...Three months ago, BEN’s fiancée, KYRA, died in a horrific car crash. Grief-stricken and unable to move forward, Ben heads to Cabin Green, which reminds him of a happy place from childhood. He almost has a car accident on the way. Ben swims to a nearby island but soon sees smoke pouring out of the cabin. He gets back in time to see the cabin in flames. He rushes inside without thinking and passes out. When he comes to, there’s no sign of the fire. Later, he meets a friendly old man at the local convenience store who reminds him of everything he wishes he’d had in a father. Kyra comes to Ben in realistic visions, and strange things begin to happen throughout the cabin. He also encounters his childhood boogeyman in the lake. Freaked out, he tries to connect with his best friend, DOUG, but gets no answer. As time passes, Ben continuously forgets each odd occurrence and settles into a comfortable routine. Ben remembers visiting his mother in a mental institution. Her erratic behavior left him terrified for his own mental health. Back in the present, Ben puts together a jigsaw puzzle and is distressed to discover it shows someone jumping to their death. The imagery on the puzzle changes frequently, and he’s eventually able to enter the puzzle. A boat trip around the lake ends in the discovery of a pile of bones on the lakebed. That night, the bones appear in his bed. Panicked, he takes them to the island and buries them. He also encounters a fully-formed skeleton who speaks in Kyra’s...
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...University of Ballarat | Industry Analysis Report Gaming Industry in US | BUMKT 5922 Competitive Analysis Individual Assignment | | Carolina Dos Santos (ID: 30058334) | 9/4/2011 | Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Introduction 4 3. Marco Environmental Analysis 5 4. Industry Analysis 7 5. Strategic Options and Recommendations 10 6. References 13 7. Appendices 14 1. Executive Summary It is expected that US gaming will not be the world number one casino region in the world due to the rapid growth of other casino regions. With its long lasting history and reputation, it is still a very profitable industry because of its large domestic and foreign market share. The well known brand and large portion of market share maintain its global competitive advantage over competitors and substitutes. 2. Introduction Casino gambling becomes very popular around the world and it is one of the most common types of entertainment in US and many other countries. According to Investopedia, A casino has been defined as houses or accommodates that provide facilities for certain types of gambling activities. Casino is usually built in combine with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping and other tourist attractions. It also provides facilities for hosting live entertainment events and sporting events (Investopedia 2011). The industry has been growing very fast in the past few decades in relate to its size worldwide. It has a large impact to the...
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...Yasmin Marie RodrigoBS Arch -01 MOVIE REVIEW Insights Short summary During a backyard wedding reception for his daughter, Connie, and his new son-in-law, Carlo Rizzi, Don Vito Corleone, a Mafia boss known as the Godfather, conducts business in his office. With him are his oldest son, Sonny, and his adopted son and family lawyer, Tom Hagen. Several people come to Vito’s office to make requests, including Bonasera, an undertaker seeking revenge for a crime against his daughter, and Johnny Fontane, a Frank Sinatra-like singer and actor who wants Vito to help land him a part in a movie. As the wedding reception draws to a close, Vito dispatches Tom to Los Angeles to talk to Jack Woltz, the studio owner. Despite Tom’s prodding, Woltz refuses to give Fontane the part, so the Corleones make Woltz “an offer he can’t refuse.” The day after the meeting with Tom, Woltz wakes up in a blood-stained bed to discover the severed head of his prized horse under the covers at his feet. Back in New York, a gangster named Sollozzo wants to involve the Corleone family in his narcotics smuggling operation. Two other crime families, the Barzinis and Tattaglias, are already in on the scheme, but Sollozzo wants Vito’s protection and financing too. Vito arranges a meeting with Sollozzo. Sonny and Tom support the idea of expanding the family business, but Vito cannot overcome his initial skepticism about the scheme and his distaste for drug trafficking. Vito rejects the offer and orders his bodyguard...
