...The world's major economies are drowning in debt--Europe, the U.S., Japan, China. We all know the U.S. has tried to save its drowning economy by bailing out the parasite which is dragging it to Davy Jones Locker--the banking/financial sector-- and by borrowing and squandering $6 trillion in new Federal debt and buying toxic debt with $2 trillion whisked into existance on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet. It has failed, of course, and the economy is once again slipping beneath the waves while Ben Bernanke and the politico lackeys join in a Keynesian-monetary cargo-cult chant: Humba-humba, bunga-bunga. Their hubris doesn't allow them to confess their magic has failed, and rather than let their power be wrenched away, they will let the flailing U.S. economy drown. Europe has managed to top this hubris-drenched cargo-cult policy--no mean feat. First, it has indebted itself to a breathtaking degree, on every level: sovereign, corporate and private: Germany, the mighty engine which is supposed to pull the $16 trillion drowning European economy out of the water, is as indebted as the flailing U.S. Second, the euro's handlers have already sunk staggering sums into hopelessly insolvent debtor nations, for example, Greece, which has 355 billion euros of outstanding sovereign debt and an economy with a GDP around 200 billion euros (though it's contracting so rapidly nobody can even guess the actual size). According to BusinessWeek, the E.U. (European Union), the ECB (European Central...
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...In the book, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia, authors Joao Jose Reis and Arthur Brakel discuss the Bahia slave rebellion in Brazil. In Bahia, slaves are the backbone of the economy. According to Reis and Brakel, “slaves made up the great bulk of the laboring class and were political, social, and economic subordinates of the planters”. After Brazil became an independent nation, Bahia faces an economic downturn that leads to declines in employment, as well as inflation. Due to these instabilities, there are small revolts that occurred from both the public and slaves. It was from these issues, that the 1835 rebellion will evolve. The rebels plan for the rebellion to take place on a Muslim holiday, known as Our Lady...
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...turned into fence jumping and window crawling. Liesel's growing and declining habit of stealing books has an overall domino effect on her life, which is threaded through each page of The Book Thief. In the end, Liesel’s thievery keeps her alive. The Grave Digger’s Handbook was the first to be in the possession of Liesel Meminger. It was black with silver writing on the cover, found lodged in the snow of a “nameless” (22) town. After the burial of her little brother, Werner, had been cut short and Liesel and her mother would soon again board the train from the cemetery (this time with one less person), Liesel spotted the rectangular...
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...Pain is something that we need to help us learn from our decisions. In the book The Giver it shows that very well. The Giver by Lois is a book about a futuristic world in which there exists no pain, no war, and very little emotion. In this utopia, everything is as nice as possible. When people become too old or brake rules, they are “released". Although they do not realize it, those who are released are actually killed. A boy named Jonas who is turning twelve and that’s when the citizens get a job but Jonas gets chosen to be the receiver of memories who holds all the memories of the world before along with all the pain so no one else has to. When he starts his training he meets the Giver who is the previous receiver who the gives him the...
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...there are various key themes that Harper Lee includes, ranging from the importance of family all the way to innocence. One of the most recurring themes in the book is moral development.In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee conveys the theme that self control reveals a person’s higher moral development when Scout refuses to fight the boy that is bullying her, when Atticus compliments the woman that was screaming insults at his children, and when Atticus walks away after Robert Ewell spit in his face. One scene in To Kill A Mockingbird where Harper Lee displays the integrity needed to execute self control is when Scout is being antagonized by a boy at her school about how her father is defending Tom Robinson, and when asked to fight, she decides, instead, to walk away. She was tempted to attain revenge, but then she, “drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped [her] fists and walked away” (Lee 102). She was mentally strong, and instead of listening to the angry voices inside of her, she followed the advice of her elders. It was a major milestone for her, as it was, “...first time [she] had ever walked away from a fight” (Lee 102)....
