...in the book is to look over the Gladers, the kids that were rescued from the maze, making sure they are strong and healthy. The role of parents is to make sure that their children are strong and healthy as well. This shows that both the organization WICKED, and a mother and father share some similar traits. As well as, they have their own differences. For example, WICKED is a facility where they take away the children’s freedom and kill them if they have to. On the other hand, parents are supposed to love and care for their children, and they have to listen to what their children have to say. This is why the organization WICKED and parents are so closely related, while being so far apart....
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...Thomas arrives in a place known as the Glade, left with no memories except his name. He meets other teenage boys called Gladers who have created a community. Each Glader is assigned to a task in different departments headed by a Keeper. Shortly after arrival, Thomas gets a tour by Alby, the oldest and the leader, and some other Gladers. A gigantic maze surrounds the Glade. Inside, mechanical creatures called Grievers roam it at night. The huge doors into the maze close at sunset and reopen in the morning. Every week supplies are sent, and every month a new boy arrives in an elevator called, "the Box," It is the same elevator Thomas arrived in. There are also Beetle Blades, mechanical bugs which spy on the Gladers, with "WICKED" (World in Castastrophe - Killzone Experiment Department) written on them. After Thomas arrives, an unconscious girl arrives carrying a note reading, "She's the last one." She is taken to the infirmary to recover from a coma before being questioned. Meanwhile, Thomas learns that the Gladers have unsuccessfully been trying to solve the Maze for two years, and that the antidote to a Griever sting revives small bits of memory. Chuck (a twelve year old boy), and Newt (the Gladers' second-in-command), befriend Thomas. Gladers exploring the Maze are called "Runners." Minho, the Keeper of the Runners, and Alby, the Gladers' leader, search for a dead Griever that Minho found while running the maze the day before. However, the Griever is found to be not dead...
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...as the Glade with no previous memories of his life or the outside world. All he remembers is his name. He and about 50-60 other teenage boys inside the Glade call themselves Gladers, and have developed a community in which every Glader is assigned to his own job. The Glade is surrounded by a giant Maze where vicious, slug-like creatures with mechanical like arms, named Grievers, roam at night. Massive walls called the Doors surrounding the Glade protect the Gladers from these creatures by sliding closed every night. Every week, supplies are brought to the Glade and once a month a new boy is sent up through an elevator called the Box. The day after Thomas is brought to the Glade, a girl is sent with a message claiming she is the "last one ever." A girl has never been brought in before and the Gladers are excited and confused by her unexpected arrival. Immediately after arriving, the girl falls into a vegetative state. Meanwhile, Thomas learns more about the Glade, and he feels at home like he's been there before. He learns that the Gladers have been trying to solve the Maze for two years and that the Grievers sting can cause you to recall almost complete memories from the past. The process is painful and dreaded by other Gladers. He feels oddly connected to the new girl and also befriends a young Glader named Chuck, as well as a boy named Newt. On the other hand, he has a somewhat negative relationship with Gally, who is suspicious of Thomas and claims that he has seen him...
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...lurching shudder shook the floor beneath him”. This is how Thomas began his new life. He found himself in the corner of the box not knowing who he is or where he came from; all he remembers is his name. As the doors open Thomas finds himself in a large arena also known as the “Glade” surrounded by 100ft walls with one building, a field for crops, a barn, a small forest and over 30 teenagers also known as “Gladers” staring at him. Like Thomas, the Gladers also have no memory of their past life; all they know is every day for the past two years all four doors that lead out into the maze open in the morning and close at night. Each day the Gladers try to solve the mystery of the maze to see if there is a way out of the glade. Thomas learns that in the Maze outside are monsters also known as Grievers. If a Griever stings you, you will go through a process known as the “Changing”, which is quite traumatic. The day after Thomas’s arrival, the first girl appears to the Glade and before she becomes unconscious she tells all Gladers: "everything will change." Thomas works with the Gladers to solve the mystery of the maze, with the help of the girl’s message and the boys are finally working together, if only they could unlock the secrets of the maze to find the way out. Third Slide: Thomas was the main character and the main protagonist of the story. He is extremely smart, hardworking, and determined. Even when others felt like giving up he always had the determination to keep going on...
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...From Corporate America to the Classroom Jon Williams University of Phoenix From Corporate America to the Classroom Leadership by definition is a person who guides or inspires others. In corporate America, we can consider Jack Welch a true pioneer in defining leadership. Jack Welch was able to lead and make General Electric a very competitive enterprise in the world (100 Ventures) during the 1980s. Jack Welch is bringing his lifelong management skills to a new online university program (Glader, 2009). Biography Jack Welch was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1935. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering. In 1960, Jack Welch joined General Electric and worked his way through the ranks to become the Chairman and CEO of GE, making him the eighth and youngest leader (Woopidoo- Biographies- Business Leaders). During his 20 year reign of General Electric, one of Americas largest and most well known companies Jack Welch's management skills became almost legendary (Woopidoo- Biographies- Business Leaders). His no nonsense leadership style gave him a reputation of being hard, but fair when making business decisions and his style of leadership has been used a model in corporate America. His techniques have been studied and implemented in the U.S. Army (Day, 2001). Jack Welch’s success was the ability to effectively communicating keys ideas, and constantly repeating them to ensure all employees shared the organization’s goals. Goals In order to become...
