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- 2221: American Values
- ... troubling trend within the society. In my opinion, authors attempt to show that US as a culture has become highly commercialized and at the rate thing are going US will soon be viewed by the world as unintelligent, exuberant, and irresponsible nation. The current entertainment and consumer retail industries in the US are the biggest insult to basic human intelligence. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week average American ... openings and other tricks are designed specifically for these who refuse to become believers right away. For example, how many times one can hear a promotion slogans like “Free set of floor mats with every new car purchase!” or “Free mouse pad with every new computer purchase!”, etc. In my opinion, this is a clear indication of companies seeing nothing but a crowd of morons in their consumers. Jack, the main character of “Shopping”, finds himself in a store ...
- 2222: Dell Computer
- DELL COMPUTER Company Summery Dell Computer Corporation was established in 1984 and today ranks among the world¡¦s largest computer systems companies. Dell pioneered the concepts of selling personal computer systems directly to customers; offering build-to-order computer systems; and providing direct, toll-free technical support and next-day, on-site ... Dell's efforts to design a PC using proprietary components and RISC chips. Also, the company's warehouses were oversupplied. Within a year Dell turned itself around by cutting inventories and coming out with eight new products. Dell entered the retail arena by letting Soft Warehouse Superstores (now CompUSA) in 1990 and office supply chain Staples in 1991 sell its PCs at mail-order prices. Also in 1991 Dell opened a plant in Limerick, Ireland. In 1992 Xerox agreed to sell Dell machines in 19 Latin American countries. That year Dell sold a new line of PCs through Price Club (now Price/Costco). Dell opened subsidiaries in Japan and Austria in 1993 and began selling PCs through Best Buy stores in 16 US states. The computer maker abandoned ...
- 2223: Hacking
- ... In today's society, people are always trying to improve technology, but in doing so, are they creating something that can be used to create mass destruction for the United States? Everyday computers get faster, new programs are written, or some scientist finds a way to make a job be done quicker. For most people, they welcome the advancement of science to ease their lives, but it is known that technology can also be used to create havoc, and destroy human beings. The United States is finding out that being a World Power, other countries are jealous. Most understand the word terrorism to mean bombs, and mass murders, but with the evolution of the computer age, terrorism is taking on a whole new meaning. No longer is computer hacking something from a movie, or a sci fi flick, it is now a real danger to the United States. This new technology is being called Cyber Terrorism, and ...
- 2224: Home Shopping
- ... some issues that to be taken care to hit our target – Ideal Electronics Shopping. Implements SET to improve Internet Security Hackers getting smarter and smarter in nowadays cyber society, we must coming out with some new technology to prevent their hacking activities to spread over the network. As stated above, Secure Socket Layer(SSL) is widely used by major online commercial company to protect the web site. But, we know that ... is not a good application. In fact, it doesn’t protect the information of buyer totally but just encrypt their information to prevent interception and retreving of data. Hence, to actually improve internet security, a new technology was introduced which is Secure Electronics Transaction(SET). SET is the emerging open standard for secure credit card payments over the Internet, adopted by major banks and financial processors around the world. So, SET is easily supported by any industry and also widely recognised around the world. Besides, SET is the only Internet electronic commerce standard that is designed to deliver multi-vendor interoperability. With so ...
- 2225: New Casts
- News Casts: Is there more than meets the Eye? In today s world, people rely on different things to inform them of what is happening in society. One of the main ways of receiving the news is by TV. People can tune in at various times during the ... it s called. The news show s a snippet of the up coming segment. This snippet is usually of an interesting and exciting story. The snippet is the tease. The news is like fishing. The new anchors are the fishermen or women. The viewers are the fish. The new anchors use these teasers as bait to reel in the viewers. This snippet is showed before the sitcom before the news is over. This way people watching the sitcom might get interested to stay ...
