...FINDER I love the idea of using the Greek word for Finder as the main character’s name… maybe that could even work into the title? The headlines are talking. They say that there are only an estimated 6000 Followers left worldwide and about 10 percent of them may be found in North America. China claims to have wiped them out altogether, while India believes that they can be rehabilitated. Those headlines were from two days ago blaring through my Blue Tooth and YAHWEH alone knows how many of us are left. But after 80 - 100 years of persecution, since the Government’s war on the Followers, we’ve learned how to hide in plain sight. It takes a lot more money living in The Cities than in the communes where I was raised. But after they found our camp, about forty people strong, maybe 34 of us all told were BORNAGAINSAVED. The others were people we’d find on the road hungry, alone, broken; designated appointments from YAHWEH – well after they found our camp . . . well, I’ve been living in cities since then. They called us something else then, but the name has been lost. Now they just call us walking dead or religious trash. Either way it’s all the same. If they catch us, then it’s the Big Show: no ifs, ands, or but’s. Even on the news feeds, we’re “they,” or “suspects,” or “fanatics” and never our names. We’re the nameless ones. That’s how we can tell true Followers from the government plants they keep sending us. You can tell by the scars we carry. Many of us grow our hairs...
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...What are you trying to say?（你到底想说什么？） Don't be silly.（别胡闹了。） How strong are your glasses?（你近视多少度？） Just because.（没有别的原因。） It isn't the way I hoped it would be.（这不是我所盼望的。） You will never guess.（你永远猜不到。） No one could do anything about it.（众人对此束手无措。） I saw something deeply disturbing.（深感事情不妙。） Money is a good servant but a bad master.（要做金钱的主人，莫做金钱的奴隶。） I am not available.（我正忙着） Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.(脑中的知识比手中的金钱更重要） Never say die.it's a piece of cake.别泄气，那只是小菜一碟。 Don't worry.you'll get use to it soon.别担心，很快你就会习惯的。 I konw how you feel.我明白你的感受。 You win some.you lose some.胜败乃兵家常事。 Don't bury your head in the sand.不要逃避现实。 I didn't expect you to such a good job.我没想到你干得这么好。 You are coming alone well.你做得挺顺利。 She is well-build.她的身材真棒。 You look neat and fresh.你看起来很清纯。 You have a beautiful personality.你的气质很好。 You flatter me immensely.你过奖啦。 You should be slow to judge others.你不应该随意评论别人。 I hope you will excuse me if i make any mistake.如有任何错误，请你原谅 It was most careless ofme.我太粗心了。 It was quite by accident.真是始料不及。 I wish i had all the time i'd ever wasted,so i could waste it all over again.我希望所有被我浪费的时间重新回来，让我再浪费一遍。 I like you the way you were.我喜欢你以前的样子。 You two go ahead to the movie without me,i don't want to be a third wheel.你们两个自己去看电影吧，我不想当电灯泡。 Do you have anyone in mind?你有心上人吗？ How long have you known her？你认识她多久了？ It was love at frist sight.一见钟情 I'd bettle hit the books.我要复习功课啦。 a piece of one's mind...
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...form • bring your completed form to a Borders, Borders Express, or Waldenbooks store and choose your FREE BOOK** *No purchase necessary. **Form must be completed and brought to any Borders, Borders Express, or Waldenbooks store by 8/26/10 to redeem coupon. Offer valid in-store only. Valid only on selected titles. NAME AGE WHAT BOOKS HAVE YOU READ THIS SUMMER? LIST THEM HERE: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ❏ YES—MY CHILD READ 10 BOOKS! 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. PARENT/GUARDIAN SIGNATURE WE DARED YOU... AND YOU DID IT! Simply come into any Borders, Borders Express, or Waldenbooks store to choose your Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary ISBN 0380709597 Miss Daisy is Crazy! by Dan Gutman ISBN 0060507004 Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown ISBN 0060097914 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary ISBN 0380709589 FREE BOOK Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes ISBN 0440442508 The River by Gary Paulsen ISBN 0440407532 Kristy’s Great Idea by Ann M. Martin ISBN 0545174759 CHOOSE FROM ANY OF THESE GREAT TITLES: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan ISBN 0142417440 Hoot by Carl Hiaasen ISBN 0440419395 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare ISBN 0440495962 Ask a bookseller for details. Offer valid in-store only. While supplies last. Titles and editions subject to change at Borders’ discretion. Valid only on selected titles. Not valid for all editions of selected titles. May not be combined with sale pricing, other coupons, or corporate, classroom, or other group discounts. Original coupon...
