...that job.” “I’ll be happy when . . .” HAVE you felt like that? And when you attained your goal or acquired the desired item, did your happiness last? Or did it begin to fade? To be sure, reaching a goal or obtaining something we have desired can make us happy, but that kind of happiness can be fleeting. Lasting happiness is not based solely on achievements or acquisitions. Rather, like good physical health, true happiness depends on a variety of factors. Each of us is unique. What makes you happy may not make someone else happy. Additionally, we change as we grow older. Yet, evidence suggests that some things are more consistently associated with happiness. For example, genuine happiness is linked to finding contentment, avoiding envy, cultivating love for others, and building mental and emotional resilience. Let us see why. 1. FIND CONTENTMENT “Money is a protection,” observed a wise student of human nature. But he also wrote: “A lover of silver will never be satisfied with silver, nor a lover of wealth with income. This too is futility.” (Ecclesiastes 5:10; 7:12) His point? While we may need money to survive, we should avoid greed, for it is insatiable! The writer, King Solomon of ancient Israel, actually experimented to see whether wealth and luxurious living fostered true happiness. “I did not deny myself anything that I desired,” he wrote. “I did not withhold from my heart any sort of pleasure.”—Ecclesiastes 1:13; 2:10. Having amassed great wealth, Solomon...
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...Pricing Strategy for Wellness, Inc.Prepared by Marlowe K. Blackwell | How can Wellness, Inc.best use Price Discrimination to increase revenue? | This document will identify, compare and analyze various pricing models currently used by competitors and recommend a pricing strategy for Wellness, Inc. to increase revenue and maximize profit. | 8/12/2013 8/12/2013 Outline 1. Introduction 2. Background of Wellness, Inc. a. Type of business b. Market segment 3. Background of Industry 4. Wellness, Inc.’s current pricing model 5. Comparison Competitor pricing models: c. Massage Envy- two part tariff d. Rubs – two part tariff e. Massage Goat – third degree f. Massage Retreats–second degree 6. Recommended Pricing Strategy for Wellness, Inc. 7. Next Steps Introduction Wellness, Inc., Inc., WELLNESS, INC., is a massage and wellness studio with one treatment room located within Salon 101. WELLNESS, INC. is differentiated from other spas and massage therapist in the Milton and Pensacola area based on being the only Ayurvedic Massage therapist in the area and offering natural and organic products. Salon 101 is a busy hair salon with six hair stylist offering hair care and one dedicated nail technician and two hair stylists that offer nail services. Salon 101 client segment is primarily female clients with incomes of $60,000 or less with approximately 20% with income above this bracket. WELLNESS,...
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...Women in Psychology Paper Shanda L. Ludwig PSY/310 September 11, 2011 Dr. Matt Pearcey Women in Psychology Paper It was not until the 1890s that women were allowed access to training in most fields of study, including psychology. Since that time many have made significant theoretical contributions to the field of psychology and our understanding of psychodynamic thought including the works of Karen Horney (1885–1952). She was a psychoanalyst best known for her work on neurosis and coping techniques. Horney was a leading figure in the development of a range of non-orthodox psychoanalytic approaches in mid-twentieth-century America. Often compared to orthodox Freudians, she emphasized interpersonal relations and minimized the role ascribed to biology. Horney was particularly critical of Freud's approach to women (Horney 1942). Biography Karen Horney was born in Blankensee, a suburb of Hamburg, Germany. She was the daughter of a sea captain, Berenth Henrick Vackels Danielson, and his second wife, Clotilde von Ronzelen. Although her father spoiled her with trips and gifts, Horney described her father as a harsh and claimed he favored her brother over her. Horney fell in love with her brother at a young age and states the rejection she felt from him caused her to spiral into depression around the age of 9. Due to this rejection, Horney felt that she wasn’t attractive and once stated, “If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart" (Horney, 1942). It was around...
