...AJMAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF REQUIRMENTS 2nd Semester: 2013-2014 Course Title: English Communication Skills Course Lecturer: Siddig Abdel Monim Ismail Assignment Title: Examples of ambiguous sentences with explanations Name: - Rawan.Ibrahim I.D:- 201212107 Section #:-5 Serial #:- 41 Definition of ambiguous and ambiguity. * Ambiguous: 1. open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations: “An ambiguous answer”. 2. difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify: “A rock of ambiguous character”. 3. lacking clearness or definiteness; obscure; indistinct: “An ambiguous shape”. * Ambiguity: 1. Doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity. 2. The condition of admitting more than one meaning. 3. An ambiguous word, expression, etc.: a contract free of ambiguities. Examples of Ambiguous Sentences with Explanations from Different Dictionary Princeton's WordNet 1. Equivocal, ambiguous (adj): open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead. "An equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question" 2. Ambiguous (adj): having more than one possible meaning. "Ambiguous words";...
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...1) The foundation of the Gillette is in 1901 as providing to customers shaving care products that is safety razor and blade. Also, it had more than half of the entire razor and blades market globally. Until the 1962 Gillette was monopoly in the market, when English firm Wilkinson Sword introduced its stainless-steel blade. Gillette offers to customers “consumer high quality shaving products that would satisfy basic grooming needs at a fair price”. With this power Gillette should not be victim its own success. In fact, Gillette’s performance increased all time such as despite of the World Wars periods, it continued to make profit in the market. However, with the Gillette’s wide range of products they do not have the manpower to fully focus on a specific product at the time of entrance in the market. Duracell realized that their products are being copied and sold at lower retail value. In terms of the come to an end can be validity for Gillette, but research and development department gives chance to them. 2) There is an obvious competition between Gillette and Schick. When the Gillette introduced a product such as Mach3 which has three blades, Schick entre to the market and it introduced as Quattro that has four blades. This battle can provide benefit for example; Gillette’s new and innovative products, which are needed because of the competition, can bring competitive advantage over other competitors. 3) For the future strategies of Gillette, they need to continue the...
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...Discussion Questions: “The Birthmark” English 1301 1. "The Birthmark" is such a rich story that when we begin to explore its deeper meanings we find ironies, ambiguities, paradoxes, and rich symbols, all of which invite a reader's individual interpretation. What irony, ambiguity, symbol, and paradox do you find most interesting in "The Birthmark"? 2. In much of his fiction, Hawthorne treats pride as an "evil." Is there an evil type of pride evident in "The Birthmark"? 3. In what ways is "The Birthmark" for all its promise of an "impressive moral" actually morally ambiguous? Why might some readers find it difficult to view Alymer, for instance, as purely and unambiguously "evil"? 4. Hawthorne didn't feel himself confined to an aesthetic that privileges "verisimilitude," like many 20th century authors (notable exceptions being Kafka, Borges, and Marquez). He felt comfortable allowing his fiction to include "the spirit and mechanism of the fairyland" (his words). What "fantastic" or "magical" elements appear in "The Birthmark"? 5. Consider Hawthorne's presentation of Georgiana in "The Birthmark." What attitudes about women seem to inform his portrait of her? 6. Given that certain themes tend to recur in Hawthorne's fiction, among them the limits of self-reliance and the evils of manipulation, can you analyze how these themes are expressed in "The Birthmark"? Student Questions: • Why did Aylmer marry Georgiana if he hated the birthmark so much? Why...
