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- 531: Mcdonaldization Of Society 2
- ... angles of the East Side Mario’s concept. East Side Mario’s Restaurants Inc. is one of the millions of business’ that has implemented the four principles of McDonaldization, which are: efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control. With the assistance of Bernard Platt, Vice President of Marie Callender’s Pie Shops, Inc., former Vice President of East Side Mario’s Restaurant, Inc., I will offer a condensed presentation of East Side Mario ... products. People expect to have the garlic homeloaf with unlimited soup and salad. The routine, uniformity and systematization of operations in ESM prove that predictability has been achieved. The fourth dimension of McDonaldization is “increased control and the replacement of human with nonhuman technology” (Ritzer, 1996, 101). ESM has integrated all forms of technology to better their establishment. From the fountain pop dispenser to timed broilers and appliances, every process is controlled by some sort of automation. Under control is both the product and process of the business. The menu continually remains the same, limiting the items for customers to choose from. The Micros system is used to input orders which will be ...
- 532: Management Policy
- ... automates incrementally when process variability cannot otherwise be reduced. Processing: Cut flow time (wait time), distance, and inventory all along the chain of customers. Cut setup, changeover, get ready, and startup times. Problem solving and control: Record and own quality, process, and problem data at the workplace. Ensure that front-line improvement teams get first chance at problem solving-before staff experts. Teaming up can mean moving associates by how the ... downstream. Customers may not be willing to wait. 14. Recur and Own Quality, Process, and Problems Data at the Workplace. That leaves front-line associates (the majority of company employees) out of the problem-solving, control, and process ownership loop. 15. Ensure that Front-Line Improvement Teams Get First Chance at Problem Sollving- Staff experts may have more problems-solving skills, but they have less understanding if the processes where problems ... employees Teamed up with others in work flow relationship and periodically joins a special project team. Their role-meeting current demanded exactly and managing and improving processes and products-involves data collection, problems solving, process control, and ever better service to the customer. Staff experts. The role of staff is to plan for change, respond expertly to problems, and serve on improvement teams. The job mode of operations covers nearly ...
- 533: McDonaldization Of Society
- ... angles of the East Side Mario’s concept. East Side Mario’s Restaurants Inc. is one of the millions of business’ that has implemented the four principles of McDonaldization, which are: efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control. With the assistance of Bernard Platt, Vice President of Marie Callender’s Pie Shops, Inc., former Vice President of East Side Mario’s Restaurant, Inc., I will offer a condensed presentation of East Side Mario ... products. People expect to have the garlic homeloaf with unlimited soup and salad. The routine, uniformity and systematization of operations in ESM prove that predictability has been achieved. The fourth dimension of McDonaldization is “increased control and the replacement of human with nonhuman technology” (Ritzer, 1996, 101). ESM has integrated all forms of technology to better their establishment. From the fountain pop dispenser to timed broilers and appliances, every process is controlled by some sort of automation. Under control is both the product and process of the business. The menu continually remains the same, limiting the items for customers to choose from. The Micros system is used to input orders which will be ...
- 534: China's Population Problem
- ... China's total area (Hsu 1). The eastern half of China contains its most populous cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin. However these cities have a low fertility rate due to recent bandwagons of birth control. The average density in the eastern half of China averages around two-hundred and thirty-six people per square kilometer, whereas the density in the west half averages around ten point six people persquare kilometer ... Dynasty ruled, the fertile people of China had reached a population of three-hundred million (Hsu 1). The birthrate in China did decline in the nineteen-fifties due to campaigning by the government on birth control (Hsu 1). However, after the population decreased the government turned their attention to other matters while the population slowly crept up again. Once again in the nineteen- seventies the population became an issue and it ... year two- thousand(Hsu 2). The immense population had become straining on the economy and resources (Linden 1). Migration to less populous areas of China became restricted so that the government might be able to control the population more effectively and easily (Hsu 4). Currently, the "one child per family" law still exist, but it has become more flexible, in that it allows a second child but with a longer ...
- 535: A Gold Rush Leads To War
- ... fury in abolitionists everywhere, and inspired an equally defiant spirit among pro-slavery activists. In 1859, John Brown again made headlines by raiding an armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown apparently hoped to gain control of the arms magazine and distribute weapons to free and enslaved blacks in the area. His ill-devised plan failed miserably. Brown was convicted of treason in a Virginia court and hanged. The animosity between ... the offensive, and Lee is forced to withdraw to Virginia. On the same day that Lee withdrew from Gettysburg, the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, fell to a Union siege. The fall of Vicksburg returned full control of the Mississippi River to the Union, and divided the Confederacy in half, with strong Union armies expanding from the middle. The Confederacy was being torn down from the inside out. In July of 1864 ... oppressive military occupation of the south, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery in all United States territories and possessions. Tennessee's new state government almost immediately ratified the amendment, and was freed from military control in 1865. The news was met with mixed feelings among both whites and blacks. The former slaveholders in the south now feared riots by mobs of vengeful blacks, and a "black rule" where former ...