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...heroic scenario, and likable characters. The universal element of moral lessons is displayed in such a relatable way. The gladers face issues where they have to decide between what’s right and what’s wrong. When Alby got stung by a griever, Minho had to carry him out the maze. Unfortunately, Alby’s injury slowed them down. As the doors began to shut, Thomas jumped in at the last minute to help them out. Thomas being a greenie, this was definitely frowned upon by the others. Even though he thought it would be helpful and looked upon as great. In the end, the gladers had a get out now or die trying attitude towards finding a way out of the maze. Thomas stated, “ I’d rather risk my life out there than spend the rest in here…” (The Maze Runner). Thomas and the others were willing to put their lives on the line fighting grievers to get back home. Many...
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...rickety metal box. Furthermore, they send a special serum as a cure to for the Gladers who have been stung by the ravenous grievers. The bodies of the victims undergo torturous pain and agony during the “changing” as they call it. During the changing, they remember things from their past. There is a large and very ominous shadow looming over this question and later in the series I hope to read about the answer. The book leaves off with the creators being killed by people barging in right as the kids escape the maze. The people take the kids away, load them on a bus, and say that their lives depend on whether or not they get away. I predict that the kids have just stumbled out of the frying pan and into the fire so to speak. I think there is something far larger than the maze and those kids are the key to helping a lot of people. On his way to the bus, a putrid lady with festering sores covering her body grabbed his shoulder and screamed in his face, “Gonna save us all! Gonna save us from the Flare!” (Dashner 362) There is a disease sweeping the world called the “Flare” that changes people into mutated beasts. The cure for this disease is in the Andes supposedly and there are miles of barren landscape between them and the Andes. This seemingly charred desert of they labeled the “Scorch.” Ultimately, I predict the responsibility to lead the people to the cure will fall upon Thomas and his fellow Gladers at one time or another. Visualizing various things in this novel is a very...
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...The Maze Runner book review The Maze Runner is very similar to the Hunger games books as it almost has the same story line. I would suggest to anyone who enjoyed reading the Hunger Games, they would very much relish the chance to read The Maze Runner. The basic plot of the book is the lead character Thomas wakes up in an abandoned elevator by himself and has no memories of life before the elevator he wakes up in, the only memories he had were not specific and were bare such as his school, however he doesn’t remember any people faces and only remembers his name. The elevator doors open and he finds himself in a huge field with boys aged 12-18. The boys are known as Gladers and use their own dialect every other words so the first couple of chapters are very hard to understand but once you get the hand of it, it’s all very easy. All the boys lived in huts inside this field and there are massive walls surrounding them so Thomas is very unsure of his position. Outside the walls there is a huge maze which runs on for miles and miles, which seems to run nowhere. Everyday this group of boys called the runners try to find a way out of the maze. However they have to return every night as the wall go up and the boys would be stuck outside the maze where these horrible creatures called Griever’s come out and hunt down the children. These creatures are half animal half machine and have saws for arms. Thomas came up with a dangerous plan to escape. The plan works, but half of the group dies...
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...Thomas has brown hair and is about five foot nine as described by Chuck-one of the “gladers” back in book one: The Maze Runner. The sixteen year old is a very tough and rugged character with a drive to return all of the people that remained from the experiments back to safety so they can create a safe civilization for the generations to come. Setting: The two main settings in this book are Denver and WICKED headquarters. They both were dangerous places where many people struggled to survive from The Flare. Although with very different populations, many people can’t control...
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...The Maze Runner to me, had everything. It was unique, but it was also easy to guess what would happen next. Above all, the storyline was a lot like Divergent because they lived through the ending of the world. I think that the maze worked for the storyline. Not a lot of books have people living like guinea pigs trying to figure out a maze. On the other hand, when it was just boys until one girl showed up, that was kind of cheesy. It just so happens she’s the one to mess everything up. I would actually add more details to certain sections of the story such as when Thomas went through the changing. When you meet a person what do you see first? What they look like or what their personality is? The Maze Runner only truly focused...
