...Gary Stanley Becker (December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014)[1] was an American economist. He was professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago and at the Booth School of Business. He made important contributions to the family economics branch of economics. Neoclassical analysis of family within the family economics is also called new home economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.[2] He was a Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson senior fellow at the conservative[3] Hoover Institution, located at Stanford University. Becker was one of the first economists to branch into what were traditionally considered topics belonging to sociology, including racial discrimination, crime, family organization, and drug addiction (see rational addiction). He was known for arguing that many different types of human behavior can be seen as rational and utility maximizing. His approach included altruistic behavior of human behavior by defining individuals' utility appropriately. He was also among the foremost exponents of the study of human capital. Becker was also credited with the "rotten kid theorem." Born to a Jewish family[4] in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Becker earned a B.A. at Princeton University in 1951, and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1955 with thesis titled The Economics of Racial Discrimination.[5] At Chicago, Becker was influenced by Milton Friedman, whom Becker...
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...Gary Leon Ridgeway Michel Marquez Keiser University 08/13/2013 Gary Leon Ridgeway Gary was a ruthless serial killer that targeted prostitutes in King County, Washington. In 1982 women stared disappearing around King County because of Gary Ridgeway but at the time the police had no idea who he was. The first young lady that Gary Ridgeway kidnapped and killed was 16 year old Wendy Lee Coffield. The police found her in a river called The Green River, since the police obviously did not know the name of the killer they began calling him The Green River Killer after finding the next four bodies in the same river. Gary Ridgeway would kidnap these females mostly prostitutes strangle them and then would drop them off in a variation of places but mostly in The Green River thus dubbed The Green River Killer. The King County police department had no way of knowing that Coffield (Gary’s first victim) represented the beginning of a savage killing spree that would last for years, with the majority of the murders occurring from 1982 through 1984. Gary was not very smart in school and witnessed his parents fighting occasionally. His childhood life was full of reasons that would point to why he ended up doing the things he did. Gary was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Gary he was the middle son of Mary Rita Steinman and Thomas Newton Ridgway. During his childhood he was a very poor student but did not appear to be out of the normal...
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...Dr. Gary A. Kildall APA Format Sixth Edition Edward Winters ITT Tech Abstract The article on Gary A. Kildall was a very good read. It tells about a man who owned a company called Digital Research. In this article it tells a story about the life and death of Gary who was on the brink of discovering untold amounts of unknown digital software for the pc (personal computer). The note on page 14 of the Computer Structure and Logics textbook tells about a time that Digital Research refused an offer from IBM ( and that opened the door for a company called Microsoft which, caused Digital Research to lose in the race of software development. The article on Gary A. Kildall was a very enlightening read. This was a good article because it tells about an intelligent man that created the basis of our pc operating systems today. The software that CP/M / Digital Research created is great and all should know about it Without it we may not have gotten as far as we have with technology today. This article plus the “gray” note on page 14 tells a story about a man who took great interest in his work. When IBM tried to sell him short or give him an offer to work for them he told them that he didn’t like the offer and he turned them down. Well this gave Microsoft a chance to come in and take the deal, but what’s funny about that is Microsoft went and reverse engineered the Digital...
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...Ramroop, Kevin (Part 3) Part 1: Gary Leon Ridgway is one of the America’s most prolific serial killers known as the Green River Killer. Gary Ridgway went on to plead guilty to killing 49 women throughout the 1980s and 1990s and he was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence. During interrogation after his arrest, Ridgway admitted to killing closer to 80 women over two decades, though many of these remain unconfirmed. Ridgway is an extreme incarnation of a brutal misogynist, considered killing female prostitutes a "career." He felt proud of what he did, and thought he was damn good at it. “For two decades, citizens of King County were terrorized by the nation’s most prolific serial killer,”...
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...The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer portrays the execution of Gary Gilmore and the events leading up to it. Mailer is found to notable for his portrayal of Gilmore in The Executioner’s Song through the way he tells the storyline behind the murders Gilmore had committed. The Executioner’s Song was primarily made to represent the national debate over the death sentence. Mailer romanticizes Gilmore life, decisions and death by using several rhetorical strategies to apply Gilmore's story to the audience. Mailer novelized the story of Gary Gilmore as the first person to be legally executed in the United States following the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Gilmores execution occurred in Utah which is centered...