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...Defeating the Enemy’s Will: The Psychological Foundations of Maneuver Warfare DAVID A. GROSSMAN The will to fight is at the nub of all defeat mechanisms … One should always look for a way to break the enemy’s will and capacity to resist. Brig. Gen. Huba Wass de Czege Defeating the enemy’s will. That is the essence of maneuver warfare, that you defeat the enemy’s will to fight rather than his ability to fight. But how do you defeat a man’s mind? We can measure and precisely quantify the mechanics of defeating the enemy’s ability to fight, and it is this tangible, mathematical quality that makes attacking the enemy’s physical ability to fight so much more attractive than attacking the enemy’s psychological will to fight. At some level none of us can truly be comfortable when we dwell on the fact that our destiny as soldiers and military leaders ultimately depends on something as nebulous and unquantifiable as an enemy’s “will,” and we are tempted to ignore such aspects of warfare. But somewhere in the back of our minds, a still, small voice reminds us that ultimately the paths of victory run not through machinery and material, but through the hearts and minds of human beings. So what is the foundation of the will to fight and kill in combat and what are the vulnerable points in this foundation? In short: what are the psychological underpinnings of maneuver warfare? To answer these questions, students of maneuver warfare must truly understand, as we have never understood before...
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...35 miles south-west of Pleiku). The battle derives its name from the Drang River which runs through the valley northwest of Plei Me, in which the engagement took place. "Ia" means "river" in the local Montagnard language. The battle was fought between the US 7'th Cavalry's newly established Air Mobile forces and a mixture of Viet-Cong guerilla's and highly trained North Vietnam Army troops. General Moore was a Lieutenant Colonel at the time of this battle and commanded the 1'st Battalion 7'th Cavalry forces. The opposition was lead by General Nguyen Huu An who commanded elements of the 304'th Division of the PAVN (People's Army Vietnam) and the Viet Cong. The battle is described in great detail by Lt. General Moore(Ret.) who wrote the book...
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...Running Head: CHANGE MANAGEMENT Proposed Change Program for AVIVA [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institution] Table of Contents Introduction 2 Discussion 2 Leading and managing change 2 Challenges and problem of managing and leading change at Aviva 3 Change strategy for Aviva 4 Change interventions for Aviva 6 Enabling continuous change 7 Change program limitations 8 Conclusion 9 References 9 Proposed Change Program for AVIVA Introduction This assignment aims to analyze the challenges and problems which are being faced by renowned insurance company Aviva following the decision of downsizing due to moving several hundred jobs to India as a outsourcing strategy to remain competitive in the market. The company is facing difficulties while implementing change management programs in their organization. In this assignment, change strategy will be proposed relevant to the problems company is facing and specific interventions would be introduced during the process of change. Moreover, suggestions will be given on sustaining the change for a longer period of time while defining the limitations of the change program. Discussion Leading and managing change Organization change is important for the strategic growth of the organization however, it is always met with employees’ resistance. The repercussion of this resistance put up by employees can be drastic and cause serious disturbance in the organization. It is important for the organization to study...
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...The book also describes things like “Men who followed the church and were "chosen" were allowed to vote.” So clearly we have come a long way from where we were in the 1600’s. That being said, we still have a long way to go.Let's start with sports for example. Simple things like praying before and after a game is being ridiculed and most of the time leads to suspensions and firing of players, coaches, and Athletic Directors. One great example of the reason why sports and religion don't mix is the rise and fall of the 2007 Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow. The standout college quarterback hasn't taken a snap in the NFL since 2012. He hasn't started since that miraculous season in 2011 where he happened to lead the Denver Broncos to six straight wins in the regular season and even won a playoff game against the conference favorite Pittsburg Steelers. So why can't this “winner “get a third-string job in the NFL? W. James Antle lll, a managing...
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...‘How do you stay so strong? How did you hide it all for so long? How can I take the pain away? How can I save… a Fallen Angel?’ Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, is a haunting story about young boys joining a war they were never meant to be in. Richard Perry is the main character who lives in Harlem, New York, and he faces various challenges along the way. Originally Perry leaves for the war because he wants to escape the humiliation of not having enough money to pursue college. Considering this, he has to fight in Vietnam, and along the way he also loses his innocence. Throughout the novel, Perry soon becomes fully aware that he is not cut out for war because of the careless mistakes he makes within it. On all accounts of the book, Richie...
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...Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 1- Introduction ................................................................................................................. 2 Why Human Resources? ..................................................................................... 2 Why Shell Company? .......................................................................................... 2 1-1- 1-2- 2- Constraints on Shell’s Human Resource Strategies ..................................................... 3 IT systems for fully decentralized geographically company .................................. 3 Operating as part of the local community ............................................................ 3 Highly skilled nature of new jobs ......................................................................... 3 2-1- 2-2- 2-3- 3- Analyzing Shell’s constraints according to the book’s categorization ........................... 4 4- Shell’s solutions for constraints on Human Resource Strategy .................................... 6 Using Technology to transform HR...................................................................... 6 Implementing concept of fairness and equity........................................................ 7 Connecting new business goals with talent recruitment policies ............................ 8 4-1- 4-2- 4-3- 5-...
