...Case 1-2 Erica Carson Item | So What? | They already have two reliable suppliers. Both suppliers had provided quick and quality services during the last five years. | It seems that there is no immediate need for Erica to make a decision. They already have something that works. Why should they change anything? | The cost analysis of both suppliers had determined that the current price is fair. This makes the Kolloran proposal suspicious. | It seems impossible for Killoran to be able to provide the same services like current suppliers with less profit. They might have a hidden agenda. | The Killoran proposed to supply Wesbank with 10% less than what Wesbank is paying to their current suppliers right now. | The Wesbank has to taking into account all the costs associated with new supplier (e.g. learning curve, growing period) These costs may outweigh the 10% potential savings. | Erica had a cost studied run on their current supplier. | Erica is doing her job very well. It might be best for her to go with her intuition and not trust Killoran | Problem Statement: How should Wesbank select and manage its suppliers in order to get the highest customers satisfaction? Analysis: Strengths – Active promotional efforts that attract consumer deposits, the existence of two efficient suppliers with fair price structures Weaknesses - Opportunities –by investing in online banking Wesbank could attract new customers Threats – The danger of losing its customer...
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...Case 1-2: Erica Carson Name: ________________ Group: ___A or B________ Date: ________________ ------------------------------------------------- Situation: * Erica Carson is PM for Wesbank, a financial institution (note: You are Erica) * Reports to VP Supply * Unsolicited bid from Art Evans, Sales Rep. Killoran Inc. * 10% reduction on printing and mailing of checks * not current supplier * Westbank provides free checks at a cost of $8M per year * Current situation – 50% split suppliers, last 5 years * Supplier A prints and mails 50% checks, renewed contract 8 months ago * Supplier B prints and mails 50% checks, contract expires in 4 months * Each 2 year contract, good quality and service * Costs studied one year ago, determined pricing was fair BASIC ISSUES; (note - tie to elements from textbook) 1. Purchasing for a service organization. 2. The price, quality, delivery, service trade-off. 3. Supplier selection and splitting of business. 4. The purchase of services. 5. Treatment of unsolicited proposals from suppliers Tasks: * What does Erica do? * Does Erica consider the bid? 10% savings = $800M * Status quo * What are alternatives? Need to weigh alternatives. * Complete cost-benefit analysis * Are checks really needed? * What is core competency of bank? * What is business imperative with checks? * What is company / VP Supply...
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...Silent Spring Analysis Silent Spring is a book that makes just about everyone think, except for the major chemical companies that it was attacking. This is definitely one book that help shaped how we look at the environment today and also how we approach it. Rachel Carson aimed for a book that was going to open peoples eyes to what really was happening and who and what was doing it. She nailed this right on the head, while the book was very technical when it came to talking about the details of DDT, it was written at a level that everyone could understand and relate too. Easily this could be one of the most important books written in American history, where would we be without it and how would our future have turned out. While this book was aimed for the public to be able to understand, it also directly attacked the companies who were manufacturing the chemicals that people were using, especially DDT. If one were to try to explain how DDT worked at the chemistry level, most people would think your insane, but Carson is able to explain the devastating effects of this chemical in a way that everyone can understand. She does this by explaining the process chemically first, but then switches gears into how it is hitting people at home. This starts in the first chapter where she begins with “There once was a town…”. This is the beginning of the account that shaped Americans way of looking at the environment, especially when it came to using chemicals and other harmful substances...
