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- 811: Creative Writing: Life in Sumitville
- ... live. A day in the life of 4 person family in Sumitville The Father A father would wake up in the morning and then got to work via an electric trolley. The father is a business owner, when he arrives at his business he has many orders on to fill for his clients. He sells stationary supplies to all the businesses in downtown Sumitville. He signs on to the Internet and looks at his mail he then fills the orders. After making the packages he loads them onto his his business truck. He then goes and delivers them to all his clients. His day at work is over and he goes home. The Mother This is a housewife who does not work. She wakes up ...
- 812: Alfred Nobel
- ... Royal Navy from moving into firing range of St. Petersburg during the Crimean war (1853-1856). Immanuel Nobel was also a pioneer in arms manufacture and in designing steam engines. Successful in his industrial and business ventures, Immanuel Nobel was able, in 1842, to bring his family to St. Petersburg. There, his sons were given a first class education by private teachers. The training included natural sciences, languages and literature. By ... rock, drilling tunnels, building canals and many other forms of construction work. The market for dynamite and detonating caps grew very rapidly and Alfred Nobel also proved himself to be a very skillful entrepreneur and business man. By 1865 his factory in Krόmmel near Hamburg, Germany, was exporting nitroglycerin explosives to other countries in Europe, America and Australia. Over the years he founded factories and laboratories in some 90 different places ... countries.(Encarta) Although he lived in Paris much of his life he was constantly traveling. Victor Hugo at one time described him as "Europe's richest vagabond." When he was not traveling or engaging in business activities Nobel himself worked intensively in his various laboratories, first in Stockholm and later in Hamburg (Germany), Ardeer (Scotland), Paris (France), Karlskoga (Sweden) and San Remo (Italy). He focused on the development of explosives ...
- 813: The Mexican Economy
- ... Televiso, Grupo Simek, etc.) traded on foreign stock exchanges began to drag the exchanges lower. Investors fearing that the peso's devaluation will not only affect Mexican stocks, but the stocks of foreign companies doing business there, began withdrawing billions of dollars out of these stocks (Lane, 16.) Not only did the stock markets suffer, but the debt markets also began plummeting, especially in emerging markets such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile ... The New Republic. 20 Feb. 1995: 16 - 18. Tim Zimmerman. "The art of the deal." U.S. News & World Report. 13 Feb. 1995: 57 - 61. Gary McWilliams. "A BORDER TOWN FEELS THE PESO'S PINCH." Business Week. 6 Mar 1995: America Online. Paul Craig Roberts. "MEXICO: DON'T BLAME SALINAS FOR ZEDILLO'S MISTAKES." Business Week. 4 Mar 1996: America Online.
- 814: McDonalds Affect On The World
- ... of McDonalds must also be dealt with. The suppliers of its food products must be kept happy and must also be able to handle the large amount of supplies that McDonalds needs to run its business. McDonalds number one priority is its customers. McDonalds customer base is rapidly expanding and they have to be ready to deal with that. McDonalds must deal with the distribution of its services since it franchises out many of its restaurants. The disposable income of the customer is important to McDonalds. It the customer can not afford to buy their food then they will lose business. In order to get more customers McDonalds has entered into the price wars. They have specials and also try to keep the price of their meals inexpensive. The interest rates of different countries also affect ... all over the world so they must watch the economies of all the countries. McDonalds is also expanding all over the world. They realize that in order to keep their edge in the fast food business that they must grow and reach new markets first. The use of new computers for ordering and for preparation of food is being developed for McDonalds. The different cultures that McDonalds enters into must ...
- 815: John D. Rockelfeller
- John D. Rockelfeller John D. Rockelfeller was a rich man who made his fortune in the oil refinery business. He created a monopoly in the standard oil trust company. He gave away most of his fortune. In my opinion Rockelfeller is a captain of industry. Vanderbilt, The New York Times, Allen Nevins, and an ... swayed my decision was William H. Vanderbilt. He felt Rockelfeller had a monopoly because he was "Enterprising, Shrewd, Able, and Smart." Pg. 128 promise of America volume 3. Vanderbilt knew that Rockelfeller had a successful business because of his good skills. The last thing that helped me decide was a excerpt from Rockelfeller's biography. His opinion was like Vanderbilt's, stating his success was because of the traits he had ... markets. To him success for him meant success for the US This means the more money he makes the more our country makes. If we buy from foreign countries our businesses would go out of business and many Americans would lose their jobs. To me this decision was hard to make but after comparing the pro's and con's I feel he is more a Captain of Industry than ...
