...REPORT OF THE USHERING SUB COMMITTEE Acknowledgement I am ultimately thankful to the Almighty God for His gift of salvation and his abundance of grace upon our life during this season. All glory and honor goes back to him for the success of the VM 2016. I also acknowledge MUCU leaders such as Brian Anyira, Bildad Osire and NIckanory Liboi for their hand and help in this. I also appreciate all ushers both in Grace Chapel and MUCU for their dedication in service during that period, members of other ministries and for the support of the whole church at large. May the Almighty God abundantly bless you. Responsibilities 1. Venue arrangement 2. Sanitation and cleaning of the venues 3. Usher people into meeting/fellowships 4. Collection of offerings 5. Ensure everyone gets their deserved seat Achievements 1. Venues were always arranged in good time 2. The washrooms and venues were always clean before the beginning of a meeting or fellowship 3. There was unity in service between ushers from MUCU and Grace chapel during the conclusion of the VM 2016 4. Ushers were dedicated in service and were willing to even stay up late and get up very early in order to serve efficiently Challenges 1. Seats to be arranged, sometimes used to arrive late at the venue hence inconveniencing the ushers 2. Sometimes there were few ushers in number in comparison to the workload present. 3. The impromptu relay of information about when to serve, though...
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...in your e-text, answer these questions, and watch the chapter 10 quiz video for course mentor clarification. 1) Which of the following accurately differentiates between work groups and work teams? a) Work groups are used by top-management employees, while work teams are used by lower-level workers. b) Work groups are used for functions relating to areas of the external environment, while work teams are exclusively used for departmental problems and issues. c) Work groups involve members who have complementary skills, while work teams use employees who have random and varied skills. d) Work teams generate a potential for an organization to generate greater outputs with no increase in inputs, while work groups cannot perform this function. e) Work teams represent the mere accumulation of individual efforts, while work groups generate a positive synergy within the organization. Answer: 2) Which of the following statements is true regarding self-managed work teams? a) Self-managed work teams typically consist of forty to fifty employees. b) Self-managed work teams typically manage conflicts well. c) Members of self-managed work teams typically report lower job satisfaction. d) Self-managed work teams are typically composed of employees from different departments who work independent of each other. e) In the case of self-managed work teams, supervisory positions take on decreased importance. Answer: 3) Which of the following is not one of the key...
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...Name: CASILIHAN, Pedreel Christian P. FINAL PAPER in World Literature SEA STORY by A.S. Byatt The purpose of analyzing a story is to understand more what is hidden behind the story itself, it is to look between the lines. Like, why is the ending like that, or why is the character behaving like that. What are those events for, why are they happening and so much more. There are many questions that can be answered when we analyze a story and look deeply into it. This is very important because every story has it’s own relevance in our own lives, or maybe in our society. Usually, a story has it’s own moral lesson, or for the reader to learn and experience. This enables the reader to relate it to his or her life, what are the similarities and differences. One can analyze if some of the happenings in the story are true to life or not. In every setting, characters, and events that occur in the story, each has it’s own interpretation. It is also helpful in such a way to enhance the reader’s analytical skills. It is also to know more about the author itself, what the author is trying to tell us. What is his/her main focus, main goal, or objectives in creating such story. Is the author delivering us a message? Or waking us up in reality? There are a lot of things that we can reveal when we deeply analyze a story. It is not about how it began, or how it ended, but how the story goes and what are the techniques that the author used to portray a certain event. There can be symbols...
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...CASE BRIEF I. Case cite 1996 914 F. Supp. 97 (January 18, 1996 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.) II. Facts Michael A. Smyth was a regional operations manager at the Pillsbury Company. Smyth had a company email account that he was able to access from work and home. Pillsbury, on multiple occasions, told its employees that all email communications were private, confidential, and that there was no danger of the messages being intercepted and used as grounds for discipline or termination. In October 1994, while at home, Smyth received emails from his supervisor and, thinking that his replies would not be intercepted or used against him, made threatening comments. Pillsbury intercepted the emails and, despite the previous assurances made to the employees, terminated him. Smyth brought a wrongful discharge suit against Pillsbury, claiming that his right to privacy had been violated when his emails were intercepted Tort (invasion of Privacy) III. Legal history of case The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The court was not persuaded by the arguments and granted Pillsbury's motion to dismiss. IV. Issues on appeal. The employee’s privacy interests against the employer’s need to discover information. V. Holding The facts that the Smyth's person and personal property weren't searched and he was not required by Pillsbury to disclose any...
