...Draper Inc., internally is a great company that has presented themselves as a strong and time withstanding company. The company has made it through various economic hardships within the US and still has remained in the black. One hundred and eleven years of service shows has Draper has adapted with them times and continue to grow their business. Window shades being their primary product of substance has still remained true over one hundred plus years. With churches and schools being the primary market then and now it shows that Draper has put their staple of making quality products and even evolved the products sold. At one point window shades were the strong hold of their products for sixty years. Those sixty years represent more than fifty percent of time Draper has been in operation. Speaking of the growth of Draper they have moved from just projection screens and window shades to mass manufacturing of gym equipment. The growth of the gym equipment to small grade school to high school to big name Universities where the next rising athlete practices to be the next all-star. Draper has everything to regular basketball hoops to a full volleyball set up with net, divider screens and referee stand. Draper can accommodate a school with every need a regular physical education class would need or make a gymnasium into a perfect haven for Friday night varsity basketball games. The gym equipment is starting to become Draper’s new primary product and bread winner. Even though each...
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...Freakonomics : Study of economics based on the principle of incentives. Incentives means of urging to do more of a good thing or less of a bad thing. :A The Authors identify three kinds: 1. Economic Incentivesperson responds in the marketplace – 2. Social Incentivesmotivate people to respond in a certain way – because they care (or are worried) about how they’ll be viewed by others 3. Moral Incentivesappeal to a person’s sense of right versus wrong – Informational Asymmetry : Situation in which one party has more information than the other party. Snob Effect : The desired to own exclusive or unique goods. The demand increases as the price increases. Freakonomics provided me with concrete illustrations of how unconventional methods of data collection and analysis are often necessary to make sense of the world. Knowing what to measure (and how to measure) data makes a complicated world ... somewhere less complicated. As I read the dumbstrucking Freakonomics, I found this quote, “If you learn how to look at data in the right way, you can explain riddles that otherwise might have seemed impossible. Because there is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction." Introduction, pg. 13. This quote follows exactly what I said previously perfectly. Chapter 1: HAT DO ALL SCHOOLTEACHERS AND SUMO W WRESTLERS HAVE IN COMMON? The authors begin by defining economics as nothing more than the...
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...STUDENT’S GUIDE TO Prepared by S. Clayton Palmer and Adjunct Instructor Department of Economics Weber State University & Westminster College of Salt Lake J. Lon Carlson Associate Professor Department of Economics Illinois State University PREFACE Introduction Welcome to the Student’s Guide to Freakonomics! The purpose of this guide is to help you better understand the analyses presented in Freakonomics by providing a sort of “bridge” between the material covered in a traditional course in economic principles and topics addressed in what we consider to be one of the most fascinating books we’ve encountered in economics literature. Many students view economics as a very difficult, if not impossible, course to master.This perception is, however, most likely based on observations of the experiences of other students who did not apply the proper approach to learning economics. In many courses, simple memorization is enough. In economics, we would argue, this is not the case.While you need to understand the meaning of basic terms and concepts, you also need to be able to apply economic concepts in specific situations. In other words, you need to develop the ability to think like an economist.The authors of Freakonomics certainly show the reader how to do just that.The material presented here is intended to make the job a little easier. Organization of the Student’s Guide We organized the material in this guide to help you identify the key points in each chapter and check to ensure...
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...HOME ECONOMICS: AN INSTRUMENT TO THE FUTURE LIFE OF STUDENTS Home Economics is the profession and field of study that deals with the economics and management of the home and community. Home economics is a field of formal study including such topics as consumer education, institutional management, interior design, home furnishing, cleaning, handicrafts, sewing, clothing and textiles, cooking, nutrition, food preservation, hygiene, child development, and family relationships. It prepares students for homemaking or professional careers. Home Economics is also known as Family and Consumer Sciences. It is study at all levels of education concerned with training for effective home and family living. This includes educating the individual for family life; improving services and goods used in home; and conducting research to discover the changing needs of individuals and families and the means of satisfying those needs. (Colliers Encyclopedia, V.12). In the 1800s, home economics classes were intended to ready young women for their duties in the home. Classes were first in the United States, Canada and Great Britain, followed by Latin America, Asia and Africa. International organizations such as those associated with the United Nations have been involved in starting home economics programs around the world. (Wikipedia.org, 2013) Home economics is taught at the junior secondary level while senior secondary school introduces students to the rudiments of Home management and Food...
