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- 861: Two Great Men: Franklin and Jefferson
- ... to read to gain knowledge, and work hard in order to educate yourself. He was a jack of all trades and master of many. He felt that a man should learn what he called his "business" throughly and work hard in order to succeed. In the "The Way to Wealth," one of his most popular articles which help shape American culture, he wrote, "Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, As Poor Richard says; and he that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him, as we read in Poor Richard, who adds, drive thy business, let not that drive thee, and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" (494). Franklin felt that a working man should be proud of his accomplishments. He ...
- 862: Diversity
- ... with “training wheels” in mind. The State believes that in order to diversify our workforce and to have the effects of a diverse workforce trickle down the social/economical waterfall, the State must force NY business to meet a certain quota in which to blend the workforce. According to the bill, once the workforce is seen as diversified, it will “remove the training wheels” and no longer enforce affirmative action. Subsequently, we shall briefly gape at microeconomics as a collective sphere of diversified exigency. It is a standard rule of thumb that the more diverse a business is, the more prosperous it will be. This rule works on the principle of failure. If you allocate all of your resources to one source, and that source (product) fails, then you will be out of business. On the other hand, if you diversify your resources (like a stock portfolio), you have greater probability of exceeding the market and producing a high yield upon your investment. Finally, we shall dwell into ...
- 863: Death Of A Sales Man
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller As the curtain is being pulled up, we find Willy Loman, a depressed 60 year old salesman, who is returning from a business trip. Willy has two sons named Happy, and Biff, both of whom are complete failures. The failures of both his children cause Willy to go insane, and he plans to kill himself. He thinks that ... learn that Biff once stole a box of basketballs from Bill Oliver. This foreshadows the scene in which Biff steals Bill Oliver's fountain pen after trying to get a loan for his sporting goods business. The climactic scene in Biff's life comes when he finds a woman in Willy's hotel room. This causes Biff to realize that Willy is a fake. Biff's tragedy is that he has ... on it last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a goddam maniac. They time those things."(Act 2, page 73, lines 16-19) Willy's belief in this statement drew him to believe that big business lacked compassion. Unfortunately he realized this when it was too late. He believe in his invincibility and believed his company would take care of him for the rest of his life, and he neglected ...
- 864: Tourism ]
- ... average household spends more on tourism as its real income increase (The National Tourism Resources Review, 1976). The City as a Tourist Resource The City’s appeal is based on eight general categories of attractions: Business opportunities, both work and personal; recreation; cultural/educational facilities; contact with people; amusement and entertainment; special events; shops; and atmosphere. The pull of these attractions is in turn affected by five variables; reputation, cost overall ... other cities or alternative destinations. The broader the range of attractions and the more positive the other variables in reinforcing them, the larger and more stable will be the scope of a city’s tourist business. For instance, a City like Miami Beach which offers mainly recreational opportunities which depend on climate for their use appeals primarily to discretionary market, and that only at those times of the year when unfavorable ... s decided about 15 years ago to take advantage of their location at the center of the fast developing southeastern region of the country. Through extensive redevelopment and aggressive promotion, they launched Atlanta as a business, communications and entertainment heart of the area, until now it has a reputation of a progressive, Dynamic City with lots to offer for everyone. Atlanta’s recognize that tourism is a viable urban resource. ...
- 865: Death Of A Salesman 2
- ... unknown identity. From the very beginning of his life, Willy Loman experienced problems with his popularity and personality. His last name is a pun on a "low man." He is at the bottom of the business world as an unsuccessful salesman. In addition, his theories on life and society prove to be very degrading, not to mention influential to his mind set every day. Willy believes that being well-liked and ... arrived, Willy spent a lot of time, just brainstorming how to make his life what he wanted it to be. Putting his family aside, Willy committed a terrible sin. In Boston, during one of his business trips, Willy cheated on his wife. He met a woman who would be very cheap for an evening, and as a boost of confidence, Willy spent the night with this low-class woman. Unfortunately, his ... not worth the happiness of his son's. And his life was definitely not worth the sacrifice that he made for them his entire life. Willy Loman died still unsure of his status in the business world. He wanted success and money, but at the age of sixty-one, he realized that these goals would never be reached. His identity was lost and his presence on earth unknown. Willy Loman ...
