...The Sandwich Factory analysis The novel is written in 2007 by Jason Kennedy and tells the story of a nameless production line worker, in an industrialized world. The narrator is 1st person, and the story unfolds through the narrator’s point of view. The novel use high style language, the narrator uses a lot of irony, which makes it quite humorous to read at times. For an example “Dot lived in the Midlands, as she would’ve been an excellent pirate, giving blow jobs on the high seas” (L.36-37, p.2). His literal knowledge far exceeds the normal human being with no higher education. “In keeping with my station in society, and having been rejected by the bowling alley, I took a low-paid job at a sandwich factory.”(L.1-2. p.1.) The narrator has taken a job at a sandwich factory, where he is putting together the sandwiches. The narrator has possibly lost his old job, and therefore he seeks a new job. The “Bowling alley” rejected him, when he applied for a job there. Therefore he got a low paid job at the sandwich factory. He thinks highly about himself, and indicates that he holds a high status in society. His thoughts philosophize on many subjects regarding the factory and the people working there. His thoughts intertwining with his literary knowledge, creating strange metaphysical scenarios in this mind. “A whole factory full of workers who would bite your arm off to push a rock up a hill for eternity (so long as you gave us €4.50 an hour and the weekends off). I entertained...
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...Unit 6 Assignment Introduction to Management Melissa Clarke Kaplan University Lei has noticed a glitch within the time sheet of one of the associates at a Sandwich Blitz location that she did not like. After doing investigation she found out that a team supervisor has been allowing this associate to claim unworked hours on his/her pay check each pay period. This is not a good thing for the company because this associate claiming unworked hours means this associate is steal from the company and someone who know prevent this from happening is allowing this behavior to carry on. After looking over the information in the hand book Lei notices that this practice was not covered for the company workers to know the penalty of an action such as this one. This issue is a control issue therefore the company hand book needs to be updated with a section to handle these issues, also inform employees of the do’s and don’ts to prevent another situation like this. Control systems detect and correct significant variations, or discrepancies, in the results of planned activities (Bateman and Snell 2013). For Dalman and Lei to build and effective control system they need to follow the 4 step of building a control system, the first step is “setting performance standards”. They already have a performance standard which is the handbook that they created with the first location they had goals they just need to update those goals. The books needs to be modified, Lei would have to set quality goals...
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...General purpose: to provide new information Specific purpose: to inform the about raising the legal driving age to 18 Introduction I. Attention: To quote an unknown author, “It’s not the Willis Tower, it’s the Sears Tower, I don’t wear sneakers, I wear gym shoes. I don’t drink soda, I drink pop. I don’t go to the movies, I go to the show. Where I am from is determined by north, south, east, or west. I am from the city with the best pizza, hot dogs and Gyros. I have taken the L train and the subway at the same time without even leaving my seat. 40 degrees is not cold. My basketball team has 6 rings. My football team did the super bowl shuffle. Your tall buildings do not impress me. Your country living does not move me. I don’t need to put my city on a hat to tell where I am from… the way I move explains enough.” II. Thesis: We are going to talk about the city of Chicago’s statistics and Chicago’s food. III. Credibility: I have done extensive research and I was born and raised in Chicago for 20 years before moving to Las Vegas to attend UNLV. IV. Preview: To inform the audience about the city of Chicago and food. Body I. Chicago’s statistics a. Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900 (McDonald, 2015.) b. Metropolitan Chicago had become a sprawling urban area of 9.5 million people that spreads from southeast Wisconsin to northwest Indiana to counties that are as much as 70 miles to the west of downtown Chicago. (McDonald...
