...I haven’t got a job yet, therefore the problem that I have chosen will be a personal one. So, the problem that I am having is about a cat. Every day, as soon as I step outside, a cat comes rubbing itself on my legs and it gets pretty annoying after a while. The cat doesn’t have an owner, she’s a stray cat or to put it simply, the neighborhood cat. I don’t like the cat and I think it should go away, but it seems like I’m the only one who feels that way. My brother and a little girl that lives across the street play around with it, feed it and like the cat being around the neighborhood. When they feed and play around with the cat, the cat gets more attached and stays around. That’s where the problem comes in. I want the cat to go away but they feed it and make it stay around. So to analyze the problem deeper and get in more detail I have chosen the root cause analysis method. Root Cause Analysis Defining the problem • What do I see happening?...
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...1-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 2.1 explain the meaning of strategy, strategic contexts and the terminology associated with business strategy----------------------------------------------------5 2.2 outline and comment on the issues involved in strategic planning----------8 2.3 explain different planning techniques---------------------------------------------9 3. Task 2----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16 3.1 producing an ‘organizational audit’ for an organization of Apaches Pizza & Lam Take Away-------------------------------------------------------------------16 3.2 carrying out an ‘environmental audit’ for Apaches Pizza & Lam Take Away-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18 3.3 explain the significance of ‘stakeholder analysis’------------------------------21 4. Task 3----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------23 4.1 analyze possible alternative strategies relating to substantive growth limited growth or retrenchment--------------------------------------------------24 2. for Apaches Pizza & Lam...
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...Tactic #1. Make Feelings Measurable: Sometimes you can make intangible goals tangible by converting them to measurable milestones. “Get my husband home by 7:00 every night” is more measurable then “Reform my husband,” although perhaps no easier to accomplish! Other goals must remain intangible, but are still important. But always try to attach measurable outcomes or indicators to every goal, regardless of how intangible or emotional the goal may be. If all else fails, you can say, “I want to feel at least 50 – percent better about my husband’s overworking by the end of next month or I’m outta here.” That quantifies your feelings, making it easier to think about how to achieve your emotional goal. Tactic #2. The Why Question: One way to get at underlying interests is to ask yourself the “why” question that was mentioned in chapter 3. Why do you want a particular objective? For example, do you need a car to get to work, or do you want a particular model to show people that you are successful? Are you looking for a house in a particular section of town because it is a better neighborhood, or do you need a larger house because your family is expanding? And why do you want to live in a particular section of town? To use this surfacing tactic to explore your underlying interests, write as many sentences as possible beginning, “Why do I want…” Then answer them – possibly with another question in the same form. Eventually you’ll hit bedrock – when you can’t ask another...
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...He tries to show in the book how it effects Solomon and teaches how he gets through his struggles. Commentary/Explanation B: Explain why your claims are relevant to your thesis or readers. Many of these stuggles give life lessons and can change many people on how they relate to the character. Evidence/Example 2: Give more textual evidence from the work that supports your claim. (cite text) Solomon also read books since he had so much time inside and they were all different types of books that he can realte to. Commentary/Explanation A: Explain the author’s purpose and the effects on the reader. In this part of the novel he is explaining how he is relating to books and is learning about street smarts whithout being outside. Commentary/Explanation B: Explain why your claims are relevant to your thesis or readers. Solomon reads all types of books to learn many things and of these books some are fiction which he can realte to. Concluding Sentence: (Restate your claim by referring back to why fiction should/should not be included in curriculum. These fiction books can teach many life lessons just like a non-fiction book...
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..."Summary: Going Home is about an elderly man, who sits on a bus going from New York to Florida with a group of young people. They find him strange, and one of them decides to talk to him to investigate deeper. They find out that he has been in prison for four years, and is now heading back home to see if his wife has found someone else, or want him back. While in prison, the elder man had written to her, telling her that he was going to stay for a long time, and if she couldn’t stand that, she was free to forget him and find someone else. As he found out that he was going to be released, he wrote to her again, telling her that if she had found someone else, that was fine, but if she wanted him back, she could hang a handkerchief on a tree in the city entrance. As they approach the city, they see that there is hanging many handkerchiefs on the tree, and the young people start cheering loudly. * Try not to use too many details from the text – keep it simple. * Complete the story * Remember the most important part of the story – the punch-line * “It results in…” * “It all ends in…” * “All in all it ends with…” Character descriptions: Vingo is described as a worn out person, with threadbare clothes. It is told that he is an ex-marine, who has spent the past four years in jail. He is described as a shy person, with dust in his face, which makes him look older than he probably is. This makes the girls wonder who he might be, as well as his story. The...
