QUALITY CIRCLES: CONCEPT AND APPLICATIONS Quality circles were first developed in the 1960s by a man named Kaoru Ishikawa in Japan. The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) were the ones who paid for the research that put the theories about behavior science and quality control together. A quality circle is a participatory management technique that enlists the help of employees in solving problems related to their own jobs. Circles are formed of employees working together in an
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Matho-Geometry Project The Geometry of Crop Circles INTRODUCTION A crop circle is an area in a field of crops where the plants have been mysteriously flattened into the shape of a circle or a more complex pattern. A crop circle is a sizable pattern created by the flattening of a crop such as wheat‚ barley‚ rye‚ maize‚ or rapeseed. Crop circles are also referred to as crop formations‚ because they are not always circular in shape. The documented cases have substantially increased from the 1970s
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Cerberus‚ know for his famous role in Dante’s Inferno and Fluffy in Harry Potter‚ actually made appearance in several literature with a slightly different look from the publicly accepted image of a giant dog with three heads that guards something and prevent entrance. But Cerberus was not always so easy to fool. Back in the old days‚ about 8th-7th century before common era‚ Cerberus has fifty heads instead of three according to Hesiod’s Theogony. Contrary to modern perception‚ he fawns on those that
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finally found six types of government. He realized that some people say there are three and that some say there are six. Machiavelli also states that out of the six types of government‚ three among them are bad and three are good. He called it "The Circle of Government" because those six governments rotate in the period of time. Then he goes on to talk about how the government was formed. The first government is monarchy. At first the ruler was the strongest amongst a group of people. Afterwards they
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Inferno The poem Inferno is about a man who has “lost the path that does not stray” (Inferno‚ Canto I‚ line 3) where “the path” represents the path to Heaven. Dante‚ having strayed from the path‚ is in danger of being sent to Hell. When Beatrice‚ whom Dante loved before her early death‚ finds out that Dante has strayed she becomes worried that he will not be able to join her in Heaven. Beatrice wants to help Dante find God again‚ but because she is an angel
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growth is defined as “the process of developing physically‚ mentally‚ or spiritually.” (Online Oxford Dictionary) Dante’s Inferno‚ the literary text under examination‚ was written as a comedy in the sense that it was considered to be wildly impossible for man‚ in his folly‚ to attempt to achieve a divine understanding of God’s will. However‚ in spite of impending failure‚ Dante tackles the controversial topic of the existence of an afterlife and the effects of one’s actions in life after death. In
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Algebra 2 Name___________________________________ Writing Equations of Circles Date________________ Period____ Use the information provided to write the standard form equation of each circle. 1) 8 x + x 2 − 2 y = 64 − y 2 2) 137 + 6 y = − y 2 − x 2 − 24 x 3) x 2 + y 2 + 14 x − 12 y + 4 = 0 4) y 2 + 2 x + x 2 = 24 y − 120 5) x 2 + 2 x + y 2 = 55 + 10 y 6) 8 x + 32 y + y 2 = −263 − x 2 7) Center: (−11‚ −8) Radius: 4 8) Center: (−6‚ −15) Radius: 5 9) ( x − 16) 2 + ( y − 6) 2 = 1 Translated
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Analysis of Dante’s Inferno: Canto XVI In the epic poem‚ The Divine Comedy‚ Dante Alighieri paints a vivid picture of hell‚ purgatory‚ and heaven while including his own interpretation of society. While looking particularly into the Inferno‚ the reader is given a true insight to the inner workings of Dante Alighieri’s mind as he assigns certain punishments to particular sinners from his time period. Dante arranges hell into nine circles and places sinners into each circle based on what evils they
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Dante’s descent into Hell in Inferno‚ the first part of his Divine Comedy‚ tells of the author’s experiences in Hades as he is guided through the abyss by the Roman author‚ Virgil. The text is broken into cantos that coincide with the different circles and sub-circles of Hell that Dante and Virgil witness and experience. Inferno is heavily influenced by classic Greek and Roman texts and Dante makes references to a myriad of characters‚ myths‚ and legends that take place in Virgil’s Aeneid‚ Homer’s
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The word circle has many meanings. According to dictionary.com‚ it has approzimately twenty definitions. Two meanings are: a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center and a series ending where it began‚ especially when perpetually repeated. These previous two definitions are coherent in Lakota religion. One of the most profound symbols in the Lakota culture is the circle. Being keen observers‚ the people realized the circle appears
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