...Alvin Cullum York When it comes to American heroes you think about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and Theodore Roosevelt, to name just a few. Have you heard of Alvin Cullum York? He is considered one of the greatest heroes of World War I. York was born December 13, 1887 in Pall Mall, TN. (Alvin Cullum York) He was the third child of eleven siblings of William and Mary York. He grew up in a farm where he learned to farm and hunt out of necessity. Shooting became a requirement to help feed the family by putting meat on the table. (York, Alvin C., Jr) York turned to drinking and fighting as a young adult. He was known to be more of a nuisance that would never amount to anything. (Birdwell) In 1914 York found God as he experienced a religious conversion. York joined a fundamentalist church with a tough ethical code that prohibited drinking, dancing, movies, swimming, swearing, popular literature, and moral injunctions against violence and war. (Birdwell) When the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, York's new found faith in God would be put to the test. York wrote on his draft notice "Don’t want to fight," but he was denied conscientious objector status and drafted into the Army. (Padgett) During training he was convinced by his battalion commander, Gonzalo Edward Buxton, a fellow Bible student, that the Bible endorsed active service. (Duffy) York was deployed to France in 1918. He was such a good marksman that he quickly got...
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...English Essay Rewrite Compare and contrast Text A and Text B Text A- Satirical Elegy on the death of a late famous general Text B- An obituary of William Davidson Both texts are similar, in the fact that they both are reminiscence on a person’s life after their death. Many differences, however, can be seen throughout the poem written by Jonathan Swift and the Obituary. The opening of both Texts is contradictory as Text A opens with a series of exclamations, ‘His Grace! Impossible! What, dead!, ’which gives an impression of surprise at the death but not a sense of grief is aroused. On the other hand, Text B embarks with a compliment ‘was in his element at the heart of the action’; both openings give a clear implication of the withdrawal of the rest of the text. The structure of both are also at a contrast, Text A is an elegy so Is a farewell to the dead but the fact that Swift writes a satire elegy therefore removes the traditional aspect of an elegy. Text B is an Obituary, but although also a farewell to the dead, it is read at a remembrance or a funeral so is written with aspiration to honour William Davidson and not undermine him in the way that Text A is. Text A is written with a sarcastic and mocking tone, through the poem it is highlighted that the general has earned the disrespected he has received through the mention also of his failures with use of the parallelism of ‘Nor widows’ sigh, nor orphans’ tears’ which gives the impression that no grief is present...
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...------------------------------------------------- Highlights of Attributes/Qualifications ------------------------------------------------- * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Dedicated individual with strong leadership and organizational skills * Experienced in customer service and dealing with the general public * Independent, able to work alone without constant supervision * Enthusiastic, creative, and motivated towards goal achievement * Able to learn new tasks quickly and not afraid of new challenges * People oriented with an ability to effectively work in a team environment Work Experience ------------------------------------------------- Kinetics Sports Ltd., Tillsonburg, Ontario 2008-2009 * Sold footwear and other athletic merchandise to customers * Accurately managed cashiering activities in areas of purchasing, returns, exchanges * Maintained stock and appearance of store * Assisted customers to find suitable footwear * Ability to work effectively with others in team-oriented environment Otter Valley Foods, Tillsonburg, Ontario July – August 2009 * Prepared various frozen entrees in a production facility * Packaged product for shipment to customers * Adhered to proper food handling procedures according to HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) and GMP’s (Good Manufacturing Practices) * Successful in completion of WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information...
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...wwells1@student.cccd.edu William Wells Professor Nora Kabaji English 100 Diagnostic Essay 30 August 2011 Topic of this essay: Explain a situation in your life which made you change your attitude towards a person or an issue. Focus on the change of your attitude and opinion: How and why it occurred. TraumaOne: As Life Flashes Through Your Head Has there ever been a time when today was the last time a love one or friend would be alive? Not to bring back any bad memories of the past, but the thought of what actions have to be completed to ensure that this particular time by this road on a summer day is not going to be that day. Just a typical afternoon working at the new salon and the owner comes and says “Can you two guys go put up this sign up by the road?” Let us take an imaginary trip through your head of the first three hours after the accident takes place from putting up the sign, to the accident when the life of a friend flashes through your head and finally finding out that the friend is going to recover completely after some time in the hospital. The afternoon was just as any ordinary afternoon of work that gets a new hair salon business up and running. It began with getting supplies together to go clean the marquee before putting the new sign up so that everyone would know that the hair salon that used to be beside Wal-Mart in our town had not gone out of business, just a change of location. Once the supplies were gathered, we headed to the marquee...
