...Chritians Must Take Action Christians Must Take Action to Restore the Environment Ashley Boosalis Manalili Liberty University Introduction As Children of God we have a duty to help the environment and restore all that God has created. In Genesis 2:15, the Bibles states that, “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” We were put on the Earth that God has created to take care of everything He has placed on it in Adams place. We are to do so in His image. Some would argue that humans are more important and we need to worry about our existent before the environment, but that is not the case. By cutting down on pollution, recycling and conserving water; Christians are not only taking action to restore the environment, bet setting a good example on how to act and take care of Gods creation. Conserving Water “On average, 10 gallons per day of your water footprint (or 14% of your indoor use) is lost to leaks.” (National Geographic). There is so much water that goes uncalled for, and gets wasted by kids and even adults who do not even think about how much water they are using which goes into wasting day by day. Whether that is taking a long shower, leaving the sinks dripping by not turning them off all the way, or playing with the hose outside. Everyday we are hearing about different states being in droughts and not having enough water. There are so many ways in which Christians can save water and cut down...
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...Dear Madam, I am writing to complain about the “fortnight”’s holiday with your agency (if you call eight days so–I am not so keen on Maths ). My holiday with your company did not correspond to what the advertisement claims. Firstly, the advert states that five activities would be offered every day but in fact we were offered only two per day. Secondly, the advert promises one three-day camping expedition to introduce the joys of group-work. Unfortunately, we couldn’t even pitch the tents! Thirdly, it says that our “day off” would be full of the varied, remarkable and relaxing games cited in the leaflet at the residential centre. Actually, the centre was found full so they put us in a youth hostel, instead, some seven kilometres away with no buses and no taxis. For the relaxing games and the remarkable facilities, we were provided with a broken tennis table and used pack of cards. Besides, your company promises comfortable double rooms and memorable delicious meals for accommodation. To our astonishment, the only comfort we found was very dirty bed –clothes and disgusting meals. In general, our holiday was far from the one you had made us expect and the promises you had made us dream of. As a result of all these non-kept promises, I feel like I have been betrayed because I kept my promise of paying you and you did not. The only thing in your leaflet which is true is when you promise in the very introduction that the holiday with you will be an experience we...
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...Think of the sound of your kids laughing playing and have an all-out good time, doesn’t that just put and instant smile on your face? If you could do this and make memories your children will never forget wouldn’t you like that too? Well, you can, simply by taking your family on a simple family vacation. It can be as elaborate as a week long trip to Disney or as simple as a couple days camping or at a water park and amusement park. Whatever your budget may be there are plenty of ways to make sure you and your family have a wonderful time nobody will forget. I still remember the first time my parents, my brother, and I all packed in to our car and headed on down to Florida for the first time, it was one of the best times we ever had together. We all still talk about that, and even occasionally pull out pictures just to prove who is telling the story right. I remember driving down the coast; it was like nothing I had ever seen before. The water looked so blue and the beaches were so white, my brother and I just couldn’t wait to get out and play on the beach. As I think about these times it helps me to realize I can do the same for my kids someday. This year my son is pretty excited about the camping trip we are taking up to Central Lake, Michigan. Although, sometimes the way he talks about it I’m not sure if he’s more excited about the camper we are borrowing from our friends, or the trip itself. He’s five this year so he is finally old enough to enjoy the lake and remember...
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...man walking into the restaurant. Look, he starts to collect the leftover, includes the food which the two woman wasted. Seems like he is so happy when he is distributing the leftover into the plastic bag and rubbish dump. SCENE: NARRATION: After a long night, he finally finishes his work. Let’s follow him and discover what he will deal with the leftover. Now, here is the village. Look, there are so many children run towards him. They smiles happily when they saw him. They then quickly help him to take the rubbish dump and open it. They are enjoying to eat those leftover and I could also feel their happiness and satisfaction. The leftover inside the plastic bag is mostly bones and they use it to feed the animals. SCENE: NARRATION: Let’s follow again to the man, he goes back home and passes the food to his family. The woman was pregnant, and other children are sitting beside. The woman distributes the leftover to her children. Feel that she is a great mother as she only take care of the young ones. She just stand aside, quietly looking at her children eating. At same time, the father also teaches them the dining etiquette before the children start to have their dinner. They learn from their father that we need to appreciate every meal we have and pray for the good we had. SCENE:...
