...The Campus Wedding Case – The “A” case 1. Given the activities and precedence relationships described in the (A) case, develop a network diagram for the wedding plans. The following table contains the activities, expected activity times, and crashing information. Activity Duration (days) Predecessor Activities Crash Cost Crash Time 1. Reserve Church 1 2. Church Notice Wait 17 1. Reserve Church $100 10 3. Decorate Church 3 2. Church Notice Wait 4. Travel from Guatemala 10 $500 2 5. Fit Dress 2 4. Travel from Guatemala 11. Sew Dress 6. Choose Cake 2 7. Jack’s Catering Lead Time 10 6. Choose Cake 8. Rehearsal Dinner 1 7. Jack’s Catering Lead Time 18. Get Bridesmaids Gifts 9. Choose Pattern 3 10. Order and Receive Lace 8 9. Choose Pattern $25 5 11. Sew Dress 11 10. Order and Receive Lace $120/day Can be crashed 5 days. 12. Clean and Press Dresses 2 5. Fit Dress $30 1 13. Choose Invitations 3 14. Order and Receive Invitations 12 13. Choose Invitations $35 5 15. Address Invitations 4 14. Order and Receive Invitations 19. Prepare Guest List $25/day Can be crashed 2 days. 16. Take to Post Office 1 15. Address Invitations 17. Invitation Lead Time 10 16. Take to Post Office $200 8 18. Get Bridesmaids Gift 1 19. Prepare Guest List 4 20. Wedding 1 3. Decorate Church 8. Rehearsal Dinner 12. Clean and Press Dresses 17. Invitation Lead Time 2. Identify the paths, which are critical. There are 7 paths through the network. The paths and their length are as follows: ...
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...The first wedding that I planned was in no way a traditional wedding. Ten eager little girls decorated the printed invitations with sequins, buttons, and markers. The same energetic hands prepared the wedding feast, consisting of bagged lunches, blintz souffle, and of course a layer cake. On the big day I looked around with excitement. Again, I noticed something odd about this wedding. All the participants and guests appeared about four feet high. The "groom" had long hair pinned up with brown lines on her face (was that supposed to be a beard?) The wedding location, a back yard with a swing set and a wading pool, seemed far from romantic. This wedding however was not supposed to be one of those types of weddings. As I pressed the "PLAY" button on the tape recorder I knew that ten 4-6-year-old girls cared deeply about this wedding. Despite the absence of a reason for celebration, I pulled all the girls into the circle and we started dancing and clapping to the music. The energy that went into the preparation on previous days could finally be appreciated. My campers and I not only celebrated the accomplishment of the mock wedding, we celebrated the fun and excitement we experienced for the first three weeks in Camp Glitter Girls. I had begun preparing for Camp Glitter Girls over four months before by budgeting, sending out fliers, confirming registration and finally making sure that every camper would have the time of her life. As I danced, I celebrated the times I almost lost...
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...and how they feel about the product or service being offered. In this report, Cupcake Jewel’s advertising strategy, the effectiveness of advertising, promotional strategies, approach to measuring customer satisfaction, and how gaps in customer expectations and experiences will be handled will be discussed. Discuss the company’s advertising strategy and how it aligns with its marketing goals. Advertising Strategy Cupcake Jewel has a certain market that is targeted and the advertising strategy is based on each of the targets. The targets are different so therefore the advertising strategy for each one varies. Cupcake Jewel target market consist of college students, birthdays, weddings, and cupcake lovers. College Students- Cupcake Jewel advertises to college students by putting up posters on campus, face book, twitter, online website and donating cupcakes to the colleges when they have student events. College students are online most of the time with the rise of the smart phone. For advertisement, the...
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...Thurgood Marshall played a huge role during the segregation era. He won many cases fighting for what he stood for. “Some called Thurgood Marshall revolutionary. Some simply called him strong-willed. Others saw him as a futurist. Either way, Thurgood was destined for greatness. Through his greatness came a legacy of equality and justice, but above all, education.”1 Marshall grew up a dedicated student. He grew up wanting to learn and be the best student he could be. Growing up, his father instilled the United States Constitution in him. He would read parts of it daily out loud to his father.2 Growing up he learned a lot about segregation from his grandfather and great grandfather who was a slave. From what he learned from him, he knew he wanted...
