...In the novel, “The Outsiders”, written by S.E Hinton, the author introduces us to three brothers. This novel investigates the lives of the Curtis brothers as greasers. The relationship between Ponyboy and Darry, two of the main characters will be explored from the time when their parents were alive, to their parent’s deaths and lastly, the brothers must learn to cope without their loving parents. First, when the Curtis brothers, had their parents the relationships between the brother were different. Darry didn’t have the protector role to fill so he wasn’t hard on Ponyboy he was more of a friend to Ponyboy. The author shows how when they were young the brother where happy on farm that they grew up on Darry was always able to hangout with Ponyboy even if he had lots of school work. Darry was about...
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...How can two people that are so different be the same? In the book, “The Outsiders,” by S.E Hinton, Dally and Johnny are two characters in this book who have many similarities and differences. They are similar because they both have abusive parents who don't notice them. They are also similar because they have little value on their lives. They are also very different people. Their personalities are not the same at all. Also Johnny follows rules, and Dally can't do anything the legal way. While they have a lot of differences they both have a lot in common. The first way Johnny and Dally are similar is they both have abusive parents that don't care about them. When Ponyboy, Dally, and Johnny, driving in Windrixville, Dally says, “‘Shoot my...
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...Being an individual is better than following a crowd This is shown in The storys Outsiders, All american Slurp and “cardboard”. Being an individual is defined as “a single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family”. This is shown in the story The Outsiders. In this book, there are two different kinds of groups, there are the greasers who live on the bad side of town, and there are the socs who live on the good side of town. The Greasers stand out from everyone else, especially Johnny, Ponyboy,Dairy, Dally, Two Bit, Sodapop and, Steve. This group of greasers are different from the socs because they are not afraid to stand up for themselves and do what they want to do. They stood out from the socs because they stood up for each other. In the book The Outsiders it says “shut him up, for pete's sake shut him up! Then there were shouts and pounding of feet, and the socs jumped up and left me lying there. I lay there and wondered what in the world was happening people were jumping over me and running by me, and I was too dazed to figure it out. Then someone had me under my armpits and was hauling me by my feet, it was darry.”are you alright, ponyboy?” this shows that the greasers stick up for each other when the socs are bothering them. This shows that they are different than...
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...In the book The outsiders, there is a 14 year old kid named Pony Boy Curtis. he lives with his 2 older brothers Darry and Soda pop because his parents died. So they are all he has.He lives in a pretty rough and poor neighbor hood.So do i think he should be in foster care? or should he stay with his 2 brothers. Ill tell you my answer. I think pony boy should be in foster care. I think this because where pony boy is at in the book is no good environment for a 14 year old kid. In a foster home he would be away from all the socs and all the people that were influencing him to do bad things such as dally. In a foster home he would be safe from all the violence that took place where he lived before he moved, and also be with a very caring, loving, and...
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...The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, is about the Socs (who are rich snobby kids) and the Greasers (who are broke kids) have a fight and one Soc gets killed. They get into a fight and a couple of people get killed earlier and later in the book. The Greasers have it worse because they have broken families, they are always jumped by the Socs, and they don’t have a lot of money. The Greasers have broken families. Dally said that his family does not care about him or what he does. Also Johnny has the same type of parents, meaning that his parents don’t care what he does. Pony’s parents died “Since mom and dad were killed in a car wreck”(3). This Proves that the Greasers have a worse family life. The Socs are always jumping the Greasers. In the beginning...
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...Comparing the two mediums of The Outsiders using advantages and disadvantages a person can determine which one is better. The movie was very short with less detail such as how sodas girlfriend had to move away because she was pregnant with sodas baby and they couldn't get married. The book described cherry very well and cherry's friend Martia at the movies when dally was hitting on cherry and how she became a spy for the greasers. Details In this movie where very slim and boring with left out pieces of something. Such as the abandoned lot and how bob beat up johnny at the lot. When johnny killed him at the lot to get him off of ponyboy. Or when they ran away from home Because darry hit Ponyboy with no detail of how long they were there nor...
