...Critical Review – „Business Adventures – Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street“ The book “Business Adventures – Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street” written by John Brooks was first published in 1969. It consists of twelve chapters concerning business and stock-related matters and issues. John Brooks intended to share his experience and wanted to point out some really important changes in the business world. The author, John Brooks was a writer, who won certain awards. He worked for the New Yorker magazine and his specialty was to illustrate financial topics. Additionally Brooks was the author of various fiction and non-fiction books, which were mostly about business. To name a few of his most famous books: “Once in Golconda”, “The Go-Go Years” and “Business Adventures” are books with mainstream fame. Chapter four of the book „Business Adventures – Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street“, written by John Brooks, is called „A Reasonable Amount of Time“. A new found mineable body in the Canadian Shield was the cause for a lawsuit, filed against the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company and 13 directors of it. The purpose of the text is to show that defraud will be enforced by the law and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fifth chapter of the book is called “Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox”. In the middle of 20th century a lot of companies had the issue that the production of copies came along with high costs and a complicated process. Xerox...
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...Optimisation). This will be discussed further in this body of work, first HTML and its usage will be explored in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of its application. “HTML is the lingua franca of the Internet” (www.peachpit.com). At the seminar we learned that the knowledge and correct function of HTML allows anyone that has an online presence to change and add small additions to their website. This ensures that a business person is not paying unnecessary additional fees to a web site developer and provides the business person with firsthand kno wledge of their site. HTML is a basic mark-up language and not as scary as people may think. It is simple code that is the very backbone of the digital world. Not so long ago, the classic web application was compiled of a set of inert HTML written pages (Shannon, 2007). Current modern applications consist of new technologies in order to supply interactive applications across the World Wide Web (www). Despite these new technologies, HTML code still plays a central role for many web based applications (Shanno n, 2007). The use of the correct HTML code and hyperlinks in a webpage allow the user to view a webpage with ease. Most internet surfers find there is nothing more frustrating than a webpage that does not work correctly or sends you to the wrong page. The purpose of HTML is to supply a set of general rules that propose...
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...The Wyf of Bathe’s Prologue Date and Text • The prologue and tale may have been written quite late, probably after the Shipman’s Tale as the Wife’s prologue deals with (some of) the issues raised by the Shipman’s Tale. • In some manuscripts, most notably the Ellesmere (currently housed at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA), the Wife’s prologue is the most heavily glossed section of the tales (To Gloss/Glossator: the practice and theory of commentary; source in French, Italian and German legal schools of the 11th and 12th centuries, from which the Roman Law is based on The Digestae or the Codex of Justinian; this work transformed the ancient texts into a living tradition of Medieval Roman Law). • The glosses, which primarily quote the origins of the Wife’s remarks, may go back to Chaucer himself; the glosses could have been notes to the reader, or for Chaucer. Most of the glosses quote from Jerome and his own citations from the Scripture, but rarely from the bible. Comments on astrological disposition are from a Ptolemaic work (Almansoris propositiones). • The dynamic of the glosses reinforce the notion that the Wife’s Prologue is both literary text with authoritative sources, and a shocking instance of female power. Genre • There is no other Prologue like the Wife’s in the Tales – or in Medieval Literature at large. Its materials are primarily derived from antifeminist tracts, but it is not a tract (A Roman Catholic anthem). ...
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...The Web is a text communication medium, and for the next 10 years (at least), text will remain the best way to communicate. During that time, you can make or break your business success, your very life possibly. Without the good business writing skills, you'll be doomed. And in today's fast-paced real world, nobody denies the importance of good business writing skills. Writing is still one of the best methods of communication. The majority of business jobs today require above average writing skills. Business writing has become more than a nice thing to have - it has become a necessity. Most small business people don't have proper writing skills. Most of them never really learned how to write to communicate when they should have - in school. And most small businesses can't afford to hire a writer. There are, of course, hundreds of books that teach you how to write, the classic being... The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. Only two problems with these "general writing" books... 1. They are so dry as to be almost unreadable. 2. They have almost nothing to do with the REAL world. Besides these books, there are thousands more on how to write "sales copy." The favorite is Ken Evoy's Make Your Words Sell. It's now free. There's no charge - you're not even asked for your email address. This book is great, if you have something to sell. And even then, keep in mind that SELLING comes after PREselling (C-T-P-M process). Writing to PREsell is an entirely new concept...
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...A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE SIGNET CLASSICS EDITION OF G EORG E B E R N A R D S HAW ’S PYGMALION By LAURA REIS MAYER BUNCOMBE COUNTY SCHOOLS, ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA S E R I E S E D I T O R S JEANNE M. MCGLINN, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Asheville and W. GEIGER ELLIS, Ed.D., University of Georgia, Professor Emeritus 2 A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion TABLE OF CONTENTS An Introduction .......................................................................................3 Synopsis of the Play .................................................................................3 Prereading Activities .................................................................................6 During Reading Activities ......................................................................13 After Reading Activities .........................................................................21 About the Author of this Guide .............................................................29 About the Editors of this Guide .............................................................29 Full List of Free Teacher's Guides...........................................................30 Click on a Classic ..................................................................................31 Copyright © 2007 by Penguin Group (USA) For additional teacher’s manuals, catalogs, or descriptive brochures, please email academic@penguin.com or write...
