...Purpose: To persuade the audience why parents should not pay your children to do well in school. Introduction: Hello, A friend and I were discussing ways to motivate his 8 year old daughter to improve her grades. If she was raised like I was raised, she’d improve her grades or don’t bother coming home on report card day! And my mother worked for the board of education, so she knew EXACTLY when that was. I couldn’t believe it when he said he was thinking of paying her $5 for every A she got! He asked me for my opinion, so if there are any parents out there who are currently or considering paying your children to make good grades, I’m going to tell you like I told him, DON’T DO IT. In this speech I’m going to • Describe the 4 styles of parenting as listed on www.pediatrics.com which can be broken down into old school and new school. • Tell you why “Pay for an A” is ineffective • Alternative ways to reward By the time I’m finished, you’ll understand why it is a terrible idea. Body: I. Which Parenting Style is you? “Old school” Parenting Style Authoritarian - This is the classic no nonsense do as I say, not as I do parenting style. “Control” is the key word with this style, where kids are expected to obey and obey immediately. Rules are the corner stone of this parenting style and parents enforce them with fear and intimidation. (Gods hand as it were) Consequences are followed through upon without emotion or consideration of extenuating circumstances...
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...1.0SECTION A 1.1PRODUCT INFORMATION Original Brand Name of Product: Billabong International Product Class: Surf Brand Description: Created by two avid surfers, Billabong is a brand designed by surfers, for surfers. In 1973, Billabong offered little more than a small range of surf wear: mainly surfboards and board shorts. But today, Billabong is a brand that encompasses the Australian surf culture by offering products that cater not only for the surfer inside many of us, but for fashion and lifestyle needs. 1.2CURRENT TARGET MARKET Billabong is a brand that offers numerous products designed to accommodate numerous lifestyles. Included in their extensive range are products designed for surfers, general beach goers, skateboarders and the fashion conscious. Comprehensive characteristics of this market are difficult to pinpoint, however, it is the assumption that the majority of consumers are males and females aged between 12 and 35 years of age. Consumer Need: Social Image Need - the most important need satisfied by Billabong 1.3CURRENTLY SOLD In the mid 1980's, just over ten years since the birth of Billabong, the successes of the small Australian brand were being recognised world wide and Billabong products were in high demand. This led to the export of Billabong products to the global market with countries such as the USA, Japan, New Zealand and Europe first in line. Today, the product range available extends as far as 2200 lines in Australia, 1300...
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...My Student Survival guide to distance learning. By Roel Maldonado Index Introduction………………………………. Using Educational Resources…………… Upholding Academic Honesty…………….. Setting and Achieving Goals……………… Managing Time Wisely……………………. Fostering Reading Comprehension and Retention…………………………………… Applying Personality and Learning Styles……………………………………….. Often when a person recognizes that in order to earn what they are worth and secure their dreams they are going to first have to secure additional skills and or education. Juggling a career and family while attending college, is difficult to say the least. Just being a college student is a challenge in itself especially at my age. Whether it is through distance learning or the traditional face-to-face way, you, as a student, are completely on your own and have no one watching over you to make sure you complete your studies. You have to have the motivation and determination to succeed. Thankfully, University of Phoenix and its Instructors have provided us with a plethora of information and tools designed to help their students succeed. This is my student survival guide for distance learning. This guide is designed to assist the busy student by compiling the essential methods and resources I have learned. Using Educational Resources ...
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...implications network security has and what the future may hold as I discuss the cutting edge technology and applications that new companies are coming out with. What is Network Security? Network security is a terminology that is used to describe any and all actions that are taken to protect and defend a network. Any action that is driven towards network security should be taken to protect the safety, reliability, usability, and the integrity of the network and all of its data. In order to explain network security a little better, I want to define what a network is. A network is defined as a system or grouping of interconnected items or individuals, and as an arrangement of vertical or horizontal lines that intersect one another (Cisco). When using the term network within the realm of technology, it refers to interconnected computers within a system or a group that can communicate with one another. As a basic example, plugging a computer into a power outlet does not create a network. The computer will need to establish some form of connection with another device such as a printer or a router in...
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...Course Syllabus |Instructor: |Deirdre Dixon | |Phone: |(813) 765-8527 | |E-mail: |ddixon@ut.edu | |Office Location: |None | |Class Location/Time |Section C3 - JS 334 | |Office Hours: |By arrangement | |Class dates: |Fast Start Workshop -- August 22 – 24, 2014 | | |Section C3 –August 25 – December 11, 2014 | |Final Exam Time: |Section C3 -- December 10th 1:30-3:30pm JS 334 | Prerequisites Admission into MBA program Course Overview Using a holistic approach to leadership theory and development, this course allows students to assess and develop their leadership skills, as well as begin to apply leadership theories and...
