...Risks associated with the initiative and financial effects Wal-Mart may have The strategic planning initiatives of Wal-Mart have a huge on their financial planning. Wal-Mart also puts a huge importance on pricing their products at low prices. By focusing on low prices, Wal-Mart is able to capitalize on overall profits by making their additional operations more efficient (Wal-Mart, 2009). These strategies have had a remarkable impact on both prices and their overall sales resulting in Wal-Mart becoming the market leader inside the United States. Wal-Mart has a sector that is called expansion initiatives, in which they open new store, expand their existing stores, and alter the locations of their lower performing store. The initiatives are highly effective bringing in additional capital in the long run. Overall sales have also been impacted in a positive way by the implementation of the new initiatives. In Wal-Mart’s 2009 annual reports, their net sales increase nearly 9% from the previous year and also added nearly $30 billion to their annual sales (Wal-Mart, 2009). Based on Wal-Marts most recent annual report, Wal-Mart saw an increase of nearly 3.4% to $419 billion, operating income by 64% to more than $25 billion, and closed out the year with almost $11 billion in free cash flow. Wal-Mart’s dividends rose from 0.67 per share in 2007, on a continuous increase to 1.21 per share in 2011. Their earnings per share also rose from 2.93 per share in 2007 to 4.18 in 2011 (Wal-Mart...
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...Principles of MIS Term Paper Introduction Polar Semiconductor, INC (PSI) is located in Bloomington, Minnesota. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-based semiconductor manufacture, which is Sanken Electric Company, Ltd. Sanken Electric Company, Ltd own the PSI Facility since 2005. Before 2005, different companies owned the facility. In 1970, the company was owned by Control Data Corp and operated as its Microcircuits Division; they used to build pre-amp chips for disk drives. In 1984, VTC Inc acquired the facility for Fifteen years, and then VTC sold a portion of it to Lucent Microelectronics. After the partial sale to Lucent in 1999, VTC’s management operated the facility as Polar Fab for several years, by producing silicon wafers for other firms until the Japan-based semiconductor manufacture bought the facility and named it Polar Semiconductor, INC (PSI). Currently PSI occupied 200,000-square-foot area, which includes 62,000 square area feet of clean room space that the company are using to produces wafer. Wafer fabrication is a very time-consuming and complicated procedure. It is the process of building integrated circuits on silicon wafers. According to Twin Cities Business magazine report, (PSI) has a plan to expend the facility by adding on their present 200,000 square-foot facility that located in Bloomington. By the time when the new expansion completed...
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...Nathan K. Marsland Mrs. Lauren Williams English III April 1st, 2015 Melville was born in a time of American history where inspiring works of American literature began to emerge. It was also a time when America had not completely separated its literary heritage from Europe, partly because there were successful literary genius’ flourishing there. Melville proved to be a genius of his own, with his many works such as Moby Dick, Billy Bud, and Bartleby. Three distinct themes could be seen throughout most of his literature; whales and the whaling industry, commentary on the universe and human destiny, and ideas about God and nature. Moby Dick is an incredible work by Melville most often referred to as an epic, a tragedy, a novel, an exposition on the whaling, and a spiritual autobiography. It is often overlooked that a deeper, more symbolic, meaning may have been the driving force behind Moby Dick. Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, to Allan and Maria Melville. He was the third of eight children in the Melville family. He was generally described as silent and slow; his mother thought him to be a very dull child. In 1832 Melville suffered tragedy when his father died. Finishing school when he was fifteen, Melville took service as cabin boy aboard the St. Lawrence. After returning to his home in New York for some time after serving as cabin boy, Melville took berth as an ordinary seaman aboard a whaling ship called the Acushnet. After approximately four and a half...
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...Facts: Heman Marion Sweatt, a African-American, sought admissions to the University of Texas Law School in February 1946. However, his application was rejected under state law; which forbade African-Americans from attending that school. Procedural History: The lower court found an equal protection violation, however the court provided the state six months to remedy the problem. Texas created a black law school. The court then denied Sweatt entry to University of Texas Law School. Claiming equality had been meet. Issue: Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires Sweatt to be admitted to the University of Texas Law School. Holding: Yes Reasoning: Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson authored the unanimous...
