WHERE ARE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SPEAKERS DISTRIBUTED? Origin and Diffusion of English • Second language most spoken. o Official in 50 countries (more than any other language). • English Colonies o English migrated with language as established colonies. ▪ Official language of most foreign colonies. o North America (Jamestown 1607 and Plymouth in 1620). ▪ After defeat of French‚ English is main language. o First to North
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planning: 1. Make provisions in the systems plan for taking small steps rapidly. “Don’t have a plan with goals extending so far into the future that there is no way of tracking it.” 2. Develop alternative plans when significant contradictory trends are discerned in business objectives or technology. 3. Interface the systems plan with the corporate plan‚ modifying both appropriately. 4. Document the systems plan in a format intelligible to top management and arrange for personal presentation. 5. Establish
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Unit 5 Writing Assignment There are many avenues that the fire service can utilize to reduce the injuries‚ deaths‚ cost and risks that fire poses to firefighters and those in the community. Among these numerous avenues that are at the fire service’s disposal‚ in my opinion‚ the most effective is the presence of fire suppression systems in homes. With that being said‚ I’m in support of requiring the installation of fire sprinklers in homes‚ for while there may be an initial financial hit‚ there are
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Management by Objectives Motivating employees seems to be a challenge for managers - Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the MBO program and provide at least one example to support your discussion. Goal-Setting Theories have evolved since the 50s and have an impressive documented literature. The Goal-Setting Theory addresses the issues that goal specificity‚ challenge‚ and feedback have on performance (Robbins‚ 2009‚ p185). Setting goals and motivating employees are always an important
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1.5 Constructing Your Health Decisions 1. For your assignment you will organize information to include influences on your health‚ a family member’s health or the health of another person. Be sure to include: at least two examples of different influences by media‚ technology‚ or public policy on you‚ your family‚ or community the effect of these influences on everyone’s health the responsibility a person has for enhancing one’s health. 2. Use the organizer below to help you brainstorm your ideas
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History 1301 unit 4 Describe Americans westward migration in the 1830’s and 1840’s The United States continued to push its settlements towards the pacific coast. Settlers often spilled over the boarder of the United States‚ sparking international tensions with Mexico and England. They move in search for fertile land and economic opportunity. John Adams‚ agreement with Russia to limit territory to the boundary of Alaska. Leaving the US and Great Britain contenders for Oregon territory. 1818‚
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Business objectives are the ends that an organisation sets out to achieve. A business creates plans to enable it to achieve these ends. The objectives‚ and plans that an organisation creates are determined by balancing the requirements of the various stakeholders in the organisation. The stakeholders are those individuals and groups that are affected by and have an interest in how the business is run and what it achieves. Every business has a range of stakeholders‚ including: The objectives that a
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EXAM 1 (Sample Format and Content) BUAD 210 17967– Tuesdays 7:00 – 9:45 pm Student Name: _________________________________ CWID: _______________________ ESSAY QUESTIONS (15%) (2 Questions): 1 An entrepreneur combines four kinds of resources into a business. What would be the effect on the business if anyone were left out? Material resources‚ Human resources‚ financial resources‚ and information resources. The organization of the business. Land and natural resources‚ labor‚ capital and entrepreneurship
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KEY TERMS Active Directory - A Windows server directory database and service that is used in managing a domain to allow for a single point of administration for all shared resources on a network‚ including files‚ peripheral devices‚ databases‚ Web sites‚ users‚ and services. Administrator account- In Windows 2000/XP/Vista‚ an account that grants to the administrator(s) rights and permissions to all hardware and software resources‚ such as the right to add‚ delete‚ and change accounts and to change
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Investment Objectives Investment objectives cover how we accomplish most financial goals. These investment objectives are important because certain products and strategies work for one objective‚ but may produce poor results for another objective. It is quite likely you will use several of these investment objectives simultaneously to accomplish different objectives without any conflict. The other five specific objectives are stated below. Capital Appreciation Capital appreciation is
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