...TUCKER KNOX CORPORATION 1. PROBLEMS A. MACRO: Ed Leonard sits behind his desk at Tucker Knox Corporation (TKC) remembering the progress he has made over the last four years. They have been complicated and full of many changes. He joined TKC to help the company develop a new Automation Design Department. In the first two years, he designed, developed and helped to create the department and make sure the new products were competitive and profitable. This last year has been filled with turmoil due to changes in top management. Ed was reassigned to the company�s largest manufacturing facility to set up a maintenance department. Ed was told that after successfully completing the assignment he would be able to return to his department. Six months after being given the assignment, Ed was brought back to the corporate facility only to be given six weeks to find another position within the company or be laid off. Even though Ed had been pursuing his personal goals with TKC he felt that a phone call message from another company was the moment he had been waiting for. This is an opportunity to move away from TKC. He wondered where did it all go wrong. B. MICRO: Howard Watson worked closely with Larry, the president, in developing the Automation Engineering Department. He was an aggressive manager with a positive attitude. Just as Howard was expecting to be promoted to Senior Vice President, trouble arose in the Ireland plant. Since he possessed the most in-depth knowledge...
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...FOR ALL CONCERNED: 1. Please do not reply to this system generated email message. 2. This email has multiple sections, please read the entire email. 3. POC: Contact your Training NCO / DPT (M) for further information. 4. A reservation has been entered in the Army Training Requirements and Resources System (ATRRS) by the quota source manager for the following Soldier/student: CUNNINGHAM RODNEY L, E6, SSN ending with 1165, 010320FACO A 105MM T, 01 0320 FA CO A 105MM T, FT CAMPBELL, KY, 422230000, UIC: WACDA0 5. FOR: School Code 425 FORT CAMPBELL ON POST COURSES, 2700 INDIANA AVE, FT CAMPBELL, KY 42223 Course Number: CAM-TSE, Phase , Course Title: TACTICAL AND SENSITIVE SITE EXPLOITATION, Class 003, Report date 2012-04-02 End date 2012-04-05 Class Location FT CAMPBELL, KY 6. Course Scope, Prerequisite, and School information is located in the ATRRS Course Catalog, - https://www.atrrs.army.mil/atrrscc NOTE: The School Code and Course Number identified in this email will be required to utilize the course catalog search feature to retrieve the Course Scope, Prerequisite, and School information. FOR STUDENT: 7. You are receiving this email because your email address was entered in by the training coordinator who input the record into ATRRS. If you received this email in error you may contact the POC listed in item 3 above to ensure that your email address is removed from this student's record. 8. You may view your ATRRS Training Record and...
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...REPLY TO ATTENTION OF Date MEMORANDUM FOR Commander, U.S. Army Recruiting Command, ATTN: RCRO-SPA, Fort Knox, KY 40121-2725 SUBJECT: Statement of Understanding 1. I understand that if I am appointed as a warrant officer in the U.S. Army Reserves with concurrent active duty, that this appointment is contingent upon technical and tactical certification by successful completion of the appropriate warrant officer basic course unless I have been precertified by the warrant officer military occupational specialty (WOMOS) proponent. I understand that my application packet, to include all enclosures, may be converted to an electronic file and made available for review by qualifying officials at WOMOS proponent schools, Headquarters, Department of the Army, and other locations in order to determine my qualifications and competitive standing for appointment as a warrant officer. 2. I further understand that if I am appointed as a warrant officer in the U.S. Army Reserves without concurrent active duty, that this appointment is contingent upon technical and tactical certification by successful completion of the appropriate warrant officer basic course within 2 years of appointment unless I have been precertified by the WOMOS proponent or unless extended by Headquarters, Department of the Army. 3. I also understand that if I am eliminated from or fail to successfully complete the technical and tactical certification as specified above, I may be subject to discharge under regulations...
