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- 6261: Behind The Scenes
- ... a timeworn issue re-plays itself like a tired re-run of The Honeymooners. Does the media go too far? Maybe. But like any other commodity, supply and demand go hand and glove. Whether a high profile celebrity or an every-day Joe, we sit glued to our chairs as the nightly news somberly announces society s latest barbarity. We eagerly snatch up the tabloids as these mudslingers breathlessly divulge their ... are primarily marketing vehicles, and it s up to editors and programmers to divine and manipulate the fantasies and fetishes of the market in order to sell the media product. The financial stakes are too high to permit the media managers to make news decisions on any other basis but sales. The line between news and entertainment was erased long ago. The line is now between what will sell and what ...
- 6262: Skittles
- ... marketing objectives that we have yet to achieve and which we will strive to accomplish within the next year of business. Three of the more prominent objectives we have include first, establishing and maintaining a high level of customer loyalty and a large loyal market base in the D.C. metro area. Secondly, we seek to eliminate all of our internal weaknesses. Third and most importantly, we want to provide our ... the most outstanding quality of service found anywhere. By achieving this objective we will have little problem with achieving our first objective of developing a loyal customer base. This is because if we deliver a high quality of service excellence to our patrons, they will only naturally think highly of us and want return to our establishment. Also, by delivering outstanding quality in all aspects of the company, it will help ...
- 6263: William Faulkner
- ... grew older he began to lose interest in his schoolwork and turned his attention to athletics, such as football and baseball, which caused his grades to start to fall. Eventually, he quit both athletics and school altogether. In 1919, his first literary work was acknowledged and published. The poem is a forty-line verse with a French title that acknowledges the influence of the French Symbolists. "From Mallarme he took the ... published "Landing in Luck." The short story, nine pages in length were created directly from his direct experience in the Royal Air Force flight training in 1916. After awhile he began to get tired of school once again. He started cutting classes and finally stopped going. In the summer of 1921, Faulkner decided to take a trip to New York to receive some professional instruction from editors and critics, because Stone ...
- 6264: People or Profits?
- ... but for economic ones -- the receiving hospitals feared they wouldn't be paid for treating the patient. What's right? People or profit? Should there be death or tragedy at the result of poverty and high health care costs, or should a business such as a hospital lose millions everyday to give health care to those who can't afford it? An average person like me would feel for the person ... a system where people will have a chance and a choice to get the health care they deserve. Most people don't deserve to die, and most doctors don't deserve to make such a high profit from their services. If the services of doctors of any type become scarce, we as a society will be forced to pay higher prices for them, but these services are not scarce, the money ...
- 6265: Enterprise & Entrepreneuralism
- ... see later) a product stagnation was induced. Sales representatives suggested leads and ideas, however, these ideas were instigated for other reasons. Systems and Controls: The book keeping and control records were now of a very high standard with full accounting systems in operation. The entire business system was professionally audited by Dillons on a bi-yearly basis. Suppliers also checked control and display systems on their relevant products. Products: The entire ... drawing away regular shoppers and leaving mainly those who frequented the store even before it was expanded. Tesco opened during Dillons' most profitable times (i.e., 7-10am and 4-7pm), and this reduced a high percentage of custom from the shop, threatening the profit margins that had been developed. Within six months of operation, major recruitment of captial was required by Dillons just to help the business survive. Mr Pettifer ...
- 6266: Mothers in the Workplace
- ... it is a natural act. Love can be showed in little ways just as well as big ones. For example, just dropping a little note into the lunch box before the child goes off to school shows the mother is thinking of her child and loves him or her (Kazma 36). Love does not have to be presented one on one. Unexpected gifts can mean more than just the words "I ... know it is still difficult to only have one. I would have never wanted it any other way. I liked my mother working. It gave me the time I needed when I got home from school to myself. It also gave my mother a chance to get away and let off any stress she needed to. Working and being a mother is the best choice my mother could have ever made ...
- 6267: Five Ripe Pears And On Moralit
- ... him guilty. With Didion s view on morality (as long as no one is hurt the action it is acceptable) this makes Saroyan guilty of an immoral feat. Although Saroyan was reared several times in school, I got a lot of them [lickings] in grammar school. he was impartial to it. Yet, this time he felt he was not guilty and didn t deserve the beating, making him wrongly handled. This proves that Saroyan himself was a victim of distress, being ...
- 6268: Polio
- ... and cesspools, used where sewers are not available, may also pollute the groundwater and adjacent streams, sometimes with disease-causing organisms. Even the purified liquids from sewage plants can cause water pollution if it contains high concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus (which are chemicals used to clean and purified the water). Farm fertilizers in some regions fill groundwater with nitrates (another kind of chemicals used to make soil more suitable for ... above the 120-decibel level is painful and can injure the ear. Noise pollution is becoming an unpleasant fact of life in cities, where the combination of sounds from traffic and building construction echoes among high-rise buildings, creating a constant din. In addition, the intense volume at which some popular music, especially heavy metal rock music, is played has resulted in the loss of some or all of the hearing ...
- 6269: The Economics of The Clean Air Act
- ... experiments done for the Clean Air act was passed into law in 1970. The Enviornmental Protection Agency has recently come under attack by critics however, and Washington has threatened to cut the agencies' budget citing high costs of enviornmental legislation, even while their is solid proof that the agencies' measures are paying off. Congress is skeptical of reports that the whole system is reaping more benefits on the enviorment than the ... new precautions are cutting back on jobs and increasing overall unemployment. Theorists contend that in a market driven economy, competition alone serves as an adequate regulatory device. Make a poor product or price it too high and your competitors will make more money. Better yet, with less regulations, businesses have more money to grow faster, hire more employees and offer greater returns to shareholders. Money that can be spent on cleaning ...
- 6270: The Great Depression
- ... to destruct businesses and led the government to regulate the businesses and economic affairs. All this increased regulation led to the widespread belief that the government should promise or guarantee citizens a good life, and high employment. After the depression, many people no longer trusted employers to protect workers. As a result labor unions gained more members and grater public acceptance then ever before. Depression makes some people lose there faith ... on many levels. Money was distributed disparately between the rich and the middle - class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U.S. and Europe. This imbalance of wealth created an high, but eventually lead to large market crashes. These market crashes, combined with the maldistribution of wealth, caused the American economy to capsize. Another main cause of the great depression happened during the roaring twenties. The ...
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