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...Ashley Youmans 151 Linwell Rd. Unit 3 St. Catharines, ON a-yomans@hotmail.com Tel. (289) 968 7267 Objective To gain part time employment that will utilize my previous work experience. I wish to gain employment which involves excellent customer service and organizational skills. Qualifications ▪ Over one year of extensive experience of teaching children ▪ Demonstrated ability to establish routines and smooth out transition times ▪ Excellent Teamwork skills ▪ Remarkable ability to plan and organize and manage multiple duties ▪ Immense ability to give attention to detail and to follow company procedure. ▪ Organizing and implementing the daily, weekly and monthly program activities that stimulates growth in all learning areas based on the children’s interests. ▪ Skills-oriented person, good professional attitude and highly motivated individual. ▪ Able to understand individual needs of young children ▪ Excellent written, oral and communication skills Education Brock University St. Catharines, ON Bachelors Of Early Childhood Education Degree (current) Mohawk College Fennel Campus, Hamilton, ON Early Childhood Education Diploma – April 2013 High School Denis Morris Catholic High School St. Catharines, ON Graduated with Ontario Secondary School Diploma – June 2008 Work of Experience Fairy Tales Nursery Pre-KG Teacher, December 2010 – December...
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...Introduction Marks and Spencer (M&S) is a leading British based multinational retailer specializes in selling clothing ,home and food products. This essay would be discussing and examining the operation strategy of the company through studying the case “New supply chain strategies at old M&S”. Product ranges and market segmentations M&S classified its products by establishing a number of brands for attracting different customers who has different lifestyles. They are: The perfection collection, The classic collection, The Autograph range and per una. Each of the brands has been segmented carefully in order to highlight the features and design philosophy of the brand and satisfy particular needs for customer. The perfection collection and The classic collection essentially serve for customers who are mature and have high loyalty to M&S products. The products of two collections shared lots of similarities and the chief aims is to provide wide-range of ‘timeless essentials’ clothes to customers who focus on its own clothing style and finesse. The core principle of The Autograph range is to incorporate cutting-edge design to products under the brand. Product categories encompass womenswear, menswear and related accessories. It features supreme design by industry top tier designers with a very pricy price tag. It targets customer who values product design is first and foremost. The per una feature products with high-end designs and acceptably priced. The brand...
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...Social enterprise is an enterprise which help to improve the human life style by teaching them skill as well as the environment but without caring if it can earn profit or not. Although this seen no profit to the investor as if they believe doing this can maximize their utility by helping the weak can further their capacity to realize their social and environmental goals. The social enterprise that we choose for this assignment is Eden Project. The project is located at Kaolinite pit, which is 2 kilometres from the town of St Blazey and 5 kilometres form the large town of St Austell, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The project since started at January 1995 because of the hole it give the owner of the project an idea that they need a large place for their plant, so in 1996 they began to design the Eden, the works started in 1998, then finally paid off the funded in 2000 as well as let the visitor visit how they build Eden and the first plant come in the Eden, at last Eden open the door at 2001. The motivation of the Eden Project is that they wish to explore ideas and innovations that can help human being to tread lighter on the planet. How they save the environment? First they cutting the carbon that their produce by planting thousands of plants and also limited the energy use so the building of Eden is special as most of the light come from sunlight. Next they change the waste into useful item with the process of measure, reduce, reuse, recycle and reinvest, for example they...