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...the story or 2. Would leave out parts of the story. Mr. and Mrs. Grinder received lots of money after Meriwether Lewis died. This evidence suggests she was changing and adding very odd things to the story to cover up for someone or cover up for herself. The document “Theories and Interpretations” brought new information to light. This document examined several theories experts believe; both suicide and murder. The theory that seemed most likely to me, was the theory that he was assassinated. Historians who believe this theory suggest Thomas Jefferson may have hired an assassin to murder Meriwether Lewis. Lewis had knowledge of secrets that would damage the reputation of General James Wilkinson and Thomas Jefferson if they were revealed to the public. Thomas Jefferson had also replaced Wilkinson with Meriwether when he returned to St. Louis as Governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. The only way to get rid of these secrets was to kill Lewis. Major Neelly and Captain Russell were a part of the conspiracy. Locals also knew Meriwether Lewis was taking the Natchez Trace to Washington DC. You’re probably wondering “Then why wouldn’t Meriwether Lewis call for help when they were going to kill him?”. This is because the Grinder’s were a part of this conspiracy and were paid for their cooperation and silence. Mrs. Grinder drastically changed her story, every time she told it to a new person. Major Neelly had supposedly been looking for Lewis’s lost horse, but what if he had been following...
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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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...Do Work: Be The Best you can be everyone in this room has the potential for greatness. Whether or not one chooses to unlock that potential is up to them. Anyone can tell you to “do your best” or “reach for the stars”, but just being told to do something doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to do it. Eventually it always comes down to the doer, not the teller. Its easy to be sarcastic about striving for success... saying the effort will not be worth the reward is a lazy cop out. A society like ours that requires near-instant gratification for all actions makes it very easy for someone to just take the easy way out, because many don’t realize that work, over a long period time produces RESULTS. No one ever got anywhere by sitting in their parents basement, playing video games, and burying themselves under bags of chips and mountain dew cans. The most successful people in the world didn’t get that way over night. They got there by putting their nose to the grindstone for years, until the effort paid off. The phrase, “money doesn’t buy happiness” isn’t quite as accurate as it might have been, even 10 years ago. It may be insensitive, but it’s true, happiness, to at least some degree, requires a little bit of cash... and the most surefire way to make sure you have that cash is good, old fashioned, hard work... Sure there are a few people in the world who have achieved success, seemingly out of nowhere, but I guarantee that in 15 years, if you ask...
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...Kevin Collins English 105 Argumentative Analysis October 26th 2010 In 1962 Sam Walton grew tired of grocery shopping. Once Sam retired from the military life, he settled down with his wife Helen Robson, and decided to develop his own store. After several attempts, his father-in-law granted him the 20,000 dollars he needed to develop his first store, a Ben Franklin franchise variety store near his home in Arkansas. His idea was to provide a vast array of products for his customers, while keeping the prices low to out compete the neighboring stores. His unique low priced strategies allowed him to boost sales and negotiate lower prices with his wholesalers. Once Walton’s retail operation started to take off, he decided to change the name to Walmart, by the use of his last name. He then established more than 9,600 factories, stores, and warehouses (Sam’s Club), throughout the United States, Asia, Mexico, Europe, and South America. Walmart has low prices, friendly workers, and many locations, but protesters will argue that the gender discrimination, harsh impact on the surrounding communities, and low wages, outweigh the benefits to Walmart. We thought gender discrimination ended with the ratification of the 19th amendment, but according to Wake-up Wal-mart.com, several cases have been recorded in the Walmart workplace. For example, in 2001, studies proved that for the same job classification, even after taking into account factors such as seniority and performance...
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...MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Project Proposal Overview of Organization The organization that will be the topic of discussion in my final project is Wal-Mart, which is one of the largest retail chains in the world. Their famous slogan Save money Live Better is a basic belief of Sam Walton, who is the founder of the company. His beliefs are: Respect for individual, service to the customer, and strive for excellence. Sam Walton tried to adhere to his beliefs but when you have one of the largest retail chains and the growth of a company in this magnitude, you will also have an array of problems. I currently work in the Human Resource department and as a human resource specialist. As a Human Resource Specialist I facilitate orientations, administers, oversea facility training, monitor and track completion of training by associates, coordinate training and communicate training issues with management. With this position I hold, I have the opportunity to make suggestions with the training reports I receive and communicate to upper management the outcomes and personnel related issues within the company. My job also entails auditing personnel files, recruitment of employees, facilitating disputes, payroll, and evaluation process. Wal-Mart is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount departments stores and a chain of warehouse stores. Wal-Mart U.S. stores are the largest division accounting for $258 billion,...
