...Course Project: Rebuilding Ground Zero PM 3225 Project Management Tools and Techniques Introduction On September 9, 2001 the city of New York was attack by terrorists, which end up in destroying the World Trade Tower buildings and taking the life of over 2,700 people in the attack. It took nearly a year of around the clock worker to remove debris and recover bodies from the destruction. Meanwhile debates were rage on how best to rebuild the World Trade Center and memorialize all the victims in the tragedy. The initial plans called for the rebuild to be completed by 10th anniversary of the attacks. A combination of political struggles, financial problems and legal squabbles among the various parties involved led to repeated delays, and rebuild efforts are still ongoing still today. The Memorial which was schedule to be dedicated at the 10th anniversary was pulled off with success; however the museum is still under construction. The National September 11 Memorial and Museum occupies about half of the 16-acre World Trade Center site. It contains two large waterfalls and reflecting pools, each about an acre in size, set within the footprints of the Twin Towers that fell. On the bronze parapets surrounding the pools are inscribed the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terrorist attacks as well as those killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. With multiple changes to the original design of the Freedom Tower and prolonged disputes between the various...
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...writers as well, greatly altering the world of entertainment. According to The Big Read, there are eight films that directly base their plots off of Bradbury's stories, some of which have screenplays written by Bradbury himself. These films serve as both an alternative means of conveying Bradbury's message, and as an influence upon the world of science fiction entertainment. Some of these productions are still fairly current, such as A Sound of Thunder (2005), showing that Bradbury's influence goes far past the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to movies made directly from his stories, Bradbury had involvement in several other famous...
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...| GRAND CENTAL OFFICE MARKET | | | Lisa Downing | 5/5/2009 | | Table of Contents Subject Headings Page Nos. Grand Central Office Market 1 Grand Central Scene 1 Who/What Dominates the District 2 Grand Central Office Climate 4 District Vis a Vis Office Setting 4 Historical Analysis of Market Statistics 6 Comparative Analysis: Grand Central, Midtown & Manhattan 7 History of Land Use and Development Trends 8 Grand Central Terminal Today 11 External Market Forces 12 Government Intervention 14 Employment 15 Subject Properties 18 Lincoln Building 18 JP Morgan Chase 20 Competitive Position 21 Summary & Trends 25 Projections 26 I. Grand Central Office Market Analysis The New York City Office Market is comprised of three submarkets, Downtown, Midtown and Midtown South. The Midtown submarket in the largest Central Business District in the United States; it is the submarket that the Grand Central office market is located and upon which this analysis is based. Other neighborhoods within the Midtown submarket include: Columbus Circle, Penn Plaza/Garment District, Plaza District and Times Square (Kindly refer to Appendix Nos.1 & 2). The Grand Central office market straddles in both Community Board #5...
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...This research became an extension of the War Department after the United States entered World War II with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructing vast facilities needed for the secret program. This top-secret program came to be code named “The Manhattan Project”. Two main production sites were construction for this project across the country, one in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the other in Hanford, Washington. There was also an assembly plant built at Los Alamos, New Mexico. In the summer of 1945 the first atomic bomb the United States had developed was ready to be tested. At Trinity Site in New Mexico scientists prepared to see the detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. The device was attached to a 100-foot tower and detonated right before dawn. The results of this explosion was more than anyone working on the project anticipated. A flash was visible for 200 miles that lit up the morning sky and a mushroom cloud reached 40,000 feet in the air blowing windows out of windows 100 miles away. The explosion created a half-mile wide crater and the explosion had turned sand into glass. A cover story was issued to explain the explosion saying an ammunition dump had exploded. President Truman was shortly informed that the project had been...
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...1102/S.E.1.3 February 6, 2014 Toni Cade Bambara’s The Lesson: The Impact of Poverty on Education Toni Cade Bambara’s short story The Lesson told in first person by a character named Sylvia. Sylvia is a poor student who resides in the ghetto of New York with her friends and family. The story begins in the summertime in New York, where the children are out of school, playing and having fun; but when a new neighbor Miss Moore move in, things change. Miss Moore is an educated African American woman, who embarks on an educational journey with the children. She realizes that the children lack experience and knowledge of a world outside of poverty, so she takes them on a trip outside their element. According to Marchino’s critical analysis, the goal is that they “realize wealth is unfairly and unequally distributed (2)”. In doing so, Miss Moore have the children figuring cab fare, tips, prices of toys, evaluating unnecessary spending, and diversity. Sylvia recalls her youth by stating “‘back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right’” (Bambara 385). According to Sylvia, community elders did not know anything, but that she had all the answers. She appears to be an intelligent, smart mouth and disrespectful youth because of her tone throughout the story. Her foul language throughout the story appears distasteful and unwarranted. However, to someone who understands where she come from and shares similar experiences...
