...Based on a real-life event, Napoleon: Total War was released on February 23, 2010 in North America. Three days later, Europe had it. The game was set in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Even with that said, it was not until January of 1805 that the storyline of the game started. The whole game of the European Campaign was set from 1805 till June 1807 ending with the victorious Battle of Moscow. This may vary greatly depending on the player because Creative Assembly gave the gamer till 1812 to beat the whole game, which creates a huge change in history regarding dates. In two game plays, Total War gives the player a chance to acquire money through building structures, receiving taxes, making agreements with other allies, building armies, and...
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...Faith: The Flawed Command of Bomber Harris ASSESSMENT Assessor: Richard Martin Mark: Comments: UNSHAKEABLE FAITH: THE FLAWED COMMAND OF BOMBER HARRIS INTRODUCTION This research paper will focus on Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’ wartime command of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Bomber Command from 1942-1945. This analysis will utilize Dr. Ross Pigeau and Carol McCann’s model to evaluate the dimensions relating to Harris’ Competency, Authority and Responsibility (CAR) and to assess the overall balance and effectiveness of Harris’ command. The CAR model was deemed most suitable to dissect pertinent aspects of this complex and controversial commander, allowing for the necessary depth of analysis into his abilities, responsibilities, beliefs, actions and reactions over a specific timeframe. This paper will illustrate that Harris, although highly skilled in many areas and having demonstrated impressive successes at the helm of Bomber Command, had a singular and seemingly intractable approach to war – to obliterate Germany’s war production capacity by area bombing its cities. This inflexible approach inhibited his ability to see the bigger picture with any measure of objectivity and was the Achilles Heel of his leadership, limiting his command capability and resulting in an abuse of his authority -- and ultimately, having a detrimental effect on the Allied offensive. His unshakeable faith became a measure...
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...The Scars of War Lou Hampton United States History 1763-1877 September 18, 2012 During the 1840s and 1850s, great change was coming to America. Northerners lived in a world of change in which they hardly understood. Their confusions and anxieties of that world made them ready for conflict. However, it was not completely clear what they were fighting for. The war wiped away their confusions and revealed to them where they stood and defined what kind of people they might be. Social and economic changes were happening as the North headed toward war. The economy accelerated, increased output, generated more wealth, moved products and people at faster speeds, transmitted information more rapidly and linked distant places by rail, telegraph and newspapers. New inventions, industries and products had sprung to life. The population multiplied six fold and the amount and size of cities were continuing their growth. There were 400 places with over 2,500 people. Swelling its possibilities, the nation expanded in size when in 1845 Texas joined the Union. Another factor in the nation’s growth was in 1846 when the Oregon territorial boundary was settled. The sudden economic growth was not as beneficial as it seemed. Per capita wealth was growing but there was a decline in actual wages. The North controlled about 92 percent of the wealth. This helped fuel sectionalism because the Southerners became afraid that they would lose their own culture and power in Congress. This...
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...him to his ultimate quest for manhood. Henry, often referred to as ‘the youth’, enlists in war with the belief that he’ll achieve manhood through a valiant soldier’s life. The premise of his enlistment is his endeavour to attain self-worth and a heroic stature, a microcosm of the need for human beings to achieve recognition. The novel is spanned across two days of heated battle between the Confederate soldiers and the Union during the American Civil War (schmoop,2012). This essay will bring to light Michael Walzer’s opinions on the rules of war and moral decencies in battles in situ to Henry’s red badge of courage. Walzer, a political theorist, insists on the importance of ethics and need for conventions for the abolition of war rather than it’s toleration. As Henry is exposed to the realities of war, his conceptualization of manhood evolves from a naïve lust for glory to a noble and selfless rationale of life. This essay will identify the changes in Henry’s perception of manhood as a result of his experiences on and off the battlefield by analyzing his inner turmoil of self-doubt and insecurity. The heroism associated with military exultance intoxicates and thus misleads Henry into believing that war brings glamour and honor. This resonates with Walzer’s argument that “military honor is still the creed of the professional soldier” (Walzer, 1977). Henry’s decision to enlist in the war is spurred from his desire for a reputation and place in society, as opposed to the ‘farm boy...