- 866: The Dependability of the Web
- ... everyone is talking about. Even Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, a company that really looks into the future in order to stay ahead of the competition, said the internet is one part of the computer business that he really underestimated. As one of the richest men in the world I doubt if he makes too many mistakes. Nobody could have predicted that the internet would expand at this rate and that ... and video. It was first developed for E-mail (electronic mail) and transferring text files, but web page designers want their pages to look the best so that people or for in the case of business, potential customers, visit their site and are impressed by it so they come back in the future and tell others about the site. After all, the best way to have people visit your web site ... Putting less people on each server would create faster service. Also popular businesses or sites should have big enough capacities to handle the amount of people that visit. Slow servers will lose a lot of business. Internet providers and businesses should look at future capacities and not just to current loads. As in the case of doomsday more and more fears of logging into cyberspace are beginning to receive attention. ...
- 867: Goodfellas The Movie, Sociolog
- ... Because of fear and respect of family members in the community, it was very easy to persuade the authorities to look the other way when crimes were committed. An important Mafia folkway was to conduct business transactions were usually done face to face as a one to one communication. No one but the two parties talking knew what was said. Business was rarely discussed around a board table or in a group meeting. When an action needed to be taken to correct a problem with a family member or to settle a dispute with a different ... the position of being a boss. As portrayed in the movie, members of the Mafia see themselves as normal people. They justified their deviant and criminal behavior as nothing more than carrying out every day business transactions. That is how they got the name of this movie, the men all believed they were just a bunch of goodfellas.
- 868: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... America shortly after the Civil War. The nation was seeing things that it had never seen before, its entire economic philosophy was turned upside down. Huge multi-million dollar trusts were emerging, coming to dominate business. Companies like Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel were rapidly gobbling up small companies in any way possible. Government corruption was at what some consider an all time high. “The Rich Man’s Club ... drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a book about the great American dream, a book about long held American ideals, now squashed by big business and white supremacy? Mark Twain did just that, when he wrote what is considered by many as the “Great American Epic”. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “The great American epic,” may be one of the ... the classic American idealism, consisting of freedom, morality, practicality, and an alliance with nature. Twain manages to show all this while poking fun at the emergence of the “robber barons,” better know as the big business of the late nineteenth century. Twain portrays many different American values in this book by expressing them through one of the many different characters. The character that Twain chose to represent morality and maturation ...
- 869: Fordism And Scientific Managem
- ... reduction in operating costs. Then the Model T automobile was introduced in 1908. With the help of this model, Ford became America s largest automobile producer and vendor. Nevertheless throughout the 1930s Ford began losing business to his competitors, mainly because they were slow introducing new models of automobiles every year. (Encarta, 1998) Scientific Management and Fordism created a new type of revolution . The promise of massive increases in productivity led ... Rupert, M (1995) Producing Hegemony: The Politics of Mass Production and American Global Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (p.11) Shearer, R (1997). The Reichskuratorium fur Wirtschaftlichkeit: Fordism and organized capitalism in Germany, 1918-1945. Business History Review. 71, 569-602. Shingo, S. The Toyota production system. Tokyo: Japan Management Association, 1981. P.52 Streeck, W. (1987). The uncertainties of management in the management of uncertainty: Employers, labor relations and industrial ... Work & Occupations. 22, 412-438. Taylor, F. (1915). The Principles of Scientific Management. New York: Harper, (Copyright M E Sharpe Inc 1997) Whitston, K. (1997) The reception of scientific management by British engineers, 1890-1914. Business History Review. 71, 207-229 Wood, S. (1993) The Japanization of Fordism. Economic & Industrial Democracy. 14, 535-555
- 870: Sex In Advertising
- ... are not ready for these types of ads. This is a major problem in the American society. Most advertising professionals share the same position that it is not a serious issue. But if the advertising business as well as the rest of society becomes aware of this problem, change can occur. Over the last few years, protests over the depiction of women in ads have grown. If society is aware of ... would put sex into their ads so it will increase the problem. Some propose to ban sex in advertising altogether. This would surely get rid of the problem but advertisers would be out of a business, especially advertisements that require sex in them. So becoming aware and limiting the amount of sex would be the best proposal to solve the problem. Advertising is supposed to get people s attention but it ... not with an offensive, imitation model that does not represent normal people. McCabe admits that sex in ads are more about chauvinism and cocksmanship than about salesmanship. If these people are professionals in the advertising business, they should act like professionals and think of something creative other than relying on sex as their only option. I m sure they can find a better subject matter than sex to use in ...
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