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...s disturbing and brutal than it actually is. But rape is rape: the act of male or female taking sexual control or dominance over a nonwilling participant. It does not matter whether or not people feels comfortable discussing the topic of rape. Uncomfortability does not make a problem disappear. It is possible that rape culture is ignored because no one knows a permanent solution for it. But not talking about it will not fix it. An environment where rape culture prevails is on college campuses. 1 in every 4 college students admit to being raped or sexually assaulted on campus, this number fails to include the thousands of rape victims whose stories are never heard. Rape culture prevails on college campus because only an estimated 35% of these victims’ abusers are dealt with. Of those, only an estimated 20 30% percent are dealt with severely. Colleges ignore the severity rape culture on campus because it is a problem that is extremely difficult to remedy, but ignoring a problem will not solve it. “Culture is vital to the human species, but some cultural patterns are destructive” (Herman 45). Rape culture occurs when a set of values or beliefs create an environment that is conducive to rape. Rape culture does not refer to an actual place or setting, but to a culture that directly and indirectly surrounds and supports rape. _Last Name_ 2 Our daughters are taught to be delicate, thoughtful, quiet and sweet. Our sons are raised to be brutal, to never cry...
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...whatever many states. By 2002, it rose to 395,000 Black/White marriages (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2004). By 2010, it grew more to 540,000 (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2012. However, before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, this would have been unimaginable. It was illegal for people with different race to marry before the Civil Rights Movement, which we called “anti-miscegenation laws”. This paper will examine how the Civil Rights Movement helped make marriages between blacks and whites and mixed-race families acceptable to society and more common. In this paper, I am going to provide the background about the Civil Rights Movement. Such as ways this movement affected Black/White marriage, and the Loving vs. Virginia (the Supreme Court Case). Then, I will introduce some family stories in biracial families during 1960s and a number of findings about Black/White marriage. At last, I will present the difference between 1960s and nowadays and express the current situation of Black/White marriage. THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT The Civil Rights Movement in the United States includes noted legislation and organized efforts to abolish public and private acts of racial discrimination African Americans and other disadvantaged groups from 1954 to 1968, especially in the southern part of the United States. In...
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...Case Study Analysis Chevy Mae C. Duque COMM/215 Essentials of College Writing November 17, 2014 Linda Boyer Case Study Analysis After reading the problem that Carl is facing, I have concluded that it was a mere lack of preparation on his part that caused it. Even though it is only his first ever recruitment effort as a new campus recruiter, Carl should have taken specific steps to prepare. I don’t think it’s too late for him to fix the problem, he just needs to regroup with his new trainees and reschedule the orientation. It was early April; Carl Robins had only been working at ABC for six months when he first set out his recruitment effort and successfully recruited 15 new trainees to work for Monica Carrolls, the Operations Supervisor. He let his new hires and Monica know that the orientation will be on June 15, in hopes to have all the new hires to be working by July. Exactly one month prior to the scheduled orientation, Monica raised her concerns about the new hires to Carl regarding; training schedule, manuals, policy, booklets, physicals and drug tests. Carl assured her that they would all be arranged and ready in time. But it wasn’t until after Memorial Day, about one to two weeks after Monica’s reminder, when Carl decided to go over the trainee files to finalize the paperwork needed for the orientation. That’s when he found all the issues concerning his new hires, with only two weeks left until the scheduled orientation. Some of the new hires did not complete...