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...professional life are continuously shifting at time interval; hence it’s becomes necessary to balance this two. Globalization has changed the total scenario, the working condition as well as total environment has changed. If you recall you own working condition and environment surrounding you before 3-4 years, there is a visible difference today. Taking equal responsibilities family more and more women are joining either a job or doing something at home to earn for the family to improve standard of living and for better education of their kids. Many of us may have experienced the instances when we became late or even absent in Parent-Teacher meeting arranged at school, due to some urgent job or meeting or even due to your engagement in some training. Many of us are going late at home to complete the target given by bosses. Now, if you see other way around, you may get late sometimes even for office due to some family matters. These types of situations happen with most of us and that’s really gives stress. Your problem at office or very much busy work schedule develops stress in you and those directly affects and reflect in your attitude towards your kids or wife, when you go home. On the other way, your family problems like illness of your near one or behavior of kids etc reflects at your office. Office and home environment affect each other. Total elimination of all family and office conflicts is impossible, but we can try to balance the both and minimize the same at some extent...
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...“Instead of being on the defensive, I would be on the offensive”: General Sherman’s March through Georgia 1 The United States Civil War was the bloodiest and most trying conflict in American history. Hundreds of thousands of American lives were lost on both sides of the war. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s march through Georgia to the sea was a brilliant strategic victory for the North that helped to end the war more quickly, all while preserving the lives of soldiers on both the North and South. All though his march was outside the general practice of warfare it is clear that the General’s movement through Georgia was the best course he could have taken given his circumstances. His capture of Atlanta and his subsequent march to follow is one of the most controversial issues of the war. At the time of the war it was commonplace for the military leaders to embed their troops in entrenchments that were nearly impossible to infiltrate. They would then rush their men towards each other in a bloody battle. General Sherman realized that attacking the entrenchments of the enemy was fruitless and killed too many soldiers. He went on a path of flanking maneuvers that helped get around these entrenched soldiers. He followed up this plan by attacking the economy of the South and breaking their resolve. The importance of his new plan can be seen on how his tactics of attacking the land and economy, instead of other human beings, and avoiding head-on confrontation actually...
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...Justifiable Terrorism in Total Wars Molly Thomson 201311503 Political Science 1000-03 March 18th, 2014 The word ‘terrorism’ instantly makes people shudder; the negative connotations and controversies surrounding terrorism in modern society are enough to spark a discussion of whether it is justifiable or not. In order to determine whether or not terrorism can be justified, a clear definition must be decided upon. Decades before the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, the definition of the word terrorism was hard to define. Political figures around the globe argued and disagreed on what they thought should have determined the act of terrorism. Now, there are multiple different definitions originating from distinct cultures and societies, suggesting that terrorism is in the eye of the victim. One definition of terrorism is “any violent or criminal act planned for a political or ideological purpose”; while another claims that terrorism is understood to be a direct attack on innocents. Since both of these definitions have important components to them, it can be assumed that both traits are essential to defining terrorism. For the purpose of this paper, the definition of terrorism will be understood as ‘a violent attack on innocents for the purpose of political change’. It can be hard for most people to understand the act of injuring and/or killing hundreds, or maybe even tens of thousands of people, as justifiable. However, if the innocents are...