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...King Talal School for Business Management Information System Department Wal-Mart By: Yasmine Okasheh Supervisor: Dr. This graduation project was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the bachelor’s degree in MIS May 8, 2012 Committee Decision This graduation project "Market Segmentation" was successfully defended and approved on April 3, 2012. Examination Committee Signature Dr. Abd Al-Ghafoor ______________ Authorization Form I am Yasmine Okasheh authorize PSUT – King Talal school to supply copies of my graduation project to libraries or establishments or individuals on request. Signature _______ Date _______ Abstract On our research we focused on the selection of groups of people who will be most receptive to a product. The most common method of segmenting includes demographic variables such as age, race, sex, income, occupation, education, geographic location, household status etc. Much of the segmentation will involve a combination of these variables and no matter how the segments are defined they are characterized by considerable change over time. The main purpose of segmenting a market is to allow a market or sales program to focus on the prospects that are most likely to purchase the products or services on offer. If it is done properly it ensures that the best return for the marketing expense is outlaid. There are definite differences and these depend on whether you...
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...Team # 90 Client (Company): Wal-Mart Chosen target country: Malaysia Product/Service: We are proposing to Wal-Mart to build a new store in a location that consumers do not have access to one. In this particular store, we want Wal-Mart to focus on grocery goods that are specific for that area, paper goods, chemicals, and a pharmacy. We will also be proposing using this location to test the effects of Square Wallet application on sales. Number of pages, including title page: 40 Team members: Name Country Did Not Participate (Please make a note if this teammate did not contribute during the project, has not replied to emails, etc.). La’Keisha Shaw United States-NC Logan Healy United States-DC Renata Ortiz Jafet Brazil Hafiz Asjad Ali Pakistan Did Not Participate Chye Boon Check Malaysia Table of Contents: 1. Executive Summary 3 2. The Organization 5 3. Product/Service 9 4. Market Opportunity Analysis 11 5. Basic Characteristics of the New Market 18 6. Economic Environment 21 7. Political and Legal Environment, Government 26 8. Cultural Environment 29 9. Entry Mode 32 10. Staffing 34 11. Marketing 37 12. Appendices 38 Executive Summary • The organization: We would like to develop an economically viable international business proposal for Wal-Mart. • Product/service: We are proposing Wal-Mart to build a new store in a location that consumers do...
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...The Walmart Journey: Walmart’s trucking Division Scale and Operation: Wal-Mart was founded on Sam Walton’s principle and ideals to bring products to the consumers in a way that mean they could offer their products to the consumers for cheaper than other retailers. This led to them creating a retail giant over the next forty years. In the early 1970’s Wal-Mart became the one of the first companies to use a centralized distribution center for their stores. When they started this practice they knew they would need a trucking fleet for years to come and made the decision to own their own private fleet. Along with great success comes turmoil and hard times. Wal-Mart’s came in the early 2000’s when there was a lot of public criticism about their business practices which included being sexist, strong-arming the little guys, and not having fair working conditions for their workers who were not allowed to join or create a union. There was also a growing movement within corporations around the world towards going green and having more sustainable business practices. On this note Lee Scott offered his famous speech in 2005 to the consumers, investors, and people around the world. His speech “21st Century Leadership” he laid out a three part plan for becoming a prominent player in sustainable business. These three parts included being supplied by 100% renewable energy, creating zero waste, and selling sustainable products in their stores. Currently, Wal-Mart owns a private trucking...
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...Do Work: Be The Best you can be everyone in this room has the potential for greatness. Whether or not one chooses to unlock that potential is up to them. Anyone can tell you to “do your best” or “reach for the stars”, but just being told to do something doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to do it. Eventually it always comes down to the doer, not the teller. Its easy to be sarcastic about striving for success... saying the effort will not be worth the reward is a lazy cop out. A society like ours that requires near-instant gratification for all actions makes it very easy for someone to just take the easy way out, because many don’t realize that work, over a long period time produces RESULTS. No one ever got anywhere by sitting in their parents basement, playing video games, and burying themselves under bags of chips and mountain dew cans. The most successful people in the world didn’t get that way over night. They got there by putting their nose to the grindstone for years, until the effort paid off. The phrase, “money doesn’t buy happiness” isn’t quite as accurate as it might have been, even 10 years ago. It may be insensitive, but it’s true, happiness, to at least some degree, requires a little bit of cash... and the most surefire way to make sure you have that cash is good, old fashioned, hard work... Sure there are a few people in the world who have achieved success, seemingly out of nowhere, but I guarantee that in 15 years, if you ask...
