...does the message send to Americans and illegals by building a wall between the U.S.- Mexico border? Immigrants and their families came to the United States for a better life now are afraid to get caught by ICE and get deported back to their former country. While the president wants to build this wall, and keep U.S. citizens in and undocumented immigrants out. The idea of this wall shows how a nation would be divided by who wants to build the wall and why, the advantages and disadvantages. The person who wants to build this border wall is Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States. Trump wants to get rid of all the illegal aliens and has said to “Make America Great Again” his plan is to build a wall and to keep undocumented citizens...
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...debate at present which will affect businesses and the public in many ways. The following report will look at the advantages and disadvantages for businesses and answer the question as to whether the UK government should proceed with the decision. Objectives * Assess the benefits of the UK adopting the EURO * Assess the drawbacks associated with the UK adopting the EURO * How businesses can utilise these benefits and survive in the international market * Look at the political, economic, social and environmental factors * Provide workplace and personal experience Methodology In order to achieve the goals identified above, a variety of different sources have to be explored. The core text; International business by Wall, S., Minocha, S. and Rees, B. and Macroeconomics By Edward Gamber and David C Colander are good places to start as they give a good background on international business and the different factors that effect businesses looking to...
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...Professor Griggs Word Count: 1,322 Immigration in Texas Immigration policy in the United States, namely in Texas, is a great source of controversy amongst lawmakers and the public. An immigrant is a “person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another” (ProQuest). America currently has about 11.5 million illegal immigrants living within its borders (Passel). With this large of a population, immigrants do have an impact on the population and the laws for how to deal with them must be updated. There is a large number of the illegal immigrants working for cash, sharing houses, avoiding taxes, and still sending their children to public schools, and driving on the roads that citizen’s tax money pays for. Currently the law on illegal immigrants is mostly black and white stating that it is a crime to be in the country illegally. However, if the government updates the system to help naturalize them lawfully, states and the immigrants both have a potential to benefit. There are many factors contributing to the immigration of illegal immigrants into Texas. The majority of these immigrants are from Central America through the border shared with Mexico. There are push and pull factors causing them to move here. “The report from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops identifies poverty, paucity of educational opportunities, the urge to join family already in the U.S., and the fear of growing crime as powerful factors propelling immigrants northward” (Millman). In a report from the...
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...economy (Moghadam, 2010). (b) Technological forces play a fundamental part in making globalization possible. Without airplanes, telephones, satellites, computers and televisions it would not be possible to transfer information from one place to another, thus allowing for the speed and the intensity which characterize the modern world. These technological advances give rise to a rate of diffusion and transfer of knowledge which is greatly superior to that of the past. In other words, it was the new technologies that allowed the emergence of the “global village”. (c) Market forces combines the promotion and selling of goods and services with an increasingly interdependent and integrated global economy. It makes companies feel if they are without walls with the Internet an integral marketing and cultural tool. Understanding consumer needs within target countries helps formerly local companies build a global marketing mix where product, price, place and promotion that are geared toward specific country needs. (d) Cost forces enables greater trade and competition between different economies, leading to lower prices, greater efficiency and higher...
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...Pros of Social Networking The cell phone buzzed. It’s lights flashed to the nearest wall. What was it? A text? A tweet? A Like or a snap or a follow or a screenshot? It could be anything. By all means, that notification could literally make or break your whole future. In fact, studies show that “72% of the U.S. population own smartphones.” (Drake Baer, Tech Insider) Not to mention, on average, Americans collectively spend 10 billion minutes on Facebook daily. (Lisa Eadiciccio, Time.) Colleges are now looking at Facebook over the 350 million members as part of their recruitment process. (Schiffman, Elizabeth/ “Social Media’s Expanding…”) Furthermore, people are grasping the idea that social media applications can make their lives easier by...
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...In the summer of 1994, Jeff Bezos sacrificed a promising career in investment banking and his personal savings to start what would become ‘‘Earth’s Biggest Bookstore,’’ Amazon.com. He left New York and went to Seattle, and like so many successful (and unsuccessful) businesses, started out in a garage. The compelling force that drove Bezos was the 2,300 percent annual growth in web usage. He could see that the Internet, which was in its infancy in 1994, would soon become ubiquitous. Features of the book industry made it ideal to focus on selling books, at least initially. The book industry was fragmented, both in terms of the large number of booksellers and publishers. In addition, there were millions of titles and potential customers. The typical bookstore could house a small fraction of all published books, so Amazon.com could market itself as the earth’s largest bookstore. Amazon is the leading online book selling retailer in the USA. Amazon expanded from just a bookstore into selling general electronics, music, videos, toys, apparel, food, and furniture. Amazon has also established separate websites all over the world. (Amazon, 2011) Amazon also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products. Amazon focuses on customer satisfaction, and the efficiency of their website. Amazon now provides almost anything you can think of. When Bezos founded Amazon.com, he focused on hiring talented and unconventional managers and employees. Amazon.com had rigorous...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1: E BUSINESS NAME: AKINOLA OGUNDIMU NAME OF INSTITUTION: STRAYER UNIVERSITY NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: DR LISA WITZIG COURSE TITLE: BUSINESS ENTERPRISE DATE: APRIL 30, 2011 1. Discuss the pros and cons of Amazon’s growth and diversification of business and specialization, and make recommendations about what Amazon could have done differently. As a company strives for growth in any industry, at some point they will face the challenge to diversify or not. Diversification is a risk management technique that allows companies to mix a wide variety of investments in a portfolio, if one investment fails then the other’s success make up the difference. Amazon is widely known to use the internet as the sole method for selling extensive selection of goods to its consumers. Amazon has grown from a book seller to a virtual Wall Mart of the Web selling diverse products. Amazon’s growth and diversification of business offers the following advantages: 1. Cost Leadership is pursued by Amazon.com by differentiating itself primarily on the basis of price. Due to this strategy, Amazon.com always makes sure that it offers the same quality products as other companies for a considerably less price. 2. Cost Savings: Amazon’s business strategy has helped it reduce costs associated with operations and staffing. A reduced cost gives increased revenue. 3. Provides current and prospective customers with different design, quality or convenience. Amazon.com always selects...