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...Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities often assert that the regulations for the protection of human research subjects do not really apply to the kind of research that they do, believing that the rules were written exclusively for biomedical research. There is a kernel of truth in this because revelations in the early 1970s about egregious medical experiments provided the impetus for developing federal standards for protecting human research subjects. However, a close reading of the regulations will find mention of research methods and topics of inquiry relevant for researchers in the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. Methods include surveys, interviews, focus groups, oral history, participant observation, observations of public behavior, and the analysis of existing data. Topics include research on perception, cognition, motivation, identity, language, communication, cultural beliefs or practices, and social behavior. In addition to explicitly identifying these methods, the regulations include provisions that allow for appropriate review of social science, humanities, and behavioral research. For example, the regulations: * Identify research activities that are low risk, for example, a survey in which no identifiers are collected, and that are thus exempt from the remaining provisions of the regulations, such as the requirement for continuing review. * Identify research activities with no more than minimal risk that can...
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...Yasmean Hakkani Dr. Matt Klauza ENC 1101 12 March 2013 This Tastes Good, It Must Not Be Healthy! “Lose weight, feel great!” – Unknown. When someone eats something tasty, the first thought that pops into mind is this must be a million calories! In a lot of cases this is true. However, with a new snack made by Special K, this is not the problem. The new chocolate Pastry Crips look appetizing and absolutely delicious! Not only is it the perfect snack but it is less than 100 calories. On this magazine ad, it sends out a message to anyone and everyone. The colors grasp the attention of any reader. The pastries on the plate are appetizing to the eye! The two little angels on the page symbolize heaven and the sweetness of this treat. The chunks of chocolate are just a bonus to the ad, as chocolate is lovable by a majority of people. This ad has a lot of components and bright colors, but they all catch the attention and make the reader want and crave a perfectly sweet, delightful light snack that is also healthy to eat. The company did a fine job sending out the message to all ages and both sexes. First, Special K is a well-known brand to eat for low calorie, healthy snacks and breakfast items. When buying this product, the customer is aware of the motive of this brand. The ad shows that you can eat something that is not bad for your body but still tastes delicious. The Aristotelian Rhetorical Technique used behind this is pathos. It gives the feeling of satisfying ones cravings...
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...What does this contract reveal to you about the nature of sharecropping? Was this system a good one for both the sharecropper and the landowner? Explain. I believe what the contract reveals about the nature of sharecropping is that it was set up to set the “freed” African American for failure and to put them in such debit that they basically became slaves to the landowner once again. The landowner has left a lot of responsibility to the sharecropper obviously I think a good example of this in this contract is that the landowner has agreed to provide the team but the sharecropper has to feed the team Saturday nights, and every other day morning night a day and if he fails to provide the meal he will then owe the landowner 5 cents, which was a lot of money at the time especially for a poor sharecropper. He also has to pay for his half of the manure which the landowner designates as enough of the crops. This system is so beneficial to the landowner but only allows the sharecropper enough to thrive to live. I don’t believe this system was good for both the sharecropper and the landowner. I believe as earlier stated it was one sided to the landowner. The sharecropper had a lot of responsibility while all the landowner did was provided the land and horses for the sharecropper and then reaped all the benefit finically. He got a low cost of labor and once the debit piled up from the landowners harsh expectations basically free labor out of this. This landowner even went as far...
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...Eurozone is the economic region formed by those member counties of the European Union that have adopted the euro. This means that it is the currency used by the majority of countries within the EU. Firstly, I believe the decision by the British Government not to join the European Single Currency was a good decision because joining the Euro poses a variety of threats and uncertainties to the UK. I think that the UK should have control over its own economy to help benefit and most importantly protect its individuals and businesses. My main argument for this is that the UK housing market is one of the core markets in the UK that provides a huge turnover for the economy and can impact it with the slightest change. The UK’s economy is very sensitive to the interest rates and this means that small change in the interest rates can impact a large number of individual and businesses mortgages as they have high variable rates. Basically, a small increase in interest rates has a large impact on consumer spending and therefore if the UK’s interest rates were to be decided by the ECB (European Central Bank) this could heavily damage the UK economy. There is no devaluation., this means that the euro cannot become devalued if the currency becomes uncompetitive and this has been proved by significant problems such as Spain, Italy and Greece who’s all economies had a catastrophic crash. This is has been shown in large current account deficits in the southern EU countries. In contrast to the UK, it...
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...This paper will explain how good management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling are implemented into the workplace. It will analyze the application of these management concepts to the workplace. Including specifics of how five functions are practiced in the workplace. Applying the five functions can only improve any business that is willing to accept changes. At the time it was not known that the Boutique was using the five functions. The course made it clear that the owner was utilizing the five functions and the contribution it will offer to the business when practiced during operation. MANAGEMENT PRACTICE Effective Management Practices in the Workplace A good, effective management practice to use in any workplace is the five functions: planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling (Reilly, 2011). A successful workplace has to have a great staff working to help it move forward. A great leader (owner) will ensure that employees are organized, informed of the planning, leading, staffing, and controlling to reach the goals of the organization. Working in the clothing industry is tough so applying the five-functions in the workplace will work when it is applied properly. To be successful managers and owners need to know the five functions, and how to implement them into the workplace. Success will be reachable and achievable when all five functions are taken seriously and applied into the business as a team effort. ...