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...Kevin Collins English 105 Argumentative Analysis October 26th 2010 In 1962 Sam Walton grew tired of grocery shopping. Once Sam retired from the military life, he settled down with his wife Helen Robson, and decided to develop his own store. After several attempts, his father-in-law granted him the 20,000 dollars he needed to develop his first store, a Ben Franklin franchise variety store near his home in Arkansas. His idea was to provide a vast array of products for his customers, while keeping the prices low to out compete the neighboring stores. His unique low priced strategies allowed him to boost sales and negotiate lower prices with his wholesalers. Once Walton’s retail operation started to take off, he decided to change the name to Walmart, by the use of his last name. He then established more than 9,600 factories, stores, and warehouses (Sam’s Club), throughout the United States, Asia, Mexico, Europe, and South America. Walmart has low prices, friendly workers, and many locations, but protesters will argue that the gender discrimination, harsh impact on the surrounding communities, and low wages, outweigh the benefits to Walmart. We thought gender discrimination ended with the ratification of the 19th amendment, but according to Wake-up Wal-mart.com, several cases have been recorded in the Walmart workplace. For example, in 2001, studies proved that for the same job classification, even after taking into account factors such as seniority and performance...
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...MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Project Proposal Overview of Organization The organization that will be the topic of discussion in my final project is Wal-Mart, which is one of the largest retail chains in the world. Their famous slogan Save money Live Better is a basic belief of Sam Walton, who is the founder of the company. His beliefs are: Respect for individual, service to the customer, and strive for excellence. Sam Walton tried to adhere to his beliefs but when you have one of the largest retail chains and the growth of a company in this magnitude, you will also have an array of problems. I currently work in the Human Resource department and as a human resource specialist. As a Human Resource Specialist I facilitate orientations, administers, oversea facility training, monitor and track completion of training by associates, coordinate training and communicate training issues with management. With this position I hold, I have the opportunity to make suggestions with the training reports I receive and communicate to upper management the outcomes and personnel related issues within the company. My job also entails auditing personnel files, recruitment of employees, facilitating disputes, payroll, and evaluation process. Wal-Mart is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount departments stores and a chain of warehouse stores. Wal-Mart U.S. stores are the largest division accounting for $258 billion,...
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...As of 2012, Wal-Mart operates more than 10,000 retail units in 27 different countries. There are more than 2 million associates who serve 200 million customers and members every week. 2012 fiscal review for Wal-Mart delivered a strong financial performance. Net sales increased by 5.9 percent to $443.9 billion and consolidated operating income grew by 4 percent to $26.6 billion. Their diluted earnings per share from continuing operations attributes to Wal-Mart were $4.54 per share that is up from $4.18 the previous year. Wal-Mart’s strong financial position is best shown by their ability to grow. Wal-Mart added 52.2 million square feet through 1,160 additional units, including acquisitions in the U.K. and South Africa (Walmart, 2012). Wal-Mart has made improvements in merchandising and operations and investing in lower prices. They did great job in closing the year with two quarters of positive sales, including positive end in the fourth quarter. Wal-Mart international delivered strong sales and remains the company’s primary growth engine. Having $125 billion in sales, it is among the three largest retailers in the world (Walmart, 2012). Walmart can serve the needs of all income based customers in high growth markets. Sam’s Club, a subsidiary of Wal-Mart, continues to drive the sales momentum by increasing its sales to 8.4 percent in fiscal year 2012. Sam’s Club has also made progress in growing its membership base. It was key for growth this year (Walmart, 2012). Wal-Mart...
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...or her normal realm these values are tested. One’s individual core values may change to adapt to other settings based on societal changes, financial status and education. As one enters the workforce the values of the organization must then be evaluated. Do the values of the organization measure up to the individual’s values? Does the culture of the business cause one to go against the principles of which he or she lives by? Team C has chosen to evaluate the values of Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, to the values incorporated in this company and its organizational plan to find whether or not the values are in alignment. Origin and Subsequent The origins and subsequent evolution of personal and workplace values within Wal-Mart are truly important to the structure of this organization. Wal-Mart has developed there business structure back in 1962 on these three basic beliefs: respect the individual, service the customer and strive for excellence. The origin reflects in the original beliefs that Sam Walton instilled in the company from day one are subsequently the same values that have evolved over the years. They may have not evolved in the since where they have changed but they have evolved where they are strictly and continuously enforced by all stores, in all locations, for all customers. Wal-Mart expands from there three basic beliefs and honor there open door policy which allows there to be open communication with management and associates, the sun down rule which...