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...Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a classic bildungsroman novel, was applauded for its unique perspective on women and its explicit symbolism and literary devices (Brontë i-iii). In a simultaneous similarity and contrast, McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is a critical and commercial success, providing an alternative to literary explicitism with minimalist text, instead implicating much of the novel’s portrayals of relationships, personalities, and descriptions in liberal usage of implicit language. Even the main characters, despite all having underlying values and personalities, are compressed into three separate archetypes more commonly found in folklore than in comparable modern stories (Cooper). Ultimately, like Brontë, McCarthy masterly weaves such elements into a coming-of-age story for the main character, but instead of the realization of happiness, the main character instead faces defeat with the realization of the changing of the...
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...Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress | Table of Contents Music History from Primary Sources An Introductory Essay Alfred Mann A vellum leaf, 22 by 17 cm., from a prayer book. The letter forms of early Gothic script suggest the twelfth century, or a period even earlier. Neumes (marked in red) are placed above the first four lines of the Latin text. The entire page is richly illuminated in black, red, and blue, with a heavy gold layer decorating the initial A for the phrase beginning "Adoro te." The leaf was obtained for the Moldenhauer Archives from the music dealer and publishing firm Schneider, Tutzing. The Art of Musical Notation In its primary sources, music merges with the representational arts. Oral tradition has played a fundamental role in all ages, but in its formal sense, history--and the history of music--begins with the visual record. Musical notation, having emerged on a wide scale in all civilizations, produced in itself a highly individual record of artistic endeavor. The medieval monks who compiled the missals and other liturgical books for the service of worship rose from their function as scribes to artists in their own right; among the greatest documents of Baroque art are the holographs by Bach; and an entirely novel phase in artistic musical score design was initiated in the twentieth century. The primary sources of music reproduced in this volume rely on various aspects of the graphic arts, but foremost among them stands the representation...
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...as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes have conflicting points of view on this matter. Early on John Locke believed that all humans were born with a clean mind, and therefore they were naturally good at the time of their birth. Thomas Hobbes disagreed with John Locke and introduced the theory that man is wicked and must be controlled. This extraordinary classic, Lord of the Flies written by William Golding has presented more of a cynical perspective on human nature. Through this novel, Golding is trying to convey a message that although humans have the capability to balance both...
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...universities, the provost of the University of California at Berkeley offered some frank advice to department chairs, whose job partly consists of lobbying for a share of the budget. “On every campus,” she wrote, “there is one department whose name need only be mentioned to make people laugh; you don’t want that department to be yours.”1 The provost, Carol Christ (who retains her faculty position as a literature professor), does not name the offender—but everyone knows that if you want to locate the laughingstock on your local campus these days, your best bet is to stop by the English department. The laughter, moreover, is not confined to campuses. It has become a holiday ritual for The New York Times to run a derisory article in deadpan Times style about the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, where thousands of English professors assemble just before the new year. Lately it has become impossible to say with confidence whether such topics as “Eat Me; Captain Cook and the Ingestion of the Other” or “The Semiotics of Sinatra” are parodies of what goes on there or serious presentations by credentialed scholars.2 At one recent English lecture, the speaker discussed a pornographic “performance artist” who, for a small surcharge to the price of admission to her stage show, distributes flashlights to anyone in the audience wishing to give her a speculum exam. By looking down at the mirror at just the right angle, she is able, she says, to see her own cervix reflected in...
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...Terms: Define the following terms and concepts by typing them on your chapter three word document. Comparative v/s Absolute Advantage-comparative advantage is defined as the theory that states that a country should see to other countries those products that it produces most efficiently, and buy from other countries those products that it cannot produce as effectively as compare to absolute advantage which states the advantage that exists when a country has a monopoly on producing a specific product or is able to produce it more efficiently than all other countries. Trade Deficit states that an unfavorable balance of trade; occurs when the value of a country’s imports exceeds that of its exports Trade Surplus is defined as a favorable balance of trade; occurs when the value of a country’s exports exceeds that of its imports. Tariff is described as a tax imposed on imports Balance of Trade is the total value of a nation’s exports compared to its imports over a particular time period Balance of Payments is the difference between money coming into a country from exports and money leaving the country from imports plus money flows from factors such as tourism, foreign aid, military expenditures, and foreign investment Dumping is selling products in a foreign country at lower prices than those charged in the producing country Licensing is a global strategy in which a firm allows a foreign company to produce its products in exchange for a fee ...