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...Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada WIGGINS, Circuit Judge: During a convention at the Las Vegas Hilton, Navy Lieutenant Paula Coughlin was attacked by a group of men in a hotel hallway outside several convention-related hospitality suites. She sued several defendants, including the hotel and the organization which hosted the convention. A jury awarded her several million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages against the Las Vegas Hilton Corporation ("LVHC") and Hilton Hotels Corporation ("HHC"). LVHC and HHC (collectively,"Hilton") appeal. BACKGROUND The infamous 1991 Tailhook Convention served as the stage for the despicable event that led to this lawsuit. Hosted by the Tailhook Association ("Association"), the Tailhook Convention was an annual symposium and convention primarily directed at military aviators and held at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. Navy Lieutenant Paula A. Coughlin, a decorated helicopter pilot, attended the 1991 Tailhook Convention in her capacity as an aide to Rear Admiral John Snyder. After attending a banquet at the Las Vegas Hilton on the evening of Saturday, September 7, 1991, Coughlin returned to her nearby hotel to change out of her military uniform. She then returned to the Las Vegas Hilton to socialize with friends at one of the many convention-related social events at the hotel. Looking for her friends, she entered a...
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...In this clip, the cinematographer Conrad Hall discusses a shot from In Cold Blood where the lighting took an particularly expressive function. This shot is a particularly fine example of the expressive power of lighting. This clip is taken from the documentary Visions of Light. Herbert Clutter inspects his ranch on the morning of November 14, 1959. That same morning, on the other side of Kansas, Perry Smith meets up with Dick Hickock. While the Clutters go about their daily business, running errands and baking cherry pies, Hickock and Smith are tuning their car. After a long drive, they pull up to the Clutter home with a shotgun and knife in hand. That morning, the bodies are discovered by Susan Kidwell and another of Nancy's friends. Initially, the police are baffled. Bobby Rupp is a suspect until he passes a lie detector test. Alvin Dewey, the KBI agent in charge of the investigation, thinks that the killer must be someone close to the family. Rumor sets the small town of Holcomb on fire. Hartman's Cafe is the center of numerous theories. Meanwhile, Perry and Dick have returned to Dick's hometown of Olathe. Dick passes some hot checks, and the two flee to Mexico. Perry has always dreamed of finding sunken treasure in Mexico. While the investigation in Kansas begins to methodically follow up dead end leads, Perry and Dick spend some time entertaining a rich German tourist before they run out of money in Mexico City. While packing to return to the states, Perry goes through...
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...Industry Analysis Analysis of Marketing Position………………………………………………………………..18 Company & Industry Growth Marketing Strategies Analysis of Management Stock Performance International Strategies Strategic Position…………………………………………………………………………………21 Current Core Competencies Competitive Advantages Performance Indicators Recommendations and Discussion………………………………………………………………23 Long-Term Options SBU Level Recommendations Short-Term Options Corporate Social Responsibility Environment and Sustainability Introduction Las Vegas Sands Corporation (LVS) is a multinational casino and resort company that began in 1989 when Sheldon Adelson purchased the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 1990, LVS has grown into a luxury hotel, entertainment, and gambling corporation with locations in the United States in China. Among their most well-known American properties are The Venetian and Palazzo, both of which are in Las Vegas, and they also boast ownership of the Four Seasons Hotel, Sands Cotai Central, and The Venetian Macao in the Cotai Strip in Macao, China. Additionally, they operate the Marina Bay Sands in Marina Bay, Singapore. LVS is hoping to increase their presence in Singapore and Japan as well. They are planning to open The Parisian Macau, another...
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...information Specific purpose: to inform the about raising the legal driving age to 18 Introduction I. Attention: To quote an unknown author, “It’s not the Willis Tower, it’s the Sears Tower, I don’t wear sneakers, I wear gym shoes. I don’t drink soda, I drink pop. I don’t go to the movies, I go to the show. Where I am from is determined by north, south, east, or west. I am from the city with the best pizza, hot dogs and Gyros. I have taken the L train and the subway at the same time without even leaving my seat. 40 degrees is not cold. My basketball team has 6 rings. My football team did the super bowl shuffle. Your tall buildings do not impress me. Your country living does not move me. I don’t need to put my city on a hat to tell where I am from… the way I move explains enough.” II. Thesis: We are going to talk about the city of Chicago’s statistics and Chicago’s food. III. Credibility: I have done extensive research and I was born and raised in Chicago for 20 years before moving to Las Vegas to attend UNLV. IV. Preview: To inform the audience about the city of Chicago and food. Body I. Chicago’s statistics a. Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900 (McDonald, 2015.) b. Metropolitan Chicago had become a sprawling urban area of 9.5 million people that spreads from southeast Wisconsin to northwest Indiana to counties that are as much as 70 miles to the west of downtown Chicago. (McDonald, 2015.) c. According to NBC Chicago...
