...How far were Mao’s agricultural policies responsible for the scale of the great famine in China, 1958-65? Mao introduced collectivisation in 1956, two years before the beginning of the great famine. It lasted between the years of 1958 and 1961, where millions of peasants and industrial worker died due to a severe lack of food. Most historians argue that the scale of the famine was due to the agricultural reforms introduced by Mao in the Great Leap Forward, but Mao blamed other factors. Collectivisation involved the peasants joining together to farm collectively rather than individually. They then had to share the food produced with the rest of the community, as opposed to just their families, which had been the way the previous, traditional system worked. This, in theory, was a good idea; if the peasants worked together they could share knowledge and potentially grow more food. However, they didn’t like the policy as it meant, regardless of how much they grew individually, they would only get a set amount, and it was never enough to feed the whole family. Mao believed that many peasants were growing more food than necessary and keeping some for themselves, however this was proved not to be the case; production rate had fallen from 200million in 1958 to 143.5million in 1960, proving that they were innocent; Mao simply didn’t trust the peasants, believing they were ‘inherently capitalist’ and were against being a communist state. The policy of collectivisation contributed...
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...The Walmart Journey: Walmart’s trucking Division Scale and Operation: Wal-Mart was founded on Sam Walton’s principle and ideals to bring products to the consumers in a way that mean they could offer their products to the consumers for cheaper than other retailers. This led to them creating a retail giant over the next forty years. In the early 1970’s Wal-Mart became the one of the first companies to use a centralized distribution center for their stores. When they started this practice they knew they would need a trucking fleet for years to come and made the decision to own their own private fleet. Along with great success comes turmoil and hard times. Wal-Mart’s came in the early 2000’s when there was a lot of public criticism about their business practices which included being sexist, strong-arming the little guys, and not having fair working conditions for their workers who were not allowed to join or create a union. There was also a growing movement within corporations around the world towards going green and having more sustainable business practices. On this note Lee Scott offered his famous speech in 2005 to the consumers, investors, and people around the world. His speech “21st Century Leadership” he laid out a three part plan for becoming a prominent player in sustainable business. These three parts included being supplied by 100% renewable energy, creating zero waste, and selling sustainable products in their stores. Currently, Wal-Mart owns a private trucking...
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...Wal-Mart Case Study Introduction Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the largest retailer in the world and also the world’s largest private employee. One can walk into almost any Wal-Mart Supercenter and get a haircut, buy groceries, cash a check, get an exam with prescription glasses or contact lenses, fill medical prescriptions, or even have your car’s oil changed and tires rotated. Wal-Mart is able to provide all these services to consumers around the globe while offering more choices or varieties, while almost always offering better prices than there competitors. Since Wal-Mart is the world’s largest private employees, they are probably the most scrutinized company in the world. This is probably because of the high amount of part-time employees, or the public’s negative perception that they “squeeze their suppliers”, or because they are “killers of mom and pop stores”. This paper will attempt to discuss threats and challenges that Wal-Mart faces while also discussing the different strategies and initiatives that the Wal-Mart management team used to meet those challenges and neutralize threats. History Wal-Mart was founded by Sam Walton and the first Wal-Mart store opened in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. Less than ten years later, Wal-Mart had 38 stores operating with 1,500 employees and sales of $44.2 million. It began trading stock as a publicly held company on October 1, 1970, and was soon listed on the New York Stock Exchange (Wikipedia, 2012). Wal-Mart now has stores all over the...
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...revelation of courtroom corruption is significant because I have personally observed bribery in the hallways of courtrooms in North Carolina. A wise man once told me that the courtroom is not black or white, but green because the person with the most money is routinely dispensed the best outcome. Another personal reason that this topic is personally significant is because I now reside in the state of Mississippi where the 2004 Corporate Crime Reporter asserted that our state was the most crooked state in America. (Mokhibar, 2004) I. The problem is that too many times the issues in the courtroom are not really about the truth. A. Case study on the Duke Lacrosse case involving Durham County District Attorney, Mike Nifong. (Yaeger, 2007) B. Factors involved in the Duke Lacrosse case, and the lives that were destroyed as a result of courtroom corruption. 1. The politics of race involved in decisions to prosecute. 2. The role of the media in pressuring public officials to make a decision without conducting proper due diligence. 3. The stark contrast between the alleged offenders and victims. 4. The role of the general election, and the demographics in the city of Durham....
