...The Germantown Festival is an annual arts and crafts fair that is held in early September where people around the city come together and have fun. I went to the festival to volunteer for Key Club hours and to have fun. It was a extremely hot September Sunday. Although it was the second day of the festival, many stalls were open and people came to look around and see what was in stored. It was my second time volunteering at the festival; but instead of doing face painting, I helped out selling the coupon books for our school’s Fine Arts Department. After volunteering, I just went around to try some of the food at the festival. But I came across a stall that stood out to me. It was the henna stall. I have always wanted to try that unique style...
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...in their own brand new, unopened plastic water bottles. This allows people to save money and not have to buy from the many Bonnaroo vendors. Because they allow you to bring in water bottles, people just fill their backpacks up with water bottles to have throughout the day. Having this water issue may be a big deal, but they have found a solution to it that helps everyone out. This keeps the people happy and helps make them want to come back each year. Bonnaroo is by far one of the best music festivals every summer and keeps people wanting more of it and coming back year-to-year. The reason is obvious and it is because people love how it is well-organized from the very first time you step on the farm till the day you leave. They have everything you would ever want with a music festival and they try to make it better every year....
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...ANSWER SHEET FOR HM3 Visit the Gap web site at www.gap.com and examine either the virtual style section or the current advertising section. Discuss the types of beliefs and attitudes you think this information would create. What effects might these beliefs and attitudes have on consumers’ behavioral intentions? (Use the Theory of Reasoned Action to guide your thinking and your answer.) This is a review and application question with a web exercise. Fishbein and Ajzen’s Theory of Reasoned Action is a powerful model for analyzing and understanding the factors that influence voluntary, overt behaviors. Students need to understand the basic components of the model and the logic that underlies their interrelationships. Exhibit 6.6 in the text clearly presents the major components of the model and their interrelationships. Students should be able to discuss these "flows of influence." The theory of reasoned action identifies two main influences on behavioral intentions--Aact and SN that is attitudes toward the action and subjective norms. Different promotional strategies, such as those used by The Gap, can try to change consumers’ attitudes and/or their subjective norms. For instance, if the weak BI is due to negative attitudes toward purchasing clothing from The Gap, advertising needs to focus on the specific negative beliefs about the consequences of buying and using the product. Alternatively, The Gap could try to use social influences to...
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...Executive Summary Zuora Inc. is a leader in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) billing and payments area. The company went beyond just SaaS and moving towards subscription method of business. There are three options that Zuora is facing right now: There are 3 options that Zuora is facing right now: • Stay the course; continue with its 6 sales members and 45 employees to focus on the private market. This will being an estimated positive cash flow as well as small growth of 30 – 35% • Expansion towards cloud computing trend: this by doubling their sales team and hiring extra employees from 45 to 60 to 75 new employees. • Grow Big: this by increasing sales to 40 people form 6 originally and then increasing head count to 150 people by end of 2009. This equates to approximately 200% growth year on year. Currently all options seem to be very good for Zuora as Zuora is not in a dire straits as of now. However it would be beneficial for Zuora to move towards the expansion of cloud computing. This is more of the midlevel strategy of all items. They can moderately expand their work force and already successful sales team. By doing such things they can focus on their core market without losing their identity and becoming too far spread apart. Also this will also ensure that they are not put into a major cash flow difficulty and it gives them time to develop and improve their brand. Overall this is a risky but also maintainable plan for...
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...His first novel was Everything is Illuminated (2002) which “received a lot of praise from major publications and well known authors and won The Guardian's First Book Award and The National Jewish Book Award, and it was named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. It was also adapted to a film starring Elijah Wood in 2005” (Gale). His other novels include Tree of Codes (2016), Here I am (2010) and Eating Animals (2009). Along with Everything is Illuminated, two of his other works were turned into films or documentaries; both Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Eating...
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...Cloud Computing Due to the relative infancy of cloud computing and lack of knowledge the IT infrastructure has, I have decided to provide some information about the platform. Cloud computing can be looked upon as a “virtual server”( http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means- 031). Lets break it down for a better understanding. I am going to define cloud by breaking it Down in seven sections. Saas Saas is a type of cloud computing. This device would allows an organization to reach many of its customers with a single application.(http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud- computing-really-means-031). Here are a list of advantages. • Responsibility is on the vendor • Cost effectiveness • Total cost of ownership is low • Accessibility • Maintenance upkeep Utility Computing By definition utility computing is when services are provided to a customer on demand. In other words they are charged for a specific usage rather then a flat rate. Some of the concerns of management can be resolved in the utilization of this form of cloud computing. Here is a list of advantages obtained through implementation. • IT usage can be driven measured up or down • Are department has growing computer needs so this would serve beneficial • Reduction of cost and maximizing assets • Projects are a staple in our office division, therefore this utilization would again prove beneficial (http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx...