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...Hyundai Motor Company Business History The Hyundai Motor Company is a multinational automotive manufacturer based in South Korea. The company is the world’s fifth largest motor group. (Hyundai.co.uk). the motor group has its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea. Hyundai was started by Chung Ju-Yung in 1967. Its parent company is the Hyundai motor group. It owns Kia motors by 32.8%. The company has its main operations in Ulsan, South Korea. This unit has an annual production capacity of 1.6million units. Ulsan is the world’s largest automobile manufacturing plant. The company had its first model, the Cortina released in 1968. This was in corporation with Ford Motor Company. The company has since grown and is now one of the top 100 most valuable brands worldwide. In Canada, Hyundai Auto Canada Inc. was opened in 1989. It is a subsidiary of the Hyundai Motor Company. It was located in Bromont Quebec. The Bromont plant only operated for four years before failure. Hyundai Auto Canada Inc. operates without a plant. There are however plans to revive it since there was a boosts in sales in the year 2009. Hyundai Motor Company is currently run by Chung Mon-koo who is both the chairman and CEO of the motor company. The company says that its goal is not to become the biggest car company; rather it is to provide value for the future. This also doubles as the company’s vision statement. (worldwide.hyundai.com) Production The main products for Hyundai Motors Company are cars. The company...
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... Comm. 411-35 11:30-12:45 Spring 1997 The three short stories are similar because they all involve jealousy. This type of jealousy surrounds the main characters who are envious of the achievements or the attention that another man receives. The first story is about an old man who is taking his wife on a second honeymoon when she encounters an old suitor, creating jealousy for the husband. In the second story, the jealousy surrounds Smurch who is envious of Charles Lindbergh's fame and accolades. The jealousy in the final story is the envy of the attention that any man with fame can receive from a woman. Each person's own insecurity allows envy to control their actions and creates trouble in their lives. The three stories all have jealousy, in some it is more clear than others. Jealousy lead two of the characters to make a fool of themselves, and it cost another character his life. In the first story, Charley took his wife Lucy on a second honeymoon, or Golden Honeymoon, as it is titled. While they are in St. Petersburg Fla., Mother was at the doctors office and began a conversation with a lady, only to discover that she is Mrs. Frank M. Hartsell, Lucy's ex-fiancee. This made Charley uncomfortable because he had rivaled Frank for Lucy's hand in marriage. A story that began as a second honeymoon for Lucy and Charley, became a jealous contest between two men. This reminds me of the movie, Grumpy Old Men, because of the unofficial...
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...and summary 1 2. Objective of study 1 3. Method of study 1 4. Critical Analysis of Chapters 2 4.1 Duryodhana’s Envy 2 4.2 Draupadi’s Courage 2 4.3 Yudhishthira’s Duty 3 4.4 Yudhishthira’s Remorse 4 4.5 Arjuna’s Despair 5 4.6 Krishna’s Guile 6 4.7 Bhishma’s Selflessness 6 4.8 Karna’s Status Anxiety 7 4.9 Conclusion 8 5. Key Learning 9 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY The Difficulty of Being Good by Gurcharan Das is an attempt to study and analyse the Mahabharata and the relevance it holds in todays’ world. The author realises that the great warriors in Mahabharata were essentially human beings and they had their own follies. Their moral dilemmas and behaviour arising out of the choices they made are very much relevant even today. The Mahabharata is essentially about our incomplete lives, about good people being faced with ethical dilemma and making choices that are not always right. They find themselves caught up in difficult situations, unable to decide what is right & what is wrong for ‘Dharma is subtle’ and its difficult it is to be good & righteous in this world. Essentially it’s the pursuit of Dharma by human beings and the moral dilemmas encountered on the way , that the author seek in this book. In each chapter, he critically analyses different characters of the epic and relates their dilemmas and actions with ours. Duryodhana – Scorched by envy towards his prosperous cousins Pandavas, Duryodhana tries every means possible to get the Pandavas out of his way...
