...China was a choice on the list. An explorer by the name of Marco Polo sailed to China in the 13th century , his adventurous life , and his contribution to the world , will be our topic of discussion . Marco Polo They called him “the man with a million stories.” People flocked to Marco Polo’s home to hear him tell exciting tales about his travels in distant lands. Marco Polo won fame for his journeys across Asia. He wrote a book about his travels that became one of the most famous travel guides in history. Marco Polo was born in 1254 to a family of merchants. His home was Venice, Italy. Venetian merchants bought and sold valuable Chinese goods, including precious silk cloth. Such goods were brought to Europe along an ancient route known as the Silk Road. The merchants also used the route to travel east on trading missions. This famous explorer left his home in Venice in 1271 to sail for a journey of a twenty four-year. A journey that took him where no European had been before. He went across the Middle East to Central Asia . Yet, when Marco returned home, he told the amazing stories to very few people. In the thirteenth century, European traders wanted to enlarge their business to new parts of the world. Among them were Marco, Marco’s father and uncle, who had already successfully made one training exploration journey to Asia. But, by the time they arrived in Cathay (present day China) three and half years later, Marco had learnt enough, including four new languages, to get...
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...During his travels during the 1200’s, Marco Polo traveled from China to India via the China Sea. Marco Polo describes the China Sea as having 7,448 islands that for the most part are inhabited. These islands have trees that give off a wonderful fragrance and the islands are filled with spices. When ships from Zaiton or Kinsai visit the islands, they have great profit margins but it takes a full year too sail to these islands and back home. This paper examines the major islands that Marco Polo visited during his travels through the China Sea. The first island Marco Polo discussed was Japan. Japan is a large island, east of China by about 1,500 miles. Marco Polo described the Japanese people as fair-complexioned, good-looking, and well-mannered. They were also idolaters who were independent and had no other nation to govern. Japan was also blessed with a large amount of gold, partly because no one exported any gold off of the island. I believe Marco Polo was amazed at the amount of gold found on the island since he went into great detail about how the emperor’s palace was roofed entirely of gold, floored with gold in all of the rooms, and about how the halls and windows were embellished with gold. A custom of the Japanese people that Marco Polo mentioned was that their dead is either cremated or buried. If a person is buried, then a red pearl is placed in their mouth. However, Marco Polo dose not elaborated on why a pearl is placed in the deceased’s mouth. (Latham 1958) Chamba...
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...Marco Polo was one of the most important European explorers that traveled from Europe to Asia. When Marco was fifteen, he, his father and uncle set off to Asia. The journey was about three years long and they stayed in China for seventeen years. Three years later they returned to Venice, and Marco Polo was appointed commander of a Venetian ship in a war against Genoa. He was captured and, while being held in a Genovese prison, he met a prisoner named Rustichello. Marco told him of all his adventures and Rustichello wrote a book about them called "Books of the Marvels of the World," or better known in English as "The Travels of Marco Polo.” Although the book was a huge success, some did not believe all of it was true. Marco still knew that it...
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...In 1254, Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy. Marco was a Venetian merchant and explorer, whose travels in Asia molded the idea for the European image of the east up until the 19th century. Marco Polo was a large influence to many of the later explorers. Be it through his book, “The Travels of Marco Polo”, which mainly described Polo’s travels through China, Indonesia, and Persia between 1276 and 1291. There have been many speculations through the years whether Marco Polo accomplished all of the things he said he did. Despite the negativity, Marco Polo affected history, and is still important in learning about history to this day. Details on Marco’s personal life is nearly non-existent, except for the information that is given in his book....
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...Marco Polo was an explorer and traveler who experienced many adventures. When Marco Polo was six, his dad and uncle set out on an adventure to China. His Mom had already passed away, so he was taken care of by extended family. He was fifteen when his dad and uncle returned to Venice. They decided to take him back to China with them. They used the Silk Road to travel. The Silk Road was a trade route or route for travel that brought goods like silk from China to the Roman Empire, and then to the rest of the Western World. It was over 4,000 miles long. The Silk Road helped to create ideas, inventions, new cultures, and unique products. Most of the trade was very expensive. This was mostly because it was such a long route and most people did...
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...Every student is taught that Marco Polo brought back goods and spices from Asia and introduced these to Europe. He sailed out of his home city and began a twenty four year journey that spanned the entire length of the Asian continent. He encountered diverse groups of people and learned about their cultures and traditions along the way. What most people don’t know is that Polo described his journey to Rustichello da Pisa while they were together in prison. Pisa carefully listened to his stories and helped him put his journey into writing. This collaboration resulted in an influential travelogue titled Description of the World, which was published in 1300 in Venice. This publication, which was read by quite a few upper class men and women in Europe, explains all aspects of Polo’s voyage. Many years later, Ronald Latham translates this book into English, which allows the majority of the world’s population to read about the brilliant journey of Marco Polo. Historians, students, and regular people are now able to read about Polo’s journey and gain a wealth of information of the journey itself and the things and people...
