...What information in each chapter gives us support for this central idea? Chapter 1: A basic overview of how the “Panhandle/XIT/ World’s Greatest Grasslands” came to be, and foreshadow of what’s to come later in the book, identifying the struggles of travelers. Chapter 2: Gives the reader an idea of how such a desolate land became a “city.” Chapter 3: Keeps the reader updated on how Dalhart is growing. Chapter 4: The author includes the Journey of one Russian immigrant into this chapter and puts an emphasis on what people were thinking of America and the idea of the “American Dream.” Chapter 5: Tells the reader that during the great depression, land was being bought even quicker and being used for better purpose. Chapter 6: Informs the reader all about the Great Depression and the effect it had on the economy. ELA6_A_3_8_ACT_1 The following are good steps to take when writing an analysis: • Read closely to conclude what the text says, and to make logical inferences from it. • Cite detailed textual evidence support conclusions drawn from the...
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...Summary: Chapter 25 Spring is beautiful in California, but, like the migrants, many small local farmers stand to be ruined by large landowners, who monopolize the industry. Unable to compete with these magnates, small farmers watch their crops wither and their debts rise. The wine in the vineyards’ vats goes bad, and anger and resentment spread throughout the land. The narrator comments, “In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” Summary: Chapter 26 After nearly a month in the government camp, the Joads find their supplies running low and work scarce. Ma Joad convinces the others that they must leave the camp the next day. They make preparations and say good-bye to their friends. The truck has a flat tire, and as they are fixing it, a man in a suit and heavy jewelry pulls up in a roadster with news of employment: the Joads can go to work picking peaches only thirty-five miles away. When they arrive at the peach farm, they find cars backed up on the roads leading to it, and angry mobs of people shouting from the roadside. The family learns that they will be paid only five cents a box for picking peaches; desperate for food, they take the job. At the end of the day, even with everyone in the family working, they have earned only one dollar. They must spend their entire day’s wages on their meal that night, and afterward they remain hungry. That evening, Al goes looking for girls, and...
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...Meko Dorsett HIS 200 Dr. Tameka Hobbs 24 August 2012 Chapter 5 Summary – “The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700 ” Summary: This chapter begins with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin's early life in Boston and his arrival in Philadelphia. This chapter also talks about the growing population and expanding economy in British North America. The most important fact about eighteenth-century colonial America is its remarkable population growth. New England's population increased six fold during the eighteenth century and Natural increase was most responsible for the growth of New England's population during the eighteenth century. Immigrants came to the middle colonies for the perceived economic opportunities. Key Words: Scots-Irish They were a group of restless people who fled their homes in Scotland in the 1600’s to escape poverty and religious oppression. They first relocated to Ireland and then to America in the 1700s. They left their mark on the backcountry of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. These areas are home to many Presbyterian churches established by the Scots-Irish. Many people in these areas are still very independent like their ancestors. Olaudah Equiano(1745-1797) African who was sold into slavery and bought his way out-kidnapped as a boy (age 11) from his home he was sold into slavery and sold amongst slave traders many times-he served in the Seven Years' War as a captain's boy and was then sold to a slave trader where he went...
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...little food or water. As he is worrying over his predicament, he is approached by the little prince, a very serious little blond boy who asks the narrator to draw him a sheep. The narrator obliges, and the two become friends. The pilot learns that the little prince comes from a small planet that the little prince calls Asteroid 325 but that people on Earth call Asteroid B-612. The little prince took great care of this planet, preventing any bad seeds from growing and making sure it was never overrun by baobab trees. One day, a mysterious rose sprouted on the planet and the little prince fell in love with it. But when he caught the rose in a lie one day, he decided that he could not trust her anymore. He grew lonely and decided to leave. Despite a last-minute reconciliation with the rose, the prince set out to explore other planets and cure his loneliness. While journeying, the narrator tells us, the little prince passes by neighboring asteroids and encounters for the first time the strange, narrow-minded world of grown-ups. On the first six planets the little prince visits, he meets a king, a vain man, a drunkard, a businessman, a lamplighter, and a geographer, all of whom live alone and are overly consumed by their chosen occupations. Such strange behavior both amuses and perturbs the little prince. He does not understand their need to order people around, to be admired, and to own everything. With the exception of the lamplighter, whose dogged faithfulness he admires, the little...