- 2226: Pro-Wrestling In The Nineties
- ... knowledgeable on this subject. That is why I feel that I am able to show an unbiased view of wrestling and what happens behind the scenes, and around children’s homes. The company called WWFE (World Wrestling Federation Enterprises) went from a small company into a huge corporation basically overnight, and then drifted into obscurity again. The WWF’s first popularity influx occurred in the mid 1980’s due to a ... his character right away. Hogan was quoted as saying, “I am happy that I can bring the business that I have put my blood, sweat, and tears into straight up to the top of the world” (Hogan) Unfortunately, Vince McMahon, the CEO of the WWF, was involved in a scandal that shocked the world. He was handing out steroids to his employees, in order to make them bigger and more intimidating. This was certainly a blow to the up and coming corporation, although Mr. McMahon was quoted as ...
- 2227: Mcdonaldization Of Society
- ... as "McDonaldization". McDonaldization is defined as "the process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world." (1) The success of McDonalds, and of McDonaldization as a whole, is due to four basic factors--efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control. One of the first functions of McDonaldization is efficiency. Efficiency means choosing the ... how good it tastes. Food is always weighed and measured precisely, which is another part of calculability. All burgers weigh the same amount, there are the same number of fries in each container, and the new drink machines dispense the same amount to each cup. This same theory is seen in our education system. Students are herded through, and no one really pays much attention to what or how they are ... be getting, for the good or the bad. But then hotels such as Holiday Inn and Howard Johnson's started, and guests knew exactly what they were going to get when they stayed there. This new practice was copied in the food industry, namely by McDonalds. First, they started with a large and noticeable sign, that could be easily recognized. People from around the world now know the McDonalds symbol ...
- 2228: Canadian Manufacturing
- ... vegetables. - Manufacturing also includes machinery and equipment to package, handle, distribute, store and record all other manufactured goods. - Manufacturing is a purchaser of raw materials and services; Statistics Canada data show that, for every 3 new jobs created in manufacturing, about 3 more jobs are created. - Manufacturing in Canada began with flour mills. The first gristmills were built in New France in the 17th century and, by 1840, there were 400 in Upper Canada and Lower Canada making flour for domestic and foreign sale. - Iron smelting began in the 1730s, by the mid-1740s, this foundry supplied some of New France's requirements such as stoves and household utensils. - The first steamboat was made in Canada, the accommodation, was built in 1809 by the Eagle Foundry of Montréal, which made all of the more ...
- 2229: Gilgamesh
- ... and filled with violence, (Genisis, 6). The only way to destroy this violence was to drown everyone but the chosen few. These chosen few were hand-picked by God as good people to start a new, more wholesome and obedient civilization. Gilgamesh’s story says the reason for the flood was the volume the people created. The noise was intolerable and the gods insisted on ending the racket at once, (Duiker ... their skills. Noah only took his family, relying on God to provide them with the necessary items that they could not produce. There were not any other people on board. Therefore, the corruption of this world is thought to come from one of Noah’s sons, descending down through him. If Gilgamesh brought craftsmen on the boat, this is a new place to lay the blame for today’s violence. The next discrepancy lies in the amount of time it rained. Noah’s story emphasized rain for forty days and forty nights. The number forty ...
- 2230: Leadership The Human Vessel To
- Leadership: The Human Vessel to the New Business Frontier As our workforces grow more diverse every day, and customers are demanding better, faster, and less expensive service, companies are faced with the challenges to create and meet the changes necessary to remain ... Today s companies become successful based on their abilities to create and manage change. They can no longer survive without courage and imagination the courage to challenge prevailing business models and the imagination to invent new markets. As the globe continues to evolve into a marketplace with vanishing boundaries, competition becomes stronger, tighter, and smarter than ever before, ultimately forcing organizational change. The tidal strength of competition that has been upon ... realize improvement through radical change, or reengineering. As defined by Jon R. Katzenbach, author of Real Change Leaders, radical changes are: Those situations in which corporate performance requires most people throughout the organization to learn new behaviors and skills. These new skills must add up to a competitive advantage for the enterprise allowing it to produce better and better performance in shorter and shorter time frames. The changes that are ...
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