...family, the other Wes Moore realized that “the only consistency in his employment was inconsistency” (Moore 144) while making a measly “nine dollars an hour” (Moore 144). This amount of money at such an inconsistent rate is what led Wes, and many more like him, to seek alternate forms of income, typically crime. In this portion of the book, the author is arguing that even though these government programs are instituted with the intent of helping people out of unemployment and back onto their feet, they can backfire causing...
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...In this quote, Wes Moore, the author, is able to travel to South Africa after being presented with a grant from the School for International Training to study “culture and reconciliation” in post-apartheid Cape Town. At first, Cape Town looked almost identical to American cities. Although, as Wes starts to leave from downtown and enters the township in which he will be living, he is confronted with a strikingly different landscape. Even though the situation in South Africa is more extreme, it reminds Wes of Baltimore and the Bronx. Rows of shacks stretch in every direction, and Wes notices that the poverty he’s observed in America is nothing compared to what exists in South Africa. At the house where Wes is staying, a short woman, Mama, welcomes...
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...A Passage to India E. M. Forster Online Information For the online version of BookRags' A Passage to India Premium Study Guide, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide−passageindia/ Copyright Information ©2000−2007 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction, Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical Context, Critical Overview, Criticism and Critical Essays, Media Adaptations, Topics for Further Study, Compare &Contrast, What Do I Read Next?, For Further Study, and Sources. ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: "Social Concerns", "Thematic Overview", "Techniques", "Literary Precedents", "Key Questions", "Related Titles", "Adaptations", "Related Web Sites". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults: "About the Author", "Overview", "Setting", "Literary Qualities", "Social Sensitivity", "Topics for Discussion", "Ideas for Reports and Papers". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. All other...
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...BENJAMIN MOORE PAINT COMPANY Adam K. Pedro Colorado Technical University Online MGM25-1204B-02 BENJAMIN MOORE PAINT COMPANY Executive Summary Organizational Change is a change within a company’s thinking which leads to either product or process innovation. Organizational change can be inspired by a change of leadership or an opportunity to produce your product in a cleaner, safer manner, or if a service provided can be done with less waste or damage to the surrounding environment. Through organizational change a company can grow and become what the leaders inspire the company to be. Over the last five years the Benjamin Moore Paint Company has gone through a change an organizational change. There goals to eliminate VOCs from their products has led them to the top of the industry, a topic that is covered in this strategic plan. The change has been tumultuous, but the reason for change (a safer, healthier, “greener” product) has inspired all of Benjamin Moore Paint Company’s employees to embrace the change and strive for innovation. This innovation has lead the Benjamin Moore Paint Company to receive the JD Power and Associates award two years in a row for the best interior paints. This has proven that the strategic plan outlined in this report is working and will continue as long as innovation is a part of Benjamin Moore Paint Company’s culture. BENJAMIN MOORE PAINT COMPANY Benjamin Moore Paint Company’s Mission Statement Benjamin Moore established...
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...Executive Summary At Moore Customs, we personalize cars to fit the customer’s eye. We specialize in Subarus, Toyotas, and Hondas. We offer a free test strip of road for our customer use only. Our main lobby is surrounded by glass so customers may view our progress. The more projects we have the harder we work. Business description Moore Customs is a new company that focuses on personalizing and customizing all types of cars, fitting the customers needs. Moore Customs will be a partnership, owned and operated by Garrett Moore and Alex Wolfe. This company will target all car enthusiasts with the idea of transforming their personal rides. Growth of this company will be prosperous since almost everyone has a car, which increases the chances of someone wanting custom work done. Several types of work will take place at Moore Customs, such as window tint, body paint, sound systems, custom performance, wheels, tires and suspension ect. The primary objectives of Moore Customs over the next year are to: • Obtain commercial financing of 100,000 to cover start up costs and initial operating expenses along with the necessary machinery. • Generate loyal clients by competing in local car shows to display our work. • Generate a net profit of $100,000 in the first year of operations by developing a strong client base and keeping overhead costs to a minimum.• Develop and create a company car as a marketing tool for possible clients to view on the road. Marketing The advertising...
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...state that Chattanooga Ice Cream (CIC) is having an identity crisis. They have no clear direction and that starts from the top. CIC can’t be everything to everyone. They can’t be known for supplying mid-price ice cream products by the market and all of a sudden want to compete with Ben & Jerry’s and Haagen-Dazs. Without a clear mission the Chattanooga team is running around in circles – just like in their meetings. They don’t know where their attention should be with no guiding force - a good mission statement. They are directionless and therefore picking at straws in terms of making a decision to address their upcoming 25% reduction in revenue. Candor Jack would then move on to candor which is non-existent in this team. Let’s start with Moore, who chooses not to directly confront his team members about their negative and derogatory behaviors, thinking that because he remains quiet during their tirades, they’d stop the behavior. His silence has had the exact opposite effect – his team is left to believe it is fine to trash one another behind each...