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...develops his argument on why people crave horror movies. Structurally, King first starts by examining the simple and obvious reasons, and transitions to analyze the deeper, harder to see reasons as to why horror movies are so captivating. First of all, King states the obvious reasons of why many people crave horror movies. King compares horror movies to roller coasters. He argues that we can ride this roller coaster and not be scared just like watching a horror movie. A roller coaster makes us scream at various parts of the ride such as when it plows through the bottom of the lake, similar to how horror movies can make us scream at different parts of the movie. He says that on the surface level, we watch horror movies for that level of fun. He also says that we go for the dare of it, to see how far it can push us, and that is what makes the experience so fun....
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...Case Analysis Blockbuster vs. Netflix 1. Mission/External Analysis 2. Industrial Analysis 3. Internal Analysis 4. Financial Analysis 5. Assumptions/Challenge/Objectives 6. Alternative Analysis 7. Resolution For years Blockbuster dominated the movie rental scene crushing the local competition with its wide selection, huge inventories and longer rental periods. Over the years though, Blockbuster has lost it strangle hold over the competition and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2010. Blockbuster competition won because they evolved to meet the demands of the current customer. The biggest rival that Blockbuster competed with was Netflix, which was started in 1997 and established its subscription service in 1999. The competitive forces in the movie rental marketplace expanded in the early 90’s with the creation of the DVD movies. Like pervious attempts to move away from VHS tapes, DVDs players were very costly at first. As time went on, DVD’s players became cheaper to produce and many of them where incorporated with home theater systems due to the demand of people who wanted to watch movies on their own big screen. With this boom in DVDs’ it created a demand in the movie rental marketplace. Since Blockbuster was apart of Viacom, which was a multimedia conglomerate, they were able to provide them with supplier power and buyer power. Blockbuster was able to outspend the competition, which in...
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...Character Analysis: Elisa Allen John Steinbeck has a very engaging mind. He not only makes people think when they read his work; he makes them think through a number of scenarios with his tales. I believe that looking at this story, you sense this woman, Elisa Allen, is a woman who is very unhappy with her life. The only satisfaction Elisa gets out of life is being in her garden with her "family" of chrysanthemums. Elisa is very unsettled with her life as a whole. She does not like being stuck on the farm, away from the world and people outside her valley. She does not have any children so she treats her chrysanthemums as if they were her only allowed talent, gift, and special accomplishment, since they are a childless couple. Elisa lives in the valley with her husband, Henry Allen on a farm in California. Farm life is a hard life, with few distractions, or entertainments that would take her away from the drudgery of her life. Elisa's only personal real passion on the farm is to tend to her garden, which is full of her beloved chrysanthemums. Elisa Allen does not have any offspring of her own so she tends to and treats her chrysanthemums as if they were her precious children. Elisa loves to work in her garden so much that it consumes most of her spare time each day. Elisa’s garden is her private escape, where she is free to daydream, yearn, and wonder about life outside of her valley. Her little fenced in garden not only keeps the dogs and cattle out, but her husband does...
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...Lance Shaundell American Literature Hester Character Analysis September 10,2014 Hester Prynne Analysis In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Hester is the main character. She is described as a tall, youthful, free minded, beautiful women but the “A” takes a lot away from her confidence and swagger. Her spirit is shown when she decorated the “A” and made the best outta this new situation but she seems like the protagonist throughout. She’s fighting with inner pains with having the affair but there was a reason why she did it but she doesn't see it. I see her grow throughout the story and mature and she was a good centerpiece in this novel. In the beginning when she described prison in such detail you knew she had spent a lot thinking about that prison. We learned about her affair and I quickly wondered with who? As a reader there are many secrets that we have to find out. When Chillingworth comes in to the story the mood feels eerie and the past between them is very complicated. Hester feels like Chillingworth sent her away to the new world to get away and she didn’t think she was ever going to see him again so when he comes its unexpected. I think she always had sorrow for the sin she committed. Through her hardships she was still strong and confident even though society is very cruel. She keep a tight circle with just Pearl and herself. "'No, my little Pearl!' said her mother. 'Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee!'" Chapter 7, pg. 95 She...
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...Contents Define your product 2 What is its function? 3 What problem or opportunity does it solve? 4 What is its name? 7 Reaching your audience 8 Who is your target audience? 9 What drivers will they respond to? 10 Delivering the message 11 What Integrated Marketing Communications mix will you select? 11 What specific media will you use? 14 Regulatory issues 15 What regulatory or trade association issues or restrictions do you operate under? 15 Final Campaign 16 Present a completed example of an advertising/commercial/alternate media campaign. 16 As we saw with the pre-assignment, the desserts are very diversified and can be eaten in different way: eat-in or take away, drink or eat, fruity or nature, for adults or children… This is a large subject and many actors are already implanted. Thus, in such a competitive environment, it is important for a new brand to be different: to offer a new concept in order to position the brand as the new favorite dessert in the consumer’s mind. Define your product According to a study managed by MedecineNet.com, United States’ children and teenagers do not eat enough fruits[1]. Moreover the obesity rate in the United States grew up last decades: ““Over the last three decades, obesity rates among children and adolescents have nearly tripled,” said CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD. “Obese children are more likely to have asthma, depression, diabetes, and other...
