...Quotation Analysis Quote #1-Personality Alexander Graham Bell was a man who was always very attached to his work at hand and he rarely was distracted from it. But, of course, everyone’s personality can change and everyone desires for someone to care for them and someone for them to care about. So, during his late twenties, Bell had encountered a different meeting that had threatened to disrupt his life as he currently knew it: Bell was facing a new challenge that would delay his work, threaten his health, and shake his partnerships. In sessions with on particular student he would sometimes lose his train of thought and lapse into political discussions. He would comment on the sweetness of her voice, which she herself could not hear. After class, he would escort her to her streetcar. In late June, Alexander Graham Bell announced to everyone that he was in love with Mabel Hubbard, his seventeen-and-a-half-year-old student, the daughter of his business partner – to everyone, that is, but Mabel herself. (Grosvenor 58) This quote shows how Bell’s personality has dramatically changed because, as stated in the summary, Bell was a very active minded individual who cared highly about his inventions and his achievements. So,...
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...Summary The Isaac Bell House, also known as Edna Villa, is a shingle-style mansion built in Newport, Rhode Island. It is one of the first and most notorious examples of the Shingle style. The house-turned-museum has a complex roofline with gables and proejcting porches. The ground floor is sheathed in brick, while the upper stories are of intricately patterned cedar shingles. The building is 2-1/2 tall with an additional attic story. The house is also one of the earliest of the gilded age Newport mansions. The house is in overall good condition for its age and retains much of its original intergrity and intent due to proper restoration and building campaigns. History The house was completed in 1883 for Isaac Bell, a cotton broker and investor. The house was designed by the renowned firm, McKim, Mead, and White of New York City, who would later become one of the most prolific architecture firms of the era. Bell, was only 35 years old when the building of the house began. He was only able to live in the house until his death in 1889. Bell was married Jeanette Gordon Bennett, the sister of the founder of the Newport Casino, James Gordon Bennett, Jr. The casino, built one year before the Bell House is also built by McKim, Mead and White and shares many details and design elements....
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...High-Risk Family Assessment and Health Promotion Paper Corey Hollmann University of Phoenix NUR/542 6/30/2014 Danielle Patrick High-Risk Family Assessment and Health Promotion-Suicidal Ideation Suicide and ideation to commit this final act, is a grave public health concern that is multifaceted and responsible for significant family risk. Suicide is a behavior that has worldwide resulted in nearly one million fatalities annually. Suicide is commonly an act driven by impulsivity and followed by thoughts of hopelessness and doom. In the United States, firearms, particularly handguns, are the most common means of suicide. Despite extreme notoriety, suicide and suicidal ideation remained stigmatized and hidden behind shadows of shame. Acts of deliberate self-harm and unsuccessful attempts remain largely underreported (Fleischmann et al., 2008; Freedenthal, 2007). Summary of Suicide Risk Health Profile The incidence of suicide has remained a significant health risk across multiple demographics, cultures, and sexes. In between the years 1999 and 2008, the suicide rate increased 10.5% and from 10.5 to 11.6 people per 100,000 population. Male's record rates that are four times greater than females while non-Hispanic whites recorded 14.1 suicides per 100,000 (National Vital Statistics System, 2008). Suicide is a behavior that exudes complexity that is characterized by methods to potentiate intentional termination of one's own life. The World Health Organization (WHO) has...
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...November 25th, 2013 Taco Bell Corp. 1 Glen Bell Way Irvine, California 92618 United States Phone: +949-863-4500 Fax: +949-863-2252 Attention: Mr Greg Creed Dear Sir, As a member of the Global Strategy Team, I am presenting an expansion strategy which is in accordance to Taco Bell’s ideas and image. Our team is pleased to offer the documents entitled ‘Internationalisation of Taco Bell in Malaysia’ as a growth prospect. The report has undertaken all aspects of analyzing the climate for Taco Bell in Malaysia. We have studied the environment and the business strategies to propose a plan that fits the company’s policy and purpose of internationalization. Our team would like to thank you for this opportunity and hope that we have clarified all areas of the proposal. We are grateful for this opportunity and anticipate to working with you in the future. We hope that this proposal will meet your approval. Yours sincerely, Sehr Ali Jafri Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Introduction 3 3. Methodology 3 4. Motives for Internationalisation 4 5. Malaysia Economy Profile 5 5.1 Malaysian Fast-food Business Environment 6 6. Taco Bell’s Global Strategy 6 6.1 Entry Mode 7 7. Conclusion 7 8. Recommendations 7 1. Executive Summary The purpose of this study is to critically analyse the investment opportunities prevalent in the Malaysian market by taking into consideration the significant macroeconomic factors, food industry trends...