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...primarily of the “have nots.” The pivotal point in the story is that the children are introduced to a new, yet profound truth. That truth is this: There’s more to life than just the ‘hood. Though the story took place roughly 4 decades ago it’s quite obvious that there are still inequalities in America. A general explanation of this issue would be that we still have an upper-class, middle-class, working-class, and lower-class which indicates the unequal distribution of wealth. However, as it relates to this particular story despite the main inequality of in the story, Bambara presents a dichotomy of two different groups of people with two different realities colliding head-on. When Sugar says “You know, Miss Moore I don’t think all of us here put together eat in a year what that sailboat costs.”(Bambara 7) She indicates that she and the other kids live in a reality where their families live paycheck to paycheck and to even think of something a nice as F.A.O. Schwarz is a pipe dream. On the other hand, Ms. Moore lives in a reality where she has learned that she can have more if she puts her mind to it because she said “Where we are is who we are, but it don’t necessarily have to be that way.” (Bambara 6) Unequal distribution is still going on, but it’s nowhere near as bad as it was in that time period. African Americans have many more opportunities and the key to tapping into them is being educated on the ins and...
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...exists just a single example."; if (myRegEx.IsMatch(s1)) Console.WriteLine("Match found!"); Explain how you could 'teach' a computer to match the word 'exam' in the given phrase above. In order to do this in C#, you could write 4 separate search commands, or you can be more efficient and you can do it in a single phrase. By using pattern = ‘e ?x ?a ?m?’; . now you can locate one or more of the strings with just a single command: Text = [‘There exists just a single example’]; Regexp (text, pattern, ‘match’) Ans = ‘exam’. This is just one of many ways that you could teach a computer to find the word exam in the phrase. You are also able to use different MATLAB returns (MathWorks.com, 2011). Boyer-Moore pattern matching algorithm The algorithm works by creating a “skip table” to each possible character. By using this skip table, the number of actual comparisons needed to locate a string can decrease, and in some cases dramatically (Wood, J.). Comparison is done from right to left, starting with the last character in the patter. So with our...
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...Standardized Testing: Harmful to Learning Standardized Testing: Harmful to Learning Currently impressionable youth are receiving test results that may seem of little consequence to most but to them it says they are not good enough, or smart enough. Many students have received these results and felt the disappointment it can bring not only to their academic life but also how it melts into their self-esteem and self-worth. Even a teacher feeling they have failed there students, being unable to achieve certain marks knowing students will suffer not only academically but also loose funding for programs that they so desperately need or want. These negative connotations along with incidents of impropriety have come to light in the process of standardized testing in our schools across the nations. Standardized testing has created a test driven education, altering teaching strategies with a higher stress environment for not only teachers but students as well, and has great consequences for all involved if they fail to meet mandated scores. History of Testing Testing isn’t new to education yet it has changed dramatically from where it started many years ago. The history of testing dates back for many centuries for many different reasons including our military, but most are centered on education and its effectiveness as a whole. When the military introduced aptitude tests they where to help find suitable candidates for positions such as officers, and other special...
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...Gilliland-Moore Wines A Business Proposal to Suggest Employee Recruitment and Selection Prepared for Annetta Cherne Human Resource Director Gilliland-Moore Wines Prepared by Ronald D. Mosely Jr. University of Phoenix Industrial – Organizational Consultant Iwamoto, Crews, Coe Consulting February, 03, 2014 Proposal Number: GMW - 004 Gilliland-Moore Wines A Business Proposal to Suggest Employee Recruitment and Selection Executive Summary Background Gilliland - Moore Wines is a California winery, that has built a successful business in the spirits industry. Gilliand – Moore Wines success dates back 20 years and had a meager start in California and Oregon. Throughout the 20 year period Gilliand – Moore Wines has been able to expand throughout the western hemisphere and gain national recognition through public offerings and winning well - known competitions in the wine industry. Recently, Gilliand – Moore Wines has experienced rapid growth and are looking to expand its local reach into a nation – wide distribution. Objective Currently Gilliand – Moore wines has been corresponding with Iwamoto, Crews, Coe Consulting to find a solution to their current recruitment and personnel selection predicament. This current correspondence will offer a final proposal to this predicament in the form of offering resolution...