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...Plot Overview The first chapter of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter introduces us to John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, two good friends who live together in a town in the Deep South and who are both deaf-mutes. Antonapoulos works in his cousin's fruit store, and Singer works as a silver engraver in a jewelry shop. They spend ten years living together in this way. One day Antonapoulos gets sick, and even after he recovers he is a changed man. He begins stealing and urinating on buildings, and exhibiting other erratic behavior. Finally, Antonapoulos's cousin sends him to a mental asylum, although Singer would rather have Antonapoulos stay with him. After Antonapoulos leaves, Singer moves into a local boarding house in town run by a family named the Kellys. The narrator then introduces us to Biff Brannon, the proprietor of the New York Café, the establishment in town where Singer now eats all his meals. Biff is lounging on the counter watching a new patron named Jake Blount, as the constantly drunk Jake is intriguing. Blount goes over and sits with Singer and begins talking to him as though the two are good friends. Then Singer leaves. Once Jake realizes in his drunken stupor that Singer has left, he goes into an alley and begins beating his head and fists against a brick wall until he is bruised and bloody. The police bring Jake back to the café, and Singer volunteers to let the drunk stay the night with him. The narrative shifts to the perspective of Mick Kelly, the young teenage...
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...Admissions GA GA StubHub Center - Carson CA TWC SPORTS PRESENTS GAL160423 LA GALAXY $27.50 GA / / GA 105 5474625 vs Real Salt Lake SAT APR 23 2016 AT 7:30PM GP 100Q 496 THIS TICKET IS SOLD SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS. BY ACCEPTING THIS TICKET, YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING: This ticket is a revocable license and management reserves the right to refuse admission to, or eject any person whose conduct is deemed unbecoming. Holder assumes all risks and danger incidental to the event for which the ticket is issued, whether occurring prior to, during, or after the event. Holder acknowledges that the event may be broadcast or otherwise publicized, and hereby grants permission to utilize holder's image or likeness in connection with any live or recorded transmission or reproduction of such event. This ticket cannot be replaced if lost, stolen, or destroyed, and is valid only for the event and seat for which it is issued. It is unlawful to reproduce this ticket in any form. Unlawful resale or attempted resale is grounds for seizure and cancellation without compensation. In the event of a cancellation or rescheduling of the applicable event, management shall not be required to issue a refund provided that you are given the right to attend a rescheduled performance of the same event or to exchange this ticket for a ticket comparable in price and location, to another similar event as designated by management except as otherwise provided by...
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...Sonya Carson Growing up in and out of foster homes, the world was not always kind to Ms. Carson. She had only achieved a third-grade education, and was married by the age of 13. After birthing her two sons, Benjamin and Curtis, Sonya had observed that her, once loyal and dedicated husband, was no longer the man she once knew. Collecting all her courage, she took her two sons, and moved away from the life she knew in Detroit to be with her sister in Boston. As a single mother, raising two boys, and working numerous jobs, Sonya had two choices; she could struggle, stress, and wonder how she was going to survive the next week, or she could ‘learn to do her best, and let God do the rest’. This became known as the phase that resembles the personality of Sonya Carson. She was not always dealt the best hand in life, but she always has a positive outlook on the future. Believing that if she tried her hardest to achieve what she could, God would lead her into success. She instilled this optimistic lifestyle on her two sons. She was determined that Curtis and Benjamin would have a better life than she did, but she also knew that they would have to work hard for it. Sonya raised her sons in a strict manner, only allowing two television programs each week. In addition, they were assigned to read two books from the library each week and submit a report to her on those books. They didn’t know until they were older, that their mother only had a reading level of a third-grader. She most...
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...Vanna White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (1992) United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit Background: The Plaintiff is Vanna White, a popular game hostess of the famous TV show “Wheel of Fortune” and has gained popularity by marketing her image to various advertisers. White brings suit against Samsung for an advertisement for Samsung VCRs (videocassette recorders) where the ad depicted a robot, dressed in a wig, gown, and jewelry that resembled her hair and dress. The robot posed next to a game board that closely resembled the Wheel of Fortune game show set, in a stance that imitates her signature pose on the game show. Samsung has also acknowledged that the ad is known as the “Vanna White” ad. White claims infringement of several individual property rights (right to privacy, under Section 3344 of the California Civil Code*, right of publicity, and trademark infringement), claiming she did not consent to the ads and was not paid for it. But the district court granted summary judgment against White. White appeals. (*Any person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods or services, without such person's prior consent, or, in the case of a minor, the prior consent of his parent or legal guardian, shall be liable for any damages sustained by...