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...CONFERENCE PAPERS 165 What is the Impact of Corporate Governance on Organisational Performance?* Loizos Heracleous** Research on the importance of generally accepted ``best practices'' in corporate governance has generally failed to find convincing connections between these practices and organisational performance. We discuss research outcomes on the relationship between two such ``best practices'' (CEO/Chair duality and insider/outsider composition) and organisational performance, and find this relationship to be insignificant. We propose four possibilities for this tenuous relationship, that are not mutually exclusive: firstly, the possibility that ``best practices'' in governance are indeed irrelevant to organisational performance; secondly, that the operationalisation of theoretical concepts has low face validity; thirdly, that studies are too narrow, aiming to relate board attributes directly to organisational performance and ignoring other systemic factors; and lastly, the possibility that different types of organisations require different practices in corporate governance. Lastly, we address the methodological and substantive implications of each of these possibilities. Keywords: Corporate governance, best practices, performance, research methodology T he legal formation of limited liability companies in the UK in the eighteenth century has separated ownership from control of corporations (Fama and Jensen, 1983), where salaried managers ideally...
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...favorite, so therefore I learned a lot about them from him; however, he has never been a fan of The Who. Therefore, I was rather excited when I was assigned a research paper on The Who; a band who I really knew nothing about before American Popular Music. In the following paper, I will provide details about The Who’s individual band members’ lives, as well as information in relation to the band in general. The Who had four main members: Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon. In addition to being the band’s guitarist, Pete Townshend took on the roll as the primary song writer. The most interesting fact I found about Townshend, is that he owns his own book publishing company. He actually published a book of his own called “Horse’s Neck” which consisted of a variety of short stories. Townshend has maintained a musical interest throughout his life, even after The Who broke up in 1983 (The Who Official Band Website). Roger Daltrey has always been a passionate musician; to the point where he even designed many of the bands guitars (The Who Official Band Website). Recently, Daltrey’s passion for music resurfaced. According to Mayer Nissim, a reporter for Digital Spy, “Roger Daltrey has confirmed that he is to tour The Who's 1969 album Tommy in full.” This article is from April 27th, 2011. Through further research, I found that the band had joined again in 2006 and released their first album in twenty-four years (The Who Official Band Website). The upcoming tour will...
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...sectors”(Kaufman 1994). Fire sales typically occur in a single firm and then the decreased liquidity cascades to other firms in the same industry. In the case of financial institutions, fire sales often spread to other sectors of the economy as well. Fire sales can be thought of as positive feedback loops; financial distress forces firms to sell assets, which causes the prices of these assets to depreciate. This process leads to increased financial distress (Shleifer 2011). In this way, fire sales can depreciate asset prices and decrease economy-wide liquidity to the point of having a significant negative effect on an economy. Macroeconomic Effects The literature discussing the negative macroeconomic effects of fire sales is numerous. Many of these papers quote negative impacts to be...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A few concepts that I chose from chapter 10 to focus on are executive succession: insiders versus outsiders, problems in retrenchment, managing diverse cultures following an acquisition, and total quality management (TQM). Strategy implementation is an important step that requires staffing and directing and puts strategy into action. According to McCarthy 'strategy implementation may be said to consist of securing resources, organizing these resources, and directing the use of these resources within and outside the organization.' The concept executive succession, is an integral part to a company. Whether to hire an outside or inside manager is better for replacement within a company depends on the circumstances of the company. If a company is doing well, then hiring someone from the inside would improve performance. If a company is on thin ice, hiring an outsider can save the company. Studies have shown that hiring someone from the inside results in better performance than hiring someone from the outside. I've learned that steps for top-management succession is exceptionally critical to a company and can stabilize its performance from sinking below average. A great CEO needs the experience, skills and expertise. Before my research and analysis, I believed that right CEO is one who's been working for the company for long time because of the amount of knowledge captivated during his/her years. However, that's not always the right choice because of circumstance...
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...The paper has defined security as the safety of the system as a whole. It highlights the various security issues in using BSN for eg. Data privacy which is the most important issue in BSN, since in this application sensor nodes gather and forward very classified information to a co-ordinator which in no case must be eavesdropped.Any outsider if acquires this information may cause serious damage to the patient.Another important aspect is Anonymity. The authors describe anonymity in the sense that the patient cannot be traced and identified which is basically hiding the packet speaking in technical terms. Data freshness also plays an important role. For eg the adversary may also capture the data in freight and use an older key to misdirect the co-ordinator. Therefore data freshness implies that previous used data cannot be replayed back again.The authors have claimed that they addressed the issue of securityand privacy much better than other authors.The last paper referred to in this article talks about implementation of a Wireless Body area Network(WBAN) through a wearable sensory nodule in addition to Solar energy harvesting mechanism and low energy Bluetooth...
