...In the movie, The Best Years of Our Lives is about three soldiers adjusting to life after coming home from the war (WWII). In the film director William Wyler used an array of techniques to capture different feelings and emotions of each protagonist in the movie, as they adjust to life at home. In the bar scene where Al Stephenson and Fred Derry met to discuss Fred’s relationship with Al’s daughter, Peggy. In a wide shot view at the beginning of the scene when Fred walks into the bar, the viewer can see Al sitting in the booth at Butch’s bar then Fred walks in, into the bar in the background. Fred eventually takes a seat with Al in the booth, when Al’s Face comes into view finally He's background is dark as if he is coming from the shadows, this is different because throughout the film Al has this bright aura to him. In an over-the-shoulder shot the camera focuses on Al asking his friend if he loved his daughter Peggy, then the camera focused back onto Fred in another over-the-shoulder shot as Fred tries to process what Fred is asking of Al. When Fred answers Al with a Yes, that he did love Peggy, the view becomes a two shot view. Now both Al and Fred are in the shot, and the viewer can see both recations form each protagnoist. After a profound and heated discussion among both men, the camera as another close up Al asking Fred what was he going to do about his relationship with Peggy. Al then tells Fred that he no longer wants his friend to see his daughter and to end everything...
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...reviewing Ozzie’s chart, I felt as though he would not be a good recipient for this heart. I really appreciated the fact that he has been tutoring and mentoring to the youth, and he has signed a contract stating that if he got the transplant he would continue to tutor and stay clean for at least a year after the transplant. My concern is what happens after that year? The benefits to Ozzie getting the transplant would be he can continue to tutor the at risk youth that he has been helping and continue to make a difference in their lives. The harms of Ozzie getting this transplant would be him having a relapse and only waiting out that year before he began to use again. Even though this transplant would give him another 10 years or so to live Ozzie also has Recidivism which is sever with abuse and if he were to return to using again it would be a waste of the heart and he would die in a matter of months. Ozzie is a 38 year old man who has already wasted his life away on the choices that he has made with drugs, and I think he has been blessed to have found this shelter to help him live out the rest of his life clean. Before even reviewing Lisa’s chart the first thing I saw was a 12 year old little girl. I think anyone would take a look at her chart and automatically give the heart to Lisa, because she’s young and could live a long happy life. After reviewing Lisa’s chart her benefits of this transplant...
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...Problem statement Hooter’s of America, a casual restaurant that serves wings and beers among other menu items, has been in operation across the country for over 30 years. It has successfully grown its business over the years, and currently operates and franchises more than 400 Hooter’s restaurants throughout America, Asia and other parts of the world. It thrives on attractive female waitresses with revealing uniforms. During the best years, it consistently saw sales of $1 billion per year. According to the Hooter’s company website, Hooter’s was the fastest-growing restaurant chain in the US in 1991 and 1992. Along with the success, Hooter’s also faced many legal issues with regards to sexual harassment and unfair work practices. Although most cases were settled out of court, it seems as though the brand image withered due to several bad press in relations to employees complaints, one of which a store manager in California videotaped female Hooter’s girls changing in the locker room. As a result, this “Breastaurant” saw its market share decrease due to new and successful competitors such as Kilted Tilts, Twin Peaks among others. In its parent holding company Chanticleer’s March 2014 10K financial statement, it states it is currently operating at a loss, citing “failure by Hooters to protect its intellectual property rights, including its brand image” as one of the reasons. In the following analysis, the Porter’s Five Forces Model will be applied to the restaurant sector...
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...Looking back at my past fourteen-year old self is something I never wanted to have to do, but here goes anyway: They say high school’s supposed to be the best four years of your life. Freshman year held that idea alive in me for a short period of time. At first, I must admit that I was a pretentious, overly blatant asshole (still am) with no concern for others except for himself with an ounce of vulnerability wrapped up in that awkward looking, dark, wanna-be, “ghetto nerd” facade. I didn’t really understand what exactly I wanted to do with the time I had at Arroyo, so I just stuck with what I knew best: running and keeping my head in the clouds with the whole concept of having a significant other for the time being while attempting to maintain...
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...The Best Four Years of Your Life Growing up you always hear from adults and current college students that college is one of the best experiences of your life. It is your motivation all through out school to do your homework, study and get good grades so you are able to get in to any college you want. I remember my first college tour it was to University of South Carolina instantly I fell in love. Once I experienced the campus for the first time I knew it was a place I could call home. Getting my acceptance letter was one of the best days of my life before I knew it summer was over and it was move in day. Little did I know there were a lot of things I did not know about being a college student that I am gradually starting to figure out. There are a lot of changes that come with going to college and the way in which you deal with them all depends on you as a person. One of the hardest problems people tend to face coming to college is going to a new place where you really don’t know that many people and there are a ton of new faces. Through out my life I’ve always had to move a lot with my dad being in the military, I hated it at the time but now I am grateful for it because it made me who I am today. Always having to make new friends made me outgoing and not afraid to walk up to someone new and start talking to them. It made me not afraid to try new things and made me learn how to adapt to new places and new schools. Coming to college is such an exciting experience because it’s...