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...Sweatt v Painter Essay In 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, a African American man, put in a application for a University known as The University of Texas Law School. On the other hand the school wanted WHITES only. Theophilus Painter, the president of the law school, sent him a letter denying his application because of his race. The school also offered to make a University for all black students, furthermore said it would be separate but equal, that didn’t make it exceptional. So in May of 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt filed suit against Theophilus Painter and all the members of the University's Board of Regents in a Texas District Court. The court denied Heman Sweatt’s suit for an order directing his admission to Texas Law School,...
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...Sweatt v. Painter (1950) was a case that challenged the “separate but equal” belief established by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man, was denied admission into the School of Law of the University of Texas on the grounds that the Texas state constitution does not allow integrated education. The university’s president at the time was Theophilus Painter. Sweatt was offered admission to a law school for African-Americans, but he denied it because the school’s quality of education was inferior to that of the University of Texas. In May 1946, Sweatt filed a case against Painter and the University of Texas. Sweatt was represented by a lawyer from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund named Thurgood Marshall. Marshall argued that...
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...state’s NAACP leader and executive secretary, Carter W. Wesley the Houston Informer publisher, Kenneth Lampkin an Austin attorney, Lulu White the NAACP's state director of branches, and Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was the lead NAACP council who presided over the Murray case and later become the lead council for Sweatt case arguing before the Supreme Court. Gillette’s article describes the difficulties in selecting a qualified plaintiff. Lulu White would eventually find the candidate. During an event at Wesley Chapel “Lulu White spoke to a group of Houston blacks, appealing for a volunteer to file a lawsuit against the university. When no one else showed a willingness to do so, Sweatt stood up and announced that he would.” Thus began Heman Marion Sweatt involvement, to end segregation in Texas by applying admittance to the UT Law School. ...
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...The Aztec Empire Anas Abdeljaber Monica Black HIS 121-001 July 14, 2014 In the time of Columbus, Europe discovered a strange new world where every boy was born a worrier to fight and sacrifice to God who thirsty blood. By 1324, two hundred years before the Spanish arrived, Aztecs Empire were formed after they entered the valley of Mexico and settled the center of Lake Texcoco. They built a great capital called Tenochtitlan and became their homeland. Tenochtitlan located about 7,500 feet above sea level between the Gulf of Mexico and North Pacific Ocean where it was the largest city in the world (Schmal).They created a great civilization in Central Mexico called The Aztec. The small city was built to hold population that approximately two fifty thousand people. The Aztec religion was established on the forces of nature and worshipped themselves to their gods. According to Aztec belief the human heart was the most precious gift that offered to the God. Their mission was to give the sun the human blood to have enough energy to fight cross the sky, and feed the earth with their bodies to have enough nutrition (Schmal). The god of war, Huitzilopochtli, was the most important deity. They had many other important gods, such as Tlaloc, the god of rain whom was scarified by children’s’ tears, Quetzalcoatl, the god of wind and of learning, and Tenochtitlan, the sun god whom was offered the kids’ heart. The Aztecs believed in order to appease these and many other gods that...