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...Zach Metzler Texts and Contexts Professor Sorensen April 2011 Parenting in Persuasion or Lack There Of Jane Austen is credited with painting "small cameos" of families in her novels. Yet within these cameos, it becomes clear that Austen had a clear understanding of family dynamics as we consider them today. The relationships between parents and the children have a major influence on the marriage choices that these daughters make. Austen's novels show parents whose parenting techniques often varied depending on the child. Therefore, some parents may act one way with the heroine of the novel and another way with the other children in the family. In her novel Persuasion, Jane Austen provides current day readers with a surprising look into the different styles of parenting observed during her lifetime. The novel follows the progressing life and romance of Anne Elliot, the daughter of a gentleman named Sir Walter Elliot. Though the novel seems to be a simple love story, Austen also comments on many social issues, including parenting. As 21st century parents, it is easy to get caught up in the media and child-rearing fads that pop up in the bookstores and magazines on a weekly basis since the media and such run our society. Sometimes in the midst of all the new styles and ideas of parenting, parents forget what it’s really all about: the children. One of the many things Austen points out in her classic novel is the parenting faults that were rampant in her time...
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...1. Choose your topic. Try to make it as creative as possible; if you're given the opportunity to choose your own, take advantage of this. Choose something you're particularly interested in because this will make it easier to write; in particular, try to select the topic as a result of pressing questions you already know you want to search for answers to. Once you've decided on a topic, be sure to hone down it to a do-able topic; often a topic is initially too broad in its coverage, which will make it impossible to complete within the time and space constraints given. Narrow down your topic to something that can really be worked within the boundaries of the paper. If the topic is already chosen for you, start exploring unique angles that can set your content and information apart from the more obvious approaches many others will probably take. Finally, whatever angle your topic takes, it should be both original in approach and insightful, something the reader will be drawn into and fascinated by. * Take great care not to choose a topic and be so set on how you see the outcome of your paper that you're closed to new ideas and avenues of thinking as you work through the paper. This is known in academia as "premature cognitive commitment". It can mar an otherwise good paper because an outcome that is pre-determined in your head, regardless of the research findings along the way, will be molded to fit the outcome, rather than the outcome reflecting a genuine analysis of the discoveries...
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...humans and animal with large horns. Female designs had different headdresses or hair styles and there were more female figurines than male found. In these designs plants and animals were shown as powerful leading to believe these people saw living beings as equally important unlike the previous cultures who worshipped gods. In the large city Harappa there is evidence of public baths and larger homes with rare silver and gold ornaments, which researchers believe was evidence of a class system or elites with more resources available to them however unlike all previous cultures before there is no evidence of a king. one of the material evidence of how this society lived is the big basin...
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...World religion Final Paper Buddhism The teachings of dharma and the four noble truths were to become the essence of Buddhism. Buddha taught that the supreme good of life is nirvana,” the extinction” or “blowing out” of suffering and desire and awakening to what is most real. A Sanskrit term, “Buddha” means “awakened” or “enlighten one.” Buddhism also teaches pacifism and nonviolence. (The Everything World Religion Book) | | Prince Siddhartha Gautama was born some 2,500 years ago as a prince in what is now called Lumbini in Nepal. When Gautama was 29 years old, he discovered there was much suffering in the world around him. Traditionally it is explained that he suddenly recognized the problems of sickness, old age and death when visiting the city. Being shocked by the suffering of all living beings, he decided to search for way to end it. He left his wife and child, the palace and even his royal clothes, and started out on a spiritual quest. Gautama studied under various teachers and followed their practices until he mastered them all. After about six years of searching, he realized that just wearing down his body did not generate new insights, but rather leads to weakness and self-destruction. | | | | | | | | He then sat down in a place now called Bodhgaya (North India) under a Bodhi-tree and decided not to get up anymore until he discovered the truth. Just a short time later, he became a fully enlightened Buddha. With this, he realized the true nature...
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...Assignment You have been provided with a case study of NIKE (see Appendix 1). In your case report, identify three or four Marketing Challenges covered in this subject and address how those challenges can be met using the principles developed in this subject. Please ensure to use academic in-text references adequately to support your suggestions. Report writing format should be used Important Instructions 1. Assignments must contain proper citations and referencing using the Harvard style referred to in the AIB Style Guide, that is: a. citations (or in-text references) of quoted and paraphrased materials to support your arguments/comments, and b. a reference list relating specifically to your in-text references. 2. Your grade will be adversely affected if there is no/poor citations and/or reference list, as referred to above. 3. Assignments of this nature normally contain between 6 and 12 relevant references from different sources in the reference list. 4. All references must be from credible sources. Journals sourced from the EBSCO Host library (see Online Library User Guide on the next page) should be used first, then books, company documents and other media. 5. You are encouraged to make use of the AIB online library which can be accessed through the AIB website. 6. AIB checks assignments with anti-plagiarism software. Please carefully check your assignments before final submission to ensure that all quoted and paraphrased materials are properly cited and referenced...
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