...Jonas’s controlled community works to prevent world problems yet simultaneously restricts the people’s freedoms through the use of job assignments ,structure of the day, and lack of memories. His community controls how each of these aspects work and are used. All three have both pros and cons which work together to keep his town at peace. One aspect of Jonas’s controlled city is that he and his community are given job assignments. On the positive side job assignments prevent the people from becoming bored. For example, it is said “... The substitute Laborers ,would be given a different holiday, took over all necessary tasks: nurturing, food delivery, and care of the Old”(130). Job assignments prevent people from...
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...people that have used the internet for dating and their stories. From a woman turning thirty and having the fear of never finding love to a gay man that struggles being who he is, Kenner’s film is full of twisting and turning stories. As you watch with astonishment, the stories of these five strangers become absorbing and very unoriginal. We follow Kim, Dave, Beth, Ryan, and Jonas all very different from each other with their own unique stories. Kim is looking for her perfect guy in the tri-state area and ends up flying to Prague to meet a guy she has never spoken to besides on email. Her family is in for a very big surprise! Dave is a man that has confidence problems and turns to online dating to stay hidden from the truth for as long as possible. Beth is turning thirty and is terrified she is never going to find love. Internet dating gives her reassurance on her love life. Ryan is from a small town that looks down upon gays and never understands himself until he Googles the word “gay”. From there the internet opens up a wide variety of things he never knew and gives him an array of people to talk to. Jonas is your typical guy, always wishing he had something more in life. He lives vicariously in a virtual game called Second Life to give his life a little more excitement and to do things he could not do in real life. Second life gives him the opportunity in real life to pursue a dream and to meet his potential wife and mother of his child. When Strangers Click is filled with an...
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...century, polio was found mostly in children between 6 months and 4 years old. However, before the mid-19th century, people who lived in poorer sanitation areas were constantly exposed to the virus, thus creating immunity. By the early 20th century, huge improvements were made in community sanitation. This lead to a pandemic outbreak of polio in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand during the first half of the 19th century. By the mid-1950s, there were not one but two different versions of the polio vaccine. This cut polio outbreaks drastically. In this park, all of the rides have something to do with the polio pandemic during the 20th century. In the Jonas Salk/Albert Sabin Rollercoaster Race, the dual roller-coasters (one named Salk, one named Sabin) race each other to see which ‘vaccine’ wins. Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin both created a vaccine for polio. They were, however, complete opposites. The vaccines, that is. Salk, born in New York, was an American...
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...Review of What Is Strategy Introduction The article---‘What is strategy’ is mainly concerned with exploring the definition of the strategy by distinguishing ‘operational effectiveness’ from ‘strategy’. To explore the real meaning of strategy, the author defines this term from three different perspectives: strategic position, trade-offs and fit. Main part Understanding of the article Some concepts of this article are based on theoretical foundations. Firstly, operational effectiveness is based on the Five Forces Frame Work (Porter, 2008), as its definition ‘performing similar activities better than rivals perform them’ (Porter, 1996) links with external environment, especially for the competitors. Another concept ‘strategic position’, performing different activities from rivals’ or performing similar activities in different ways (Porter, 1996), is related to RBV (Barney, 1991), because both them emphasize on the distinctiveness and uniqueness. The other two concepts ‘trade-offs’ and ‘fit’ are based on VRIO criteria (Barney, 2007), which is the basis of the company to generate sustained competitive advantage. The V of VOIR, value, is consistent with ‘trade-offs’, as they indicate that company should decide what to do and not to do. The ‘fit’ is line with the ‘I-inimitability’, since both of them stress that interlinkages among corporate activities makes difficult for organization to imitate. Wider context of strategy theory Besides, this article could also be...