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...An Analysis on the Claimed Marcos' Unworthiness A critical essay in response to Dariwn Mendiola's "Five Reasons why Marcos should not be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani" "The controversy is not the very act of burying Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani but to or not to consider him as a hero." This is from the article of Darwin Mendiola entitled "Five Reasons why Marcos should not be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani." It mainly states justifications why Marcos cannot be a Philippine hero. These include the violation of the law, wickedness of the Martial Law, regression during the Marcos Regime, difficulty in revising history and exoneration of the Marcoses' past crimes. This precisely written article is clearly one-sided which contains insignificant arguments and irrelevant supports with fallacious statements. After every given reason, there is a statement to conclude and describe how immoral it is to bury Ferdinand Marcos' remains at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. This proves that the article is against Marcos which makes it biased. In addition, it also doesn't indicate any good happenings on the Marcos regime or at least talk about why people consider Ferdinand Marcos to be buried at the LNMB. The article provided specific examples and situations which occurred during the Marcos' era, making it very precise. However, some of the given examples are unimportant and unrelated to the topic. Particular republic act numbers are mentioned by the author with their...
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...Introduction Venetian traveler, Marco Polo had an incredible influence on areas of what is at this point current day China. As a result of their hunt for areas, and also quite a few other locations from the Eastern, such as Belgium, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and also Indian, China began to try out Developed culture. Traversing this Cotton Path, Marco Polo was ready to not only deliver elements of Developed culture to your Eastern but Eastern culture backside to your West. Although Polo was unable to provide considerably westernization to China himself, he/she invoked any aspire to potential European people to participate in Eastern interactions. This was because, after Polo's returning, he returned to Venice using Japanese attire along with secrets currently happening from your Eastern, and...
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...Marco Polo’s Terrific Journey Through Asia Imagine becoming the governor of China when you’re from Italy, that’s what Marco Polo did on his journey through Asia. When one hears the name Marco Polo he or she thinks of the game, but Marco Polo was much more than a game. Marco Polo’s journey through Asia made him the most well known traveler of the Middle Ages. According to Diana Childress in her book, Marco Polo’s Journey to China, Marco Polo’s journey didn’t start with him; it actually started with his father and grandfather. They arrived at Sudak being Venetian merchants. In 1254 when they arrived in Venice, Italy Marco Polo was born (Marco Polo). In her book Marco Polo’s Journey to China, Diana Childress states that Marco went with his father and grandfather on their journey. As Marco Polo grew older his adventures began. At a young age, Marco Polo was already very interested in exploring. According to Dale Anderson in his book...
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...Castillo De San Marcos (St. Mark’s Castle) During the seventeenth century, the great nation of Spain had many territories across the world thanks to its great explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Pedro Menéndez de Aviléas. One territory that stood out from the rest however was the Floridian Peninsula. The colony there had a major port city known as St. Augustine which was founded by Pedro Menéndez de Aviléas on September 8, 1565. St. Augustine held significant importance for Spain because it was the defensive foothold of the entire Floridian Peninsula; it was a land rich with natural resources and was a port for trade. With that, in 1668, the city of St. Augustine was attacked by pirates when the city lacked good defenses against such attacks. After that conflict, the Queen of Spain, Mariana decided that it was time for a better fort to be built for the defense of the port and city. Queen Mariana appointed a new governor of Florida who went by the name of Manuel de Cendoya. Cendoya was put in charge of also getting the new fort built for the city of St. Augustine. He went to New Spain (Mexico) to gain the funds for the project, and then on his way to Florida, he decided to stop in Havana, Cuba to look for laborers, masons, and other types of workmen for the new job. During his search, he came across an engineer who was living in Cuba at the time named Ignacio Daza. Cendoya felt he would be a great asset to this project and so Daza was appointed the leader of the project...
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...MARCO METODOLÓGICO 3.1 DISEÑO DE INVESTIGACIÓN El diseño de nuestra investigación tendrá datos confiables que serán recopilados para poder lograr nuestro objetivo de llegar a una conclusión sobre la cultura organizacional de Wong. En cuanto a las fuentes serán de campo, es decir, serán recopiladas en un ambiente natural, en nuestro caso los mismos colaboradores de la empresa en su ambiente de trabajo. 3.1.1 NIVEL DE INVESTIGACIÓN El nivel de nuestra investigación será descriptiva ya que se evaluarán todos los resultados de la investigación y se harán conclusiones de nuestros resultados encontrados. 3.2 POBLACIÓN La población de Wong está constituida por un grupo de más de 11,000 colaboradores distribuidos en los departamentos de Lima, Trujillo, Chiclayo, Lambayeque y Cajamarca 3.3 MUESTRA Se tratará de encuestar a los colaboradores de al menos 5 Wong ubicados en el departamento de Lima, a un aproximado de 30 colaboradores. 3.4 TÉCNICAS E INSTRUMENTOS PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN Para la recolección de datos se utilizará la técnica de la encuesta, el cual nos ayudará a recopilar la información necesaria para poder realizar un análisis de la cultura organizacional de Wong. Se creará un test dirigido a los colaboradores de la empresa con preguntas preparadas que estarán relacionadas con el tema de la cultura organizacional de la empresa, como colaboradores tendrán conocimiento e información interesante para la investigación. 3.5 TÉCNICAS PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DE LA INFORMACIÓN ...
