...The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas is a novel from the point of view of a 9 year old boy called Bruno growing up in world war 2. He lived in Berlin with his parents and sister, Gretel. After his father visits Adolf Hitler he gets promoted to Commandant and his family has to move to a place called Out-With. Bruno feels homesick and wants to move back to his old home so he see his friends again. Bruno is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day he looked at his window to strangely see a group of people wearing striped pyjamas, as a curious boy Bruno asks his sister who they are, she didn’t know so he asked his father, he told him that they are not people at all and are Jews. Bruno is not allowed to leave the house but one day he decides to go down to the people in the striped pyjamas and finds another boy called Shmuel around the same age as him. After some time Bruno and Shmuel become best friends. Shmuel asked Bruno if he could help him find his father, Bruno says ok and goes into the concentration camp to help find him, but they get mixed into a group of Jews about to get taken to the gas chambers, the boys don’t know where they are going and go along with it, they get lead into a gas chamber thinking they are gonna have a shower but get gassed and killed. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas is set during world war 2 in Berlin and soon after in a place called Out-With which is where the Auschwitz concentration camp was. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas follows the normal...
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...actually stands for the name of the company's founder, Adi Dassler” (watchshop.com , 2013). Therefore, this essay will talk about the history, products and sponsorship. However, Adidas have a rich history like other companies before they become successful in the battlefield of business. It all began in 1924 Germany, with the two brothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler who make shoes in their mother’s wash kitchen. Considering how successful they are today, it neither is funny nor shock for everyone to hear their beginnings. In 1936 Olympics Adi Dassler watched the games and realized that it would be a great deal for them if their shoes are worn by someone participated in the Olympics. So, Adi loaded his selected shoes into his car and asked the U.S runner Jesse Owen to wear his shoe in the Olympic Games. Then, the runner Jesse Owen won four gold medals. Also, Owen was the first ever person to wear the Adidas shoe in the tournament although it wasn’t named Adidas at that time. Even though the two brothers were working together so great, the Second World War has changed everything. There were some misunderstandings between the two brothers. Rudolf knew that his own brother Adi had turned him into the US, so the two brothers split up and go their own way. “Instead of giving up, Adi Dassler decided to continue his shoe enterprise. He...
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...Course: International Business Management Activity: Case Study Company: PUMA |1924: |Rudolf and Adolf Dassler incorporate their first shoe company. | |1948: |Rudolf Dassler sets up his own company Puma Schuhfabrik Rudolf Dassler. | |1950: |Puma had established export ties to the United States, | |1959: |Rudolf Dassler's wife and two sons become part owners of the Puma Sportschuhfabriken Rudolf Dassler KG. | |1962: |Puma shoes are shipped to almost 100 countries. | |1974: |Armin A. Dassler takes over as CEO. | |1986: |Puma goes public and company stock is offered on the Munich and Frankfurt stock exchanges. | |1989: |Armin and Gerd sold Puma to Cosa Liebermann for an unknown amount | |1991: |Swedish conglomerate Proventus AB becomes majority shareholder. | |1993: |30-year-old Jochen Zeitz takes over as CEO. | |1998: |Puma acquires 25 percent of Logo Athletic Inc. | |1999: |Monarchy/Regency becomes Puma's biggest single shareholder. A film and television production company, who | | |purchased a 12% share in | | |Puma. | |2003 |Puma re-launches Rudolf Dassler branded footwear collection in the collaboration with Alexander van Slobbe, | | |featuring iconic shoes such as the Sprint Logo | |2007 |Puma launches 360 degree Rudolf Dassler branded collection including footwear, apparel and accessories | Pumas Service: Puma has long-term mission of becoming the most desirable Sport lifestyle company. With that, Puma...
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...A-1 TQM Principles and Performance Measures Q1. Carry out an analysis consisting of the following steps: 1. Select an organization that produces products or delivers a service. 2. Study the organization structure, particularly the quality-related structure. 3. Review various TQM characteristics discussed in class. 4. Develop a tabular format and analyze all applicable TQM characteristics of the organization. Develop a rating scale to estimate the level of applicability of each TQM characteristic to the organization. 5. Discuss your finding and provide conclusion on the state of TQM in the organization. Q2. Exercise No. 4 on pg. 151 Give an example of the use of the PDSA cycle in your personal life and in your work experiences. Personal Life Experience A personal life experience of the Plan, Do, Study and Act cycle is my decision to go back to school to get my Masters degree in Engineering. The planning required me to define the length of time it would take for me to finish my degree. The key sequence of events were for me to let my manager know of my intention to get my degree and that it would not affect my job performance. Then I had to lay our my educational plan and my overall purpose of getting my degree. The Do cycle required me register for a class and ensure that it didn’t interfere with my job performance. Another key part of the do process was for me to study and get a passing grade. The Study cycle required me to...