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...IOLP Evaluation As part of my beauty therapy level 3 qualification we had to complete the topic epilation (unit 307). To complete this unit we needed to complete practical assessments and theory, we also had to complete an online test (E-Volve). We were required to carry out lessons in key skills, improving our own learning and performance. As a class we were set a task in which each student had to give a presentation to the rest of the class on a topic to do with epilation. The topics were chosen by our tutor and I was given; consultation techniques. I broke this down into headings such as; benefits to clients, benefits to the therapist, contra-indications and factors to be considered. I found my research using ‘moodle’, my level 3 beauty booklets, handouts, and the internet. I then broke my research into sections and used this to produce my power point. Once I had presented my power point I had to give my class a task to complete relating to the power point. The task I chose was a word search. By completing this task to prepare a power point, I found that it helped me to develop my communication skills. I also found it helpful that once I had finished my task my class gave me feedback as well as my tutor on how I preformed. All the information I put into my power point I found that it helped my peers with their revision for their E-Volve’s. I feel that this task really benefited me as it made me improve my revision strategies and re-cap on information. To complete the practical...
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...Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). The name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts remote services with a user's data, software and computation. There are many types of public cloud computing:[1] Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Platform as a service (PaaS) Software as a service (SaaS) Storage as a service (STaaS) Security as a service (SECaaS) Data as a service (DaaS) Database as a service (DBaaS) Test environment as a service (TEaaS) Desktop virtualization API as a service (APIaaS) Backend as a service (BaaS) In the business model using software as a service, users are provided access to application software and databases. The cloud providers manage the infrastructure and platforms on which the applications run. SaaS is sometimes referred to as “on-demand software” and is usually priced on a pay-per-use basis. Saas providers generally price applications using a subscription fee. Proponents claim that the SaaS allows a business the potential to reduce IT operational costs by outsourcing hardware and software maintenance and support to the cloud provider. This will enable a business to reallocate IT operations to focus on other IT goals. In addition, the application is hosted centrally, so updates can be released without users having to reinstall...
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...Table of Content: Page Number Answer 3 Appendix 6 Refences 7 Career theory has begun since the early 20th century. As the changing nature of world, career theory experiences major transition from time to time to achieve an applicable theory. This essay will discuss and analyse the literature about career theory in the early 21st Century. Sonnenfeld (1982) has described career theory as theory which attempts to explain occupational variables such as type of job and income or psychological variables such as job satisfaction and job-related stress. Career development began from Frank Parsons’ work where he predicts a person’s career choices from the his characteristics, including self-knowledge, career planning and “true reasoning”(Patton et al, 2006). Later, several aptitude tests were used in the assessment of unemployed workers which led to the development of trait-factor approaches. Fitzgerald (1992) suggested that the trait-factor approach can be attributed to the combination of Parsons matching models with the concepts and technology of individual differences. As consequences, trait-factor theory implies on the match or fit between individual’s characteristics and work environment , emphasizing on the relationship between knowledge about self and knowledge about environment (Betz, 1989). Collin (1986) has argued that the major thrust in career theory has centred on individual rather than on contextual factors. However, Holland’s...
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...ABSTRACT: Cloud computing involves storing, managing and processing data on remote servers owned by various users on the network instead of making use of a local server or a personal computer. The prime service models include the Platform-as-a-service model(PaaS), Software- as- a- service model (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service model (IaaS). IaaS is a third party service model which makes use of hardware, software, servers, storage and other infrastructure modules on behalf of the users on the network. IaaS provides the connected users with a web-based service to create, obliviate and administer storage and systems. Security remains a big issue of concern especially because the other service models run on top of the infrastructure layer. PaaS provides hardware and software equipments required for the development of applications to it’s users over the worldwide web. PaaS provides access to Application Program Interfaces( APIs) and other equipments necessary or developing applications without having to install the developing environment. SaaS gives the connected users access to software/ services available on the cloud. SaaS requires the Web Browser to to access the applications hosted by the cloud. Although this concept provides ease in terms of cost- cutting and low management requirement of systems, the data remains vulnerable to unauthorized interference and misuse. This poses a threat to data security which becomes a great concern on multiple levels and dimensions...
