..._______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Report Information from ProQuest 22 August 2012 04:09 _______________________________________________________________ Table of Contents 1. Carbon tax: expert sees opportunities for energy management suppliers................................................... 1 22 August 2012 ii ProQuest Document 1 of 1 Carbon tax: expert sees opportunities for energy management suppliers Author: Hodgkinson, Steve. Publication info: Manufacturers' Monthly (Jul 2011). ProQuest document link Abstract: Putting aside the politics of how best to design Australia's strategy for transitioning to a greener economy, the Government's Climate Change Plan finally gives businesses some clarity over the imperatives to invest in technology to reduce CO2 emissions.For most organisations this means that they will need to invest in systems to monitor operational processes and to analyse and report on their energy consumption, the energy efficiency of production facilities and offices and their overall CO2 emission... Links: Linking Service Full Text: Putting aside the politics of how best to design Australia's strategy for transitioning to a greener economy, the Government's Climate Change Plan finally gives businesses some clarity over the imperatives to invest in technology to reduce CO2 emissions.For most organisations this means that they will need to invest...
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...Elaine is a 52-year old married female. Elaine is married to Richard for over 20 years. Elaine is a mother, caregiver and grandmother. Elaine has 3 children who currently who lives at home. Elaine’s sons are: Donald the first born, Richard Junior, age 19 and John, age 12, (Elaine’s youngest). In addition to her grandson, Richard III, age 3 and her 85 year old mother in-law, Janice. . Elaine works part-time as a CNA worker at the local nursing home B. Person, Family, Household, and Community Systems 1. Person System Elaine reported graining 30 pounds jumping from size 12 to 18. Elaine describe herself as exhausted, about to lose it, and “Can’t go on.” Elaine is currently experiencing some health issues and finds it difficult to get up in...
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...Tips for Successful Students Throughout my whole life, I can always remember time management being a strong point, whether it be in school or work. The statement, “you will either control time or be controlled by it” (Lake, A. & von Baeyer, C. 2005) has always lingered in the back of my mind, as my parents would say this to me often when trying to balance life, school, and work. Having a strong sense of time management has given me the ability to balance whatever it is I am confronted with. Whether it be finding time to do school assignments while working full time and also continuing my busy life, or whether it be passing meds, doing dressing changes, placing a foley, and admitting a patient all within a busy hour, time management is essential. Not only does it allow for a less-stressful flow, it also allows me to accomplish my tasks in a timely fashion and feel organized and in-control of what I am doing. I feel having this characteristic as a strong point will help me in this course because not only do I work full-time at night, but I also- like most other students- have a busy life surrounding me as well. Being able to manage what is laid out in front of me will assist in me being a successful student, without neglecting work or my personal life. Procrastination isn’t in the equation for being successful, as leaving tasks for later can lead to mistakes or to be forgotten. Scheduling your time can only be done by you; Do it wisely. (Richie S. & Alspaugh, L. 2011). ...
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...Dulce Cambron Ms. Pagliaro Art 1B 23 April 2015 Napoleon Crossing Saint-Bernard and Leading the Army over the Alps There has been many artists throughout the years that have captivated the audience with their works of art and/or sculptures. Some of which still remain in important museums like the Musee du Louvre and the Brooklyn Museum. There has also been many artists of today that recreate past paintings and change the message being delivered to the audience. For example, in 1801 Jacques-Louis David created the painting Napoleon Crossing Saint-Bernard. This painting is now located in the Natural Museum of Château de Malmaison which is 12km from Paris. In 2005, two hundred and four years later to be exact, an artist named Kehinde Wiley created the painting Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps. This painting has been placed in the Brooklyn Museum and has become part of their collection. These two paintings are considered to be practically the same thing yet deliver a distinct message, as in the modern version it changes the main character as well as his appearance and message. Therefore, Wiley’s painting is better than Jacques-Louis painting as it expresses a different aspect of humanity being in power. Napoleon Crossing Saint-Bernard was a creation of the early 18th century painter Jacques-Louis David. It took Jacques-Louis around four months to complete this work of art, it was done from October 1800 to January 1801. Posterior to all of the terrific situation France...
