...extracted resources that were only within their territories. More land was unoccupied thus attracting other foreign immigrants who, moved in search of better resources and experiences. It is in the spirit of discovery and colonization, this article puts into perspective the development of a new state of Virginia in America. Precisely at Jamestown, as it is told through a film called “The New World”, directed by Terrence Mallick, and a story book called “The General History of Virginia, New England, and The Summer Isles”, by Smith (pg.57-69). This article analyses the two sources, the film and the book as their stories are related by both explaining the discovery and development of Jamestown and Virginia. This region has been captured in these two sources as a new territory that was conquered by the actor, John Smith as a captain of a ship and navy that sailed to Virginia in the 17th century (pg.57-69). The book “The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles”, by Mr. John Smith. John Smith himself writes this book, where he reveals all the developments of the story in the third-person language. The book...
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...She would often take Patty out shopping or give her gifts to show Patty that she loved her (“Summer of My German Soldier”). Grandma Fried told Patty to ride to eight o’clock morning train, and they would spend the day together. Grandma Fried told Patty that she would buy clothes, or whatever else she would like. Patty, instead of asking for a dress, asked for a book since the only library in town is in the school which is closed for the summer. Grandma Fried left to get a ten dollar bill to give to Patty, and when she returned, she told Patty, “buy some nice books and when you are finished reading them, I'll give you money to buy more.” (Greene 65). Patty believes that her Grandmother will be the loving mother figure that she so desperately wants and needs, so when this doesn't happen, she is very disappointed (“Summer of My German...
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...the accomplishments of a registered nurse and humanitarian chosen to carry the Olympic torch in the 2012 summer London Olympics games. Collins from the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) wrote an informative article on a very accomplished nurse, Debra A. Toney, PhD, RN, FAAN. When interviewed by AJN and asked about her accomplishments after being chosen by relay sponsor’s she stated, that most of her time is spent in underserved communities helping promote health with education, support groups, and screening (Collins, 2012). The article had plenty of background information on Ms. Toney, her many accomplishments, and nursing experience before Collins proceeded to go into talking about her selection for the Olympic torch team. It is always exciting to see stories of individuals that are contributing to society but even more when it is someone or something thing that you can relate to. Collins (2012) reported she carried the torch a total of 300 meters on the ninth of July though Kirlington in Oxfordshire. When Ms. Toney was asked about being chosen for this prestigious event she had the following to say, “Being a torchbearer gives me the opportunity to participate in an international event that celebrates the accomplishments of some amazing people,” and “It’s a proud and humbling experience just to be chosen for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” (Collins, 2012, p.69). When asked about her feelings about being part of the relay and being singled out by her peers as...
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...the highest point in Paraguay. It is a mountain locater in the ranges named Ybytyruzú (Cerro Pero). The lowest point in Paraguay is where the Paraguay River and the Parma River meet (World Atlas). The average elevation is just a hundred feet above sea level, but there is much variation throughout the country that contributes to these numbers (Pantanal). Paraguay is a sub-tropical climate that is set in the Paraneña region. Paraguay’s rain season falls in the summer in the months October through April. The true summer would be December to March and the temperatures range anywhere from 86 to 91 degrees Fahrenheit. The winters are relatively dry compared to the winter months and the temperatures range from 55 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit (World Weather). The rainfall does differ by the regions of the country. In the east, towards Brazil, the rain level is heightened and the levels dissipate the closer to Asunción, the capital located in the middle region. The Southern regions proves to be very humid especially in the summer months and this humidity is scarce in all other regions of the country...