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...INTRODUCTION Commonly referred to as “The Prince of Preachers,” Charles H. Spurgeon is deserving of that title. Many have studied the work of Mr. Spurgeon, whether his sermons or his writing, in order to come to a deeper appreciation for the Holy Spirit inspired Word. It was a devotion to the Word that would begin and fuel the ministry that Spurgeon would devote most of his lifetime to. He was a preacher, a writer, and the founder of a number of great institutions. Each area of Spurgeon’s life continues to inspire and thrive today. LIFE AND DEATH Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born at Kelvedon, in Essex. His father, John, and Grandfather, James, were both Independent (Congregational) pastors and evangelical Calvinists. Charles’ mother Eliza bore seventeen children with only eight of them surviving through infancy. Due to the hardship that his parents faced, Charles was sent to live with his grandfather in Stambourne. It was in Stambourne where Spurgeon learned to walk, talk and read with the aid of his aunt Ann. During his early teen years, Spurgeon enrolled in an agricultural college with the aspirations of becoming a farmer. A year later, he transferred schools to Newmarket and there learned Latin and Greek but more importantly it was at Newmarket where he learned much about theology from the school cook, Mary King. Spurgeon and King often discussed the sermons they heard when they arrived back at school. “(I)t was from her that Spurgeon learned...
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...The Road to Brown tells the story of the millions of nameless blacks who faced devastating hardships caused by Jim Crow, which simply robbed them of the rights granted by the 14th and 15th Amendments. Under the "separate but equal" doctrine of the Supreme Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, black citizens were denied the right to vote, to attend white schools, to be buried in white cemeteries, etc. Those who objected were liable to be lynched. The era of Jim Crow provoked men such as, Charles Houston to fight back for those who were unable. Charles Hamilton Houston, "the man who killed Jim Crow”, grew up during the Jim Crow Era and devoted his entire life trying to destroy it. Houston came from a privileged background in regards to blacks. He finished top of his class in high school preparing him for a prosperous college career. Unfortunately, before Houston had the chance to attend college, he served in a segregated regiment during World War I. During this time Houston wrote about the hate he constantly faced from his fellow countrymen due to his race and promised himself he would study law to fix the lack of justice, changing the situation for his people. In 1920, he entered Harvard law school where he became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. Later, Houston would become dean of Howard University Law School and chief counsel to the NAACP. He also presented a number of supporting cases leading up to Brown v. Board of Education. Houston strategically...
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...The Frick Collection, New York Thomas More UTOPIA* First edition, Louvain, Flanders, 1516, in Latin First edition in English, 1551, by Ralph Robynson, with the subtitle: A fruitful, pleasant, and witty work, of the best state of a public weal and of the new isle called Utopia . . . Excerpts* _______ Hans Holbein, Sir Thomas More, 1527 A meter of four verses in the Utopian tongue, briefly touching as well the strange beginning, as also the happy and wealthy continuance, of the same commonwealth. Utopos ha Boccas peula chama polta chamaan. Bargol he maglomi Baccan soma gymnosophaon, Agrama gymnosophon labarem bacha bodamilomin. Volvala barchin heman la lavolvala dramme pagloni. Cornelius Graphey1 to the Reader Wilt thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found? Wilt thou learn thy life to lead by divers ways that godly be? Wilt thou of virtue and of vice understand the very ground? Wilt thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity? Then read and mark and bear in mind, for thy behoof, as thou may best. All things that in this present work that worthy clerk Sir Thomas More, With wit divine full learnedly, unto the world hath plain expressed, In whom London well glory may, for wisdom and for godly lore. Which verses the translator, according to his simple knowledge and mean understanding in the Utopian tongue hath thus rudely Englished. and Utopus by name, My king muchconquererand immortal fame, A prince of renown Hath made...
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...What is a Noun? Page 1 The Writing Centre HyperGrammar The Parts of Speech What is a Noun? A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns: Late last year our neighbours bought a goat. Portia White was an opera singer. The bus inspector looked at all the passengers' passes. According to Plutarch, the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C. Philosophy is of little comfort to the starving. A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct object, an indirect object, a subject complement, an object complement, an appositive, an adjective or an adverb. Noun Gender Many common nouns, like "engineer" or "teacher," can refer to men or women. Once, many English nouns would change form depending on their gender -- for example, a man was called an "author" while a woman was called an "authoress" -- but this use of gender-specific nouns is very rare today. Those that are still used occasionally tend to refer to occupational categories, as in the following sentences. David Garrick was a very prominent eighteenth-century actor. Sarah Siddons was at the height of her career as an actress in the 1780s. The manager was trying to write a want ad, but he couldn't decide whether he was advertising for a "waiter" or a "waitress" Noun Plurals Most nouns change their form to indicate number by adding...