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...THE Effects of THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (4P’S) on the economic status OF THE THIRTY (30) BENEFICIARIES OF BARANGAY LATI, BALINDONG, LANAO DEL SUR CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM A. Rationale Poverty has been a problem in the Philippines since time immemorial. Unfortunately, the number of Filipinos suffering from the aforementioned social problem is increasing every year. This is in spite of the poverty alleviation interventions being implemented by the government and numerous civic society groups. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s nine-year term saw the birth and growth of one of her foremost anti-poverty programs – the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program – popularly known as the 4Ps. Pantawid Pamilya is a conditional cash transfer program that provides incentives for poor families to invest in their future by ensuring that mothers and children avail of healthcare and that children go to school. It is a human development program of the national government that invests in the health and education of poor households, particularly of children aged 0-14 years old. The program aims to provide social assistance and social development to its beneficiaries. By providing opportunity for the development of the young, it envisions to prevent the vicious transmission of the cycle of poverty. Pantawid Pamilya helps to fulfill the country’s commitment to meet the Millennium Development Goals. The aforementioned program has been around for quite some...
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...to lead productive lives. It is important than ever to have a college education as it is related to various factors that contribute success in our life. Many people value higher education for monetary reasons, they believe higher education will allow them to find lucrative careers that have high salaries and many opportunities. Moreover, it also teaches us how to deal with a variety of other real-life situations by improving our problems solving skills and ability to communicate with other people to maintain personal relationships. The other important factor of higher education is that it helps us to interact better in a group which may benefit our career later on as it is an essential aspect of any type of work environment. It is my belief that the primary purpose of higher education is and should be the creation of prepared minds. The investment of government in higher education including research labs and May results in the creation of new products and services but definitely results in the production of highly prepared workers needed by industries. Thus the preparation of the mind of these students becomes even more urgent in a society where unemployment is high and everyone is seeking to improve their economic situation. Our society relies on people of good character...
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...| | | | | | Analyze the factors contributing to Gender Disparity in Education Name: Sonam Jamtsho SCM: 019421 Faculty of Education COURSEWORK COVER SHEET COURSE LECTURER’S COPY Name (According to NRIC/PassportSonam Jamtsho | NRIC/Passport NumberG037585 | SEGi Student ID019421 | Current SemesterJune | Name of Course LecturerDr Loh Wah Ching | Course Code | Course NameIntroduction to Education | Assignment Deadline10th July, 2012 | Date of Submission10th July, 2012 | I am submitting (please tick the appropriate box) Other (please specify)__________________ ____________________________________ CD Hardcopy document of ( ) pages | I confirm that this assignment is fully my own work. Student’s Signature: ___________________________________________ I have read and understood the University regulations on plagiarism and cheating as stated in the Student Handbook and declare that the assignment submitted does not breach those regulations. Collected by: ___________________________________________ Table of Content 1. Introduction…………………………………………………..(4) 2. Concept of Gender Disparity…………………………………(5-8) 3. Conclusion…………………………………………………….(9) 4. Reference………………………………………………………(10) Introduction As the world has recognized the importance of education...
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...Introduction Cross Curricular teaching involves a conscious effort to encourage students to apply skills or knowledge acquired through learning at school to more than one subject on their curriculum. A central topic or theme can interlink subjects with each other, and students as a result should be able to learn an aspect of a central topic and apply information learned in one subject to others(Householder & Boulin 1992). As mentioned in Component 1 there are huge advantages to Cross Curricular teaching and learning. However, many students do not or cannot apply the knowledge that they have acquired in one subject to others (www.fromtinyacorns.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/about-transdisciplinary-thematic-learning) Learning beyond subject boundaries provides a student with the opportunity to experience not only learning that is relevant to one subject’s requirements, but also learning information that they will apply to other subjects. This type of learning some students may find to be challenging as they will be studying one topic from many different perspectives. However, with a deeper understanding of a topic, others will find it more interesting and may be encouraged to study the topic even further. Rensick (1989) confirms this stating that in contrast to learning topics in isolation students become more actively engaged in their studies when they participate in cross curricular learning. Cross curricular learning that is based on linking learning experiences and...