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...sentences to answer each question. 1. Name of the college or university. Louisiana state University, University of Houston, and Wiley College. 2. 3. City and state where college is located. 4. Year the college or university opened. Lsu:1890, UT:1927, and willey:1873 5. Who is the current president of the college or university? LSU: Dr.John V. Lombardi, UT: Dr.Renu Khator, Wiley: Dr.Haywood L. Strickland 6. Number of students currently attending. Lsu:1300+ ,UT:13000, and Wiley:967 7. Average cost for tuition, for a full and part-time student per year. 8. What are the admission requirements? 9. Is it a public or private university? Explain. 10. What is the vision and mission statement of the college or university? 10. What is the school best known for? 11. What is the schools mascot? LSU: the tigers, UT: the cougars, Wiley: the tars. 12. What are the school colors? LSU: gold and purple, UT: scarlet red and albino white. Wiley: royal blue and pure white. 13. What do you want to major or study in college? LSU: Pre law UT: pre law Wiley: pre law 14. Did any celebrities attend this college? If so who? LSU: No one, UT: lil Wayne Wiley: no one 15. Why would you attend this college or university? LSU: because… I really don’t know I just always wanted to go there. UT: Because it’s Houston c’mon now. Wiley: because off the movie the great...
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...(Denzel Washington) at historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a pervasive fear for blacks. In the movie, the Wiley team eventually succeeds to the point where they are able to debate Harvard University. This was their 47th annual debate team. Released in 2007, Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters was presented to the world in order to tell the story of Wiley College’s debate triumphs. While certain facts were altered for the sake of creating the film, such as the final debate being between Wiley College and Harvard rather than USC, the story of the Wiley College debate team has been a model of and for the Urban Debate League (UDL) Movement. The movie begins with a scene following Henry Lowe that is simultaneously overlaid with a speech given by Dr. James Farmer. The speech is directed at incoming students and covers topics such as maturity and discipline, preaching that “you must do what you have to do so you can do what you want to do” (4:08) Henry is attending a party at a barn where he finds himself in a fight with another man at the party. He threatens to kill the man when he pins him to the ground. At the last moment, Melvin Tolson, a professor and director of the Wiley College debate team, stops Henry from harming the man further. Sometime after the fight, classes begin for a new year at Wiley College. Henry Lowe attends a class taught...
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...Aaliyah Perry The Great Debaters The Great Debaters is a true story of the Debate Team consisting of four students and their professor from Wiley College, in Marshall, Texas. As an all-black school, Wiley College during the 1930’s trained young minds to believe in themselves and to use their educated minds to change the hearts and minds of society, to establish peace, and maintain human dignity, tolerance and acceptance for all people. No matter the color of their skin, origin of their birth, language they speak, or their occupational role in society. The story of The Great Debaters takes place at a time in America’s history when things were starting to change for both Whites and African Americans. The moral call for freedom, equality, and justice for all was beginning to resonate throughout the country. The students, James Farmer, Jr who was only 14 years old, Henry Lowe, and Samantha Booke, learn to lead through civil discussions using their minds as weapons and not violence. Under the direction of English Professor Melvin B. Tolson, these three students become the Wiley College Debate Team of 1935-36. This film also shows an understanding of how Professor Tolson sees these students potential as individuals and as a team. Progress is made one victory at a time. Under the intense and encouraging guidance of Professor Tolson, the students learn to speak with clarity and confidence. They learn to evaluate their own limitations. Defeat becomes an opportunity by which they...
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...Strategic Management 4E11 Final Assignment You must be familiar with Wal-Mart, the US giant discount retailer. For the purposes of this course and drawing on the material we have discussed in class, I would like you to (1) evaluate Wal-Mart’s current strategy, (2) discuss and evaluate the options Wal-Mart has for geographic expansion and (3) discuss and evaluate the options Wal-Mart has for diversifying into another industry (pick one). Following I provide you with ten possible source of information on Wal-Mart and its strategy. You can use more, but do not get lost in research for more and more information. Keep in mind that the most important part of your grade will be the evaluation and critical parts of your paper. In other words, spend enough (more) time and effort in evaluating Wal-Mart’s strategy and expansion options. Possible Sources: 1. http://corporate.walmart.com/ 2. Freeman, R. 2006, The Wal-Mart Effect and Business, Ethics, and Society. Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p38-40 (you can find this from ABI) 3. Ghemawat, Pankaj, 2006, Business, Society, and the "Wal-Mart Effect" Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p41-4 (you can find this from ABI) 4. Case on Wal-Mart from Grant, R.M. (2005/8) Contemporary strategy analysis. 5th or 6th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing HD30.28.G72 2005/8 – or any subsequent edition (latest edition is 9th) 5. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AWMT&fstype=ii&ei=mRRxUOiwHIOwkAXYpgE ...