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...The Impact & Meaning of The Ballad of the Sad Café and How These are Created by the Writer In The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers presents an intriguing, metaphorical tale laden with hidden messages and meanings, the most important of which is the idea of the concept of fate and the fact that everything is already mapped out. McCullers effectively develops this through the story’s strong use of narrative techniques, which provoke ideas that allow us to deduce the text’s ultimate meaning. The arrival of Cousin Lymon and the estranged criminal husband of Miss Amelia, Marvin Macy, adversely affect the impressionable population of the small backwater town in The Ballad of the Sad Café. It is the former’s influence that makes Miss Amelia start up the café, giving the townsfolk somewhere to congregate. However it is also he who causes the destruction of the café due to his obsession with the felonious Macy. It is Lymon and Macy’s actions that cause the town to become the empty, deserted shell we see in the opening of the book. This opening is a significant contributor in developing meaning in the novella. McCullers uses a frame at the start and end of the text, and this choice of structure shows how the story will end, at the start. This promotes the notion that the end is already determined before the story begins. The town in which the story is set will become ‘lonesome, sad and like a place that is far off and estranged from any other place in the world...’...
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...A Little Less, Helps a Little More To combat jaywalking in New York City, let us institute the death penalty by stationing gunmen at every street corner to immediately execute reckless pedestrians. To fix the polluted sewage system, let us buy a fresh-water source in Antarctica and import its water. To further contest corruption and irregularities in the financial markets, let us tar and feather the officials and executives indicted of such charges. Would any of these methods be effective solutions for the long-term welfare of the City? Harsh punishment and ridiculous expenditures are often seen as ‘radical’ and ‘extreme’ solutions to seemingly nominal problems. But it seems that America has pursued just that – extreme initial measures to combat social and environmental problems. America has seemingly disregarded the long-term impact of instituting policies that wholly accept or reject solutions to national problems. The implementation of DDT, the prohibition of hemp, and the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley are all follies that are now causing environmental repercussions to the nation. Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) has been the source of controversial debate since its widespread use in 1939 to its international ban in 1972. Its intended application was to stop the spread of malaria and typhus through mosquitoes and lice to the Allies during World War II. Soon its chemical properties to repel and exterminate pests became known, allowing it to be used in agricultural...
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...William McDonough: Cradle to Cradle Speech Summary William McDonough is an architect who believes and strives for product designs which promote economic and environmental vitality. To accomplish this, he takes into account how building should be made with consideration to “all children, all species, for all time”. This, in essence, was the focus of his presentation. The presentation begins with a reference to Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, which is famous for and regarded as the catalyst for society’s environmental awareness. Following this introduction, McDonough illustrates how society has yet to take into consideration the harmful effect their products have on not only the environment, but on our very children as well. He clearly articulates the problems designers are facing, but are ignoring, through his “rubber duck” example. Upon describing the problems of the present mentality behind designing products, McDonough shows a short clip which suggests that there is a solution. He then goes into asking what the fundamental question for designers is. In other words, what are their intentions? Once their intentions are clarified, then steps can be taken to pursue projects which complement their intentions. The intention of a designer must be to create something that promotes economic and environmental prosperity; anything short of that will lead to problems, as we have clearly seen. The main focus is then turned onto architecture...
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... |Rainforests | |Endangered Species Act (1966, 1969, & 1973) |Depletion of fossil fuels | |Clean Water Act (1972, 1977) |Climate change | |Event |Significance | |Silent Spring |Written by Rachel Carson, Silent Spring was a book that had a huge influence on the decision to ban DDT in the | | |United States in 1972 (Brinkley, 2012). Unlike most pesticides, whose effectiveness is limited to destroying | | |one or two types of insects, DDT was capable of killing hundreds of different kinds at once. Silent Spring took| | |Carson four years to complete. It described in great detail how DDT entered the food chain and accumulated in | | |the fatty tissues of animals, including human beings, and caused cancer and genetic damage. | |Acid Rain...
