...Native American Chief of the Dwamish tribe, Chief Seattle, in a letter sent to President Pierce, warns him about the effects created by purchasing their beloved land. His purpose is to express the ideal situation to the president and let him understand the consequences of acquiring their land. As a result, through Seattle’s extensive use of anaphora, irony, and extended metaphor, he creates a candid tone in order to emphasize the beauty and love of the land that President Pierce is gaining control of and the misunderstandings that the white men have of Seattle’s land. The reason for Seattle’s use of anaphora is to concern president Pierce about the impending controversy of the land. For example, Seattle states, “Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle…” to emphasize his land as sacred and holy. He uses the words “sacred” and “holy in the memory” as qualities of the land and to describe the white men as the opposite it what he approaches towards. Also, Seattle states, “...every humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.” to explain to Pierce what the white men do not see...
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...Unit 5 Title: The Ransom of Red Chief[1] Suggested Time: 4 days (45 minutes per day) Common Core ELA Standards: RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL.8.4, RL.8.6, RL.8.7, RL.8.9; W.8.2, W.8.4, W.8.9; SL.8.1; L.8.1, L.8.2, L.8.5 Teacher Instructions Preparing for Teaching 1. Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task. Big Ideas and Key Understandings Writers use irony to fuel the plot of a story. Synopsis Bill and Sam decide that the best way to finance their upcoming land swindle is to kidnap the child of a wealthy citizen and hold him for ransom. The boy they choose, instead of being the docile, frightened child one would expect, is a terror who abuses Bill in every way he can think of, all in the name of fun. The response to their ransom note is not what they would have wished: instead of paying $1500 to get Johnny back, the father demands $250 to take the boy off their hands. In desperation, they agree, and end the story poorer than they began. Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings. Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary. During Teaching 1. Students read the entire selection independently. 2. Teacher reads the text...
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...1. What are the chief elements of Redbox’s strategy? Which of the five generic competitive strategies discussed in Chapter 5 most closely fit the competitive approach that Redbox is taking? Defend your answer. The chief elements in Redbox’s strategy are: a. Attracting customers with low prices and convenience. Charging customers $1 dollar per day as a rental fee is very attractive to users and the firm. It is attractive to customers because their nightly entertainment is very cheap in comparison to other alternatives. It is beneficial to Redbox because in the event that the customer forgets to return the movie, they are charged double the rental amount which doubles revenues instantly. b. Rapidly increase the number of shopping locations with a Redbox kiosk. Most Redbox locations are between the cash registers and front entrance of the store much like Coinstar. They have recently added locations outside the stores to replicate soda machines and newspaper stands. This provides customers with convenient locations to rent and return their movies. c. Create a recognizable brand name. Redbox has created a recognizable brand name by using bright red and white colors for their kiosk. By using red, Redbox locations stand out and are easily recognizable to customers. d. Make the machine easy to use. By making the machine easy to use, customers are able to browse through movies using touch screen technology quickly. They are also able to purchase movies and replaceable...
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...noodles, pastries, bread products, yeast and fats. It also traded in commodities such as oil. It owned a chain of restaurants and retailing outlets. Azmi is the new Chief Executive Officer in November 2009 had been assigned by the chairman to plan and execute a turnaround programmed for the company due the besieged with problems ever since they took over its operation from the previous owner. Addition, the sales figures is on a decline but their operating costs are up. So, the chairman directed Azmi to check what happening to the company credit control and inventories management. Then, plan and execute a turnaround programmed for the company. Financial showed that the company owned 45 retail outlets and there were persistently incurring losses because of non-strategic locations. The accounts for the year ended 31 December 2008 showed that the company was in the red with a loss of $ 101.14 million. It is because the excessive spending in advertisement and promotional costs which amount to $ 5 million in 2008. There was a significant $ 40 million total provision made for bad debts in the accounts over a 10 year period. In 2008, the company had been having negative cash flows because of the mismanagement of inventory and accounts receivable as well as the poor asset management. 2.0 TERMS OF REFERENCE Azmi, the Chief Executive Officer of...
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...Harnischfeger Corporation Harnischfeger Corporation was a machinery based company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The company had initially started as a partnership; however, in 1910 it was incorporated in Wisconsin under the name of Pawling and Harnischfeger. The company finally went public in 1929 and was listed in the New York Stock Exchange under the new name Harnischfeger. The company had two major segments of business P&H Heavy Equipment Group, which consisted of the construction equipment, the mining, and electrical equipment division. The second division consisted of the Industrial Technologies Group, which involved material handling equipment and the Harnischfeger engineers division. The company experienced a period of financial growth during the 1970s. Harnischfeger was very profitable growing from $205 million in revenues in 1973 to $644 million in 1980. The company made a mistake by depending on debt financing and the firm’s debt to equity ratio rose from 0.88 in 1973 to 1.26 in 1980. The company was hurt financially because of the recession in the 1980s, demand in the company’s products dropped and in turn adversely affected sales and the high interest payments resulted in poor profit performance. Collectively, this culminated to a reported loss in 1982 of $77 million. Accounting policy changes and estimates that Harnischfeger made during 1984 and the effect of these on the company’s 1984 reported profits are further explained in the following paragraphs...