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...6 Weird Habits Of Successful People December 18, 2012 We call people weird because they do things differently than we would. Seth Godin wears those brightly colored but mismatched socks. Steve Jobs’ work uniform was a black turtleneck and jeans. Look around and you can see the obvious differences in a lot of successful people. What most business owners don’t see when they look at successful people are the habits they’ve developed. Leonard DaVinci slept two hours at a time in four-hour intervals. Charles Dickens would only write and sleep facing north. Some of their weirdness was superstition, but a lot of it wasn’t. Here are six weird habits of successful people. 1.They think backward. Successful people start at the finish. Most of us have been taught to take one step, then the next, and the next until we arrive at our destination or goal. But successful people, like rocket scientists, actually clearly define the outcome they want first, and then reverse engineer the steps they need to take to get there. 2. They like to repeat themselves, a lot. They repeat themselves a lot. If you’re pre-vinyl and never heard a broken record, think “repeat” or “loop.” Successful people don’t stop when they have a success. When they succeed, they try to figure out ways to repeat that success. 3. They cut corners. Once successful people figure out how to repeat success, then they figure out how to get the same result faster, easier and cheaper. There’s a fine line between cutting corners...
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...Group Dynamics Writing Assignment 5 Power Bases 07/27/12 Mitt Romney started out as a Republican front runner in the 2012 presidential race. Winning Maine and Nevada early, he fell to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota. Don’t let the fact that Mitt Romney won past CPAC Straw Polls, which are much more a beauty contest then the 3 caucuses last week that Santorum clobbered Romney in, with the Romney campaign referring to a couple of them as beauty contests themselves. With Romney’s money, busing in tons of college students and picking up the tab for their attendance AND STRAW POLL vote, and that is exactly what he did. Even Santorum jumped in on that and commented that he doesn’t rig straw polls. According to the article I read, Will Romney’s ‘Good Enough’ Strategy be Good Enough for Voters? By Chris Stirewalt, Published February 15, 2012, at FoxNews.com, Romney and his Super-PAC can defeat Santorum in the Republican race because Romney has a stronger hold in the Republican base. They trust him more and feel he is the strongest of the candidates thus far. However, he has a problem with flip-flopping on the issues and is seen by many of his Republican base as a weak candidate. Nevertheless, if you are a Republican, the vibes are very bad. Mitt Romney has shown a discouraging inability to appeal to the party’s base, while the race has damaged both Romney and the party. Newt Gingrich, in particular, sacrificed the party to his own ego by launching left-wing attacks...
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...Cases of “you can run, but you can’t hide” have been increasing for motorists in Singapore, as the use of in-vehicle cameras helps the police track down errant drivers. More videos of traffic violations recorded with these cameras are handed to the Traffic Police, as these original videos can be summited as evidence. The Traffic Police also started tracking the number of such videos last year, and noticed a higher frequency in submissions with 1,000 clips last year. Mr Derek Teo, executive director of the general Association of Singapore felt that the presence of these cameras would create a sense of responsibility among motorists, who know there are more eyes watching them. An example of such cases would be the arrest of Quek Zhen Hao last month. Quek Zhen Hao was branded a “road bully” by netizens after two videos showing him driving recklessly went viral. Thanks to the videos, the police arrested the 24-year-old and investigations are still going out. In regards to this trend, the Traffic Police remains supportive, and encourages citizens to submit video evidences. I feel that social media, being an efficient platform, is the main reason behind this trend. With a click, everyone in the world has access to what you posted in an instant. In recent 2 years, there have been many videos taken by in-car vehicles circulating online, drawing in public’s attention. For example, a video taken by an in-vehicle camera of the crash between Ferrari and Taxi instantly went viral online...
