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  • 7 S Framework

    7 S Framework

    This paper discusses McKinsey's 7S Model that was created by the consulting company McKinsey and Company in the early 1980s. Since then it has been widely used by practitioners and academics alike in analysing hundreds of organisations. The paper explains each of the seven components of the model and the links between them. It also includes practical guidance and advice for the students to analyse organisations using this model. At the end, some sources for

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: regina
  • Prescription for Disaster/argument

    Prescription for Disaster/argument

    Prescription for Disaster The numbers are astonishing. An estimated eighteen thousand Americans die every year because they can’t afford or can’t qualify for health insurance. That’s September 11th multiplied by six every year (). Imagine that carnage. Forty six million more are faced with illness because of high insurance premiums and underinsurance (). Never has our country faced any terrorist that has killed thousands of our citizens, yet it happens on our own soil year

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    Essay Length: 995 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Janna
  • World Trade Centre Disaster: Building Performance

    World Trade Centre Disaster: Building Performance

    The World Trade Centre buildings (WTC-1 and WTC-2) were 110-story towers located in New York. On the morning of September 11, 2001, two hijacked commercial jetliners were deliberately flown into the WTC towers, which resulted in the collapse of these towers. These events were among the worst man-made building disasters and loss of life from any single building event. Over 3000 people lost their lives that day at the World Trade Center (WTC) site, including

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    Essay Length: 697 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Jack
  • Software Architecture Evolution Framework

    Software Architecture Evolution Framework

    SAEF “Software Architecture Evolution Framework” – The Vision 1.1 Motivation In many cases, informal architectural diagrams are available to the personnel who maintain software systems. However, there is little tool support linking such architectural descriptions to system requirements and the source code. This can create a number of problems. For example, inconsistencies can arise between the requirements, the architectural artefacts and the source code, making the code-base the only trustworthy representation of the system. Consequently

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    Essay Length: 879 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Through Rose Colored Glasses: How the Victorian Age Shifted the Focus of Hamlet

    Through Rose Colored Glasses: How the Victorian Age Shifted the Focus of Hamlet

    19th century critic William Hazlitt praised Hamlet by saying that, "The whole play is an exact transcript of what might be supposed to have taken pace at the court of Denmark, at the remote period of the time fixed upon." (Hazlitt 164-169) Though it is clearly a testament to the realism of Shakespeare's tragedy, there is something strange and confusing in Hazlitt's analysis. To put it plainly, Hamlet is most definitely not a realistic play.

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Edward
  • Disasters Are Political Opportunities

    Disasters Are Political Opportunities

    Jack Brooks once stated that “Every disaster is an opportunity,” and he was absolutely correct. Brooks’ statement especially holds true to politicians. Politicians are in a constant struggle to gain the support of the citizens, and to be successful they need take advantage of every presented opportunity to get seen and heard by the public. Disasters stimulate fear and excitement in the public, therefore the public pays a lot of attention to them (Popkin, 25).

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Legal Framework

    Legal Framework

    This paper will discuss two scenarios: firstly, whether the plaintiff (Mary) has an actionable case for which she can sue the defendant in relation to injury suffered by her following the use of a free sample of the defendants bath salts, in accordance with the instructions on the packet. The injury was such that Mary suffered from a troublesome itch which last six months, during which time she was precluded from particpating in her favorite

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing - Emergency Service Worker

    Critical Incident Stress Debriefing - Emergency Service Worker

    Critical incident stress debriefing is as an intervention by a trained team. Modeled upon guidelines formulated by psychologist Jeffrey T. Mitchell, Ph.D., to help emergency workers, CISD is one component of Critical incident stress management (Mitchell & Everly, p. 82.) The CISD protocol is “an intervention expressly designed to mitigate posttraumatic stress and prevent the disabling posttraumatic stress disorder” (p. 280). Mitchell, who served as a firefighter/paramedic for nearly a decade (Mitchell & Bray,

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Bred
  • Emergent Countries - Going Public as a Financing Option