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...never been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license” (Star Quotes, 2009, p. 1). Obviously, something intrusively wrong resonated in Gacy for him to make such a statement that negated the intensity of his actions. Gacy buried majority of his victims under the crawl space of his home and discarded other victims in the Des Plaines River (Bell & Bardsley, 2011). People often question what would make someone do such vicious and torturous acts on another person. Criminologists developed theories explaining the reasons people deviate from societal norms and commit immoral acts laws prohibit (Schmallenger, 2003). Particularly, in this case, John Wayne Gacy is a person suitable to study. Certainly, a few crime causation theories explain how his upbringing, life experiences, and other deep, underlying issues led him to committing crimes to the extent he did. Gacy’s Background Information Gacy was the only son of three children born to Marion and John Gacy. He had an older sister (Joanne) and younger sister (Karen). The Gacy’s were a middle-classed, Catholic family who lived on the north side of Chicago. As a young boy in middle school, Gacy kept busy by working part-time as a bag boy, delivering newspapers, and participating in Boy Scouts. Even though he was not popular, his teachers liked him, and he had many friends (Lohr, n.d.). To people on the outside of Gacy’s home, it appeared he had an awesome childhood. However, many people...
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...food has been locally outsourced. They even employed local management and followed the government recommendation that makes their customer’s feel like their food and store is homegrown. The design of their store structure also has a quiet Chinese theme and standards that encouraged people to come in. The success and performance of KFC in China led them to establish currently as of 2011 over 3500 stores in most populous 700 cities in this country. The growth of their stores is explained by their CEO Sam Su he is one of the most prominent business entrepreneurs of the country he said that the growth of their food chain has become phenomenal that when one of the family love their food most probably they can encourage the whole family unlike in western countries that the decision is individualistic the Chinese tradition is family ties especially in culture, religion and food preference....
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...Mean and standard deviation The median is known as a measure of location; that is, it tells us where the data are. As stated in , we do not need to know all the exact values to calculate the median; if we made the smallest value even smaller or the largest value even larger, it would not change the value of the median. Thus the median does not use all the information in the data and so it can be shown to be less efficient than the mean or average, which does use all values of the data. To calculate the mean we add up the observed values and divide by the number of them. The total of the values obtained in Table 1.1 was 22.5 , which was divided by their number, 15, to give a mean of 1.5. This familiar process is conveniently expressed by the following symbols: (pronounced "x bar") signifies the mean; x is each of the values of urinary lead; n is the number of these values; and σ , the Greek capital sigma (our "S") denotes "sum of". A major disadvantage of the mean is that it is sensitive to outlying points. For example, replacing 2.2 by 22 in Table 1.1 increases the mean to 2.82 , whereas the median will be unchanged. As well as measures of location we need measures of how variable the data are. We met two of these measures, the range and interquartile range, in Chapter 1. The range is an important measurement, for figures at the top and bottom of it denote the findings furthest removed from the generality. However, they do not give much indication of the spread of observations...
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...may also hinder optimal physical, psychological, and cognitive functioning for patients (Sun et al., 2008). Pain is experienced by 30% to 50% of cancer patients receiving treatment and by 70% to 90% of patients with metastatic or advanced disease. In almost every cancer-related case pain is inadequately managed due to a lack of patient and professional knowledge of optimum management (Sun et al., 2008). This paper will discuss how nurses can help provide adequate pain management in advanced cancer patients. Patient and family needs Support for the patient and family may include education and information, coping skills, counseling and psychotherapy, and family meetings, etc. Patients, as well as their family have psychological needs. Family members’ psychological distress can be as severe as that of the patient. Studies of psychological distress have found that the psychological distress of patients and their family paralleled over time so when you help the family to manage their distress may have a beneficial effect on the distress...
