...peaks of 90,000 percent, rating it the number one stock in the 1990's; it's no wonder how he became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 Company at the tender age of 27. Mr. Dell believed that 'by placing the customer at the epicenter' and creating a strategic concept 'based on customers' needs and preferences' would be the key to a successful company. (Krames, 2003, p. 59) Having a direct model 'based on a one-to-one relationship between the company and the customer' was how he made Dell so successful with ''no intermediaries, no middlemen'. (Krames, 2003, p. 59) Andy Grove is the co-founder and former CEO of Intel. The company he co-founded in the 1960's success can be contributed to his suspicious mentality of 'only the paranoid survive.' (Krames, 2003, p. 135) This man was considered as a legend of this industry by many and built Intel into the biggest computer chipmaker in the world at that time. Mr. Grove was credited for 'his role in fueling the computer revolution' by being named Person of the Year in 1997 by Time magazine. (Krames, 2003, p. 135) Mr. Grove's three-legged stool metaphor outlined how equal levels of execution and strategy in technology, manufacturing and marketing were the foundation for Intel's success. Also, he was influential in coining the phrase Strategic Inflection Point (SIP), which can be described as '-a point at which a company comes face to face with a massive change, one that is powerful enough to threaten the life of the enterprise.' (Krames...
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...Maple Grove is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 61,567 at the 2010 census.[5] Maple Grove serves as the retail, cultural and medical center of the northwest region of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. One of the Twin Cities' largest shopping centers, The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes, is located in Maple Grove. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Geography 3 Economy 4 Education 5 Government and politics 6 Demographics 6.1 2010 census 6.2 2000 census 7 Notable people 8 References 9 External links History[edit] Winnebago were the only inhabitants in the area of Maple Grove until 1851 when Louis Gervais arrived and settled. Four years later, in 1855, city growth included a church, town hall and many homes....
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...Cocoanut Grove The Cocoanut Grove was a restaurant and supper club located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The building was built in 1927 and was located near Park Square. The Grove, as it was called, had been very popular during the late 1920’s, but had come across hard times during the 1930’s. In the early years of World War II the restaurant became very popular again. In 1942, The Grove was the popular place to be and where everyone liked to hang out. The building was a single-story structure with a basement below. A bar, called the Melody Lounge, occupied the basement as well as the kitchen, freezers, and storage areas. Located on the first floor was a large dining room, a ballroom with a bandstand, and several bar areas separate from the ballroom. One of the features of the dining room was a retractable roof that allowed viewing of the moon and stars during the warmer months of operation. The main entrance was located on Piedmont Street and utilized a large revolving door. On Saturday, November 28, 1942, the Boston College football team had lost in an upset to Holy Cross College played at Fenway Park. A famous Hollywood western movie star, Buck Jones, was in attendance at the game with Boston Mayor Maurice Tobin. Buck was persuaded by movie agents to attend the Grove for dinner that night despite feeling reluctant due to illness. A busboy was ordered to fix a light bulb at the top of an artificial palm tree in the corner of the Melody Lounge at about 10:15pm. The bulb...
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...The Borough of Grove City in Mercer County Pennsylvania is a typical western Pennsylvania town with its bucolic setting. Grove City College overshadows its neighborhoods with a large campus in its center. However, if you look closely, there is another equally unique attraction. It appears to your left as you cross the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad tracks going north on Center Street. One can make out an older castellated building that looks shopworn from decades of use. The makeup of the building at 317 Erie Street has the appearance of a military structure, which, for many years, it wa In soldierly use for more than 70 years, the Grove City Armory was a hub for National Guard operations in northwestern Pennsylvania. As a military headquarters, it lodged units of the 28th Infantry Division. When the resident unit moved its operations...