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...Barry December 10, 2014 SOC 405*001 Dr. Hardesty Harry Potter and the Sociological Theories Harry Potter is best well known as “the boy who lived” – meaning, he was able to survive an attempt to kill him by Lord Voldemort. When he was just an infant, Lord Voldemort murdered his parents, and he was next- but something kept him protected and ultimately brought Voldemort down. Little Harry, sound asleep, is left by Albus Dumbledore at the door of 4 Privet drive to live with his aunt and uncle—two muggles (non-wizarding folk). Speed ahead to nearly 10 years later. Little Harry is now 10 years old, still living with his aunt and uncle, but strange things are starting to happen in his life. On his cousin Dudley’s birthday, he manages to find friendship in a snake, which he wasn’t aware he could talk to until it started to interact with him, which in turn caused his cousin to notice, and then the class just disappears off of the snake’s habitat and lets the snake loose with no explanation. Not long after that, Harry starts to receive unexplained mail which his aunt and uncle do everything in their power to keep away from him; this includes ripping up the letters burning the letters in the fireplace, closing up the letter slot, etc. But, they aren’t able to keep one letter from getting to him. As the Dursleys and Harry have left their home to seek refuge from Harry getting one of these mysterious letters in a shack by the sea, they get a mysterious visitor the night Harry turns...
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...| 2012 | | XCOM/285 Axia College [Type the author name] | [Business writing Portfolio] | | Reflection What I have learned from business writing and writing techniques can help my in all of my future business endeavors. I have learned when I need to sound more businesslike and when it is appropriate to write more friendly. When writing different documents such as emails, memos, and letters there are different ways to write. When I am writing for school I need to write more academically. The reason is because you are going to school and academics are the way to write. Using bigger words and sounding more formal will help with this. This can help when writing business letters as well. When writing business letters you need to sound more professional because you are sending out a letter. In an email you can be more relaxed because emails are short and to the point and you do not want to take up much of the persons time that is receiving the email. When writing a memo you want to sound professional and get to the point because the memo will be around for awhile. If you are writing business information depending on who is receiving that information you need to decide how professional you need to sound and how the information needs to be. What I have learned from this class will help ensure that I know how to write what I need to and get my point across to whomever I am writing to. Business Writing Graphic Organizer Store Operations Messages ...
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...influence of school environment on career choice Research skills By: Erim Wondergem, Ruben van den Oord and Carlos van Erven Teacher: Beverly Pasian 1 Summary Throughout the years it has been proven that students face a tough time when having to decide what line of career they would like to pursue. Many factors influence career choices of students, from family to friends to personal behaviour and of course, direct environment. School is part of that direct environment. In this research an in-depth view of the influence of school on career choice will be put on paper. The data will be collected with a questionnaire conducted on fourth-year students of the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. They will be exposed to a couple of questions about their career choices, what made them choose for what specific line of career and how they feel about this choice right now. When this data has been collected, conclusions can be drawn and our research question can be answered. 2 Table of Content Summary 2 Introduction 4 Literature Review 5 Research Design 7 Research tools 9 Conclusion Discussion 14 Appendices 15 References 3 14 17 Introduction From the beginning of life people are developing themselves. From learning how to walk, learning how to talk, learning how to read to developing as a person. By going to school one develops one’s knowledge and skills. With this process of going to school, studying...