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...The Broken Windows Research Paper Graffiti on walls, trash in the sidewalks, loitering in the corner, drunks roaming in the streets and prostitutes attracting customers on the same sidewalks children walk to school on. From a certain perspective, it is viewed as minor crime something the community shouldn’t worry about. Sooner or later though that graffiti attracts more territorial vandals fighting for dominance over the streets, probably the worst trash there is. The worst thing that will occur however is still to come, the community will no longer feel at home and feel more and more distant, the city gives an image that no one cares,(community policing, pg. 64) and the citizens will start feeling the same and feel as if everything bad can get tolerated, crime rates go up and morale goes down. However there is something that can be done, a phenomenon that will give end to this non sense and incivilities; The Broken Windows theory. The Broken Windows theory introduced by social scientist James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling states that in order to maintain control of crime in the community. Law enforcement should enforce small crimes (“petty”) in order to prevent bigger crimes from happening. Law enforcement prevents small crimes by emphasizing aggressive enforcement, sweeps, arrests, tickets, and using tactics such as directed patrol and selective enforcement. One in which you deter the crime problem by heavy policing which is usually more expensive to a department. The...
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...1. Discuss the pros and cons of Amazon’s growth and diversification of business and specialization, and make recommendations about what Amazon could have done differently. Amazon.com started out as a large online book retailer. It has transformed itself from the little bookstore on the corner to the mega-super-duper-full-of-stuff store that squats at the end of a monstrous parking lot! You can search inside books, read customer reviews of books, etc. They have managed to keep their pricing low. Their product list has grown to include music, electronics, toys, home improvement and the list goes on. It seems that their goal of providing products for every aspect of life is working. Over the past year Amazon has seen growth along with struggles. Financially they have seen an increase in their business. Amazon has expanded their business pretty rapidly over the past fifteen years and they are still trying to expand further. Amazon is innovative – it started by losing money on books. However, it quickly expanded into other products. Surprisingly, now it even makes money on books though it sells them at a deep discount. As previously stated Amazon began by allowing customers to write comments on the products it sells. There was great resistance from the sellers but the customers loved it. Now the practice has become an industry standard. http://seekingalpha.com/article/78257-the-case-for-amazon-com. It has becomes apparent that the company is so good at reinventing itself because...
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...AMAZON.COM’S E-BUISNESS MODEL CYNTHIA SMITH INSTRUCTORS: BRUCE CHAPMAN &; MIKE O’KEEFE COURSE TITLE: BUS 508: THE BUISNESS ENTERPRISE JULY 27, 2010 Discuss the pros and cons of Amazon’s growth and diversification of business and specialization, and make recommendations about what Amazon could have done differently. Founded in 1994 Amazon.com has become the world’s largest e-retailer with nearly three-times more sales than its closest competitor. Initially beginning as an on-line bookstore, in no time at all the company soon diversified into sales of DVDs, CDs, MP3 down loads, computers software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food and toys. Amazon’s dedication to innovation can certainly be a testament to the company’s continued growth and diversification. Along with the Kindle reading device other innovations that have kept the company highly competitive include: a booming internet hosting business, an Apple I Phone App for comparison shopping, video streaming for Amazon Prime members and a Google Android App store. Last March Amazon.com launched Cloud Drive which allows users to store music and other multimedia files that are easily accessible from their desktop or smart phone (Amazon.com website2011). Another significant advantage is the infrastructure which Amazon built in terms of its facilities along with its internet platform. The customer experience on the web-site is a simple and pleasant one, shipments are very fast which...