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...Short Answer 1) Was Sid McMath a progressive? Explain. Sidney McMath’s time as governor could be described as progressive since it did not fit with conservative or Dixicrat views. When McMath took office in 1948after beating Laney and the two were dramatically different politically. McMath broke protocol by putting blacks into board and commissions that they had not been allowed to serve on before. He worked hard to make thing equal with school funding. He removed the poll tax along with raising the minimum wage. He made great improvements during his one term as governor, but was not supported by the conservative business community. 2) Discuss the political career of Winthrop Rockefeller. Winthrop Rockefeller was first appointed in 1954 as director of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. After his fall out with Faubus and the Little Rock crisis Rockefeller decided to begin building his campaign for governor. His first run in 1964 was unsuccessful, but he was able to secure the governor seat in 1966 and held it for two terms. Rockefeller was able to gain large support from the black voters after the Voting Right Act of 1965. The Freedom of Information Act passed during his time is office was a large success that we still benefit from today. 3) Discuss how Pryor and Bumpers changed Arkansas government? Dale Bumpers and David Pryor were progressive and made great strides in moving Arkansas forward during the 1960s and 70s. Bumpers was able to...
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...Wal-Mart Case Study Elijah Anthony, Jr MNGT 5650 Feb. 11, 2012 Introduction Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the largest retailer in the world and also the world’s largest private employee. One can walk into almost any Wal-Mart Supercenter and get a haircut, buy groceries, cash a check, get an exam with prescription glasses or contact lenses, fill medical prescriptions, or even have your car’s oil changed and tires rotated. Wal-Mart is able to provide all these services to consumers around the globe while offering more choices or varieties, while almost always offering better prices than there competitors. Since Wal-Mart is the world’s largest private employees, they are probably the most scrutinized company in the world. This is probably because of the high amount of part-time employees, or the public’s negative perception that they “squeeze their suppliers”, or because they are “killers of mom and pop stores”. This paper will attempt to discuss threats and challenges that Wal-Mart faces while also discussing the different strategies and initiatives that the Wal-Mart management team used to meet those challenges and neutralize threats. History Wal-Mart was founded by Sam Walton and the first Wal-Mart store opened in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. Less than ten years later, Wal-Mart had 38 stores operating with 1,500 employees and sales of $44.2 million. It began trading stock as a publicly held company on October 1, 1970, and was soon...
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...DESCRIPTION Robin Martin-Jones has excelled to obtain her business degree in finance and would love opportunity to work for a small entrepreneurial type of firm, but she is soon given the opportunity to work for a Fortune 500 company. A Fortune 500 company that has a great background and that could further her career in finance. She accepts the offer to the Fortune 500 and continues to advance throughout the company until her career advancements takes a halt after she gets married and has a child. DIAGNOSIS The problem here is not her ability to work hard and excel within the company, it was the lack of knowledge she obtained about family life before working with the company and it’s the lack of help the company gives for families. The reason she is not advancing with the company is because the company seems to frown upon a family life. It is obvious that this Fortune 500 Company does not offer a family benefit plan or that the department in which Robin works for does not do well with those that has a family life. THEORY Struggling work and family can be difficult, whether or not we are the husband or the wife. Each job is as equally important, but it’s how the company helps the situations in order to deal with stress in the workplace. It is up to us as the potential employee to first ask all the right questions regarding the company’s policy and then negotiate what works for us once hired. Once hired, it’s up to both sides of the parties to work together to make...
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...Supporting Mitt Romney For the election of two thousand twelve, I support the Republican candidate, Governor Mitt Romney. Romney holds a five-point plan, supporting the Middle Class. Trade has to work for America. Trade can offer enormous opportunities for businesses and workers, but only if they are given a level playing field on which they compete. He will crack down on cheaters like China that cheats on trade and steals American jobs, working to open up new markets for American goods. Romney has a plan to champion small business. Small businesses are the engine of job creation in this country, but they will struggle to succeed if lacking tax policies, regulations, and healthcare policies that help small business. Mitt will lower tax rates for all Americans. Putting this into effect will add 12 million new jobs in 4 years. A weakness for Governor Romney is his major reductions to federal aid to education, consistent with the traditional Republican idea of de-centralizing federal education, financial support, and turning this responsibility back to states and local governments. Financial circumstances at these levels are quite negative in most cases, reducing support for public education. I believe Republican candidate, Governor Mitt Romney, is the best and most qualified to be our next leader of the United States of America. The simple fact is we can’t afford four more years of failed policies such as promising to cut the budget deficit in half, resulting in it being...
