...CONTENTS I. Introduction........................................................................................................2 II. Sociolinguistic Perspective................................................................................3 III. Data Selection....................................................................................................5 IV. Analytical Toolbox............................................................................................6 V. Analysis..............................................................................................................8 Whole text and communicative purpose......................................................9 Visual aids..................................................................................................13 Sentences and covert messages..................................................................14 Words and connotations.............................................................................17 VI. Conclusion.......................................................................................................19 I. Introduction The same-sex marriage movement deals with what is arguably a leading social issue in the United States today. In 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) legally fixed the definition of marriage to be that which includes one man and one woman, including the provision that “states need not recognize a marriage from another...
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...Topic: Disney’s FROZEN as a global pop culture phenomenon FROZEN has been a global sensation with great reception by audiences around the world with its original song “Let It Go”. Let It Go was translated into many languages which captivated people around the globe of all ages . This move by Disney can be seen as a form of “media globalization” via the means of YouTube and theatrical releases on Television in different countries with different cultures and languages. The reception of the film can be seen as a “cultural process” or Cultural globalization which is the intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe . Academic Sources 1) Mollet, T. 2013. “With a smile and a song …”: Walt Disney and the birth of the American fairy tale.” Marvels & Tales 27 (1): 109-24. In this journal article, Mollet reviews on how Walt Disney’s production is now being seen as crucial to the construction of the modern American society through his contribution to the formation of a new United States nationalism . The author approaches the topic using cultural studies and textual analysis ofn Disney fairy tales to exemplify how they reflect the dominant (?) culture of America. Her research focuses on analysing Disney films such as “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs”, “Three Little Pigs”, “Wizard of Oz” and how these films and their characters portray the unstable society and culture of America during the great depression and other different time periodslines. The journal is...
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...PCAOB Proposes a New Auditing Standard to Enhance the Auditor... http://pcaobus.org/News/Releases/Pages/08132013_OpenMeeting.aspx Stay Connected: PCAOB Proposes a New Auditing Standard to Enhance the Auditor's Reporting Model Also Proposes a New Related Auditing Standard on the Auditor’s Responsibilities for Other Information in an Annual Report Washington, DC, Aug. 13, 2013 The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today proposed for public comment a new auditing standard and related amendments to enhance the auditor's reporting model. The proposed standard would retain the pass/fail model in the existing auditor's report, but would provide additional information to investors and other financial statement users about the audit and the auditor. "These proposed changes will make the auditor's report more relevant to investors," said James R. Doty, PCAOB Chairman. "More robust audit reports that demonstrate the strength and value of the audit also should lead to better public awareness of, and appreciation for, auditors' skill and insight." In 2010 and 2011, PCAOB staff conducted outreach to investors, auditors, preparers of financial statements, audit committee members, and other interested parties to seek their views on potential changes to the auditor's report. The staff presented its findings to the Board at an open meeting in March 2011. In June 2011, the Board issued a Concept Release to seek public comment on potential changes to the auditor's reporting model...
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...Mekayla Lowe Business Case Analysis Apple dominates the tablet market with the iPad. Our client could potentially obtain newer technology, including some potential breakthrough features but so do Apple's other competitors. Thus, bringing a new tablet to market will take 12-18 months, during which Apple could release a new tablet and the competitive environment could also shift. Our client could buy analyst reports, field a survey, conduct focus groups, or even use a concept testing service to evaluate their tablet's chances. But the high potential for the market to shift makes this difficult. To truly understand whether and how to enter the market, they need to simulate how consumers would react to their product introduction based on different market scenarios. The client could maximize their chances of success by building a forecasting model that takes into account consumers' preferences for different brands and product features, as well as consumers’ informed opinions on what products they would prefer in different market scenarios. While their main objective is to decide whether to release their tablet, they really have three goals: * Understand which product features are most important to consumers * Quantify their potential market share and profit opportunity based on the current market * Understand the impact on potential market share and profit opportunity of Apple introducing a new tablet device A standard discrete choice study by using the strategy...