    Emergent Countries - Going Public as a Financing Option

    EMERGENT COUNTRIES – GOING PUBLIC AS A FINANCING OPTION - ROMANIA STUDY CASE - Going public as a financing option For worldwide&europe – going public IS a sound capital budgeting choice Romania Lowest stock market in terms of capitalization Liquidity problems Romania Economic Outlook Pressure on operating margins Buyouts Increasing payroll expenses What do companies do? Apply for credit – worsening access lately Private equity - investment funds IPO – 2 or 3 IPOs per

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Jack
  • Peer to Peer - an Emerging Technology

    Peer to Peer - an Emerging Technology

    Peer to Peer an Emerging Technology Cardinal Stritch University Dan Scheel, MS Introduction to management Information Systems MGT 430 Peer to Peer an Emerging Technology Peer-to-Peer, also known as P2P, an emerging technology from our fast-paced world of technology, is quickly gaining the attention business executives and the average home computer end user. We will discuss key terminology, an analysis of the technology, and demonstrate how peer-to-peer a/k/a P2P works. This is a network design

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    Essay Length: 778 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Bred
  • Suppply Chain in Disaster

    Suppply Chain in Disaster

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With the rapid changes in the environment due to man induced or otherwise forces the world as is now, today is susceptible to dramatic overtures resulting in widespread disasters. In the wake of the above, it has become necessary to apply management practices for mitigation and relief processes. The present paper deals with the role, structure & major problems arising in the purview of Supply chain management in the domain of disaster management.

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    Essay Length: 2,299 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture

    Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture

    Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture During America’s growth, homosexuality became a very taboo topic, one seldom mentioned and rarely discussed. Just as the Sexual and Racial Revolutions promoted acceptance of once discouraged social matters, the Homosexual Revolution has promoted the acceptance of the gay culture in today’s society. Undoubtedly, humorous homosexual characters in television and in other forms of entertainment are helping to increase the acceptance of the gay culture by portraying

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Edward
  • Overfishing, Shifting Baselines, and Marine Protected Areas

    Overfishing, Shifting Baselines, and Marine Protected Areas

    Historical overfishing is the predecessor and the cause of pollution, eutrophication, hypoxia, physical destruction, climate changes, and the collapse of entire oceanic ecosystems. Along with the dramatic increase in human populations, the perpetual migration toward coastlines, and the advancement of technology, the rate at which fish are caught has exceeded that in which they are produced, resulting in the depletion or collapse of many fisheries. Retrospectively analyzing paleoecological, archaeological, and historical data, Professor Jeremy Jackson,

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Youtube and Timewarner Emerging

    Youtube and Timewarner Emerging

    Leeds, Jeff. (2006, September 19) Warner Music Makes Licensing Deal With YouTube. The New York Times. Retrieved October 19, 2006, from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/business/media/19tube.html The article I reviewed discussed an e-commerce business agreement between two corporations, Youtube Inc., and Warner Music Group. Youtube Inc. is a popular online website that generates thousands of videos as well as, music videos which viewers can illegally download on an everyday basis. In opposition, Warner Music Group is a huge production

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Metadata Features in the Domain of Frameworks

    Metadata Features in the Domain of Frameworks

    Metadata Features in the Domain of Frameworks Beyond using metadata for page organization (HTML/XHTML), display (CSS/XSL), or description (DC, etc) there is an additional need to use metadata to describe the metadata schemas used in creating an electronic resource. Shelley Powers (2003) in Practical RDF suggests an analogy with relational databases which states that the database software program which allows the same table, field, record, value structure to be used for any configuration of unique

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • Emerging Market

    Emerging Market

    EMERGING MARKETS Definition: Emerging markets are some of the fastest growing economies in the world and represent countries that are experiencing a substantial economic transformation and lots of growth. Investing in these countries has lots of potential for big returns, but it also carries lots more risk than domestic investing. Emerging countries are listed below: 1. China 9. Chile 17. Malaysia 25. Taiwan 2. India 10. Colombia 18. Morocco 26. Thailand 3. Mexico 11. Czech

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Edward
  • Power Politics: The Framework Provided

