...Natural Cereals Case Questions Question 1: After strongly reviewing this situation over and over again, I have realized how difficult and important this decision really is to our company. I believe my co-workers Sally Thompson and Joe Bradley have done an exceptional job so far, and have definitely pointed our marketing department in the right direction. After our company implemented Sally’s proposal, our market share increased three points, which she definitely deserves credit for. However, her proposal has led to some active criticism from the public which has left our group manager Tom Miller displeased because of how valuable this proposal is to our Natural Cereals division. Sally’s proposal included a limited health message to the high fiber content in our bran cereals. She indicated in a very cautious way that food high in fiber has been associated with studies to lower rates of some forms of cancer; however, she did not go about saying that our bran cereals had more bran than other competing bran cereals. She also went about featuring our new “Re-sealable Pack,” which allows the inside bag to be resealed for freshness, and included a 35 cent coupon toward the next purchase of a product of Natural Cereal. Although she believed her proposal avoided deception to our consumers, one key criticism we have received for Sally’s efforts is that we jumped on the company bandwagon that makes often misleading or incomplete health claims. Tom believes we cannot afford...
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...BUSINESS STUDIES A group of investors had formed Trap-Ease America after it had obtained worldwide rights to market the innovative mouse traps. The group had hired Martha to serve as president and to develop and manage the Trap-Ease America organization. Martha had initially forecasted Trap-Ease’s first year sales at five million units. Martha knew that the investor group believed that Trap-Ease America had a ’once in a life time chance’ with its innovative mousetrap. To evaluate this opportunity Martha must collect information from different angles. She must choose a best target market for the Trap-Ease. 1. As Martha and Trap-Ease America feel that they face once in a life time opportunity after obtaining worldwide rights to market the mousetrap. Martha had forecasted Trap-Ease’s first year sales at five million units. As she sensed that group’s impatient with the progress of company so far. So she budgeted approximately $250,000 in administrative cost and fixed costs for the first year, but this did not include marketing cost. To evaluate this opportunity Martha must evaluate write market for mouse traps. Market can be divided into different groups of buyers with different needs; buyers desire different benefits from one product. Consumers needs and wants change with their age. As Martha wondered, apart from trapping mouse using mouse traps consumers may also buy the trap as novelties. Company needed to sell enough traps to cover the administrative and fixed costs. For...
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...Review the theories put forward in the literature that attempt to explain why there was a mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. You should aim to outline the main theories, the claims they make, briefly explain any supporting evidence, and compare and contrast the rival theories. Reasons for the Cretaceous mass extinction have been hotly debated for more than 200 years, since the founding days of geology. Cretaceous mass extinction is referred to the mass extinction that happened in the period of Cretaceous (just after Jurassic), more than 100 million years ago. Many creatures, especially dinosaurs, disappeared in the end of Cretaceous. K-T layer which marks the boundary between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary becomes the key point for the solutions. Till now, four main theories which are gradualism, supernova, volcanism and cosmic impact, have been put forward to solve the scientific problem. And, the last three models belong to catastrophism in favor of sudden extinctions, opposite to gradualism. However, this essay will attempt to argue that cosmic impact should be the most reasonable explanation due to evidence that have been found up to now. In order to demonstrate it, this essay will analyze these different theories separately paragraph by paragraph, along with corresponding findings. In addition, it will compare rival theories. In the ‘gradualistic’ view (theory of gradualism), the Earth was a slowly evolving word and the turnover of living species...
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...Crooks show how much progress humans are making and how we have become into a progress trap with too much progress eventually leading to disaster and dead ends. No matter what humanity is always making progress in our civilization, economy, technology, and more; only problem, we’re making progress non-stop creating an eventual crash and destruction of Earth’s natural resources. Ronald White argues that humanity is in what he calls a “progress trap” which he explains “I came up with the term progress trap to define human behaviors that sort of seem to be good things, seem to be, to provide benefits in the short-term, but which ultimately lead to disaster, because they’re unsustainable.” Humanity as a whole has reached what is considered a “progress trap” many times already and is in the process of falling into deeper “progress traps” than ever with technology and our economics. In the past, as an example given by Ronald White, Hunting turned into a dead end when our ancestors were hunting to make their living. They went from killing one mammoth at a time and struggling to do so, to killing a whole heard of mammoths by running them over a cliff. This pushed them into a “progress trap”. These new hunting techniques had been great progress made, but made them into a dead end of hunting in general. After these new hunting techniques, there was no room for any new improvements. Similarly, a “progress trap” of today would be technology and lack of communication because of the extensive progress...
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...do not have a speed limit sign. Other measures such as signs and new legislation put forward to slow down the drivers in Massachusetts. Speeding has numerous consequences, such as tickets accidents, deaths and car issues. Changing the speed limit to be low will greatly increase the safety of our citizens by giving the driver a better reaction time. One of the main reasons for crashes is speeding. People die in crashes. I have also watched the news a lot to hear enough bike rider hit n runs. What affects or changes has this law of 25 mph made to the commonwealth of...