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...professional with over 14 years experience in technical and service management roles across banking and finance, federal government and retail. Plays a leadership role in critical delivery engagements, ensuring operational excellence in service delivery execution and to assure customer objectives and business, innovation and operational outcomes are achieved. Recognised as a trusted advisor, assesses customer requirements and influences service delivery methods and execution improvements through the eyes of the customer. • Service Delivery Management • Change Management strategies • Process Ownership • ITIL Incident Management • Communications Management • Tool Set Management...
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...HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT TITLE: FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION PROCESS CONTENTS 1. Title………………………………………………………………………….1 2. Summary…………………………………………………………………….3 3. Introduction of Case Study…………….…………………………………….4 4. Risk Scenario Development…….…………………………………………...5 5. Justification of Fault Tree Analysis…………………………………………6 6. Procedures of Fault Tree Analysis…………………………………………..7 7. Fault Tree Analysis…………………………………………………………8 8. Possible Risk Associated with Hazards….………………………………...11 9. Accident Consequences…………………………………………………….13 10. Method to Control the Risk………………………………………………...15 11. Solution to Minimize the Risk……………………………………………..17 12. Conclusion………………………………………………………………….18 13. References………………………………………………………………….19 SUMMARY Figure 1: Fractioning Column (Copyright of science-resources.co.uk, 2009) Figure 1: Fractioning Column (Copyright of science-resources.co.uk, 2009) Crude oil is one the most important non-renewable sources on Earth. Demand for this black viscous liquid is growing every day in this era if modern technology. Electricity, vehicles and synthetics are among the major consumers of petroleum fluids or crude oil. Crude oil could be referred to as the ‘black gold’ due to its expensive price and complicated production process. Unlike gold, crude oil naturally is useless in its primary form. A process called fractional distillation or petroleum refining need to be carried out onto the crude oil to separate...
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...Stakeholder Analysis Organizations must focus on purposeful communication to stakeholders to stay competitive in the marketplace. A critical aspect of sustaining success is built by committed leaders who have a solid foundation of listening, communication, trust, respect, and belief in the creative potential of each employee (Darling, Beebe, 2007). These assets are vital as Best Production determines and executes a solution to solve a business problem. Best Productions Scenario Best Production is a large video game company that develops new video games. They are working on a new video game for release during the holiday season, which is one-month away. Customers are anticipating the game’s release and the company expects to make a significant profit. Marketing displays have been in stores for weeks. Pre-sales game reviewers found a bug in the software that affects game quality. The game can be played but the defect decreases the quality. This game is a sequel to several previous games, and customers expect the same quality gaming experience. Plans are underway to develop the next sequel. The company’s executives need to decide to either; ignore the bug and release the video game on time or delay the game’s release to January to fix the software defect. Internal and External Stakeholders Stakeholders are individuals or entities that have an interest in the organization. This can be internal stakeholders; employees, internal customers, or management. External...
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...Examination Paper of Certified Project Management Professional IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper MM.100 Certified Project Management Professional Guidelines for paper • • • • Total No. of Questions is 100. The minimum passing marks is 50%. Each Question carries 1 mark. Answer all the Questions. Multiple Choices: 1. A_______ is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. a) Program b) Process c) Project d) Portfolio 2. Which of the following is not a potential advantage of using good project management? a) Shorter development times b) Higher worker morale c) Lower cost of capital d) Higher profit margins 3. Which of the following is not an attribute of a project? a) Projects are unique b) Projects are developed using progressive elaboration c) Projects have a primary customer or sponsor d) Projects involve little uncertainty 4. Which of the following is not part of the triple constraint of project management? a) Meeting scope goals b) Meeting time goals c) Meeting communications goals d) Meeting cost goals 5. The first stage of any project is a) Proposal b) Conceptualization c) Implementation d) Management 6. is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. a) Project management b) Program management c) Project portfolio management 1 IIB M Institute of Business Management Examination Paper of Certified...
