...Book Report Last Shot By: John Feinstein Stevie Thomas and Susan Anderson were winners of a 14 year old and under writing contest sponsored by the USA Basketball Writers Association. As top prize for their success of winning the contest they got to go to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four held in New Orleans. At the final four they would get to meet and interview players from the four universities competing in the event. In addition, Stevie and Susan had their picture taken for the cover of the Workers Journalist. Duke, St. Joes, Minnesota State, and Connecticut were the schools fighting for the NCAA Men’s Basketball championship. Susan did her report to win her contest on Coach K for Duke. Susan lived in North Carolina and was a big Duke fan. Stevie who hated Duke, wanted St. Joes to win the hoops tourney. Stevie gave his report on the Palastra; the infamous basketball arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When Stevie and Susan arrived in New Orleans where the final four was taking place, they were given media passes to the event. Stevie and Susan went to the CBS station to conduct interviews with players and coaches. Upon arriving at the station, Stevie and Susan saw Chip Graber. Chip, who was Stevie’s favorite player on the Minnesota St. roster, was having a conversation with someone. Stevie and Susan hid to listen in on the conversation. It turned...
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...all outbreaks. Smoking leads to countless fires that break out when no one expects. Lack of attention, spontaneous combustion and electrical faults are the major causes. The engine room is at special risk from flashbacks in oilfired boilers, leaky pipings carrying oil, overheated bearings and even the accumulation of rubbish (oil rags, dirty oil, tins of oil, etc.). According to Mikhail Grigorevich Stavitskii 1983, if most shipboard fires can be prevented, then who is responsible for preventing them? The answer is that fire prevention is the shared duty of each and every member of the crew. No fire prevention effort or program can be successful unless it involves everyone aboard ship. We have noted that every crewmember is responsible for the fire aboard ship. Similarly, every crewmember has a role in the ship's fire prevention program. Because attitude is so much a part of the fire prevention, it is also the most important part of the fire prevention program. So as with the Fire Figthing, if there is a fire aboard ship, everyone aboard ship must form the emergency response team. According to Lobo Gruppe, Oslo 1987, the emergency response team are consist of the following elements: Platform Manager, Chief Fire Officer, Team Leader and the Team. There is no successful firefighting unless it involves every one aboard a ship. Review of Related Literature According to Bennett et al. (1964) from his book Ship Fire Prevention A Master, Supervisory Personnel and...
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...1. “I was persuaded to stop writing that book. I started it four more times during the next twenty years. On each occasion, my decision to begin again was influenced by current world events: the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989, the first Gulf War, Somalia, the rise of Osama bin Laden. However, threats or bribes always convinced me to stop. In 2003, the president of a major publishing house that is owned by a powerful international corporation read a draft of what had now become Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. He described it as "a riveting story that needs to be told." Then he smiled sadly, shook his head, and told me that since the executives at world head-quarters might object, he could not afford to risk.” The statement above was very appealing to me, I think it is because my family is constantly talking about how twisted our government truly is. The fact that there was something to hide so they persuaded him to stop writing it makes me realize how intimidating they must be. And then how he talk about all the wars, invasions, and other twisted things he was discussing made some one scared to publish the book even though they believe he needed to be said. 2. “This book is the confession of a man who, back when I was an EHM, was part of a relatively small group. People who play similar roles are more abundant now. They have more Euphemistic titles, and they walk the corridors of Monsanto, General Electric, Nike, General Motors, Wal-Mart, and nearly every other major...
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...The book Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon covers about the English/ French war. The book is organized by chronologically but Siegfried Sassoon does jump around telling about life in the war. Siegfried Sassoon is a young man in army school for officers. He has a servant, whose name is Flook and sort of privileged. Flook is India. He called the school a holiday for officers taught to kill (France). Infantry Officer George Sherston nick name Kangaroo, has no idea how he got it. He is a bomber; he gets to blows stuff up and goes into WW1. The enemy at the time is Germany. Kangaroo is titled 2nd lt. in year 1916. 18 months approx. fought in server locations, they included Somme- isle of Man-New Zealand-England France. He was all over and he wanted to be a hero and get glory for it. Fighting the Germans, they rode horses. He really did not want to kill, but you had to in self-defense due to he was on the front line. Front line was a harsh one, one loses humanities. (a no man’s land.) Very detailed images of the battle field of bombs, death, gun fires and thankful for being alive. They would recover tools, weapons from No man’s land. That is the French front and is very stressful. Wet weather gave him sore feet and trench mouth. They would use candles for light. He goes into the war obedient, the reality is for glory and he is disillusioned. Men used canaries’ when they dug tunnels because if a bird died they knew it was poison. War made him want to kill after seeing...