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...as a habitat. The PSA video advocates the Native Americans through a comparison. The contrast between the Native American and the people of the present day, the powerful image of pollution, the destruction of nature symbolizing the obliteration of Native Americans’ lives who value nature as their habitat for humanity, carries visual images that dramatized how every individual should recycle, prevent litter, and beautify America by taking responsibility for enriching the community environments. Furthermore, through the portrayal of the white man polluting the earth, which eventually landed on the Native American’s foot, symbolizes the need for respect of...
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...BSM304 Role Play #2 Ken Litwak 8/22/14 City University of Seattle Abstract I am the chief of a fire company that has an opening for a top notch fire fighter. I am interviewing 3 candidates who are all similarly qualified. I know personally one of the candidates, his family and how the family worked to pay for his schooling. This candidate’s father has asked me to hire his son. I have asked the assistant fire chief to conduct a second interview with he and I well prepared to differentiate the similar candidates. The second interview session was telling. The candidate’s dress, attitude, community involvement, variety of experience and even additional skills made one candidate stand out above the others as excellent. All 3 would have made a good choice and I was comfortable hiring any 1 of them but the second interview revealed that a particular candidate was clearly the best. I conducted additional research about differentiating similar candidates to help make my decision. BSM304 Role Play #2 I am the chief of a fire department. I need to hire one top notch fire fighter as soon as possible. I have three applicants who have made it through the initial screening process and into the interview stage. One of these applicant’s is known to me personally and I am acquainted with the applicant’s family who live next door to the fire station. I have personally witnessed this applicant’s parents working overtime and part-time jobs to pay for his schooling. The...
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...employee in a corporation of which he was neither the founder nor a relative of the founder.[37] In its 2011 'World's Billionaires' list, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 136th richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $7 billion.[2] Google gave him $100 million in 2011 as a parting gift.[38][ Business Insider earlier reported that Google gave its employees a $1000 tax-free cash holiday bonuses and a minimum of 10% salary increase set to be implemented starting January 1, 2011 accross all Google offices. These so-called merit increases will be gauged on each employee's performance. The news was purely internal but it was leaked to the public There's also been recent signs that Google's been underpaying employees. Given the red-hot employment market for highly sought after talent in the Bay Area today, a 10% adjustment does not sound unreasonable, and may well be made up by the smaller stock grants and annual bonuses that can now be handed out," said Piaw Na in a forum at Quora.com * COMPENSATION AT GOOGLE * REMUNERATION & COMPENSATION OF OTHER COMPANIES...
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...Crazy Horse or once known as Tashunka Witco was the Oglala Sioux Indian chief. Although there was much debate on where Tashunka got his additional name, many historians believe that he was named Crazy Horse after his father, whom was also Crazy Horse. After evaluating Tashunka Witco’s warrior abilities, Crazy Horse saw it fit that his son maintained the family legacy name. Crazy Horse was born around 1840 in what is currently Rapid Springs, South Dakota. He was part of the Lakota Sioux tribe whose primary home-land covered from the Mississippi River to the western Bighorn Mountains. The U.S. Army tried to force the Indians off of their native land onto reservations to keep them under control of the government. However, the Indians wanted to roam free. In efforts to protect and preserve Native American Traditions and land, Crazy Horse fought until his death on September 5th, 1877, where he was killed by a soldier with a bayonet....
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...Crucible”, escalations of hysteria and paranoia drive the revision of judgement that diverges from the initial determination. As an allegory of 1950s McCarthyism, Miller captures individuals who grew conscious towards the unjust persecution and blacklisting of citizens accused of communism, inconsistent amongst the fear and paranoia during “The Red Scare”. As the play commences, Reverend Hale reflects this inconsistency by initially advocating for the persecution of witchcraft, his judgement in alignment with his Puritan values, in establishing his goal of “light, goodness and its preservation”, as Millier utilises characterisation within his authorial intrusion to reveal to the audience Hale’s motivations that constructed his initial judgement. However, Hale proves inconsistent amid collective hysteria, as he shifts his response towards the trials, announcing, “I denounce these proceedings; I quit this court!”. Miller’s use of anaphora of “I” emphasises Hale’s found agency and determination whilst transforming to a state of empathy, driven by his guilt, hence incompatible with his previous standing, questioning the validity of the court. In comparison, Reverend Parris renounces the existence of witchcraft in...
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...is located in Los Angeles County California. With a population of 36,664. Here’s some background on the City of Bell’s City Council members and perpetrators. Robert Rizzo hired as City Manager in September 1994 is the accused as master mine behind the fraud. Angela Spaccia, Assistant City Manager hired in March 2003 is considered to be second in command to Robert Rizzo. Randy Adams, City of Bell Police Chief. Oscar Hernandez, Mayor for the City of Bell. City Council members who were part of the fraud are George Cole, George Mirabal, Luis Artiga and Victor Bello. Fraud Detection: In 2010 two Los Angeles Times reporters were investigating possible malfeasance in Maywood California. During their investigation they revealed that the Bell City Council members were receiving extremely large salaries. These salaries were the highest in the United States. According to our textbook Fraud Examination 4e, the fraud triangle examines the potential, opportunity, and rationalization to commit fraud. The above concepts will be used to exam the fraud perpetrated by City of Bell Chief Administrative officer Richard Rizzo, his Assistant CAO Angela Spaccia and the members of Bell’s City Council. The charges allege the officials misappropriated more than $5.5 million, including being paid for phantom meetings. The fact that the CAO for all intent and purposes had complete control and discretion of all administrative functions. Gave him access to the necessary documents and accounts to commit...