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...Contact Us Site Map Home Publications Index by Author by Subject ABC's Farm Lessons One Step Poems Prayer USA Historical The Story Behind The Psalms by Dr. Jack Hyles PREFACE There are three books in the Bible from which I read every day—the Psalms, the Proverbs and the book of Acts. I read the Psalms for love, the Proverbs for wisdom and the book of Acts for power. These three things—love, wisdom and power have for years been on the top of my prayer list. One day while meditating on one of the Psalms, I found myself wondering where the author was when he wrote it, what the circumstances were surrounding its writing and what exactly prompted the author to compose such a masterpiece. I fled to the library of my memory and the refuge of my commentaries until my temporary search became long research. This venture was so enjoyable that I traveled the historical path of another Psalm, then another, then another, which soon led to a series of Bible studies at the First Baptist Church of Hammond on the conditions and circumstances surrounding the writing of each of the Psalms. It makes our study richer as we stand beside the author as he writes and as we feel his heartbeat, watch his tears, enjoy his laughter and join in his praise. May the author beg scholastic mercy of the reader. The following words were not penned to be examined by the microscope of the scholar but rather to be enjoyed by the study of the saint. With lovingkindness, a prayerful spirit...
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...A PROJECT ON “BRAND LG” [pic] Presented By: Gurjit Singh – 3022 Heman Makwana – 3023 G. Kalaiarasan – 3025 Kalpana Patel – 3026 Acknowledgement We would like to thank Prof Sohan Mahanty for providing us with such an important and challenging opportunity of preparing a project report on Branding which has enabled us to learn a lot about the Branding strategies, LG’s product innovations and marketing tactics for the Indian market. It is a matter of great pleasure to express our sincere gratitude and thanksgiving to our Director – Dr. Bigyan Prakash Verma. Last but not the least, we extend our sincere thanks to all the people who helped us directly or indirectly in way of ideas and valuable thoughts for making this project, a grand reality. History of LG Brand: | LG's history dates back to 1947 when Lucky Chemical Industrial Company (LCIC), the first chemical company in South Korea, was | |established. In 1958, LCIC started Goldstar Company to manufacture consumer durables. Within a year of its inception, Goldstar manufactured| |South Koreas first radio, A 501. | |In the 1960s, it started exporting radios to the US and Hong Kong and manufactured Korea's first telephone, refrigerator and black & white | |television. With the consumer durables business picking-up, LCIC changed its name to Lucky Goldstar. ...
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...Genesis The basic genre of the book of Genesis is, for the most part, narrative. There are many key themes and events in Genesis, and quite a few of the most popular Bible stories come from this first book of the Old Testament: God’s creation of everything we have come to know as existence, sin (of Adam & Eve, Sodom & Gomorrah, the Tower of Babel, etc.), God’s promises (of love, acceptance, and forgiveness), Joseph’s coat of many colors, and plenty more. After God’s creation of existence, Adam and Eve were disobedient, and therefore were punished. Over time, the human race had become so sinful that God washed everyone except Noah and his family in a global flood Noah's descendant, Abraham, was chosen by God to create a chosen people. Abraham's twelve grandsons from Jacob (who was later renamed Israel) became the “founders” of the land of Israel's twelve tribes. One of Jacob/Israel's sons, Jacob, was sent to Egypt by his brothers (or so they thought- God had planned this for His own reasons, which were good). Joseph's father and family were saved by a newly powerful him. Exodus Exodus’ basic genre is a narrative as well. Key themes and events include: Oppression of the Jews from the Pharaoh, Moses' characterization as the Jews' rescuer, God's plagues sent upon the people, the first passover, Moses parting the red sea, and the fall of Egypt's army. After all of this, the Jews were searching in the wilderness for the promised land, and although God provided them...
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