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...Danny Jimenez Dr. B. Jones ENC1102 20 April 2010 Freedom for Freeways Many of us have little or no time, especially dealing with work, school, gym and many other errands at the same time. Sometimes time is just not enough and we have to rush ourselves in order to make it to our commitments on time and to make things worse, traffic and speed limits get in our way. In moments like these a speed limit becomes more of an annoying suggestion rather that an enforced rule. Not necessarily by increasing or removing speed limits freeways would become dangerous, but also is not a matter of just take away these limits. Society should be better educated and trained in order to create a safer and more efficient road environment giving chance to reach longer distances in a shorter amount of time and why not, put our powerful line of super-vehicles to the test. In America, the average Maximum Speed Limit ranges between 55-75 mph. as a community, it’s necessary to create safety parameters in order to maintain a controlled environment and reduce the risk of fatalities, injuries and/or property damage since it’s believed that speed is one of the greatest killers out in the roads, it gives less reaction time and also in a vehicle traveling at a high speed, any defect or anomaly on the surface tend to be a high risk of loss of control of the vehicle. Also environmental issues have been part of the opposition and there has been an ongoing debate between environmentalists and fuel consumption...
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...dfdddfdfdfdfd fdddfaeretrewgtrw qwer weret tt t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t te e e e e e ere r er eedf e erefgt f gfggrg fjthe the mana jjun dfdkfla reithtrg dflfjdf the man ate the afat fafa the man ate the cake oupf fadfda ld fa testo Radric Davis (born February 12, 1980),[1] better known by his stage name Gucci Mane, is an American rapper. He debuted in 2005 with Trap House, followed by Hard to Kill in 2006, Trap-A-Thon, and Back to the Trap House in 2007. In 2009, his second studio album The State vs. Radric Davis was released. The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted was released in 2010, and is his highest charting album so far. Gucci Mane has released many other mixtapes and independent albums as well. While serving a six-month jail term for assault in late 2005, Davis was charged with murder, though the charges were later dropped due to a lack of evidence. In 2009, he served a year-long county jail sentence for violating probation for his 2005 aggravated assault conviction. As of 2013 Gucci Mane is currently working & planning the release of his seventh studio album Trap House III: The GuWop...
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...American Scavengers Antonio Felix English 102 Section #27058 May 11, 2015 “This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that” John Perkins. In the past decade the government has been pushing for a welfare reform time and time again. This reform is disliked by many politician, complaining that federal law is overly prescriptive and are willing to take less federal money in return for more flexibility. The public thinks that the current reform is anti-work and anti-family and is keeping the public under poverty line. However welfare programs are set in place by the government in order to ensure a certain quality and standard of living for everyone in the country. These programs are mainly focused on children, making sure that their parents are able to feed and clothe them properly. The truth is that in today’s society The Welfare system creates more problems than it solves, creating a sense of welfare dependency, a feature of advanced industrial societies with developed welfare states, whose citizens enjoy specific “social” rights (e.g., to social security, health care, social support, and education). Bill Clinton said: “I used to get up in the morning and watch my mother get ready to go to work. And we had a lot of trouble in my home when I was a kid, and she still...
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...Trap-Ease Case Study. 1. Once in a lifetime opportunity. Need to know the range of mouse trap offerings. Need to know the level of marketplace acceptance, or not, of the various offerings. Need to identify the need of consumers that this product would meet in contrast to other offerings that did not meet the perceved need. "Why this particular conformation of a mousetrap?" They needed to know that the product was the answer to a cry coming from the marketplace. Trap-Ease mission statement. Trap-ease America believes it has developed a product that fulfills a great need in the mousetrap product arena. We have worked hard to develop a trap that eliminates the need to be "involved" with the trapped subject. The company's aim is to provide a seamless experience in pest control. Our product is made to insure an "out of sight, out of mind" experience for the user. The user is not invested in the caught object as it is with more conventional traps. We believe that our product is great for the individual who wants pest control without seeing the pest. My mission statement: Pests are a fact of life. The fact is , pests invade the dwellings of people more than we like to think. The distaste of the presence of pests in a dwelling is unacceptable. Trap-Ease has made as its goal, the production and sales of pest-control devices that meet the need of sense-disengaging pest control devices. This is the main goal of our enterprise. ...
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...What I Learned at Driving School Driving school was quite the experience for me. To say the least, it was extremely interesting. I learned so much from this course, which I did not even know I could learn so much about driving in four hours! Throughout my paper, I will talk about the main topics that I learned and what I expect to make me a better driver. The Alabama Graduated Drivers License Law was one of the main things I learned during this course. This law is very important today and became affected on October 1, 2002. A Fifteen year old with a valid learner’s license are to be accomplished by a parent or legal guardian of the age of twenty-one with a valid divers license. This law states that six-teen year olds must not operate a vehicle between midnight and six a.m. unless certain procedures. At this age, you must also not have more than four passengers in your car (three friends, driver, parent—MAX!) This law is extremely important. If residents do not follow this law, it can cause danger to other drivers. Traffic laws are something EVERYONE needs to follow. While attending driving school, the main reason why people were attending was for speeding. Including myself, driving school has taught me the dangers of speeding. Speeding is not always the cause of crashes, but it is a main event in this situation. Alabama’s basic speed law provides that you must never drive a vehicle at a speed that is faster than the reasonable speed. Weather, roadwork, and your car conditions...