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...The three presidential debates during this 2012 election were in the very least, good television. It is clear that these presidential debates do not accomplish much, but it is also clear that they can play a factor into the poll numbers. The debate at the University of Denver on domestic policy and the town meeting formatted debate at Hofstra University had similarities and vast differences and both certainly played a factor in the polls. In the world of politics, domestic policy can be defined as the most important issues to a nation, and the debate that the incumbent president must win. The debate was split into several 15 minute segments to discuss specific issues and by the second segment it became rather difficult to merely pay attention to what the President was saying. Having strong facts and evidence comes second to eloquence and style in these debates. President Obama was very withdrawn and lacked confidence as he was speaking the whole night. The President lacked eye contact with both the audience and Governor Mitt Romney as the governor spoke and would instead look down at the podium. From purely auditory and visual perspectives, Romney was bold and confident while Obama was weak and awkward. The moderator of this debate, Jim Lehrer, for the most part made sure to stay unbiased. Lehrer, however, did a rather poor job of managing the time allotted for both candidates to speak. In fact, there were times during the night in which we might as well have not had a moderator...
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...The Graduate (1967) Mise en scene is an every complex technic that director Mike Nichols usually to portray seduction Between the main charterers of The Graduate (1967) The film follows the protagonist Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), As a recent college graduate who has achieved High standard and remain intellectually focus until recently he struggles to find a way in his life. Benjamin was force to drive Mrs. Robinson home, which leads to the seduction scene. As they walk in Mrs. Robinson seduces Ben and lets him know that she is available by the way she acquired of her jacket . She stalls him with drinks, puts on some music, As she open her legs with the director shooting a low angle to show that Mrs. Robinson is in control. Ones Mrs. Robinson feels that she losing control of Benjamin she force him upstairs. Next thing he knows, Mrs. Robinson has locked the door and is standing before him, glaring naked with Benjamin point of view shoot which the director show that Mrs. Robinson change his mind when led him to the hotel room the next day. In The scene when Benjamin encountered Mrs. Robinson in the hotel room, the shot was taken so seriously, with such stylish of clothing and the energy the humor is just fantastic. Mrs. Robinson's waiting to blow out her mouthful of smoke the way she focuses on rubbing the stain off her collar made Benjamin bang his head, This show how cleverly Mrs. Robinson stimulations Ben into doing what she wants. Benjamin as a confused and isolated...
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...Lajada Barber Douglas Root English 102 21 September 2015 My Reaction to the Movie Precious The reality of some of the things that happen in this world and what people that get away with is unbearable and disgusting. The movie Precious is based on a true story and the fact that people would let their own daughter go through things like that and just allow it happen is just messed up on so many levels. The main character Clareece Jones known as “Precious,” was abused physically, mentally, and emotionally and many people knew that those things were going on in her life but nobody did anything about it, she had to face all her problems alone. She went home every day practically being a slave to her mother, doing everything for her, and when she didn’t the things the way her mother would want it done then she would be beaten, have things thrown at her and even forced to eat, and was even used for sex for her father. In many ways 16 year old Precious was abused and it took for her second child to be in danger for someone to help her. Precious was raped by her own father and was impregnated with two of his children, which one was diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome. Most people would not know what to say or even know how it feels to be in that predicament but I do; scared to come home because you don’t know whether or not he’s there waiting on you, feeling dirty every time he touches you or looks at you, wondering why it had to be you going through that situation, wondering why...
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...Artist: Linkin Park Song: Iridescent Album: A Thousand Suns Intro: Am F Am F C F When you were standing in the wake of devastation C F When you were waiting on the edge of the unknown Am F With the cataclysm raining down, insides crying save me now Am G You were there and possibly alone Chorus: C F Am Do you feel cold and lost in desperation G C F Am You build up all the failures all you've known G C F Am G Remember all the sadness and frustration F G Am F Am F And let it go, oh oh oh oh, let it go C F And in the burst of light that blinded every angel C F As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars Am G/B C F You felt the gravity of temper grace falling into empty space Am G/B C G No one there to catch you in there arms Chorus: C F Am Do you feel cold and lost in desperation G C F Am You build up all the failures all you've known G C F Am G Remember all the sadness and frustration F Am G C Am G And let it go,...
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