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...DONALD TRUMP-AMERICAN BUSINESS MAGNATE Over the years, Donald Trump, Chairman and President of the Trump Organization has become a master of situating himself in the limelight with out-spoken interviews, his books, his television show, and especially his king-size lifestyle. Nonetheless behind it all this lies a very sharp businessman. Someone who is a tough negotiator, someone who knows how to build a brand and simply someone who does all this while building successful working relations with others. This starts my essay on why I admire Donald Trump. “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking about anything, you might as well think big.” Donald Trump. Entrepreneur Donald Trump, through set-backs, controversies and successes, is someone who comes to my mind as a person one can admire and emulate. Donald John Trump was born in Queens, New York on June 14, 1946; the fourth of five children of Mary and Frederick Trump. Frederick (1905-1999) was himself a real-estate developer. Donald’s parent hoped a military school education would greatly benefit him, as it did Dwight Eisenhower, Ted Turner, and Douglas MacArthur to name a few and prepare him to enter the family business. Being an active and energetic child, his parents sent him to the New York Military Academy (est. 1889), located in the Cornwall-on-Hudson, at age 13. They hoped the academy’s discipline program would have an influence on him. By attending the military academy, which was a private boarding...
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...program was followed closely. Washington Square in New York City Marshal and Manhattan clubs, chess games of fortune did. DOCUMENTARY FILM FIRST Kubrick's first film essay, "Day of the Fight" with the name in 1950, he led all the money accumulated to date, boxer Walter Cartier subject of a documentary film of the 16-minute short. The first film yönetmenlikten assembly, he did everything from directing sound image. The film was bought by Howard Hughes and RKO şiketi legend movie was shown in New York, Paramount cinema. Look to the cinema to devote all his time on the success of the film magazine he quit his job. Kubrick's first film shot in 1950 until the end of 1955 continued to attract certain ranges, short documentaries. RKO'nun bid in 1951, "Flying Padre" now, Father Fred Stadtmueller'ı a documentary about the 9-minute, in 1953 for the International Federation of Seafarers "Seafarers," a 30-minute documentary called (Kubrick's first color film), and finally 1955 acquaintances in the debt-led "Killer's Kiss" in the film. In 1956, producer James B. Kubrick and Harris, who met with the studio's first feature film "The Killing" I went to Hollywood to shoot. After the production manager of the MGM film The Killing, Kubrick and Harris signed an agreement with. Kubrick, Calder Willingham novel, the author of the novel with a screenplay adapted by Stefan Zweig'ın The Burning Secret, but this project is not realized in no time. Kubrick and Willinghom, a screenplay...
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...Table of contents 1 Introduction 2 2 September, 11th 2001: What happened 3 2.1 The chronology of the attacks 4 2.2 Manhattan covered with dust 5 3 The reactions worldwide 7 The consequences and reactions 8 in New York 5 The consequences for the economy 9 6 background 10 6.1 Why they attacked 10 6.1.2 A list of attacks aiming at the USA 10 6.2 Why they attacked the World Trade Center 11 7 My conclusions and results 13 8 Appendix 14 A list of pictures of the occurences on CD 9 Bibliography 15 9.1 Quotes 15 1 Introduction It was September, 11th 2001, and I was preparing myself for lunch, when the telephone rang. It was one of my friends. He wanted me to switch on the TV...
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...------------------------------------------------- Ethics and Social Responsibility Prof. William J. Lawrence ------------------------------------------------- Fall 2012 Course Syllabus ------------------------------------------------- SBES 601 Monday 8:20 - 10:50, Rm;MC26-502 ------------------------------------------------- Required Text: ------------------------------------------------- Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know You Are Right. Mary C. Gentile. Yale University Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-300-16118-2 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- MBA Oath: Setting A Higher Standard For Business Leaders. Max Anderson and Peter Escher. The Penquin Group. 2010 ISBN 978-1-59184-335-1 Course Overview: This course will be managed more like a workshop or seminar in that the materials covered will be done in a discussion and debate format and not a lecture format. The major objective for this structure is to recognize that most often there is no "correct" or "singular" way to deal with ethical problems we can expect to encounter. The seminar structure fosters shared alternative opinions and differential thinking as to how each of us might approach any particular ethical problem can be fully explored and experienced by every member of the class. This does however, put a major responsibility on the part of the student to come to each class prepared and...
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...December 9, 2014 Gavin Singh GMT 615 PCA-Strategic Industry Analysis Metropolitan College of New York Dr. David J. Rosner Constructive Action 1 Report After analyzing the many topics I can write about for my constructive action project this semester I have decided to describe how I would invent my own business and sell my own product. This product will be detailed in terms of the service that it offers to the public. My business and product will relate very closely to my professional work experience and educational background. I have been practicing Architecture and Engineering for the past four years. I am currently an Architectural Designer who specializes in interior design. I will invent and open my own architecture firm. The name of my firm will be called Gavin Singh Architect, LLC. I have decided to create a limited liability corporation for my company because I believe it will serve me best in terms of organizational structure and tax purposes. I will create business cards that have proper visual graphics that showcase my company’s location and intentions. My business will specialize in renovating existing residential and commercial spaces in New York City. The infrastructure of my business is made up of the President & Chief Executive Officer who is myself. I am in charge of new business ventures and investments. I oversee the entire company and impart vision and leadership. Below myself is the Vice President of the firm. That person is in...
