...close proximity of airports and many large and convenient transportation paths which link the Town of Cross Roads with an abundance of employment locations in cities such as Dallas, Frisco, Denton, and McKinney. DFW has experienced a large increase in population size in the past 50 years or so. There have been several economic pressures such as a rise in the number of foreclosures and diminishing credit. DFW is known as one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States, and from 1990 to 2000 it grew by approximately 29% and gained a little over one million residents. From 2000-2009 the population grew to nearly 6,637,230. DFW is adding nearly 100,000 new residents annually. One population movement trend in DFW in recent years is for people to move away from the busy downtown city areas into less dense communities like Frisco and Little Elm and even smaller country towns like Cross Roads. Planned communities are very popular now as well. McKinney is rated the second best place in the country to live in 2012 by Money Magazine and USA Today named Denton in 2012 Best Small Towns in America. These towns along 380 are bringing in residents and increasing traffic. Specific Industry: Five Forces Analysis Some of Cross Roads main competitors are Savannah, Paloma Creek, Providence Village, Little Elm, McKinney, Frisco, Aubrey, and Krugerville. A lot of the surrounding towns and communities are very similar to Cross Roads and are trying to take advantage of the rapid...
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...In the southern region of New Jersey there are many small suburban towns, one including Woodlynne. Woodlynne is an extremely small town and is very often overlooked due to its size. Woodlynne is a residential area even though the surrounding towns are rich with businesses. Currently the council people and local government are working on creating more business within the small town in order to draw more people. Woodlynne is made up of many different types of people, homes, and small businesses and had an extensive history behind it. Woodlynne is made up of about 2,686 people as recorded in 2009; it is a very small town ("Woodlynne, new jersey," 2011). It is said that the population has decreased 5%, but that can be a result of the recession and the increase in taxes. The income per capita in Woodlynne, New Jersey is approximately $19,682. Woodlynne is very diverse and is made up of 48% White or Caucasian, 23% African-American, 12% Asian, 1% Native American and 16% Other/Mixed ("Woodlynne, nj profile," 2011). The town is made up of %51 females and %49 males. The estimated median income in 2009 was $49,594 which was an increase from the previously recorded $39,138 in 2000 ("Woodlynne, new jersey" 2011). After analyzing the average income, as defined by socioeconomic status levels, Woodlynne is considered a middle-class neighborhood. Although a fairly small town, the government body of Woodlynne was more of a Republican-Conservative position. This has changed with the election of...
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...Introduction of Old Town White Coffee The history of “Old Town” can be traced back to the incorporation of White Café in 1999, with the intention to provide quality white coffee to Malaysian household and the food services industry, the co-founders and executive directors, MrGohChingMun and Mr Tan Say Yap formulated their own blend of 3-in-1 instant White Coffee and commenced manufacturing in 1999. It is have more than 10 years of experience in the coffee beverage industry, both co-founders were instrument in the growth of the “Old Town” group of companies. In 1999, “Old Town” were successfully commercialized our instant 3-in-1 coffee mix under the “Old Town” brand name for the retail sector. As at 31 October 2009, “Old Town” 3-in-1 instant coffee mix was sold in approximately 1,348 retail outlets nationwide in Malaysia, approximately 550 retail outlets in Singapore and approximately 2,100 retail outlets in Hong Kong. In 2000, “Old Town” commenced the first export of the “OLDTOWN’ brand of 3-in-1 instant coffee mix to Singapore. In 2001, the white café marketing commenced operations as the marketing arm for our Group’s beverage product. During the same years, we also expanded our product line to include different variations of our instant coffee mix and have also expanded our export markets to Hong Kong for our instant coffee mix. 24th March 2011 Product excellence award – Industry Excellence Award “Old Town” white coffee also awarded to be the winner of product...
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...SALES/COLLECTION (DEBTORS) DATABASE DESIGN Pg 25 The Financing Business Process Pg 26 - 34 Supporting Documentation Pg 35 Rea Task Level Model Pg 36 - 41 Conclusion Pg 42 Company Information Pg 43 Bibliography Pg 44 Introduction Cape Town Partnership was established in the year 1999 by their chief executive officer Mike Farr. Over the past decade, Cape Town Partnership has been developing and improving the CBD (Central Business District). The Cape Town Partnership is an agency which facilitates partnerships between government and private sectors. Through the Cape Town Central City Improvement District who is closely affiliated with the Partnership, they manage the operational activities, to assist with project development and urban management. Since its establishment, the Cape Town Partnership has become an internationally acclaimed model of public and private partnerships between property owners and businesses supported by the City of Cape Town. Cape Town Partnership specializes in major city projects such as building and maintaining of roads in central business district, promoting a safer and cleaner city, the company also provides security in the business district and it creates job opportunities for those who are unemployed. Therefore the company is subsidized by the government and investors to provide the value services that...