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...MMGP: Research Paper Final Business 520 Introduction In determining what makes a business successful one must consider all aspects of a firm. One of the most important factors of success is imbedded in the marketing management team of a company. In this project, Subway’s marketing strategy is thoroughly researched to reveal why the firm is thriving among fast food chains around the world. This is done through researching the background on the company, analyzing the fast food market, identifying the position/competition/brand, evaluating the services and pricing, and finally considering promotions/marketing. Through the breakdown of these subjects it will be apparent that Subway is not only one of the leading firms in its industry, it will also show that it has outshined companies across the world in marketing management. Provide a description of your product/service and a brief history of the firm that produces your product/service. Subway is a fast food restaurant franchise that specializes in the submarine sandwiches. It is owned and operated by Doctor’s Associates, Inc. Subway’s headquarters is located in Milford, Connecticut. The franchise has five regional offices to oversee its international operations. The regional offices for Europe are located in Amsterdam, regional offices for Australia and New Zealand are located in Brisbane, regional offices for Asia are located in Beirut and Singapore, and regional offices for Latin America are located in Miami, Florida...
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...High Incidence Disabilities & Learning Needs Characteristics & Strategies Complete the chart below. Be sure to fully address each section. Bulleting is appropriate in this activity. | Definition(in your own words) | Identification Procedures | Characteristics(address academic, cognitive, social, emotional & behavioral as appropriate) | Ideas, strategies, suggestions for working with students in the classroom | Learning Disabilities | This is a disorder in which students are unable to perform the basic processes in understanding subjects such as language arts, math, etc. Sometimes it affects one or many areas. | * Unexpected underachievement in one or more academic areas * Severe discrepancy between expected achievement (standard test of intelligence) level and actual achievement (standard achievement test). * After unexpected achievement is documented, the exclusion clause is applied to student identification. | * Academic achievement is significantly below grade level. * Cognitive skill deficits related to memory, attention, impulsivity and or meta-cognition. * Possibly also diagnosed with ADHD. * Possible social deficits and difficulty getting along with others. * Motivational problems. | Provide clear and concise directions; adapt the curriculum to the student’s appropriate skill level; provide close supervision for the student; resource room may be a good accommodation. | Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | Students are unable...
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...The McDonald's restaurant concept was introduced in San Bernardino, California by Dick and Mac McDonald of Manchester, New Hampshire. It was modified and expanded by their business partner, Ray Kroc, of Oak Park, Illinois, who later bought out the business interests of the McDonald brothers and formed McDonald's Corporation. Early history In 1937, Patrick McDonald opened "The Airdrome", a food stand, on Huntington Drive (Route 66) near the Monrovia Airport in Monrovia, California.[4] Hamburgers were ten cents, and all-you-can-drink[citation needed] orange juice was five cents. In 1940, his two sons, Maurice and Richard ("Mac" and "Dick"), moved the entire building 40 miles (64 km) east, to West 14th and 1398 North E Streets in San Bernardino, California. The restaurant was renamed "McDonald's Bar-B-Q" and served twenty five barbecued items on their menu. In October 1948, after the McDonald brothers realized that most of their profits came from selling hamburgers, they closed down their successful carhop drive-in to establish a streamlined system with a simple menu of just hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, shakes, soft drinks, and apple pie. The carhops were eliminated to make McDonald's a self-serve operation. Mac and Dick McDonald had taken great care in setting up their kitchen like an assembly line to ensure maximum efficiency. The restaurant's name was again changed, this time to simply "McDonald's" and reopened its doors on December 12, 1948. In 1953, the McDonald...
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...Erikson- last three stages: Intimacy vs iso: close reciprocal connection. Not self-absorb. Emerging adult to lifelong iso..Divorce or death disruption.. Generativity vs stag: care for next generation. Raising own children or mentoring. Integrity vs despair: Erikson was 70 and decided on integrity. Personal journey from a person’s entire life in connection with society is the ultimate goal. Generativity: productive stage (7th). Art, care giving, employment. Caregiving: Kinkeeper: takes responsibility for maintaining communication among family. Sandwich Generation: middle aged adults squeezed by the needs of younger and older members of the family. Intimacy: connect with others; social convoy-family, friends, strangers who move through life with a person. Protective layer of social relation. Affects relationships with siblings and spouses. Integration of death and the acceptance of death. Maslow- top to bottom: 5.Self Actualization: need to live into someone’s full potential. Aesthetic, creative, and spiritual understanding. 4. Esteem: achievement, competence, respect from others. 3. Love and belonging: need to be loved, belong and acceptance. 2. Safety: Feel safe/secure.1. Physiological: need food, drink, shelter. Mid Life Crisis: 35-50yrs. Mostly men. Reflect back and evaluate life. Radical self-examination and transformation. Levinson study. The age 40 crucible-Gail Sheehy 1976. Characteristics of Personality: (O.C.E.A.N): “The Big Five” Openness- imaginative, artistic...