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...A Vaccination is something that most people face at least once in their lifetime. Many people are scared of shots, but get them because they know that it will prevent some gruesome disease. Jeffrey Kluger, author of Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio once stated, “Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It’s a simple message parents need to keep hearing.” If vaccines are so great, then why are people against it? B There is a debate in hospitals all over the world today over whether vaccination should be required by law. This law could be federal or state. A/B People are questioning whether vaccination is safe for their child. If there are harmful ingredients that could cause a life threatening disease. But do the disadvantages outweigh the benefits? C The choice of vaccination will reach everyone's life at some point. They will have to decided whether to vaccinated their child or themselves. They can not have their judgment clouded by outside forces that are not important to them. They have to decide whether the vaccine is worth it for them. Will the disease they are preventing be one they could possibly see in the future? However, leaving your child unvaccinated could lead to an epidemic of some sort. Most recently,...
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...Literature Survey: The Prince Edward Island Incident By: Sheila Suyo Jaime Rivera Jacyn De Leon Jonas Magcalayo John Mar Rosqueta Jacem Borromeo In partial fulfillment of the requirements in Chemistry 11 under Ms. Mary Vanessa C. Nartia Prince Edward Island and the Philippines Pollution of rivers, streams, and lakes contaminate ground and surface waters, thus exposing the population to environmentally-related diseases. The relationship between polluted water and disease has now been firmly established and accepted. According to the World Bank, just under a third, or 31 percent of illnesses in the country, monitored for a five-year period were caused by water-borne pathogens. In the agriculture sector, application of agrochemicals (i.e. fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides) remains a common practice among farmers in rural areas. Intensive use of agrochemicals has been known to create and result to both environmental problems and diseases. The hazards accompanying this practice, especially those associated with persistent organic pollutants or POPs have been known for years and the knowledge of the extent of harm they cause has increased. According to a study by Dr. N. Maramba (1996), most farmers may be aware that pesticides are hazardous but there is a lack of awareness of exposure risks. Pesticide handlers are the ones most heavily exposed. In addition, exposure of households in farming communities may occur due to spray drift from nearby fields. This exposure...
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...Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. Ensayo de Ética. Gisela Lara Huizar. A01151953 El Marketing de la Obesidad: Un Enfoque Ético "Que tu alimento sea tu medicina y que tu medicina sea tu alimento". Famoso precepto médico predicado por Hipócrates de Cos, considerados por muchos como el “Padre de la Medicina”, en el año 400 años antes de Cristo. Una verdad descomunal expresada en una sola frase que a su vez demuestra que desde la antigua Grecia ya se sabía que la comida impacta directamente la salud, el cuerpo y la mente de cada persona y que una nutrición balanceada es la mejor arma para prevenir enfermedades y promover el bienestar integral. Desgraciadamente hoy en día los alimentos consumidos por la población difieren en gran medida del ideal hipocrático; funcionando más como venenos ocultos que como instrumentos de sanación. Según la UNICEF, la desnutrición y la obesidad representan dos de los más graves problemas a solucionar en materia de salud en México; la primera afectando a un 7.25% de la población y la segunda a un alarmante 70% de la población adulta. Estos datos ubican a México en el preocupante segundo lugar mundial en obesidad y en el primero en obesidad infantil. La principal causa de este problema radica en los malos hábitos alimenticios que a la larga favorecen la aparición de enfermedades crónicas degenerativas...
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...* How does your selected religious group differ from other religious groups (such as in their beliefs, worship practices, or values)? My selected religion is Judaism; Judaism is a religion that is based on the Old Testament, that the Jews call the Torah. Judaism is based on the belief of God. The Jews do not believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and are still waiting on his coming. According to Kriger (2010) According to the American Jewish Identity Survey of 2001 (Mayer, Kosmin, & Keysar, 2003), nearly 5.3 million people in the United States are Jewish (as measured by self-identification or by heritage). Jews are often referred to as one group; however, as with other ethnic groups, the Jewish people are diverse. Modern Jews have a shared history and common ancestry, leading back to the time of the Hebrew Bible, but they have since spread throughout the world. The countries in which Jews have lived have influenced their culture. For instance, Indian Jews have incorporated the caste systems into their daily lives, whereas Chinese Jews have incorporated Confucian ideas into their practices (Langman,1999) Sephardi Jews (families of Spanish descent) have integrated Spanish culture into their foods and have created a Hebrew-Spanish hybrid language known as Ladino (Langman, 1999). The Ashkenazi Jews account for nearly 80% of the worlds Jews and represent the majority of Jewish identity in the United States (Elazae,!992; Langman, 1999) and are those whose ancestors lived...