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...Name: Lam Nguyen Date:03/17/2012 Management 303 SWOT Analysis DeVry University DeVry is the private university was founded in Chicago and opened in 1931 as the DeForest Training School, named after Lee DeForest , a colleague and friend of founder Herman A. DeVry is a global provider of educational services and the parent organization of Advanced Academics, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Becker Professional Education, Carrington College, Carrington College California, Chamberlain College of Nursing, DeVry Brasil, DeVry University, and Ross University Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Our institutions offer a wide array of programs in business, healthcare and technology. We serve students in secondary through postsecondary education as well as professionals in accounting and finance. DeVry has an enrollment of 80,000+ undergraduate and graduate students. According to the university 237,000+ students have graduated since 1975. The university has more than 90 campuses throughout North America and confers degrees in technology, science, business, the arts, and management. DeVry's purpose is to empower its students to achieve their educational and career goals in the fastest time they can do. DeVry has many Strengths and Weaknesses in their system: About Strengths: * Brand Name is the first strength DeVry has. DeVry has a strong brand name in University system. With the long and good history, DeVry has a good credit school for student...
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...its causes and effects on the Turkish population Maastricht University | | | | School of Business & Economics | | | | Place & date: | Maastricht,08 December 2014 | Name, initials: | Canli, T | ID number: | 6091093 | Study: | International Business | Course code: | ebc1009 | Group number: | 1 | Tutor name: | Pierfrancesco, Guarino | Writing tutor name: | Campbell, Gabriel | Writing assignment: | Main Paper (Task 10) | | | t.canli@maastrichtuniversity.nl Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Income Inequality and its components 2 3. Gini coefficient and inequality 3 4. Turkey´s economic structure 3 5. Wage distribution in Turkey 4 6. Main causes of inequality 5 6.1 Return on capital and increase of economic input 5 6.2 Relationships between people and social mobility 5 7. Effects on Turkish population 6 7.1 Education, child labor and social mobility 6 8. Possible solutions 7 9. Conclusion 8 10. Works Cited 9 11. Figures 10 12. Tables 10 1. Introduction In the past decades the topic “Economic Inequality” has risen in popularity. The reason for this trend is mostly because economic inequality has risen drastically around the world. There are many forms of economic inequality, e.g. gender inequality, regional disparities, and wage inequality, only to name a few. Thus many politicians are discussing about economic inequality, particularly in Turkey. The largest driving force behind these discussions...
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...Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary School Education History School-based Assessment Task One Study Outline Name of Student : Cheng Ho Wai, Gavin Class : 5A Class No.: 06 Title : Compare and contrast economic policies of Stalin (5 Years Plan) and Mao (First 5 Year Plan & Three Red Banners) Study Outline : The first half of the 20th century saw the rise of some single-party states and the rise to power of some of the famous and controversial figures. Leaders of these states, such as Hitler, Mao and Stalin, not only influenced other countries around the world, but also changed their countries internally as well. In Russia and China, Stalin and Mao built themselves up as a great and god-like leaders, they promoted personality cult and also forced their countries to go under a series of reforms, especially in the aspect of economy. As both of them are leader of communist countries, their aim of economic policies are likely to be the same. However, there are still some differences to be seen. Now, I would like to compare the economic policies of the supreme leaders in the world history. Compare of Stalin and Mao .The conditions of Stalin and Mao are similar. Their countries both faced a hand-to-mouth existence at that time. In order to improve the livelihood of the people and to solid the rule of the communists, they both introduced economic reforms. However, their reforms were different from each other and brought different blessing to their...
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...Student’s Name Teacher’s Name Course Title Date The Chinese came into the United States as early as 1835 where they immigrated because of various reasons. China during that time was a harsh environment to live in and full of turmoil. The country experienced political upheaval with wars and rebellion making life unbearable. It was for this reason that many immigrants were escaping in order to find a refuge in the United States. In addition, due to floods, there was destroying of farmlands, which meant that no crops could grow. The loss of food coupled with loss of land to the oppressive regime that was imposing high taxes meant that the Chinese people faced the danger of starvation. In a bid to find economic reprieve, many Chinese men and women left their homes to try their luck in the new land of opportunities namely, United States. A census carried out in the United States in 1860 put the number of Chinese immigrants at 35,000. Life at the United States did not start rosy for the immigrants and they met hostility and outright discrimination. There are significant differences in the economic and social situations of immigrants during this period. Economically, the Chinese were poor. This was because the immigrants were mostly peasants and not educated. They therefore could not get high level jobs and were mostly laborers. In fact, they worked on the Central Pacific Railway line, making up at to 90% of the workers. This is because they were willing to take lower wages than...
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