- 536: The Problem: Terrorism In The World
- ... that we can identify all of these groups, we have to be able to take out the bullets and bomb making equipment from there hands. To start with, anyone who would like to buy a gun will have to prove there intent on using it. They would have to supply social security numbers, drivers license, fingerprints, ballistics of the gun, and, of course, a picture of themselves taken by the sellers of the gun. This would help ownership of the gun in case it is used it an attack. Ammunition would have to be kept under the same kind of scrutiny as a gun, and all the same ...
- 537: Frankenstien And Neuromancer
- ... division between the power-seeking practices of science and the concerns of humanists with moral responsibility, emotional communion, and spiritual values. As Anne Mellor has observed: 9 "The scientist who analyzes, manipulates, and attempts to control nature unconsciously engages in a form of oppressive sexual politics. Construing nature as the female Other, he attempts to make nature serve his own ends, to gratify his own desires for power, wealth, and reputation ... order to become the acknowledged, revered, and gratefully obeyed father of a new species. 11 This ambition is very close to that of capitalism: to exploit nature's resources for both commercial profit and political control. Here we can perceive the most far-reaching effect of the Scientific revolution - nature was perceived as dead. It was perceived as a system of dead, inert particles moved by external, rather than inherent forces ... implies that lack of information puts you automatically in an unfavorable position that eventually could be detrimental for you. It also suggests that if the wrong people are able not only to access information but control it, it is possible for them to take control over our society, affect our lives, and if this incredible power of information is used in an immoral and unethical manner, our civilization as such ...
- 538: Luke's Three Dimensions of Power
- ... open system where everyone may participate and express grievances which in turn lead to decision making. Those who propose alternatives and initiate issues which contribute to the decision making process are demonstrating observable influence and control over those who failed all together to express any interest in the political process. The Pluralist approach assumes that in an open system, all people, not just the elite, would participate in decision making if ... and conflict which exercise influence by shaping the consciousness of the individual or organization. This view strays from the others in that it focuses not only on decisions and nondecisions but on other ways to control the political agenda which are not made deliberately by the choice of individuals or groups. The third mechanism of power seeks to identify "the means through which power influences, shapes or determines conceptions of necessities ... the system, advancing the cause of A and impairing that of B, usually in the form of compliance. Such processes can take place in a direct and intended way through media and communication. 'A' takes control of the information channels and 'B' is socialized into accepting, believing and even supporting the political notions instilled by 'A'. The shaping of individual's conceptions can also take place indirectly or even unintentionally ...
- 539: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... of the most sinister and evil criminals of all time. He organized the murders that shocked the world and his name still strikes fear into American hearts. Manson's childhood, personality, and uncanny ability to control people led to the creation of a family-like cult and ultimately to the bloody murders of numerous innocent people. Charles M. Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 11, 1934. His mother, Kathleen ... thing he did was to deprogram both their ego and their "hang ups," about conventional society. By "hang ups," he meant anything he did not like. Richard DeMargeno, a criminologist, believed Manson was able to control these people by replacing their father figures. "It wasn't a very difficult process. He was dealing with lonely insecure people in need of a father figure, people who didn't have much ego to begin with. What he did, in effect, was to tear down that ego and substitute himself, thus gaining enormous control over his followers." 2 To his girls, Charles Manson was a "beautiful man who loved us all totally." Later, a group of young women outside of Manson's murder trial replied, "We're waiting ...
- 540: Skydiving
- ... slip off easily. Flatten out, or lower your knees and elbows, and you will fall slower. Incidentally, the faster you fall the more stable you are because your center of gravity is further below your control surfaces (arms and legs.) When you leave an airplane at our customary exit altitude of 12,500 feet above the ground, your accelerate from zero miles per hour vertical speed to approximately one hundred and ... must be open, and it must be safe to land. Otherwise, it is a malfunction. The first characteristic is determined at a glance. The second one, if there is any doubt, is determined by a control check. Should you have a malfunction, the response is simple - pull your reserve. On student parachutes pulling the reserve handle combines two functions. The main parachute is released from the harness, then the reserve container ... specialist who holds a Rigger's Certificate issued by the U.S. government, thus ensuring that at least one parachute on every skydiver is technically sound. The second factor in malfunction prevention is one you control: body position. If you think back to the deployment sequence described earlier, the importance of a stable opening becomes apparent. Since the parachute is on your back, if you are facing the relative wind ...
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