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...Literature Review While looking at the case of the Louisiana purchase, five key theories to negotiation are prevalent throughout the negotiation; Concession making, Contending, Matching, Reciprocation and the Psychological theory of international relations as seen in The Kennedy Experiment. Starting with Dean G. Pruitt and Peter J. Carnevale’s, Negotiation in Social Conflict, we shall review what the authors say about concession making and contending and whether or not we are in agreement with the theories stated. Pruitt and Carnevale discuss Concession making as “reducing one’s goals, demands, or offers.” (Pruitt and Carnevale 1993). Pruitt continues to say that when concession is made, it always provides less of a benefit to oneself. It is important to highlight that when saying that concession are usually beneficial to the other party, Pruitt does state this to be an “assumption” (Pruitt and Carnevale 1993). Therefore, what Pruitt is trying to get across is that the assumption is not always a valid one. He states that, “Reductions in demands usually involve reductions in the goals underlying these demands, which are also sometimes called concessions.” (Pruitt and Carnevale 1993). Concession making can have various effects on the negotiation at hand. Pruitt outlines three interrelated findings concerning the impact of concession making on negotiation outcomes, they are; If agreement is reached, firmer negotiators will usually achieve larger outcomes, firmness tends...
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...Chapter 7 Attitude & Persuasion * The power of attitude: * Attitude: a lasting, general evaluation of people, objects, advertisements, or issues. * Attitude object (AO): anything toward which one has an attitude. * Functional theory of attitude: * Utilitarian Function: Relates to rewards & punishment. * Value-expressive function: Expresses consumer’s values or self-concept. * Ego-defensive function: Protect ourselves from external threats or internal feelings. * Knowledge function: Need for order, structure or meaning. * ABC model of attitude: * An attitude has three components: •Affect: the way a consumer feels about an attitude object. •Behavior: person’s intentions to do something with regard to an attitude object. •Cognition: beliefs a consumer has about an attitude object. * The standard learning hierarchy: Assumes that a person approaches a product decision as a problem-solving process. * The low-involvement hierarchy: Assumes the consumer initially does not have strong preferences for one brand over another and instead forms an evaluation only after she has bought the product. * The experiential hierarchy: We act on our emotional reactions. * Attitude toward advertisement: * We form attitudes toward objects other than the product that can influence our product selections. * We often form product attitudes from its ads. * Ad: attitude toward advertiser + evaluations of ad execution...
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...ResearchBeam has announced a new Report Package "Telco Cloud Market (Industry) Share, Growth, Opportunities, Technology, Analysis, Report" Report Overview Can telcos compete with the heavyweights? This report provides an in-depth exploration of telecom carriers’ positioning and strategies in the enterprise cloud computing market. It identifies the impediments and assets that telcos have in establishing a solid and lasting foothold in the different cloud segments: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. The report also delivers an analysis of how telcos and the market’s dominant players are positioned in each cloud segment and supplies estimates of telcos’ share of the cloud computing market, along with revenue projections for the next five years. Slideshow contents The cloud market, 2014 - 2018 • A market that keeps on growing See Complete Details at: http://www.researchbeam.com/telco-cloud-market Telcos’ role in the cloud • Assets telcos can leverage to get them out of their slump • Multiple distribution channels Telcos’ cloud strategies • Strategies that vary from telco to telco • Still only a small share of the main markets • IaaS and SaaS market opportunities • Telcos can expect solid growth up to 2018 Enquire About Report at: http://www.researchbeam.com/telco-cloud-market/enquire-about-report Companies covered in the report • Cisco • Cloud Foundry • CloudBees • CSC • Dell • Deutsche Telekom • EMC • Engine Yard • eyeOS • GoGrid • Google •...
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...Cloud Computing Cloud Computing is all the rage these days. The problem seems to be that everyone has a different definition of what it is. As a metaphor for the internet , “the cloud” is a familiar enough term, but when you add “computing” to it, the meaning starts to become a little bigger and fuzzier. Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing as an updated version of utility computing: essentially virtual computers available over the internet. Others have a much broader definition, saying that anything you access outside the firewall is “in the cloud”, including regular outsourcing. The meaning of cloud computing comes into focus when you think about what IT always needs: ways to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without adding more infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing software. Cloud Computing encapsulates any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that extends existing capabilities over the internet. Cloud Computing is in the early stages of development with a small crew of providers big and small delivering a buffet of cloud-based services, from full blown apps to storage services and spam filtering. Today, for the most part, It must plug into cloud-based services individually. But cloud computing advocators and innovators are already surfacing to change it in bold new ways. InfoWorld talked to a bunch of vendors, analysts, and IT customers to squeeze out the various components of cloud computing...
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...[pic] Internal Assessment Resource Physics Level 3 |This resource supports assessment against: | |Achievement Standard 91521 | |Carry out a practical investigation to test a physics theory relating two variables in a non-linear relationship | |Resource title: Baby bouncer | |4 credits | |This resource: | |Clarifies the requirements of the Standard | |Supports good assessment practice | |Should be subjected to the school’s usual assessment quality assurance process | |Should be modified to make the context relevant to students in their school environment and ensure that submitted | |evidence is authentic | |Date version published by Ministry of |December 2012 ...
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