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...Sentinel Event: Sentinel events are a subset of medical adverse events. Events that require immediate attention are called Sentinel Events. Joint Commission defines a sentinel event as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious injury specifically includes loss of limb or function. The phrase “or the risk thereof” includes any process variation for which a recurrence would carry a significant chance of a serious adverse outcome. Sentinel Event identified by Joint Commission also include infant abduction or discharge to the wrong family. Summary of the Sentinel event in the Case Study: Sentinel event presented in the case study involves discharge of a minor to the wrong family. Joint Commission requires immediate attention to such matters so that it may be avoided in the future. The summary of the event is that a 13 year old teenager, Tina, was admitted for day surgery. Tina was accompanied by her mother. After dropping Tina for the surgery at the hospital, her mother left to run some errands. Before leaving, she left her contact phone number with the pre-op nurse. After the surgery, Tina was inappropriately released to her father when her mother was delayed in returning to pick-up the daughter from the hospital. The hospital staff had no awareness of the family situation. Upon arrival at the hospital after the errands, mother was informed that Tina’s father had picked up Tina from the hospital because...
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...INTRODUCTION Software Engineering is an engineering discipline which is concerned with all aspect of software production. It also concerned with all aspects of computer-based systems development including hardware, software, and process engineering. SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE Software development efforts result in the delivery of a software product that satisfies user requirements. Accordingly, the software product must change or evolve. Once in operation, defects are uncovered, operating environments change, and new user requirements surface. The maintenance phase of the life cycle begins following a warranty period or post implementation support delivery, but maintenance activities occur much earlier. Software maintenance is an integral part of a software life cycle. However, it has not received the same degree of attention that the other phases have. Historically, software development has had a much higher profile than software maintenance in most organizations. This is now changing, as organizations strive to squeeze the most out of their software development investment by keeping software operating as long as possible. The open source paradigm has brought further attention to the issue of maintaining software artefactsdeveloped by others. Software maintenance is defined as the totality of activities required to provide cost-effective support to software. Activities are performed during the pre-delivery stage as well as during the post-delivery stage. Pre-delivery activities...
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...necessary to keep their part of the organization running smoothly. Many of these managers employ the postmodernist complex adaptive systems theory because it allows for less rigid boundaries during the planning and implementation process as well as constantly reminding the manager that the staff is a critical component to the organization as well. Being in a position of leadership means that it is up to that person to handle any problems that may arise during the lifetime of the organization. This paper focuses on ten possible errors that can be found in health care organizations. For each of these errors, I will discuss what makes it an error and what way the error can be avoided. The first error that will be discussed is “failing to account for employees' ability to learn safe machine operation methods by experimenting on their own with ways to speed up production and thereby reduce the effort they are required to use.” The first criterion that proves this to be an error is that the failure to account for an employee's ability to learn is failing to uphold the limits of knowability aspect of this theory. In this aspect a manager overlooking an employee's ability to learn anything new about a machine that employee uses is failing to make allowances for ongoing learning. To avoid this error, the management should create a panel of employees that operate the machine to brainstorm all types of ideas for better...
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...Quality Assurance Test Plan (QATP) for SugarCRM .......... Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 1.1 Purpose 2 1.2 Scope 2 1.3 Overview 2 1.4 Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations 2 1.5 References 3 2 Scope of Testing 3 2.1 Product Overview 3 2.2 Scope of Testing 4 2.2.1 Within Scope of Testing 4 2.2.2 Out of Scope of Testing 5 2.3 Requirement Criticality Classification Guideline 5 2.4 Functional Requirements 5 2.5 Non Functional Requirement 6 3 Assumption and Risk 7 3.1 Assumptions and Dependencies 7 3.2 Risk Management 7 4 Test Deliverables and Schedule 8 4.1 Test Design 8 4.2 Reporting 8 4.3 Escalation 9 4.3.1 Results 9 4.3.2 Deliverables 9 4.3.3 Configuration management 9 4.4 Test Phases 9 4.5 Testing Activities 10 5 Testing Approach 11 5.1 Testing Activities 11 Smoke Testing 13 5.1.1 Objective 13 5.1.2 Entry Criteria 13 5.1.3 Exit Criteria 13 5.1.4 Test suspension resumption criteria 13 5.2 User Interface Testing 13 5.2.1 Objective 13 5.2.2 Entry Criteria 13 5.2.3 Exit Criteria 14 5.2.4 Test suspension resumption criteria 14 5.2.5 Special Considerations 14 5.3 Functional Testing 14 5.3.1 Objective 14 5.3.2 Entry Criteria 14 5.3.3 Exit Criteria 14 5.3.4 Test suspension resumption criteria 14 5.3.5 Special Considerations 14 5.4 Regression Testing 14 5.4.1 Objective 14 5.4.2 Entry Criteria 14 ...