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...lucky. I like apple He/She/it is/verb+s She is a girl. He loves chocolate. They/you are/verb They are hungry. You always play with us. 1. Facts (something is generally known to be true) The sun sets in the west. | The sun never sets in the east or south or north, but always in the west. | 2. Repeated actions or habits Colin always plays soccer on Tuesdays. | Colin plays football regularly - every Tuesday.In English, signal words are often used, e.g.: always, never, seldom, often, regularly,every Monday. | 3. Action set by a time table The train leaves at 9 pm. | Although the action takes place in the future, it takes place regularly and is set by a time table. | 4. Feelings I love her. | When you love someone, that's a state, a fact or emotion, but not an action (like running for example). Whenever you want to express a state, possession, sense or emotions, use the simple form (not the progressive). The following words all belong to this group: * be (I am happy) * hate (I hate you) * hear see smell * like * love * think * understand * want * wish | 5. Permanent actions Ann lives in Shatin. The verbs can, may, might, must remain the same in all forms. So don't add s. Example: he can, she may, it must Verbs ending in o or a sibilant (ch, sh, s, x) add es instead of s. Example: do - he does, wash - she washes A final y after a consonant becomes ie before s. Example: worry - he worries But: A...
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...BJ’S RESTAURANTS, INC. 2012 ANNUAL REPORT INCREASE IN REVENUES TO $708.3 MILLION 14 % % Resonating with the consumer. INCREASE IN COMPARABLE RESTAURANT SALES 3.2 11 % INCREASE IN OPERATING WEEKS $ 31.4Million fISCAL 2012 NET INCOME $ 1.09 fISCAL 2012 NET INCOME PER DILUTED SHARE BJ’S RESTAURANTS, INC. INVESTING IN QUALITY A loyalty proven by our financial results. 61 2 3 5 4 1 2 1 1 3 6 1 28 1 11 selected financial highlights (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts) Revenues Net Income Net Income Per Share: Basic Diluted Total Assets Shareholders’ Equity Number of Restaurants at Year End Comparable Restaurant Sales Increase (Decrease) $ $ 2012 $ 708,325 $ 31,409 1.12 1.09 2011 $ 620,943 $ 31,570 $ $ 1.14 1.08 2010 $ 513,860 $ 23,162 $ $ 0.86 0.82 2009 $ 426,707 $ 13,038 $ $ 0.49 0.48 2008 $ 374,076 $ 10,308 $ $ 0.39 0.39 $ 566,876 $ 371,834 130 3.2% $ 502,079 $ 332,449 115 6.6% $ 430,085 $ 287,826 102 5.6% $ 381,122 $ 252,979 92 (0.8%) $ 335,209 $ 232,277 82 (0.3%) TOTAL LOCATIONS / JANUARY 1, 2013 130 We opened 16 new restaurants, including one relocation, which translates into an Certain statements in this Annual Report and all other statements that are not purely historical constitute “forward-looking” statements for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are intended to be covered by...
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...Principles of Marketing April 22, 2015 Case Paper #8: Besitti’s Restaurant Introduction Rosa Besitti is an accomplished and driven woman who is trying to find her way in the very daunting restaurant industry, while facing many hardships that have caused her to question her business altogether. Her deep wanting for future success in the restaurant industry has inevitably brought her to face a difficult decision in her career. She has to choose between keeping her restaurant under her name and leadership, while continuing to try and make it grow so that she can start bringing in profit to her family, or make Besitti’s a fast-food or family restaurant franchise and give up her own brand and family name. She is aware that if she doesn’t change what she’s doing in some way or another as soon as humanly possible, she will never get to the point in her career where she no longer has to consider making tough and life alternating decisions. Analyze Ms. Rosa Besitti, the owner and manager of Besitti’s Restaurant, is reviewing and analyzing the slow growth of her restaurant and deciding whether she should either continue trying to grow her industry, or switch to joining a common fast-food or family restaurant franchise chain. If she decides to keep Besitti’s Restaurant under her name, the wisest thing to do in order to move forward, Rosa should explore the possibility of creating and performing a S.W.O.T. analysis. A S.W.O.T. analysis is a structured planning method used to evaluate...