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...Rhode, at 13, won her first world championship title in women's double trap shooting. After double trap shooting was eliminated from the 2008 Olympic games, she has concentrated on skeet. At the 2007 world cup competitions in Santo Domingo, she set a new final world record in this event with 98 hits (74 in the qualification round and a perfect 25 in the final). Rhode became an Distinguished International Shooter in 1995 (Badge #388).[4] 1996 Olympics[edit] Rhode won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Games, making her the youngest female gold medalist in the history of Olympic shooting. 2000 Olympics[edit] Rhode won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 2004 Olympics[edit] Rhode also won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. 2008 Olympics[edit] Rhode won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in women's skeet. 2012 Olympics[edit] On July 29 at the 2012 London Olympics, Rhode won the gold medal in skeet shooting with an Olympic record score of 99, tying the world record in this event.[5] With this medal, Rhode is the only American competitor to win medals for an individual event in five consecutive Olympics. She also became one of the three competitors (and the only woman) to win three Olympic individual gold medals for shooting, along with Ralf Schumann of Germany and Jin Jong-oh of Korea. TV Host[edit] Rhode is co-host of the Outdoor Channel's TV program Step Outside.[6] Rhode studied veterinary medicine...
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...Hot Hot Hot The weather in the Sahara desert is strange. The weather can be 100° during the day, but at night it can be bellow 0°. The seasons in the Sahara desert are very simple, it has one season, summer. Summer, summer, summer, thats all the day is. At night it can feel like winter though. The Sahara desert is very arid, hardly any rain at all. The Sahara desert can get up to 165° during the day and as low as 69°. It rains 6.5 inches a year, average, it can get more. Do you want to get tan, then come to the Sahara desert. Animals The only way that animals can survive in the Sahara desert is to be able to go a long time with little or no water at all. There are a lot of animals that can. The animals that can do that for the longest time is the sidewinder, the Great Jerboa, and the thorny devil. These animals can last days without water or food. The Sidewinder is a snake that blends in with the sand so it is easy to sneak up on prey. Sidewinders like to eat the kangaroo rat, or any kind of...
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...Slacks and Calluses is a story about two school teachers, Constance Bowman and Clara Marie Allen, who have decided to work in a bomber factory during the summer. Although Bowman does not specifically say, the story she writes shows the reader how working-class women were viewed and treated during World War II. Working-class women lived with the stigma of inferiority and were labeled the lowest of the social classes. Men viewed them as unintelligent, sex objects while other women ostracized them for their non-compliance to the existing view of femininity. Despite the stigma of being women in a place made for men and not being homemakers, Bowman and Allen felt it was their patriotic duty to spend their summer building bombers. In the 1940s, working-class women were viewed as inferior to men. They were not valued for their intelligence; instead, they were valued for what they could do for the man. When Constance Bowman was given her first task of loosening a bolt and she asked Mr. MacGregor, her leadman, how to use a ratchet, she “could hear something inside him saying ‘Women’ disgustedly” (Reid 32). Men viewed women as only being good for their eye candy. This is why the bomber factory required women to wear hair coverings and caps. They did not want...
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...Personal Worldview & Business Ethics Paper Liberty University BMAL 560 January 25, 2015 STEP 1 To what extent should personal religious beliefs impact our decisions about business ethics? Personal religious beliefs should impact all decisions about business ethics. If your beliefs are truly mandated in your life, then you have no choice but to be fair and honest about your business decisions. Business decisions can sometimes be difficult and harsh, but that is no reason to comprise the integrity of what you believe in. In 2012, Summers & Summers concluded that from the “Christian worldview”, God is the source and creator of all things. This means that God has provided all the resources we need in order for those needs to be satisfied. Our task is to use these resources properly. (pp. 30). Psalms 24:1 tells us “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters” (NIV). To what extent do your personal religious (or non-religious) beliefs about life impact your sense of business ethics and personal decision-making? The extent of my owm personal religious beliefs about life impacted my sense of business ethics and personal decicion-making. As a new Revenue Agent for the Internal Revenue Service, my on-the-job trainer told me to always assume the taxpayer was a liar. I was not able to do that. I always let the records speak for themselves and I counted on my good...