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...old people and low death rate in their population, an area with a high number of old people and high death rate in their population and an area with low number of old people and high death rate. We also used the fair share calculations and areas with at least 170 deaths per funeral on average every year as part of the metrics 2.0 RECOMMENDATIONS 2.1 Fair Share Analysis Based on the fair share calculations, which is total market divided by the number of funeral homes in the market. The four potential locations would be St Catharines with the highest fair market share of 9.87%; Kingston with 8.51%; Hamilton with 7.84%; London with 7.19% and Cambridge with 6.36%. We would highly suggest that the organization should consider St Catharine’s and Kingston as potential locations of the funeral home. 2.2 Annual number of deaths The five areas with the highest number of annual deaths are: Ottawa-Gatineau with 8,157.50 deaths, Hamilton with 5,943.50 deaths, St Catharines with 3,997.35, London with 3,584.93 deaths and Kitchener-Waterloo with 1,909.62 deaths. We would also recommend that the...
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...Considered on May 10, 1958, in Los Angeles, California, Ellen Ochoa got her leader of science and doctorate degrees at Stanford School. She was picked by NASA in 1990 and in 1991 changed into the world's first Hispanic female space explorer. A mission expert and flight build, Ochoa is a veteran of four space flights, logging over 950 hours in space. She lives in Texas with her family. Space traveler Ellen Ochoa was considered on May 10, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. Picked by NASA in 1990, Ochoa changed into the world's first Hispanic female space voyager in 1991. She continued forward from Grossmont Helper School in La Level, California, in 1975, and got a four year assertion in consistent examinations degree in material science from...
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...Arianne Dyball MAIN Geography Miss Green Issue I Will be looking into Exploitation of workers. Wages and Hours? Child Labour? How are employees treated? Safety and exposure to toxins and lack of trade unions and equal rights for disabled e.t.c.? Global issues, how is waste disposed? Are any resources being polluted? Carbon footprints? Primark Evidence found underpaying workers and not paying overtime. Evidence found child labour being used. Evidence found of lack of regard for workers’ rights and lack of safety. Marks and Spencer's Evidence found fair pay for workers. Evidence found of use of child labour early on. Evidence found helping to assist workers to be shown how to how to do job properly. Evidence found changing to more ecofriendly recycled bags. Evidence found helping environment with ‘Plan A’. Evidence of Social Responsibility for Primark. This shows that Primark takes into account all social issues relating to the customers and stake holders. Evidence 1. This is an opinion of a stake holder (Primark’s owner). Primark's code of Conduct Primark’s code of Conduct: • Employment is freely chosen collective bargaining are respected • Working conditions are safe and hygienic • Child labour shall not be used • Living wages are paid • Working hours are not excessive • No discrimination is practised • Regular employment is provided • No harsh or inhumane treatment is allowed. • Freedom of association and the right to A limitation is that...
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...having a proper healthy diet. Childhood (4-9 years): He started his schooling at the Byron House; he later blamed its “progressive methods” for his failure to learn read while at the school. So which means his intellectual milestones was happening slowly. This is probably due to his illness. In St Albans, when he was 7, he went to St Albans High School for Girls for a few months; at that time, younger boys could attend one of the houses. This could affect his life as in intellectual way because he changed school lots of time, which means he probably had to catch up a lot of things. That will also affect his emotionally and socially developments because it might be hard for him to find right friends otherwise his motivation will emotionally gone down. Adolescence (10-18 years): When he was 10 years old he attended Radlett School for a year and from September 1952, St Albans School. His family placed a high value on education so that’s why his father wanted him to attend the well-regarded Westminster School, but he was ill on the day for scholarship examination. His family could not afford the school. His family could not afford the fees without scholarship so he stayed at St Albans. For the emotionally and socially factors, it was good for him because he stayed with a close group of friends with whom he enjoyed playing board games, the manufacture of fireworks, model aeroplanes and boats, and also long...