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...Economics for Managers 551 – Trimester 1, 2014 | Assessment 1 – Contemporary Economic Analysis | “The Fizzy Wars” Lee Johnston (16927959) Daniel Wilson (17491934) Greig Maitland (17485047) | The two major players in the Australian soft drink industry, Schweppes and Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA), have been competing for market share for some time, creating a ‘price-war’ between the firms. The article chosen for this Assignment, “Price Rises hit customers in the fizzy wars”, (Mitchell 2014) signals the end of this ‘price-war’ and details the following; * Last year Schweppes implemented aggressive discounting in an attempt to increase its volumes, market share and boost sales of its new product; Pepsi Next. * Cost of production for soft drink has increased due to higher costs in materials, utilities and distribution. Neither firm could raise prices due to the above-mentioned ‘price-war’. * Schweppes parent company Asahi has issued a mandate for the firm to increase margins to 10% by 2015 and so Schweppes have been forced to raise prices to meet this deadline. CCA have followed suit by raising prices, thus, ending the ‘price-war’. In this assignment we briefly explain the background of the Australian soft drink industry’s decrease in demand and increase in production costs and provide an economic analysis of Schweppes decision to raise prices, focusing on the short run and long run costs in a competitive market versus an oligopoly. Finally predictions...
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...Lisa Cooper CSU-Global Campus Quantitative Business Analysis MTH410 Mod 2 Critical Thinking Dr. Barry Smith 7/20/2011 The quantitative analysis of the Motion Picture Industry provided by the textbook with the data set reveals many key aspects of the industry. Utilizing the descriptive statistics for each of the four variables in the data set can include mean, mode, median, z-score, standard deviation, dispersion, and correlation coefficient. Outliers are defined as a data set that has unusually large or unusually small values will also be determined using the same statistics (Anderson, et al., 2011). An evaluation of these descriptive statistics and the relationship between the total gross sales will be the focus of this critical thinking exercise. Good introduction. The first data set includes opening day gross revenues. The median opening day gross was .39 which means that half of the movies in this data set were less than .39 and the rest were more than .39. The median is the middle of an ordered score of an odd number of data or half way between the even two numbers. The mean was 9.38 and the standard deviation was 18.875 based on 100 movies (Expert, 2011). Simple mean is calculated with the follow formula: x=Ex1/n.The opening day variance is .03 to 108.44 ($ millions) equaling 108.43. Therefore with a median of .39 and a mean of 9.38 indicates that there are many movies on opening day that are not making money and a few are making much money...
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...Understanding the nature of goodwill is critical to understanding how to account for it. With the existence of the accounting standard on impairment of assets, goodwill is not required to be amortised. If a gain arises, current income is increased to recognise a bargain purchase. With the release of an Exposure Draft detailing proposed changes to IFRS 3, an understanding of the areas of change and the philosophy behind the changes will assist in being prepared for changes when they occur. 2. DEMONSTRATION PROBLEMS Demonstration Problem 1: Business combination with 3 entities involved On 1 January 2004, Maori Ltd concluded agreements to take over the operations of War Ltd and to acquire the rest of the shares of Canoe Ltd. The balance sheets of the three companies as at that date were: Maori Ltd War Ltd Canoe Ltd Cash $20 000 $ 1 000 $ 12 500 Accounts receivable 35 000 19 000 30 000 Inventory 52 000 26 500 40 000 Property, plant & equipment (net) 280 500 149 500 107 500 Shares in Canoe Ltd (15 000 shares) 19 000 - - Debentures in Paddles Ltd 45 000 18 000 ______ $451 500 $214 000 $190 000...
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...REPORT Case Study: Motion Picture Industry Assignment 1 Prepared By: Table of Contents Introduction 3 Executive Summary 3 Data and General Analysis 4 CONCLUSIONS 12 Integrity Statement 13 Works Cited 13 Executive Summary In this report we will show, via descriptive statistics, how independent variables appear to contribute to the success of motion pictures. Using data collected from a sample of 100 motion pictures produced in 2005, we utilize the following variables: Opening Weekend Gross Sales (in millions of dollars); Total Gross Sales (in millions of dollars); Number of Theaters, and; Weeks in Top 60, to graphically depict their contribution to that success. We will also display the data in both tabular and graphical methods to allow management to make inferences about the data and ultimately enable decision making with reference to the data set. There are more variables and parameters available to determine each depicted variable’s contribution to the success (or lack of success) of the motion picture, but this report only analyzed, interprets and presents with reference to the four variables mentioned. Major highlights include: * 70% of the motion pictures in the sample had Opening Weekend Gross Sales of less than $10 million. * 73% of the motion pictures in the sample had Total Gross Sales of less than $40 million. * 45% of the motion pictures in the sample were shown in 250 or less theaters. * 65% of the motion pictures...