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...University of Rizal System Morong, Rizal Laboratory High School Book Book Report Report Submitted by: Claudette Anne R. Robles Submitted to: Mrs. Reina Miranda I. Title The Trial of the Stone II. Type of Literature Folktale III. Country China IV. Setting The story happened in the street and in the court. V. Characters Ah Niew – an orphan whose mother died when he was two Paw Kong – a Mandarin who was a kind-hearted judge The Man with a Big Nose – the thief who stole Ah Niew’s money VI. Summary Ah Niew was an orphan whose mother died when he was two. He lived with his grandmother who brought him up in selling cakes cooked in oil. He carried these cakes in a basket and sold these cakes in the streets. One day, Ah Niew was especially lucky to sold three hundred cakes very fast. He was about to go home when he saw an old woman crossing the street stumbled. He put down his basket with the money in it and helped the woman. When he returned to get his basket, it was gone. He looked around and saw it beside a big stone, but the money was gone. Ah Niew cried so loud that the people came to see what the matter was. Paw Kong, a kind-hearted judge, happened to be passing by. Ah Niew asked for help and Paw Kong scrutinized the faces of the onlookers. He asked a young man, a stout man, a man with a big nose, and all the people around if they took Ah Niew’s money but they all answered no. No one would admit the theft. ...
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...In the 1840’s, many Americans chose to uproot their lives and move out west to California in order to live what they thought would be better lives. To cash in on the Americans migrating west, a man named Lansford Hastings wrote a book called ‘The Emigrants’ guide to Oregon and California’ to guide others on a shortcut that he himself had never taken. A group on the way to California soon learned why. On July 19th, 1846, The Donner Party, a group of 87 people, mainly families, moved out west from Illinois. In the party “were James and Margaret Reed, Margaret's mother, their four children, five employees and one friend, from Springfield, Illinois. Also from Springfield were two brothers and their families, George and Tamsen Donner and Jacob and Elizabeth Donner, and between them, thirteen children and three teamsters. From Keokuk, Iowa came Patrick and Margaret "Peggy" Breen, their seven children and a...
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...Corporate greed essay To fully understand how the business culture has acquired the greed mindset, a look at what a corporation is and defining corporate behavior becomes the starting point. First a corporation is defined as “an association of individuals, created by law and having an existence apart from that of its members as well as distinct and inherent powers and liabilities (Webster Dictionary).” Although made up of people, being separate or apart from its members also equals unaccountability. The question of “who pays when a company goes under” is at the forefront of discussions today. Corporations are developed to serve society, meet a need or provide a service. Over the years, however, the good intentioned corporation has evolved into a greed machine that has lost site of the community that it serves and the people employed who ultimately perform the work. The steady parade of top executives confessing to engage in price gouging, tax dodges, accounting shams, employee rip-offs, and other shady unacceptable acts are coming to light daily. Unethical and illegal practices are documented from the RJR Nabisco scandals in 1988 to today’s Enron, WorldCom, Merrill Lynch, Arthur Anderson, Xerox, and endless other corporations. The world realizes now that corporate greed is not about one-bad company, but large companies in general that have adopted unacceptable guidelines for corporate behavior and an overall attitude that greed is acceptable. The bottom line, insatiable need...
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...Leadership Journal Report LDR6100 Instructor: Dr.Richard O’bryant Yaoyue Tang Yaoyue Tang Leadership Journal Report Introduction The first reason that I choice this class is because my major is project management, therefor develop my leadership skill is necessary needed for my future career. As a project manager, one could not only manage a project but also will leading a project team which include certain team members from different backgrounds. After six week classes, my leadership skill has a significant improvement. I had comprehend leadership from both practical perspective and conceptual perspective. First, this journal Report will meanly focus on what I had learn from this class, analysis what specific knowledge are impact me most and how I use those knowledge to improve my own leadership skill. Second Journal report would also lists certain events to support the result of analysis and connect ideals from book to my experiments. The journal report will organized by chronological order. Week One This week is the first week of the quarter, we discussed the basics of the leadership and understood leadership from different aspects. I did not familiar with leadership before I took this class, so the word leadership is a vague idea to me. But from the first week’s class and reading, I had understand that leadership is “ a process where by an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, P12) ”. Beside the improvement...