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...Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration, 8th Edition PART 1 THE SYSTEMIC FRAMEWORK Chapter 1: Two Different Worldviews The Framework of Individual Psychology The Framework of Systemic Family Therapy Basic Concepts of Systems Theory and Cybernetics Family Therapy or Relationship Therapy? Summary Chapter 2: The Historical Perspective Planting the Seeds: The 1940s Cybernetics Development of Interdisciplinary Approaches Gregory Bateson Putting Down Roots: The 1950s Bateson (Continued) The Double-Bind Hypothesis Nathan Ackerman Murray Bowen Carl Whitaker Theodore Lidz Lyman Wynne Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy John Elderkin Bell Christian F. Midelfort Overview of the 1950s The Plant Begins to Bud: The 1960s Paradigm Shift The MRI Salvador Minuchin Other Developments Blossom Time: The 1970s Psychodynamic Approaches Natural Systems Theory Experiential Approaches Structural Approaches Strategic Approaches Communication Approaches Behavioral Approaches Gregory Bateson Connecting and Integrating: The 1980s Other Voices The Limits of History Controversy, Conflict, and Beyond: The 1990s The Feminist Critique Family Therapy and Family Medicine Integration and Metaframeworks Managed Care The Twenty-First Century: Continuing Concerns and Emerging Trends Summary Chapter 3: The Paradigmatic Shift of Systems Theory A Cybernetic Epistemology Recursion ...
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...The Negative Effects of Bullying in Adolescents & Teens Bullying has become a national problem that has been put in the spotlight in recent years. Each week on the news, we are constantly reminded of tragedies that have struck children, teens, and young adults. The most common result we hear about are suicides resulting from bullying that goes on in schools all over the country. The main stream media often portrays these tragedies as just homosexual students who are bullied, or outted by their peers. All too often bullying is misunderstood. Bullying is often thought of as a bigger person picking on a much smaller person. Bullying is much more than just that. Bullying can come in the form of verbal abuse, such as name calling, belittling or threatening. It can be physical, such as hitting, punching or any form of fighting and physical abuse. Social bullying has also taken form in recent years with the advent of texting and such social media forums as facebook, myspace, twitter, ect. Use of these methods to bully has become more instantaneous than some of the more traditional forms such as physical or verbal. Someone spreading a rumor or facebook can often reach their intended audience much quicker than the first few methods. Another form can be cyber bullying. This can be done through social mediums such as instant messenger and the sending of threating messages via that avenue. (Bullying Statistics) A common misconception about bullying is that it is usually...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Justin Bell, assistant operations manager at Rockwater Insurance (RI), faces a difficult situation and must act quickly in order to prove his competence as a leader to his colleagues. Ideally, his decision must maintain the firm’s no-layoff history, encourage the tight-knit company atmosphere, and draw as little negative attention as possible. As a new employee in his grandfather's business, he must prove himself worthy of the position he was recently controversially given. His first challenge is dealing with the declining performance of veteran employee, Russell Campbell, a strong-minded subordinate with a significant amount of influence within the firm. To make his dealings even more complicated, Russell is a recent widow. Keeping this in mind, the best course of action would be for Justin to hold a meeting with his uncle and Branch Manager, Frank Bell. At this meeting, it would be advised that he: 1. Propose the idea that a new Assistant Sales Manager position be created. 2. Recommend himself for this role, due to the fact that he is well suited for this position. 3. Nominate Russell to be the new Assistant Operations Manager, dependent on the conditions that he: a. Take a minimum 3 weeks paid leave in order to recover to an adequate psychological state to work in a managerial role. b. Receive counselling, and obtain clearance by medical professionals that he is in sufficient condition. If he is not cleared, he will...