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...1. Executive Summary The aim of this report in to critically analyse the implications of human resource practices in the Four Seasons brand. Unless diversity is supported, discrimination can appear in some cases, having a negative effect on the running of the business. Also, working in groups makes a great contribution to the company’s performance, allowing creativity to be put into practice. Leadership is the greatest issue, as it can make the difference. Following a vision of his own, the leader can influence each department and also control staff’s and customer’s emotions as they represent the key to a better reputation of the brand. Lastly, a personal reflection upon the workshops was written, illustrating the fact that they represent a better command of the subject. 2. Diversity and Groups Nowadays, managing a hotel brand is done with the help on diversity management (Mor Barak, 2005). There exist four magnitudes of diversity: tenancy, age, sex and race. After a study conducted by Ely (2004), race and sex are not irrelevant to performance, as opposed to tenancy and age which are judged by experienced staff who believe that wisdom comes with age. Cooperation and teamwork represent the key to the issue. Banks in the USA developed diversity education programs where employees were stimulated to work with the ones they did not accept, results being highly positive and thus leading to a better collaboration in the at near future (Ely, 2004). For the Four Seasons brand, extensive...
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...us/product/bsop-434-week-4-lab-easing-iras-ire-2/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@WISEAMERICAN.US BSOP 434 WEEK 4 LAB EASING IRA’S IRE Lab 4: Easing Ira’s Ire (See “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” in the Syllabus for due dates.) Submit your assignment to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the top of this page. Scenario/Summary Ira Pollack was difficult to work for. A self-made millionaire, he paid extremely high salaries, but demanded much from his subordinates, including being on call 24-hours per day. In his Las Vegas penthouse, he would study and re-study each detail of his conglomerate’s performance and then call some unlucky underling—at any hour—to vent his anger and demand that something be improved. His tantrums were legendary. One of Pollack’s underlings, Tamara Wood, was driving her new red Mercedes convertible along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, looking for a parking space. Her college class from Northern Illinois University at DeKalb was holding its fifth reunion in Chicago, which she planned to attend. She wanted to buy a new outfit for the event, to show her former classmates that she had arrived. A chauffeur-driven Rolls pulled away from the curb, leaving an empty space right in front of her favorite couturier. She swung her Mercedes expertly into the empty space, looked up, and was pleased to see that there was still nearly an hour left on the meter. “Daddy was right,” she thought to herself, “Clean living does pay off.” As she turned off the ignition, Tamara’s cell...
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...CHAPTER 6 Leadership Ethics and Social Responsibility The purpose of this chapter is to examine important issues about leadership ethics and social responsibility. The focus is on leaders rather than on a general treatment of business ethics, and includes a summary of the theory of ethics. Skill building is also incorporated into this chapter. CHAPTER OUTLINE AND LECTURE NOTES Being ethical and socially responsible is part of being an effective leader even if many financially successful executives are unethical and socially irresponsible. I. PRINCIPLES OF ETHICAL AND MORAL LEADERSHIP Ethics is the study of moral obligations, or separating right from wrong. Also, ethics are the accepted guidelines of behavior for groups or institutions. Morals are an individual’s determination of what is right or wrong and is influenced by his or her values. A moral leader will practice good ethics. Edwin H. Locke argues that ethics is at the center of leadership because the goal of a rational leader is to merge the interests of all parties so that everyone benefits and the organization prospers. A. Five Ethical Leadership Behaviors 1. Be Honest and Trustworthy and Have Integrity in Dealing with Others. Trustworthiness contributes to leadership effectiveness. It appears, however, that trust in business leaders is low. Integrity refers to loyalty to rational principles, thereby practicing what one preaches regardless of emotional or social pressure. (A criminal...
