Day: December 13, 2009
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Mortgage Loan Crisis: Is it a help or hindrance to Homeowners
There’s several new government programs that are geared to help homeowners in foreclosure, the Project Lifeline and Hope Now, these programs are there to assist homeowners who are endanger of losing.
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The Different Fields of Engineering
Through different interviews I have conducted, the conclusion that I have came up with is; the average person thinks that an engineer just designs buildings. There are many more things that engineers design. There are nine different disciplines within the engineering realm that work on other forms of engineering aside from designing buildings. The engineering…
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Overview of Management
The primary functions of management consist of four functions, which pertain to the planning and strategizing, organizing, controlling, and leading. “The four management functions should be closely linked. For instance, the control system should warn the organization that its plans and strategies are not working and need to be reconsidered” (Gomez- Mejia-Balkin, 2002, p. 5).
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Personal code of ethics
Ethics are a personal code of behavior. They represent an ideal we strive toward because we presume that to achieve ethical behavior is both desired and honored. There is both personal and business ethics. I will describe my personal take on ethics along with experiences that I had working for Best Buy and the ethical…
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Global Warming
Global warming is a very real scientific study and a part of our lives. It is an increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. If we ignore the facts now the results could be catastrophic.
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Frank Fountain and Paula Banks; acquiring corporate power and influence.
Frank Fountain was born in 1944 in Brewton, Alabama. He grew up on a sharecropper farm in the segregated South and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Bengal, India, prior to attending business school. In 1973, after receiving his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business, he joined the Chrysler Corporation…
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Why does E-Bay have problems in its Asian Markets?
After struggling to establish a standalone presence in China, eBay announced on December 20, 2006, that it will set up a joint venture with politically well-connected Tom Online, a wireless Internet company with value-added multimedia services in China. Despite eBay’s attempts to put a positive spin on the report, most analysts view eBay’s deal with…
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Influence of Women in the Yoruba Culture
Soyinka’s play, Death and the King’s Horseman, is about a man who does not fulfill a tradition that has been carried on throughout his culture. When the King’s chief horseman, Elesin, does not complete his ritual suicide so that he can accompany the dead King to the other side, he breaks a tradition that has,…
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By Sword Of Pen/Writers Block
Growing up Chad was denied love in lieu of fear and terrorism. His life was severely affected by the way his parents treated him while growing up. He is over 40 now, but to this day he still has problems that relate back to his childhood. Subjected to emotional abuse in many different forms he…
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Future of East Timor
A nation rich with oil, but poor from to poverty. Lying just off the coast of Australia and south of the Philippines is East Timor. East Timor not only brings to mind a state that was once Indonesia’s but also a place where unpleasant human rights violations take place since before the referendum held in…