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...Lynch letter. Willie Lynch was a British slave owner that lived in the West Indies. The letter is said to be a speech on how to make a slave, while addressing other slave masters. In the letter, the making of a slave was a science, because he had boasted about used some of the newest and some of the oldest methods to control their slaves. He even goes on to say his methods were full proof and if applied right, you could possibly control them (slaves) for three hundred years. The first method is to use their differences to created fear, distrust and envy among them. You must pitch the old black male against the young and vise versa. Pitch the light skin slaves against the dark skin slaves and vise versa. Pitch the male against the female slave and vise versa. He guaranteed that the distrust and envy would be self-regenerating and would outlast any adulation, respect or admiration. While crafting the fear distrust and envy among them, ensure that they love, respect, and depend on us, the slave master. The second method is to break the negro slave so there are useful for production for business and pleasure. Pay attention to the female and the youngest offspring because you will need to crossbreed to produce a variety and division of labor. He talks about breaking them like one would a horse. He ties both horse and slave together in order to break them. Break the will to resist. This is necessary for long range financial planning. KEEP THE BODY, BUT TAKE THE MIND....
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...Today we use computers to get our news, send emails, watch movies, and even attend college course, like I am now. When searching for a computer that meets the needs of our everyday lives, we must think through a number of things before making a decision. Not only a cost effective choice but one that will provide the specifications that the consumer will find beneficial. I will compare the Toshiba Satellite Radius 15 2 in 1, the Dell Inspiron 17 5000 and the HP Envy 13 and conclude on which computer would fit my personal requirements. The following will cover the features of each computer and the features that separate each from its comparable. When I search for a computer there things that I need and things that I just want to have. Toshiba Satellite Radius 15 2-in-1: $899 System Memory: 8 GB / 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i7 Monitor Size: 15.6” TrueBrite Full HD Operating System: Windows 10 Hard Drive Capacity: 1 TB Battery Life: 8.02 hours Dell Inspiron 17 5000: $799 System Memory: 8 GB / 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5 Monitor Size: 17.3” Operating System: Windows 10 Hard Drive Capacity: 1 TB Battery life: 5 hours HP Envy Notebook - 13 - d010nr: $899 System Memory: 8 GB / 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5 Monitor Size: 13.3” Operating System: Windows 8.1 Hard Drive Capacity: 128 GB Battery Life: 5 hours My list of most important features * Hard Drive Capacity...
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...Name: |Date: | |Graded Assignment First Semester Final Exam Directions • Mark your answers to the multiple-choice questions on the answer sheet at the end of the multiple-choice section. Use a black or blue pen. • Remember to complete the submission information on every page you turn in. Multiple-Choice Questions (1 hour) Section 1 consists of selections from prose works and questions about their content, form, and style. Questions 1-10. Read the following passage, from "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlote Perkins Gilman (1899) carefully before you choose your answers. You may refer to the passage as often as necessary while answering the questions. It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted? John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures. John is a physician, and perhaps—(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)—perhaps...
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...al-Farabi Kazakh National University Faculty: Philology, literature and foreign languages Lesson plan Teaching Speaking Student: Maral A. Akhanova Z. Zamanbekova A. Kabdullina G. Teacher: Aksholakova A.Z. Almaty,2013 Teaching Speaking Goals for Teaching Speaking The goal of teaching speaking skills is communicative efficiency. Learners should be able to make themselves understood, using their current proficiency to the fullest. They should try to avoid confusion in the message due to faulty pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, and to observe the social and cultural rules that apply in each communication situation. Speaking involves three areas of knowledge: * Using the right words in the right order with the correct pronunciation (Mechanics) * Knowing when clarity of message is essential and when precise understanding is not required (Functions) * Understanding...
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...Making People take into account four principles when making decisions; people make trade-offs, people are rational, people respond to incentives, and cost of opportunity decisions. Trade-off is done because of the scarcity of resources, we make a decision to buy a certain good or service taken into consideration that we will not be able to buy another good or service. People are rational in a sense that they make decisions only after weighing the cost and benefits and take the action or decision only if the benefits outweigh the costs. People respond to incentives when making a decision to purchase goods or service. This is the reason also why companies advertised heavily and promote incentives to consumers. The cost of opportunity decision are caused by a variety of motivating factors including: reward, punishment, religious beliefs, envy, compassion. The scarce resources that people have means that people can never have everything that they want, choices have to be made and this means that every time people make a choice and allot some of their scarce resources, something else or another goal can not be attained (Hubbard & Anthony, 2010). The marginal cost and benefits enables an individual to better rationalize the decision that is trying to make. A good example of this is when I had to take into account the marginal cost and benefits of...
