...(searching and collecting the cases and all the data that we need it from the internet) Maged mohsen el-wakeel 20080631 (summaries the case and the data that we got it) Moaz abdel raheem 20080626 (typing the project at word) Ahmed gamal 20080400 (he did the outline. also he organized the shape of the project and work in the presentation slides and the design of it.) Summary The automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010 was a part of a global financial downturn. The crisis affected European and Asian automobile manufacturers, but it was primarily felt in the American automobile manufacturing industry. The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells motor vehicles, and is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue. The term automotive industry usually does not include industries dedicated to automobiles after delivery to the customer, such as repair shops and motor fuel stations. The Automotive industry has had a large outcome in production over the past 20 years. The downturn also affected Canada by virtue of the Automotive Products Trade Agreement The Canada—United States Automotive Products Agreement, commonly known as the Auto Pact or APTA, was an important trade agreement between Canada and the United States. It was signed by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson...
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...Two-Thirds of Americans Want US to Join Climate Change Pact Summary of News Item The New York times on November 30 2015 published an article authored by Giovanni Russonelo that two thirds of Americans want US to join the climate Change Pact. A solid majority of Americans say the United States should join international treaty to limit impact of global warming but on this and other climate related questions opinion divides sharply along partisan lines, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.This represents a shift in public opinion, advocates for climate change are hopeful that the paris talks could be a turning point. Poll Results • 63% of Americans including a bare majority of republicans support domestic policy limiting carbon emmisions from plants • 75% of Americans polled said global warming was already having a serious environmental impact • Nine to Ten democrats agreed , compared 58% of Republicans • One third of republicans said it will never have an impact • 50%of all Americans said the government should take steps to restrict drilling ,logging and mining on public lands, compared to 45% who approved restrictions. • Among democrats support for limiting mineral extraction on public lands rose to 58% • One out 5 Americans favored increasing taxes on electricity as a way to fight global warming • Six in ten opposed, including 49% for Democrats • 36% support increasing taxes to curb global warming • 51% of respondents worried about global...
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...Assessing the Production System at Toyota David Osborn Ebenezer Ogoke Lamar Pryor Loretta Inoni UMUC AMBA 640 9042- Dr. Wende Huehn-Brown Table of Contents Exercise #1: 3 Exercise #2: 9 Exercise #3 14 Exercise #4 20 References 24 Exercise #1: Executive Summary Since the early 1950’s Toyota has been in the business of manufacturing automobiles as a family operated company. Much of Toyota’s success has come from their ability to adapt to an ever changing market place, in both good times and in bad, while honoring its commitment to product safety and quality. This commitment has allowed them to consistently produce cars that meet or exceed that of their competition, while taking into consideration the impact on our environment. Through the years many types of cars can be associated with the Toyota brand, but it is the introduction of the Lexus line of cars in 1989 that has helped to keep Toyota at the forefront of innovation and design. Early in 2000 Toyota took on the daunting task of deciding where to manufacture the Lexus RX300. Through careful analysis it was decided that the Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Canada (TMMC) would get this task. How this decision was derived came from the efforts of an independent consulting firm called the Hawks. They utilized production analysis and concepts derived and refined out of Toyota’s Production System (TPS) from Andon to Yokoten, as well as, Grid Analysis and Decision tree to assess how best Toyota should expand...
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...istockphoto Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness How Teacher Performance Assessments Can Measure and Improve Teaching Linda Darling-Hammond October 2010 w w w.americanprogress.org Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness How Teacher Performance Assessments Can Measure and Improve Teaching Linda Darling-Hammond October 2010 Contents 1 Introduction and Summary 5 Why performance assessments are needed 7 National Board Certification 9 Assessment of beginning teachers 11 Prospects for a national system of Teacher Performance Assessments 12 How performance assessments can help teachers improve their practice 17 Improving preparation through the use of performance assessments 22 Policy recommendations and conclusion Introduction and Summary Parents, practitioners, and policymakers agree that the key to improving public education in America is placing highly skilled and effective teachers in all classrooms. Yet the nation still lacks a practical set of standards and assessments that can guarantee that teachers, particularly new teachers, are well prepared and ready to teach. This report discusses a promising approach to the question of how to measure teacher effectiveness. Specifically, it describes the ways in which assessments of teacher performance for licensing and certification can both reflect and predict teachers’ success with children so that they can not only inform personnel decisions, but also...
