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- 991: Death Of A Salesman: An Overview
- ... desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off ..." Fortunately for Biff, he determines his future by the play's conclusion. He comes to the understanding that he and Willy were never meat to be business men. Including that they were intended to be working on a farm with their hands. And after vexing to procure Hap to come with him (which is to no avail), he escapes from his home ... decision that Willy just couldn't make. Hap on the other hand stays with his father, and at play's end decides to follow in Willy's footsteps. That of course is to succeed at business at all costs. Both the stage and screen rendition utilize a melange of distinct effects to set the tone and to enact the specific place where the action transpires. For example the stage interpretation utilizes ... his goods. And Willy definitely does not harmonize with the ideals of being a salesman, divergently he pains to match it. Moreover that is the reason why he doesn't belong inside the world of business. As exemplified in the passage made by Biff in the requiem. "When he'd come from a trip; or on Sundays, making the stoop
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You know something Charley, there's more of him in ...
- 992: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... else- not from the police. Marijuana is a common weed, easier to produce than the bathtub gin of the Prohibition years. It is not surprising that thousands of "dealers" have been drawn into the marijuana business. Despite the great risks they face, including bullying by other dealers and the threat of arrest, they are attracted by the profits. The law cannot change the economics of this market because it operates outside the law. All the police can do is to make it risky to get into the marijuana business. This is supposed to drive out the less courageous dealers, reduce the amount of marijuana available, and inflate prices. But even by this measure, the police effort has failed. As mentioned earlier, the price of ... without getting caught up in a policy debate. Meanwhile, the black market would disappear overnight. Some arrangement would be made to license the production of marijuana cigarettes. Thousands of dealers would be put out of business, and a secret part of the economy would come into the open. It is difficult to say whether this change would reduce crime because criminals would probably continue to sell other drugs. But it ...
- 993: How to Computerize Your Accounts
- How to Computerize Your Accounts I will explain the steps that need to be taken to computerize business accounts. The steps are planning and informed selecting of hardware, software, and training. I. Making the decision to computerize II. Choosing the correct tools A. Software B. Hardware C. New and old technology III. Installation and training On a normal day our lives are affected by the technology of computers in ways we can only begin to imagine. The business world's benefit alone is enough to make your head spin. Every time you go to the grocery store, the bank, the local ATM, or even the neighborhood gym you cannot help but see the use of computers in modern society. Many fields in business such as accounting depend on the convenience, speed, accuracy, and reliability that computers have become known for. But not all companies are large enough to benefit from the use of computers. First a company ...
- 994: The Drinking Age: 21 For Everyone?
- ... For example, in Belmont County in Ohio, the police conducted raids of 5-10 different establishments in 1993 that had liquor licenses and reportedly to sell alcoholic beverages to minors. It was proven that each business in question had indeed been guilty of the charges. What would one suspect happen to the business? Wouldn't one expect for them to lose their liquor license? On the contrary, these businesses were given probation without so much as a fine. Also, even if the person under 21 cannot go buy ... underage drinker. If a person did not want to go through the hassle of asking an older person, they could go someone skilled in the art of making fake ID's. This is a burgeoning business among the different campuses I visited. Spending two weeks at Ohio State, one had the offer of three different authentic looking Ohio driver's licenses. So, as one can see it is quite easy ...
- 995: Death of A Salesman: Willy Loman - A Man With A Dream
- ... 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 ...
- 996: Internet Security
- ... numbers and other types of important data being taken. There are many advantages the Internet brings to its users, but there are also many problems with the Internet security, especially when dealing with personal security, business security, and the government involvement to protect the users. The Internet is a new, barely regulated frontier, and there are many reasons to be concerned with security. The same features that make the Internet so ... user's hard-drive, they are actually pretty harmless and can save the user time when visiting a web site (Heim 2). Personal security is an important issue that needs to be dealt with but business security is also a major concern. "An Ernst and Young survey of 1271 companies found that more than half had experienced computer-related break-ins during the past two years; 17 respondents had losses over ... Internet. These laws are there only to protect a person's informational privacy (Boyan, Codel, and Parekh 3). Now, because of the booming interest and activity on the Internet in both the personal and the business level, the government has started investigating the Internet and working on ways to protect the users. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security Agency have all ...