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...To: Steven Spielberg Date: February 1, 2015 RE: Best time of year to launch a movie Mr. Spielberg, I have identified some opportunities for you to produce a film and deliver it at the optimal time to maximize revenue. This data has been sourced for 15 years from 1994 to 2008. I will outline my findings in the following 10 bullet points: Embedded Excel Data File: 1. Total Revenue Per Year for Each Year: 1994-2008 a. See tab #1 (All tabs and graphs in embedded excel file) b. Total revenue has increased year over year in the period 2. Average Revenue Per Year for Each Year: 1994-2008 a. See tab #2 b. Average revenue has also increased 3. Average Revenue Per Month over the 15 Years of data a. See tab #3 b. June, July, November, and December are the months with the largest average revenue over the period. July is the month with the highest average revenue. 4. Average Revenue Per Week over the 15 Years of data a. See tab #4 b. Weeks 51 and 52 were the highest average over the 15-year period (December) c. Weeks 26 through 31 (July) were also among the higher average weeks over the 15-year period. 5. Which movies were #1 for the longest period each year: 1994-2008 a. See tab #5 b. There were several films that were #1 for the same amount of time 6. The months and the weeks for the movies that were #1: 1994-2008 a. See tab #6 b. Because of the ties that resulted in the data, in each year the chosen #1 film’s opening weekend had the highest revenue...
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...majority of people now-a-days having Netflix, so you will get a lot of feedback and different opinions. My opinions on your questions are followed: I do not think the increase in price is going to hurt Netflix. Like you mentioned, cable along with satellite are quite expensive. I became a Netflix customer earlier this year, and since then I have used Netflix more than our satellite TV. The $1 increase does not bother me, especially since it will not affect me until next year. Nor do I think new customers will be bothered with it. As long as they use that extra revenue to their advantage to be ahead of their competitors and provide more for their customers then their customers will not mind paying for it. It’s obvious that one best way Netflix can increase their revenue other than raising their prices is to add advertisement, however, I believe this would cause a down fall in customers. So possibly taking another route would be best for them. Maybe they can lock their customers in by providing contracts, or let their customers pay yearly rather than monthly. With contracts they can provide short ones of six months or one year, and longer ones for maybe three to five years. For myself, I rather just pay one big amount yearly than having to deal with paying it monthly. The can also provide a discount for paying it yearly. I do not think the market has saturated for Netflix. Netflix...
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...“The teenage years are the best years of one’s life.” Do you agree? “Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.” These were the words of the late Irving Berlin, one of America’s most prolific songwriters in history. Indeed, one’s perception on his or her best years of life would largely depend on how he or she regards life. In my perspective, the idea of the best years would be the years where one experiences the most happiness, where the years are filled with love and laughter, while teenage years refers to the age 13 to 19 period. To many, the teenage years are without doubt the best years of their life, however to that many number of people, there are many more out there who do not agree. In a general overview, there are many cases that supports or contradicts the statement, so let us go further into this issue and take a stand. The teenage years have often been considered as the carefree years, free of worries and responsibilities. Being carefree has also been cited as one of the reasons that made teenage years the best years of one’s life. However, to what extent is that true? In my opinion, the best indication of being carefree is stress levels. According to a survey by the American Psychological Association, American teenagers experience their highest level of stress on an average of 6.5days per month. This is considerably low compared to countries like China and Singapore, where the competitiveness resulted in teenagers experiencing...
