DISCRIMINATION AT LARGE Jennifer A. Coleman is a discrimination and civil rights lawyer and a constitutional law teacher. Her essay “Discrimination At Large”‚ printed in 1993 in Newsweek‚ is about stereotyping overweight people‚ “that makes heavy people the objects of ridicule and contempt”. She says‚ that “fat people are lampooned without remorse or apology on television‚ by newspaper columnists‚ in cartoons”. Since Jennifer was a kid‚ she has gotten the comments about her looks‚ that she is
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Vibrating screen works depending on the complex rotary type vibration generated by vibrator. The vibrating screen is mainly classified into linear vibrating screen and circular vibrating screen. According to the vibrating type of the screen‚ the vibrating screen can be classified into the single shaft vibrator and double shaft vibrating screen. Vibrating screen is mainly used in mining‚ smelting‚ building materials‚ coal‚ refractory materials‚ light industry‚ chemical industry‚ medicine‚ food and
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The use of 3rd party logistics firms and outsourcing supply chain strategies Introduction For the last couple of decades the interest in logistics alliances and third party logistics (3PL) has been growing in academics and industries. The common viewpoint is to consider 3PL as outsourcing of logistics activities. The aim of this paper is to take a complementary perspective by looking at 3PL as an insourcing of resources. It means the shipper gets access to the providers’ resources. Matthias
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Analyse the effectiveness of communications between different firms and the consumer in the mobile devices industry Abstract This essay mainly focuses on discussing effectiveness of communications within the mobile phones industry‚ and takes Nokia and Apple Inc. ’s cases as comparable examples. I analyse their effectiveness of communications of firm ’s products‚ marketing and strategies‚ which effectively make a huge influence on the prosperity of different companies. I also make some personal
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Analytical Essay – The Large Ant In 2012‚ 16259 people in the United States were murdered and another 1.8 million people were sent to the hospital due to assault. Humans resorting to violence and harming others is a daily occurrence‚ but why? Is it in our nature‚ are we instinctively violent‚ and why is it that these acts are not only happening in the United States but worldwide. Although the average person does not leave their home planning on harming somebody that day‚ under the right circumstances
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CEO and CFO perceptions about AIS impact on firm performance and financial reporting: How do SOX‚ COSO‚ and the implementation of IT help reduce fraud and increase productivity in a business? In the multifaceted‚ dynamic‚ corporate global milieu‚ imminent rifts continue to rattle the arenas of accounting/finance. The personal ambitions of CEO’s and CFO’s outweighed their responsibilities toward shareholders‚ employees‚ operations‚ civic/ethical duties‚ and the general financial system. CEO’s primarily
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What is the relevance of the resource-based view of the firm to strategic management in a global environment? The relevance of the resource-based view of the firm to strategic management in a global environment is the idea that it permits the organization to be seen as a whole. In doing so‚ the strengths and weaknesses within the firm can be examined. This is done because as stated in the Hunger & Wheelen (2006‚ 106) text‚ "scanning and analyzing the external environment for opportunities and
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Acquiring Legal Status of a Business Firm under Sole Proprietorship in the Philippines Starting a business in the Philippines requires series of procedures and steps‚ and there are different processes of registration depending on the form of business the entrepreneur ventures. This research report will talk about how to acquire the legal status of a business under the business form – sole proprietorship‚ discussing in detail the steps involved. As Lawrence Gitman defines sole proprietorship
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Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from the S&P 500 The main argument of this paper by Anderson and Reeb is the question whether family ownership is beneficial or detrimental to the future of the company. The arguments against family ownership stress on the points of forgoing profit‚ limited human resource pool‚ usage of company resources for personal reasons and general low company performance. Other researchers attribute benefits to family ownership like greater monitoring of the firm‚ increased
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SciVerse ScienceDirect Research in International Business and Finance j o ur na l h om ep ag e: w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / r i b a f Does good governance matter to debtholders? Evidence from the credit ratings of Japanese firms Hiroyuki Aman a‚1‚ Pascal Nguyen b‚∗ a School of Business Administration‚ Kwansei Gakuin University‚ Uegahara‚ Nishinomiya‚ Hyogo 662-8501‚ Japan b Faculty of Business‚ University of Technology Sydney‚ P.O. Box 123‚ NSW 2007‚ Sydney‚ Australia
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