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...On May 10, 2018, at 2:30 p.m., the Family Support Worker met with Ms. Lawren Adams at Bellevue / William O. Lockridge Library located at 115 Atlantic St SW, Washington, DC 20032. Lawren informed the FSW that she hasn't been sleeping in her apartment unit since late February early March due to the mold and rodent's infestation. Lawren expressed that she has been sleeping at different friend's homes or in a non-registered car that her ex-boyfriend gave her. The FSW expressed to Lawren that she is concerned with the well-being and safety of her children. FSW suggested for Lawren to stay at a shelter until she receives the updated status of her relocation request. Lawren expressed that she doesn't feel comfortable staying at a shelter and will...
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...energy and air resistance. We will need a blow dryer. For the ninth step (step i) the blow dryer blows the sailboat floating in a moat using fluid force, thermal energy, sound energy, air resistance. For this step we will need a sailboat and a moat. For the tenth step (step j) the sailboat will push a marble off a platform into a tube using gravitational potential energy and rolling force. For this step we will need a marble and pvc pipe. For the eleventh step (step k) the marble will fall onto a mouse trap, triggering it using spring force, and mechanical energy. For this step we will need a mouse trap. For the twelfth step (step l) the mousetrap pull two ropes using tension force. One rope is run through a pulley that will lift one side of a lever when the mouse trap triggers using tension force. For this step we will need string, pulleys, lever, For the thirteenth step (step m) the second rope is run underneath a pulley and attached to a fly swatter with a bandaid. When the mouse trap triggers it pulls the string causing the flyswatter to hit the doll on the other side of the lever using tension force and mechanical energy. For this step we will need a doll, flyswatter, rope, and pulleys. ...
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...The phenomena that occurs throughout the Super Crazy Cleaner Helper is the several different energy transformations that occur in order to get the marble into the water bottle. The machine begins with closing the medical book then the pieces are falling over and hitting the Kinect machine. Then the Kinect machine then hits the ball the ball which that goes down the incline plane and smacks into the platform that sends the marble into the tube. tomorrow then hit the puppy fake puppy gets dominos and the dominos hit the box which makes Marble Falls and into the tunnel that leads to the water bottle. One the phenomena in the Super Crazy Cleaner Helper is the energy transformation. For example potential energy to kinetic energy first...
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...[HATRAX] Chocolate Puma vs. Sebastian Ingrosso vs. Alesso & Sebastian Ingrosso vs. Sandro Silva & Quintino - Go-Go Boots vs. Calling vs. Epic (Swedish House Mafia OLT Bootleg) [MUSICAL FREEDOM/REFUNE/PSSST] Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl feat. Georgi Kay - In My Mind (Axwell Remix) [AXTONE] TV Rock feat. Rudy - In The Air (Axwell Remix) [AXTONE] w/ Steve Angello - Knas [SIZE] w/ Adrian Lux - Teenage Crime (Axwell & Henrik B Remode) [AXTONE] Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Swedish House Mafia Remix) [EMI UK] Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin - Don't You Worry Child [EMI UK] Hard Rock Sofa - Quasar [AXTONE] w/ Florence And The Machine - Spectrum (Say My Name) (Acappella) [ISLAND] w/ Faithless - Insomnia [SONY BMG] w/ The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (Axwell & Dirty South Remix) [INFECTIOUS] Swedish House Mafia feat. Tinie Tempah - Miami 2 Ibiza [VIRGIN UK] Swedish House Mafia vs. Nari & Milani feat. Pharrell - One (Your Name) Atom (Swedish House Mafia...
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...There are so many mothers with children that need help for the Welfare Programs. The student researched programs that were needed for single mothers. North Carolina has Medicaid for Pregnant Women. Medicaid for Pregnant is only for Pregnant Women. It covers any services needed to bare a healthy child. This is prenatal care, Childbirth and parenting classes, and family planning. The student researched services that can be given to a mother that is unemployed and has no money coming into the home to help pay bills such as rent and light bill. There is a program here in North Carolina called work first. Work first is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which pays a certain amount of money to do volunteer work within the community. The pay is not like a regular job but it is some cash for the mother to pay a few things. WIC is for Women, Infants, and Children. Some call this program the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program. This is for low income families to provide the children and child baring mother with the food they need to stay healthy. Food stamps some places call it Food and Nutrition Services. These services are only used to purchase food for low income families. A student from Ashford University researched and examined the history of social welfare policy. The Student wanted to see how the social welfare policy pertained to the population of single mothers in North Carolina. The Student wanted to discuss the need for help concerning the wellbeing of their child...
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