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...Using the example of segregated Wiley College's debate team, the script shows how African-Americans had to claw their way inch by inch toward social inclusion. The team struggled for the opportunity to debate white schools and, finally, based on their incredible string of victories, to debate and to defeat Harvard while a national radio audience listened in. “The Great Debaters” is also a morality tale (an archetypal narrative that is fundamentally didactic or prescriptive and relies heavily on both a morality (a conception of what is good or right), which is usually implicit, and a didactic moral, which is usually explicit.), Yet it is very different. Its message is that there is another way; that hard work, enterprise, preparation and perseverance pays off. It shows how “the system” can be changed without resorting to Mafia methods. The inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi is cited. The film’s script speaks eloquently against violence in the scene where the motoring Wiley College debaters accidently come upon a lynching and are lucky to escape from the mob with their lives. The movie portrays the poverty and ignorance of many dirt poor white folk that had nothing of their own except the mistaken belief the color of their skin elevated them to superior status. There’s an electric scene in which James Farmer Sr. runs over a white farmer’s pig and is faced with summary execution for this “crime” but talks his way out of it. The role of the Wiley College debate coach, Melvin B....
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...“The Great Debaters” Communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, writing, or behavior. The ability to communicate effectively is necessary in all aspects of life, especially when debating a subject. In the film “The Great Debater”, speech preparation, delivery, verbal messages and interpersonal communication played a vital role. Through the use of these skills, the Wiley College debate team achieved success. Speech preparation and organization were essential to the characters debates. Preparation began with a resolve and which side of the argument they stood. Once established, the students began their speech research, gathering facts, primary and secondary sources, examples and quotes. Organization of the topic was analyzing both sides of the argument in order to be prepared for their rebuttals. Organization also helps to analyze the information and make sure all points are supported. Practicing delivery and how the speech would flow, whether in chronological order, using past events, or quotes from famous people to prove their point was also part of their organization. Delivery, verbal messages, and facial expression were important for the students to appear credible. Through volume, tone, clarity, pace, and word choice, they were able to articulate their points effectively. Word choice was kept simple, clear, and relative to the topic. They were taught clarity...
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...Journal of Management Studies 44:8 December 2007 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00719.x A Modern Resource Based Approach to Unrelated Diversification Desmond W. Ng Texas A&M University abstract For over three decades, the questions of how and why an organization diversifies into related and unrelated businesses have drawn the attention of strategy scholars. However, explanations of unrelated diversification have been less than clear. A conceptual model of unrelated diversification is thus proposed. In drawing on Penrose’s (1959) resource based approach, unrelated diversification is explained by an organization’s ‘three pillars’, which consist of its strength of dynamic capabilities, absorptive capacity, and weak ties. The role of the three pillars is to discover new resource applications or uses in conditions of market failure that are characterized by ‘incomplete’ markets. A novel feature of this model is that an organization can diversify more broadly than predicted by Penrose (1959) and other modern resource-based approaches (Teece et al., 1997). Furthermore, unrelated diversification can be beneficial. This study also offers suggestions to measure the three pillars; its contributions and implications are discussed as well. INTRODUCTION The questions of how and why an organization diversifies into related and unrelated businesses have been a central focus of strategy research (Palich et al., 2000; Rumelt, 1974; Teece, 1982). These diversifications have been defined by the degree...