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...Chapters 1 & 2: Society History 1. The Worker is thorough, and concise in her writing of the report history. The client revealed a lot to the worker, and was quite willing to do so, which indicates some level of trust and comfort with the worker, regardless if the client was “flat”. 2. The Worker, in my opinion makes little if any assumptions, and any that are made are clear and backed up by a quote from the client or based on facts relayed by the client, and are reasonable in nature. All of her writings are as stated by the client or based on the client’s story. 3. Kate is depressed. She has lost interest in the things that previously used to give her pleasure. She has pulled away from friends, and the church choir, since the passing of her mother 2 years prior, stating not having the energy to add it to the list of things to do. Kate does not recognize the positives in the things she has endured and commanded in her life. It seems to me that she has always been wrapped up in her mom’s problems/life, all of her life, since the passing of her father, and as a result, she has forgotten about Kate! She no longer has her mom to worry about, and it is my opinion that she has lost a big part of who she was, and is depressed due to that as the root problem. 4. Kate has always had to take control or make decisions on behalf of her mother, from the young age of 6 years old, when at that time her father passed away. This has been her identity from this very young...
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...Executive Summary The following case study analysis examines the Chattanooga Ice Cream division’s recent failures in light of Stay & Shop’s recent decision to replace CIC with Sealtest in all of their Southeast Stores. It will shed a light on the dysfunctions and shortcomings of the team and their leader. A comprehensive analysis will follow and break down where CIC has failed both within the company and in the marketplace. After an examination and analysis is complete, I will offer a series of recommendations that must be made in order to bring CIC back to profitability and relevance. Introduction Chattanooga Ice Cream is in trouble. They have suffered from a lack of leadership, poor management, lack of marketplace knowledge and a dysfunctional team. Due to these reasons, they have found themselves in a position where their third-largest customer, Stay & Shop, has decided to replace them with the Sealtest line in all of their southeast region supermarkets within the next 90 days. This decision has caused the company, and their leader, Charlie Moore, to go into panic mode in an attempt to keep the business afloat, while also increasing revenue and expanding the product line while facing external stressors that include the competition introducing premium and “mix-in” flavors and the sagging consumption of ice cream. The Issues and Problems After a lengthy review of the case study, I have come to recognize three distinct problems that CIC faces. They have an unclear...
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...Socialisation &Feral Children Summary In this lecture we learned about socialisation and Wild or Feral children. The class started off with a question asking what we believed feral children were and what we thought socialisation consisted of. It seemed apparent that about half of the class were aware of what feral children were with the majority having an idea of what socialisation is. To explain to the class fully we were more than told what the meaning was but also shown videos to show the extent of the meaning. We learned that feral children we raised with no or minimal human interaction which resulted in them growing up basically alienated from human culture or lacking in socialisation skills. The video clips we watched showed harrowing examples of stories about feral children. For instance Oxana a girl from the Ukraine who lived for years with a pack of wild dog, the video clip showed her on all fours acting like a dog. We also learned of girl called Genie who was held captive alone in a dark room from the age of 1 to 13 by her father. She rarely saw other human beings and was spoon fed soft food which she could barely survive on. When she was discovered she could not walk, talk or stand up and was not toilet trained. We then discussed how once she was rescued how she struggled to adapt to socialisation and now lives in sheltered accommodation. There were numerous other examples given with the authenticity of some open to debate but all came back to the same point...
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...Revision of Manuscript # 17-02-88 Running head: ATTRACTIVENESS AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT Effects of Physical Attractiveness When Evaluating a Male Employee’s Allegation of Sexual Harassment by His Female Employer Karl L. Wuensch and Charles H. Moore East Carolina University Abstract College students (N = 324) served as mock jurors in a simulated civil case in which a male plaintiff accused a female defendant of sexual harassment. The physical attractiveness of the litigants was experimentally manipulated. Mock jurors were asked to decide whether the defendant was guilty or not and to rate their certainty of belief in the defendant's guilt. Jurors were more certain of the guilt of the defendant when the plaintiff was attractive than when he was unattractive. Plaintiff attractiveness significantly affected female jurors’ verdicts when the defendant was unattractive, but not when she was attractive. With male jurors, plaintiff attractiveness significantly affected their verdicts when the defendant was attractive, but not when she was unattractive. Female jurors were more likely than male jurors to conclude that sexual harassment did take place, but only when the litigants were different in attractiveness. Effects of Physical Attractiveness When Evaluating a Male Employee’s Allegation of Sexual Harassment by his Female Employer Physically attractive people are perceived in a more positive fashion than are the physically unattractive (Dion, Berscheid, &...
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...As you begin AP everything will seem overwhelming, and like you have no time for activities other than AP English. You will learn to discover yourself and how to write things about almost any type of literature, among many other things. At the end of the year you’ll go back, and read all your writing that you’ve saved throughout the year, and reflect upon it. So here’s what I’ve learned. I looked at my first piece of writing which was about a song “That’s the way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” by Carly Simon, and my last work which was based on “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. My first paper was a summary of the song with some comments in with it. I also did not know how to properly cite my sources and used verse numbers...
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