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...Philosophy Research Waldorf Education History: According to my research, Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was born on February 25, 1861 and died on March 30, 1925. He was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericism. Steiner gained recognition and became respected and well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, particularly known for is work on Goethe's scientific writings. Also, He began to develop his earlier philosophical principles into an approach to methodical research of psychological and spiritual phenomena. After the I world war Rudolf Steiner was lecture his ideas for a society transformation, to workers factories in Germany. On April 23, 1919, he lectures for the workers of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart, Germany; in this lecture he mentioned the need for a new kind of comprehensive school. On the following day, the workers approached Herbert Hahn, one of Steiner's close co-workers, and asked him if their children could be given such a school. Independently of this request, the owner and managing director of the factory, Emil Molt, announced his decision to set up such a school for his factory workers' children to the company's Board of Directors and asked Steiner to be the school's pedagogical consultant. The name Waldorf thus comes from the factory which hosted the first school. In 1924 Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the...
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...Since 1973, Caterpillar has remanufactured diesel engines and components for its own machines and power systems. What began as a small operation to meet the product support needs of our truck engine customers has grown to include more than 700 products, including hydraulics, drivetrain, fuel systems and even tires. In 2004, Caterpillar announced plans to offer remanufacturing services to other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Remanufacturing Services business takes a Caterpillar core competency into new markets. We entered the automotive remanufacturing business on Sept. 1, 2004, by acquiring Williams Technologies in the United States and Wealdstone Engineering in the United Kingdom. Since then we’ve grown quickly in the auto, industrial and electronics markets and formed key alliances with OEMs in related industries. Reman’s contribution to diversified growth continued with the acquisition of Progress Rail. This exciting new business marks Caterpillar’s entry into a full line of rail aftermarket services, including remanufacturing. In December 2006, Progress Rail became a separate division within Caterpillar. We recently expanded our presence in Asia with the opening of a facility in Shanghai, China. In mid-2007, we completed our acquisition of Eurenov S.A., expanding our European presence in automotive and industrial engine and transmission remanufacturing. In January of 2007, Reman acquired Franklin Power Products and International Fuel Systems, based in Franklin...
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...On August 18, 1949, Adi Dassler started over again at the age of 49, registered the “Adi Dassler adidas Sportschuhfabrik” and set to work with 47 employees in the small town of Herzogenaurach. On the same day, he registered his company that included the registration of the soon-to-become-famous Adidas 3-Stripes. You are asked to access the Adidas’s web page at: www.adidas-group.com/en. From Adidas’s home page click on "Financial reports", and then download the Adidas Group Annual Report 2012. 1- Explain whether Adidas’s Annual Report is primarily a financial accounting document or a managerial accounting document. Provide evidence that supports your conclusion. (100 words) 2- Identify and discuss 4 key elements of Adidas's strategy. (180 words) 3- Discuss the Characteristics of information at the operational levels of decision making. Explain the link between information and the company's competitive strategy. (130 words) 4- Give a definition of Leadership and discuss the key attributes and qualities of a “Leader”. Describe the ways in which Adidas is supporting and improving its leadership. (250 words) 5- Discuss the role played by Adidas's organizational structure in developing its competitive advantage over the last couple of years. (250 words) 6- Write a brief report describing what roles does the accounting system play in the formulation and execution of Adidas Group’s strategy. (250 words) 7- Describe three ways in which the Adidas Group develops its...
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...Introduction With the development of business, we can easily find that the role of purchasing and supply management has become increasingly important. Over the past years, as a discipline, purchasing and supply management has largely changed many companies. The significance of supply chain management is mainly due to the large cost on supply chain. ()On average, fully 70% of a firm’s sales revenues are spent on supply chain-related activities from material purchases to the distribution and service of finished products on the final customer. Other than that, there are several factors resulting in the evolution of supply chain management. First of all, in order to gain more market share, it is vital for companies, especially for multinational companies, to focus on building stable and effective supply chain as each segment of supply chain are likely to influence the products or service of companies. Moreover, the development of communications and transportation technologies, such as mobile communication and Internet, have forced the evolution of supply chain management. The purpose of this essay is to explore the influence of supply chain management on companies. Also, both sustainability and risk management are crucial in supply chain management, Objectives Through journals, monographs and related theories and articles on the website of the search, organize and summarize, discussed the importance of the supply chain in the contemporary business. In addition, based on...
