...The Dark Forest is off limits 100% because it's filled with dangerous creature and strange things. Its very shadowy and I would say very terrifying to be in such an awful place to step foot in. Horrible things had happened in there and still do. The dark forest in this book starts off when they arrive in his dad’s car because they missed the train, not being able to enter the barrier, they land in a tree and it beat the car up when the car got away it kicked out Harry and Ron and the car goes into the dark forest. Once more the dark forest does not leave this story. Harry and Ron enter it once again because Hagrid when being taken to Azkaban ( a horrible prison) he says knowing that Harry and Ron were in there under the invisible cloak “Follow...
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...Tucker spent a great amount of time attempting to find his way back home through the discs. The problem was that each disc lead to a different time and place. The place he just came to was actually his hometown many many years back. In the forest the people who attempted to kill Tucker were chasing after him. Tucker took the leap of faith into a disc the old lady said was the death of a prophet. Tucker soon came to realize the prophet was Jesus. He didn't want to be noticed by the executioners, he broken to a dead bolt to a hillside near him. There he found his dad hiding behind a rock inside a cave, that's where the tomb of Jesus was to be held. As the executioners approached the cave they stumbled across Tucker and his dad. Tucker was sentenced to death on the cross. He was nailed on to the cross where he nearly died. He was sent to the same hospital that he was just at. When he was getting better he was sent into a disc that read your DNA and sent you back to your town. He was...
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...RUBRIC FOR ASSIGNED CASE PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS 1. Each student will be assigned a case from the end-of-chapter cases in the text book. You are required to submit a paper on the case and to engage in an in-class discussion with the professor about the case. 2. The cases in the textbook are what lawyers call squibs. The squibs are short summaries of the case and not the full court opinion about the case. You will be able to do an internet search under the name of the case and find the full court opinion, which will have much more information than the squib in the textbook. 3. Using the information in the full case opinion, you will be required to do the following a. (up to 25 points) Submit a paper of 500 to 750 words on the case. The paper must treat the following areas: - what are the facts of the case? - what is the law that applies in this situation? - what is the issue? That is a statement of how the law applies to the facts of the case - discussion - make an argument that supports a particular outcome in the case. NOTE – you do not have to agree with the court’s opinion. Feel free to come to a different conclusion that the court did, if you think the law and facts support you. - state your conclusion. b. (up to 25 points) Be prepared to engage in an in-class discussion with the professor about this case. You should be very familiar with the law and facts and should NOT be referring to the textbook, the case or your notes during this discussion. The discussion will...
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...Run Forest Marketing Plan MKTG 2000, Julia Cooper Gabby Angelico, Maggie McMahan, John Haselden, Jacob DeVore 16 October 2012 Executive Summary Run Forest is an eco-friendly athletic footwear company that strives to be the first in quality innovations in sustainable athletic shoes. The company’s strategy focuses on total quality management through all aspects of production in order to create a successful brand image and word-of-mouth advertising campaign. In order to offer the product at a reasonable price, Run Forest will be effective in managing costs down and allocating resources efficiently and effectively. Table of Contents Situation Analysis………………………………………………………………………..3 Marketing Objectives and Goals…………………………………………………...3 Target Market……………………………………………………………………………..4 Marketing Strategy……………………………………………………………………...4 Marketing Tactics………………………………………………………………………..4 Organization Evaluation and Control……………………………………………5 Summary…………………………………………………………………………………….5 Appendices…………………………………………………………………………………6 Situation Analysis Run Forest, an eco-friendly athletic shoe company, has brought in a new marketing team responsible for bringing the company back to profitability. The athletic shoe industry is booming, but Run Forest has not managed to remain competitive. As a group of young professionals, we will be able to keep up with changing trends and fads consistent of the dynamic athletic industry while also expertly managing finances. The target market for Run Forest consists...
