Alexander McCall Smith is the author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and many other books. He was born in Zimbabwe and moved to Scotland when he was 17 to continue his education. He earned 2 degrees in law and then began teaching law. Afterwards‚ he went back to Africa‚ and in 1980 he went to Botswana. While he was in Botswana‚ he founded a law school and he began teaching there. The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is the first book out of a series. The setting of the novel is the country of
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SOCL 151 PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER ONE – THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Define the following: sociology‚ types of functions: manifest‚ latent and dysfunction‚ positivism‚ science‚ hypothesis‚ reliability‚ variable‚ independent variable‚ dependent variable‚ theory‚ random sample‚ validity‚ and replication. 2. Discuss what the concept “sociological perspective” means to sociology. 3. Distinguish between micro-sociology and macro-sociology. 4. Explain how the
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the second most recognized symbol in the world‚ behind the Olympic rings. In the United States alone‚ McDonald’s typically spends about twice as much on advertising as Burger King and Wendy’s. Today‚ however‚ the company faces competitive attacks from several directions. During the 1990s‚ a wide range of upscale food and beverage purveyors arrived on the scene. For example‚ consumers are flocking to Starbucks coffee bars where they spend freely on lattes and other coffee-based specialty drinks.
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1. What do you think is causing some of the problems in the bank’s home office and branches? I think what is causing some of the problems in the bank’s home office and branches are that the employees do not understand and know exactly how to work the machine. “Johnson replied that she really did not know what the machine was called or what it did. She explained that she had been working there for only 2 months. She did‚ however‚ know precisely how to operate the machine.” (Case#1 pg. 17). The employees
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The Information Age in Which You Live: Changing Multiple Choice Questions 1. What does it mean to live in the "digital age"? A. Payment for goods is made with hard cash B. Living‚ working‚ learning‚ and playing in a digital world C. Accessing information over the Internet D. Being born after 1990 AACSB: Use of Information Technology Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 1 Taxonomy: Knowledge and Understanding 2. Why do we consider technology invasive? A. Technology
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Nikola Tesla‚ Sir Albert Einstein‚ former Republic of the Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos‚ and Dr. Jose Rizal‚ they all have one thing in common – a nanay-teacher. The nanay-teacher was a house bill (HB No. 5243) first introduced by Hon. Sherwin Gatchalian‚ a Congressman in Valenzuela City. This act was intended to strengthen the role of parents as partners of the government in educating children. Most Filipino students have their mothers
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METHODIST UNIVERSITY Abstract: The paper presents a 4-part case study designed to be used in introducing the subject matter of financial accounting to undergraduate students‚ to MBAs‚ or to executives in a participative and intuitive fashion. Part 1 introduces the theoretical constructs of accounting (e.g.‚ the entity‚ revenue recognition‚ valuation) and the fundamen~Is of balance sheet prepamtion‚ part 2 the topic of income measurement‚ part 3 the subject of cash flows‚ and part 4 the recording
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Opportunity cost F. Models are simplified versions of reality 1. Making some unrealistic assumption II. PPF Model A. Only 2 goods: computers and cars (don’t care about the cost yet) B. Resources and technological levels are constant C. Downward slope D. Moving to the right‚ more cars‚ less computers 1. Scarcity: more for one good‚ less for the other 2. Tradeoffs: not both‚ only either or E. Efficiency: using all resources → on the curve 1. Little inefficiency is living “inside the curve” – reality
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more pro®table are subject to less rigid budgetary controls‚ which augment the propensity to build slack as well as the tendency for managers to think long-term. These relationships are tested in a structural equation model on survey data obtained from 153 business unit general managers. # 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Since Hopwood ’s (1972) seminal paper‚ the budgeting literature has shown great interest in understanding possible eects of budgetary control styles. It is generally
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