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...The Ron Jon Surf Shop is similar to the Hilo Hattie website is the sense that they both sale beach wear for men, women, and young children. They both are sunny beach wear type online stores to sale retail as well as other products. The web designs are similar in the sense that they use individuals who are happy and joyful to help sale product. They are different because Hilo Hattie is focused around Hawaiian products and clothing styles, whereas Ron Don Surf Shop not only sales clothes but surfing gear and attire. You can see organizational planning with in the Ron Job Surf Shop through out there website when you go to the “about us” section. It clearly shows that the goals of the company are (to sell clothes and surf products). It tells shoppers they not only do the company sale clothes but that they promote their products through community events, tour groups, and company partners. The site is very well organized so the customers can find which products they are looking for easily and within categories that make the search process much faster. When it comes to staffing you can see the managers have made it so customers can contact their customer service reps if any problem occurs to try and help solve them. This all shows a good control within the contents of the web page but also the company. Within the Hilo Hattie web page we see they sale clothing and product specific to Hawaiian culture and living. The organization planning is clearly put into their web content. It...
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...Senior Project BUSN 460-Professor T. Wischer DeVry University November 21, 2013 6 Issues facing CanGo from week 3and week4 Maurine Edwards Market Research Flow Charts/Data Brent Tucker Leadership Financial Caromill Almanzar Website/User Friendly ASRS 3 Issues facing CanGo from week 3 Jack’s justification for the new system (ASRS) - Caromill Almanzar Jack feels that the company should go under a new system to increase efficiency for their warehouse and inventor. Liz is concerned that the investment for the (ASRS) may not yield the necessary return to justify the investment. Jack’s argument is, the (ASRS) will help tremendously with the pickup station operators, to an extent that the station will be gone. Currently operators pick about 45 books per hour, the new system has the capacity to pick 360 books per hour. Liz isn’t convinced with Jack, She’s has doubt with the expense. She is also concerned about the integration of the system, the website, and their discount system. The only benefit that she sees with the new system is the reduction of labor. Recommendation: The ASRS is generally applied in applications where high volumes of inventory are moved into and out of manufacturing or distribution operation. The ASRS system typically is considered an alternative to fork lifting, and manual material handling. The system also saves space and building cost. The issue with this system will be with the process stability, capital effectiveness, and...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY User authentication for network or internet based environment posed a challenging task for system and network administrator. This statement is true and is still very much applicable till these days as it is a well known fact that authentication is being widely incorporated as part of access control for most systems. Authentication has been the catalyst for business organization in information protection and security. Implementation of access control policies, standards or procedures involves the identification of appropriate authentication mechanism whereby the criticality of the information being protected are being used as justification for having a more refined authentication mechanism as compared to a more simple approach. Without the appropriate authentication mechanism in place, attacker could easily gain access to systems or applications by utilizing personal information, gained through various means, including but not limited to social engineering. Conventional textual passwords are the most common mechanism used in authentication. This method requires a user to enter their username and password, either in alphabet or numeric, or more commonly, a mixture of both forms as authentication tokens to gain access to systems or applications. Two recent surveys have shown that users choose short, simple passwords that are easily guessable, for example, “password”, personal names of family members, names...
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...business I want to start. I selected one in a fast-growing arena of health improvement; and I will achieve it by offering everything there is to know about Yoga. It addresses several aspects of a marketing plan from how I arrive at this possibility to applying the marketing mix in the Four P’s of product, price, promotion, and place. Finally, I describe a layout over viewing why my website will succeed throughout product life-cycle. My Own Business: “Yoga for Anyone” Deciding upon a business is not something I did not go into lightly or taken on a dare. I gave it much thought, would research heavily through both the use of secondary and primary research marketing methods, and then send through the rigorous trials and tribulations of product and / or service life cycle. Main thing I understood it is not as simple as choosing something I thought in terms of…if I have a passion for it, everyone should share in my passion, and it is the latest and greatest craze; therefore, I must “jump on the bandwagon” and have one as well. Although, both of these ideas have some credence in marketing, because I had to believe in what I did and be marketable, respectively, it is not as glib or easy as the aforementioned old adages imply. I took all of this into consideration when I chose a Yoga website as my new business venture. Initially, I researched what was something that could offer with the greatest impact across several demographics, regardless of age, religion, gender, or income-bracket...
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...had the time to attend all the courses and seminars and to read all the books and reports they should to remain up-to-date in their area of work, the cost of such learning would be prohibitive. The need to transform how organizations learn points to a more modern, efficient, and flexible alternative: eLearning. The mission of corporate eLearning is to supply the workforce with an up-to-date and cost-effective program that yields motivated, skilled, and loyal knowledge workers. Anywhere, anytime, anyone. The Internet can offer the logical solution for a company's education and training objectives. Approximately 80% of the professional workforce already uses computers on the job. Technical obstacles, such as access, standards, infrastructure, and bandwidth, will not be an issue in a few years. The growth of the World Wide Web, high-capacity corporate networks, and high-speed desktop computers will make learning available to people 24 hours a day, seven days a week around the globe. This will enable businesses to distribute training and critical information to multiple locations easily and conveniently. Employees can then access training when it is convenient for them, at home or in the office. Substantial cost savings due to elimination of travel expenses. When delivered through technology based solutions, training is less expensive per end user due to scaleable distribution and the elimination of high salaries for trainers and consultants. The biggest benefit of eLearning...