    Power Politics: The Framework Provided

    Power Politics: The Framework Provided Understanding contemporary world politics is by no means an easy feat. To merely begin the process, one must first have an ample knowledge of historical as well as modern trends in international relations, the issues at hand both now and in the past and major events that affect the field. Several groups and styles of thinking have developed throughout the centuries to make attempts at comprehending world politics and most

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Gung Ho” and the Integrated Cultural Framework

    Gung Ho” and the Integrated Cultural Framework

    Gung Ho” and the Integrated Cultural Framework The purpose of this exercise is to apply the dimensions of the Integrated Cultural Framework to the movie “Gung Ho”. Each company is discussed separately using examples from the movie and then summary values provided. United States ICF Dimension Low Moderate High Ability to Influence High Comfort with Ambiguity High Assertiveness Doing/Masculine Individual/Collectivism Individual Time Orientation Present Space Orientation Public Ability to Influence Outcomes There were many instances

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Candice's Trip to the Emergency Room

    Candice's Trip to the Emergency Room

    Candice's Trip to the Emergency Room Being a parent is like riding an emotional roller-coaster ride, especially when the ride involves our children getting hurt. One exhausting experience that stands out in my mind is a bike accident with my oldest daughter Candice, which resulted in her first trip to the emergency room. Candice was six at the time and had recently learned how to ride her bike without training wheels. She liked doing tricks

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    Essay Length: 827 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: July
  • Challenger Disaster

    Challenger Disaster

    In its two hundred and twenty eight years of existence, the country of America has seen many tragedies and failures. However, in the eyes if many, the worst of these tragedies was by far the Challenger disaster of 1986. On January 26, the world was shocked as everyone watched the Challenger shuttle explode, killing all seven crewmembers. The challenger disaster was by far one of the worst tragedies of the space exploration era. However, the

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Conceptual Framework

    Conceptual Framework

    Conceptual Framework The term synoptic is applied to those gospels which appear to have been created from the same traditional sources: Mark, Matthew and Luke. The interconnection of the "Synoptics" is not, however, simply one of close resemblance, it is also one of striking difference. When compared attentively, the three records appear distinct as well as similar in incidents, plan, and language. The harmony and the variety, the resemblance's and the differences in their portrayal

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Hurricane Katrina: A Natural and Political Disaster

    Hurricane Katrina: A Natural and Political Disaster

    “Hurricane Katrina: A Natural and Political Disaster” Four days after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the northern Gulf Coast, tired and angry people stranded at the convention center in New Orleans welcomed a supply convoy carrying food, water and medicine with cheers and tears of joy. Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Toward an Integrated Framework for the Study of Econsumer Buying Behaviour

    Toward an Integrated Framework for the Study of Econsumer Buying Behaviour

    . Toward an integrated framework for the study of econsumer buying behaviour A new approach needs to be developed in the area of econsumer buying behaviour in which contextual and situational factors involved in consumers' online buying behaviour are investigated (see figure 2). At the same time, the results of econsumer buying behaviour studies in each research approach should be analysed and interpreted with regard to the connections that the results may have with other

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    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: July
  • The Evolution of Caribbean Social Policy: Reasons for the Changes and Shifts in the Social Policy Agenda from the 1940’s to the Present Period

    The Evolution of Caribbean Social Policy: Reasons for the Changes and Shifts in the Social Policy Agenda from the 1940’s to the Present Period

    THE EVOLUTION OF CARIBBEAN SOCIAL POLICY: Reasons for the Changes and Shifts in the Social Policy Agenda From the 1940’s to the Present Period. By Hyacinth O. Blake INTRODUCTION Social Policy may be broadly defined as a system of social welfare that includes economic as well as non-economic objectives and involves some measure of progressive redistribution in command over resources1. Using Mishra’s typology of social welfare models (see Fig. 1 below), this paper describes the

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Monika
  • Truth Emerge

    Truth Emerge

    The way people act on the outside and who they really are on the inside may be two completely different things. Some may change because they feel they don't fit in. Others pretend to be something they truly aren't. No matter which way you look at it, if one tries to act like someone they’re not, the truth will always appear in the end. If one is jugded by they way they look on the

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Mike

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