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...1) Discuss how sales managers can empower their sales staff? A manager who is managing a team of sales persons needs to understand first of all the strengths of the team and then the weaknesses of the team. It is only then can a sales manager decide how they can be empowered to improve the sales figures of a company. The best way to empower sales staff is to train them well in selling skills so that they can be proficient in dealing with any situation when it comes to closing a sales call and selling the product. Another way in which a sales manager can empower his sales team is by giving them the independence to take a few sales decisions on the spot without having to refer everything that the customer wants back to the sales manager. The sales manager can give the sales team the authority to take decisions on a variation of price or delivery or after sales support and also where to look for new target customers. The next best way is to engage the sales team by mentoring, coaching and supporting the original styles of each and every sales person in the team to be able to effectively give them the space to sell in the distinctive styles without feeling constrained in flexing their individual styles. The fourth way is to give them the technological support to be able to handle the volumes of sales call from any geographical territory so that there is no delay in answering specific questions. 2) What three points interest management most when interviewing an...
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..."The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" (1917) Summary: This poem takes the form of a letter from a lonely wife who has not seen her husband in five months. She begins by reminiscing about meeting him during childhood. She was pulling flowers at the front gate and he came by on stilts, playing horse. The next two lines, "And we went on living in the village of Chokan/Two small people, without dislike or suspicion," imply that the pair did not grow close right away following that encounter; they continued to grow up separately. In the next stanza, the wife describes marrying her husband at age fourteen. After that, she was continuously shy, either out of respect, sub-ordinance, or just because of her introverted personality. According to the next stanza, she became more comfortable with the marriage by age fifteen and "stopped scowling." A year later, her husband (a merchant) departed for another village, which is where he has been for the past five months. The monkeys' sorrowful noise mirrors her loneliness. She writes that her husband "dragged [his] feet" when he left - indicating that he did not want to leave her. She ends her letter by writing that if he comes back along the river, he should send word ahead, and she will come out to meet him. The poem is signed "by Rihaku." Analysis: Pound was not the creator of this poem; he translated it from the original Chinese version by Li Po. The Chinese original likely had a specific form and identifiable meter, but Pound...
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...leader. Why has Shakespeare been able to reach the pinnacle of fame and remain relevant to literature and culture centuries after his death? The answers are simple, yet the average person may overlook them. One of the biggest reasons Shakespeare is able to remain omnipresent in our literature and culture is the fact that he keeps his themes simple and accessible. He is able to take conflicts in the stories, that while they may seem to...
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...PHI445 February 10, 2014 Week One Journal Objective You will outline and explain ethical theories and then apply that knowledge to how organizations would function were they to adopt those ethical principles. In addition, you will also examine punishments for corporations and present your own ideas about the relationship between ethical demands on business entities vs. those on individuals in society. Instructions In this assignment you will reflect on the topics of Week One and apply them to an analysis of ethical paradigms. You will be asked to respond to two prompts below. The first asks you to explain three of the ethical philosophies you encountered in Chapter 1 of Introduction to Business Ethics, and then determine how companies that abide by these policies would act. In the second prompt, you will be asked to explain various punishments that can be given to corporations and the behaviors that are ethically dangerous to corporations. Please answer all questions in detail. Because this journal is worth 5% of your final grade, there is a high expectation for your participation. Grades for the journals are based on content, critical engagement, quality of reflection, and detail. Please submit the completed journal via the Assignment Basket found in the Week One Journal tab on the left navigation toolbar by Day 7. Organizations Select a Not-For Profit and a For Profit organization you would like to study. These will be the organizations that you will be focusing...
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...Real Estate Foreclosures » Why a Lot of People Prefer to Rent Than to Buy a House Why a Lot of People Prefer to Rent Than to Buy a House Posted on July 12, 2010 Filed Under Foreclosures | Leave a Comment People prefer to rent than to buy a house. The number of people that are very much concern about owning a home hasn’t doubled up until now, this is primarily because so many people are suffering from financial hardships. A lot of real estate owner these days will tell you that it isn’t the right time to buy a house because a lot of people are suffering foreclosure trauma. This is also the same reason why there are people who prefer to rent a house than to buy one too. In so many instances, it will be best if you will know some good advices because there are so many situations that just don’t go coherent lately because of the financial crisis going on. It is best for you to know some of the most reliable reasons why a lot of people prefer to rent than to buy a house. Here are some of them: Interest rate –a lot of people know that they cannot pay for the houses they will acquire primarily because their credit standing won’t allow them to do that too. Having a secured loan is also a decent thing to do these days. A lot of times, your mortgage broker cannot give you the right type of package you need because they are not available. In this case, you need to delay the purchases you will make to be able to make sure that your money will be worthy. Remember that...
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