...Reading the excerpt from Walden helped me appreciate life as it is. The novel Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, is a day to day account of his experiences at Walden Pond. Thoreau focused on the idea of a simple life and encouraged his readers to simplify their lives as he stated, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.” It may have been easier to live by his theory of a simple life in the 1800’s as opposed to today because of the latest advancements in technology. The American population has become very dependent on the luxuries of life (such as the computer, the car, the cell phone, etc.) that it would be more difficult to live and function without them. Thanks to the media and advertising, there is a constant race between people to obtain the latest technology or even fashion apparel. For example; about a three weeks ago, a pair of Jordan sneakers, the Concords, were released in stores. Almost every teenager in America battled to buy these sneakers. It got way out of hand, to the point where a group of boys stabbed a young man just to steal his sneakers. Thoreau’s idea of living a simple life should be taken more into consideration these days. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. The general public is more materialistic these days than ever and it would be very difficult to break them out of this habit. Thoreau...
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...Agavni Saakyan, Amanda Tate, Andrea Nunes De Moraes, Angelita Onate, Aquintas Bradley, Nicole Bentley MKT/ 421 July 14, 2014 The Life Skills Center offers a variety of products and services for individuals and families in need. These services allow an individual to better opportunities to advance themselves and overcome addictions. A person or family in need can come to the center to obtain their GED, obtain help with job hunting and interviewing techniques. We also offer more detailed programs such as counseling and addiction programs to help those in need make better choices for not only themselves but their families. Having a center that offers a variety of services gives someone in need options to make better choices. Our client’s needs will be solved in a variety of ways. A potential client could come to the center and enroll in our addiction program. This program will help this individual overcome their problems and open their eyes to new opportunities and possibly a new life. These opportunities can also be worked upon within the center. Once their addiction program comes to an end, they can seek a new opportunity; such as obtaining their GED. Taking this first step allows so many other doors to open for them to become a better person and get back to contributing in the workforce and society. Once the GED program is completed, the life skills center will help them channel their interest in careers, look for a career and help them practice the interviewing skills needed...
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...Economics of Daily Life Economics of Daily Life Economics is a study of how society manages its scarce resources. The literal translation for economy is “one who manages a household.” “In an increasingly complex world connected by social and economic interaction and interdependence, news of stock market fluctuations, consumer confidence scores, and various economic indicators fill the media” (Broome & Preston-Grimes, 2011). This means that economics is everywhere, even in a home. Every household makes decisions that follow the economic principles. There are tradeoffs, and incentives. Supply and demand regularly show up in a household setting, as do decisions regarding limits on price and time. I am a single mom and the science of economics is a daily occurrence, at the grocery store, while doing homework, and in my choice of home and bills. Economics is an inevitable part of most people’s daily lives. It occurs in every facet of home, work, and school. There are ten principles to economics. They are the decisions that need to be made in regards to the jobs that need to be done, and the management of the resources that will allow the necessities to be provided. One of the principles that occur most in my daily life is tradeoffs. Tradeoffs occur when a person has to choose between one thing and another, forgoing one desirable option, for the more beneficial, sometimes undesired option. In a study done in 2011, a Montessori middle school set up a school store. Some...
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...curve and one shift of the demand curve from the simulation, including an explanation of why these shifts happen. In addition, analyzed for each shift, their impact on the equilibrium price, quantity, and decision making. Subsequently, it will mention different ways in which concepts about supply and demand can be useful in the workplace and in real life-situations. The paper will also discuss ways in which models of microeconomics and macroeconomics benefit in understanding aspects that affect changes in supply and demand on the equilibrium price and quantity. Finally, the paper will include an explanation on how the price elasticity of demand affects the consumer’s purchasing and on the firm’s pricing strategy. Microeconomics models presently in the simulation are: supply and demand. The simulation refers to the supply and demand of rentals apartments in a small city of Atlantis, including the factors. At the same time, it shows the impact of a price ceiling on the quantity demanded and quantity supply. In contrast, at a macroeconomic level, we can mention the different scenarios and also the changes in population trends when it comes to deciding whether to rent or not to rent apartments. According to Colander (2010), “the law of the demand says that quantity demanded increases as price falls, other things constant”....
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...S.W.O.T Analysis * Strengths 1. Nokia covering every segment, broad range of products. 2. Nokia ability to have relatively stable assets throughout a long term. 3. It has strong financial position with the ability to gain supports for backup finance. 4. Nokia powerful and well organized to balance the flowing movement of money. 5. Great product availability 6. Great price point coverage, from low price to very high price 7. User friendly, multi functions detailed mapping cater accurately all the regions across the world. 8. Reliance of Nokia’s Siemens Network global business solutions by other companies. 9. Nokia wide distribution of employees specifically in each countries, make them more competence in understanding the specific need of each countries 10. Nokia’s patent can give greater and additional revenue for Nokia 11. The copyright licenses of their patents guarantee that there will be no followers from other. 12. Easier and fast supply chain management and distribution experience. 13. Nokia has efficient and diverse innovation technology 14. Nokia ability to quickly response the changes in trends and developed another strategies 15. Nokia can maximize profit through minimization in cost with diverse sourcing and partnering 16. Understand the needs of global world, to cater every each people globally 17. Collaborated with famous local and Korean boy band to create brand awareness. 18. Has...