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...Grove 1. Write a summary of Grove in about 150 words. 2. Characterize the two main characters and their relationship 3. Comment on the ending 4. In a short essay (150-200 words) discuss what you can do to help a friend or partner who is an alcoholic. ------------------------------------------------- Summary “Grove” is an American short story written by Erin Brooks Worsley in the year 2006. The story takes place in Florida, in a town called Frostproof. The main characters are a woman and a man without any names. They are a couple in a relationship. In the story they are visiting his parents. The woman has a drinking problem. The man is married to another woman but is still in a relationship with the main character. They are going out on a lake where they have an argument about their future. The man really wants to have kids, and his wife is not able to. He would like the woman to stop drinking, because pregnant women do not drink. The man’s mom knows what all this is about and talks to the woman about the problem. In the end the mother asks the woman to leave. Characterize On of the main characters is a woman who is visiting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. It sounds like she grew up in the city, why she is not used to mosquitos opposite to the man who grew up near a lake. In the story we hear about the woman’s drinking problem and how it conflicts with the man’s wish to get children. The woman is several times confronted with her problem...
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...Summary of Grove The short story is about a man and a women, who's names we are not given. They visit his parents in Florida. They live in a trailer next to an orange grove. On the second day he has an accident on a motorbike. He hurts his ribcage but he doesn't want her help. Their relationship is strained. She is an alcoholic, he has left his wife, but they are still married. At night she sneak into the bathroom to drink some whisky. The next day they take a boat out. They sail around and talk. They come to a dock and tie up the boat. Here they meet some elder women, who gives them some beers. She gets to much to drink and when they come back to the trailer she stumbles in a carpet and is put to bed. When she wakes up, his mother asks her to tell her son that she is sick, and that she wants to leave which they do. Characterize the two main characters and their relationship The two main characters in this story is the narrator and her boyfriend. We aren't told much about them. We don't know what they look like, how old they are, occupation and so on. There is no direct description of them. Their relationship is strained because she drinks. They have had problems for a while. This is made obvious when he says, You can stop apologizing …... I've heard it enough (page 1 (8), line 17). Every time she tries to show him affection he pushes her away except once. At night, at the day of the accident, he pulls her close to him when she asks him if he is hot. I...
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...In a Grove Ryunosuke Akutagawa The Testimony of a Woodcutter, Questioned by a High Police Commissioner 1 Yes, sir. Certainly, it was I who found the body. This morning, as usual, I went to cut my daily quota of cedars, when I found the body in a grove in a hollow in the mountains. The exact location? About 150 meters off the Yamashina stage road. It's an out-of-the-way grove of bamboo and cedars. 2 The body was lying flat on its back dressed in a bluish silk kimono and a wrinkled headdress of the Kyoto style. A single sword-stroke had pierced the breast. The fallen bamboo-blades around it were stained with bloody blossoms. No, the blood was no longer running. The wound had dried up, I believe. And also, a gad-fly was stuck fast there, hardly noticing my footsteps. 3 You ask me if I saw a sword or any such thing? 4 No, nothing, sir. I found only a rope at the root of a cedar near by. And . . . well, in addition to a rope, I found a comb. That was all. Apparently he must have made a battle of it before he was murdered, because the grass and fallen bamboo-blades had been trampled down all around. 5 "A horse was near by?" 6 No, sir. It's hard enough for a man to enter, let alone a horse. The Testimony of a Traveling Buddhist Priest, Questioned by a High Police Commissioner 7 The time? Certainly, it was about noon yesterday, sir. The unfortunate man was on the road from Sekiyama to Yamashina. He was walking...