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...at the hands of Doctor Robert Knox. Robbie Blames Knox for his horrible life and suffering as he believes Knox has not suffered yet and he took away the good life Robbie nearly had before Knox operated on his mum and this leads to his deep obsession with Knox. Robbie’s obsession begins when he is outside the lecture theatre and inside his mum is getting her operation ‘‘He had felt her pain as though it was his, it had burnt him and left its mark.’’ This suggests that Robbie suffered too and he is scarred by hat his mum had to endure emotionally and permanently. When she gets home she is told to rest but on the fourth day Robbie witnesses his mum in hallucinating and in pain ‘‘she did not recognise her trembling son with his eyes so wide and wet. She threw her sweat-soaked blankets off, rattled with bone-deep cold, screamed at the snakes, writhing before her eyes, vomited, clawed, moaning at the blackening rash that crept over her body.’’ This shows that Robbie is so scared and worried at his mum hallucinating and fighting infection due to the operation Knox preformed and this is the beginning of Robbie’s obsession with Knox. Six years later. Robbie’s obsession really starts to begin when he is walking down the street and he hears the name ‘‘Knox’’ and he cannot turn away ‘‘Robbie was drawn to him like any enemy to another’’ This tells us that he’s compelled to follow him, like he couldn’t help it, he had to see where he was going like Knox was the prey and Robbie...
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...near the old Paramount building. Getting Armadillo’s lucrative fleet-management business had been a long, hard slog. Had it not been for the fiendishly clever machinations of sales ninja Christopher Knox (known as “Fort” to his colleagues, because of his golden touch), SFS would still be trying to dent Armadillo’s famously resistant armor. And now, to Jeremy’s amazement, human resources vice president Samantha Williams was informing him that she wanted to reprimand Knox for a breach of the SFS code of ethics. “If ‘brilliant’ is a synonym for ‘devious,’ maybe so,” said Sam, eyebrows raised. Sam was Jeremy’s friend and frequent ally, having helped him push through a reorganization of the sales force, including new incentive and commission structures. But she was also currently the chair of SFS’s ethics review board. “An ethics breach is an ethics breach. As our code states, ‘deceptive business practices’ are unethical. There have to be consequences. And you, of all people, should know that.” True enough, Jeremy thought. When he had arrived at SFS five years ago, on the heels of an embarrassing kickback scandal, Jeremy had been a driving force behind creating the corporate code of ethics. And now it was being wielded against his star sales animal, Fort Knox....
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...mingle with many different kinds of people and cultures. I have met people from all walks of life, both rich and poor. Fortunately, poverty in South Florida has not reached extreme levels, and so I had only heard horrible stories of how poverty has afflicted my fellow man. Yet during the past summer my eyes were opened to the truth as I had the experience of my life while participating in the Appalachian Service Project. The Appalachian Service Project is a program that allows volunteers to travel to rural areas in order to repair the houses of families stricken by poverty. I was able to participate in this program last summer, and it opened my eyes to the plight of some Americans. I travelled to Barbourville, Kentucky, located in Knox County, and witnessed the type of situations that I had only heard about or seen on television. I worked to improve houses without basic utilities such as electricity and running water. There were also many houses that were simply falling apart, and nobody had the money to repair them. For about a week I had the chance to work on the house of a young couple. The husband had recently been in a hunting accident and was unable to work. As a result, he and his wife were unable to keep up with house repairs and so the house was in ruins. Yet, as I was working on their house, I noticed that these were two of the happiest people I had ever met. Although they seemed to have very little, they were still more than willing to share everything...
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...4 Kent State Students Killed by National Guard 9 students were wounded after protests. By Nizar Kapic Kent, Ohio, May 4 - - Four students at Kent State University were shot to death by Ohio National Guard. At least nine students suffered injuries. At 11 a.m., about 200 students gathered on the Commons. As noon approached, the size of the crowd increased to 1,500. Later the National Guard tried to break up the rally, by throwing tear gas at the crowd of students. The Guard continued its march on the Commons and ended up clearing the Commons area. The students were forced into several groups. Realizing there is confusion among the Guard located on the practice football field, Major Jones walked to the practice football field through the crowd of students near Taylor Hall who were observing the Guard. At that time several members of the Guard kneeled and aimed their weapons at the approximately fifteen students in the parking lot of Prentice Hall. As the Guard reached the crest of Blanket Hill near the Pagoda of Taylor Hall, twenty-eight Guardsmen turned around 180 degrees, walked back a few steps, and opened fire into the group located in the parking lot. Sixty-one shots were fired in thirteen seconds. In Columbus, Sylvester Del Corso, Adjutant General of the Ohio National Guard, insisted that the Guard had to shoot after a sniper, opened fire against the troops. Controversy surrounds this tragic event, as there is no clear evidence of the sniper shootings. Students...