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...submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the post graduation diploma in management By: Anuj Kumar Supervisors: Company Guide: Private Limited) Faculty Guide: Alumni Mentor: Mr. Saurabh Goswami, Managing Director (Ultra Rich Wedding Mr. M. Sivagnanasundaram Mr. Siddharth Sharma Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Harihar, Karnataka 1 2 “Acknowledgement” 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT With due respect and gratitude I want to thank Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Harihar for giving me this opportunity to see, learn and gain a firsthand industry experience in this summer internship program which will help me a lot to grow professionally. After that, I want to thank my assigned Faculty Guide Prof. M. Sivagnanasundaram, for generating confidence in me, always keeping in touch and providing some classic literatures which benefitted me a lot. I would also like to thank my mentor Mr. Siddharth Sharma. Who helped me throughout the project time to time, despite his busy schedule. I am very grateful to them for their valuable and timely guidance throughout the project. I would like to express my gratitude to my Company Guide Mr. Saurabh Goswami, Managing Director, Ultra Rich Wedding Private Limited, who gave me the opportunity to work on this project. Despite of his hectic schedule, he took his time out to support and guide me in understanding the market situation and company objectives. I would sincerely acknowledge the respondents...
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...Cole Evans September 24th, 2014 12 Part Essay College Writing I Prof. Stockwell A New Era ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- “The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.” Dave Weinbaum One Last Wake Up Call The sharp sound of my mother’s voice cut through my shield of sleep, abruptly jerking me awake. “Cole! Wake up!” Any other morning my usual routine would be to just completely ignore her, pull the pillow over my head and roll back to sleep, but this wasn’t just any other morning. This morning was determined as the end of my childhood and the start of my collegiate career and, evidently, the rest of my life. The sound of my mother’s voice filled me with both a sense of melancholy and excitement. I was about to leave everything that I had ever known behind and strike out on my own. The events of this day had been played out over and over again in my mind for months now, but little did I know that things rarely happen how you expect them to. Being the first to arrive at the dorm means getting the pick of the litter in regards to which bed I wanted. I chose the one by the window. That first day of college was nothing more than an exhausting blur. Everything I experienced was completely new; every building, every face, every name. I didn’t know anybody, and by the end of the day I could barely even remember my own name, let alone the names of the people I was supposed to...
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...Chapter 1 Competing with Operations DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Answering this question demonstrates that processes underlie all of our jobs. What might be surprising is how many students would put their job in the category of “other,” suggesting that many jobs do not fall neatly into any one functional area. Perhaps many in the “other” category might best be called “operations” on further reflection. Customers, both internal and external, are part of each process, and the goal is to manage the processes to add the most value for them. 2. Amazon.com offers a very broad range of services and products at competitive prices. Its competitive priorities would include fast delivery time, on-time delivery, customization, variety and low-cost operations. As a business, Amazon.com is actually assembling a customized basket of goods that must be delivered in a short window of time in a dependable fashion. Low-cost operations are needed to remain competitive. To remain in business, Amazon.com needs to maintain high volumes of traffic. Operations strategy must focus on stock availability and quick, economical, and dependable delivery. 3. The hospital’s commitment to provide attention to patients arriving to the emergency unit in less than 15 minutes and never to turn away patients who need to be hospitalized implies that the facility must be designed to have extra capacity in both beds and emergency room facilities. It must plan on having extra personnel...
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...sun always shines and all the celebrities moved to. And, most importantly, NO SNOW! I am a person who would much rather be hot than cold, and I hate shoveling snow with a passion. The only thing holding me back from making such a huge change in scenery was my fear of getting homesick. My family and friends are two things I hold highly in life, and being disconnected from them would feel like my heart was getting ripped out. The second factor in my decision was school size. I am a social butterfly, someone who loves to meet new people. I wanted to be exposed to many different personalities, whereas I figured a small college would fail to give me that opportunity. A larger university also tends to offer a larger variety of major. Just in case I was to change my major, I’d have a heaping amount of majors to choose from. The last reason I prefer a large university as opposed to a small one is the cost, which ties into my next factor. The small universities that I even considered were private, and therefore costed more. In addition to this, larger universities usually offer more scholarships, which means less student loans for me. Oddly enough, cost wasn’t a long term worry of mine. I was more worried for my mother, who was paying for my first year. I am extremely confident that after college, or even in the midst of being in college, I will be making a lot of money. These factors all are tied to each other in some way, shape, form. Whether it is In state tuition vs Out, or a small...