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...Grove 1. Write a summary of Grove in about 150 words. Grove is a short story written by Erin Brooks Worley. The story is about an alcoholic woman that is visiting her boyfriend’s parents. The second day of their visit the boyfriend crashes on his father’s motorbike. After everyone falls asleep that night the woman sneaks out into the bathroom were her shampoo bottle, with her whiskey, stands. She takes a couple shots thinking her boyfriend won’t smell it and goes back to bed. The next morning her boyfriend tells her he can smell it. Later that day they take to boat and sails out at the lake, where he turns off the motor and they start talking about kids and how they can’t have any because of her drinking. At night, after they got back, the narrator is talking to her boyfriend’s mother, while the boyfriend and his father goes to the shop, who tells her she need to stop drinking. By the time the boys got back the boyfriend’s mother talked the narrator into going home. On the way home the narrator’s boyfriend turns off the light on the car and drives in complete darkness for a while. 2. Characterize the two main characters and their relationship. The narrator is an alcoholic woman, who is trying to find out what to do in her life. She doesn’t want to hurt anyone with her problem, but she does because she won’t be able to have children. The boyfriend is a bit quiet, he tries to overlook her problem but it’s hard when she smells of alcohol. He wants children, but can’t have...
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...Grove In the short story ”Grove”, there is written by Erin Brooks Worley, we read about a first-person-narrator, that is a girl. She has some confrontations with a guy and his parents. The story takes place in Florida, in a town called Frostproof. Here lives the guy, but the author never mention his name. It is always I, he and she in the story. Here he lives nearby his parents. We also do not know the names of the parents. The guy has a strange relationship to a girl, there is the first-person-narrator. First you think, she is his girlfriend, but then she says in the text: “I never asked him to leave his wife”, and later in the text the first-person-narrator says: “He likes kids, I say. And his wife can’t have them”. Therefore, they are trying to have a kid, because his wife cannot make kids, so I think that they do not have a relationship to each other. The guy’s mother seems not to like the first-person-narrator, but he’s father like her. The girl seems very insecure; while she is apologizing a lot, and the guy says that, she has to stop apologize so much. The girl is also an alcoholic, and one night she sneaks out on the bathroom, where she is hiding some whiskey in a shampoo bottle. She is trying to conceal, that she has a drinking problem, but the guy knows that she is a alcoholic. He get also very upset, when she hides liquor in his parents bathroom. One day when the girl are alone with the guy’s mother in the living room, the mother says to the girl, that she...
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...The only thing we can be sure about in the Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge, by John Taylor and Howling Wolf is that they “contain the same overt content-that is the peace treaty signing”. (Sayre) How can both artists be so far apart in their renderings and what influences affected their works? Was it the time between the two artworks, cultural differences, or form? John Taylor’s illustration for Leslie’s Illustrated Gazette is more naturalistic than representational because he was focusing on what he saw in the grove at the treaty signing but ethnocentric beliefs may have caused him to make the Native-Americans look hostile in their facial expressions, with their bow and arrows at hand. He also portrays them as non-descript so you can’t tell which tribe they represent. The tipis in the back are also no-descript. The Anglo-Americans are portrayed as benevolent peace makers and I can’t find a gun anywhere. There are no women in Taylor’s illustration even though we know women where present. At that time, in Anglo-American culture, women were left at home to take care of the children and household. They were not involved in matters of importance and John Taylor may have felt to put women in the illustration could take away from the importance of the Treaty Signing of medicine Creek. John Taylor’s illustration appeared soon after the Treaty of Medicine Creek was signed while Howling Wolf’s artwork “was done nearly a decade later, after he was taken east and imprisoned at...
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...LITTLE BLACK BOY My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh my soul is white! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, And, sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissed me, And, pointed to the east, began to say: ‘‘Look on the rising sun: there God does live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away, And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. ‘‘And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. ‘‘For when our souls have learn’d the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall hear His voice, Saying, ’Come out from the grove, my love and care And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice’,’’ Thus did my mother say, and kissed me; And thus I say to little English boy. When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of God like lambs we joy I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear To lean in joy upon our Father’s knee; And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER A little black thing in the snow, Crying ‘‘weep! weep!’’ in notes of woe! ‘‘Where are thy father and mother? Say!’’— ‘‘They are both gone up to the church to pray. ‘‘Because I was happy upon the heath, And smiled among the winter’s snow, They clothed...