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...第3章 Arena 概貌 在第二章的 2.4 部分，我们实际上利用 Arena 完成了“手工”仿真过程，而且在 2.6 部 分对该模型和修改后的模型（即到达率加倍）进行了多次重复仿真运行。这一章本书将带你 领略应用 Arena 建模仿真的整个过程，首先教你启动 Arena，浏览为上一章手工仿真建立的 现成模型，并运行该仿真模型，然后学习如何从头开始建立模型。本章也会探讨用户界面问 题，以及如何使用帮助文件系统，并讨论运行仿真的不同方法，同时讲解绘图和图形工具的 用法。 3.1 节介绍如何启动 Arena；3.2 节带你浏览一个现成的模型；在 3.3 节你可以更加详细 地查看这一模型，浏览对话框和动画，运行模型和查看结果；3.4 节帮助你从头开始一步步 建造该模型；3.5 节简要介绍 Arena 的一些主要建模功能，包括菜单和工具条中的可用选项 以及绘图打印功能等；3.6 节介绍 Arena 强大的帮助文件系统以及所有详细的技术文件；3.7 节讨论有关运行和控制仿真的各种选项。 看完本章后，你将会了解 Arena 是如何工作的，并知道用 Arena 可以做些什么，而且你 可以有效地运用 Arena 建立一些简单的模型，甚至可能借助帮助系统，通过自己摸索有关菜 单和对话框完成一些更为复杂的工作。仅通过阅读本章，你也许就能了解不少有用的东西， 但如果能同时在电脑上加以实际操作， 效果会更好。 有关如何建立模型的更多内容将会在第 四章及以后章节讨论。 3.1 启动系统 Arena 是一种真正的微软“视窗”操作系统（Windows）的应用软件，因此用户对它的 外观和风格会比较熟悉， 并且其一般的特征和操作也与 Windows 操作系统一致。 另外， Arena 与其它 Windows 软件全面兼容，例如文字处理软件、电子表格软件和 CAD 软件等，所以用 户可以很容易地在不同软件系统与 Arena 之间来回移动对象（第 10 章将详细介绍 Arena 与 其它软件地交互和通信）。 顺便补充一句，本书假设读者对 Windows 的基本概念和操作都已经熟悉了，例如： 磁盘，文件，文件夹和路径。 鼠标和键盘的使用，包括单击、双击和右击鼠标。 操作窗口，如移动、调整大小、最大化、最小化和关闭。 对菜单的操作。书中使用如下符号“M > C> S > T”，表示打开菜单M，从中选择C， 然后从子菜单中选择S（如果有的话），最后选择带有标签T的页面（如果有的话）。 Control、Alt和Shift键的使用。“Ctrl+任意键”意味着同时按下Ctrl键和任意键（这一 点同样适用于“Alt+任意键”和“Shift+任意键”）。如果“任意键”是键盘键，则不区分 大小写。“任意键”也可以是鼠标点击，例如“Ctrl+单击”可以拓展某个选择使其包括增 列项目。 对文本和其它项目的剪切 Cut（或者菜单命令 Edit>Cut，或者组合快捷键 Ctrl+X）， 复制 Copy（或 Edit>Copy，或 Ctrl+C）和粘贴 Paste（或 Edit>Paste，或 Ctrl+V）。 填写对话框，包括输入和编辑文本条目、按下按钮、选定和清除（即取消选定）选 项框、 从一列选择按钮 （单选按钮） 中单击选中其中一个按钮、 以及从下拉菜单中选择项目。 如果读者对以上提到的操作不熟悉，在阅读下面的内容前最好先要复习一下Windows 操作指南。 下面来到电脑旁，电脑中已按随书附带的说明书安装了 Arena 系统（可以参阅附录 E 来了解如何安装...
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...Telephone Analysis Report The telephone analysis was conducted with several telephone providers. These providers were AT&T, Earthlink, and Comcast. I received several quotes and information regarding 3 years contract terms. The findings are as follows: Current Service with AT&T: The audit of the AT&T bill revealed a monthly increase for several reasons. One reason the monthly increase arose over several months is that the promotional contract expired after a 24 month term. The price that was originally quoted was based on a 24 month term with the company entering into a new contract after the term was fulfilled, because we failed to renegotiate with AT&T, our bill increased by an average of $150 dollars at its highest price. I have enclosed an AT&T Monthly Analysis to show the increase over the past year. We also had a double increase in our long distance charges during the months of September, October, and November. The charges also made our monthly charges higher. The only consistent charges that we are paying are the internet charge. It was consistent at $54.95 per month. The areas of comparison were on set-up fees, local, long distance, internet, voicemail and installations. The findings are as follows: * AT&T- This term is for 2 years, the local service includes all of our current services plus the internet will be charged at a rate of $139.00 monthly. This includes 3 lines, long distance, internet, and voicemail. There are no setup fees...
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...organize and manage huge amount of data. Moreover, it operates on incomparable speeds, thus saving human time and effort to a large extent. True, computers are an integral part of the lives of the people today. It said that inventions change the way people live. In essence, grading is an exercise in professional judgment on the part of instructors. It involves the collection and evaluation of students’ achievement or performance over a specified period of time, such as one month, a semester, or entire school year. Through this process, various types of descriptive information and measures of students’ performance are converted into grades that summarize students’ accomplishments. In essence, Grading system is an exercise in professional judgement on the part of instructors. It involves the collection and evaluation of evidence on student’s achievement or performance over a specified period of time, such as nine weeks, an academic semester, or entire school year. Through this process, various types of descriptive information and measures of students’ performance are converted into grades or marks that summarize student’s accomplishments. Based on our research the school of Colegio del Sto.Niño is using a manual computation of grades of each student, which is the traditional use when technology is not yet developed. Manual computation is very prompt to risk for any circumstances. It is time consuming in terms of recording grades...