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...As of 2012, Wal-Mart operates more than 10,000 retail units in 27 different countries. There are more than 2 million associates who serve 200 million customers and members every week. 2012 fiscal review for Wal-Mart delivered a strong financial performance. Net sales increased by 5.9 percent to $443.9 billion and consolidated operating income grew by 4 percent to $26.6 billion. Their diluted earnings per share from continuing operations attributes to Wal-Mart were $4.54 per share that is up from $4.18 the previous year. Wal-Mart’s strong financial position is best shown by their ability to grow. Wal-Mart added 52.2 million square feet through 1,160 additional units, including acquisitions in the U.K. and South Africa (Walmart, 2012). Wal-Mart has made improvements in merchandising and operations and investing in lower prices. They did great job in closing the year with two quarters of positive sales, including positive end in the fourth quarter. Wal-Mart international delivered strong sales and remains the company’s primary growth engine. Having $125 billion in sales, it is among the three largest retailers in the world (Walmart, 2012). Walmart can serve the needs of all income based customers in high growth markets. Sam’s Club, a subsidiary of Wal-Mart, continues to drive the sales momentum by increasing its sales to 8.4 percent in fiscal year 2012. Sam’s Club has also made progress in growing its membership base. It was key for growth this year (Walmart, 2012). Wal-Mart...
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...or her normal realm these values are tested. One’s individual core values may change to adapt to other settings based on societal changes, financial status and education. As one enters the workforce the values of the organization must then be evaluated. Do the values of the organization measure up to the individual’s values? Does the culture of the business cause one to go against the principles of which he or she lives by? Team C has chosen to evaluate the values of Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, to the values incorporated in this company and its organizational plan to find whether or not the values are in alignment. Origin and Subsequent The origins and subsequent evolution of personal and workplace values within Wal-Mart are truly important to the structure of this organization. Wal-Mart has developed there business structure back in 1962 on these three basic beliefs: respect the individual, service the customer and strive for excellence. The origin reflects in the original beliefs that Sam Walton instilled in the company from day one are subsequently the same values that have evolved over the years. They may have not evolved in the since where they have changed but they have evolved where they are strictly and continuously enforced by all stores, in all locations, for all customers. Wal-Mart expands from there three basic beliefs and honor there open door policy which allows there to be open communication with management and associates, the sun down rule which...
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...Problem Statement: Wal-Mart is one of the world’s largest companies and largest retailer in the world, with over 5,000 stores around the world and nearly 2 million employees there is no reason for this company not to be highly successful. Although Wal-Mart as whole is a highly successful company, they still have problems like every other company. Through Wal-Mart’s history they’ve encountered many obstacles and complications on the way to the top. Most of these problems have found a solution but Wal-Mart still has major and minor problems. Whether new problems or past ones still lingering, either way with a problem you must have solution. Especially with a multi-billionaire company such as Wal-Mart you want to be as efficient and eradicated of as much problems as you possibly can. Major Problem: Wal-Mart International In the highly successful world of Wal-Mart they face a problem most companies also have trouble conquering and that is going international. Wal-Mart International is a success in its own right, as it still is the world’s largest retailer but it’s just not successful on its own standards. Wal-Mart conquered North America with successful ventures in Canada and Mexico but not so successful in some countries over seas such as Germany and Japan. Wal-Mart expanded to Germany & Japan in the late 90’s and early 2000’s and for a long time was unprofitable in both regions. Whether its Wall-marts approach on new markets or forcing their culture too quickly, something...
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...Running Head: WAL-MART STORE INC Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Chrisp, Courtney; Richardson, Maria E.; & White, Sherri Leadership & Org Behavior GM591 Professor: Robert Churilla mariae.richardson@yahoo.com DeVry/Keller University Online 02/17/2013 Introduction Wal-Mart Stores Inc., founded by Sam Walton in 1962, is one of America largest discount department stores. Wal-Mart’s primary mission is to bring consumers high quality goods at a low, discounted price. Wal-Mart operates more than 8,692 retail units across three business segments of retail worldwide that offer a wide array of general merchandise, including groceries, apparel, electronics, and small appliances. In addition, the company is the world’s largest retailer and grocery chain according to sales volume and just over half of their sales comes from grocery items. Over 54% of the company’s stores are located in the United States, with the majority of international stores located in Central and South America, and China. (Jaeah, 2012). Wal-Mart was started in Rogers, Arkansas during the early 1960’s. Sam Walton traveled all around the country researching what consumers wanted in a retail store. When Walton first opened Wal-Mart he “built it under the foundation of honesty, respect, fairness and integrity”. Walton tried to create a culture that shared the same beliefs as he did. Out of his beliefs he chose the three strongest which he felt best suited his store: respect...
