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Simpsons 4
Number of Words: 4166 / Number of Pages: 16
... genius daughter), and Maggie (silent baby). The show also revolves around a number of other of the townsfolk, such as Mr Burns (Homer's miserly boss), Smithers (Burns's loving assistant), Apu (Indian shop owner), Principal Skinner and Moe (owner of the local bar). There are a number of reasons why we cannot simply view The Simpsons as a cartoon like any other. The rules and conventions that it follows are far more those of television or cinema than those of animation. The humour within The Simpsons exists on many different levels ranging from the obvious to the subtle, from the literary to the ...
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I, Robot, A Metaphorical Analy
Number of Words: 1050 / Number of Pages: 4
... positronic brains. The sponge that made up the brains in a concoction of platinum and iridium which make up a sponge. This sponge, made mostly by trial and error, and just throwing things into "pots" and seeing what it did.
Many children, when they find something they like, some food in the pot, stick with it, but they try to improve on it, putting sweet things into it. The robots, who are treated like pots, have one good thing. The one good thing that the robots have is the positronic brain. Although the brain is improved upon by putting "sugar" into it, the basis always stayed the same. The basis ...
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Organizational Skills
Number of Words: 9847 / Number of Pages: 36
... 65 Advantages (growth concentration): 65 Disadvantages (growth concentration): 66 Advantages (growth diversification): 67 Disadvantages (growth diversification): 68 RETRENCHMENT 69 STABILITY STRATEGY 70 COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES 70 DIFFERENTIATION 71 FOCUS 71 IMPLEMENTATION 72 CONCLUSIONS 75 BIBLIOGRAPHY 77 APPENDIX 82 Table of Figures FIGURE 1 - INVENTORY TURNOVER 52 FIGURE 2 - CURRENT RATIO 53 FIGURE 3 - DEBT / EQUITY RATIO 55 FIGURE 4 - NET PROFIT MARGIN 57 FIGURE 5 - RETURN ON ASSETS 58 The Retail Drugstore Industry Introduction Knowing the importance of a strategic vision, every company undertakes a ...
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Managing Change In Operations
Number of Words: 1623 / Number of Pages: 6
... picture of events within the business and options for future development.
Managers should make use of these models and many don’t. Those that do are more likely to be successful and have the ability to minimize risk of failure. Business managers who do are far more likely to survive. For planners and non-planners there is not a single universal technique that can be applied in all situations.
Use of strategic planning models can be a very important behavior trait for successful companies. Companies that do not use strategic planning models usually don’t because the model does not offer w ...
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Public Relations Contigenct Th
Number of Words: 920 / Number of Pages: 4
... organization to their stance in concern with greater or lesser accommodation to that public. One of the many factors suggests that more accommodation or more advocacy will be effective in gaining departmental and organizational objectives in the short and long term. The contingency theory further goes on to say that an accommodative stance, questionably a part of a two-way symmetrical communication may not be completely ethical, in fact it could be contrary and unethical to morally repugnant publics, for those who hold some positions to be morally absolute. A position of a moral magnitude holds more ...
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Does Vision And Mission Emerge
Number of Words: 3125 / Number of Pages: 12
... programming of the mind which distinguishes one group or category of people from another’. Hofstedes research of different organisations and countries allowed him to make predictions on the way different societies operate, including their management processes and the theories that would be used in management. Morgan (1996) refers to culture as ‘the pattern of development reflected in a society’s system of knowledge, ideology, values, laws, and day-to-day ritual’. In subsequent writings he expands on organisational culture as ‘self-organising and is always evolvi ...
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Hume's Mind Game
Number of Words: 567 / Number of Pages: 3
... come up tomorrow, but I see what Hume is trying to
get at. Everything that is thought to be definite can change. There is no
proven facts that say the sun will come up tomorrow, we just assume it will. In
Hume's writing, assumption is a dangerous word. Assumption is made up of what
you believe and what you don't. I can believe light will turn on when I hit the
switch, but I can not rule out the fact that it will not turn on. It is
probable that the light will turn on, but not definite. Hume says probabilities
are what the mind is consuming during everyday life. Science give the facts
becaus ...
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Bonds And The Bond Market
Number of Words: 2635 / Number of Pages: 10
... date"). Upon reaching the maturity date, one's original investment is returned to them.
There are many reasons why people invest in bonds. For example, if one chooses a stable and profitable bond, it will provide a steady source of income through interest payments during the lifetime of the bond. As well, the risk when investing in a bond is considerably less than for most other forms of investment. The bond does not, for instance, experience the volatility of a stock on the stock market, like many other forms of investment do. Also, in instances where the issuer fails to pay the principal am ...
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Forgotten Kids
Number of Words: 749 / Number of Pages: 3
... nights sleep and hope for a day when they can put their words on paper. They dream of friends who don’t abandon them when their moods change; and look for a miracle in the eyes of doctors who don’t always believe that bipolar can happen to a child. Until society becomes more aware and accepting of these illnesses, our future children with these disabilities stand no chance.
My son,was diagnosed at age nine after his third stay in a child’s psychiatric unit. He was admitted following a period of behaviors I could not understand nor control. I remember him being “different& ...
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Aristotle- Thoughts And Philosophies
Number of Words: 1851 / Number of Pages: 7
... oneself aides the desire for knowledge and self-realization. Self-realization leads to happiness. We can find similar theories in modern day psychologists like Maslow. In his theory of hierarchy, Maslow places self-actualization as the last achievement before reaching true happiness.
At heart, Aristotle was a teacher. He believed that knowledge and teaching went hand in hand, and regarded teaching as the “proper manifestation of knowledge.” The Lyceum is where Aristotle spent most of his time reading his lecture notes to students anxious for self-realization. He spoke both to the ...
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