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...Funding is the act of providing resources, usually in form of money (financing), or other values such as effort or time (sweat equity), for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institutions. The process of soliciting and gathering fund is known as fundraising. Sources of funding include credit, donations, grants, savings, subsidies, taxes, Fundings such as donations, subsidies and grants that have no direct requirement for return of investment are described as "soft funding" or "crowd funding". Funding that facilitates the exchange of equity ownership in a company for capital investment via an online funding portal as per the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (alternately, the "JOBS Act of 2012") (U.S.) is known as "hyper funding". Funds can be allocated for either short-term or long-term purposes. Types of funds Grants are made to non-profit organizations by development assistance agencies and foundations. Usually grants do not have to be repaid. Grant money is available to enhance country institutional capacity, to support governmental and non-governmental institutions and to finance project formulation, policy reform and sector management and development. Grants are provided by bilateral donors, multilateral grant aid institutions, United Nations organizations and specialized agencies, international financing institutions, international non-governmental organizations, the private sector, foundations and charity organizations. Loans, unlike...
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...Robin Hood and his merry men are now in trouble because wealthy travelers (their source of revenue) are avoiding the forest. As is often common in an entrepreneurial organization, the Merry Men were highly motivated by Robin Hood’s leadership. Therefore, Robin had previously relied on informal communication to organize and implement operations. Robin is pleased with the growing size and influence of his organization. However, growth has meant that specialized duties have begun taking up most of the men’s time, leaving a command vacuum between Robin and the first line recruits. In addition, they are now all located in a large encampment that can be seen for miles. This creates the probability of a surprise attack on their position. Growth has also put great pressures on resources, so now they must harvest the forest more thoroughly. Rich travelers are avoiding the forest, so in desperation Robin is considering robbing the poorer travelers, which means his lieutenants must now tell their men to rob their brothers and fathers. What started as a rebellion has been routinized into banditry. Robin must therefore begin to question the Merry Men’s mission. Should it still be an extension of his private grudges and aspirations? Has the organization acquired a new mission, if so what is it? On whose behalf should the organization formulate its mission! Summary of Discussion Questions 1. What is strategy? 2. What strategic problems does Robin Hood have? 3. What is the role...
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...**Random Forest** model was selected to examine the musical features. A random forest model uses bootstrap aggregation, or bagging, of multiple regression trees to create a more robust model. That is, n regression trees are computed using a random subset of k features. The predicted value for each data point is then determined by taking the average predicted value of each regression tree. Regression trees allow the researchers to capture the impact that various combinations of features have on "sing-alongability". The model was run using 32 musical features and 1 contextual feature that ecompassed all of the key variables determined above and was able to explain 65% of the varability of the holdout test set. One of the drawbacks of random forests is that they are not easily visualized and interpretation can be complicated. Feature importance is determined by looking at the decrease in mean prediction accuracy of the forest when the variable is not present, i.e. comparing the prediction accuracy to the full forest to the prediction accuracy using only trees in the forest where the feature is absent. Slide 13 shows a summary of the relative feature importance for each of the musical factors. The absoulte value of the importance is not meaningful, however, the delta between features is. We can see that the key musical features are high chest voice, vocal effort/energy, gender of vocalist, vocal embelishment and clarity of consonants. Another drawback of the random forest model...
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...Reflection Essay 1- Tree Huggers 1. Summary of the Article: The Articles discussed the issue of lianas’ massive overgrown over the trees in Amazon forests. There are both good news and bad news about it: the good news is that: the lianas provide food and water for animals passing the forest during the dry season,when water and food are relatively hard to find for animals. (Fountain,A Tree Hugger,2011). The bad news, however, is that the stems of the vines have grabbed soil nutrients,water and light away from the trees, which are essential for trees to grow and survive.(Fountain,A Tree Hugger,2011)Besides, the lianas have caused death to trees because as they grow surrounding the trees, they get more weight and eventually they become too heavy for trees to burden and they will bring the tree down(Fountain, A Tree Hugger,2011). What’s more, the lianas also store less carbon,thus when they increase in population,the forests’ carbon storage ability get reduced.(Fountain,A Tree Hugger, 2011) Last but not the least, because only the trees that can survive from the lianas “robbery” will stay, it reduced the diversity of the forest(Fountain, A Tree Hugger, 2011). And those trees usually store less carbon as they grow faster. The scientists begin examining the potential reason of the massive growing of the lianas. And the first potential reason is the increase in CO2 level in the environment.Compare to trees, lianas can use the CO2 better.(Fountain,A Tree Hugger) Besides, the...
