...Proverbs in various languages are found with a wide variety of grammatical structures.[21] In English, for example, we find the following structures (in addition to others): • Imperative, negative - Don't beat a dead horse. • Imperative, positive - Look before you leap. • Parallel phrases - Garbage in, garbage out. • Rhetorical question - Is the Pope Catholic? • Declarative sentence - Birds of a feather flock together. However, people will often quote only a fraction of a proverb to invoke an entire proverb, e.g. "All is fair" instead of "All is fair in love and war", and "A rolling stone" for "A rolling stone gathers no moss." The grammar of proverbs is not always the typical grammar of the spoken language, often elements are moved around, to achieve rhyme or focus Use in conversation[edit] Proverbs are used in conversation by adults more than children, partially because adults have learned more proverbs than children. Also, using proverbs well is a skill that is developed over years. Additionally, children have not mastered the patterns of metaphorical expression that are invoked in proverb use. Proverbs, because they are indirect, allow a speaker to disagree or give advice in a way that may be less offensive. Studying actual proverb use in conversation, however, is difficult since the researcher must wait for proverbs to happen.[23] An Ethiopian researcher, Tadesse Jaleta Jirata, made headway in such research by attending and taking notes...
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...framework to the chosen organisation, using appropriate and relevant terminology, and demonstrate a clear understanding of the main conceptual tools and frameworks under investigation, as evidenced through the quality of their application. Moreover, this report will also produce a balanced and critical evaluation of this particular strategic approach drawing on a wide-ranging and independently-sourced literature. Overview of Apple Computer Inc Apple or "the company" is engaged in design, development and marketing of personal computers, media devices, and portable digital music players. The company also sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications (Rolling Stone Magazine, 2003: 111). The Apple brand is well recognized amongst most consumers. The company operates more than 317 stores in nine countries, thousands of dealers (mainly...
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...beautiful and the symbols were grouped in an arrangement pleasing to the eye. Their order was quite flexible and they could be read from right to left, left to right, and from top to bottom. The Greeks inherited their alphabet from one brought to their islands by Phoenician traders. By this time, many of the letters they used were ones we would recognize today and some even had the same sounds associated with them. The Roman alphabet was derived largely from the Greek and was almost the same as the one we use today. There are some important differences, though, that can cause a lot of confusion for someone who wishes to casually study the language or read coin inscriptions. Romans wrote only in uppercase or capital letters with beautifully proportioned straight lines, curves, and angles until quite late in their history. In fact, the uncials or lower case letters were a medieval invention and are seen beginning in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries, with a few examples dating a little earlier. Good examples of the fine style of Roman capital letters can be seen in the inscriptions carved with mallet...
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...Chapter 2 Galileo’s Great Discovery: How Things Fall Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), the famous Italian mathematician at the leading edge of the scientific revolution that was to sweep Europe, was curious about motion. He was an experimentalist who for the first time had the insight and talent to link theory with experiment. He rolled balls down an inclined plane in order to see how things fell toward the Earth. He discovered in this way that objects of any weight fell toward the Earth at the same rate – that they had a uniform acceleration. He surmised that if they fell in a vacuum, where there was no air resistance to slow some objects more than others, even a feather and a cannon ball would descend at the same rate and reach the ground at the same time. He also explored the motion of pendulums and other phenomena. He is perhaps most famous for his 1610 telescopic discoveries of the moving moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the craters of the moon, all of which convinced him, against the ages-old wisdom of Aristotle and of the Catholic Church, of the rightness of the Copernican heliocentric view of the solar system. In his investigations of motion, Galileo was the first clearly to understand that the forces acting upon objects could be broken into independent components; that a thrown stone had a force pulling it down as well as the force throwing it horizontally outward. These insights would be of great use to Isaac Newton, born the year Galileo died, in devising the...
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...different cultures in the attempt to decide if this language is truly the oldest recorded language in history, has led to our current level of knowledge on Sumerian language. Germany started full-scale investigations, while the French were the first to discover actual writing from this ancient culture. This paper is meant to elaborate upon the knowledge of Sumeria and its peoples writing styles. Ancient Sumerian language is thought to be the oldest written language in history. This may or may not be the case (Huffington Post, 2009). Findings in the area of determining the age of some written languages are uncertain. But for the most part, Sumerian is a definite running mate for the title of oldest written language. Sumerian was first started to be put into writing around 3200 BCE (Academia.edu, 2007). The main reason for the start of this was for agricultural purposes. Clay counters were used to keep track of how many plants were sealed into a container. Those counters were hard to keep track of, therefore, Sumerians came up with cuneiform. Cuneiform, is a style of writing used by many cultures that involves wedge shaped signs; and is the beginnings of standard written language today (Ancientscripts.com, 2009). According to many scholars, Sumerians were the inventors of this aspect of writing. Therefore, we can attribute the way we write and construct sentences to this basic style of writing. The origins of...