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...Rudolf Hoess was not an ordinary man. He was born into a religious family with a history in warfare. He was raised to be a soldier and to live out his life as a man of God. Once his father died he ran away to the front lines during WWI and abandoned his religion. Eventually he became the Kommandant of Auschwitz where he dealt out death to hundreds of thousands of Jews. He was not an ordinary man. Christopher Browning in his book, Ordinary Men, discusses the Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their change over time from ordinary men to hardened killers. He proves that, through varies experiences and decisions that the Nazi regime manipulated them into becoming killers while also saying that it was also their own person choice to kill throughout the entirety of their time in the Battalion. Rudolf Hoess, although he did start off as a regular man who wouldn’t hurt anyone on his own, was never manipulated like the men of Battalion 101 to become a killer. The choice was always his own and he at no point rejected the idea of the murder of Jews. Browning discussed a transition period for the Battalion where they became hardened by their surrounding and became accustomed to the killing. This transition period was never present in Hoess’ memoire and therefore one must conclude that he never had the same struggles of a man coming to grips with murder. The need to follow orders is also prevalent in both Browning and Hoess’ works but in Brownings’ investigation it is shown that orders did...
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...Chapter 8 Logical Positivism I want neither that plutocracy grasping and mean, nor that democracy goody and mediocre, occupied solely in turning the other cheek, where would dwell sages without curiosity, who, shunning excess, would not die of disease, but would surely die of ennui. — Poincar´ (quoted in Runes, ToP, p. 966) e Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. — Mach (Newman, WM, Vol. 3, p. 1792) 8.1 Historical Background In this chapter we will look at logical positivism, the most influential phi- Logical Analysis losophy of science in the twentieth century. In spite of the fact that logical positivism has been abandoned by most philosophers of science, its influence continues in many disciplines, including physics, linguistics and psychology. We will be especially concerned with logical positivism’s view of knowledge, which is, roughly: (1) the only real knowledge is scientific knowledge; (2) by a process of logical analysis scientific knowledge can be reduced to symbolic formulas constructed from “atomic facts.” Certainly assertion (1) is nothing new; Socrates said as much when he distinguished “scientific knowledge” 303 304 Empiricism Anglo-American Roots Continental Roots Auguste Comte: 1798–1857 CHAPTER 8. LOGICAL POSITIVISM (episteme) from a “practice” (empeiria); see Section 2.4.3. Furthermore...
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...The Auschwitz camp plays a special role in the resolution of the Jewish question. the most advanced methods permit the execution of the Fuher order in the shortest possible time and without arousing much attention. The so-called resettlement action run the following course: the Jews arrive in special trains, toward evening and are driven on special tracks to areas of the camp specifically set aside for this purpose. There the Jews are unloaded and examined for their fitness to work by a team of doctors, in the presence of the camp commandant and several SS officers. At this point anyone who can somehow be incorporated into the work program is put in a special camp. The ill are sent straight to a medical camp and are restored to health through a special diet. the basic principle beind everything is: conserve all manpower for work. the previous type of resettlement action has been thoroughly rejected, since it is too costly to destroy precious work energy on a continual basis. In the cellars of the large houses, that are located outside, and entered from outside go down five or six steps into a fairly long, well constructed and well ventilated cellar area, which is lined with benches to the left and right, it is brightly lit, and the benches are numbered, the prisoners are told that they are to be cleansed and disinfected for their new assignments. they must therefore completely undress to be bathed, to avoid panic and to prevent disturbances of any kind, they are instructed...
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...Economy Shipping Company Solutions Estimated Cash Flows Alternative 1: Replace the Conway with a new diesel-powered boat today; sell the Conway and its spare parts; overhaul the diesel engines in Year 10; sell the diesel and the diesel parts inventory in Year 20. Year | Specific Item | Cash flow after taxes | Present value factor @ 10% | Present value | 0 | Sell Conway | 25,000 | 1.00 | 25,000 | 0 | Tax shield on sale of Conway (39,500-25,000) x .48 | 6,960 | 1.00 | 6,690 | 0 | Sell spare parts of Conway | 30,000 | 1.00 | 30,000 | 0 | Tax shield on sale of Conway parts (43,500-30,000) x .48 | 6,480 | 1.00 | 6,480 | 0 | Investment in diesel | (325,000) | 1.00 | (325,000) | 0 | Investment in parts inventory (adequate for 3 diesels) | (75,000) | 1.00 | (75,000) | 10 | Overhaul diesel engines | (60,000) | .3855 | (23,130) | 1-20 | Operating costs (156,640)(1-.48) | (81,453) | 8,5136 | (693,458) | 1-10 | Tax shield on engine depreciation (60,000/10) x .48 | 2,880 | 6.1446 | 17,696 | 11-20 | Tax shield on engine depreciation (60,000/10) x .48 | 2,880 | 2.3690 | 6,823 | 1-20 | Tax shield on depreciation of parts (75,000/25) x .48 | 1,440 | 8.5136 | 12,260 | 1-20 | Tax shield on depreciation of hull (265,000/25) x .48 | 5,088 | 8.5136 | 43,317 | 20 | Sell diesel | 32,500 | .1486 | 4,830 | 20 | Tax shield from loss on diesel sales (.2 x 265,000-32,500) x .48 | 9,840 | .1486 | 1,462 | 20 | Sale on diesel parts inventory | 37,500 | .1486 | 5,573 | 20...