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...struggling in the market place and declining more and more every quarter. As a result of its failure here and the success of such powerhouses in the tablet market such as Asus and Samsung (yes, them), its market-share of tablet sales for the quarter plunged to 1.9% from 4.6%. That’s a massive failure (Greenfield, 2013). The Nook is the company’s saving grace but it’s just not growing at any rate what so ever. The article states that the Nook is the company’s biggest hope in the face of the declining physical retail business (Greenfield, 2013). This is really a huge problem for this company with not much opportunity in the current market. 2. Barnes and Noble haven’t done much to address these issues besides firing their CEO. The company has the false hope that they still have a shot in the tablet market with that being their saving grace. Barnes and Noble are doing the right thing marketing to college students which make a solid profit. There’s still a need for physical stores because people still want a hard copy book. However, digitally they are struggling are getting away from what they used to do best, which was their retail experience which has took a turn for the worse. Their marketing strategy is failing and they are a ticking time bomb in this market. If Barnes and Noble’s don’t shift to focusing on their retail experience itself instead of the failed nook, the company will be a lame duck waiting to go under in a world where things change every...
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...Gregg Zoroya’s book, “The Chosen Few,” provides a comprehensive account over the small skirmishes and the three major battles that paratroopers from Chosen Company—and soldiers from sister units, pilots, and faithful allies who assisted—of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade fought during their fifteen-month deployment to Afghanistan that ended in the summer of 2008. Paratroopers, from all walks of life, would come together and face some of the most daring battles, exhibit heroism and courage, and make the most of their limited resources. This Battle study will offer an analysis over the three major battles: Ranch House, the Ambush, and the Battle of Wanat. I will draw an extensive examination on the...
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...Strategy Recommendation Pre-Writing Lutricia Hunter Capella University ABSTRACT A strategy recommendation is a business plan that is use to make a business more profitable and efficient. A business uses strategy recommendations to create goals and strategies for the company. Strategy recommendations help a business to better understand what a customer wants. The presented assignment I will discuss the strategy recommendation for JcPenney. This assignment will identify the specific business that I will use for the recommendation, the reason why I chose that particular business, and two academic resources from the Capella University’s Library. A strategy recommendation is a business plan that is use to make a business more profitable and efficient. A business uses strategy recommendations to create goals and strategies for the company. Strategy recommendations help a business to better understand what a customer wants. The presented assignment will discuss the strategy recommendation for JC Penney. This assignment will identify the specific business that I will use for the recommendation, the reason why I chose that particular business, and two academic resources from the Capella University’s Library. Identity of the Specific Business That I Will Use For Strategy Recommendation The business that I will be using for my strategy recommendation is JC Penney. JcPenney was created in Kemmerer, WY in 1902 by James Cash Penney. Penney called his first store the “Golden...
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...` Philip Combs Jed Wyman WR121 05 May 2011 A Controlled Mayhem By: Philip Combs The idea of boot camp is dreaded by most everyone that has to face the reality of replacing their nice, warm, loving, and familiar home environment with military barracks, filled with drill sergeants who are now your over bearing parents, and hundreds of other people of the same sex who are now your wretchedly unhappy brothers or sisters. The amiable bedroom where you lay your head to rest so often is gone, but don’t worry, you’ll now have a new bedroom to sleep in, the carpet is replaced with concrete floors, your bed has grown legs stretching upward to support the second mattress laying above you, and your privacy is now shared with 10 other stinky human beings, all as homesick and miserable as you. The closet where you had all of your dirty laundry thrown in a ragged pile in the corner has transformed into a wall locker that includes a cabinet with three pull out drawers, and exactly 18 hangers, no more, no less. Don’t worry though, in this essay I’m going to provide you with enough information to help you prepare for your 9 weeks of controlled mayhem, and help you get a glimpse of what to expect, allowing you to make an educated decision, hopefully before you have signed the dotted line. I’m going to start by explaining how to prepare for BCT (basic combat training). After enlisting and taking your oath of allegiance you will be given your ship...
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