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...You are exploring a webpage on www.juergendaum.com The new New Economy Analyst Report – June 08, 2002 Juergen Daum’s new New Economy Best Practice service ©2002-2005 Juergen Daum. All rights reserved. Performance Management Beyond Budgeting: Why you should consider it, How it works, and Who should contribute to make it happen. News categories: Enterprise and business strategy, Finance and accounting, Performance management and controlling, Information Technology by Juergen H. Daum Table of content: Intro Why should a company consider to move Beyond Budgeting ? How does the Beyond Budgeting model work ? Who should contribute to make it happen ? The Transition Route – Major success factors Summary Additional resources (updated Jan 2005) “Fixed budgets don’t work today. A budget is a too static instrument and locks managers into the past - Daum New! - visit J.H.D.'s Beyond Budgeting Info Center - including latest BB insight materials, interviews with BB pioneers etc. - here an extract: | J.D.'s insight article "Beyond Budgeting" | Interview with Lennart Francke, CFO of Svenska Handelsbanken | Panel Discussion with Borealis, Nestlé, and Unilever | Interview with Jeremy Hope – co-founder of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table | Interview with J.D. on finance and IT | Intro Three years ago I presented to a group of senior executives at the headquarters of a large U.S. based consumer products company with global operations the concept...
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...everyone, including artists, to combine their talents with the efficiency of the Internet. In the remix culture of today, everyone has an inner-DJ. Music sharing has grown drastically from sharing cassette tapes, to burning CD’s, to p2p networking. People all over the world now share and create new music, while breaking copyright laws and industry codes in the process. Aware of their crimes or not, Internet music sharing has quickly become a competitor with the large music industry and this needs to be addressed. As Lessig proved in his book “Free Culture”, technology has often changed faster than laws can keep up with. Back in 1945, farmers filed a lawsuit saying that low-flying airplanes were trespassing on their land and scaring their chickens. The law at the time stated that ones property reached to “an indefinite extent upwards”. Once the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case it was immediately ruled that airspace has no correlation with private property....
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...The Outside Drug: Cocaine in the US Page Break Michael Moss once said, “Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine.” Cocaine is a common party drug for young adults and a severely addictive drug for offenders. America’s battle with substance abuse has yet to calm down, it is important for people to recognize the power of the correct treatment and the lack of the treatment in the American society. For years, people have searched for way to stop cocaine from getting into America meanwhile, they have yet to find out how to treat the ones who already use the drugs. It is important to understand the approvals and disapprovals that cocaine had throughout the decades of being in America....
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...Dan Gravitt English 102 April 23rd, 2012 Mr. Rawson “Start of Something New” In recent reports from the Los Angeles Times, it is estimated that 100 people die every day from drug abuse or overdose. Abuse or overdose being defined as taking more medicine than a doctor prescribes, or taking medication not prescribed to the victim. These totals don’t even include deaths related to side effects from other prescription drugs, and those reach over one hundred thousand people annually. These numbers have alarmed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but rightfully so because from the years 2000 to 2009 the report states, “The percentage of poisoning deaths among those aged 15–19 years with prescription drugs as a contributing cause increased from 30% in 2000 to 57% in 2009.” There are many different speculations that would drive such a rapid climb, such as music and lifestyle, accessibility to the drugs, and affordability for many teenagers. Agencies like the CDC and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), are working together with the White House to reside this issue by improving education of healthcare professionals, using state prescription monitoring programs, and proper disposal of controlled substances by business trade and the public. I agree with Obama in that there are steps that need to be taken to help end this recent issue in society. Although, I believe there are other ways to go about it and the first is to federally decriminalize marijuana...
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...Alcoa Case Study Alcoa, as a company, has a strong commitment to safety. The CEO has publicly announced that safety was his top priority, and this could be evidenced in accident rates that were well below industry standards. The Mission Valley Plant was no exception. However, there had been some recent concerning events, and there is always room for improvement in the identification, analysis, recommendation, and implementations of a safety-centric environment. #1 There are seven key elements in Mission Valley’s approach to safety that have evolved since Paul O’Neill became the CEO of Alcoa in June 1987. * Safety is a top priority Immediately upon his arrival, Mr. O’Neill announced that his top priority for the company would be safety. It has been shown that Health, Safety, and Environment (HS&E) is more accepted and more easily enforced when driven from the top of an organization down. * Line managers’ involvement in safety The Mission Valley Works site covers 120 acres and employs 3,850 people, but there are only five employees whose job function is exclusively HS&E. Therefore, it is crucial that line managers spend a significant amount of their time concentrating on HS&E related issues. * Investigating the root causes of injuries Mission Valley’s approach to an incident investigation included assembling a diverse team of operators and supervisors, the development of a list of root causes, implementation of corrective actions...