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...Luis Hernandez Psychology 2301 Prof. Ray Saenz October 10, 2015 Book Report I. Title/Author Richard Rawlings II. Main Characters Richard Rawlings III. Setting/Time Fort Worth, Texas 1969, 1990 Dallas, Texas 2005 IV. Main Theme How to start up a car business from the ground up. V. Summary The year is 1969 the infamous all-American year in the city of Fort Worth, Texas where Richard Rawlings was born. Blame it on the free-love era, but he was basically the product of too young of a dad and mother. He’s Mother left him at the age of two years old. He’s father ending up quitting high school to support him and his sister. In the 1970’s they moved into their first apartment he describe it with having shag carpet, fishing nets hanging from the ceiling, a bunch of liquor bottles filled with color water. Richard says it was not the best but it was a start and quickly found out that his dad straighten up grew up and put his kids first. He started working all three of them and when I say work, I mean work. His dad was holding down two or even three jobs to pay the bills and put a roof over their heads to live. He says that he would spend all day with his father at his primary job at the grocery store manager because there was nobody to take care of him and sister. The job that he remembers is when he was about seven until he was a teen he would wake up at three or four in the morning every day. His dad would put him in the back the backseat of his car surrounded...
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...that have left. The ensuing reduction in staffing has resulted in a fire station closure and a reduction in customer service. Operationally this reduction has resulted in increased response times, reductions of vehicle staffing and increases in overtime. The purpose of this paper was to identify why personnel were leaving the department and to suggest ways to improve employee retention. Descriptive and evaluative research methods were utilized to answer the following research questions: 1. 2. 3. Why have members left the Range Complex Fire Department? In general, why do employees leave the fire organizations they work for? What does the upper management team of the RCFD believe are the reasons personnel are leaving the department? 4. What retention programs are used by other federal fire departments? To identify why employees were leaving the RCFD nine interviews were conducted with former employees that had left the department in the last five years. A literature review was conducted to locate information on why employees leave organizations. Seven interviews were conducted with the upper management team of the RCFD to find out why they believed personnel were leaving the department. To identify retention programs within other federal fire departments an interview was conducted with the Chief of Fire Protection for the Air Force Materials Command...
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... The scope of the study embraces a solution that will lead the restoration of the Basilica to realities and treat the problems involving its reestablishment. Being a national heritage and considered to be one of the first Roman Catholic churches in the Philippines, it is our objective to restore a historical edifice and preserve its cultural legacy and customs. On October 15, 2013, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook Bohol at approximately 8:00 in the morning. It caused millions of worth of casualties, hundreds of families devastated, destroyed numerous properties and damaged many historical landmarks and churches, including the Basilica de Sto. Nino. The earthquake crushed most of the belfry and façade; walls and frescoes are cracked, leaving the church in verge of total wreckage. To prevent an entire loss, propositions involving the repair and rebuilding of the damaged areas are to be provided as well as redesigning of the structure’s stability will furnish its constancy to be able to withstand future disastrous occurrences. Our team is focused on analyzing the Basilica’s present condition, what steps to take and plans to make in order to accomplish the goal of this proposal. The purpose of this paper is to inform and remind our readers that we should pay attention and value the elements and components that makes up our historical and cultural identity which completes and fabricates what and...
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...Papers/Capstones 8-1-2010 Evaluating point-of-sale buying decisions: Understanding why consumers purchase timeshares Lisa Y. Thomas University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations Part of the Marketing Commons, and the Real Estate Commons Repository Citation Thomas, Lisa Y., "Evaluating point-of-sale buying decisions: Understanding why consumers purchase timeshares" (2010). UNLV Theses/Dissertations/Professional Papers/Capstones. Paper 868. This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Scholarship@UNLV. It has been accepted for inclusion in UNLV Theses/ Dissertations/Professional Papers/Capstones by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact marianne.buehler@unlv.edu. EVALUATING POINT-OF-SALE BUYING DECISIONS: UNDERSTANDING WHY CONSUMERS PURCHASE TIMESHARES by Lisa Young Thomas Bachelor of Business Administration Sam Houston State University 1986 Master of Science, Hotel Administration University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2007 A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in Hospitality Administration William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration Graduate College University of Nevada, Las Vegas August 2010 Copyright by Lisa Young Thomas 2010 All Rights Reserved THE GRADUATE COLLEGE We recommend the dissertation prepared under our supervision...
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...Factors Influencing Visitor's Choices to Visit Urban Destinations Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation Canadian Tourism Commission Canadian Heritage Parks Canada PREPARED BY: PREPARED FOR: Global Insight, Inc. June 2004 Table of Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................. 1 Highlights................................................................................................................................ 1 Study Summary........................................................................................................................ 1 Recommendations ................................................................................................................... 2 Next Steps................................................................................................................................ 3 II. III. IV. A. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 4 STUDY OBJECTIVE....................................................................................................... 4 METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................... 5 LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................................................... 6 Introduction............................................
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