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...Business Information Systems Business Information Systems ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PAGE 1 BODY-QUESTION ONE 1.1 PAGE 2&3 1.2 PAGES 1.3 PAGES QUESTION TWO 2.1 PAGES 2.2 PAGES 2.3 PAGES QUESTION THREE 3.1 PAGE 3.2 PAGE 3.3 PAGE 3.4 PAGE CONCLUSION PAGE REFERENCE PAGE Introduction Information systems (IS) or Business information systems deal with the development, introduction, conceptualization, utilization and maintenance of systems for computer-assisted data processing within the enterprise-wide and company networks. Information systems are used in almost every technical profession. Small company owners and entrepreneurs use IS to reach customers throughout the globe. Manager’s use IS to make large investment decisions, like research on a cancer drug or construct a manufacturing plant. Sales representatives utilize in order to advertise products, analyze sales trends and communicate with the customers. Financial planners use information systems in order to advice their customers to help their children's education or them save for the retirement. From a small store to large multinational companies, and various sizes and types of business organizations cannot survive without the business information systems in order perform finance and accounting task. The business...
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...MM522 – Marketing Management 06/17/2012 Week7 for IT Shared Services – Marketing Plan 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Situation Analysis 4 2.1 Market Summary 5 2.2 Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threat Analysis 5 2.3 Competition 6 2.4 Service Offering 7 2.5 Keys to Success 8 2.6 Critical Issues 8 3. Marketing Strategy 8 3.1 Mission 8 3.2 Marketing Objectives 9 3.3 Financial Objectives 9 3.4 Target Markets 10 3.5 Positioning 11 3.6 Strategies 11 3.7 Marketing Mix 11 3.8 Marketing Research 12 4. Controls 13 4.1 Implementation 13 4.2 Marketing Organization 13 4.3 Contingency Planning 14 5. Conclusion 15 6. References 15 1. Executive Summary Shared service organizations have been an important strategy for process optimization and cost control in any fortune company. Specifically IT shared services offer unparallel benefits by combining the synergies of effective functional knowledge with exceptional technical disciplines. Various common services such as IT help desk, Quality assurance, application development and maintenance; change management can be combined and offered to various parts of the organization. In addition to cost reduction, several best practices can be established in terms of technology standards, process standards and resource utilization. Though the benefits are clear several companies face challenges in implementing a well functioning IT shared services organization. This marketing plan examines...
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...television programs and movies without interruption from advertisements that you cannot escape when watching regular television. Since 1998, Netflix has set goals, implemented plans and strategies to become the leader of television network on the Internet and to maintain that industry position. This paper will examine the company’s strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats analysis (SWOT) as well as recommend a strategic and operational plan to ensure Netflix remain the leader in Internet television networking. SWOT ANALYSIS A SWOT, which is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis is a snapshot assessment of the current state of the company. It can highlight what the company does well or better than others as well as present the things the organization does poorly and areas in which improvements are necessary. Such analysis can also determine the various opportunities that a company can capitalize on. Just as important as the previous reasons, the analysis can provide information regarding the current threats that may potentially injure the organization. Below is a SWOT analysis of Netflix conducted by Marketline.com in a 2013 company profile report. Strengths One of Netflix’s strengths according to the report is the company’s business model in which the company believes provides a high value scheme. Another highlighted strength is the Netflix’s relationship with...
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