... 666 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y 10103 * Printed in the United States of America On November, 1987 with 434 pages. Part II. Characters A.Major Characters * MARY ASHLEY – A loving mother of Beth and Tim from America’s hearltland, Kansas City. She’s grieving for her lost husband. She’s a brilliant professor learning how to become a tope diplomat and the one person the President is relying on to reform U.S relations with the communist block. * STANTON ROGERs – the presidential foreign affairs adviser. He was also the President’s closest friend at the same time, the Controller of the Patriot for Freedom * MIKE SLADE – the deputy of her mission; the tough career diplomat who can be both tender and cold. And the only person she will have reason to suspect of plotting her death. * LOUIS DEFORGES – a doctor attached to the French embassy; a handsome charmer whom Mary will be tempted to...
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...As Mike Waterson's opinions were considered above the opinions of the robotics department, this decision was not just. \subsection{The Waterfall Model} \subsubsection{The Decision} The Waterfall Model of software development was chosen over the Prototype Model, courtesy of Sam Reynolds. \subsubsection{Background} Sam Reynolds, due to his background in data processing, chose the Waterfall Model, which he was more familiar with, over the Prototyping model, which was supported by his staff and was a superior choice for the project. The use of the Waterfall Model led to a product that was difficult for operators to use, which contributed the incident. \subsubsection{Analysis} Again, Sam Reynolds' decision was being considered above the opinions of most other employees in the robotics decision, which was unfair. \subsection{The Early Shipping} \subsubsection{The Decision} The robot arm was shipped out, despite being unfinished and was internally known to be buggy....
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...2015 Mike Webster Concussions have been a big problem since the day the NFL started. People did not know how dangerous football was until the crisis of Mike Webster broke out in the 90s. He played for Pittsburgh, played in the center, and wore number 52. By wearing that number he knew he obviously had to be the toughest player on the field. By playing in the center, there was no glory for Mike Webster. It was play after play while going in head to head with other players. Most guys play for 6 years or so, and then retire but that was not the case for Mike Webster. He played for 17 years in a dangerous game that he loved a lot. After he retired from the NFL, he was a different person than he was before he started playing in the NFL. Pam Webster recalled, “To see his brain declining years later was such a sad thing, because he was incredibly smart, and what I've said the boys have this gift that they see detail that no one else picks up on, and Mike had that gift.” During a football game, sometimes Mike would see someone flexing, moving, and he would then draw them off to the side just by moving his body. He basically knew where everything was on the field. If you were to look for that in his old films when he was playing, you would see mike notice something like that play, and he would turn to Terry Bradshaw and tell him to change the play. Mike was the master of the game for sure. Mike’s ex-wife Pam Webster, said in League of Denial that she had more respect for Mike than any...
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...Contents Executive Summary: 2 1. Personality: 4 1.1 The Big Five Personality Factors of Richard Branson: 4 1.1.1. Expression style 4 1.1.2. Interpersonal style 4 1.1.3. Work style 5 1.1.4. Emotional style 6 1.1.5. Intellectual style 6 1.2 Myers Briggs Type Indicator of Richard Branson: 7 1.2.1. Extrovert: 7 1.2.2. Intuitive: 7 1.2.3. Feeling: 8 1.2.4. Perceiving: 8 1.3 Personality Traits of Richard Branson: 9 1.3.1. Locus of control: 9 1.3.2. Authoritarianism: 9 1.3.3. Dogmatism: 9 1.3.4. Machiavellianism: 9 1.3.5. Risk Propensity: 9 1.3.6. Self-Esteem: 9 1.3.7 Self-Monitoring: 10 2. Secrets of Success 11 2.1. He enjoys what he does 11 2.2. He creates Something That Stands Out 11 2.3. He Creates Something That Everybody Who Works For Him Is Really Proud Of 11 2.4. Be a Good Leader 12 2.5. Be Visible 12 2.6. Be Calculative 12 3. Success in Other Businesses 13 4. Conclusion: 14 Executive Summary: Sir Richard Branson, one of the Britain’s richest men, born on July 18, 1950 in England, left school at the age of 17 because of his unrecognized dyslexia made teacher assume that he will “either go to prison or become a millionaire”. Richard Branson, one of the outstanding business personalities of our time, is a risk taker who has never allowed setbacks to block his road to success. He points himself as independent, stubborn, cunning, a team player, affectionate, irreverent towards authority and competitive. Branson consider his business and personal...