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...GLS December 7, 2012 The Rise and Influence of Castle Cities Each country, town, city or area has a symbol of power that represents their history and governmental authority. Between 1570 and 1870, Japan experienced a dramatic changed economically, politically, militarily and religiously. During the Tokugawa period, “castles towns” sprung up throughout Japan. The castles towns became the heart and core representation of Japanese feudal authority. The castles marked the beginning of change in Japan to show the “central shogunal authority” (Hall 44). Hikeno Castle built in the Edo period in the Shiga Prefecture is a prime example of a castle town. Castles changed the dynamics of Japan’s economy, military, government and politics. The design of the castle towns closely resemble that of an imperial city, giving it even more legitimacy of power because of its mimicking of imperial design. Castle towns greatly affected Japan and some of those affects can be seen today. Castle towns have several characteristics that make them stand out from all the other towns. One characteristic and an obvious one is that they are home to castles. The castle is known as the Castle Tower or donjon it is the most prominent and well-defended structure in the keep. Most castles have between two to five stories. The castle towns also have several rings of moats and walls that are used in defense. The towns also include Watch Towers, also known as Turrets, which are located along the castle...
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...English 419 Section 1 Critical Analysis Paper July 23, 2000 Ghost Town As it comes to pass, our weary traveler’s life seems to be quite the blur of incidents and past experiences that either happened or not. In his mind he cannot tell what is real in the now, what happened a while ago and what might occur in the future. People from the past seem to reappear and places seem to shuttle him about based on a plotted story that he has no control over. The general cycle of his endless travels seem to incorporate the befalling on a town where he attains an adventure. This adventure leads him in many directions in and away from the town. Each stage of his planned adventure must be followed to some script that he does not have in his possession nor can he control. Each time he tries to move ahead with his own agenda, he is stopped by whatever or whoever is writing the adventure script, whether it be an empty bar room with no inhabitants or an endless maze through the town that always seems to lead to one location. When our traveler completes his assigned adventure, the town releases him with a narrow memory of what has happened and drops him back in the desert on a travel toward the same town in the distance that he seems to think has been part of his past, but is never sure. It seems to be that our traveler’s life is set to be and endless replay of the same time frame in which his adventures change with the “Luck of the Draw”. In the initial...
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...in a small town grocery store north of Boston, where Sammy, the main character, works as cashier. Sammy is nineteen, a late adolescent boy on the verge of adulthood. His fellow cashier, Stokesie, is twenty-two, married, with two young children. The store is managed by a much older man named Lengel, a friend of Sammy’s parents. The other characters include a customer at Sammy’s checkout slot and three teenage girls in bathing suits. It is an altercation in the aisles of the store between Lengel, the manager, and the three girls that forces Sammy to face his inner conflict and make a life changing decision. Updike implies rather than spells out Sammy’s conflict. Sammy is nineteen, almost a man, but as yet without a man’s responsibilities. If Sammy stays in town, we can easily imagine he will soon be in the same situation as Stokesie, who has wife and two children to take care of. Sammy and Stokesie have good jobs, probably among the best the small town has to offer. If Stokesie were to quit his job, he would be abdicating his responsibilities and letting his family down. In the view of the town, such an action would probably be considered madness. For him, the chance to make a radical change in his life’s course has probably passed. Sammy, on the other hand, has a window of opportunity, a short period between youth and adulthood, during which, if he has the courage and the will, he can choose another path. The A&P sits at the center of town. From the front door...
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...Name ___________Morgan_____________ Date _______November 6, 2015_______________ Please copy your Unit II persuasive essay here: Open and closed. These are just metaphors for cities and small towns. With cities you are closed in and with the small towns you have open space to do whatever you want. In small towns there are many opportunities to live a wonderful and happy life. Small towns give off a homely feel to whoever comes strolling through. It doesn’t matter what you are there for you and always get something that makes you feel like you are at home with your whole family. Everyone wants to feel welcomed no one wants to feel apart from everyone else, that’s how life is in a small town no one is sectioned off to be all alone there is...
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...The Cold, Hard Truth In a quiet little town, that could be anywhere, no one would guess that this town holds a dark tradition. One that has the townsfolk gather every June 27 to carry out. The people of this town gather and watch while the male heads of the family draw a piece of paper from the black box, once this is completed the family that has the black spot draws again to see which one of the family members it will be this year. After all of this the town’s people pick up rock previously gather and stone the winner to death. Groupthink and the bystander effect explain the behavior of the character's in Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery." In 1972, Irving L. Janis published a study, where he defined groupthink as an “excessive form of concurrence-seeking among members of high prestige, tightly knit policy-making groups (and their being part of it) higher than anything else” (Hart 247). In “The Lottery”, we see this part of Irving’s theory demonstrated in the fact that Mr. Summer, who organizes all the main events of the town, is in full support of the lottery. The theory is further demonstrated by the support of old man Warner. “This causes them to strive for a quick and...
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...Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Mary Lou Lamer NUR/405 January 25, 2013 Dawn Warner Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Introduction “Although it is necessary to identify health risk factors among individuals and groups in the community, it is of paramount importance that nurses learn to identify and work with health problems of a defined population or the total community”. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, pg. 395). The “windshield survey” is one method that the nurse can use to collect data about a particular community, however, understanding the meaning of community, community health, community as a client, and partnership, as they relay to nursing in the public setting, is important to successful data assessment. Community “Community is a locality – based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting society’s institutions, informal groups, and aggregates”. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, pg. 398). There are varying definitions of the meaning of community. Those within a community usually share some type of common interest. There may be different types of communities; some examples of these communities are, face –to-face community, neighborhood community, community of identifiable need, and community of special interest. Community Health “Community Health is the meeting of collective needs by identifying problems and managing behaviors within the community itself and between the community and the larger society”. (Stanhope...