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...“It takes a lot of courage and trust to look past what you’ve been through, and trust someone new not to put you through it again” ~ Anonymous. Many people have been through a tough time in the past that changes them forever. Sometimes, they lose their trust. This relates to Joseph In Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt in a myriad of ways. Jack meets his new foster brother, Joseph. Before Joseph came, he already knew three things about his past life. Jack tells a one of a kind story of Joseph. All Joseph wants is to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen before. At first, Jack did not know how urgently he will want to help. Joseph and Jack are confronted by many obstacles but, gets through them together. Gary Schmidt uses...
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...After Brian’s parents are divorced, Brian is going to his father's house to see him. Since the plane crashes Brian does not get see his his father. But through this book, Gary Paulsen lets us know how hard it might be and how little fun it could really be living in the woods with literally nothing. Thanks to Gary Paulsen we now have a successful book with a main character, and a plot. In this book Brian, who is the main character who is lost in the Canadian forest far away from any town or city where he is fighting to stay alive. Brian has literally nothing except a hatchet and a old rady tady windbreaker and some money that he later uses to start a fire. As any other kid who is lost in the forest, he was scared and had no hope. He waited more than a month and nothing came for him, but he is still waiting for a plane to come. He would start the fire for the people to see and they would turn back and save him. Brian who...
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...The new book from Gary Hamel shows you how to win in a world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation. Learn more and read an exclusive excerpt at the MIX The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.” Hamel’s landmark books, which have been translated into more than 20 languages, include Competing for the Future, Leading the Revolution and The Future of Management (selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year). His latest book, What Matters Now, was published in 2012. Over the past twenty years, Hamel has authored 17 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Financial Times and many other leading publications around the world. He writes an occasional blog for the Wall Street Journal. Since 1983, Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School, where he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management. As a consultant and management educator, Hamel has worked for companies as diverse as General Electric, Time Warner, Nestle, Shell, Best Buy, Procter & Gamble, 3M, IBM, and Microsoft. His pioneering concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation” have changed the practice of management...
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...From construction to lingerie, with 24 years old multimillionaire Gary Martin 1. Define the following terms: a) Fruit machine: is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed. b) Breakthrough: point of inflexion positive. c) To forge a career (there’s an extra point if you know another meaning for the verb “to forge”): It means building up a career. It also means work hard to achieve your aims. d) All singing all dancing (entrepreneur): it is used to describe a diverse, active and versatile person. e) Mind set: attitude. f) A get rich quick scheme: plan to make money in a short period of time. 2. Paraphrase the underlined words/expressions (in context): a)…when he got to run his own nightclub. * …when he got to management his own nightclub. b)…he was well versed in business by that age. * …he was highly familiar with business by that age. c)…managed to sweet-talk 2 local chip shop owners into hosting them. * …managed to persuade 2 local having them in their premises. d)…he was nearly rumbled a few weeks later. * …he was nearly discovered a few weeks later. e) Martin’s keen eye for buying low and selling high… * Martin’s special talent for buying low and selling high… f)…you see profit at that age and you can’t really fathom what it is. * …you see profit at that age and you can’t really don´t understanding what it is. g)…the onset of the credit crunch that really tested Martin’s...
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...customer’s consumption. Gary's Market is a small sized, family owned grocery store that has been in the business since 1979. Gary's Market is one of Memphis best kept secrets for breakfast, lunch, dinner and selling merchandise by the bulk for low prices. The owner, Mr. Gary has been in the retail business for 40 years. He has proven that hard work and support can provide great results. He states, "I wanted to work for myself and have a legacy to leave for my children." His wife, two daughters and three sons work at the grocery store. Gary has two sons working as the managers, his oldest son is the treasurer, his wife is the manager of the kitchen, his oldest daughter is a secretary, his youngest daughter is financial advisor and Gary is the accountant/CEO. They all have an important part in the business. Starting a small grocery business pose as a challenge. He received a substantial amount of money from his grandparents. He wanted to invest his money in a company that he knew his grandparents would be proud. He decided that he want to own a grocery store that sold products for a reasonable price. Mr. Gary opened his store in June 15, 1979. In the second year of operation the grocery store, Mr. Gary realized that he was not equipped with the proper...