- 997: Regulating Big Companies
- ... of the lawsuits, states that the factories, apparel companies, and retailers, violated the Racketeering Influence Corrupt Organization Act, and also violated international human rights laws. The second lawsuit, charges that the companies engaged in unfair business practices and misleading advertising, by not adhering to their codes of conduct. The third lawsuit, states violations of wage and hours law, and of the Mariana local laws. To win the conspiracy lawsuit, the lawyer ... a highly responsive manner by cooperating with the government." IBM spokesperson Rob Wilson said, "we regret the involvement of our Russian subsidiary in this case. IBM will not tolerate any violation of its standards of business conduct." IBM has been very helpful and cooperative during the investigation. In January 1997, a Russian official boasted that he had acquired some advanced American computers from IBM, and this prompted federal investigators to begin ... been assessed and had paid. Records indicate that Southwest used a variety of tactics to distort federal expense claims. For example, they would illegally claim a tax deduction by misrepresenting a family vacation as a business expense. Columbia, the largest health care company, is now the owner of Southwest. Columbia, who was once considered invincible, is now a little scared, because these expenses don't involve thousands of dollars but ...
- 998: The Internet
- ... and ship them back over the Internet to the client, including a list of lawyers in the other country (Verity 81). The ability to process orders quickly has always been an important factor in the business world, especially for mail-order companies. Traditional methods however tended to be fairly expensive. On the average it has cost mail-order companies from $10 to $15 to process a telephone or mail order, says ... the Internet already has an enormous impact on Americans right now, it will influence us even more in the near future. In 1994, the Clinton administration requested a National Information Infrastructure, which would link every business, home, school and college (Cooke 64). That is why the Clinton administration has made the building of an improved data highway the main component of a determined plan to strengthen the U.S. economy in ... good start into the new era. Bibliography Eddings, Joshua. How the Internet Works. California: Ziff-Davis Press, 1994. Cooke, Kevin. "The whole world is talking." Nation. July 12, 1993: 60-65. Verity, John. "The Internet." Business Week. November 14, 1994: 80-88. Silverstein, Ken. "Paving the Infoway." Scholastic Update. September 2, 1994: 8-10. Liosa, Patty. "Boom time on the new frontier." Fortune. Autumn93, 1993: 153-161.
- 999: Great Depression Timeline
- ... most corrupt in American history. Calvin Coolidge, who is squeaky clean by comparison, becomes president. Coolidge is no less committed to laissez-faire and a non-interventionist government. He announces to the American people: "The business of America is business." Supreme Court nullifies minimum wage for women in District of Columbia. 1924 The Ku Klux Klan reaches the height of its influence in America: by the end of the year it will claim 9 million ... committed to laissez-faire ideology as Coolidge. More than half of all Americans are living below a minimum subsistence level. Annual per-capita income is $750; for farm people, it is only $273. Backlog of business inventories grows three times larger than the year before. Public consumption markedly down. Freight carloads and manufacturing fall. Automobile sales decline by a third in the nine months before the crash. Construction down $2 ...
- 1000: The 1920s and Its Impact
- ... benefited were the prairie farmers and the oil companies, the people who dident't benifit were candian soldiers returning from WW1. Around the middle of the twenties, a wheat farmer was the person to be. Business was booming for all the wheat farmers, places like Europe, which was war torn, was hungry for Canada's wheat and contributed tremendous business to the canadian wheat industries. Farmers begain making more money than ever before, and they started buying tractors and other farm machinery to take place of their cattle and horses. Prices of wheat were at ... their bravery and fighting for their country could they get a job. Canadian soldiers were surprised at how difficult it was to get a job. While they were out fighting in WW1, people who had business relating to military were striking it rich because of all the military equipment that was needed for the canadian army, for canadian soldiers who had fought in the war, unemployment was a reality for ...
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