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...protesters began to occupy Zuccotti Park at the end of Wall Street in mid-September. When we visited in October the number of blue tents pitched in the park was still growing. To me the scene looked like a disaster zone. Sitting in front of a glitzy investment bank, a shabbily dressed homeless man held out his hand for a cigarette, while warning with a threatening look in his eyes that he does not want to be photographed. But just around the corner white-collar workers sporting fashionable neckties pay the equivalent of NT$ 1,500 for a sandwich lunch at Trinity Place bar and restaurant. Housed in a remodeled old bank building, the restaurant is famous for its 70-centimeter thick, 35-ton bank vault doors that deliberately create the impression of a bastion of iron. Which impression is the true America? And why do people harbor such deep-seated anger? Civil rights activist Martin Luther King moved the entire world with his "I have a dream" speech. But now the...
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...Thus we learn the fear of the dark, and methods of speech, and the modalities for the expression of emotions, and learn walking, running, climbing, jumping, reading, writing, and playing musical instruments, and learn to tell the truth, and the shame of lying, and good behavior and deviant behavior. These are all examples of learning situations. Learning the subject is at the moment the primary axis, which is based upon the psychological and social theories in various human behavior understanding and prediction, and set the direction. Definition of learning: We offer here a number of learning definitions: Learning: is any change in behavior resulting from excitability. Learning: is the process of acquiring the means to help satisfy the motives and goals to achieve, and which often take a picture...
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...This page intentionally left blank The Study of Language This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study – from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language. George Yule has taught Linguistics at the Universities of Edinburgh, Hawai’i, Louisiana State and Minnesota. He is the author of a number of books, including Discourse Analysis (with Gillian Brown, 1983) and Pragmatics (1996). “A genuinely introductory linguistics text, well suited for undergraduates who have little prior experience thinking descriptively about language. Yule’s crisp and thought-provoking presentation of key issues works...
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...ANDROID OPERATION SYSTEM INTRODUCTION Android is a mobile operating system that is currently developed by Google, it is based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android’s user-interface is mainly based on direct manipulation, using touch gestures that loosely corresponds to real-world actions, such as swiping, tapping and pinching to manipulate on-screen objects along with a virtual keyboard for text input. In addition to touchscreen devices Google has also developed android for other platforms such Android TV for Television, Android Auto for Cars and Android Wear for wristwatches. Each of these platform have special interface to sooth the platform. Variant of Android are also used on Notebooks, game console, digital camera and other electronics. As smartphones and tablets become more popular, the operating systems for those devices become more important. Android is such an operating system for low powered devices that run on battery and contain hardware like Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, cameras, light and orientation sensors, WiFi and UMTS (3G telephony) connectivity and a touch screen. Like all operating systems, Android enables applications to make use of the hardware features through abstraction and provide a defined environment for applications. Unlike on other mobile operating systems like Apple’s iOS, Palm’s web OS or Symbian, Android applications are written in Java and run in virtual...
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...------------------------------------------------- 英语毕业论文:The Features of Advertising Language ------------------------------------------------- 来源:天星 更新日期:2007-12-04 点击:10175 ------------------------------------------------- Analysis of Advertising English Through Classification ------------------------------------------------- I. An introduction to Advertising ------------------------------------------------- 1. Definition: ------------------------------------------------- American Marketing Association (AMA) defines advertising as “the non-personal communication of information usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products, services or ideas by identified sponsors through the various media.” Today, with the development of the technology and the diversity of the mass media, advertising has influenced us pervasively in our daily life. However, whatever the promotive strategies advertising takes, language is the main carrier of message all along, as The Language of Advertising, by Vestergaard & Schroder, says, “Advertising takes many forms, but in most of them language is of crucial importance.” Advertising language is a style of immediate impact and rapid persuasion. The point of an advertisement is to persuade you of the merits of a particular product or service, in order that you will take out some of your money. ------------------------------------------------- 2. Advertising Components: ------------------------------------------------- According to the...