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...WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY LA PAZ, ILOILO CITY I. INTRODUCTION SWIMMING Swimming is an aquatic sport which is based on the human act of swimming. Basically, the goal of swimming sport is to complete a given distance in the smallest time. Different swimming competitions are held which are totally based on speed and endurance such as crossing an English Channel. Swimming as a sport, is different from other aquatic sports like diving, synchronized swimming and water polo that involves the act of swimming but the goal is neither speed nor endurance. However, it is widely believe that swimming is the best aerobic exercise in the world. During 19th century, competitive swimming became very popular and the international swimming association, Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) was formed in the year 1908. Professional swimming develops with the formation of this swimming association. There are thirty six officially individual swimming events including 18 male events and 18 female events. These competitive swimming events are governed and organized by FINA. However, among 36 events only 34 of them are recognized by the International Olympic Committee which includes 17 male and 17 female. (Source: sportslister.com/swimming) WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY LA PAZ, ILOILO CITY II. HISTORY SWIMMING The sport of swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Agepaintings from around 7,000...
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...on March 30, 1971. In the year 1981, the owner, Howard Schultz, had his first encounter with Starbucks coffee when he walked into a Starbucks store and tried a cup of Sumatra for the first time. He fell in love with the taste of the finest freshly roasted whole bean coffee that the store had to offer. After a short period of time, Howard Schultz decided to join the Starbucks family. Starbucks set a mission to always be a different type of company, meaning they would stand out from any other coffee shop ever created for coffee lovers around the world. Starbucks’ marketing team decided to give each franchise a different experience for the customers that would come into the restaurant to purchase coffee. Starbucks had many key elements that led to their success over the years. Starbucks has become a top global brand by adhering to five key principles (Frankson 2013). The saying “make it your own”, was created for customers to have the ability to customize each of their experiences while visiting Starbucks. “Everything matters”, focuses on every aspect of the job. Starbucks vowed to never lose their focus on the customers’ experience and point of view. “Surprise and delight,” was created because Starbucks does the unexpected to make buying a cup of coffee most enjoyable. “Embrace resistance,” helps the Starbucks employees learn from their mistakes. Finally, “leave your mark,” ensures that each employee does their job well enough for each customer to remember them as they continue...
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...The development of more advanced technology has facilitated smoother surfing on the Internet. People can now access the Internet not only from PCs, but also from the Web TVs, Palm Pilots and mobile phone. The typical online purchaser in the year 2000 was well educated, married, and had a high economic status (Coyle, 2000). Electronic retailing continues to grow in size and importance as increasing numbers of consumers buy online, Imagine life today without the convenience of the Internet. People would actually have to get up out of their comfortable chairs, get in their cars, and drive to the store, the library, the mall, or wherever they wanted to go to purchase the product that they wanted. Many consumers are fed up with conventional...
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...| General Visa Requirements - fully completed visa application form - two passport photographs - valid national passport & one copy - original of valid resident visa - confirmation letter from your health insurance stating coverage & one copy - proof of group travel/ hotel booking in South Africa/ airline reservation for South Africa & one copy - current bank statement & one copy - reference letter from your employer/ education institution - visa fees for South African Visa | | Apple Marketing StrategyApple has been so successful in these last years thanks to his fresh, imaginative way to think and do its business: a winning combination of exceptional products, great style and design, great strategy, innovative marketing, sleek and enticing communications. Apple owes its overwhelming success in the last years to the iPhone and to the smart iPod and iTunes product combination, a combination of a great hardware piece with great style, great software, great performance, user friendly interface, with a good e-business service. The iPod + iTunes halo effect and new great Mac computers and Mac OS software did the rest in increasing Apple revenue stream. In the 5 years between 2003 to 2008 the Apple share value increased 25 times, from $7.5 to $180 per share. At july 2008 prices, before the US Financial Crisis, Apple stock market capitalization was $160 billion. In January 2010 Apple shares topped the $210 mark. But even...
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...Case study 4.Analzyze your findings According to the above research about the weakness and strengths of Apple, and the external environment of Apple Company. We can evaluate the outline of Apple including the opportunity and threats it is facing. Because of the high level creativity that Apple has, it will have lots of opportunity, while at the same time, it also face lots of challenges. Creativity is one of most powerful strengths of Apple, for example, it change the traditional way that people using cellphone, listening to music and using personal computer. Recently, Apple brings us a brand new concept---ipad. It totally changes the way people surfing the Internet, playing games and watching movies. I think Apple needs to continue to develop its creative ideas to meet people’s improving demands. Another advantage that makes Apple different from other company is its customer service. I am very sure that maybe you can’t find any other company that can provide better customer service than Apple can. The team of Apple’s customer service always keeps working on satisfying every customer’s demand. Because of its good fame of customer service, apple gets excellent feedback from its customers. Moreover, it gets huge users group. On the other hand, apple also faces lots of competitive pressure and challenges. For example, Google Company. As we all known, Android cellphone and pad computer are the most dangerous competitor of Apple’s. Android has more than half share of the mobile...
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