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...This is so because Islam’s government made the law known as the Pact, which allows conquered non-Muslims to be taxed in order to practice their religion, as stated in Document E. Laws such as the Pact could have caused certain non-Muslims to convert, which would give Islam more followers. In addition, Document F displayed that the people of Hims gave their support to the Muslims and guarded them against the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius after they declared, “ We like your rule and justice far better than the state of oppression and tyranny in which we are.” This quote along with the set of verse shown from the Qur’an on Document B support the idea that while some converted to Islam to avoid paying the tax, some genuinely believed life under the Islamic Empire was better. Furthermore, both documents showcase ways in which Islam’s rules and its government helped it...
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...The book Animal Farm was written by George Orwell, a famous political satirist in England. The book compares the details of the Russian Revolution with the events of Animal Farm. There are lots of similarities between animal farm and Russian revolution though the scheming of Napoleon and Stalin. There are several of events of Napoleon are similar to the events of Stalin of the Russian revolution. For example, Napoleon looked friendly to Pilkington but he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick. (Page 66) however, the similar thing for Russian revolution was Stalin signed non-aggression pact with his enemy, Hitler in 1938. They both renegaded on their friends. Not only that, the behaviour of Napoleon for satisfy his own goal is also the same as Stalin’s. Napoleon expelled and did wrong to Snowball in order to keep his status. (Page 56). Stalin did as well as he expelled Trotsky in 1928. All in all, there are lots of similarities between Napoleon and Stalin. From Animal Farm, we can get that exploiting weak and trusting individuals is the nature of human begins. Napoleon is a typical example, he used Boxer who is a henchman of animal ideology. Boxer follows and believes him all the time, however, Napoleon deceived to Boxer and he sold Boxer to a slaughter horse trader. (Page 82) In the Russian revolution, China was a country that believe and support socialist country. But during the World War II, Stalin didn’t help Chinese because he didn’t want to offend America. Over all...
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...from an ethical perspective reveals several insightful and interesting insights including a look into the idea of equality among the member states, financial camouflage practices and the focus on immediate gains both in private sector and at national level. We have tried to map out such factors that have contributed to ethics mismanagement among the euro member states which have finally culminated into the crisis. We hope that you enjoy reading this paper as much as we did writing this and look forward to your views. Please feel free to contact us anytime if you feel the need for any additional support that we may provide. Kind Regards Bijon Islam – Roll 21 (EMBA 14) Faruk Ahmed – Roll 20 (EMBA 14) pg. 1 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................................3 1. A. B. C. D. E. 2. A. B. 3. A. B. C. D. E. F. 4. 5. 6. THE STORY.............................................................................................................................................................4 Context .............................................................................................................................................................4 Objectives of the Paper...
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...sETON HAL UNIVERSITY | The TPP and China | Global Business Environment | Richard J. Hunter | Yixiao Liang | 2016/4/5 | On October 5, 2015 (Participating nations aimed at completing negotiations in 2012, but contentious issues such as agriculture, intellectual property, and services and investments prolonged negotiations. They finally reached agreement on October 5, 2015), the United States, Japan and ten other countries concluded negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It is the largest regional trade accord in history and one that does not include China-----the TPP is the centerpiece of the U.S “rebalance” to the Asia-Pacific, and its twelve members account for 35 percent of global trade. China appears to currently have enough international economic negotiations on the table to keep it occupied, and it is unlikely that it is really concerned about the TPP. A No China Club China was invited to join the TPP by Hillary Clinton in 2012. While China has long stated that it is willing to consider joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the world’s second-biggest economy was not included in the agreement. From its inception, some have speculated that China would not join the bloc because it is a “high standards agreement,” even speculating that this was put in place to lock China out of the agreement. It is also assumed that the TPP have used specific rules and guidelines to prevent China's involvement, presumably due to its negative impact on the WTO and that...