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...Problem Statement: Wal-Mart is one of the world’s largest companies and largest retailer in the world, with over 5,000 stores around the world and nearly 2 million employees there is no reason for this company not to be highly successful. Although Wal-Mart as whole is a highly successful company, they still have problems like every other company. Through Wal-Mart’s history they’ve encountered many obstacles and complications on the way to the top. Most of these problems have found a solution but Wal-Mart still has major and minor problems. Whether new problems or past ones still lingering, either way with a problem you must have solution. Especially with a multi-billionaire company such as Wal-Mart you want to be as efficient and eradicated of as much problems as you possibly can. Major Problem: Wal-Mart International In the highly successful world of Wal-Mart they face a problem most companies also have trouble conquering and that is going international. Wal-Mart International is a success in its own right, as it still is the world’s largest retailer but it’s just not successful on its own standards. Wal-Mart conquered North America with successful ventures in Canada and Mexico but not so successful in some countries over seas such as Germany and Japan. Wal-Mart expanded to Germany & Japan in the late 90’s and early 2000’s and for a long time was unprofitable in both regions. Whether its Wall-marts approach on new markets or forcing their culture too quickly, something...
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...Running Head: WAL-MART STORE INC Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Chrisp, Courtney; Richardson, Maria E.; & White, Sherri Leadership & Org Behavior GM591 Professor: Robert Churilla mariae.richardson@yahoo.com DeVry/Keller University Online 02/17/2013 Introduction Wal-Mart Stores Inc., founded by Sam Walton in 1962, is one of America largest discount department stores. Wal-Mart’s primary mission is to bring consumers high quality goods at a low, discounted price. Wal-Mart operates more than 8,692 retail units across three business segments of retail worldwide that offer a wide array of general merchandise, including groceries, apparel, electronics, and small appliances. In addition, the company is the world’s largest retailer and grocery chain according to sales volume and just over half of their sales comes from grocery items. Over 54% of the company’s stores are located in the United States, with the majority of international stores located in Central and South America, and China. (Jaeah, 2012). Wal-Mart was started in Rogers, Arkansas during the early 1960’s. Sam Walton traveled all around the country researching what consumers wanted in a retail store. When Walton first opened Wal-Mart he “built it under the foundation of honesty, respect, fairness and integrity”. Walton tried to create a culture that shared the same beliefs as he did. Out of his beliefs he chose the three strongest which he felt best suited his store: respect...
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...Bravery Odysseus was a virtuous and heroic leader. He and many other characters showed many acts of bravery. The bravery that Odysseus possessed was extraordinary and could have changed the story line completely if he didn’t use it as often then the story may have developed different. Odysseus’ bravery was tested in many adventures that he endured throughout the novel. This will be proven in many ways throughout the essay. Some examples of people that also showed bravery are Penelope, the herders, Tele, the suitors and even Ody’s crew. But the basic point im throwing across is that if no one had shown the bravery that they didn’t the story line could have completely gone in to a different direction. Some of the smaller characters that showed bravery every once and a while were Penelope, the herders, the suitors, and Ody’s crew. But the played a big part in the development of the story using the character trait bravery. An example of this is when Ody’s crew helped Ody using this trait. One example of this is when they were trapped in the Cyclopes’s Cave and they helped Ody build a giant six-foot long spear made out of a tree and then they helped him thrust it into the Cyclopes’s eye while he was sleeping. This was an example of bravery because they did this because they didn’t want to be eaten by the Cyclopes so they attacked him and succeeded. Not only if they hadn’t have done this then the story may have developed differently...
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...James Montgomery Flagg James Montgomery Flagg was born in Pelham Manor N.Y on June 18, 1977. James Flagg’s parents were Elisha Flagg who was a business man and Anna Elida Coburn. He was an illustrator and a writer for over twenty years and had some very famous art work that people still remember today. Some of the things that will be cover on James Montgomery Flagg are his education/apprenticeship, the culture and society of the time period his work was made, historical design/art precedents that influenced him to do the illustrations that he made, his most significant accomplishments over the years, and subsequent influences that he had on later generations. James Montgomery Flagg had quite a few more famous art works that he made that people don’t really know about. Figure [ 1 ]-1 James Flagg in 1915 James Montgomery Flagg’s public schools were Dr. Chapin’s School from 1889 to 1891 and then moved to Horace Mann School from 1891 till 1893. Then James went to study at the Art Students League from 1894 till 1898 under John H. Tqachtamn and J. Carroll Beckwith. Than in 1898 he attended Hubert Herkomer’s Art School in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. James Montgomery Flagg intended to be a portraitist, and continued to paint and draw portraits throughout his career. James says that, “his real education came from the material that passed over the desks of the editors of St. Nicholas, Judge and Life” [ {{52 Anonymous}} ]. At St. Nicholas, Judge and Life James was allowed...
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