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...3 3.3 Prepare a business presentation using suitable software and techniques to disseminate information effectively. 11 3.4 Produce a formal business report 12 4.1 Use appropriate information processing tools 17 4.2 Prepare a project plan for an activity and determine the critical path 20 4.3 Use financial tools for decision-making 22 Conclusion 26 Introduction In order to enhance the competitive advantages of Highlands Coffee in Ho Chi Minh City over other competitors, the report will show some information that might help the company find out appropriate strategy to maintain their position in market. At the first task is the forecasting technique, which shows various way to calculate the actual sales of the bank in the future, and then show the formal report for the Sales director. In the next task in the reports, there is the information processing tools which shows the decision level and information types in each department and the recommendation for the software for each part of department. In the third task, the project planning have been show the way to prepare the schedule the number of employee should have in this project. In the last task, it is the evaluation of two projects – “Project 1” and “Project 2”. The calculation and recommendation of the suitable project are provide in the end of the report. 3.1& 3.2 Produce graphs using spread sheets and draw valid conclusions based on the information derived. Create trend lines in spread sheet graphs...
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...To fully understand how the business culture has acquired the greed mindset, a look at what a corporation is and defining corporate behavior becomes the starting point. First a corporation is defined as “an association of individuals, created by law and having an existence apart from that of its members as well as distinct and inherent powers and liabilities (Webster Dictionary).” Although made up of people, being separate or apart from its members also equals unaccountability. The question of “who pays when a company goes under” is at the forefront of discussions today. Corporations are developed to serve society, meet a need or provide a service. Over the years, however, the good intentioned corporation has evolved into a greed machine that has lost site of the community that it serves and the people employed who ultimately perform the work. The steady parade of top executives confessing to engage in price gouging, tax dodges, accounting shams, employee rip-offs, and other shady unacceptable acts are coming to light daily. Unethical and illegal practices are documented from the RJR Nabisco scandals in 1988 to today’s Enron, WorldCom, Merrill Lynch, Arthur Anderson, Xerox, and endless other corporations. The world realizes now that corporate greed is not about one-bad company, but large companies in general that have adopted unacceptable guidelines for corporate behavior and an overall attitude that greed is acceptable. The bottom line, insatiable need for growth, amoral corporate...
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...Medical Store Management System Table of Contents Table of Contents 1.1 Purpose 2 1.2 Product Overview. 2 1.3 References 3 2 .User Description 3 2.1 User/Market Demographics: 3 2.2 User Profiles 4 2.3 User Environment 4 2.4. Key User Needs: 5 2.5. Alternatives and Competitors: 5 3.2 General features 6 Modules Names and Use case Description 11 Initial Records 11 Transaction 12 Screen Shots of the Software. 14 Create company 15 Purchase 16 Sale 17 Counter sale 18 Damage stock 19 Privilege settings 20 Profit and loss analysis 21 Balance Sheet 22 Product availability search 22 8.1: User Manual 23 8.2: Online help. 23 8.3. Installation Guides, Configuration, and Read Me Files 23 1.Introduction Medical Store management software is general software developed for medical store. This software Help them to do billing and stock maintain ace. It also provides them with the facility of keeping a track of customer and of the stock , keeping the records of the companies and the stock available, the expiry of the medicines and the no of workers working in the medical store. This system help the owner of the medical store to manage various aspects about the store together , paper work is reduced , inventory details of all medicines are store to reduced keeping check on a day to day basis. 1.1 Purpose The purpose of this software is to specify requirements and to give guidelines for the development of above side project...