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...HEROES By Robert Cormier Student notes for G Chapter 1 Summary Francis describes in stark and brutal detail his injuries sustained during the war, and how after the war he came to lodge with Mrs Belander in Frenchtown where he lived as a boy. He visits the church and says prayers for various important people in his life; thus we are introduced to some major and minor characters: Enrico, his mother and father, whom we learn are dead, and Nicole Renard and Larry LaSalle. Tension is created- he states his intention of killing Larry, but at this stage we do not know why. A flashback to the war introduces the theme of heroism- Francis has a Silver Star Medal, although he refuses to believe himself heroic – and reveals his love for Nicole. Language use My name is Francis Joseph Cassavant and I have just returned to Frenchtown in Monument and the war is over and I have no face. – compound sentence – pared gives only what he considers as essentials metaphor ‘ I have no face’ why is this effective? simile ‘ my nostrils are like two small caves’ – why is this effective? Narration follows the patterns of speech – how? What do we need to be aware of with a first person narrative? Characters Francis – disfigured and hiding, ‘I am like the hunchback of Notredame, my face likee a gargoyle and the dufflebag like a lump on my back’ – why is this allusion effective? Mrs Belander...
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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Chapter I: The Problem and its Background Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Statement of the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Statement of the Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Statement of Significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Conceptual Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Scope and Delimitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Chapter II: Review of Related Literature and Studies Foreign Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Local Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Foreign studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Local studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Chapter III: Methodology Chapter IV: Interview Chapter V: Conclusion and Recommendation Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...Chapter 7 Summary At the beginning of chapter 7 Scout starts second grade, which is as bad as first grade but he says it is even worse because they will flash cards at you and not let you read or write. One day as they walk home from school, Jem tells Scout that when he went back to get his pants, they had been mended and folded, however someone had done a poor job trying to repair the tear. This leads Jem to think that someone knew he was coming back for his pants, so therefore they were reading his mind. After Jem tries to walk like an Egyptian, he and Scout find a pair of soap dolls that look just like them in the knothole. Shortly after, they find a watch and knife on a chain that Atticus says would be worth ten dollars if the watch was...
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...2013 CONTENTS Introduction 1 Summary 1 Critical Interaction 3 Conclusion 6 Bibliography 7 Introduction This is a critique of L. Russ Bush’s The Advancement. In order to properly ascertain the individual components as well as the overall success of Bush’s work, this article deploys the use of a general summary, followed by a section of critical interaction, and finally a conclusion. In the end, elements of Bush’s argument prove invaluable, while others miss their target. Summary Chapter 1 begins with an historical review of the modern worldview formation. This includes first the secular worldview, inspired by the focus on freedom inherent in the Enlightenment. Bush then begins to explore the details of the Christian alternative. This discussion reaches a climax as he notes the contrast of the new and old worldviews. “In the earlier view there is a natural stability in both history and in nature. Progress or decline are products of a person’s relationship or lack of relationship to God, and neither is inevitable historically (15).” Ultimately Bush concludes, “The older worldview is not true (just) because it’s old, and it too may be in need of refinement in light of better understandings of the Bible, but authentic Christianity is the best antidote for a culture that is dying from the venom of the Advancement (17).” Chapter 2 begins to unveil the components of the overall worldview...
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...during many seminars. The book is full of real life examples which were told or experienced by the author. Bazerman et al. consider the importance of negotiation as growing as the workforce gets more and more mobile, becomes more diverse (gender, age, nationality), the structure of companies is changing and the marketplace becomes global thus a lot more complex. The authors present a framework on negotiating rationally. This framework was developed a decade before writing the book and got intertwined with previous research as well as the experience of teaching Master students. As their Curriculum Vitae reveals, Bazerman as well as Neale specialized in organizational behavior. Bazerman worked on decision making, consumer behavior and negotiating skills. Neale worked primarily on Negotiation sciences but also on conflict management. 2. Summary of the Contents. When looking at the book as a whole, it is divided into three parts. The first part presents seven common so called 'mistakes' in negotiation. The second part introduces a rational framework for negotiation. The last and third part gives advice on how to simplify complex negotiations. Each part is divided in up to seven chapters which gives the reader a very good division of the different topics and makes it very easy for the reader to look something up or to work with the book by just using a specific subject of the book. The index at the end contains the most important expressions and hence amplifies the ease of accessibility...