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...Carson’s Silent Spring Book Review In the environmentally historical book Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, the horrific consequences of insecticide use on the environment and ecosystem are chronicled. Carson’s novel was originally published as a three-part journal article in the New Yorker in June followed by the publication of the book in September of 1962. The book is known for beginning the modern environmental movement, which eventually led to the banning of “the domestic production of DDT and the creation of a grass-roots movement demanding protection of the environment through state and federal regulations” (Carson/Lear 9). Carson used her widespread knowledge...
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...Have you ever considered how many different types of chemicals are on the food you are eating for dinner? That is exactly what Rachel Carson writes about in her novel Silent Spring. Pesticides are all around us, they are in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the ground we walk on. Their effects on our bodies and the environment are unknown, but chances are that they are not going to be good. Rachel Carson dedicates an entire novel to try to prove her point of how horrible they are for the world. She argues constantly that we need to find an alternative before it is too late. Within her arguments, Carson uses several different methods and types of evidence while trying to convey her point. Throughout the entire novel, Carson is constantly putting down the use of pesticides. However, everything she says would be useless if she did not have evidence. She uses qualitative and quantitative data several times throughout the book. Her use of qualitative data begins with her first paragraph. She describes the beauty of nature and how much life is abundant in it. Then as her fictional story continues, she begins to start explaining how none of this would be with the continuous use of pesticides. Carson also goes into detail describing the disastrous effects that it could leave on the environment as a whole. Her realistic descriptions of the possible harms of the pesticides can really appeal to the reader. With the vivid descriptions that she has, the reader can imagine the world...
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...Sentence: Before one can evaluate the enormous success or Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring one must weigh in on the era Carson was coming off of in order to understand why her book had such an impact at the time that it did. 1. By 1950 American had faced 2 World Wars and an economic Depression U.S. becomes super power 2. 1950’s there is a shift to consumerism and conservatism 3. Average Citizen wants nuclear family and suburbia b. Paragraph II ii. Topic Sentence: Now that the United States was finally economically sound and our international relations, while not at its best, were somewhat stable; American society was able to focus on issues that for so long had not had the time to address. 4. The Cold war and nuclear threat became a key role in the formation of the environmental movement 5. Humans now have power to significantly change the environment around them 6. Nuclear weapons also introduced other technologies that threatened nature such as pesticides and chemicals for agriculture iii. Concluding Sentence: These new threats along with the a shift to a more liberal U.S. mindset provided Rachel Carson and Silent Spring impeccable timing to make the largest impact and start a revolution that at any other time could have been overlooked. III. In what ways was Carson both gentle and subversive? c. Gentle iv. Topic Sentence: While Carson’s passion and deep love...
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...Spring, a marine biologist Rachel Carson showed that indiscriminate use of pesticides is harmful and can make the earth unfit for life. Although Carson was a scientist, she chose to use fairy-tale style of language to attract the attention of a large audience to the problem. And she did it successfully. Published in 1962, Silent Spring became a cornerstone of modern environmentalism and spurred changes to the laws. First, on an example of imaginary town, Carson showed a world without pesticides, where “ all life seemed to live in harmony with its surrounding”(469). Farms were prosperous, fields were full of grain, and orchards bloomed. Streams flowed clear water and had abundance of fish. Woods and roadsides were places of beauty with variety of birds, berries, fens, wildflowers, and other vegetation.“ So it had been from the days many years ago”(Carson, 469). Then the author showed how dramatically life changed after a mysterious white powder (pesticides) was sprayed over the area. Instead of prosperity, illness and death came to the farms. Chicken, cattle, and sheep sickened and died. There were almost no offspring, “ the young survived only a few days”(470). Woods that had once throbbed with bird voices were silent now. Birds had gone. The roadsides lined with withered vegetation, and the fish died in the streams. Much illness and several unexplained deaths came to farmers families. “The people had done it to themselves”, pointed out Carson(470). She thought that people...
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