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...but it’s not a wise idea for students who are not economy-independent to shoulder the responsibility of marriage, for the demerits of the consequences are supposed to weigh more than merits. First of all, college is mostly a place for students to pursuit knowledge. That is to say, the leading mission of students is keeping on deriving episteme and accumulating experience for future career. So if we got married during college years, it will inevitably have enormous negative influence on our study. As a result, the academic atmosphere of the whole campus will be affected as well. Secondly, people of this age, usually about twenty, are always not experienced or mature enough compared with their eager to live and behave in an adult way. As far as I’m concerned, they are far beyond being rational and smart to decide the marriage for themselves. Their decisions are customarily depend on temporary impulse, which in most cases, are incomplete and harebrained. So this kind of...
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...David Burianek Robert Morehouse Christian Morality REL-330 11 April 2014 Same-sex Marriage: Church and State Whether homosexuality is a matter of biological wiring of the human mind or a learned choice is not relevant to this paper. What are relevant are the perception, acceptance, and possibly tolerance of homosexual love, and whether the next logical step in the expression of this love (marriage) has a place in our society and our relationship with God. The American Constitution created a separation of State and Church in order to establish a fair governance of the people, regardless of their religious beliefs. The intent of the ideal of separation of church and state also prevents one form of religion from dictating and overpowering other belief systems. Worldwide we now have a system of democratic norms that, in theory, prevent the establishment of an unfair constraint on human happiness. What is at the heart of this debate over allowing and recognizing the union of same-sex couples? The gay community, the current government and even public opinion see the choice of recognizing same-sex marriage the as a question of equality. Why do the religious institutions reject same-sex marriage as a view of equality? After all, most of the western religions denounce homosexuality and same-sex marriage as being a violation of the religious norms held by each belief system. Let us begin with the gay community’s views regarding same-sex marriage. The gay community sees the rejection...
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...tone. This can be seen in the ghostly vision and weather which exhibit supernatural tones, the damaged chestnut tree, and Jane’s restlessness for no apparent reason which she describes as “hypochondriac”. Other gothic elements include Jane’s sense of terror at seeing a vision, wearing and ultimately ruining her wedding veil, the weather, and the symbolic imagery of the Chestnut tree. The passage also represents a significant issue in regards to the morale personae of Mr. Rochester. His untruth at leading Jane to the door of marriage knowing he had an insane wife, whom he could not divorce. One may suppose he should not have offered marriage to Jane. Jane would have to make a moral decision in spite of her deep love for Mr. Rochester and make choices which will affect her life from this time forward on societal and inner morality. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS 2. The passage is taken from the novel Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot, page 68. The passage refers to the narrator speaking of Mr. Riley a “gentleman” who was a very educated auctioneer and appraiser. The passage can be analyzed on different perspectives: social class, omniscient narrator or tone which in this case is satiric, and educational standards for children or lack of in regards to females. If one looks at the social class perspective Mr. Riley was not truly qualified to give an educated opinion to Mr. Tulliver for where Tom should further his education. Yet Mr. Tulliver thought of him as a “gentleman” and respected...
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...11 Position Papers I f you like to argue, you will enjoy writing position papers and argument essays. The purpose of a position paper or argument essay is to explain both sides of a controversy and then argue for one side over the other. This two-sided approach is what makes position papers and argument essays different from commentaries (Chapter 10). A commentary usually only expresses the author’s personal opinion about a current issue or event. A position paper or argument essay explains both sides and discusses why one is stronger or better than the other. Your goal is to fairly explain your side and your opponents’ side of the issue, while highlighting the differences between these opposing views. You need to use solid reasoning and factual evidence to persuade your readers that your view is more valid or advantageous than your opponents’ view. In college, your professors will ask you to write position papers and argument essays to show that you understand both sides of an issue and can support one side or the other. In the workplace, corporate position papers are used to argue for or against business strategies or alternatives. The ability to argue effectively is a useful skill that will help you throughout your life. 221 CHAPTER AT–A–GLANCE Position Papers This diagram shows two basic organizations for a position paper, but other arrangements of these sections will work too. In the pattern on the left, the opponents’ position is described up front with its...
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