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...[pic] McDonald's and the Environmental Defense Fund: a case study of a green alliance Sharon Livesey Originally published in…The Journal of Business Communication • January 1999 In 1987, the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development, which had convened to address the global ecological crisis, produced Our Common Future (the Brundtland Report). This watershed event established the conceptual underpinnings for environmental politics and debate in the 1990s by reframing the problem of the natural environment as one of sustainable development. In the wake of this reframing, a new practice in environmental management emerged - that of green alliances or partnerships between business and ecology groups (Westley & Vredenburg, 1991, pp. 71-72). These alliances, considered one of the ten most significant trends in environmental management and the greening of industry (Gladwin, 1993, p. 46), appeared to signal a sea change in the way business, as well as environmentalists, could respond to the ecological impacts of firms' economic activities. Indeed, environmental partnerships offered both business and ecology groups the potential for a new rhetorical stance. Business communication scholarship has identified a variety of rhetorical strategies adopted by corporations in the face of environmental controversy: defensiveness and apologia (e.g., Ice, 1991; Tyler, 1992), competing information campaigns (e.g., Lange, 1993; Moore, 1993), or retreat (e.g., Seiter...
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...1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Company Brief History Ben & Jerry’s (B&J) Ice Cream first started in 1978, where their very first scoop shop opened in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded by two friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who started the business out of their passion for eating. It has slowly expanded its scoop shops to other states and started distributing its ice-creams in pints. In 1988, B&J introduced its 3-part mission statement which shows their desire and dedication to being socially and environmentally responsible in running its business. B&J also produces its ice-creams from fresh Vermont milk and cream. With its funky and interesting themes and its high quality ice-cream at affordable prices, it quickly gained popularity and have succeeded in expanding internationally, including countries like Singapore. 1.2 Mission Statement B&J’s mission statement is made up of 3 components; social, product and economic mission.[pic] Figure 1.2a: Ben & Jerry’s Mission Statement The factor that sets B&J apart from its competitors is its strong emphasize on its social mission. It did not just make an empty claim but has delivered its social mission through its development of a more recyclable packaging and entering a partnership with Nature Energy which provides clean energy alternatives. 1.3 Company Business Portfolio [pic] Figure 1.3a: Ben & Jerry’s Business Portfolio B&J is in a highly...
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...Contents Issues Seeking Permission Page 1 Chapter I Introduction and Background Tribute, Acknowledgements, Pre-budget Consultations, Vision for prosperous Bangladesh, Expectations vis-à-vis Resource Constraints 1-4 Some Important Pledges: Implementation Progress Facing Recession, Achievements of Power and Energy Sector, Agriculture Sector, Land, Fisheries and Live Stock, Food Security, Roads and Bridges, Education, Health, Digital Bangladesh, Climate Change, Women and Children Welfare, Social Safety Net Programmes, Employment Generation, Rural Development, Population Census, Industry and Trade, Public Welfare and Good Governance, Immigration and Skill Development, Optimum Utilisation of Public Money 4-15 Macro-economy and the Global Perspective Growth, External Sector, Export, Import, Remittance, Current Account Balance, Foreign Exchange Reserve, Exchange Rate, Monetary Sector, Inflation, Economic Strategy 15-22 Revised Budget for FY2010-11 Revenue Situation, Revenue Mobilisation, ADP Utilisation, Total expenditure, Budget Deficit 23-25 Chapter II Some Key Sectors Power and Energy: Integrated Development i 25-98 26-31 Issues Program Power: Electricity Production Plan, Power Transmission and Distribution Line, Renewable Energy, Power Savings Energy: Use of Alternative Energy Sources, Gas Production, Exploration of Oil and Gas Page 26-29 29-31 31-47 Agriculture and Rural Development Agriculture: Agriculture Subsidy, Seeds, Hybrid Paddy...
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