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...The story confused me. I had to reread it a lot of times and pay close attention to the details to really understand it. The author used different characters to relay their own point of views on what happened. It was challenging to interpret all the information presented but I liked the fact that I felt like I’m Sherlock Holmes taking part in resolving a big mystery. The story perfectly shows that the human ability to perceive a situation can vary from person to person. It may be affected by a lot of factors, thus making it a little bit different from the truth. Maybe, that is why we got inconsistent versions of what happened from the different characters and narrators of the story. This makes me question on how reliable oral evidence really is. The author showed us through the story that the background, history, prejudice, intention, and desire of a person can affect his or her own perception and narration of the story. It can be seen throughout the story. First for the policeman, the intention of his version of the story of him catching Tajomaru was probably to impress the high police commissioner and make him seem more honorable. Next is Tajomaru himself, he made his reputation higher by narrating that he defeated a samurai in a fair sword fight. There are also a lot of conflicting confessions. For example, Masago confessed that she killed her own husband while her husband claimed that he committed suicide with his wife’s small sword. Why? Perhaps the version of him killing...
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...“And that is why I cannot wait to join my father and uncle in the trash removal business after graduation. Thank you.” “Thank you Matthew that’s….certainly an interesting career choice. You can take your seat now.” Matthew starts to walk back to his seat but before he can even sit down he hears his friend Durham start whispering to him. “I still don’t get why you want to be a garbage man when you can just come to USF with me.” “I’m not a garbage man” says Matthew “I’m a trash removal specialist.” “Dude, you’re a garbage man” says Felix from behind Matthew. “Leave my Matty alone” says Miranda. Miranda and Matthew had been dating for nearly a year now after Durhams’ girlfriend Morgan, who just happens to be Miranda’s sister, introduced them. “Yo Durham, you and Matt ever get bored and just decide to switch up sisters for a night?” “HA HA very funny Felix” “What? You two are twins. It’s bound to happen sooner or later” says Felix laughingly. Just then the bell rings and students begin to flood the hallways as everyone tries to leave as quickly as possible for the weekend. Just then Durhams father comes around the corner. “You boys ready for the big game tonight? Sarasota aint no joke.” Felix feeling confident as always quickly responds “you know it coach those Sarasota boys aint got nothing on us.” “Yeah pops no one can take us with the way Matty is pitching this year. He’s unhittable.” “Hey Matty, if your done sucking face with the Wilson girl id like...
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...Meanwhile, Paul gets to school, but only to find that a bunch of kids are absent. He tells Henry D they're home "fighting the freeze". Henry D explains that families who grow oranges or vegetables need their kids to stay and help protect the crops when it gets this cold. They start bonfires in their groves, or do whatever else they can to create...
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...PACIFIC GROVE SPICE COMPANY Introducción: The Grove Spice Company Pacífico fue una organización involucrada en la producción, distribución y comercialización de especias y condimentos de alta calidad. La empresa había obtenido buenas ventas durante el año, debido a que había permitido lograr precio actual de $ 32.60 con una capitalización de mercado de 38 millones. A medida que la compañía tenía una política de retención de los beneficios con el fin de guardarlo para la financiación de las operaciones sin embargo, estos resultados no asignados no eran suficientes para cubrir la totalidad de las necesidades de financiación y por lo tanto la empresa tuvo que depender de la deuda también. Posteriormente, cuando el mundo se vio afectado por una serie de acontecimientos que surgen de las crisis financieras en 2008, se requirió a muchos bancos a reevaluar su nivel de riesgo y por lo tanto limitar su capacidad de préstamo con el fin de reducir el riesgo general de la quiebra. Como resultado de ello, los bancos comenzaron a estrictos sus criterios de préstamo, debido a que la empresa Pacific Grove especia fue requerido por el banco para reducir su multiplicador de la equidad y el porcentaje de la deuda de los activos totales inferiores a 2,7 veces y 55% respectivamente. Q1. Sobre la base de la arboleda del Pacífico Spice Company (PGSC) estados financieros proyectados, son sus operaciones rentables suficiente para llevar rápidamente en cumplimiento con el requisito del Banco? De...
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