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...Public Disclosure Authorized WPS5314 Policy Research Working Paper 5314 Public Disclosure Authorized Regional Trade Agreements Caroline Freund Emanuel Ornelas Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized The World Bank Development Research Group Trade and Integration Team May 2010 Policy Research Working Paper 5314 Abstract This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on regionalism. The formation of regional trade agreements has been, by far, the most popular form of reciprocal trade liberalization in the past 15 years. The discriminatory character of these agreements has raised three main concerns: that trade diversion would be rampant, because special interest groups would induce governments to form the most distortionary agreements; that broader external trade liberalization would stall or reverse; and that multilateralism could be undermined. Theoretically, all of these concerns are legitimate, although there are also several theoretical arguments that oppose them. Empirically, neither widespread trade diversion nor stalled external liberalization has materialized, while the undermining of multilateralism has not been properly tested. There are also several aspects of regionalism that have received too little attention from researchers, but which are central to understanding its causes and consequences. This paper—a product of the Trade and Integration Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the department...
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...be invented. Meyerson and Scully, in my view, have grasped an important idea and have written about it in a careful and an illuminating way. It's one of those papers, I suspect, that some people will react to by thinking: "I wish I had written that!" Further, I can see others I know well in the field as fitting the description of the tempered radical, at least in some circumstances and at different times. The reviewers, while suggesting changes, as reviewers do, were also very taken with the paper. It is intellectually interesting, and evocative. It provides us with a perspective on organizational issues that is typically glossed. It opens an arena for organizational analysis that is missed in most theoretical frameworks. Tempered radicals, Meyerson and Scully argue, are individuals who identify with and are committed to their organizations and also to a cause, community or ideology that is fundamentally different from, and possibly at odds with, the dominant culture of their organization. Their radicalism stimulates them to challenge the status quo. Their temperedness reflects the way they have been toughened by challenges, angered by what they see as injustices or ineffectiveness, and inclined to seek moderation in their interactions with members closer to the centre of organizational values and orientations. The paper is a scholarly treatment of a complex concept. It is radical in its charge to us to see new possibilities in the study of organization. It is tempered, even hopeful...
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...been increasingly important in international markets. Key account programs differ considerably across countries and firms, but all organizations have to decide how to identify their own major accounts and how to organize for effective relationship building with them. The purpose of this article is to assist organizations to determine the positioning of their major customer relationships so as to formulate key account relationship marketing strategies and implement them effectively in China and other Asian countries. This article describes a key account relationship model with an empirical survey on the measurement components of the model. The findings of the study are to test the practical value of the model. Then, conclusions about the research questions are given in the form of various perspectives and perceptions. Finally, a summary of both theoretical and practical implications for business practice and...
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...A++PAPER;http://www.homeworkproviders.com/shop/acc-561-week-4/ ACC 561 WEEK 4 ACC 561 Week 4, Acc 561 Week 4 Managerial Analysis 2-Team Assignment Costing and Decision Making.xls 3-Variable and Absorption Costing Team A.xls MANAGERIAL ANALYSIS Ideal Manufacturing Company of Sycamore, Illinois, has supported a research and development (R&D) department that has for many years been the sole contributor to the company’s new farm machinery products. The R&D activity is an overhead cost center that provides services only to in-house manufacturing departments (four different product lines), all of which produce agricultural/farm/ranch related machinery products. The department has never sold its services outside, but because of its long history of success, larger manufacturers of agricultural products have approached Ideal to hire its R&D department for special projects. Because the costs of operating the R&D department have been spiraling uncontrollably, Ideal’s management is considering entertaining these outside approaches to absorb the increasing costs. But, (1) management doesn’t have any cost basis for charging R&D services to outsiders, and (2) it needs to gain control of its R&D costs. Management decides to implement an activity-based costing system in order to determine the charges for both outsiders and the in-house users of the department’s services. R&D activities fall into four pools with the following annual costs. Market analysis $1,050...
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