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...as u like it Orlando, the youngest son of the recently deceased Sir Rowland de Bois, describes his unfortunate state of affairs to Adam, Sir Rowland’s loyal former servant. Upon his father’s death, Orlando was bequeathed a mere 1,000crowns, a paltry sum for a young man of his social background. His only hope for advancement is if his brother, Oliver, honors their father’s wish and provides him with a decent education. Oliver, as the eldest son, inherited virtually everything in his father’s estate, yet he not only neglects this charge but actively disobeys it. Although he arranges for his other brother, Jaques, to attend school, Oliver refuses to allow Orlando any education whatsoever, leaving the young man to lament that his upbringing is little different from the treatment of a piece of livestock. Orlando has long borne this ill treatment, but he admits to Adam that he feels rising within himself a great resentment against his servile condition and vows that he will no longer endure it. Oliver enters, and the hostility between the brothers soon boils over into violence. Orlando claims that the system that allows the eldest son to inherit the bulk of a father’s estate does not reduce the ancestral blood in the other sons. Oliver, offended by his brother’s insolence, assails Orlando, while Orlando seizes Oliver by the throat. Adam tries to intervene, seeking peace in the name of their father, but the brothers do not heed him. Orlando, undoubtedly the stronger of the two, refuses...
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...doing today to save our forests? Are you part of those persons that believe that the best way to stop deforestation is to stop using forest products? Well, the reality is different people use forest products every day even without thinking they are. The average American uses nearly six trees worth of paper each year. Thankfully, there are organizations that help protect our forest for the future generations. One of the most recognized not for -profit organization is Forest Stewardship Council. II. Introduction to the Triple Bottom Line The Forest Stewardship Council, also known by its acronym FSC, is an international not for-profit, multi-stakeholder organization established in 1993 that promote responsible management of the world’s forests. Its main purpose is to set standards, certification and labeling for responsible forest management. FSC counts with a voluntary program, to protect forests for future generations. The Forest Stewardship Council’s mission is to promote environmentally sound, socially beneficial and economically prosperous management of the world's forests and their vision states, that we can meet our current needs for forest products without compromising the health of the world’s forests for future generations (Forest Stewardship Council). As you already may know, corporate social responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of...
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...THE WEREWOLF / CARTER Summary The narrator of "The Werewolf" sets the story's ominous tone with the opening sentence: "It is a northern country; they have cold weather; they have cold hearts." The people in this country are poor and live short, hard lives. They are superstitious to the point of conducting witch-hunts and stoning any witches found (identified by a telltale third nipple) to death. We focus in on a young girl. Her mother sends her into the forest to bring food to her ill grandmother, arming her with a knife and warning her against the dangers of the woods. The girl sets off on her journey unafraid because she knows the forest well. As she is walking, the girl hears a wolf's cry. She turns with her knife drawn to face the beast, and when it lunges, she cuts off its paw. It retreats back into the forest. She wraps the wolf's paw in cloth and continues on her way. When the girl reaches her grandmother's house, the snow is so thick that no tracks can be seen in it. She finds her grandmother in bed with a terrible fever, and when shakes out the cloth to make a hot compress, the wolf's paw falls on the floor. It has changed into a hand, which she recognizes as her grandmother's because of a single wart on it. Expanding... The girl uses all her strength to pull back her grandmother's covers and beneath them discovers the cause of her fever. Her grandmother's severed arm is already rotting. Hearing the girl's cries, the neighbors rush in. They examine the hand and declare...