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...organization’s advancement and performance. The major motivation of change in this organization is to sustain a successful future in its continuum. For change to succeed, brilliant strategy, and clever implementation are necessary (Gandossy and Sonnenfield, 2004). Organizing the Plan The problem that was stated in Part A of this proposal was medication error and the organization is aiming at reducing the incidents of administration errors that involve medications. Although there are three proposed solutions, the one that gained the highest priority is the use red disposable apron during the medication rounds. This type of innovation is cost-effective, requiring short staff in-service by the nurse clinical educator, it is maintenance free, and does not require space for storage. This intervention will also allow a less difficult data collection for measuring outcomes. Every institution requires the approval of the Chief Nurse Officer (CNO) to pilot an intervention. The intervention will be introduced in a small 30-bed medical-surgical unit which will last for four months, and to start as soon as equipment is ready. A small task force that will include the director of the pharmacy department, the director of medical-surgical unit, the charge nurse, and the clinical educator of the department will actively implement the innovation. As with every organizational change, change leaders are required to manage and monitor, and evaluate the intervention. The...
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...Financial Statement Overview of Cheesecake Factory (CAKE) Allison Burke-Rush FIN/575 June 27, 2016 Jeffrey Hough Abstract The Cheesecake Factory(CAKE) operates throughout the United States and Puerto Rico as a full-service casual dining restaurants. They are known by their delicious varieties of cheesecakes. Currently, the Cheesecake Factory own and operate over 202 restaurants and continue to growth at a steady rate. The growth in sales have gain more than doubled earning in the past three years. The shares of Cheesecake Factory Inc., mean rate according to NASDAQ: CAKE is 2.55. Four analysts have recommended the shares as buy, while another three recommends as outperform, and fourteen recommends to hold. In its latest quarter which ended March 31, 2016, NASDAQ reported their earnings as $0.61. With them continues to gain profit, Cheesecake Factory is looking toward opening as many as eight restaurants by the end of this fiscal year. Financial Statements Results The Cheesecake Factory financial results for the first quarter of 2016, which ended on March 29, 2016, total revenues were $553.7 million, compared to last year first quarter which was $518.0 million. Their net income was declared per share as $34.0 million and $0.68, in the first quarter 2016. The Cheesecake Factory restaurants increased 1.7% of the first quarter of 2016. The importance of this growth let marketing know they are on the right track when it comes to advertising and promoting their...
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...Public Policing Versus Private Security Comparison Alan Shank AJS/502 September 9, 2013 Christopher Eberle Public Policing Versus Private Security Comparison Comparing public policing and private is important in the criminal justice field as the criminal justice field moves toward a future of technological changes and the desire to keep the public safe while keeping costs down. To examine these two separate areas of criminal justice they will be broken down to see how each one is structured and the primary goals for each one. Public policing and private security can be used to describe the methods that we use in the world to keep people and their goods safe. First, we will examine Private Security; in its simplest form, the term “private security” refers to the protection of people, property, and information (Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, 2002, pp. 1253). Society recognizes that the broader role of private security is for individuals and businesses to pay a fee to protect their persons, private property, or their interests from hazards (Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, 2002, pp. 1253). Private Security has developed throughout history along with Public Policing. Private Security has its roots in the middle ages under the system of Feudalism (Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, 2002, pp. 1253). Land barons and kings hired retainers (infantrymen)...
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...rich history of success and innovation in the industrial market of energy production and delivery. An important note to identify, Enron was named “America’s Most Innovative Company” (Lordan, 2002) for six straight years. This title sheds a great deal of light on the success and adaptability that was projected during the lifetime of Enron. This analysis will carefully review and identify major key factors of deception that brought an end to what was once a possible trademark of American Pride. The main reasons or conventional wisdom that most people believe Enron failed was due to sloppy board oversight, critical deception in imaginative accounting, multiple occurrences in off-balance sheet financing and criminalist policies of the Chief Financial Officer. According to many leading experts in the field of the Enron collapse (Stewart, 2006) the above mentioned reasons for the collapse were merely consequences to actions rather than the actual causes that brought on these fatal occurrences. After much research and the most complex bankruptcy to date in the United States of America, the Enron Bankruptcy and failure is hinged on the premise that the company failed due to the intentional cover-up of aiming at the wrong financial measures (Stewart. 2006). By understanding the actual core issue of the failure of Enron, a better perception and diagnosis can be made at correcting and creating better laws and auditing policies that enable such cover-ups to be detected. Specific...
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