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...Expansion into Online Marketing/E-Commerce Table of Contents Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………… 3 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..4 Research Findings………………………………………………………………………5 Finding Number 1………………………………………………………………5 Finding Number 2………………………………………………………………6 Finding Number 3……………………………………………………………6, 7 Recommendations………………………………………………………………………8 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………9 References………………………………………………………………………10 Executive Summary Monte Carlo Magic, LLC is a medium level competitor in the casino gaming supplies industry within the United States. Monte Carlo Magic, LLC. has eight retail locations across the United States servicing the main casino centers within the United States. Monte Carlo Magic, LLC. desires to become a larger player within the casino gaming supplies industry not only in the Unites States, but expand their reach globally. Currently, the cost for opening retail locations in casino centers around the globe is an expensive venture. The large investment costs would include retail outlet leasing, manpower costs, warehouse distribution supporting the individual retail outlets and political climate of the different countries we expect to expand into. It is our position that we can accomplish the same market penetration by providing...
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...Tarea 5 * Tarea 6 * Tarea 7 * Tarea 8 V. Bibliografía Presentación Este documento describe cada una de las tareas del curso y te ayudan a tener en cuenta los criterios para su elaboración, las formas de evaluarlas, así como las políticas que rigen para ellas y para todo el curso. Es importante que lo leas y una vez leído, respondas en el foro de discusión las preguntas.(Foro 0) Preguntas sobre el Programa del curso y del libro de tareas Objetivos de las tareas individuales Cada una de las cuatro tareas analíticas del curso tiene la finalidad de aplicar los elementos teóricos analizados en cada uno de los temas que integran el contenido del curso. Son oportunidades para poner en práctica distintas competencias relacionadas con la reflexión ética del sentido de la responsabilidad. Las tareas en el foro ayudan a introducir los temas, o bien a compenetrarse en ellos. Ambas tareas son necesarias para el aprendizaje. Tareas en el Foro...
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...As companies and organizations grow their option to become a publicly traded or public firm is explored. A publicly traded company is one that offers securities in the form of stocks or bonds for sale to the public. It is done through a stock exchange or in an over the counter market. Before a company decides to go public it is known as a private company. The decision to go public is a huge decision that can be taken by any private company. In order to become public however there are criteria to be met and steps to be taken. This paper will highlight those steps as highlighted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, determine the pros and cons of public firms identify major and minor markets around the world and suggest Caribbean companies that can explore becoming public companies. One of the first steps is the decision to go public. Shareholders, investors and owners of the company must agree to the decision to go public by taking the necessary votes required to do so. This can be done through a shareholders’ meeting where the relevant decisions can be made by the owners of the private stock. The firm also needs to ensure there are no discrepancies on its books and that they are aligned with the accepted principles of accounting. The firm’s lawyers and auditors must ensure that documents are legitimate. By doing so time and money can be saved in the future because corrections and certification would have been completed and documents certified correct...
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...Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College Fall Quarter B 2010 Professor Kevin Lane Keller STRATEGIC BRAND MANAGEMENT Course Times/Places Class Meetings: Office Hours: Mondays and Tuesdays 8:30 – 10:00 & 10:15 – 11:45 Borelli classroom By appointment: Tuesdays, 12:30 – 2:00 Room: Woodbury 315 (Phone: 646-0393) E-mail: kevin.keller@dartmouth.edu Alison Pearson Room: Tuck 205I (Phone: 646-2515) E-mail: alison.pearson@dartmouth.edu Academic Coordinator: Required Text Kevin Lane Keller, Strategic Brand Management, 3rd edition, Prentice-Hall, 2008. Course Objectives Some of a firm’s most valuable assets are the brands that it has invested in and developed over time. Although manufacturing processes can often be duplicated, strongly held beliefs and attitudes established in consumers’ minds cannot. This mini-elective provides students with insights into how profitable brand strategies can be created. It addresses three important questions. How do you build brand equity? How can brand equity be measured? How do you capitalize on brand equity to expand your business? Its basic objectives are to (1) provide an understanding of the important issues in planning and evaluating brand strategies, and (2) provide the appropriate concepts and techniques to improve the long-term profitability of brand strategies. The course consists of lectures, exercises, and case discussions. The course content has relevance to students pursuing a variety of different career goals in virtually any...
