridge: April 9th 1917 is when the battle of Vimy Ridge began its also is known to be Canada's defining moments in history. This is when Canada's military contribution to WWI was successful which allowed them to capture Vimy Ridge. The battle took place at 5:30am 30,000 Canadian soliders who formed the Canadian troops accomplished something that the French and British has failed to do in two years. Leading the Canadians into battle was master and commander Arthur Currie, he was the first Canadian to lead the Canadian troop. Currie developed a new artillery war strategy called the "creeping barrage". The Canadian were given the task of recapturing the ridge, they built railroad tracks so their artillery could keep up the creeping barrage against the German position. When the Canadians weren't controling the front lines they were in a secret training area practicing their assault plan, this new tactic allowed the Canadians to advance on the German trenches that were at the base of the ridge. One of the reasons why they Canadians manage to do things successfully was because the Canadian corps soldiers were given maps of their objectives and given instructions to each individual. This allowed each man knowing what he was doing in the periods of time given, the planning was done until the very seconds to when it would happen. On April 9th 1917 at 5:30am, the Canadians corps begin firing all the field guns This battle gave Canada a new identify, an identity which would...
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...The great Battle of Vimy Ridge is a powerful symbol for Canadian nationalism, and a source of national pride, and identity. The unity, strength, and independence that our nation showed in this fight are the reason why this battle was a key event in Canada’s development as a nation during the World War I. The battle of Vimy ridge was a special time for Canada. Coming together as a nation, all Canadian divisions united for the first time and regained the ridge. After the French and the British had failed, the Canadians strategically planned a way to win. “In those few minutes I witnessed the birth of a nation” – B-General A.E. Ross. Something to take from this statement is that there was now a union, and a sense of nationalism for all Canadian divisions. This was something new, this was the beginning of a journey; it was the start of Canada. After defeating the Germans in the Battle of Vamy Ridge, Canada finally rose up from underneath the shadow of Britain and received credit for its own victory. Although Canada did not become independent and free from the control of the British until 1982, it was recognized as a nation, and as...
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