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...Analysis of the short story ‘Accident’ ‘Accident’ is a short story written by Molly Giles in 2012. The story takes place in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in August. Arkansas is a state in the US and is placed in the bible belt. The bible belt refers to an area in the southeastern United States where Christianity is deeply embedded in everyday life and also in this story. The protagonist is far away from home (California, on the West Coast). It is a hot afternoon and our protagonists is on her way to the airport to pick up her friend, when all of a sudden she bumps in to another man’s car. Because she is already shaky do to a breakup, it shocks and affects her, more than it normally would have. This story starts in medias res and has a first-person narrator; this means that the story is narrated by one character speaking for and about themselves: “He pressed my hand so firmly to his chest I could feel his heart thump against my palm” this quote shows the protagonist’s view of the situation. The story is written in the past tense, and is a flash back: “On my way to the airport I hit a Christian. This was in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, on a hot afternoon last August.” In the story there are a lot of advanced words such as: errant and blasphemer. “……I tried to tug my skirt down” this quote indicates the narrator is a girl, wearing a skirt is very unlikely for men. The narrator is broken hearted and she is sick of missing her ex-boyfriend: “…….because Levon Helm was making...
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...Salmonella to its largest customer. Mike’s needs to decide how to prevent the infection from reaching the public while minimizing financial losses and damage to its reputation. Mike’s can hide this information from the restaurant chain or even instruct them to pasteurize the food to inactivate the bacteria. However, any slip-ups can lead to regulatory issues and multi-million dollar lawsuits. It is recommended that Mike’s should initiate a food recall. Although this is a costly option, but it ensures public safety and garners customer and employee goodwill, which will be beneficial in the long-term. * Number of words: 108 Table of Contents Situational Analysis 1 Problem 2 Options 2 Criteria for Evaluation 2 Evaluation of Options 2 Recommendation 5 Action Plan 5 List of References 6 Exhibits 7 Situational Analysis Michael’s Homestyle Pasta, a leading supplier of gourmet stuffed pasta shells, has recently acquired its arch-competitor, Southern Pasta Company. Mike’s faces a corporate nightmare as the recent lot of seafood stuffed pasta shells shipped out by Southern to a restaurant chain is tainted with Salmonella. The prior knowledge of the poisoning and the demand spike due to New Year festivities further aggravates the problem from an ethical and operational standpoint. The recall costs can be to the tune of $ 0.5 million, which represents almost 2% of the revenues. There is also an impending risk of losing the restaurant chain, which is the largest customer...
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...Individual Project 1 PSYC120-1201A-35: Psychology and Understanding Human Behavior: The Individual June 10, 2014 For the purposes of this assignment and the ones that follow, I have chosen to select Mike Tyson as my subject. It is my belief that his troubled childhood, meteoric rise to fame and fortune, and his often-controversial behavior in and out of the ring makes for an interesting character worthy of analysis. Michael Gerard Tyson was born June 30, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. He was only two years old when his father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick abandoned the family, leaving his mother, Lorna Tyson to take care of Mike and his two siblings, Rodney and Denise. She had a great deal of financial difficulty in supporting her family, and eight years later, she was forced to move her family into the tough, crime-ridden Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tyson, small and shy, was often the target of bullying. To combat this, young Michael began developing his own style of street fighting, and graduated from this to criminal activity. His gang, known as the Jolly Stompers, assigned him to clean out cash registers while older members held victims at gunpoint. He was only 11 at the time. He frequently ran into trouble with police over his petty criminal activities, and by the age of 13 he had been arrested more than 30 times. (Biography, 2012) His behavior eventually landed him in Tryon School for Boys, a tough reform school in upstate New York. It was here that he was introduced...
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...ENTE 2534 ASSIGNMENT 1 Criteria ‘The evolution of selling: a study of historic and contemporary sales methods and attitudes’ Name: Arun Sehgal Student Number: P11271202 Tutor Marking: Edwina Goodwin CRITERIA | COMMENTS | MARK | Introduction/Conclusion..5% | | | Depth and Range of academic research, and evidence of understanding 25% | | | Quality of examples both historic and contemporary25% | | | Quality of individual analytical discussion- convincing? 25% | | | Correct format as outlined in module guide; adequate & correct referencing, free from errors…………………….10% | | | Reflection… …10% | | | LESS 5% IF NO CRITERIA SHEET TOTAL MARKS | | Assignment 1 Title: ‘The Evolution of selling: a study of historic and contemporary sales methods and attitudes’ Tutorial Day: Wednesday – 12 to 1 Full Name: Arun Kumar Sehgal Student ID: P11271202 Module Name: The Creative art of selling and negotiation – ENTE 2534 In the last two century professional selling has evolved dramatically through various methodologies, practices and models that have been created in order to show the old and new ways of adaptive selling. Selling models have been made in order to show the complexity of selling techniques determining the outcome of a salespersons approach to a client, making sure that previous mistakes are not repeated. Key impacts and changes happened throughout the industrial revolution and 19th century. Customer...