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...Bretton Woods Agreement Definition: The Bretton Woods Agreement is the result of a 1944 meeting in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire involving delegates from forty-four countries following World War II. The resulting agreement established a fixed rate exchange system, the International Monterey Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. This also included an exchange rate agreement, also known as the gold exchange standard. (Satterlee, 2009, p.157). Summary: A Bretton Woods for innovation This article by author Stephen Ezell highlights one of the issues overlooked upon the conclusion of the 1994 meeting, policies governing innovation. “We need a new international framework that sets clear parameters for what constitutes fair and unfair innovation competition, creating new institutions (and updating old ones) that maximize innovation” (Ezell, 2011, para. 1). Ezell begins by defining the current policies in play concerning innovation and providing examples. Ezell breaks down countries’ policies into four categories, “Good”, “Bad”, “Ugly” and "Self-destructive". “"Good" innovation policies include increasing investments in scientific research; offering research and development tax credits; welcoming highly skilled immigrants; providing strong science, technology, engineering, and math education; and deploying advanced information and communications technologies” (Ezell, 2011, para. 4). “"Bad" policies are strategies like import substitution industrialization that a country believes will...
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...Executive Summary This report explores the possibility of a merger between Visy and HP. I will show in this essay that the merging of the two companies is highly benefical socially and economically. I will then state that when all stakeholders are considered, the merging of these two companies would be in everyone’s interest. The overall benefit would be a net reduction in cost to the consumer. Introduction Recently, Visy Industries Australia Pty Ltd seeks clearance from Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)to acquire certain business and assets of HP Industries Pty Ltd. It raises concerns socially and economically as to whether the merged entity will substantially lessen customers in each of NSW and/or Victoria. This report will identify and justify the type of market for the Australian packaging industry. It will then consider the stakeholders and their interests regarding this issue. Finally, it will assess the social and economic consenquences if the merge take place. Nature of the packaging industry The Australian packaging industry is a Oligopoly in which natural barriers prevent the entry of new firms. The new entrants could experience a significant start- up cost involved in establishing a manufacturing plant on the quantity produced and low marginal cost. Visy, HP and Pact are the three major firms dominate the market. Such firms are interdependent.The kinked demand curve model is applied to this market which indicates that if one of the...
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...APA Style The main scholarly association for academic psychologists in the United States, the American Psychological Association (APA) has developed standardized methods for citing print and electronic sources used in research. Below are instructions according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) and http://www.apastyle.org/. Instructions Alphabetize each entry in a works cited list by the first letter, ignoring the articles A, An, and The. Indent subsequent lines of entries one-half inch. Names: Use initials for first and middle names. Titles: For articles, chapters and books, capitalize only the first word of the title and subtitle and proper nouns. Fully capitalize periodical titles. Dates: Publication dates use the order year, month day. The access date uses the order month day year. If no publication date is available, use "n.d." in place of date. The following examples are citations from EBSCO databases. If you cannot find some of this information, cite what is available. Different styles may apply when citing print and other sources. Journal Article Pattern: [Author last name], [First initial]. [Middle initial]. ([Publication year]). [Title of article]. [Title of journal], [Volume number]([Issue number]), [Page number starts]-[ends]. [Document Object Identifier] Example: Silva, L. (2007). Epistemological and theoretical challenges for studying power and politics in information systems. Information Systems Journal...