- 816: Underage Smoking
- In today's world there are many moral issues that take place in society as well as in the business world. On Friday, February 4, 2000, the Washington Post printed an article titled "Underage Smoking Fine Sought for Big Tobacco." Currently and in the past, the tobacco industry has fought many moral issues with the ... that banning advertisements on the radio and TV is not enough to prevent underage smoking. The industry needs to reveal in their advertisements the negative aspect of tobacco products. As stated in "Moral Issues in Business," "When advertisers conceal facts, they suppress information that is unflattering to their products. That is, they neglect to mention or distract consumers' attention away from information, knowledge of which would probably make their products less ... the issues of underage smoking. Work Cited Babington, Charles. "Underage Smoking Fine Sought for Big Tobacco." Washington Post. 4 Feb. 2000. Sec A: Page A06,07 Shaw, William H. and Vincent Barry. Moral Issues in Business. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998.
- 817: Technology And Education
- ... a proposal to give laptop computers to twenty-four thousand high school students in their school system. As for funding for this proposal, most money would be raised through public donations. An article in the Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee criticized this decision making some very important key points. They stated that the Milwaukee Public School system should worry about their problems basic to education before they should worry about computers ... greater and more extensive way to research, prepare and work altogether. Works Cited Carey, Peter. "Wired for Learning." Youth Studies June 1997: 26-32. Coggins, Carolyn Holloway. "Mixing Internet, Schools Creates a Magical Combination." Triangle Business Journal (14) 1998: 54. Coloman, Adrian. "Technology." Youth Studies June 1997: 11. Eddy, John Paul and Donald Spaulding. "Internet, Computers, Distance Education and People Failure: Research on Technology." Education (116) 1996: 391-394. Garrett, Alan W. "Computers, Curriculum and Classrooms: Panacea or Patent Medicine." Journal of Curriculum & Supervision (13) 1997: 114-199. "Laptop Lunacy." Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee (16) 1999: 62. Peck, Kyle and Denise Dorricot. "Why Use Technology." Educational Leadership Apr. 1994: 11-15. Schwarz, Gretchen. "The Rhetoric of Cyberspace and the Real Curriculum." Journal of Curriculum & ...
- 818: Dave And Busters Inc
- ... duos 50,000 square foot complexes include pool hall, an eye popping, cutting edge midway arcade, a formal restaurant, a casual diner, a sports bar and a nightclub rolled into one sprawling complex. In business since 1990, this is a high energy, highly efficient operation thats comparable to a Vegas extravaganza. As a matter of fact there are even for fun cashless blackjack tables, with fake $10,000 chips ... there way for you. Some of the strengths Dave and Busters have include, a relentless pursuit of perfection, customer satisfaction, and having a niche in the market. The amount of capital required to start a business like Dave and Busters is enormous, this is one way the obtain there niche in the market. The second way the obtain there niche in the market is by offering a product/service that is ... must continually research what their customers want and what they demand. There are many different methods they can use; demographics, surveys, questionnaires, etc. Dave and Busters Inc. is on the forefront of the restaurant/entertainment business. With their competitive attitude and award winning drive and ambition it seems inevitable that they will continue to be the elite leaders of the newly founded market.
- 819: Bouchards View Of Canadian His
- ... grandparents. The new settlers had visions of great economic prosperity for themselves because of the natural resources and the large seaport of the St. Lawrence. Unfortunately this envisioned Mecca came under control of an English business man, William Price. From the middle of the nineteenth century, Price developed a pulp and paper monopoly that ruled the region with the consent of the government. The French found themselves without the help of ... English and the Union Nationale were responsible for Quebec's lack of modernization. Roch and Claude, his brother's, had chosen to attend school in Ottawa and they were outraged that the federal government conducted business only in English. They were further infuriated when they visited Montreal and saw only English signs. "The province that was their's was covered in the language of outsiders. Language was culture, and their language ... Charter of Rights and Freedoms which secured minority language rights. Quebec was not in favour of such a charter because it would nullify bill 101, the language law that made french the official language of business in Quebec. Quebec challenged Trudeau's plan in the Quebec court of appeals with Bouchard as one of four lawyers selected to argue against the repatriation. In the spring of 1981 a decision had ...
- 820: Was Jimmy Hoffa A Hero or A Criminal?
- ... where its membership was absorbed into Local 299. Because of financial and electoral improprieties, Local 299 had been placed under trusteeship by Teamster President Dan Tobin, but Ray Bennett, the trustee, let Hoffa, 299's business agent, run the local, and after the decade-long trusteeship ended Hoffa was elected president.(Alter 34) In 1952 he was elected an international vice president of the Teamsters Union, and in 1957 he became ... crime, having links to mafia figures such as Anthony Provenzano, a Teamster boss,and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit mobster. Jimmy Hoffa used his influence in the mafia to get what he wanted done in the business world. This technique was effective yet illegal. The United States Department of Justice was unsuccessful in its prosecution of Hoffa until it enlisted the help of Edward Grady Partin, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana Teamster who ... was a laundry worker whom he met on a picket line, they were married on September 25, 1936. They have two children, James Philip, a Teamster lawyer, and Barbara Ann Crancer, the wife of a business agent in Detroit. James Hoffa Jr. is trying to follow in his fathers footsteps, Junior Hoffa is trying to reinstate the Hoffa name to the presidency of the Teamsters. The younger Hoffa, now 55, ...
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