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...1. INTRODUCTION Title of the article is “Minimizing the sum of earliness/tardiness in multi-machine scheduling: a mixed integer programming approach”, and which at first defines the ET systems briefly. An early or late delivery will affect cost directly and objective of the ET problem fits perfectly. Assumptions in this problem are; • Due date assignments; being JIT is important to have maximum benefit from the sold product. • Penalty costs for being early or late; both situations cause penalty costs from warehouse or customer. • Sequence dependencies; machines setups are important in some cases and also the precedence may be required. • Machines; single or multiple machine systems are designed and N jobs are assigned to M machines. Moreover expectation is to reduce penalty costs by assigning in the right sequence. The author constructed a model by considering the above definitions and made a first draft, provided in the appendix 1. The objective function is about reducing the sum of earliness and tardiness costs with respect to the times of being early or tardy. First constraint claims the equality of the due date in terms of the time including the completion, earliness, tardiness, which restricts the values of being tardy or early because the due dates are appointed. Second constraint is a determination factor in binary system where if Z11 equals to 1 that job is held on machine 1 otherwise 0. Third and fourth constraints define the relation between precedence of jobs...
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...Main module: Declare Jobs As String Declare Date As String Declare Spring As String Declare Fall As String Declare Winter As String Declare Storm As String Declare Monthly As String Declare Season As INT Write “Choose what tasks you need to check!” Write “Spring………..1” Write “Fall…………..2” Write “Winter……….3” Write “Storm………..4” Write “Monthly……..5” Input = Season If (Season < 0 or Season > 6) Then Write “You need to input a number between 1 – 5.” If input = 1 Then call Spring module Else If input = 2 Then call Fall module Else If input = 3 Then call Winter module Else If input = 4 Then call Storm module Else If input = 5 Then call Monthly module End If Spring module: Write “You have selected to view the Sping checklist of your home maintenance.” Write “These are the things you need to check for listed below:” Jobs Write “What jobs did you complete?” Input Job Write “Congratulations! You have completed checking the “ + Jobs + Date + “ Make sure you check that job again next spring.” Fall module: Write “You have selected to view the Fall checklist of your home maintenance.” Write “These are the things you need to check for listed below:” Jobs Write “What jobs did you complete?” Input Job Write “Congratulations! You have completed checking the “ + Jobs + Date + “ Make sure you check...
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...sales information is also reported to the media and impacts the companies share price. 2. -Even with their issues, by analyzing yearly data it is clear that revenue has grown steadily. Sales revenue has grown yearly from 87,768,000 in 2004 to 228,305,000 in 2011. This can be linked to improvements in crop yield and irrigation causing an increase in demand. Mahindra likely would have grown even more if they were able to provide the proper tractors to dealers. In fact, by analyzing the data from months January 2004-Decemeber 2011 we see that the tractor industry as a whole experienced more growth compared to Mahindra. The slope of the industries trendline is 9.314 compared to 4.076 for Mahindra. -Revenue tends to be consistent throughout the year. Even during the peak seasons of April through June and September through November, with a seasonal index of only 1.0758 during Quarter 2 we see only a slight increase in revenue during the second quarter of...
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...RUHR ECONOMIC PAPERS Barbara S. Grave The Effect of Student Time Allocation on Academic Achievement #235 Imprint Ruhr Economic Papers Published by Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Department of Economics Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economic and Social Sciences Vogelpothsweg 87, 44227 Dortmund, Germany Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics Universitätsstr. 12, 45117 Essen, Germany Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) Hohenzollernstr. 1-3, 45128 Essen, Germany Editors Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Bauer RUB, Department of Economics, Empirical Economics Phone: +49 (0) 234/3 22 83 41, e-mail: thomas.bauer@rub.de Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Leininger Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economic and Social Sciences Economics – Microeconomics Phone: +49 (0) 231/7 55-3297, email: W.Leininger@wiso.uni-dortmund.de Prof. Dr. Volker Clausen University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics International Economics Phone: +49 (0) 201/1 83-3655, e-mail: vclausen@vwl.uni-due.de Prof. Dr. Christoph M. Schmidt RWI, Phone: +49 (0) 201/81 49 -227, e-mail: christoph.schmidt@rwi-essen.de Editorial Office Joachim Schmidt RWI, Phone: +49 (0) 201/81 49 -292, e-mail: joachim.schmidt@rwi-essen.de Ruhr Economic Papers #235 Responsible Editor: Christoph M. Schmidt All rights reserved. Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Germany, 2010 ISSN 1864-4872 (online) – ISBN 978-3-86788-269-9 The working papers published...
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