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...each devices features. While shopping on the internet for the best computer system I had hundreds of choices. I decided to narrow my choices down by picking a device that had all the features I needed in a computer system, but had a reasonable price tag for a full time worker and a part time student budget. The best option for me is the Dell Inspiron 660, and the Canon PIXMA MG2220 all-n-one printer it has all the features and needs that I would need in a personal home desktop system. The price point for this desktop is around $529.00. This device can be purchased at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Hhgreeg making it accessible to most for in store purchase. This desktop is also available for purchase online as well from the dell website directly for the price listed above. The system software consists of OS Provided Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition. The system setup specs consist of Intel Pentium G630 / 2.7 GHz with a Dual-Core processor that includes 64-bit computing. The installed RAM size 4 GB / 8 GB (max). The optical storage available this device is DVD/RW. The graphics controller on this computer is Integrated which includes Graphics Processor / Vendor Intel HD Graphics, Video Interfaces HDMI, and VGA. When it comes to these devices audio output this...
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...and quick on our feet to come up the answers or reactions that we need. System 1 is defined as “operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control” (Kahneman, 2008). So when I think of system one thinking I think of everyday task that I do to get myself through the day, for an example when I am brushing my teeth I don’t have to think very hard and long about where I need to put the toothpaste or how to brush my teeth. When we are dealing with anchoring heuristics and system 1 thinking there are many situations that I can think of where anchoring heuristics may raise some biases when we are using system 1. One heuristic that I can think of is when you are looking to buy a used car from a dealership they have a price set and when you look at the price they are asking you automatically come back with a counter offer. Here we are using system 1 because we don’t have to sit and think very long about the price we want to pay, a lot of times people already have the price in mind for what they want to pay before they even get to the dealership. With anchoring heuristics come cognitive biases, even if it’s not on your end. What cognitive biases are in the situation described above about the used car, would be the person who is trying to sell you the car for the price that they want because the car has a special accommodation that no other model would be able to offer you. Once the anchor is set (the price of the car) this is when we...
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...EFFECTIVE WRITING The Factor Plus Mart Always Crowded at Certain Time A. Background Nowadays many people must have some goods to support their life, like hand phone, car, food, drink and some goods that is very important to our life. From time to time, the important of goods is so important, many people realize they must need to fill their daily life with some thing that going to help them. The important is food stock, because without food stock, people can’t live. So, some of them like to buy the good for their live. They usually buy it at store that have sell goods because goods have the limit and it can be empty at several time, like noodle, flour, oil, and some thing that we usually use. So many people buy the goods from some several place that provide them with what they want like a hyper mart that support people in Pontianak with some food that really important for them, and it really complete because it have many kind, but in here we going to tell you about some big store that we think. In here we going to tell you about some big store that we usually go to buy some goods. As we know, nowadays there is many big store in Pontianak, and each of them have their own category and the size of each store is different. The big store are : • Mini market is one of shop that usually stands near many housing. It provide food, drink and some daily like product that we usually need. It’s like supermarket but is small and don’t have many product...
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...questions Chapter 1: Describe the evidence that suggests that Chicago prostitutes engage in price discrimination. In addition, explain why it is possible for this particular instance of price discrimination to be successful. There is a couple of different things that directly show how Chicago prostitutes engage in price discrimination, the first is by skin color. The book directly says “Prostitutes do not charge all customers the same price. Black customers, for instance, pay on average about $9 less per trick than white customers, while Hispanic customers are in the middle” (p 35.) Another big one is giving police officers “freebies”. Some of the more high class prostitutes were able to discriminate even further by raising their rates on people they didn’t like, while still offering the previous rate to favorite customers, this is represented in the book by the statement “She grandfathered in her favorite clients at the old rate but told her less-favorite clients that an hour now cost $400” (p 54.) The last big one to mention is price discrimination for drug dealers, or price negotiations for drugs. Prostitutes are savvy businesswomen who know how to price discriminate very successfully to get what they want. Many factors contribute to why prostitutes are able to pull off such successful price discrimination. The book outlines the two major conditions that must be met to allow price discrimination to be possible in business, customers exhibiting identifiable traits that put...