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...first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade goods such as tools, farming equipment, cloth and wampum (shell beads). Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved to Manhattan. But it grew quickly, and in 1760 the city (now called New York City; population 18,000) surpassed Boston to become the second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere. Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five boroughs. New York City in the 18th Century In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and gave it a new name: New York City. For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany; indentured servants;...
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...at 88 - CNN.com Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles dies at 88 By Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter Updated 3:28 PM ET, Fri March 6, 2015 New York City, NY 23° People we lost in 2015 31 photos Click through to see people who died in 2015. 1 of 31 U.S. Edition Search CNN Sign in News U.S. http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/entertainment/feat-obit-albert-maysles-gimme-shelter-thr/index.html 1/7 3/6/2015 Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles dies at 88 - CNN.com Story highlights Albert Maysles was a pioneering documentarian Best-known films include "Gimme Shelter," about Rolling Stones Altamont concert The filmmaker also did "Grey Gardens" (The Hollywood Reporter)—Albert Maysles, who collaborated along with his late brother David in a documentary film career that included the troubling 1970 concert documentary "Gimme Shelter," has died. He was 88. The director and cinematographer, an Oscar nominee, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan of natural causes, Stacey Farrar, marketing director at the Maysles Center in New York, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. "Gimme Shelter" -- which chronicled the 1969 Rolling Stones tour that culminated in the Altamont Free Concert, in which a fan brandishing a gun was stabbed to death by a Hells Angels security man — stood in a stark and more enduring counterpoint to the myth of the documentary "Woodstock," a depiction of the glorified 1969 free concert whose own dark side was left out in its pre-conceived...
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...Trump 1 I’ve decided to do this leadership profile assignment on the Donald Trump for several different reasons. First off real estate is my profession and it’s what I truly love and believe in. Also, I feel with the current economic situation that we are in; it would be a very interesting subject to report on. Since we are in the worst economy since the Great Depression and a terrible housing market, it would make it more interesting. However, there are some people like Donald Trump that are taking advantage of the economy and thriving and growing their business. Also, Donald has experienced his own rough times before. In the early 1990’s, he was billions upside down and on the verge of losing everything. Consequently, he worked his way out of it and has grown his business since. He has ventured into new businesses and has gone main stream into television. Since the Trump Organization operates in many different aspects of real estate including everything from: purchasing, brokering, and leasing, etc. I feel it would be excellent topic to do this assignment on. Donald has had many major accomplishments in his life and has plenty of failures as well. Most recently, he is known for his reality show “The Apprentice.” His show he is both the host and the producer. Each week contestants are given a task and if you are successful you will get to stay another week. If you team loses, one of your members will be brought back into the board room and someone will get...
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...Executive Summary The Manhattan Project Company is a consulting firm that focuses on the comprehensive needs of business organization. We offer a full range of expertise that can assist a company in retaining a competitive advantage against its competitors. We are a staff of five experienced professionals who have successfully helped many organizations plan, create and achieve their objectives. We offer a professional team approach that can bring balance to any organization. The Manhattan Project Company’s consultants specialize in specific areas which include services such as SWOT analysis, sales and marketing, competitive analysis, finance, strategic planning and many others to assist any organization with their needs. We invite business owners and organizations to choose our services and let us show you how we can help you enhance your business. Introduction CanGo’s executive management has contracted with The Manhattan Project Company to provide consulting services in order to understand how to grow its business. We have looked at some areas within the organization and found a few key areas that will assist the company in reaching its goals. SWOT Analysis Strengths: CanGo has turn out to be one of the fastest growing online small business companies. CanGo has different variety of products to offer. They have labeled themselves as “the customer”. By doing this it permits them to keep the question “what do we want” in the front position of the...
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...Media Inequalities Abstract Today as in the past, mass media plays a very significant role in our lives. Individuals get information about people and places they have never actually met or seen. My research explains the media inequalities shared by minorities and media ownership. It also explains the influence a few companies have over the media industry and how minorities make little progress, whether in front of the camera or in influential positions behind it. In addition, much work has been done to bring forward this issue. With the help of special interest groups and other agencies there is a push to bringing diversity into the mainstream media business. Thesis Analysis of the mainstream media reflects inequalities for minorities and women. Of grave concern is the mass media’s negative approach to educating our society through what we perceive is open knowledge in the media, and poor media oversight. The media is undoubtedly important and there is extensive evidence that it both reflects and shapes society and individuals in both positive and negative ways. The issue of control and ownership of the media, and the extent to which this affects society, remain problematic and predominately white male media ownership. According to the article (Media Stereotyping, 2010) “media stereotypes are inevitable, especially in the advertising, entertainment and news industries, which need as wide an audience as possible to quickly understand information.” The passage...
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