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...Barbara Miller's article (2001) on female-selective abortion (FSA) may be more than 11 years old (not that long ago, but imagine all the other social and medical changes that have occurred since 2001), but FSA is still a hot-button topic. Page 1090 in Miller (2002) (in your assigned readings) begins addressing the divergent views on FSA. Reflect on your ability to discuss a view point opposing to your own. Then, consider Miller (2001) and select a view expressed in the article with which you disagree. Respectfully, write a reflection on that view in her article with which you disagree. This reflection is not asking you to accept someone else’s viewpoint as your own, but to appropriately discuss it*. FSA Represents Free Choice. I disagree with western feminists, ethicists each having their own interpretation of “choice” about abortion and FSA in particular. Any kind of abortion should be morally wrong and not just abortion on gender grounds. In both Asian and African countries, sons have been preferred over daughters. Because of this I think that most women especially uneducated and those pushed around by their husbands or in-laws might be pushed into having an abortion if they are having a girl. It is hard to day or do something unless you walk in the other’s own shoes. How do you push a woman to have an abortion? Yes iam sure one can be persuaded but some do keep their girl fetus and do not abort them. “Pure reproductive freedom is the complete absence of constraints...
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...white colleges as well. It was truly a movie of motivation to show how desire, dedication, and perseverance can prevail even in the toughest of times and the toughest of circumstances. During the time, Negro hate and racism was heavily practiced particularly in the state of Texas where Wiley College existed. Not only was the government enforcing unjust laws, they were denying any sort of freedom of speech which all Americans have the right of. In a country where we are all born as free men and are all granted rights as citizens, Blacks were an exception. Is this not unjust? Is this not a crime violating the constitution of this country? In the state of Texas, negroes were being lynched and tortured because of the rise against the status quo, and here we had a group of college students civilly disobeying the law. How can a man born in the U.S by law being given rights granted by the constitution be lynched and burned on the stake with no justice? These men have the same rights as any other white man and this group of students that joined together on a debate team spread these very same ideas across the nation. It was a simple idea, in a time that was not so simple. Mr. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College, was an exceptional teacher of those students. He had such spirit and determination to change the state’s conventional lifestyle and challenge the status quo of Blacks in American history. He knew that education was the key to...
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...Shifting Sentences. Change the following First, Second and Third Person Point of View to a Formal Academic Writing with a Formal tone. Journal 1(15/1/2013) Oh yea! My dad bought me a new handphone, Sony Xperia SL! He said it was a present for my SPM result, although it was a bit late, it is ok as long as I get a new phone! Lastly, it is equipped with 12-megapixel camera and the pictures captured are extremely clear! Thanks dad for giving me such a nice present! Sample: Smart phone is an essential item to people nowadays. Giving smart phones to someone or somebody as a present would be the best thing to do. People tend to give presents to someone that they love, especially to those who have achieved a better result in the examination. Sony Xperia SL, for instance, is a very stylish phone with android smartphone system. It runs by Dual-core 1.7 GHz processor and with Android OS, version 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It has 4.3 inches large LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen and 32 GB storage. Journal 2(16/1/2013) On 11/1/2013, I attended my first class of Basic Composition. On that day, I was late for class as we had to attend a talk by Mr Kalai and a meeting for committees. I went to class at around 3p.m. and found that the lecturer for Basic Composition subject was actually Miss Felicia, who taught us the subject of General Psychology last semester. She was still very kind even though she gave us a lot of homework such as writing journals, writing introductions for...
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...International Journal of Management Reviews (2008) doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2370.2007.00227.x Teamworking and organizational performance: A review of survey-based research Teamworking xxx 2007 Publishing Ltd ORIGINAL Journal of Ltd 2007performance XXX UK Publishing Management Reviews © Blackwell 1460-8545 International and organizational IJMR Oxford, Blackwell ARTICLES Anne Delarue,1 Geert Van Hootegem, Stephen Procter and Mark Burridge This paper presents a review of recent survey-based research looking at the contribution of teamwork to organizational performance. In particular, it focuses on empirical studies in which both teamwork and performance are directly measured in a quantitative way. The paper begins by identifying four interrelated dimensions of teamwork effectiveness: attitudinal, behavioural, operational and financial. The first two represent transmission mechanisms by which organizational performance can be improved. The latter two provide direct measures of organizational outcomes. The review shows that teamworking has a positive impact on all four dimensions of performance. It also reveals that, when teamwork is combined with structural change, performance can be further enhanced. The paper concludes by highlighting some important research gaps that future studies could address. Introduction Teamwork has emerged in recent years as one of the most important ways in which work is being reorganized (Osterman 1994; Waterson et al...
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