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...Supertoys last all summer long Where do we draw the line? Is it okay to medicate feelings away? Who is responsible for the actions undertaken by autonomous systems? With the increasing development on genetic modification, autonomous machines and the knowledge about our brain and nervous system’s chemistry, things we see in science fiction movies are beginning to seem possible and this poses questions to ethicists and scientists. In the short story “Super toys last all summer long”, Brian Aldiss is questioning what is real and what makes something real, through a story about a woman struggling to love her son. Already in the start of the short story, where it says, "She had tried to love him"(p. 32, l. 19), Brian Aldiss shows us that there is something, which is not right in the relationship between the mother Monica and the son David. A mother’s love for her child is endless, therefore this makes us question whether David is Monica’s real child or not. Later on in the short story, Brian Aldiss alludes to the fact that David is not a normal boy. “He went with her without protest into the house, his dark head bobbing at the level of her waist. At the age of three, he showed no fear of the ultrasonic dryer in the kitchen.”(p. 32 l. 28-32). It is not normal for a three-year-old boy to do as his mother says without protest or not to be afraid of the ultrasonic dryer, which properly is big and noisy. Through the short story, more and more tells us that the communication between Monica...
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...Many Americans share a common summer memory. No, not of going to the beach or an amusement park. Instead this memory is one where they spent a week of their summer vacation visiting a local church during their annual installment of Vacation Bible School or VBS for short. Some kids attended numerous church's Vacation's Bible Schools, attempting to enjoy as many of the fun-filled activities as possible. How Popular Was Vacation Bible School? According to a recently released by LifeWay, entitled "Even If They Don't Go to Church, Americans Still Love VBS," some six in every 10 Americans surveyed said they attended VBS while growing up. Two-thirds say they plan to send their kids to VBS, even if they don't currently attend a church. More About...
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...the date 13th January which became known as "Black Friday" which burnt out parts of Gippsland. The bushfires of 13 January 1939, known as the Black Friday fires, followed a long drought and a severe, hot, dry summer. Fanned by extremely strong winds, these fires swept rapidly across large areas of Victoria, causing widespread destruction. In Victoria an area of almost two million hectares was burned, with 71 people losing their lives. Whole townships were destroyed, many sawmills burned to the ground and thousands of sheep, cattle and horses were killed by the intense heat and flames. Three weeks after the bushfires, a Royal Commission was convened. Judge Leonard E B Stretton was selected to lead the Royal Commission. He...
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...DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT (PGDM) Submitted by: Vijay Ramamoorthy PGDM, Roll No. 173, 19th Batch (2013-2015) Submitted on 01st July, 2014 Under the guidance of Mr. P. Meenakshi Sundaram Project guide (Deputy Manager, Logistics, CavinKare) XIME Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship Electronics City-Phase II, Bangalore-560100 Summer Internship Report 1|Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The 8 weeks of internship at CavinKare has been an enriching experience in terms of learning and application of theory into practice. The real time experience that I have received is something which cannot be emulated in a class room scenario and will be highly helpful for my professional growth. It has been a fruitful, exciting and value-adding exercise for me. It bears the imprint of many people, and I wish to express my sincere gratitude towards all those who made it possible. First, I would like to express my earnest appreciation and gratitude towards our President, Professor J. Philip, President, XIME for conceptualizing the summer training program. I would like to thank our Senior Dean, Mr. S.D.Tyagaraj for implementing the concept of summer training program. I am grateful to Mr. John Ben, my project guide, for guiding me during my internship. I would like to thank Mr P. Meenakshi Sundaram, Deputy Manager-Logistics, CavinKare, for giving me an opportunity to do my project under his able guidance. I am highly indebted for his valuable time and guidance throughout the course of my...