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...Audience Use Profile: (General) this report is intended for anyone in the market to purchase a tablet computer. May 5, 2015 Feasibility Report: Choosing the right tablet Table of Contents Section Page Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………………....i Illustrations………………………………………………………………………………….…ii Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………….….iii Introduction Problem Statement………………………………………………………………….…5 Purpose of Report…………………………………………………………………..….5 Scope………………………………………………………………………………..…5 Choice Evaluations Apple Ipad Air 2……………………………………………………………….…..9-12 Google Nexus 9………………………………………………………………….…7-9 Asus Vivotab 8……………………………………………………………………...6-7 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………..12-13 Recommendation……………………………………………………………………………..13 Sources Cited…………………………………………………………………………………14 Illustrations Page Figure 1: Asus Vivotab 8………………………………………………………………….6 Figure 2: Google Nexus 9…………………………………………………………………8 Figure 3: Apple Ipad Air 2………………………………………………………………..10 Table 1: Asus Vivotab 8 Specifications…………………………………………………..7 Table 2 Google Nexus 9 Specifications…………………………………………………..9 Table 3: Apple...
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...CONTRACT AND PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT Generally, negotiation takes place when two or more parties come together in order to have a mutually agreeable contractual decision against the competing interest. Each and every individual have to take part into negotiation in his/her life whether it is personal or organizational. The need of negotiation is based on different purposes. A person may have to negotiate in businesses for different reasons that may be increase in salary, work schedule or promotion or position in the company, expansion of business, purchase or sale of goods or services etc. On the other hand, one can also have to enter into negotiation either to purchase land, home, computers, cars or other appliances, for personal use respectively. To my personal experience, one of the most remarkable negotiations had taken place in my life when I with my wife have to negotiate while purchasing the land, in India for the running the jungle resort. For this, we contacted the brokers and real states and they showed us different properties. So, we visited different places but doesn’t interested us as per the location and the size of land etc. Finally, we came across with the property that was situated in village district area, from where we can view the panoramic view of nature and also has the good sight-seeing of wild animals. The location was best and was perfect from the view point of tourist. So, we both liked the location very much and decided to meet with Mr. Raju Gupta, the...
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...Reverend Nathan Price is diversely defined by each of each of his daughters and wife at the beginning of the Poisonwood Bible. Throughout the story each of the girls opinions of their father begin to change and the reader is able to determine and build his/her own opinion of Nathan Price. Orleanna, Leah, Adah, Rachel, and Ruth May portray their own side of Nathan throughout their chapters, giving the reader enough information to formulate an explanation for his actions and beliefs. Although we do hear her side of the story, Orleanna is not outspoken with her family. We hear from Orleanna in her chapters of the regret she has of never having a life of her own because of everything that she had given up for her husband or daughters. Although at the beginning of their marriage Orleanna loved the man that Nathan was, quickly after he was drafted into World War II everything seemed to change. When...
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...Chapter 12 & 13 2- Well in my own words I am going to try to explain price and non-price competition with a scenario/ example. Wal-Mart is definitely the best (in my opinion) using the price competition approach against its competitors which is pretty much all kind of business out there from groceries, electronics, auto and others. They have what they call a “low price guaranty” and the “matching price” on others. This is one of the most aggressive pricing strategies out there. On another hand, you have a company like Brookshire’s, in Tyler which definitely cannot compete which so a big market like Wal-Mart so they approach is a non-price competition because their focus is more is the quality of their product and customer service. Like for example, the store brand quality between these two is big. The quality of the Brookshire’s brand is better (in my opinion). So by focusing in these areas Brookshire’s stays relevant in the grocery business against big corporations. I believe these two approaches obviously work better when they are competing in the same market. Like staples against office depot both have to compare prices and have a price competition approach. 4- * characteristics * Product or a service that people cannot live without. For example: Utilities service like water, electricity, a drug or medicine that some people depend on to live or survive. This kind of product if the price changes people have no other option that just getting it. * In many...
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...In the Anglo Saxon poem Beowulf, by an unknown author, “wergild,"(man price) is used throughout the story to illustrate the battles and deaths that take place. Commonly in the story, after a death, a wergild is demanded by a family member or friend of someone who was killed. The man price is owed by the one who caused the death. Wergild is crucial part of the Beowulf, allowing the story to progress on with it’s victories and loses of the epic hero himself, Beowulf. One of the first wergilds in the story is owed after Edgetheo killed a member of the Wulfing tribe. He would have had to face retribution if he did not pay his wergild. Edgetheo had to give something that was valuable enough to compensate for the man’s death. However, he did...
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...investment, financing and valuation decisions.3 In finance, the discounted cash flow model operates as the basic framework for most analysis. In investment analysis, for instance, the conventional view is that the net present value of a project is the measure of the value that it will add to the firm taking it. Thus, investing in a positive (negative) net present value project will increase (decrease) value. In capital structure decisions, a financing mix that minimizes the cost of capital, without impairing operating cash flows, increases firm value and is therefore viewed as the optimal mix. In valuation, the value of a firm is the present value of the expected cash flows from the assets of the firm. In recent years, this framework has come under some fire for failing to consider the options that are embedded in each of these actions. For instance, the net present value of a project does not capture the values of the options to...
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