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...xxv PART I. 21ST-CENTURY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC PLANNING AND LEGAL ISSUES 1 Chapter 1 The New Human Resource Management Process 2 SHRM 3 Why Study Human Resource Management? 4 HRM Past and Present 6 Past View of HRM 6 Present View of HRM 6 21st-century HRIi 8 HRM Challenges 8 The HRM Strategic View 9/ Technology and Knowledge 10 Labor Demographics 11 Productivity and Competitiveness Through HRM HRM Skills 12 Technical Skills 12 Human Relations Skills 13 Conceptual and Design Skills Business Skills 14 12 13 Line Managers' HRM Responsibilities 15 Line Versus Staff Management 15 Major HR Responsibilities of Line Management 15 HR Managers' Resonsibiiities: Disciplines Within HRW? 16 The Legal Environment: EEO and Diversity Management 17 Staffing 17 Training and Development 20 Employee Relations 20 Labor and Industrial Relations 20 Compensation and Benefits 20 Safety and Security 21 Ethics and Sustainability 21 HRM Careers 23 The Society for Human Resource Management Other HR Organizations 24 Professional liabiliy 24 23 The Practitioner's Model for HRM The Model 24 Sections of the Model 25 24 Trends and Issues in HRM 27 Technology and High-Performance Work Systems 27 Increasing Globalization 28 Ethical Issues—Reverse Discrimination Wrap-Up 28 29 Chapter Summary 30 Case 1.1 33 Chapter 2 Strategy-Driven Human Resource Management SHRM 38 39 Strategy and Strategic...
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...Course Project Paper 1 David J Marshall Business Economics GM545 Winter Term 2012 mr_marshalls@live.com Exercise 1: Microeconomics Issues: Question # 1 There are two reasons gas prices must go up. The first is to get people into coal-powered cars. Coal-powered cars can only be driven around 40 miles before they must be plugged back into the grid for more coal power. If everyone moves to coal-powered cars, the drivers will be forced to live closer to cities (Erickson, 2011). According to my current reading, when you look at the term product differentiation in buying your gas, this term gives competitors the edge to host the cheapest gas (Chapter 10:253). In the current week, the Shell gas pump went from $3.65 to $3.57 per gallon and the week before that the gas price during week 1 was $3.47 expecting to rise to $4 per gallon in Lexington, KY. During my travel to Indiana the gas prices average $3.99 per gallon. In using the midpoints of price and quantity to compute the relevant percentage changes essentially gives us the average elasticity between point (a) and point (b) (Stone, Gerald. “Core Economics” Worth Publishers, 07/2011. p. 118). My equation below may show just exactly how these price may increase or decrease based on the elasticity formula: Eᵈ = 200 / 400 ÷ 3.65 – 3.57 / (3.57 + 3.65) / 2 = 200 / 400 ÷ (- 0.08 / 5.3950) = .5 ÷ -0.0148 = [-33.72] = 33.72 I think for the most part of our gas prices has increase due to determinants of our increase...
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...Place Lincoln NE 68583 phone: 555-578-9797 fax: 555-578-9797 Business email: Wooly@Wool’nWood.biz Woody@Wool’nWood.biz Company website: www.Wool’nWood.biz W(W Wooly Woody Jane Doe, President Bill Smith, CEO 219 Cloverleaf Place 2345 Apple Way Lincoln, NE 68583 Lincoln, NE 68583 May 2008 Table of Contents (You’ll develop this section after writing the business plan and executive summary.) The table of contents should show major section headings and the page number that starts the section. It’s even better if you can show the detailed subheadings under the major sections with corresponding page numbers. Section I. Executive Summary (You’ll develop this section after completing your business plan.) Write a one to two page summary representing the various sections of your Business Plan. Your goal is to make the reader want to read more! Section II. Mission, Goals & Objectives General Description of the Business Describe your business so an outsider will clearly understand what business you are in, what products or services you offer, who your market is, how you operate (generally), the stage of development of your business, and what your growth ideas include. This is the first...