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...Unit 4 – P2 Terms of Reference I am writing a report to senior management to tell them all the information for Marks and Spencer such as Financial Highlights, share price, figures and Facts. Marks and Spencer are a company which have done outstanding and their figures have shown that their plan A has been successful. Procedure I completed research online to find financial statistics of Marks and Spencer, this information was found on the internet in the annual report of Marks and Spencer. I viewed the statistics to analyse the findings such as group revenue, profit before tax and final dividend. Findings This data shows that group revenue, group operating profit, profit before tax, earnings per share and final dividend. Group revenue shows that it has rose by 2.0% in 7 moths which is a great achievement and also it’s 9.9 billion, which is a lot for 7 months. Also this year financial highlights have been amazing the group revenue at the end of 53 weeks the percentage went up by 4.2%. Due to the really good results from group revenue the group profit before tax meant down by 15.7% which means they didn’t get much of profit in those few months. As you can see that the underlying earnings per share is 34.9p, it also has upgraded 0.3% which means that they have improved quite greatly. It makes sense to say that the final divined came up to 17.0p in 52 weeks which is a good achievement bearing in mind that they didn’t make much profit before tax and when down by 1.2%. ...
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...What is a SYSTEM ? A system is defined as a set of concepts or parts that must work together to perform a particular function. An organization is a system or a collection of systems. Every job in an organization is used by a system to produce a product or service. The product or service is the means by which a organization supports itself. Compiled by : S. Agarwal, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. There are four inputs necessary in every system to produce a product or service: People: People The workers making up a group and linked by a common activity. Material: Material The raw products which go into the system. Technology: Technology The technique for achieving a practical purpose or goal. Time: Time The measured period during which an action or process begins and ends. Compiled by : S. Agarwal, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. People + Material + Technology + Time ---------OUTPUT Functional Divisions of an Organization and IS : •Finance •Marketing & sales •Human resources •Operation (manufacturing or services) •Information systems (IS) Information System : A system, whether automated or manual, that comprises people, machines, and/or methods organized to collect, process, transmit, and disseminate data that represent user information. At the center of organizational units lies the information system. Each unit relies on the information system in the generation of information. People in different functional areas of the organization will need different...
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...Evaluate the extent to which Marks and Spencer has benefited from its marketing planning Marks & Spencer’s are a company that have been that suffered a bad year in 2003/04 as they suffered a 10% fall in sales of their clothing. Their additional priority was to kick-start the autograph range in which they received good reviews but unfortunately they were too expensive being mostly over £100. With regards to their products, products of Marks and Spencer are designed according to the demands, needs and preferences of customers. To identify the demands, needs and preferences of customers, Marks and Spencer focuses on the core customers which they knew but then decided to take a risk and merge into a new market with Per Una and Per Una Due range. Company serves its core customers as well as its new customers by providing them distinguishing products. Per Una is a successful brand of the company which has satisfied the needs of customers. This brand has produced remarkable profits for the company. It was launched in 2001 but unfortunately the market of 2003/04 showed a drop in demand because of their prices. If more market research was carried out it could be seen that the customers will not be willing to pay £100 or more for an item of clothing. In regards to benefitting from marketing planning, they could have possibly gained if they were able to produce a product that could be sold which they did with the Men’s range in which its market share increased from 10.3% to 10.5%...
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...Name: Cornwall According the Andrew Mitchell, Cornwall remains one of Europe’s most deprived areas. This is despite the 4 million tourists who visit Cornwall every year. There are two main reasons as to why Cornwall is need of rebranding and they are; deprivation caused by low wages and decline in the rural (primary) economy. There have been many schemes put in place to try and alleviate the crisis in Cornwall. In 2001, a flagship scheme known as the Eden Project opened to visitors. What was once a quarried area used for the collection of China clay, has now been transformed into a conservation site where 3 biomes are home to 1000 plants representing 5000 species. Just by building the Eden Project at the bottom of the quarry has been successful in reimaging the area of Cornwall, which is important because Cornwall has the highest percentage of derelict land in the UK. Success of scheme has been seen through number of visitors and the improvement of employment opportunities for the local people. Within 6 months of its opening the Eden Project was the UK’s third most visited attraction. In addition, the first year saw a 1.9 million visitor count – considerably higher than the estimated 750,000 before it opened. This has also seen an increase in the amount money being spent in the surrounding area as it has been estimated that an average visitor to the Eden Project will spend around £150 in the Cornwall area. This has generated a multiplier effect where those coming over long...
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