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...Bravery Odysseus was a virtuous and heroic leader. He and many other characters showed many acts of bravery. The bravery that Odysseus possessed was extraordinary and could have changed the story line completely if he didn’t use it as often then the story may have developed different. Odysseus’ bravery was tested in many adventures that he endured throughout the novel. This will be proven in many ways throughout the essay. Some examples of people that also showed bravery are Penelope, the herders, Tele, the suitors and even Ody’s crew. But the basic point im throwing across is that if no one had shown the bravery that they didn’t the story line could have completely gone in to a different direction. Some of the smaller characters that showed bravery every once and a while were Penelope, the herders, the suitors, and Ody’s crew. But the played a big part in the development of the story using the character trait bravery. An example of this is when Ody’s crew helped Ody using this trait. One example of this is when they were trapped in the Cyclopes’s Cave and they helped Ody build a giant six-foot long spear made out of a tree and then they helped him thrust it into the Cyclopes’s eye while he was sleeping. This was an example of bravery because they did this because they didn’t want to be eaten by the Cyclopes so they attacked him and succeeded. Not only if they hadn’t have done this then the story may have developed differently...
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...James Montgomery Flagg James Montgomery Flagg was born in Pelham Manor N.Y on June 18, 1977. James Flagg’s parents were Elisha Flagg who was a business man and Anna Elida Coburn. He was an illustrator and a writer for over twenty years and had some very famous art work that people still remember today. Some of the things that will be cover on James Montgomery Flagg are his education/apprenticeship, the culture and society of the time period his work was made, historical design/art precedents that influenced him to do the illustrations that he made, his most significant accomplishments over the years, and subsequent influences that he had on later generations. James Montgomery Flagg had quite a few more famous art works that he made that people don’t really know about. Figure [ 1 ]-1 James Flagg in 1915 James Montgomery Flagg’s public schools were Dr. Chapin’s School from 1889 to 1891 and then moved to Horace Mann School from 1891 till 1893. Then James went to study at the Art Students League from 1894 till 1898 under John H. Tqachtamn and J. Carroll Beckwith. Than in 1898 he attended Hubert Herkomer’s Art School in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. James Montgomery Flagg intended to be a portraitist, and continued to paint and draw portraits throughout his career. James says that, “his real education came from the material that passed over the desks of the editors of St. Nicholas, Judge and Life” [ {{52 Anonymous}} ]. At St. Nicholas, Judge and Life James was allowed...
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...Time Capsule Holly Lara May 1, 2012 HU300: Arts and Humanities: 20th Century and Beyond Prof: Ellie Schamber My Day-to-Day Life My name is Holly Lara and I am married and have four kids, two of which are my step kids. During the day I clean my house and make breakfast lunch and dinner for my family. I like to go to the mall at times to shop and to take my kids to the park. I try not to let things in life stress me out, though sometimes it can be hard with so many expenses. At night I am a bartender, I love my job very much. I love to sing and play around with music on my spare time and even teach my kids how to play instruments. I think music is a big part of our world in the 21st century. I personally like living in the 21st century with the new technology that come in every few months. I don’t think I could have lived in a previous century where there was no technology invented. I do wish that we lived in a healthier environment though. There is too much pollution in the air and way too much littering everywhere. In the future I would like to own a house for my family, somewhere where I can have my kids visit me and bring my grandkids to. I want a huge backyard for them to play in. I would also like a plan to be made to make our environment cleaner, so it will be a safer environment for my kids and grandkids. Morality and Decision-Making The biggest morality question today and probably will be on-going for many centuries to come is should abortion be allowed...
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