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...at work, or a more expensive wardrobe, we are consumed with wanting more at any cost. Here in the Bahamas, there is an extreme or excessive desire for resources, especially real estate, because it is a symbol of wealth for many Bahamians. In trying to keep up with the "Jones", many Bahamians have adapted to the lifestyle of having and wanting more. These actions continue to contribute to unscrupulous act. Acts where persons resort to stealing by reason of employment, breaking into others home for goods or robbing some one of their personal items. Even the political elite and former parliamentarian have been obsessed with greed and hence the effects have caused arraignments before the court of law for their unscrupulous actions. Similarly, Judas displayed the same kind of behavior as he stole the monies that was entrusted to him as a treasurer. He did not have the honesty and integrity to satisfy with what he had, so he secretly stole some of the monies. This is typical of some of the of the Bahamians in our society...
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...you need and then I will also list a few items that I recommend to make things more convenient. Hardware: Laptop It works well for both an office and on the go. I recommend the HP ENVY Touchsmart 17.3” touch screen laptop. It has 8GB of memory, and a 1TB hard drive. It has 4 USB ports so you would be able to plug in multiple items, memory card slot, Cloud storage, as well as Bluetooth compatible. This laptop has a program called Bit Locker, which creates encryption on your device for added security. Cost: $879.00 through Best Buy Tablet Microsoft Surface 2 is a great tablet for an on the go worker. It runs off of Microsoft Windows RT which would allow you to go back and forth between you laptop and tablet using Sync as well as front and rear facing cameras for video conferences. Microsoft Office comes pre-loaded on the device. You will also have access to the Cloud from this device as well. Cost: $449.99 at Best Buy Cell Phone I recommend a Windows cell phone such as the Samsung ATIV SE 4G LTE. It has 4G speeds which are the fastest currently out there, Bluetooth compatible, Microsoft Office, Cloud access, and front and rear facing camera. Cost of the phone will depend on if you currently have service and in you will be up-grading your current phone. Cost: $199.99 with new 2 year contract. Operation System and Software: For all of the devices the operating system is already included. The only additional program I believe you will need...
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...To most people, pride is broadly known as a feeling of great satisfaction with one’s achievements, qualities, or possessions. From time to time, pride is defined as having an unrealistically high opinion of oneself’s importance. To some, it is noted as the fourth deadly sin, along with gluttony, lust, greed, wrath, envy, and sloth, to be avoided at all costs. These conflicting meanings can make pride is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it is confidence, dignity, and self-respect, but on the other, it can become arrogance, vanity, and contempt for others. Contempt, meaning; the notion that another person or thing is worthless and/or beneath you. To be justly proud is to have faith in yourself, and satisfaction with your accomplishments....
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...The objective of this case study is for Mr. Salgado- Head of IT, as the decision maker to evaluate the existing DOS/IT software and to evaluate the need, opportunities, effectiveness, risks and potential advantages to upgrading the IS systems. Introduction: Zara a Spanish clothier has turned the rules of the supply chain management to create a super responsive network and profit margins that are an envy to the fashion industry. Zara operates on a vertically integrated business model. The existing software applications have been developed in house and have provided the business teams with adequate and timely information, which has led Zara to maintain its position as a leader in the fashion industry. Zara has been successful in retaining its unique position and profitability by dedicated customer responsiveness and a strategy based on rapid response, short lead times, surplus capacity and a de-centralized decision-making process. Zara has a unique approach to advertising and marketing and maintains a cost advantage over its competitors and is able to maintain its brand and customer loyalty. Issue Identification: The existing operating system is far behind current technology, the POS systems, which works on a modem and phone line are plug and play and need minimal, set up. Zara faces the possibility of the vendor /DOS supplier ceasing to maintain the software. The vendor support for this hardware along with a DOS operating system is short-lived. The hardware...
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