Verania, Angelica M. BSA 2-10 ECON 2013 Prof. Aileen Camba “Rich Dad Poor Dad” Summary Robert Kiyosaki has two fathers, one is his poor dad and the other one is his rich dad. His educated dad whom he calls his poor dad is his biological father and his rich dad is Mike‟s, his best friend, father. Both have their own perspective about money and both have different principles in life. As a kid, Robert wanted to know how to get rich because they were tired of other kids not wanting to play with
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challenges in our formative years and we struggled with them. Some of those barriers might have changed who we are or how we later approached life. Especially for English as a Second Language learners like me, even things that are minor for others always seem like mountain barriers for me. Leaving one’s home country, coming to the United States, and trying to understand and adjust to U.S. culture is already more than enough for a teenager to bear. Despites those barriers I needed to overcome, I was
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Using Information Systems to Achieve Competitive Advantage In almost every industry you examine, you will find that some firms do better than most others. There's almost always a stand-out firm. In the automotive industry, Toyota is considered a superior performer. In pure online retail, Amazon.com is the leader. In off-line retail Wal-Mart, the largest retailer on earth, is the leader. In online music, Apple's iTunes is considered the leader with more than 75 percent of the downloaded music market
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days’ worry about how to fix the social security issue. This is totally the wrong issue become people think that the trust fund will run out by the time they retire. Which is not true. So, the question is how does the investment fund work? Workers pay their social security taxes through their employees. Each employer sends a sum of payments to the U.S. department of treasury which includes all of the income taxes and Social Security plus the Medicare
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5 Ways to Reduce Your Monthly Cell Phone Bill Technology has increased and gotten more powerful over the years, which has resulted in people finding new ways to connect with friends, family and even strangers. Next to face to face contact, cell phones are the most common way that people choose to stay in touch with people and the world, but this uncontrollable need to avoid being disconnected has left many people paying obscene prices for their cell phone service every month. Despite these high
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in the United States and discuss whether these trends pose opportunities or threats for marketers. a. Changing Age Structure of the Population Changing American Family Geographic Shifts in Population A better-educated, more white-collar, more professional population Increasing diversity b. The first trend( The changing age structure of the population), poses a threat because defining people by their birth date may be less effective
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easier. Of course, it would be much more convenient to have all of your technological accessories on one device, but what about the price? Having to pay for your phone service, text messaging, internet and email, music and applications all on a monthly bill could get to be expensive. If you have an iPod separate from your phone, you only have to pay once for it. Without the additional price for extra accessories on a phone, your phone bill will be less each month and you are ultimately paying less
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students have hard heads but everyone deserves the same help, link crew also teaches you how to be patient with others. Link crew is a multi leadership experience, it teaches you many things about being a leader. Being a leader is not always easy, but practice makes better. Some students come into link crew not knowing anything about leadership. But after they leave the club at the end of the year they had more experience than before. They build leadership skills, how to help others and lending a helping
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with the hopes to get a degree. Those dreams could be smashed if you are an undocumented student that grew up in America. There are so many immigrants that come to America to make better lives for their families. Explain more, how students do not always know they are undocumented and how many of them find they have to pay out-of-state tuition to attend college even though they have lived in a certain state for most of their lives. Should a student be punished for furthering their education if they
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me because I am surprised that people in the United States in 2015 are still treating women as inferior to men. I have always heard about the gender wage gap problem in the news on television or online. Something that I already know about this topic is that women get treated unfairly in the workforce when it comes to getting paid. Employers don’t pay women as much money as they pay men in the same field throughout the year or even throughout the month. The main questions I want
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