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...Must Read: The Underlying Principle behind the Proposal and Presentation A proposal serves the purpose of selling an audience on something. It attempts to sway a group of people to your way of thinking. A proposal is not a term paper or a study strict. It’s supported by studies but isn’t a study in itself. It has to be structured in such a way that the reader can easily read and quickly process the information. Oftentimes the proposal is accompanied with a presentation. So, the reader will have to do double-time when it comes to information processing. Let me share with you a recent presentation horror story: A company salesperson came to my organization trying to persuade us to buy the product they were pitching. The product was a fairly good product but the pitch was horrible. The proposal was written like a study. The font was much too small and the line spacing was much too close. Additionally, the slide presentation had no pictures to set the mood and the presenter read from the slides… boring! This happens much too often. The "A" Paper example is a good proposal structure that has been used in business by me and other instructors that are business veterans. Please print out the example and follow its basic format. If you have problems creating text boxes or proper alignments please get assistance from the library staff or a friend. Changes here and there are OK. The presentation should contain between 8 to 12 slides and to be accompanied by a one-page executive briefing...
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...To explain the value of his relationship with outsourcing and offshoring firm Cognizant, Kimberly-Clark chief information officer Ramon Baez recalls a conversation he had with one of its on-site consultants who rattled off such an impressive string of business metrics that he had to stop her to ask how she knew his business so well. "I remember asking the young lady presenting to me how much she knew about what goes on inside Kimberly-Clark," Baez says. "Because I was thinking, 'Wow, she's really knowledgeable.' And she told me, 'Oh, I've been on the project from the beginning. Yeah, that's how we do things.'" Baez had joined Kimberly-Clark in early 2007, shortly after the engagement with Cognizant started, so he hadn't initially realized the extent to which members of the project team were the same people who had come in to study Kimberly-Clark's operations and put together the vendor's initial proposal. That struck him as remarkable partly because of his experience with other outsourcers at prior jobs. "I've seen these vendors have a fantastic proposal team, and the reason the company wins the proposal is because of the people on that team. But then as soon as they've got it, those people move off to another contract, and you get someone you have no relationship with to run the actual project," he says. Because Cognizant has proven willing to make a serious investment in understanding Kimberly-Clark's business as well as its information technology needs, the $18.3 billion...
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...Secret Shoppers Proposal Call to Action and Conclusion Powerpoint Content: Call to Action: What needs to be done? --- Hiring in-house secret shoppers When? --- As soon as possible after assigning duties By whom? --- Nate, Denise, Catherine How? --- Hiring at least 12 secret shoppers, 2 for each city, each goes to at least five stores every day Conclusion: …… Presentation Content: Call to Action: ( What needs to be done? When? By Whom? How? ) Now that we have identified the problems and have the solutions, there are actions that need to be done. We need to hire the in-house secret shoppers. Because there are so many Maverik convenience stores in the Salt Lake Valley, we need to employ at least two secret shoppers for each city. Because it contains six cities (Salt Lake City, Murray, Sandy, South Jordan, West Jordan and West Valley), we will need at least 12 secret shoppers in total. Take Salt Lake City for example, we can hire two secret shoppers and each one of them go to two sides of the city: one goes to southern and western, another goes to northern and eastern. We need to assign each secret shopper to go to at least five stores every day. Their duties included talking to the store managers, cashiers, greeters and even some of the customers for getting the information of overall service quality. They also need to take times to observe how the store employees interact with the customers and check the cleanliness of the whole store environment. The secret shoppers need...
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...Managing your Major Sales - 7 Steps that could change your Business Mike Wilkinson of Axia Value Solutions looks at ways of improving performance, lowering costs and building profitability Ever lost a sale you thought was in the bag? Not an unfamiliar feeling for many businesses large and small. No matter how good you think your product or service is, everything finally boils down to your ability to convince others that it is good for them. It is all about getting the decision makers who matter to say "Yes". In major sales the whole approach is fundamentally different to small scale selling and requires a very different set of skills and techniques. Being competent in the small, simple sale is no guarantee of success in larger scale selling. The traditional techniques and "tricks of the trade" such as closing don't seem to work in quite the same way in the more complex large scale sale. They are replaced by precise planning, information gathering and behavioural skills that build trust in the minds of the decision makers. Fundamental to this is the development of a detailed understanding of how decisions are made in your target customer and who the key players are. So what constitutes a major sale? For most businesses they have a number of characteristics: 1. A lengthy sales cycle. This can vary from a few days to a few months or more depending on the industry. 2. Multiple decision makers. Any decision becomes complex as soon as more than one person is involved in making it...
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