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...Notes for Exam 5- Geography North America Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Physical Geography * Latitude is very important –broad range * Western climates- Mountains (change the climate of the region) * Example: Sierra Nevada and Rockies * Deserts and dryness- Because the mountains are so tall they absorb the precipitation * Further west- very wet * Louisiana- very close to the equator, nothing to stop the storms -2 of the largest countries in the world include (Population)- 1. Canada- 1/10th of the US- 33 million * Lots of empty land in this area 2. The US- 300 million pop * Highly urbanized (D): Megalopolis- Applies to the US and Canada, very big *PROS OF North America 1. -Farming and Ranching and Agriculture * Used to be dominate * 1790: employed 90% of the work force * 1880: dropped down to 50%- because of industrialization * Today: less than 2% * In the US only 1% of population are farmers * Farm populations fell by 2/3 in the beginning of the 20th century * Farms are consolidating * 20% drop in the number of farms * Agriculture has become more meganized (more industrial) More money to keep it going, more land and more machines * Farms are still critical in the US and Canadian economy * 2000: US Alone, $216 billion dollars in farming alone * Land use, agriculture remains dominant * Varies by region * Dairy farming in the east * Live Stock...
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...is being discussed in Robert Frost’s poem the “Mending Wall.” Having a good fence allows for privacy and is the right of a homeowner. “The central theme of "Mending Wall" is whether it is wise to erect walls and other types of barriers.” not this period (Cummings, 2008).this period is correct An immediate reading seems to suggest that walls or fences are obstacles and if you tear them down you can open up the door to friendship, unity, and better communication. Nevertheless, the one neighbor insists that “good fences make good neighbors.” same here (Davis and Lynn, 2006, p. 82). The destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 demonstrates the point that Frost is trying to make that walls or barriers are obstacles. The Berlin Wall, which had divided Berlin since 1961, "fell" on November 9. For almost 30 years, the Wall and the heavily fortified border between East and West Germany kept East Germans as prisoners in their own country, tore families apart, and caused many deaths when East Germans were shot trying to flee. I am not going continue to correct them as you get the point by now. (McGill, 2009, p. 1-2). The original Berlin Wall was a collection of wire and loose cinder blocks; however, over the years, turned out to become a concrete barrier that stood fifteen feet high. There were sections of the wall that included watchtowers, electric fences, and automatic guns. In addition, there was a smaller wall that enclosed West Berlin completely which kept all of...
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...Benefits of Business glass doors Nowadays, there is a great demand for the systems of glass which also seems to be great large market as well. No matter you are shifting from the local shops of furniture or any other online store, their you can also find the wonderful and ex citing shops and stores for you that fulfill many commercial purposes. The name also indicates that the exterior doors are developed to assist the professional with their every demand that is necessary for the maintenance and the development. Many people unaware of such places to find these kind of the doors and they find the expensive thing and products. To get rid of such type of issues and problems, you should go for the online shops where you can find the products in such range. The rating that are higher, the high acoustical, therefore don't think of such kind of sound proofing which you need. The sound ratings are of no use until the [partitions of the room that need the high voice rating. In such situation, the isolation is very crucial, so you may need to consult to the acoustician independently. When you are installing the partitions of doors, you might consider the storage space that is easy to place doors more far away the way you look at these kinds of products. The frameless sliding doors are creating the huge in thdemand in market today. These partitions are best that one can use to derive more functional characteristics at the workplace. If you wish to make the workplace more amazing...
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...Illegal Immigration COM 220 Illegal Immigration According to Penalver (2006), “ “During the half of The Nineteenth Century the government of the United States hoped to use its vast Western territories to pay the national debt by auctioning the lands to the highest bidders normally Northeastern settlers.” These settlers used to disappear for a while to proclaimed, trespassed the land to farm it illegally and take the soil back once the federal troops were gone until the situation became tiring and the soil was ultimately sold for ridiculous prices. Later, “on December 12, 1815, President James Madison issued a proclamation warning: uninformed or evil disposed persons, who have unlawfully taken possession of or made any settlement on the public lands forthwith to remove the reform" or face ejection by the army and criminal prosecution. But that didn't stop the settlers. In 1838, Henry Clay, expressing a widely shared sentiment, dismissed the squatters as a "lawless rabble." The 1862 Homestead Act granted free title to settlers who met the statute's five-year-residency and improvement requirements. In one of the great ironies of American history, the lawless squatters underwent a dramatic image makeover to become, in the gauzy romanticism of our collective memory, heroic settlers” Illegal immigration is an act that should be penalized by federal laws since every body should follow the standard regulations of the law. The ironic part here is that some of those people...
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...HOMELAND SECURITY Terry Davis CJAD 495 Professor R. Moser Introduction Since the birth of this nation, there has been concern for security and freedom of all the citizens of the United States. We have fought wars across our nation, across borders and across the globe, all in the pursuit to protect our freedom and the American way of life. There have been many threats against the American pursuit of freedom that started with the Revolutionary War, a young nation fighting to break away from a nation of strength. Then our battle over land expansion and the taking of the land from the Native Americans, some perceived them as savages or maybe even terrorist. Then we turned to secure our borders to prevent other nations from coming into our nation and grabbing up land. Then our pursuit of freedom expanded the globe and with other nations as we assisted in the attempt to spread democracy in countries struggling to become nations. In this attempt, there have been many enemies formed that despise the US and the pursuit of freedom. This has become a major concern of the US and on September 11, 2001, this concern became a reality. How could something so devastating be carried out against a world-leading nation? What was wrong with the infrastructure and how could it be fixed to prevent other terrorist attacks. The answer was to form a department in the federal government that would have the power to act and the power to share intelligence information. Terrorism and US Threats ...
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