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...SUMMER TRAINING PROJECT ON CAPITAL BUDGETING IN MATRIX CELLULAR LTD. Submitted To Bhai Paramanand Institute of Business Studies [In partial fulfillment for award of the degree of MBA (2011 - 2013)] As part of the curriculum of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. Submitted By: - Submitted To:- Ankit Mishra Dr. SUBHASH KAKKAR 02011403911 [Project Guide] MBA- III Semester Bhai Paramanand Institute of Business Studies, Shakarpur, Delhi-110092 TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS | PARTICULARS | PAGE NO. | | DECLARATION BY THE CANDIDATE | [i] | | CERTIFICATE OF THE ORGANISATION | [ii] | | CERTIFICATE OF THE PROJECT GUIDE | [iii] | | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | [iv] | | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | [v] | CHAPTER-1 | INTRODUCTION: | | | 1.1 Industry | 1 | | 1.2 Competitors | 3 | | 1.3 Theory of the Topic | 4 | | 1.4 Objective | 31 | | 1.5 Research Methodology | 31 | CHAPTER-2 | ORGANISATION PROFILE | | | 2.1 History and Establishment | 33 | | 2.2 Vision | 35 | | 2.3 Mission | 36 | | 2.4 Products | 36 | | 2.5 Divisions/Services | 37 | | 2.6 Corporate Social Responsibility | 44 | | 2.7 Awards & Recognition | 46 | CHAPTER-3 | RESEARCH STUDY OF MAIN TOPIC | | | 3.1 Quick Assets | 47 | | 3.2 Long-Term Debt | 47 | | 3.3 Current Liability | 48 | | 3.4 Current Assets | 49 | | 3.5 Shareholder’s Equity | 49 | | 3.6 Average Total...
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...Case Problems in Finance FIN 475 Dr. Kenneth A. Borokhovich Summer Semester, 2012 Office: 3106 FSB Office Phone: 529-1502 Office Hours: 12:45-1:45 Monday, Tuesday and Thursday & by appointment Email: borokhka@muohio.edu Text: Case Studies in Finance by Bruner, Eades and Schill, (6th ed.) Objectives: 1) To assess risk and how it affects financial decisions 2) To provide students with realistic cases requiring the development of alternative solutions. 3) To provide students with realistic cases requiring financial decisions. 3) To assess the roles of governance, executive compensation and stakeholder incentives within the context of specific financial decisions. 4) To assess the differing effects of available funding sources on financial decisions. 5) To provide students the opportunity to study how financial decisions are made in a comprehensive framework. Graded Materials and Final Grade Determination: There will be three equally weighted exams. The exams will be open-book. No extra credit will be given. The exams will occur on these dates. Exam I: May 24, 2012 Exam II: June 7, 2012 Exam III: June 21, 2012 The grade scale based on your overall percentage will be: A : 93%-100% A-: 90%-92% B+: 87%-89% B : 83%-86% B-: 80%-82% C+: 77%-79% C : 73%-76% C-: 70%-72% D+: 67%-69% D : 63%-66% D-: 60%-62% F : < 59% Cases: Analysis of each case will begin by addressing the questions asked in the case. The class...
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...Labor Laws and Unions Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Boeing company is ranked 36th in 500 Fortune list in 2011 (Fortune 500, 2011). Boeing comprises of five segments: Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Military Aircrafts, Network & Space Systems, Global Services & Support, and Boeing Capital Corporation. Boeing products and services include in the design, development, manufacture, sale, and support of commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide. Boeing is one of the largest aircraft manufacturers in the world. It supplies aircrafts to more than 90 countries. It employs more than 160,000 people across the United States and in 70 countries. For the last five years, Boeing average revenue is approximately 64 billion dollars and about 3 billion dollars in net profit. Boeing is ranked 36 in the Fortune 500 companies. There are currently two union organizations within Boeing; the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers local 751 (IAM) and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees (SPEEA). Unionization process started when Union representatives organized Boeing employees to obtain more than 50 percent of signed authorization cards. Then election was petitioned and recognized by the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) and thus unions were certified and formed. Union members receive higher wages, better benefits and working conditions than the non-union members do. According...
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