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...health insurance, which is the main source of coverage for most Americans. According to the Center of Disease Control, approximately 58% of Americans have private health insurance. The primary public programs are Medicare, a federal social insurance program for seniors and certain disabled individuals and Medicaid, also referred to as Medical. These two are funded jointly by the federal government and states but managed at the state level, which covers certain very low income children and their families. Health advocacy companies initiated to become visible to assist patients muddle through the complexities of the healthcare system (Wikipedia, 2014). In 2010 President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This Act includes individual mandate that every American must have medical insurance or pay a fine at tax time (Obama Care Facts, 2014). Before the enhancement of medical expense insurance, patients were presumed to pay health care costs out of their own pockets, which is known as the fee-for-service professional standard. Hospital and medical expense policies were introduced during the first half of the 20th century. During the 1920s, individual hospitals began offering services to individuals on a pre-paid base, eventually leading to the development of Blue Cross organizations. The predecessors of today's Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) originated beginning in 1929, through the 1930s and on during World War II and beyond (Thinking...
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...How adequate is Mill’s conception of happiness? How good are his arguments to show that “higher” pleasures are intrinsically more desirable than “lower” ones? Is this distinction consistent with the thesis that pleasure is the only thing of value? In “Utilitarianism” Mill argues that ‘higher’ pleasures are intrinsically more valuable than ‘lower’ pleasures, citing the invariable preference of men who have access to both available (pp.140). I am inclined to disagree, particularly with regards to his assertion that ‘higher’ pleasures have such a “superiority of quality”(pp.139), so as to render any quantity of ‘lower’ pleasures “in comparison, of small account”- this non-cardinal view of pleasure raises many discontinuities. This is particularly the case when we take Mill at his word: “actions are right in proportion as they tend to increase happiness… By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain”(pp.137), and view pleasure as the only good. It is the twin beliefs; of pleasure as the only good-making exercise and Mill’s non-cardinal conception of pleasure that form the core of my disagreement with Mill. I will begin by presenting Mill’s arguments for intrinsically more valuable ‘higher’ pleasures and evaluating them. To support his assertion that ‘higher’ pleasures are intrinsically more valuable, Mill asks the reader to consider a thought experiment. Would an “intelligent human being… consent to be changed into a fool”(p.139), if they could be persuaded that the...
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...In this economical state the majority of customers are mostly attracted to the cheaper price option. This is because people don’t have as much disposable income, yet still need to shop. With a company such a Thomas Cook, although they offer a few online deals, most of their sales are made in high street shops and their prices are top end. Thomas Cook has recently had to close a fifth of their stores due to lack of revenue. It could be argued that it is due to online prices being lower that sales that would originally have gone to Thomas Cook will have gone to cheaper companies. Companies online can offer cheaper prices as they don’t have as many fixed costs (like rent) to pay for if they owned shops as well. So Thomas Cook cannot compete with the cheap prices as they have more costs that have to come out of their profits from their stores, the staff in those stores and all the training the staff need to work in the stores. Of course there are still costs to being an ecommerce company, for example it is necessary to have workers skilled in ICT who can update and maintain the website. For a company like Amazon, who is based entirely online, sales are booming. Amazon is similar to E-Bay, as any store or company can sell produce through their site. Amazon has become a major competitor for most non-clothing high street stores and non food sections of superstores. Amazon offers cheaper prices on goods that you could buy in other stores, they also to home deliveries. This will of course...
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...A child’s education has never been about learning information and basic skills only. It has always included teaching the next generation how to be good members of society. Therefore, this cannot be the responsibility of the parents alone. In order to be a good member of any society the individual must respect and obey the rules of their community and share their values. Educating children to understand the need to obey rules and respect others always begins in the home and is widely thought to be the responsibility of parents. They will certainly be the first to help children learn what is important in life, how they are expected to behave and what role they will play in their world. However, learning to understand and share the value system of a whole society cannot be achieved just in the home. Once a child goes to school, they are entering a wider community where teachers and peers will have just as much influence as their parents do at home. At school, children will experience working and living with people from a whole-variety of backgrounds from the wider society. This experience should teach them how to co-operate with each other and how to contribute to the life of their community. But to be a valuable member of any community is not like learning a simple skill, it is something that an individual goes on learning throughout life and it is the responsibility of every member of a society to take responsibility for helping the younger generation to become active...
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... | |70 | 400 1000 | a) Plot the graph and explain how the equilibrium price is achieved. (6marks) b) What is the new equilibrium price and quantity if the government gives a subsidy of $5 per kilogram. (4 marks) c) Suppose the government set a minimum price of $60 and agreed to buy any resulting surplus to stockpile it. How much would they have to spend in the first year? Explain and indicate in the diagram. (6 marks) 2. Suppose that in order to support good health by reducing fat consumption, the government decided to levy tax on French fries by charging fast food restaurants...
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