The Plasticity of L.A. L.A. Land "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic‚ but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." - Andy Warhol “Probably no city in the Western world has a more negative image” - Richard Lehan‚ professor emeritus‚ University of California‚ Los Angeles There are two visions of Los Angeles – one of a successful‚ sprawling ‘Jewel of the West Coast’ and one‚ the ‘‘nightmare’ anti-myth’ of superficial soullessness first depicted by
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Data Analysis and Decision Making Under Uncertainty Week 12 Workshop Store24 Solutions 2 Data Analysis & Decision Making Under Uncertainty (2009) Part 1: Developing a model for FutureContribution Figure 1 Plots of each predictor variable against FutureContribution Scatterplot of FutureContribution vs CYJCWScore Correlation -0.063 50000 50000 Scatterplot of FutureContribution vs BanBoredomScore Correlation 0.164 FutureContribution FutureContribution 45000 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000
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discussed the timeline of the Las Vegas shooting. McLaughlin talked about how MGM‚ the company that owns the hotel that the shooter was in‚ said that facts on the timeline cannot be verified and is still changing. On the other hand‚ Investigators believe that the timeline is accurate‚ but it may change. No one knows the reason why Paddock‚ the terrorist‚ decided to harm tens of thousands of people. McLaughlin also discussed that a college student names Paige Gasper is suing the hotel owners‚ concert promoter
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to live in Las Vegas‚ the entertainment capital of the world‚ a gambling mecca for millions every year? What could it possibly be like for a person to live in a city known as "Sin City‚" where the only thing hotter than the bright lights is the sun. According to lasvegasnevada.gov over 600‚000 people live in Las Vegas now‚ which is triple what it was just twenty years ago. It is a city built as a railroad town that has turned into one of the most well known cities in the world. Las Vegas is not
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Laila Lahnin December 5th‚ 2012 Ms. Morrotti ENG 073 Assignment: Final Essay Technology of 21st Century Technology is different types of devices and products that everyone uses nowadays‚ whether it’s internet‚ cell phones‚ to social networking and Skype. Technology is the easier way to discover and do things basing off knowledge‚ connecting and interacting with society‚ personal‚ school‚ and working lives. Technology has differed over the years‚ growing into bigger and better things. It
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• Assignment 1: Case Study – Rosewood Hotels Due Week 2 and worth 90 points Preparation: o Review the Rosewood Hotels & Resorts case study. o Visit the online Customer Lifetime Value Calculator and go through each tab in the tool and spend time studying how some of the variables and assumptions affect the results in the Sample Problem. Write a 2-3 page paper in which you: o Discuss the pros and cons of the Rosewood Hotels moving from individual brands
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sugar look like from the point of view of the U.S. market? _The world supply of sugar looks perfectly elastic (horizontal) from the point of view of the U.S. market‚ at a price of 8.3 cents per pound. This conclusion comes from two statements in the case: "Annual world sales of sugar amount to roughly $100 billion" and "Thus‚ for our analysis the 2001 world price of 8.3 cents per pound is assumed to be constant outside the United States." In other words‚ because the U.S. sugar market is a small fraction
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LAS VEGAS - THE KEY FACTORS AFFECTING THE APPEAL AND COMPETITIVENESS OF TOURISM DESTINATION. Aliyev Mammad‚ Mehtizada Teymur Introduction Viva Las Vegas! The City of Sin! The oasis in the desert‚ which became one of the world’s fastest growing cities‚ is also known as a play land and an escape from the real world. Oasis in the Mojave Desert‚ Nevada‚ has through the years build up a reputation as the Sin City! People flocked to Las Vegas‚ in the early days‚ when rules practically didn’t exist
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The business related topic chosen to discuss is how cruise liners run a hotel at sea. In this text there will be a discussion into one cruise line in particular. This cruise line has a history of 47 years of bringing traditional cruising to New York City‚ it was the first cruise liner to introduce freestyle cruising. This is the largest vessel to homeport in the city. The chosen cruise liner is called the Norwegian Cruise Line. This cruise line has a fleet of 13 ships in total. In this academic research
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Parmalat Finanziaria‚ S.p.A. Case Brief Summary: Case Questions: 1). Identify key factors or circumstances that complicate an independent audit of a multinational company One thing to always keep in mind is that the culture is different across the globe. Auditors of multinational companies may face cultural and communication barriers with their clients‚ which can complicate audit tasks. We also have to account for different currency across different countries and any transactions involving them
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