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...analogue cinema does not exist anymore. Even films which are shot and edited using digital technology, in most cases, eventually will be printed onto film in order to be projected. I am interested in the transformation of storytelling and narration caused by digital revolution. I will analyse the shift that occurred in cinema after 1997, when the video techniques became more popular. I would like to avoid simplifying or dismissive statements about the aesthetics developed by digital techniques. It is a very rare occurrence for a film to be entirely analogue or digital. Therefore, I intend to talk about the intersection of digital and analogue techniques and the effect that digital practices have upon the tradition of storytelling. In their analysis of new media, Anna Everett and John T. Caldwell describe this intersection of analogue and digital with a term “digitextuality”. This fusion of “digital” and “intertextuality” illustrates the process in which old media acquire new shape and form: M.A. Digital Culture and Technology New digital media technologies make meaning not only by building a new text through absorption and transformation of other texts, but also by embedding the entirety of other texts (analogue and digital) seamlessly within the new. 1 My intention is to discuss the artistic rather than economical aspects of digital cinema. Simply because digital filmmaking is cheaper and more accessible than 35 mm film and it is difficult to argue with it. However, the...
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...Financial Analysis Krispy Kreme was a successful manufacturer of Doughnuts that was established in 1937 by a young entrepreneur named Vernon Rudolph. Rudolph was an industrious man who found clever ways to market and sell his unique confections to the American public. By the 1950’s Rudolph’s business had expanded to twenty-nine shops within twelve different states. Each shop featured pick-up windows (early versions of drive thrus) and possessed the capability of producing 500 dozen doughnuts per hour. In 1954, Mike Harding joined Rudolph as business partner in order to facilitate the expansion of the company. Both men realized that the quality of their products stemmed from having control over each aspect of the doughnut making process. If each item included the set amount of ingredients, was baked to perfection, and served hot to hungry customers, then all Krispy Kreme shops were to meet great success. Harding became the company’s president in 1958, and then went on to become chief executive officer after Rudolph’s death in 1973. Under both men, Krispy Kreme’s revenues grew from less than $1 million in 1958 to $58 million by 1974. In 1976, the company was bought by Beatrice Foods who decided to change the recipe, the 1950’s look of the doughnut shops, of course, the logo. Beatrice foods decision to modernized Krispy Kreme was received negatively by customers. In an effort to revive the company, a group of franchisee’s bought Krispy Kreme from Beatrice Foods for $22 million in...
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...The IRAC Method of Case Study Analysis LAW/531 April 27, 2014 The IRAC Method of Case Study Analysis Facts In the case of Martha Bull, 76, against Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, negligence was found in her death. Ms. Bull was admitted to the center for rehabilitation after a stroke. On the night of April 7, 2008 there was an order to have her sent to the emergency room; however, there was oversight and the order was ignored by the facilities staff. Around 10:00pm Ms. Bull was pronounced dead and the Faulkner courts found the facility guilty of negligence, medical malpractice and violation of resident’s rights (Brantley, 2013). Although, the judgment was for 5.2 million dollars it will be very hard for the family to collect based on new legislation laws and the fact that individual nursing homes are organized as freestanding limited liability companies, under the Central Arkansas Nursing Centers upheld by Michael Morton. Procedural History The Faulkner County jury unanimously decided that the Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center was negligent is the care of Ms. Bull. Circuit Judge Mike Maggio presided over the case and the damages to be awarded were for pain, mental anguish and suffering (Brantley, 2013). Issue In the case of Martha Bull vs Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, the two focal legal questions are: 1. Should there be any collection for pain and suffering of elderly individuals, who are victims of nursing home negligence...