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...SWOT ANALYSIS: REVIEW DOCUMENT FOR COMPANY ANALYSIS Company Name: Cummins Inc. Industry Sector: Global Diesel Engine Manufacturer Date: 23/11/2014 Analyst: Rajesh Kumar Strengths • Strong distribution network and strategic joint ventures with customers to allow better access to end customers CMI has joint ventures and strategic alliances with customers, particularly in emerging markets, including Tata motors in India, Dongfeng Motors in China, Komatsu in Japan, and PACCAR in the US. These companies are market leaders in their respective regions/countries. Additionally, CMI has 600 company owned and independent distributors locations, and approximately 6500 dealer locations in more than 190 countries. • Diversified portfolio of engines catering to wide range of customers The Engine segment produces engines and parts for sale to customers in on-highway and various industrial markets. Our engines are used in trucks of all sizes, buses and recreational vehicles, as well as various industrial applications including construction, mining, agriculture, marine, oil and gas, rail and military equipment. The composition of revenues by highway segment and industrial segment is around 60% and 40% respectively. Thus the concentration risk is minimized. The segment sells engines, generator sets, alternators, power systems and services. The Distribution segment includes wholly-owned and partially-owned distributorships engaged in wholesaling...
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...Inventor: Rudolph Diesel Invention: Diesel Engine Year: 1892 The diesel engine is the most efficient prime mover commonly available today. Diesel engines move a large portion of the world's goods, power much of the world's equipment, and generate electricity more economically than any other device in their size range. However, the diesel is one of the largest contributors to environmental pollution problems worldwide, and will remain so, with large increases expected in vehicle population and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) increasing global emissions. Diesel emissions contribute to the development of cancer; cardiovascular and respiratory health effects; pollution of air, water, and soil; soiling; reductions in visibility; and global climate change. The main changes required to use diesel fuel are driving a different car, locating diesel-fueling stations, and knowing the differences in fuel economy, greenhouse gas emissions, and other aspects that arise from using diesel as a fuel instead of gasoline. While diesel has merit to help an individual save money and prolong the life of his or her vehicle, it also has negative side effects. The regulation requires diesel trucks and buses that operate in California to be upgraded to reduce emissions. Heavier trucks must be retrofitted with PM filters beginning January 1, 2012, and older trucks must be replaced starting January 1, 2015. By January 1, 2023, nearly all trucks and buses will need to have 2010 model year engines or equivalent...
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...Key Philosophies The Rudolf Steiner curriculum recognises that children pass through the distinct development stages at which times specific forces are at work and capacities develop. The curriculum is designed to deliver the right stimulus at the right time, allowing each of the development stages to unfold fully. The goal for the Rudolf Steiner school is to prepare young children for not only school but the challenges of life also. Most Steiner ECE services don’t use written materials as they believe the focus on early childhood should be play and new experiences. Models of Provision Young children should stay in the ECE setting until they reach the age of 6 before progressing into a Rudolf Steiner school. Imagination, creativity and the arts feature highly in their programme. In New Zealand over 3,000 children attend Steiner schools or early childhood centres. There are three early childhood teaching groups: The Playgroup which ages from birth to 3 years old, Nursery which ages from two and a half to 3 or 4 years old and Kindergarten which ages from 3 to six years old. There are 6 playgroup sessions: Monday to friday mornings start at 9:30am and concluding with a story at 12pm. Baby group is wednesday afternoon from 12:30pm-2:30pm. Playgroup is an opportunity for parents or caregivers with young children to gather with the Play Group leader for a relaxed morning of singing and learning.Nursery hours are monday to friday 8:45am-12:45pm. Nursery has two very experienced...
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