Business writing Steps, Portfolio, and Reflection COM 285 – Introduction to business Communication October 31, 2011 Business Writing Steps, Portfolio, & Reflection Part I: Business Writing Steps Planning Planning is effective when you analyze, pick the perfect medium, and gather the information. The key to planning successfully is to compile information what will satisfy the basic requirements of the audience. It is necessary that the correct medium is considered when
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Christopher Wood 10/25/2013 MGMT 4020 Prof. Meredith FedEx FedEx is a company who provides transportation, e-commerce and business services. The company offers time certain delivery services and international trade services such as customs brokerage, and global ocean and air freight forwarding. It also provides small-package ground delivery services across North America. In addition, it offers residential delivery services in the US. FedEx provides less-than-truckload freight services. The
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(Charkes 10) III. The price increase due to the depletion of America’s natural resources that are used daily, leads individuals to look for new reservoirs that contain certain resources. A. “86% of US Energy Consumption Is Fossil Fuels” (US Energy Information Agency) B. “Those quantities can and do rise in response to price rises and anticipated increases in demand… reserves of a resource grow scarce, the price rises…” (Blackman & Baumol 4) C. “… then the resource’s price will rise as its remaining
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regarded as responsible for global costs rising is air pollution. The exhausts from gasoline-powered automobiles are among the main reasons for contamination. Ultimately, cars will not run only on gas. As gas supplies start to decrease, it will also become tougher to get what remains. The time ticking on the world’s clock will not stop for mankind to refuel. Alternate fuel automobiles are the trend of the future. Driving an automobile fueled by something besides gas or diesel fuel is no more the thing
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evaluation methods are proposed by economists, showing quite different outcomes. In the report Research of the inflation degree in China, Yanchen Qi selected prices of diesel and corn as samples and reached the conclusion that current inflation rate is nearly 30%. In addition, the compound inflation rate from 2000 to 2011 can be estimated using the price of pork, which increased from RMB 6 to RMB 15 per kilogram, with a compound inflation rate of 9.6%. What causes the inflation? External Factors Subprime
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Use the concepts of price elasticity of demand and elasticity of supply to explore and explain the large fluctuations in the retail price of gasoline over the last 3 years. Use price elasticity concepts to explore the accompanying closure of many gasoline retailers. Also, discuss the impact of cross-elasticity of demand. According to various literatures petroleum is the single largest source of energy used in the United States. It is said that the USA uses two times more petroleum than either
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operating presence in North America. By 2008, GM became vulnerable to the auto industry crisis, which they were not able to meet obligations. Over the years, GM was a dominating force in the auto industry. However, rising labor costs, concessions made to the unions, higher gas prices and a recession, GM was heavily burdened and could not provide the sufficient marketing funds for any one of its product lines. The U.S. government agreed to lend $13 billion in order to buy time to develop a restructuring
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CLIMATE CHANGE IN DECEMBER 2009, as the Copenhagen climate conference fell apart, the chairman of Greenpeace UK, John Sauven, said “the city of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport.” His remark captured some of the salient characteristics of climate policy: the importance of treaties and regulation; the central role of politicians, advocacy groups and non-governmental organisations such as Greenpeace; the pervasive moral certainty; and, though
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the general price level of goods and srvices in an economy over a period of time. When the price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services. Consequently, inflation reflects a reduction in the purchasing power per unit of money – a loss of real value in the medium of exchange and unit of account within the economy. The difference between inflation and a change in price of a particular good or service is that inflation reflects a general and overall increase in price across the
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competition in the natural gas industry in the European Union. Assess the impact of EU and national regulations on the prices of natural gas across the EU”. Abstract: European natural gas market currently has a decline of indigenous resources that is, at the same time, combined with the growing dependence of gas supplies coming from a few foreign exporters. As a result of this, new EU regulations and polices are proposed. This paper will analyze the past gas reforms and will try to
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