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...Change in Nursing Practice Jamie L. Eden Walden University NURS 4001-5, Research and Scholarship for Evidence-based Practice November 16, 2013 Change in Nursing Practice A patient who is admitted to a facility may be alert, oriented, and independent in ambulation. Add on intravenous (IV) tubing attached to a pole, a telemetry monitor, a foley catheter, and new medications for the patient. This patient now has fall risk factors. The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate change in preventing falls in the hospital setting. Falls in Hospitals Patient safety is number one in hospitals. Every staff member that comes into contact with a patient should always have the question, “Will the patient be safe?” in the back of their mind. Mistakes do happen just as patients do fall in hospitals even with prevention strategies. There are between 700,000 to 1,000,000 falls in hospitals in the United States (Preventing falls in hospitals: A toolkit for improving quality of care, 2013). If a patient falls any number of serious injuries could occur, such as bruising, lacerations, fractures, hemorrhaging, and even death. The costs of treating a patient for injuries as a result of a fall while in the hospital is not reimbursed by Medicare as of 2008 (Preventing falls in hospitals: A toolkit for improving quality of care, 2013). Not only will the facility not get reimbursed for costs related to the fall, the patient may likely have a longer length of stay and could potentially...
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...Verizon Communications Inc. Financial Management Analysis Table of Contents Executive Summary 4 Mission Statement 5 Vision Statement 5 History 5 Business Summary 9 Financial 10 Employees 10 Products Offered 11 Wireless 11 Enterprise/Mid-Market Business 12 Key Enterprise Products and Services 12 Residential/ Small Business 13 Key Residential and Small Business Products and Services 13 Community Work 14 Fast Facts 15 Customers and Target Market 15 Financial Ratios Balance Sheet Balance Sheet Financial Analysis Income Statement Analysis Cash Flows Statement and Analysis WACC Calculation Financial Planning Forecast Forecast Analysis Forecasted Balance Sheet and Analysis Forecasted Income Statement and Analysis Conclusion [pic] Executive Summary Verizon Communications, Inc., with Headquarters in New York City; Operations Center in Basking Ridge, N.J. is a Dow 30 company and the most reliable wireless network with 106.3 million total connections. Verizon, a global leader in providing broadband and other wireless and wire line communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers; operates nearly 143.7 million customer connections (wireless, wire line, broadband and TV) served every day. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic...
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...in 1987 • Refrigerated foods were responsible for 7% of Nestlé's global sales despite little contribution from the potentially large U.S. Market Market Summary: Refrigerated Foods • Based on market research, Nestlé's decided to launch Contadina • Contadina Fresh Past & Sauces rolled out nationally in 2nd half of 1988 • Product launch was very successful: – $75 mil. Retail sales in 1988 – $150 mil. Retail sales by 1990 – Pasta line accounted for nearly 80% of sales volume Market Summary: Refrigerated Foods • Given Contadina’s success, the NRFC began a product development process for a refrigerated pizza concept • The pizza market was an $18.4 billion market • By 1989 NRFC developed 2 new pizza concepts – Pizza Kit – Preassembled, heat and eat Pizza Market Summary: Pizza • Pizza market Statistics: – 88% of all pizzas sold by restaurants – 60% of pizzas eaten at home – 76% of all U.S. families had eaten restaurant pizza w.in past 6 months – Pizza consumption strongest in northern and eastern parts of U.S. – 10,000(+) franchised pizza restaurants – 25,000 pizza outlets – frozen pizza market more fragmented w/o clear market leader Product Development: Pizza Kit • Kit included: – 12” crust – Sauce – Cheese – Sauce: Tomato or Pesto • Additional Toppings: Pepperoni, Sausage, 3-Cheese, Mushrooms & Bell Peppers (Sold Separately) • Serve 2-3 people Market Research: Concept Test • Preliminary Concept test (200 Interviews) – Positive purchase intent was...
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...The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo published in 1831. The title refers to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on which the story is centered. SUMMARY : The story begins on Epiphany (6 January), 1482, the day of the Feast of Fools in Paris, France. Quasimodo, a deformed hunchback who is the bell-ringer of Notre Dame, is introduced by his crowning as the Pope of Fools. Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy street dancer with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, a poor street poet, but especially those of Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust and the rules of the church. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but the hunchback is captured by Phoebus and his guards, who save Esmeralda. Gringoire, witnessing all this, accidentally trespasses into the Court of Miracles, home of the Truands (criminals of Paris). He was about to be hanged under the orders of Clopin Trouillefou, the King of Truands, until Esmeralda saved his life by marrying him. The following day, Quasimodo is sentenced to be flogged and turned on the pillory for one hour, followed by another hour's public exposure. He calls for water. Esmeralda, seeing his thirst, offers him a drink. It saves him, and she captures his heart. Esmeralda is later charged...
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