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...Book Review: This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein, published: Sept. 2014 Summarize the book. What is being discussed? Rob Nixon of the New York Times called Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” “a book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable.[1]” Naomi Klein researches the impact of Climate change and its relationship with free market capitalism. She discusses capitalism as failed economic system. She goes into great depth on the subject of resource extraction, pollution and the events of surrounding the affected communities in these regions across the world. However, rather than concluding that things are hopeless Naomi Klein argues that: We can build something better and reclaim our economic system. She argues that the market cannot save us. We have the tools/technology to get off of fossil fuels, but it requires leaving free market capitalism behind. We need to rebuild local economies, reign in corporate power and reclaim democracy. She argues that we aren’t all the all powerful saviours of the planet, but that as visitors on the earth we have to save ourselves from an earth that is rocking, burning and driving humanity into extinction because of our actions. Describe the three most important arguments or claims made in the book. The first argument Naomi Klein makes is that world leaders and climate scientists agree if we are going to avoid truly catastrophic consequences of climate change; we need to...
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...Ailes: president of Fox News Channel Doug Aitken: multimedia artist Muhammad Ali: professional heavyweight boxer, three-time World Heavyweight Champion John Allman: neuroscientist, expert on human cognition Gloria Allred: civil rights attorney Brad Anderson: former CEO of Best Buy Chris Anderson: curator of TED conferences Philip Anschutz: entrepreneur, cofounder of Major League Soccer, investor in multiple professional sports teams David Ansen: former senior entertainment editor at Newsweek Rose Apodaca: pop culture, fashion, and style journalist Bernard Arnault: chairman and CEO of LVMH Rebecca Ascher-Walsh: journalist, author Isaac Asimov: science fiction author Reza Aslan: scholar of religious studies, author Tony Attwood:psychologist, author of books on Asperger’s syndrome Lesley Bahner: responsible for advertising and motivational research for the...
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...what you need.” –The Rolling Stones I N T H E P A S T T W O Y E A R S businesses have done well in cutting costs and improving productivity. But more and more businesses are recognizing that they’d better think about putting growth back on the agenda. Waiting for help from the market, for a miracle to happen, or for some other impetus to drive growth is simply not a strategy today. Savvy managers are finding ways—including smart use of the business Web— to drive growth through demand innovation and the creation of fundamental new value. We still hear thoughts like: “Maybe in a few months we’ll get a little help from the economy.” “Maybe we’ll beat up our suppliers some more, and that’ll improve our bottom line.” “Let’s look for the next great new growth industry we can tie into, and that’ll drive growth.” Well maybe. But for most of us, that’s just not going to happen. There are growth opportunities out there now— even when markets aren’t growing. Savvy business managers are recognizing that ongoing cuts and waiting simply are not sustainable strategies. Understanding how a firm may capitalize on its hidden assets and work with customers to harvest new sorts of value can be key to growth for many firms. And smart use of the business Web and digital techniques for connecting to customers can be an important part of this strategy. In his new book, How to Grow When Markets Don’t, Adrian Slywotzky of Mercer Management Consulting tracks through many case histories—and outlines...
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...Ithaca Ithaca, as it is near Phaeacia, is quite far from Troy; the story shows Odysseus is at the gates, then in the palace, and also his bedroom. The one thing all these setting have in common are that they are at sea, which is controlled by Poseidon. This is significant because the whole journey is about Odysseus’s travels at sea, which were basically caused by Poseidon. The reason for Poseidon making him go through a long journey is that he was angered that Odysseus didn’t give him any credit in terms of assistance when invading Troy. And since he is the god of the sea, horses, and earthquakes, he has the power to keep Odysseus away from his home for a long time. Quote, cite, and explain the use & effect of three literary techniques (See questions and quotes in textbook or resources): Speaker says, “Quote” (Author line #). Define the literary technique, tell how it is used, and what it...
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...down. Jobs was too erratic, it was claimed, and Apple required more steady leadership. Eleven years and two CEO’s later, Apple had still not recovered and teetered on the brink of extinction. It had lost was more than half its market share, and the company now only commanded only 16.5% of sales (Whelan, 98). In addition, it had just posted a $708 million fourth quarter loss and announced a reduction of one-third of its workforce for the second quarter (Goodell, 1996). A shadow of its former self, Apple needed a miracle. It needed a strategic vision and new direction. Ironically, this arrived with the acquisition of NeXT Step Computers Inc. in 1997 and its CEO, Steve Jobs. So, how did the company that invented the personal computer find itself in this situation, and how did it recover? An environmental analysis of Apple’s corporate history will examine the reasons including its competition with Microsoft, leadership changes, predatorial marketing and pricing practices, and...
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