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...ALSO BY JAMES DASHNER The Maze Runner The Scorch Trials The 13th Reality series The Journal of Curious Letters The Hunt for Dark Infinity The Blade of Shattered Hope This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Text copyright © 2011 by James Dashner Jacket art copyright © 2011 by Philip Straub All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Visit us on the Web! randomhouse.com/teens Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at randomhouse.com/teachers Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dashner, James. The death cure / James Dashner. — 1st ed. p. cm. Sequel to: The Scorch trials. Summary: As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus. eISBN: 978-0-375-89612-5 [1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Science fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.D2587De 2011 [Fic]—dc23 2011022236 Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates...
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...remained till it was officially shortened to ‘Alcoa’ in 1999 (“Alcoa Celebrates 120 years”, 2011, pp. 3). Moreover, in 1928, Alcoa moved most of the activities it had been conducting outside the United States into Alean, a Canadian company, making Alean legally independent (Matthias Kipping and Ludovic Cailluet, 2010, par. 2). In 2008, Alcoa sold its packaging business which had accounted for more than 10% of its sales to Rank Group, and in 2009, it sold its wire harness and electrical distribution business to Platinum Equity (Alcoa History, Hoovers, par.1). Alcoa and other aluminum companies have run into obstacles in expanding raw aluminum production because it is energy intensive and often attract protest from environmentalist (Paul Glader, 2007, par. 3). The good news is that Alcoa Inc. and United Shipbuilding Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding to further develop the Russian shipbuilding market and expand the use of aluminum in domestic shipbuilding (“Alcoa to cooperate”, 2010,...
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...BOB7024 Organizational Behavior & Design, Stephen P. Robbins & Timothy A. Judge, Organizational Behavior, 14th edition, 2011, Pearson Education Chapter 1 Case Incident 1: “Data Will Set You Free” Ford CEO Alan Mulally is known for starting meetings by saying “Data will set you free” and for trying to change Ford’s culture to one that is based on increased accountability, more information sharing, and hard metrics. “You can’t manage a secret,” he is also fond of saying. Although it’s not clear whether Mulally’s approach will work at Ford, which is known for its self-contained fiefdoms where little information is shared, some companies have found that managing people according to hard metrics has paid off. Consider Freescale Semiconductor, a computer chip manufacturer based in Austin, Texas. Freescale has discovered that in order to have the right people at the right time to do the right job, it needs an extensive and elaborate set of metrics to manage its 24,000 employees in 30 countries. Of particular concern to Freescale is retention. “There’s no greater cost than human capital, especially in the technology industry,” says Jignasha Patel, Freescale’s director of global talent sourcing and inclusion. “When you’ve got a tenured employee that decides to walk out the door, it’s not just one person leaving, it’s that person’s knowledge and network and skills.” To manage talent and prevent turnover, Freescale holds line managers accountable for recruiting, hiring, and...
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...Supplier Selection by Damian Beil Stephen M. Ross School of Business July 2009 Abstract: Supplier selection is the process by which firms identify, evaluate, and contract with suppliers. The supplier selection process deploys a tremendous amount of a firm’s financial resources. In return, firms expect significant benefits from contracting with suppliers offering high value. This article describes the typical steps of supplier selection processes: identifying suppliers, soliciting information from suppliers, setting contract terms, negotiating with suppliers, and evaluating suppliers. It highlights why each step is important, how the steps are interrelated, and how the resulting complexity provides fertile ground for ORMS research. Today the average U.S. manufacturer spends roughly half its revenue to purchase goods and services [1]. This makes a company’s success dependent on their interactions with suppliers. The role of procurement managers (buyers) within companies has become extremely important, often involving staggering dollar values: A recent cross-industry survey of companies — in areas ranging from aerospace to semiconductors — placed companies’ average total spend per procurement employee at $115 million [2]. With so much of a company’s money on the line, and increasing reliance on outsourcing of many complex services and products, the job of a buyer is not only important but also challenging. Buyers must define and measure what “best value” means for the buying organization...
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...Supplier Selection by Damian Beil Stephen M. Ross School of Business July 2009 Abstract: Supplier selection is the process by which firms identify, evaluate, and contract with suppliers. The supplier selection process deploys a tremendous amount of a firm’s financial resources. In return, firms expect significant benefits from contracting with suppliers offering high value. This article describes the typical steps of supplier selection processes: identifying suppliers, soliciting information from suppliers, setting contract terms, negotiating with suppliers, and evaluating suppliers. It highlights why each step is important, how the steps are interrelated, and how the resulting complexity provides fertile ground for ORMS research. Today the average U.S. manufacturer spends roughly half its revenue to purchase goods and services [1]. This makes a company’s success dependent on their interactions with suppliers. The role of procurement managers (buyers) within companies has become extremely important, often involving staggering dollar values: A recent cross-industry survey of companies — in areas ranging from aerospace to semiconductors — placed companies’ average total spend per procurement employee at $115 million [2]. With so much of a company’s money on the line, and increasing reliance on outsourcing of many complex services and products, the job of a buyer is not only important but also challenging. Buyers must define and measure what “best value” means for the buying organization...
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