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...“So perhaps I am writing a transposed autobiography; perhaps I now live in one of the houses I have brought into the fiction; perhaps Charles is myself in disguise. Perhaps it is only a game. Modern women like Sarah exist, and I have never understood them. Or perhaps I am trying to pass off a concealed book of essays on you.” (p. 80). As a reader, in this point in the novel, I get thoroughly confused and do not know where I stand, much less where I am headed. I realize that there is an inside and outside of the novel, the inside being a world of a story itself and the outside being the space made known to us by the narrator. After this turning point in the novel and now looking back, this quote gives a brilliant over view of the book. Fowles does a wonderful job of unraveling and expanding your imagination to other things and makes the novel seem a lot more than just any other book. There are a vast variety of themes in the French Lieutenant’s Woman, especially the relationships of the characters. One of the most challenging things as a couple for Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff is just the relationship at itself, the relationship answers to the desires of both of them for a life lived outside and in defiance of the rules. Charles is a scholarly and independent man, the superior of the social classes, he is rather confused and fascinated by the mystery Sarah portrays. He is intrigued by the shallowness and signs of weakness shown by Sarah. Charles is starting a habitual...
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...Most people always went through an event that has a great impact on their lives, changing the very manner in which they view life and perceive it. My story might not outstanding to other people, but for me, it was a spectacular changed. For years in my life, I would never forget the first time I had my first flight. My family and I immigrated to a new country that I never thought of. Because of that flight, my life had changed from one culture to a different culture in just 24 hours on the airplane It was winter in 2006 when my family and I decided to move out of the country. One week before the departure date, my mum told me that her, my brother, and I needed to immigrate to the United State of America for better lives. I was a teenager at the age of 14 years old at that time. I didn’t really know how my life would be in the U.S, but I was surprised to have a chance to travel outside the country for the first time. The time was liked a flash, I couldn’t had a enough time to say farewell to my friends and my special person, who is my great grandmother. The boarding time for my first flight had come, and I was so exited to watch my motherland from above. That was to have a better life for my family, but my tears just dropped for no reasons, may be I was scared or missed my old house. Well, no more tears to wasted; I boarded the plane with my family and took off. On August 2006 at nighttime, my plane had landed at International Airport of Houston. From the moment I stepped...
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...Journal 2: What barriers do immigrants face when they come to Canada? When immigrants come to Canada it’s a hard choice for some families leaving their home land and starting a new life in a different county with a different society, language, culture and believes. For some families they leave their home land to come to Canada for a better place to live, building a better future for their kids and a safe place. Immigrants that come to Canada face lots of barriers that are learning a new language, getting to know a new country, finding a home, job and new friends. My dad faced lots of barriers in life coming to Canada he make that choice for his kids to have a better life. My dad was a surgeon in Germany , he studied about 7 years not including the studies he did in his home land. Coming to Canada he had to start all his studies all over again since he had a German medical license not a Canadian medical license. These stories below are written by the authors what they had to face coming to Canada. The first story was by Isabel Vincent “ finding a nationality that fits” Isabel write a story about how their Portuguese family who tried to become “Canadianize” in order to be accepted in society. We often are left on our own to find ourselves in Canada. After a period of time living in Canada, may lose his/her family traditions, beliefs and values and it changes a person. Now, I see more young teens that came here with such innocence being involved in things that they shouldn't...
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...Short Answer 1) Was Sid McMath a progressive? Explain. Sidney McMath’s time as governor could be described as progressive since it did not fit with conservative or Dixicrat views. When McMath took office in 1948after beating Laney and the two were dramatically different politically. McMath broke protocol by putting blacks into board and commissions that they had not been allowed to serve on before. He worked hard to make thing equal with school funding. He removed the poll tax along with raising the minimum wage. He made great improvements during his one term as governor, but was not supported by the conservative business community. 2) Discuss the political career of Winthrop Rockefeller. Winthrop Rockefeller was first appointed in 1954 as director of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. After his fall out with Faubus and the Little Rock crisis Rockefeller decided to begin building his campaign for governor. His first run in 1964 was unsuccessful, but he was able to secure the governor seat in 1966 and held it for two terms. Rockefeller was able to gain large support from the black voters after the Voting Right Act of 1965. The Freedom of Information Act passed during his time is office was a large success that we still benefit from today. 3) Discuss how Pryor and Bumpers changed Arkansas government? Dale Bumpers and David Pryor were progressive and made great strides in moving Arkansas forward during the 1960s and 70s. Bumpers was able to...