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...ABSTRACT AN AUTOMATED HOSTELS AND ROOMS ALLOCATION SYSTEM (CASE STUDY OF YABA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY) This Project work intends to address some of the problems encountered in the allocation of hostels and rooms to students manually in Yaba College of Technology. The growing number of students in higher institutions posed a lot of accommodation problems on the part of students and School Management. Some of the problem caused includes, few hostels that exist in the College are not properly managed, Statistic of rooms required to match the growing numbers of students are farfetched, Student pays fee for hostel and may end up not getting rooms because of lack of bed space, Hostel administrators cannot give accurate information of the occupancy of a particular room. In respect to all these existing problems, a system will be designed to manage a database for allocating hostel and room to student. The system designed will keep track of all the available rooms, their occupants and funds generated from hostel fees. The New system will be implemented using Visual Basic 6.0 and Ms Access Database. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In 1912, in Altena Castle in Germany, Richard Schirrmann created the first permanent Jugendherberge or "Youth Hostel". These first Youth Hostels were an exponent of the ideology of the German Youth Movement to let poor city youngsters breathe fresh air outdoors. The youths were supposed to manage the hostel...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 1.0 Introduction 3 2.1 Discussions within review 3 Table 1 facts presented within report 4 Table1 4 2.3 Strengths of report 5 2.4 Limitations of report 5 2.5 Relevance to undergraduate students 5 2.6 Relevance to resource kit and topic 5 3.1 Discussion within journal 6 3.3 Weaknesses within the article 6 3.4 Relevance to resource kit and topic 6 Table 2 facts presented within report 7 4.0 Book resource 8 4.1 Discussion in Chapter 8 4.1.1 Movilpiu 8 4.1.2MoBiblio 8 4.1.3 HouseMobile 8 4.1.4 Strengths of Chapter 9 4.1.5 Weaknesses of Chapter 9 4.1.6 Relevance to resource kit and topic 9 Bibliography 10 Appendix A 11 Work completed 11 Roles played by group members 12 Appendix B 13 Appendix C 13 Executive Summary The aim of this report is to critically assess three resources, a book, a website and a peer reviewed journal article. Each resource deals with how mobile devices have changed work and working together. Consideration is given to such issues as discussions within the resource, strengths and weaknesses of the resources, relevance to undergraduate students and relevance to the resource kit and topic. The online report is titled the Expanding Role of Mobility in the Workplace, by Forrester research incorporated; it was commission by and features on the cisco systems website. It is about the expanding role of personal mobile devices in the workplace. The main premises of the report are that the roles of...
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...Biodiesel Incorporated Teaching Notes The Biodiesel Incorporated case describes the process of one group’s efforts to effectively identify a business opportunity. Individual analysis and group discussion of this case are well-suited for illustrating and applying the terms and issues covered in Chapter 2 “Opportunity and the Business Summary.” Naturally, the case also allows for the discussion of additional concepts and topics, including material covered in Chapters 4, 8, 10, 17, and 18. Discussion Questions 1) What are the key factors in determining if this is a viable business opportunity for Josh, Hannah, and Matthew? 2) What market drivers should they research and be aware of? 3) What are the flaws in the current business strategy? 4) What type of financing should they use if they choose to go forward with this? 5) What types of distribution channels should they go into? 6) How can they improve their chances for success? 7) What is the next step? Answer Guide 1) What are the key factors in determining if this is a viable business opportunity for Josh, Hannah, and Matthew? Josh, Hanna, and Matthew have to determine if this is a viable opportunity for them. In particular, they need to decide if the expected income and level of independence (and other rewards of starting a new venture will outweigh the risk undertaken and significant amount of effort required. The case consists of little information regarding the leadership qualities of the three students...
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