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...How People Make Economic Decisions Paper Gary Brockington ECO/212 7-25-2010 Anil Marthur How People Make Economic Decisions Paper People make economic decisions every day throughout their lives. In this paper I will describe the three economic principles of individual decision-making. I will provide an example of a decision which I took part in and compared the marginal benefits against the marginal costs. I will also give those marginal benefits and costs acquainted with that decision. I will tell which incentives could have led me into making a different decision. Last I will explain how the principles of economics affect people’s decisions, interaction, and how the economy works as a whole. There are three economic ideas concerning people who have to make economic decisions. One is people are rational. This means that an individual always weighs the benefits and costs, and make their decisions only if the benefits outweighs the costs (Hubbard, O’Brian, 2010). The second economic idea is people always respond to economic incentives. This simply means that people respond to incentives from variety of motives (Hubbard, O’Brian, 2010). The third idea is that optimal decisions are made at the margin. This means that when he or she is making a decision in which they are going to hit the jackpot or lose everything. There have been many cases in which I had to look at the marginal costs and the marginal benefits. The biggest decision I had to make was whether I was...
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...In Gary Soto’s essay, “Looking for Work” he explains his fascination with the “perfect family” as a child. He watches television shows and wants his lower-class Mexican-American family to be a typical middle-class “white” family. In order for his family to achieve this he believes that money and wealth are the answer. Gary then goes around the block to find little jobs he can do. He gets some money and then meets up with his best friend Little John who wants to look for work too. Gary then recalls how Little John’s mother got angry about how her son was asking for work. Dinner time rolls around and he thinks about one television show comparing it to his family. He suggests to his mother about serving some more expensive food and dressing up for dinner from now on. Gary’s ideas being ignored he is sent outside with his siblings and looks for work trying so hard to become wealthy. This essay portrays how many first generation Americans feel about society. They believe that in order to succeed in America it is important to leave your heritage behind to become “white” and blend in. As if your heritage was a handicap and that you constantly have to try harder than everyone else to prove something. Being Filipino-American I am not exempt from this feeling. The media has played a big part in what I deemed normal as a child. I watched many television shows where families ate bread and dressed nice to dinner. Unlike my family which ate rice every night and wore slippers to the table...
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...Human Resources Management Homework Week 1 Chapter 1 Question 1 I do think people are an organization's most valuable assets because people bring human capital to the organization. One would think that nowadays in times with so much technology, we would not need people as much in a company, but the truth is that without people a company or organization would not be able to succeed. Human capital is one of the most valuable assets a company could have. Having good employees and investing in them will ensure a company will keep growing and succeeding. The primary reason for the need of people in an organization is that, people are the fuel of an organization to run, maintaining the organization's structure and so forth. Without people, an organization will not exist and will never accomplish their function. Then, numerous grounds can be linked to the importance of human capital. (Becker) I also think that cultural diversity could be an asset to an organization because each person brings unique experiences and perceptions. Each employee in a diverse workplace possesses unique strengths, knowledge and skills derived from their culture, and when managed properly it can influence the strengths and complement the weakness of each worker to make a greater workforce. Chapter 2 Question 2 Some of the forces that influence a firm's strategy are the company's rival, new entrants, substitutes, and supplies. The factors...
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...Have you ever been lost in the Canadian Wilderness because your pilot had heart attack so he died, so you had to take over and crashed your Cessna 406 Bush Plane into to an “L” shaped lake? The answer is probably going to be no but you might have been lost in the wilderness before? The character from the book, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Brian Robeson has experienced the first experience and the second experience except more of the first experience. He was trapped in the woods for 54 days with originally only starting with himself and his hatchet. Brian was able to do this with certain things called Aha Moments. These moments were when he realized what he needed to do, what his mistake was, and/or how to do something. Overall, I believe this is what allowed him to live so long without dying....
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...The story Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and the movie A Cry in the Wild are about a resourceful boy Brian Robeson whose parents are divorced. He has to take a private plane to go see his dad. While he is on the plane, the pilot has a heart attack and dies suddenly. Brian overcomes the trauma of flying the plane on his own and even landing it because the plane runs out of gas, and he has to land the plane in the wilderness by force. While he is in the woods he has to survive after many animal encounters and the struggle of finding food and shelter. He also has to stay positive, as he was his best asset. The novel Hatchet and the movie A Cry in the Wild are remarkably different due to the depiction of Brian’s character in the novel versus the movie. Brian's prodigious best friend Terry was in almost every one of his flashback/memories. In the movie, fascinating Terry was not in one of them; Brian did not even mention him. He also had a flashback about the secret of when he saw his mom and another man in the woods about to kiss, but then he interrupted and she stopped to see who was there and saw him. In the novel, he had the...
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