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...of 40% of the Italian territory. • Ominitel thought of its superiorcustomer care as its competitive advantage over TIM, however they could only acquire 1,80,000 subscribers by May1996. • Omnitel was looking for methods to differentiate itself from TIM but at the same time avoiding a price war. Problem Identification • The problem was twofold, that of building Omnitel‟s market share while avoiding a price war with TIM, and differentiating brand Omnitel from brand TIM. 5 C Analysis Company Background: • Omnitel was able to obtain GSM license after liberalization and paid Lit.750 bn in Dec „94 to become Italy‟s second GSM operator and launched its commercial service in Dec. 95. • They started with a network coverage of 40% of Italian territory. • Market share was 4% of the total Italian telecom market. • Initially they offered plans similar to TIM but prime focus was on its high-quality customer service, which led to “happy” customers and low churn rates. • Financial strength of Omnitel was not as strong as their competitor i.e TIL, hence they avoided getting into aprice war situation. Competitor Analysis: • The major competitor was Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) formed in July 1995 after divested from TelecomItalia and was listed separately on Italian stock exchange....
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...The life expectancy and CO2 emissions share a strong, positive, linear correlation. Through analysis of this graph I can conclude that the two variables have a reverse cause and effect relationship. My reasoning for concluding this is that as life expectancy grows, the CO2 emissions that every person contributes to raises because there is a higher population. The first cluster between 15 and 20 in the chart above is a result of a hidden variable which would be time. The biggest data cluster between the 5 and 10 ton mark for CO2 emissions is due to World War 2. The reason that CO2 emissions per person dropped is because a large portion of Canadians died during this time and this brought the average CO2 emissions for the population down. The lowest outlier is also due to war and was the peak at which the population decreased so the CO2 emissions had gone down with...
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.............................................................................1 2. PESTLE, SWOT and SCOR Analysis.......................................................................2 2.1 PESTLE Analysis....................................................................................................2 2.2 SWOT Analysis.......................................................................................................3 2.3 SCOR Analysis........................................................................................................5 3. Production Schedule in Gantt chart..........................................................................7 3.1 Production schedule..............................................................................................7 3.2 Overtime Cost Analysis.........................................................................................9 3.3 Route and Cost Analysis.....................................................................................10 4. Supply Chain Vulnerability....................................................................................14 4.1 peck’s model analysis for level 1........................................................................15 4.2 peck’s model analysis for level 2........................................................................15 4.3 peck’s model analysis for level 3........................................................................15 5. Conclusion.....
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...Quantitative Business Analysis The following is the descriptive statistics for the Motion Picture Industry Case study. The data set provided was used to calculate the median, mean and mode for the gross opening weekend. On the first graph you can see that for the opening gross the graph is skewed to the right so the median is the best central tendency measure rather than using the mean. The median opening gross was 0.39, which means 50% of the opening gross values were less than 0.39 and 50% were above 0.39. The opening gross was 3.43, which indicates a right tail. The kurtosis of the opening gross was 13.81, which indicates a leptokurtic distribution. This skew can be seen on the first histogram. The graphs are attached on the excel file as well. The opening gross range was 108.43, from 0.01 to 108.44. The standard deviation of opening gross was 18.87. The Interquartile Range, which calculates the range for the middle 50% of the values, is used to measure the variability. The Interquartile Range for the opening gross was 12.37. The opening gross outliers were calculated on the box-plot and the extreme values were 108.44 which was Star Wars Episode 2, 102.69 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 77.06 war of the Worlds, 50.34 Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 48.75 Batman Begins, and 33.90 Wedding Crashers, The values are less than z-score of -3 or larger than z-score of +3 which is why they are considered outliers. War of the Worlds at 77.06, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...
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