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...Title Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity Author Shin-Yi Chou, Lehigh University and National Bureau of Economic Research Inas Rashad, Georgia State University Michael Grossman, City University of New York Graduate Center and National Bureau of Economic Research Introduction Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that has received much attention of late. In less than thirty years, the prevalence of overweight children and adolescents in America has more than doubled. In the 1963-1970 period, 4 percent of children aged 6 to 11 years and 5 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 19 were defined as being overweight. The percentage of children who are overweight has more than tripled by 1999, reaching 13 percent. For adolescents, the incidence of overweight has nearly tripled in the same period, reaching 14 percent (Centers for Disease Control 2001). Finding the causes of this dramatic increase in obesity among children and adolescents is an important input in designing prevention policies. On the simplest level, weight gain is caused by more energy intake than energy expenditure over a long period of time. The problem of energy imbalance is not purely due to genetics, since our genes have not changed substantially during the past two decades. Researchers have tended to focus on environmental factors such as the availability of highly palatable and calorie-dense fast...
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...oward case stu“What do we do with Howard?” Synopsis: Tad Pierson had recently been appointed as a project engineer. As project engineer for one of Agrigreen’s plants, he is responsible for the operation of the plant surveying group. For some time now Tad had been aware of some performance, safety, and conflicts with personnel within the group. These issues appear to be escalating in frequency and are causing Tad concern regarding the safety of the employees, the production schedules, and possible actions that he might need to take. Agrigreen, Inc. is a company that manufactures a verity of agricultural fertilizer. With plants located in the western United States and Canada, Agrigreen employs certified surveyors to ensure quality and safety of each project. Eighteen years ago, Agrigreen’s survey crew was composed of part-time drafting personnel or project engineers. Howard Lineberry, a lead surveyor had been employed with Agrigreen for eighteen years. Over his tenure he had been supervised by five different managers, and had three surveyor’s helpers. Howard’s work over the years has caused multiple safety and production issues. He has also had conflicts with the engineering staff, his managers, and almost everyone he worked with. Mel Cutler, a surveyor’s helper, after being employed by the company for only a few years was assigned to assist Howard. Five years into this assignment, Mel began to notice problems due to Howard’s note keeping method. These problems...
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...accordingly and their image become better when they get the consultation from the FDA, because they know that the FDA's credibility is high and people will believe what ever that FDA recommend them to do. In the meantime Pepsi also know that this problem is not come from their side but it just they want to gain back public trust and Taking full responsibility for solving the problem. By taking full responsibility, Pepsi has shown to their public that they listen to the their customer complain although they know that this complain is the absurd. They know that the problem are not come from their side. But as the result from their strategy, it will satisfied their customer dissatisfaction about the Pepsi product. Furthermore with this action, it show to the public that the quality and the safety of their product is the priority of the company Using the media to present the case. They know that there are no other option that they can use to change their customer perception unless they use the persuasion power. So the best way to use persuasion power is to use media power because it can disseminate information throughout country in the short period of time. By using media also, people will get the real picture what is really happen and this will make the customer perception to change easily like when they use Video News Release (VNR) to disseminate information about their production method and this is the turning point for this 2- Evaluate Pepsi decision not...
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...Elements of Results Controls Albert (Al) Fiorini should continue running his business of Atlanta Home Loan (AHL) which is mortgage lending and financing company. He needs to fight to regain control over AHL perhaps only about $25,000 worth of equipment left. In other to get back his business Al can apply elements of results controls which require four steps. First, Al must define the dimensions. He must defining the right performance dimensions although is critical because the goals that are set and the measurements that are made shape employees views of what is important. In this case Al must defined AHL dimensions on which results are desired such as for profitability, customer satisfaction or product defects. This dimension will help company to achieve the target. Second elements of results control is measuring performance on these dimensions. In this elements measurements, which involves the assignment of numbers to objects, is a critical element of a results control system. Al will measure his company performance after de fined it in the first elements. It might many different results measures can be linked to rewards. Al can measures of financial such as net income, earnings per share and return on assets or in nonfinancial measures such as market share, growth, customer satisfaction and the timely accomplishment of certain tasks. Besides that, Al can use measurements involve subjective judgements. For example evaluators may be asked to judge whether a manager is being a...