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...Just about everyone has shopped at a mega-retail store like Target, K-Mart, or Wal-Mart. No one mega-retailer has grown as fast or as large as Wal-Mart. It is safe to say that every major city has at least one Wal-Mart store, which is great when a city has a large enough population for several stores thrive. What about the small towns with the small town businesses? How does a mega-retailer like Wal-Mart affect those small town businesses? I believe that a mega-retailer, such as Wal-Mart, is not good for the small town business. Mega-retailers like Wal-Mart are very business savvy. When they come to a small community that does not have an abundance of jobs for lower educated people, they provide more job opportunities. Upon opening a store in a small town community, they provide jobs from day one: jobs in construction when they put up their new building, to cashiers and shelf stockers when the store opens. With more jobs comes more money for the local economy. This sounds great at first. But is it? With all this new money coming in, where does it go? Does it help the small local shops? Or does the money go right back to the mega-retailer? According to a few employees who wish to remain anonymous, Wal-Mart does not have a policy that states their employees must shop at their store; although, it is strongly encouraged. With this encouragement, that takes money from the small local shops and puts it right back in the pocket of the mega-retailer. This is a good thing for the...
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...committing the bad thing. In the two short stories: ‘The Lottery’ and ‘The Ones Who Walks Away From Omelas’, we see spectators who doesn’t take any action, and just look away from all the bad thing happening in their town. When you compare the two stories and look and the atmosphere, characters, and the theme you will see the similarities and the difference be-tween the two short stories. Both short stories begin with a harmonious setting and atmosphere. They both begin with descrip-tion of a beautiful summer day. “The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” - The Lottery, p. 25 l. 4-5. “Old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees,” - The Ones Who Walks Away From Omelas, p.35 l. 5. The setting and the atmosphere is very peacefully in both stories, and you get the impression that the life in the town in both stories are in harmony. But then the atmosphere changes in the lottery it happens when we are introduced to the black box the people from the town are all scared of what is going to happen, and whose name will be drawn from the black box. In the end all the children are excited about stoning the person who was drawn from the black box. In Omelas we first experience an atmosphere change, when we are told about the little child in the basement, who is being sacrificed. At the beginning in both stories we don’t sense that these bad things are happening in the two towns. The beautiful setting and atmosphere described at first is just a façade...
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...small town where the people are usually friendly(adj) and caring(adj). One winter night on Matfus Mountain, Kyan, a hostile resident, was thinking (v) of doing some obnoxious acts to defy the townspeople of Matfus Mountain, which could change their lives in a negative way. It was the first Monday in December. However, it was no ordinary Monday. The streets were quiet, as if no one lived there. This was because everybody was setting up their holiday lights and drinking(v) hot chocolate inside their...
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...of life in one particular small town. The story implies that this is a friendly little town and begins introducing the villagers one by one. The story begins innocently but as it progresses many seemingly useless bits of information introduced in the beginning of the story begin to build the suspense centered on a violent ritual which becomes clear near the end of the story. The ritual held in this small town and other surrounding towns is an annual event that is taken in stride by all the town folk but leaves the reader wondering how such a violent event came to be and how it could continue through the years. Could people actually believe that by sacrificing one of their own that the corn crops would be plentiful the near year? The author, Jackson, takes you to a particular day which annually affects this small town with a population of 300. Initially, the author introduces the villagers one by one and she writes of how the neighbors gather in the town square and begin conversing with one another about various details of their, what appears to be typical, day to day activities. The men talk about crops, the children are still celebrating the summer break from school and the women begin to gossip. Life appears to be what one would expect in a small town as the author describes how the boys in the village begin gathering rocks in an almost innocent manner. As the story progresses, it begins to focus more on the annual lottery which has been tradition in the town throughout...
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...with their publisher through the use of the firm Agent-town. All members of the negotiation must agree on an increase. Team A will summarize this negotiation below. The Negotiators What the band has to consider is the amount of parties involved in the negotiation and what will be the best negotiation process to come to the conclusion of the right salary for the performance and the skills that the band has produced. The band decided to go with Agent-Town to represent the band. The negotiation style that the band decided to go with is the dyad. This is a very effective for a group that does not have negotiation skills and allows the agent to negotiate one on one with R-n-R. The agent will express the desire for each of the band members to receive a raise for their efforts, but even though each band member wants a different percentage for a raise it will be the agents’ responsibility to have alternative goals to come up with an agreement. The band has given the agent the power to decide what will be an acceptable offer and after negotiating arrived at an agreement that will be beneficial for both parties involved. Since the group did not have negotiation experience, the more people involved in the negotiation process the more complex the process becomes. One form of audience is the additional team members who are present with the negotiator at the deliberations. Members of a negotiating team may take on one or more important roles: chief spokesperson,...
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