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...Fortune, the saying goes, favors the bold. Were that truly the case, the Tucker Model 48 would have been an uncontested success for Tucker Corporation and Preston Thomas Tucker, the visionary jack-of-all-trades inventor behind its creation. Instead, just as production of one of the 20th century’s most innovative automobiles was about to start, the government (as some believe, pressured by Detroit’s Big Three automakers) stepped in and effectively shut Tucker down. Preston Tucker was not an automotive engineer by trade, though few would argue that he possessed the ability to comprehend and advise on technical matters. With a background that included everything from automotive sales through race car and even armored car design (with partner Harry Miller), it was almost inevitable that Tucker would someday turn his attention towards constructing a production automobile that carried his own name. As originally envisioned by Tucker, the Tucker Model 48 (named for its debut year of 1948) featured some truly groundbreaking designs. Alex Tremulis George Lawson penned the streamlined coupe bodywork, featuring the driver in a central position instead of offset to the left (a design that would much later be embraced by McLaren on its F1 supercar). Located in the rear of the car, the proposed 589-cu.in. aluminum flat-six engine was so under-stressed that an overhaul would not be required for the first 180,000 miles. Tucker’s original design lacked a conventional transmission, too, and in...
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...William Knox D'Arcy, a Australian-British mining magnate won a concession from Persia to dig for oil. Seven years later, after almost giving up, The Anglo-Persian Oil Company emerged from this discovery and stood in command of what was the greatest oil find of its time. Angelo-Persian oil company as we know it today is British Petroleum or BP "The company made handsome profits through the 1920s and 30s as much of Western society moved toward a world sped along in petroleum-burning automobiles and illuminated by petroleum-burning power plants. The company — renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) in 1935 when new leadership in Tehran opted to shift the nation's name away from the archaic "Persia" — operated what was then the world's largest refinery near the city of Abadan". 1. A company must incorporate a systematic approach. 2. An organization has to prepare for tomorrows success and thus plan specific objectives and goals. 3. Both employees' and managers must inherit such goals and work collectively to obtain them. When a company establishes such goals and objectives they must be of precision so that statistical facts are measurable for progress throughout a time frame. 4. Detailed planning is of priority and conceivable restrains are to be avoided unless a solution is implemented. 5. Multiple strategies and ideas must come into play to prepare for the unexpected. 6. Forming derivative plans is imperative as this will play a key role in reaching reaching...
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...“Tucker” There is no recipe, instructions, or formula that makes up a great Leader. Tucker, the main character in the movie Tucker: The Man and his Dream, is a man that we can analyze the strengths and weaknesses that he demonstrated as a leader and manager of his company. This movie is a fictionalized true story about Preston Tucker, an American automobile designer and entrepreneur. Unfortunately, he was not able to compete with the Big Guys of the car industry and failed to fulfill his dream. Tucker’s vision, proactively, and motivation is what made him a great leader, manager and CEO; however his poor management decisions lead him to his downfall. Tucker was a man of vision, which is a critical characteristic to have as a leader. A vision allows for a sense of direction, and a way to focus the attention of everyone associated with the organization. The need to achieve the same vision is why individuals in an organization come together and work as hard as they can in order to succeed. Tucker had the dream to build a car with many new features like air-cooled rear engine, disk brakes, independent 4-wheel suspension, an additional center headlight that pivoted left and right for better vision when turning, a padded dash, seatbelts, and a pop-out safety windshield. He wanted to sell this revolutionary car in an industry that had three Big Guys that were afraid of what he would do to the industry. The Big Guys used many shady tactics, such as spying on Tuckers...
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...Obituary Christopher McCendless, 24. Pasted away in Alaska, in August 1992. He was born in El Sagundo, California. He was the first child of Walt McCandless and Wilhelmina ''Billie'' Johnson. He had a younger sister named Carine, and he loved her very much. At school, his teachers noticed that he was a very cleaver, stubborn and strong-willed boy. June 2th, 1986 Christopher graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School in Fairfax. Christopher was a very considerate person, and in 1990, just before he went on his long trip to Alaska he donated $ 24.000 to Oxfarm International, a hunger charity. He started his long journey to Alaska with the name Alexander McCandless and later adopted the last name ''super tramp.'' Almost all the people he met on his way described him as a very intilligent young man who loved to read books. When you think back on Christopher's life you can not help thinking about how great a person he was and how much he is missed by family and friends. We are many who will miss him as a friend, brother, son and adventures. But mostly we think of his family. We honor his memory. Rest in peace Christopher. We will see you again sometime. Goodbye letter dear mother and father. When I went out on this adventure I knew that it would not be easy and safe. But I had not predicted that this was where my life would end. I had certainly hoped to see your faces again, but i had to do it the way i did. I was sick and tired of all the material things, The way...
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