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...Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly http://cqx.sagepub.com Why Restaurants Fail H. G. Parsa, John T. Self, David Njite and Tiffany King Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly 2005; 46; 304 DOI: 10.1177/0010880405275598 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cqx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/46/3/304 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: The Center for Hospitality Research of Cornell University Additional services and information for Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly can be found at: Email Alerts: http://cqx.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://cqx.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Downloaded from http://cqx.sagepub.com at Blue Mountains Hotel School on October 25, 2009 © 2005 CORNELL UNIVERSITY DOI: 10.1177/0010880405275598 Volume 46, Number 3 304-322 10.1177/0010880405275598 Why Restaurants Fail by H. G. PARSA, JOHN T. SELF DAVID NJITE, and TIFFANY KING , Past research on restaurant failures has focused mostly on quantitative factors and bankruptcy rates. This study explored restaurant ownership turnover rates using qualitative data, longitudinal data (19961999), and data from Dun and Bradstreet reports. In contrast to frequently repeated statistics, a relatively modest 26.16 percent of independent restaurants failed during the first year of...
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...should be greater than 400 words but no more than 600 words After reading this story about Mr. Owens Paul Honors, Jr., I actually remembered hearing about this on the news. Owen Paul Honors, Jr. definitely made some mistakes with this type of actions. It is really hard to judge him based solely on this mistake or lack of better judgment. We are all human and we all make mistakes, to what level of mistake we make determines the discipline. This one of course because it hit the news, he had to be reprimanded in order to show the integrity with the United States Military. I think with Mr. Honors having the support of 100% of the Enterprise workers says a lot for this gentleman. His work record had demonstrated that he knew how to command a ship and had respect amongst his fellow comrades and from the people underneath him. As far as my thoughts on his direct behavior with this certain incident, well it was pretty immature on his part and he set himself up for major discipline and loss of respect. This subject is a very sore subject among the service men and women and I feel that when the ruling came down from President Obama, it probably sent him over the edge and attributed to his poor judgment. I would have thought about my actions before distributing the material out to everyone and might have would of waited before even letting anyone see this until I had time to think about it. And I would not have put myself out like that being in the situation and command that he...
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...Cultural Action for Freedom Paulo Freire Introduction I think it is important—for my own sake as well as the reader’s—that we try, at the very outset, to clarify some points fundamental to the general understanding of my ideas on education as cultural action for freedom. This is all the more important since one of the basic aims of this work, where the process of adult literacy is discussed, is to show that if our option is for man, education is cultural action for freedom and therefore an act of knowing and not of memorization. This act can never be accounted for in its complex totality by a mechanistic theory, for such a theory does not perceive education in general and adult literacy in particular as an act of knowing. Instead, it reduces the practice of education to a complex of techniques, naively considered to be neutral, by means of which the educational process is standardized in a sterile and bureaucratic operation. This is not a gratuitous assertion. We will later clarify the radical distinction between knowing and memorizing and the reasons why we attach such importance to the adult literacy process. But first, some words about the socio-historical conditioning of the thinking presented here, as well as an explanation of the necessity for critical reflection on such conditioning. From a non-dualistic viewpoint, thought and language, constituting a whole, always refer to the reality of the thinking subject. Authentic thought-language is generated...
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...Header: Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related Students in the 21st Century Joseph Stavole Grand Canyon University November 24 , 2012 EDU-536 Classroom Engagement and Management Page Header: 2 Running Header: Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related The word management takes a lot of meanings but the best one is that it is “direct or control” (Dictionary.com, n.d., p. 1). When you take on the word management in the classroom it definately takes on a whole new meaning. In the classroom management means to be organized, have a plan that is already written out, an idea, direction or a course of action that you as the teacher want to take on. The classroom will be neat, safe, and the teacher should always have something going on for the students. Discipline is always misunderstood for classroom management. Discipline is not punishment and many people think it is. "This is a pathway to guide people towards self-control in the future and the outcome of discipline should not be used as the fear of authority" (Charles, 2008, p. 7). Classroom discipline should be appropriate for students functioning at any and all stage. This will enecourage good interaction for students and...
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