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...Brothers: In its last reported financial statements before it went bankrupt, Lehman Brothers reported a loss of $US 2.4 billion for the first six months ended May 31, 2008 (vs. a net income of $US 2.4 billion for the first six months ended May 31, 2007). The shift of $US 4.8 billion in net income is largely driven by a dramatic fall of $US 8.5 billion in Lehman’s revenues from principal transactions, which include realized and unrealized gains or losses from financial instruments and other inventory positions owned. A significant portion of the downward shift in principal transactions revenues is actually explained by unrealized losses of $US 1.6 billion in the first semester of 2008 vs. unrealized gains of $US 200 million in the first semester of 2007. Thus, accounting at fair value for some financial assets amplified Lehman's downward earnings performance. Hence, it can be put forward that FVA, through its magnifying impact on earnings volatility, may have contributed to aggravate investors', regulators' and governments' perceptions with respect to the severity of the crisis, itself characterized by record volatility in the prices of many securities and goods. On a related note, the increased volatility brought forward by FVA is conducive to the use of equity-based compensation, especially stock options, which value is then enhanced (according to the Black-Scholes model, volatility is one of the key inputs in option valuation). Prior research 此前的研究 suggests that there is a strong...
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...PA R T B go online Go online to to find more case studies. CASE STUDY B Crisis management in international markets: ‘least said, soonest mended?’ John Knight, Department of Marketing, University of Otago and Bradley Mitchell, Inveratek Group Ltd 347 BACKGROUND An inevitable reality of doing business in the modern world is that crises recognise no boundaries (Fink 1986). A crisis management strategy needs to be part of the overall corporate strategy of any company operating internationally. Our chaotic times have led to some spectacular commercial crises. Sometimes these have been of companies’ own making through carelessness. A well-known example is the action of McDonald’s in promoting its sponsorship of the 1994 football World Cup by printing the flags of all competing nations on disposable packaging: the name of Allah is on the Saudi flag, and deep offence was caused by the fact that this was to be thrown away with the packaging (Starrett 1995). At other times crises have been caused by events completely outside of the control of the company. Examples of the latter include the deliberate product tampering of Tylenol products, leading to deaths by poisoning in the USA, and the massive product recall of Coca-Cola products in Belgium resulting from what appears to be a case of mass hysteria (Johnson and Peppas 2003). Furthermore, companies in the midst of a crisis may not be able to control the behaviour of others, but with proper planning and management the...
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...ISSN 1471-0498 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES OLIGOPOLY AND TRADE Dermot Leahy and J. Peter Neary Number 517 December 2010 Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3UQ OLIGOPOLY AND TRADE Dermot Leahyy National University of Ireland, Maynooth J. Peter Nearyz University of Oxford and CEPR December 13, 2010 Abstract In this chapter we present a selective analytic survey of some of the main results of trade under oligopoly. We concentrate on three topics: oligopoly as an independent determinant of trade, as illustrated by the reciprocal-markets model of Brander (1981); oligopoly as an independent rationale for government intervention, as illustrated by strategic trade and industrial policy in the third-market model of Spencer and Brander (1983); and the challenges and potential of embedding trade under oligopoly in general equilibrium as illustrated by the GOLE model of Neary (2002). Keywords: GOLE (General Oligopolistic Equilibrium); reciprocal dumping; strategic trade policy. JEL Classi…cation: F12, L13 Prepared for the Palgrave Handbook of International Trade, edited by Daniel Bernhofen, Rod Falvey, David Greenaway and Udo Kreickemeier. We are grateful to Daniel Bernhofen, Monika Mrázová and Tony Venables for helpful discussions. Dermot Leahy acknowledges the support of the Science Foundation Ireland Research Frontiers Programme (Grant MAT 017). y Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland;...
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