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...Summary: Corporations Can Behave Ethically and Thrive In the article, “Corporations Can Behave Ethically and Thrive”, important points are stated about the corruption and unethical behavior in corporations. It is said that the only way to succeed in business is engaging in unethical behavior, although numerous corporations such as IKEA, Reebok, and Google, have prospered without resorting to these practices. In combating these corrupt practices, America and Britain are leading worldwide efforts to give corporations the idea that they will be best served to forgo the short-term benefits of corruption and focus on building a morally righteous business to prosper in the long run. Although America’s Department of Justice, is investigating over 150 companies, there is little sign of this “corruption eruption” is dying down. Corporations started doing this because the chances of being caught were small, while the rewards for going against the grain were big and immediate. Bribery isn’t necessary nor is it effective in the long run. IKEA is one of the many corporations to not conduct unethical business practices and to go to great lengths to fight interval corruption and even fight in different countries. The “efficient grease” hypothesis, of bribery speeding up the snail pace of bureaucracy, is believed to dismiss entire countries as corrupt, when in fact these countries have laws against this concept and combat against it. This hypothesis has actually been found to slow...
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...University of Phoenix Material Week Three Worksheet Match the items in the Case Summary column to the Options in the right column by entering the correct corresponding alphabetical letter next to the numbers in the first column. Not all options will be used. | | |Case Summary | |Options | | | | | | | | |D |Shaun is driving home at night from work on a six-lane road, |Murder | | | |under the speed limit. There are no streetlights. A man is |Voluntary manslaughter | | | |crossing the middle of the street, and Shaun does not see him. |Involuntary manslaughter | | | |Shaun hits the man and kills him. |Justifiable homicide | | | | |Excusable homicide | | | | |Statutory rape | | | | |Malice aforethought | | | | ...
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...Book 1 That night, Agamemnon puts Chryseis on a ship back to her father and sends heralds to have Briseis escorted from Achilles’ tent. Achilles prays to his mother, the sea-nymph Thetis, to ask Zeus, king of the gods, to punish the Achaeans. He relates to her the tale of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and she promises to take the matter up with Zeus—who owes her a favor—as soon as he returns from a thirteen-day period of feasting with the Aethiopians. Thetis makes her appeal to Zeus, as promised. Zeus is reluctant to help the Trojans, for his wife, Hera, favors the Greeks, but he finally agrees. Hera becomes livid when she discovers that Zeus is helping the Trojans, but her son Hephaestus persuades her not to plunge the gods into conflict over the mortals. Analysis But while the poem focuses most centrally on the rage of a mortal, it also concerns itself greatly with the motivations and actions of the gods. Even before Homer describes the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon, he explains that Apollo was responsible for the conflict. In general, the gods in the poem participate in mortal affairs in two ways. First, they act as external forces upon the course of events, as when Apollo sends the plague upon the Achaean army. Second, they represent internal forces acting on individuals, as when Athena, the goddess of wisdom, prevents Achilles from abandoning all reason and persuades him to cut Agamemnon with words and insults rather than his sword. But while the gods serve a serious...
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...12’s annual “reaping” to fight to the death in the country’s televised Hunger Games. Katniss and the male tribute Peeta are taken to the country’s wealthy and controlling Capitol, where they interview, compete for a ranking, and meet the competition. As part of a strategy devised with District 12 mentor Haymitch, Peeta admits on camera that he has feelings for Katniss; the “star-crossed lovers” win massive fan support. In the arena, Peeta pretends to join the group of violent and practiced “career” tributes, while Katniss befriends young Rue. Rue is killed and Peeta injured; Katniss finds and nurses him. The other contestants die one by one until only Katniss and Peeta are left. They pretend to take poison berries in a suicide pact. The Capitol halts the game so both tributes win. - allie-draper. Synopsis print Print document PDF list Cite link Link The Hunger Games After writing the fantasy series The Underland Chronicles, Suzanne Collins departed from the world of fantasy and stepped into a harsh, dystopian creation in The Hunger Games. Published in 2008, The Hunger Games is the first novel in a projected trilogy, and introduces readers to a futuristic dystopian society where an overpowering government controls the lives and resources in twelve different districts. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, of District 12, is the main character of the story. Each year, as punishment for the now demolished District 13's attempted rebellion, two children in each district...
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