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...Name Date: Math 7a Worksheet #7 Lesson 7: Unit Rate as the Constant of Proportionality DO NOW: Example 1: National Forest Deer Population in Danger? Wildlife conservationists are concerned that the deer population might not be constant across the National Forest. The scientists found that there were 144 deer in a 16 square mile area of the forest. In another part of the forest, conservationists counted 117 deer in a 13 square mile area. Yet a third conservationist counted 216 deer in a 24 square mile plot of the forest. Do conservationists need to be worried? a. Why does it matter if the deer population is not constant in a certain area of the national forest? b. What is the population density of deer per square mile? Table: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Unit Rate of deer per 1 square mile is _______. The Constant of Proportionality: Meaning of Constant of Proportionality in this problem: c. Use the unit rate of deer per square mile to determine how many deer are there for every 207 square...
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...Essential Environment Abstract When European explorers reached Easter Island in 1722, they "found a barren landscape populated by fewer than 2,000 people." This was amid evidence that there was once sophisticated civilization on the island. Indeed, further studies found that the island was once lushly forested, supporting a society of 6,000 to 30,000 people. Evidence indicates that "this once-flourishing civilization overused its resources and cut down all its trees, destroying itself in a downward spiral of starvation and conflict. Today, Easter Island stands as a parable and a warning for what can happen when a population consumes too much of the limited resources that support it." Using the scientific method, analyze and prepare a report on the story of Easter Island. In your report, include responses to the following questions: Observation: What were some of the key observations at Easter Island? Hypothesis: What hypothesis was formed as a result of the observations? Results: What were the results and conclusions after applying the scientific method? Do you agree with the assertion that Easter Island holds important lessons for our world today, regarding the use of natural resources? Why or why not? Support your answer with examples. Sustainability Easter Island holds...
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...and are left with essentially no plant growth at the beginning – Examples: glacial retreat; volcanic ash deposition Mt. St. Helens May 18, 1980 Gilkey Glacier, Alaska from www.geophot.de • Secondary succession – Established plant community has been destroyed but without severe disturbance of the soil – Example: forest succession following wildfire - pioneer forest re-establishes and is eventually replaced with climax forest wildfire from www.us.gov 1 Plant Succession • Seral stages • Climax stage Stages of Succession • Seral communities: The various “temporary” communities in the succession • Seral species - those that will ultimately be replaced • examples: annual plants, shrubs, intolerant trees Stages of Succession • Climax community: The “final” stage of the succession consists of those plants that can reproduce successfully beneath their own shade and therefore maintain the community indefinitely under the prevailing conditions • Climax species: Those species that will occupy the site at the climax stage of succession • Examples: tolerant tree species such as cedar and hemlock eastern white pine invading old field Harvard Forest diorama slide collection shrub species at Mt. St. Helens photo by John Donohue – 1995 or 1996 eastern white pine...
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...project is to analyze foreign entry strategy for Forrest Essential, a luxury ayurveda cosmetics brand, for the further growth potential. The company has grown tremendously since its inception in 2000. Owing to the surging demand of the organic cosmetics in the global market, it is imperative for the company to use this opportunity and plan to go global. This document briefs about the analysis that will be done as the part of the project to formulate a fine strategy for Forest Essential to land in the foreign market. Project Summary: The project will explore the possibility for Forest Essential to march into foreign market. The analysis will incorporate the following elements: 1. Industry Analysis 2. Current operations/ marketing and financial analysis of the firm 3. Demand Analysis in foreign markets 4. Screening criteria for countries/ cities 5. Modes of Entry and the degree of co-ordination 6. Implementation plan At the end of the project we aim to address the question of Why Forest Essential should go global? and What should be the strategy to go global? Data Requirements: 1. Secondary research - news and magazine articles, company website information, industry research reports- euro monitor, market watch, macroeconomic data sources -EIU 2. Primary research - try to contact founder to understand business and value proposition more deeply 3. We will use the various frameworks covered in class to understand the different aspects of strategy...
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