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...Utilitarianism is a moral principle that holds that the morally right course of action in any situation is the one that produces the greatest balance of benefits over harms for everyone affected. So long as a course of action produces maximum benefits for everyone, utilitarianism does not care whether the benefits are produced by lies, manipulation, or coercion (Andre,Velazques). Gene G. James in his book Business Ethics:Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality, defines whistle blowing as, “the attempt of an employee or former employee of an organization to disclose what he or she believes to be wrongdoing in or by the organization” (Griffin). How does one choose if wrongdoing has happened in a utilitarianistic view? To present the process of utilitarian theory in a whistleblowing case, I ran across documentation referencing Ford Motor Company’s manufacturing of the Ford Pinto the early 1970’s. Petersen and Farrell discuss the ethical dilemmas faced by engineers highlighted by the 1980 Winamac, Indiana trial of Ford Motor Company (1986, p.3). The Pinto was created as a response to the Japanese competition emerging in the US. Due to competition, Ford was eager to get the subcompact car released in 1971. Changes were made, and Ford was able to reduce the lead time of production by a year and a half to get the car on the road. Frank Capps, a principal design Engineer charged that management’s weight and price goals along with time requirements resulted in engineers having to place...
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...Mike Birkenhauer Management 10/22/14 Cultivating Innovation at IKEA As the manager of the IKEA store I have been instructed to change the layout of my store. Corporate headquarters has instructed to me that the change must be “dramatic”. I will use several steps in order to make sure that these changes are in the best interest of IKEA. First, I will form an analysis of opportunities and identify what it is that I want to do. I will then explore multiple different layout options and then select the best option. Moreover, I would begin detailed planning and then implement these changes of the layout of the store. Lastly, I would get feedback to see if it was a good decision or not, if by chance it was not the best layout, then I would choose the next best layout option. After watching this IKEA commercial of the lady taking out her old lamp and putting it on the curb, and setting up her new lamp on her desk, I have concluded that this commercial is trying to convince consumers that they need to part with their old furniture and buy new, from IKEA. In addition, I found this quote from Alex Bogusky, executive creative director at Crispin Porter, says the "Ikea: Unboring" campaign is trying to convince consumers that it’s okay to throw out Mom's old coffee table and splurge on a new one. While Americans overspend on "fashion" purchases such as clothes and shoes, they still cling to a "till death do us apart attitude" with their furniture”, according to Bogusky. An IKEA...
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...ADDITIONAL NOTE ON PROGRESSIVE CASE (TO BE CONSIDERED FOR CASE ANALYSIS) In March 2000 Progressive began to offer a new product: homeowners insurance. Made available first in an Arizona pilot, the program was extended to Michigan in October 2000, Maryland in January 2001, and Illinois in September 2001. Marketed initially through specially selected and trained independent insurance agents, Progressive’s homeowners policies were eventually to be\ offered, along with its primary product, auto insurance, through the company’s two direct channels, its 800-number and web site. Many consumers sought the convenience of bundling auto and homeowners insurance rather than dealing with separate companies for each policy. Some insurers even offered discounts to customers who consolidated their coverage. Progressive executives thus viewed homeowners insurance as a natural extension of the company’s auto-insurance product suite. In 1997 Progressive ran a trial partnership in Ohio with Travellers Casualty, a major player in homeowners insurance, whereby consumers were offered homeowners quotes when they called for auto insurance. By 2000, Progressive had decided to offer its own homeowners product. 2 The product was launched slowly in select states. The move into homeowners seemed an obvious choice for Progressive. The data-driven company had success in providing auto insurance rates that more accurately (and less expensively) reflected individual consumers’ coverage needs. Cross-selling to...
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...More than 2 billion people worldwide are overweight, study finds LONDON -- Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis. Researchers found more than 2 billion people worldwide are now overweight or obese. The highest rates were in the Middle East and North Africa, where nearly 60 per cent of men and 65 per cent of women are heavy. The U.S. has about 13 per cent of the world's fat population, a greater percentage than any other country. China and India combined have about 15 per cent. "It's pretty grim," said Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, who led the study. He and colleagues reviewed more than 1,700 studies covering 188 countries from 1980 to 2013. "When we realized that not a single country has had a significant decline in obesity, that tells you how hard a challenge this is." Murray said there was a strong link between income and obesity; in developing countries, as people get richer, their waistlines also tend to start bulging. In many rich countries like the U.S. and Britain, the trend is reversed -- though only slightly. Murray said scientists have noticed accompanying spikes in diabetes as obesity has risen and that rates of cancers linked to weight, like pancreatic cancer, are also rising. The new report was paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published online Thursday...
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