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...FOREST HUNTERS Introduction: Ayla is back in the third book of the earth's children. Ayla who met Jondalar in the last book, has agreed to come along with him to his home place in Zelandoni. They are with whinney and runner on the move when they see a couple of men looking at them. After an unusual meeting they come along with these strangers known as the mammoth hunters. Soon Ayla feels at home there. She discovers that a boy, named Rydag, looks a lot like her son who she had left behind with the clan. The people of the mammoth hunters are very friendly and understanding for where she has grown up. She soon makes friends. Jondalar the man she loves is very jealous. There is an interesting man, named Ranec who seems to be capable of getting Ayla in to his bed after a ceremony. Jondalar is devastated and believes that Ayla has chosen for Ranac. Ayla on the other hand thinks Jondalar doesn't love her any more. This goes so far on that Ayla almost bound with Ranec. Thank god in the ending Jondalar and Ayla find one each other again and they leave the mammoth hunters. Another adventure begins. Biography: Jean Marie Untinen was born February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the second of five children. Her father was a housepainter. After high school she married Ray Bernard Auel and raised five children of her own. In 1964 she became a member of Mensa. She earned her masters degree in 1976 - attending night school while working for a Portland electronics firm. At...
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...The red line fremlæggelse - noter 3 hovedpersoner - fortælleren skifter synsvinkel gennem hele historien. 1. Vi får ikke hans navn, men han er en kikset type = the nameless man.. “He dreamt that one day he might go on television, do his routine and win a big prize, enough money to be able to afford to go to America, maybe even visit where Bob lived.” Tænker meget over hvordan han ser ud: “Twice a day he washed his hair, so that it gleamed like precious metal.” - Hans karaoke bliver udskiftet med en DJ.. :“Why couldn’t people just leave things alone, instead of wanting to change, change, change all the time?” - Afhængig af sit udseende, og af at blive set og få opmærksomhed /Narciscisme: “Desperate, he’d searched for another pub.” - Han tror han er bedre end alle andre (arrogant) = “The pub just filled with up with drunks, drug addicts, girls with dirty hair. He hated these people.” - Ser på Berto på en rascistisk måde (racist) = v“Who the fuck did he think he was, the greasy ape? Look at him. He was just the type who was ruining London”. 2. Berto = italiener som følger gamle traditioner og ikke forstår det moderne samfund. “She’d told him about something called a “trial separation” and an “open relationship”, and even though he looked the words up, he still didn’t understand what they meant.” ————— Er bange for “the modern society”. ———————...
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... We must first remember in discussing the claims of the Bible with anyone, that the Bible is not a single, autonomous work. Rather, it is a collection of 66 different books written over a vast time span in three languages on three continents with authors from every station in life. These ancient works cover every major topic dealing with the human condition including: love, hate, death, sin, marriage, civil laws, and relationships with each other as well as with God. Although these works were written independently, they show an amazing congruency and they never contradict each other! When Paul writes "All scriptures is inspired by God (II Tim 3:16)", his primary reference is the Old Testament, which was completed 400 years previously. This is not to say that the verse doesn't apply to the New Testament as well, but Paul's subject matter was the Scriptures Timothy was taught as a child. Paul believes the Scriptures are "God-breathed"; that is they hold the same authority as if God were to come down and speak to you directly. Every word recorded in the original documents is considered to be chosen by God. So, our first point is that the testimony of Paul establishes a point of view that holds the Scriptures very highly. We know that the early church believed the Scriptures were inspired, we must now find out how to demonstrate that fact. Before going too far, I would ask your friend what type of evidence is he willing to accept to demonstrate the Bible as the Word of God?...
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...learns. While Paul and his friends once entered the war with a child-like innocence, they are quickly shaken with the realistic and painful lives that they are living. They learn to understand the brutality of the war that they are in and that maybe “to die for one’s country” is not as sweet an honorable as they once thought. Throughout the book, there is a constant theme of war and the difficulties of it. It is up to the reader to decipher if they consider the novel to be pro- or anti-war. The book begins at suppertime after coming back from the front lines. Out of their company of 150 men to have gone with them, only 80 returned. Paul and his comrades believed that the extra rations that had been prepared should be dispersed among the remaining men. It is here that we first meet some of Paul’s comrades in war. There is Mueller, Kropp, and Katczinsky. Mueller is said to have been the more realistic one of the group. He sees the war for what it really is and his observance seems to foreshadow the loss of innocence among his friends as they progress through their life in the war. He is only 20 years old but he feels as if he is an old man saying that this youth was stolen by the war. Kropp is one of Paul’s closest friends as well as having been a classmate of his in school. He is also 20 years old and understands that the war is not full of glory as they were once made to believe. He...
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